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Q: What's the semantically accurate position for the ampersand in C++ references It's pretty common knowledge that the semantically accurate way to declare pointers is int *x; instead of int* x; This is because C sees *x as an int, not x as an int pointer. This can be easily demonstrated by int* a, b; where a is an int pointer, while b is an int. There are at least 5 duplicate questions on stackoverflow.com that discuss this issue for pointers. But what about references? A: Bjarne Stroustrup says: A typical C programmer writes int *p; and explains it *p is what is the int emphasizing syntax, and may point to the C (and C++) declaration grammar to argue for the correctness of the style. Indeed, the * binds to the name p in the grammar. A typical C++ programmer writes int* p; and explains it p is a pointer to an int emphasizing type. Indeed the type of p is int*. I clearly prefer that emphasis and see it as important for using the more advanced parts of C++ well. When declaring a pointer variable or argument, you may place the asterisk (or ampersand) adjacent to either the type or to the variable name. The most important thing is to do this consistently within a single file. // These are fine, space preceding. char *c; const int &i; // These are fine, space following. char* c; const int& i; A: While researching for this question, I already found the answer: The & needs to be written just like the *. The demonstration code is similar to the pointer demonstration code: int main() { int a = 0; int b = 1; int& ar = a, br = b; br = 2; return b; } This returns 1, which means that ar is an int reference, while br is just an integer. A: Thanks to "template typedefs", you can declare multiple references in an (arguably) nicer way: template<typename T> using ref = T&; int a, b; ref<int> ar = a, br = b;

In general, absorbent articles should comfortably fit the body of a wearer. Most absorbent articles include an absorbent pad formed by an absorbent core contained in a wrap comprising a barrier tissue and/or a forming tissue. The subject invention discloses an absorbent article generally having extensibility in at least one direction, preferably the cross-direction. Such extensibility permits an absorbent article to extend and expand about the wearer and thus to better conform to the body of the wearer. Such extension and expansion about the wearer is feasible because both the bodyside liner and the outer cover are extensible in at least the one direction. In conventional structures, the outer cover is typically adhesively secured to the forming tissue of the absorbent pad. In such embodiments, extending the outer cover in the cross-direction extends the forming tissue in the cross-direction. The force used to extend the outer cover, and thence the absorbent pad, can tear or otherwise damage the forming tissue or the barrier tissue of the absorbent pad. Since the absorbent pad is typically a sealed enclosure, namely an absorbent core enclosed within the combination of a forming tissue and a barrier tissue, tearing the absorbent pad, namely either the forming tissue or the barrier tissue, can release superabsorbent particles and other absorbent materials, such as cellulose fluff into contact with the body of the wearer. Superabsorbent particles can irritate the skin of the wearer. Such tearing of the absorbent pad indicates failure of the absorbent article to perform properly. Therefore, it is critical to find a way to prevent tearing or other structural failure of the absorbent pad.

IggyAzalea.us is not associated with Iggy Azalea, her family/friends or her manager. This is simply a non-profit fansite dedicated to the talented singer. All content posted up on this site is used under the fair use copyright law 107. If anything belongs to you and you would like credit or removal please contact us at gmail before taking any legal actions. Any images and multimedia are copyright to their rightful owners. No copyright infringement is intended. IggyAzalea.us does not knowingly intend or attempt to offend or violate any copyright or intellectual property rights of any entity. Rapper Iggy Azalea says she is now concentrating on executive producing film and TV projects. The 26-year-old star has revealed that she is no more interested in acting but she will remain involved in the industry through her production company, Azalea Street Productions, reported Femalefirst. “There’s no more acting but I actually am doing a lot of executive producing. I’ve got a film coming out next year that I’m producing. “I’m not going to say what network, but I’ve just signed a first rights deal agreement with a big network in America that I am executive producing. We are doing five shows a year for the network, all scripted,” she said. Azalea, however, remained tight-lipped over projects her production company is working on. “I’m not acting but I’m definitely creating a lot of scripted content that you guys will be seeing. I find books and projects and things that I like and I team up with writers and go over the scripts and develop them. “I have a production company called Azalea Street Productions. It is all secret still,” she said. Australian rap superstar Iggy Azalea is the latest recruit to join the X Factor Australia judging panel, which returns to our screen this week just days after it premieres in Australia. We find out what the Fancy singer plans to bring to this year’s series. What type of artists are you hoping to unearth? I’m not necessarily looking for that ballad voice although it would be nice. I think I just really want someone with an interesting story who is an interesting person. Charismatic, warm and friendly. Somebody that I would want to be friends with and everybody is drawn to. I want to really take the time to notice who is memorable and then also who’s talented and can pull it off on stage. But I think sometimes these shows become so much about who can belt it out the most and not enough about personality. I really want to find that person who can still be in people’s minds even when the cameras aren’t rolling anymore. Have you seen any rappers? No, I’m not looking for a rapper. I never really feel like that works in this format. Rap is about song writing and this is about singing and covering other people’s songs, so I don’t know that this works in this format because you’re singing someone else’s lyrics and you also don’t necessarily have a vocal ability, so what are you showcasing if they’re not your lyrics? It kind of gets into murky water, lost in translation. The ‘Black Widow’ hitmaker – who was born in Sydney and grew up in Mullumbimby – sees America as her home now but enjoys returning to her birth country from time to time. She said: ‘I mean, to be honest with you, my home is in America. I’ve lived there for a decade, that’s where I live. It’s great to come back and visit my grandparents, but there is no home connection. It would be like you going home to where you lived when you were nine, I kind of don’t associate with that anymore.’ And the 26-year-old singer is ‘proud’ of the success she has achieved. She added to Australia’s Herald Sun newspaper: ‘To be the best, you want to compete with the best. The people I saw back then who I saw in the charts, who were at the top of our charts, were American. ‘I am proud, but I think anybody would be proud of the success that I’ve had, whether they come from a big city or a small town. It’s tough, no matter what.’ Meanwhile, Iggy will return to Australia following the announcement she will be a new judge on The X Factor. She said previously: ‘I hope it will be a bit of a summer getaway and I can work too. It will be summer so hopefully I can get out and chill and show everybody that is coming with me the good food and the beach and play some tennis and ride horses. ‘Spending a month in Australia is the longest I will have spent there in literally like 10 years. Aussie rapstress Iggy Azalea appears to be turning her attention to producing content for NBCUniversal. The “Team” performer just signed a production deal with the company to create original content. Azalea made the announcement via Instagram with a photo of her signature on the contract. “Wanted to share with everyone that my production company ‘Azalea Street’ has just signed on to create original content for Universal NBC! So guys, I’m an Executive Producer for at least a few years to come! Hopefully many! Lots of scripted series in the works! Lots of interesting ideas!” This partnership between Azalea’s company and NBCUniversal appears to have been in the works for some time. She mentioned her interest in producing content during a recent interview with Notion magazine. “I would still like to get into producing movies and television series, behind the scenes and will be doing that in the next one or two years.” So, if you’re waiting on Azalea’s sophomore album, you’re going to need to keep waiting. But that doesn’t mean she isn’t hard at work! Rapper Iggy Azalea has bought a new home and is busy decorating it following her recent split from her ex-fiance Nick Young. The “Fancy” hitmaker, 26, seems she’s keen to wipe clear any memories she has of her former lover by setting up home elsewhere and putting her own stamp on the interiors, reported Conmtactmusic. Taking to her Twitter account, she said, “Can’t wait to get home and get started on fixing up my new place. I’ve been annoying Adam and Guy talking about carpet all week (sic).” The 26-year-old rapper moved out of the home she shared with Nick in Tarzana, California, late last month after she saw the NBA basketball player getting frisky beneath the sheets with a mystery woman on their home CCTV. Azalea and Young began dating at the beginning of 2014 and got engaged in 2015, but their romance was rocked earlier this year when the “Team” hitmaker had to suffer the indignity of a video leaking online which showed Nick admitting to his Los Angeles Lakers teammate D’Angelo Russell that he had cheated on her with a teenager. Iggy Azalea is gearing up to join a new “team.” The 26-year-old has confirmed she’s taking her talents down under to join the judges’ panel on The X Factor Australia. “I understand what it’s like to have giant dreams and intend to help other young Australians achieve theirs by sharing my knowledge and developing their talent in collaboration with The X Factor,” the Sydney-born artist said in a statement. Iggy will replace Dannii Minogue (sister of Kylie) on the talent show’s upcoming eighth season, though her fellow co-judges have yet to be announced.

You are here: Home/News/ Sun Pharma Recalls 40,000 Bottles of Antidepressant in U.S. July 15, 2014 By: galadmin Sun Pharma Recalls 40,000 Bottles of Antidepressant in U.S. India’s Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd is recalling 41,127 bottles of antidepressant venlafaxine hydrochloride in the United States after the drug failed to properly dissolve, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said. Sun Pharma’s unit Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories Inc. began the voluntary recall in June and was classified by the FDA as a Class II, meaning that use of or exposure to the drug may cause temporary or medically reversible adverse health consequences. “Stability results found the product did not meet the drug release dissolution specifications,” the FDA said in a post on its website Friday. Dissolution tests are commonly conducted to help predict how a drug performs inside the body. Sun Pharma manufactured the drug at its plant in the western Indian state of Gujarat. A company spokesman in Mumbai declined comment. The company’s recall of venlafaxine hydrochloride comes three months after Pfizer Inc said it was pulling 104,000 bottles of the same drug, which the U.S. company sells under the brand Effexor XR, after a pharmacist reported that one of the bottles contained a heart drug. Sun Pharma also began a recall of 200 vials of the chemotherapy drug gemcitabine in the U.S. in April due to a lack of assurance of sterility. In January, the company pulled 2,528 bottles of its generic version of the diabetes drug Glumetza. If you purchased this product, return it to the place of purchase for a refund or throw it away. For further information, feel free to contact one of our Gacovino Lake attorneys at 1-800-246-HURT (4878). Free Case Review You Be The Judge Introducing our new online series You Be the Judge where we take you in to pull back the curtain, investigate the facts, and let you draw your own conclusions. Talcum Powder Linked to Cancer Several studies — and the anecdotal evidence from thousands of women across the country — link the use of talcum powder on or near the genitals with ovarian cancer. This correlation is strong enough that juries across ... continue reading... Contact Our Firm Gacovino, Lake & Associates, P.C. 270 W Main St Sayville, NY 11782 Phone: +1 (800) 550-0000 Phone: +1 (631) 600-0000 Fax: (631) 543-5450 Looking for something? Attorney Advertising Legal Disclaimer – Admitted in NY, NJ, CT, and Washington, D.C. only. While this firm maintains joint responsibility, your case may be referred to local or trial counsel for primary handling. Not available in all states. Prior results cannot and do not guarantee or predict a similar outcome with respect to any future matter, including yours, in which a lawyer or law firm may be retained.Site Map

Q: Can I have Gmail overwrite a known email with my contact info when a name is not supplied? I have to admit I was a little confused when I asked this question, as I thought that it was my Gmail where names and email addresses were connected. But of course, it's not the local Gmail client that attaches a name to an email for display when receiving, it's whether or not the sender has a name attached to their email, as explained in the answer. Okay... but, can I set Gmail up in a way so that it will replace a known email address with the name I have for them in my contacts in situations when someone sends me an email with no name set? Or, even better, over rides their name with the one I have set in any case (since I think of them by the name I have set, not what they have set)? This is standard practise when it comes to phone numbers - when someone calls my Android phone, I see the name that I have set in my contact list. Hopefully this could be done with emails as well. A: Currently still no, and probably never. The name that is displayed when you receive an email is the name embedded into that emails from:header. BUT there are two workarounds that I can think of, hopefully one will help you! Use Filters One workaround solution is to filter the email address and apply a label to it. This can help if their name is causing any confusion (eg. I have 4 people called Mike) The Pros of using this is that it will sync across all your computers and devices. Use a Script There is a script called DisplayName gmail that takes the contacts name (the one you have set in your contacts list) and displays that instead of their from: name. You will need to install tampermonkey (Chrome) or greasemonkey (Firefox) and then you can install the script DisplayName gmail (tested and working with chrome). The cons of using a script is that its not going to work across multiple computers - you would need to install the script on each computer you use. And this also work on your phone.

Sheraton Skyline Hotel at London Heathrow Sheraton Skyline Hotel at London Heathrow is a 4-star hotel in London, England. It is located at Bath Road in Hayes Middlesex, near Heathrow Airport. The hotel, built in 1971, is operated by the Sheraton hotel group and has 350 rooms. The hotel was purchased in 2015 by Qatar Airways, the first such hotel to be branded under the airline's Oryx brand. History The hotel opened for business on 1 October 1971 with a single room price of £6 and double-rooms priced at £9. That same year the hotel formed part of a group called the London Heathrow Conference Service with most of the major hotels in the area, to specifically target business travelers and "become the business meeting centre of Europe". The Skyline Hotel, along with Skyline Park Tower in Knightsbridge were developed by Capital & Counties. Skyline sold them to both to a Sheraton subsidiary for a combined £4 million in 1977. From the outset the hotel became known for hosting numerous international business conferences. On 9 March 1977, the "Transport of hazardous cargoes by air" conference was held at the hotel. During the 1970s, entertainment at the hotel included Diamond Lil's Wild West Cabaret, which ran up to six nights a week, and the house band The Banjo Boys. In 1980 the Turkish Cypriot business community met at the hotel to discuss trade and investment between Turkey and the UK. In 1981, John Rotter was appointed controller of the Sheraton Management Corporation and controller of the Sheraton Skyline Hotel. In 1988, Swedish property development consortium Reinhold Int bought the hotel for nearly £40 million. At the end of 1996, the hotel completed the Department of National Heritage's certification in the Investors in People Program, which rates the performance of employers in the hospitality industry. The certification marks employers who have high training and incentive programs for employees in one of Britain's fasted-growing employment sectors. The Sheraton Skyline was one of the venues for the first four days of the Congress in London, held between 4 and 11 July 1997. For a period it was known as the Sheraton Skyline Hotel and Conference Centre. In May 2002, hundreds of people were evacuated from the hotel by fire services, after it was reported that guests could smell ammonia. In early November 2007 there was a hit-and-run incident at the hotel when Detective Constable Cathy Corbett, 39, was rundown by a blue Peugeot 207, suffering serious head injuries. The hotel was purchased in 2015 by Qatar Airways, the first such hotel to be branded under the airline's Oryx brand. Architecture and facilities The Sheraton Skyline was built in 1971 by Curtis and Davies and designed by Ronald Fielding. The hotel is noted for its "atrium design". The hotel features 350 rooms. The hotel has several restaurants including Madhu's Heathrow, Sports Bar & Grill and the Sky Bar, which serves cocktails. The menu at Madhu's Heathrow features Punjabi cuisine, based on recipes from the original Madhu Indian Restaurant, located in Southall, West London. It is the first branch of the 33-year-old establishment. It previously had a Mediterranean restaurant called The Garden, which overlooked the hotel's swimming pool. A 1983 article in The Law Society's Gazette stated: "An earthly paradise appears in the shape of the Sheraton Skyline Hotel at Heathrow, where the chef, Uwe Zander, has a fantastic number of awards". References External links Official site Category:Hotels in London Category:Hotels established in 1971 Category:1971 establishments in England Category:Buildings and structures at Heathrow Airport Category:Qatar Airways Category:Sheraton hotels

Want to be tough on the tarnish and not your coppers? If so this blog is could help, from the junk drawer coin stashers to the binder organizers. When I started I was that coin pocket plunger and nothing is wrong with that, I just never thought the fun times would turn into a collection. I would dig in the depths of my pocket and remove any penny tarnished or not for a go at the hand cranking penny press. Now that I’m into the collecting side, some of those pressed pennies aren’t the shiny copper I want. Looking at them and all the tiny details of tarnished covered treasured memories was a little overwhelming. Bring forth the toothbrush, expensive copper cleaner, and watching the clock as I scrub each coin. This really is a problem when you have a large amount of coins. To fix a problem you have to first understand the problem. So what is causing that brown dirty look on the pennies? It’s called tarnish. It happens when copper, a metal, reacts with oxygen and sulfides in the air. This forms a reaction called copper oxide and/or copper sulfide which causes the brown or green appearance on the pennies. This can vary too depending on the penny. All pennies made before 1982 are solid copper and tend to have a more green tarnish, whereas the newer pennies are made from a combination of zinc and copper giving them a more brown tarnish. To care for the pressed pennies you are going to want something thats not too abrasive because this can cause damage to the design or even the copper. So I set out to find just that something mild, not time consuming, and easy on my wallet. I searched the internet and found many, many possible solutions. Then I narrowed it down to two easy fast and cheap choices. The first was a mix of baking soda and lemon juice. Two easy to find and cheap to buy ingredients with simple instructions to use. So, I grabbed a very tarnished Cabela’s pressed penny I had and, that I didn’t care too much for, to experiment on. I then placed the penny on a foam plate (for easy cleanup) followed by mixing a tablespoon of baking soda with a teaspoon lemon juice in a coffee cup. Then poured the mix on the penny. This was my first mistake of many with this experiment. Judging by the chemical smell that came off that bubbling concoction, I may have found the base ingredients of mustard gas. Y’all it ate right through that plate. Ok now to recover… I picked the penny up and an old toothbrush. I scrubbed the penny for a minute and washed it off. Here was my second mistake the instructions said to use a rag and gently buff the copper. Either way brush or “buff” the baking soda put some pretty nice scuffs on the penny. Side note, it didn’t clean it as well as I would have liked. Why did I tell you this? Well because it’s a lesson learned … just because it’s on the internet doesnt mean it’s right. Moving on to the next penny and the next hopeful cleaning candidate. No laughing here… I used ketchup. Yes, that wonderful red goo we use to smother and cover many tasty foods in. I used an extra Kentucky Down Under pressed penny that had seen better days. I mean it couldn’t go as poorly as the baking soda and lemon juice right? This time using a glass plate I laid the penny down and blobbed on the ketchup. Over it and under it I covered this penny. Now I waited…. 15 minutes to be exact. A quick rinse in the sink and a towel rub dry I had my solution. What I found was a like new penny under the tomato goo. How did this work though? The salt and acetic acid in vinegar, both ingredients in ketchup, caused a breakdown in oxides and/or copper sulfides that cause tarnish. When the breakdown happens it makes the tarnish easy to remove and causes little to no damage to the design or the penny. So while I kicked back and waited for a clean penny, I let science go to war with the tarnish. A wonderful side to this blog you can use it as a great educational experiment with kids. Enjoy the penny pressing journey. Jaclynn Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus.

Q: Why won't my Cocos2d test app fire "touchesBegan" events? In my app delegate, I made sure I have the line: [glView setMultipleTouchEnabled: YES]; And I have a simple layer meant only to figure out how multi touch works. The .mm file looks like: #import "TestLayer.h" @implementation TestLayer -(id) init { if( (self=[super init])) { [[CCTouchDispatcher sharedDispatcher] addTargetedDelegate:self priority:0 swallowsTouches:YES]; } return self; } -(void) draw{ [super draw]; glColor4f(1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.35); glLineWidth(6.0f); ccDrawCircle(ccp(500,500), 250,CC_DEGREES_TO_RADIANS(360), 60,YES); } -(void) ccTouchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event { NSLog(@"got some touches"); } -(void) ccTouchesMoved:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event { NSLog(@"some touches moved."); } -(BOOL) ccTouchBegan:(UITouch *)touch withEvent:(UIEvent *)event { NSLog(@"a touch began"); return FALSE; } @end When I touch the screen, I always see "a touch began", but no matter how I touch it (simulator or actual device), I never see "some touches moved" or "got some touches". Is there something further I need to do to make multi touch work? Specifically, I'm just trying to do basic pinch-to-zoom functionality... I heard there is some sort of gesture recognizer for iPhone...does it work for Coco2ds? Would it work even if I can't get simple multi touch events to fire? A: UIGestureRecognizers absolutely work for Cocos2D, I personally used them, you just need to add them to the correct view by using: [[[CCDirector sharedDirector] openGLView] addGestureRecognizer:myGestureRecognizer]; Regarding your touches, I guess you enabled them for the scene you are working in? scene.isTouchEnabled = YES; In any case you shouldn't use the addTargetDelegate method, take a look here

Den 24 mars larmades polis och räddningstjänst om att en bil brann på en väg söder om Ödeshög i Östergötland. När räddningstjänsten kom till platsen hittades en kropp i bilvraket. – I nuläget finns ingenting som tyder på att det skulle kunna vara någon annan, säger Henrik Sundin, utredare vid polisen i region öst och fortsätter: – Det finns ingenting som tyder på att brott är begånget. Helt säkra kan vi naturligtvis inte vara, men vi har fått information som gör att vi i nuläget inte misstänker något brott, säger han. Oklara omständigheter Omständigheterna kring det misstänkta dödsfallet är fortfarande oklara. Bilen som hittades utbränd ägs av en anhörig till Alexander Bengtsson. En bil som enligt polisen vid tidpunkten också nyttjades av Uppsalapolitikern. Kroppen är formellt inte identifierad, men enligt Polisen i region Öst informerades Alexander Bengtssons anhöriga om de preliminära resultaten från Rättsmedicinalverket på torsdagen. En komplett identifiering av kroppen kan komma att ta ytterligare flera veckor. Tre fall av misstänkt falsk larm Alexander Bengtsson har tidigare uppgivit till SVT Nyheter Uppsala att han mottagit uppemot 50 hot av olika karaktär. Bland annat att han utsattes för en knivattack i sitt hem den 9 mars i år. Men idag meddelade Åklagarmyndigheten att Alexander Bengtsson den 23 mars, delgavs misstanke om brott, gällande tre fall av misstänkt falsk larm. Flera av dem ska ha varit mordhot. – Det pågår en utredning, säger vice chefsåklagaren vid Åklagarmyndigheten Magnus Berggren och fortsätter: – Alexander Bengtsson har uppgett att han under en lång tid mottagit hot av olika karaktär – redan innan den misstänkta knivattacken. Efter det att vi hade samlat ihop en stor volym bevismaterial efter knivattacken fanns det detaljer i tre av de anmälda hoten som pekade åt olika håll. Då valde vi att dra igång en utredning kring falsklarm i de tre fallen. Hur menar du? – Vissa uppgifter pekade åt ett håll. Andra åt ett annat. Det är viktigt att understryka att vi i dagsläget inte vet vilka uppgifter som var rätt eller fel, säger Magnus Berggren. Alexander Bengtsson delgavs misstanke om brott gällande falsk larm den 23 mars. Han befaras ha omkommit den 24 mars. Vad sa han vid tillfället av delgivelsen då? – Han nekade till brott. Utsatts för hot Alexander Bengtsson är moderat politiker med förtroendeuppdrag i det kommunala bostadsbolaget Uppsalahem. Han har profilerat sig som en förkämpe mot rasism och homofobi. Så sent som för några dagar före bilbranden deltog Bengtsson i SVT:s Gomorron, och berättade om de många hot han har fått ta emot på grund av sitt politiska engagemang.

Q: WebBrowser and BackgroundWorker VB Can a WebBrowser.DocumentCompleted event executes the BackgroundWorker.RunWorkerAsync() correctly? Because my program doesn't seem to execute the codes under BackgroundWorker. Code: Dim Status As String = "" Private Sub WebBrowser1_DocumentCompleted(sender As Object, e As WebBrowserDocumentCompletedEventArgs) Handles WebBrowser1.DocumentCompleted If Status = "Enabled" Or Status = "Disabled" Then Else Status = WebBrowser1.Document.GetElementById(Account & "Flag").InnerText.ToString If Status = "Enabled" Then BackgroundWorker1.RunWorkerAsync() ElseIf Status = "Disabled" Then MessageBox.Show("disabled. Contact admin for more information.", "JKLorenzo", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Information) Close() End If End If End Sub A: I finally made it to work Here is the code i've used: Private Sub BackgroundWorker1_DoWork(sender As Object, e As System.ComponentModel.DoWorkEventArgs) Handles BackgroundWorker1.DoWork BackgroundWorker1.ReportProgress(10) Dim mysqlconnection As MySqlConnection = New MySqlConnection("server=85.10.205.173;port=3306;username='" & User & "';password='" & Pass & "'") BackgroundWorker1.ReportProgress(20) Dim mysqlcommand As MySqlCommand = Nothing BackgroundWorker1.ReportProgress(30) Dim mysqldatareader As MySqlDataReader = Nothing BackgroundWorker1.ReportProgress(40) mysqlconnection.Open() BackgroundWorker1.ReportProgress(50) Using table As DataTable = New DataTable BackgroundWorker1.ReportProgress(60) Using command As MySqlCommand = New MySqlCommand("Select * from my.accounts where Username = 'Ray';", mysqlconnection) BackgroundWorker1.ReportProgress(70) Using adapter As MySqlDataAdapter = New MySqlDataAdapter(command) BackgroundWorker1.ReportProgress(80) adapter.Fill(table) BackgroundWorker1.ReportProgress(90) End Using End Using For Each row As DataRow In table.Rows If row("Flag") = "enable" Then e.Result = "1" BackgroundWorker1.ReportProgress(100) Else e.Result = "0" BackgroundWorker1.ReportProgress(100) End If Next End Using mysqlconnection.Close() End Sub Private Sub BackgroundWorker1_ProgressChanged(sender As Object, e As ProgressChangedEventArgs) Handles BackgroundWorker1.ProgressChanged If e.ProgressPercentage = 10 Then Label1.Text = "Status: Checking" Label1.ForeColor = Color.FromKnownColor(KnownColor.Highlight) End If ProgressBar1.Value = e.ProgressPercentage ProgressBar1.Refresh() End Sub Private Sub BackgroundWorker1_RunWorkerCompleted(sender As Object, e As RunWorkerCompletedEventArgs) Handles BackgroundWorker1.RunWorkerCompleted Threading.Thread.Sleep(500) ProgressBar1.Value = 0 If e.Result = "1" Then Label1.Text = "Status: Enabled" Label1.ForeColor = Color.Green Button1.Enabled = False Button2.Enabled = True ElseIf e.Result = "0" Then Label1.Text = "Status: Disabled" Label1.ForeColor = Color.OrangeRed Button1.Enabled = True Button2.Enabled = False Else MessageBox.Show("Unknown output: " & e.Result & " . Closing", "", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Error) Close() End If End Sub

Q: How to remove an added value by uncheck box? Hi I have check box to add a value on click. However, It also adds even if I unchecked the box. How can I remove the added value when I uncheck the box? Thank you! $('.addCheckBox').click( function( event ){ var btn = $(event.currentTarget); var Data = btn.data(); var addList = $('#ListBtn'); var Obj = { aID: Data.id, aName: Data.name }; addList.push( Obj ); addListBtn[0].innerHTML = "(" + addList.length + ") in List"; }); A: $('.addCheckBox').click(function (event) { if ($('.addCheckBox').is(':checked')) { var btn = $(event.currentTarget); var Data = btn.data(); var addList = $('#ListBtn'); var Obj = { aID: Data.id, aName: Data.name }; addList.push({"myData":Obj}); console.log(addList); }else{ var addList = $('#ListBtn'); addList.remove("myData"); console.log(addList); } });

Robert Goolrick Robert Goolrick (born 1948 in Virginia) is an American writer whose first novel sold more than five million copies.. Biography Robert Goolrick grew up in the 1950s in the small college town of Lexington, Virginia. His father was a college professor. His mother was a homemaker, and he had two siblings. When Goolrick lost his job as an advertising copywriter, he turned to memoir writing. He wrote a memoir and his parents disinherited him, so he moved to New York. The End of the World As We Know It: Scenes from a Life highlighted "the excesses and failures of both the social underpinnings of the time and his parents' inevitable alcohol-fueled decline, culminating in a devastating portrayal of the sexual abuse he suffered as a child." He sought "something resembling peace" in his writing. After years living in New York City, he returned to Virginia. In 2015 he moved from Whitestone, Virginia to Weems, Virginia. He reads from his book "A Reliable Wife" in a video posted for his Facebook followers to which he added, "For people who can't come to a bookstore, this is what I look like and what I sound like, thanks to my friend Ashraf Meer." Works 2007: The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life, Algonquin Books, 2009: A Reliable Wife, Algonquin Books, 2012: Heading Out to Wonderful, Algonquin Books, 2015: The Fall of Princes, Algonquin Books, 2018: The Dying of the Light, Harper, Works translated into French 2009: Une femme simple et honnête, [« A Reliable Wife »], translation by Marie de Prémonville, Paris, Éditions Anne Carrière, 413 p. 2010: Féroces, [« The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life »], translated by Marie de Prémonville, , 254 p. . 2012: Arrive un vagabond, [« Heading Out to Wonderful »], translation by Marie de Prémonville, Éditions Anne Carrière, 319 p. - Prix Laurent-Bonelli Virgin-Lire 2012 - Grand prix des lectrices de Elle 2013. 2014: La Chute des princes [« The Fall of Princes »], translation by Marie de Prémonville, Éditions Anne Carrière, 360 p. . 2017: Après l’incendie, followed by the short story Trois lamentations, Éditions Anne Carrière, 300 p. Book recommendations by Goolrick for children Robert Goolrick listed his six favorite books for children: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain; Oh, the Places You'll Go! by Dr. Seuss; Canada by Richard Ford; The Patrick Melrose Novels by Edward St. Aubyn; The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson; and Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris. Prizes 2013: Grand prix des lectrices de Elle for Arrive un vagabond (Heading Out to Wonderful) 2015: Prix Fitzgerald for La Chute des princes References External links Beautiful People, Wretched Childhood on The New York Times Robert Goolrick, author of the best-seller A Reliable Wife, talks about writing as the path to something resembling peace on Nashville scene Robert Goolrick on KirKus Goolrick's life spins from 'tortured' to 'Wonderful' on USA Today Robert Goolrick > Quotes on Goodreads 'A Reliable Wife' by Robert Goolrick on {Washington Post (8 April 2009) Robert Goolrick on Book reporter The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life by Robert Goolrick on bookslut.com Category:21st-century American novelists Category:Grand prix des lectrices de Elle winners Category:1948 births Category:People from Virginia Category:Living people

Summer Heat Beach Volleyball Summer Heat Beach Volleyball is a beach volleyball video game released by Acclaim in 2003 for the PlayStation 2 gaming console. Gameplay Summer Heat follows the basic rules of the sport of beach volleyball. Two teams of two players each face off in a sectioned-off area of sand that serves as the playing area. One player serves the ball, and play begins. The objective is to land the ball on the ground within the play area of the other team's side. Players alternate hitting ("volleying") the ball, up to three volleys per turn, and the ball must travel over the net no later than the third hit. The game supports up to four players, though the use of a multitap accessory is required for three and four player games. Summer Heat is styled similarly to other arcade-style volleyball games of the era, where there is an emphasis on the sex appeal of the bikini-clad female characters as well as having the overall tone and atmosphere of a summer beach party. Music Summer Heat's soundtrack features music from Pink, Sum 41, Kylie Minogue, Sprung Monkey, Freshmaka, and Suburban. Reception The game was released during a period where volleyball video games were experiencing a period of renewed popularity for the first time in many years, although it received considerably less hype and critical praise than its contemporaries Beach Spikers, Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball, and Outlaw Volleyball. It currently has a score of 68.09% on GameRankings and 65 out of 100 on Metacritic. The game was one of several poor-selling titles that would lead to Acclaim's bankruptcy in 2004. Future In 2006, Canadian game publisher Throwback Entertainment acquired the property rights for Summer Heat Beach Volleyball from Acclaim. Throwback had planned on developing another Summer Heat volleyball game for release on the PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360, but there is no word on the status of such a game. Summer Heat Volleyball is expected to keep its identity and will not be dissolved or merged. References External links Category:2003 video games Category:PlayStation 2-only games Category:Acclaim Entertainment games Category:Beach volleyball video games Category:Video games developed in the United Kingdom Category:Video games featuring female protagonists Category:PlayStation 2 games

Case: 11-41328 Document: 00512042106 Page: 1 Date Filed: 11/02/2012 IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit FILED November 2, 2012 No. 11-41328 Summary Calendar Lyle W. Cayce Clerk UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Plaintiff-Appellee v. ARTEMIO LOMAS Defendant-Appellant Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas USDC No. 5:11-CR-770-2 Before JONES, DENNIS, and HAYNES, Circuit Judges. PER CURIAM:* A jury convicted Artemio Lomas of one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 1,000 kilograms or more of marijuana in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 846 and 841(a)(1), (b)(1)(A) and two counts of possession with intent to distribute 100 kilograms or more of marijuana in violation of § 841(a)(1), (b)(1)(B). The district court sentenced Lomas to three concurrent terms of 151 months in prison. Lomas argues for the first time on appeal that the district * Pursuant to 5TH CIR. R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5TH CIR. R. 47.5.4.  Case: 11-41328 Document: 00512042106 Page: 2 Date Filed: 11/02/2012 No. 11-41328 court erred in calculating the drug quantity attributable to him under the Sentencing Guidelines by using the gross weight rather than the net weight. Because Lomas did not object in the district court to the drug quantity attributed to him, our review is for plain error. United States v. Conn, 657 F.3d 280, 284 (5th Cir. 2011); United States v. Sparks, 2 F.3d 574, 589 (5th Cir. 1993). Simply put, Lomas has not demonstrated that the court used the gross weight rather than the net weight. Neither the trial testimony nor the presentence report (PSR) referenced either gross weight or net weight. Furthermore, the district court was entitled to rely on the jury’s finding that Lomas conspired to possess with intent to distribute 1000 kilograms or more of marijuana and Lomas’s admission that the facts in the PSR were correct. See United States v. Arnold, 416 F.3d 349, 362 (5th Cir. 2005); United States v. Ramirez, 557 F.3d 200, 204 (5th Cir. 2009). In light of the trial testimony, the jury’s finding, and Lomas’s admission, Lomas has not show that the district court committed any error, and certainly not clear or obvious error, when it relied on the drug quantity indicated in the PSR. See United States v. Rodriguez, 602 F.3d 346, 363 (5th Cir. 2010). AFFIRMED. 2 

Koch County Koch County is an administrative division of Northern Liech, South Sudan, covering an area in the center of the state. The administrative center is the town of Koch. Large villages include Dhor Wang, Thorial, Duar, Wath-Thier and Bieh. According to the Sudan Population and Housing Census, 2008, there were 75,000 persons in Koch County. The population is extremely poor, with widespread illiteracy. There are serious security concerns. Between April and November 2010, over 35 people died in the county, many of them civilians, from insurgent attacks. There were suspicions that General Gatluak Gai, who came from Koch County, was the leader of the forces responsible for these attacks. As of January 2011 talks were in progress with different people who claimed to represent Gatluak Gai, but the situation was extremely obscure. On 18 July 2011, Gatluak Gai concluded peace talks with the SPLA. Three days later he was killed. His second in command in the "South Sudan Liberation Army" rebel group, Marko Chuol Ruei, claimed responsibility for the death, saying Gatluak Gai had told his fighters to ignore the peace agreement. References Category:Unity (state)

"Translated and timed by yuizaki_libra Raw provider: bittersweet_bun@ourhour" "Cornaceae deciduous tree." "In the spring, when the season for sakura is just over, it bears white or pink flowers." "Meaning of its blossoms" ""Returning a favor"" ""Flowering Dogwood"" "Canada." "Nova Scotia Province." "Where are you from?" "Where are you from?" "Me?" "New York." "Are you by yourself?" "Yes." "I'm by myself." "Where are you going?" "A lighthouse." "Lighthouse?" "Yes." "Where I'm meant to be." "Hokkaido." "East District." "Taken at first sight?" "Yeah." "It's like the first moment I saw her, my whole body trembled." "You won't see a cute girl like that everyday." "Aren't you half-asleep or what?" "No I'm not." "Remember, the last time after supplementary lessons, I took the earlier train?" "She was on it." "Which school is she from?" "Hmm that is perhaps..." "Kushiro Ryonan." "What?" "What's wrong?" "Impossible impossible." "We are in a way too different place." "There's no way she's gonna talk to us." "Why?" "In love, intelligence doesn't matter." "Isn't that so?" "That's right." "It doesn't matter." "Girls and fish are the same." "The point is, you just have to think about fishing nets." "In short, you spread the net out like this" "There is only one entrance here." "Meaning it can open right?" "Then, when you're pulling the net in, you must at once.." "Capture finished!" "I see." "Alright." "That's why the girl Shuu-niichan brought here the other day has a face that resembles a salmon, yeah?" "You punks!" "I'm not a dog." "Ouch ouch.." "Where on earth is there such a cute salmon?" "You rascal!" "Hey!" "Don't fool around over there." "Yup!" "Kohei." "You don't have to go to training class?" "Oh shoot!" "See you later!" "I'm going." "Oh Sae, your lunch box." "Oh.." "I have a night shift today." "Got it." "Do it calmly alright?" "Yeah." "I'm going." "Have a safe trip." "Oh Sae." "Ah." "Going to school?" "Yeah." "Here, drink some milk." "Sorry." "I don't have time." "Sae." "Don't drive too fast!" "I know~!" "Good morning, Ryoko." "This place is in bad condition." "Help me repair it?" "Hmm?" "Sae~!" "Minami!" "What's up?" "Going to my grandma's place for some errands." "Sae, this day's finally come right?" "Yeah." "Do your best." "If it's Sae, things will definitely be fine." "Thanks." "Sa..." "Sae.." "Hi.." "Hi.." "Hi.." "Hi.." "I wish to inform all the passengers that" "For the moment, there would be an interruption as we have just run into a deer." "A deer?" "This is great." "It is stuck here." "Let's try to pull it out." "Yes." "Wait~!" "I'm getting on!" "Wait!" "Wait!" "Are you in a hurry?" "Eh?" "Important business?" "I have an exam." "Exam?" "Me too!" "Really?" "What time does it start?" "10 o'clock." "Uncle!" "Excuse me." "This is Kohei." "Umm.." "I want to borrow your phone." "No use." "Seems that he's gone out to the field." "I'll go see him." "Umm.." "Do you know how to drive?" "Huh?" "Well.." "I can drive a little bit, tentatively." "If you can... can't we borrow that?" "What?" "Er but... that is not really.." "I'll be in big trouble if I don't make it on time." "Please do me this favor." "My life depends on this." "Phew.." "Oh!" "What?" "How about your exam?" "Will you make it?" "Well.. may..maybe." "Really?" "Then it's fine though." "Eh?" "Aaa!" "Uwah!" "Uwah!" "Stop the car!" "Stop!" "I can't stop it!" "Sae!" "Mom." "Are you injured?" "There doesn't seem to be any injury." "She was rushing to school." "Well, but still driving without a license is not a good thing." ""Without a license"..." "You drove a car?" "Oh no no no." "The one driving wasn't your daughter, but a male student from a fisheries high school." "He does have a temporary license though." "However...a temporary license is still only temporary." "It's not a permanent one, so..." "You're never going to register for a permanent license again!" "But in that situation.." "Men don't make excuses!" "Dad!" "Kohei didn't have bad intention..." "Who cares about bad intention or whatnot!" "Thanks goodness, she wasn't injured or anything." "What you did was theft!" "Huh?" "Come here!" "Come!" "Father, your blood pressure will increase!" "Let go!" "Let go!" "Come!" "Enough." "Your pain will worsen." "To get a recommendation, it's not just about your grades." "Your everyday demeanor does contribute a part too." "You should have known that too right?" "Even if you were in a hurry, I still can't understand how you could have gotten in a car driven by a boy from a fisheries school who doesn't have a driving license." "That was.. um.." "You'll be suspended." "Eh?" "The other person is a male student." "Of course this must be." "Without a license, he transgressed the speed limit." "Even the car he stole was broken, yes?" "At any rate, don't ever get involved with people in his lot again." "Sae." "Umm.." "I was wondering how you were doing after all that..." "What happened to the exam?" "Hey!" "Hang... hang on a moment!" "Why are you ignoring me.." "It was hopeless." "Eh?" "They decided to give another student the recommendation to go to Waseda." "I see." "How did you get those bruises?" "I didn't ask you for it." "It's fine, you don't have to cover for me." "Oh erm.. but..." "Look." "Because you said that you life depended on it." "I have been stupid since forever, so to me getting suspended from school is really no big deal." "Taking a break from school and going home, I'm lucky." "Why don't you try taking the exam?" "What?" "The real exam is in February right?" "You seem pretty smart, so maybe you can start from now..." "It's not that simple." "Starting from now..." "Starting from now, it's definitely impossible." "Why are you grumbling there?" "Not getting a recommendation, and it already seems like the world is coming to an end." ""Coming to an end"..." "Don't say it that way..." "You're always "I want to study English in university"," ""I want to go to Tokyo"." "Those urges are just to that extent?" "Not that I really mind though." "If you decide not to take the exam, I don't have to work at the tavern at night any more." "Sae!" "What?" "You ate all the inari-sushi here?" "Eh?" "I can't?" "Still having the energy to eat means you're alright." "Because if you are truly depressed, you won't swallow anything." "I look like I lost some weight right?" "How come?" "From that time onwards, I eat any proper meal." "Didn't you eat red bean bread just now?" "Red bean bread is... just a snack." "My stomach can't hold on with just snacks.." "Hey!" "There she is..." "There she is!" "Huh?" "As I said, that girl." "The one from Kushiro Ryonan..." "Eh?" "Huh?" "Me?" "Me huh?" "Like I know." "You go hear her out for yourself." "Ah.." "Um.." "Um.." "Ah, yes?" "I'm sorry about the other day." "It wasn't your fault." "Not at all.." "About the entrance examination..." "Yes?" "I've decided to take on the challenge." "Huh oh..." "Oh I..." "I see." "I was thinking it's really my bad if you're bothered about it." "Oh no, not at all." "And also.." "Ah, yes?" "Thank you for having covered up for me." "Oh er.. sorry.." "Um.. um.. thi...this.." "I've been hesitating for a while whether to pass this to you." "How come?" "How come?" "How come~~?" "Hey!" "Tamotsu!" "Quickly go!" "See you." "Hiroshi." "You go catch him!" "What did you receive?" "No idea.." "Not something weird, is it?" "What's this?" "Collection of questions?" "Hmm..." ""I'm really sorry for what happened." "Please do you best for your exam." "If it's okay, please use these." "Kyochi Kohei"" "Uwah, what dirty handwriting." "This is wrong some more." "What's wrong?" "This is for high school examinations." "That's right!" ""Because" and then "she"." ""She is" as the subject is omitted." "Cram school?" "Yeah." "If I want to catch up with everyone now, I have to take extra lessons." "Then, I will look for a part-time job in Kushiro." "Eh?" "If I do, then we can go home together right?" "Hey!" "Sorry." "We must hurry." "Or else we'll be late for the train." "Since primary school?" "Yea." "The first time I boarded a ship was during my third grade in primary school." "My Grandpa is known as a legendary fisherman, not just among the locals." "Really?" "Yeah." "Then, combining my Grandpa's name and the word "Ko" from my name, we have the name written on my family's ship "Koeimaru"." "You've wanted to become a fisherman ever since that time?" "Well, more like I was in the so-called..." "special education for the gifted?" "Sae-chan, you have always wanted to go to university?" "When I was in third year of junior high, my teacher recommended that to me." "My mom was quite into the idea too." "Your mother is a nurse?" "A nurse in addition to a tavern worker." "From time to time at a karaoke shop." "Wow that's pretty impressive." "Well karaoke is her hobby though." "Huh?" "Quite heavy aren't you?" "Eh?" "Because so many worries are packed inside?" "Ouch!" "Hey, where are we going?" "Not telling you." "Where?" "This is kidnapping." "Where?" "Told you I'm not saying." "Beautiful~!" "The ocean seen from this place is the one I like best." "Ever since I was a child, whenever my dad hit me, I would usually come here." "I'm a little jealous of that." "Why would you?" "He only hits and kicks me you know." "You saw right, the bruises that time." "Hmm because..." "I was never scolded by my dad." "Eh?" "He passed away, when I was 5 years old." "Ah.. sorry." "It's nothing." "You don't have to apologize." "Somehow, this scene feels nostalgic." "Even though it's my first time coming here." "Isn't it chilly?" "Your hand's cold." "What.. is this?" "Seeds of a tree." "Seeds?" "Yeah." "Here, take a look." "Peel off the skin, and then scatter them into the soil like this." "See?" "Then roots will come out?" "That's right." "If it's all well, roots will come out." "Someday, it might even bear flowers." "When will flowers bloom?" "I wonder when." "At that time, how old will Sae have become?" "Hey, Sae." "What?" "Even if Dad will have gone to a faraway place," "I will always be watching over Sae." "Sae?" "Sae!" "Oh, Mom." "Welcome back." "A present." "It's some leftover food at the shop, though." "This is Mom, and this is me." "Heh~" "Where is this?" "Canada." "Canada?" "Yeah." "I was born in this town." "What?" "But, I don't remember anything about the town." "As far as I can remember, my mom and I, the two of us, have been living in Hokkaido." "How about your dad?" "He would usually go out on trips to take photos so he didn't come home." "He seemed to be that sort of person." "But during my 5-years-old birthday, all of a sudden, the dad that I'd never seen before came back." "How come?" "Because Dad came to know about his illness." "Illness?" "Yeah." "Cancer." "Someday.." "Hmm?" "Someday.." "I want to see it." "The place where Sae was born." "Me too." "Why?" "Why, Tamotsu?" "We promised to become fishermen together, didn't we?" "Somehow, I don't feel inclined to do it anymore." "That's all." "How about your job?" "What are you going to do from now on?" "I heard he's going to a shipping company where hid Dad works in Kushiro." "But still why did he, all of a sudden.." "Jealousy." "Huh?" "He's jealous of Sae-chan and you." "It hurts him that much." "What a thickhead." "Erm.. even so.." "Then why did he bother to come to a fishery?" "Making rash decisions in everything is his peculiar trait." "Leave him be for a while, and his mood will be normal again." "Sae-chan is surely taking the exam to go to university in Tokyo?" "Yeah." "I see." "Hey, Hiroshi." "Huh?" "Am I, by any chance, a hypocrite?" "On the surface, I always say I will be supporting Sae." "But once in a while, I wish that Sae will fail the entrance exam." "How.. how come?" "Because... if she fails, she can stay with me forever." "What?" "What the heck?" "It's not something to laugh about." "You're so irritating." "Hey dangerous." "Dangerous." "Let's go eat steamed meat bun." "Hey, I'm famished." "(Chance of getting into desired universities." "Waseda University" " D)" "The eldest brother of one of my friends in junior high seems to have opened a stylish restaurant in Suehiro province." "And then, I have already asked him to reserve a table for us on Christmas Eve." "I.. have earned a little from my part-time job so.." "Eh?" "When we're together, we should just have a fun chat." "In times like these, don't keep studying." "Because I don't have much time any more." "I understand that." "No, you don't!" "Because Kohei-kun has never studied for an exam before, so you won't understand." "If so, then let's stop going home together." "My presence here just disrupts your studies." "You should continue studying by yourself however much you like." "Don't alight wherever you please!" "Don't alight by yourself wherever you please!" "What a stupid girl." "Sae, don't get off like this." "If you catch a cold, what am I going to do?" "Because..." "It was my bad." "The truth is..." "I wonder why I'm going to take the exam in Tokyo..." "I have thought about it many times." "If I stay here," "I can be with Kohei-kun and we won't be separated right?" "However, as I thought, I still have to go." "I myself decided that I would go to university." "And ever since then, I have always only focused on that." "I can't give it all up now." "I don't want to think that I'm a weak-willed person." "Strange, aren't I?" "Not at all." "Do your best, Sae." "Someday, when I can speak fluent English," "I will be on my feet to travel all over the world." "Because I will... become a fisherman who can travel through all the oceans in the world." "Yeah." "Sae!" "What's the matter?" "I passed." "I passed Waseda's examination." "I see." "I can't believe it." "I thought it was completely impossible." "No such thing." "I have always had faith in you." "That Sae will definitely pass." "Thank you!" "Alright!" "Congratulations~ I did it!" "Is it okay not to go?" "What about?" "Sae-chan is going to Tokyo today right?" "It's fine, really." "How so?" "Leave him alone." "If he doesn't want to go, then there's no way we can force him." "It's no use chasing after a fish that has escaped the net." "You really have made no progress, haven't you, Shuu-niichan?" "Huh?" "People and fish are different." "People's heart is.." "like.." "much more complicated." "What did you come here for?" "We thought you would never show up before us again." "Well.." "Isn't it fine?" "What the heck?" "Kohei, i won't be jealous anymore, so go send her off." "If you don't come, Sae-chan will..." ""I'm not going" means I'm not going." "Leave me alone." "Uncle, take care of your body okay?" "Sae-chan, eat this while you're on the airplane." "Thank you!" "I'm happy." "Eat this too." "Thank you." "Non-chan, take care alright?" "Sae." "Be well okay?" "Minami too." "You're welcome to stay over at my place any time." "I will come even if you don't say so." "I've booked a ticket for Golden Week already." "I'll be waiting." "We're departing soon." "Be well and look after yourself." "Please eat your meals properly." "Yeah." "Go quickly now." "You're the one who decided to go to Tokyo." "Mom." "What?" "Thank you." "Be well." "Have a safe trip." "A long time ago, in the spring when I was 20," "I also drove your mom in this car and sent her off to the airport." "Eh?" "Ryoko decided to go overseas in order to chase after your father." "She kept it a secret from both her parents." "I was stunned, and tried to stop her." "But she insisted on going no matter what, and would not listen to me." "Masato-niichan right.." "What?" "Weren't you in love with Mom?" "It couldn't be helped." "She didn't listen to me." "And besides, I couldn't confess to her, either." "Is that so?" "Yeah." "But at that time, I realized that if I was going to confess, I needed to do it then." ""I love you." "Don't go."" ""I love you." "Don't go." "I love you." "Don't go."" ""I love you." "Don't go."" "The whole time I was driving her, those words echoed in my heart until we reached the airport.." "Nii-chan, pull over." "Huh?" "Please, stop the car." "Kohei-kun." "Kohei-kun!" "Oh." "There she is." "(Do your best, Sae)" "Sae, do you best!" "Do you best, Sae!" "Thanks." "I'll write you." "Got it." "I'll be back." "I'll be back." "We're going." "Okay." "Kohei, don't slack off." "Yes." "You're interested in photography?" "Eh?" "Ah.." "These are my works." "How are they?" "Nice, right?" "I don't intend to join the club or anything." "Nah, you don't need to have a camera." "You can be a model too." "80 60 80?" "For now, just tell me your contact address first.." "Umm.." "I don't have time for that." "I don't have money." "And also, I have to look for a part-time job." "Excuse me." "Oh!" "Then, should I introduce you to a good part-time job?" "Eh?" "2000 yen per hour." "4 days a week." "How's that?" "Well, it's night work though." "Excuse me." "Eh?" "One more bowl." "Yes." "Nii-chan, this came today." "You...!" "Why didn't you tell me sooner?" "Give it to me." "Out of my sight!" "You watch out!" "Hey, don't hit me." "Wait, are you going to eat or not?" "Hello?" "Ah.. it's me." "Kohei-kun?" "You wrote in the letter that you've got a connected phone, so I tried calling." "Thank you." "Kohei-kun is the first one to call me." "Seriously?" "Yay!" "Are you well?" "Yeah." "How about Sae?" "I'm good." "Where are you now?" "At the public phone booth in front of the fishery cooperative." "We've starting using fixed-net fishing, so it starts early in the morning." "In the evening, when it's past 8 p.m, my house becomes very quiet." "Hey.. somehow..." "What?" "I miss Hokkaido dialect." "What are you talking about?" "I always speak the standard language." "Ehh?" "Don't laugh." "Of course I do." "I said don't laugh." "Year 1582." "This is a very important year." "Because it's 1582, let's memorize it by using "ichigo pantsu" (strawberry-patterned underpants)" "(note: it has the same pronunciation)" "Then, what I'd like you to remember together with this strawberry underpants are" "Battle of Tenmokuzan, the The Incident at Honnoji and finally Battle of Yamazaki." "Make sure you can recall this order of events at the back of your head." "(Kitami-sensei's photos corner)" "Normally, I work part-time here, saving enough money to go around to take photos." "How about school?" "You hit me right on the nail." "I'm already in my sixth year." "There are many photos of children, aren't there?" "Yeah." "Because my heart is as pure as that of a young boy." "Eh?" "Er.. this is where you should laugh." "Yes." "These are all photos taken in a school." "This photo is nice, isn't it?" "Everyone's expression looks great." "Really great smiles." "Yes." "This is Hirasawa." "I am not home at the moment." "After the signal, please tell me your name and leave a message." "No matter how much I have begged him," "The Investment Director has already made the decision." "Please do something about it." "Union Director." "I beg of you." "Ken-chan." "In the last 2-3 years, the fish catch is decreasing here." "You're not the only one faced with difficulties." "The fishery cooperative is barely holding on too." "I understand that." "I will definitely do something about the arrears." "Would you help me negotiate with him?" "I beg of you." "Hm.." "Ritsuko, make us two cups of tea." "Right away." "Ken-chan, let's talk this over." "Ko-chan." "You're the only one who hasn't submitted the sales receipt." "If you don't do it early, work can't progress." "Sorry." "After I'm done with this, I'll go and take it." "Hiroshi." "Don't you think Ko-chan has been spacing out a lot lately?" "Because of this." "Eh?" "His girlfriend was supposed to return from Tokyo during summer break." "But she's busy with her part-time job so she wouldn't come home anymore." "Part-time job?" "I wonder if it's true." "What do you mean?" "She just makes up an excuse to play around with another man." "A female university student in Tokyo.." "there's no way she will be in a long distance relationship with this countryside fisherman, is there?" "You like Kohei?" "Eh?" "You like him right?" "How on earth can I like him?" "He's totally not my type." "If so, won't you go out with me?" "Keep on dreaming." "Kohei!" "Hey, Kohei!" "Uwah." "Ouch." "Ow." "Are you ok?" "Don't get distracted while you're on a ship." "You can die anytime." "Sorry." "Thank you very much." "Please take care." "I see." "You're that fledgling fisherman from last time, right?" "Aren't you an unexpectedly good guy?" "Then, how is it?" "Eh?" "What about?" "Of course your long distance relationship." "Is it going well?" "No.." "Somehow, Sae.." "Ah no, Sae-chan is quite busy with her part-time job lately, so we haven't any time to..." "It seems that she's not going back this summer break either..." "If you are not careful, she will be nabbed away by men in Tokyo." "U..." "Um..." "What?" "Really, a mother can say things like that about her daughter?" "Somehow..." "What are you talking about?" "She's still young." "If she doesn't love one or two persons, she can't become a good woman." "To be her boyfriend, no matter it's you or any man in Tokyo, whoever is fine." "But you know, I hope she can like someone seriously and love that person without any regrets." "If by any chance, you are seriously about her too, get up the strength to bring her back here and have an all-out attack." "You only have one life to live." "Also, people can die in the blink of an eye." "Right now, for customers who would like to purchase Christmas cakes.." "Ah.!" "Excuse me.." "(Takadanobaba Station." "Waseda Exit. 5 p.m)" "It's still too early..." "Did you manage to make reservation at that restaurant?" "I did, right on the mark." "Thanks." "A reunion after a long time huh?" "Do you best." "Do you best." "I'll try my best." "Bye bye." "Bye bye." "Ah!" "Dressing fashionably like that for Christmas Eve..." "Going out with someone right?" "No comment." "Ah is that right?" "Spill the beans." "Please stop." "What, it's no big deal." "I don't like it." "Why?" "Hey.." "Kohei-kun." "I have wanted to go to this restaurant long before." "I see." "Yeah." "My friends at the university said that not only the atmosphere is nice, but the food is also cheap and delicious." "Heh~" "It was pretty hard to make reservations here." "Is that so?" "Yeah." "Oh, right." "Please go ahead and take a seat." "Here." "Your Christmas present." "Ah.." "Thank you." "Why are you angry?" "Not at all." "I'm not angry or anything." "You've been mad ever since some time ago." "That's why, I said I'm not." "I have looked forward to seeing Kohei-kun for a long time." "Even though I have looked forward to seeing you..." "Why are you..." "Me too, I'm the same." "Me too!" "I'm leaving." "Eh?" "Kohei-kun." "Kohei-kun!" "Kohei-kun, wait for me!" "Kohei-kun!" "What should we do?" "Let's go for karaoke?" "That hurts." "Don't screw with me." "Stop there!" "Lame piece of shit." "Enough." "Let's go already." "Hey what are you doing?" "What are you doing?" "Come." "Let go!" "Come!" "You rascal!" "Let go!" "Kohei-kun!" "Please stop!" "Someone!" "Someone, help!" "Kohei-kun!" "You rascal!" "Let go!" "Don't screw with me!" "Come in." "I will turn the stove on now." "Wash you face." "We need to disinfect your wounds." "I missed you." "I really missed you." "Sorry." "I woke you up?" "No." "What's wrong?" "Hmm..." "I thought of giving you this for Christmas..." "You made it for me?" "Tokyo has everything." "That's why, I didn't know what I should give you." "It looks like the ship that I'm gonna board one day." "(Do your best, Sae)" "Thank you." "Thank you, Kohei-kun." "Me too." "Thanks for this." "Hey..." "What's the matter?" "Even if we're separated," "we'll be alright, won't we?" "Of course." "My feelings won't change." "Definitely." "For the rest of my life." "They won't ever change." "Yeah." "Hirasawa-san, you're a senior right?" "Yes." "You haven't got any tentative offer from anywhere?" "Yes." "Since it's already this time, It's harsh to not receive any offer, isn't it?" "We do offer jobs that will make use of English and allow you to work overseas." "Yes." "But then, why don't you consider studying or finding a job in a foreign country?" "Hey!" "Sae!" "Over here, Sae!" "Long time no see." "New York?" "Yeah." "I'm departing soon." "I will be staying at an acquaintance's house for some time while taking photos." "I see.." "That's amazing." "It's not amazing at all." "Senpai." "Hmm?" "I might be hopeless already." "What?" "Ever since last year, I've constantly been looking for a job, but I didn't get into anywhere." "Even though there are so many companies here in Tokyo..." "Nowhere..." "I..." "I don't understand for what purpose I caused Mom so much hardship and went to a university in Tokyo." "For what purpose am I staying in Tokyo..?" "I don't know either." "Eh?" "Why am I doing my job..?" "For what purpose do I take photos..?" "What was the thing that I wanted to do..?" "Well." "Don't think too much about it." "Your life is not about getting into a company in Tokyo right?" "Yeah." "Later." "What do you want to talk about?" "Well, sit down." "I am sorry." "Dad.." "I am really sorry." "Yes?" "Hello, Sae?" "You're still up?" "Yeah." "What's the matter?" "Just because.." "I wanted to hear Sae's voice." "Ah right." "Did you get into that company?" "It's a trading firm right?" "I was turned down again." "I see." "It's tough right?" "It's tough." "I see, I see." "What?" "What's the matter?" "Kohei-kun?" "Sae.." "I..." "Maybe I should stop being a fisherman." "Eh?" "I was told by my Dad tonight.." "he is selling Koeimaru off." "When I.." "decided to suceed the family's business, my Dad borrowed a huge sum of money from the fishery cooperative" "to buy a brand-new ship." "The debt became bigger." "To the extent that it's impossible to pay it off." "My dad said.." "he would sell the boat to pay off the debt and then manage to scrape by with fishery." "But I..." "Can't I go there?" "There I'll search for a new job." "I'll definitely look for one." "I want to live together with Sae." "I want to be with Sae." "Such an... important thing..." "I can't give you an answer instantly." "I can't answer you now." "Hey!" "You're casting this town aside?" "Didn't you say we would become adults together?" "Look at you..." "You can go to Tokyo just like that?" "Move aside." "I'm not moving aside." "Huh?" "How are you gonna face your dad?" "Just because you want to go to Sae-chan's place.." "How can you understand my feelings?" "What do you understand about how I feel..." "Why should I understand?" "Huh?" "What the hell?" "Let go." "I'm not letting go." "What are you two doing?" "This is our last catch." "Quickly get prepared." "Kohei." "When you said you would start going to fishery high school, remember I was opposed to it?" "Yeah." "I didn't think you would oppose to it at all." "When you said you would succeed me in fishery," "I was really happy." "There's no doubt about it." "Yeah." "Kohei." "Don't take fishing as your job." "You go and follow your own path." "What happened?" "Ouch..!" "Hey!" "Someone, come!" "Captain is..." "What's wrong?" "Uncle?" "Are you alright, Uncle?" "Uncle!" "Hang in there." "Uncle!" "Uncle!" "Hiroshi, get me a blanket." "Yes." "Someone, call the cooperative." "Quickly." "Yes." "Bide-san." "Pull the net in." "Yes." "Kohei, go give them a hand!" "Kohei!" "Hey!" "What happened?" "Kenjiro collapsed." "Seems like a heart attack." "Ritsuko, call Mihoko-san." "Okay?" "Go!" "Got it." "He's still in the open sea." "I leave him to you." "Yes!" "Uncle!" "Uncle!" "Hang in there!" "I beg you!" "Hang in there!" "Dad..." "Dad!" "Dad!" "Sae.." "I.." "was that my punishment?" "Because I said.." "that I would stop fishing." "That I would break with the sea.." "That's why, Dad is..." "Dad has always pushed himself for my sake." "Sae." "I..." "As I thought, I can't go to Tokyo." "I can't... cast aside my Mom and my sister." "Yeah." "Kohei-kun, you can't be separated from the sea." "You're right." "Ever since the beginning," "I have never been.." "in Sae's future." "Eh?" "Sae." "Sae," "you must.." "realize your own dreams." "Goodbye." "Shuu-chan." "You're leaving already?" "I just visited Uncle's grave." "Auntie." "Thank you for everything you've done for me until now." "Kohei." "See you then." "What's this, all of you?" "Why so gloomy?" "Why are you all so gloomy?" "Hey, Ko-chan." "What?" "There's no such thing." "There is, right?" "Leave him be." "He's forever like that, only thinking about the woman that he's broken up with." "What the?" "That's not the only thing I think about." "Well..." "If you don't cut off all ties with the past, you can't go on living right?" "If people don't do that, they can't go forward." "What's wrong with you?" "Sounding all proud." "Seems that Tamotsu has got a girlfriend." "Isn't it a given that you're lying?" "I'm not." "This time I confessed to her properly." "Then, she said she liked me too." "Nah, impossible." "Who can like someone like you?" "You're up?" "Where are the rest?" "They went home already." "It'll be bad if you catch a cold right?" "Ko-chan, are you okay?" "Recently, whenever I see you..." "Wanna drink something?" "Ko-chan?" "Ko-chan.." "What do you mean?" "No." "I told you that the deadline was yesterday." "Okay." "Then, make sure you do it by 5 p.m today." "Yes. 5 p.m." "Okay?" "Thank you." "Hope he's gonna help a good job." "I got used to this kind of trouble." "Sae." "Yes?" "Here's the information for today's interview." "Okay." "Thank you." "I'm going." "Okay." "Good luck." "See you later." "She's been working very hard." "Yeah." "She's really changed a lot the last year." "America." "New York." "Especially good weather, nice days.." "Did you make your costumes yourself?" "I sewed them." "I just..." "Yes, that's right." "I'm going in ten minutes." "..as well as materials from other artists that gave to him as donations." "The artist is also a musician, isn't he?" "Yes, that's right." "See you tomorrow." "Ok." "See you tomorrow" "Bye!" "Bye!" "Sae." "Don't work too hard." "Or else you're gonna burn out." "But I have a deadline to meet." "I was wondering who." "Welcome back." "I'm back." "Oh my god." "Jun, welcome back!" "Hey!" "Jun!" "How are you?" "Jun!" "Hmm delicious!" "What an amazing appetite." "I didn't get to eat anything decent there." "Now everything tastes delicious." "Oh." "So whichever dish is fine huh?" "No no, just kidding." "Kidding." "I wanted to eat this meat and potato stew made by Sae." "How was Cambodia?" "Were you able to take good photos?" "Yeah." "I felt my improvement." "I will try bringing them to some newspaper companies." "I see." "Let me help give out the flyers." "I'm counting on you." "Great!" "What?" "Nothing." "You finally learned to smile again." "Totally different from that time when you first arrived here." "Is that really so?" "Yeah." "It was even written on your face." ""I'm falling apart"." "After you came here, you decided on lodging and everything else on your own." "It'd have been better if you had relied on me a bit more." "I'm sorry." "Well." "I'm no longer the senior you can depend on either huh?" "But after I came to New York, the first time I saw you," "I thought you were a totally different person." "Why?" "How should I say.." "Like you were really alive." "That morning, I saw everything from here." "Buildings crumbled right in front of my eyes." "I was so scared." "My whole body was shivering." ""Ahh." "A war is about to start."" "I'm not trying to deem myself important, but I..." "I thought I must do something." "Through my photos, even just a little, perhaps I still can convey something.." "So that's how it was." "Well." "I haven't been able to do anything though." "But I like Senpai's photos." "That's why, if there's anything I can do..." "Sae." "Yes?" "Enough of that." "Don't call me Senpai anymore." "Because I wanted to see you, I put my life on the line to come back." "You're exaggerating." "This is not where you should laugh." "Eh?" "Sae." "Let's get married." "Minami." "Sae." "Congratulations." "Thank you for traveling such a long distance." "No." "It's lovely." "You're beautiful." "Really?" "Yeah." "I tried my best to lose weight." "It really suits you." "Sae too." "Somehow you look really cool." "A New Yorker is sure different." "Minami." "Your uncle and others from Shibetsu have just arrived too." "Soon we..." "Congratulations." "Hey, you're living in New York now right?" "Yeah." "Amazing." "Then you must be very fluent at English right?" "No, not at all." "I'm still having a hard time." "Eh~ really?" "Really." "Then, see you later." "Yeah." "Long time no see." "Ah, thank you." "Ko-chan." "Here." "Oh thank you." "Hey, there are so many people here right?" "Will Tamotsu be alright?" "He's surely very nervous." "Long time no see." "Long time no see." "This is Ritsuko, my wife." "I got married." "I heard already." "From Minami." "I see." "Hello." "Nice to meet you." "I'm Hirasawa." "I'm Kiuchi." "Nice to meet you." "Ritsuko." "Come." "We have a meeting about the program for the afterparty." "Ah, I got it." "You're so loud." "Please excuse me." "She's always like that." "Her sense of civility is pretty off." "Well, but she's trying her hardest for the family." "She really helps me out a lot." "I see." "Yeah." "You seem to be doing well." "Kohei-kun too." "Somehow, did you grow sturdier?" "No way." "I'm already an uncle in the making." "I heard you're living in New York?" "Yeah." "Then, you came all the way?" "Yeah, well." "I see." "Yeah." "How is your job?" "It's still as tough as before." "I still manage to make ends meet though." "I see." "Yeah." "Sae..." "Nothing." "Thank you all for waiting." "Please welcome the groom and the bride." "Ever since he was young, whenever he's nervous, his right hand and right leg will sync with each other." "You're right." "There you'll see." "Sae-chan came back home?" "Aren't they quite stingy with the food?" "It's not charged as part of the total expenses, is it?" "Sae, let's drink a little?" "Yeah." "Okay." "It's been a long time since you last came home, so I have something to tell you too." "What is it?" "Hmm, it's nothing much..." "What is it?" "I was... proposed by someone." "No way!" "Who?" "I'm not gonna tell you." "I'm home." "Oh welcome back." "I went to the supermarket in Nakabetsu because the soy sauce there was on promotion." "Thank you." "Leave the rest to me." "Mother, you sit down." "Then, I leave it to you." "Yeah." "Where's Ko-chan?" "He took out his car some time ago." "Where to?" "He didn't say anything." "The cooperative maybe?" "I see." "(Do your best, Sae)" "I thought of bringing it to the other side of the ocean." "But perhaps, I'm never coming back to Japan anymore." "You are going to live in New York permanently?" "That's my plan." "My current job..." "may look like only a part-time one." "I want to do it properly from now on." "Besides," "I might be getting married too." "Is that so?" "Yeah." "Congratulations." "Thank you." "Ah." "To an American?" "A Japanese." "That person..." "The person that Sae is going to marry.." "Is he a good person?" "Yeah." "I see." "Then that's good." "At last, Sae can.." "realize your own dream right?" "No, not at all." "I'm still halfway there." "You had an accent just now." "I'm sure glad that I came back this time." "Eh?" "To be able to talk to Kohei-kun this way," "I am glad." "Just drop me off here." "Thank you." "Then, take care okay?" "Sae too." "Yeah." "Sae.." "You must become happy." "Kohei-kun.." "Where did you go?" "Where did you go until this late, Ko-chan?" "I was drinking with Hiroshi and others." "There was a call from Hiroshi." "He said everyone was looking for Ko-chan." "That you didn't answer your cell phone no matter how many times they tried to call you." "He counted on me to tell you." "It already seems hopeless for our family." "The union said that they would not lend money to us anymore." "They have resolved to do that." "There's no way else but to go bankrupt." "What have you been doing at a crucial time like this?" "What have you been doing?" "Hi, I'm back." "Hey, welcome back." "Hey!" "How was Japan?" "It was great." "Thanks for giving me a vacation, George." "This is from Junichi." "What?" "The project he's been waiting for came in." "It's a big break for him." "Thank you." "(To Sae." "The newspaper company suddenly asked me to collect some data, so I'm leaving New York for a while." "After I come back, please give me your answer." "I'm off." "From Kitami Junichi)" "What?" "A love letter?" "Jacy." "Yes?" "We'll probably get married after he gets back." "Oh my god." "You're getting married?" "Congratulations." "I'm so excited for you." "Oh my God." "So excited for you guys." "That's wonderful!" "I'll confirm it." "I really caused you a lot of trouble." "Nii-chan." "Everything is finished now." "Kohei." "Your flight is soon right?" "I'll send you off." "Your sister and I will be alright." "Quickly go to Ritsuko-san's place." "Kohei." "Thank you for everything you've done for the sake of our family up until now." "I'm back." "Ritsuko?" "Ritsuko!" "We would like to interrupt the variety show to break a piece of news to you." "On the 24th of this month, in the south of Baghdad, 30 km away from the town of Mahmudiyah, a Japanese photo journalist was shot to death by a group of armed insurgents while on his way to collect data." "The deceased is a freelance photographer who resides in New York" "Kitami Junichi-san, 31 years old." "Kitami-san had been in the local area since the 20th to cover the events while commuting in a car." "Thank you." "Thank you." "Thank you very much for coming to Kitami Junichi Memorial Exhibit." "As you all know, Junichi loved freedom, loved art, loved the humor, and was loved by everyone." "When I was lost in my life, he lighted my way." "After experiencing 911 here in New York, he found his purpose in art which was to photograph the beautiful smiles of children in war zones." "I still remember how he always used to say:" ""Even though these children live in horrific situations, they have the most life-filled, gorgeous eyes." "And it's my calling to show what lies behind those smiles."" "He lost his life in Iraq in May 2003, but I truly believe" "Junichi is still with us." "I hope he and his message will continue to live in your hearts." "Thank you for loving and supporting Junichi." "It was an honor to have known you, Junichi." "Thank you, Junichi." "Thank you everyone for coming." "I was surprised." "You suddenly appear." "You haven't come home for 2 years, so of course I have no choice but to come here." "Sorry for causing you to worry." "What a great person." "Hm?" "Kitami-san." "Just by looking at the photos he took, I can understand what sort of person he was." "Yeah." "It was a great speech." "Kitami-san should be quite pleased, shouldn't he?" "You think so?" "Of course." "Because Sae has done this much for him." "Even in this distant land, unable to depend on anyone," "you really tried your best." "Really.. tried your hardest to reach this place where you are now." "Hey, Sae." "If you want to come home, you're welcome to be back anytime." "That house and that garden too are still the same." "Thanks." "But.." "give me more time to think." "I will try to think for myself." "Straight down, turn right." "Thank you." "You're welcome." "Excuse me." "Where is the lighthouse?" "Down the dock, turn right into the house, up the hill." "Yeah, that's correct." "Thank you." "Thank you and hope that you'll come again." "Thank you." "Bye!" "Bye!" "(Do your best, Sae)" "This ship is..." "A Japanese guy left it here a few days ago." "A Japanese guy?" "A young fisherman." "Maybe a tuna boat from Japan comes into port every year for supplies." "A tuna boat?" "He said the original owner of the ship was born here." "He might still be at the port." "Kohei-kun." "Kohei-kun." "Kohei-kun." "Kohei-kun." "Put it close to their mouth, ok?" "I said I got it already." "Sae." "Sae." "Welcome home." "Welcome home." "I'm back." "Sae!" "What is this?" "When did you take these photos?" "Well I'm at this age already, so it's quite embarrassing." "No such thing." "It's not embarrassing at all." "Because it's a memory for our whole life right?" "Yeah." "Right?" "She looks nice right?" "Beautiful isn't she?" "Yeah, beautiful." "Enough already." "I'm putting this away." "Masato-niichan." "It's great right?" "Your first love is requited." "Yeah!" "Somehow this town has become quite lonely too." "Really?" "None of our friends remains in this hometown." "Hiroshi has also left for Nemuro." "In the end, the ones left behind are only the two of us." "How is Kohei-kun doing?" "I don't really know about that." "His mother and Mika-chan are staying with their relatives in Obihiro." "But Kohei has broken up with Ritsuko." "Since then, he has been looking for job." "Well, since if it's him, he must be doing well." "He must definitely be doing well." "If he isn't, we will be bothered, right?" "Yeah." "Welcome." "(Please be with me)" "I told you, right?" "I've had enough of fishing already." "I quit fishing." "Eh?" "I lied." "Fishing is the only thing I can do." "128 yen please." "I'm done here at 6 o'clock." "What?" "Wait for me at the parking lot." "Oh.. okay." "I understand." "Keep the change." "I'll be waiting." "Ah." "Welcome." "It's having beautiful red autumn leaves this year too." "Yeah." "This tree has grown big too, hasn't it?" "You're right." "He was a willful person." "Eh?" "Your Dad." "He was really a willful person." "But in his last moments, your dad told me." ""I'm glad to have met you."" ""Thank you for having given birth to Sae, and for staying with me till the end."" "I see." "That is enough for me." "We are happy, aren't we?" "Like this, we can go on living under your father's watch." "Yeah." "Once upon a time, there were three little pigs." "I build my house out of straw." "I build my house out of straw." "I build my house out of wood." "I build my house out of wood." "Very good." "Little pig, little pig." "Let me in, let me in." "Not by the hair on my chinny-chin-chin." "Then I'll huff and I'll puff till I blow your house..." "IN!" "I'll eat you up." "See you." "Watch out." "Have a nice day." "Bye bye!" "Kohei-kun." "Sae." "This... (Thank you)" "The one who wrote this is Sae?" "Welcome back." "I'm home." "♫ Pushing up to the sky ♫" "♫ You reach out your hands in May ♫" "♫ Please come somehow ♫" "Welcome home." "♫ Please come to the water's edge ♫" "I'm back." "♫ I will give you a flower bud ♫" "♫ of the blooming dogwood in the garden ♫" "♫ Hey, you are a lovely blushing color ♫" "♫ I wish that the unending dreams will one day conclude perfectly ♫" "♫ For you and the person you love to continue on for a hundred years ♫" "♫ The summer is too hot ♫" "♫ My feelings are too weighty ♫" "♫ If we cross the sea together ♫" "♫ the ship will certainly sink ♫" "♫ Go ahead Please go off ♫" "♫ Please go off first ♫" "♫ My patience will one day bear fruit ♫" "♫ so that the unending waves will stop properly ♫" "♫ For you and the person you love to continue on for a hundred years ♫" "♫ Chasing after a fluttering butterfly Lifting a white sail ♫" "♫ When it's Mother's Day ♫" "♫ Please take these dogwood leaves with you ♫" "♫ You don't have to wait ♫" "♫ You don't have to know ♫" "♫ Hey, you are a lovely blushing color ♫" "♫ I wish that the unending dreams will one day conclude perfectly ♫" "♫ For you and the person you love to continue on for a hundred years ♫" "♫ My patience will one day bear fruit ♫" "♫ so that the unending waves will stop perfectly ♫" "♫ For you and the person you love to continue on for a hundred years ♫" "♫ For you and the person you love to continue on for a hundred years ♫" "Thank you."

Elgin Scoreboard Pope John Central Catholic Crusaders Football ELGIN — On a cool, crisp night with alumni returning home, Pope John Central Catholic’s Crusaders gave them plenty to celebrate in a 42 to 18 victory over Spalding/Spalding Academy. The Crusaders (5-2) will wrap up the regular season Thursday with a later afternoon game at Chambers. Kickoff will be at 4 p.m. Volleyball ELGIN — Pope John Central Catholic’s Lady Crusaders improved their record to 16-5 by sweeping a double triangular. Hosting Neligh-Oakdale, Newman Grove and Humphrey Tuesday night, by virtue of the draw the Lady Crusaders faced and defeated Newman Grove and Humphrey. Against Newman Grove in the opening round, Pope John easily won by the scores of 25-19 and 25-15. Senior Jackie Seier had a big game at the net as she recorded eight solo blocks in the match. As a team, Pope John had 10 solo blocks. On offense, Seier led hitters with seven kills, Jenna Beckman and Megan Veik each had five and Angie Pelster added one. Jessie Pelster recorded 12 set assists in the short match, Kasi Stoltz had four. Stoltz led the team with two ace serves, Veik and Tracey Eischeid each had one. Stoltz led the team in digs with 11, Eischeid had seven and Jessie Pelster contributed five. In the other first round matchup, Humphrey defeated Neligh-Oakdale 25-18 and 25-12. By virtue of their victories, Pope John squared off against Humphrey in the finale. This time around, Pope John faced a much tougher foe. Humphrey gave the Lady Crusaders all they wanted. But, in the end, Pope John prevailed 28-26 and 26-24. In the other match of the night, Neligh-Oakdale defeated Newman Grove 27-25 and 26-24. NORFOLK — Let’s call it a ‘speed bump’ and leave it at that. Heading into Saturday’s volleyball triangular at Lutheran High Northeast, Pope John had posted 16 victories. When they walked out of the gymnasium after two matches, the victory total remained at 16. Lutheran High Northeast defeated Pope John 25-20 and 25-11 in the first match. Elgin High Eagles Football CEDAR RAPIDS — Twenty four minutes of football netted Elgin all the points they would need to defeat Cedar Rapids 65 to 22 Friday night. The offensive onslaught began early and continued non-stop in the first half as the top-ranked Eagles played their final tune-up before Friday night’s showdown with #2-ranked Ewing. Both teams come into the game with records of 7-0. Kickoff is at 7 pm at Eagle Field. Volleyball ELGIN — Playing on their home court, victory eluded Elgin High Thursday night as they dropped a triangular to Newman Grove and Orchard. In the opening match, Newman Grove held off Elgin to claim a 25-22 and 25-19 victory over the Lady Eagles. In the finale of the triangular, Elgin dropped the first game, won the second but couldn’t hold on to momentum as Orchard claimed a 25-9, 23-25 and 25-16 victory.

Q: how to check for file extension in discord.py i am creating a python discord bot, and i have a function that if a message is sent in a certain channel, it randomly sends out a response,everything works fine but i want to restrict the bot to react only when the sent message contains a png, jpg or jpeg file heres the code(look for the bottom if str(message.channel) statement): @client.event async def on_message(message): await client.process_commands(message) if str(message.channel) not in restr: if message.content == ".sabaton": random.seed(time.time()) randnum = random.randint(0, len(songs) - 1) await message.channel.send(file=discord.File(songs[randnum])) elif message.content == ".time": await message.channel.send(f"Current time is {time.localtime()}") elif message.content == ".pmsh": await message.channel.send(help) if client.user.mention in message.content.split(): await message.channel.send('Дарова гандон(иха),мой префикс "."') if str(message.channel) == "творчество": random.seed(time.time()) rn3 = random.randint(1,2) if rn3 == 1 and message.author.bot == False: await message.channel.send("Заебись творчество") elif rn3 == 2 and message.author.bot == False: await message.channel.send("Фигня творчество") A: You can use the following conditions to restrict it: if message.attachments[0].url.endswith('PNG') or message.attachments[0].url.endswith('JPG') or message.attachments[0].url.endswith('JPEG'): pass else: pass Change the pass according to your content.

Effect of protein nutrition on the mRNA content of insulin-like growth factor-binding protein-1 in liver and kidney of rats. Effect of quantity and nutritional quality of dietary proteins on the content of mRNA of insulin-like growth factor-binding protein-1 (IGFBP-1) was studied in rat liver and kidney. IGFBP-1 mRNA content per unit RNA increased in liver and kidney of rats fed on a protein-free diet and in those of fasted rats compared with that in the rats fed on a casein diet. When rats were given a gluten diet for 7 d, IGFBP-1 mRNA content in liver did not change significantly but that in kidney increased considerably compared with that in those organs of the rats fed on the casein diet. Because IGFBP-1 mRNA has been demonstrated both in liver parenchymal and non-parenchymal cells (Takenaka et al. 1991), the effect of the protein-free diet on these two types of cells has been studied. An increase in IGFBP-1 mRNA content under protein deprivation was observed in both liver parenchymal and non-parenchymal cells, suggesting that these two types of cells are regulated in a similar mode as far as IGFBP-1 mRNA content is concerned. The physiological and nutritional significance of the previously stated results on protein anabolism are discussed when considered together with our previous observations on the plasma concentrations of IGF-1 (Takahashi et al. 1990) and IGFBP (Umezawa et al. 1991) and insulin-like growth factor-1 mRNA content in liver (Miura et al. 1991).

Plan to halve infant diarrhoea prevalence Kenya has set its sights on halving the prevalence of infant diarrhoeal disease - which kills dozens of children daily - within five years, using new treatments and by boosting preventive measures. Every Kenyan child under five has an average of three episodes of diarrhoea annually, according to the 2008 Demographic and Health Survey. “With 86 children dying every day, diarrhoea is the third leading cause of death among under-fives in Kenya. It is unacceptable, but we can stop this!” said Beth Mugo, Minister for Public Health and Sanitation, at the 31 March launch in Nairobi of national policy guidelines. The new guidelines, she said, complemented the government’s Child Survival and Development Strategy with a package of interventions based on using a new type of oral rehydration salts (ORS) containing lower concentrations of glucose and salt; zinc supplements to reduce the frequency of episodes; selective use of antibiotics; and encouraging prevention through breastfeeding. “With exclusive breast feeding, vitamin A supplementation, strengthened routine childhood immunization, proper hygiene and access to improved water supplies, we can curb the number of deaths,”said David Okello, country representative of the World Health Organization (WHO). “We are also looking forward to solutions such as PATH’s rotavirus vaccines. With 730,000 doses distributed this year, we could really make a difference for all the children of Kenya,” said Annah Wamae, head of the Department of Child Health at the ministry. According to the WHO, vaccination is the only preventive method for diarrhoeal disease cases caused by rotavirus, the most severe form of diarrhoea. In Kenya rotavirus causes 7,500 deaths each year. At the launch, Sanjiv Kumar, the UN Children’s Fund Kenya (UNICEF) chief of health, announced a financial support package worth US$850,000 by the end of 2010. Aimed at control and management of diarrhoeal disease in Kenya, Kumar added that the focus of the funding was to scale up oral rehydration therapy to cover the whole country; train health staff in new enhanced diarrhoeal guidelines; and to support communication to promote appropriate household behaviours. Calling for more resources from partners to implement child health programmes, Mugo said resources allocation would be increased to include training of health personnel on control and management of diarrhoeal diseases, strengthening of health systems and programmes aimed at empowering communities to control diarrhoeal diseases. “The rate of exposure to diarrhoea and waterborne diseases in this country is extremely high because of the high fluoride content in groundwater and the poor wastewater treatment,” James Gesami, Assistant Minister for Public Health and Sanitation, told IRIN. “In 2010, no single town in Kenya has a sustainable water supply,” he added. “We can’t do much about quantity, but when it comes to quality, the Ministry of Health is working together with USAID and other partners to set up a strategy that will include the protection of springs ready by 2015.” Training parents The new guidelines include training parents in home-based care to under-fives to help them recognize the symptoms of dehydration. This follows the health ministry’s recognition that about 30 percent of children with diarrhoeal diseases are not getting any oral rehydration salts or fluids. Home therapy will include information about recommended fluid intake to prevent dehydration at the onset of diarrhoea as well as feeding, including breastfeeding, during and after diarrhoea. “Together with our partners, we can save thousands of lives. A coordinated approach involving already proven prevention and treatment methods is the way to do it,” said Olivia Yambi from UNICEF. Share this report Join the discussion Next for you Adhiambo*, 24, conscientiously followed her health worker's advice when she was pregnant with her third child. She attended antenatal visits, was tested for HIV and found negative, and delivered her baby at the local health centre.

Male cytogenetic evaluation prior to assisted reproduction procedures performed in Mar del Plata, Argentina. This paper aimed to estimate the frequency of occurrence and the types of chromosomal abnormalities found in 141 infertile men with abnormal semen parameters. the frequency and type of chromosomal abnormalities were determined with male mitotic karyotype analysis from peripheral blood through chromosome banding techniques before assisted reproduction procedures. In this series of 141 infertile men, 19 (13%) had chromosomal anomalies and 35 (25%) had polymorphic variants. The main chromosome abnormalities were reciprocal translocations and marker chromosomes in mosaic. These results stress the relevance of cytogenetic studies for infertile males as a diagnostic tool and a valuable input in genetic counseling.

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But Democrats hope Mr. Bush’s new high profile will help them frame the emerging Republican generation. Mark Mellman, a Democratic strategist, called Mr. Bush’s public tour “great news for Democrats.” He added: “The G.O.P. was lucky he was out of sight and out of mind through Tuesday. His reemergence on the national stage will reinforce voters’ already negative views of the G.O.P.” With rare exception, like helping out with Haiti earthquake relief at Mr. Obama’s request, Mr. Bush has remained out of sight since leaving office, determined not to complicate his successor’s life with running commentary about current affairs. Even as he begins to promote his new book, “Decision Points,” to be published by Crown on Tuesday, he is avoiding any involvement in the political debate now consuming the country. In the book, a copy of which was obtained last week by The New York Times, he has nothing but gracious things to say about Mr. Obama and makes little mention of his policy choices other than to praise him for sending more troops to Afghanistan. When Oprah Winfrey tried to get him to weigh in on Sarah Palin’s presidential chances in an interview to be aired later this week, Mr. Bush demurred. “You’re asking me to wade back into the swamp,” he said. Until now, Mr. Bush has focused on writing the book, along with his ghostwriter and former White House speechwriter, Christopher Michel, as well as giving paid speeches, raising money for his presidential center and designing his public policy institute. After this week’s spurt of interviews with Ms. Winfrey, Matt Lauer and Candy Crowley, he will host a Nov. 16 groundbreaking ceremony for the George W. Bush Presidential Center at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. He says he is using the institute to influence policy in his own way. “He doesn’t want to be in the current debate, certainly not the political debate,” said James K. Glassman, executive director of the institute. “He wants to be involved in policy in a big way, but with projects that are very forward looking and long term.” So will Mr. Bush’s reputation improve with time? Many presidents are viewed more generously in later eras, like Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton. Even Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon have experienced moments of reassessment, their failures in Vietnam and Watergate tempered by appreciation for the opening to China or the Great Society. Still, their disappointments seem indelibly marked in the history books.

Calgary police say the number of commercial trucks that fail roadside inspections has nearly doubled in the past couple of years. Police are in the midst of conducting an inter-agency three-day vehicle inspection at locations around the city. Const. Chris Moriarity, who oversees these inspections, says the numbers are concerning. "Oh, absolutely there's danger, I mean if the cargo's insecure, if the trucks are not fit to be on the road, if they get involved in a large crash, it could be catastrophic," he said. In the past couple of years, Moriarity says the number of vehicles that fail has doubled from about 30 to 60 per cent, as drivers scramble to make money in a worsening recession. "If they don't have the money to put into the truck, that's the last thing they're going to put money into is the repairs, because the only way they make money is if they have that truck on the road." Calgary police operate weekly commercial vehicle inspections through the year, with more thorough ones conducted in the fall and spring.

Conventionally, in a rotary pump such as can be used for transporting liquid foods, a rotary drive shaft is formed with its leading end in a spline shaft, a spline hole formed through a rotor is engaged by the spline shaft of the rotors of the pump within a pumping chamber in a main rotor casing, and a fastening nut of the rotors is engaged and fixed at the end of the rotor drive shafts projected outwardly from the rotor, and a concave casing cover receives the rotor segments and the rotor fastening nut. In such a conventional rotary pump, a transported liquid flows in the pumping chamber, enters into the concave part inside the casing cover through a space between the rotor and the casing cover, and tends to be retained in that concave part, becoming trapped therein. Since the so trapped food can spoil, the pumps of this type have to be frequently disassembled and the pump with the concave part inside the casing cover cleaned after a day's use of the pump. Reassembly of such pumps after their disassembly, and their cleaning requires the expenditure of considerable time and labor thus increasing the cost of the product.

The hippocampus is a region of the brain largely responsible for memory formation. Credit: Salk Institute Male and female brains operate differently at a molecular level, a Northwestern University research team reports in a new study of a brain region involved in learning and memory, responses to stress and epilepsy. Many brain disorders vary between the sexes, but how biology and culture contribute to these differences has been unclear. Now Northwestern neuroscientists have found an intrinsic biological difference between males and females in the molecular regulation of synapses in the hippocampus. This provides a scientific reason to believe that female and male brains may respond differently to drugs targeting certain synaptic pathways. "The importance of studying sex differences in the brain is about making biology and medicine relevant to everyone, to both men and women," said Catherine S. Woolley, senior author of the study. "It is not about things such as who is better at reading a map or why more men than women choose to enter certain professions." Among their findings, the scientists found that a drug called URB-597, which regulates a molecule important in neurotransmitter release, had an effect in females that it did not have in males. While the study was done in rats, it has broad implications for humans because this drug and others like it are currently being tested in clinical trials in humans. "Our study starts to put some specifics on what types of molecular differences there are in male and female brains," Woolley said. Woolley is the William Deering Chair in Biological Sciences, professor of neurobiology in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Women's Health Research Institute at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. The study of inhibitory synapses and endocannabinoids, which regulate neurotransmitters, was published today (Aug. 12) in The Journal of Neuroscience. It is the first study to detail where males and females differ in a key molecular pathway in the brain. "We don't know whether this finding will translate to humans or not," Woolley said, "but right now people who are investigating endocannabinoids in humans probably are not aware that manipulating these molecules could have different effects in males and females." Specifically, Woolley and her research team found that in female brains the drug URB-597 increased the inhibitory effect of a key endocannabinoid in the brain, called anandamide, causing a decrease in the release of neurotransmitters. In male brains, the drug had no effect. (The difference is not related to circulating reproductive hormones.) The subject of many clinical trials, endocannabinoids are molecules that help regulate the amount of certain neurotransmitters released at synapses, the gap between neurons. These molecules are involved in a variety of physiological processes including memory, motivational state, appetite and pain as well as in epilepsy, a neurological disorder. (Their name comes from the fact that endocannabinoids activate the same neural receptors as the active ingredient in marijuana.) Understanding what controls the synthesis, release and breakdown of endocannabinoids has broad implications both for normal and pathological brain function, Woolley said. This study contributes an important piece of knowledge. For 20 years, Woolley actively avoided studying sex differences in the brain until her own data showed her that differences between females and males were real. Her discovery, reported in 2012, that estrogens decreased inhibitory synaptic transmission in the brains of female rats but not in males, changed her thinking. "Being a scientist is about changing your mind in the face of new evidence," Woolley said. "I had to change my mind in the face of this evidence." Building on these earlier findings, Woolley and her team used a series of electrophysiological and biochemical studies to pinpoint what causes this effect. The researchers found the difference between males and females lies in the interaction between the molecules ERalpha and mGluR1. Details of the molecular pathway are reported in the new study. To find out what is the same and what is different between males and females, scientists need to study both sexes, Woolley maintains. Currently, about 85 percent of basic neuroscience studies are done in male animals, tissues or cells. "We are not doing women—and specifically women's health—any favors by pretending that things are the same if they are not," Woolley said. "If the results of research would be different in female animals, tissues and cells, then we need to know. This is essential so that we can find appropriate diagnoses, treatments and, ultimately, cures for disease in both sexes." Explore further Men and women could use different cells to process pain More information: "Sex Differences in Molecular Signaling at Inhibitory Synapses in the Hippocampus," The Journal of Neuroscience, 2015. Journal information: Journal of Neuroscience "Sex Differences in Molecular Signaling at Inhibitory Synapses in the Hippocampus,", 2015.

EGG DONATION EGG DONATION It took several years for egg donation to become a widely-accepted method, but now it is a rather common solution for infertile couples to conceive a child. Egg donation, however, does pose several moral dilemmas. IVF with donor eggs is a fertility treatment that has been available since the mid 1980’s. Success rates with egg donation are high, particularly compared to pregnancy rates in women with poor egg quality and quantity. Research has also proven that the method has no adverse effect to the relationship between mother, father and child despite the lack of genetic link between mother and child. Donor egg IVF In many Western countries, the children are allowed – after adulthood – access to all data, including the identity of the donor of the egg. The latter is not permitted in Greece, unless there are health reasons, so the child can access the files but still anonymously. Donor egg IVF opens up a world of possibilities for women who have struggled to conceive: women with primary ovarian failure, menopausal, either naturally or as a result of surgery, radiation or chemotherapy, women that have undergone repeated failed attempts at IVF or with a genetic disorder which could be passed on to their child. Egg donation treatment involves fertilizing the donor eggs with sperm from the recipient’s partner and transferring the resulting embryos into the recipient’s womb. Egg donation in Greece At Medimall IVF Clinic, we are pleased to provide the procedure of egg donation, which is permitted in our country and is lawful under Greek law. Egg donation is anonymous, voluntary and free. The primary benefit to every woman who donates eggs should be the altruistic aspect of helping another person or couple achieve pregnancy. According to Greek law, egg donors should be between 18 and 35 years old, and are selected following strict medical screening. You can find all the information on the test donors are submitted to below. The age limit for women undergoing IVF treatment is 50 years old. Egg donation program Our egg donation program uses both fresh and frozen ova and the recipients have the opportunity to choose between the fresh and frozen oocytes. In addition, the selection of oocytes used takes into account the characteristics of the donor, so that they come from a woman with similar features. In case of fresh egg selection, you should consider that all information concerning donor characteristics and testing will be disclosed to you after the embryo transfer. Egg donation has proved to be very successful, either using fresh or frozen eggs, with success rates up to 75% for embryo transfers per treatment cycle, and up to 65% for clinical pregnancies. According to Greek law, up to two embryos can be transferred, whereas you will be informed about the number and quality of your embryos on the very day of embryo transfer. Our doctors and biologists will talk in detail with you and advise you on the number of embryos they believe should be transferred, in accordance with your medical history of previous IVF attempts and the possibility of a multiple pregnancy. You could also consult your gynecologist about the number of embryos he believes it would be best to transfer. All IVF candidates should be aware that the law allows for any remaining, good quality embryos that are not transferred, one of the following: To be frozen. Freezing time can be up to five years. During this period, the embryos can be used in one IVF cycle if the recipient has not yet become pregnant or the couple wants to have another child. The embryos can be destroyed. They can be donated to another couple. They can be donated to the fertility clinic for research. After 5 years, the couple not wishing to keep the embryos could select options number two, three or four. Practical information on egg donation at Medimall IVF Clinic Recipients participate in preliminary screening procedures, including review of gynecological records and transvaginal ultrasound. You can ask our doctors any questions you may have, and discuss with them all your queries. If you live abroad and it is not possible to visit our center, all the above-mentioned tests can be conducted by your personal gynecologist in conjunction with our center coordinator. We strongly recommend the semen analysis of your partner to be done in our clinic. Additionally, you will be asked by the doctors or our coordinator to fill out and send us all necessary consent forms, copies of identity or your passport, and any other legally required document. You are more than welcome to send us your photos in order to get to know your features. You would also specify the desired dates you wish to undergo the procedure. Bear in mind that you will need to be available for one week (from Monday morning to Saturday afternoon). We could then integrate you in our clinic’s IVF egg donation program. Your partner should also be available to provide semen sample at the clinic right before the IVF cycle. The frozen sperm is intended for exclusive use of his partner. In this case, you will need to be available for a period of four days, from Wednesday morning to Saturday afternoon. You will be asked to follow a specific treatment in order to prepare your uterus and your endometrium for embryo transfer. You will need to visit for two weeks after the beginning of the endometrial preparation. In the meantime, you will need to make all necessary preparations for your trip to Athens, your return home, as well as arrange for your stay in a hotel in Athens until the day the process is completed. Medimall IVF Clinic staff will provide you with a full and detailed plan once your treatment is set. It is important that all communication concerning the program is conducted through our doctors and/or our coordinator at [email protected] and we will get back to you. Donor testing Complete blood analysis Cardiovascular examination Blood type Rhesus factor Hemoglobin electrophoresis Hepatitis B (HBsAg) Hepatitis C (HCV) HIV I-II (AIDS) RPR (syphilis) Karyotype test PCR for CTRF (85% of known mutations) (Cystic Fibrosis) PCR for 35 Delg relating to hereditary hearing loss Chlamydia (Urine) Psychological examination The recipient and the partner must be submitted to the following tests:

Nokia may have been gradually building out its mapping empire for more than 10 years, but it’s only now preparing to really ramp up its presence in the mobile navigation realm as it prepares to launch for Android and iOS this year, only months after selling its Devices and Services division to Microsoft. But how did it all begin? Here’s a quick summary of how Nokia’s efforts have come to fruition. A potted history of Nokia’s maps The Finnish tech titan’s mapping efforts started to take shape in 2001 with its involvement in TellMaris, a consortium that pushed the Smart2Go 3D map interface, before Nokia went on to gain the rights to the software through its acquisition of mapping, routing and navigation company Gate5 in 2006. The following year, Nokia revealed it was making the Smart2Go application free to download for select Nokia and Windows Mobile devices, bringing mapping and routing to 150 countries, with turn-by-turn navigation in more than 30 markets. Perhaps the pivotal moment in Nokia’s onward march in the mapping sphere came in late 2007, when it snapped up Chicago-based NAVTEQ in a deal worth more than $8 billion. As one of the leading providers of digital map data for in-car navigation systems, mobile devices, online applications and more, NAVTEQ was very much a future-gazing move from Nokia. Following a handful of further acquisitions, Nokia launched 3D maps covering 20 cities in early 2011, and bought street-level 3D mapping company Earthmine a year later. Meanwhile, Nokia had rebranded Ovi Maps as Nokia Maps in May 2011, before pulling all its location and mapping services under the HERE banner in 2012, an occasion marked by the launch of its first native app on iOS. However, the iOS relationship came to an end when the app was pulled a year later for technical reasons (more on that later). Today, Nokia’s HERE Maps is regarded as one of the four big guns in the global online mapping space, alongside Google Maps, TomTom and OpenStreetMap. Other brands you may be familiar with typically use one of the aforementioned companies’ maps, including Apple, which largely uses TomTom, though also taps additional third-party data from the likes of OpenStreetMap. No longer tethered to its mobile phone dominance, Nokia is beginning to push HERE maps out into the connected devices ecosystem. A tie-up with Samsung announced in late August, revealed that HERE would be bundled with its new Gear S Tizen smartwatch, serving up turn-by-turn navigation on your wrist. The following day, it was announced that HERE would finally arrive in native form for Android phones – replete with offline maps – though exclusively on Samsung Galaxy devices initially. Nokia has been teasing updates ever since, including the news that HERE would return to iOS by the end of the year, and would be made available on all Android devices too. It’s not all about mobile phones of course – Nokia has also started beta testing a new version of the Web-based HERE service, with a focus on context and discovering new places. By the end of 2014, Nokia could have an omnipresent mobile mapping brand on its hands, with full offline maps and navigation available across Android, Windows Phone and iOS, and a retooled and retuned Web incarnation too. The Next Web caught up with Sean Fernback, Senior Vice President, Everyday Mobility, at Nokia’s HERE division, to get the lowdown on where things are currently at, and where they could go from here. Presence HERE’s presence across the mapping spectrum is more extensive than you might think, thanks to licensing tie-ups with the likes of Amazon, Microsoft (Bing Maps), Yahoo (Yahoo Maps) and Garmin. HERE also has a big in-car presence with automotive giants such as BMW and Mercedes – in fact, it may surprise you to learn that Nokia lends its mapping data to 80 percent of in-car navigation systems. Earlier this year Nokia announced a $100 million fund to invest in automotive technology and services, a ‘Connected Car Fund’ fund managed by Nokia Growth Partners (NGP) and aligned closely with the HERE mapping division. The ultimate remit is to “…identify and invest in companies whose innovations will be important for a world of connected and intelligent vehicles.” If you don’t use HERE in your car, you’re probably most familiar with the maps from Nokia’s and Microsoft’s handsets, or you perhaps have used them via the mobile Web on other devices too. But as noted already, things are about to change, as Nokia gears up to push HERE out across the smartphone fraternity. “It was always the ambition to be on Android, we just took a decision at the beginning of the year to accelerate the program,” explained Fernback, in a frank opening to our interview. “And also to ensure when we talk about apps, we’re serving both common platforms, which is, of course, Android and iOS.” “We’re winding down Windows Phone app development” Wait… so does this mean that Windows Phone is being given the elbow now that the Microsoft/Nokia partnership has come to an end? HERE maps wasn’t part of the deal, after all. “As a result of the transaction, we’re having to wind down our Windows Phone app development and shift it over towards Android and iOS,” explains Fernback. Fernback did stress that support for Windows Phone isn’t being phased out completely, not at the moment at least. It’s just limiting the resources it throws at the platform, including time and money spent developing for it. “It’s a dialogue we’re having [with Microsoft], so we will see where it takes us,” he continues. Another quirk in the Nokia/Microsoft partnership was the recent launch of an Android-based smartphone called Nokia X. With the acquisition yet to be finalized at that point, Nokia was authorized to pursue the development of the program even though an Android-based Nokia phone was clearly at odds with Microsoft’s interests. Indeed, Microsoft has subsequently started switching some of these products over to the Windows Phone realm since the acquisition was completed. So now that Nokia has parted ways with Microsoft and is pursuing its other interests, does this mean that there has been a complete change of focus within the HERE division? “Not really, partly because today we still maintain the [HERE] Windows Phone apps, it has our brand on it so we need to look after it,” says Fernback. “Although we’re not particularly investing in them at the moment, that could still change. With the Nokia X program, we were authorized to continue to work on it until about now really, but that work is about to cease. I think there have been a number of different programmes that have continued through the year onto different platforms, but now it’s just going to focus on the two – Android and iOS.” ‘The big two’ Okay, so Android and iOS it is. And it does make perfect sense, given their mobile market share. But what about HERE’s previous flirtation with iOS that fizzled out, can we expect much to be different this time around? It’s probably worth looking back at the circumstances around what happened in late 2013, shortly after iOS 7 rolled out. It turns out this was the crux of the problem for the HERE app, though Fernback was quick to point out that it was very much an in-house error that led to the problem with the app, and Apple wasn’t to blame. “We basically made a silly mistake – when iOS 7 came out, there was a change in how the pixels were rendered, and it wasn’t very well tested this end – when you pinched-to-zoom, you got this terrible effect,” explains Fernback. For the upcoming Android app launch and the subsequent re-arrival on iOS, Nokia and HERE will be using a common codebase, and as such the iOS version will have a different codebase to the one it was built with initially in 2012. So hopefully, things will be a lot more smooth this time around. “It’s a ground-up development” “It’s a ground-up development, and Android is a greenfield development, as is iOS,” adds Fernback. “We have a master codebase which, the way we’ve structured it, means it’s platform agnostic. So if we decide that we want to invest in the Windows Phone app again, we would take that new codebase and compile it for Windows.” Uphill battle? Though Google pretty much has maps sewn up already on Android, and has a firm footing on iOS too, doesn’t HERE face an uphill battle to win the hearts and minds of the masses? Perhaps it does, but it will come armed with a big differentiator when it launches – completely free offline mode. By offline mode, we mean you will be able to download entire countries and continents to your device without paying a penny, which will be particularly useful for those traveling abroad, or those who are otherwise concerned about their data consumption. And we’re told that there will more-or-less be feature parity between the Android and iOS incarnations, so there should be a fairly consistent experience on both platforms. However, Fernback stresses that the version arriving this year is just the beginning. “We’re not trying necessarily to compete with others” “It’s a long program – what we ship this year will be the start of what will be a great product,” he says. “We’re not trying necessarily to compete with others, or follow others, we’re trying to look at the needs and problems we’re trying to solve for consumers in urban mobility and mobile navigation. “Wait and see, we’ve got some nice ideas, we’re trying to look at some unique problems that others possible aren’t solving, and I’d like that to remain a surprise.” What was a surprise was that the Android launch will be a Samsung exclusive initially. So how did this tie-up come about? “I was looking at some of the accounts, I came across Samsung and thought, ‘we’ve been talking to Samsung for many years, but haven’t done anything with them,” says Fernback. “So a group of us went down to see them in South Korea, and we just had a conversation with them. We came up with an idea to do a navigation app on Gear with Tizen, and we did a mock-up with a little video. They loved it.” It transpires that HERE for Android didn’t exist at all 14 weeks ago – it was pretty much a video and a PowerPoint presentation. Though the iOS app isn’t quite ready yet, it seems the Android one is pretty much good to go. “We just used the existing workforce who did a bit of Android training, read the books and so on,” adds Fernback. Show me the money Offline maps is a great boon and a big selling point for HERE on both Android and iOS, but what are the plans to make money from it? Will downloads eventually cost money? “I want the focus to be on building a great product and build a big user-base, then we can talk about how we might want to monetize,” explains Fernback. “Look at Facebook and advertising, it had been kicking about for a few years before it started advertising because it then had critical mass. I think advertising is an example, but there are many things we could look at that could create value for consumers as well as monetization for us.” Whether Nokia can make big inroads on Android and iOS, stealing a piece of the Google Maps pie, remains to be seen. But fresh from its acquisition of personalized travel planning platform Desti, it seems the wheels are very much in motion to create a more-than-viable cross-platform alternative. Nokia’s HERE should be landing for Samsung Galaxy devices shortly, with support for iOS and other Android devices to follow by the end of 2014. 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Inasmuch as fast room temperature curing, single component sealants and adhesives are desirable and useful, particularly in original equipment manufacturing, it is not surprising that a number of one component elastomeric sealants are now available in the marketplace. Such sealants include various polymer bases such as polysulfides, mercaptan terminated polyethers, polysiloxames and polyurethanes. Certain industries need elastomeric adhesives or sealants which cure by exposure to ambient conditions and which will develop a high tensile strength. Applications of this type include sealing automobile windshields which are often intended as structural components in design. For these applications the elastomeric sealant or adhesive must not only have high tensile strength but should achieve such strength in a matter of a few hours so that the automobile may be safely driven shortly after installation of the windshield. Of the various liquid elastomers available today, cured polyurethanes, in general, have the highest mechanical strength and therefore are the polymers of choice as a windshield sealant or adhesive provided that the adhesive or sealant can cure rapidly under ambient conditions without exhibiting other problems such as foaming, storage instability, depolymerization, etc.. An example of a one component, room temperature, moisture curing polyurethane sealant is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 3,779,794 wherein a polyurethane sealant in combination with a particular type of silane primer is disclosed. In that patent, the polyurethane sealant is an isocyanate terminated polyethylene ether diol-polypropylene ether triol combination having from 1.2 to 1.5% free isocyanate terminals. These terminals are blocked with a volatile blocking agent which, when exposed to air, evaporates and the moisture in the air cures the polyurethane. The polyurethane sealant disclosed in this patent in combination with the silane primer cures, according to the patent, to a tensile strength of 40-60 pounds per square inch (psi) after 6 hours exposure at 77.degree. F. and 30% relative humidity. Although such sealants are satisfactory in terms of ultimate elongation characteristics and the like, nevertheless, there is a need for the development of a sealant having higher early strength, i.e. 100 psi or more in a six hour period of time, with equivalent ultimate elongation.

Why preventive care is important Remember the old saying that "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure"? This can be especially true when it comes to preventive health care. Maintaining or improving your health is important - and a focus on regular preventive care, along with following the advice of your doctor, can help you stay healthy. Stool ova and parasites exam Apr 30, 2005 Viewed: 267 Alternative names Parasites and stool ova exam Definition Stool ova and parasites exam is a test for the presence of a parasite or worm-like infection of the intestine from stool analysis. Ova refers to the egg stage of a parasite’s life cycle. Some parasites are single-cell organisms such as amoeba, Giardia, and trichomonas, while others have a worm-like appearance. How the test is performed Adults and children: There are many ways to collect the samples. You can catch the stool on plastic wrap that is loosely placed over the toilet bowl and held in place by the toilet seat. Then, put the sample in a clean container. One test kit supplies a special toilet tissue that you use to collect the sample, then put the sample in a clean container. Infants and young children: For children wearing diapers, line the diaper with plastic wrap. If the plastic wrap is positioned properly, isolating the stool from any urine output, mixing of urine and stool can be prevented for a better sample. A small smear of stool is placed on a microscope slide and examined. How to prepare for the test You will be given a specimen container for the stool sample. Do not mix urine or toilet tissue in with the stool specimen. How the test will feel There is no discomfort. Why the test is performed The test is performed if a parasitic infestation is suspected, for prolonged diarrhea of unknown cause, or other intestinal symptoms. Normal Values The presence of normal bacteria and other microorganism in the stool is normal. What abnormal results mean Parasites or eggs are present in the stool indicating parasitic infestation. See also: Medical Encyclopedia All ArmMed Media material is provided for information only and is neither advice nor a substitute for proper medical care. Consult a qualified healthcare professional who understands your particular history for individual concerns. It's easy to make a financial decision based on what you need right now, but making an informed choice will benefit you in the long run. Meet a former Red Sox pitcher who picked security over an uncertain future

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Currently, with development of an electronic communication industry, User Equipment (UE) such as a cellular phone, an electronic scheduler, a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), a laptop computer, and the like has become a necessity of a modern society, and plays an important role of transferring information changing fast. This UE provides a convenient operation environment to a user via a Graphic User Interface (GUI) and provides various multimedia based on a web environment. Recently, a user prefers a slimmer UE meeting portability and an appearance design. However, the UE applies various functions and receives a plurality of electronic parts, such that there is a difficulty in manufacturing the UE in a slim profile.

Loredana Radu nu se remarca doar prin plagiatul care o leaga de Gabriel Oprea si Victor Ponta, ambii suspecti de plagiat. Radu a fost si reprezentantul legal al celebrei firme Dalli Exim SRL, infiintata de fostul sot al Elenei Udrea, Dorin Cocos. Tot avocata Radu este cea care s-a ocupat de iregistrarea USL la tribunal. O alta lucrare de doctorat coordonata de profesorul universitar Gabriel Oprea, suspecta a fi plagiata, este cea a lui Neculai Ontanu, primar al Sectorului 2 si secretar general al UNPR, subiect prezentat in exclusivitate de Hotnews in data de 11 august. a) Dacă „se preiau pagini întregi fără a se folosi ghilimele şi fără să se facă trimitere către autor” plagiatul este argumentat prin lipsa delimitării volumului preluării. b) Dacă „se preiau paragrafe ad litteram fără a fi folosite ghilimele, dar la final se pune nota de subsol. Precizez că aceste paragrafe nu sunt însoţite şi de o analiză critică” plagiatul este argumentat în mod multiplu. Cum delimitarea explicită a preluării repre­zintă o condiţie esenţială pentru identificarea contribuţiei reale a oricărui autor, absenţa delimitării nu este o simplă scăpare ci în contextul preluării dintr-o anumită operă, a unui anumit autor, a unui anumit volum, se pre­zu­mă o intenţie bine motivată. Chiar dacă se fac preluării Legea dreptului de autor precizează că volumul preluării este cât se poate de redus şi textul preluat trebuie tratat în mod explicit de cel care face preluarea. c) Dacă „se preiau pagini întregi fără a se folosi ghilimele, însă din loc în loc, anu­mite paragrafe au trimitere prin nota de subsol către autor” se constată că: c1) plagiatul apare fiindcă se preiau pagini adică volume semnificative din opera au­ten­tică; c2) fiecare preluare, fiecare paragraf preluat este o contribuţie a au­to­rului operei autentice. Cel care preia trebuie să semnaleze cititorului ce a preluat (vo­lu­mul, paragraful, textul cuprins între ghilimele) şi de la cine a preluat. Precizarea întâmplătoare a numelui autorului autentic sau cuprinderea numelui acestuia într-o listă de bibliografie nu este suficientă pentru a identifica în mod explicit contribuţia fiecăruia dintre autori. pagini intregi din teza de doctorat a lui Gabriel Oprea erau identice cu pasaje din alte lucrari fara utilizarea ghilimelelor paragrafele identice cuvant cu cuvant erau marcate cu note de subsol, insa si acestea erau preluate din alte carti lucrarile din care s-a copiat cel mai frecvent erau ale prof. univ. dr. Ion Neagu, coordonatorul de doctorat a lui Gabriel Oprea si prof. univ. dr. Nicolae Volonciu, membru in comisia de sustinere a doctoratului lui Gabriel Oprea multi autori pe care ii indica in notele de subsol nu au fost inclusi in bibliografia lucrarii, insa acesti autori erau mentionati in textele originale ordinea in care au fost aranjate subcapitolele din lucrarea doctorala a lui Gabriel Oprea este identica cu ordinea subcapitolelor din tratatul coordonatorului sau, prof. univ. Ion Neagu.

Comparison of acid reduction in antiulcer operations. Three acid-reducing operations have recently been described for the laparoscopic treatment of peptic ulcer disease. These consist of a posterior truncal vagotomy combined with either (1) an anterior seromyotomy (SERO), (2) an anterior highly selective vagotomy (AHSV), or (3) a linear stapled lesser curvature excision (STAP). The purpose of this study was to investigate the physiologic effects of these procedures in terms of basal and maximal acid outputs. Fifty New Zealand rabbits were prospectively randomized into five open laparotomy groups (n = 10): a control group without vagal manipulation (CON), a bilateral truncal vagotomy with pyloromyotomy group (VP), a SERO group, an AHSV group, and a STAP group. All animals underwent placement of a gastrostomy tube for subsequent gastric secretory analysis. On postoperative day 6, basal acid outputs (BAO) and maximal acid outputs (MAO) following IV pentagastrin stimulation (30 microg/kg/h) were measured. Results were compared statistically using the ANOVA method. Pentagastrin stimulation was associated with a significant increase in MAO in the CON group (p < 0.05 vs BAO); however, this response was effectively blunted in all the experimental groups. There were no differences in BAO or MAO between any of the vagotomized groups (SERO, HSV, STAP, VP). We conclude that the three acid-reducing procedures modified for laparoscopy are equally efficacious in reducing gastric acid secretion and that they compare favorably with VP. To our knowledge, this is the first report comparing basal and stimulated gastric acid secretion between these new acid-reducing techniques.

Introduction ============ Computed tomography angiography (CTA) is a simple and noninvasive procedure for the evaluation of the hepatic vasculature. Although conventional angiography can also provide assessment of the hepatic vasculature, the modality is invasive and more technically difficult to perform than CTA. CTA is replacing conventional angiography in the depiction of the normal vascular anatomy and the diagnosis of vascular disorders \[[@B10]\]. However, CTA two-dimensional (2D) images do not provide complete three-dimensional images of the hepatic vascular anatomy. As three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction provides more comprehensive and accurate anatomic information, 3D CTA is a useful method to improve the limitations of the use of 2D images. Three-dimensional CTA represents an increasingly important clinical tool that is used to diagnose portal hypertension and hepatic vascular disorders. These disorders include the presence of a single or multiple extrahepatic portosystemic shunt, intrahepatic portosystemic shunt, portal vein thrombosis, intravascular tumor extension, and well-developed vascular tumors such as a hepatocellular carcinoma, liver or pancreatic neoplasia. Three-dimensional CTA is also used to evaluate suspected liver disease, and is used for surgical planning \[[@B1],[@B3],[@B9],[@B11]\]. In veterinary medicine, CT portography has been performed in normal dogs and in veterinary subjects with portosystemic shunts \[[@B3]\] to develop the dual-phase CT angiography technique for normal dogs \[[@B11]\]. However, methods of 3D reconstruction and 3D CTA analysis for the canine hepatic vasculature have not been investigated. The objectives of this study are 1) to develop the CTA technique for imaging of the canine hepatic vasculature and 2) to describe the anatomy of the hepatic vasculature with the use of 3D CTA. Materials and Methods ===================== Animals ------- Eight healthy Beagle dogs, ranging from 1 to 4 years old and weighing 6 to 12 kg were used in the study. A 22 G indwelling catheter was placed in a cephalic vein and was connected to a CT power injector (LF CT9000 ADV; Liebel-Flarsheim, USA) by an extension line (Control pressure line; Hyup Sung Medical, Korea). Contrast media -------------- Non-ionic iodine contrast media, iohexol (Omnipaque 300 mg Iodine/ml; Amersham Health, UK) was used for cine scans and for enhanced scans. Contrast media was injected by the use of a CT power injector and all injection rates were 2.0 ml/sec. Helical CT scaning and parameters --------------------------------- CT angiography was performed using a single slice helical CT scanner (GE CT/e; GE Healthcare, USA). The CT programs for image analysis were as follows. 1) The use of cine CT; 2) the use of a retrospective reconstruction program; 3) the use of a reformatted program (for axial, sagittal, transverse and oblique plane images); 4) the use of a cross section histogram for measurement of Hounsfield units (HU) in the 2D plane; 5) the use of a 3D display of shaded surface display (SSD) and maximum intensity projection (MIP). Experimental animal preparation for CT scanning ----------------------------------------------- General anesthesia was performed to avoid motion artifacts and breath holding was induced by hyperventilation. The position of the animals was dorsal recumbency and the heads of the dogs were placed toward the CT gantry. Experimental design ------------------- **Unenhanced scan:** Unenhanced scans were performed to determine the location of the cine scan, the scan field range of the enhanced scan and to measure pre-contrast HU values of the aorta (AO), caudal vena cava (CVC), portal vein (PV) and liver. Conditions included a 5 mm thickness, 3 mm interval, 1.5 pitch, 120 kVp and 40\~60 mA in each animal. Scans were started from the cranial aspect of the diaphragm to the caudal aspect of the fourth lumbar vertebra. After the unenhanced scan was performed, the cine scan location, scan field range of the enhanced scan and pre-contrast HU values of each vessel and the liver at the cine scan location were determined. **Cine scan:** In the cine scan, operating conditions of a 3 mm thickness, 120 kVp, 30\~55 mA, 1.5 sec per rotation scan speed and 50 serial axial images for 78 sec were performed. The cine scan was performed at the site of the well visualized AO, CVC, PV and liver at the thirteenth thoracic vertebra level. This scan was performed in order to obtain time-attenuation curves of the injected iohexol (0.5 ml/kg). With the use of time-attenuation curves, the delay time for helical CT acquisition was obtained. Time-attenuation curves of the AO, CVC and PV were achieved by using a hardwired basic CT program on the CT unit ([Fig. 1](#F1){ref-type="fig"}). **Enhanced scan:** The enhanced scan was divided into the arterial phase and the venous phase. Arterial phase images were obtained by caudocranial data acquisition and venous phase images were obtained by craniocaudal acquisition to minimize time during the dual phase scan. The enhanced scan was performed by using the following parameters of a 5 mm thickness, 5 mm interval, 120 kVp, 40\~60 mA and 1.3\~1.5 pitch. Time-attenuation data were used to optimize the delay of CTA image acquisition following IV injection of contrast medium to maximize hepatic vessel opacification. A delay time was applied to arterial phase scanning. The venous phase was started directly after the arterial phase scan termination. The contrast medium dose used was 3 ml/kg. All enhanced phase data were reconstructed to 1 mm interval images retrospectively. Statistical analysis -------------------- Statistical analysis was performed by the use of SPSS software (SPSS 12.0.0; SPSS, Chicago, IL USA). A one-way ANOVA least significant difference test was applied for quantitative data analysis. The Kruskal-Wallis test and Mann-Whitney U test were applied for qualitative data analysis \[[@B1],[@B2]\]. Results ======= Pre-contrast HU --------------- With the use of unenhanced scan images, the HU values of the AO, CVC, PV, and liver were measured in the determined cine scan location ([Table 1](#T1){ref-type="table"}). Regions of interest (ROI) were set at above 80% of the vascular diameter in the center of the vessels but not outside of the vessel outline. In the liver, the ROI was placed in the liver parenchyma while avoiding vessels. Time-attenuation curves ----------------------- Time-attenuation data were used to optimize the delay time of the CTA image acquisition following IV injection of contrast medium to maximize hepatic vessel opacification. The time delay required for subsequent scans was defined as the time post-onset of contrast administration to the rise in the vessel HU as compared to the baseline HU plus 20 ([Fig. 2](#F2){ref-type="fig"}). This delay time was applied to the enhanced scans. The delay time of the arterial phase was set at 9 sec ([Table 2](#T2){ref-type="table"}). As the initial times were so close between the CVC and PV that were approximately 18 sec and 22 sec, the delay time of the venous phase was set at 18 sec of the initial time of the CVC. **Delay time and enhanced scan periods:** In the enhanced scan, the arterial phase scan was started after applying the delay time, and the venous phase scan was started immediately after termination of the arterial phase. The total enhanced scanning time was approximately 67 sec. The consumed scan-time was recorded at each phase ([Table 3](#T3){ref-type="table"}). **3D reconstruction:** Vascular 3D mapping was performed by use of a hardwired basic CT program on the CT unit. 3D SSD reconstruction was applied to a threshold-based reconstruction technique. The procedure of the threshold-based reconstruction technique is that the 3D threshold is increased in order to select opacified vessels. After applying the 3D threshold, the 3D vascular structure was seen and the background with low HU value was eliminated. With the use of 3D reconstruction, reformatted and MIP images, the anatomical location of each vessel was confirmed ([Figs. 3](#F3){ref-type="fig"} and [4](#F4){ref-type="fig"}). **Quantitative measurement:** With the use of a cross section histogram ([Fig. 5](#F5){ref-type="fig"}), the AO, CVC and PV were measured by phases of the enhanced scans ([Tables 4](#T4){ref-type="table"}-[6](#T6){ref-type="table"}). Discussion ========== Imaging methods for the hepatic vasculature include conventional angiography, ultrasonography, and CTA. Conventional angiography for the hepatic vasculature can provide good vascular images. However, the use of the modality is invasive to patients, has a relatively high cost as compared to other methods \[[@B6]\], requires a difficult technique of superselective catheterization for the hepatic arteries \[[@B8]\] and is time consuming. Ultrasound is an expedient method for imaging of the hepatic vasculature, but disadvantages include the disparity of accuracy between sonographers \[[@B3]\] and many factors such as bone, gas and fat that can interfere with the transmission of the ultrasound beam \[[@B2]\]. CTA provides a fast, noninvasive modality for the evaluation of the hepatic vasculature. The use of a helical CT scan with the advanced 3D display technique provides detailed anatomic images of the hepatic vasculature and requires little time. It is also less than one-third the cost of conventional angiography, and is not dependent on the skill of the operator performing the study or on the body habitus of the patient \[[@B6]\]. The most important parameter of the hepatic CTA was the \'time delay\' between the injection of contrast medium and image acquisition. When the delay time is applied to a scan, it permits scanning during maximal enhancement. In this study, the optimal delay time was set at 9 sec in the arterial phase and at 18 sec in the venous phase. This protocol offered good vascular enhancement. Although the venous delay time was set at 18 sec by the use of a cine scan, the actual real venous phase scan started at 20 sec later for the ideal venous delay time. This was due to the contrast medium injection delay time, the time required for arterial phase scanning and the scan delay in the CT scanner itself between arterial phase scanning and venous phase scanning. In spite of this retardation, it did not affect the image quality. In all phases of the CT scan, vascular HU values increased as much as the contrast media dose increased. During the arterial phase, there were patterns of increasing vascular HU values, but there was no statistical difference in the HU values despite the dose increase. It was deduced that the opacified difference related to contrast dose did not appear prominent as arteries have characteristics of fast opacifying, deopacifying after contrast media injection and have a relatively smaller size than veins. In the venous phase, there were remarkable opacified differences that were seen related to contrast dosage. In most CT angiography procedures in humans, an injection rate of various iodine concentrations is used in a range of 1.5\~5 ml/sec \[[@B3]\]. For arterial 3D construction, 5 ml/sec is necessary to achieve a greater intravascular concentration and therefore a higher CT attenuation. Since aberrant hepatic arteries can be relatively small, they need to show sufficient enhancement so that they are not obscured during 3D threshold-based reconstruction \[[@B5]\]. However, in the portal and venous phase, the effect of bolus injection is gradually diminished and a higher injection rate causes a narrow \"temporal window\" (duration of optimal enhancement) \[[@B3]\]. As these factors and with a single channel helical CT limitation, although the arterial bolus effect was decreased, a rate of 2 ml/sec was chosen in this study as the injection rate. With the use of the MIP technique, vascular anatomy is best depicted when there is a large difference between the attenuation values of vessels opacified by use of contrast agent and the surrounding tissues. However, MIP lacks depth orientation, and the technique is not as capable to display complex anatomy, especially when overlapping vessels are present \[[@B10]\]. Traditional helical single-slice CT scanners are still limited in the ability to image large volumes during a single breathhold and to provide adequate spatial resolution crucial for CT angiography \[[@B6]\]. In this study, due to the limitation of the use of a single channel helical CT scanner, a wide slice thickness and narrow scan range including the liver and the full vascular structures was used. This limitation has prompted the development of faster multidetector helical CT scanners (MDCT) that can cover an extensive volume quickly with excellent spatial resolution \[[@B6]\]. The use of MDCT can overcome the limitations of hepatic CTA that occur with the use of a single channel CT scanner. In conclusion, 3D CTA has been shown as a useful method for the evaluation of the canine hepatic vasculature. {#F1} {#F2} {#F3} {#F4} {#F5} ###### Pre-contrast Hounsfield unit values of the aorta (AO), caudal vena cava (CVC), portal vein (PV) and liver  ###### Initial and peak intensifying time and Hounsfield unit (HU) values  n = 29, Contrast media dose = 0.5 ml/kg, psi = 47.44 ± 14.34. All data represent mean ± SD. ###### Delay time and consumed scan time of the enhanced scan  n = 29. All data represent mean ± SD. ###### Hounsfield unit values of the arteries as measured in the arterial phase  ^a,b^There is statistical significance between a and b within columns (*p* \< 0.05). All data represent mean ± SD. Group A = 2 ml/kg; Group B = 3 ml/kg; Group C = 4 ml/kg. AO = aorta; CA = celiac artery; HA = hepatic artery; GD = gastroduodenal artery; RG = right gastric artery; LG = left gastric artery; RB = right hepatic artery branch; LB = left hepatic artery branch. ###### Hounsfield unit values of the portal veins in the venous phase  ^\*^There is statistical significance among groups (*p* \< 0.01). All data represent mean ± SD. MP = main portal vein; SV = splenic vein; CPV = caudal portal vein; RLPV = right lateral portal vein; RMPV = right medial portal vein; QPV = quadrate portal vein; LMPV = left medial portal vein; LLPV = left lateral portal vein. ###### Hounsfield unit values of the hepatic veins in the venous phase  ^\*^There is statistical significance among groups (*p* \< 0.05). All data represent mean ± SD. CVC = caudal vena cava; CHV = caudal hepatic vein; RLHV = right lateral hepatic vein; RMHV = right medial hepatic vein; QHV = quadrate hepatic vein; LMHV = left medial hepatic vein; LLHV = left lateral hepatic vein.

/* * Copyright Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved. * * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"). * You may not use this file except in compliance with the License. * A copy of the License is located at * * http://aws.amazon.com/apache2.0 * * or in the "license" file accompanying this file. This file 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. */ /* * Do not modify this file. This file is generated from the ssm-2014-11-06.normal.json service model. */ using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Xml.Serialization; using System.Text; using System.IO; using System.Net; using Amazon.Runtime; using Amazon.Runtime.Internal; namespace Amazon.SimpleSystemsManagement.Model { /// <summary> /// The filters to describe or get information about your managed instances. /// </summary> public partial class InstanceInformationStringFilter { private string _key; private List<string> _values = new List<string>(); /// <summary> /// Gets and sets the property Key. /// <para> /// The filter key name to describe your instances. For example: /// </para> /// /// <para> /// "InstanceIds"|"AgentVersion"|"PingStatus"|"PlatformTypes"|"ActivationIds"|"IamRole"|"ResourceType"|"AssociationStatus"|"Tag /// Key" /// </para> /// </summary> [AWSProperty(Required=true, Min=1)] public string Key { get { return this._key; } set { this._key = value; } } // Check to see if Key property is set internal bool IsSetKey() { return this._key != null; } /// <summary> /// Gets and sets the property Values. /// <para> /// The filter values. /// </para> /// </summary> [AWSProperty(Required=true, Min=1, Max=100)] public List<string> Values { get { return this._values; } set { this._values = value; } } // Check to see if Values property is set internal bool IsSetValues() { return this._values != null && this._values.Count > 0; } } }

Epidemiology of pollution-induced airway disease: urban/rural differences in East and West Germany. The prevalence of asthma and allergic disorders was assessed in 9-11 year-old children in Leipzig and Halle in East Germany, as well as in Munich, West Germany. Both East German cities are heavily polluted due to private burning of coal and industrial emissions, while Munich has low smoke emissions but heavy road traffic. All fourth grade pupils in Munich were compared with those in Leipzig and Halle. Non-specific airway disease (bronchitis), cough, and autumn/winter nasal symptoms were most prevalent in Leipzig and Halle. Hay fever and skin test reactivity to aeroallergens were higher in West Germany compared with East Germany. Furthermore, the prevalence of asthma was also higher in the West German study area. Increased skin prick test reactivity in the West explained the increased prevalence of asthma. Longitudinal analysis showed increased respiratory symptoms on days with high mean levels of sulphur dioxide and oxides of nitrogen, as well as on days with a high peak level of 10 mu respirable particles (PM10) in East Germany. The effects of these pollutants were additive. Exposure to heavy road traffic in Munich was related to decreased pulmonary function and non-specific airway symptoms, but not to allergic sensitization and asthma.

Let c(l) = -l**2 + l - 1. Determine s*j(h) - 28*c(h). -4*h**2 Let n(a) = 7*a - 7. Let o(s) = s. Let r(g) = -n(g) + 3*o(g). Let d(w) = 6*w - 4*w - 3 - 3*w + 4. Calculate 5*d(x) - r(x). -x - 2 Suppose 5 = 3*i - 1. Suppose 0*v + 12 = i*v. Let o(r) = 7*r**2 + 6*r + 5. Let b(n) = -6*n**2 - 5*n - 4. What is v*b(j) + 5*o(j)? -j**2 + 1 Let j(u) = -u**3 - 96*u + 4. Let p(b) = 3*b**3 + 191*b - 9. Calculate -5*j(s) - 2*p(s). -s**3 + 98*s - 2 Let z(g) = -22*g**3 + 2*g**2 - 6*g - 4. Let t(p) = p**3 + p + 1. Calculate -5*t(y) - z(y). 17*y**3 - 2*y**2 + y - 1 Let k(f) = 0*f**2 + 5*f**2 + 6 - f**2. Let s(t) = 7*t**2 + 11. Suppose 290 = -3*g + h + 113, -4*h = -5*g - 302. Let r be 9/(-75)*-5 + g/5. Give r*k(v) + 6*s(v). -2*v**2 Let t(w) = -11*w**2 + 7. Let u(n) = 11*n**2 - 18*n - 4. Let p(h) = -12*h**2 + 21*h + 4. Let l(b) = -6*p(b) - 7*u(b). Give 7*l(m) - 4*t(m). 9*m**2 Let z(m) = 2*m**2 + 1. Let l(h) = h**2. Let u(i) = -i**3 + 39*i**2 - 39*i + 37. Let j be u(38). Give j*z(w) - 2*l(w). -4*w**2 - 1 Let k(g) be the first derivative of 0*g**3 + 21 + 55/4*g**4 + 25*g + 0*g**2. Let q(o) = 9*o**3 + 4. Give 4*k(b) - 25*q(b). -5*b**3 Let a(x) = -15*x - 267. Let b(r) = 3*r + 53. Give 5*a(j) + 24*b(j). -3*j - 63 Let y(n) = -472*n**2 - 1 + 474*n**2 + 2*n**3 + 0 - 1. Let r(w) = -6*w**3 - 7*w**2 + 7. Calculate 2*r(v) + 7*y(v). 2*v**3 Let c(j) = -6*j**2 + 7*j**3 + 260 - 266 + 3*j**3. Let u(r) = -3*r**3 + 2*r**2 + 2. Let h = 8 - 6. What is h*c(p) + 7*u(p)? -p**3 + 2*p**2 + 2 Let s(y) = -5*y**2 - 8*y - 109. Let q(r) = 2*r**2 + 3*r + 37. Determine 11*q(c) + 4*s(c). 2*c**2 + c - 29 Let p(h) = -5 + 4*h + h**2 - 3*h + 4. Let v(d) = 2*d**3 - 6*d**2 - 4*d + 6. Give -6*p(b) - v(b). -2*b**3 - 2*b Let r(j) = j**2 + 6*j + 3. Let b(l) = -6*l**2 - 31*l - 16. Let z be (-1)/2 + -3*56/(-48). Suppose -z*u + 50 = 17. Determine u*r(q) + 2*b(q). -q**2 + 4*q + 1 Let x(y) = 7*y**2 + 3*y - 4. Let v(m) = 4*m**2 + 2*m - 2. Let j = 26 + -21. Suppose 3*z - 15 = 0, -5*z = -j*g - 0 - 10. Calculate g*x(p) - 5*v(p). p**2 - p - 2 Let f(l) = -1104998*l. Let v(g) = 1897*g. Give -5*f(p) - 2913*v(p). -971*p Let q be 10/4 + (-3)/6. Let b(a) = 69*a**2 + 4*a - 72*a**q - 4 + 4. Let o(x) = -2*x - 1. Let g be o(-3). Let t(l) = -l**2 + 2*l. Determine g*t(u) - 2*b(u). u**2 + 2*u Let v(p) = -5*p**2 + 4*p + 3. Let t(i) = 5*i**2 - 5*i - 3. Determine 2*t(c) + 3*v(c). -5*c**2 + 2*c + 3 Let o be (-32 - -30)*4/8. Let j(a) = a**2 - a + 1. Let v(w) = -4*w**2 + 2*w - 3. Calculate o*v(n) - 5*j(n). -n**2 + 3*n - 2 Let y(i) = -84*i**2 - 2*i - 1. Let g(p) = -p**2. What is g(q) + y(q)? -85*q**2 - 2*q - 1 Let u(g) = -g - 1. Let i(s) = 16*s + 10. Give i(d) + 6*u(d). 10*d + 4 Let g(m) = -m**3 + 2*m**2 + 4. Let q(r) = -r**3 + 3*r**2 + 3. Determine 6*g(x) - 5*q(x). -x**3 - 3*x**2 + 9 Let j(x) = 6*x**2 - 7. Let y = 98 - 96. Let f(s) = 4*s**y - 8 + 4*s**2 + 2*s**2 - 3*s**2. Give -4*f(l) + 5*j(l). 2*l**2 - 3 Let d be 1*(-3)/6 - 162/(-36). Let r(w) = -4*w**3 + 19*w**2 - 7*w + 7. Let t(i) = -i**3 + 6*i**2 - 2*i + 2. Calculate d*r(z) - 14*t(z). -2*z**3 - 8*z**2 Let c(g) = -6*g + 12. Let u(a) = 5*a - 14. What is 6*c(h) + 5*u(h)? -11*h + 2 Let n(x) = -89*x**2 - 6. Let v(l) = 30*l**2 + 2. Give -3*n(i) - 8*v(i). 27*i**2 + 2 Let k(c) = 5*c**2 - 41*c + 6. Let x be k(8). Let u(t) = t**2 + t - 2. Let n(i) = -i + 3. Determine x*n(a) - 3*u(a). -3*a**2 - a Let d(m) be the second derivative of -m**3/3 + 5*m**2/2 - 2*m + 1. Let q(b) = -6*b + 14. What is 11*d(y) - 4*q(y)? 2*y - 1 Let n(o) = -8*o. Let z(a) = -2*a**3 + 23*a**2 - 12*a + 17. Let f be z(11). Let y(d) = -3*d. What is f*n(k) - 17*y(k)? 3*k Let g(r) = -r**3 - 5*r**2 - 18*r - 7. Let h(y) = y**3 + 4*y**2 + 12*y + 5. What is 5*g(t) + 7*h(t)? 2*t**3 + 3*t**2 - 6*t Let a(j) = -215*j - 9. Let o(w) = 209*w + 11. Give -7*a(c) - 6*o(c). 251*c - 3 Let u(v) = -v**2 + 2. Let n = -34 + 39. Suppose 2*c - 26 = 4*b + 2, -10 = n*b. Let k(q) = -3*q**2 + 5. Determine c*u(w) - 4*k(w). 2*w**2 Let s(a) = -2*a - 2. Let n(p) = -24*p - 18. Give 4*n(y) - 40*s(y). -16*y + 8 Let w(g) = -2*g**2 - g - 2. Let p(v) = -6*v**2 - 3*v - 7. Suppose -44*h = -15*h - 58. Calculate h*p(i) - 7*w(i). 2*i**2 + i Let p(l) = l + 5. Let s(m) = 3*m**2 + m + 23. Determine 3*p(u) - s(u). -3*u**2 + 2*u - 8 Let v(x) = 443*x - 906*x - 5 + 3 + 462*x - 6*x**3. Let u(a) = -11*a**3 + a + 3*a - 6*a - 3. Determine -4*u(h) + 7*v(h). 2*h**3 + h - 2 Let n(l) = -792*l + 440. Let h(i) = -88*i + 48. Determine -55*h(c) + 6*n(c). 88*c Let g(y) be the first derivative of -y**4/4 + y**3/3 - y**2/2 + y + 1. Let s(w) = -6*w**3 + 4*w**2 - 4*w + 4. What is -12*g(q) + 3*s(q)? -6*q**3 Let u(q) = 327*q**2 - 5*q + 10. Let l(m) = 490*m**2 - 7*m + 14. What is 5*l(z) - 7*u(z)? 161*z**2 Let c(m) be the third derivative of -m**4/12 + m**3/2 + 72*m**2. Let t(x) = 2*x - 4. Determine -4*c(l) - 3*t(l). 2*l Let u(a) = 12*a - 6*a - 1 + 0 - 5*a. Let s(d) = 6*d - 3. Determine -s(y) + 5*u(y). -y - 2 Let x be (-1 - 1)/(4/(-22)). Let q(r) be the first derivative of r**4/2 + 7*r**3/3 - 3*r + 3128. Let v(b) = 4*b**3 + 13*b**2 - 5. Give x*q(s) - 6*v(s). -2*s**3 - s**2 - 3 Let o(l) = 23*l**2 + 40*l + 7. Let w(y) = -15*y**2 - 27*y - 5. Calculate 5*o(k) + 7*w(k). 10*k**2 + 11*k Let h(x) = -2*x**3 - 4*x**2 + x. Let y(d) = d**3 + d**2. Suppose 2 = 21*m - 19*m. What is m*h(f) + 3*y(f)? f**3 - f**2 + f Let x(r) = 5*r**2. Let j(z) = -3*z + z**2 + 5*z - 2*z. Let m(t) = 12*t**2 - t. Suppose 6 - 9 = -3*u. Let n be m(u). Give n*j(w) - 2*x(w). w**2 Let j(d) = -d. Let v(m) = 35*m - 9. Give -6*j(f) + v(f). 41*f - 9 Let r = 205 - 206. Let l(o) = -o**3. Let g(s) = s**3 + s**2 + 4*s. Determine r*g(a) + l(a). -2*a**3 - a**2 - 4*a Let n(p) = -p + 1. Let v be -1 - (3 + -3)*(2 + -3). Let x(m) = -3*m + 6. What is v*x(t) + 2*n(t)? t - 4 Let t(h) = 19*h**2 + 8*h + 21. Let p(z) = -13*z**2 - 5*z - 14. Calculate -8*p(g) - 5*t(g). 9*g**2 + 7 Let k be -2 - 32/(-12)*30/4. Let z(v) = v**3 - v**2. Let i(u) = -4*u**3 + 4*u**2. Let o be (-184)/(-6) - 8/12. Suppose 10 = -5*x + o. Give k*z(a) + x*i(a). 2*a**3 - 2*a**2 Let y(h) = -31*h - 11. Let q(g) = 152*g + 54. Determine -3*q(b) - 14*y(b). -22*b - 8 Let n(o) = o**3 - 5. Suppose 0*w - 4*w + 16 = 0. Suppose -w*j + 4 = 2*z - 3*z, 0 = -3*j - 5*z - 20. Let f(q) = 74 + q**3 + j*q**3 - 80. What is 5*f(s) - 6*n(s)? -s**3 Let l = 20 - 7. Let x(w) = -7*w**2 - 6*w + 9. Let n(q) = -15*q**2 - 13*q + 19. Let g(c) = l*x(c) - 6*n(c). Let b(j) = -2*j**2 + 8. Give 3*b(f) - 8*g(f). 2*f**2 Let b(z) = 11*z**3 - 4*z**2 - 5*z - 7. Let d = 531 - 526. Let l(f) = 17*f**3 - 6*f**2 - 8*f - 11. Give d*l(n) - 8*b(n). -3*n**3 + 2*n**2 + 1 Let g(j) = -j**3 - 16*j**2 + 19*j + 40. Let y be g(-17). Let o(f) = -13*f + 6. Let t(b) = -26*b + 13. Determine y*t(v) - 13*o(v). 13*v Let d(w) = 2*w**2 + w - 2. Let f(b) = 6*b**2 + 3*b - 5. Suppose k + 3*m = 0, -k + 6*k + 2*m = 13. Calculate k*f(s) - 8*d(s). 2*s**2 + s + 1 Suppose g = 3*g + 110. Let c = g + 97. Let h = -59 + c. Let y(d) = -8*d**2 - 3*d + 17. Let o(s) = -3*s**2 - s + 6. Determine h*o(k) + 6*y(k). 3*k**2 - k Let q(k) = -3*k**2 + 4*k - 1. Let j(y) = -5*y**2 + 7*y - 2. Let f(o) = -4*j(o) + 7*q(o). Let n(w) = 3*w**2 - 2*w - 4. Give 2*f(r) + n(r). r**2 - 2*r - 2 Let j(v) = -7*v**2 + 12*v + 14. Let d(t) = t**2 - 3. What is 5*d(q) + j(q)? -2*q**2 + 12*q - 1 Let a(f) = 15*f**3 + 5*f**2 - 7*f - 2. Let p(u) = 23*u**3 + 8*u**2 - 11*u - 3. Let y be (0 - 10)/(-10 - (-13 - -5)). Determine y*p(v) - 8*a(v). -5*v**3 + v + 1 Suppose 8*d + 14 + 10 = 0. Let a(m) = -240*m - 155. Let z(t) = 34*t + 22. Let s(y) = d*a(y) - 20*z(y). Let p(b) = -5*b - 3. Give -25*p(u) - 3*s(u). 5*u Let z(t) = -13*t**2 + 8*t + 125. Let o(c) = 28*c**2 - 17*c - 250. What is -6*o(p) - 13*z(p)? p**2 - 2*p - 125 Let p(h) = 26*h**3 - 16*h**2 + 11*h - 1. Let b(l) = 5*l**3 - 3*l**2 + 2*l. Suppose 165*y - 44 = 169*y. Give y*b(j) + 2*p(j). -3*j**3 + j**2 - 2 Let s(o) = 67*o + 15. Let k(f) = 202*f + 41. Give -4*k(n) + 11*s(n). -71*n + 1 Let h(n) = 5*n - 3. Let t(d) be the second derivative of 2*d**3/3 - d**2 - 2*d - 57. Determine 3*h(g) - 4*t(g). -g - 1 Let i(m) = -2*m**3 - m**2 + m + 1. Let d = 1 - -4. Let k(l) = 748 - 749 - l**3 - 4*l**2 + d*l**2. Give -i(c) - k(c). 3*c**3 - c Let z(w) = -4*w**2 - 2*w + 3. Let j(h) = 1. Give -6*j(g) + 2*z(g). -8*g**2 - 4*g Let u(a) = -1. Suppose f + 5*c = -15, -9*f + 5*

Q: Kivy: Use a toggle button to change the state of another toggle button For example, in Kivy language: <MainToggle@ToggleButton>: on_state: # something that will change the state of the sub-toggle <SubToggle@ToggleButton>: on_state: self.background_color = 0,0,0,1 # the sub-toggle button changes color A: You can refer to other Widgets using the kivy id system. Observe the following code: from kivy.base import runTouchApp from kivy.lang import Builder runTouchApp(Builder.load_string(""" <MainToggle@ToggleButton>: <SubToggle@ToggleButton>: on_state: self.background_color = 0,0,0,1 # the sub-toggle button changes color BoxLayout: MainToggle: id: my_toggle1 # an id allows us to refer to this widget text: "Main Toggle" # change the other toggle's state using its id on_state: my_toggle2.state = "down" if my_toggle2.state == "normal" else "normal" SubToggle: id: my_toggle2 text: "Sub Toggle" """)) Here's a superb video tutorial that uses the kivy id system in a practical example. Reply if you are having trouble wrapping your head around this.

Your Elder Leader Archetype The following is an abbreviated table showing some characteristic traits of the Elder Leader Archetype (composed by Debra Breazzano, MA/ LPC, an archetypal psychologist.) Do you recognize these traits (or Shadow traits) in Elder Leaders you have known and in yourself in certain sorts of situations? The Elder Leader: Archetype of Structure, Leadership and Authority Alchemical Correlation: Earth originating; coming into being Astrological Association: January / Capricorn Mission/Purpose: To provide structure, leadership and authority for the benefit of the group or community What–or who–brings out the Leader, and in what mode, in you?Have you felt inhibited in leadership positions because you have been influenced by Leaders with SHADOW characteristics such as a hypercritical or dominating parent or boss? The Elder Leader archetype is within each of us, and we have internalized this archetype unconsciously from our experience as a collective, recognizable ‘energy’ or persona mode. Sometimes we first need to work through our reactions to Shadow Leader influences in order to let our positive leadership strengths develop and shine. I can relate to this quite a bit from my own life experience. For most of my adult life I shied away from engaging with anger either in others or in myself. In leadership roles, where invariably such emotions might be encountered, I found I had a “flight or fight” response. I would avoid confrontation all the more because if forced into an encounter with an anger-expressing person, I could become overly (though briefly) aggressive myself. Learning about the Elder Leader archetype and exploring its manifestations in my own life history has helped me come to understand that my imbalance around expressions of anger had to do with the fact that my father had a harsh temper and often expressed himself angrily toward me as a force of domination and control. After reflecting on some of my interactions with my father I have used ‘archetypal dialogue’ to come to a better understanding of how his behavior influenced my own outbreaks of over-assertiveness in stressful situations in reaction to others’ anger. This has helped me to relax, to pull back from immediate confrontations in order to LISTEN before continuing or advancing in such an encounter. Now I aim to demonstrate understanding of the other point of view without either responding in like mode. I aim now to arrive at a win-win situation collaboratively with the other person, as I now realize that anger is a common reaction to real stress and real needs. A Year of the Hero’s Adventure This year, Better Endings for Your Life Path focusses each month on a stage of the Hero's Adventure as presented by Joseph Campbell in THE HERO WITH A THOUSAND FACES. See the Monthly Topics tab to see an overview of our monthly topics. I invite you to submit your own stories, too! (see Pages menu tab). Daily Posts If you are just joining us at Better Endings, to catch up on what we're up to and how you can contribute, you may read the Category archives or click on Calendar dates to the left. Please Comment and Share your Stories or Guest Blog replies. FOLLOW to receive daily Better Endings by email. If you enjoy this site, please LIKE it on Facebook and Twitter and SHARE with your Friends! Linda A New Year of Better Endings for YOUR LIFE PATH! 2017 is a year of HEROIC ADVENTURE with this blog, as we will explore THE ADVENTURE OF A LIFETIME. Every month we will focus on one phase--as a cycle within a larger cycle--of the Human Adventure, basing these phases on 12 of the stages Joseph Campbell has identified in the "Hero's Adventure Cycle," from THE HERO WITH A THOUSAND FACES, 1949. (See the Monthly Process menu tab for each month's theme and weekly process.)

This Teen Nearly Died In A School Shooting. Now She's Just Trying To Live Enlarge this image toggle caption Allison Hess for NPR Allison Hess for NPR It's 5 o'clock in the morning, and Sarah Salazar would rather be sleeping. Not just because it's early. Or because she's a teenager and can't seem to get enough sleep. Doctors say the shotgun pellets embedded in her shoulder, lung and back have sent her lead levels skyrocketing and leave her feeling tired much of the time. Her injuries also make it hard for Sarah to do even simple tasks, like bathing. Her home, in the small town of Santa Fe, Texas, has one shower for six women — Sarah, her mother and four sisters — so she now wakes early, before everyone else, to take her time in the shower. Later, in her room, Sarah picks a shirt for the day — though definitely not her favorite navy top with thin white stripes. Its wide, open neckline is now too wide, too open, too revealing. Sarah's younger sister Sonya helps her fasten her bra. By 6:20 a.m., Sarah catches a ride to school with her best friend, Emma Lovejoy, and Emma's grandmother in their Jeep Wrangler. Unlike her sisters, Sarah, now a junior, doesn't ride the bus to Santa Fe High School anymore. Not since she missed the bus on May 18, 2018 — the day that changed her life forever. According to police, that's the day a 17-year-old student carried a Remington 870 shotgun and a .38-caliber pistol into Sarah's art classroom. He killed eight students and two teachers and wounded 13 others, including Sarah. This is her story — the story of one teenager's long, slow struggle, physically and emotionally, to rebuild her life after a school shooter nearly took it from her. May 18, 2018 Enlarge this image toggle caption ScapeWare3d/DigitalGlobe/Getty Images ScapeWare3d/DigitalGlobe/Getty Images When the shooting begins, Sarah, then 16, is the last person to hide inside her art room's supply closet. Her classmates try to block the door, but the gunman can still see them through a small window in the door. He aims his shotgun at the glass and fires. Small lead pellets explode into the closet. Sarah's neck, left shoulder and leg are hit. She drops to the floor and, trying to stay calm, reaches for a classmate. Trenton Beazley is also hit, in the back. The sophomore catcher on the baseball team feels a tug and turns. In the dim light he can see a girl bleeding badly from her neck and shoulder, her long black hair in her face. Sarah gasps for help. Trenton grabs Sarah's jacket from her lap and wraps it like a tourniquet around her shoulder to stop the bleeding. He doesn't remember thinking about it. "It's not like you practice something like that. It's more like an instinct. You just look down, and you see something you think might work," Trenton says later. Before she is shot, Sarah prays for God to protect everyone in the closet. After she is shot, she calls to God again: Here I am. If you're ready to take me home, I'm not scared. But if you want to let me stay, then that's fine too. The students wait more than half an hour for the shooting to stop and for help to arrive. Enlarge this image toggle caption Daniel Kramer/AFP/Getty Images Daniel Kramer/AFP/Getty Images Sarah's mom, Sonia Lopez, says her own prayers the moment she hears that there has been a shooting at her daughters' school. She tries to make her way to Santa Fe High but, at a designated meeting point, has to wait for Sarah to come back to her. Bus after bus reunites students with their families. Sarah never comes. "Lord, please be with Sarah. Let her be OK," Lopez prays over and over and over. Enlarge this image toggle caption Allison Hess for NPR Allison Hess for NPR Then word comes: Sarah has been shot and taken to HCA Houston Healthcare Clear Lake. The blast caused serious bleeding in Sarah's neck. Doctors decided it was too risky to repair the two damaged veins, so they tied off the ends instead. Her shoulder joint has been shattered, and remnants of the shell are scattered through her body. To Lopez, this all seems a blessing. "I know that the Lord was there with [Sarah] because she called unto him, and he answered. She may not have seen him, but I know that he protected her because none of her vital organs were touched. Her brain was intact," Lopez says. Still, it takes back-to-back emergency surgeries to stabilize Sarah. Dr. Brandon Low, the orthopedic surgeon on call, checks the scans and knows it is a devastating injury. "The joint where the shoulder meets up with the socket was just destroyed — hardly visible even on X-ray, it was in so many pieces," Low says. Low often treats gunshot patients and says Sarah's injury is a triple hit: shot at close range with a powerful weapon in a vulnerable part of her body. Enlarge this image toggle caption Allison Hess for NPR Allison Hess for NPR The surgeon joins the rest of the trauma team in the operating room and begins removing nonviable body tissue to prevent infection. They also remove as many pellets as they can, as well as fragments from the shell itself, before sewing up the wound. Nearly a month later, Sarah will have a complete shoulder replacement. SUMMER Enlarge this image toggle caption Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images Sarah's hospital room fills with balloons, flowers and visitors. Pop star Justin Timberlake promises her tickets to his upcoming Houston show. NFL star J.J. Watt pays a visit. "Santa Fe Strong" starts appearing on T-shirts and billboards across South Texas. Doctors have to wire Sarah's mouth shut so her fractured jaw can heal, limiting her diet to chicken broth and applesauce. Her best friend, Emma, visits almost every day. They play cards and watch Netflix. At first, Emma is surprised at how swollen Sarah's neck has become — "like a marshmallow," she says. Seventeen days after the shooting, Sarah is discharged and moves back to her mom's three-bedroom house. Though her jaw is still wired shut, she begins supplementing her limited diet by sucking on Flamin' Hot Cheetos, her favorite snack. A small taste of her old life. In July, she begins aquatic physical therapy to exercise her new prosthetic shoulder joint and regain some strength. In the water, Sarah feels more comfortable. Her arm is lighter and so is the pain. In August, on the first day of school, Sarah doesn't hesitate to return to class at Santa Fe High. She wants to focus on her junior year and prepare for college. Her dream school is Texas A&M University in College Station. Her dream career: nurse anesthetist. Enlarge this image toggle caption Allison Hess for NPR Allison Hess for NPR Sarah's mother, Sonia Lopez, worries more about her daughter's reentry. For one thing, how will she navigate the bustling hallways of a school with 1,400 students? "We were scared that people were going to bump into her in the hallways, you know? And she was like, 'No, I can do it, I can do it. I don't need anybody carrying my books,' " Lopez says. Sarah admits later, though, that the return is difficult at times. Whenever someone knocks at the classroom door, she has to check who it is before she can continue her work. The new alarms on the doors are loud and make her feel anxious. In September, Sarah's mother and other families that have been irreparably scarred by the massacre appear before the Santa Fe school board. They publicly recognize their loved ones who were killed and ring a bell for each. They then recognize the 13 injured, including Sarah, though the board president tries to stop the group. Lopez worries that the board is doing too little to help the community recover and protect against future threats. At the lectern, she pleads with the district. "We need to set an example out of this, so what happened to my daughter will not happen again," she says, near tears. In the packed audience, Sarah sits silently, her left arm in a sling. FALL Enlarge this image toggle caption Allison Hess for NPR Allison Hess for NPR On a breezy Saturday night in October, a DJ pumps Mexican ranchera and cumbia music in between Bruno Mars and Miley Cyrus as dozens of people mingle inside the community center at Santa Fe's Runge Park. This isn't Sarah's party. It's her younger sister Sonya's quinceañera, her 15th birthday party — a rite of passage in many Hispanic families. It is also the first time their extended circle of family and friends has had something to celebrate since the shooting. Sarah arrives late, having picked up the last of the balloons. She wears a short, sleeveless pink dress and a black crepe jacket to cover the scar on her shoulder. Her father, Nick Salazar, proudly walks her from table to table to greet family members and friends. Enlarge this image toggle caption Allison Hess for NPR Allison Hess for NPR "She looks like she's having fun," he says later. "Which is good to see her smile and everything. I'm happy that she's happy." "Some of these people I met through the shooting," Lopez says as she serves rice, beans and cabrito with lamb to a long line of guests. Another survivor, Flo Rice, stops by with her husband. The former substitute teacher walks with a cane and smiles for a selfie with Sarah. After the official dance and presentations, Sarah slips outside and takes off her black ankle-strap heels. She's tired and thinking about going home early. "This was a good distraction. It's nice," she says. "It was good to keep my mind off other things." The fact is, many things are still hard for Sarah. She can't raise her left hand past her waist. At her dad's house, she can't reach the microwave to heat up ramen noodles. Also, her mom doesn't think her shoulder has healed enough for her to drive safely, so even after Sarah turns 17 that November, she still depends on others to get around. Some days she wishes she could simply put her long black hair in a ponytail without help. As winter approaches, Sarah's inner circle — her mother, four sisters and Emma — help her piece together a new routine. When the insurance company deals her a hard blow, refusing to pay for any more aquatic therapy sessions, her older sister, Suzannah, encourages Sarah to do some exercises at home. Her mom keeps track of medical appointments. Each morning, sister Sonya, who shares a room with Sarah, helps her get dressed, while her two youngest sisters, Star and Sophya, pitch in with Sarah's household chores and help feed the family's pets. Some days I'll just wake up and be like, 'Today is not going to be a good day.' In between all this work, there's still plenty of time for fun too. The family hosts a regular Friday game night. And every night, Sarah can find comfort and distraction with the family's many animals: four dogs, two cats, four parakeets, 11 fish, plus a turtle and a goat named Michelle. The goat was supposed to be dinner at the quinceañera but now hangs out in the backyard with a menagerie of chickens and ducks. Sarah loves to snuggle in bed with her gray kitten or practice her Spanish by bingeing on her favorite telenovela, Sin senos sí hay paraíso. "Netflix is the cure," she says with a smile. "I feel like she's slowly getting to a new normal, a new happy and stuff. But I wouldn't say that she's completely there yet," Emma says. "It kind of depends on the day. But ultimately, I feel like she's still processing, and she's going to for a while." WINTER Once every other week, Sarah skips advisory period at school to join a small therapy group with a few others affected by the shooting, though they don't talk much. Only twice have they actually discussed that day. Instead, they make arts and crafts. A Christmas wreath that now hangs on the door to the family's laundry room. A rock covered in magazine clippings that sits on Sarah's windowsill. Sarah prefers creating things over talking. Art makes her feel calm. "I don't know how talking about it is gonna help how I feel about it," she says. But she knows, emotionally, she has a long way to go. Enlarge this image toggle caption Allison Hess for NPR Allison Hess for NPR "The wellness counselor at the school — I have a lady that I talk to — she says that I keep my emotions in and that's not good," Sarah says. "I do do that, and so, emotionally, I've not come that far because I try to keep it to myself." Even before the trauma, Sarah was pretty quiet. But since May, it has been hard even for her best friend to know what's going on sometimes. And they've known each other since first grade. "She does what I do whenever I'm bothered by something — just kind of puts on this front that makes everybody think that everything's going all great," Emma says. "But you know there's still things that are bothering her." At school, offhand remarks can trigger difficult emotions. Sarah can't stand to hear students mention their weekend hunting plans — a frequent topic in this small Texas town. Even the moment of silence her school holds every morning can be difficult. "Sometimes they're like, 'OK, pause for a moment of silence,' and I start praying. And then they're like, 'All right!' And I'm like, 'I can't even pause,' " Sarah says. For her, prayer has been a constant comfort "in the morning and at nighttime and whenever I need someone." I don't know how talking about it is gonna help how I feel about it. Sometimes Sarah wonders what will happen to the former student accused of shooting her and killing so many of her classmates and teachers. One day in February, she and her mom file inside Galveston County's state courthouse. They sit near the front so they can get a good look at him. When the accused shuffles inside, handcuffed, his lawyers ask the judge for a change of venue. They argue that the mass shooting has gained so much attention in the community that he won't receive a fair trial. Sarah watches him closely. That day in May, in the art room, she never made eye contact with the shooter. This day, she wants to look him in the eyes. But he keeps his head down. SPRING Enlarge this image toggle caption Allison Hess for NPR Allison Hess for NPR As the shooting's May anniversary draws closer, the emotions that Sarah keeps tucked inside grow more intense, especially the sadness. "Some days I'll just wake up and be like, 'Today is not going to be a good day,' " she says. "It's like, 'No, I just want to go back to bed.' Or just, like, throughout the day, I guess I'll be having an OK day, and then I'll just get sad." Sarah doesn't know how she'll feel on the actual anniversary. Or what she'll do. "It's just been a year, but it doesn't feel like it, because the year's gone by so fast — I don't have time to process things," she says. Sarah's physical recovery has also been slow. She has had six surgeries since the shooting and, nearly 11 months later, must now have a seventh. Pellets from the blast remain embedded in her chest, shoulder and back, and they've pushed her lead levels four times past the acceptable limit. "It gives her headaches, stomachaches, dizziness," her mother, Sonia Lopez, says. "I just can't wait till they're gone — all these pellets." It's another 5 o'clock morning, mid-April, and Sarah is already awake. Not to claim the shower though. She, her mom and younger sister Sonya pull up in their rusty Toyota Corolla to the outpatient surgery center at UTMB Health in League City. Inside, Sarah waits calmly in the pre-op area. Enlarge this image toggle caption Allison Hess for NPR Allison Hess for NPR "I saw Grey's Anatomy," she says. "There's this one episode where a girl is scared to have surgery. I don't know, I'm not scared." Because it's all so routine by now. Sarah has one unusual request for the surgeon. She wants to keep the pellets he finds. "They were inside of me, so they're mine," she says. "I'll have to talk to some people. I don't know in terms of the evidence, chain of command, forensic," says Dr. Ikenna Okereke. The fog of anesthesia settles over Sarah. Lopez leans down and kisses her forehead. "God bless you," she whispers. As Sarah is wheeled into surgery, her mother calls out to the staff, "Bless y'all if you're working on Sarah today. Know that there are a lot of people praying for y'all today!" The doors to the operating room close. Once again, Lopez waits for her daughter, Sarah Grace, to come back to her.

See the daily schedule Kurt Benjamin’s film juxtaposes 16mm footage of Cobain’s hometown, Aberdeen, Washington, with surreal scenes of Hopper as Cobain. Appropriately given the Gusman Center’s history as a former silent movie palace, the short was wordless, with the exception of a reading of the lyrics to Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” by Hopper.

/*============================================================================= Copyright (c) 2011 Eric Niebler Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt) ==============================================================================*/ #if !defined(BOOST_FUSION_ITERATOR_RANGE_IS_SEGMENTED_HPP_INCLUDED) #define BOOST_FUSION_ITERATOR_RANGE_IS_SEGMENTED_HPP_INCLUDED #include <boost/fusion/support/config.hpp> #include <boost/mpl/assert.hpp> #include <boost/mpl/bool.hpp> namespace boost { namespace fusion { struct iterator_range_tag; template <typename Context> struct segmented_iterator; namespace extension { template <typename Tag> struct is_segmented_impl; // An iterator_range of segmented_iterators is segmented template <> struct is_segmented_impl<iterator_range_tag> { private: template <typename Iterator> struct is_segmented_iterator : mpl::false_ {}; template <typename Iterator> struct is_segmented_iterator<Iterator &> : is_segmented_iterator<Iterator> {}; template <typename Iterator> struct is_segmented_iterator<Iterator const> : is_segmented_iterator<Iterator> {}; template <typename Context> struct is_segmented_iterator<segmented_iterator<Context> > : mpl::true_ {}; public: template <typename Sequence> struct apply : is_segmented_iterator<typename Sequence::begin_type> { BOOST_MPL_ASSERT_RELATION( is_segmented_iterator<typename Sequence::begin_type>::value , == , is_segmented_iterator<typename Sequence::end_type>::value); }; }; } }} #endif

#region Copyright notice and license // Copyright 2019 The gRPC Authors // // Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); // you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. // You may obtain a copy of the License at // // http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 // // Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software // distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, // WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. // See the License for the specific language governing permissions and // limitations under the License. #endregion using Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection; namespace Grpc.AspNetCore.Server.Internal { /// <summary> /// A marker class used to determine if all the required gRPC services were added /// to the <see cref="IServiceCollection"/>. /// </summary> internal class GrpcMarkerService { } }

Q: iPhone Core Data Lightweight Migration Cocoa error 134130: Can't find model for source store Folks, Lightweight migration is failing for me 100% of the time on this line: [persistentStoreCoordinator addPersistentStoreWithType:NSSQLiteStoreType configuration:nil URL:storeUrl options:options error:&error] with the error: Error: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=134130 UserInfo=0x4fbff20 "Operation could not be completed. (Cocoa error 134130.)" "Can't find model for source store"; Here is my managed object context, model, and persistent store: - (NSManagedObjectContext *) managedObjectContext { if (managedObjectContext != nil) { return managedObjectContext; } NSPersistentStoreCoordinator *coordinator = [self persistentStoreCoordinator]; if (coordinator != nil) { managedObjectContext = [[NSManagedObjectContext alloc] init]; [managedObjectContext setPersistentStoreCoordinator: coordinator]; } return managedObjectContext; } - (NSManagedObjectModel *)managedObjectModel { if (managedObjectModel != nil) { return managedObjectModel; } managedObjectModel = [[NSManagedObjectModel mergedModelFromBundles:nil] retain]; return managedObjectModel; } - (NSPersistentStoreCoordinator *)persistentStoreCoordinator { if (persistentStoreCoordinator != nil) { return persistentStoreCoordinator; } NSURL *storeUrl = [NSURL fileURLWithPath: [[self applicationDocumentsDirectory] stringByAppendingPathComponent: @"Locations.sqlite"]]; NSError *error; persistentStoreCoordinator = [[NSPersistentStoreCoordinator alloc] initWithManagedObjectModel: [self managedObjectModel]]; // Allow inferred migration from the original version of the application. NSDictionary *options = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys: [NSNumber numberWithBool:YES], NSMigratePersistentStoresAutomaticallyOption, [NSNumber numberWithBool:YES], NSInferMappingModelAutomaticallyOption, nil]; if (![persistentStoreCoordinator addPersistentStoreWithType:NSSQLiteStoreType configuration:nil URL:storeUrl options:options error:&error]) { NSLog(@"Error: %@",error); NSLog(@"Unresolved error %@, %@", error, [error userInfo]); abort(); } return persistentStoreCoordinator; } I have two versions of my model in my project: a version 4 and a version 5. If I set my version 4 as default, it works fine. If I select "Design -> Data Model -> Add Model Version" (as described by this post), make a change, Design -> Data Model -> Set Current Version, build and run, it will fail with the aforementioned "Can't find model for source store" error. Set model back to version 4, no problems, addPersistentStoreWithType. Alternatively, if I add model version and make no changes, simply go from version 4 to 5 without adding any new fields, no problems. If I then try to go from 5 to 6, the aforementioned error. This code is failing on both Simulator and Phone. I read several prescriptions calling for deleting and reinstalling the app, which does work for both Simulator and Phone, but I am afraid that when I release this to real users it will break my installed base since they won't be able to delete and reinstall - App Store will auto-upgrade them. This code worked in releases past with no changes on my part - hence my ability to make it all the way up to version 4. I recently upgraded to XCode 3.2.3 building for iOS4, which may have something to do with this. Is anyone else having this issue all of a sudden now like I am? Has anyone managed to work past it? Thanks. PS - For Googlers who stumble on this page, here are all the relevant pages you might consider reading, below. Unfortunately none of these solved my issue. Implementation of "Automatic Lightweight Migration" for Core Data (iPhone) http://iphonedevelopment.blogspot.com/2009/09/core-data-migration-problems.html https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2925918/iphone-core-data-lightweight-migration-error-reason-cant-find-model-for-sour iPhone Core Data "Automatic Lightweight Migration" http://www.iphonedevsdk.com/forum/iphone-sdk-development/38545-coredata-migration-issues.html UPDATE While this is not a real fix, it does avoid the scenario of a crashing client: simply delete the database file: if (![persistentStoreCoordinator addPersistentStoreWithType:NSSQLiteStoreType configuration:nil URL:storeUrl options:options error:&error]) { // Delete file if ([[NSFileManager defaultManager] fileExistsAtPath:storeUrl.path]) { if (![[NSFileManager defaultManager] removeItemAtPath:storeUrl.path error:&error]) { NSLog(@"Unresolved error %@, %@", error, [error userInfo]); abort(); } } if (![persistentStoreCoordinator addPersistentStoreWithType:NSSQLiteStoreType configuration:nil URL:storeUrl options:options error:&error]) { // Handle the error. NSLog(@"Error: %@",error); NSLog(@"Unresolved error %@, %@", error, [error userInfo]); abort(); } } UPDATE 2 Here is what happens when I inspect VersionInfo.plist: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>NSManagedObjectModel_CurrentVersionName</key> <string>Profile 5</string> <key>NSManagedObjectModel_VersionHashes</key> <dict> <key>Profile</key> <dict> <key>Profile</key> <data> ZIICGgMBreuldkPXgXUhJwKamgwJzESM5FRTOUskomw= </data> </dict> <key>Profile 2</key> <dict> <key>Profile</key> <data> tEB7HrETWOSUuoeDonJKLXzsxixv8ALHOoASQDUIZMA= </data> </dict> <key>Profile 3</key> <dict> <key>Profile</key> <data> qyXOJyKkfQ8hdt9gcdFs7SxKmZ1JYrsXvKbtFQTTna8= </data> </dict> <key>Profile 4</key> <dict> <key>Profile</key> <data> lyWDJJ0kGcs/pUOModd3Q1ymDvdRiNXui4NCpLxDFSw= </data> </dict> <key>Profile 5</key> <dict> <key>Profile</key> <data> V4PyRK1ezj3xK1QFRCTVzGOqyJhEb7FRMzglrTsP0cI= </data> </dict> </dict> </dict> </plist> Here is the code that I wrote to inspect my model (note I had to go out and add a base64 encoder, since that is what is in the VersionInfo.plist file) if (![persistentStoreCoordinator addPersistentStoreWithType:NSSQLiteStoreType configuration:nil URL:storeUrl options:options error:&error]) { NSDictionary *storeMeta = [NSPersistentStoreCoordinator metadataForPersistentStoreOfType:nil URL:storeUrl error:&error]; NSLog(@"%@",storeMeta); id someObj = [[storeMeta objectForKey:@"NSStoreModelVersionHashes"] objectForKey:@"Profile"]; NSLog(@"%@",someObj); NSLog(@"%@",[NSString base64StringFromData:someObj length:[someObj length]]); And here is the debug output: { NSPersistenceFrameworkVersion = 310; NSStoreModelVersionHashes = { Profile = <97258324 9d2419cb 3fa5438c a1d77743 5ca60ef7 5188d5ee 8b8342a4 bc43152c>; SerializedMessage = <4530863c d943479a edfb4dfb 5059c28d d6137dc4 d1153d36 ed52be49 11074f13>; }; NSStoreModelVersionHashesVersion = 3; NSStoreModelVersionIdentifiers = ( ); NSStoreType = SQLite; NSStoreUUID = "823FD306-696F-4A0F-8311-2792825DC66E"; "_NSAutoVacuumLevel" = 2; } <97258324 9d2419cb 3fa5438c a1d77743 5ca60ef7 5188d5ee 8b8342a4 bc43152c> lyWDJJ0kGcs/pUOModd3Q1ymDvdRiNXui4NCpLxDFSw= As you can see, that last line that starts with 'ly' matches Profile 4 in VersionInfo.plist...hence I see no reason why it should be failing. Any other ideas? A: I read several prescriptions calling for deleting and reinstalling the app, which does work for both Simulator and Phone, but I am afraid that when I release this to real users it will break my installed base since they won't be able to delete and reinstall. This is a problem caused by Xcode not removing old momc files from simulator/dev-device when a the model file is changed e.g. changing the name. The old file remains which causes confusion. This is something you only see during development because it is an artifact of the way that Xcode manipulates the app bundle without completely reinstalling it every time as must happen with a release version. You can confirm this logging the return of: [[NSBundle mainBundle] URLsForResourcesWithExtension:@"momc"subdirectory:nil]; ... which should show you all the compiled model files in the app bundle It is bad practice to rely on migration during development because it is very common for migration to fail if you are making changes to the model and store. You should only use migration after all the code is nailed down. I would also recommend regenerating your store from scratch every time you run. It is to easy to build up garbage in the store by changing up the model. A: I've read over your updated question. It's getting quite messy with model versions. You should try and audit the version of the model that the existing store is actually asking for, and try to list all available models in the app bundle at runtime. I look in my apps' model directory NSString *modelDirectoryPath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"MyModel" ofType:@"momd"]; I'm not sure if developers normally do this, but I keep my model versions with different names.. so I have in there: VersionInfo.plist MyModel.mom MyModel2.mom The version hashes listed in the VersionInfo.plist should help you troubleshoot. Look for the version hash required by the existing persistent store, and see if you can locate it in the version hashes listed in VersionInfo.plist. Actually, I can't see a way to write some code that will ask the persistent store what it's entity version hashes are. The NSPersistentStoreCoordinator or the NSMigrationManger seem to be doing that privately. i.e. they check the persistent store entity versions against the model that the store is loaded with. Had another quick look, and it's available in the store meta data. Nice and easy! NSError *error; NSURL *storeURL = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:[[self class] storePath]]; NSDictionary *storeMeta = [NSPersistentStoreCoordinator metadataForPersistentStoreOfType:nil URL:storeURL error:&error]; And looking in storeMeta I get a key with <CFString 0x7328050 [0x2724380]>{contents = "NSStoreModelVersionHashes"} = <CFBasicHash 0x7328340 [0x2724380]>{type = immutable dict, count = 5, entries => 0 : <CFString 0x7328110 [0x2724380]>{contents = "MyEntityNameOne"} = <CFData 0x73281b0 [0x2724380]>{length = 32, capacity = 32, bytes = 0x143325cf121239ce156af2e2a1aad7d9 ... 976977fdf29fc013} 1 : <CFString 0x7328130 [0x2724380]>{contents = "MyEntityNameTwo"} = <CFData 0x7328200 [0x2724380]>{length = 32, capacity = 32, bytes = 0x0ca6ecf1283d12bd3ca82af39b6b9f5d ... 149dd39a591e0c4d} ... } Should be easy to iterate over that NSStoreModelVersionHashes dictionary and log the version hashes your store requires. Manually match that back to the ones available in VersionInfo.plist and see what's missing. Perhaps there's not one single model that contains all the required versions of the entities in your existing persistent store. That might happen due to (accidental?) edits on the model before or after setting up a new model version? A: I had esilver's exact problem and found this question via Google. However, the fix that worked for me wasn't anywhere else on SO (that I know), so here goes: If there are multiple copies of your *.mom files (compiled object models) in your bundle, Core Data may become confused when attempting to migrate on your behalf. Our problem was that each individual model file (Data.xcdatamodel, Data_V1.xcdatamodel, Data_V2.xcdatamodel, etc.) was not only inside the xcdatamodeld/ directory (which was included as something to compile in the build process), but also each file was also included in the "Compile Sources" list. What this meant is that the resulting bundle had two sets of *.mom files: one inside xcdatamodeld/ and one at the top level. I think Core Data became very, very confused, and led to this error. Removing each xcdatamodel file from the "compile sources" and leaving the xcdatamodeld directory solved the problem for us (e.g. got auto-versioning up and running again). Hope this helps!

Preprint hep-ph/0006089 [Improved Conformal Mapping of the Borel Plane]{} U. D. Jentschura and G. Soff [*Institut für Theoretische Physik, TU Dresden, 01062 Dresden, Germany*]{}\ [**Email:**]{} [email protected], [email protected] The conformal mapping of the Borel plane can be utilized for the analytic continuation of the Borel transform to the entire positive real semi-axis and is thus helpful in the resummation of divergent perturbation series in quantum field theory. We observe that the convergence can be accelerated by the application of Padé approximants to the Borel transform expressed as a function of the conformal variable, i.e. by a combination of the analytic continuation via conformal mapping and a subsequent numerical approximation by rational approximants. The method is primarily useful in those cases where the leading (but not sub-leading) large-order asymptotics of the perturbative coefficients are known. 11.15.Bt, 11.10.Jj General properties of perturbation theory;\ Asymptotic problems and properties The problem of the resummation of quantum field theoretic series is of obvious importance in view of the divergent, asymptotic character of the perturbative expansions [@LGZJ1990; @ZJ1996; @Fi1997]. The convergence can be accelerated when additional information is available about large-order asymptotics of the perturbative coefficients [@JeWeSo2000]. In the example cases discussed in [@JeWeSo2000], the location of several poles in the Borel plane, known from the leading and next-to-leading large-order asymptotics of the perturbative coefficients, is utilized in order to construct specialized resummation prescriptions. Here, we consider a particular perturbation series, investigated in [@BrKr1999], where only the [*leading*]{} large-order asymptotics of the perturbative coefficients are known to sufficient accuracy, and the subleading asymptotics have – not yet – been determined. Therefore, the location of only a single pole – the one closest to the origin – in the Borel plane is available. In this case, as discussed in [@CaFi1999; @CaFi2000], the (asymptotically optimal) conformal mapping of the Borel plane is an attractive method for the analytic continuation of the Borel transform beyond its circle of convergence and, to a certain extent, for accelerating the convergence of the Borel transforms. Here, we argue that the convergence of the transformation can be accelerated further when the Borel transforms, expressed as a function of the conformal variable which mediates the analytic continuation, are additionally convergence-accelerated by the application of Padé approximants. First we discuss, in general terms, the construction of the improved conformal mapping of the Borel plane which is used for the resummation of the perturbation series defined in Eqs. (\[gammaPhi4\]) and (\[gammaYukawa\]) below. The method uses as input data the numerical values of a finite number of perturbative coefficients and the leading large-order asymptotics of the perturbative coefficients, which can, under appropriate circumstances, be derived from an empirical investigation of a finite number of coefficients, as it has been done in [@BrKr1999]. We start from an asymptotic, divergent perturbative expansion of a physical observable $f(g)$ in powers of a coupling parameter $g$, $$\label{power} f(g) \sim \sum_{n=0}^{\infty} c_n\,g^n\,,$$ and we consider the generalized Borel transform of the $(1,\lambda)$-type (see Eq. (4) in [@JeWeSo2000]), $$\label{BorelTrans} f^{(\lambda)}_{\rm B}(u) \; \equiv \; f^{(1,\lambda)}_{\rm B}(u) \; = \; \sum_{n=0}^{\infty} \frac{c_n}{\Gamma(n+\lambda)}\,u^n\,.$$ The full physical solution can be reconstructed from the divergent series (\[power\]) by evaluating the Laplace-Borel integral, which is defined as $$\label{BorelIntegral} f(g) = \frac{1}{g^\lambda} \, \int_0^\infty {\rm d}u \,u^{\lambda - 1} \, \exp\bigl(-u/g\bigr)\, f^{(\lambda)}_{\rm B}(u)\,.$$ The integration variable $u$ is referred to as the Borel variable. The integration is carried out either along the real axis or infinitesimally above or below it (if Padé approximants are used for the analytic continuation, modified integration contours have been proposed [@Je2000]). The most prominent issue in the theory of the Borel resummation is the construction of an analytic continuation for the Borel transform (\[BorelTrans\]) from a finite-order partial sum of the perturbation series (\[power\]), which we denote by $$\label{PartialSum} f^{(\lambda),m}_{\rm B}(u) = \sum_{n=0}^{m} \frac{c_n}{\Gamma(n+\lambda)}\,u^n\,.$$ The analytic continuation can be accomplished using the direct application of Padé approximants to the partial sums of the Borel transform $f^{(\lambda),m}_{\rm B}(u)$ [@BrKr1999; @Je2000; @Raczka1991; @Pi1999] or by a conformal mapping [@SeZJ1979; @LGZJ1983; @GuKoSu1995; @CaFi1999; @CaFi2000]. We now assume that the [*leading*]{} large-order asymptotics of the perturbative coefficients $c_n$ defined in Eq. (\[power\]) is factorial, and that the coefficients display an alternating sign pattern. This indicates the existence of a singularity (branch point) along the negative real axis corresponding to the leading large-order growth of the perturbative coefficients, which we assume to be at $u=-1$. For Borel transforms which have only a single cut in the complex plane which extends from $u=-1$ to $u=-\infty$, the following conformal mapping has been recommended as optimal [@CaFi1999], $$\label{DefZ} z = z(u) = \frac{\sqrt{1+u}-1}{\sqrt{1+u}+1}\,.$$ Here, $z$ is referred to as the conformal variable. The cut Borel plane is mapped unto the unit circle by the conformal mapping (\[DefZ\]). We briefly mention that a large variety of similar conformal mappings have been discussed in the literature . It is worth noting that conformal mappings which are adopted for doubly-cut Borel planes have been discussed in [@CaFi1999; @CaFi2000]. We do not claim here that it would be impossible to construct conformal mappings which reflect the position of more than two renormalon poles or branch points in the complex plane. However, we stress that such a conformal mapping is likely to have a more complicated mathematical structure than, for example, the mapping defined in Eq. (27) in [@CaFi1999]. Using the alternative methods described in [@JeWeSo2000], poles (branch points) in the Borel plane corresponding to the subleading asymptotics can be incorporated easily provided their position in the Borel plane is known. In a concrete example (see Table 1 in [@JeWeSo2000]), 14 poles in the Borel plane have been fixed in the denominator of the Padé approximant constructed according to Eqs. (53)–(55) in [@JeWeSo2000], and accelerated convergence of the transforms is observed. In contrast to the investigation [@JeWeSo2000], we assume here that only the [*leading*]{} large-order factorial asymptotics of the perturbative coefficients are known. We continue with the discussion of the conformal mapping (\[DefZ\]). It should be noted that for series whose leading singularity in the Borel plane is at $u = -u_0$ with $u_0 > 0$, an appropriate rescaling of the Borel variable $u \to |u_0|\, u$ is necessary on the right-hand side of Eq. (\[BorelIntegral\]). Then, $f^{(\lambda)}_{\rm B}(|u_0|\,u)$ as a function of $u$ has its leading singularity at $u = -1$ (see also Eq. (41.57) in [@ZJ1996]). The Borel integration variable $u$ can be expressed as a function of $z$ as follows, $$\label{UasFuncOfZ} u(z) = \frac{4 \, z}{(z-1)^2}\,.$$ The $m$th partial sum of the Borel transform (\[PartialSum\]) can be rewritten, upon expansion of the $u$ in powers of $z$, as $$\label{PartialSumConformal} f^{(\lambda),m}_{\rm B}(u) = f^{(\lambda),m}_{\rm B}\bigl(u(z)\bigr) = \sum_{n=0}^{m} C_n\,z^n + {\cal O}(z^{m+1})\,,$$ where the coefficients $C_n$ as a function of the $c_n$ are uniquely determined (see, e.g., Eqs. (36) and (37) of [@CaFi1999]). We define partial sum of the Borel transform, expressed as a function of the conformal variable $z$, as $$f'^{(\lambda),m}_{\rm B}(z) = \sum_{n=0}^{m} C_n\,z^n\,.$$ In a previous investigation [@CaFi1999], Caprini and Fischer evaluate the following transforms, $$\label{CaFiTrans} {\cal T}'_m f(g) = \frac{1}{g^\lambda}\, \int_0^\infty {\rm d}u \,u^{\lambda - 1} \,\exp\bigl(-u/g\bigr)\, f'^{(\lambda),m}_{\rm B}(z(u))\,.$$ Caprini and Fischer [@CaFi1999] observe the apparent numerical convergence with increasing $m$. The limit as $m\to\infty$, provided it exists, is then assumed to represent the complete, physically relevant solution, $$f(g) = \lim_{m\to\infty} {\cal T}'_m f(g)\,.$$ We do not consider the question of the existence of this limit here (for an outline of questions related to these issues we refer to [@CaFi2000]). In the absence of further information on the analyticity domain of the Borel transform (\[BorelTrans\]), we cannot necessarily conclude that $f^{(\lambda)}_{\rm B}{\mathbf (}u(z){\mathbf )}$ as a function of $z$ is analytic inside the unit circle of the complex $z$-plane, or that, for example, the conditions of Theorem 5.2.1 of [@BaGr1996] are fulfilled. Therefore, we propose a modification of the transforms (\[CaFiTrans\]). In particular, we advocate the evaluation of (lower-diagonal) Padé approximants [@BaGr1996; @BeOr1978] to the function $f'^{(\lambda),m}_{\rm B}(z)$, expressed as a function of $z$, $$\label{ConformalPade} f''^{(\lambda),m}_{\rm B}(z) = \bigg[ [\mkern - 2.5 mu [m/2] \mkern - 2.5 mu ] \bigg/ [\mkern - 2.5 mu [(m+1)/2] \mkern - 2.5 mu ] \bigg]_{f'^{(\lambda),m}_{\rm B}}\!\!\!\left(z\right)\,.$$ We define the following transforms, $$\label{AccelTrans} {\cal T}''_m f(g) = \frac{1}{g^\lambda}\, \int_{C_j} {\rm d}u \,u^{\lambda - 1} \,\exp\bigl(-u/g\bigr)\, f''^{(\lambda),m}_{\rm B}\bigl(z(u)\bigr)$$ where the integration contour $C_j$ ($j=-1,0,1$) have been defined in [@Je2000]. These integration contours have been shown to to provide the physically correct analytic continuation of resummed perturbation series for those cases where the evaluation of the standard Laplace-Borel integral (\[BorelIntegral\]) is impossible due to an insufficient analyticity domain of the integrand (possibly due to multiple branch cuts) or due to spurious singularities in view of the finite order of the Padé approximations defined in (\[ConformalPade\]). We should mention potential complications due to multi-instanton contributions, as discussed for example in Ch. 43 of [@ZJ1996] (these are not encountered in the current investigation). In this letter, we use exclusively the contour $C_0$ which is defined as the half sum of the contours $C_{-1}$ and $C_{+1}$ displayed in Fig. 1 in [@Je2000]. At increasing $m$, the limit as $m\to\infty$, provided it exists, is then again assumed to represent the complete, physically relevant solution, $$f(g) = \lim_{m\to\infty} {\cal T}''_m f(g)\,.$$ Because we take advantage of the special integration contours $C_j$, analyticity of the Borel transform $f^{(\lambda)}_{\rm B}{\mathbf (}u(z){\mathbf )}$ inside the unit circle of the complex $z$-plane is not required, and additional acceleration of the convergence is mediated by employing Padé approximants in the conformal variable $z$. [cr@[.]{}lr@[.]{}lr@[.]{}lr@[.]{}l]{} ------------------------------------------------------------------------ $m$ & & & &\ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 28 & $-0$ & $501~565~232$ & $-0$ & $538~352~234$ & $-0$ & $573~969~740$ & $-0$ & $827~506~173$\ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 29 & $-0$ & $501~565~232$ & $-0$ & $538~352~233$ & $-0$ & $573~969~738$ & $-0$ & $827~506~143$\ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 30 & $-0$ & $501~565~231$ & $-0$ & $538~352~233$ & $-0$ & $573~969~738$ & $-0$ & $827~506~136$\ [cr@[.]{}lr@[.]{}lr@[.]{}lr@[.]{}l]{} ------------------------------------------------------------------------ $m$ & & & &\ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 28 & $-1$ & $669~071~213$ & $-1$ & $800~550~588$ & $-1$ & $928~740~624$ & $-1$ & $852~027~809$\ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 29 & $-1$ & $669~071~214$ & $-1$ & $800~550~589$ & $-1$ & $928~740~626$ & $-1$ & $852~027~810$\ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 30 & $-1$ & $669~071~214$ & $-1$ & $800~550~589$ & $-1$ & $928~740~625$ & $-1$ & $852~027~810$\ We consider the resummation of two particular perturbation series discussed in [@BrKr1999] for the anomalous dimension $\gamma$ function of the $\phi^3$ theory in 6 dimensions and the Yukawa coupling in 4 dimensions. The perturbation series for the $\phi^3$ theory is given in Eq. (16) in [@BrKr1999], $$\label{gammaPhi4} \gamma_{\rm hopf}(g) \sim \sum_{n=1}^{\infty} (-1)^n \, \frac{G_n}{6^{2 n - 1}} \, g^n\,,$$ where the coefficients $G_n$ are given in Table 1 in [@BrKr1999] for $n=1,\dots,30$ (the $G_n$ are real and positive). We denote the coupling parameter $a$ used in [@BrKr1999] as $g$; this is done in order to ensure compatibility with the general power series given in Eq. (\[power\]). Empirically, Broadhurst and Kreimer derive the large-order asymptotics $$G_n \sim {\rm const.} \; \times \; 12^{n-1} \, \Gamma(n+2)\,, \qquad n\to\infty\,,$$ by investigating the explicit numerical values of the coefficients $G_1,\dots,G_{30}$. The leading asymptotics of the perturbative coefficients $c_n$ are therefore (up to a constant prefactor) $$\label{LeadingPhi4} c_n \sim (-1)^n \frac{\Gamma(n+2)}{3^n}\,, \qquad n\to\infty\,.$$ This implies that the $\lambda$-parameter in the Borel transform (\[BorelTrans\]) should be set to $\lambda=2$ (see also the notion of an asymptotically optimized Borel transform discussed in [@JeWeSo2000]). In view of Eq. (\[LeadingPhi4\]), the pole closest to the origin of the Borel transform (\[BorelTrans\]) is expected at $$u = u^{\rm hopf}_0 = -3\,,$$ and a rescaling of the Borel variable $u \to 3\,u$ in Eq. (\[BorelIntegral\]) then leads to an expression to which the method defined in Eqs. (\[power\])–(\[AccelTrans\]) can be applied directly. For the Yukawa coupling, the $\gamma$-function reads $$\label{gammaYukawa} {\tilde \gamma}_{\rm hopf}(g) \sim \sum_{n=1}^{\infty} (-1)^n \, \frac{{\tilde G}_n}{2^{2 n - 1}} \, g^n\,,$$ where the ${\tilde G}_n$ are given in Table 2 in [@BrKr1999] for $n=1,\dots,30$. Empirically, i.e. from an investigation of the numerical values of ${\tilde G}_1,\dots,{\tilde G}_{30}$, the following factorial growth in large order is derived [@BrKr1999], $${\tilde G}_n \sim {\rm const.'} \; \times \; 2^{n-1} \, \Gamma(n+1/2)\,, \qquad n\to\infty\,.$$ This leads to the following asymptotics for the perturbative coefficients (up to a constant prefactor), $$c_n \sim (-1)^n \frac{\Gamma(n+1/2)}{2^n} \,, \qquad n\to\infty\,.$$ This implies that an asymptotically optimal choice [@JeWeSo2000] for the $\lambda$-parameter in (\[BorelTrans\]) is $\lambda=1/2$. The first pole of the Borel transform (\[BorelTrans\]) is therefore expected at $$u = {\tilde u}^{\rm hopf}_0 = -2\,.$$ A rescaling of the Borel variable according to $u \to 2\,u$ in (\[BorelIntegral\]) enables the application of the resummation method defined in Eqs. (\[power\])–(\[AccelTrans\]). In Table \[table1\], numerical values for the transforms ${\cal T}''_m \gamma_{\rm hopf}(g)$ are given, which have been evaluated according to Eq. (\[AccelTrans\]). The transformation order is in the range $m=28~,29,~30$, and we consider coupling parameters $g=5.0,~5.5,~6.0$ and $g=10.0$. The numerical values of the transforms display apparent convergence to about 9 significant figures for $g \leq 6.0$ and to about 7 figures for $g=10.0$. In Table \[table2\], numerical values for the transforms ${\cal T}''_m {\tilde \gamma}_{\rm hopf}(g)$ calculated according to Eq. (\[AccelTrans\]) are shown in the range $m=28,~29,~30$ for (large) coupling strengths $g=5.0,~5.5,~6.0$. Additionally, the value $g = 30^2/(4\,\pi)^2 = 5.69932\dots$ is considered as a special case (as it has been done in [@BrKr1999]). Again, the numerical values of the transforms display apparent convergence to about 9 significant figures. At large coupling $g = 12.0$, the apparent convergence of the transforms suggests the following values: $\gamma_{\rm hopf}(12.0) = -0.939\,114\,3(2)$ and ${\tilde \gamma}_{\rm hopf}(12.0) = -3.287\,176\,9(2)$. The numerical results for the Yukawa case, i.e. for the function ${\tilde \gamma}_{\rm hopf}$, have recently been confirmed by an improved analytic, nonperturbative investigation [@BrKr2000prep] which extends the perturbative calculation [@BrKr1999]. We note that the transforms ${\cal T}'_m \gamma_{\rm hopf}(g)$ and ${\cal T}'_m {\tilde \gamma}_{\rm hopf}(g)$ calculated according to Eq. (\[CaFiTrans\]), i.e. by the unmodified conformal mapping, typically exhibit apparent convergence to 5–6 significant figures in the transformation order $m=28,~29,~30$ and at large coupling $g \geq 5$. Specifically, the numerical values for $g=5.0$ are $$\begin{aligned} {\cal T}'_{28} \gamma_{\rm hopf}(g = 5.0) \; &=& \; -0.501~567~294\,, \nonumber\\[2ex] {\cal T}'_{29} \gamma_{\rm hopf}(g = 5.0) \; &=& \; -0.501~564~509\,, \nonumber\\[2ex] {\cal T}'_{30} \gamma_{\rm hopf}(g = 5.0) \; &=& \; -0.501~563~626\,. \nonumber\end{aligned}$$ These results, when compared to the data in Table \[table1\], exemplify the acceleration of the convergence by the additional Padé approximation of the Borel transform [*expressed as a function of the conformal variable*]{} \[see Eq. (\[ConformalPade\])\]. It is not claimed here that the resummation method defined in Eqs. (\[power\])–(\[AccelTrans\]) necessarily provides the fastest possible rate of convergence for the perturbation series defined in Eq. (\[gammaPhi4\]) and (\[gammaYukawa\]). Further improvements should be feasible, especially if particular properties of the input series are known and exploited (see in part the methods described in [@JeWeSo2000]). We also note possible improvements based on a large-coupling expansion [@We1996d], in particular for excessively large values of the coupling parameter $g$, or methods based on order-dependent mappings (see [@SeZJ1979; @LGZJ1983] or the discussion following Eq. (41.67) in [@ZJ1996]). The conformal mapping [@CaFi1999; @CaFi2000] is capable of accomplishing the analytic continuation of the Borel transform (\[BorelTrans\]) beyond the circle of convergence. Padé approximants, applied directly to the partial sums of the Borel transform (\[PartialSum\]), provide an alternative to this method [@Raczka1991; @Pi1999; @BrKr1999; @Je2000; @JeWeSo2000]. Improved rates of convergence can be achieved when the convergence of the transforms obtained by conformal mapping in Eq. (\[PartialSumConformal\]) is accelerated by evaluating Padé approximants as in Eq. (\[ConformalPade\]), and conditions on analyticity domains can be relaxed in a favorable way when these methods are combined with the integration contours from Ref. [@Je2000]. Numerical results for the resummed values of the perturbation series (\[gammaPhi4\]) and (\[gammaYukawa\]) are provided in the Tables \[table1\] and \[table2\]. 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James Loney (peace activist) James Loney (born 1964) is a Canadian peace activist who has worked for several years with Christian Peacemaker Teams in Iraq and Palestine. On November 26, 2005, he was kidnapped in Baghdad along with three others: Harmeet Singh Sooden (Canadian) and Norman Kember (British), both members of the delegation he was leading; and Tom Fox (American), a full-time member of CPT who had been working in Iraq since September 2004. The widely publicized hostage crisis (see 2005-2006 Christian Peacemaker hostage crisis) ended on March 23, 2006 when Loney, Kember and Sooden were freed in a clandestine military operation led by British Special Forces. Tom Fox was killed on March 9, two weeks before the release of the other hostages. While Loney was held as a hostage, his family and partner Dan Hunt withheld the fact of his homosexuality out of fear for his safety. The media was aware of this fact but cooperated in keeping it secret. He made a brief media appearance on March 30: "I'll take things slowly until I can get through a day without shaking legs and a pounding heart," he said. Early life Loney was born in Calgary, Alberta, and was raised in Thunder Bay and Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. During his late teens he worked as a counsellor at Columbus Boys' Camp near Orillia, Ontario, on Lake Simcoe. This was a summer camp for underprivileged boys, funded by the Knights of Columbus and staffed by senior high school students from various schools run by the Basilian Fathers until 2002, when it was sold to Stu Saunders, who turned it into a leadership camp. Loney was a founding member Zacchaeus House, one of several houses that were part of the Toronto Catholic Worker. From 1990 to 2001 he was a member of the Zacchaeus House community—a house of hospitality which welcomes people in need of housing. While no longer an active part of the community, Zacchaues House continues to function today. After release In June 2006, Loney entered headlines again for joining in the protest against the controversial use of security certificates to detain foreign residents in Canada for years without charges or trial. On June 20, 2006, Loney and several other staff members of the Ontario Catholic Youth Leadership Camp held a press conference in Toronto in which they claimed the Knights of Columbus, a Catholic charitable organization, shut down the camp after learning about Loney's sexual orientation upon his return from captivity. The Ontario Knights of Columbus denied this was the reason for closing the camp. The camp re-opened the following summer under the same name but with a new director and staff. On that same day, Loney and his partner Hunt were honoured at the Toronto 2006 Pride Day Gala with the Fearless Award. According to a November 11, 2006 report in the Guelph Mercury of a speech he'd given to university students on November 9, Loney refused to wear a poppy on Remembrance Day. Loney claimed that it "says we have to be ready for the next time - vigilance." Canadian singer-songwriter, Jon Brooks, wrote two songs on Loney's CD Ours And The Shepherds in response to the controversy. Jim Loney's Prayer Part I and Jim Loney's Prayer Part II were chosen as bookends to the track-list on a CD about Canadian war stories. On December 8, 2006, Loney, Kember and Sooden publicly forgave their captors at a press conference held at St. Ethelburga's Peace Center, London, England. On this same day a year before their kidnappers had threatened to execute them. In their joint statement of forgiveness they said, "We unconditionally forgive our captors for abducting and holding us. We have no desire to punish them," and "Should those who have been charged with holding us hostage be brought to trial and convicted, we ask that they be granted all possible leniency. We categorically lay aside any rights we may have over them." On May 23, 2007, Loney released a public statement saying that he would not be testifying against his captors who are now in U.S. custody citing the lack of transparency in Iraqi courts, the limited access to lawyers and the death penalty.I recently informed the RCMP that I will not testify. I cannot participate in a judicial process where the prospects of a fair trial are negligible, and more crucially, where the death penalty is a possibility. Loney and Harmeet Singh Sooden were among 250 Canadians who risked charges under Canada's anti-terrorism legislation in the spring of 2009 for contributing towards a plane ticket for Abousfian Abdelrazik, a Canadian man who was detained by the Sudanese government at Canada’s request, tortured, imprisoned for two years without charge and then denied travel documents to return to Canada. The ticket Loney helped purchase exposed how the government was actively blocking his return and led to the June 2009 court ruling which forced the Canadian government to bring him home. Loney was one of 30 supporters who were on hand to welcome Abdelrazik home upon his arrival at Toronto's Pearson International Airport on June 27, 2009. References External links Christian Peacemaker Teams profile March 30 video: speeches to media by James Loney, his partner, & others in his family March 30 'Emotional Loney speaks of small things he missed' 'More about James Loney', SooToday.com, December 9, 2005 'Brothers of hostage in Iraq describe "gut-wrenching" wait', CBC News, December 11, 2005 'Family waits as deadline passes in silence', The Globe and Mail, December 11, 2005 Free The Captives: Petition for the release of Christian Peacemakers being held in Iraq – includes latest news and daily updates. 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The role of intercalated water in multilayered graphene oxide. A detailed in situ infrared spectroscopy analysis of single layer and multilayered graphene oxide (GO) thin films reveals that the normalized infrared absorption in the carbonyl region is substantially higher in multilayered GO upon mild annealing. These results highlight the fact that the reduction chemistry of multilayered GO is dramatically different from the single layer GO due to the presence of water molecules confined in the ∼1 nm spacing between sheets. IR spectroscopy, XPS analysis, and DFT calculations all confirm that the water molecules play a significant role interacting with basal plane etch holes through passivation, via evolution of CO(2) leading to the formation of ketone and ester carbonyl groups. Displacement of water from intersheet spacing with alcohol significantly changes the chemistry of carbonyl formation with temperature.

Rigid stretchers for transporting injured patients are well known. Certain known rigid stretchers are partially collapsible. These stretchers include one or more rigid support panels or beams. Because of the rigid panels or beams, these stretchers can be relatively heavy and cumbersome when handled by emergency personnel during rescue operations, and these stretchers can occupy a relatively significant amount of space in vehicles and other storage areas. Also, these known stretchers do not include a patient covering which aids in the protection of emergency personnel from hazardous body fluids from the patient and which guards the front of patient's body during transport. One known rescue bag has been developed for keeping injured people warm while they are lying on stretchers. Though this rescue bag covers part of the patient's body, it is merely an accessory to a stretcher. Accordingly, one of the disadvantages of this rescue bag is that it does not function as a patient carrier. The emergency personnel must use a stretcher in conjunction with this rescue bag in order to pick-up, carry and transport an injured person to a desired location. In addition, such a rescue bag does not have medical treatment openings which provide emergency personnel with relatively quick access to select portions of the person's body, for example, to deliver essential treatments, such as IV solutions, heart defibrillation and the like. Therefore, there is a need to overcome the foregoing disadvantages and to provide improvements to patient transporters.

Q: can't select all elements with classList API I'm having a problem selecting all the LI tags when converting jQuery code to HTML5 javascript code. I have applied the click event to the parent UL, and the click event is being applied to the correct clicked target LI. The class "selected" is also being applied. The problem is that I need all classes to be cleared from the LI tags before the "selected" class is applied, as I only want it applied to the current event target. In jQuery it is simply a matter of removing classes from the LI's, but I am having problems targeting all the LI tags and removing the class in javascript. I suspect the problem is how I am iterating over the node list returned from QuerySelectorAll. I have also tried amongst other things, document.GetElementsByTagName, and iterating over these. I am getting an "Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'contains' of undefined" on the myFunc function. I would be very happy if someone could point out my error. <div id='button'></div> <ul id='swatches'> <li></li> <li></li> <li></li> <li></li> </ul> The jQuery code $('li').on('click', function(){ $('li').removeClass('selected'); $(this).toggleClass('selected'); }); Using the classList API var swatch = document.getElementById('swatches'), $li = document.querySelectorAll('#swatches li'); swatch.addEventListener('click', myFunc, false); function myFunc(e){ var target = e.target; for(var i=0; i<$li.length; i++){ if($li.classList.contains('selected')){ $li.classList.remove('selected'); } } if(target.nodeName.toLowerCase() === 'li'){ e.target.classList.toggle('selected'); } } A: I suspect the problem is how I am iterating over the node list returned from QuerySelectorAll. Yes. You forget the indices. It should be for (var i=0; i<$li.length; i++) if ($li[i].classList.contains('selected')) // ^^^ $li[i].classList.remove('selected'); // ^^^ However, two points: You don't need to test for contains() before calling remove() unless you need the information explicitly. Trying to remove a class that doesn't exist just does nothing. You might not need to iterate the whole $li collection on every click. Since there is only one <li> with the .selected class at a time, you might simply store a reference to the currently-selected element, or use var cur = swatch.querySelector("li.selected"); if (cur) cur.classList.remove('selected'); (which could work with an id as well).

Sleep Apnea Oct 02, 2006 Viewed: 632 Sleep Apnea In people who have sleep apnea (also referred to as sleep-disordered breathing), breathing briefly stops or becomes very shallow during sleep. This change is caused by intermittent blocking of the upper airway, usually when the soft tissue in the rear of the throat collapses and partially or completely closes the airway. Each breathing stop typically lasts 10 - 20 seconds or more and may occur 20 - 30 times or more each sleeping hour. “I have sleep apnea. In the past, I used to arrange my schedule around whether I’ve had enough sleep. Now I don’t worry about that. Starting on continuous positive airway pressure and medication have changed my life - now I’m excited to wake up and face each day after a night of restful sleep.”ANNE COLLINS If you have sleep apnea, not enough air can flow into your lungs through the mouth and nose during sleep, even though breathing efforts continue. When this happens, the amount of oxygen in your blood decreases. Your brain responds by awakening you enough to tighten the upper airway muscles and open your windpipe. Normal breaths then start again, often with a loud snort or choking sound. Although people who have sleep apnea typically snore loudly and frequently, not everyone who snores has sleep apnea. (See “Is Snoring a Problem?”) Because people who have sleep apnea frequently arouse from deeper sleep stages to lighter sleep during the night, they rarely spend enough time in deep, restorative stages of sleep. They are therefore often excessively sleepy during the day. Such sleepiness is thought to lead to mood and behavior problems, including depression, and such sleepiness more than triples the risk of being in a traffic or workrelated accident. The many brief drops in blood-oxygen levels can be associated with morning headaches and decreased ability to concentrate, think properly, learn, and remember. In sleep apnea, the combination of the intermittent oxygen drops and reduced sleep quality triggers the release of stress hormones. These hormones in turn raise your blood pressure and heart rate and boost the risk of heart attack, stroke, irregular heart beats, and congestive heart failure. In addition, untreated sleep apnea can lead to altered energy metabolism that increases the risk for developing obesity and diabetes. Anyone can have sleep apnea. It is estimated that at least 12 - 18 million American adults have sleep apnea, making it as common as asthma. More than one-half of the people who have sleep apnea are overweight. Sleep apnea is more common in men. More than 1 in 25 middle-aged men and 1 in 50 middle-aged women have sleep apnea along with excessive daytime sleepiness. About 3 percent of children and 10 percent or more of people over age 65 have sleep apnea. This condition occurs more frequently in African Americans, Asians, Native Americans, and Hispanics than in Caucasians. More than one-half of all people who have sleep apnea are not diagnosed. People who have sleep apnea generally are not aware that their breathing stops in the night. They just notice that they don’t feel well rested when they wake up and are sleepy throughout the day. Their bed partners are likely to notice, however, that they snore loudly and frequently and that they often stop breathing briefly while sleeping. Doctors suspect sleep apnea if these symptoms are present, but the diagnosis must be confirmed with overnight sleep monitoring. (See “How Are Sleep Disorders Diagnosed?”) This monitoring will reveal pauses in breathing, frequent sleep arousals, and intermittent drops in levels of oxygen in the blood. Like adults who have sleep apnea, children who have this disorder usually snore loudly, snort or gasp, and have brief stops in breathing while sleeping. Small children often have enlarged tonsils and adenoids that increase their risk for sleep apnea. But doctors may not suspect sleep apnea in children because, instead of showing the typical signs of sleepiness during the day, these children often become agitated and may be considered hyperactive. The effects of sleep apnea in children may include diminished school performance and difficult, aggressive behavior. It's easy to make a financial decision based on what you need right now, but making an informed choice will benefit you in the long run. Meet a former Red Sox pitcher who picked security over an uncertain future

India’s domestic air traffic nearly doubled to 117 million passengers in 2017 with 100 flights taking off every hour compared with 67 in 2011. Tata Steel is partnering the nation to gear up and meetthe demand of commuters poised to increase 4-fold. Tata Steel has also contributed to almost all metro railway networks in the country with our pre-stressed concrete strands. These projects include the Kolkata, Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Lucknow, Ahmedabad and Kochi metros. DID YOU KNOW? 45,000 Metric Tons of Tata Structura Hollow Steel sections have been used in 32 major airports across the country. “ "The first day that the metro started in my city there was a crowd of excited people (myself included) standing on the platform. When the metro halted at the platform, we cheered. When we got in, we cheered. And when the train started, we cheered again. Every time I take the metro, I’m reminded of that first day."

Oklahoma boasts almost 50 wineries, which might surprise many wine enthusiasts. Sixteen of those will be featured at Wines of the West, where guests can sample some of the best of Oklahoma in one of its most unique settings.

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Tag Archives: Cart abandonment In our previous post reviewing first-quarter results from the MarketLive Performance Index, we discussed the performance impact of mobile’s exponential growth and showed how it’s worth taking a deeper dive into the numbers before blaming mobile for lagging KPIs. While in that post we specifically addressed engagement metrics, the mobile performance gap that’s most widely lamented is cart abandonment. While the 70.6% cart abandonment rate achieved via computer browsers isn’t ideal, it’s far lower than on smartphones, at 84.6%. As a result, the overall Index abandonment rate rose 1.4% year over year to 76.0% — an all-time high. It’s easy to blame these disheartening results on the growing share of shopping visits attributed to mobile phones. But, as is the case with engagement, a closer look reveals that there’s more to the story than meets the eye. The bad news: cart abandonment may never drop, regardless of how much optimization merchants undertake. The good news: if handled right, abandonment can become a mere detour on the path to purchase, not an irredeemable disaster. While the shift to mobile is an underlying factor, the rise in cart abandonment rate reflects a larger trend in consumer behavior. As increasingly-savvy consumers do more research for online and offline purchases, and as they continue to shop across a growing array of digital and offline touchpoints, their journey to purchase has become more circuitous. At one time, high shipping costs far outranked all the other reasons why shoppers left items in the shopping cart. Now, while shipping costs remain the top hurdle to purchase, causing 58% of shoppers to abandon sales, that percentage is followed closely by the 57% of shoppers who use the cart to research total order costs, and the 55% who say they just wanted to save items for later. Indeed, a whopping three quarters of those who’ve abandoned carts say they actually intend to return to the same site to complete purchases. Closing the gap between that intent and action is merchants’ new challenge, and one that’s formidable in its own right. In this light, optimizing sites to the utmost remains crucial, but as a way to facilitate — rather than prevent — come-and-go activity, and to ensure that once ready, consumers encounter no obstacles to closing the sale. Among the measures to deploy: Support researchers with “save” tools. Given the rising rates at which shoppers use the cart as a research tool, merchants should adopt an “if you can beat them, join them” mentality and ensure that potential customers can easily pick up where they left off, across devices. Easing the wish list creation and sharing process can potentially divert would-be abandoners into using an alternate tool for saving items of interest. But merchants should also consider implementing an explicit “save cart” feature within the shopping cart itself, tying it to a painless signup process — ideally featuring social login — that presents a swift way to access saved items later via mobile or computer. “Email cart” and “print cart” functions can provide further alternatives for shoppers to store and retrieve product information. Merchants who optimize their wish lists and shopping carts for researchers should promote the amped-up features — especially a few months from now, when the holiday season begins to ramp up. In 2014, MarketLive merchant Nancy’s Notions promoted wish list creation in an email that asked, “You know what you want. But does everyone else?” The message additionally highlighted top wish list picks — both encouraging shoppers to use the tool and displaying items they might want to add right away. In order to maximize their effectiveness, abandoned cart notification emails should be as personalized as possible. Messages that picture the exact item(s) left behind in the cart had a 25% higher transaction rate than those that merely employed a text link back to the brand site, according to Experian. If possible, merchants should include SKU specific images and product details, and personalize messaging further by letting shoppers know whether items are available at nearby outlets. Regardless of personalization capabilities, all merchants should use abandonment emails to message any free shipping offers or free site-to-store services, as well as customer service contact information and value-added content related to the product or the category. Social media for retargeting. We’ve touched before on the effectiveness of retargeting campaigns that “follow” shoppers across the Internet after departing from a brand’s Web site. While there’s a tricky balance to achieve to avoid seeming creepy, these ads can be effective — and social media presents a low-pressure way to spur further engagement when shoppers are likely at leisure, catching up on the latest news from their feeds and receptive to reminders about shopping they have yet to finish. Although less than half of marketers currently use social retargeting, more than two-thirds say they plan to increase investments in the coming year, according to Marin Software. MarketLive merchant Intermix invites past browsers to connect with the brand by displaying previously-browsed items and reinforcing brand messaging with text that promises followers will have access to “exclusive designer pieces.” A relentless focus on lowering *checkout* abandonment. While reducing cart abandonment may not be possible, checkout abandonment is another matter altogether. After all, by entering checkout, shoppers are signaling a clear intent to purchase, and any deviation from the path merchants lay out for them should be studied closely. To ensure the order process is frictionless, merchants should give their analytics tools a workout by creating fallout reports by device to gain insight into which steps present hurdles on mobile devices as well as on computers. In their analysis they should include secondary checkout paths, such as those for registered users and those employing alternative payments. As we’ve written previously, checkout is an area where mobile is, indeed, lagging. In the latest Performance Index, checkout abandonment on smartphones was a whopping 59%, compared with 36.6% on computer-based browsers — a significant gap. To improve, merchants should incorporate proven best practices into their mobile offerings, including guest checkout, alternative payments and ample customer service messaging, and do their utmost to streamline the number of steps and required text input fields. Using responsive design to deliver a uniform experience across touchpoints can help merchants significantly improve mobile checkout usability. As our prior post on the MarketLive Performance Index revealed, merchants need to optimize their sites to the utmost to improve performance in 2014 — especially when it comes to converting engaged shoppers who’ve added items to the cart into committed buyers. A survey of sites reveals one area to prioritize when it comes to fine-tuning: the shopping cart itself. The importance and function of the cart has changed since the early days of e-Commerce, when featuring complementary items as upsells was considered cutting-edge cart technology. Features such as estimated shipping costs are more or less considered standard. At the same time, as we chronicled in an earlier post, the very path to purchase has changed, so that only 22% of shoppers now proceed to the “cart page” of old after clicking the “add to cart” button; on some sites, it’s possible to skip the cart altogether and proceed straight to checkout from the drop-down global cart display or a pop-up window. But with consumer research activities more intensive than ever, there’s no denying the importance of the cart page — which we define as being the page preceding the first step of checkout that’s accessible from the “cart” link in global navigation. The cart can both serve as a comprehensive order information resource, and offer enticements to spur shoppers onward into checkout and purchase. In short, it remains a vital decision point on the path to purchase, and one merchants should ignore at their peril. Our survey of some 70 sites from among the top 100 merchants on Internet Retailer’s Top 500 list revealed how the biggest brands with the biggest resources at their disposal are positioning their shopping carts for maximum sales. Even among these cutting-edge brands, some information was being effectively conveyed — while some surprising areas were overlooked. As a result, merchants are doing well when it comes to using the cart to convey shipping costs and free shipping opportunities. Close to three-quarters of the carts we viewed include an estimated shipping cost, while 60% display the free shipping threshold, free shipping promo codes, or even the amount shoppers should add to meet the threshold. Fewer merchants, however, back up these two key pieces of information with a description of timeframes for each tier of delivery service; just 54% list the options or even link to them via a popup window. While that’s still over half, there are plenty of carts displaying shipping costs without letting shoppers know what, exactly, the charge buys them. More merchants, 56%, are enabling shoppers to enter promo codes and view the associated discounts in the cart — a welcome feature, but one that serves just a subset of shoppers. Shipping, by contrast, is a universal concern, and one merchants should address with details that should be relatively straightforward to display. Similarly, whether sales tax will be assessed is a question affecting every potential order — yet just 43% of merchants display this information, with most sites stating tax will be calculated iin checkout (or, worse, failing to mention it at all). While implementing estimated tax by ZIP code within the cart requires more technological moxie than displaying a table of shipping timeframes, the information is a crucial component of the total order costs, and therefore should be a priority. Convenience boosters vs. basic customer service vs. in-store shopping support. The good news is that merchants are responding to shifting consumer behaviors and implementing key features that smooth the path to purchase, especially across touchpoints. We’ve long recommended implementation of alternative payments, as they’re increasingly popular (and downright crucial when it comes to mobile). So it was a relief to see the sites we surveyed positively festooned with alternative payment buttons, with close to 60% of merchants highlighting the availability of Paypal or another service enabling shoppers to skip entry of credit card data and other checkout steps. Similarly, it was gratifying to see that more than half of merchants enable transfer of items from the cart to the wish list or other repository of saved products. This functionality not only caters to researchers who would otherwise use the cart — and likely abandon it at some point in their travels — but it signals an attempt to cater to cross-touchpoint activity, such as researching online and then looking up products selected earlier via smartphone while in-store to complete purchases. But when compared with the startlingly low percentage of merchants displaying the most basic customer service information, these innovations seem like putting the cart (as it were) before the horse. Fewer than half of merchants displayed an 800 number or chat link within the main cart content area (as opposed to in global navigation) — and less than 40% included links to product guarantees or information about returns, information consumers deem crucial to the purchase decision. As with delivery timeframe details, this information requires little technical prowess to incorporate, and should be a priority for every merchant to display at the cart level. Similarly, while not every merchant can offer site-to-store shipping, it’s relatively easy to provide a “print cart” link so that shoppers can carry product information with them — and yet fewer than one in five merchants offer it. The upshot? When it comes to optimizing the cart, there’s some low-hanging fruit even the largest merchants have yet to seize — and small- to mid-sized merchants should follow suit. In an upcoming post, we’ll survey how the cart experience appears on mobile devices. But meantime, tell us: what cart features do you deem essential, and which are merely nice-to-haves? As the short holiday season hits the halfway mark, the news is encouraging for specialty and niche merchants. According to weekly data from the MarketLive Performance Index, Cyber Monday and the week that followed continued the Thanksgiving weekend trend of increased traffic and improved performance metrics, driving overall revenues 32% higher compared with the same week last year. Furthermore, the data suggests that even amidst heavy discounting, merchants are making strong gains. For one, while traffic for December 2 – December 9 grew by 17%, revenue grew even more substantially, suggesting that individual buyers are purchasing more than last year. The conversion rate increased by 2.4%. Meantime, the average order size compared with last year held steady, suggesting merchants are successfully wooing shoppers without necessarily discounting steeply. The only performance challenge merchants face is with the add-to-cart rate, which plummeted nearly a full percentage point, by more than 8%, compared with the prior week. With offers flying fast and furious, shoppers are comparison shopping and waiting for the right deal to entice them to finalize purchases. While overall the add-to-cart rate for the season is up by 11.3%, merchants should redouble their efforts to convert shoppers to buyers. Among the quick tactics to try: Promote limited-time offers beyond the obvious spots. Merchants should include notices about free shipping offers or price discounts in the cart, whether via a global banner or a promotional fill slot. But even before shoppers reach that milestone on the path to purchase, merchants should flag promotions and direct shoppers to relevant information. Locations to consider include: In secondary navigation. When used, a left-hand column usually exposes the depth of products on offer, whether via a detailed sub-category list or by using a guided-navigation-style list of attributes shoppers can access to resolve problems. But it’s also an opportunity to reiterate the latest promotion and its end date, so that shoppers can access details from wherever on the site they roam. On product pages. With consumers increasingly accessing eCommerce sites via interior pages after being directed there from search engines, it’s crucial for merchants to feature deals right alongside product content.MarketLive merchant Armani Exchange highlights current discounts in red on the product page, calling out the free shipping thresholds and “deal of the week” merchandise. Fine-tune triggered emails. As we’ve reported previously, nearly three-quarters of merchants don’t yet have a triggered email program in place to attempt to recapture sales after consumers leave the site. While it’s too late to institute such a program from scratch right now, merchants with existing abandoned-cart triggered emails should consider revamping them slightly. The messages should include: Plenty of product content. Merchants should incorporate more than just the image of the product the shopper left in the cart, but should take the opportunity to provide a longer product story. A comprehensive description, paired with how-to videos demonstrating usage and even a buying guide matching the product category, can win over hesitant shoppers by helping them envision how the product might fit or feel. Abundant customer service links. Merchants should put contact information front and center in cart-recovery messages, with links to product guarantees and delivery timelines that help shoppers what they need. Social connectors. The ability to connect to communities of followers on social outposts may help shoppers find lifestyle content that convinces them to commit to a purchase from the brand. Clothier French Connection puts it all together in its cart abandonment email. In addition to displaying a picture of the abandoned item and the means to link directly to checkout, the message includes a sizable section describing customer service and displaying contact information. A series of links at the bottom of the message directs shoppers to connect via social media. What tactics are you using to drive continued engagement through the holiday season? As the holiday season revs into high gear, it’s sobering to recall that more than two out of three potential eCommerce transactions will not be completed. Cart abandonment is higher than ever, with 70% of shoppers exiting sites after selecting items for potential purchase, according to third-quarter data from the MarketLive Performance Index. The reasons for such a high abandonment rate are more complex than ever. Far from representing a leak at a single point in the linear “purchase funnel,” abandonment is a reflection of the challenges facing merchants as they attempt to present relevant offers and products to consumers across a growing array of touchpoints. During this holiday season alone, 80% of shoppers say they plan to shop on two devices at once, and 84% say they’ll start shopping one one device and finish the transaction on another, according a Google/Ipsos survey; nearly half of smartphone owners say they plan to use their devices to research prices and then purchase in a physical store. When it comes to abandonment, such a bevy of potential touchpoints looks less like a funnel than a sieve. But the good news is that the very multiplicity of touchpoints that complicate merchants’ strategies can also be a boon to closing sales — giving brands more opportunities than ever to engage (or re-engage) shoppers and convince them to purchase. On Friday, MarketLive Founder and CEO Ken Burke will deliver a webinar hosted by the Association of Strategic Marketing on tactics to combat abandonment, with a focus on how best to marshal myriad touchpoints to convince shoppers to complete purchases. Among the topics Burke will discuss: Email techniques for recapturing sales. Triggered email messages to cart abandoners can be effective, with click-through rates above 14% and purchase rates after click-through of more than 42%, according to real-time marketing firm Triggered Messaging. But while the percentage of merchants in the Internet Retailer Top 1,000 who send post-abandonment emails has grown, three in four merchants still fail to do so , according to marketing firm Listrak. Burke will examine not only why this practice is so important, but also the ideal messaging content and timing. Social media as a bulwark against abandonment. Social media’s reputation as an experimental touchpoint with no tangible ROI is quickly becoming outmoded. Increasingly, merchants are harnessing the power of social networks to create highly engaging communities, where shoppers can gather around lifestyle topics and related products. By integrating social interaction throughout the shopping experience, merchants can keep consumers engaged and encourage purchase completion. Much more is in store for the webinar, so register today and tune in Friday at 10 a.m. PST. Meantime, what tactics are working for you to stave off holiday abandonment? The importance of free shipping promotions for the upcoming holiday season can’t be overstated, as new data from measurement firm comScore demonstrates. While merchants are well aware that free shipping is shoppers’ top-sought discount, it’s still impressive to see just how thoroughly the availability of free shipping — or lack thereof — affects purchase outcomes. To begin with, fully 51% of eCommerce transactions in the second quarter of this year involved free shipping — and the holiday season will likely see that percentage surge even higher. Additionally, two of the top five reasons for abandoning carts are directly related to free shipping: 48% of comScore survey respondents who’ve abandoned carts said they did so because no free shipping was offered, while 45% said purchases stalled when their orders failed to qualify for the free shipping threshold. Some larger mass merchants have responded to consumers’ demand for free shipping by lowering or even eliminating altogether the threshold for qualifying for the discount. For most merchants, though, the cost of offering free shipping across the board is too great of a burden to bear. The good news is that consumers are willing to consider alternate routes to free shipping. And with six weeks still to go in the third quarter, merchants have time to promote these services in an attempt to pre-empt the mad rush for free shipping discounts once the peak holiday buying period begins. Consider these strategies: Showcase the shipping benefits of loyalty club membership. Nearly half of all consumers have signed up for a retailer rewards or loyalty program, according to the comScore report, and 10% have committed to a paid membership that delivers an array of perks, with free shipping usually chief among them. Additionally, more than one in five consumers say they would consider paying for such a program — suggesting there’s an opportunity for merchants to devise and market meaningful incentives for their target audience. As discussed in a previous post, blanket free shipping needn’t be the default for rewards club members. But the perception that free shipping is just as available without membership is a key reason consumers avoid loyalty programs, according to the comScore study: 42% of those who wouldn’t pay to join a rewards club say they can get free shipping anyway. So merchants should ensure that club members get the best possible shipping deal at all times — and that may well include holiday free shipping or free upgrades to expedited delivery. And they should explicitly and prominently highlight those shipping benefits in their loyalty club promotions, so shoppers know members get access to discounts found nowhere else. Road Runner Sports promotes its VIP program with global banners on the eCommerce site and a dedicated page on Facebook, along with a YouTube video that promotes “free shipping every day” and “warp speed” expedited order fulfillment offered to members. Highlight free site-to-store options. More than half of all consumers have used “ship-to-store” services when shopping online, and 38% report selecting that option because it’s free, comScore found. Merchants who have physical store outlets and offer site-to-store services should therefore highlight availability as the holiday season approaches, letting shoppers know they have an alternative to shipping fees. Ace Hardware promotes its free store delivery service in a global banner, then reiterates the message on product pages. Shoppers checking availability can view whether an item is currently in-stock or, if not, how long delivery to the local store will take. Reach out to cart abandoners. Since the lack of free shipping and the inability to reach a free shipping threshold are top reasons for cart abandonment, merchants should reconnect with these would-be customers and entice them back to the site with ways to save. Rather than automatically offering a free shipping discount for order completion, though — which might “train” users to abandon carts — merchants should consider alternative messaging, such as: sending an abandoned cart reminder displaying the items left behind, along with complementary items that would bring the order total to above the free shipping threshold. triggering a message to recent cart abandoners the next time a site-wide free shipping offer is, indeed, in effect. promoting free site-to-store delivery services. offering an alternate discount or a gift with purchase. MarketLive merchant Totes/Isotoner follows up with cart abandoners via a series of emails, the last of which offers a 10% discount for order completion. How are you gearing up for the onslaught of free-shipping-seekers this holiday season? Last week’s webinar on optimized email presented a range of strategies, but one clear theme emerged: merchants must do more to move beyond the “bast and blatch” mentality and boost relevance of messaging — and doing so needn’t involve complex, resource-intensive processes. The webinar detailed how email continues to be an ROI winner for merchants, garnering a whopping $40.56 per dollar spent, according to the Direct Marketing Association. But that number has dropped 22% since 2006, and is forecast to drop even more in the coming year — suggesting that merchants must do more if they want to reverse the trend. The webinar revealed that there’s plenty of low-hanging fruit still to be plucked. As our preview post mentioned, fewer than one in five retailers even cull bounced email addresses from their lists — suggesting that for many merchants, even very basic improvements may reap stronger performance. Winning strategies needn’t require a technology overhaul or increased staff resources to execute sophisticated personalized messages. Just three of the simple ways the webinar suggested stepping up email finesse: Let shoppers self-segment on signup. According to industry researcher Forrester, just 6% of merchants use the email signup page to allow shoppers to self-select topics or categories of interest — and yet this method is among the simplest for boosting relevance of messaging. Rather than needing to cull behavioral data from analytics, merchants can simply ask up front for some guidance. The key is to strike a balance, labeling clearly that it’s optional for shoppers to indicate their gender, geography, favorite product categories (such as cycling or camping for an outdoor outfitter) or interest in sale items; otherwise, would-be subscribers who don’t want to share such information might be put off. Old Navy makes tailoring email content easy by presenting subscribers a streamlined set of options on the thank you page immediately after signup. Subscribers can select what categories of apparel interest them based on gender and age, and can opt to supply their birthdays to receive a special discount. They can also navigate away from the page without taking further action. Furthermore, messaging about the loyalty club to non-members using a “show, don’t tell” approach — displaying the potential savings and benefits to the general list — is also a winning technique, garnering a 25% lift in revenue per email than non-loyalty content, Experian found. Footwear retailer Nine West spotlights the opportunity to earn double points on shoes from a particular manufacturer, and also includes a free shipping offer and a discount to entice purchase. Institute an abandoned cart recovery plan ASAP. As discussed in an earlier post, emails sent to shoppers who abandon their carts before completing purchases are effective and can be automated — and yet the percentage of merchants using this triggered-email program is shockingly low. Fewer than 1 in 5 of the largest merchants in the Internet Retailer 500 use abandoned cart emails, and fewer than 1 in 10 of medium-sized merchants in the Internet Retailer Second 500 do so, according to Listrak. With cart abandonment rates still hovering above 50%, recovering even a small percentage of these sales could make a huge difference to the bottom line — so it’s crucial for more merchants to institute a triggered email program as soon as possible. We all know that shipping costs are a huge contributor to cart abandonment.But many shoppers also abandon carts because they simply don’t intend to buy in the first place, according to recent data from online measurement firm ComScore. As presented below in an infographic by local shopping services provider Milo, shipping costs take second place to research as the top reasons shoppers abandon carts, with 57% of consumers saying they place items in the cart even when they’re just just window shopping and 56% saying they use the cart to save items for later. Concerns about shipping expenses round out the top five reasons shoppers abandon carts, so clearly merchants should still fine-tune their shipping policies, spotlight delivery timelines and offer free shipping discounts during the upcoming holiday season. But the data suggests merchants should also cater to the research-oriented shopper who may not buy on an initial visit — but could be convinced to finalize the sale soon online or in a store. To do so, consider a two-pronged approach: assist research behaviors while at the same time highlighting incentives to buy immediately. Try these tactics: Streamline the wish list. The fact that shoppers are using the cart, rather than the wish list, to save items for later suggests that wish list features are too much of a hassle to use. Merchants almost always require shoppers to register for an account before setting up a wish list — but technically, there’s no reason to do so; items could be saved to a wish list the same way items remain in the cart for a set amount of time between visits. Apparel merchant Abercrombie & Fitch allows shoppers to save items to a wish list with comments, to email the list to a friend and to share it socially — all without forced account creation. Spotlight research-oriented cart features. If toying with wish list functionality isn’t feasible, then consider making explicit to shoppers the fact that their items will be saved in the cart using a “save for later” link. Similarly, consider offering a printer-friendly version of the cart contents so that shoppers can take the list with them to physical store locations. Manufacturer Dell allows shoppers who have stepped through the process of customizing a computer’s components to save the information, explicitly stating that unsaved carts will expire in 30 minutes, as well as to print the cart or email it for future reference. Highlight urgency. If an item in the shopper’s cart is sought-after and going fast, flag it to give them incentive to buy now. Similarly, if items need to be ordered soon for delivery in time for a key date or because they require special handling, spotlight the message in the cart so shoppers are aware of the contingencies and can act immediately. Incorporate free shipping messaging. Free shipping is the top incentive merchants can offer to spur purchase completion, so let shoppers know what it would take for them to get it. Use a banner at the top of the cart content to message current shipping promotions or, if your technology allows it, display exactly how much more shoppers need to add to their carts to qualify for the discount. Backcountry.com displays a free shipping offer, how much more the shopper needs to add to the cart to qualify — and even spotlights recently viewed items to spur an extra cart addition. What cart tactics have worked for you to spur purchasing — whether on the spot or on subsequent visits? In the past couple of posts, we’ve looked at how techniques on the eCommerce site and retargeting advertisements can recover sales from visitors who’ve abandoned their shopping carts — a potentially lucrative audience that includes 88% of U.S. consumers, according to industry researcher Forrester. With results like that, merchants should make deploying cart recovery emails a top priority for 2012. To implement effective an effective program, consider these tactics: Collect email addresses early, but avoid forced account creation. In order to send cart abandoners a targeted email enticing them back to the site, merchants need to have captured their email addresses in the first place. Increasingly, merchants are attempting to collect addresses via forced account creation — but with 14% of shoppers reporting that a lack of guest checkout drove them to abandon carts in the first place, according to Forrester, we don’t recommend resorting to such extremes. Instead, use subtler methods to capture this information: Link abandoned carts to email subscribers. Use behavioral tracking technology to flag when a shopper who’s signed up for email updates, then goes on to abandon a shopping cart. Ask for an email address in the very first step of checkout, and explain why. Collect an email address on the initial checkout screen, and clearly state it will be used to contact shoppers if there is a question about their order. Include links to privacy information to boost trust, as Walmart does on the first step of guest checkout. Send a reminder immediately, then follow up. Fully 54% of cart abandoners who intend to buy will do so in the first 24 hours after leaving the site, SeeWhy found. Another 10% will act within 48 hours; within a week, 82% of those who intend to buy will have pulled the trigger. With the gains after the first 24 hours being incremental, it’s crucial to trigger follow-up emails promptly — sending the first within an hour or two of cart abandonment and the second within a day. In the case study cited above, SmileyCookie.com sent its first email within 30 minutes of abandonment; the second 23 hours later; and the final message four days later. The first email garnered the highest open and click-through rates. Message content: don’t default to a discount … When sending shoppers abandonment email offers, the temptation is strong to offer a discount, such as free shipping, to help close the sale. But such immediate payoffs can “train” shoppers to abandon carts in anticipation of a discount. Instead, experiment with the following messaging: Stress service and convenience. With 11% of cart abandoners reporting they found the checkout process confusing and 10% saying they didn’t have enough information to complete their purchases, offering customer service assistance is a smart strategy to win sales. Phrasing such as “can we help you complete your order?” puts the emphasis on service. Include email, phone and live chat options as available. Spotlight available alternative payment methods such as Paypal, which can save time in checkout. Give shoppers product alternatives. Many cart abandoners are “window shopping” by adding items to the cart, without necessarily being enamored enough of the chosen product to commit: Forrester found that 24% of abandoners added items to the cart just to be able to consider them later, and 41% weren’t ready to purchase. So give these ambivalent shoppers a sampling of alternative products that might better suit their needs, as Urban Outfitters does in the message below, showing not only the abandoned item but others “you may also like.” … but do clearly reiterate standard promotions. If you normally offer free shipping above a threshold, or free site-to-store delivery, do spotlight these policies in your abandonment messaging; cart abandoners may have missed such offers while shopping the eCommerce site, and a prominent reminder of potential savings can trigger them to return and commit to buy. In the examples above, Sears highlights the availability of free site-to-store delivery, while Urban Outfitters reminds cart abandoners that shipping is free with a purchase of $150 or more. Neither merchant is creating a new discount to lure abandoners back — merely restating sitewide policies the recipients may have forgotten since leaving the site. For more examples of abandonment emails, view Listrak’s Abandonment Look Book. What messaging and timing strategies have worked for your brand to recapture abandoned carts? One of the most powerful such tools is retargeting, also called remarketing. Broadly, retargeting refers to techniques for reminding shoppers about products they’ve already viewed on your site. The term can be applied to email campaigns, but more commonly retargeting refers to Web site display advertisements that deliver messages attuned to sites shoppers have recently visited. Adroll and Google — whose display ad offering spawned the term “remarketing” — are only two players in an increasngly crowded field of vendors offering behavioral retargeting services. Most of these services rely on a cookie that tracks shopper activity on the merchant’s site; merchants define which actions shoppers can take that put them in the target pool for later advertising on other sites. For example, shoppers who visit an outdoor outfitter’s winter sports category may later see retargeting ads featuring the merchant’s top-selling skis. Retargeting tops the list of advertising techniques in terms of boosting awareness, according to a recent study conducted by online measurement firm comScore and marketing service provider ValueClick Media. The study tracked how much search activity was generated for a brand using a number of targeted display advertising techniques, and found that remarketing produced a lift of over 1000%. Retargeting can be used for all kinds of campaigns — but it’s particularly apt for capturing cart abandoners. Not only do retargeting ads remind shoppers of products, but merchants have an opportunity to use the ad creative space for additional persuasive content. This finding goes hand in hand with research on abandonment behavior, which has found that many shoppers use the cart for research and abandon because they simply aren’t ready to commit. For example, industry researcher Forrester found that 41% of cart abandoners weren’t ready to buy, 27% intended to research prices on other sites, and 24% merely added items to the cart for reference later. The upshot? Merchants need to strike a balance with their retargeting campaigns to cart abandoners, strengthening the overall brand message without overly limiting the product selection on display. To craft an effective retargeting message, consider these techniques: “Customers like you liked these items.” Consider showing cart abandoners the product they considered — along with other items shoppers who viewed the same product ended up buying. This technique broadens the range of products on display without resorting to a generic ad. Zappo’s employs this technique for its remarketing campaigns. In the ad below, the featured shoes are products other shoppers who viewed the abandoned cart item went on to buy. The three offerings are at different price points, giving the ad viewer further options according to their budget. Spotlight service for shoppers who tripped up in checkout. The potential for specificity in retargeting means you can serve ads only to shoppers who initiated checkout but didn’t complete orders. For those would-be buyers, consider a branding campaign that puts an emphasis on customer service and price and product guarantees, and prominently features customer service contact information. Discounts: proceed with caution. While retargeting ads can seem random enough to shoppers to make “gaming the system” unlikely, don’t automatically offer a discount just because someone added an item to the cart. Instead, use discounts wisely by focusing ad delivery to repeat visitors or cart abandoners whose potential order size is above a particular threshold. But while you should target the ad specifically, the offer itself can be broad, such as the 15% order discount offered by MarketLive merchant Design Toscano. Such offers motivates cart abandoners to return to the site, even if they decide they don’t want the specific items they originally left behind. Are you using display ad retargeting to recapture abandoned cart orders? How effective has retargeting been for your business? For all the progress online merchants have made in recent years winning new customers and growing revenue, one metric refuses to budge: cart abandonment. According to industry researcher Forrester, in 2010 fully 88% of shoppers reported abandoning a shopping cart without completing the transaction — the same percentage as in 2005. And quarterly MarketLive Performance Index data for the past two years shows that progress on cart abandonment is mixed, with merchants seeing improvements of less than 5% year-over-year, depending on the quarter, and never dipping below 50%. In the first quarter, year-over-year abandonment has actually risen — suggesting that seasonal deal-hunting will make the next few months particularly challenging for merchants combating abandoned carts. These shoppers are potentially low-hanging fruit: after all, they’ve already found their way to your site, and they’re interested enough in products to place them in the cart in the first place. In some cases, they’ve even started the checkout process before stalling out or leaving the site. But with the continued focus on effective use of tight marketing budgets, 2012 may be the year when abandoned carts get serious attention. And the good news is that merchants have a number of tools they can use to win back cart abandoners — not just email. For starts, there’s plenty merchants can do while shoppers are still on-site to help them return to the path to purchase. Consider the following tactics: Use dynamic messaging to promote free shipping qualification thresholds. Shipping costs remain the number one barrier to order completion, Forrester found, with 44% of consumers saying they abandoned their carts because shipping costs were too high and another 27% saying shipping costs were revealed too late in the checkout process. Not only should shipping costs be accessible in the cart — and even on the product page — but merchants should take a further step and message shipping promotions prominently as shoppers add items. Amazon.com calculates how much more shoppers need to add to qualify for free shipping and messages the amount in the cart. Even if you can’t dynamically promote the amount needed to qualify for free shipping, position shipping messages so shoppers can’t miss them, regardless of how they deviate from the path to purchase. Just a few places to flag shipping promotions On product pages In the drop-down display of the global shopping cart, as Macy’s does with its banner featuring a promotional code In global banners at the top of the center content area In the shopping cart At the beginning of checkout Assuage privacy fears. Forrester found that 12% of shoppers abandoned carts because sites asked for too much information, while 14% balked at setting up an account with a password in order to be able to purchase. As discussed previously, we don’t recommend forced account creation in most cases; but merchants should go further to ensure shoppers don’t abandon purchases because of privacy concerns. Examine analytics for checkout pages to determine where shoppers drop out. Identify the roadblocks and then alter those checkout steps to improve the flow. Message privacy and security prominently throughout. Include certification badges from third-party providers and links to the site’s privacy policy, along with reassuring customer service information such as product guarantees. Trigger proactive live chat to re-engage stalled shoppers. Fully 57% of consumers said they’re likely to abandon their purchases if they don’t find quick answers to product questions, and 44% said the ability to get live help while browsing a site is crucial, according to Forrester. Merchants can address these needs at crucial points on the path to purchase using proactive chat sessions, where a chat window opens and invites potential customers to ask questions. Dell triggers a proactive chat window if shoppers perusing laptop options become inactive on a page during the configuration process. The trick is to exercise discretion. Forrester found that despite the desire for instant answers and live help, 71% of consumers also said they prefer to initiate live chat help on their own. Start conservatively by triggering proactive chat if shoppers stall for a specified length of time on a product page or the shopping cart page begin checkout but then either stall or backtrack to another part of the site Consider dynamic personalization to serve targeted offers. Services that empower merchants to target shoppers using past purchase history in combination with site behavior can be powerful allies in the fight against abandonment. Some services can even tailor site offers based on shoppers’ current browsing session — enabling merchants to target top loyal customers who hesitate during checkout with a free shipping offer in real time, or to offer a price guarantee to first-time buyers who’ve stalled on a particular product page. In coming posts, we’ll examine strategies for combating cart abandonment once shoppers have left the site — but meantime, what tactics are you using to win cart abandoners?

Top-Rated Skin Doctors – The Solution for Your Skin It’s the desire of every man and woman to have fresh skin and a trouble-free face. Numerous conditions can result in your skin having wrinkles. This might occur because of skin diseases, such as: Acne Eczema Skin cancer Moles Skin tumors Psoriasis Melanomas Any person diagnosed with any of these conditions is usually referred to a dermatologist through their doctor. Dermatologists mainly specialize in the management of any skin-related problems. How to Qualify as a Top-Rated Skin Doctor in the US For you to qualify to fit in the group of top-rated skin doctors in the U.S, you must have graduated from a recognized medical school. Additionally, you must pass through severe training by an experienced skin doctor. Skin doctors who graduate from other countries are required by the law to secure a foreign graduate certificate before they qualify to be active dermatologists when they go back to the US. Dermatologists are just like any other doctor because they are well acquainted with training and skills as medical doctors, but specifically in dealing with all skin conditions. Skin Remedies For some skin doctors, when offering a skin treatment, they have a long list of medication from which to select the most suitable remedy for your skin condition. The most common treatments applied by these doctors include: Sclerotherapy Liposuction Tissue augmentation Laser resurfacing Use of chemical pills Dermabrasion Other skin disorders conditions are as a result of aging, which is mostly characterized by loss of hair and skin discoloration. Other skin doctors have specializations in providing cure to cosmetic-related issues, such as eyelid surgery, Botox injections, and collagen injections. Extra Services Offered for by Skin Doctors As much as dermatologists are perceived as specialists in all skin conditions, they can still offer other remedies. These include treating infectious skin diseases or even those conditions that lower your immune system. Such dermatologists are assigned duties in the hospital that are prone to certain contagious diseases. Skin doctors have accredited experience in acting as pediatrics. These doctors help in solving severe skin conditions in children, like eczema and all skin allergies. These dermatologists offset all complex medical conditions accompanied by numerous symptoms. Many people think that dermatologists are only meant to attend to skin complications; more so those caused by acne. However, this is not always the case. This particular field of medicine brings more than you can imagine. The skin is the largest organ on a human body. A dermatologist holds a very crucial responsibility in the medical profession as it is the specialist who is always summoned to attend to numerous rare and severe skin conditions and diseases. Skilled in performing all diagnosis and fragile surgical processes, dermatologists fall in the same group of top rated doctors from other medical fields, such as surgeons. When seeking the services of a dermatologist, you must always choose the best who will offer your skin the long-lasting solution. This can only be achieved if you go for the best professionals in the field.

From there it's up to you to define what you want your application to do and how it should work. If you need any npm modules you can place them in your package.json file and they'll be installed when you build your function. You can find links to more extensive examples below. If you have multiple functions then you can define them in a YAML file along with any configuration that is needed at runtime. Help wanted! Contribute to FaaS If you'd like to contribute code to FaaS or to port it to a new platform (such as Kubernetes or ARMv8) then please get in touch. Writing about and testing FaaS and the new CLI are just as important as contributing new features.

Isolation of two distinct activator proteins for lipoprotein lipase from ovine plasma. Two distinct activator proteins for lipoprotein lipase (LPL) have been isolated in approximately equal amounts from ovine plasma. These low molecular weight proteins were readily separated from each other on the basis of size and charge. Sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis indicated proteins of Mr about 8000 and 5000, with pI in urea-containing gels of about 5.1 and 4.8 respectively. Each of the ovine activator proteins was as effective as human apolipoprotein C-II (apo C-II) in activating LPL, with 1 microgram/ml giving near to maximum activation, and in lowering the apparent Km of LPL for triolein substrate. As the ratio of activator to triolein increased from 0.16 to 5.2 (micrograms/mg) the apparent Km fell from about 0.5 to 0.18 mM. Whereas human apo C-II and the two ovine activators were equally effective in stimulating the hydrolysis of triolein, differences were observed between the human and ovine activators when p-nitrophenylbutyrate was used as substrate. Unlike human apo C-II, which produced significant inhibition of p-nitrophenylbutyrate hydrolysis, the ovine activators were without effect. This suggests that the interaction between the ovine activators and LPL is different from that of human apo C-II.

Similar distribution of simple sequence repeats in diverse completed Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 genomes. The survey of simple sequence repeats (SSRs) has been extensively made in eukaryotes and prokaryotes. However, its still rare in viruses. Thus, we undertook a survey of SSRs in Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 (HIV-1) which is an excellent system to study evolution and roles of SSRs in viruses. Distribution of SSRs was examined in 81 completed HIV-1 genome sequences which come from 34 different countries or districts over 6 continents. In these surveyed sequences, although relative abundance and relative density exhibit very high similarity, some of these sequences show different preference for most common SSRs and longest SSRs. Our results suggest proportion of various repeat types might be related to genome stability.

package de.peeeq.wurstscript.utils; import de.peeeq.wurstscript.WLogger; public class ExecutiontimeMeasure implements AutoCloseable { private String message; private long startTime; public ExecutiontimeMeasure(String message) { this.message = message; this.startTime = System.currentTimeMillis(); } @Override public void close() { long time = System.currentTimeMillis() - startTime; WLogger.info("Executed " + message + " in " + time + "ms."); } }

Iron-catalysed transformation of molecular dinitrogen into silylamine under ambient conditions. Although stoichiometric transformations using transition metal-N(2) complexes have been well investigated towards the goal of nitrogen fixation under mild reaction conditions, only a few examples of the catalytic transformations of N(2) using transition metal-N(2) complexes as catalysts have been reported. In almost all the catalytic systems, the use of Mo is essential to realize the catalytic transformation of N(2), where Mo-N(2) complexes are considered to work as effective catalysts. Here we show the first successful example of the Fe-catalysed transformation of N(2) into N(SiMe(3))(3) under ambient conditions, in which iron complexes such as iron pentacarbonyl [Fe(CO)(5)] and ferrocenes have been found to work as effective catalysts. A plausible reaction pathway is proposed, where Fe(II)-N(2) complex bearing two Me(3)Si groups as ancillary ligands has an important role as a key reactive intermediate, with the aid of density-functional-theory calculations.

1. Field Subject matter disclosed herein relates to monitoring a concentration of an analyte in a physiological compartment. 2. Information The pancreas of a normal healthy person produces and releases insulin into the blood stream in response to elevated blood plasma glucose levels. Beta cells (β-cells), which reside in the pancreas, produce and secrete insulin into the blood stream as it is needed. If β-cells become incapacitated or die, a condition known as Type 1 diabetes mellitus (or in some cases, if β-cells produce insufficient quantities of insulin, a condition known as Type 2 diabetes), then insulin may be provided to a body from another source to maintain life or health. Traditionally, because insulin cannot be taken orally, insulin has been injected with a syringe. More recently, the use of infusion pump therapy has been increasing in a number of medical situations, including for delivering insulin to diabetic individuals or trauma patients. As of 1995, less than 5% of Type 1 diabetic individuals in the United States were using infusion pump therapy. Presently, over 7% of the more than 900,000 Type 1 diabetic individuals in the U.S. are using infusion pump therapy. The percentage of Type 1 diabetic individuals that use an infusion pump is growing at a rate of over 2% each year. Moreover, the number of Type 2 diabetic individuals is growing at 3% or more per year, and growing numbers of insulin-using Type 2 diabetic individuals are also adopting infusion pumps. Additionally, physicians have recognized that continuous infusion can provide greater control of a diabetic individual's condition, so they too are increasingly prescribing it for patients. External infusion pumps are typically provided to control a rate of insulin infusion based, at least in part, on blood glucose measurements obtained from metered blood glucose samples (e.g., finger stick samples) or from processing signals received from a blood glucose sensor attached to a patient to provide sensor glucose measurements. By processing signals from such a blood glucose sensor, a patient's blood glucose level may be continuously monitored to reduce a frequency of obtaining metered blood glucose sample measurements from finger sticks and the like. However, measurements of blood glucose concentration obtained from processing signals from blood glucose sensors may not be as accurate or reliable as blood glucose sample measurements obtained from finger stick samples, for example. Also, parameters used for processing blood glucose sensors for obtaining blood glucose measurements may be calibrated from time to time using metered blood glucose sample measurements as reference measurements obtained from finger sticks and the like.

MiR-125b-5p suppressed the glycolysis of laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma by down-regulating hexokinase-2. Laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma (LSCC) is the most common form of laryngeal carcinoma with poor prognosis. Exploring novel factors involved in the progression of LSCC is quite necessary for understanding the mechanisms and designing therapeutic strategies for LSCC. In this study, we showed that miR-125b-5p was significantly down-regulated in LSCC tissues and cell lines. The decreased expression of miR-125b-5p was associated with the tumor differentiation, metastasis and high clinical stage of the LSCC patients. Overexpression of miR-125b-5p suppressed the proliferation and induced apoptosis of LSCC cells. Bioinformatics analysis predicted hexokinase-2 (HK2), an essential enzyme involved in the glycolysis of cancer cells, as one of the downstream targets of miR-125b-5p. Further molecular studies showed that highly expressed miR-125b-5p bound the 3'-UTR of HK2 and decreased both the mRNA and protein levels of HK2. Consistent with the function of HK2 in glycolytic metabolism, overexpression of miR-125b-5p significantly suppressed the glucose consumption and lactate production of LSCC cells. Notably, restoration the expression of HK2 attenuated the inhibitory effect of miR-125b-5p on the glycolysis of LSCC cells. The inverse correlation between the expression of miR-125b-5p and HK2 in LSCC tissues further supported the involvement of miR-125b-5p-HK2 axis in the progression of LSCC. Collectively, these finding suggested the miR-125b-5p-HK2 pathway as a novel mechanism in regulating the glycolysis and progression of LSCC.

Sunday, July 01, 2007 Anyone speak Portuguese? I've found canal*MOTOBOY, which looks like a very interesting photoblog by motorcyclists in São Paulo, but am hindered more than a tad by my poor language skills. There's a bit more information here, which is where I found the first link. I've also been looking at some of the corredor -running videos on YouTube. [via The Abaporu Project]

The Triumph Scrambler looks pretty good straight out of the box. But a few well-judged tweaks can lift it to a whole new level. As much as we love radically modified Triumphs, it’s subtle custom jobs like this Gothenburg-based machine that really get our motors running. It’s the kind of build that mixes practicality with traffic-stopping looks. This Scrambler belongs to Andy Olsson, who manages the Vans brand in Sweden. “I wanted to convert my stock Scrambler to something a lot more city-oriented,” he says. So he handed it over to Mikael, Olof and Daniel of Mod Moto. “I told them I commute every day, and I ride 12 months out of the year. That was the only brief.” As expected, Mod Moto’s execution is delightfully Scandinavian—minimalistic and highly functional. Take the headlight, for example: a strong LED that blasts through the darkness of Sweden’s winter months, when the sun is only out for a few hours a day. To improve the ergonomics, Mod Moto have installed MX-style handlebars and footpegs, along with Biltwell grips and a set of shorter, machined levers. The rest of the bike received equally thoughtful consideration. To shed visual weight, the Mod Moto crew fitted a slimmer saddle—one that’s also long enough to accommodate Andy’s wife or son on the back. According to Mod Moto, Andy’s requirements for the exhaust were specific: “He wanted a child-friendly exhaust—since high pipes and short legs don’t go that well together.” Rather than build it themselves, they chose a tried-and-tested system—a British Customs 2-into-1—and coated it black. To get maximum effect from the new exhaust, Mod Moto also fitted a set of K&N filters. For smoother running, they’ve removed the oxygen sensors and modified the ECM with a new map from Triumph Twin Power. Rear-wheel-horsepower has risen from around 50 to 70—a remarkable 40% increase, with a boost in tractability too. Mod Moto have binned the restrictive stock airbox, and used the space to hide the battery and electronics. They’re concealed behind a set of drilled side panels—which go with the stock Triumph bash plate like meatballs and lingonberry jam. To keep the visuals as minimal as the layout, the Scrambler has been refinished in a metallic grey—and all the shiny metallic parts have been blacked out or toned down to a matte finish. Keeping things tidy are a smaller rear fender and taillight, and a set of tiny turn signals. It’s a Triumph that’s still lightly scrambled, but much tastier. Mod Moto website | Facebook | Instagram | Images by James Holm | Instagram Triumph Scrambler product page

Q: $L(M) = L$ where $M$ is a $TM$ that moves only to the right side so $L$ is regular Suppose that $L(M) = L$ where $M$ is a $TM$ that moves only to the right side. I need to Show that $L$ is regular. I'd relly like some help, I tried to think of any way to prove it but I didn't reach to any smart conclusion. what is it about the only side right moves and the regularity? A: Hint -- You need to show that your TM has the same power as a finite-state automaton (as the commenter Dave Clarke said), that is, given such a TM, construct a FSA that accepts the same language. But since the TM has no memory but the tape, ask yourself what a right-only TM can do with its tape. It should be relatively straightforward to actually construct the parts of the FSA you are looking for. Just go through them -- the states, the input alphabet and most crucially the move function (usually $\delta$) and define them in terms of the parts of the TM you started with. Then you have to show that the two accept the same language, in terms of the definition of "accept" for each, being sure to mention potential looping behavior in the TM. BTW, this sort of problem is amenable to a pretty convincing "hand-waving" proof that would actually be of a type that is quite acceptable in a research paper. Your course, however, may be expecting a precise proof, using $\delta$ and the other components of the tuples that constitute the TM and FSA. A: The only difference between a finite automaton and a Turing machine is the tape. The tape provides memory ability. If you can go only on one side, then you simply can't read what you have written. To formally prove this you build an automaton from your machine $M$. Suppose $A$ is the automaton in $M$. Then your automaton $A'$ will be the same as $A$ with a one-cell memory, because you can still read the cell you are on in $M$. (Number of states of $A'$ = number of states of $M$ $×$ size of the alphabet of the tape). Note that this is still true if you can only read the cells that are at a bounded distance from the visited cell the most on the right because you have still a bounded memory. Also, the number of tapes and whether you read from a tape or a "standard input" like a DFA does not matter.

Introduction {#Sec1} ============ Headache is the commonest neurological disorder in the community with variable intensity, ranging from a trivial nuisance to a severe, disabling, acute or chronic disorder, and may impose a substantial burden on sufferers and on society \[[@CR1], [@CR2]\]. It is one of the commonest reasons for visiting the neurology clinics worldwide \[[@CR3]--[@CR5]\], exerting significant burden on its sufferers and impairing daily function especially when accompanied by other symptoms, hence adversely affecting quality of life \[[@CR6]\]. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), 1.7 -- 4% of the adult population of the world have headaches on 15 or more days every month \[[@CR7]\] and a lifetime prevalence of more than 90% has been attributed to headache disorders in most populations of the world \[[@CR8]\]. It is known that Africans have a higher threshold for pain and may not present to the clinic just for an 'ordinary headache' \[[@CR9]\]. Local experiences show that patients suffering from other chronic neurological disorders present very late to doctors and sometimes never do so \[[@CR9]\]. Chronic headaches produce individual and societal burdens, the former referring to its effect on family, social and recreational activities and the latter referring to effects on healthcare cost (direct costs) and work and function (indirect costs), including absenteeism and reduced effectiveness \[[@CR10]\]. There is limited data for headache prevalence in Africa. In 2004, the 1-year prevalence of headache from a door-to-door survey of rural south Tanzania was 23.1% (18.8% males and 26.4% females) \[[@CR11]\]. Getahu and colleagues in Ethiopia found a 1-year prevalence rate of 73.2% \[[@CR12]\]. A 1992 study from Ibadan, South West Nigeria, found the crude life-time prevalence for at least one episode of headache to be 51% \[[@CR13]\]. In Nigeria, there is a paucity of data on the national prevalence and burden of chronic headaches \[[@CR14]\] despite the fact that it is the commonest presenting neurological disorder in the authors' environment \[[@CR1], [@CR3]\], and therefore the possibility that a big headache problem exists in Nigeria. There are also no known studies of the prevalence and characterization of headache among Nigerian healthcare workers or healthcare workers in South East Nigeria hence the relevance of this study. Aim of the study {#Sec2} ---------------- The aim of this preliminary study was to determine the frequency and pattern of headaches among a population of healthcare workers in a tertiary health institution located in South East Nigeria. Methods {#Sec3} ======= This was an epidemiological sampling-based study (Figure  [1](#Fig1){ref-type="fig"}) using a semi-structured questionnaire. The questionnaire was pre-tested in another health facility at Nsukka (a local government area similar to the study area) for content validity. English language was used to reduce cross- cultural misinterpretations and wrong understanding of terms.Figure 1**Flow chart of research activities.** The questionnaire was self- administered to all various cadres of health workers in medical unit of University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, a tertiary health institution located in Enugu, South- East Nigeria, over a 3- month period from September -- November 2013, selected by simple random method out of the various units in the hospital e.g. surgical, medical, laboratory, physiotherapy, nutrition, administrative, laundry, transport, security, and medical record. Within these are various cadres of hospital staff: physicians, nurses, pharmacists and cleaners. Out of a total of 141 only 133 gave consent and hence were studied, giving a response rate of 94.3%. To ascertain the overall prevalence of headache, subjects were asked if they have ever had a headache within the previous six months and to note any association. They were to rate the severity of headache based on a scale of mild, moderate and severe. The impact of these severe headaches on the daily activity and the number of days they occur in a month were recorded. The character of the pain, location, duration, and the total numbers of times in the 6 months preceding the date of administering the questionnaire were also noted. Statistical Package for Social Sciences version 16 was used in statistical analysis. Comparison of multiplex groups was carried out with One Way ANOVA test. On the other hand comparison of two distinct groups was carried out with student t test. Chi-square test (and/or Fisher's exact test) was used in analysis of categorical variables. The results were revealed as mean ± SD. P value \<0.05 was interpreted as statistically meaningful. Ethical approval was obtained from the hospital ethics committee. Results {#Sec4} ======= Of the 2,450 hospital employees (450 medical doctors, 630 nurses, 50 pharmacists, and 1320 laboratory and administrative staff), 141 were selected using simple random method from the employment register and eventually only 133 health workers (71 males and 62 females) gave informed consent and were studied (response rate 94.3%). More of the respondents were males (53.4%) and most were within the 25 - 34 years age group (46.6%). Most of the workers had worked for only ≤5 years (72.9%). Table  [1](#Tab1){ref-type="table"} illustrates.Table 1**Demographic distribution and work experience of health workers**VariableFrequencyPercent***Sex***Male7153.4Female6246.6Total133100.0***Age Group***15 -- 24139.825 -- 346246.635 -- 443627.145 -- 541511.355 -- 6464.565 and above10.7Total133100.0***Number of years worked***1 -- 59772.96 -- 101813.511 -- 1575.316 -- 2043.021 -- 2553.826 -- 3021.5Total133100.0 The prevalence of headache in the past 6 months was 88.0% (among males the prevalence was 87.3% while in females it was 88.7%). There was no significant difference observed between the sexes (p = 0.806). In both sexes, primary headaches were more prevalent (71.0% in males and 76.4% in females). There was also no significant difference in the prevalence of the primary headaches among the sexes (p = 0.509). See Table  [2](#Tab2){ref-type="table"}.Table 2**Prevalence of headache among the health workers**General prevalence of headache in the past 6 monthsVariablesFrequencyPercentHeadache present11788.0Headache absent1612.0**Sex prevalence of headache**Male (%)Female (%)Headache present62 (87.3)55 (88.7)Headache absent9 (12.7)7 (11.3)Total71 (100.0)62 (100.0)χ^2^ = 0.060; P value = 0.806Type of headachePrimary44 (71.0)42 (76.4)\*Secondary18 (29.0)13 (23.6)Total62 (100.0)55 (100.0)χ^2^ = 0.436; P value = 0.509\*Secondary headache is headache with a definitive and identifiable cause found for it i.e. those with pre-existing conditions that may cause the headache e.g. hypertension, cervical spondylosis, refractive error, sleep apnoea, malaria and other febrile conditions \[[@CR15]\]. Most respondents reported ≤5 episodes of headache in the last 6 months (74.4%) and these were typically of short-lasting durations, \<60 minutes (44.4%). There was no observed periodicity to the headaches in 57.3% of cases (see Table  [3](#Tab3){ref-type="table"}). Most of the headaches were not located in any particular part of the head or side-locked (71.7%); were described as mildly severe in 59.8% of cases while 88.0% of respondents did not suffer any sleep disruption. The headaches were often not significantly disabling (73.4%) and in 93.2% of respondents did not lead to absenteeism or affect productivity at work (Table  [4](#Tab4){ref-type="table"}).Table 3**Characterization of the headaches**Variable/CharacteristicsFrequency (N =117)Percent***Number of episodes in past 6 months***1 -- 58774.46 -- 102521.411 -- 1532.616 -- 2021.6**Usual duration of headaches**Seconds1916.2Minutes5244.4Hours3630.9Days108.5***Usual time of day of the headache***Morning1815.4Afternoon1512.8Night1311.1Continuous43.4No particular time6757.3***Is the headache becoming stronger, last longer or occur more frequent?***Yes2218.8No9581.2**What is the commonest nature of the headache?**Throbbing/exploding4336.8Sharp43.4Tightness54.3Dull65.1Aching2420.5Pressure in head3227.3Grinding32.6Table 4**Usual location and severity of the headache*Usual Location of headache***FrequencyPercentLeft side32.6Forehead97.7Around the head/ill-defined119.4Right side21.7Both Temples21.7Top of the head10.9Neck21.7Back of head32.6No particular side8471.7***Severity of headache***Mild7059.8Moderate4538.5severe21.7***Is the headache strong enough to wake you from sleep?***Yes1412.0No10388.0***Effect of headache on daily activities***No significant disability1613.7Mild disability8673.4Moderate32.6Severe disability1210.3***Headache --related work absenteeism or reduced productivity?***Yes86.8No10993.2 Stress (35.0%) and head trauma/illness/infection (18.8%) were the commonest predisposing conditions to the headache (Table  [5](#Tab5){ref-type="table"}). Refractive errors were present in 16.2% of respondents with headaches. In 25.6% there were headache prodromes and these included irritability (10.3%) and fatigue (5.1%). During the headaches, associated symptoms occurred in 30.8% of respondents and these included nasal congestion, redness of eyes, sinusitis or allergies (26.5%) as depicted in Table  [6](#Tab6){ref-type="table"}. In most cases, there was no known family history of migraines or other chronic headaches (Figure  [2](#Fig2){ref-type="fig"}).Table 5**Predisposing conditions to the headache**Factors preceding the headacheFrequency (N =117)PercentAccident, illness or infection2218.8Odours54.3Fatigue3429.1School21.7Hunger1714.5Noise43.4Stress4135.0Exercise10.9Family problem21.7Menstrual flow21.7Lack of sleep86.8Hot weather21.7None4941.9**Existing chronic medical conditions that may cause headache**Hypertension108.5Cervical spondylosis32.6Refractive errors1916.2Diabetes mellitus21.7Sleep apnoea10.9None9782.9Note that some respondents filled more than one option.Table 6**Headache prodromes and other features associated with the headaches**Frequency (N =117)Percent***Presence of warning signs before headache***Yes3025.6No8774.4***Warning signs***Pallor10.9Mood swing65.1Irritability1210.3Dizziness32.6Tired/sleepy65.1Rings around the eyes10.9Hyperactivity10.9Eye problems21.7None10488.9Other symptoms associated with the headaches***Presence of other symptoms during the headaches***Yes3630.8No8169.2Nasal congestion, redness of eyes, sinusitis or allergies associated with the headache3126.5Nausea.21.7Stomach pain97.7Vomiting10.9Confusion32.6Numbness in arms and legs65.1Diarrhoea10.9Dropping of the eyes10.9Fever1210.3Note that some respondents filled more than one option.Figure 2**Family member with history of headaches, migraines, sick headaches, motion sickness or had trouble taking birth control pills because of headaches.** Management of headache was varied among respondents. In most cases (47.9%) no intervention was required. However in other instances, investigations (11.1%) and eye checks (7.7%) were done. The over-the counter- available analgesic, paracetamol, (83.8%) was the commonest treatment received (Table  [7](#Tab7){ref-type="table"}).Table 7**Management received for the last headache episode**Management actionsFrequency (N =117)Percent*Headache was managed by --*Health worker1916.2Self4235.9No treatment received5647.9*A. Investigations done*Laboratory1311.1Eye check97.7*B. Treatment received*Anti-malaria76.0Ergotamine10.9Food10.9Ibuprofen54.3Other NSAIDs\*21.7Paracetamol9883.8Tramadol (narcotic analgesic)10.9Eye glasses were prescribed1613.7Relaxation10.9*Other actions that relieve the headaches*Cold compress1311.1Eating2017.1Massage32.6Moving around32.6Relaxation4740.2Sleep3126.5Vomiting10.9Others10.9\*NSAIDs = non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agents.Note that some respondents filled more than one option. The health workers' ages did not significantly affect both the presence and treatment of headache (p = 0.483 and 0.293 respectively) but significantly affected the type of headache (p = 0.005) i.e. whether it was primary or secondary headache (Table  [8](#Tab8){ref-type="table"}). Years of working in the hospital did not significantly affect the prevalence of headache (P = 0.123), type of headache (P = 0.423) or treatment of the headaches (P = 0.535) as shown in Table  [9](#Tab9){ref-type="table"}. There was no correlation between the number of headache episodes and the number of years worked in the hospital \[Pearson Correlation (r) = - 0.066\] or age of the health worker \[r = 0.001\].Table 8**Age group and management of headache**Age group in yearsVariables15 -2425 - 3435 - 4445 - 5455 - 64≤ 65***Presence of headache***Yes12(92.3)53(85.5)34(94.4)13(86.7)4(66.7)1(100.0)No1(7.7)9(14.5)2(5.6)2(23.3)2(33.3)0(0.0)Total13 (100.0)62(100.0)36(100.0)15(100.0)6(100.0)1(100.0)Likelihood-ratio χ^2^ = 4.480; P value = 0.483***Type of headache***Primary7(58.3)45(84.9)27(79.4)6(46.2)1(33.3)0(0.0)Secondary5(41.7)8(15.1)7(20.6)7(53.8)3(66.7)1(100.0)Total12(100.0)53(100.0)34(100.0)13(100.0)4(100.0)1(100.0)Likelihood-ratio χ^2^ = 16.995; P value = 0.005 (significant)***Treatment of headache***Other health worker10(83.3)33(62.3)18(52.9)10(76.9)3(66.7)1(100.0)Self2(16.7)20(37.7)16(47.1)3(23.1)1(33.3)0(0.0)Total12(100.0)53(100.0)34(100.0)13(100.0)4(100.0)1(100.0)Likelihood-ratio χ^2^ = 6.135; P value = 0.293Table 9**Number of years worked in the hospital and management of headache**Number of years worked in the hospitalVariables1 - 1011 - 2021 - 30***Presence of headache***Yes101(87.8)11(100.0)5(71.4)No14(12.2)0(0.0)2(28.6)Total115(100.0)11(100.0)7(100.0)Likelihood-ratio χ^2^ = 4.199; P value =0.123***Type of headache***Primary75(65.2)8(72.7)3(42.9)Secondary40(34.8)3(27.3)4(57.1)Total115(100.0)11(100.0)7(100.0)Likelihood-ratio χ^2^ = 1.719; P value = 0.423***Treatment of headache***Other health worker78(67.8)7(63.6)6(85.7)Self37(32.2)4(36.4)1(14.3)Total115(100.0)11(100.0)7(100.0)Likelihood-ratio χ^2^ = 1.250; P value = 0.535 Discussion {#Sec5} ========== Headache is the commonest presenting neurological disorder in most communities and clinical settings worldwide \[[@CR2], [@CR12]\]. Studies from Nigeria, including Enugu, also support this \[[@CR1], [@CR3], [@CR13]\]. The prevalence of headache in health care workers has been variously reported from Western countries \[[@CR16], [@CR17]\] but there is a paucity of similar data from Nigeria and Africa. There was an inability to assess headaches as distinctly experienced in the various cadres of hospital workers and it was also not possible in this study to ascertain distinct headache entities and their roles. Other limitations of this study were its small sample size, the possibility of recall bias arising from patients' answers to occurrences of headaches in the past 6 months, and use of a 3-point pain scale instead of the 10-point Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) which has greater scale refinement and discrimination power. VAS has been noted to be a valid instrument for measurement of pain intensity in patients with headaches \[[@CR18]\]. A prevalence of 88.0% was obtained for headaches amongst the hospital workers, with slightly higher rates in females than males. Though the study periods vary, the figure compares favourably with the rate of 84.4% obtained amongst from health workers in the United States \[[@CR16]\] but is significantly higher than the 54.7% and 27.1% prevalence rates obtained from Italian and Turkish health workers respectively \[[@CR16], [@CR19]\]. A survey of headache in Ethiopian textile workers found a prevalence of 73% \[[@CR12]\]. The headache prevalence of 88% for hospital workers in this study compares favourably with the 88.3% prevalence found in a study of medical students in the same locality \[[@CR20]\]. The prevalence is also higher than the community prevalence rates of 51% and 23.1% seen in Ibadan, South West Nigeria and rural south Tanzania respectively \[[@CR11], [@CR13]\]. It is possible that the different figures may reflect a combination of environmental challenges, durations of study and varied survey instruments used. It is well noted that females tend to have higher rates for headache prevalence across cultures and continents \[[@CR1], [@CR3], [@CR12], [@CR16], [@CR17], [@CR19]\] and while this seemed to be the case in our study, the difference was not statistically significant. Reasons adduced for the higher female prevalence include the influence of oestrogens and progesterone on headaches after menarche and the greater propensity for females to seek medical attention for headaches \[[@CR21]\]. Most of our subjects had probable primary headaches although no further attempts were made in this study to distinguish between the various different types (which include the trigeminal associated cephalalgias (TACs), migraine and tension- type headaches). Headaches were of short duration (\<60 minutes) and were not side --locked in most instances unlike the longer duration (\>6 hours) migraine headaches noted in the Turkish study \[[@CR19]\]. Migraine headache prevalence rate is uniformly low across much of Africa but was found to be significantly high in a cohort of textile mill workers in Ethiopia \[[@CR12], [@CR22]\]. Stress, probably related to challenges in the work environment, played the greatest role (35.0%) in this study and this reflected in the calming role attributed to relaxation techniques utilized by the health workers (40.2%) to manage their headaches. Besides life and work stress, personality traits such as aggression, anger and type A behaviour are factors that may aggravate stress and are frequently found in headache patients but were not sought for in this study \[[@CR22]--[@CR24]\]. There was no significant association or correlation found between the prevalence of headaches and years of working experience in this study. Non-pharmacological treatment was suitable for almost half of respondents (47.9%) while the over-the --counter medicine, paracetamol, was the most utilised drug treatment. This finding is essentially similar to that of health workers with headaches in the Unites States but contrasts with the use of NSAIDs in a Turkey study \[[@CR17], [@CR19]\]. Despite working in a health facility, self-medication was commonly practised (35.9%) but this was even more significant among Turkish health workers (54.6%) \[[@CR19]\]. The low rate of medical consultation for headache in hospital workers is of interest. In this study centre, headache ranks low among the disorders seen at both the Pain Clinic and Neurology Clinic accounting for only 2.7% of all neurological cases seen in the latter and 9^th^ of the top 10 disorders encountered \[[@CR3]\]. Some reasons adduced for the low rate of presentations to clinics for headaches as well as low rates of success in headache treatment amongst Africans include underdiagnoses or misdiagnoses due to lack of adequate knowledge by healthcare professionals, headache sufferers being ignorant of effective prophylaxis and treatment, perception of headaches as a trivial problem, and great tolerance to pain \[[@CR25]--[@CR29]\]. Other reasons include poor healthcare facilities \[[@CR30]\], low economic power \[[@CR25]\], gender/child discrimination \[[@CR28]\], and unavailability of effective medication \[[@CR28], [@CR29]\]. The authors are of the opinion that African patients' preference for/reliance on non-drug options (complementary and alternative medicine, CAM) \[[@CR25], [@CR28], [@CR30]\] for pain relief may also be contributory. Of important economic interest is the rarity of absenteeism from work or loss of productive time as reported in this study. These factors are important because many headache sufferers are at the peak of their work-productive life \[[@CR26]\]. Employers may lose an average of 12 days per year because of an employee headache syndrome \[[@CR27]\]. The authors relate reason for the rarity of work absenteeism and loss of productive time to the majority of headaches being of a mild nature with low disabling rates. A similar negligible rate of absenteeism was the outcome among Italian health workers with headache \[[@CR16]\]. Conclusion {#Sec6} ========== This preliminary study has revealed headaches to be common in this community of healthcare workers. However, the seemingly low effect of headache on health workers productivity in this study, despite its high prevalence rate and contrary to views \[[@CR28]\] from other African studies, is of notable relief in a developing economy like Nigeria where health indicators are unimpressive and medical services still face huge challenges. In addition, presentation to Pain or Neurology clinic for headache disorders by respondents in this study has been shown to be low, demonstrating the need for increased and continuous health awareness on headache disorders as well as enhanced occupational health services in Nigerian hospitals. By the findings of this work, the authors encourage more robust studies on headache disorders among healthcare workers in African countries with a view to informing better practice decisions and reducing the global headache burden. **Competing interest** The authors declare that they have no competing interests. **Authors' contributions** TO and IO conceptualised the study; TO, IO, EA, BE, OE and EO designed the questionnaire and collected data; TO, EA and IO analysed the data; all authors participated in drafting the manuscript; all authors read and approved the final manuscript. The authors are grateful to Dr. Ada Shirley for her co-operation with data collection. **Declaration** This study was not supported by a grant.

[Can the urine dipstick be used in the diagnosis of urinary bacterial colonizations in a preoperative urological assessment?]. The use of the dipstick urinalysis has been validated for the diagnosis of symptomatic urinary infections, cystitis and pyelonephritis thanks to an excellent negative predictive value. For prostatitis, it is rather its positive predictive value that is interesting. The aim of this study is to validate its use in the screening of urinary colonizations in the preoperative assessment in urology. A monocentric prospective study was carried out for one year in 2011 comparing the data from the urine dipstick test with a fresh-voided midstream urinary examination and culture performed on the day of admission with the same urine sample in 598 asymptomatic patients programmed for a urological procedure. The gold standard to diagnose a microbiological-confirmed urinary tract infection or colonization was uropathogen growth of ≥10(3) colony-forming units per ml (cfu/mL) with or without leucocyturia. The study disclosed 5% of colonized patients. The urine dipstick test had a 65% sensitivity and a 97% negative predictive value. However, the low sensitivity of the urine dipstick test entailed 34% of false negatives. In spite of a good negative predictive value linked to a low prevalence of colonized patients (5%), the low sensitivity of the urine dipstick test entails a non-negligible number of false negatives. Its use as a single test of preoperative screening would expose colonized patients to the prospect of an operation, which seems to be unacceptable for some of them, notably endoscopic ones. 4.

This application claims priority to Patent Application No. 2003-281029 filed in Japan on 28 Jul. 2003, the content of which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety. The present invention pertains to a magnetically coupled device in which insulator layer(s) intervene between mutually magnetically coupled transmitting coil(s) and receiving coil(s), input of signal(s) at transmitting coil(s) causing output at receiving coil(s) of signal(s) produced at least partially by induction due to magnetic coupling therebetween; and to electronic equipment employing same. As is known, optically coupled devices, employed in a wide variety of electronic equipment, are provided with light-emitting element(s) at input side(s) thereof and light-receiving element(s) at output side(s) thereof, signal transmission taking place with input side(s) being electrically isolated from output side(s). It so happens that in recent years magnetically coupled devices, with their faster communication rates, have drawn more attention than optically coupled devices due to increases in transmission speed (on the order of between 50 Mb/s and 100 Mb/s), representative of which is the situation existing with respect to fieldbus networks for factory automation equipment and the like. Among such magnetically coupled devices is, for example, that disclosed at U.S. Pat. No. 6,376,933. In this magnetically coupled device, which comprises bridge circuitry including magnetoresistive sensor(s) for which resistance varies in correspondence to magnetic field strength, magnetoresistive sensor(s) is/are used to detect input magnetic field(s), output signal(s) from magnetoresistive sensor(s) is/are extracted from bridge circuitry, such output signal(s) is/are fed back thereinto, output magnetic field(s) is/are produced, and output signal(s) from magnetoresistive sensor(s) is/are extracted to the exterior while control is carried out so as to cause input magnetic field(s) and output magnetic field(s) to cancel out one another. Here, because output signal(s) is/are fed back thereinto, input magnetic field(s) and output magnetic field(s) being made to cancel out one another, internal noise generated at output-signal-side circuitry is canceled out. However, the foregoing conventional magnetoresistive devices have had the problem that, even where it may have been possible to reduce internal noise, as no consideration had been made for reduction of geomagnetism and other such external noise, there has been occurrence of distortion of output signal waveform(s) and/or phenomena such as dropped bits during communication of output signal(s), preventing normal communication. The present invention was therefore conceived in light of the foregoing conventional issues, it being an object thereof to provide a magnetically coupled device capable of reducing effects of external noise and of stably carrying out high-speed communication.

Role of NO and endothelin in hemoglobin-induced pulmonary vasoconstriction. The underlying mechanisms of hemoglobin (Hb)-induced vasoconstriction are not yet well understood. The aim of this study was to elucidate the influence of nitric oxide (NO) and endothelin (ET) on Hb-induced pulmonary vasoconstriction. Therefore, an autologous Hb preparation was administered into isolated rabbit lungs, in which pulmonary artery pressure (PAP) and weight gain was monitored. Either glyceroltrinitrate (GTN; 10(-5) M; n=6), L-arginine (10(-2) M; n=6), L-NAME (10(-4)M; n=6), ET(A)- or ET(B)-receptor antagonists (BQ,23, 10 6M, n=6) or (BQ788, 10(-6) M, n=6) were added to the perfusion fluid and NOx and thromboxane A2 levels were measured. In the control group the Hb-stimulation resulted in a pressure response up to 25.1+/-2.1 mmHg (p < .05), which was 136+/-6% of the reference value. The PAP increase was significantly (p < .05) blunted after GTN (71+/-5%), L-arginine (93+/-6%) and BQ788 (88+/-7%). Pretreatment with L-NAME (139+/-13%) or BQ123 (115+/-9%) did not show significant changes in PAP. The reduction of the Hb-induced pulmonary hypertension by NO-donors points toward the inactivation of NO by free hemoglobin. Likewise, ET(B)-receptor mediated vasoconstrictive effects without changes in NOx concentrations seem to play a pathogenetic role in the Hb-induced pulmonary vasoconstriction.

A list of all the animated features I have watched, taking into consideration not only overall movie but animation style/technique, and sentimental value. Sometimes I feel conflicted on which to put first… technique > overall movie? Sentimental > technique? Sentimental > overall movie? Or backwards?

Insecticide interaction with carrier and neuroproteins. Binding of alpha-, beta-, gamma-hexachlorocyclohexane, p,p'-DDT and p,p'-DDE with bovine serum albumin (BSA) and locust brain homogenate was studied. Binding affinities of pesticides were higher for the locust brain homogenates than for BSA. Results of uptake by isolated locust brain revealed higher uptake of gamma-HCH than alpha-HCH. gamma-HCH uptake was also higher from locust haemolymph than either from BSA or from buffer.

LRP5 and plasma cholesterol levels modulate the canonical Wnt pathway in peripheral blood leukocytes. Inflammation is triggered after invasion or injury to restore homeostasis. Although the activation of Wnt/β-catenin signaling is one of the first molecular responses to cellular damage, its role in inflammation is still unclear. It was our hypothesis that the low-density lipoprotein (LDL) receptor-related protein 5 (LRP5) and the canonical Wnt signaling pathway are modulators of inflammatory mechanisms. Wild-type (WT) and LRP5(-/-) mice were fed a hypercholesterolemic (HC) diet to trigger dislipidemia and chronic inflammation. Diets were supplemented with plant sterol esters (PSEs) to induce LDL cholesterol lowering and the reduction of inflammation. HC WT mice showed increased serum cholesterol levels that correlated with increased Lrp5 and Wnt/β-catenin gene expression while in the HC LRP5(-/-) mice Wnt/β-catenin pathway was shut down. Functionally, HC induced pro-inflammatory gene expression in LRP5(-/-) mice, suggesting an inhibitory role of the Wnt pathway in inflammation. Dietary PSE administration downregulated serum cholesterol levels in WT and LRP5(-/-) mice. Furthermore, in WT mice PSE increased anti-inflammatory genes expression and inhibited Wnt/β-catenin activation. Hepatic gene expression of Vldlr, Lrp2 and Lrp6 was increased after HC feeding in WT mice but not in LRP5(-/-) mice, suggesting a role for these receptors in the clearance of plasmatic lipoproteins. Finally, an antiatherogenic role for LRP5 was demonstrated as HC LRP5(-/-) mice developed larger aortic atherosclerotic lesions than WT mice. Our results show an anti-inflammatory, pro-survival role for LRP5 and the Wnt signaling pathway in peripheral blood leukocytes.

<MBFastDialogue.Settings> <pattern_whitelist> <!--pattern>looter</pattern--> <!--pattern>bandit</pattern--> </pattern_whitelist> </MBFastDialogue.Settings> <MBFastDialogue.Settings> <pattern_whitelist> <pattern>looter</pattern> <pattern>bandit</pattern> </pattern_whitelist> </MBFastDialogue.Settings> Special thanks to @Aragasas for rewriting most of the mod with Harmony support.Interacting with looters, bandits, and enemy lords now uses menus instead of dialogue interactions. This removes at least two unnecessary loading screens.Source: https://github.com/DonoA/MBFastDialogueFeel free to submit any PRs!Recent Fixes:- Bandit lair boss fights (1.2)- Compatibility with other mods (1.2)- Apply to lords (1.3)- Apply to all map interactions (1.5)To configure which parties will be affected by that mod, edit the settings.xml file in the mod folder:By Default it looks like:To make only looters and bandits affected, change it like so:You may add or change the patterns as you see fit. To make all parties affected again, simply leave the list blank or comment out the entries in it like in the default settings.xmlManual Install:- Extract the zip file to C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Mount & Blade II Bannerlord\Modules.- Make sure that SubModule.xml and the bin folder are now in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Mount & Blade II Bannerlord\Modules\MBFastDialogue- Navigate to "Modules > MBFastDialogue> bin > Win64_Shipping_Client" in your game files.- Right click the "MBFastDialogue.dll" and click properties- If you see an unblock at the bottom, click it. (Visual reference: https://www.limilabs.com/blog/unblock-dll-file)- Start the Bannerlord launcher and then tick MBFastDialogue in the Singleplayer > Mods tab.When interacting with villagers for example, you first see this menu. Converse allows you to use the normal dialogue options if you want to do more complex interactions.

--- author: - | \ Royal Society University Research Fellow\ School of Physics & Astronomy\ The University of Birmingham\ BIRMINGHAM B15 2TT, UK\ E-mail: title: Experimental Tests of the Standard Model --- BHAM-HEP/01-02\ 31 October 2001 Introduction ============ The field of precise experimental tests of the electroweak sector of the Standard Model encompasses a wide range of experiments. The current status of these is reviewed in this report, with emphasis placed on new developments in the year preceding summer 2001. A theme common to many measurements is that theoretical and experimental uncertainties are comparable. The theoretical uncertainties, usually coming from the lack of higher-order calculations, can be at least as hard to estimate reliably as the experimental errors. At low energies, new hadronic cross-section results in collisions are discussed. The new measurement of the muon anomalous magnetic moment at Brookhaven is reported and compared with recent Standard Model calculations. Results from the now complete LEP data sample are reviewed, together with recent results from the Tevatron, HERA and SLD. The synthesis of many of these results into a global test of the Standard Model via a comprehensive fit is summarised. Finally, prospects for the next few years are considered. Many results presented here are preliminary: they are not labelled explicitly for lack of space. References should be consulted for details. R and $\mathbf{\alpha(M_Z^2)}$ ============================== The BES-II detector at the BEPC electron-positron collider in Beijing, China, has been operating since 1997. Many measurements have been made in the centre-of-mass energy range $2<\sqrt{s}<5$ GeV, but of relevance to electroweak physics are those of the ratio $$R = \frac{\sigma(\Mepem\to\mathrm{hadrons})}{\sigma_0(\Mepem\to\Mmpmm)}$$ where the denominator, $\sigma_0(\Mepem\to\Mmpmm)=4\pi\alpha^2(0)/(3s)$, is the lowest-order QED prediction. The BES measurements [@bib:besr] of R are presented in Figure \[fig:besr\], where the improvement in quality over previous, often very early, measurements is clear. Around 1000 hadronic events are used at each energy, and an average precision of 6.6% is obtained at each of the 85 energy points. The point-to-point correlated error is estimated to be 3.3%, providing a factor of 2 to 3 improvement over earlier measurements. In order to achieve such an improvement, detailed studies of the detector acceptance for hadronic events at low $\sqrt{s}$ were made, in collaboration with the Lund Monte Carlo team. The experimental acceptance for hadronic events varies in the range 50 to 87% from 2 to 4.8 GeV respectively, so the modelling at low $\sqrt{s}$ is of most concern. Good descriptions of the hadronic event data were obtained from a tuned version of the [LUARLW]{} generator, and the hadronic model-dependent uncertainty is estimated to be as low as 2-3%. At even lower energies, analysis continues of the large data sample from CMD-2 [@bib:cmd2] at the VEPP-2M  collider at Novosibirsk taken over $0.36<\sqrt{s}<1.4$ GeV. Many exclusive final-states are studied, with the main contribution to the overall cross-section arising from $\pi^+\pi^-$ production. A key application of the low energy R measurements is in the prediction of the value of the electromagnetic coupling at the  mass scale. This is modified from its zero-momentum value, $\alpha(0)=1/137.03599976(50)$, by vacuum polarisation loop corrections: $$\alpha(M_Z^2)=\frac{\alpha(0)}{1-\Delta\alpha_{e\mu\tau}(M_Z^2)- \dahad(M_Z^2)-\Delta\alpha_{top}(M_Z^2)} .$$ The contributions from leptonic and top quark loops ($\Delta\alpha_{e\mu\tau}$ and $\Delta\alpha_{top}$, respectively) are sufficiently well calculated knowing only the particle masses. The $\dahad$ term contains low-energy hadronic loops, and must be calculated via a dispersion integral: $$\dahad(M_Z^2) = - \frac{\alpha M_Z^2}{3\pi} \Re\int_{4m_{\pi}^2}^\infty ds \frac{R(s)}{s(s-M_Z^2-i\epsilon)} .$$ The R data points must, at least, be interpolated to evaluate this integral. More sophisticated methods are employed by different authors, and use may also be made of $\tau$ decay spectral function data via isospin symmetry. A recent calculation [@bib:pietrzyk] using minimal assumptions has obtained $\dahad(M_Z^2)=0.02761\pm0.00036$, approximately a factor two more precise than a previous similar estimate which did not use the new BES-II data. With extra theory-driven assumptions, an error as low as $\pm0.00020$ may be obtained [@bib:martin]. Prospects for further improvements in measurements of the hadronic cross-section at low energies are good: an upgraded accelerator in Beijing should give substantially increased luminosity; CLEO proposes to run at lower centre-of-mass energies than before to examine the region from 3 to 5 GeV; DA$\Phi$NE may be able to access the low energy range with radiative events; and finally the concept of a very low energy ring to work together with the present PEP-II LER could give access to the poorly covered region between 1.4 and 2 GeV. The Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment g-2 ====================================== The Brookhaven E821 experiment has recently reported [@bib:e821] a new measurement of the muon anomalous magnetic moment, $a_{\mu}$, by measuring the spin-precession frequency, $\Mwa$, of polarised muons in a magnetic field: $$a_{\mu} \equiv \frac{g-2}{2} = \frac{\Mwa m_{\mu}c}{e\langle B\rangle}$$ The muons circulate in a special-purpose storage ring constructed to have an extremely uniform magnetic field across its aperture. The spin-precession frequency $\Mwa$ is measured by observing the time variation of production of decay electrons above a fixed energy cut-off (2 GeV), as shown in Figure \[fig:e821\]. The mean bending field is measured using two sets of NMR probes: one fixed set mounted around the ring and used for continuous monitoring, and another set placed on a trolley which can be pulled right around the evacuated beam chamber. In practice, the magnetic field is re-expressed in terms of the mean proton NMR frequency, $\omega_p$, and $a_{\mu}$ extracted from: $$a_{\mu} = \frac{R}{\lambda-R}$$ where $R=\omega_a/\omega_p$ and $\lambda$ is the ratio of muon to proton magnetic moments. The latest E821 result, obtained using $0.95\times10^9$ $\mu^+$ decays is [@bib:e821]: $$a_{\mu^+} = (11\,659\,202\pm14\pm6)\times 10^{-10}$$ The overall precision obtained is relatively 1.3 parts per million: 1.2 ppm from statistics and 0.5 ppm from systematic errors. Data from a further $4\times10^9$ $\mu^+$ and $3\times10^9$ $\mu^-$ are in hand, and should result in a factor two improvement in the near future. Interpretation of this result in terms of the Standard Model and possible new physics requires detailed calculations of loop corrections to the simple QED $\mu\mu\gamma$ vertex, which gives the original $g=2$ at lowest order. The corrections may be subdivided into electromagnetic (QED), weak and hadronic parts according to the type of loops. The QED and weak terms are respectively calculated to be $a_{\mu}(QED) = (11\, 657\,470.57 \pm 0.29) \times 10^{-10}$, and $a_{\mu}(weak) = (15.2 \pm 0.4) \times 10^{-10}$. The hadronic corrections, although much smaller than the QED correction, provide the main source of uncertainty on the predicted $a_{\mu}$. To $\mathcal{O}(\alpha^3)$, the dominant corrections may be subdivided into the lowest and higher-order vacuum polarisation terms and higher-order “light-on-light” terms. The lowest-order (vacuum polarisation) term is numerically much the largest. It can be calculated using a dispersion relation: $$a_{\mu}(had;LO) = \frac{\alpha^2(0)}{3\pi^2}\int_{4m_{\pi}^2}^{\infty} ds \frac{R(s)\hat{K}(s)}{s^2}$$ where $\hat{K}(s)$ is a known bounded function. As for $\alpha(M_Z^2)$, optional additional theory-driven assumptions may be made. Recent estimates of the lowest-order vacuum polarisation term are shown in Table \[tab:lovp\]. There is some ambiguity at the level of $\sim$5$\times10^{-10}$ about the treatment of further photon radiation in some of these calculations, as it may be included either here or as a higher-order correction, depending also on whether the input experimental data includes final-states with extra photons. The estimates agree with each other within the overall errors, which is not surprising since the data employed is mostly in common. It is notable that the best value available at the time of the E821 publication was that of Davier and Höcker (“DH(98/2)”), which is numerically the lowest of the calculations. The summed corrections are shown in figure \[fig:gminus2\] and compared with the new and previous measurements [@bib:oldgm2]. The major experimental improvement from the new E821 measurement is striking. At the time of publication, the most precise available calculation of $a_{\mu}$ led to a difference between data and theory of around 2.6 standard deviations [@bib:e821]. More recent calculations reduce that difference, in some cases to the one standard deviation level, thus also suggesting that the error on the prediction may have been too optimistic. At present there is therefore no reason to consider $a_{\mu}$ as giving evidence of physics beyond the Standard Model. The accuracy of the theoretical predictions will be even more severely challenged by an experimental measurement with a factor two smaller error, as expected in the near future. Theoretical progress is essential to obtain a maximum physics return from such a precise measurement. Recent News from the Z$^{\mathbf{0}}$ Pole {#sec:asy} ========================================== Measurements of the  cross-section, width, and asymmetries have been available for many years from LEP and SLD data, and most results have now been finalised [@bib:lepls; @bib:alr]. Recently new results [@bib:afbbnew] have become available on the b quark forward-backward asymmetry ($\afbb$) from ALEPH and DELPHI, using inclusive lifetime-based b-tagging techniques and various quark charge indicators. Substantial improvements are obtained over earlier lifetime-tag measurements, so that this type of asymmetry measurement now has a comparable precision to that using a traditional lepton tag. The lepton and lifetime results are compatible, and together give a LEP average Z pole asymmetry of $$A_{\mathrm{FB}}^{\mathrm{0,b}} = 0.0990 \pm 0.0017 .$$ This result may be compared with other asymmetry measurements from LEP and SLD by interpreting $\afbb$ in terms of $\sintwl$. In doing this, it is effectively assumed that the b quark couplings are given by their Standard Model values. The result is shown in figure \[fig:sstw\], comparing to $\sintwl$ values derived from the leptonic forward-backward asymmetry from LEP ($A_{\mathrm{fb}}^{\mathrm{0,l}}$) [@bib:lepls]; that from the $\tau$ polarisation measurements ($P_{\tau}$) [@bib:ptau]; from the left-right polarisation asymmetry at SLD [@bib:alr]; from the charm forward-backward asymmetry [@bib:afbc]; and from inclusive hadronic event forward-backward asymmetry measurements ($Q_{\mathrm{fb}}$) [@bib:qfb]. The two most precise determinations of $\sintwl$, from $A_{\mathrm{LR}}$ and $\afbb$, differ at the level of 3.2 standard deviations. This might suggest that the b quark couplings to the  differ from the Standard Model expectations, but such an interpretation is not compelling at present, and direct measurements via the left-right polarised forward-backward b quark asymmetry at SLD are not precise enough to help. Future improvements in b quark asymmetry measurements using the existing LEP data samples may help elucidate this issue, but scope for such improvement is limited. LEP-2 and Fermion-Pair Production ================================= With the completion of LEP-2 data-taking at the end of 2000, the integrated luminosity collected at energies of 161 GeV and above has reached 700  per experiment, in total giving each 1 fb$^{-1}$ from the entire LEP programme. Following on from the measurements of the LEP-1 Z lineshape and forward-backward asymmetries, studies of fermion-pair production have continued at LEP-2. At these higher energies, fermion-pair events may be subdivided into those where the pair invariant mass has “radiatively returned” to the Z region or below, and non-radiative events with close to the full centre-of-mass energy. The cross-sections and forward-backward asymmetries for non-radiative events at the full range of LEP-2 energies are shown in Figures \[fig:fflep1\] and \[fig:fflep2\] for hadronic, muon and tau pair final states, averaged between all four LEP experiments [@bib:ffmeas]. Analogous measurements have been made for electrons, b and c quarks [@bib:ffmeas]. The Standard Model expectations describe the data well. Limits can be placed on new physics from these data [@bib:ffmeas]. As an example, limits may be placed on new Z$^\prime$ bosons which do not mix with the , as indicated in Table \[tab:fflim\]. Z’s and W’s at Colliders with Hadrons ===================================== Electroweak fermion-pair production has also been studied at the Tevatron, in the Drell-Yan process. Updated results on high mass electron pairs were presented at this conference [@bib:cdfdy; @bib:gerber]: both cross-sections and asymmetries are well described by the Standard Model expectations, and extend beyond the LEP-2 mass reach to around 500 GeV (see Figure \[fig:drellyan\]). As indicated in the figure, there is some sensitivity to new physics models, and improvements on that of LEP should come with the Run 2 data. W production in  collisions provided, before LEP-2, the only direct measurements of the W mass, using reconstructed electron and muon momenta and inferred missing momentum information. The main results from CDF and D0 from Run 1 data have been available for some time [@bib:mwtev]. D0 have recently updated their Run 1 results with a new analysis making use of electrons close to calorimeter cell edges [@bib:gerber]. The main importance of the extra data is to allow a better calorimeter calibration from Z events. Measurements of the W mass from the Tevatron are summarised in Table \[tab:mwhad\]. The high tail of the distribution of the transverse mass of the lepton-missing momentum system provides information about the W width. CDF finalised their Run 1 result ($\Gamma_{\mathrm{W}}=$ 2.05$\pm0.13$ GeV) [@bib:gwcdf] some time ago. D0 presented a new measurement using all the Run 1 data, of $\Gamma_{\mathrm{W}}=$ 2.23$\pm0.17$ GeV, at this conference [@bib:gerber]. The presence of the W and Z bosons is primarily probed at HERA via t-channel exchange. The charged and neutral current differential cross-sections as a function of $Q^2$ are shown in Figures \[fig:heracc\] and \[fig:heranc\] respectively. The charged current process proceeds only by W exchange, and is sensitive to the W mass via the propagator term (and also, indirectly, via the overall normalisation). The effect of  exchange can be seen in the high-$Q^2$ neutral current region where it gives rise to a difference between the e$^-$p and e$^+$p cross-sections. Real W production may also have been observed at HERA, by looking for events with high transverse momentum electrons or muons, missing transverse momentum, and a recoiling hadronic system. For transverse momenta of the recoiling hadronic system above 40 GeV, H1 and ZEUS together observe 6 events compared to an expectation of 2.0$\pm$0.3, which is 90% composed of W production and decay [@bib:whera]. These events have been interpreted as possible evidence of new physics, but within the framework of the Standard Model their natural interpretation is as W production. W Physics at LEP-2 ================== Each LEP experiment now has a sample of around 12000 W-pair events from the full LEP-2 data sample. Event selections are well established, and have needed only minor optimisations for the highest energy data. Typical selection performances give efficiencies and purities in the 80-90% range for almost all channels – channels with $\tau$ decays being the most challenging. The measured W-pair cross-section [@bib:sigww] is shown in Figure \[fig:sigww\], and compared to the predictions of the RacoonWW [@bib:racoon] and YFSWW [@bib:yfsww] Monte Carlo programs. These programs incorporate full $\Oalpha$ corrections to the doubly-resonant W-pair production diagrams, and give a cross-section approximately 2% lower than earlier predictions. The agreement can be tested by comparing the experimental and predicted cross-sections as a function of centre-of-mass energy. The new calculations describe the normalisation of the data well, the old ones over-estimate it by between two and three standard deviations of the experimental error [@bib:sigww]. The selected W-pair events are also used to measure the W decay branching ratios. The combined LEP results [@bib:sigww] are shown in Table \[tab:wbr\]. The leptonic results are consistent with lepton universality, and so are combined to measure the average leptonic branching ratio, corrected to massless charged leptons. This measurement now has a better than 1% relative error, and is consistent with the Standard Model expectation of 10.83%. It is significantly more precise than a value extracted from the Tevatron W and Z cross-section data, assuming Standard Model production of W’s, which is Br(W$\to\ell\nu)=10.43\pm0.25$% [@bib:wbrtev]. The W mass and width are measured above the W-pair threshold at LEP-2 by direct reconstruction of the W decay products [@bib:mwlepex], using measured lepton momenta and jet momenta and energies. Events with two hadronically decaying W’s (“$\Wqqqq$”), or where one W decays hadronically and the other leptonically (“$\Wqqlv$”), are used by all experiments. A kinematic fit is made to the reconstructed event quantities, constraining the total energy and momentum to be that of the colliding beam particles, thus reconstructing the unobserved neutrino in mixed hadronic-leptonic decay events. This fit significantly improves the resolution on the W mass. The reconstructed mass distributions can be fitted to obtain the W mass, or the W mass and width together. Other, more complicated, techniques to extract the most W mass information from the fitted events are used by some experiments. ALEPH and OPAL also use the small amount of information contained in $\Wlvlv$ events, which has been included in the $\Wqqlv$ results quoted. After the kinematic fit, the W mass statistical sensitivity is very similar for the two event types. The systematic error sources are largely different between the two channels: the main correlated systematics come from the knowledge of the LEP beam energy, and hadronisation modelling. The W mass measurements obtained by the four LEP experiments, and averaged by channel, are shown in table \[tab:lepmw\]. There is good consistency between all the measurements, and the overall precision [@bib:mwlep] now improves significantly on the 60 MeV from hadron colliders. If the W width is also fitted, the W mass measurement is essentially unchanged, and a LEP combined value of $\Gamma_{\mathrm{W}}=2.150\pm0.091$ GeV is found. The 39 MeV error on the combined LEP result includes 26 MeV statistical and 30 MeV systematic contributions. Systematic errors are larger in the $\Wqqqq$ channel (see Table \[tab:lepmw\]), having the effect of deweighting that channel, to just 27%, in the average. With no systematic errors this deweighting would not occur, and the statistical error would be 22 MeV. The main systematic errors on the combined result are as follows [@bib:mwlep]: The LEP beam energy measurement contributes a highly correlated 17 MeV to all channels; hadronisation modelling uncertainties contribute another 17 MeV; “final-state interactions” (FSI) between the hadronic decay products of two W’s contribute 13 MeV; detector-related uncertainties – different for the different experiments – contribute 10 MeV; and uncertainties on photonic corrections contribute 8 MeV. The main improvements that are expected before the results are finalised lie in the areas of the LEP beam energy, where a concerted programme is in progress to reduce the error, and the final-state interactions. The basic physical problem which gives rise to the uncertainty over final-state interactions is that when two W’s in the same event both decay hadronically, the decay distance is smaller than typical hadronisation scales. The hadronisation of the two systems may therefore not be independent, and so hadronisation models tuned to $\to\mathrm{q}\overline{\mathrm{q}}$ decays may not properly describe them. Phenomenological models are used to study possible effects, subdividing them into “colour reconnection” in the parton-shower phase of the Monte Carlo models, and possible Bose-Einstein correlations between identical particles formed in the hadronisation process. A substantial effort has been spent in understanding the possible effects of FSI models. Recent work, in a collaborative effort between all four LEP experiments, has focused on determining the common sensitivity to different models between different experiments, and on developing ways to measure visible effects predicted by the models. Sensitivity to the effect of colour reconnection models has been obtained by studying the particle flow between jets in $\Wqqqq$ events [@bib:cr]. This is illustrated in Figure \[fig:cr\]. The data show some sensitivity to the effects as predicted in the colour reconnection models, and work continues to combine results from the four LEP experiments to improve the sensitivity. Bose-Einstein correlations are also being studied in data [@bib:bec], in this case by comparing the two-particle correlation functions, $\rho$, for single hadronically decaying W’s in $\Wqqlv$ events ($\rho^\mathrm{W}$), and for $\Wqqqq$ events ($\rho^{\mathrm{W}\mathrm{W}}$). This may be expressed as [@bib:chekanov]: $$\rho^{\mathrm{W}\mathrm{W}}(Q) = 2 \rho^{\mathrm{W}}(Q) + \rho_{mix}^{\mathrm{W}\mathrm{W}}(Q) + \Delta\rho(Q)$$ where $\rho_{mix}^{\mathrm{W}\mathrm{W}}$ is evaluated from mixing hadronic W decays from $\Wqqlv$ decays, and $\Delta\rho$ is any extra part arising from correlations between particles from different W decays in $\Wqqqq$ events. Alternatively the ratio $D(Q)$ may be examined: $$D(Q) \equiv \frac{\rho^{\mathrm{W}\mathrm{W}}(Q)}{2 \rho^{\mathrm{W}}(Q) + \rho_{mix}^{\mathrm{W}\mathrm{W}}(Q)} .$$ An observed $D(Q)$ distribution is shown in Figure \[fig:bec\]: a deviation from unity at low $Q$ would most clearly signal the effect of Bose-Einstein correlations between particles from different W’s. As illustrated in this figure, no evidence is observed of such an effect. As for colour reconnection, work is in progress to derive combined LEP results in order better to constrain the possible effect on the W mass measurement. When the LEP measurement of $\mw$, given in Table \[tab:lepmw\] is combined with that from  colliders as given in Table \[tab:mwhad\], a world average W mass of $80.451\pm0.033$ GeV is obtained. A similar combination of W width results gives $\Gamma_{\mathrm{W}}=2.134\pm0.069$ GeV. Tests of the Gauge Couplings of Vector Bosons ============================================= The gauge group of the Standard Model dictates the self-couplings of the vector bosons, both in form and strength. The direct measurement of these couplings therefore provides a fundamental test of the Standard Model gauge structure. Electroweak gauge couplings have been measured directly at both LEP and the Tevatron: at present constraints from LEP are more stringent. W-pair production at LEP-2 involves the triple gauge coupling vertex in two of the three lowest-order doubly-resonant diagrams. Sensitivity to possible anomalous couplings is found in the W-pair cross-section, and the W production and decay angle distributions. Measurements have been reported at previous conferences [@bib:cctgcosaka], but no combined LEP results have been released recently because [@bib:racoon; @bib:kandy] higher-order corrections, previously neglected, are thought to be comparable to the current experimental precision [@bib:villa]. Other measurements of triple gauge boson couplings are made at LEP-2 [@bib:nctgc] in the neutral vector boson processes of $\gamma$ and  production. The cross-section measured for the latter process is shown in Figure \[fig:sigzz\] and is well-described by Standard Model predictions. Measurements of quartic gauge couplings have also been made at LEP-2, and were discussed in detail in other contributions to this conference [@bib:qgchere]. Global Electroweak Tests ======================== Many of the individual results reported in preceding sections may be used together to provide a global test of consistency with the Standard Model. If consistency with the model is observed, it is justifiable to go on to deduce, in the framework of the Standard Model, the unknown remaining parameter, the mass of the Higgs boson, $\mh$. The LEP electroweak working group has, for a number of years, carried out such global tests via a combined fit to a large number of measurements sensitive to Standard Model parameters. These results are reported here for the data available at this conference. These global fits use the electroweak libraries ZFITTER version 6.36 [@bib:zfitter] and TOPAZ0 version 4.4 [@bib:topaz0] to provide the Standard Model predictions. Theoretical uncertainties are included following detailed studies of missing higher order electroweak corrections and their interplay with QCD corrections [@bib:precew]. The precise LEP, SLD and Tevatron electroweak data are included, as are $\sin^2\theta_W$ as measured in neutrino-nucleon (“$\nu$N”) scattering[^1] [@bib:nuN] and, new this year, atomic parity violation (“APV”) measurements in caesium [@bib:apv]. Before making the full fit, the precise electroweak data from LEP and SLD can be used together with $\alpha{(M_{\mathrm{Z}}^2)}$, the $\nu$N and APV results to predict the masses of the top quark, $\mtop$, and of the W, $\mw$. The result obtained is shown in Figure \[fig:mtopmw\] by the solid (red) contour. Also shown are the direct measurements (dotted/green contour) of $\mtop=174.3\pm5.1$ GeV from the Tevatron [@bib:mtop] and $\mw=80.451\pm0.033$ GeV obtained by combining LEP and results; and the expected relationship between $m_{\mathrm{W}}$ and $m_{\mathrm{top}}$ in the Standard Model for different $\mh$ (shaded/yellow). It can be seen that the precise input data predict values of $\mtop$ and $\mw$ consistent with those observed – in both cases within two standard deviations – demonstrating that the electroweak corrections can correctly predict the mass of heavy particles. For the W, the precision of the prediction via the Standard Model fit is similar to that of the direct measurement. For the top mass, the measurement is twice as precise as the prediction. It is observed in addition that both the precise input data and the direct $\mw$/$\mtop$ measurements favour a light Higgs boson rather than a heavy one. Going further, the full fit is made including also the $\mtop$ and $\mw$ measurements. The overall $\chi^2$ of the fit is 22.9 for 15 degrees of freedom, corresponding to an 8.6% probability. To provide an impression of the contributions to this $\chi^2$, the best-fit value of each input datum is compared with the actual measurement, and the pull calculated as the difference between observation and best-fit divided by the measurement error. The results are shown in Figure \[fig:pulls\]. The poorest description is of $\afbb$, which is a reflection of the same disagreement discussed earlier in Section \[sec:asy\]. The best fit value of the Higgs mass is $\mh=88_{-35}^{+53}$ GeV, where the error is asymmetric because the leading corrections depend on $\log\mh$. The variation above the minimum value of the $\chi^2$ as a function of the mass of the Higgs boson, $m_{\mathrm{H}}$, is shown in Figure \[fig:blueband\]. The darker shaded/blue band enclosing the $\chi^2$ curve provides an estimate of the theoretical uncertainty on the shape of the curve. This band is a little broader than previously estimated because of the inclusion of a new higher-order (fermionic two-loop) calculation of $\mw$ [@bib:weiglein]. This has little effect via $\mw$ but does have an impact via $\sintwl=\kappa_W(1-\mw^2/\mz^2)$. This latter effect is controversial, and may well overestimate the true theoretical uncertainty, but it is currently included as equivalent two-loop calculations for Z widths and the effective mixing angle are not available. The $\chi^2$ curve may be used to derive a constraint on the Standard Model Higgs boson mass, namely $m_{\mathrm{H}} < 196$ GeV at 95% C.L. Also shown in the Figure is the effect of using an alternative theory-driven estimate of the hadronic corrections to $\dahad(M_{\mathrm{Z}}^2)$ [@bib:martin] (dashed curve). The effect on the $\mh$ prediction is sizable compared to the theoretical uncertainty, for example. The 95% C.L. upper limit on $\mh$ moves to 222 GeV with this $\dahad$ estimate. A Forward Look, and Conclusions =============================== The eleven years of data-taking by the LEP experiments, plus the contributions of SLD, have established that Standard Model radiative corrections describe precision electroweak measurements. Data analysis is close to complete on the LEP-1 data, taken from 1989-1995. Work continues to finish LEP-2 analyses, and final results can be expected over the next couple of years. Improvements can still be expected in the W mass measurement, from better understanding of final-state interaction effects in particular, and in gauge-coupling measurements where the full data sample is not yet included. At the Tevatron, Run 2 data-taking has recently begun. Although luminosities are so far low, the expectation remains of accumulating 2 fb$^{-1}$ in the next couple of years, which should allow a W mass measurement with 30 MeV precision from each experiment [@bib:tevprospects], and a top mass measured to $\pm$3 GeV. Combining the former result with the final $\mw$ results from LEP-2 should provide a world average W mass measurement error close to 20 MeV. The effect such improvements could have, for example on the global fit $\Delta\chi^2$ as a function of $\mh$, are shown in Figure \[fig:forward\] (the central value of $\mh$ employed for the future is, of course, arbitrarily selected). Further substantial improvements in precision will have to wait for the LHC and a future linear collider. The LHC should improve the W and top mass precisions by a further factor two. The main improvement would, of course, come from a discovery of the Higgs boson, and a direct indication of whether it is the simplest Standard Model particle. In summary, precise tests of the electroweak sector of the Standard Model have been made by a wide range of experiments, from the g-2 measurement in muon decays to LEP and the Tevatron. Many of these tests have a high sensitivity to radiative corrections, and the radiative correction structure is now rather well-established. Two and three-loop calculations are essential in making sufficiently precise predictions for some processes, and more progress is still needed. A small number of measurements, for example the measurement of $\sintwl$ from the b forward-backward asymmetry at LEP, show two or three standard deviation differences from expectation which might point to possible cracks in the Standard Model description, but none are compelling at present. Further improvements in the quality of tests will arrive slowly over the next few years: in particular further elucidation of the electroweak symmetry-breaking mechanism will likely have to await an improved discovery reach for a Higgs boson. 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Robin Williams enjoyed ‘perfect’ last day Robin Williams’ widow Susan Schneider says they enjoyed “a perfect day” together before he took his own life in August 2014Susan Schneider, who claims the actor had been unknowingly suffering from the brain disease Lewy Body Dementia [LBD], which causes extreme anxiety, delusions and impaired movement, thought he was getting better before he committed suicide in August 2014. She said: “It was a perfect day, we just did what we loved to do together and I know now that he gave me that perfect day, he gave us that perfect day. In hindsight, he knew what he was doing.” The graphic designer, 51, says the Oscar winner, 63, was nothing like his public persona in private. She told ‘Good Morning America’: “Robin was kind, quiet and sometimes funny at home. He was meditative, contemplative, intellectual and sometimes very, very funny.” Susan also claims she was “forced” to take her late husband’s children, Zachary, Zelda and Cody, from a previous marriage, to court over his estate and is relieved they were able to settle their dispute privately last month. She said: “After being in the trenches with my husband for so long and trying to solve this thing, after seven years together in love, I was told that I might not be able to be able to keep our wedding gifts. “In fact, [they said], ‘While you’re out of the house, we need to come in and take everything out. Eventually once we’ve gone through it all, you can decide – tell us which items are yours. And we’ll decide whether or not that’s true.’ “

in such a case, the subsequent mortage is entitled to have prior mortage-debt satisfied out of property or properties which are not mortaged to him. This will not affect the right of the prior mortagee who has aquired an interest in any of the properties for consideration. (in the absence of a contract to the contrary). For eg: Mr ‘A’ mortgages two of his properties namely; ‘1st’ and ‘2nd’ to Mr ‘B’. Thereafter, Mr.’A’ mortgages property ‘2nd’ to Mr ‘C’. If the Mr ‘B’ mortgagee prefers to proceed against ‘2nd’ property, then subsequent mortgagee Mr ‘C’ may compel Mr ‘B’ to first proceed against ‘1st’ property to realize his dues. But later, if Mr ‘B’ is unable to realize his dues from ‘1st’ property, then he may proceed towards recovery of dues from ‘2nd’ property.

k)*(-7 + 11 - 23)*(3*k - k - 3*k)*(2 - 2 - 2) to the form y*k**3 + f*k**4 + i + z*k + n*k**2 and give f. 76 Express -23 + w**2 + 341 - 27 - 120 as g*w**2 + v + c*w and give v. 171 Express -6*j - 3*j + 7*j + (-8 + 2 - 9)*(-1 - 2*j + 1) as c*j + k and give c. 28 Rearrange (5 - 5 - 4*r - 3 - 2*r + 3 + (0*r + r + r)*(1 - 1 + 2))*(17 - 40 - 17) to p*r + s and give p. 80 Rearrange 91*t - 105*t + 4 - 2 + (-4 - 5*t + 4)*(-3 + 5 - 4 + (-4 + 2 - 1)*(1 + 2 - 5)) to m + d*t and give d. -34 Express 337*l + 412*l - 676*l as h + p*l and give p. 73 Rearrange -8*b**4 - 203*b - 2*b**3 - 384 + 209*b + 382 to s*b**2 + h + o*b**3 + w*b**4 + t*b and give s. 0 Express -301*c + 9311 - 9311 - 406*c in the form b*c + k and give b. -707 Rearrange -291*r + 144*r - 4*r**4 + r**3 + 190*r to the form q*r**3 + c*r**4 + o*r**2 + f*r + h and give f. 43 Express -84*o**2 + 93*o**2 + 143*o**2 + 97*o**2 + 18*o**2 in the form n*o**2 + y*o + s and give n. 267 Rearrange 111*w + 5 - w**4 - 3 - 109*w + w**3 - 4 to the form h*w + x*w**2 + m + l*w**3 + a*w**4 and give a. -1 Express (17*z**2 - 17*z**2 + 101*z**3)*(-2*z + 3 - 3 + (5*z - z - 5*z)*(3 - 2 + 1) + 2*z + z - z) as h*z**4 + i + w*z**3 + x*z**2 + v*z and give h. -202 Rearrange -89*d**4 + 180*d**4 - 3*d**2 - 16*d**3 - 90*d**4 to s*d**3 + x*d + f*d**4 + q*d**2 + t and give f. 1 Rearrange (3 - 8 + 2)*(-2 + 2 + 3)*(-14*l + 114 - 114) to the form p*l + o and give p. 126 Express -7*z + 1522 - 775 - 760 as m*z + d and give m. -7 Rearrange 23 - 21 + 5*p + 1 + 8*p**2 to b + f*p**2 + d*p and give f. 8 Rearrange (3 - 5 + 1)*(-2*l + 1 - 1)*(2 + 782*l**2 - 783*l**2 + 15) to the form i*l**3 + y + w*l + d*l**2 and give w. 34 Express (-i - 7*i - 3*i)*(-4 + 4 - 2*i**2 + (-2*i - 1 + 1)*(-4 + 4 + 2*i) - 29*i + 42*i**2 + 29*i) as l*i**3 + o*i**2 + x*i + a and give l. -396 Express (-3*n + n + n - 2*n**2 - 2*n**3)*(399*n + 234*n - 415*n) as z*n**2 + u*n**3 + o + r*n**4 + j*n and give r. -436 Rearrange 5*b**3 - 48 - 23*b**2 - 2*b**3 - 2*b + 24 + 22 to the form h*b + u*b**2 + q + k*b**3 and give h. -2 Rearrange 5 - 10*b**2 + 31643*b**4 + 2*b**3 - 31645*b**4 + 6 to r + y*b**3 + v*b**4 + j*b**2 + d*b and give r. 11 Express -2 - h**2 + 2 + (2*h + 130*h + 36*h)*(-3*h - h + 2*h) in the form l*h + y*h**2 + i and give y. -337 Rearrange (8*n + 21 - 21)*((-5 + 1 + 2)*(1 - 3 - 2) - 3 - 1 + 7) to the form h*n + s and give h. 88 Rearrange -2 - 139*w**2 - 2*w - 140*w**2 + 281*w**2 to v*w + z*w**2 + g and give v. -2 Rearrange 0*d**2 + 24 + 7 + 15 - 3*d**2 to w + g*d**2 + k*d and give g. -3 Express (-884*w**2 + 514*w**2 + 458*w**2)*(-1 + 10*w - 2 + 1) in the form u + n*w + d*w**3 + o*w**2 and give o. -176 Rearrange 38*u**3 - 230*u**3 + 4*u**2 - u**2 - 3*u**2 + 2 to the form f*u + z*u**2 + o*u**3 + c and give f. 0 Rearrange 93*d + 10955 - 10955 to w + g*d and give g. 93 Express 1039*d**2 + 672 - 672 as m*d**2 + f + a*d and give m. 1039 Rearrange (750 - 750 + 161*t)*((-5*t + 5*t + 2*t)*(1 - 2*t - 1) - 2 - 2*t**2 + 2) to y*t**3 + i*t + c + d*t**2 and give y. -966 Express 12661*a**2 + 2*a**3 - 12664*a**2 - a**3 - 3*a**3 + 25 as f*a + b + v*a**2 + q*a**3 and give v. -3 Rearrange 352*x + 2*x**2 - 3*x**3 - 359*x + x**3 to the form b + s*x**3 + z*x + g*x**2 and give z. -7 Rearrange (-10*k + 8 + 18*k - 13*k)*(-4*k**2 + 15*k**2 - 8*k**2) to m*k**2 + c*k**3 + a*k + g and give c. -15 Express -3*y + y + y + 2*y + 2*y - 2*y - 1 + 2*y + 1 + (-1 - 2 + 1)*(y + 4 - 4) - 2*y + y + 0*y - 3*y + 2*y + 5*y in the form l*y + x and give l. 4 Express (-604 + 604 + 34*i)*(37 - 26 - 16) as k + l*i and give l. -170 Rearrange -1 + 401*i**2 + 384*i**2 + 2*i**3 - 715*i**2 to the form p*i**2 + j*i**3 + x*i + z and give z. -1 Rearrange 3*j + j**2 + 11*j - 3*j**2 + 55*j to the form w + o*j + n*j**2 and give o. 69 Rearrange -4044*y**2 - 5 - 4*y**3 - 13*y**4 - 4045*y**2 + 8090*y**2 to the form u + s*y**2 + f*y + z*y**3 + r*y**4 and give r. -13 Express (2*b - b - b + 11*b)*(3 + 4 - 2)*(-7 + 0 + 5) as c*b + h and give c. -110 Rearrange -585 + p + 94*p**3 + 585 + 264*p**3 to the form k*p + h*p**3 + j + q*p**2 and give k. 1 Rearrange 152*g**2 + 2*g + 2*g**3 + 142*g**2 - 295*g**2 - 13 to the form q + v*g**2 + k*g**3 + p*g and give v. -1 Rearrange (4 - 1 + 1 + (4 + 2 - 4)*(2 + 2 - 2) + 2 - 1 - 2)*(-5 + 4 - 6)*(0*w - 2*w + w) to the form j + r*w and give j. 0 Rearrange -i**4 - 14504*i + 0*i**4 + 14464*i - i**2 to the form c*i**2 + q*i**3 + y + r*i**4 + d*i and give d. -40 Express 92 - 185 + 20*i**2 + 94 as a + j*i**2 + d*i and give j. 20 Rearrange -4727*v**2 + 4692*v**2 + 9*v + 2*v to the form u + j*v + r*v**2 and give r. -35 Rearrange -22*b**3 + 66*b**3 - b**3 - 6*b**4 - b + 3*b**4 to n*b**3 + a*b**2 + l*b + p*b**4 + x and give n. 43 Express 22*o**4 - 1416*o**3 + 1391*o**3 - 21*o**4 + 1 + 4*o in the form f*o**3 + g + z*o**4 + i*o**2 + w*o and give z. 1 Rearrange (-5*x + 0*x + 3*x - x**2)*((-3 + 3 - 1)*(477 - 1257 + 322) - 2 - 2 + 2) to k*x + b + d*x**2 and give b. 0 Express (0*b**2 + 0*b**2 - 3*b**2)*(-9*b + 2*b - 16*b + (4 - 2 + 0)*(-b + 5*b - b)) in the form u*b**3 + s + m*b + t*b**2 and give s. 0 Rearrange (3 - 3 - 2)*(h + h + 0*h)*(15*h**3 + 4 - 11*h**3 + 2) to r*h**3 + o*h**2 + t + g*h + x*h**4 and give x. -16 Express (26*j**2 + 59*j - 59*j)*((-4 + 1 + 4)*(3*j - j - 4*j) + (8*j + 6*j - j)*(2 + 3 - 3)) in the form n*j**2 + f*j**3 + i + o*j and give f. 624 Rearrange (49*k - 35*k - 24*k - 2)*(-12*k - 10*k + 25*k) to the form g*k + p + u*k**2 and give u. -30 Rearrange (-531 - 680*m + 531)*(4 - 4 + 4)*(4*m + m**3 - 3*m**3 - 3*m) to the form u + c*m + f*m**4 + t*m**3 + h*m**2 and give f. 5440 Rearrange -8 - f**3 - 12*f**2 + 0*f**3 + 11*f**2 - f**3 to m*f**3 + a*f + v + y*f**2 and give m. -2 Rearrange (0 + 4 - 3)*(4 - 2 + 7)*(10*n - 33 + 33) to the form t*n + p and give t. 90 Express -47*b**3 + 93*b**3 + b**4 - 187 + 57*b**3 + 190 as c*b**3 + g*b**2 + w*b**4 + a + t*b and give c. 103 Express 2*c**2 - 169 + 117 + 0*c**2 - 6*c**2 in the form k + s*c**2 + h*c and give k. -52 Rearrange (0 + w + 0)*(18*w**3 - 3*w**2 - 2*w + 19 - 23 - 16*w**3) to the form d + m*w**4 + l*w + z*w**2 + s*w**3 and give s. -3 Express (3*z - 4*z - 2 + 2*z)*(-9 + 13 - 36)*(1 - 2 - 2)*(-5 + 5 - 3 + (-3 + 6 - 2)*(2 + 2 - 3) - 2 + 0 + 3) as v + x*z and give x. -96 Rearrange (-3*l + 0*l + 0*l)*(-5*l + 2*l + 2*l) + 159*l - 159*l + 30*l**2 to o + h*l**2 + s*l and give h. 33 Express 5460*m**4 + 3 - 5461*m**4 - 2*m + 9*m**2 - 4*m**3 - 4 in the form b*m**3 + l + a*m**4 + x*m**2 + v*m and give a. -1 Rearrange -584*a - 72*a - 380*a - 34*a + 51*a to the form s + o*a and give o. -1019 Rearrange (-2*d + 7*d + 0*d + (-4 + 4 - 1)*(-d - 6*d - 4*d))*(30*d - 8*d + 29*d) to the form l + a*d + u*d**2 and give u. 816 Express (159 + 29 + 13)*(j - 4*j + 4*j - 4*j) in the form l + o*j and give o. -603 Express -13978*q**3 - 6 + 78*q**2 - q**4 + 13978*q**3 in the form z*q**3 + o*q + h*q**2 + x*q**4 + k and give k. -6 Express -233*x**2 - 16*x - 5*x + 21*x as c*x**2 + w + v*x and give v. 0 Rearrange -103 + 0*p**4 - 2*p**3 + 205 - 46*p**2 - 2*p**4 - 104 to the form u + r*p + v*p**2 + c*p**3 + d*p**4 and give d. -2 Express 2*o + 186629 - 186629 - 5*o**3 + o**4 as i*o**2 + z*o**4 + g*o + m*o**3 + x and give z. 1 Express (0*f**2 + f**2 + 0*f**2)*(2 - 46*f - 7*f - 11*f) as u*f**3 + n + t*f + m*f**2 and give u. -64 Express (-4*z + 0*z + 6*z)*(-725 - 528 - 18 - 50 - 74) in the form f + p*z and give p. -2790 Express 5 + 8 - 102*w - 13 as u*w + p and give u. -102 Express (0 - 1 + 3)*(3*b**2 - 2*b + 2*b) + 4 - 4 + 2*b**2 + 154*b**2 + 165*b**2 - 1 - 334*b**2 in the form x*b**2 + s*b + d and give d. -1 Express -8 + 0*p**4 - 2*p**3 - 2*p - 2*p**2 - 2*p**4 + 0*p**3 - p**4 in the form n + v*p**2 + u*p**3 + c*p + g*p**4 and give u. -2 Express 105*u**2 + 283*u**2 + 13*u**2 in the form y + k*u + t*u**2 and give t. 401 Express (24 + 435*b**2 + 435*b**2 - 868*b**2)*(b - 4*b + b) + b**3 - 6*b**3 + 3*b**3 in the form r*b + c + u*b**3 + h*b**2 and give u. -6 Express -63*g**2 + 44*g**2 + 366*g**2 + 232*g**2 - 15*g**2 in the form x*g + q + l*g**2 and give l. 564 Express (-1 - 2 + 2)*(-2 + 5 - 1)*(-1 + 2 + 1)*(2*b + 6*b - 4*b)*(16 - 27 + 17) in the form c*b + a and give c. -96 Express 403*k**2 + 122*k**2 + 11*k**2 as z + v*k**2 + a*k and give v. 536 Rearrange 86 + 160*x - 39*x - 40*x - 39*x

Short cardiac iodine-123-metaiodobenzylguanidine imaging protocol in heart failure. For assessment of cardiac sympathetic nervous activity, the conventional protocol for iodine-123-metaiodobenzylguanidine ((123)I-MIBG) imaging requires several hours. To establish whether it is possible to shorten the conventional (123)I-MIBG imaging protocol, anterior planar imaging was performed in 42 heart failure (HF) patients at 5, 15 and 180 min. The washout rate of (123)I-MIBG from 5 to 15 min (WR5-15 min) was calculated as a novel index. WR5-15 min closely correlated with the conventional washout rate and inversely correlated with the heart to mediastinum ratio. Univariate Cox analysis revealed that rapid WR5-15 min, augmented plasma B-type natriuretic peptide level, and decreased left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) were predictors for cardiac events. Multivariate analysis showed WR5-15 min and LVEF were independent predictors. The cardiac event rate was markedly higher (73%) in patients when both WR5-15 min and LVEF were abnormal. WR5-15 min obtained from anterior planar imaging is useful for evaluating the severity of HF and clinical outcome, and may shorten the cardiac (123)I-MIBG scintigraphy protocol.

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Q: echo command in system api call without \n? #include <stdio.h> #include<stdlib.h> void echoIt() { char* cmd_1 = "echo -ne {\"key\":\"value\"} > outFile"; char* cmd_2 = "echo -ne ,{\"key1\":\"value1\"} >> outFile"; system(cmd_1); system(cmd_2); } int main(int argc, char **argv) { echoIt(); } output came in 2 lines ,the option -ne is to remove \n that also came in outFile root@userx:/home/userx/work/lab/test# cat outFile -ne {key:value} -ne ,{key1:value1} expected result is on the same line : {key:value} ,{key1:value1} how to get it? A: I'm going to take your word for it that you have a concrete reason why you must use a subshell for this, rather than opening the file directly. The -n and -e options to echo are not part of the portable shell specification. Often, they work in the interactive shell you are accustomed to using, but don't work in the noninteractive shell used to interpret system command lines. On modern (post-2001) operating systems, it is better to use printf than echo: system("printf '%s' '{\"key\":\"value\"}' > outFile"); system("printf '%s' ',{\"key\":\"value\"}' >> outFile"); will do what you want. If there's a case where you do want a newline after the string, printf understands C-style backslash escapes in its first argument only: system("printf '%s\\n' ',{\"key\":\"value\"}' >> outFile"); Pay close attention to the quoting in all of these examples.

/* Copyright 2006-2015 Joaquin M Lopez Munoz. * Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. * (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at * http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt) * * See http://www.boost.org/libs/flyweight for library home page. */ #ifndef BOOST_FLYWEIGHT_SERIALIZE_HPP #define BOOST_FLYWEIGHT_SERIALIZE_HPP #if defined(_MSC_VER)&&(_MSC_VER>=1200) #pragma once #endif #include <boost/config.hpp> /* keep it first to prevent nasty warns in MSVC */ #include <boost/flyweight/flyweight_fwd.hpp> #include <boost/flyweight/detail/archive_constructed.hpp> #include <boost/flyweight/detail/serialization_helper.hpp> #include <boost/serialization/nvp.hpp> #include <boost/serialization/split_free.hpp> #include <boost/throw_exception.hpp> #include <memory> /* Serialization routines for flyweight<T>. */ namespace boost{ namespace serialization{ template< class Archive, typename T,typename Arg1,typename Arg2,typename Arg3 > inline void serialize( Archive& ar,::boost::flyweights::flyweight<T,Arg1,Arg2,Arg3>& f, const unsigned int version) { split_free(ar,f,version); } template< class Archive, typename T,typename Arg1,typename Arg2,typename Arg3 > void save( Archive& ar,const ::boost::flyweights::flyweight<T,Arg1,Arg2,Arg3>& f, const unsigned int /*version*/) { typedef ::boost::flyweights::flyweight<T,Arg1,Arg2,Arg3> flyweight; typedef ::boost::flyweights::detail::save_helper<flyweight> helper; typedef typename helper::size_type size_type; helper& hlp=ar.template get_helper<helper>(); size_type n=hlp.find(f); ar<<make_nvp("item",n); if(n==hlp.size()){ ar<<make_nvp("key",f.get_key()); hlp.push_back(f); } } template< class Archive, typename T,typename Arg1,typename Arg2,typename Arg3 > void load( Archive& ar,::boost::flyweights::flyweight<T,Arg1,Arg2,Arg3>& f, const unsigned int version) { typedef ::boost::flyweights::flyweight<T,Arg1,Arg2,Arg3> flyweight; typedef typename flyweight::key_type key_type; typedef ::boost::flyweights::detail::load_helper<flyweight> helper; typedef typename helper::size_type size_type; helper& hlp=ar.template get_helper<helper>(); size_type n=0; ar>>make_nvp("item",n); if(n>hlp.size()){ throw_exception( archive::archive_exception(archive::archive_exception::other_exception)); } else if(n==hlp.size()){ ::boost::flyweights::detail::archive_constructed<key_type> k( "key",ar,version); hlp.push_back(flyweight(k.get())); } f=hlp[n]; } } /* namespace serialization */ } /* namespace boost */ #endif

1. Introduction =============== Blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm (BPDCN) is a rare and aggressive hematologic malignancy derived from precursors of plasmacytoid dendritic cells. This disease entity was recognized in the 2008 World Health Organization (WHO) classification of tumors of hematopoietic and lymphoid tissues, where it was separately included in the group of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and related precursor neoplasm.^\[[@R1]\]^ This disease almost always presents with cutaneous involvement as the 1st manifestation, with subsequent or concurrent spread to bone marrow and peripheral blood.^\[[@R2]--[@R4]\]^ Although it is extremely rare, a minority but significant proportion of patients present without skin lesions. Furthermore, BPDCN present at other sites has not been yet reported. To date, nasal cavity lesion as the 1st manifestation in BPDCN has not been reported yet. Here we report 2 cases of BPDCN preseting as masses of nasal cavity and nasopharynx with leukemic manifestation without skin lesion in adolescent patients. In addition, we briefly reviewed previous cases of BPDCN without skin manifestation. 2. Case reports =============== 2.1. Case 1 ----------- The 1st patient was a 16-year-old girl who presented with recurrent epistaxis. She had no significant medical history or family history of cancer or known genetic disorders. On sinonasal computed tomography (CT), a 2.9-cm sized, polypoid mass was noted in the nasal cavity. Cutaneous examination was unremarkable. Biopsy of this mass was performed. Histologically, the nasal mucosa diffusely expanded. It was infiltrated by atypical lymphoid infiltrates. Infiltrative tumor cells were diffuse, monomorphic medium-sized cells with fine chromatin, irregular nuclei, and scanty cytoplasm, showing blastic morphology. Mucosal glands often became widely spaced and lost. An angiocentric and angiodestructive growth pattern were not identified. Mucosal ulceration and necrosis were not identified either (Fig. [1](#F1){ref-type="fig"}A, B). Immunohistochemically, atypical lymphoid cells were positive for CD2, CD4, CD56, and CD123 with focal weak staining for TCL-1, but negative for CD20, CD3, TdT, MPO, and EBV-encoded small RNA (Fig. [1](#F1){ref-type="fig"}C--F). No clonal TCRG or IgH gene rearrangement was detected. Peripheral blood work-up revealed pancytopenia while bone marrow biopsy revealed involvement of neoplastic cells, similar to histology and immunohistochemical findings of nasal cavity mass. {#F1} The patient was treated with induction chemotherapy with Berlin-Frankfurt-Münster regimen used for acute lymphoblastic leukemia. She achieved complete remission. After the 1st remission, she received allogenic peripheral blood stem-cell transplant (PBSCT). No relapse was observed at 14 months after transplantation. Interestingly, she had no skin lesions at initial diagnosis or during the course of their illness. 2.2. Case 2 ----------- The 2nd patient was a previous healthy 17-year-old female who presented with nasal obstruction and voice change for a month. CT scans revealed a large enhancing nasopharyngeal mass involving adenoid and several small indeterminate lymph nodes at the neck. Biopsy of the nasopharyngeal mass was performed. Microscopically, the nasopharyngeal mucosa was entirely replaced by diffuse atypical lymphoid cells with blastoid morphology (Fig. [2](#F2){ref-type="fig"}A, B). Immunohistochemically, these atypical lymphoid cells were positive for CD4, weak CD56, CD123, TCL1, and TdT, but negative for CD20, CD3, CD8, and CD1a (Fig. [2](#F2){ref-type="fig"}C--F). Peripheral blood count results were as follows: WBC, 4890/μL; Hb, 11 g/dL; and platelet, 127/μL. Blast was measured 13% of WBCs. Bone marrow biopsy showed infiltration of blastic tumor cells and demonstrated increase of CD4+, CD56+, TdT+, CD10−, and CD34− blasts up to 95% of total nucleated cells. Abdominal scan revealed mild hepatosplenomegaly while PET scan suggested hypermetabolism at nasopharynx, systemic lymph nodes, breast, liver, spleen, and bone marrow. Based on these findings, the diagnosis was most consistent with BPDCN for the 2 cases. {#F2} The patient was treated with AraC/Idarubicin (AId) induction chemotherapy. However, persistent blasts (32.5% of total nucleated cells) were observed in bone marrow biopsy. She is now taking Cladribin/Ara-C/G-CSF (CLAG) reinduction chemotherapy. After the remission, she received allogenic PBSCT. No relapse was observed at 11 months after transplantation. Interestingly, she also had no skin lesions at initial diagnosis or during the course of their illness. 3. Discussion ============= In this study, we report 2 cases of BPDCN in adolescent patients who had unusual extracutaneous manifestation without skin lesion. Clinicopathologically, the differential diagnosis of our cases included extranodal NK/T-cell lymphoma, acute leukemia of ambiguous lineage, and NK lymphoblastic leukemia/lymphoma. Nasal cavity lesion as the 1st clinical manifestation and CD56-positive tumor cells raised the possibility of extranodal NK/T-cell lymphoma. However, absence of angioinvasion, no expression of cytoplasmic CD3, and cytotoxic granule proteins such as granzyme B and no association with EBV ruled out the diagnosis of extranodal NK/T-cell lymphoma. According to the 2017 WHO criteria, tumors that express some immunophenotypic features of BPDCN but not all immunohistochemical markers may be better classified as "acute leukemia of ambiguous lineage."^\[[@R5]\]^ At present, NK lymphoblastic leukemia/lymphoma is considered a provisional entity. It should be diagnosed after ruling out BPDCN. Blastic cells expressing CD56 and CD2 raised the possibility of NK lymphoblastic leukemia/lymphoma. However, CD4 positivity made it doubtful for such diagnosis. In such cases, immunohistochemical analysis including the most characteristic and reliable marker is essential for the diagnosis of BPDCN. BPDCN was initially characterized by the expression of CD4, CD56, and the lack of B cells, T cells, myeloid or monocytic cells, and NK cell markers. More specific plasmacytoid dendritic cell markers (CD123, CD303, and TCL1) have been recently used to diagnose BPDCN.^\[[@R6],[@R7]\]^ Since they are concomitantly expressed in only 46% of patients, it has been proposed that diagnosis of BPDCN can be made when 4 of these 5 markers (CD4, CD56, CD123, CD303, and TCL1) are expressed.^\[[@R8]\]^ Although tumor cells of the 1st case showed focal positive for TCL1, both of 2 cases showed all 5 markers except CD303 which was not performed in our institution. Therefore, our 2 cases were histologically diagnosed with BPDCN. The BPDCN without cutaneous lesion is exceedingly rare to diagnose. Patients without cutaneous involvement have been described in the literature. Table [1](#T1){ref-type="table"} presents a summary of 39 published cases of BPDN without skin involvement. Bone marrow involvement was observed in the majority of patients at diagnosis. Through hematopathology consultation service at the National Institutes of Health, Jegalian et al^\[[@R6]\]^ have evaluated 55 BPDCN cases. Among them, 9 (16%) patients lacked cutaneous disease at presentation. A retrospective multicenter study of 43 patients (the GIMEMA study) presenting with leukemic manifestation was reported in 2012.^\[[@R14]\]^ Among 43 patients, 8 (19%) cases had no cutaneous manifestations.^\[[@R14]\]^ In these patients lacking skin involvement, other extracutaneous and extramedullary sites in lymph node, spleen, and liver are most commonly observed. Rauh et al^\[[@R13]\]^ have demonstrated that patients with BPDN without skin involvement and leukemic presentation show adverse prognosis than those with skin involvement. Interestingly, no case of BPDCN presenting with nasal cavity mass has been reported. It is of note that we identified nasal cavity as the unusual site of BPDCN. ###### Summary of 39 published cases of BPDCN without skin involvement in the literatures.  Lack of traditional lineage-specific markers for B cells, T cells, myeloid, or monocytic cells with the absence of cutaneous manifestation has diagnostic challenge. The diagnosis of BPDCN is usually suspected in patients with skin lesion. Despite the absence of skin lesions and tumor involvement of unusual site, the diagnosis of BPDCN should not be ruled out since a minority of cases present with leukemia without skin involvement. Accurate recognition of BPDCN is important because of its different clinical course and outcome as well as treatment strategy compared to other differential diagnoses. In this regard, our 2 cases are significant as they have unusual presentation with leukemia in the absence of characteristic cutaneous manifestations. 4. Conclusion ============= In conclusion, our 2 cases demonstrate an atypical presentation without skin manifestation, characteristic of BPDCN. Although BPDCN without skin lesion is extremely rare, it should be considered in the differential diagnosis of blastic leukemia with an undifferentiated and ambiguous immunophenotype. Author contributions ==================== **Conceptualization:** Seung Eun Lee, Yoon Kyung Jeon, Wook Youn Kim. **Supervision:** Yoon Kyung Jeon, Wook Youn Kim. **Visualization:** Dohee Kwon, Ha Young Park. **Writing -- original draft:** Seung Eun Lee. **Writing -- review & editing:** Seung Eun Lee, Yoon Kyung Jeon, Wook Youn Kim. Abbreviations: AML = acute myeloid leukemia, BPDCN = blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm, CT = computed tomography, WHO = World Health Organization. Written informed consent was obtained from the patient for publication of this case report and its accompanying images. The authors have no funding and conflicts of interest to disclose.

Q: MSSQL how to properly Lock rows and insert? I want to insert two rows in 2 different tables but want to roll back the transaction if some pre conditions on the second table are met. Does it work In .NET if i simply start a transaction scope and execute a sql query to check data on the second table before executing the insert statements? If so, what is the isolation level to use? I don't want it lock the whole tables as there are going to be many inserts. UNIQUE constraint is not an option because what i want to do is guarantee not more than 2 rows in the 2nd table to have the same value (FK to a PK column of table 1) Thanks A: Yes you can execute a sql query to check data on the second table before executing the insert statements. Fyi the default is Serializable. From MSDN: The lowest isolation level, ReadUncommitted, allows many transactions to operate on a data store simultaneously and provides no protection against data corruption due to interruptive transactions. The highest isolation level, Serializable, provides a high degree of protection against interruptive transactions, but requires that each transaction complete before any other transactions are allowed to operate on the data. The isolation level of a transaction is determined when the transaction is created. By default, the System.Transactions infrastructure creates Serializable transactions. You can determine the isolation level of an existing transaction using the IsolationLevel property of a transaction. Given your requirement, I do not think you want to use Serializable since it is the least friendly for high volume multi user systems because they cause the most amount of blocking. You need to decide on the amount of protection that is required. At a minimum, you should look into READ UNCOMMITTED, READ COMMITTED, REPEATABLE READ. The following answer goes over Isolation Levels in detail. From that, you can decide what level of protection is sufficient for your requirement. Transaction isolation levels relation with locks on table

Spectral-Domain Optical Coherence Tomography Imaging in 67 321 Adults: Associations with Macular Thickness in the UK Biobank Study. To derive macular thickness measures and their associations by performing rapid, automated segmentation of spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD OCT) images collected and stored as part of the UK Biobank (UKBB) study. Large, multisite cohort study in the United Kingdom. Analysis of cross-sectional data. Adults from the United Kingdom aged 40 to 69 years. Participants had nonmydriatic SD OCT (Topcon 3D OCT-1000 Mark II; Topcon GB, Newberry, Berkshire, UK) performed as part of the ocular assessment module. Rapid, remote, automated segmentation of the images was performed using custom optical coherence tomography (OCT) image analysis software (Topcon Advanced Boundary Segmentation [TABS]; Topcon GB) to generate macular thickness values. We excluded people with a history of ocular or systemic disease (diabetes or neurodegenerative diseases) and eyes with reduced vision (<0.1 logarithm of the minimum angle of resolution) or with low SD OCT signal-to-noise ratio and low segmentation success certainty. Macular thickness values across 9 Early Treatment of Diabetic Retinopathy Study (ETDRS) subfields. The SD OCT scans of 67 321 subjects were available for analysis, with 32 062 people with at least 1 eye meeting the inclusion criteria. There were 17 274 women and 14 788 men, with a mean (standard deviation [SD]) age of 55.2 (8.2) years. The mean (SD) logarithm of the minimum angle of resolution visual acuity was -0.075 (0.087), and the refractive error was -0.071 (+1.91) diopters (D). The mean (SD) central macular thickness (CMT) in the central 1-mm ETDRS subfield was 264.5 (22.9) μm, with 95% confidence limits of 220.8 and 311.5 μm. After adjusting for covariates, CMT was positively correlated with older age, female gender, greater myopia, smoking, body mass index (BMI), and white ethnicity (all P < 0.001). Of note, macular thickness in other subfields was negatively correlated with older age and greater myopia. We report macular thickness data derived from SD OCT images collected as part of the UKBB study and found novel associations among older age, ethnicity, BMI, smoking, and macular thickness.

Effects of signal sequences and folding accessory proteins on extracellular expression of carboxypeptidase Y in recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Carboxypeptidase Y (CPY) is a yeast vacuolar protease with useful applications including C-terminal sequencing of peptides and terminal modification of target proteins. To overexpress CPY with the pro-sequence (proCPY) encoded by the Saccharomyces cerevisiae PRC1 gene in recombinant S. cerevisiae, the proCPY gene was combined with the gene coding for a signal sequence of S. cerevisiae mating factor α (MFα), invertase (SUC2), or Kluyveromyces marxianus inulinase (INU1). Among the three constructs, the MFα signal sequence gave the best specific activity of extracellular CPY. To enhance the CPY expression level, folding accessory proteins of Kar2p, Pdi1p and Ero1p located in the S. cerevisiae endoplasmic reticulum were expressed individually and combinatorially. A single expression of Kar2p led to a 28 % enhancement in extracellular CPY activity, relative to the control strain of S. cerevisiae CEN.PK2-1D/p426Gal1-MFαCPY. Coexpression of Kar2p, Pdi1p and Ero1p gave a synergistic effect on CPY expression, of which activity was 1.7 times higher than that of the control strain. This work showed that engineering of signal sequences and protein-folding proteins would be helpful to overexpress yeast proteins of interest.

Q: Django ModelForm not showing up in template I've been using django for a couple of days now and I'm trying to create a small app to learn the whole stuff. I've read about the ModelForms and I wanted to use it in my app, but I can't get it to render in my template and I can't find the problem, so I was hoping you guys could help me out. Here's my code: models.py from django.db import models class Kiss(models.Model): latitude = models.FloatField() longitude = models.FloatField() person1 = models.CharField(max_length = 255) person2 = models.CharField(max_length = 255) cdate = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True) def __unicode__(self): return self.person1 views.py from django.views.generic.list import ListView from project.models import Kiss from project.forms import KissForm from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect class KissListView(ListView): template_name = 'project/home.html' model = Kiss form = KissForm urls.py (only the relevant part) urlpatterns += patterns('', url(r'^$', KissListView.as_view(), name='home'), ) forms.py from django import forms from project.models import Kiss class KissForm(forms.ModelForm): class Meta: model = Kiss and the template <form action="" method="POST"> {% csrf_token %} {{form.as_p}} <button>Send</button> </form> Thanks in advance for your help. J A: class KissListView(ListView): ... You are using ListView which does not require form and will not give you form in the template context. You may want to use CreateView instead.

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Painters working on large elevated areas customarily utilize long-handled tools which obtain their paint from trays or buckets placed on the floor or on a scaffold, or receive them through hoses. These are suitable and accepted techniques for painting large areas. Similarly, at or near ground or floor levels, these techniques are widely used. On smaller jobs, and especially at higher elevations where access to a floor level supply is not convenient, the painter takes the bucket up the ladder with him and places it on a platform of some kind. This, of course limits the range of the painter's efforts and when he needs to work on a more distant area, he must dismount the ladder, move it and the bucket, and start again. These procedures are useful for larger, mostly rather plain, painting. However, they make it needlessly difficult for paint jobs of more artistic nature. Examples of such more complicated jobs are treatment of areas in which patterns of various colors, texture, or composition are needed, such as walls to be textured to appear as a cloudy sky, or which are to have an image such as a face or other physical objects. For these jobs, which generally are smaller in size but which require greater skill and artistry, it is known for painters to hang a pail of paint from a tool belt, with the pail dangling freely from the belt. The painter dips the applicator into the pail. The term “applicator” is used herein to denote a handled tool for applying paint, of which brushes and rollers are the most commonly encountered examples. It is used to denote both kinds. While this bucket is available to the painter on the ladder, it calls for considerable care in its use because the applicator and pail are independently supported. When he climbs the ladder, he must attend to both the bucket and the applicator, holding the applicator with one hand, holding on to the ladder with the other, and caring for the dangling pail. This is not only clumsy and potentially dangerous, but distracting to an artist. This invention frees a hand which otherwise would be holding the applicator. In the most ordinary usage, care must be exerted to control drip from both the applicator and from the bucket, especially from and around the groove in the rim of the bucket. Otherwise the bucket and its surroundings can become messy, and control over the color is reduced. The absence of bucket stability in the sense of a close coupling of the painter's body and the bucket is a considerable disadvantage. Further, known buckets do not provide specific means for wiping the applicator while it is being removed from the bucket with paint to be applied to a surface. This can result in excessive paint on the applicator, and dripping of paint from the applicator. Another disadvantage of the known art is the need either to use a large number of buckets, or to clean up a single bucket when a different color is to be applied. For large walls this is no problem. However, for small jobs, and especially for multi-color jobs, this is a serious disadvantage. It is an object of this invention to provide a paint holder (frequently called a “bucket”), with an integral stabilizer which abuts the painter's body over a substantial area to establish the location of the bucket relative to the painter. It is another object of this invention to provide a drain from the rim groove of the bucket which will drain paint from the groove back into the bucket. It is yet another object of this invention to provide a shaped liner with an outer wall complementary to the rim groove and preferably also with some of the inner wall of the bucket. This liner is removable, so it can protect the bucket from undesired paint, and also so as to be removable and replaceable to present paints of different colors. It is yet another object of this invention to provide a liner with multiple cavities so as to carry a plurality of colors in one liner. It is still another object of this invention to provide in this holder an applicator mount arranged so the painter can easily store and access the applicator. When stored, it is in a position to drain into the bucket. When the painter climbs the ladder, or otherwise does not need the applicator, it is held in a proper place, with its handle held by the mount, and with the applicator portion below a covering lid through which the handle passes.

Once the roles were reversed. Four hundred years ago, as Christian Europe became engulfed in religious conflict, a stable, prosperous Muslim superpower looked on with interest. The emergence of Protestantism threatened the hegemony of the Ottoman Empire’s longtime Catholic rivals as well as the stability of Istanbul’s trading partners. The Ottomans teamed up with the Protestants, fighting Poland on behalf of rebellious Bohemia, and providing others with indirect covert support in wars against common enemies. Even in the 20th century Middle East , the secular Gamal Abdul Nasser sought to overthrow the Islamist Saudi monarchy in the 1960s and launched a war in north Yemen against Saudi-backed rivals. The point, among the six « lessons » drawn from a wide-angle view of history by John Owen in Confronting Political Islam, is that foreign interventions are inevitable at times of grand, transnational ideological upheaval. They are not simply the result of imperial ambitions but of rational self-interest. « When one or more countries is undergoing civil unrest that could produce a regime change, outside countries often have a strategic or material stake in the outcome, » he writes. Owen, a politics professor at the University of Virginia, applies lessons gleaned from the great western conflicts to what he describes as the decades-long conflict between secularism and Islamism in the greater Middle East. In an animated, ambitious and thoughtful book, he focuses on the unrest that engulfed early modern Europe with the rise of Protestantism, the century-long struggle between absolute monarchy and republicanism in western Europe and North America; and the often-bloody struggle between liberalism, communism and fascism that ravaged the 20th century. He describes the struggle between secularism and political Islam as similar in scale and stakes to those three epochal conflicts, with secularists holding the upper hand from the 1920s to the 1960s and Islamists gaining ground since. In dealing with the rise of political Islam, he cautions policy makers never to underestimate the longevity of what they may consider a « backward » ideology, noting the constant flare-ups of Europe’s sectarian wars and the broad appeal of communism and fascism even among intellectuals in the liberal west. Policy makers must step carefully before trying to co-opt Islamist moderates and isolate radicals. He cites US policy in cold war Europe, where Washington partnered with French socialists but wrote off Italy’s as hopelessly wedded to Moscow. In the west’s three grand ideological battles, he writes, twice there was no winner. Europe transcended its sectarian conflict by adopting a secular model, like that of Holland, over papist or protestant rule. Battles between republicanism and monarchy led to Britain’s hybrid model, neither absolute monarchy nor radical republic. In the battle between fascism and communism, liberalism eventually won out, with the US defeating Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. Why? Owen says the success or failure of bellwether states determines how an ideological conflict will turn out. American capitalism won out, for example, because it was economically and internationally successful. In the battle between Islamism and secularism Owen identifies Islamist Iran and secular Turkey as the bellwether states to watch. This is problematic. Though they have been heralded at times in the past decade, both countries are mistrusted by many Sunni Arabs, who make up the bulk of the Middle East. Owen’s book is stimulating and useful but it cannot account for the indecipherable tangle that emerges when ideological, national and local actors and interests become jumbled. In today’s Middle East hundreds of local forces are at play, from the Berber of north Africa to the Kurdish resurgence in the Levant; from al-Qaeda in the Maghreb to Hizbollah in Lebanon – not to mention tribal and regional conflicts within countries. It is a limitation Owen knows well. « There is no substitute, » he writes, « for the deep study of Muslims and Islam on their own terms – their theologies, cultures and histories. » « Confronting Political Islam: Six Lessons from the West’s Past » by John Owen, Princeton University Press (£19.95 $29.95)

Q: Create a pager for views output How can I make a pager for views output to limit them at 10 entries? $view = views_get_view('myview', 'default'); $view->override_path = $_GET['q']; $view_output = $view->execute_display('page_1', array($tid)); A: Drupal Views module provides this functionality. You don't need to write the code for that. See the image below Here you can set item to display as want. It has many more options

Q: Proving Plancherel's theorem using Cauchy integral formula Plancherel's theorem says that $f(x) = \frac{1}{2\pi} \int^\infty_{-\infty} F(k) e^{ikx} dk$ where $F(k) = \int^\infty_{-\infty} f(x)e^{-ikx}dx$. I'm wondering if we can prove this using Cauchy's integral formula somehow like this. $f(x) = \frac{1}{2\pi} \int^\infty_{-\infty} \int^\infty_{-\infty} f(x')e^{-ikx'} dx' e^{ikx} dk$ $= \frac{1}{2\pi} \int^\infty_{-\infty} \int^\infty_{-\infty} e^{ik(x-x')} dk f(x') dx'$ $= \lim_{k_0\rightarrow\infty} \frac{1}{2\pi} \int^\infty_{-\infty} \frac{1}{i(x-x')} (e^{ik_0(x-x')}-e^{-ik_0(x-x')}) f(x') dx'$ $= \lim_{k_0\rightarrow\infty} -f(x)+f(x)$ $=0$ where I used Cauchy's integral formula in the next to last equality. I did contour integral over a upper half-circle and assumed f(x) goes to 0 at large x. However I got 0 instead of $f(x)$ at the last equality. I believe there are some problems in my understanding of complex analysis, so please let me know them! A: Observe that $$\begin{align} \frac{1}{2\pi} \int\limits^\infty_{-\infty} \int\limits^\infty_{-\infty} \textstyle f\left(x'\right)\,\exp\left({-\text{i}kx'}\right)\, \text{d}x'\, \exp({\text{i}kx})\, \text{d}k &=\lim_{k_0\rightarrow\infty}\, \frac{1}{2\pi}\, \int\limits^{+\infty}_{-\infty} \textstyle\frac{\exp\big({+\text{i}k_0\left(x-x'\right)}\big)-\exp\big({-\text{i}k_0\left(x-x'\right)}\big)}{\text{i}(x-x')} \,f\left(x'\right)\, \text{d}x' \\ &=\lim_{k_0\rightarrow\infty}\,\frac{1}{2\pi\text{i}}\,\int\limits^{+\infty}_{-\infty}\textstyle \,\frac{\exp\big({\text{i}k_0\left(x'-x\right)}\big)}{x'-x} \,\big(f\left(x'\right)+f\left(2x-x'\right)\big) \,\text{d}x'\,. \end{align}$$ Furthermore, your contour goes about the pole at $x$ half a turn. Hence, we have that $$\lim_{k_0\rightarrow\infty}\,\frac{1}{2\pi\text{i}}\,\int\limits^{+\infty}_{-\infty} \,\frac{\exp\big({\text{i}k_0\left(x'-x\right)}\big)\big)}{x'-x}\, \big(f\left(x'\right)+f\left(2x-x'\right)\big)\, \text{d}x'=\frac{1}{2}\big(f(x)+f(x)\big)=f(x)\,.$$

Q: Parsing Large XML with Nokogiri So I'm attempting to parse a 400k+ line XML file using Nokogiri. The XML file has this basic format: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1252"?> <JDBOR date="2013-09-01 04:12:31" version="1.0.20 [2012-12-14]" copyright="Orphanet (c) 2013"> <DisorderList count="6760"> *** Repeated Many Times *** <Disorder id="17601"> <OrphaNumber>166024</OrphaNumber> <Name lang="en">Multiple epiphyseal dysplasia, Al-Gazali type</Name> <DisorderSignList count="18"> <DisorderSign> <ClinicalSign id="2040"> <Name lang="en">Macrocephaly/macrocrania/megalocephaly/megacephaly</Name> </ClinicalSign> <SignFreq id="640"> <Name lang="en">Very frequent</Name> </SignFreq> </DisorderSign> </Disorder> *** Repeated Many Times *** </DisorderList> </JDBOR> Here is the code I've created to parse and return each DisorderSign id and name into a database: require 'nokogiri' sympFile = File.open("Temp.xml") @doc = Nokogiri::XML(sympFile) sympFile.close() symptomsList = [] @doc.xpath("////DisorderSign").each do |x| signId = x.at('ClinicalSign').attribute('id').text() name = x.at('ClinicalSign').element_children().text() symptomsList.push([signId, name]) end symptomsList.each do |x| Symptom.where(:name => x[1], :signid => Integer(x[0])).first_or_create end This works perfect on the test files I've used, although they were much smaller, around 10000 lines. When I attempt to run this on the large XML file, it simply does not finish. I left it on overnight and it seemed to just lockup. Is there any fundamental reason the code I've written would make this very memory intensive or inefficient? I realize I store every possible pair in a list, but that shouldn't be large enough to fill up memory. Thank you for any help. A: I see a few possible problems. First of all, this: @doc = Nokogiri::XML(sympFile) will slurp the whole XML file into memory as some sort of libxml2 data structure and that will probably be larger than the raw XML file. Then you do things like this: @doc.xpath(...).each That may not be smart enough to produce an enumerator that just maintains a pointer to the internal form of the XML, it might be producing a copy of everything when it builds the NodeSet that xpath returns. That would give you another copy of most of the expanded-in-memory version of the XML. I'm not sure how much copying and array construction happens here but there is room for a fair bit of memory and CPU overhead even if it doesn't copy duplicate everything. Then you make your copy of what you're interested in: symptomsList.push([signId, name]) and finally iterate over that array: symptomsList.each do |x| Symptom.where(:name => x[1], :signid => Integer(x[0])).first_or_create end I find that SAX parsers work better with large data sets but they are more cumbersome to work with. You could try creating your own SAX parser something like this: class D < Nokogiri::XML::SAX::Document def start_element(name, attrs = [ ]) if(name == 'DisorderSign') @data = { } elsif(name == 'ClinicalSign') @key = :sign @data[@key] = '' elsif(name == 'SignFreq') @key = :freq @data[@key] = '' elsif(name == 'Name') @in_name = true end end def characters(str) @data[@key] += str if(@key && @in_name) end def end_element(name, attrs = [ ]) if(name == 'DisorderSign') # Dump @data into the database here. @data = nil elsif(name == 'ClinicalSign') @key = nil elsif(name == 'SignFreq') @key = nil elsif(name == 'Name') @in_name = false end end end The structure should be pretty clear: you watch for the opening of the elements that you're interested in and do a bit of bookkeeping set up when the do, then cache the strings if you're inside an element you care about, and finally clean up and process the data as the elements close. You're database work would replace the # Dump @data into the database here. comment. This structure makes it pretty easy to watch for the <Disorder id="17601"> elements so that you can keep track of how far you've gone. That way you can stop and restart the import with some small modifications to your script. A: A SAX Parser is definitly what you want to be using. If you're anything like me and can't jive with the Nokogiri documentation, there is an awesome gem called Saxerator that makes this process really easy. An example for what you are trying to do -- require 'saxerator' parser = Saxerator.parser(Temp.xml) parser.for_tag(:DisorderSign).each do |sign| signId = sign[:ClinicalSign][:id] name = sign[:ClinicalSign][:name] Symtom(:name => name, :id => signId).create! end

Childhood is the most important stage in human development, since exactly during this period the foundation for a healthy, successful and happy life is laid. Supporting child development is the strategic goal of society. There are 5,623,387 children in Kazakhstan aged from 0 to 17 years, which is about 31% of the population. Since 2008, when the country switched to international criteria for live birth, Kazakhstan has made significant progress in reducing infant mortality. Neonatal mortality rates have been reduced by more than 50%. However, despite a significant decline, infant mortality in Kazakhstan is still relevant. In the regions, programs for perinatal and neonatal care and care for sick newborns are not working effectively. UNICEF provides technical assistance to improve the skills and qualifications of health workers to support early childhood development.

Coicenals A-D, four new diterpenoids with new chemical skeletons from the plant pathogenic fungus Bipolaris coicis. Coicenals A-C (1-3) possessing a previously undescribed 10-(sec-butyl)-6-hydroxy-1,7,9-trimethyl-1,6,7,8,9,9a-hexahydro-1,4-methanobenzo[d]oxepin-2(4H)-ylidene)acetaldehyde skeleton and coicenal D (4) with a new 2-(sec-butyl)-5-hydroxy-1,6,8-trimethyl-2,5,6,7,8,8a-hexahydro-1H-4a,1-(epoxymethano)naphthalen-10-ylidene)acetaldehyde skeleton were isolated from the solid culture of the plant pathogenic fungus Bipolaris coicis. The absolute configurations in 1 and 4 were assigned by electronic circular dichroism (ECD) calculations. Compounds 1 and 2 were transformed into 4 and 5 by treatment with acetyl chloride, respectively. Compounds 1-4 showed moderate inhibitory activity against NO release with IC50 values of 16.34 ± 1.12, 23.55 ± 1.37, 10.82 ± 0.83, and 54.20 ± 2.82 μM, respectively.

Combustion engines are machines that convert chemical energy stored in fuel into mechanical energy useful for generating electricity, producing thrust, or otherwise doing work. These engines typically include several cooperative sections that contribute in some way to this energy conversion process. In gas turbine engines, air discharged from a compressor section and fuel introduced from a fuel supply are mixed together and burned in a combustion section. The products of combustion are harnessed and directed through a turbine section, where they expand and turn a central rotor. A variety of combustor designs exist, with different designs being selected for suitability with a given engine and to achieve desired performance characteristics. One popular combustor design includes a centralized pilot burner (hereinafter referred to as a pilot burner or simply pilot) and several main fuel/air mixing apparatuses, generally referred to in the art as injector nozzles, arranged circumferentially around the pilot burner. With this design, a central pilot flame zone and a mixing region are formed. During operation, the pilot burner selectively produces a stable flame that is anchored in the pilot flame zone, while the fuel/air mixing apparatuses produce a mixed stream of fuel and air in the above-referenced mixing region. The stream of mixed fuel and air flows out of the mixing region, past the pilot flame zone, and into a main combustion zone, where additional combustion occurs. Energy released during combustion is captured by the downstream components to produce electricity or otherwise do work. In order to ensure optimum performance of a common combustor, it is generally preferable that the internal fuel-and-air streams are well-mixed to avoid localized, fuel-rich regions. As a result, efforts have been made to produce combustors with essentially uniform distributions of fuel and air. Swirler elements, for example, are often used to produce a stream of fuel and air in which air and injected fuel are evenly mixed. Gas turbine technology has evolved toward greater efficiency and also to accommodate environmental standards in various nations. One aspect in the evolution of designs and operating criteria is the use of leaner gas air mixtures to provide for increased efficiency and decreased emissions of NOx and carbon monoxide. Combustion of over-rich pockets of fuel and air leads to high-temperature combustion that produces high levels of unwanted NOx emissions. Also, a key objective in design and operation of gas turbine combustors is the stability of the flame and, related to that, the prevention of flashbacks. A flashback occurs when flame travels upstream from the combustion zone in the combustion chamber and approaches, contacts, and/or attaches to, an upstream component. Although a stable but lean mixture is desired for fuel efficiency and for environmentally acceptable emissions, a flashback may occur at times more frequently with a lean mixture, and particularly during unstable operation. For instance, the flame in the combustion chamber may progress backwards and rest upon for a period a baseplate which defines the upstream part of the combustion chamber. Less frequently, the flame may flash back into a fuel/air mixing apparatus, damaging components that mix the fuel with the air. A multitude of factors and operating conditions provide for efficient and clean operation of the gas turbine combustor area during ongoing operation. Not only is the fuel/air mixture important, also relevant to gas turbine operation are the shape of the combustion area, the arrangement of assemblies that provide fuel, and the length of the combustor that provides varying degrees of mixing. Given the efficiency and emissions criteria, the operation of gas turbines requires a balancing of design and operational approaches to maintain efficiency, meet emission standards, and avoid damage due to undesired flashback occurrences. The type of fuel/air mixing apparatus, and how it operates in relationship to other components, is one of the key factors in proper operation of current gas turbines. A common type of fuel/air mixing apparatus is known as a main swirler assembly (which also is referred to in the art as a nozzle, which is a more inclusive term). A main swirler assembly is comprised in part of a substantially hollow inner body that comprises stationary flow conditioning members (such as vanes) that create a turbulent flow. Fuel is added before or into this turbulent air stream and mixes to a desired degree within a period of time and space so that it is properly mixed upon combustion in the downstream combustion chamber. Also, in typical arrangements, a main swirler assembly also is comprised of an outer downstream element known as an annulus casting. An annulus casting surrounds a downstream section of the inner body, forming a channel for air flow known as the flashback annulus. In a typical arrangement, a quantity, such as eight, swirler assemblies are arranged circumferentially around the central pilot burner. The pilot burner burns a relatively richer mixture than is provided by the radially arranged swirler assemblies. Various approaches to reduce or eliminate flashback in modern gas turbine combustion systems have been attempted. Since the prevention or elimination of flashbacks is a multi-factorial issue and also relates to various aspects of the design and operation of the gas turbine combustion area, a range of approaches has been attempted. These approaches often inter-relate with one another. The present invention provides a solution toward obtaining an operationally stable, flashback-resistant main a fuel/air mixing apparatus, such as a swirler assembly, that provides an extended columnar air barrier that impedes the back progression of flame and, therefore, reduces or eliminates undesired flashback. More specifically, the present invention provides around the fuel/air mixture output of each main swirler assembly a more robust circumferential columnar body of air that 1) provides a fresh air barrier for a distance around the fuel/air mixture output of each respective main swirler assembly (or other source of fuel/air mixture); and 2) leans out the regions where there is a potential for flashback.

Investigation of hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis in severe sepsis patients. Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) is a life-threatening condition characterized by uncontrolled inflammation and has common clinical and laboratory features with sepsis. The aim of this study was to investigate patients treated with severe sepsis who had bicytopenia for the presence of HLH. Patients with severe sepsis who were non-responsive to treatment and developed at least bicytopenia were included. Peripheral blood samples were collected and stored for later evaluation for natural killer (NK) activity and soluble interleukin-2 receptor levels. Diagnostic criteria of HLH were retrospectively analyzed. Seventy-five of 382 patients (20%) were followed as severe sepsis and septic shock. Among them, 40 patients had bicytopenia. Twenty-six of 40 patients were excluded due to the presence of active solid or hematological malignancies. Three patients died before fulfillment of HLH criteria and one patient denied to give consent. All of the remaining 10 patients had at least five of the eight criteria according to criteria of the Histiocyte Society. Only one of 10 patients was diagnosed as HLH and received treatment during intensive care unit stay. None of the 10 patients survived. This study emphasizes to consider the possibility of HLH and the need of rapid assessment of patients with severe sepsis who had bicytopenia and were resistant to treatment in intensive care.

Southern Mandarin dogfish The southern Mandarin dogfish (Cirrhigaleus australis) is a species of Mandarin dogfish shark in the genus Cirrhigaleus. It was distinguished from Cirrhigaleus barbifer, which lives in the North Pacific, on an expedition in the coral reefs near Australia in 2007. It is now known to live in the temperate waters in south-eastern Australia and from the Bay of Plenty region in New Zealand, at depths of 146–640 metres. Physical characteristics It is medium-sized and robust compared to other dogfish. It is grey-brown above and pale below. The posterior margins of the pectoral and pelvic fins are white. This species of shark normally grow less than a metre long, but have been known to reach 1.25 metres. C. australis has smaller eyes, pectoral fins, dorsal fins, and spine than its cousin. The first dorsal fin is medium-sized and slightly raked. The second is similarly shaped, but a bit smaller. The pectoral fins are fairly large. Both dorsal spines are long. It also has strangely long barbels, giving it the name "Mandarin". There are about 115 centra along the back. Scientists say the shark is harmless. Its defensive techniques are useless against many larger fish, and, as a consequence, it is very vulnerable to other sharks and fish. Also, the southern Mandarin dogfish has very low resilience, its population doubling only about every 14 years. Expedition In 2007, a group of scientists from CSIRO spent some time searching the Eastern coast of Australia for new species. Along with the newly distinguished Cirrhigaleus australis, several hundreds of new marine species were discovered. Included were skates, sea stars, corals, bivalves, brachiopods, several types of marine arthropods, and many others. They conducted research in three outings, each three weeks long. Two outings were in the Great Barrier Reef on Lizard Island and Heron Island, and the third was in the Ningaloo Reef on the northwest coast of Australia. Conservation status In June 2018 the New Zealand Department of Conservation classified the southern Mandarin dogfish as "At Risk – Naturally Uncommon" with the qualifiers "Data Poor" and "Threatened Overseas" under the New Zealand Threat Classification System. References External links Pictures and Info on Cirrhigaleus australis. Family 'Squalidae' Overview and Info. Dogfish Sharks, 'Squalidae' Info. Classification and Characteristics of 'Squalidae'. CSIRO Official Website. Category:Cirrhigaleus Category:Fish of Australia Category:Fish described in 2007

Delhi metro services on Blue line briefly disrupted after girl jumps in front of approaching train: DMRC india Updated: Mar 22, 2019 14:36 IST Metro services on the Blue line was briefly disrupted on Friday after a girl allegedly jumped in front of an approaching train at Noida sector 16 station, Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) said. “Delay in service between Noida Electronic City and Dwarka Sector 21 after a girl jumped in front of an approaching train at Noida sector-16 heading towards Dwarka at around 10.45 am,” a DMRC spokesperson said. Services on all other lines remained unaffected, he said. “I could not make it to office on time since the metro services on my route was delayed for about 20 minutes,” said a commuter.