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Fantasy General II: Invasion
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Three hundred years have passed since the Shadow Wars have ravaged Keldonia and the world of Aer, and the struggles of the past have long since faded into legends.
In the Highlands of Fareach, Clans of Barbarian warriors have eked out a living in the harsh northern climate, constantly feuding with each other and raiding the wealthier Borderland towns. Fed up with these constant attacks, the Borderland Clans called on the Empire for help – a powerful realm controlling the land from the Scarlett Mountains to Cynehelm Valley and the Hoarwood. The Western Imperial Legion was sent to face the highland raiders, and with the help of the Borderland clans Iseal and Machnar, killed High King Brendan in the battle of Wyrm's Pass.
A treaty was signed that forbade any clan from crossing into the Borderlands in return for peace. Since then, there has been no High King to unite the Clans, and they fell into quarrelling and raiding amongst themselves.
In these dark times your clan has been led by Falir One-Eye, a warrior of great renown. You are his son and designated heir, and you are eager to prove your mettle to the Clan Council and your father…
Fantasy General II - Invasion is the reimagination of the strategy game classic from the 90s! Armies once again draw battle-lines on the war-torn land of Keldonia, and a new generation of commanders will test their bravery and tactics against each other. Fantasy wargaming is back!
The Battles
True to the tradition of the original game, Fantasy General II – Invasion is all about turn-based battles. Lead over 75 different unique unit types, including powerful heroes. Take into consideration terrain, weapons and armour, magical effects, morale, and the balance of forces, make a plan, execute it, and vanquish your enemy, forging your reputation as a savage war-leader.
Battle after battle, you will need to make decisions and develop your army. The young clan members will need to be trained, and as they gain enough experience, even the greenest recruits can be turned into champions. But beware: costly victories can be worse than a defeat… when battle-hardened units perish, so does their progression and experience. Each unit comes with their specific abilities, arms and armour, and they can be equipped with magic artefacts you find during battle and upgraded with gold and resources that you need to plunder from your enemy.
The Clans
A confederation of autonomous hill-land tribes, who value their independence and will fight fiercely for it. Field axemen, berserkers, spearmaidens, trolls and shamans, summon ancestor spirits and mighty elementals or train nimble stag riders and deadly werebears or recruit mercenaries from longbowmen to centaurs.
The most powerful realm on the face of Aer. Face the mighty Legions of the Empire and their magical creations from dragon cannons to golems as well as the Undead hordes they bring to battle, or fight harpies, lizard people and great dragons on your way.
The world of Aer is filled with beauty and wonders. From the cold, magic-rich highlands of Fareach, home to the player's Barbarian Clans, to the Borderlands with their fertile river valleys and deep woods where witches and monsters still roam free; from the Sunken Land, submerged through a great Cataclysm and filled with treacherous swamp and Lizardfolk, to the refined and temperate Empire to the South, home to wondrous cities and built upon undead labour. Your campaign will see you fight across very different battlefields, requiring variable tactics and army composition.
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Lost and Found in Spain: How a US Ambassador's Wife Forged Her Own Path
In 2009, Susan Lewis Solomont's husband, Alan Solomont, was appointed US ambassador to Spain and Andorra by President Barack Obama. Susan uprooted herself, leaving behind a successful career in philanthropy and a life she loved to join her husband overseas.
An ambitious professional, Susan had hoped to find a new role in Spain. She was disappointed to learn the US Department of State deemed jobs for spouses of ambassadors to be "a conflict of interest."
In the following excerpt from her new book, Lost and Found in Spain: Tales of An Ambassador's Wife, Susan recounts how she found and fought for a fulfilling purpose even when the deck was stacked against her.
As I learned more about what was expected of an ambassador's spouse, I came to hope that perhaps I could still "work" by doing something important for our nation's embassy in Madrid. I met a previous ambassador's wife who had been a journalist for many leading newspapers and institutions. While residing in her host country, she would organize intimate lunches with journalists and have conversations focused on important issues of the day. Her embassy loved those gatherings and was thrilled that she organized and ran them. Her skills and expertise were highly valued and deeply respected.
Upon hearing this, I imagined organizing meaningful events that would help the United States and our embassy in Spain accomplish important objectives. It wouldn't be a job in the conventional sense, but I could live with it. Ultimately, I had to find meaning and value in whatever I ended up doing.
When we arrived in Spain in January 2010, I went around to every department, or "section" as they are known in embassies, and offered my services. The embassy staff were all very polite. They smiled and promised they would call me. But they didn't. To them, I was very much "the spouse" in the traditional sense; my job was to stand-and-smile and support the ambassador. I took this rejection to heart. "How could nobody want me?" I thought. "I'm good! I'm smart! I'm capable!"
I told myself that it wasn't personal, that these workers were busy with their demanding jobs. But I couldn't deny that receiving the brush-off was frustrating and incomprehensible. Everyone in the foreign service — from the ambassador, whose official title included the phrase "Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary," down to the interns — had an important role to play. Yet there I was, little more than an accessory to my husband, with no official role and of seemingly little professional value to the embassy.
One thing about me: I'm relentless. I'm not the type to just let things be. Acquiescence is not in my DNA. If there wasn't a meaningful role for me to fill — something that would allow me to put my own skills and intelligence to work — then I would create one. I didn't want to simply be "the ambassador's wife." I wanted to be Susan Solomont.
Given my background in charitable causes, I began by convening groups of philanthropists. Working with a protocol team (the people in the embassy who know and reach out to the local community), we helped identify leaders in Spanish philanthropy and considered what they were doing. We then organized a roundtable discussion of about 35 people.
To make this happen, I had to convince some of the embassy's sections that it was a worthwhile endeavor.
And I had to get it funded, because money doesn't just appear for these things.
And I had to make sure people would come. This was the easiest part. An invitation from the United States embassy is a powerful draw.
And I had to convince the embassy employees, the foreign service officers, that I could pull the whole thing off.
Getting departments to engage with me about a roundtable discussion wasn't easy. I think they finally said, "Let's just let her do it and see what happens."
I continued on like this for months, seeking out and scraping together opportunities to contribute my skills and talents, buoyed by my husband's constant support and encouragement. "If this adventure doesn't work for one of us," he would say, "it doesn't work for either of us."
It took nearly a year to create a role for myself: helping launch initiatives and mold programs in which I believed. My main interest became women in business. I strove to shine a light on what Spanish women were doing, what American women were doing, and how we could all help one another. I discovered that hardly any networking opportunities existed for Spanish women, even though a significant number of them served in senior leadership roles in Spanish businesses. I found common ground with a female embassy employee who shared my interest and had a professional stake in meeting Spanish business leaders, and together we launched a networking program called the Women's Leadership Series. It became a great success and featured programs such as "Women in Journalism" and "Women in Social Media and Marketing."
Channeling my inner Oprah, I served as moderator, asking participants about their paths to success. I became more visible in the community and soon began receiving requests to speak and give magazine and newspaper interviews. I was developing my own voice, making a difference, and loving every minute of it.
This has been adapted from Lost and Found in Spain: Tales of An Ambassador's Wife 2019 by Susan Lewis Solomont, copyright (c) 2019. Published by Disruption Books.
Susan Lewis Solomont has enjoyed a dynamic and impressive career in the field of philanthropy. She was named "International Woman of the Year" by FEDEPE, the leading organization for Spanish women executives and directors.
Susan Lewis Solomont has enjoyed a dynamic and impressive career in the field of philanthropy. From 2008 to 2012, she served alongside her husband, Alan Solomont, in Madrid, Spain, where he was appointed as US ambassador to Spain and Andorra under President Barack Obama. She was named "International Woman of the Year" by FEDEPE, the leading organization for Spanish women executives and directors. Solomont has been a speaker on a range of topics, including women and entrepreneurship, the role of the ambassador's spouse, philanthropy, and corporate social responsibility. She has been featured several times by Spanish media regarding the leading role she played representing the US in Spain. Solomont holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University and a Master of Education degree from Tufts University. She has two daughters, Becca and Stephanie, and a cockapoo named Stella Blu, who is the subject of her forthcoming children's book, "Stella the Ambassadog." "Lost and Found in Spain: Tales of an Ambassador's Wife" is her first book.

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A description of some Tasmanian skulls
W. Ramsay Smith
[Abstracted from p. 16] This is a skull without the lower jaw. It is marked, "Tasmanian from Hobart." The Curator states that it was received from "Professor" T. H. Hume. Part of the right zygomatic arch is wanting. The bones are much polished, as if they had been subjected to a good deal of handling. The lines on them are distinct and the ridges are prominent. It appears to be the skull of an adult male. It weighs 20ozs. 139grs. avoirdupois.
Norma verticalis.—The skull is long. Although the parietal eminences stand out as fairly prominent bosses, the cranial outline is rather oblong or ovoid than pentagonal in form. The triangular area on the frontal bone in front of the bregma, noted by Turner in the specimens he has described, is fairly well marked; and the flattened areas that bound it laterally pass backwards over the coronal suture to the parietals and stop near the posterior part of the parietal eminences. Anteriorly these flattened areas run between the frontal eminences and meet mesially between the glabella and the anterior end of a low broad ridge that runs forwards in the middle line from the bregma...
Ramsay Smith, 1916, Rec. Aust. Mus. 11(2): 15–29
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ANATOMY: HUMAN; ABORIGINES: AUSTRALIAN
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Skull and tooth variation in the genus Perameles. Part 3: metrical features of P. gunnii and P. bougainville
Description of a new shark from the Tasmanian coast
Dickson's Thylacine
Australia's extinct animal, Dickson's Thylacine.
Skull and tooth variation in the genus Perameles. Part I: anatomical features
The Devil in the Detail
The Royal Australian Mint recently released their commemorative coin series. One of the designs was based on this handsome devil, an Australian Museum specimen!
Wakaleo
Wakaleo vanderleuri was a dog-sized thylacoleonid ('marsupial lion') and one of the largest predators in Australia during the Miocene. Like other thylacoleonids, Wakaleo had teeth that were modified for stabbing and cutting.
Wakaleo vanderleuri
Thylacoleo carnifex
Thylacoleo carnifex, the largest carnivorous Australian mammal known, may have hunted other Pleistocene megafauna like the giant Diprotodon. Thylacoleo was one of the first fossil mammals described from Australia, discovered not long after European settlement.
Description of cranial remains from Whangarei, New Zealand
Descriptions of and notes on some Australian and Tasmanian fishes
Genyornis newtoni
Revision of the New South Wales Triphoridae
Description of the mutilated cranium of a large fish, from the Lower Cretaceous of Queensland


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Q: Reaproveitar componente Angular 8, alterando a estrutura do json Eu estou com 2 json parecidos, no entanto, com uma constante a mais em um deles. Eu gostaria de igualar os 2 para que eu possa reutilizar o mesmo componente e na mesma chamada.
Ex.:
"data": [
        {
            "id": 1,
            "titulo": "novaaaa",
            "thumbnail": null,
            "resumo": null,
            "autor": {
                "id": 1,
                "name": "teste"
            },
            "tags": [],
            ...
        }]

"data": [
        {
        "receitas": {
            {
                "id": 1,
                "titulo": "novaaaa",
                "thumbnail": null,
                "resumo": null,
                "autor": {
                    "id": 1,
                    "name": "teste"
                },
                "tags": [],
                ...

            }
          }]

A chamada dele está assim hoje:
 this.service.getAll(type, id_type, '', this.page).subscribe(res => {

         this.content = res.data.data;
}...

Qual é a melhor maneira e prática para eu igualar os 2 json e usa-lo no this.content?

A: Acho bem estranho isso do retorno da Api ter estrutura de dados diferentes, acho que isso não deveria ser assim, mas, no seu caso é possível fazer o que quer com um simples if/else verificando se o retorno tem a propriedade receitas ou não através do método Javascript hasOwnProperty():
this.service.getAll(type, id_type, '', this.page).subscribe(res => {
   if(res.data.data[0].hasOwnProperty('receitas')) {
     this.content = res.data.data[0]['receitas'];      // content com receitas
   } else this.content = res.data.data[0];             // content sem receitas
}

OBS 1: Quando vc diz constante a mais, na verdade é um propriedade a mais.
OBS 2: Seu segundo exemplo do retorno da api está errado, tem 2 chaves - {{ uma após a outra, depois de receitas, e isso caracteriza um JSON com um formato inválido.
OBS 3: Não sei se tem o acesso a Api, mas tente mudar os nomes das propriedades, pois como pode ver data.data ficou redundante.

Poder ver um exemplo do resultado funcionando aqui.

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Business|In Pennsylvania, a Steel Mill and Its Workers at a Crossroads
In Pennsylvania, a Steel Mill and Its Workers at a Crossroads
Locked Out in Pennsylvania
Tom M. Johnson for The New York Times
By Steven Greenhouse
BRACKENRIDGE, Pa. — For two years, Chris Cummings, a maintenance mechanic, worked 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. six days a week to help prepare for the opening of a gigantic $1.2 billion steel rolling mill that was supposed to bring hundreds of secure, well-paying jobs to the Allegheny River Valley.
But then Mr. Cummings's employer, Allegheny Technologies, locked him and his co-workers out after their union, the United Steelworkers, balked at accepting the far-reaching concessions that the company said were essential to help compete against domestic rivals and Chinese imports.
Since Aug. 15, Allegheny has locked out 2,200 workers at 12 plants in six states in what has become one of the nation's largest and longest work stoppages in years.
As unions have weakened in recent decades, more corporations have turned to lockouts to wring givebacks from their workers. In this latest showdown, Allegheny has taken on the nation's biggest, most combative industrial union. If the steelworkers lose, it could prompt another wave of me-too concessions and represent a further humbling of organized labor just as it was starting to gain ground on other fronts.
"The employer is playing hardball, there's no doubt about it," said Richard Hurd, a professor of industrial and labor relations at Cornell University. "It puts a lot of pressure on the workers and the union."
Already, Allegheny's three-and-a-half-month lockout has dealt a painful blow to this aging, blue-collar town, 22 miles upstream from Pittsburgh, raising doubts about whether the new rolling mill, with its bright blue walls soaring 40 feet above the river, will ever provide the big economic lift it had promised.
Company executives say that they need lower labor costs and that no one will gain if the new plant can't thrive in the global economy.
But many steelworkers say Allegheny is seeking to enhance its own prosperity at their expense. They contend the company is undermining the middle class in the nation's industrial heartland by demanding a two-tier contract with lesser benefits for future hires, insisting upon a four-year wage freeze and requiring many employees to pay at least $2,000 more a year for health coverage.
"This is our reward for putting in all this overtime to help open the new mill?" asked Mr. Cummings. "I do think it's absolutely necessary for the company to stay competitive. But they're asking too much."
During his 70-hour workweeks, Mr. Cummings said he often returned home after his son, now 6, and his daughter, now 20 months, were in bed. "My wife was telling me she felt like a single mom," he said.
After locking out its workers, the company brought in hundreds of temporary replacements. The unionized workers have been picketing outside the plant around the clock, with signs mocking the replacement workers, saying things like "Danger: Scabs Trying to Run Mill" and "Scabs Equal Dishonor."
Instead of picketing, Fran Arabia, president of the steelworkers' local here, said, "we should be cutting a ribbon right now."
Week by week, the locked-out workers are growing more anxious. The company terminated their health coverage on Nov. 30. Christmas and freezing weather are approaching, and their six months of unemployment insurance will run out in February.
Robert S. Wetherbee, the president of Allegheny's Flat-Rolled Products division, said the company needed to drive a hard bargain because the market had shifted significantly. Stainless steel prices are down 30 percent since April and Chinese producers are gaining a greater share of the business. The company's flat-rolled division, he said, lost money in 10 of the last 11 quarters.
Mr. Wetherbee said Allegheny's workers were very well paid, averaging $70 an hour in compensation, including pensions, health coverage, overtime and paid time off, some $20 higher per hour than its competitors. The union called those numbers vastly exaggerated.
"It became a competitiveness issue and to some degree a survival issue for the stainless steel portion of our business," Mr. Wetherbee said. "With this mill, we invested close to $400,000 per job in the Allegheny Valley. Now we have the obligation to keep the business competitive."
The new rolling mill — four football fields long — is a marvel of automation. Workers hunch over control panels that monitor six powerful milling machines that press, squeeze and flatten two-foot-thick red-hot slabs into nearly mile-long coils of thin steel sheet in a matter of seconds.
With one-third of Allegheny's blue-collar employees eligible to retire before 2020, Mr. Wetherbee said it made sense to seek a two-tier contract.
"We're faced with a once-in-a-generation opportunity to bend the cost curve on a major part of our costs," he said. "If we're going to be competitive, we have to be in a position where we have a different benefit structure for the next generation we hire."
Like many unions, the United Steelworkers abhor two-tier contracts, convinced that they sell out future generations and sow tensions between older and younger workers.
The steelworkers complain that Allegheny wants to replace traditional pensions with less generous 401(k)'s for new workers and to give them a health plan that is not as good as the one current workers have. Under the two-tier proposal, future workers, upon retiring, would have a more meager health plan and no life insurance.
"The China crisis of today doesn't mean that people who go to work for this company and retire 35 years from now shouldn't have anything in retirement," said Tom Conway, the steelworkers' vice president overseeing the negotiations. "We've made major moves in this bargaining, to share more of the health costs, and it's just not enough for them."
Not long ago, when the company was called Allegheny-Ludlum, workers endearingly called it "Uncle Al" because of its generosity. But the steelworkers say Mr. Wetherbee, who joined Allegheny in 2010 after 30 years at Alcoa, has brought a more confrontational approach.
"He told us that they couldn't be this paternalistic," Mr. Conway said. "If this is paternalistic, I'd hate to see what an abusive parent is like."
Analysts are divided over the concessions the company is seeking.
Paul Clark, director of Penn State's School of Labor and Employment Relations, said Allegheny was seeking to exploit the temporary fall in prices and profits to extract deep permanent cuts. "They're using the excuse of the industry downturn," he said, "not just to adjust to the new situation; they want to go well beyond what's justified by the downturn."
But John Tumazos, a steel industry analyst in Holmdel, N.J., criticized the union's approach. "Leo Gerard, the union's president, is thinking of the century-old model, holding rallies in downtown Pittsburgh and mill towns, when this company is between a rock and a hard place," Mr. Tumazos said. "The union isn't making things better. They should be holding their protest rallies in Beijing."
According to Allegheny Technologies, the steelworkers averaged $94,000 in pay last year, including incentive pay and overtime. "That's not middle class, that's upper middle class," said Dan Greenfield, the company's vice president for investor relations.
Todd Barbiaux, an overhead crane operator, derided that figure, saying it failed to take account of last year's unusual situation.
"In reality we're $60,000-a-year guys," he said, even when incentive pay and Sunday differential are added to the steelworkers' base wage of $24.99 an hour. With the push to build the new mill, he made over $100,000 last year only because of "a lot of 80-hour weeks, with more than 600 hours overtime." But that's not normal, he said. "You're working one and a half years in a year."
The steelworkers are further angered because they're being pressed for major concessions after Allegheny's chief executive, Richard Harshman, received $8 million in compensation last year, up 70 percent from the previous year. His 2014 pay jumped because of a larger base salary, a $1.4 million bonus, more stock awards and a pension that was valued higher.
Mr. Harshman told analysts in October that the company's production was meeting expectations notwithstanding the lockout. But the steelworkers dispute that. As they spend their days picketing, they say they see far fewer trucks carrying steel coil out of the plant.
The union, asserting that the company has violated labor laws, has asked the National Labor Relations Board to declare the lockout illegal and order the company to pay more than $30 million in back wages. Company officials insist the lockout is lawful.
Scott Laliberte, who fixes brick linings in Allegheny's steel furnaces, said he sometimes worked 30 days in a row last year, allowing him to save extra money. But the physical strain was too much. "You feel you don't have a life," he said.
The lockout is taking a further toll on his family, he said. "If this goes on," he said, "I'll probably find another job and not go back. They're going to lose a lot of good people."
The union wants to return to regular workdays, after having agreed to extra-long workweeks to get the new rolling mill running. Mr. Laliberte and other steelworkers are fuming that the company's proposal would allow it to require such schedules as it sees fit, including 16-hour days and 70-hour weeks.
Mr. Wetherbee said Allegheny would never have another opportunity like this to bring down costs and assure profitability. "We decided we couldn't kick the can down the road any further," he said.
A version of this article appears in print on , Section B, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: Locked Out, and Worked Up. Order Reprints | Today's Paper | Subscribe


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Iraq Minorities In Extreme Peril Bbc
House rebuffs Bush on Iraq
Iraq Minorities in Extreme Peril
The House of Representatives again rebuffed Bush on Iraq, voting by a comfortable majority to begin withdrawing troops from Iraq but to keep some there to fight 'al-Qaeda terrorists' in Iraq.
This plan of keeping troops in Iraq to fight "al-Qaeda" seems to me naive. Who is al-Qaeda? If you mean Iraqi Sunnis who have become Salafi Jihadis, then it seems unlikely that the US military can fight them successfully with a smaller force. It is just wishful thinking. If 160,000 US troops cannot do it, a smaller force cannot do it. And, the smaller you make the force, the more the US military becomes a sitting duck for militias and others. Likewise it is no good saying you'll keep troops in Kurdistan. Kurdistan is landlocked, and depends heavily for investment, trade and a route to the rest of the world on Turkey. No way to provision a US base unless the Turks give in and say they will permit its provisioning.
If you leave small expeditionary forces inside Iraq to fight "al-Qaeda," they will likely get massacred at some point, and then you'll be pulled right back into the maelstrom.
Make as many prudent political and military arrangements for Iraq as you still have the ability to make, and then . . . get out.
If you're going to get out, get out.
Patrick Cockburn points out that only 6 of the 18 benchmarks set by Congress are really important to Iraq's security and political development, and that it is on those 6 that absolutely no progress has been made. The 'progress' has been on trivial things.
The al-Maliki government is in as much denial as Bush, bristling and suggestions it hasn't accomplished anything (it hasn't) and pledging to pass pending legislation addressing some of the benchmarks. We'll believe it when we see it.
Kurdish officials are rejecting the new draft petroleum bill, one of the key benchmarks.
(The CIA had already concluded that nothing was likely to be accomplished politically in Iraq any time soon last fall when it briefed the Iraq Study Group.
The BBC reports that Iraq's minorities are facing extreme difficulties, and some a close to extinction.
Reuters reports political violence in Iraq on Thursday. Police found 28 bodies in the streets of Baghdad. The reports include this touching sentence: "SAMAWA – Two children were killed and six wounded by a roadside bomb near a bus station in the southern city of Samawa, police said. . ."
Children. No wonder McClatchy reports that even babies in Iraq are learning to dodge bullets.
Reuters' list of other major incidents:
' BAGHDAD – U.S. soldiers killed at least six Iraqi policemen and seven suspected militants during a dawn raid in east Baghdad on Friday to arrest an Iraqi police lieutenant accused of militant links, the U.S. military said. . .
BAGHDAD – Gunmen killed five Iraqi guards near a gate to the ministry of the interior in central Baghdad, police said.
BAGHDAD – An Iraqi soldier was killed and two others wounded by a roadside bomb targeting their patrol in the east Baghdad neighbourhood of Dora, police said. . .
DOUR – Four Iraqi policemen and two soldiers were killed when gunmen attacked their checkpoint in Dour, a small town near the northern city of Tikrit, police said. . .
MOSUL – One policeman was killed and eight other officers plus a civilian were wounded by a roadside bomb in the restive northern city of Mosul, police said. . .
SAWAYRA – Three bodies bearing signs of torture were recovered from a river near Sawayra. '
McClatchy provides further details, including this one: "From 10 am in the morning till the time of having this report ( 4 pm ) , clashes are taking place at Al-Ameen neighborhood ( east Baghdad) after raids done by the American troops to the area . Eight people killed ( including two local cameramen from Reuters) and 22 others injured ."
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Artwork by Roma Edwards (Faith in Action Bay Area youth leader)
We are community organizers and leaders working in congregations and schools across San Francisco and San Mateo Counties to uphold the dignity of all people. We develop the shared leadership of community members and lift up our faith values, in order to confront power and change unjust systems.
At a time in which political and economic forces are hurting Bay Area families like never before, our work is more critical than ever. As Faith in Action Bay Area leaders share analysis, make decisions together, and take action collectively, they become a beacon of hope and power for their communities, in whatever they do–whether it's fighting for the rights of families and seniors to stay in their homes, inviting voters in their neighborhood to imagine what it would be like to transform their city into one in which everyone belongs, or launching a listening campaign in their congregations to hear the pains and needs of their community.
Faith in Action Bay Area is a multi-racial, multi-lingual, intergenerational and cross-class organization that is led by those most affected by injustice, such as low-income families and workers, immigrants, and youth. We are committed to building and deepening relationships across different communities. Some highlights of our work include:
Creating the Rapid Response Network to report and respond to ICE activity in both counties; setting up a 24/7 hotline; organizing 1500 emergency responders; and training communities about their rights.
Winning more affordable housing in our communities, and fighting to make it truly affordable.
Passing emergency ordinances protecting tenants from unjust evictions and rent hikes in San Mateo County, and the cities of Daly City, Redwood City, San Carlos, and San Mateo.
Creating two new public high schools in San Francisco focused on social justice education for students of color.


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M. Shokoueinejad, D.-W. Park, Y. H. Jung, S. Brodnick, J. Novello, A. Dingle, K. Swanson, D.-H. Baek, A. Suminski, W. Lake, Z. Ma, J. Williams, "Review Paper: Progress in the Field of Micro-Electrocorticography," Micromachines, 10, 62 (2019). DOI:10.3390/mi10010062
S. J. Cho*, D. Liu*, J.-H. Seo*, R. Dalmau, K. Kim, J. Park, J. Gong, D. Zhao, F. Wang, X. Yin, Y. H. Jung, I.-K. Lee, M. Kim, X. D. Wang, W. Zhou, J. D. Albrecht, B. Moody, and Z. Ma, "P-type silicon as hole supplier for nitride-based UVC LEDs," New Journal of Physics, 21, 023011 (2019). DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/ab0445
C. Liu, Z. Wang, H. Lu, Y.-M. Zhang, D. Liu, Y. Zhang, Z. Ma, J. Zhao, L. Guo, and K. L. Xiong, "Plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposited HfO2/Al2O3 laminated dielectrics for bendable Si nanomembrane based MOS capacitors," Applied Physics Letters, 114, 142903 (2019). DOI: 10.1063/1.5051626
T. J. Kim, K. L. Davis, Y. Liu, J. R. Bredemann, Z. Ma, M. Anderson, and M. Corradini, "Development of a high-temperature diamond thermistor," IEEE Sensors Journal, 19, 6587-6594 (2019). DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2019.2912566
H. Hong, Y. H. Jung, J. S. Lee, C. Jeong, J. U. Kim, S. Lee, H. Ryu, H. Kim, Z. Ma, and T.-I. Kim, "Anisotropic thermal conductive composite by the guided assembly of boron nitride nanosheets for flexible and stretchable electronics," Advanced Functional Materials, 1902575 (2019). DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201902575
J. Bong, Z. I. Attia, V. R. Vaidya, Y. H. Jung, D. Padmanabhan, J. Lee, H. Kim, D. J. Ladewig, P. A. Noseworthy, S. J. Asirvatham, D.-W. Park, Paul A. Friedman, and Z. Ma, "Radiolucent implantable electrocardiographic monitoring device based on graphene," CARBON, DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2019.06.069
H.-C. Huang, M. Kim, X. Zhan, K. Chabak, J. D. Kim, A. Kvit, D. Liu, Z. Ma, J.-M. Zuo, and X. Li, "50:1 high aspect ratio β-Ga2O3 fin arrays with low interface charge density by inverse metal-assisted chemical etching," ACS Nano, DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.9b01709
J. Bong, J. P. Ness, W. Zeng, H. Kim, J. Novello, J. Pisaniello, W. B. Lake, K. A. Ludwig, J. C. Williams, Z. Ma, and A. J. Suminski, "Flexible, multichannel cuff electrode for selective electrical stimulation of the mouse trigeminal nerve," Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 142, 111493 (2019). DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2019.111493
D. Liu*, S. J. Cho*, H. Zhang, C. R. Carlos, A. P. K. Kalapala, J. Park, J. Kim, R. Dalmau, J. Gong, B. Moody, X. D. Wang, J. D. Albrecht, W. Zhou, and Z. Ma, "Influences of screw dislocations on electroluminescence of AlGaN/AlN-based UVC LEDs," AIP Advances, 9, 085128 (2019). DOI: 10.1063/1.5108743
K. Kim, D. Liu, J. Gong, and Z. Ma, "Reduction of leakage current in GaN Schottky diodes through ultraviolet/ozone plasma treatment," IEEE Electron Device Letters, DOI: 10.1109/LED.2019.2944353
X. Shi, S. Chen, H. Zhang, J. Jiang, Z. Ma, and S. Gong, "Portable self-charging power system via integration of a flexible paper-based triboelectric nanogenerator and supercapacitor," ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 7, 18657 - 18666 (2019).


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Her Majesty's Canadian Ship
The designation Her Majesty's Canadian Ship (HMCS) (in French Navire canadien de Sa Majesté [NCSM]),[1][2] is applied as a prefix to surface ships in the Royal Canadian Navy and Canadian Joint Operations Command. The similar designation of Her Majesty's Canadian Submarine is applied to submarine vessels.[3]
Etymology[]
In the reign of a king, the designation changes to His Majesty's Canadian Ship; the French version of the title remains unchanged in this instance. The title is derived from Her Majesty's Ship (HMS), used in the United Kingdom. The person who is monarch of Canada is also equally and separately the monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Various Commonwealth realms use derivative variations to designate their warships, such as Her Majesty's Australian Ship (HMAS) and Her Majesty's New Zealand Ship (HMNZS).
HMCS Rainbow was the first ship with the HMCS designation. It transferred from the British Royal Navy to the Naval Service of Canada in 1910. HMCS Haida became the first Canadian ship commissioned under a Queen during March 1952.[4]
Many RCN shore facilities also bear the designation, such as HMCS Trinity, HMCS Chippawa, HMCS Naden, HMCS Discovery, HMCS Stone Frigate, and all Royal Canadian Sea Cadets summer training centres, such as HMCS Quadra.
Shore maintenance and mooring facilities bear the name Her Majesty's Canadian Dockyard (HMC Dockyard) (in French L'arsenal canadien de Sa Majesté (Arsenal CSM)).[5][6]
Hull classification symbol (Canada)
Fleet of the Royal Canadian Navy
Ship prefix
Stone frigate
The Canadian Crown and the Canadian Forces
↑ "Royal Canadian Navy - Links". Royal Canadian Navy. http://www.navy.forces.gc.ca/cms/8/8_fra.asp?category=51. Retrieved July 17, 2012.
↑ "National Defence Act". Her Majesty the Queen in right of Canada. 1985. http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/fra/lois/N-5/page-1.html. Retrieved July 17, 2012.
↑ "HMCS Victoria Conducts Diving Operations off the Coast of Vancouver Island"
↑ "HMCS Haida"
↑ "Royal Canadian Navy - Infrastructure and Environment". Minister of National Defence on behalf of Her Majesty the Queen. January 13, 2012. http://www.forces.gc.ca/site/pri/4/bases/esquimalt-eng.asp. Retrieved March 26, 2012.
↑ "Royal Canadian Navy - CFB Halifax". Minister of National Defence on behalf of Her Majesty the Queen. January 16, 2006. http://www.navy.forces.gc.ca/marlant/3/3-e_eng.asp. Retrieved March 26, 2012.
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History of the Royal Canadian Navy
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HMCS Athabaskan (DDG 282)
Halifax-class frigates
HMCS Halifax (FFH 330)
HMCS Vancouver (FFH 331)
HMCS Ville de Québec (FFH 332)
HMCS Toronto (FFH 333)
HMCS Regina (FFH 334)
HMCS Calgary (FFH 335)
HMCS Montréal (FFH 336)
HMCS Fredericton (FFH 337)
HMCS Winnipeg (FFH 338)
HMCS Charlottetown (FFH 339)
HMCS St. John's (FFH 340)
HMCS Ottawa (FFH 341)
Victoria-class submarines
HMCS Victoria (SSK 876)
HMCS Windsor (SSK 877)
HMCS Corner Brook (SSK 878)
HMCS Chicoutimi (SSK 879)
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HMCS Kingston (MM 700)
HMCS Glace Bay (MM 701)
HMCS Nanaimo (MM 702)
HMCS Edmonton (MM 703)
HMCS Shawinigan (MM 704)
HMCS Whitehorse (MM 705)
HMCS Yellowknife (MM 706)
HMCS Goose Bay (MM 707)
HMCS Moncton (MM 708)
HMCS Saskatoon (MM 709)
HMCS Brandon (MM 710)
HMCS Summerside (MM 711)
Orca-class patrol vessels
CFAV Orca (PCT 55)
CFAV Raven (PCT 56)
CFAV Caribou (PCT 57)
CFAV Renard (PCT 58)
CFAV Wolf (PCT 59)
CFAV Grizzly (PCT 60)
CFAV Cougar (PCT 61)
CFAV Moose (PCT 62)
Protecteur-class replenishment oilers
HMCS Preserver (AOR 510)
Future procurement
Single Class Surface Combatant
Queenston-class auxiliary vessel
Harry DeWolf-class offshore patrol vessel
Amphibious Assault Ship
Project Resolve (MS Asterix)
Aircraft (RCAF)
List of aircraft of the Royal Canadian Navy
CH-124 Sea King
CP-140 Aurora
CP-140A Arcturus
CH-148 Cyclone
CFB Halifax
CFS St. John's
CFMETR, Nanoose Bay
NRS Aldergrove
NRS Newport Corner
NRS Mill Cove
Commander of the Royal Canadian Navy
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Mars is on Scorpio 27: A MILITARY BAND MARCHES NOISILY ON THROUGH THE CITY STREETS
This Symbol shows the need for occasionally making a show for society to remind ourselves of our successes and achievements, whether they are collective or personal achievements. The "Military Band" can make an enormous amount of noise as it "Marches Noisily", but sometimes we need to be woken or reminded of the cohesion that a military band can show. Likewise, this can show someone that likes to bang their own drum or to make a big noise about themselves or for the establishment. As long as the audience is ok with this display, one can contain the reaction from others. Sometimes, though, people get annoyed by people banging their drums a little too loudly.
Noisy announcements. Making music to rouse people from complacency. Demanding attention. Trumpeting one's agenda. Marching in time. The blast of the media. Drums.
The Caution: A lot of volume that's too pompous. The message getting lost in the noise and fanfare. Demanding to be heard. Propaganda. Threats to peace. Banging on.
And, in the next 36 hours or so, Mars will enter Scorpio 28: THE KING OF THE FAIRIES APPROACHING THEIR DOMAIN
This Symbol shows the ability, or the need, to feel at ease and in charge of your home, territory or domain. You may have been searching for where you belong or where your "Domain" is. Although you may at times be off looking for this, feeling alien and alone won't work; there's a need to feel accepted, welcomed and loved. There may be the feeling of wanting to be a dominant leader or having a doting populace. As long as egos are in control, this can be a fabulous experience of 'returning home', a nice, and calm and spiritual place to be. Also, this degree can show a world of one's own creation or imagination – which can be fabulously rewarding although it can also be rather ungrounded in reality.
Imaginary worlds. Finding a place to fit in and feel comfortable. Feeling in charge and in demand. Returning home. Taking command of your life. Fairies, nature spirits. Elves.
The Caution: An imaginary world. Dependence on trickery. Someone acting like a 'hot shot'. Lording it over people. Being impotent. Feeling locked out. Homelessness.
Are you banging your drum? Do you need to do it? (Perhaps you do…) Is someone around you making a lot of noise? Are you feeling the burn of Mars entering the last degrees of Scorpio? Are you unsure of your direction? Do you wonder where you truly 'belong'? Are you feeling the necessity of taking charge of your life in some way? Do you need to stand up and be counted? Are you looking for a place that you can truly belong?
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List of heads of state of Burkina Faso
Title: List of heads of state of Burkina Faso
Subject: List of heads of government of Burkina Faso, Politics of Burkina Faso, Constitution of Burkina Faso, Burkinabé parliamentary election, 2007, Foreign relations of Burkina Faso
Collection: Burkina Faso-Related Lists, Burkinabé Politicians, Government of Burkina Faso, Lists of Heads of State
President of Burkina Faso
Presidential Standard
Michel Kafando
since 23 September 2015
Kossyam Palace
Maurice Yaméogo
The following is a list of heads of state of Burkina Faso, since the country gained independence from France in 1960 as the Republic of Upper Volta.
List of heads of state of Burkina Faso 1
Affiliations 1.1
Latest election 2
(Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office)
Republic of Upper Volta Autonomous Republic
(République de Haute-Volta)
11 December 1959 to 5 August 1960 Maurice Yaméogo, President MDV
Republic of Upper Volta Independence from France
5 August 1960 to 3 January 1966 Maurice Yaméogo, President UDV Deposed in a coup d'état
3 January 1966 to 25 November 1980 Sangoulé Lamizana, President Mil/MNR Deposed in a coup d'état
25 November 1980 to 7 November 1982 Saye Zerbo, President of the Military Committee of Recovery for National Progress Mil Deposed in a coup d'état
8 November 1982 to 11 November 1982 Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo, Provisional Chairman of the Provisional Committee of Popular Salvation Mil
11 November 1982 to 26 November 1982 Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo, Chairman of the Provisional Committee of Popular Salvation
26 November 1982 to 4 August 1983 Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo, Head of State Mil Deposed in a coup d'état
4 August 1983 to 4 August 1984 Thomas Sankara, Chairman of the National Revolutionary Council and Head of State Mil
4 August 1984 to 15 October 1987 Thomas Sankara, Chairman of the National Revolutionary Council and President Mil Murdered in a coup d'état
15 October 1987 to 31 October 1987 Blaise Compaoré, President of the Popular Front Mil/FP
31 October 1987 to December 1991 Blaise Compaoré, President of the Popular Front and Head of State
December 1991 to 24 December 1991 ODP-MT/CPD
24 December 1991 to 31 October 2014 Blaise Compaoré, President Resigned during the 2014 uprising
31 October 2014 to 1 November 2014 Honoré Traoré, Acting Head of State Mil Claimant
1 November 2014 to 18 November 2014 Yacouba Isaac Zida, Acting Head of State Mil
18 November 2014 to 17 September 2015 Michel Kafando, Interim President n-p 1st Term; Deposed in a coup d'état
17 September 2015 to 23 September 2015 Gilbert Diendéré, Chairman of the National Council for Democracy Mil
23 September 2015 to Present Michel Kafando, Interim President n-p 2nd Term; Restored
CDP Congrès pour la Démocratie et le Progrès
(Congress for Democracy and Progress) extreme left, abandoned marxism 1 August 1997, former ODP-MT
PDP Parti pour la Démocratie et le Progrès
(Party for Democracy and Progress) social-democratic
FP Front Popular
(Popular Front)
MDV Voltaïc Democratic Movement
MNR National Movement for Renewal
ODP-MT Organisation pour la Démocratie Populaire-MT
( PDU Parti Démocratique Unifié
(Unified Democratic Party)
RDA Rassemblement Démocratique Africain
(Rally for a Democratic Africa)
UDV Union Démocratique du Volta
(Democratic Union of Volta) only legal party 1960-1966
UDV-RDA Union Démocratique du Voltaic-Rassemblement Démocratique Africain
(Voltaic Democratic Union-Rally for a Democratic Africa)
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Updated: 17th September 2019
Ayushmann 'funny' and 'a thorough gentleman': Nushrat
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Web is a challenging and an exciting medium for actors: Jennifer
Mumbai, Jan 21 (IANS) Actress Jennifer Winget, who has a pivotal role in her debut web series "Code M",...
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Fitness should come naturally to yourself: Sophie Choudry
Mumbai, Jan 21 (IANS) Sophie Choudry, who is one of the fittest celebrities in Bollywood, says she doesn't believe...
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New Delhi, July 29 (IANS) Actress Nushrat Bharucha says her "Dream Girl" co-star Ayushmann Khurrana is "super funny" and "a thorough gentleman".
"Ayushmann is a very funny guy. When people work with him they get to see that. He's got a really great comic timing. He's just super funny! (He is a) Sweet guy and a thorough gentleman. We had a great filming experience," Nushrat told IANS.
This will be the first time Nushrat and Ayushmann get to share screen space. The upcoming comedy drama film is directed by Raaj Shaandilyaa and produced by Ekta Kapoor.
"As I heard the story of 'Dream Girl'and the narration, I had a blast from the first scene to the last, so I told myself that I had to be a part of this film. It is a quirky — a comedy of errors in a way. It's an all-out Bollywood entertainer. You are going to have a laugh and enjoy the characters," she said.
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Mumbai, Jan 21 (IANS) Bollywood actor Kartik Aryan says playing two distinct characters from different eras in Imtiaz Ali''s...
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COVID-19: IIT Hyderabad Researchers Make Their Own Hand Sanitiser
The IIT Hyderabad researchers made the hand sanitiser in line with the standards recommended by WHO.
Updated: 18 Mar 2020, 7:46 PM IST
IIT Hyderabad researchers have developed their own hand sanitiser, in check with the standards recommended by WHO and Centers for Disease Control (CDC) for the IIT Hyderabad Community.
According to the press release, around 10 litres of this hand sanitiser have already been taken to use in the campus for the students, staff and faculty at different locations in the institute. This was done to promote its use in the current coronavirus outbreak situation.
The sanitiser has been developed by Dr. Shivakalyani Adepu, former research scholar at the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering, IIT Hyderabad along with Dr. Mudrika Khandelwal, Associate Professor, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering, IIT Hyderabad.
"My research group has always believed in doing scientific research and outreach for the benefit of society. This is our small contribution at the time of need. I am glad we would make this happen and hope to make similar contributions in the future."
Dr. Mudrika Khandelwal, Associate Professor, IIT Hyderabad
The composition of this hand sanitiser is 70 percent isopropanol with glycerol, polypropylene glycol to increase the viscosity and reduce the volatility so that it stays on skin to allow action, as well as lemongrass oil for antimicrobial activity and therapeutic aroma. The 70 percent IPA solution penetrates the cell wall, coagulates all proteins, thus killing the microorganism.
"This was done purely to support the community at this time when it is critical to adopt safe and hygienic practices. We have not thought of commercialisation. Our motto is to help people around us. We can assure that these are as safe as any commercial sanitiser, and possibly more effective. Our laboratory conducts a lot of microbiological studies and we have tested these kinds of materials before and have been using the same for several years now. Its efficacy is well known and has been reported."
Dr. Shivakalyani Adepu, Researcher, IIT Hyderabad
The development of the sanitiser was done in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak, which has been declared 'pandemic' by WHO.
Coronavirus: 'Where Do I Get Tested,' Other Testing FAQs Answered
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Chandrababu Naidu: AP's political reformer and flawed visionary
One person has been particularly influential on the development of Andhra Pradesh over the last thirty years: Nara Chandrababu Naidu, sometimes known simply as CBN.
Russian COVID vaccine: why more and more countries are turning to Sputnik V
While the initial reception of Sputnik V was critical, in February 2021, preliminary results of the phase 3 trials were reported with a 91.6% efficacy rate – the percentage reduction of disease in a vaccinated group of people compared to an unvaccinated group under trial conditions.
Hyderabad: the rise of a megacity
The core of every debate about Andhra Pradesh and Telangana is the city of Hyderabad.
Jai Andhra, Jai Telangana: why a shared language wasn't enough to unite Andhra Pradesh
The Congress Party crushed the Jai Andhra and Jai Telangana separatist movements in 1973, but a lasting union was impossible.
Inception from a death: how Potti Sreeramulu's sacrifice created Andhra Pradesh
When India became independent in 1947, the state of Andhra Pradesh did not exist.
After early success, India's daily COVID infections have surpassed the US and Brazil. Why?
From the end of February, daily new cases began to rise sharply again, passing 100,000 a day, and now crossing the 200,000 mark.
Vizag Steel is the story of Andhra Pradesh
The history of the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant, or Vizag Steel, encapsulates the chaotic development of Andhra Pradesh.
As India's COVID crisis worsens, leaders play the blame game while the poor suffer once again
For now, the Indian government has just asked the states to focus on "stringent containment and public health measures", including testing, tracing and inoculations.
Why India is banking on health diplomacy to grow African footprint
India's expertise in affordable healthcare has assumed increased significance during the ongoing pandemic. New Delhi is already reaping the benefits of an ambitious diplomatic initiative to deliver Made-in-India vaccines to developing countries.
Caste in India: 'blind recruitment' for the civil service won't fix the system
The Indian Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment recommends that last names revealing the caste, religious, or cultural backgrounds of candidates should be kept hidden during recruitment processes.


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Volume 75, Issue Suppl 2
736 Acute irritant-induced asthma caused by ozone
Karl Færden1,
Britt Grethe Randem1,
Per Arve Lier2,
Bjørn Granhus3,
Per Søstrand1,
Johny Kongerud4,5
1Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
2Humana Sandvika AS, Sandvika, Norway
3Oslo Police District, Occupational Health Service, Oslo, Norway
4Department of Respiratory Medicine, Rikshospitalet, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
Introduction Ozone-generating UV-lamps are used to remove unwanted grease from ventilation systems.
Irritant asthma after exposure to artificially produced ozone has been described at a Norwegian fish hatchery and a sewage plant, as well as in the Swedish paper industry.
We present cases that developed asthma after an accident with ozone-producing UV-systems in a restaurant kitchen.
Methods Case series Seven subjects that developed asthma were studied in relation to exposure, symptoms, medical history and clinical findings including lung function measurements, reversibility of airflow limitation and bronchial hyper responsiveness (BHR) to methacholine, both shortly after the accidental exposure and two years after the incident.
Result Out of a total number of 127 possibly ozone-exposed employees, 55 employees reported symptoms, and seven employees were diagnosed with occupational asthma after the incident. Six of these seven subjects had either positive reversibility and/or positive BHR tests.
Two years after cessation of exposure all seven subjects still needed treatment for asthma.
Three of the subjects had BHR despite the use of inhaled corticosteroids, all graded as 'very mild BHR'. FVC, FEV1, FEV1/FVC ratio and FeNO values were within normal range in all cases. None had long absence from work or needed emergency treatment in hospital for their asthma.
Discussion The adverse impact of ozone exposure on the airways is well known from epidemiological studies, where the focus has been on the negative health effects of ozone (O3) in ambient air, especially in large cities. Commercial use of the ozone gas' odour absorbing and germ-killing properties has become more common in the last decade.
Accidents involving ozone gas from air purifiers with UV-lamps may cause acute irritant asthma. There is a need for greater awareness in the use of ozone-generating devices.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/oemed-2018-ICOHabstracts.1265
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DALLAS (AP) Kevin Durant's miserable fourth quarter ended with a final miss that gave Dallas a chance to finish a rally in overtime Friday night.
The Oklahoma City star took care of things in the extra period instead, and ended up with a career high and the first 50-point game in the NBA this season.
Durant scored 52 points, including the go-ahead basket with 16.9 seconds remaining in overtime, and the Thunder held on for a 117-114 victory that extended their winning streak to six games and ended the Mavericks' season-best run of four straight.
A night after getting voted a starter for the All-Star game, Durant missed six straight shots and was 2 of 11 from the field while the Mavericks were rallying in the fourth quarter. When Durant missed at the buzzer after O.J. Mayo's tying 3-pointer with 2.3 seconds left in regulation, he had to remind himself to keep shooting.
Durant was still scoring because he couldn't miss at the free throw line. He was 19 of 19 in regulation, which he finished with 43 points.
Vince Carter, who kept the Mavericks close when Oklahoma City threatened to blow them out in the first half, had a season-high 29 points. He hit three free throws to start overtime when he was fouled on a 3-pointer, but Durant answered with a pair on the other end.
Durant went on to score nine of Oklahoma City's 12 points in overtime and had three go-ahead buckets to help the Thunder avoid losing for the first time in 28 games when leading after three quarters. The Thunder blew a 14-point lead in the second half.
Dirk Nowitzki bounced back from a dreadful shooting night to score 12 in the fourth quarter, but the Mavericks couldn't get him the ball trailing by two in the final seconds of overtime. Mike James, who came in shooting less than 20 percent but had hit a go-ahead 3 earlier in the extra period, ended up with the ball well behind the arc with the shot clock dwindling. His shot barely hit the front of the rim.
Russell Westbrook, who scored 31, missed a free throw to give the Mavericks one more chance to tie, but Carter's desperation 3 at the buzzer was short.
Nowitzki finished with 18 points after starting 1 of 11 from the field, salvaging his 10th straight double-figure game after scoring in single digits the first four games once he returned from missing 27 games due to right knee surgery.
The Mavericks had six players in double figures for the fourth straight game. Mayo had 18 points and seven assists, and Darren Collison scored 15.
Elton Brand had 10 points and 13 rebounds for Dallas, while Serge Ibaka had 11 points and 14 boards for the Thunder.
Durant, who has scored at least 40 three times in the past week, put Oklahoma City ahead 99-98 on a pair of free throws after he was fouled on a drive with 1:32 left in regulation. He hit two more after he was fouled following a rebound of a miss by Nowitzki, and Oklahoma City kept the lead until Mayo's 3-pointer with two defenders in his face forced overtime at 105-all.
Neither team led by more than three in the final 6 minutes of regulation and overtime.
The Mavericks, who earlier this season tied an NBA record with their 10th straight overtime loss, fell to 1-8 in overtime games this season. Two of the losses have been to the Thunder, who improved to 4-0 in overtime.
The Mavericks trailed 87-79 when Carter hit a free throw and Nowitzki had a tip-in to start a 13-2 run that gave Dallas its first lead since the first quarter. Nowitzki's free throws put the Mavericks up 90-89 with 6:41 left.


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Azerbaijan Grand Prix
"We're just looking for a safer, easier solution" - George Russell says it's 'totally understandable' why F1 teams voted against rules to stop porpoising for the 2022 season
By A. Ayush Chatterjee
Modified 13 Jun 2022
Mercedes driver George Russell speaks to the media after the 2022 F1 Azerbaijan GP (Photo by Bryn Lennon/Getty Images)
George Russell has reiterated that a 'safer ride' on the track is paramount for all drivers after reports revealed teams had voted against eliminating porpoising ahead of the 2022 F1 season.
The bouncing effect caused by the return of ground effect, one of the biggest changes in the aerodynamic regulations, has been a thorn in the side of drivers ever since the first pre-season shakedown in Barcelona.
When it was revealed to George Russell, the GPDA president, that porpoising could have been dealt with even before it began after his P3 finish at the 2022 F1 Azerbaijan GP, the Briton said:
"Yeah, I think that was totally understandable because every single team is understanding and developing their cars around a set of regulations and any change, nobody knows what is going to be the consequences. And even us, I think we voted against it. And even now, we want change but who knows what that change is, it's just us, 20 drivers, we would choose to have a safer ride out there and when you're going 300 kmph between the walls and you barely can keep the car in a straight line. I couldn't even see my pit board, the car was moving around so much. We have the technology in Formula 1 to resolve this with a click of our fingers, I believe, so as I said, nobody's looking to take advantage from this, we're just looking for a safer, easier solution."
George Russell has suggested F1 consider bringing back active suspension to combat porpoising
Earlier in the season, George Russell had suggested that F1 should allow teams to implement active suspensions to tackle the issue of porpoising. Having championed it all since the first pre-season test in Barcelona, in an interview with Sky Sports, the Mercedes driver said:
"I've spoken about active suspension before. That was the solution back in the eighties, so maybe that's the solution [now]. From a pure racing and driving experience, it would make the cars much quicker because you could put the car at the perfect ride height for each individual corner speed."
Russell, the only driver to finish in the top five in each round of racing this season, went on to add, saying:
"It's pretty straightforward technology these days, it's something you see on road cars as well, especially in 4x4 cars that change the ride height depending on terrain. It seems like it could be a simple solution. It's something that [would] contribute to making these cars even faster. I don't make the rules, I'm not a designer, maybe there are other limitations around it and it is not as simple as I thought. I think it could be cool, it could be interesting."
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The 1993 Canon Williams-Renault FW15C flexing its muscles with its Active Suspension that would be banned at the end of that season. #F1
The 1993 Canon Williams-Renault FW15C flexing its muscles with its Active Suspension that would be banned at the end of that season. #F1 https://t.co/MPjbjnwBOI
Active suspension was first pioneered by Lotus in early 1980s. It became revolutionary in F1 when Williams was able to control each wheel separately with the help of control electronics on the FW15C in 1993.
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Q: How to get a size of a image file which is inside a folder which is inside a zip file I have the following snippet and this is used to check if the given zip entry is a directory or not which works fine.There is an additional requirement given where I need to check the size of each image (its size should not be > 10 MB) inside the folder which is inside the zip file.
I been going through some articles but couldn't get hold of a scenario similar to mine.
The example structure for a zip file would look like the one given below along with the folder and the images size inside them
XYZ.zip>023423>Bat1.jpg ->11MB
XYZ.zip>023423>Bat2.jpg ->5MB
XYZ.zip>023423>Bat3.jpg ->11MB
XYZ.zip>023423>Bat4.jpg ->10MB

Based on the scenario above, at the end of the execution I should able to get the Bat1 & Bat3 as output as their size is >10 MB.Kindly advise.
private void isGivenZipInFolderStructure(ExcelImportCronJobModel
     cronJob) {
            try {
                foldersInZip = new ArrayList<>();
                if(cronJob.getReferencedContent() !=null) {
                    final ZipInputStream zip = new ZipInputStream(this.mediaService.getStreamFromMedia(cronJob.getReferencedContent()));
                    ZipEntry entry = null;
                    while ((entry = zip.getNextEntry()) != null) {
                        LOG.info("Size of the entry {}",entry.getSize());
                        if(entry.isDirectory()) {
                            foldersInZip.add(entry.getName().split(BunningsCoreConstants.FORWARD_SLASH)[0]);
                        }
                    }
                }
            } catch (IOException e) {
                LOG.error("Error reading zip, e");
            }
        }

A: As mentioned in the comments, the value of getSize is not set when reading from a ZipInputStream - unlike when using ZipFile. However you could try to scan the stream contents yourself and monitor the sizes of each entry.
This method scans any ZIP passed in as InputStream which could be derived from a file or other downloaded source:
public static void scan(InputStream is) throws IOException {
    System.out.println("==== scanning "+is);
    ZipEntry ze;

    // Uses ByteArrayOutputStream to determine the size of the entry
    ByteArrayOutputStream bout = new ByteArrayOutputStream();

    long maxSize = 10_000_000L;
    try (ZipInputStream zis = new ZipInputStream(is)) {
        while ((ze = zis.getNextEntry()) != null) {
            bout.reset();
            long size = zis.transferTo(bout);
            System.out.println(ze.getName()
                                +(ze.isDirectory() ? " DIR" : " FILE["+size+"]")
                                +(size  > maxSize ? " *** TOO BIG ***":"")
                                );
            if (size > maxSize) {
                //  entry which is too big - do something / warning ...
            } // else use content: byte[] content = bout.toByteArray();
        }
    }
}

This approach is not ideal for very large ZIP content, but it may be worth trying for your specific case - better to have a slow solution than none at all.
If there are really big entries in the ZIP you might also consider replacing the line long size = zis.transferTo(bout); with a call to your own method which does not transfer content but still returns the size - similar to implementation of InputStream.transferTo but commenting out the write().


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Midnight Pleasures
By Eloisa James
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Eloisa James Blackstone Publishing 9780440234579
The Pleasures Trilogy: Book 2
In the night, all rules are forgotten … Eloisa James, the acclaimed author of Potent Pleasures, returns to Regency England with an unforgettable new heroine—a genteel but naughty innocent who gets more than she bargains for when she finally says yes to love. To her legions of adoring suitors, it comes as quite a shock when Lady Sophie York rejects an offer of marriage from the dashing, rakish Patrick Foakes in favor of amiable but dull Braddon Chatwin. He may be an earl, but it is Patrick's stolen kisses that sear her lips. When Patrick, in disguise, scales a ladder to retrieve his friend's fianc├®e, he never expects the elopement to be his own. Neither does Sophie, Braddon, or the rest of the tattling ton. One hasty wedding later, the passionate innocent and the sophisticated rogue play out their own intricate dance as Sophie masters what it takes to keep a man where he belongs. And Patrick learns the ultimate lesson in love.
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In the night, all rules are forgotten …
Eloisa James, the acclaimed author of Potent Pleasures, returns to Regency England with an unforgettable new heroine—a genteel but naughty innocent who gets more than she bargains for when she finally says yes to love.
To her legions of adoring suitors, it comes as quite a shock when Lady Sophie York rejects an offer of marriage from the dashing, rakish Patrick Foakes in favor of amiable but dull Braddon Chatwin. He may be an earl, but it is Patrick's stolen kisses that sear her lips.
When Patrick, in disguise, scales a ladder to retrieve his friend's fianc├®e, he never expects the elopement to be his own. Neither does Sophie, Braddon, or the rest of the tattling ton. One hasty wedding later, the passionate innocent and the sophisticated rogue play out their own intricate dance as Sophie masters what it takes to keep a man where he belongs. And Patrick learns the ultimate lesson in love.
"Sheer reading delight: witty, wise, and passionately romantic." —Mary Balogh, New York Times bestselling author
"A steamy, satisfying romantic romp…Romance writing does not get much better than this." —People
"Shifting from London to the Middle East, Midnight Pleasures is an enthralling read from a vibrant new talent. Ms. James delivers a sensual, exciting, fresh romance that is pure reading pleasure." —RT Book Reviews (4½ stars, Top Pick!)
"Ms. James has given us a brilliant plot and marvelous characters." —Rendezvous
"James proves herself a notable chronicler of the genre here. Her spritely tale takes on substance with a subplot about events in the Ottoman Empire. In addition, while the customary hallmarks are in evidence—the breathless, drawn-out sex scenes, the misunderstandings that almost ruin everything—these contretemps flow naturally from the characterizations and plot and contribute to an engaging story." —Publishers Weekly
"Lady Sophie York is set to elope—but with whom? Sophie…has advanced ideas about love, and worse, an excellent education…The intrepid and intelligent Sophie, of course, saves the day, and Patrick falls in love with her all over again by the end of this lively and vividly written tale. Sensual for a Regency and genuinely fun." —Kirkus Reviews
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