Diabetes is a condition which is characterised by excessive levels of circulating blood glucose (sugar) and can predispose individuals to a plethora of additional conditions if not properly managed. There are three main forms of diabetes type 1, type 2 and gestational diabetes mellitus.
Islet cells in the pancreas counteract rising blood glucose levels by producing a hormone known as insulin. Insulin's role within the body is to transport circulating glucose from the blood stream into skeletal muscle and fat tissue where it can then be stored and used as an energy source for future use. This is an extremely important process as glucose in high concentrations within the blood is toxic and can cause irreparable damage to blood vessels, nerves, and organs.
Diabetes, or prolonged high blood glucose, can occur through a number of different pathways and the mechanism which is causing excessively high blood glucose determines the type of diabetes, either type 1, type 2 or gestational.
Type 1 diabetes is characterised by the loss of pancreatic islet cells due to autoimmune system dysfunction. The autoimmune system perceives the islet cells to be foreign and attacks them resulting in severely limited or no insulin production. It is currently unknown exactly what causes the body's autoimmune system to perceive islet cells as foreign, however, there does appear to be a genetic link. Typically type 1 diabetes manifests at a young age, although can appear at any stage of life. It should also be recognised that type 1 diabetes is not caused by lifestyle and dietary habits, but both do play a very important role in managing the condition.
Typically type 2 diabetes is the result of insulin resistance where insulin is still being produced. However, the insulin's function is not adequate enough to maintain normal blood glucose levels (4.4 - 6.1mmol/L). Within the initial phases of the disease, the pancreas increases its insulin production to help counteract the rising blood glucose levels. Unfortunately, this increased insulin production is not sustainable and insulin production decreases over time. Type 2 diabetes can be the result of risk factors, such as, genetic predisposition, poor lifestyle and dietary habits,that increase an individual's chances of developing type 2 diabetes. It should be noted that not all risk factors are avoidable/modifiable. Below are some of the known modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors for type 2 diabetes.
During the early phases of pregnancy, adaptations to hormone levels result in lower blood glucose levels. However, as the pregnancy progresses insulin sensitivity decreases and, as a result, increases circulating blood glucose. To counteract the rise in blood glucose, more insulin is produced, but if insulin production is inadequate, it may result in sustained high blood glucose levels - gestational diabetes.
Gestational diabetes - Individuals who were diagnosed with gestational diabetes during pregnancy have a significantly increased risk of later development of type 2 diabetes.
According to the latest statistics from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, almost one million Australian's (4.2%) are currently living with diabetes. Of those who have been diagnosed with diabetes, 11.9% are type 1 and 84.9% are type 2. In regards to gestational diabetes, 1 in 20 pregnancies are affected by diabetes.
During 2008-2009, approximately $1.5 billion was spent on treating diabetes in Australia, which makes up 2.3% of all health expenditure. Additionally, 3 out of 5 diabetics were also diagnosed with cardiovascular disease (commonly caused by sustained high blood glucose levels) which placed an additional burden on the healthcare system.
If you are concerned that you may be suffering from diabetes, it is recommended that you consult your doctor to undergo glucose tolerance testing.
Be physically active - Exercise can reduce blood glucose levels, even in the absence of insulin, and plays an important role in reducing insulin resistance. Both healthy individuals and people with diabetes should be aiming to achieve a minimum of 150 minutes of moderate intensity physical activity per week. With physical activity being performed 5-7days each week. Additionally, it is also recommended that individuals participate in strengthening activities at least 2 days per week.
If you have been diagnosed with diabetes please ensure you check with your doctor before commencing exercise. It is also recommended that individuals with diabetes exercise with a partner and ensure blood glucose readings are between 5.6mmol/L - 13.9mmol/L prior to commencing. If you would like more information regarding the amount and type of physical activity you should be performing, please consult your doctor or an exercise physiologist.
Maintain a healthy body weight - Large amounts of body fat can increase insulin resistance and increase your risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
Maintain a healthy diet - It is recommended that individuals achieve a minimum of two serves of fruit and five serves of vegetables each day, as well as limiting the amount of saturated and trans fats consumed. If you would like more information regarding healthy dietary habits, please consult your doctor or a qualified dietician.
Avoid / Cease smoking - Research shows that those who smoke tobacco are twice as likely to develop type 2 diabetes.
Limit alcohol consumption - Alcohol is high in energy and can contribute to weight gain as well as increases in blood pressure and bad cholesterol. Men and women should limit their alcohol consumption to two standard drinks per day and have at least two alcohol free days per week.
Have regular health check-ups - As we age it is a very good idea to regularly have your blood pressure, blood glucose levels and cholesterol checked to ensure diseases are diagnosed before they progress and become more severe.


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Thing is that that problem is only on Virtual Digital Image of Windows 7. When I launch that script on local machine (Windows 7) no errors occur. Please help.

A: Problem was because body section was duplicated by accidentally copy-paste a piece of code.

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On Saturday I had the pleasure of speaking at Red Smart Women's Week. Having done my talk I took the opportunity to go along to a session on 'feeling good about your use of social media', hosted by Brigid Moss. Her guests were Katherine Ormerod and Lucy Sheridan who both have first-hand experience as social media influencers.
Lucy's focus is comparison, an area that fascinates me from a professional standpoint. We all compare ourselves to others, but social media allows this to get out of hand. Lucy candidly spoke about her trials with "Jealousy and envy of other people" which stemmed from social media. From the outside what you see is a funny, humble, engaging and authentic lady, but we all know what goes on inside and what we see from outside are two entirely different things. She went through a period where she really struggled and says she has to keep herself in check with social media even today.
So, what is the psychological root of this envy we all feel – envy which is exacerbated by social media? Evolutionary psychologists explain that feelings such as envy enabled our ancient ancestors to evaluate status within a group. Having higher status meant access to better resources (e.g. food, sexual partners, social alliances, safety) and therefore better chances of survival. The negative emotions felt when comparing someone similar but who had 'more' was a motivation to readdress the balance. For example, if person 'a' had more food than person 'b', the envy felt by person 'b' would motivate them to find more food, meaning an equal chance of survival.
Then and now, this comparison is most significant amongst peers. Research carried out by neuroscientists Ramachandran and Jalal show that if we compare ourselves to someone such as our neighbour who happens to have more money than us and someone like Mark Zuckerberg whose net worth is $62 billion, most of us feel more envious of our neighbour. Why? Because our brain has evolved to think that there's 'no point in being envious of' Zuckerberg. He's off the scale either in ability or luck so no amount effort will result in us becoming the richest person in the world.But if our neighbour is more wealthy than us, someone who has a similar background, social status, opportunities etc., we feel envy to motivate us to have the same. The problem is that today the envy is not fuelling a life and death situation so becomes a far less helpful emotion.
This unhelpful emotion becomes even worse when we add in social media. Online everyone 'seems' closer to us than in reality they are so suddenly everyone becomes a peer. As a result we compare ourselves to and become envious of far more people which starts the negative downward spiral faced by comparison on social media. This is made worse because we're often trying to close the gap on something unattainable a) because the person we are comparing ourselves to is not from a similar background to us (e.g. Hollywood star who grew up with film star parents in LA) b) because most images on social media do not display reality (i.e. a snapshot of perfection rather than the struggle, pain, failure and every day ugliness that goes on behind the scene). The more primitive areas of our brain don't know that we're striving for something that we cannot achieve or something that's unrealistic, which greatly amplifies the negative emotions felt and in turn produces powerful feelings of inadequacy.
Try to notice the envy – what or who you are envious of, observing the emotion rather than engaging with it (more on this technique in my book and books by Russ Harris). Being self-aware can help you to stop and put it down when it becomes too much rather than getting sucked in.
Try to limit your social media usage. Sounds obvious but it's really important. To quote Arianne Huffington "Technology is amazing, but it needs to be put in its place, and we need to set boundaries so that we have time to connect with ourselves and to build deep connections with others." Lucy and Katherine have more tips on this (websites below).
On that point – connect with others in real life. Make the effort to call a friend or to speak to someone in person and really concentrate on what they say. It will move you away from feelings of envy as well as bringing you back into the real world and evoking far more powerful and helpful emotions relating to the more advanced areas of the brain.
Read Lucy and Katherine's websites for more on having a healthy relationship with social media.
Defining You which is currently 99p on Amazon UK. It's also available at Waterstones, WHSmiths and Foyles in the UK. Elsewhere it's available on amazon.com, amazon.com.au, amazon.ca and in various bookstores in Canada (e.g. Indigo) and the USA.
Harris, R. (2011). The happiness trap. ReadHowYouWant. com.
My mum has finally kicked me out of home, having put off the inevitable for (many, many) years, she's offloaded the last few boxes onto my kitchen floor. These remnant items detail the narrative of my life, from a cosy 4-person family and infant school in Surrey to divorced parents and primary school 50 miles away. Three senior schools and three major transitions (and a big brother who I adored throughout) made up my story until I was 18.
Each of these stages, all of the friends I gathered along the way are catalogued in letters, photos, post cards, drawings and classroom notes. The view point different which ever you read. Sometimes happy, other times sad, sometimes cringe worthy, others deeply touching, every single interaction has laid down the ground work to who I have become today. Every image and word has brought back memories, emotions and feelings which have littered the vivid dreams that I always have, with a different flavour and content every night.
There is only one person I do not wish to remain in contact with. The girl who victimised me for my first year at senior school, until she left my life was a misery. But that too influenced my story: to never do the same to anyone else and to have empathy for anyone who has ever suffered similar abuse. The rest, all of the other people, I am happy to have known.
I felt desperately sad to lose contact with one particular friend, my best friend from infant school. There was something between us that I cannot easily describe – beyond a typical connection and one that stretched far beyond simply knowing each other through so many vital years of childhood. Arguably we had become part of each other's story – she knew me before my parents split up and I knew her before she lost her father, way too young. Amusing and awkward encounters scatter the letters that span the age of 8 to 16. While we both changed dramatically over that time, we always seemed to change in the same direction. By 16 I had then moved three times, one too many to remain in touch. I had tried before to find her but always in vain. Maybe it was just time for this story book to end.
But if you are my friend you know how stubbornly determined I am (which I hope translates to loyalty in relationships). Reflection and dreams over the past couple of weeks only strengthened my resolve to find her. After I had scoured what seemed like hundreds of different avenues (but in reality was probably only about a dozen) I finally came upon a face that I recognised. A smile that strangely reached out and greeted the 7-year-old me. A magic that touched me through my screen. Tentatively I e-mailed prepared for no response or interest in return. Maybe this was only my story and not hers. Moments later a reply popped up. I was utterly ecstatic, she said she'd been thinking of me recently and had even told her own 7 year old daughter about our friendship – it seems I am still part of her story too.
Through the course of life, I have formed some incredible friendships which have lasted for years. Some people don't need to be in your life long to feel that connection, a kindred spirit, those rare connections who you feel you know before they've even uttered a word. Others form the tapestry of life even when you grow apart. Those relationships may take work but they are still worth it, they make up a vital part of who we all are. Had Hazel and I met today we probably would have become friends, but as it stands we have so much more than just a connection, we share a story.
Human connection is a vital part of who we are not only because of what it does to our brains…..
……but also, because friends and family hold a magic that cannot be explained by science. They know and love the essence of who we are and they understand the narrative of our lives. They live the highs and lows and remember the moments that we may otherwise forget. Our friends and our family, our connections are what pick our lives up from off the page, they hold the memories of photos and letters, the classroom giggles, teenage angst and heartbreak. They live the images and sounds of our narrative through the internal video camera of their life and ours. They tell the story of who we are.
And Big Bruv – I still adore you!
Murden, F. (2018) Defining You. Hodder & Stoughton.
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Roohafza, H. R., Afshar, H., Keshteli, A. H., Mohammadi, N., Feizi, A., Taslimi, M., & Adibi, P. (2014). What's the role of perceived social support and coping styles in depression and anxiety?. Journal of research in medical sciences: the official journal of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, 19(10), 944.
Zimet, G. D., Dahlem, N. W., Zimet, S. G., & Farley, G. K. (1988). The multidimensional scale of perceived social support. Journal of personality assessment, 52(1), 30-41.
[iv] de Brito, T. R. P., Nunes, D. P., Corona, L. P., da Silva Alexandre, T., & de Oliveira Duarte, Y. A. (2017). Low supply of social support as risk factor for mortality in the older adults. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics.
Holt-Lunstad, J., Smith, T. B., Baker, M., Harris, T., & Stephenson, D. (2015). Loneliness and social isolation as risk factors for mortality: a meta-analytic review. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 10(2), 227-237.


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Stifel, RBC Pick Up Wirehouse Reps: Recruiting Roundup
Advisors continue to leave Merrill Lynch, Wells Fargo and other firms.
By Janet Levaux | July 01, 2019 at 04:36 PM
Stifel Financial says it has added three advisors with a total of $300 million in client assets, one of whom joins from Wells Fargo. Meanwhile, RBC Wealth Management says it has welcomed a $210 million team from Merrill Lynch.
"We continue to have advisors joining us from bank-owned entities, and momentum is building from our nontraditional competitors," according to John Pierce, Stifel's head of recruitment.
Jay Mastilak is now part of its Pittsburgh office after leaving Wells Fargo, where she was responsible for $180 million in client assets. The certified financial planner has 36 years in the business and started her career at Merrill Lynch.
"We are very excited to welcome Jay to the Stifel family," Pierce said. "Stifel's Women's Initiative Network (WIN) is proving to be a critical support mechanism for women advisors considering Stifel."
Robert Rix is with Stifel's Grand Rapids, Michigan, office. He previously worked for Oppenheimer & Co. and managed $63 million in client assets. The advisor has 20 years of experience and cut his teeth at Prudential Securities.
Sean Westbrook is now part of Stifel's Pueblo, Colorado, office, after leaving FSC Securities, where he managed $55 million. He has been an advisor for 12 years and began his career at RBC.
Merrill Team Moves to RBC
The team moving to RBC in Atlanta from Merrill Lynch includes Christopher "Satch" Sanders, with 36 years of experience, and Daniel Crews, with 10 years in the business; the team does business as the Sanders & Crews Wealth Management Group.
"Although we were aware of RBC's global strength and high credit rating, we did not realize how strong they were in the wealth management space," the duo said jointly in a statement. "We feel RBC is the best fit for us and for the corporate executives, retirees and entrepreneurs we serve."
Janet Levaux
Janet Levaux, MA/MBA, is Editor in Chief of Investment Advisor magazine; she has covered the financial markets since 1991 and advisors since 2005. After living in Latin America and Europe as part of her studies at Yale and Johns Hopkins SAIS, Janet worked in Japan and then California, where she earned a business degree, before returning to her hometown of San Antonio, Texas (which turned 300 in 2018).
Schorsch, Block and AR Capital to Pay $60M to SEC for Fraud
Janet Levaux | July 16, 2019
The once high-flying real estate firm was charged with falsifying books and records from late 2012 to early 2014.
4 Steps to Finding a New Advisory Firm
Erinn Ford | July 16, 2019
How can an advisor find the perfect advisory home without actually working there first? Here are some ideas.

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The most requested coloring pages have now been added to our site. So I hope you have your pencils ready to start coloring the galaxy far, far away. You will see all the famous characters and you can now even make Darth Vader pink.


FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) The Patriots have cut down on the long completions they allowed early in the season. The Ravens keep making them.
On Sunday night, New England's progress will be tested against Baltimore's strong-armed Joe Flacco and his speedy receivers in the AFC championship game.
Patriots cornerback Aqib Talib saw just how dangerous the Ravens' deep passing attack can be in their 38-35, double-overtime win over the Denver Broncos in last Saturday's divisional playoff game.
On the Ravens' second series against the Broncos, Flacco threw a 59-yard touchdown pass to Torrey Smith. On their last series of regulation, he heaved a 70-yard score to Jacoby Jones with 31 seconds left.
That was the Ravens' longest completion of a season in which Flacco keeps connecting with targets far downfield. He has completed passes to receivers 13 times on gains of 40 yards or more. The Patriots, meanwhile, had just five completions to receivers that picked up that distance - and two were caught by players now on injured reserve.
They Patriots (13-4) didn't do that very well in the first half of the season. They allowed 21 completions that gained at least 25 yards in their first eight games. A season-high five came in a 31-30 loss to the Ravens in Week 3.
They lowered that to 15 in their last eight regular-season games. Talib, who played in the last seven after being acquired from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, helped.
His addition allowed the Patriots to move McCourty from cornerback, where he struggled at times, to safety, where he's solidified the secondary.
But the Ravens (12-6) have hurt teams with the long ball all season - from their very first offensive play. That was a 52-yard completion from Flacco to Smith that started a 44-13 rout of the Cincinnati Bengals.
Two weeks later against the Patriots, Smith caught passes of 38, 32 and 25 yards, Jones had receptions of a 41 and 24 yards and Anquan Boldin added a 24-yarder. And in the final minute, McCourty was penalized for defensive pass interference, moving the ball 27 yards to the Patriots 7-yard line. Two plays later, Justin Tucker's 27-yard field goal gave the Ravens a 31-30 win as time expired.
Flacco will be facing the Patriots for the third time in the postseason and sixth time overall. So he knows how Belichick likes to defend Baltimore's passing game.
``They're going to probably come up and put pressure on our receivers,'' Flacco said. ``They always, throughout the years, like to get up and not allow our tight ends and our inside guys to get off the ball very well and play over the top of the outside guys.
As usual, Belichick is sure to change some defensive tactics and show Flacco something he hasn't seen from the Patriots.
Whatever that is, he'll still have Smith, Boldin and Jones to run under his deep throws.
Flacco had 40 completions of at least 25 yards, tying Denver's Peyton Manning for the most in the NFL this season.
Smith caught six of at least 40 yards, Jones did it four times and Boldin three. Even the tight ends got into the act with Dennis Pitta scoring on a 61-yard pass play and Ed Dickson making a 40-yard snare.


I'm sending the above two links to you this morning because they illustrate, at least in my mind, precisely how the Establishment planned to globalize the American political system… many, many years ago.
1) Create a two party system where BOTH parties believe in the same core (globalist) principles, i.e., Free Trade, Sustainable Development, Agenda 21, Climate Change, etc.
2) Leave the old political coalitions (nationalist/constitutionalist) leaderless; rendering them politically flaccid and incapable of reacting to change.
3) Stigmatize the belief systems of the old political coalitions as being those of the uneducated or minimally educated, i.e., angry white racist, mainly male, whose ideas about constitutional governance were those best viewed as American history…. and seen as ideas developed and implemented by angry white males as well.
4) Replace the old political coalition with a new political coalition (comprised of Third Worlders, Illegal aliens, immigrants, females, blacks and the young and naive) that have all been immersed in the political philosophy of globalization. A coalition led by American's mostly white intelligentsia; who grant as many free economic benefits (free in the sense that the recipients don't pay for these benefits themselves) as the American Establishment can heap upon them. Whose economic largess, ironically enough, was paid for (many, many years before) by the wealth generated by those selfsame old angry white male racists, which have now been scorned and vilified. All this, in order to consolidate the new amalgam into a dependable voting block (a new base if you will), for BOTH of America's political parties, Republican and Democrat, going forward.
5) Ignore the problems created by the new political belief system (and the coalition instituting them) until the members of the old coalition fragment off into trifling splinter groups, and or, until the old coalition is fully replaced through attrition.
That was the plan…. until Donald Trump happened.


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New Report Offers Insights on Occupational Fraud
The median fraud loss for U.S. organizations is $105,000, according to a survey of Certified Fraud Examiners (CFEs) who investigated cases between January 2008 and December 2009.
The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) published the results of the survey in its 2010 Report to the Nations on Occupational Fraud & Abuse. For the first time, the report includes global data among the 1,843 cases of fraud that were studied. The ACFE has published the report every two years since 2002.
The 2010 study found that billing schemes (e.g., submitting invoices for fictitious goods or services or for personal purchases) and corruption schemes (e.g., an employee's inappropriate use of his or her influence in business transactions, including bribery and extortion) were the leading types of fraud reported in the U.S. and worldwide. Billing schemes were present in 27.6% of cases examined, while corruption was reported in 21.9%.
Other key findings from the 84-page report include the following:
Fraud committed from the top of an organization is the most damaging. Although a large percentage of U.S. frauds in the study were committed by lower-level employees (46.2%) and caused a median loss of $50,000, it was frauds committed by business owners/executives (17.1%) that did the most damage, with a median loss of $485,000. Frauds committed by managers (36.7%) had a median loss of $150,000.
Perpetrators were likely to be found in one of six departments. More than 80% of the frauds in the study were committed by individuals in accounting, operations, sales, executive/upper management, customer service, or purchasing.
More than half of all cases in the study were committed by individuals between the ages of 31 and 45. Generally speaking, median losses tended to rise with the age of the perpetrator.
Only 7% of the perpetrators in the study had been previously convicted of a fraud offense.
Fraud perpetrators often display warning signs that they are engaging in illicit activity. The most common behavioral red flags displayed by the perpetrators in the study were living beyond their means (43% of cases) and experiencing financial difficulties (36%).
More frauds are detected by tip than by other means. In a trend reflected worldwide, the impact of anonymous fraud hotlines is clear, as 37.8% of the U.S. frauds in the study were detected by tip, followed by management review (17.1%) and internal audit (13.7%).
The report also details findings on the effect of fraud on organizations based on industry and how the implementation of controls affected exposure to fraud.
Click here to read the entire ACFE 2010 Report to the Nations.


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Home > Latest news > Commonwealth Games come to an end:- India's daughter bring home most of the medals
Commonwealth Games come to an end:- India's daughter bring home most of the medals
by Newsera - April 16, 2018 April 30, 2018
Commonwealth Games are one of the most prestigious games around the globe, where all the commonwealth countries compete against each other. Commonwealth Games were held in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, between 4 and 15 April 2018. Talking about India's performance at the CWG 2018, India stood at 3rd place in the medal tally at 66 medals. This is India's third best performance at the CWG. While all the players gave it their blood and sweat, it was India's daughters who outshined at CWG and brought home most of the medals.
The Daughters who made us proud at Commonwealth Games,2018:
Mary Kom:- 35 year old boxer and mother of 3 sons, who did not let age, marriage or parenthood, stop her from earning gold at CWG 2018. Mary won gold medal in 45-48 kg boxing beating Northern Ireland's Kristina O'Hara. Mary truly showed us that she simply isn't a Five times World Amateur Boxing champion.
Manu Bhaker:- Manu truly gave it her best shot and brought a gold medal in women's 10m air pistol event and set a record by scoring 240.9 points. At the tender age of 16, she holds the title of the youngest Indian to win a gold medal at the ISSF World Cup.
Manika Batra:- Manika was India's star performer at CWG 2018. She brought home not just one, but a 4 Medals (2 gold, 1 silver and 1 Bronze). The 22 year old table tennis player hails from Delhi. She is first Indian woman to win an individual medal in table tennis at the Commonwealth Games. Manika's Tri color nail polish also became the talk of the town.
Monika Batra
Saina Nehwal:- Saina is undoubtedly one of the finest badminton players the world has ever seen. The entire nation was going through a nail biting situation as P. V Sindhu and Saina were competing against each for goal, putting India in a win- win situation. Saina won the match and became India's first woman to win two gold medals at CWG.
Mirabai Chanu:- Mirabai's shoulders weren't only carrying weights at CWG, but were also carrying the expectations of 1.25Cr Indians. Needless to say, she performed extremely well, bringing India's first Gold, in Women's 48 kg. Besides creating history, she also broke three Games records in the 'snatch' section, the 'clean and jerk' and the overall Games record.
P. V. Sindhu:- P.V Sindhu shot to fame when she became the first Indian to win a silver medal at Olympics. History repeated itself once again, but this time at CWG where P.V earned the Silver Medal. She was competing against Saina Nehwal.
P. V. Sindhu
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Vitaly Ignatiev Met with Klaus Neukirch the Head of the OSCE Mission to Moldova
The Foreign Ministry hosted the meeting of the Pridnestrovian Minister of Foreign Affairs Vitaly Ignatiev with the Head of the OSCE Mission to Moldova Klaus Neukirch.
During the meeting, a wide range of topical issues within the framework of relations between Pridnestrovie and the Republic of Moldova settlement were discussed. The diplomats agreed on the negative dialogue dynamics between the parties at the current stage which is characterized by the emergence of new problematic aspects.
Pridnestrovian Foreign Ministry's Statement as to New Facts Showing the Republic of Moldova Is Being Blocking the Pridnestrovian Foreign Economic Activity
Some of the republic's enterprises have recently appealed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic informing about the facts of illegitimate detention at the Kuchurgany checkpoint and on the territory of the Republic of Moldova, of a number of goods intended for internal consumption within Pridnestrovie.
The March 30, 2012 Protocol Decision's Validity Period Got Extended
Without arranging any personal meeting, the Pridnestrovian President and the Prime Minister of Moldova signed an additional Protocol that is prolonging the Protocol Decision's validity "On resumption principles of full-fledged freight railway communication through the territory of Pridnestrovie". According to the agreement reached, the document will be valid until June 30, 2021.
Vitaly Ignatiev Met with Andrey Muravyov the Head of Rossotrudnichestvo Office in the Republic of Moldova
The PMR's Foreign Ministry hosted the meeting of Pridnestrovian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Vitaly Ignatiev and the Head of the Rossotrudnichestvo Office in the Republic of Moldova, Andrey Muravyov. Assistant to the PMR's President, Vitaly Bondar and Deputy Foreign Minister of the PMR, Alexander Stetsiuk attended the meeting as well.
Vadim Krasnoselsky Met with Konstantin Kosachev Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs
The Pridnestrovian President had a conversation with Russian politician Konstantin Kosachev. Senators Farit Mukhametshin and Sergei Muratov representing the Russian Federation together with Vitaly Ignatiev, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the PMR representing the Pridnestrovian side, attended the meeting as well.
The head of the Pridnestrovian state thanked the Federation Council's leadership for arranging the visit of senators as observers at the recent parliamentary elections to the PMR, and for constant attention to the processes taking place in the republic and around it.
Pridnestrovian President Vadim Krasnoselsky Met with Dmitry Kozak
Today, the President of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic Vadim Krasnoselsky met with Dmitry Kozak, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation.
During the conversation, the Pridnestrovian President highly appreciated the existing systemic nature of Russian-Pridnestrovian interaction and expressed special gratitude to the leadership of the Russian Federation for the long-term successful peacekeeping operation that has maintained peace and stability on the Dniester for more than 28 years.
The Pridnestrovian President Met with Russian Parliamentarians
Today, at the Official Representation of Pridnestrovie in Moscow, the Pridnestrovian President met with deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation. Vadim Krasnoselsky's interlocutors were Artem Turov, Sergey Chizhov and Umakhan Umakhanov. The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the PMR Vitaly Ignatiev and the head of the Pridnestrovian Representation in the Russian capital Leonid Manakov attended the working conversation as well.
Meetings of Pridnestrovian President in Moscow
Working meetings of the Head of the Pridnestrovian State continue taking place in Moscow. Vadim Krasnoselsky met with Sergey Neverov, the head of the United Russia faction, at the Duma platform. The Russian statesman is attentive to everything related to Pridnestrovie, where live hundreds of thousands compatriots as those who have Russian citizenship, so those who do not have it due to objective reasons. The meetings between the PMR's President and the United Russia parliamentarian are systemic. Today, topical issues of the Pridnestrovian-Russian interaction were discussed.
The Pridnestrovian President Vadim Krasnoselsky Met with Alexander Pankin Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia
The Pridnestrovian President Vadim Krasnoselsky met with Alexander Pankin, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation at the Reception House of the Russian Foreign Ministry. The event took place in a working breakfast format. Vitaly Ignatiev, the Head of the Foreign Ministry and Alexei Polishchuk, Director of the Second Department of the CIS Countries of the Russian Foreign Ministry together with his deputy Alexander Kondakov attended the meeting as well.
Vadim Krasnoselsky Met with Farit Mukhametshin
Being in the Russian capital, the Head of the Pridnestrovian State met with Farit Mukhametshin, Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs. Years of diplomatic interaction associate the Russian statesman with Pridnestrovie: from 2012 to 2018, Farit Mukhametshin headed the Russian Embassy in the Republic of Moldova and used to be a frequent guest of Pridnestrovie; he is well acquainted with the situation in the republic and around its perimeter and is firsthand acquainted with the history of the Permanent Conference..." format functioning.
The Head of the Pridnestrovian State Is Paying a Working Visit to Moscow
The Pridnestrovian President arrived in the Russian capital on a working visit. A number of meetings with representatives of the State Duma, the Federation Council, the Russian Foreign Ministry and other government agencies and Russian departments are planned for the coming days. Vadim Krasnoselsky's schedule includes as well work at the site of the Official Representative of Pridnestrovie in Moscow. Meetings with compatriots, parliamentarians and public figures of the Russian Federation are to take place
The Pridnestrovian President Met with the Czech Ambassador
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Czech Republic to the Republic of Moldova Zdeněk Krejčí and his deputy Martin Cech are paying a working visit to Tiraspol. The Head of Pridnestrovian State received the diplomats. The meeting is taking place at the site of the PMR President's Administration. The agenda includes issues of bilateral cooperation between countries in various areas, contacts through the Czech Embassy, activities of the "Permanent Conference ..." format and other issues of mutual interest.
Alexander Stetsiuk Attended the Meeting of the PMR Supreme Council Commission on Foreign Policy and International Relations
The first meeting of the Commission on Foreign Policy and International Relations of the VII convocation of the Supreme Council of the PMR took place on December 11. Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the PMR Alexander Stetsiuk attended it as well.
Vitaly Ignatiev Participated in a Discussion on the Russian TV Channel Zvezda
The Pridnestrovian Foreign Minister, Vitaly Ignatiev participated in an "Open Air" talk show on the Russian TV channel Zvezda. The program touched upon topical issues of the Moldovan-Pridnestrovian conflict, on the peacekeeping operation on the Dniester functioning and on current political and socio-economic situation around Pridnestrovie.
On the Meeting of Expert (Working) Groups on Economic Issues
A video conference of expert (working) groups on economic issues was held today with the participation of representatives of mediators and observers.
During the meeting, interlocutors discussed a wide range of issues related to the foreign economic activity of Pridnestrovian economic agents and to the import of various categories of goods.
In addition, the sides touched upon certain issues related to freight railway communication organization.
Vitaly Ignatiev Met with Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Foreign Ministry Vitaly Tryapitsyn
The Foreign Ministry of the Russian Federation hosted a meeting between the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the PMR Vitaly Ignatiev and the Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Foreign Ministry Vitaly Tryapitsyn.
The Pridnestrovian Foreign Ministry Held a Meeting with UN Representatives
Deputy Foreign Minister of the PMR Alexander Stetsiuk held an online format conference with Bea Ferenci, Human Rights Advisor to the UN Resident Coordinator in Moldova. Vyacheslav Kosinsky, the Commissioner for Human Rights in the PMR attended the meeting as well.
Vadim Krasnoselsky Met with the British Ambassador
The Head of Pridnestrovian State met with the delegation led by the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the Republic of Moldova, at the site of Pridnestrovian President's Administration. Vadim Krasnoselsky and Stephen Fischer communicate for the third time this year. Among other things, the current visit of the British diplomat is associated with the supply of humanitarian PPE aid to Pridnestrovie, necessary in the fight against coronavirus.
Vitaly Ignatiev Gave a Comment to the "Russia 24" TV Channel
In an interview with the "Russia 24" TV channel, Pridnestrovian Foreign Minister Vitaly Ignatiev commented on the statements of the President-elect of the Republic of Moldova Maia Sandu regarding the need to withdraw the Operational Group of Russian Forces in Pridnestrovie, as well as to replace the existing peacekeeping operation on the Dniester with a civilian observer mission under the OSCE auspices.
Comment by PMR's MFA
The Pridnestrovian side noted the specific reaction of the Moldovan Political Representative's Office to the official appeal of Pridnestrovie to ensure the implementation of the electoral right of citizens of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic within the Single Voting Day on November 29, 2020.
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Kangana Ranaut shares a BTS pic from Tiku Weds Sheru, says 'most gratifying is to be a worker on the set'
Amit KarjeeNovember 17, 2021
Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut is busy with her maiden production 'Tiku weds Sheru'. The film stars Avneet Kaur and Nawazuddin Siddiqui in pivotal roles. The shooting of the film began in the first week of November. Recently, the actress took to her Instagram handle to share a BTS picture from the set.
The 'Queen' actress shared a picture where she can be seen working on the sets. The post was captioned as, "Most gratifying is to be a worker on the sets, BTS from Tiku weds Sheru".
Meanwhile, Kangana recently was in the headlines after her remark on Freedom of India. Amid this, she also wrapped up her film Tejas and was snapped at the wrap-up party last week. The film will star Kangana in the role of an Air Force pilot. Besides Tejas, Kangana also will be seen in Dhaakad with Arjun Rampal and Divya Dutta. The film is directed by Razneesh Ghai and backed by Sohail Maklai. It will release next year.
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Il buco nero della prigione di al-Mezze
– 16 ottobre 2014Postato in: BACHECHE, Cultura & Censura, Damasco, di oggi, NOTIZIE, Rivolta 15 marzo, SIRIA, Siria, Storia, STORIE
Per la prima volta vengono rese note le condizioni di detenzione e le torture praticate nella prigione dei servizi segreti dell'aeronautica, presso l'aeroporto militare di al-Mezze (Damasco). Le testimonianze raccolte si basano su "fughe di notizie" dall'interno dell'intelligence dell'aeronautica e sono corroborate da ex-detenuti sopravvissuti.
(di Siraj Press – per The Syrian Observer) What is the Investigation Branch of the Air Force Intelligence made up of, how are detainees interrogated and held, and where are they held?
Siraj Press has received a report on the prisons belonging to Air Force Intelligence at al-Mezze military airport in the Syrian capital, Damascus, the number of detainees in each dormitory, and details on the torture methods employed by Assad's forces.
The report, prepared by the Homs Revolution Media Center, stated that each person is interrogated for the first time in the old Department of Investigation building inside al-Mezze military airport. The detainee is then interrogated for a second time at the new Branch of Investigation in al-Mezze military airport by a special investigator, who is aided by four or five jailers who assist in torture. After the interrogation, detainees are transferred into secret cells by night, transported in buses carrying 24 passengers each, with two armed cars for protection. Many prisoners, though, are detained without being interrogated. Some detainees are not called by name, but are given numbers – for example, 320 or 880. These are mostly defected officers, enlisted men, or those who are accused of engaging in commerce with defectors.
The report indicates that the Department of Studies building in al-Mezze military airport contains 150 detainees, and Dormitory 1 contains 200 detainees. This is one of the most dangerous prisons because the lack of sanitary measures and the accumulation of garbage encourage the spread of disease. It is 12 meters long and three meters wide. Dormitory 3 contains approximately 180 detainees in an area 12 meters long and three meters wide. Assad's forces have also turned the runway near the first bridge to the al-Mezze highway into a prison that holds 250 political prisoners.
According to the report, the old Branch of Investigation building inside al-Mezze military airport contains around 10 dormitories. As the report notes, "The dormitory is a room four meters long and three meters wide, with a toilet." There are also 30 cells: "Cells do not contain a toilet. Every day each detainee is allowed to the toilet twice a day after meals, and is beaten while leaving and returning." Each cell is 180 cm long and 120 cm wide. Regime forces have also turned the new three-story Branch of Investigation building into a detention center. It has a basement with 40 cells that are each 180 cm long and 120 cm wide, and about six dormitories. The first and second floors of this building follow the same design.
Secret Detention Centers
The report also indicates that the Assad regime depends on a number of detention centers in the capital and its suburbs. In these detention centers, the regime holds prisoners without trial, and does not allow their relatives to visit them or even know where they are being held. The most important detention centers include the Detention Branch in al-Kassa'a, Bab Touma; the Adra holding area; and the Sidnaya detention center. Sidnaya holds what the regime considers the most dangerous detainees, in addition to defected enlisted men and officers. The Fourth Division's detention center is located above the 555th regiment's base. It includes a first dormitory (Dormitory A) containing 80 detainees. This dormitory includes two rooms that are each four meters long and four meters wide. Scorpions and insects are common because the detention center is located in a mountainous area. Dormitory B contains 70 detainees in a room that is 4.5 meters long and four meters wide. Cell C, which is intended as a holding cell for soldiers and is only intended to contain 20 individuals, has been filled with 120 detainees. Finally, a dormitory for medical patients is located in the Fourth Division's base, and contains nearly 90 detainees.
Methods of Torture
The report revealed many methods of torture used by the regime. The most important, "Ghost," is performed using a metal crane: the detainee is blindfolded and his or her hands are bound with plastic ties. The detainee is then held aloft by the hands on the crane with nothing under his or her feet. The second method is "the wheel." Jailers put a wheel on the detainee's knees and a metal rod below his knees, positioning the prisoner's head on the ground and raising his or her legs. The detainee is then beaten on the feet with a 1.5 meter-long hose. The third method is called "the pincer." A metal rod is placed on the feet and they are squeezed together. Room 27 inside al-Mezze military airport is for more severe torture. It is full of "pincers," pliers, welding implements, and medications used to induce confessions, nausea, and unconsciousness.
Provision of Food and Medical Care
Detainees get food similar to that provided to regime forces. They are fed three times a day: at 7:00 AM they are given a piece of bread, an egg, and seven olives, or seven olives and a spoonful of jam. At lunch they receive a piece of bread and cup of rice or bulgur wheat, and at dinner they are given a piece of bread with boiled potatoes. Less than a spoonful of mutton is distributed to each prisoner every Sunday, and on Wednesday two spoonfuls of poached chicken are distributed to each detainee.
The report argued that medical care for detainees is abysmal. Diseases such as scabies and boils are common because of the presence of lice and dirt, and because detainees are only allowed to shower once every two weeks. Regime forces also used to provide one blister pack of antibiotics, but have stopped doing so.
It is worth noting that this report detailed the conditions of detention centers belonging to Air Force Intelligence in al-Mezze military prison, but there are many more detention centers in regime-held areas of Syria. This report was based on leaks from inside Air Force Intelligence, corroborated by the accounts of detainees who have been released.
Translated and edited by The Syrian Observer.
Tag: al-Mezze, Damasco, prigione
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Hi Geoff. I haven't fed my strawberry plants yet (they are in a raised bed). They have quite a few flowers. Should i feed them now and what with? I couldn't much them as they are growing through a black membrane. Thanks!
Hello. Feeding now will certainly help with flowering and fruiting and because they are growing through black plastic the best way to feed is with a liquid fertiliser. Any is better than none but a high-potash fertiliser such as Phostrogen or a tomato feed or any that says 'for flowers and fruit' will do. You should feed every week until the fruits are picked.
hasn't the blossom been wonderful ….. my pear tree is loaded wish it was conference but they are nice its a dessert pear.
Hi Geoff! After a few days grounded home by a gastroenteritis the lawn is knee-high and you just remind me to check whether my currants still exist… I have an apple tree and a quince, still young plants, I always bother if it's right or wrong to take some of the fruitlets away at this time of the year because I don't want the branch to break up under the fruit weight later… What do you do with yours?
Yes thanks, still recovering. I need to mow the grass but I don't feel like it… I may thin the quince fruits out as you suggested as the branches are still growing and the fruits could be very heavy by mid summer….


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What is the UCI and When Did It Start?
The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) supported by ukbookmakers.info shows up a lot when talking about the sport of competitive cycling. But, what is this organization and what do they actually do? Here you'll learn the basics of the UCI, so you can understand the sport and different competitions better.
What Is the UCI?
Since April 14th, 1900, the UCI has been the largest governing body over competitive cycling. Similar to football's FIFA or the USA's NFL, the UCI oversees all operations that have to do with competitive cycling at all. This includes both men's and women's competitive cycling all around the world.
Cycling is not limited to the more well-known road racing, but also includes mountain biking, BMX biking, cyclo-cross, indoor cycling, and track racing. Whether a race is amateur or professional, the UCI is there to make sure the sport is played fairly and competitively in all age brackets and regions of the world.
What Does the UCI Do?
There are a wide range of activities that the UCI is involved in. For one, they are the regulatory body behind competitive cycling. This means they are responsible for the rulebook of the sport, making adjustments as time goes on and enforcing current legislation during competitions.
Another major activity of the UCI is to participate in disciplinary matters, such as dealing with doping allegations and investigations against certain cyclists or teams. This responsibility has been necessary many times over the years, and keeps the sport healthy and competitive without allowing dopers to prosper.
All teams that want to participate in cycling events must get a license to do so from the UCI. Professional and amateur licenses are available through the organization, if a team meets certain standards. Individuals can also obtain licenses to participate in UCI-sanctioned cycling events.
Examples of the UCI in Action
You can see how the UCI operates with licensing by taking a look at MTN-Qhubeka, a South African cycling team (now known as Team Dimension Data for Qhubeka). This team was very small at first, but they registered as a UCI Continental Team in 2008 and could then compete in UCI sanctioned cycling events around the continent.
In 2012, the team applied for a UCI Professional Continental license, and managed to get it for their 2013 season. This granted them the ability to enter into professional competitions internationally. Finally, in 2014, they received a Grand Tour wildcard to enter the Vuelta a Espana. Other races that their license and qualifications allowed them to enter include the Tour de France in 2015, which marked them as the first African team to enter and compete in that particular race.
Without proper licensing, MTN-Qhubeka could not participate in UCI sanctioned events and would not be able to compete professionally in the sport of cycling. They may possibly be a registered amateur team in their country, but that is the extent of their ability in the sport without registering and getting proper licensing.
The UCI has been an important part of cycling since the beginning, and it has helped to grow the sport into something more respectable and prestigious than it ever was before.
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When Xu Cheng arrived at the police station, he finally realized why the instructor had kindly helped him change his patrol area. It turned out that Young Master Yun and the others' parents had finally managed to work their connections to get their kids out of there. The upper management probably thought that since they had already detained the rich heirs for three days, the young masters had probably learned their lessons already and were ready to be released.
When Xu Cheng came over for his shift, a group of lawyers was also there to sign the bail and release documents.
Young Master Yun and the others all came out from the cell and were stretching their muscles. Upon seeing Xu Cheng walking in, the twelve of them came over and blocked Xu Cheng's way to the changing room.
The lawyers' faces grew awkward and they immediately shot their young masters a look.
Young Master Yun and the others just sneered as they walked out of the bureau, driving away in their sports cars that had also been detained that night.
"I know, but why are we scared of this group of people?" Xu Cheng asked.
Xu Cheng narrowed his eyes, these industries were indeed massive.
Xu Cheng nodded, now having a general understanding of the four gates. Just those industries mentioned by the instructor alone were not simple to deal with. If the government really decided to crack down on them, the impact really would be too great. Besides, these four gates already underwent a perfect transition, so they wouldn't leave behind evidence of any unlawful practices that could pose a threat to the higher ups in their organization. They would usually throw little shrimps for the police to catch and do some work on the surface.
"I see, I will follow the bureau's arrangement," Xu Cheng said.
Xu Cheng went out with his colleagues to their motorcycles, but he had to go back in to grab his helmet. When his colleagues all left and he was about to too, Young Master Yun and his fellows blocked the way with two cars.
Young Master Yun rolled up the window and left.
Then, he ignited the engine and rode off.
In the sports car not far away, Young Master Yun was burning with rage as he watched Xu Cheng drive off.
"He went to West Gate's territory to patrol so it's out of North Gate's control. Now, even though they took the money, they can't do anything about him anymore. Brother Yun, what should we do?" A young master on the passenger seat said.
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Thank you for the chapter! I love it!
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I want more but I gotta be patient…..
It's so ridiculous, these criminals just don't know how to handle him. The "hard" and so called "soft" methods they have work for most people, but they should use the avoid method. Just don't let him see you do crime, and viola, problem solved.


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Q: File size inflation using GDAL New to GDAL, have some tiff files and I'm trying to do the following:
"0 to NoData" to avoid black background in Mapbox:
gdalwarp -dstnodata 0 -dstalpha [input file] [output file]

The problem is, the output file size for this tasks is huge (≈150MB to ≈10GB).
The same thing occurs when I next add a color relief:
gdaldem color-relief -of GTiff [input file] [color text file] [output file]  -alpha

The file size roughly doubles...
My only guess is that the data is remaining as a value and is somehow being interpreted as such, so my only option is to compress the file using LZW afterwards.  However, this process takes a ridiculously long time to complete, so I'd like to find a more efficient way.  I typically don't see such great file inflation, but this dataset is new to me.
EDIT:
Here is the gdalinfo readout...
Driver: GTiff/GeoTIFF
Files: [input file]
Size is 129753, 78920
Coordinate System is:
PROJCS["NAD_1983_Albers",
    GEOGCS["NAD83",
        DATUM["North_American_Datum_1983",
            SPHEROID["GRS 1980",6378137,298.2572221010042,
                AUTHORITY["EPSG","7019"]],
            AUTHORITY["EPSG","6269"]],
        PRIMEM["Greenwich",0],
        UNIT["degree",0.0174532925199433],
        AUTHORITY["EPSG","4269"]],
    PROJECTION["Albers_Conic_Equal_Area"],
    PARAMETER["standard_parallel_1",29.5],
    PARAMETER["standard_parallel_2",45.5],
    PARAMETER["latitude_of_center",23],
    PARAMETER["longitude_of_center",-96],
    PARAMETER["false_easting",0],
    PARAMETER["false_northing",0],
    UNIT["metre",1,
        AUTHORITY["EPSG","9001"]]]
Origin = (-2353941.226999999955297,3160112.077999999746680)
Pixel Size = (30.000000000000000,-30.000000000000000)
Metadata:
  AREA_OR_POINT=Area
  DataType=Generic
Image Structure Metadata:
  COMPRESSION=LZW
  INTERLEAVE=BAND
Corner Coordinates:
Upper Left  (-2353941.227, 3160112.078) (127d48'20.50"W, 47d51'28.35"N)
Lower Left  (-2353941.227,  792512.078) (119d57'48.72"W, 27d30'44.36"N)
Upper Right ( 1538648.773, 3160112.078) ( 74d45'30.86"W, 49d54'18.35"N)
Lower Right ( 1538648.773,  792512.078) ( 80d 8'39.87"W, 29d 2'53.17"N)
Center      ( -407646.227, 1976312.078) (100d52' 1.48"W, 40d42'15.31"N)
Band 1 Block=128x128 Type=Byte, ColorInterp=Gray
  NoData Value=0
  Metadata:
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A: Your existing data is compressed.  You're getting an increase in file-size because the default is uncompressed and you aren't specifying a compression option (-co compress=LZW).
However, it's a longstanding issue that gdalwarp doesn't deal with compression well. The solution is to gdalwarp without compression then gdal_translate with compression.
To avoid two lengthy processes, gdalwarp to VRT first, it's really quick, then gdal_translate with the -co COMPRESS=LZW option.
i.e.
gdalwarp params... -of vrt input_file.tif output_file.vrt
gdal_translate -co compress=LZW output_file.vrt output_file.tif

If using GDAL 2+ you can combine this into a single operation by writing the VRT to /vsistdout/ and piping that to gdal_translate and specifying /vsistdin/ as the input.  For example:
gdalwarp -q params... -of vrt input_file.tif /vsistdout/ | gdal_translate -co compress=lzw  /vsistdin/ output_file.tif

You should be able to simply specify -co COMPRESS=LZW in your gdaldem color-relief command, i.e
gdaldem color-relief -co COMPRESS=LZW -of GTiff [input file] [color text file] [output file]  -alpha


Chicken is one of the top cholesterol-friendly protein options because it's so lean. Skinless chicken breast is the best choice for low cholesterol diets because it's very low in saturated fat (1g per 100g). Skinless chicken thighs are higher in saturated fat (2.3g per 100g), so I eat them less frequently.


The world's largest Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) gas supply vessel, MV Kairos, has been christened at a historic ceremony on the River Elbe in Hamburg, Germany.
Owned by Babcock Schulte Energy (BSE), a joint venture between Babcock International Group and Bernhard Schulte, the vessel benefits from almost 300 years of the partner's combined shipping expertise and has been developed using leading-edge, innovative technology that will provide environmental benefits and drive operational efficiency for its customers.
Equipped with Babcock's Fuel Gas Supply Vessel Zero (FGSVO) - a scalable cargo handling and fuelling solution complete with compressed natural gas storage and utilisation capabilities - MV Kairos will eliminate the release of boil-off and flash gas to the atmosphere during normal operations, providing an environmentally accountable fuelling alternative.
Archie Bethel, CEO of Babcock International Group, said: "This is a proud moment for all of the parties involved and marks an important milestone for Babcock Schulte Energy. MV Kairos' reduced environmental footprint is an example of what BSE can provide to the gas shipping market; cleaner energy to customers worldwide."


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Princess Kako to visit Austria and Hungary in September in first official overseas trip
Princess Kako, a niece of Emperor Naruhito, will visit Austria and Hungary from Sept. 15 in her first official overseas trip, to mark the 150th anniversary of Japan's diplomatic ties with the two countries, the government said Thursday.
The 24-year-old younger daughter of Crown Prince Akishino, the emperor's younger brother, will deliver speeches at receptions and make courtesy visits to the presidents of the two countries during her 11-day trip, according to the itinerary approved by the Cabinet.
She will depart on Sept. 15 from Tokyo's Haneda airport on a commercial flight to Vienna via Germany, before flying on to Budapest on Sept. 19.
The princess will then return to Japan via Germany on a commercial flight on Sept. 25.
Princess Kako graduated this spring from the International Christian University in Tokyo where she majored in psychology. She also studied at Leeds University in Britain for nine months from September 2017.
Her parents visited Austria and Hungary in 2009.
Hungary, Austria, Imperial family, Princess Kako, Crown Prince Akishino


In some cases, companies may be legitimately trying to use non-competes to protect their trade secrets. But often, these agreements can create unnecessary roadblocks for any worker trying to get a raise, looking to move up the ladder by joining another employer, or even start their own company. Workers are regularly surprised that they have to sign a non-compete when they take a job, and are often led to believe the agreements are enforceable -- even though many non-compete agreements are not. What's worse, these agreements can even apply when a worker is laid off. Use of non-competes is widespread -- almost one fifth of all workers are subject to them, including a shocking 14 percent of low-wage workers. The person making your sandwich, packing your online shopping order, or pet-sitting your dog could be banned from seeking a different job in their industry. That's power for companies, but less choice for workers.
Surprise at being made to sign a non-compete - Employees who attack the enforceability of restrictive covenants (especially in states with pro-enforcement legal regimes) often point to the circumstances under which they signed the agreements, something to the effect of "I quit my job and then when I had no other options, my new employer made me sign a non-compete agreement on my first day of employment." Depending on the judge, these arguments can be effective, especially in a injunctive relief situation where the balance of the equities matter. Certain states such as Oregon have written notice requirements into their restrictive covenant statutes.
Being led to believe that agreements are enforceable - this hits on a pair of arguments that employees make to invalidate non-compete restrictions. One is that they were not given time to consider the agreements so that they could have a lawyer review them. In practice, most employees will not go to the trouble to pay a lawyer to review a restrictive covenant agreement, but that might be changing as non-compete restrictions increase in frequency and profile. A second is that they allege that they were misled as to the contents of the agreement. While this typically does not have legal effect as to an integrated agreement, it can have a personal effect on a judge.
Application of restrictions to employees who are laid off - this hits on an argument that has strong force in jurisdictions like New York, where it can be very difficult for an employer to enforce a restrictive covenant against an employee whom it terminated. A lay-off is a more limited concept than a termination, so it could be that Biden is simply talking about employees who are let go as a result of business conditions and as part of a group. It could also be that he means the broader concept as exists in New York, which can create all sorts of difficult situations where an employy can engage in transgressive behavior in an attempt to get fired and therefore be released from a non-compete restriction. It can also lead to fact-intensive disputes regarding whether an employee was truly discharged voluntarily by the employer and/or engaged in strategic behavior.
Lower-wage employees signing restrictive covenants - this is a frequent criticism of restrictive covenant agreements, most prominently raised in the media attention to Jimmy Johns' use of non-compete restrictions with sandwich makers. Most recent restrictive covenant statutes have addressed this concern. For instance, Georgia's restrictive covenant statute, which passed in 2009 and went into effect in 2011, limits the categories of employees who can be subject to non-compete restrictions (as opposed to other restrictive covenants). As a practical matter, it is extremely difficult to convince most courts to enforce restrictive covenants against lower-level employees and as the 2014 Jimmy Johns article pointed out, there is no evidence of that employer ever trying to enforce its agreements. However, the argument that Biden and other make is that the mere specter of the agreements can reduce worker mobility, even if the agreements are nothing more than a bluff.
Today, the White House is releasing a report about these sorts of agreements: what states are already doing to protect workers, and new proposals for further action. It will lay the groundwork for more conversations with experts and practitioners. And in the next few months, we'll start by putting forward a specific set of best practices for state reforms.
Indeed, the White House report referenced in Biden's post acknowledges that state legislatures will need to take up the issues raised in the report. In the end, the likely result would be that Democratic state legislatures that are inclined to follow the Obama White House's lead on policy would address the issues raised in the Report and Republican legislatures would not. Between the NLRB's efforts to punish companies from using broad non-disclosure provisions and this latest push for state reform of "non-compete" law, it appears that the Obama Administration is spending some of its final months on the subject of limiting the use of restrictive covenants.


A council service point has unveiled its new opening hours.
The number of people coming to see council staff face-to-face at Aberdeenshire Council's Ellon service point was falling.
So council bosses decided to change its opening hours based on public feedback.
On an online post, the council said it appreciated it was "still really important" residents have the chance to speak to someone in person.
The facility will be open from 8.45am to noon and 1.30pm to 5pm on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
However, it will be closed on Thursdays and Fridays.
Aberdeenshire residents are able to make payments for their rent by cash, cheque or debit card at any of the local authority's service points.
Aside from Ellon, they are also located in Banff, Huntly, Inverurie, Peterhead and Turriff.


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function [c] = datasets_feature(dataset_names, train_lists, test_lists, feature, c)
%
% Copyright Aditya Khosla http://mit.edu/khosla
%
% Please cite this paper if you use this code in your publication:
%   A. Khosla, J. Xiao, A. Torralba, A. Oliva
%   Memorability of Image Regions
%   Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 2012
%

if(~exist('c', 'var'))
  c = conf();
end

if (~exist('OCTAVE_VERSION','builtin'))
    openPool(c.cores);
end

if(c.common_dictionary)
    c.feature_config.(feature).dictionary = build_dictionary(train_lists, feature, c);
end
cache_folder = c.cache;
idx = randperm(length(train_lists));

for j=1:length(train_lists)
  i = idx(j);
  vprintf(c.verbosity, 0, 'Dataset: %s\n', dataset_names{i});
  c.cache = [cache_folder '/' dataset_names{i} '/'];

  if(~c.common_dictionary)
      c.feature_config.(feature).dictionary = build_dictionary(train_lists{i}, feature, c);
  end

  batch_feature(train_lists{i}, 'train', feature, c);
  batch_feature(test_lists{i}, 'test', feature, c);
end

c.cache = cache_folder;

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Right to Try Act: Is it the Answer for Terminally Ill Patients?
This article examines the recent Right to Try Act1 and its impact on the expanded access program (EAP) for investigational new drugs (INDs) currently in place at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The EAP is a greater risk program that was developed to provide drug access to patients with life threatening diseases. Expanded access programs are viewed as a last resort if approved drugs are unavailable or not working and there are no appropriate clinical trials for a particular patient. Similarly, the Right to Try Act (RTA) is intended for patients who have no FDA-approved treatment options for their serious medical conditions or are unable to participate in clinical trials for experimental medications. These patients may feel that their situations are hopeless and they are willing to take extraordinary risks to try unproven treatments. While FDA's expanded access program provides these patients regulatory oversight for options to receive potentially effective experimental treatments, the RTA attempts to provide similar options without FDA approval.
Legislation regarding access to investigational drug candidates has been around since 1938, when the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDCA) was enacted. Further amendments to investigational drug programs were seen with the passage of the FDA Modernization Act of 1997 (FDAMA).2 Under FDA's EAP a patient must exhaust all of his or her available options before concluding, along with a physician, that an experimental medication is the next step. The experimental medication must have been shown to be safe in a Phase 1 clinical trial.
In 2017, the process for filling out FDA forms was streamlined. Physicians fill out FDA Form 3926, also known as an Individual Patient Expanded Access Investigational New Drug Application. Although it may sound daunting, FDA provides an instructional guide for completing each field of the form, along with a guidance for industry that outlines the entire process and expands on the agency's current thinking.3 While the form itself can be completed relatively quickly, other aspects of the process move more slowly.
Once the physician has decided that the next step in a patient's treatment is an experimental medication, he or she would then need to gain approval from FDA, the manufacturer, and the appropriate Institutional Review Board (IRB). Given these hurdles, along with the need to attend to many other patients, the physician may not be able to fill out the form immediately, impacting the time involved in giving ill patients access to experimental medications.
The Right to Try Act provides an alternative pathway operating alongside FDA's expanded access program. In an effort to speed access to experimental drugs, the RTA circumvents FDA by removing its authority over the administration of investigational medications to eligible ill patients. However, removing FDA from the process does nothing about other significant obstacles standing in the way of patient access. Under the RTA, the manufacturer and the IRB still need to approve the use of an experimental drug, which can take months. In an article in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM),4 authors suggest a potential solution involving states working together with FDA to form multicenter IRBs, spanning large geographical areas, that have a primary focus on completing individual patient Investigational New Drug Applications (INDs).
There are many issues that have plagued the expanded access program that the RTA still fails to solve. A variety of issues make manufacturers' participation difficult. Smaller manufacturers typically do not have the resources and personnel to devote to aspects other than the clinical trials needed for approval. Also, in some cases, manufacturers will decide to waive the price of the drug to avoid issues involved in releasing it before final FDA approval. For example, if experimental use candidates are offered a price different from the final price after approval, manufacturers could face public backlash.5 If manufacturers are unable to waive the price, terminally ill patients bear the economic burden, to the tune of potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars per year. Most insurance companies will not pay for experimental drugs.
The RTA attempts to mitigate the impact of adverse events by providing that clinical outcomes may not be used to delay the approval of the drug. Yet, it allows FDA to overcome this limitation on the use of clinical outcomes (1) where it determines it "is critical to determining the safety of the eligible investigational drug," or (2) where the sponsor requests use of such outcomes, which allows for their inclusion in the review process.7 One potential issue in a small terminally ill population is that certain clinical outcomes may not be distinguishable as between the products and the patients' own serious conditions.
Several physicians have used state right to try laws to obtain medication for patients. For example, oncologist Dr. Ebrahim Delpassand used the Texas law to obtain an experimental neuroendocrine cancer treatment. The compound, Lutetium-DOTATATE (LU-177), had been available in European countries, and had completed all the clinical trials, but was not yet approved by FDA. Under state rights to try laws, he obtained LU-177 to treat more than 75 U.S. patients. He claimed, "Many of these patients were only given three to six months to live, now, a year later, many of them are still alive."9 Advocates for the RTA aim to find similar results nationwide once the law is in full effect.
The Right to Try Act of 2018 innovates on the existing legislation but leaves more to be desired. It streamlines the process by which terminally ill patients can obtain investigational drugs, essentially by cutting out FDA reviewers. Although this does improve speed, many other factors delay the time it takes for a patient to obtain a potentially lifesaving drug. The RTA is a step in the right direction for patient autonomy and treatment, but has some extensive issues that need to be addressed going forward.
Trickett Wendler, Frank Mongiello, Jordan McLinn, and Matthew Bellina Right to Try Act of 2018. Public Law No. 115-176 [Right to Try Act or RTA].
History of individual treatment IND https://www.fda.gov/downloads/AboutFDA/WorkingatFDA/FellowshipInternshipGraduateFacultyPrograms/PharmacyStudentExperientialProgramCDER/UCM510785.pdf.
Jonathan J. Darrow, Ameet Saratwari, Jerry Avorn, and Aaron S. Kesselheim, Practical, Legal, and Ethical Issues in Expanded Access to Investigational Drugs, The New England Journal of Medicine, January 15, 2015. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMhle1409465.
Christina Sandefur, "Safeguarding the Right to Try," 49 Arizona State L. J. 513 (2017).


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Q: How does sampling affect the distribution of frequencies of individual types? Consider a population of size N in which individuals can be of x different types. Take a sample (with replacement) of size samplesize from this population and then compare the distribution of frequencies of individual type in the whole population and in the sample.
In the whole population the distribution of frequencies of individual types seems symmetric. In the sample, there are many individual types of low frequency and few individual type of high frequency (the distribution is right skewed). Why is it so? What kind of predictions can we make about how the distribution of frequencies will differ after sampling?

Here a short R code to simulate this process. I also added one typical output
x = 75
N = 1000
samplesize = N/10
nb_replicates = 10

par(mfrow=c(1,2))
for (replicate in 1:nb_replicates){
    pop = sample(1:x, N, replace=TRUE)
    s = sample(pop, samplesize, replace=TRUE)
    hist(table(pop)/N, main="pop")
    hist(table(s)/samplesize, main="sample")
    Sys.sleep(1)
}

A: In fact your plots are perfectly normal, except that it would be better to not divide by N and samplesize (and find a way to plot the number of missing types, especially for the sample histogram) .
The number of individuals of a specific type in a population of size $N$ follow a Binomial distribution $\mathcal{B} (N, p= \frac{1}{x}) $
For $n$ big and $x$ not too big, this binomial is nearly a Normal law, but if $n$ and $x$ are about the same, it's more like a Poisson law.
Here with the sample, $n=100$ and $x=75$, it's close to a Poisson law of parameter $\frac{100}{75}=\frac{4}{3}$
And what you plot is the density of these law


The Tale Temptress: Discussion: How long do you try to read it before you DNF?
Discussion: How long do you try to read it before you DNF?
I was already planning to start doing discussion posts, but then I ran into a couple blogs that do a discussion post link-up feature, and I thought... great timing! So I'm linking back to Feed Your Fiction Addiction, and to It Starts At Midnight who host the 2015 Discussion Post challenge.
So what's been on my mind lately is DNF, or what we bloggers know means Did Not Finish. Once upon a time, back when I first started blogging, I read absolutely every single book I acquired, bought, borrowed, received for review, etc... I struggled through all of them, including books that didn't grab me soon enough, and those I thought I'd like but once I began reading I discovered weren't for me. Then there were those few that were just bad.
It was really difficult because, let's face it, we're not always going to like every book we get, right? Much less be able to review them all. If your TBR pile is anything like mine, you have hundreds on your shelf, and after mine had reached its current proportions, I started to get more choosy, not only with whether I finished a book, but whether I even acquired it at all.
Since I've set the goal for myself to review every ARC or eGalley I receive, those always get top priority, and I'll review them whether I like them or not. I figure a negative review is better than none at all if a publisher/author has entrusted me with a free copy of an author's work. It's just respectful and professional to me. But I got a lot more selective on which ones I requested to review myself. I wanted to make darn sure I would probably like it, or at least have something good to say about it, before I asked for it.
If I can't make it past 100 pages, I set it aside for the moment and read something else. Maybe I'm just not in the mood that day for that current story type. I'll come back another day and try again. There have been many times that this worked for me. But if it still doesn't, I generally DNF at that point.
If I start to skim more than I'm reading. I usually read every word of a book I'm enjoying. It's very rare for me to skim. If I start skimming, it's a bad sign. If I'm skimming more of the book than I'm reading, I may end up DNF'ing.
If I don't like the characters. A lot of stuff can be overlooked if a book has good characters that I like and sympathize with. I've read many a story that didn't have a super-original plot, but it had wonderful, well-craft characters that saved it all for me. But if I don't like the characters, that's another story. A great story with unlikeable or unsympathetic characters usually doesn't hold my attention.
Those are just a few of my possible DNF criteria. Luckily, this doesn't happen to me a lot... which may be due to having become more choosy as I mentioned above. What are your thoughts on DNF?


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Chloride channels render nerve cells more excitable
Scientists discover how nerve cells may influence their own activity
Nerve cells communicate with each other by means of electrical impulses. To create such an impulse, the cells exchange charged ions with their environment. However, the role played by the ever-present chloride channels remained obscure, although some theories predicted a relation between the chloride channel ClC-2 and epilepsy. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology in Martinsried were now able to confirm a number of assumptions about the ClC-2 channel and could at last explain why the anticipated epileptic seizures do not occur when nerve cells lack the ClC-2 channels in mice. The results also provide a completely new understanding of how nerve cells may actively influence the exchange of information. (The Journal of Neuroscience online publication, April 1st, 2010)
3D-Rekonstruktion einer mit einem rot fluoreszierenden Farbstoff gefüllten Nervenzelle der Großhirnrinde. Wissenschaftler fanden nun heraus, dass der Chloridkanal ClC-2 die Erregbarkeit von dieser und anderen Nervenzellen beeinflussen kann - eine Möglichkeit, grundlegend in die Kommunikation zwischen Nervenzellen einzugreifen.
© Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Martinsried
The cell membranes of nerve cells, like those of all other cell types in the body, are perforated by so-called chloride channels. These permit the exchange of negatively charged chloride ions between the cell and its environment. Yet scientists could so far only speculate about the purpose of this exchange. According to one very prevalent theory, the excitability of nerve cells decreases when they lose chloride ions through these channels. Or, to put it the other way round, the lack of chloride channels would cause nerve cells to become overexcited. This in turn should lead to an increased rate of epileptic seizures. However, mice whose nerve cells lack chloride channels due to a genetic mutation were found no more susceptible to epilepsy than healthy animals. And so the function of the ClC-2 and of other chloride channels remained obscure.
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology have now tracked down a number of the ClC-2 channel's functions. This constitutes the first tangible proof of the circumstances under which chloride ions can escape from nerve cells through the ClC-2 channels. In the case that nerve cells were lacking the ClC-2 channels due to a mutation in the channel's gene, the concentration of chloride inside the cells did indeed increase considerably.
The Max Planck scientists were also the first to successfully prove the third hypothesis - that the nerve cells of mice with a genetic ClC-2 deficiency were much easier to excite than nerve cells in a healthy brain. Earlier assumptions therefore turned out to be correct. Then why did animals lacking the ClC-2 channels show no sign of epilepsy?
The answer to this question was not only plausible, but also straightforward. In addition to having cells that transmit information to their neighbouring cells, the nervous system contains a second group of nerve cells. These cells inhibit the exchange of information between its neighbours. In animals with a ClC-2 genetic defect, these inhibitory nerve cells also forfeit their chloride channels, and therefore become more excitable. Thus, excitatory and inhibitory cells become more excitable. "Although the whole system becomes more sensitive, at the end of the day the balance between the cells is maintained", explains Valentin Stein, leader of the study. And so the anticipated connection between genetic defect and epilepsy is not expressed. However, the lack of ClC-2 channels throws the nervous system into an unnaturally excited state. The scientists therefore speculate that although a defective ClC-2 gene does not cause epilepsy in itself, it may increase the risk of contracting epilepsy if other factors are present.
"We reckon, however, that we have come across something even more exciting", says Valentin Stein. The neurobiologist is referring to the discovery that nerve cells can theoretically use the ClC-2 channels to influence their own excitability. "If a nerve cell can control its own excitability by opening or closing its ClC-2 channels, then it could basically have a say in whether or not it transmits information to its neighbour." This possibility adds a whole new dimension to brain research. When and how nerve cells transmit information is one of the most fundamental functions of the brain and forms the basis of our ability to think. And so it comes as no surprise that the scientists can hardly wait to get on with the next stage of their investigations into this discovery.
Stefanie Merker Ph.D.
Public relations Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Martinsried +49 89 8578-3514 merker@neuro.mpg.de
Valentin Stein Ph.D.
Max Planck Research Group Synaptic Receptor Trafficking Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Martinsried vstein@neuro.mpg.de
Publication references
Ilka Rinke, Judith Artmann, Valentin Stein
ClC-2 voltage-gated channels constitute part of the background conductance and assist chloride extrusion
The Journal of Neuroscience, online publication, 01 April 2010


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Applications at the school were up 10% from the previous year.
Cornell University released the early decision results for the class of 2021.
Applications at the school were up 10% from the previous year, with 5,384 applicants, a record number for the Ithaca, New York-based Ivy League school, The Cornell Daily Sun reported.
Of those applicants, 25.6% gained acceptances, versus 27.4% last year. The number of early applicants has increased significantly, up 78% over the past decade.
Of the nearly 26% accepted student, 23.3% were legacy students (children of Cornell alums) and 13.4% were athletes, The Sun reported.
Cornell is an early decision school, which means students must go there if they get accepted. This policy differs from early action – used by schools including Harvard University – which stipulates a student can only apply to one school early, but has until May to decide if they want to accept.
Regular decision Cornell applicants will find out their admissions status in the spring.


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How does ConsultOnline prevent against spam and inappropriate language?
How does ConsultOnline ensure that those taking part in the consultation are local residents?
Do you offer a simpler, cheaper version for small projects?
How does the developer remain in control of the consultation?
Doesn't it give more power to activists?
Is it expensive?
Can the ConsultOnline website be attached to an existing website?
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Scotch Corner Designer Village is a proposed 250,000 sq. ft. designer outlet village, to be situated on the A1(M) in North Yorkshire. Following an extensive consultation, both online and offline, the scheme gained planning consent in January 2015.
Planning history
The site already has planning permission for 135,000 sq. ft. of warehousing and 90,000 sq. ft. of offices.
However, Simon Waterfield, an entrepreneur who has been the driving force behind wide variety of commercial schemes in the South West, East Midlands and Yorkshire, identified the site as being ideally located for a high quality retail outlet. Scotch Corner Richmond LLP was formed and a project team set up, including architects Corstorphine & Wright and planning consultants Peter Brett Associates LLP.
ConsultOnline had period of just six weeks in which to complete the online consultation, working closely with public affairs advisers Polity.
The scheme's website, http://www.scotchcornerdesignervillage.com/, was set up quickly following a telephone briefing.
The consultation tactics included questionnaires, polls, forums, blogs and the option for users to post images. Information was available as text, video, images, documentation, email updates, Vcards, Googlemaps and a blog. The service was monitored 24/7 – enabling ConsultOnline to become aware of, to understand, and to correct misconceptions immediately; and for those taking part to receive a quick response. A user guide provided step-by-step advice in addition to terms and conditions.
The website was immediately followed by Facebook and Twitter profiles, which were used to promote the website. ConsultOnline posted on a wide variety of local organisations' Facebook pages and blogs, and established some useful contacts via Twitter.
On its first day, the website attracted over 700 unique users and over the next six weeks, over 3,500 hits. By the day planning consent was granted, over 6,500 individuals had visited the website.
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Over two-thirds (77.88%) of users accessed the website using mobile and tablets and 27% of hits were returning users.
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Demographics revealed that 33.5% of the users were in the 25.34 age bracket, followed by 27.5 aged 18-24, 15.5% aged 35-44 and 11% aged 55 +. Men were slightly more likely to take part in the consultation than women (54.15% and 45.85% respectively).
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Marvel Battlegrounds offers up 8 awesome new arenas to do battle in. Each arena is a playground of destructive environments, traps, dangers, and weapons. As each arena is destroyed and torn apart, the worlds can evolve and change thrusting the characters into new levels.
The 12 Levels advertised on the packaging and retailer descriptions are divided up by the 8 arenas, as each arena is destroyed or evolves and the gameplay shifts to a new area, that counts as a new level. Some arenas aren't destructible to the point where they change and the entire battle takes place on only 1 level. So far we've only been able to account for 10 of the 12 levels.
The story mode of Battlegrounds starts players on Earth, as they battle through a train yard, sewers and training facilities. Eventually the battles go off planet, tossing the heroes into adventures on the moon, lost in Knowhere, and eventually to the sacred halls of Asgard.
Check out a quick look at each of the nine featured arenas!
Summon trains and debris to smash your opponents in the wreckage of the Brooklyn Train Yard. This arena appears to only have one level.
This arena is one that transforms during battle depending on the amount of damage dealt by the battle. The floor eventually drops out revealing a lower level of the outpost with an electrified floor. This arena appears to have two levels.
In the belly of the beast, this arena inside a giant Ultron is full of dangers and perils! Ultron's giant robot brain (or giant robot heart?) tosses giant arms full of electricity to stun and damage the fighters duking it out. This arena appears to only have one level.
Travel along the dark Wakandan Mines dodging rocks of Vibranium tossed by mining robots, until the cart crashed tossing you out into the secret world of Wakanda, featuring a giant panther statue with laser eyes! This arena appears to have two levels.
Get dirty under the streets of NYC in the Manhattan Sewers! This arena features a river of green murky water that can suddenly flood and flush any character caught in the stream off the map. This arena appears to only have one level.
This deep space platform is one of the arenas where your characters can fall off the sides, temporarily stunning them and causing a delay until they are teleported back into the arena. Trigger the Knowhere defenses and summon a giant Kree ship to attack the platforms or a huge rocket burst to damage anyone stuck in the center. This arena appears to only have one level.
Train in the Avenger's facility where the ground is constantly shifting and explosive barrels and crates continue popping up from the battleground's floor. This arena appears to only have one level.
The frozen gates of Asgard surrounds the fighters with high frozen walls keeping all the combat centered and tight. Arena obstacles include giant ice orbs that will freeze your character if they come close their area of effect. This arena appears to only have one level.


For the next ten days I'll be out of town, working a work conference in Charlotte, NC. I've got some content in the queue but probably won't be able to visit and comment as much -- I'm very sorry! I'll be back home during the 4th of July holiday weekend, and I'll catch up then. In the meantime, if anyone can recommend fabulous things to do (places to eat, etc.) in Charlotte (or Raleigh), let me know!
I hope you have a great trip and I look forward to your comments when you return.
Have a great time! Never been to that part of the country, but I've heard it's gorgeous.
haven't ever been but i'd suggest having a hearty southern breakfast!
Hope all goes well; stay cool....it's hot hot hot there.


It has been brilliant to see all our children and families again after the summer break. The children have settled back into work and routines so quickly and I am delighted with such an excellent start to the new school year. Our Reception teachers, Mrs Sarah Hawker and Miss Jade Stephenson, have been busy getting to know our new children through a series of home visits before our new intake starts school next week. I am sorry to announce that term has started without two of our very popular and well-known members of staff, Mrs Solly and Miss Hill. Unfortunately, Mrs Solly's husband is not well and Miss Hill was taken ill while on holiday. I am sure you will join me in sending them both our warmest wishes, hoping that they can be back with us as soon as possible. In the meantime, if you do need to come to our office, you will meet Mrs Donna Fenton or Mrs Tracy Small, who have kindly offered to provide temporary cover.