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Temperature- and time-dependent penetration of surface structures in thermal joining of plastics to metals
The use of the right material at the right place plays a leading role in lightweight efforts. The realization of those multi-material components depends strongly on joining technology as a key manufacturing process, especially for materials with opposed properties, e. g. metals and plastics. Thereby, thermal joining is a potential technology for manufacturing thermoplastic-metal joints without using a filler material (e. g. adhesive) or a joining element (e. g. screw, rivet).
In thermal joining, both materials are in contact at the boundary layer. The metal sheet is heated by an energy source, e. g. a laser beam or an inductor, and the plastic material gets molten due to the heat transfer between both materials. The molten plastic wets the metal surface and thus penetrates the surface structures. A solid joint is formed after solidification of the thermoplastic material.
The penetration of surface structures is a key parameter for forming the joint. The state of the art shows numerous investigations in the field of surface preparation techniques, e. g. laser-based preparation. However, the penetration of the structures in in causal relation to the temperature distribution in the joining zone, the chemical structure of the polymer and the effect of time is not given yet.
Within this paper, those different mechanisms were investigated by experiments and numerical simulations in laser-based thermal joining. As plastic joining partners, PA 6 and PP were used to gain information about polymer structure's effect. As metal joining partners, aluminium (EN AW 6082) and stainless steel (X5CrNi18-10) were used. The metal surface was structured by a laser-based process to provide microscopic structures which were penetrated by molten plastic. Based on different joining times, the experimental results were correlated to the temperature distribution in the joining zone. Thereby, a causal relation of the required minimum temperature was identified as material-dependent parameter, when full penetration occurred and joining times became subordinate.
Klaus Matthias Schricker
Prof. Dr. Jean Pierre Bergmann
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Eitan Grinspun
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Eitan Grinspun is associate professor of computer science at Columbia University, and Director of the Columbia Computer Graphics Group. His research seeks to discover connections between geometry, physics, and computation, typically with applications to computer graphics. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the California Institute of Technology in 2003, and his B.A.Sc. in engineering science from the University of Toronto in 1997. He was Professeur d'Université Invité in Paris at l'Université Pierre et Marie Curie in 2009, and a Research Scientist at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences in 2003-04, He is an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow and NSF CAREER Award recipient, and was previously an NVIDIA Fellow and a Caltech Everhart Distinguished Lecturer. The technologies developed by his laboratory are used in consumer software such as Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator, in film studios such as Disney, Pixar, and Weta Digital, and in physics laboratories at institutions such as MIT and the Université Paris VI. His work has been profiled in The New York Times, Scientific American, and Popular Science ("Brilliant 10").
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Andreas AlbrechtTheoretical Cosmologist
Andreas Albrecht is a leading theoretical cosmologist. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1983 where, with Paul Steinhardt, he wrote one of the original papers on "new" or "slow roll" inflation.
Alan AldaActor, Author, Director
Alan Alda, a seven-time Emmy® Award winner, played Hawkeye Pierce and wrote many of the episodes on the classic TV series M*A*S*H. He has starred in, written, and directed many films, and was nominated for an Academy Award for his role in The Aviator.
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Theoretical physicist Stephon Alexander explores unresolved questions about the early universe. Also an accomplished jazz musician, Alexander has collaborated with Grammy Award-winning musician Will Calhoun.
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Elizabeth Alexander is a poet, essayist, playwright, and teacher, who composed and delivered "Praise Song for the Day" for the inauguration of President Barack Obama. Among her many awards was the first Alphonse Fletcher, Sr. Fellowship for work that "contributes to improving race relations in American society and furthers the broad social goals of the U.S. Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision of 1954."
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Dr. Farah Alibay is a systems engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Her primary projects so far have been the InSight Mars Lander, as well as its companion mission: the Mars Cube One (MarCO) CubeSats. Alibay is part of the team that helped build and test the spacecraft.
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Staying in a caravan park is a sure way to have a great time while relaxing away from the stresses of daily life. Carnforth's rural coastline offers beautiful landscapes, and our park is an example of that, as it stretches across green fields and provides a constant line of sight across Morecambe Bay – and camping in a tent brings several benefits with it, such as being able to breathe in the fresh air and spend a great amount of time talking and having fun with your family.
Because this park is located within easy reach of beautiful hiking routes, camping in a tent will work as a base from which you can explore the region. This park also has facilities like launderettes to help you with any eventuality away from home, so you can take full advantage of your holidays without worrying about anything else. All of our prices are affordable, and they depend on the time of year, meaning that during low season, the pricing starts at £19 for two people, and during high season it's £23 for two people.
When you decide to stay with us and want to choose a pitch in Bay View park, we require a booking of two nights, minimum – and even though our prices are based on a two-person stay, more people are able to stay in the same pitch by purchasing a supplement, such as an extra tent. Commercial and large vehicles have to be parked in their proper designated areas for the entire duration of your stay. All the pitches at Bay View are non-electric and in a grass field.
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Got the product from chip, activated it and stuff and everytime I want to install it it says it's not working. It told me to uninstall my old antivirus software which I did, but that didn't help at all.
I thought the servers may be overrun since I had to wait pretty **bleep** long for my confimation mails too, but that was 2 days ago.
It starts downloading or checking stuff (not sure it goes through pretty fast) and in the end tells me that neither of the 2 products was installed, which is family manager (which I realy don't need) and the virus protection.
->> good to run specific Uninstallation tool (removal tool or cleanup tool) for your previous security software.
->> good to run F-Secure own tool before further try to install it.
Possible to restart system between tries.
in the end tells me that neither of the 2 products was installed, which is family manager (which I realy don't need) and the virus protection.
Is it only output? Or it is part of request to uninstall your another software?
// by the way, maybe it is good to know what is your OS/platform?
My OS is Windows 8 on an Acer Laptop, and I noticed I'm still using malware bytes, not sure if that interacts with it as well since it's only for malware scans but I'll try uninstalling this too.
Will update tomorrow if it worked or not.
There was discussion about Acer Laptops and preinstalled McAfee solution.
For example, if your experience is also about such configuration (when laptop with preinstalled McAfee security solution) - it is pretty likely that good to use McAfee Removal Tool.
Because even after normal McAfee uninstallation (by Windows Control panel) - MCPR was only solution for successful F-Secure installation.


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India's See-sawing Approach to Section 11 – Good Sense Prevails
December 14, 2018 December 14, 2018 / Ritvik M. Kulkarni
This guest post is authored by Rishabh Malaviya. Rishabh is an advocate at Arista Chambers, Bangalore. He can be contacted via email at malaviyarishabh@gmail.com.
The Indian Supreme Court's recent decision in the case of United India Insurance Co. Ltd. & Anr. v Hyundai Engineering and Construction Co. Ltd. & Ors. is a welcome (albeit partial) clarification of the scope of Section 11 of the Arbitration & Conciliation Act, 1996 (the Act). The Supreme Court confirmed that despite the pro-arbitration approach of the 2015 amendments, the courts would not blindly partake in the appointment of an arbitrator under Section 11.
The case concerned a 'Contractor All Risk Insurance Policy' obtained from the Appellant Company by a Joint Venture of the Respondents, in respect of a project for the design, construction, and maintenance of a bridge across the River Chambal.
The arbitration clause in the insurance contract provided as follows: "If any difference shall arise as to the quantum to be paid under this Policy (liability being otherwise admitted) such difference shall independently of all other questions be referred to the decision of an arbitrator … It is clearly agreed and understood that no difference or dispute shall be referable to arbitration as herein before provided, if the Company has disputed or not accepted liability under or in respect of this Policy …".
After an accident occurred during the construction phase, the Appellant insurers rejected that they were liable to pay under the policy. Aggrieved, the Respondents applied to the Madras High Court under Section 11 seeking appointment of an arbitrator. The Appellant insurers claimed that the arbitration clause was only applicable where they had admitted their liability to pay and when the dispute was only about the quantum to be paid.
Madras High Court's Analysis
The Madras High Court, in light of Section 11(6A) of the amended Act found that as long as an arbitration agreement existed, the duty of the court was to appoint the arbitrator and let the tribunal decide whether the dispute was covered by the arbitration clause. In doing so, it relied on the decision of the Supreme Court in Duro Felguera, SA v M/s. Gangavaram Port Limited (Duro), wherein it was held that in considering a petition under the amended Section 11, the court would consider the existence of the arbitration agreement alone- "nothing more, nothing less".[1]
The High Court also relied on its decision in Jumbo Bags v New India Assurance Company Limited where it was held that under the amended provisions of Section 11, the court was not to "embark upon an examination of the issue of arbitrability … once it is found that an arbitration agreement exists between the parties".[2]
Supreme Court's Analysis
The Supreme Court, in reversing the decision of the High Court, found that the arbitration clause was only a "conditional expression of intent". Such a clause would only be "activated" if the dispute between the parties was limited to the quantum to be paid under the underlying policy. Admission of liability to pay under the policy was a pre-condition to the triggering of the arbitration clause. Thus, the arbitration clause was "ineffective and incapable of being enforced, if not non-existent". The High Court's reliance on Duro was found to be misplaced, as the statement made therein was a "general observation about the effect of the amended provision".
In theoretical terms, it can now be said that the 2015 amendments were not an absolute acceptance of the negative effect of the competence-competence principle. Competence-competence means the power of an arbitral tribunal to determine its own jurisdiction when challenges are made to the same. This is also known as the 'positive effect' of the competence-competence principle and it is widely accepted by countries and international conventions, without much controversy.[3]
Arguably, the negative effect of the competence-competence principle is that national courts cannot fully consider challenges to the jurisdiction of the tribunal, until after the tribunal has had the opportunity to do so.[4] It is this latter effect which is controversial. This controversy has led to stark differences among countries in their allocation of jurisdictional competence-competence between national courts and arbitral tribunals. Essentially, some countries allow their courts to consider challenges to the tribunal's jurisdiction even before the tribunal itself considers the same, whereas other countries prohibit such an approach.
India's Tryst with Arbitrator Appointment
India's approach to the allocation of jurisdictional competence-competence between courts and tribunals has varied considerably over the years. Section 11 of the pre-amended Arbitration Act dealt with elaborate provisions regarding the appointment of arbitrators, including appointment by the courts. However, the plain language of the section provided little guidance as to the approach of the court if a party were to object to the jurisdiction of the tribunal at this stage.
Indian courts did not address the issue in terms of allocation of jurisdictional competence-competence or in terms of the positive and negative effects of competence-competence. The courts "obfuscated" the real issue by framing it in terms of whether the power exercised under these two sections was an "administrative power" or a "judicial power".[5] An analysis of the relevant cases reveals the reasoning for this approach.
Initially, these cases were Special Leave Petitions (SLPs) under Article 136 of the Constitution of India, filed against the order of a Chief Justice (or his designated judge) under Section 11 of the Act. The issue in these SLPs became one of maintainability, with a petition against a judicial or quasi-judicial order being maintainable and one against an administrative order not being maintainable. Therefore, the judicial or administrative nature of the power under Section 11 came into question.
Later, an incidental issue seemed to become the effect of the nature of this power on the scope of the power. If the power was considered an administrative power, the court would not be entitled to decide any contentious issues (such as the jurisdiction of the tribunal) at this stage, whereas the court would be entitled to decide contentious issues if the power was judicial.[6]
Thus, in 1999, the Supreme Court, while comparing the provisions of the 1940 Act with the 1996 Act, held that Section 11 "does not require the Court to pass a judicial order".[7] Again in 1999, the Supreme Court held that an SLP does not lie against administrative orders issued under Section 11(6) of the Act.[8]
Then in Wellington Associates Ltd. v. Mr Kirit Mehta it was held that where challenges to the tribunal's jurisdiction were made at the stage of Section 11, the Chief Justice (or his designated judge) would have the jurisdiction to decide them, even if the power under Section 11 was administrative.[9]
A few months later, in Konkan Railway Corporation Ltd. v. Mehul Construction Co., a three judge bench of the Supreme Court was asked to reconsider the position that the power exercised by the Chief Justice was administrative and not judicial.[10] The Court held that the power under Section 11 was administrative in nature, and all contentious issues were for the tribunal to decide initially. A similar approach was followed in Nimet Resources Inc. & Anr. v. Essar Steels Ltd,[11] and later by a Constitution bench of the Supreme Court in Konkan Railway Corporation Ltd. v. Rani Construction Pvt. Ltd.[12]
Finally, in a judgment that would rule the roost for close to a decade, a seven judge bench of the Supreme Court overruled the long line of cases thus far. In S.B.P. v. Patel Engineering Ltd. & Anr. (Patel Engineering), the Court held that the power of the Chief Justice under Section 11 was a judicial power, and that the court was entitled to decide certain contentious issues (like the existence and validity of the arbitration agreement) if raised at the time of appointment of the arbitrator under Section 11.[13]
However, the indecisiveness on this issue was not to end there. The 246th Report of the Law Commission of India in August 2014 suggested certain amendments to sections 8 and 11 of the Arbitration Act. The suggestion was to have only a prima facie confirmation of the existence of the arbitration agreement, before referring the matter to arbitration under Section 8 or appointing an arbitrator under Section 11.[14]
The 2015 amendments incorporated some, but not all, of the suggestions of the Law Commission. Eventually, Section 8 was amended to require (and require only) a prima facie finding of the existence of the arbitration agreement. Section 11, on the other hand, was amended (through the insertion of subsection 6A) to provide that the "High Court" or "Supreme Court" shall "confine to the examination of the existence of an arbitration agreement".
While it is clear that subsection 6A was inserted to counter the decision in Patel Engineering, the extent of the Court's powers (or the standard of review to be adopted) under Section 11 was left open to interpretation. It is in this context that the Supreme Court pronounced its decision in United India Insurance Co. Ltd. v. Hyundai Engineering and Construction Co. Ltd.
In coming to the conclusion that the arbitration agreement was ineffective and unenforceable, if not non-existent, the Apex Court adopted a pragmatic and commercially sensible approach to the interpretation of Section 11(6A). Given the wording of the arbitration clause described above, it was obvious that the dispute was not covered by the admittedly existent clause.
Forcing the parties to resort to arbitration would lead to time-consuming and expensive jurisdictional hearings before the arbitral tribunal, only for the tribunal to (most likely) decline jurisdiction under the clause- which order would then be appealable under Section 37 of the Act. Worse would be a situation in which the tribunal wrongly accepts jurisdiction under the clause. As per the amended Act, the party contesting jurisdiction would have no immediate remedy, and would have to wait for a final award before challenging the same under Section 34 of the Act.[15] Clearly this would be contrary to the goals of efficient and cost-effective dispute resolution.
Thus, despite the wording of Section 11(6A), the Courts will not blindly appoint an arbitrator once an arbitration agreement is produced. In the event of an obvious defect such as non-fulfilment of a pre-condition to arbitration (or where the dispute is obviously outside the scope of the arbitration agreement), the courts will decline to appoint an arbitrator.
[1] Duro Felguera, SA v M/s.Gangavaram Port Limited, (2017) 9 SCC 729.
[2] Jumbo Bags v New India Assurance Company Limited, 2016 SCC OnLine Mad 9141.
[3] Gary Born, International Commercial Arbitration (2nd ed. 2014), p. 1060.
[4] E. Gaillard & J. Savage (eds.), Fouchard Gaillard Goldman on International Commercial Arbitration (1999), p. 406.
[5] 246th Law Commission of India Report, Amendments to the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, (2014) p. 18, available at http://lawcommissionofindia.nic.in/reports/Report246.pdf.
[6] Konkan Railway Corporation Ltd. v. Mehul Construction Co., AIR 2000 SC 2821.
[7] M/s. Sundaram Finance Ltd. v. M/s. NEPC India Ltd., AIR 1999 SC 565.
[8] Ador Samia Private Limited vs Peekay Holdings Limited & Ors., AIR 1999 SC 3246.
[9] Wellington Associates Ltd. v. Mr. Kirit Mehta, AIR 2000 SC 1379.
[10] Konkan Railway Corporation Ltd. v. Mehul Construction Co., AIR 2000 SC 2821.
[11] Nimet Resources Inc. & Anr. v. Essar Steels Ltd., AIR 2000 SC 3107.
[12] M/s. Konkan Railway Corpn. Ltd. & Anr. v. M/s. Rani Construction Pvt. Ltd., [2002] 1 SCR 728.
[13] S.B.P. and Co. v. Patel Engineering Ltd. & Anr., AIR 2006 SC 450.
[14] 246th Law Commission of India Report, Amendments to the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, (2014) p. 20, http://lawcommissionofindia.nic.in/reports/Report246.pdf.
[15] Arbitration & Conciliation Act, 1996, Section 16(6).
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On the tail end of a massive North America tour, Lane 8 today announced the impending release of 'In My Arms' on his own This Never Happened Imprint. The track is slated to come out on December 2, and is currently available to stream on SoundCloud. The song first appeared as the opening ID to Lane 8's scintillating Summer 2016 Mixtape, causing quite the stir among the dance music community.
Kicked off by a hollow and echoing vocal sample ',In My Arms' slowly build under reverberating synths. A powerful and punchy bassline then engulfs the track, giving way to the melodic and groovy tones fans have grown to love.
The 'This Never Happened Tour', which discourages cell phone use at his shows, wraps up next month with six final stops. You can find more information about the tour and get tickets here.


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At least 1 dead after crane collapsed on Downtown Dallas apartment building
DALLAS - Authorities say at least one person is dead after a crane collapsed onto an apartment building in Downtown Dallas Sunday afternoon.
It is believed strong winds caused the crane to fall onto the Elan City Lights apartment building, located at 2627 Live Oak St.
Multiple agencies have been called to the scene to assist.
One woman was pronounced dead following the collapse, and as least six others were taken to Baylor and Parkland hospitals. Two remain in critical condition. Another person was treated and has already been released.
At 7 p.m., Dallas-Fire Rescue announced that their search was complete and no one else was located. Crews were said to be focused on the east side of the building, which is the same area where the deceased person was found.
"I opened the door and saw the debris. We thought it was a tornado. The crane was coming, he told me the crane was falling. We tried to run, barely made it. The man next to me broke his neck. I helped him out of his apartment, him and his dog," one resident at the apartment said. "I'm just shocked, We're thankful to get out of there. I can say God is on my side."
"I'm highly grateful, I could have been dead. The man next door, I believe he sustained, like, very critical injuries to his neck. He could not move, he couldn't stand. Two people had to grab him and take him out," another resident said. "Everyone is just shook up right now."
"I saw a couple people hanging off their windows trying to get out, bleeding. Someone said they couldn't find their fiancé, someone else said their husband was stuck," another resident said.
Jason Evans, with Dallas-Fire Rescue, said there were multiple collapses in different areas, including residential areas and the parking garage.
The parking garage collapsed and there are multiple vehicles inside.
This story is breaking. Check back for updates.


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(CNSNews.com) - The White House said Friday that President Donald Trump "has been fully briefed" on the grand jury indictment charging 13 Russian individuals and three Russian companies with federal crimes for seeking to interfere in the 2016 presidential election.
"President Trump says, 'it is more important than ever before to come together as Americans. We cannot allow those seeking to sow confusion, discord, and rancor to be successful. It's time we stop the outlandish partisan attacks, wild and false allegations, and far-fetched theories, which only serve to further the agendas of bad actors, like Russia, and do nothing to protect the principles of our institutions. We must unite as Americans to protect the integrity of our democracy and our election,'" the statement read.
"Russia started their anti-US campaign in 2014, long before I announced that I would run for President. The results of the election were not impacted. The Trump campaign did nothing wrong - no collusion!" Trump tweeted prior to the White House's statement.
As CNSNews.com reported, the Department of Justice announced the grand jury indictment Friday as part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.
"Some Defendants, posing as U.S. persons and without revealing their Russian association, communicated with unwitting individuals associated with the Trump Campaign and with other political activists to seek to coordinate political activities," the indictment stated.
As CNSNews.com reported, the indictment further stated that the Russians organized rallies both for and against Trump.
However, after the election, they both supported and attacked him.
"For example," the indictment stated, "in or around November 2016, defendants and their co-conspirators organized a rally in New York through one organization-controlled group designed to 'show your support for President-elect Donald Trump' held on or about November 12, 2016.


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Making vets' voices heard on Brexit
02 May 2017 | Gudrun Ravetz | The veterinary profession | Political | Overseas
Whatever your vote in the EU referendum last June, the result came as a shock to most of us! At the forefront of this was the personal impact the referendum outcome had on our EU colleagues living and working in the UK, who make a vital contribution to the UK veterinary workforce and who were, overnight, facing the uncertainty of their status being used as political bargaining chip in Brexit negotiations.
Whatever your vote in the EU referendum last June, the result came as a shock to most of us!
In the weeks that followed the referendum, BVA established a Brexit working group under the chairmanship of former UK deputy CVO Alick Simmons, bringing together our devolved Branches, BVA specialist divisions, and vets with relevant expertise and insights, to assess the potential challenges and identify opportunities that Brexit may present.
At the forefront of this was the personal impact the referendum outcome had on our EU colleagues living and working in the UK, who make a vital contribution to the UK veterinary workforce and who were, overnight, facing the uncertainty of their status being used as political bargaining chip in Brexit negotiations.
Recognising that we want a strong lobbying position for the profession as a whole, BVA has worked collaborative with the profession's regulator, the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS), throughout this process – writing to the Prime Minister, sharing information to support each other's efforts and avoid duplication of work, and much more besides.
After 10 months of extensive consultation, undertaken by our Brexit working group, with the wider profession and sector stakeholders, last week BVA's ' Brexit and the veterinary profession' report was discussed at BVA Council. The feedback was overwhelmingly positive and brought a final few sage nuances to what is already an excellent document.
Launch of BVA 2017 manifesto
We have now launched our full 'Brexit and the veterinary profession' report that expands on our Brexit Principles and priorities (143 KB PDF), announced 6 months ago. The report will outlines, medium and long-term recommendations across 7 areas of far-reaching public policy. I would encourage you all to read it – or at least the executive summary! - champion it, and let us know your thoughts.
In the coming weeks, months and years, we will use ' Brexit and the veterinary profession' to lobby policy makers and parliamentarians to ensure that a strong veterinary voice is heard and considered in Brexit negotiations and discussions.
However, with the political rug once more pulled out from under our feet and a snap general election called for a few weeks' time, we have acted quickly and produced a manifesto for 2017 (226 KB PDF). Our manifesto has been drafted from our 2015 General Election manifesto and BVA's Brexit report, and has been sent to all of the major UK political parties urging them to consider our recommendations in their own manifesto-writing ahead of the General Election.
Ultimately this is your report, for the veterinary profession in the UK, outlining what we believe needs to happen to ensure that we can secure the best possible outcomes for animal health, animal welfare, public health, and the profession itself, post-Brexit.


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Q: Arbitrary dimension for CVXGEN program I would like to solve a QP/LP problem in MatLab using CVXGEN.  I have preference for CVXGEN over CVX, since CVXGEN is much faster.  In particular, I would like to solve
min f(x) s.t. x in X

where f(x) is in quadratic form and X is compact, convex, and defined by linear functions.  The size of the problem varies depending on the run.  I would like to automate the procedure as much as possible.  To illustrate, an example of a  CVXGEN code is:
dimensions
  n = 10
end

parameters
  Q (n,n) psd  # quadratic penalty.
end

variables
  x (n)
end

minimize
  quad(x, Q)
end

This code is inputted at cvxgen.com.  On this website, I can then generate the C code which gives me a unique number.  I can then compile this into MEX code using the unique number.  Last, I can call this MEX code (csolve) from MatLab by running the following code
n=10; % dimension of the problem
params.Q = eye(n,n); % assume that the Hessian is the identity
[vars, status] = csolve(params); % this outputs optimal x* = 0.

This procedure, however, requires for each dimension of the problem n that I want to run, I need to go to cvxgen.com, change n, compile code, then run my MatLab code.  Is it possible to let n enter as a parameter?  This way, I only need to compile the code once, then in my MatLab code set params.n = n and params.Q = eye(n,n), and then call [vars, status] = csolve(params);.

A: In short, I do not think it is possible to specify arbitrary dimension on cvxgen.com.  I do have one solution: First, in MatLab, allow the user to specify his/her email address and password for cvxgen.com. Next, using system command in MatLab, call a python or javascript program that executes the following steps:
1) Log user into cvxgen.com
2) Goto edit tab on website
3) Copy and paste the cvxgen code
4) Goto generate c tab
5) Click generate code
6) Goto matlab tab
7) Copy unique identifying number for the compiled C code to be downloaded
8) Pass the unique identifying number back to MatLab and compile the Mex files in MatLab by calling the identifying number.
Now the Mex files can be called in MatLab by the following commands:
n=10; % dimension of the problem
params.Q = eye(n,n); % assume that the Hessian is the identity
[vars, status] = csolve(params); % this outputs optimal x* = 0.

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hi there im trying to convert my 0-5v pwm output of the arduino to a smooth 0-10v for a high frequency flourescent i come across this just wanted to make sure that this would work or if people have got better suggestions?
That circuit looks like a good and proper way to accomplish the task.
on that he is using a LM324 i dont need 4 lost of it, just 2 so will this be fine?
Yeah, I do it's probably what was used originally, the 358 is a Very common Op-Amp. Made by almost everyone in the semiconductor business and there are several dozen others with the same pin-out with varying characteristics. Since the device is driving a transistor it is a current feedback loop. It is easy to misuse and if misused not perform with anything like expected. there is a hard limit of about 200 mA on that transistor and a power type will not perform either as with most op-amps the output drive current is limited so controlling a bigger transistor has it's issues. Good Luck.
The only problem with that circuit might be stability - adding a 47pF capacitor between the opamp output and its inverting (-) input would cure that.
The issue is that the opamp feedback path has to go through a potentially slow component (transistor) and drive a capacitive load (C3) - this might introduce enough phase-lag to induce oscillations. The small capacitor would provide a high-frequency lagless feedback path to quell such a tendancy without affecting low frequency behaviour.
is this circuit working? could you share the schematic please?
i have already an Lm 358n and an Lm 741, i am thinking of using two 10k res as Rf and Rin connected to the invrerting input and a 22k res and 0,47u cap at the non-inverting input.
But reading older posts they say that using a simple npn transistor can do the same job.
any other idea or suggestion?


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Q: Convert Javascript tree object to another tree object I have a tree object that looks like this:
let treeArray = [{
  id: 'x/y/z',
  status: 'Not Ready',
  application: 'x',
  artifactID: 'z',
  parent: 'None',
  children: [{
    id: 'a/b/c',
    status: 'Not Ready',
    application: 'a',
    artifactID: 'c',
    parent: 'x/y/z',
    children: [{
      id: 'p/q/r',
      status: 'Not Ready',
      application: 'p',
      artifactID: 'r',
      parent: 'a/b/c',
      children: []
    }]
  }]
}]

I need to convert this to the following:
let result =
  [ { id: 1, target: 'x', status: 'Not Ready'}
  , { id: 2, target: 'z', status: 'Not Ready', parentID: 1 }
  , { id: 3, target: 'a', status: 'Not Ready', parentID: 2 }
  , { id: 4, target: 'c', status: 'Not Ready', parentID: 3 }
  , { id: 5, target: 'p', status: 'Not Ready', parentID: 4 }
  , { id: 6, target: 'r', status: 'Not Ready', parentID: 5 }
  ]

What is the best possible way to achieve this please?
EDIT: The desired format has changed. Just note that there could be any number of elements in the children. Here i have only one element in children.

A: This seems like the perfect application for a recursive function, that way it can run on however many children it needs to.
Basically, for each element of the tree, you build the flattened version, and then if it has children, call the same function on the children so they get parsed and added to the array in the exact same way.
I used nested functions so that calling the function on an array returns a new array, without modifying the original array, and without global variables.
The one thing I modified from the result in the question is I included the parent attribute on all elements, but made it return null if there is no parent, making its function and value very explicit, which helps if you plan on further processing the array returned from any function. Any number would be wrong, because there is no parent at that ID number, and omitting it makes the structure variable.
const expandTree = tree => {
  let id = 0;
  const flattened = [];

  const expandBranch = (tree, parentId) => {
      tree.forEach(branch => {
        id ++;
        flattened.push({
            id: id,
            target: branch.id[0],
            status: branch.status,
            parentID: parentId,
          })
        if (branch.children.length > 0) {
          expandBranch(branch.children, id)
        }
      }
    )
  };
  expandBranch(tree, null);
  return flattened;
};

The advantage is it still works for any number of children, on any branch of the tree:

const treeArray = [{
  id: 'x/y/z',
  status: 'Not Ready',
  application: 'x',
  artifactID: 'z',
  parent: 'None',
  children: [{
    id: 'a/b/c',
    status: 'Not Ready',
    application: 'a',
    artifactID: 'c',
    parent: 'x/y/z',
    children: [{
      id: 'p/q/r',
      status: 'Not Ready',
      application: 'p',
      artifactID: 'r',
      parent: 'a/b/c',
      children: []
    }]
  }]
},
{
  id: 'x/y/z',
  status: 'Not Ready',
  application: 'x',
  artifactID: 'z',
  parent: 'None',
  children: [{
    id: 'a/b/c',
    status: 'Not Ready',
    application: 'a',
    artifactID: 'c',
    parent: 'x/y/z',
    children: [{
      id: 'p/q/r',
      status: 'Not Ready',
      application: 'p',
      artifactID: 'r',
      parent: 'a/b/c',
      children: [{
        id: 'p/q/r',
        status: 'Not Ready',
        application: 'p',
        artifactID: 'r',
        parent: 'a/b/c',
        children: []
      },{
        id: 'p/q/r',
        status: 'Not Ready',
        application: 'p',
        artifactID: 'r',
        parent: 'a/b/c',
        children: []
      },{
        id: 'p/q/r',
        status: 'Not Ready',
        application: 'p',
        artifactID: 'r',
        parent: 'a/b/c',
        children: []
      }
      ]
    }]
  }]
}]

const expandTree = tree => {
  let id = 0;
  const flattened = [];

  const expandBranch = (tree, parentId) => {
      tree.forEach(branch => {
        id ++;
        flattened.push({
            id: id,
            target: branch.id[0],
            status: branch.status,
            parentID: parentId,
          })
        if (branch.children.length > 0) {
          expandBranch(branch.children, id)
        }
      }
    )
  };
  expandBranch(tree, null);
  return flattened;
};

console.log(expandTree(treeArray))

A: it's a simple recursive problem

const treeArray =
  [ { id: 'x/y/z', status: 'Not Ready', application: 'x', artifactID: 'z', parent: 'None', children:
      [ { id: 'a/b/c', status: 'Not Ready', application: 'a', artifactID: 'c', parent: 'x/y/z', children:
          [ { id: 'p/q/r', status: 'Not Ready', application: 'p', artifactID: 'r', parent: 'a/b/c', children: [] }
  ] } ] } ]
  ;
let result = []
  , count  = 0
  ;
function addResultRows( elm, key )
  {
  elm.forEach(elm=>
    {
    newItem = { id: ++count, target: elm.application, status: elm.status }
    if (key > 0 ) newItem.parentId = key
    result.push(newItem)
    if ( elm.children.length > 0)
      {
      addResultRows( elm.children, newItem.id )
      }
    })
  }
addResultRows( treeArray, 0 )
  ;
console.log( JSON.stringify( result ,0, 2)  )
  ;

A:

const treeArray = [{
  id: 'x/y/z',
  status: 'Not Ready',
  application: 'x',
  artifactID: 'z',
  parent: 'None',
  children: [{
    id: 'a/b/c',
    status: 'Not Ready',
    application: 'a',
    artifactID: 'c',
    parent: 'x/y/z',
    children: [{
      id: 'p/q/r',
      status: 'Not Ready',
      application: 'p',
      artifactID: 'r',
      parent: 'a/b/c',
      children: []
    }]
  }]
}]

const newArr = []

function splitArr(arr, id) {
  const obj = arr[0]
  newArr.push({
    id,
    target: obj.application,
    status: obj.status,
    parentID: id - 1
  })

  if (obj.children.length) {
    splitArr(obj.children, ++id)
  }
}

splitArr(treeArray, 1)
console.log(newArr)

A: let counter = 1;
function flatit(arr, parent) {
    let arrResult = [];

    arr.forEach(el => {
        let newEl = {
            id: counter,
            target: el.application,
            status: el.status
        };

        if (parent) newEl.parent = parent;
        arrResult.push(newEl);
        if (el.children) flatit(el.children, counter++).forEach(elc => arrResult.push(elc));
    });

    return arrResult;
}

console.log(flatit(treeArray));

Result:
[
  { id: 1, status: 'Not Ready', target: 'x' },
  { id: 2, status: 'Not Ready', target: 'a', parentID: 1 },
  { id: 3, status: 'Not Ready', target: 'p', parentID: 2 }
]


Why am I being asked to approve/deny group membership requests?
You are being asked to approve or deny group membership requests because one or more of your groups is set to "Members must be approved by admin" in the Joinability section of the group settings.
You will find the "Joinability" section in the lower right hand corner of the screen and update your preferences there.


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Die Stripling Brothers war ein US-amerikanisches Old-Time-Duo aus Alabama. Ihr Repertoire bestand fast ausschließlich aus Instrumentalstücken und umfasste Lieder traditioneller Natur sowie eigenes Material.

Geschichte
Die Brüder Charlie Melvin (* 8. August 1896) und Ira Lee Stripling wurden im Pickens County, Alabama, nahe Kennedy geboren. Musik spielte in ihren frühen Jahren keine große Rolle. Erst mit 18 Jahren entdeckte Charlie Stripling sein musikalisches Talent, als er aus Spaß auf der Spielzeuggeige seines Neffen spielte, die er ihm als Weihnachtsgeschenk kaufte. Kurz danach kaufte er seinem Nachbarn Pleasant C. Carroll dessen Fiddle ab  und beide Brüder übten über ein Jahr, bevor sie erstmals öffentlich auftraten. In Kennedy nahmen sie zum ersten Mal an einem Fiddle Contest teil und gewannen den ersten Preis. In der folgenden Zeit gewannen sie weitere Wettbewerbe und Charlie konnte sich auch 1926 in Birmingham während der Dixie Fiddlers' Convention vor 8000 Zuschauern gegen alle anderen Fiddler als Solist durchsetzten.

Am 15. November 1928 reisten Charlie und Ira Stripling erneut nach Birmingham, wo die Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company im Bankhead Hotel ein provisorisches Aufnahmestudio eingerichtet hatte, um Old-Time-Musiker auf Schallplatte aufzunehmen. Da die Striplings nur Instrumentalstücke in ihrem Repertoire hatten, war Carey Walker, Leiter der Session, zuerst skeptisch, als er die beiden Brüder jedoch spielten hörte, nahm er sie sofort auf. Ein Vertrag wurde jedoch nicht unterschrieben. Danach kehrten die Striplings nach Hause zurück und da Brunswick sich nicht meldete, ging man davon aus, dass keine der Stücke veröffentlicht worden war. Nachdem Charlie jedoch einen ihrer Songs in einem Plattenladen in Fayette, Alabama, spielen hörte, kontaktierte er  Jack Kapp bei Brunswick, der die Brüder nach Chicago einlud.

Am 19. August 1929 wurden von den Striplings in Chicago 10 Stücke für das Label Vocalion Records, das zur Brunswick-Blake-Collender Company gehörte, eingespielt. Die meisten davon waren Eigenkompositionen Charlies, da die Produzenten von den Brüdern verlangten, Songs zu spielen, die noch nicht vorher von anderen Old-Time-Musiker aufgenommen wurden. Unter den Aufnahmen befand sich Charlie Striplings Kennedy Rag, der nach der Heimatstadt der Striplings benannt war und später während des Folk-Revivals zum Repertoire vieler jüngerer Musiker gehörte. Die Platten der Stripling Brothers verkauften sich gut – "[they] were selling like hotcakes", sagte Charlie Stripling später dazu.

In den nächsten Jahren wurden jedoch, wahrscheinlich aufgrund der Weltwirtschaftskrise, keine weiteren Aufnahmen gemacht. Charlie Stripling hatte durch die Depression seine Farm und seinen Laden verloren und musste nun, um seine Familie zu ernähren, auf Baumwollfeldern arbeiten. Ira hatte es vergleichsweise milde getroffen; er konnte seine Farm behalten, hatte nun aber weniger Zeit für seine Musikerkarriere. Charlie spielte, um sein Gehalt aufzubessern, verstärkt mit seinen Söhnen Robert und Lee zusammen auf Fiddle Contests. Dave Kapp holte die Stripling Brothers 1934 nach New York City, wo sie für das neu gegründete Label Decca Records am 10. September 14 Stücke aufnahmen, von denen die meisten Walzer und Breakdowns waren. Am. 12. März 1936 hielten die Stripling Brothers in New Orleans für Decca ihre letzte Session ab. Ira zog sich danach aus dem Musikgeschäft zurück.

Charlie spielte bis 1958 mit lokalen Bands und seinen Kindern auf Square Dances, Fiddle Contests und anderen Veranstaltungen mit großem Erfolg weiter. Nachdem 1934 seine erste Frau Tellie, die er 1919 geheiratet und mit ihr sechs Kinder bekommen hatte, gestorben war, heiratete er später Myrtle Wheeler, mit der er nochmals drei Kinder hatte. 1952 wurden von Ray Browne für die University of Alabama einige Aufnahmen von Charlie Stripling gemacht. Nachdem er 1958 Arthritis diagnostiziert wurde, gab er die Musik auf und starb am 19. Januar 1966. Joyce Cauthen beschrieb ihn als einen der wichtigsten amerikanischen Old-Time-Fiddler und Striplings Lost Child führt die Liste der "100 Essential Hillbilly Commercial Recordings on 78s" des Magazins Old-Time Herald an. Striplings Söhne Robert und Lee treten bis heute als Stripling Brothers auf.

Diskografie

Einzelnachweise

Weblinks

 Die Stripling Brothers auf Hillbilly-Music.com (englisch)

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What kind of notation does DDC use?
LIS Studies, Questions & Answer / January 6, 2023 January 13, 2023
numbers to each class, category, and subcategory within the classification system. The decimal notation consists of a series of digits, each of which represents a specific level of detail or specificity within the classification system.
For example, in the DDC system, the main classes are represented by a single digit (e.g., 1 for "Philosophy and psychology," 2 for "Religion," etc.), and subclasses and categories are represented by additional digits to the right of the main class digit. For example, the subclass "Mathematics" within the main class "Pure science" (class 5) is represented by the number "510," while the category "Trigonometry" within that subclass is represented by the number "517."
In addition to the decimal notation, the DDC system also uses a system of captions and notation schedules to provide more detailed information about the meaning and content of each class, category, and subcategory. The captions provide a brief description of the class or category, while the notation schedules provide more detailed information about the specific topics and themes that are covered within each class, category, and subcategory.
Overall, the decimal notation and the system of captions and notation schedules are used together to create a comprehensive and detailed classification system that is used to organize and classify books and other materials according to subject matter in libraries around the world.


The article presents a technology of using of clinical quality indicators in cardiovascular diseases registries based on the experience of creation and exploitation of federal registries of acute coronary syndrome, hypertension, coronary artery disease, chronic heart failure. Herein quality indicators are proposed for clinical audit aimed at improvement results of medical care in patients with cardiac pathology.
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Spertus JA, Eagle KA, Krumholz HM, et al. American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association Methodology for the selection and creation of performance measures for quantifying the quality of cardiovascular care. Circulation 2005; 111(13): 1703-1712. https://dx.doi.org/10.1161/01.CIR.0000157096.95223.D7.
Erlikh AD. The registries of acute coronary syndromes – their types, characteristics and significance in clinical practice. Vestn Ross Akad Med Nauk 2012; (4): 30-39. Russian https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22834325.
Gliklich RE, Dreyer NA. Registries for evaluating patient outcomes: a user's guide. 2nd edition: AHRQ Publication No.10-EHC049. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2010.
Fegeler K, Macher E, Nolting S. Animal experiment studies on the immunity in Candida albicans infection. Mykosen 1978; 21: 127-137. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/349377.
Yavelov IS, Gratsiansky NA. Register of acute coronary syndromes in Russia: management and inhospital outcomes in ST elevation acute coronary syndrome. Kardiologiia 2004; 44(4): 4-13. Russian https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15111968.
Erlikh AD, Gratsiansky NA. Registry of acute coronary syndromes RECORD. Characteristics of patients and results of inhospital treatment. Kardiologiia 2009; 49(7-8): 4-12. Russian https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19656100.
Erlikh AD, Kharchenko MS, Barbarash OL, et al. Adherence to guidelines on management of acute coronary syndrome in Russian hospitals and outcomes of hospitalization. Kardiologiia 2013; 53(1): 14-22. Russian https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23548345.
Boytsov SA, Yakushin SS, Martsevich SYu, et al. Outpatient register of cardiovascular diseases in the Ryazan region (RECVASA): principal tasks, experience of development and first results. Rational Pharmacother Card 2013; 9(1): 4-14. Russian http://dx.doi.org/10.20996/1819-6446-2013-9-1-4-14.
Tereshchenko SN, Zhirov IV, Romanova NV, et al. The first Russian register of patients with chronic heart failure and atrial fibrillation (RIF-CHF): study design. Ration Pharmacother Cardiol 2015; 11(6): 577-581. http://dx.doi.org/10.20996/1819-6446-2015-11-6-577-581.
Shal'nova SA, Oganov RG, Steg PG, Ford I. Coronary artery disease in Russia: Today's reality evidenced by the international CLARIFY Registry. Kardiologiia 2013; 53(8): 28-33. Russian https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24087997.
Posnenkova OM, Korotin AS, Kiselev AR, et al. Performance of recommended treatment measures in patients with acute coronary syndrome in 2014: a report on the data from federal registry. Cardio-IT 2015; 2(1): e0101. Russian https://dx.doi.org/10.15275/cardioit.2015.0101.
Posnenkova OM, Korotin AS, Kiselev AR, et al. Performance of recommended measures on risk factors control in patients with hypertension, coronary artery disease and chronic heart failure: the data from 2014 Russian registry. Cardio-IT 2015; 2(1): e0102. Russian https://dx.doi.org/10.15275/cardioit.2015.0102.
Korotin AS, Posnenkova OM, Kiselev AR, et al. Implementation of recommended measures in patients with stable coronary artery disease: the data from 2014 Russian registry. Cardio-IT 2015; 2(1): e0103. Russian https://dx.doi.org/10.15275/cardioit.2015.0103.
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11 classic Doctor Who baddies we want to see again
By Zoe Delahunty-Light 2017-03-30T11:56:30.88Z
Our old friends the Mondasian Cybermen, the original robotically-enhanced villains from way back in 1966, are reappearing in season 10 of Doctor Who. Despite having helmets made out of cloth instead of metal, those gaping mouths still manage to be just as horrifying 50 years later. Featured in The Tenth Planet story, they're sure to be a welcome addition for old and new fans alike. Yet there are more horrors hidden in the depths of classic Who: from 1963 to 1996 there's a bestiary's worth of monsters, villains, and tricksters who could also do with a breath of fresh air. So without further ado, here's 11 creatures we want to see brought to the new series.
1. Kandyman
First appeared in: Season 25 - The Happiness Patrol
The baddie: Reading his name tells you almost everything you need to know, but I'll fill in the gaps just in case: he's a robot made of sweets. From a storyline called The Happiness Patrol, the mechanical man is engineered to be a horrifically psychopathic executioner, created to eliminate the 'Killjoys' who go against the planet's one golden rule: be happy. Or else. Specifically, if you don't grin you'll be drowned in molten, boiling fondant. When that doesn't work Kandyman doesn't have an issue with strangling people, though.
Why they should come back: Imagine the Doctor visiting a planet where happiness is everywhere. Sweetie-robots patrol the streets, bringing joy everywhere they go. But then there's a scuffle, and the Doctor sees someone suffocated in molten fondant… and everyone watching is still grinning. An equal amount of horror could come from the social brainwashing in action where people have been repressing any sorrow for decades out of fear.
2. Celestial Toymaker
First appeared in: Season 3 - The Celestial Toymaker
The baddie: Playtime isn't just for kids, as this perpetually-bored, catastrophically-powerful trickster is all too eager to show. Dressed in an outlandish costume almost as fantastical as his penchant for puzzles and toys, the Celestial Toymaker first appeared in 1966 eager to trap the Doctor in his Toyroom. Once imprisoned there - which is what happens to most people, as you have to win a devious game to escape - the Toymaker gets to control you and everything you do. Then you become toys who he'll send to compete against the next people he snatches up.
Why they should come back: The Toymaker isn't afraid to cheat, making him a tricksy opponent. He's repeatedly drawn to the Doctor because he longs to have someone intelligent to play against for all of time. Maybe he's lonely… or maybe just evil. He's long since due for a return.
3. Mr Oak and Mr Quill
First appeared in: Season 5 - Fury from the Deep
The baddie: This pair can fuck right off. Unnerving, softly spoken men in maintenance uniforms - one tall and skinny, the other short and cheerfully fat - they give you the heebie-jeebies just looking at them. Especially because Mr Oak (the short one) is chatty and beaming, but his comrade Mr Quill is silent. In service to the seaweed monster lurking in the pipes underneath their scientific facility, this pair widens their mouths to emit toxic gas which knocks out their victims. Then placing a sprig of infectious seaweed near the body, they make their inconspicuous exit.
Why they should come back: Body horror fanatics will love them, as their black teeth and tongues, along with their hands infected with hair-like seaweed are subtle enough to make you crave a shower after seeing them. Plus, they look like normal workmen, meaning they'd blend into any modern-day construction site with ease.
4. Yetis
First appeared in: Season 5 - The Abominable Snowmen
The baddie: Don't be fooled: these monsters (they're actually robots) aren't nearly as cuddly as giant fluffy teddybears, even though they look it. Controlled by the Great Intelligence via the silver spheres in their chest, these monstrously big terrors were meant to look like the creature of myth to scare people away from a secluded location in the Himalayas. Returning to London as museum displays once they were powered down, they wreak havoc in London in Web of Fear after (unsurprisingly) breaking free.
Why they should come back: A very similar scenario could occur in the new series, as museums are ripe for all kinds of monster-related shenanigans. Hordes of kids would probably find their furry, chubby bodies adorable… until their eyes start glowing. The silver sphere that controls them can be hacked into like a computer too, so they could easily be reprogrammed to be allies.
5. The Keller Machine
First appeared in: Season 8 - The Mind of Evil
The baddie: If there was any one of these villains to shudder at, this would be it. Lurking inside the machine is a psychic parasite which uses your worst fears to kill you. That's by far its worst feature though (it would be hard to top it), as usually it just extracts the negative impulses from human brains. The kind of impulses that cause negative behaviour, as an alternative to executing criminals. Brainwashing people: what a merciful option. As would be expected, it all gets a bit out of hand as the machine starts to make people around it hallucinate their worst fears, even teleporting around the prison to feed on inmate's minds.
Why they should come back: A prison is somehow managing to reform inmates in record time and release them onto the streets despite wave after wave of budget cuts. At first it's a PR success, then a journalist notices that the inmates are, well… different. Docile. She goes in to investigate and finds the Keller Machine, and of course the Doctor turns up to help. He might even be one of the prisoners, needing to be given his mind back to help fight the increasingly hungry machine...
6. Meddling Monk
First appeared in: Season 2 - The Time Meddler
The baddie: Admittedly it's taken quite a while to get to the point where we have touchscreens and MRI scans. But just imagine the devastation a time-traveller could cause if they decided to 'help' history along. A Time Lord like the Doctor, the Meddling Monk (so named due to the monk's habit he wears) is what happens when you use time-travel to your advantage. Give the Stonehenge's builders some power tools, tutor Leonardo da Vinci about aircraft design - you know, just nudging shoving history in the right direction.
Why they should come back: The best thing is, the Monk doesn't have to do it nefariously. He might just think technological progress needs to happen sooner so more lives could be saved, making him more of a well-meaning wrecking ball than a cackling villain.
7. Bok the Gargoyle
First appeared in: Season 8 - The Daemons
The baddie: Indestructible doesn't begin to cover how strong this piece of animate rock is. Controlled by Azal, a massive demon, he's nimble and is able to blend in with a church's stone ornaments. Forget his master Azal: Bok is bulletproof, able to disintegrate objects (and people) with a wave of his hand, and indestructible - even going to far as to reform after being blown to bits. He's a royal pain. Meaning that the Doctor has to find creative ways to delay him. Turning back into his original stone form once Azal was defeated, encountering him on his own would be a difficult endeavour to say the least.
Why they should come back: He's ripe for a Victorian/Tudor storyline about a haunted graveyard, but finding a way to get rid of him would be tricky. Or maybe he's protecting the graveyard from body-snatchers, under the misguided impression that one of the corpses is his master.
8. Sea Devils
First appeared in: Season 9 - The Sea Devils
The baddie: On par with the Silurians, Zygons, and Autons, Sea Devils were practically a series regular and it remains a mystery why they haven't been brought back yet. Known for forming uneasy alliances with the Silurians (they belong to the same pre-human civilisation), but claiming the sea instead of the underground when it was time to hibernate, they're set on reclaiming the planet.
Why they should come back: A coastal village could be attacked by them, and the Doctor obviously steps in to help. Or maybe the Silurians and the Sea Devils will start a war over the border between their territories (political commentary, anyone?). Either way, I'm sure the Sea Devils will make waves if they're reintroduced.
9. Haemovores
First appeared in: Season 26 - The Curse of Fenric
The baddie: Instead of using sharp canines to suck blood, these repellent vampires use suckers - as in the kind octopi have - to drain their victims' blood. Eww. With massive rending claws, the reason these vampires look like they've been in the bath too long is because they previously survived by absorbing the salt in seawater, meaning they're able to dwell under the waves. Using telepathy to communicate with each other, they can be stopped using a strong psychic barrier - which, coincidentally, can be generated by the processes we associate with religious faith.
Why they should come back: Just in case you can't see an episode being written before your very eyes about a religious community being attacked, the haemovores are also only known to attack in mist or fog - presumably due to the water content in the air. Spooky. Or, for a comedy factor, have it set somewhere hot, sunny, and tropical, making the oncoming fog and mist even more bizarre.
10. Mr Sin
First appeared in: Season 14 - The Talons of Weng-Chiang
The baddie: Ok, so admittedly he'd have to be redesigned because… well, just look at him. But the core concept of a killer doll that isn't associated with some nightmare universe is pure gold. With the brain of a pig and a tiny cyborg body Mr Sin might not be particularly intelligent, but he is deadly. Although he's originally created as an innocent toy for a politician's daughter, it doesn't take long for him to go rogue thanks to some frazzled circuitry. Going beyond one storyline to terrorise unlucky individuals over various timeframes (although he was created in the 51st century, at one point he was taken back to the 19th), he's like a bad penny that keeps turning up and causing havoc.
Why they should come back: Described on one occasion as "trigger-happy", it'd be nice to have a killer doll that simply attacked people because it wanted to, rather than being part of a nefarious plan. Or have a murder pinned on the owner of the doll, who was resolutely trying to teach Mr Sin not to kill but lost control.
11. Osiran service robots/Servitors
First appeared in: Season 13 - Pyramids of Mars
The baddie: There's not really a super-ingenious concept behind these robots, but their two main selling features are that they a) look like mummies, and b) have an odd way of suffocating people. Walking around in pairs, they deprive victims of air by jostling them in-between the robotic couple. Sounds harmless at the moment. Then they push their triangle chests (not in a Lara Croft way, believe me) together until the victim's neck is sandwiched between each ridge: push, and wait for the sound of a neck cracking…
Why they should come back: Seeing two robots lumber towards you covered in grey cloth is slightly ominous, however. For the next series I'd recommend dressing them to make them look like something you wouldn't mind getting hugged with - until it was too late. A cute brand mascot, perhaps?
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Incumbent state Rep. Michael Schraa, R-Oshkosh, is facing Democratic incumbent Joe Lavrenz of Fond du Lac in the race for 53rd Assembly District seat.
Schraa, 57, was first elected in 2012 and has served three terms. He introduced the Juvenile Corrections Reform Bill last session and has co-authored or co-sponsored more than 200 bills since his first election. An Oshkosh resident, he is married with three daughters.
Lavrenz, 38, has not held political office before. He works at Spectrum and has run different departments at the company. He lives in Fond du Lac and is unmarried.
The 53rd Assembly District borders Oshkosh and Fond du Lac and contains Omro, Rosendale and parts of Waupun.
Lavrenz: I want to see more funding sent to smaller municipalities so they can perform more construction projects in a given year. This may require an increase in the gas tax but I'd like to look at options for moving resources first.
Schraa: There's no simple solution: Roads built in the '50s and '60s are nearing their 70-year lifespan. Efficient vehicles pay less gas tax, tolls can't be implemented unless we receive a federal waiver, and registration fees affect the poor. The governor announced his intention to further increase General Transportation Aids for local roads, which I fully support. The previous administration neglected necessary repairs and raided the transportation fund. Republicans put that money back and protected the fund — your gas tax dollars — with a constitutional amendment. Everyone needs good roads, and I'm committed to increasing the resources and efficiency to make that happen.
Should Act 10 be partially or fully repealed. Why or why not?
Schraa: I wasn't in office back in 2011 when Act 10 passed. The budget repair bill was necessary because the state had a $3.6 billion shortfall left from the previous administration. Act 10 gave schools and municipalities the tools to deal with their budget shortfalls. I wouldn't take that savings away from them. Since I've been in office, there have been no more cuts, and funding for public K-12 education is the highest it has ever been in the history of Wisconsin. I'm committed to continuing support for our schools so they can educate our children the best way possible.
Lavrenz: I think Act 10 should be fully repealed. We have been losing jobs to other states over the course of the last few years, and I feel like bringing collective bargaining rights back to the labor force will bring people back with higher wages and benefits.
Lavrenz: I want to push for expanding the higher education systems in the state. Students should be able to get at least the first two years of college or equivalent work training program at little to no cost. We can work with local businesses to funnel a pipeline of new talent into their workforce so they end up with the right skills necessary to succeed in their chosen profession. I'd also like to see support systems in our public schools expanded so we can identify students early for specific paths into the workforce and get them started on that path.
Schraa: Republican economic reforms are working. We have high employment which is reducing poverty. As a business owner, I can tell you first hand that it's not easy to find employees to keep our businesses running smoothly. I will continue to support workforce development bills that enable Wisconsin businesses to hire the qualified employees they need. As chairman of the Assembly Corrections Committee, I am especially interested in workforce development among inmates. The expansion of job skills training for men and women who are incarcerated will enable them to return to society ready to be successful in good, family-supporting jobs.
Schraa: First, let me clear up the misconception that Foxconn was paid to come to Wisconsin. They were promised tax incentives in return for creating high paying, family supporting jobs. If they don't meet their obligations and those jobs aren't created, there will be no tax breaks. When they do meet those obligations, Wisconsin will have increased tax revenue to spend on our roads, schools and other improvements. The company is already investing in our UW System ($100 million), buying property, employing Wisconsinites and contracting with Wisconsin businesses. Why wouldn't we want this high-tech, one-of-a-kind business located in our state?
Lavrenz: I think this was a bad deal for Wisconsin. The numbers continue to change in the deal with which jobs are going to be provided, wages, where they come from and even what is going to be produced at the factory. The best numbers provided by the administration show we will not see a return for over 25 years, and that's only if everything goes perfect. This also could open the floodgates for other businesses to ask for their own deal or they'll leave. We can't be pushed into bribing businesses to stay here.
Would you support legislation ending the "dark stores" loophole that allows stores to pay taxes on their properties equivalent to those of a comparably-sized but vacant building?
Lavrenz: I would support ending this practice. I think we should close as many of these tax loopholes as we can so we can get proper tax revenue and then we can work from there to adjust rates to the benefit of everyone rather than just a few who can take advantage of these loopholes.
Schraa: There is a Legislative Council Study Committee currently meeting to try and figure out a way to best deal with this issue. There needs to be a good balance in any legislation brought forth to protect municipalities and taxpayers. Unfortunately, last session, the bill that was introduced failed to get to the floor for a vote. State statutes need better clarification so that assessors have a consistent way to value property. I'm confident that there will be a compromise reached next session that will be acceptable to all parties involved.
Would you support changing state law to legalize marijuana and/or cannabis products? If so, under conditions? If not, why?
Schraa: State law has already changed. Cannabis has benefits for some, but has also caused great harm to others, so it's essential to make decisions based on facts rather than emotion. I voted to legalize medicinal CBD oil last session. I was also one of four Republicans that voted to decriminalize possession of smaller amounts of marijuana. Unfortunately, that bill never made it to the floor. We still need time to see how these changes work in Wisconsin and to evaluate the evidence from other states. We are still a few years away from considering legalizing medicinal marijuana in my opinion.
Lavrenz: I would push to legalize marijuana, both recreational and medicinal. Following Colorado's model, this could be a huge tax boon for the state and also a giant step forward to combat the opioid crisis impacting our state. Marijuana has been proven to help with pain and opioid withdrawal which would make it an excellent tool to fight the opioid addiction problems.
Lavrenz: I'm running because we need better health care, the rates and drug prices are out of control to the point where people need to cut medications in order to have them last longer or choose between food and their medications. This just ends up with more people being sick or dying due to lack of coverage or their medications and that is inexcusable in our country.
Schraa: I believe it's important to have someone with business experience representing us in Madison. As a small business owner, I've experienced the excessive rules and regulations that hamper economic growth. I am a problem-solver, and I love helping constituents deal with frustrating issues that they can't solve themselves. People deserve to have fair representation, and I reach across the aisle often to work with my colleagues on issues that affect all of us as taxpayers. Public service is not always easy, but I'm committed to making a difference.
Schraa: I actually live in the 53rd Assembly District. I know the people who live here, their values, and their concerns. I have gained a tremendous amount of experience in the Legislature, having represented the district for three terms. I've served on the Joint Finance Committee, and I currently chair the Corrections Committee. With eight prison facilities in the district, correctional issues are extremely important. I've immersed myself in understanding problems in both juvenile and adult corrections, and there is much more work to accomplish in this area.
Lavrenz: I think that I'm the better candidate because I'm going to look at things from a different perspective as compared to someone who has been in the Assembly for a few sessions. Between myself and my family, we've lived through many of the things I'm advocating that we change whether its health care or being stuck in a low-wage job.
Lavrenz: Health care seems to be a top priority for people. Many people I talk to are worried about getting a sickness or injury that keeps them out of work which may cause their coverage to drop and they'll be forced into bankruptcy. I think we need to cover everyone regardless of condition and spread the costs across everyone. Breaking the work requirements for coverage would be a good start because we can cut costs to employers by having to require them to cover their employees and can work with providers at the state level to create a better system to cover everyone in the state for a lower cost.
Reduce farming regulations that make it so difficult to survive in the profession.
I am already working on several bills for next session, if I'm re-elected, that will help deal with these issues that are significant to my constituents.
Schraa: Unfortunately, I don't know much about him since he's from outside the district. I can say that I admire anyone who is committed enough to run for an elected political office. They need to know the issues, put up the signs, knock on doors and participate in public debates. With negative ads being so prevalent lately in campaigns, I will say that he has stayed positive, as have I.
Lavrenz: My opponent has experience working in the Assembly and also cares about what happens with corrections in the state. I would like to learn more about the state side of corrections from him and hopefully, we can have discussions going forward that we'd be able to learn from each other to have the best representation for our district.
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Jet Set Willy II: The Final Frontier is the remake of the second chapter of Miner Willy's adventures. In the first game, Willy got a fortune with his exploits and treasure huntings. One night, he invites the jet-set to a superb and savage party in his huge mansion, and when the party is finished, the house is a complete disorder - even disaster. Although Willy only wants to go to rest, his maid, Maria, goes on strike. Willy has to collect all trash from the party: more than 150 objects spread over more than 100 rooms. But there's a rumour about the last owner of the house. They say he was a sort of mad scientist, and that night all his creations are going to awaken.
The premise from Manic Miner (collect objects and evade guardians and obstacles) is still present, but now rooms are not linear (you have to explore the mansion), and there is no time limit.
This is the excellent PC remake of Jet Set Willy II, a good sequel to the classic Spectrum game that is unfortunately not as fun to play as the original The game is more or less the same as the predecessor (read my review of Jet Set Willy PC remake for detail), but with more of everything: Willy's mansion is much bigger than the original, and there are more objects and obstacles. The plot is more or less the same: Willy has had another colossal party and (of course) Maria has gone on strike again. As Willy, you cannot go to bed until you collect all the glasses for a second time.
Despite the bigger mansion, Jet Set Willy II lacks the charm of the original -- probably due to the fact that most of the "new" locations (except the wacky "Final Frontier" towards the end of the game) are more or less the same as the old ones, and there is little in the way of new concepts in gameplay. Seeing Willy in a space suit near the end is worth the wait, though, so die-hard Willy fans would probably plough through this one patiently.
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This game has been set up to work on modern Windows (10/8/7/Vista/XP 64/32-bit) computers without problems. Please choose Download - Easy Setup (3.62 MB).
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Kim Kardashian's song 'Jam (Turn It Up)' was released Wednesday followed by the above pictures, screen shots from the reality star's upcoming music video. LISTEN below.
It's official: Atlanta Housewife Kim Zolciak is no longer the worst singer ever to slither out of a reality TV series and into a recording studio.
That honor now belongs to Kim Kardashian, earned by Wednesday's release of her new single "Jam (Turn It Up)." It's a dead-brained piece of generic dance music, without a single distinguishing feature. As for Kim's singing, it's a bit of breathing that's been auto-tuned into something vaguely approximating a vocal.
To produce the thing, Kim hired The-Dream (he of Rihanna and Beyonce fame). But he definitely didn't waste any prime ideas on something clearly intended as a toss off. The whole point, as with Kim's show itself, was just to get the suckers into the tent.
In a cynical way, everybody wins in a situation like this. Kim gets more attention (her entire raison d'etre) while listeners get to chortle and feel superior. In a (slightly) deeper way, it takes attention from more important things we could all be doing - like, say, sleeping.


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Kepler-68c is an Earth-sized planet orbiting the star Kepler-68 in the constellation of Cygnus. It was discovered by planetary-transit methods by the Kepler space telescope in February 2013. It has a mass of 4.8 times that of Earth (0.015 MJ) and a radius of 0.953 Earth radii. It has an orbital period of 9.605085 days at a distance of about 0.09059 AU from its star. Relatively wide constraints on Kepler-68c's mass are the result lack of detection of the planet through radial-velocity and transit-timing-variation methods.

See also
 List of planets discovered by the Kepler spacecraft

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DIY Felt Christmas tree – Mumma, Did You Know?
This was a quick shot as I realised that the tree might not survive the day.
This is something that I was really quite pleased with myself about. I saw this idea online last year, maybe at this website or maybe somewhere else, and remembered for this year. I wasn't quite sure if Little F would be too into it, but I thought I'd make it up and see. The local Spotlight didn't have quite what I was after, so I bought one A3 piece of stiffened felt and a yellow piece of felt, and left (the other coloured are from scrap pieces I already had).
I cut out my triangle and a piece of brown for the trunk and was going to stick it on to the cardboard (which was the box for the toy kitchen) when I had the festive idea of putting wrapping paper behind it. I nearly broke open a new wrapping paper roll of black and white stripes and stars for this, then caught myself and went with what was already open. I bought this wrapping paper at Aldi last year, I think it was a 20m roll and there's heaps left to use up.
So, double sided tape, wrapping paper on to background, and then I ran out of tape after so my apprentice was safely in bed I got out the hot glue gun and stuck the rest of the tree together. I even got out the sewing machine and put some decorative stitches on the purple piece to make it look a bit more like baubles (I lost enthusiasm after, so only purple has this).
Little F is quite pleased with his new toy and it took him five minutes to get around to ripping the whole thing apart. (I found more double sided tape to stick it back together) It's now on our fridge where he pulls all the baubles off, then gets me to stick them back on, so he can pull them off again. He managed to get one to stick on his own but tends to ball them up too much so they just fall off again.
We've been reading Puppy's Christmas Star this week, and Puppy finds a place for his special star to go, on a special tree, so now we can do the same.


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In late October 2016, I was working a long shift as a neonatal nurse and started to suffer with lower abdominal pain. I vomited and had diarrhoea and was unable to pass urine.
As the pain worsened and my temperate rose, I drove myself to A&E. There, I was given IV antibiotic and morphine.
After a few hours I was sent home. The following day I returned to work still feeling very unwell. On the way home from work I vomited again.
As I was feeling extremely exhausted, I went to bed but woke with a swollen abdomen. I had also vomited and passed urine in my sleep without noticing.
I rang my son and sister who called for an ambulance as I was unable to move. My blood pressure was too low for painkillers, so I was stabilised with IV fluid and carried out to the ambulance.
As I was in so much pain the ambulance was unable to move for over an hour until I was stable enough for the journey to hospital.
Once at the hospital, I was assessed after around 30 minutes.
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Fletchers Solicitors
Patient Claim Line is a brand of Fletchers Group – home to some of the UK's leading law firms
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Patient Claim Line belongs to Fletchers Group; a trading name of Fletchers Solicitors Ltd. Fletchers Solicitors Ltd is authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. Registered office: 34 Hoghton Street, Southport, PR9 0PU. Company no. 5743784