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New ambassador to Sierra Leone hails from northwest Indiana
PORTAGE, Ind. (AP) — A northwest Indiana native is the new U.S. ambassador to Sierra Leone.
Portage native Maria Brewer has served in Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Pakistan and other locations during her career with the U.S. State Department, The (Northwest Indiana) Times reports .
Brewer graduated in 1991 from Portage High School and in 1995 from Valparaiso University, where she studied international economics and cultural affairs, among other subjects.
Brewer became a foreign service officer in 1996. Her first tour was in Nigeria, where she says she "fell in love with Africa."
Brewer said she wants art of the Indiana Dunes on the wall in her new home in Freetown, Sierra Leone's capital, so she can show visitors what her hometown is like. She said she'll also take along her Midwestern values of being rooted in reality, yet optimistic.
At her July 26 confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, U.S. Sen. Todd Young noted the extent of her service.
"You have valuable experience, Ms. Brewer, related to the Ebola crisis as well as Boko Haram and the al-Qaeda threats," Young said.
Brewer served in Sierra Leone from 1999 to 2001, near the end of that country's civil war. Brewer was part of the international mission involved in peace negotiations.
In most countries, State Department employees informally adopt orphanages by providing clothes, supplies and gifts for children. Brewer and her husband went beyond that service by adopting a child of their own. Their daughter is now 8 years old.

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Transplant Hepatology fellows will acquire expertise in performing consultations primarily focusing on the liver. The fellow will be expected to create a plan for pertinent diagnostic studies and laboratory tests, and to formulate an appropriate differential diagnosis. Additionally, the fellow will acquire knowledge of the indications for liver biopsy and in endoscopic variceal ligation. The fellow is expected to develop competencies in the evaluation and referral of patients with liver disease for liver transplantation and in the management of their post-transplant care, including transplant rejection.
Fellows on the inpatient service will be exposed to a full range of clinical disorders across a diverse mix of patients with emphasis on evaluation and management of diseases of the liver. The fellow will be expected to evaluate and participate in the ongoing care of inpatients on the hepatology service as well as consultations from other departments.
The Albert Einstein Transplant Hepatology Fellowship program received initial accreditation from the ACGME in July 2015.
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At least 7 injured after shooting in Lauderhill parking lot
Andrew Scheinthal
LAUDERHILL, FLA. (WSVN) - Police in Broward County are investigating a shooting that took place on Monday night.
Lauderhill Police received calls about a shooting along the 1800 block of Northwest 38th Avenue at approximately 10:44 p.m., Monday.
Responding officers located two victims at the scene suffering from apparent gunshot wounds, but soon after, local hospitals made them aware of additional shooting victims who had shown up to get medical care.
7News cameras captured a vehicle in the parking lot of a restaurant with at least five bullet holes and shattered windows. Investigators said the victims were hosting a fish fry at the time of the shooting.
As of Tuesday afternoon, there were at least seven victims involved. Officials said two of the victims have since been intubated, but the other victims sustained injuries that were not life-threatening.
For 10 years, Thomas Lagos has worked off Northwest 38th Avenue, and he said it has been mostly a quiet area up until now.
"I work here every day," he said. "It's a surprise for me. I never see nothing over here in this area here."
Witnesses told police a barrage of gunfire was heard, but none of them said they saw a shooter as they ducked for cover.
Authorities, however, believe there were multiple guns involved in the incident.
Nearby business owner Franklin Lagos said one of his employees heard the shooting when it happened.
"He said, 'Just shots started ringing out.' There was a lot of people, and everybody was just duck and covering," said Lagos.
Also on Monday night, another shooting took place in Miramar at around 9:30 p.m.
According to authorities, individuals inside one car began shooting at individuals inside a white Ford Mustang near the area of the 3700 block of State Road 7.
All three victims inside of the Mustang, which crashed outside a nearby restaurant, were shot and killed.
"This lasted an extended period of time, several blocks," Miramar Police spokesperson Tania Rues said. "We have three men who were killed.
It remains unclear what led up to the shooting, but officers believe the victims, who live out of state, were targeted.
"We're asking any witnesses that were in the area who may have seen anything to call Crime Stoppers and relay that information," said Miramar Police Sgt. Oscar Mendoza. "There is up to a $3,000 reward."
Investigators said they do not believe the two shootings are connected, but they are keeping the possibility open.
"Our detectives are working with detectives in other jurisdictions to try to confirm that," Rues said.
No arrests have been made in either shooting as of Tuesday afternoon.
If you have any information on either of the shootings, call Broward County Crime Stoppers at 954-493-TIPS. Remember, you can always remain anonymous, and you may be eligible for a $3,000 reward.


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I gruppi delle qualificazioni al campionato europeo di calcio Under-21 2004, ove possibile, sono stati creati in abbinamento ai gruppi di qualificazione delle squadre maggiori partecipanti agli Europei del 2004 con l'eccezione di Andorra, Isole Fær Øer, Liechtenstein e Irlanda del Nord, che non disponevano di rappresentative Under-21, e del Portogallo, la cui squadra maggiore non partecipava alle qualificazioni degli Europei in quanto paese ospitante.

Così le 48 rappresentative Under-21 partecipanti sono state divise in 10 gironi (8 gironi da 5 squadre e 2 da 4) con i criteri sopra esposti.

Le vincenti degli 8 gironi hanno poi disputato uno spareggio, con partite di andata e ritorno, con le seconde di ogni gruppo (le composizioni degli 8 spareggi sono state decise per sorteggio).

Gruppi di qualificazione

Gruppo 1

 Slovenia 1-0 Malta
 Cipro 0-1 Francia
 Francia 1-0 Slovenia
 Malta 0-1 Israele
 Malta 0-3 Francia
 Cipro 2-0 Malta
 Cipro 2-0 Israele
 Francia 2-0 Malta
 Israele 0-3 Francia
 Slovenia 2-0 Cipro

 Malta 0-0 Slovenia
 Israele 0-3 Cipro
 Israele 0-0 Slovenia
 Malta 0-1 Cipro
 Francia 2-0 Cipro
 Slovenia 1-2 Israele
 Israele 3-1 Malta
 Slovenia 0-0 Francia
 Francia 2-0 Israele
 Cipro 4-0 Slovenia

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Gruppo 2

 Norvegia 3-0 Danimarca
 Bosnia-Erzegovina 2-1 Romania
 Danimarca 9-0 Lussemburgo
 Romania 0-1 Norvegia
 Norvegia 0-0 Bosnia-Erzegovina
 Lussemburgo 0-2 Romania
 Bosnia-Erzegovina 1-0 Lussemburgo
 Romania 0-1 Danimarca
 Lussemburgo 0-5 Norvegia
 Danimarca 3-0 Bosnia-Erzegovina

 Danimarca 2-0 Norvegia
 Romania 0-1 Bosnia-Erzegovina
 Lussemburgo 0-6 Danimarca
 Norvegia 2-1 Romania
 Bosnia-Erzegovina 1-3 Norvegia
 Romania 2-0 Lussemburgo
 Lussemburgo 0-1 Bosnia-Erzegovina
 Danimarca 0-0 Romania
 Norvegia 5-0 Lussemburgo
 Bosnia-Erzegovina 0-3 Danimarca

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Gruppo 3

 Paesi Bassi 0-1 Bielorussia
 Austria 1-0 Moldavia
 Bielorussia 0-1 Austria
 Moldavia 0-2 Repubblica Ceca
 Austria 1-1 Paesi Bassi
 Repubblica Ceca 3-0 Bielorussia
 Paesi Bassi 0-3 Repubblica Ceca
 Bielorussia 3-1 Moldavia
 Rep. Ceca 3-1 Austria
 Moldavia 2-2 Paesi Bassi

 Bielorussia 2-1 Paesi Bassi
 Moldavia 0-1 Austria
 Repubblica Ceca 3-0 Moldavia
 Austria 0-2 Bielorussia
 Paesi Bassi 0-0 Austria
 Bielorussia 1-0 Repubblica Ceca
 Repubblica Ceca 1-2 Paesi Bassi
 Moldavia 0-2 Bielorussia
 Austria 0-2 Repubblica Ceca
 Paesi Bassi 0-0 Moldavia

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Gruppo 4

 San Marino 1-5 Polonia
 Lettonia 0-4 Svezia
 Svezia 1-0 Ungheria
 Polonia 3-0 Lettonia
 Ungheria 4-1 San Marino
 San Marino 0-2 Lettonia
 Polonia 3-2 Ungheria
 Polonia 7-0 San Marino
 Ungheria 5-2 Svezia
 Lettonia 4-1 San Marino

 Ungheria 3-1 Lettonia
 San Marino 1-5 Svezia
 Svezia 1-1 Polonia
 San Marino 1-2 Ungheria
 Lettonia 0-2 Polonia
 Svezia 0-3 San Marino
 Polonia 1-1 Svezia
 Lettonia 2-0 Ungheria
 Svezia 3-2 Lettonia
 Ungheria 1-2 Polonia

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Gruppo 5

 Lituania 1-4 Germania
 Islanda 0-2 Scozia
 Islanda 1-2 Lituania
 Scozia 1-0 Islanda
 Germania 1-0 Lituania
 Lituania 2-1 Scozia

 Scozia 2-2 Germania
 Lituania 3-0 Islanda
 Islanda 1-3 Germania
 Germania 0-1 Scozia
 Scozia 3-2 Lituania
 Germania 1-0 Islanda

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Gruppo 6

 Grecia 1-0 Spagna
 Armenia 1-1 Ucraina
 Spagna 1-0 Irlanda del Nord
 Ucraina 1-1 Grecia
 Grecia 2-1 Armenia
 Irlanda del Nord 1-1 Ucraina
 Armenia 2-0 Irlanda del Nord
 Ucraina 0-0 Spagna
 Irlanda del Nord 2-6 Grecia
 Spagna 5-0 Armenia

 Spagna 2-0 Grecia
 Ucraina 4-0 Armenia
 Irlanda del Nord 1-4 Spagna
 Grecia 0-0 Ucraina
 Armenia 0-0 Grecia
 Ucraina 1-0 Irlanda del Nord
 Irlanda del Nord 3-1 Armenia
 Spagna 2-0 Ucraina
 Grecia 0-1 Irlanda del Nord
 Armenia 0-2 Spagna

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Gruppo 7

 Turchia 2-1 Slovacchia
 Portogallo 1-0 Macedonia
 Slovacchia 0-4 Inghilterra
 Macedonia 0-4 Turchia
 Turchia 4-2 Portogallo
 Inghilterra 3-1 Macedonia
 Portogallo 4-2 Inghilterra
 Macedonia 0-2 Slovacchia
 Inghilterra 1-1 Turchia
 Slovacchia 0-2 Portogallo

 Slovacchia 0-1 Turchia
 Macedonia 1-4 Portogallo
 Inghilterra 2-0 Slovacchia
 Turchia 3-0 Macedonia
 Portogallo 1-2 Turchia
 Macedonia 1-1 Inghilterra
 Inghilterra 1-2 Portogallo
 Slovacchia 5-1 Macedonia
 Turchia 1-0 Inghilterra
 Portogallo 4-1 Slovacchia

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Gruppo 8

 Belgio 3-1 Bulgaria
 Croazia 3-1 Estonia
 Bulgaria 1-3 Croazia
 Estonia 0-1 Belgio
 Croazia 1-1 Belgio
 Estonia 1-1 Bulgaria

 Bulgaria 2-1 Belgio
 Estonia 0-0 Croazia
 Bulgaria 1-0 Estonia
 Belgio 0-2 Croazia
 Croazia 0-1 Bulgaria
 Belgio 4-2 Estonia

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Gruppo 9

 Azerbaigian 0-3 Italia
 Finlandia 2-1 Galles
 Finlandia 3-0 Azerbaigian
 Italia 4-1 Jugoslavia
 Galles 1-2 Italia
 Jugoslavia 3-3 Finlandia
 Azerbaigian 0-1 Galles
 Serbia e Montenegro 3-0 Azerbaigian
 Italia 1-0 Finlandia
 Galles 3-0 Azerbaigian

 Finlandia 1-2 Serbia e Montenegro
 Finlandia 1-2 Italia
 Azerbaigian 0-2 Serbia e Montenegro
 Serbia e Montenegro 3-0 Galles
 Italia 8-1 Galles
 Azerbaigian 0-1 Finlandia
 Galles 0-0 Finlandia
 Serbia e Montenegro 1-0 Italia
 Italia 6-0 Azerbaigian
 Galles 0-1 Serbia e Montegro

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Gruppo 10

 Russia 2-0 Irlanda
 Svizzera 2-0 Georgia
 Albania 0-0 Svizzera
 Georgia 0-3 Russia
 Irlanda 2-3 Svizzera
 Russia 1-0 Albania
 Georgia 1-1 Irlanda
 Albania 1-4 Russia
 Albania 1-0 Irlanda
 Georgia 0-2 Svizzera

 Irlanda 0-3 Albania
 Svizzera 1-0 Russia
 Irlanda 1-1 Georgia
 Svizzera 2-1 Albania
 Irlanda 2-0 Russia
 Georgia 3-1 Albania
 Albania 3-0 Georgia
 Russia 1-2 Svizzera
 Russia 3-2 Georgia
 Svizzera 0-2 Irlanda

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Seconde
Lista delle seconde qualificate nei vari gruppi.Nel raffronto sono presi in considerazione solo i risultati tra le migliori 4 squadre dei gruppi.Le migliori 6 squadre si aggiungono alle 10 vincitrici dei gironi nei play-off per la qualificazione alla fase finale.

Spareggi per l'accesso alla fase finale
Andata 14 e 15 novembre, ritorno 18 e 19 novembre 2003.

Squadre qualificate

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OPINIONOPINION,
Internet freedom in Myanmar: A curse or an opportunity?
With Myanmar's recently acquired internet freedom, questions arise about hate speech and incitement to violence online.
Jillian C. York
Jillian C York is a writer and activist whose work focuses on the intersection of technology and politics.
Published On 11 Apr 201411 Apr 2014
Two years ago Myanmar abolished internet controls [AFP/Getty Images]
Just before former Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fled from Tunis in January 2011, he addressed his citizens one last time in a seven-minute speech in which he promised "rejection of all forms of censorship". Sure enough, within just a few hours, the internet – which had long been heavily censored – was open and for the first time Tunisians were able to access whatever they wanted to freely.
Such a transition is rare. As Reporters Without Borders' recent publication on "enemies of the Internet" shows, once a country institutes controls on the internet, it rarely goes back. China, Iran, Uzbekistan, and many other nations on the list get worse every year, not better. But there are exceptions: The Maldives and Nepal, two of the first countries to ever shut down the internet, long before Egypt's Hosni Mubarak did so, have reversed some controls, as has Morocco.
Like Tunisia, Myanmar has recently emerged from the clutches of dictatorship and is slowly taking its first steps toward democracy. Nearly three years ago, after decades of military rule, the country began a transition toward civilian rule. A year later, prior restraint of the media was abolished and the internet – once among the most restricted in the world – opened up.
Today, the Burmese can access whatever they want online. Exiled news organisations have moved into Yangon, their online presence now accessible from within the country. Webmail and social media, once blocked, are now increasingly popular despite low Internet penetration. Facebook is extremely popular, home to more than an estimated 80 percent of the country's million or so internet users.
The trouble with hate speech
But such freedom has come with a price. Nearly two years ago, the New York Times reported that "hateful comments are … flourishing online about a Muslim ethnic group, the Rohingya". Two years later, as the conflict between the Rohingya (an ethnic Muslim minority unrecognised by the state) and Buddhists has only grown worse, so too has the rhetoric online. On social networks, calls for the Rohingya to be expelled (or worse) abound.
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On Facebook, propaganda abounds, as do accusations of hired commenters, paid to sway opinion on the pages of local publications. But, as some have pointed out, so does moderate speech calling for an end to the violent incitement that has plagued social networks in Myanmar.
In a recent speech in Yangon, opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi addressed a crowd of international journalists, discussing the country's media – which she dubbed only partly free – and stressing the responsibility journalists have towards truth. At the same time, when asked a question about the plight of the Rohingya, she demurred, pivoting to comment on the importance of the rule of law. She did not once utter the word "Rohingya".
Her comments were part of what makes discussing free expression and the media in Myanmar so complicated. While it is often argued that the best response to distasteful speech is in fact more speech, the fact that even an opposition leader can't bypass a strong taboo to discuss such a controversial issue means that such a strategy is unlikely to work. And yet, censorship often has the undesired effect of pushing dangerous speech underground, making it even more difficult to respond to.
Dr Cherian George, a professor and scholar of journalism, has written extensively about the regulation of hate speech. Looking at the ways in which many traditional societies – including Myanmar – regulate speech, he notes that "the low threshold for censorship – in the name of maintaining harmony – can be used by states to silence dissent. Laws that ban the wounding of feelings also empower the least tolerant groups to set the tone for the whole society".
At the same time, notes George, the failure to protect minority rights often "translates into impunity for right wing groups that attack minorities".
It is for this reason that open discussion, and an open media, are imperative. If even Aung San Suu Kyi, the defiant opposition leader whose actions and rhetoric earned her a Nobel Peace Prize, is unable to speak openly about the ongoing violence in Myanmar, then one cannot expect the government to do so. And without strong leadership to mitigate the conflict, the role falls to the fourth estate.
Against regulation
At the same event at which Aung San Suu Kyi spoke, blogger Nay Phone Latt – who was imprisoned for four years under the military regime – drew the important distinction between hate speech and incitement to violence, articulating that while regulating the latter is reasonable, the former is more subjective.
Indeed, what constitutes "hate speech" differs greatly from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. While some countries – such as Chile, Canada, and the Netherlands – have enacted broad laws that criminalise speech that intends to incite hatred against protected groups, other countries take a looser approach. India, for example, imposes restrictions on speech that harms "public order, decency or morality", while Poland's laws punish those who offend religious sentiment.
On a global internet, such regulations silo users. And when access to information – albeit often undesirable information – varies from country to country, inequality grows. One might argue, of course, that access to hate speech isn't a human right, and would be correct. However, hate speech is merely the first – never the only – content to fall to state censors. In any case, censoring hate speech – rather than solving the underlying problems that led to its proliferation – is unlikely to have a lasting effect.
Jillian C York is a California-based writer and free speech activist, currently serving as the Director for International Freedom of Expression at the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco. Her work is centred on the intersection of technology and policy.
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Simple by Design
Agnes Shanley
Pharmaceutical Technology, Pharmaceutical Technology-06-02-2018, Volume 42, Issue 6
Dissolution testing remains one of the pharmaceutical industry's most straightforward, least expensive QC tools. Research is focusing on ways to extend its reach, improve in-vitro and in-vivo correlation, and make real-time release testing a reality.
Studying how a drug dissolves and disintegrates is crucial to understanding how it will perform in the body. The US Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) has established guidelines for testing dissolution in most commercial dosage forms.
However, especially for pharmaceutical tablets and capsules, the seven traditional test methods and equipment recognized by USP (1) are variations on a single theme: tablet holder, bath, and paddles. They can seem worlds away from the complexities of the human body.
As William E. Brown, senior scientific liaison for general chapters with USP explains, the dissolution test distills all the information that is known about the performance of a pharmaceutical in a laboratory setting. "It is highly simplified and intentionally so," he says. "For manufacturing, you want a test that passes or fails."
To delve deeper into studying bioavailability, complex systems are available that mimic closely the digestive systems in a mammal or a human (2,3). Ishai Nir, small-molecule product manager at Distek, a manufacturer of dissolution test equipment and ancillary products, recalls the TNO gastro Intestinal Model (TIM), a simulator developed by researchers at the Netherlands-based Organization for Applied Scientific Research (abbreviated TNO in Dutch) in the early 1990s.
As Nir explains, TIM includes a stomach model with simulated contractions, as well as simulated mouths and intestine, all modeled with the correct pH, flow time of materials, and simulated gastric fluids. Other advanced models include the Institute for Food Research's dynamic gastric model (DGM), France's National Institute for Agricultural Research's (INRA in French) In-Vitro, and Canada's Laval and Guelph.
These models, however, are costly, complicated, and take a long time to use because they involve so many variables, says Nir. "Of necessity, the industry has replaced bioavailability testing with dissolution testing as a simpler QC test for manufacturing," he says. Companies pick the formulation that showed efficacy in clinical trials and put it through conventional dissolution testing so that it becomes a benchmark for future manufacturing QC.
"It's like goodness by association. We know that this formulation with this property performed well in the clinic trials, so if we keep making tab- lets that have the same dissolution and disintegration characteristics, we can assume they will continue to work well in vivo," adds Nir.
"In fact, in many ways dissolution is largely a reproducibility test that asks whether the last batch is the same as the current one, and whether or not it behaves the same in vitro as it did in the clinical study where the formulation was shown to work," he elaborates.
But, as formulations become more complex, will that be enough for the future? Researchers are working to improve the correlation between in-vivo and in-vitro testing and to come up with better methods that are more representative of bioavailability and give more information about functionality, says Nir. "For some," he says, "this effort has become a holy grail."
It began, he says, with using simulated gastric media instead of running tests using simple media such as water or 0.1 Normal hydrochloric acid. Tests would emulate the stomach when full or fasted, and simulate a much broader array of variables than simply pH, he adds. In addition, Nir notes, some innovator companies are examining the properties of compression and its impact on dissolution more closely. Because the stomach works based on muscular contraction, researchers are simulating that (although, perhaps, not to the extent seen in TNO's TIM), to identify key parameters.
A 2016 article (4) coauthored by experts from Bristol-Myers Squibb and AstraZeneca discussed some of the ways that dissolution testing could be made more biorelevant. At this point, however, the industry isn't exactly clamoring for more biorelevance in dissolution testing. "The test is well understood and well constrained, and makes it easy to compare between batches and between facilities, and to do scaleup without a tremendous amount of work," says Nir.
Little change in test methods
Dissolution testing has remained largely unchanged for the past few years, says Nir. However, USP continues to update its information. The organization recently drafted a new general chapter on performance testing for mucosal routes, has a new chapter on testing for topical routes, and plans to re-evaluate testing for injectable pharmaceuticals, says Brown.
At the same time, draft guidance from FDA may bring some changes. For readily soluble biopharmaceuticals in the biopharmaceutics classification system (BCS) 1 and 3, says Brown, regulators have said that traditional basket/paddle test methods should suffice. "New products in BCS 1 and 3 won't need new exotic dissolution test methods," he says.
In the recent past, FDA guidance had focused on validation, with the agency advocating the use of mechanical validation alone in validating dissolution test apparatus, without USP's prednisone "tester tablets." The argument against using the tablets was that they themselves could be subject to variability, and thus inject more variability into a process that can already be affected by environmental and equipment factors and technician training and experience.
As Nir says, FDA's guidance led some companies, particularly some of the larger name-brand companies, to change their approach, and to move to mechanical calibration for validation. However, many manufacturers, and particularly those in developing nations, continue to use the tablet testers for validation, he says.
"If a manufacturer looks at its own dissolution numbers quite frequently, its products are much more likely to be consistent and to have tighter dissolution profiles, but that doesn't make a very good diagnostic. The USP intentionally makes its calibrator tablets sensitive to multiple parameters. This way, if there is too much vibration, if component concentricity is off, or problems with other parameters, then this will be indicated by the testing" says Nir.
Sometimes product batches will fail because of other factors. "From what we have seen, the single biggest parameter that people tend to get wrong is degassing. Not only are the tester tab- lets sensitive to physical factors, such as vibration, concentricity, and centration, they are also very sensitive to degassing," says Nir. This can cause perfectly good batches of product tablets to fail dissolution tests.
"When we respond to calls about test failures, and measure dissolved oxygen in the vessel, we often find that the level is too high. Even if the manufacturer has degassed properly, by the time they get the material into the vessel, they may have inadvertently re-aerated it, and there will be problems with the batch test," says Nir.
To get around this problem, Distek offers EZFill, a degasser that degasses and dispenses the media at the same time, providing better uniformity of degassing in the vessel itself to help prevent false alarms.
Despite FDA's guidance, USP's position on calibration is that enhanced mechanical calibration alone is not enough to ensure quality. "Our standards already incorporate mechanical calibration, but we do not agree with the use of mechanical calibration alone," says William (Jay) Pearson, project director, portfolio and program management at USP.
Mechanical calibration or tester tablets?
"We suggest use of performance verification tablets because mechanical calibration alone may not be able to address some things that might be intrinsic to the setup of a given dissolution test in a given lab. The tester tablets have been designed to speak to these issues," he says.
Brown agrees: "It's not sufficient to just look at speed and operation of the stirring element and the dimensions of vessel. If we really want to control performance, and variability due to the testing apparatus, we need to put a probe right where the apparatus is working. That is difficult to do by any means, but using a tester tablet is a good way to evaluate performance."
Dissolution test methods have been adapted for new formulations such as slow-release tablets. One technology that is becoming more prominent for longer dissolution tests (i.e., those lasting 24 hours or longer) is fiber optics, which, Nir says, can address problems such as evaporation and the need to replace media for sampling.
The biggest problem with dissolution testing for extended release is that, if you're running a fairly large number of sample points, you have to control evaporation but still have a way to get liquid in and out. "It's very difficult to have a sealed environment because you need to run probes and have access points," says Nir. "Fiber optics is a completely sealed measurement tool and lets you take as many measurements as you want without having to extract and replace media," he adds.
Distek purchased fiber optic testing technology from Leap Technologies in 2012. Use of the technology was first published by AstraZeneca in Sweden in 1988 (5), Nir notes.
PAT and modeling
A number of companies are also work- ing with process analytical technologies (PAT) for dissolution testing (6). "There have always been projects that use fluorescence, near-infrared (NIR), and Raman spectroscopy. But NIR tends to be very sensitive to physical parameters, which is one of the challenges in implementing NIR for content uniformity. The models work very well until people change the manufacturing site, the compaction, physical parameters, or excipients. Then they have to develop a new model," says Nir. Raman is great for selectivity, but that's not a problem with dissolution, he says.
Between ultraviolet (UV) and high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), virtually all bases are covered for dissolution testing, says Nir. One notable exception, however, is in processing nanoparticles, whether they are encapsulated or deposited on nanospheres. "These exotic dosage forms are giving people fits, not because HPLC or UV don't work but because filters stop working, so the question then becomes: how do you arrest dissolution after you've pulled a sample if you cannot filter out all the existing remnant particles in that sample? That's another area where fiber optics has become the go-to technique because it allows measurements in-situ in real time, eliminating the need for filtration," he says.
The use of spectroscopy, however, points to the potential to use principles of PAT and quality by design (QbD) for real-time release (RTR) testing. Recently, notes Nir, the industry has been abuzz since news came that Vertex Pharmaceuticals received approval to release an existing product using a model, rather than traditional dissolution testing (6). "It's a very specific case, but points out what might be possible in the future," Nir says. Vertex is doing online monitoring, he says, and applying PAT/QbD, instead of doing dissolution testing. However, Nir notes, the company did a tremendous amount of dissolution testing using fiber optics to get the data needed to develop the models.
"Of course, one can correlate NIR to dissolution, but part of the reason the company could do this is because the product had been manufactured for many years so there was a tremendous amount of data to work with. It's not like attempting RTR testing with a brand-new product," says Nir.
Innopharma Labs is developing predictive methods that model dissolution to optimize tablet coating for real-time release, as a way to ensure consistent coating despite variability in raw materials and other factors (7). In this approach, an NIR analyzer measures initial particle size at the start of processing. Initial size data are automatically fed to a dynamic process-control algorithm, which defines what is needed to add the correct amount of material per minute to achieve the coating thickness for optimal dissolution, and stops the process once it has reached a predefined growth level.
Predictive methods hold promise
USP is evaluating the use of PAT and predictive dissolution methods, although nothing has been incorporated into any specific standards or guidance yet. Nir sees the idea of doing this as very promising. "It's nondestructive, and allows manufacturers to modify and improve the process. Someday it may even be possible, for example, that if a given formulation develops a problem that it could be fixed in real-time by adjusting some parameter like the compaction, allowing the manufacturer to save the batch," he says. The question is how sensitive the models will be to future changes and differences in the excipients or manufacturing equipment used.
Recently, multiple component analysis (MCA), a chemometric technique, was used with UV fiber optics to allow UV dissolution testing to be done on formulations containing two active ingredients (8). Normally, UV spectrophotometry would not be able to provide clear results for formulations that contain more than one active.
The benefits of this particular form of MCA stem from the fact that it is a closed, rather than an iterative technique, says Nir. "You solve a series of equations and develop the model. Because these are well defined, it makes it easy to validate," he explains.
While efforts continue to improve the way the industry approaches dissolution testing, many pharmaceutical manufacturers take an 'if it ain't broke don't fix it' approach. "Those in the industry who are focused on making product are very happy with the dissolution test as it is," says Nir.
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2. A.Mackie,"Simulating Digestion: In-Vitroand In-SilicoModeling," Infogest training school, infogest.com.
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6. I. Colon and J. Medendorp, "Novel Approaches and Challenges in Dissolution Testing of Pharmaceutical Solid Oral Dosage Beyond Commercialization," americanpharmaceuticalreview. com, March 25, 2018
7. A. Shanley, "Innopharma Labs Bets on Manufacturing 4.0," PharmTech.com, March 21, 2018.
8. A. Kielt, I. Nir, et al., "Analysis of Two APIs...Using UV Spectrophotometry with Multiple Component Analysis with a Fiber Optic Dissolution Analyzer," white paper, American Pharmaceutical Review, September-October 2016.
When referring to this article, please cite it as A. Shanley, "Simple by Design," Pharmaceutical Technology 42 (6) 2018.
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Q: Issue while opening Marker in an editor programatically I am trying to open a marker, while double-clicking on an entry from a TableViewer, inside an eclipse plug-in. I am able to get the associated resource from the marker, however nothing is happening while the openEditor method is executed.
The code is as below:
  viewer.addDoubleClickListener(new IDoubleClickListener() {
      public void doubleClick(DoubleClickEvent event) {
            IWorkbenchWindow window = PlatformUI.getWorkbench().getActiveWorkbenchWindow();
            try {
                IStructuredSelection sel = (IStructuredSelection) event.getSelection();
                ReviewIssue reviewIssue = (ReviewIssue) sel.getFirstElement();
                if(reviewIssue != null){
                    MessageDialog.openError(window.getShell(), "Insta Review", reviewIssue.getMarker().getResource());
                    try {
                        IDE.openEditor(window.getActivePage(), reviewIssue.getMarker(), true);
                    } catch (PartInitException e) {
                        MessageDialog.openError(window.getShell(), "Insta Review", e.getMessage());
                    }
                }
            } catch (Exception e) {
                MessageDialog.openError(window.getShell(), "Insta Review", e.getMessage());
            }
        }
  });

Please let me know, if am missing something here. Thanks in advance.
Also ignore the message dialogs, as I plan to implement the logging functionality later.

UPDATE:
Even though I created the marker on IFile, I was getting the same behaviour. I was finally able to open the editor by using the IFile, instead of the marker.
IFile iFile = markerProject.getFile(path);
//IMarker marker = iFile.createMarker("id.myMarker");
.....
IDE.openEditor(window.getActivePage(), reviewIssue.getiFile(), true);
//IDE.openEditor(window.getActivePage(), reviewIssue.getMarker()), true);

A: For this to work the IMarker.getResource() method must return an IFile. The code in IDE.openEditor is:
// get the marker resource file
if (!(marker.getResource() instanceof IFile)) {
    IDEWorkbenchPlugin
                .log("Open editor on marker failed; marker resource not an IFile"); //$NON-NLS-1$
    return null;
}

so look in the .log file in the workspace .metadata directory to see if you are getting that log message.
Normally you would create a marker for a file using the IFile.createMarker method (createMarker is actually an IResource method).

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When Gerry Cotten, founder of the QuadrigaCX cryptocurrency exchange, died mysteriously in India at the age of 30 he left behind an encrypted laptop with up to $250 million of customer deposits locked up on it. Without a password, those funds are irretrievable (at least until quantum supremacy becomes a real thing). Now, according to Ars Technica, those customers want proof Cotten is really dead — and not sipping piscines on the deck of a yacht anchored in Gustavia Harbor — by having his body exhumed and positively identified.
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Funded by the Kingsborough Retirees and administered by the Retiree Group Committee, an annual scholarship is awarded in the spring to one or two current students, based on need, academic achievement and community involvement.
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GPA of 3.0 or above
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We invite you to meet current and previous Retiree Scholarship Recipients:
2019 Retiree Scholarship Recipient
Poh Wan (Vivian) Wong
Vivian came to the United States after she had completed an associate degree in Malaysia because she and her family felt that it could lead to higher degrees. With her family as her only financial support (from afar), Vivian went through difficult times with the language, the food, and the culture she now found herself in. But she has stayed the course, made friends, and is now an active part of the College community, and an outstanding student.
Zonika Tracey
Originally from Jamaica, Ms. Tracey came to the United States to study towards a nursing career after facing several employment challenges back home. Despite financial problems, illness and death within her family, she has maintained a 3.8 GPA (remaining a member of Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society) and has consistently earned a place on the Dean's List. She serves as the current treasurer for the International Student's Union on campus and works in the department of HPE&R and the Performing Arts Center as a student aide.
2017 Retiree Scholarship Recipients
Aneesa Ahmed
Aneesa first came to the United States when she was 17 so that she could attend college. However, instead her father wanted her to get married in Pakistan, and her family brought her home. When Aneesa refused to accept such a marriage, her father sent her to a madrissa, a very strict kind of religious convent where she was often beaten.
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Now that she is firmly back in the US, Aneesa is majoring in Criminal Justice so that she can work with groups to help abused women escape from situations like hers. She is planning to be an immigration lawyer.
Zixing Zhou
Zixing (or "Jenny" her adopted name) was unable to go to college in her native China, and her future there was a probable job in manufacturing or other menial work.
Coming to the US was difficult because of the language difference, but she depended on the one international language math to give her a focus. Thus, when she came to Kingsborough, not only did the College help her with her language skills, but she was able to major in Accounting where she feels very much at home. In addition, the very active and international social setting is an exciting counterpart to her probable setting in her homeland.
Ms. Zhou maintains a 4.0 GPA.
Gillian Roberts
Major: Liberal Arts
A liberal arts major with a 3.69 GPA who one day aspires to be a research
scientist in pharmaceutical field, Gillian came to the United States from
Jamaica in February 2014 to be reunited with her husband and ten-year-old
son. Always someone who likes to plan ahead, she expected to be able to
work as a pharmacy technician while she settled into her new life. To her
great dismay, she found that the degrees she earned in Jamaica were not
accepted in this country, so she took a minimum wage job and applied to
several four-year CUNY colleges to earn a degree in chemistry. Once again,
her plans were thwarted when she was not admitted to any of the schools.
With great reluctance, she opted to attend Kingsborough - the community
college closest to her home and work, and to her surprise, found that it
was the perfect place for a weary, busy, hard-working, full-time parent,
employee and student like herself to study. She loves the idyllic setting
by the water which reminds her of her island home, values the unity she
sees among the diverse groups of students, and appreciates the supportive
and pleasant attitudes of faculty and staff. She feels that Kingsborough
provides a level of customer service and pride not generally found in the
wider public. Despite working 20 hrs. per week at an off-campus job, she
has found time to become an Honors Representative Student Aide working with
a professor from the Behavioral Sciences department who is conducting a
research study. She also was invited to join Phi Theta Kappa, the two-year
honor society for two-year colleges, and the National Society of Leadership
and Success. She plans to use the scholarship money to help cover the cost
of attending Kingsborough because despite receiving Federal Student Aid
grants that help her with tuition, she finds that she is constantly
consumed with thinking about how to provide life's basic necessities for
herself and her family, thus every penny counts. As the first member of
her family to enroll in college, she hopes to serve as a beacon for her
younger relatives and son, showing them that determination and hard work
are the keys to success. Gillian expects to graduate in June 2017 and
wonders how she will ever be able to say good-bye to this beautiful
treasure by the sea. She now feels that attending Kingsborough was the
best decision I ever made.
Michelle Yedin
Michelle is a journalism major with a 4.0 GPA who one day aspires to be a
broadcaster. She arrived at Kingsborough in September 2014, upon graduating
from James Madison H.S, embarrassed to tell anyone that she was attending a
community college. She had set her sights on the Ivy League, and when she
wasn t accepted to any of the colleges to which she had applied, she was
extremely disappointed. Given the fact that her father was unemployed due
to health problems, she felt that KCC was an affordable option and her last
resort. After attending Kingsborough for only two weeks, her perception of
the college, herself, and community college in general changed. She began
to appreciate the unique opportunities that Kingsborough offers its diverse
student population. She realized that instead of her educational path
ending at the community college, it was just beginning. In her first
semester, she became a member of the Presidential Scholars program and
enrolled in several rigorous honors classes. During the second semester,
she became a staff writer for the student newspaper Scepter and the Honors
newsletter The Extra Mile. She also won one of only twelve seats awarded to
outstanding KCC students to represent the college at the annual National
Model United Nations program held in Manhattan each spring. Most
importantly, she was impressed by the high caliber of teaching in her
classes and was inspired by professors like Eben Wood from the English
department who helped renew her confidence in herself and improve her
writing. Michelle is now proud to be a student at Kingsborough and wants to
help spread the word to high school students that the college is not the
13th grade. She plans to use the money from the Retirees scholarship to
help reduce the financial stress on her family by covering some of the cost
of next year's tuition.
Mingsing Chi
Mingsing Chi, also known as Rachel, came to the U.S. three years ago, not
speaking a word of English. She attended Fort Hamilton H.S. and upon
graduation entered KCC's ESL program in September 2012. Her verbal skills
are excellent, as is her comprehension of spoken English, and she has
earned an impressive cumulative GPA of 3.775. She seeks to become a nursing
major. We were impressed by the fact that although she works a part- time
job to help out her mother and two younger sisters (her father passed away
five years ago), and is very involved in the Chinese Student Association,
she studies science books written in Chinese as well as English to insure
that she understands the material. In essence, she is doing twice the work.
She plans to use the scholarship money to help her buy nursing books in
both languages so that she can continue to excel in her studies. She likes
Kingsborough because of the beautiful views, free breakfasts offered by
Student Life during the first week of classes and during finals week, and
the ability to take winter and summer course work for the price of fall or
spring tuition.
Lika Nakani
Lika is in the U.S. for three years. She is from the country of Georgia and
has no family here; she lives in Brighton Beach and shares an apartment
with two other Georgians. She worked full-time in order to take care of
herself and help her family back home. Every day when she went to work, she
saw students waiting for the KCC school bus and thought they were the
luckiest people in the world because they could attend college. Despite the
exhaustion of working ten hours a day, seven days a week, she decided to
pursue her dream of being a nurse and began to take courses at
Kingsborough. She joined the Presidential Scholars Honors program and has
excelled, earning a 3.863 GPA. The best part of her day is being able to
take classes; the next best thing is her excitement at receiving good
grades demonstrating that her hard work has paid off. She plans to use her
scholarship money to buy medical textbooks because she they are expensive
and , if possible, to take time off from her job so that she can visit
museums and see our beautiful country.
Nigina Salimova
Ms. Nigina Salimova, a pre-clinical nursing student, came to the United
States from Uzbekistan three years ago and entered high school speaking
very little English. She appreciates being in America because she says that
if she stayed in her home country she would never have had the opportunity
to receive a higher education. Therefore, she is very serious about her
studies and does her best to excel. She has a 3.95 cumulative grade point
average and is a member of the Presidential Scholars Honors program and Phi
Theta Kappa, the two-year honor society. She enjoys being at the college
because of its helpful staff, wonderful faculty, and numerous
extra-curricular activities; she particularly enjoys being a member of the
ceramics club and frequently stays at the college until six or seven
o clock in the evening to study. Since her parents do not speak English and
have difficulty finding jobs, she works on weekends at a Dunkin Donuts shop
to help them make ends meet. She plans to use her scholarship money to stop
working temporarily so that she can study to pass the nursing entrance exam
this spring.
Daniella Policastro
Ms. Danielle Policastro, is a Liberal Arts major who also plans to become a
nursing major. She is one of thirteen children and is closest with one of
her sisters who had a heart transplant at age twelve and spent sixteen
months in the hospital. Being in the hospital with her and seeing how
nurses helped her sister gave Danielle the desire to become a pediatric
nurse. Given her sister's severe health problems, complicated more recently
by lymphoma, she dropped out of high school to help care for her, her
disabled mother, and father who now does not work because he has
Parkinson's disease. Despite these circumstances, Danielle was able to earn
a GED and comes to KCC each day with a smile because she is moving closer
to entering the nursing program. Although she cannot take advantage of the
many extracurricular activities the college offers because she has to go
home after classes to help take care of her family, she has managed to earn
a 3.45 grade point average and truly enjoys her courses. She particularly
loved the encouragement she got from her English professor, Carl Alaimo,
who recognized her desire to write and motivated her to extend herself,
rewarding her with a grade of A+ in ENG 24 for her effort. Coming from such
a large family where she was never able to have many of the things she
wanted, she plans to use the Retirees Scholarship money to help her
purchase books and computer software that will help her prepare for the
nursing entrance exam.
Mushfica Masud
Major: Media Technology
A media technology and management major, came from Bangladesh by way of England, in search of career opportunities that she was denied in her homeland. She has a deep and abiding love for the college that she credits the faculty and staff of the CUNY Start program who made her feel "at home" in Kingsborough. She has become a CUNY Start Ambassador and now conducts orientation tours for people interested in entering the college through this program. She also feels that the faculty who work with her in broadcasting are preparing her well for transfer to Brooklyn College.
Seytervin Seytgaziyev
Major: Business
A business major, who came to the US from Ukraine three years ago and graduated from James Madison High School. He works all day Friday, Saturday and Sunday to help his family meet their financial needs. Despite his demanding work schedule, he has managed to maintain an active life at Kingsborough, participating in the Presidential Scholars Honors program, the Honors Club, the Resources for Educational and Employment Opportunities (REEO) program and the Model National United Nations program. He plans to transfer to Brooklyn College to complete his undergraduate degree
Shakhlo Azizova
Major: Education
Is an international student from Uzbekistan. She came to the US alone and not speaking English. After two years in the Kingsborough English Language Immersion(KELI)program, she entered Kingsborough as an education major and has excelled in her coursework, earning a 3.70 GPA. She hopes one day to become an elementary school teacher.
Eric Hensley
Major: Broadcast Technology
A broadcast technology major, did not have the opportunity to go to college when he graduated from high school. He had to go to work land 20 years later found himself without a job that disappeared due to economic downturn. He decided to take advantage of this unexpected turn of events and enrolled in college. To his great surprise, he found the professors, students and staff at Kingsborough very welcoming and supportive. He is very pleased with education he has received to date and truly enjoys working with the broadcast faculty.
Esther Arden
Major: Biology / Occupational Therapy
Esther originally worked in the computer software industry in Bombay, India before immigrating to New York and starting a family. After a series of personal setbacks, including the loss of her first child, Esther realized that she needed to return to school in order to improve her professional position and make her mark on the world. The easy choice would have been pursuing an IT-related field, but Esther wanted to leave an impact on people. The now-single mother of a special-needs child observed how beneficial occupational therapy had been for her son. Her passion inspired her to enroll in Kingsborough where she is currently pursuing a Biology major with an Occupational Therapy Transfer Option before moving on to obtain a Masters in Occupational Therapy. Grateful for her scholarship, Esther smiled and said, Kingsborough offered me a new beginning.
Dmitri Bochman
Dmitri is an international student from Israel who is currently majoring in nursing. He worked as a paramedic in Israel and as medicine has always been a part of his life, it felt natural for Dmitri to pursue a nursing major upon registering at Kingsborough. Dmitri works part-time in the Honors Program to support himself while maintaining a 4.0 GPA and is on the Deans List. He is also a member of Phi Theta Kappa, the two year Community College National Honors Society, that encourages and promotes the academic achievement of two-year college students. He values his KCC experience where he has received the support of faculty and staff who have helped him cultivate skills and abilities he had not realized he possessed prior to coming to KCC. Dmitri believes that his Kingsborough experience will better prepare him to meet and exceed his future professional goals in the medical world.
Raquel Hudson
Major: Tourism & Hospitality
Racquel Hudson always loved traveling and working with people which made Tourism and Hospitality the perfect field for her. During her time as a KCC student, Racquel enjoyed participating in service projects at the college acting as a mentor to high school students in the Liberty Partnership Program, plus designing a prize-winning proposal to implement sustainability on campus. She was also president of Phi Theta Kappa, the two year national honor society, and was keenly aware of how much the KCC Retiree Scholarship helped her. She graduated in 2010 with honors and transferred to the Florida Institute of Technology where she is majoring in aeronautical management.
Pyi Kyaw
Pyi Kyaw, an international student, chose Kingsborough after finding through his research that it was one of the best community colleges for English as a Second Language. After immigrating to the United States from Burma with his family, he began his life at the college working hard to improve his speaking and writing abilities. Pyi was President of the College Discovery club, and it was at KCC that he delivered a speech in English for the first time. The KCC Retiree Scholarship helped Pyi during difficult economic times, providing funds for tuition and books. Pyi graduated in 2010 and transferred to Baruch College where he is majoring in International Marketing Management.
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In 1978, the European Conference of Ministers of Transport (ECMT) Council of Ministers agreed that all ECMT Member Countries would grant the same parking concessions to people with disabilities they offer their own nationals. These concessions usually allow special parking in areas reserved for people with disabilities, or allow longer parking periods or exemptions from charges.
This Resolution was updated and extended in scope in 1997. In addition to all ECMT Member Countries, this Resolution now applies also to the ECMT Associated Countries (Australia, Canada, Japan, Korea, New Zealand and United States). This means that disabled motorists from all ECMT Member and Associate Countries have the right to the same parking concessions as nationals in all ECMT Countries. The only condition is the vehicle must display a badge showing the international wheelchair symbol.
All jurisdictions provide designated parking spaces for vehicles carrying persons with mobility disabilities.
These designated parking spaces are marked by a traffic control sign bearing the international wheelchair logo. The international logo is often painted on the pavement of the parking space, as well.
A parking permit is issued to a person with a disability, not a specific vehicle, and is for that person's use only.
The driver must hang the parking permit from the rearview mirror or place it in plain view on the dashboard, when it is parked.
The person with the disability must leave and board the vehicle while it is parked in the designated parking space.
Visitors to Canada must bring their valid parking permit from their home jurisdiction with them and hang it from the rearview mirror or place it in plain view on the dashboard of their vehicle. Canadian jurisdictions will recognize disabled parking permits from other Canadian provinces and territories, from the United States, and from Europe. It is the responsibility of the permit holder to comply with local parking bylaws.
Persons with disabilities holding a valid parking badge cannot normally park their vehicles in pedestrian zones or no parking zones or loading and unloading zones.
Permit holders must usually pay parking meter fees where such charges apply. We recommend visitors check with local authorities whether fee exemptions are available.
Canadian jurisdictions do not use time limitation devices, parking discs or other devices in addition to the parking permit itself.
For more specific information on the parking badge policies of a particular Canadian jurisdiction, visitors may wish to contact the office that issues parking permits, of their provincial/territorial destination, listed in the grid below.
The Government of Yukon does not have a territorial regulation on parking permit programs for persons with disabilities. However, the City of Whitehorse does have an accessible parking program in place for persons with disabilities administered by the Bylaw Services Department.


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Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) voting machine security has been a significant topic of contention ever since Diebold voting machine code turned up on a public internet site in 2003 and computer scientists at Johns Hopkins University declared the machine "unsuitable for use in a general election." Since then, many people from computer scientists to politicians have begun to insist that DREs be equipped with a paper trail. A paper trail provides a paper printout for the voter to approve at the end of each voting session. Although there have been strong political efforts to place paper trails on DRE machines, there have not been any scientific studies to indicate that paper trails are effective audits. This work describes a user study done to compare paper trails to audio audits, a new proposal for DRE auditing. Participants in the study completed four elections on a voting machine with a paper trail and four elections on a machine with an audio trail. There were purposeful mistakes inserted into the audits on some of the machines. Results from the study indicated that participants were able to find almost 10 times as many errors in the audio audit then they were able to find in the paper trail. Voters' attitudes towards the paper audit were extremely apathetic, and voters did not spend much time reviewing their paper record. When asked which type of audit voters would prefer for their own county elections, almost all voters preferred the VVPAT. These results indicate that newer alternative audit technology holds great promise in delivering a safe and accurate audit and further that paper trails have some significant design obstacles that need to be overcome before they will be effective audits.


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Scott Cawthon's indie horror game Five Nights at Freddy's (also available for Android) should probably be called "Half a Shift at Freddy's Before You Quit by Leaving a Scrawled Middle Finger for Your Supervisor to Find the Next Morning". The gist is that you take a job as an overnight security guard at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, where all you should have to do is sit around and watch the monitors, though what you actually end up doing is finding yourself being stalked by animatronic horrors who creep through the dark hallways to where you cower in your office, nice and fresh for dismemberment. Your defense? Well, all you can do, all you can literally do, is play with the light switches and close the two doors on either side of you. Temporarily. See, you have a limited supply of power to last you through the night, and keeping the electronic doors closed or the lights on will burn through it much, much faster, leaving you defenseless when it runs out. As a result, you have to watch your monitors, tracking the movements of the unpredictable fur-and-steel murderers, and figure out when it's safe to leave yourself exposed. So, yes, Five Nights at Freddy's is basically proof that the internet has a deep, abiding love affair with jump scares, self-loathing, and trying to make you void your bowels.
Five Nights at Freddy's is essentially a very simple concept. All you can do is look around with the mouse, and click the light and door buttons on either side of you to turn them off and on. (Do not press ESC. Pressing ESC causes the game to immediately shut down and you'll have to replay from the start of whatever night you're on.) Mousing over the bottom of the screen raises your monitor menu, where you can click on room icons to switch the camera to display there. Your den of fear is helpfully marked at the bottom of the map, so your job is to cycle through the views and figure out where the things stalking you are, so you know when to close the doors, and when it's "safe" to open them. The light itself won't actually protect you when you turn it on, but it does help you see into the blind spots just outside your room where the closest cameras can't reach. If you see something in your doorway, you usually have a few seconds to slam the door shut before you're attacked, and you'll have to wait until it's safe to open the doors again. If your doors and lights suddenly fail to function, it may mean that you've got a visitor who's hiding and just waiting for you to look up from the screens...
There are five creatures to be concerned about, and just because you find out where one is doesn't mean that it'll stay put if you switch over to another view for a second to try and locate the others. Each night, and animatronic, has its own set of challenges and "rules" you'll need to figure out... some may only become active at certain points in the game, others only move when you're not looking, and others, well, they don't like being looked at much at all. It's like if the Weeping Angels got their start at Chuck E Cheese, and instead of a sonic screwdriver you have tears and fumbling hands. Fail and you'll have to restart the night over. Last until 6AM, and you're safe until the next night, because you're really pulling for that Darwin Award, dangit, and you're committed to this terrible job. Beat all five nights, and you'll be rewarded with a sixth, even harder night, and surviving that will unlock a simplistic level editor that allows you to set the activity level (and thus the difficulty) of each individual critter to play some more.
Analysis: This is one of those games that not only kept showing up in the submission box, but was also e-mailed to me personally several times by different people who all seemed perversely gleeful about telling me how terrifying this was and how much they wanted to hear about how badly is scared me. Which is... sort of touching, I guess? It's like I'm Princess Celestia, only instead of letters on friendship, I get e-mails about animatronic murder. Make no mistake, Five Nights at Freddy's is basically a jumpscare factory with its vicious use of sound and sudden imagery, but that's not to say its entirely without subtlety all of the time. Further, though reflexes will be key in order to survive as the nights march on and the creatures get faster and bolder, but frantically sweeping through cameras and using the doors or lights before you really need them is a good way to get murdered as fast as possible. The game tries to goad you into a panic (and there will be times when panic is called for), so your best defense is fighting the urge to freak out. Most of the creatures have specific patterns you can learn, and you know what they say... know thy enemy, still get mauled to death by that friggin' bear. It's a very simple game in a lot of ways, but it's not random, even if different nights yield different challenges based on the activity of specific characters.
There is a story, sort of, as the recorded calls you listen to at the start of each night subtly fill in a bit of background history, and if you keep your eyes peeled you'll notice things in the backgrounds of various rooms that tell a tale as well. There's a lot of great, simple subtlety at work, and the game wields sound as effectively as a sledgehammer... the constant noises will keep you on edge, but also can cue you in on danger or when something's moving, so you can't turn it off, either. That said, it definitely feels a little rough around the edges. You can't pause, you can't "fast forward" through the phone calls, and once you're done, you're done. There's not a whole lot of reason to replay other than bragging rights for finishing a custom level with the difficulty maxed. While it may be a vicious jump scare factory, however, the fact that there's actually strategy to it keeps it from being brainless. The dark visuals give everything a grimy, gritty look, and the whole thing feels sinister, with the effective use of unexpected events as you swap from room to room making you feel like you're being both stalked and toyed with.
It feels tailor made to be played and shared with friends who like screaming and teasing one another about it, and it's clear Five Nights at Freddy's was made by someone who has an eye for the eerie in addition to the stuff that makes you squeal. Sometimes you want Silent Hill, and sometimes you want Slender, and there's room enough in the world and your nightmares for everything in between. For the princely sum of $4.99USD, Five Nights at Freddy's is a fantastic choice for fans of screamy horror who aren't put off by a lack of greater depth and mechanics and appreciate the value of a good shriek.
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Thanks to Adam, Michael, Kassa, Anon, and Nikolas for sending this one in!
Rygar • August 30, 2014 6:45 PM
Seriously, why would anyone ever come back after surviving ONE night at Freddy's, let alone work the entire week?
An Onyx Mouse • August 30, 2014 7:49 PM
Manage to survive one night.
Call in OSHA.
Report egregious work safety violations.
Get Freddy's closed down (and possibly demolished via air strike).
Done and done.
Gabe Puratekuta • August 30, 2014 7:52 PM
This game is so scary, it made a British guy whose job is to play video games cry in the corner
SonicLover • August 31, 2014 9:43 AM
Plot twist: the protagonist is actually an undercover health and safety inspector who wants to see firsthand how hazardous it is to work at Freddy's.
nighthawk • August 31, 2014 10:00 AM
A mobile version was just released as well.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.scottgames.fivenightsatfreddys
Dora • August 31, 2014 10:05 AM replied to nighthawk
Awesome, thanks for letting us know! Review has been updated. :)
Mantus • September 2, 2014 10:52 AM
I'm so glad you reviewed this game. It's absolutely worth the five bucks, even if, like me, you never get through night 4. The jump scares will eventually wear out their welcome, but the suspense will stick with you. I love the incessant urge to frantically run through the monitors or flick the lights when you know you're running out of power. And there's nothing like
Desperately trying, and failing, to keep track of Foxy, or letting Freddy lull you into a false sense of security...
Bill Clark • January 18, 2015 9:27 AM
Why do they even need a night watch? Just let Freddy and the crew take care of any burglars!


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Google provides some clear and concise guidance on choosing the best compute platform on the Google Cloud Platform.
While not a basic introduction, this article is a valuable chronicle of some hands-on learnings from using kubernetes. The hand-drawn illustrations are a great addition.
Serverless architecture uses a lot of services — hence why some prefer to call the architecture "service-full" instead of serverless. Those services are essentially elements of an application that are independent of your testing regime.
A good external service will be tested for you. And that's really important. Because you shouldn't have to test the service itself. You only really need to test the effect of your interaction with it.
Let's say you have a Function as a Service (e.g. Lambda function) and you utilise a database service (e.g. DynamoDB). You'll want to test the interaction with the database service from the function to ensure your data is saved/read correctly, and that your function can deal with the responses from the service.
Now, the above scenario is relatively easy because you can utilise DynamoDB from your local machine, and run unit tests to check the values stored in the database. But have you spotted something with this scenario? It's not the live service — it's a copy of it. But the API is the same. So, as long as the API doesn't change we're ok, right?
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I'm beginning to like this..
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I can almost believe that I'm almost enough..
I spent all of my life emptied of anthems, bracing for something that never did come.
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