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North East lockdown: 10pm curfew for bars and pubs and ban on household mixing
New local restrictions are being introduced in northeast England - including a 10pm curfew for bars and pubs and a ban on people mixing with others outside their household. Health Secretary Matt Hancock confirmed the measures in a statement to the House of Commons on Thursday morning after the government's talks with North East councils and local MPs.They will come into force from Friday in Northumberland, North Tyneside, South Tyneside, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Gateshead, Sunderland and County Durham.
Coronavirus infections are still rising in 58 countries, including surges in Argentina, Indonesia, Morocco, Spain and Ukraine, according to a Reuters analysis. New cases are falling in the United States and are down about 44% from a peak of more than 77,000 new cases reported on July 16.
The coronavirus outbreak has spread across the world. What You Should Know About the Coronavirus . How can older adults reduce their risk? Disinfect your shopping cart or basket with disinfectant wipes. Use hand sanitizer right away if you handle money, a card or a keypad.
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Russia is so confident in its COVID-19 vaccine that it will shoulder some of the legal liability should anything go wrong, rather than requiring buyers to take on the full risk, the head of the state fund bankrolling the project told Reuters.
Only one area in the UK where COVID cases are definitely decreasing, study finds
Swindon is the only place in the UK that is definitely seeing a decrease in coronavirus numbers with most places seeing their infections rising, a study has found. An interactive map that uses mathematical modeling to predict how likely a local authority is suffering from an increase in coroanvirus infections shows almost every area of the UK is seeing their case numbers rise. The map predicts only Swindon as 'definitely' seeing a decrease in cases.The only other areas that are 'likely' seeing a decrease are Aberdeenshire, Aberdeen, Carlisle and Ashford.
Terms to know . Coronavirus : This term refers to a family of seven known viruses that can infect people, ranging from the common cold to severe acute "Flattening the curve": A phrase that experts use when talking about the need to use protective measures to slow the spread of new cases.
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The decision leaves the vaccine's state-backed developers open to potentially costly compensation claims should there be any unexpected side-effects. It is something many vaccine-makers have sought to avoid, by asking for full indemnity - complete protection from liability claims - from nations they sell to.
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The approach is different from many places in the world. In the United States, for example, liability for COVID-19 vaccines has been shifted fully to the U.S. government. This shields the developers because widespread inoculation against the disease is considered a benefit to society.
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Boris Johnson is considering the introduction of new national restrictions - possibly as soon as next week - as the prime minister races to try and get a handle on the spread of coronavirus. With COVID-19 cases now doubling every seven to eight days, the government is looking at introducing nationwide restrictions for a short period to try to "short-circuit" the virus and slow the spread of the disease.Government figures stressed the plans being drawn up stopped short of a full national lockdown, as seen in the spring, when the country was told to "stay at home".
This content was published on September 21, 2020 - 12:09 September 21, 2020 - 12:09. (Reuters) - Here's what you need to know about the The death toll from the spread of coronavirus in the United States was approaching more than 200,000 lives on Monday, more than double the number of
Hong Kong tightened coronavirus restrictions on Sunday, with non-essential civil servants told to work from home from this week, as the global financial hub reported more than 100 daily cases, a record number. "The situation is very serious and there is no sign of it coming under control," Chief Executive
The weekly number of new COVID-19 cases in the United States rose last week for the first time after falling for eight straight weeks, an increase that health experts attributed to schools reopening and parties over the Labor Day holiday.
New cases rose 17% to about 287,000 for the week ended Sept. 20, while deaths rose 5.5% to about 5,400 people after falling for the previous four weeks, according to a Reuters analysis of state and county reports.
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Thirteen states have seen weekly infections rise for at least two weeks, up from nine states the previous week, according to the Reuters tally. In Arizona, new cases doubled last week.
CDC takes down airborne transmission guidance
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Monday took down its guidance warning on possible airborne transmission of the novel coronavirus, saying that the draft recommendation was posted in error.
The Latest: India maintains surge, adds 93,300 new cases
NEW DELHI —India has maintained its surge in coronavirus cases, adding 93,337 new confirmed infections in the past 24 hours. The Health Ministry on Saturday raised the nation's caseload to more than 5.3 million out of the nearly 1.4 billion people. It said 1,247 more people died in the past 24 hours for a total of 85,619. The country has over a million active cases with about 80% recovery rate. India has been reporting the highest single-day rise in the world every day for more than five weeks. It's expected to become the pandemic's worst-hit country within weeks, surpassing the United States.
U.S. President Donald Trump has momentarily managed to deflect domestic criticism of his handling of the coronavirus crisis by announcing a suspension Ahead of the coronavirus curve. South Korea, among the first countries to bring a major coronavirus outbreak under control, is now taking steps to
What do you want to know about the coronavirus ? + The coronavirus spreads primarily through droplets from your mouth and nose, especially when you cough or sneeze. Six feet has never been a magic number that guarantees complete protection.
The now-withdrawn guidance, posted on the agency's website on Friday, recommended that people use air purifiers to reduce airborne germs indoors to avoid the disease from spreading.
"CDC is currently updating its recommendations regarding airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2. Once this process has been completed, the update language will be posted," the agency said.
Presently, the agency's guidance says the virus mainly spreads from person-to-person through respiratory droplets, which can land in the mouth or nose of people nearby.
'Work from home' Johnson to tell UK
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will tell people on Tuesday to work from home where possible and will curb timings for bars and restaurants to tackle a fast-spreading second coronavirus wave, but the opposition accused him of losing control.
With millions across the UK already under some form of COVID-19 restriction, Johnson will tighten measures in England while stopping short of another full lockdown like he imposed in March, according to his office and ministers.
'I've Lost 33 Friends To Coronavirus – And 32 Were Black'
On a day in late March, Hesketh Benoit received a phone call from his friend, the reggae singer Delroy Washington. When Delroy told him he was calling from hospital, Hesketh asked him if it was possible he had coronavirus. He told me: "Oh no man, don't worry about that. It's not that. I'm OK. I'm just not feeling right,'" recalls Hesketh, 62, a retired lecturer. "He honestly did not think it was Covid at all." But as the pair chatted, Hesketh noticed his friend was gasping a bit and sounded chesty. "He wasn't coughing, but he was breathing deeper. So I told him I'd call him later when he'd got settled.
What Is Coronavirus ? There are seven types of known coronaviruses in the world, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) You are probably contagious right before you begin to show symptoms, but we don't know for what time period and we don't know how contagious.
China's coronavirus outbreak, which originated in Wuhan and continues to upend travel and worldwide markets, has now been confirmed in 14 locations — including 5 cases in the United States as of Sunday. Still, investors are growing increasingly restive about the possibility of a global pandemic.
Just weeks after urging people to start returning to workplaces, Johnson will now advise them to stay at home if they can. He will also order all pubs, bars, restaurants and other hospitality sites across England to start closing at 10 p.m. from Thursday.
Could dengue provide some immunity?
A new study that analyzed the coronavirus outbreak in Brazil has found a link between the spread of the virus and past outbreaks of dengue fever that suggests exposure to the mosquito-transmitted illness may provide some level of immunity against COVID-19.
The not yet published study led by Miguel Nicolelis, a professor at Duke University, and shared exclusively with Reuters, compared the geographic distribution of coronavirus cases with the spread of dengue in 2019 and 2020.
Places with lower coronavirus infection rates and slower case growth were locations that had suffered intense dengue outbreaks this year or last, Nicolelis found.
"This striking finding raises the intriguing possibility of an immunological cross-reactivity between dengue's Flavivirus serotypes and SARS-CoV-2," the study said, referring to dengue virus antibodies and the novel coronavirus.
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NHS contact tracing app finally launched in England and Wales
The NHS coronavirus contact tracing app has finally been launched in England and Wales after months of delay and questions about its effectiveness. The app was trialled first on the Isle of Wight and in the London Borough of Newham and was used to send alerts to users after someone had tested positive.It uses an Apple and Google-developed system, using Bluetooth to keep an anonymous log of people a user has been close to.
At least 15,000 people cram Trafalgar Square in rally against lockdown .
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The Syrian Revolution That Really Wasn't
Stephen Gowan's Wordpress blog, recently penned this extremely interesting and well thought out position on how the Syrian "Revolution" came to be. Some of you may find this surprising, others of us came to this conclusion some time ago. It's difficult to follow these events in the Middle East and not come to this same conclusion, if one is unbiased at the start.
Apparently, the US Left has yet to figure out that Washington doesn't try to overthrow neoliberals. If Syrian President Bashar al-Assad were a devotee of the Washington Consensus–as Counterpunch's Eric Draitser seems to believe–the United States government wouldn't have been calling since 2003 for Assad to step down. Nor would it be overseeing the Islamist guerilla war against his government; it would be protecting him.
By Stephen Gowans
There is a shibboleth in some circles that, as Eric Draitser put it in a recent Counterpunch article, the uprising in Syria "began as a response to the Syrian government's neoliberal policies and brutality," and that "the revolutionary content of the rebel side in Syria has been sidelined by a hodgepodge of Saudi and Qatari-financed jihadists." This theory appears, as far as I can tell, to be based on argument by assertion, not evidence.
A review of press reports in the weeks immediately preceding and following the mid-March 2011 outbreak of riots in Daraa—usually recognized as the beginning of the uprising—offers no indication that Syria was in the grips of a revolutionary distemper, whether anti-neo-liberal or otherwise. On the contrary, reporters representing Time magazine and the New York Times referred to the government as having broad support, of critics conceding that Assad was popular, and of Syrians exhibiting little interest in protest. At the same time, they described the unrest as a series of riots involving hundreds, and not thousands or tens of thousands of people, guided by a largely Islamist agenda and exhibiting a violent character.
Time magazine reported that two jihadist groups that would later play lead roles in the insurgency, Jabhat al-Nusra and Ahrar al-Sham, were already in operation on the eve of the riots, while a mere three months earlier, leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood voiced "their hope for a civil revolt in Syria." The Muslim Brothers, who had decades earlier declared a blood feud with Syria's ruling Ba'athist Party, objecting violently to the party's secularism, had been embroiled in a life and death struggle with secular Arab nationalists since the 1960s, and had engaged in street battles with Ba'athist partisans from the late 1940s. (In one such battle, Hafez al-Assad, the current president's father, who himself would serve as president from 1970 to 2000, was knifed by a Muslim Brother adversary.) The Brotherhood's leaders, beginning in 2007, met frequently with the US State Department and the US National Security Council, as well as with the US government-funded Middle East Partnership Initiative, which had taken on the overt role of funding overseas overthrow organizations—a task the CIA had previously done covertly.
Washington had conspired to purge Arab nationalist influence from Syria as early as the mid-1950s, when Kermit Roosevelt, who engineered the overthrow of Iran's prime minister Mohammad Mossadegh for nationalizing his country's oil industry, plotted with British intelligence to stir up the Muslim Brothers to overthrow a triumvirate of Arab nationalist and communist leaders in Damascus who Washington and London perceived as threatening Western economic interests in the Middle East.
Washington funnelled arms to Brotherhood mujahedeen in the 1980s to wage urban guerrilla warfare against Hafez al-Assad, who hardliners in Washington called an "Arab communist." His son, Bashar, continued the Arab nationalists' commitment to unity (of the Arab nation), independence, and (Arab) socialism. These goals guided the Syrian state—as they had done the Arab nationalist states of Libya under Muammar Gaddafi and Iraq under Saddam. All three states were targeted by Washington for the same reason: their Arab nationalist commitments clashed fundamentally with the US imperialist agenda of US global leadership.
Bashar al-Assad's refusal to renounce Arab nationalist ideology dismayed Washington, which complained about his socialism, the third part of the Ba'athists' holy trinity of values. Plans to oust Assad—based in part on his failure to embrace Washington's neo-liberalism—were already in preparation in Washington by 2003, if not earlier. If Assad was championing neo-liberalism, as Draitser and others contend, it somehow escaped the notice of Washington and Wall Street, which complained about "socialist" Syria and the country's decidedly anti-neoliberal economic policies.
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Mehran University of Engineering and Technology (MUET) Organized mega International event International Multitopic Conference (IMTIC12) in collaboration with Allborg University, Erasmus Mundus Mobilty for Life, Higher Education Commission, and support of ICT R&D and Pakistan Science Foundation. The event includes presentation of more than 50 technical papers in parallel technical sessions, 9 keynote speakers, 5 tutorials, a Phd consortium, a Poster session competition, and technical exhibition.
In his welcome address Professor Dr MA Uqaili, Pro Vice Chancellor told that it is a matter of rejoicing and great satisfaction that International Multi-Topic Conference (IMTIC-2012) has become a perpetual feature of Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro with the major support from Erasmus Mundus Mobility for Life program, and Aalborg University, Denmark and Higher Education Commission (HEC). In fact it has become an auspicious and prestigious event for researchers, professionals, and academia. The conference took a step forward, bringing industry-academia together; the step would be an impetus for the local technological development of the country. IMTIC12 brought together a wide spectrum of international experts in the fields of Electrical, Electronics, Communications, Computers and Information Science for experts' collaboration and knowledge transfer. Though the knowledge sharing and transfer was one of the key objectives of the conference; nevertheless, the conference also aimed to groom and encourage the energetic youngsters for their research potential. IMTIC has provided occasions for national and international researchers and practitioners to present the most recent advances and future challenges in the fields of computer and software engineering, electronics, telecommunication, control, multimedia information systems, Green ICT, Energy management, Wireless networks, simulation and modeling and so on. This year the conference received 205 submissions - confirming a trend of increasing interest in IMTIC - coming from 30+ different countries including Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, India, Iran, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Netherland, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Spain, Sudan, Sweden, Thailand, United Kingdom, and USA. With so many papers to choose from, providing a conference program with a high level of technical excellence became a task that was challenging and time consuming, but ultimately a very rewarding one for the Technical Program Committee.
Chief organizer IMTIC12 and Dean FEECE Dr BS Chowdhry said that the Technical program Committee focused on two aspects while selecting the technical papers: first to provide forum for bigger number of participants from Pakistan and all over the world through presentation and discussion of the relevant areas from vast range of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) disciplines reflecting the rapidly evolving technology we are witnessing today. Second to maintain a reasonable technical standard by selection of around 51 technical papers which represents acceptance rate of approximately 25%. All the papers underwent a rigorous review process with each paper receiving at least 2 reviews. The conference program has been structured with parallel-track sessions for the presentation of papers, a PhD Consortium and a Poster Session. The program also includes 9 keynote speeches by renowned experts in the field, and 5 parallel thematic tutorials.
Mr Furqan Habib Qureshi, SEVP PTCL South and Chief guest on the occasion expressed that this International Multitopic conference is a celebration of achievement and it is a great pleasure and honor to be the Chief Guest on auspicious occasion of the IMTIC '12. It is a matter of rejoicing and great satisfaction that IMTIC has become a regular feature of Mehran University. It is indeed an auspicious and most significant event in the lives of the researchers, professionals, academia and industry collaboration. . It is really pride for MUET that IMTIC12 proceeding has been published by Springer Verlag Germany in its CCIS series. I believe that the conference will help in disseminating knowledge and latest developments, research and market trends to students, professionals, practitioners and academicians. He suggested to arrange a Mega national event of all engineering and technological universities in which PTCL will provide all the needed help.
On the 3rd day of the event in her concluding address Madam Sharmila Faruqui, Advisor to CM Govt of Sindh stated that IMTIC '12 has brought together a wide spectrum of international experts to facilitate a creative environment for the promotion of collaboration and knowledge transfer. In particular it has facilitated a dialogue between major industry players, entrepreneurs and academia to help create a roadmap for the development of tangible research environment in the country. She further said that there is a dire need of science, technology and engineering professionals within our country to find indigenous solutions for the problems this country is facing. Information and communication technology (ICT) is widely accepted as the foremost tool with which government, researcher, industry and business organizations can meet the demands placed on them thanks to the rapidly emerging global economy, growing population and others requirements. It's a matter of great contentment that for IMTIC12 topics selected are related to the most recent advances and future challenges in the fields of Computer and Software Engineering, Electronics, Telecommunication, Control, Multimedia Information Systems, Green ICT, Energy Management, Simulation and Modeling and so on. She congratulated all the IMTIC team, the researchers and organizers and expressed her gratitude for making it promising and inviting me to be the chief guest of such mega event in concluding ceremony. She also performed launching ceremony of IMTIC12 Proceeding Book "Emerging Trends and Applications in Information and Communication Technologies" edited by Prof Dr BS Chowdhry, Dr Faisal Karim Shaikh, DM Akbar Hussain and Dr MA Uqaili and published by Springer Verlag Germany on the occasion of conference having selected peer reviewed papers.
Vice Chancellor Dr AQK Rajput said that this conference will raise awareness of state of the art research, locally and internationally and provide a platform for Pakistani researchers to express their ideas and research interest and effectively developing professional relations with the experts working in their areas. It also offers opportunities for learning, discussion and set challenges. We also felt that such event helps to develop the professionalism of ICT by considering quality standards, best practice, training & development and staff career development.
In addition conference focused 5 tutorials on very emerging topics:"Information and Networking Infrastructure of the Smart Grid" , by Prof. Suleyman Uludag, University of Michigan - Flint, USA. "Network Planning and Design Aspects in Future Broadband Networks", by Dr. M. Tahir Riaz, Aalborg University, Denmark. "Cloud Computing and Cyber Security Challenges", by Dr. Jawwad Shamsi, FAST NU, Karachi. "Massively Parallel Computation on GPUs", Muhammad Rafi, by FAST NU, Karachi. "FPGA based Digital & Embedded System Design using VHDL", by Ms. Farida Memon, MUET, Jamshoro.
Other important features of the event were Poster session Competition and PhD Consortium's.
PROFESSOR B.M. AZIZUR. RAHMAN, from City University, London who leads the research group on Photonics Modelling at City University, London, gave his key note on "Photonics, a key enabling technology". He said that impact of electronics can be felt in all aspects of our lives and this is clearly evident from the number of papers being presented in this conference. Photonic is a comparatively young technology, and it manipulates faster photons rather than electrons as in electronics, but this technology is rapidly evolved. Prof. Rahman was the first to develop vector-field finite element method for optical waveguides and subsequently they have developed finite element based junction analysis method and the beam propagation method, which are numerically more efficient than most of the commercial packages, which are predominantly finite difference based. The Finite Element Method uses integral formulation, can consider more efficient irregular shaped elements and can also consider slanted or curved dielectric interfaces to represent practical photonic devices more accurately.
Prof Dr Andrew Kemp, Group Leader, Wireless Sensor Network Group, Faculty of Engineering, University of Leeds, UK, the wireless sensor network paradigm has emerged as a highly valuable research area for good reason.
Prof Rob Reilly, President IEEE Education Society and serving as research scientist at Center for Educational Computing Initiatives, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, gave his keynote on "Learning, Assessment, and Becoming an Engineering Education Leader".
Prof. Neil White, Head of School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK, delivered his keynote on "Energy Harvesting and Wireless Sensor Networks". He said that the portability of modern-day electronic systems in common use, such as mobile phones, WSN nodes puts increasing demands on the batteries used to power such systems.
Prof, Dr Asadullah Shah of Department of Computer Science, Kulliyyah of ICT, IIU Malaysia, said that social networking is unquestionably one of the most vital and influential aspects of today's society. The users of social networking have become so involved in websites such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Mysapce and others that these websites have become a part of their daily routine.
Mr. Shabbir Khan from NUST, Islamabad woke up a hidden inventor inside us, he definitely created hundreds of inventors who heard his key note speech. Other Significant key note contributions were also made by Prof. Ramjee Parasad from Aalborg University, Denmark, Prof. Gul Agha, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. Dr. Dil Muhammad Akbar Hussain, from Aalborg University, Denmark. and Dr. Nasrullah Memon, University of Southern Denmark.
In his concluding remarks Prof Dr Aftab A Memon, Chairman telecommunication engineering and Local Chair IMTIC12 said that an unprecedented response and turnout was seen in Tutorials. Both, the graduate and undergraduate students showed a special interest in 5 Tutorials conducted by specialist in their fields. He further said our youth is our future, every fresh energetic tide, replaces the older weakening tide. Young enthusiastic scientists and engineers need to be polished and groomed. A poster session was devoted for the future stake holders of our country. Around 25 poster presentations were arranged inside the state-of-the-art library of MUET, Jamshoro. Young contributors from different locations of Pakistan, presented their work. Top three quality projects were assigned cash prizes.
In his vote of thanks Dr Faisal Karim Shaikh said we cannot forget the industry. An exhibition was arranged to give a platform to companies for displaying their products and offer job opportunities to youth. Thanks to PTCL, National Instruments, Mushko Electronics (Pvt) LTD, Rastek Technologies Karachi, Rizvi and Co., Paktech Instruments Co., Ideal Distribution lines and media partner Technology Times. In the end, I'd say that IMTIC-2012 has achieved goals which are more than our expectations. The quality research presentations and knowledge discussions will surely boost the research and development in Pakistan.


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Congenital central nervous system (CNS) malformations are the cause of CDI in approximately 5% of unselected children with CDI. 48,51 There are a variety of congenital malformations which can result in CDI (Table ), the most important of which involve midline defects and, in particular, septo-optic dysplasia. The pituitary gland develops at. Dandy-Walker complex is a group of disorders that affect the development of the changes in brain development are present from birth (congenital).Dandy-Walker complex affects the formation of the area of the brain known as the cerebellum, which is responsible for coordinating movement, and the fluid-filled spaces around with Dandy-Walker complex may .
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Viral etiology of congenital malformations. Bethesda, Md., National Heart Institute and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health; for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., Washington [] (OCoLC) Online version: Viral etiology of congenital malformations.
The infant may be born with congenital defects, including such deformities as cataracts, cardiac anomalies, mental retardation or cerebral palsy.
Although a number of maternal viral diseases have been etiologically incriminated in congenital defects, only two—rubella and cytomegalovirus infection—are definitely proved to be associated with Cited by: 5.
The most common treatment for congenital hydrocephaly is a shunt system. A surgeon will place a flexible plastic tube in the baby's brain to drain the extra fluid. In Reference Module in Biomedical Sciences, Mechanical factors. Although mechanical factors have been implicated in the genesis of congenital malformations for centuries, only in more recent years has it been possible to relate specific Viral etiology of congenital malformation.
book to mechanical causes. Many of the most common anomalies, such as clubfoot, congenital hip dislocations, and even certain deformations of. Vascular Malformations. Congenital vascular malformations may be composed of abnormal vessels of lymphatic, venous, or arterial origin.
In many cases, a mixture of vessel types is present. The genetic etiology of some malformations has been described and is resulting in new medical therapeutic : Reema Padia, Reema Padia, Randall Bly, Randall Bly, Catherine Bull, Catherine Bull, Amy E. Geddis, J. Rubella is the only viral agent which has been proved to be a true teratogen; that is, which results in congenital malformations.
Hence, knowledge of the mechanisms by which rubella causes deformities may lead to a more basic understanding of the pathogenesis of congenital malformation of the heart.
Richard Harding, Robert De Matteo, in The Lung (Second Edition), Fetal Causes of IUGR. Fetal anomalies arising from chromosomal disorders (e.g., tris 13, 21, and sex chromosome disorders) and congenital malformations (both chromosomal and non-chromosomal) account for 15 to 20% of IUGR cases.
16,43 Multiple gestation is another cause of restricted fetal growth. 44 IUGR can occur in. Hiro and Tosaka in confirmed the viral etiology by passing the disease to children using filtered nasal washings from persons with acute cases.
Following a widespread epidemic of rubella infection inNorman Gregg, an Australian ophthalmologist, reported in the occurrence of congenital cataracts among 78 infants born following. In a series of 20 patients with congenital inner ear malformations described by Phelps et al., one-quarter developed recurrent meningitis; in one case, the second episode was fatal.
The majority of cases of meningitis related to Mondini's dysplasia and other inner ear malformations occur under the age of 10 years, with only a few cases.
Congenital malformations account for one of the major causes of perinatal mortality and morbidity. The major causes of congenital malformation are chromosomal abnormalities, mutant genes, multifactorial disorders, and teratogenic agents. Nuchal translucency (NT) involves measuring the area at the back of fetal neck at 11–14 weeks gestation.
Helen Brooke Taussig. Helen Brooke Taussig, arguably the most famous pediatric cardiologist of all time, wrote the first comprehensive textbook devoted to CHD, Congenital Malformations of the Heart.
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major congenital malformations in a concise and easy-to-read format and to provide evidence-based guidelines for evaluation and m anagement of these infants.
The first three chapters provide a broad overview of dysmorphology, assess-ment of an infant with congenital malformation, and guiding principles of genetic counseling. This is a shortened version of the seventeenth chapter of the ICD Congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal covers ICD codes Q to QAll versions of the ICD, including the most recent one (), can be browsed freely on the website of the World Health Organisation (WHO).
The ICD can also be downloaded in PDF-form. Congenital abnormalities are among the leading causes of infant morbidity and mortality and fetal loss. The leading sites of congenital abnormalities are the skeleton, skin, and brain.
viral infections, etc., can occur throughout pregnancy. The timing of exposure is critical for both, malformations. Lymphatic malformations or lymphangiomas are benign (non-cancerous) vascular lesions made of fluid-filled spaces (cysts) thought to occur due to abnormal development of the lymphatic system.
In general, lymphatic malformations are categorized into macrocystic, microcystic, or combined depending on the size of the cysts; they are also classified in superficial lesions known as.
Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the most common congenital birth defect. CHD accounted for nearly one third of all birth defects, and the prevalence rate reached to 8 to 12 per live births worldwide.
1, 2 During neonatal period, the reported incidence of CHD was: Asia and Oceania, 10%; North America, 9%; Europe, 7%; South America, 6%; and Africa, 2%. 2, 3 Additionally, the incidence of. A primary developmental defect and a secondary malformation of the cerebellum after infection are the most common causes of congenital cerebellar malformation in animals [5,6].
Cerebellar hypoplasia and atrophy secondary to feline panleukopenia virus infection are well documented in cats. In dogs, no viral etiology has been identified except. Congenital malformations due to some chromosomal conditions, genetic disorders, and other known causes such as infection were also managed differently in studies.
Louik et al. [22] conducted a case control study comparing infants with birth defects to non-malformed controls following vaccination with unspecified monovalent influenza A (H1N1.
Congenital hydrocephalus is when a child is born with an excessive accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in the brain. CSF is a clear fluid that surrounds the brain and spinal cord. This excess fluid causes an abnormal widening of spaces in the brain called ventricles (ventriculomegalia) and can create a harmful pressure on brain tissue.
Symptoms of hydrocephalus vary and may include. In some congenital ectodermal dysplasias, patients have no nails (anonychia). In pachyonychia congenita, the nail beds are thickened, discolored, and transversely hypercurved (pincer nail deformity).
Nail-patella syndrome causes triangular lunulae and partially absent thumb nails. Patients with Darier disease can have nails with red and white. Post-viral infection is a common etiology of opsoclonus, which usually spontaneously resolves.
Case Summary She had the new onset of oscillopsia, headache, neck pain and difficulty with her balance and was found to have downbeat nystagmus, bilateral disc edema and ataxia.A birth defect, also known as a congenital disorder, is a condition present at birth regardless of its cause.
Birth defects may result in disabilities that may be physical, intellectual, or developmental. The disabilities can range from mild to severe. Birth defects are divided into two main types: structural disorders in which problems are seen with the shape of a body part and functional.Underlying viral infections and toxic causes may lead to congenital (birth) defects in foals but are rare.
Digit malformation is a congenital defect occasionally found in horses. In its most common form, the second or fourth splint bone develops into a complete lower limb and foot (polydactyly).
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Good news for thrifty brides to be: the flea market is full of vintage finds you can use to decorate your wedding on a budget. Now that spring has finally sprung, and it's garage sale (and wedding) season, get out there and score some adorable second-hand pieces!
If you're lucky enough to find a working typewriter, you'll have a creative guest book that people will be lining up to use!
Why spend a fortune on matching dinnerware when you're only going to use it for one meal?
Beautiful cake stands are like cats, once you have one, it's only a matter of time before they take over your home. Luckily, that means you can serve multiple cakes at your wedding.
Keep your well wishes in one place with a stylish vintage suitcase. Bonus: you can use it again as honeymoon luggage!
You wouldn't think you'd need an antique armoire or dresser for your wedding décor, but for outdoor receptions, they're a great way to display desserts, presents, or the open bar!
Stick a flower in an antique milk glass vase and you have an elegant centerpiece that costs next to nothing!
Crates, they're just like cardboard boxes... but they're 100% more elegant.
Old books can be decoration, or welcome entertainment for the guest stuck at the boring table.
Scrabble tiles are a cutesy touch that can be used for place cards, food labels, or entertainment at the kid's table.
Fill little tins with flowers and give them to guests for a favor they'll be able to treasure forever... with little cost to you!
Give out vintage costume jewelry to your bridesmaids for beautiful thank you gifts that won't put you in debt.
If you're swooning over these vintage finds, get yourself to the flea market, post haste!


Atlanta's most beautiful weekly cocktail party returns this week — Cocktails in the Garden at the Atlanta Botanical Garden launches on Thursday, May 2nd for the 2013 season.
From 6pm to 10pm every Thursday from May through September visitors will get to sip beer, wine and cocktails while strolling through the gardens. There will be live cooking demonstrations and tastings from chefs in the Edible Garden, and DJs spinning live music. Held every third Thursday will be the Art & Science Café, a series of discussions that will explore the unique and innovative ways artists and scientists work together.
Visitors will be able to check out Imaginary Worlds: Plants Larger Than Life. The exhibit features living sculptures including a unicorn, cobras and butterflies that are made from thousands of meticulously groomed annuals. The sculptures range up to 25 feet tall and 20 feet wide.
Drinks may be purchased at cash bars located throughout the garden, and food may be purchased at MetroFresh in the Garden.
The Truchard story is a story about farming. Tony Truchard is a farmer, first and foremost – as described by his son Anthony, who visited Atlanta in March for the High Museum Wine Auction.
Dirt-coated fingernails, a pickup truck and long hours planting, tending and pruning – Anthony paints a vivid picture of his father. Even in his 70s, Tony is still out in the vineyards as often as possible, truly committed to the quality of his grapes.
Tony and Jo Ann Truchard were among the pioneers of grape growing in the Carneros region of Napa Valley. They purchased a 20 acre parcel of land there in 1974, and in 1989 established a winery producing wines made from estate-grown fruit. Today Truchard Estate Vineyard is 400 acres of which 270 are planted; in addition to making their own wine the Truchards sell grapes to more than 20 Napa Valley wineries. Winemaker Sal De Ianni joined the team in 1998.
Farming has always been a family affair. From the age of 10, Anthony and his brother John (who owns John Anthony Vineyards), were out in the vineyards with their father. This connection – to farming and family – is felt when you speak with Anthony. After sharing a glass of wine with Anthony and his wife Suzanne, you'll feel like you're a part of the Truchard family.
As any winemaker will tell you, good wine starts in the vineyard. The Truchard family puts as much care into crafting their wines as they do cultivating the grapes. Each bottle tells a story – of the terroir, the technique and the hands-on approach to making wines.
Among the many delicious Chardonnays and Pinot Noirs that were tasted during the High Museum Wine Auction, the ones from Truchard Vineyards stood out.
Following the High Museum Wine Auction, I had the opportunity to taste Truchard's Syrah and Cabernet Franc.
Deep ties to Carneros, a passion for farming and a dedication to expertly-crafted wines – the Truchard family's story can be tasted in every bottle.
For more information visit www.truchardvineyards.com.
Just in time for picnic and barbecue season, Kettle Brand is introducing two new flavors of potato chips: Maple Bacon and Sweet & Salty.
The Oregon-based company celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2012. As it gets set to celebrate 31 years in July, Kettle Brand continues to push flavor boundaries with chips that reflect fans' cravings for something smoky, salty and sweet. The new flavors come after nine months of testing and tasting hundreds of prototypes.
Proving that anything is better with bacon, Maple Bacon combines the smoky flavors of bacon with the sweetness of maple syrup and a touch of chili pepper spice.
Sweet & Salty has the saltiness you crave in a potato chip with the subtle sweetness of caramel corn.
The two new flavors, like all of Kettle Brand's chips, are made with all-natural ingredients and cooked in pure, all-natural oils. The chips are verified by the Non-GMO Project.
Kettle Brand's other flavors include Cheddar Beer, Jalapeño Jack, Spicy Thai and Fully Loaded Baked Potato as well as traditional flavors like Sea Salt & Vinegar, Sour Cream & Onion and Backyard Barbecue. Kettle Brand chips are available at supermarkets around the country.
For more information visit www.kettlebrand.com.
Disclosure: The Amateur Gastronomer received complimentary samples of Kettle Brand potato chips.


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Miley Cyrus is pretty in pink for Party In The U.S.A
By Shannon Sullivan
Miley Cyrus commanded attention for her NBC special as she brought some audience members to tears with a performance of Party In The U.S.A. Pic credit: ©ImageCollect.com/Xavier Collin/Image Press Agency
Miley Cyrus made a major statement as she performed one of her most iconic hits while hosting an NBC special over the weekend.
The singer-songwriter made a big entrance on New Year's Eve, performing her hit song Party in the U.S.A. while wearing a pink satin dress. She shared a clip of her performance on Instagram for fans who may have missed her special.
As Monsters and Critics reported, Miley hosted her second consecutive New Year's Eve special on NBC, Miley's New Year's Eve Party.
This year, she invited her godmother, Dolly Parton, to help ring in the new year and entertain the crowd. Miley's performances didn't disappoint as she did a duet with Dolly and later performed her signature song.
Miley's NBC New Year's special was the perfect occasion for the song about the United States and celebrations.
Miley twirled around the stage as she sang and danced for a captivated audience.
Miley Cyrus steals the show with Party In The U.S.A for New Year's special
Miley's performance was filled with energy, with her showing off her signature moves and belting out the lyrics to her iconic song.
She began her performance on stage by getting low and grabbing the microphone stand. She flipped her hair and acknowledged the live band behind her, revealing an ombre hairstyle.
Then, the camera cut to some audience members, who cried with joy as they watched Miley sing.
Miley wore a pink dress with a plunging neckline which contrasted perfectly against her tanned skin. Miley's gown had ruching around the waist and an asymmetrical hem.
She paired the dress with nude-colored stilettos, and her bleach-blonde hair featured soft waves.
Miley rocked soft glam makeup with glossy lips and sparkly shadow, adding to the festive vibe of the night.
For the post, shared on Miley's Instagram, she let the video do the talking, using a hashtag with her NBC show's name as the caption.
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Miley's skimpy dress left little to the imagination, and she has worked hard to maintain her slender figure.
Miley Cyrus practices Ashtanga yoga
Miley has revealed she uses yoga and pilates to stay in shape.
The Wrecking Ball singer has expressed love for Ashtanga yoga, which is a particular branch of yoga that takes years of practice.
Miley appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, where she gave the former SNL star a lesson. Although Jimmy didn't quite master the pose, it was entertaining to watch.
As for Miley, time will tell what 2023 has in store for the singer and yoga enthusiast.
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Asbestos victims and their representatives have welcomed the Mesothelioma Bill. After all, it is the first attempt to remedy a long-standing injustice. But, on close examination, it is a gift to insurers who could not indefinitely hide behind their own failures and evade liability for insurance they wrote for so many years. The day of reckoning has come, but at great cost to asbestos victims and with a great discount to insurers. It is in examining the detail of the payment scheme that the true cost to asbestos victims is found. This article sets out the main elements of the scheme and then discusses the Government's rationale for its generosity to insurers.
For decades, insurers wantonly destroyed or simply lost records of employers' liability insurance – insurance which victims of very long latent asbestos diseases, such as mesothelioma, would later come to rely on long after the companies who exposed them to asbestos had ceased trading. Unmoved by the suffering and incalculable loss of life caused by asbestos, insurers persistently refused to accept responsibility for their failure to retain records and turned their backs on dying asbestos victims, who searched in vain for evidence of insurance which might provide some security for the families they would leave behind.
At last, in February 2010, the Labour Government consulted on measures to remedy this gross injustice with a recommendation to set up an Employers' Liability Insurance Bureau (ELIB), similar to the Motor Insurance Bureau (MIB) which pays compensation in the event negligent drivers are uninsured or insurance cannot be traced. The consultation closed in May 2010 and responsibility for responding to the consultation fell to the Coalition Government Minister, Lord Freud. Two years later, on the 25 July 2012, Lord Freud announced his response.
Instead of creating an ELIB, the Government has drafted the Mesothelioma Bill to set up a Diffuse Mesothelioma Payment Scheme (Payment Scheme), funded from a levy on active insurers, which will pay discounted average compensation based on age to mesothelioma sufferers who were diagnosed on or after 25 July 2012. The Bill commenced in the House of Lords where the discounted payment of 70% of average compensation was increased to 75%. The Bill has now commenced its passage through the House of Commons. Royal assent is expected to be given in April 2014 and payments are set to commence in summer 2014.
It is estimated that approximately 3,500 payments will be made by 2024 at a cost of �322 million. Although average compensation in 2012 was �154,000, due to the increasing age of claimants it is expected that average litigated settlements over the first ten years of the scheme will be �124,286. At 75% of this figure, the average scheme payment would be �93,214. However, benefits and lump sum payments would be deducted in full, at an average deduction of �20,480, reducing the average payment to �72,734.
The levy will be collected by the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) and treated as a hypothecated tax, i.e. public money. Dependants may claim under the scheme, but unlike claims in law, no payment will be made to the deceased's estate if there are no dependants. However, the scheme applies common law rules for recovery of benefits. Peers challenged the Government's very selective application of common law rules, but to no avail.
Fifty per cent of asbestos victims are excluded from the scheme, which is limited to mesothelioma sufferers only, even though it would only increase the cost by 20% to include all asbestos victims. Despite the fact that it took two years to respond to the consultation, the Government has refused to accept the modest request to set the eligibility date at the commencement of the consultation, 10 February 2010.
The scheme excludes claims for negligent environmental exposures and contaminated work clothes exposures, and claims from the self-employed. Turner & Newall (T&N) claimants, who are not protected by T&N insurance and are paid just 27% of tariff payments from T&N scheme funds, are also excluded.
The payment scheme is the result of two years' negotiation with insurers held behind closed doors in which insurers drove a hard a bargain, reducing scheme benefits well below the limit of acceptability. With threats of court action and utter intransigence, insurers have bullied and faced down the Government, thereby gaining an overwhelming advantage.
The Government expects to receive �71 million in recovered benefits and lump sum payments in the period 2014 to 2024, of which �17 million is to be given as a gift to insurers to help them out. This is a gift; it is not to be paid back. The Government is also lending insurers �30 million to help to "smooth" the first four years when there will be a spike in claims due to claims coming forward from 25 July 2012. This money will be paid back in years six and seven.
The insurers have insisted that they will pass on levy costs to businesses if the levy exceeds 3% of the annual amount they receive from employers' liability premiums, i.e. Gross Working Premium (GWP). They argue that anything over a 70% payment will exceed 3% GWP. The Government has disputed the insurers' estimates and their figures show that over the initial 10 years of the scheme, 100% compensation could be paid without exceeding 3% GWP. Nevertheless, the Government has accepted the insurers' estimates and the arbitrary 3% threshold and have pledged not to levy insurers above 3% GWP.
For the first four years of the scheme (2014-2018) insurers will have to meet the cost of claims, but the DWP will fund any cost in excess of 3% GWP. After the first four years, the DWP will have to estimate the annual cost of claims and set the levy accordingly. Any shortfall in the levy is the DWP's responsibility and any surplus will be paid into the Government Consolidated Fund. If the estimated levy payment is above 3% GWP the DWP will pay the excess, not the insurers.
The Government justifies its concessions to insurers saying the insurers paying the levy are not necessarily the ones who took the premiums paying for untraceable historical policies so they have to be fair to them. But insurers should take collective responsibility for their collective failure. If this is "rough justice" it is nothing compared to the injustice suffered by asbestos victims.
." According to the Mesothelioma Bill Impact Assessment an estimated 6,000 mesothelioma sufferers have lost approximately �800 million in compensation due to untraced insurance. That is the extent to which mesothelioma sufferers have subsidised insurers. If one includes other asbestos victims we find that asbestos victims have subsidised insurers to the tune of �1 billion. In the face of such financial loss, not to speak of the loss of life, does fairness lie in mesothelioma sufferers continuing to subsidise insurers by 25% and other asbestos victims subsidising them by 100%?
Notwithstanding the Government's uncritical acceptance of the insurers' 3% GWP threshold, there is no certainty whatsoever that insurers will not pass on the cost to businesses at any level of GWP. The Government should not give way to threats of this sort, and certainly should not use taxpayers' money to subsidise insurers in the event of the levy exceeding the insurers' convenient 3% threshold. We have come to a pretty pass when dying asbestos victims are called on to absorb insurers' cost to protect business!
In the face of an obdurate, litigious and self-serving insurance industry, Lord Freud has negotiated a scheme at too great a cost to mesothelioma sufferers. Asbestos victims are entitled to 100% justice. We are asking everyone who is concerned about justice for asbestos victims to write to their MPs asking them to improve the Bill for mesothelioma sufferers and to give a commitment to include victims of other asbestos diseases in the scheme in the future.
1 This article first appeared in the British Asbestos Newsletter (Issue 92, Autumn 2013). Tony Whitston is Chair of the Asbestos Victims' Support Groups Forum UK.


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Kanu, Igboho: We Won't Allow Buhari's Govt Take Us Back To 1984 – Falana
Posted By:- Mr Finix, On July 14, 2021.
Human Rights activist and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana, Tuesday, said that every attempt by President Muhammadu Buhari's administration to take the country back to 1984 era will largely be resisted by Nigerians.
Falana who disclosed this at the 13th Wole Soyinka Centre Media Lecture Series to commemorate his 87th birthday, said that the treatment meted out to Nnamdi Kanu and Sunday Igboho is similar to what happened in 1984 when a Nigerian politician was kidnapped.
"We should not allow Buhari's government take us back to 1984 when an attempt was made to kidnap Umaru Diko in London. He hd already been kidnapped and on the way to airport, a neighbor saw them and raised alarm after witnessing the inhuman treatment he was subjected to.
"In the case of Kanu, Kenya government cannot admit that on their soil a Nigerian was taken out of the country without going through the legal process. It's likely they drugged him to sleep and brought him back to Nigeria. That is against the anti-torture act and Nigeria's constitution. Therefore, those who say they brought Kanu back through some international collaboration are not saying the truth. Interpol cannot deport without due process."
He insisted that those who say people will not be allowed to protest are just joking and are still living in military era, "even during the era of Babangida and Abacha people still protested because it's their right.
"It is sad that Buhari forget quickly. In 2003, Obasanjo's administration disbanded a rally in Kano which was attended by Buhari, we went to court and won the case. The court declared that police permit for rally is illegal and unconstitutional. A free people do not need permit to enjoy their freedom.
"Based on that, we mobilized the National Assembly and they made a law in 2015 that if you are going to have rally in Nigeria, all you need to do is to inform police to provide adequate security. The people in Abuja need to understand that we are not a conquered people, so they should learn to treat us with dignity.
"We are not surprised that the bill to criminalize protest has been withdrawn because it's not possible in a democratic era.
Speaking to the theme of the event, " Remaking Nigeria: Towards a secure and viable union", Falana called on media practitioners to self regulate. "The media body is like the Guild of Editors, NUJ needs to met urgently and bring out some new code of conducts because now we have a situation whereby one or two people can set up online media and dish out stories, some with intentions of blackmailing. That needs to be corrected, we must not wait for government to do that."
One of the speakers, a Public Interest and Human Rights Lawyer, Inebehe Effiong, said that Nigeria is at a very difficult period in which Buhari's administration on a daily basis violates human rights.
Corroborating his views, Board Secretary, Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism, Jiti Ogunye said that the call for self determination from different part of the country was as a result of prevalent injustice.
Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer, Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism, Motunrayo Alaka, said that lecture serve as a reminders that the country problems are solvable and that Nigeria has the human resources needed to think through and work on a way out of our current quagmire once we gather the will to do the right things and do things right.
Source:- Vanguard


There are a lot of awesome rentals on Airbnb—and a lot of not-so-great ones. Let´s shed light on key indicators that you should pass on a rental or—worse—that you're about to fall for an Airbnb scam.
If the listing has limited photos, it doesn't hurt to ask the host for more photos. And if the host offers a lame excuse as to why this isn't possible, be wary.
If there are little to no reviews, you should proceed with caution. While, sure, every new listing will start from square one, if you are considering booking a listing with no feedback and a host who isn't responding, run away! If you've ever thought of creating your own Airbnb, get started with these tips.
The only thing worse than no feedback is negative criticisms of a listing. You might find a property with tons of reviews—but are any of them peachy? Reviews that say negative things about Wi-Fi, neighbors, or neighborhood safety are important to sort through. That's why you should take the time to read all reviews and dig deep.
If the text says 'luxury apartment' and you see chipped paint, uneven concrete floors, and little furniture pictured, it probably is not a luxury apartment. Be sure to check the photos that have been verified or taken by Airbnb, and use those to inform what you think the apartment will be like, rather than the description, if the two do not match.
Finding a good deal is often a double-edged sword: Saving money is always a bonus, but it's important to understand why a place is far below market value compared with other listings. When in doubt, you should ask your potential host to provide further insight on how he or she arrived at the rate. There are accommodations for every budget.
Sure, not everyone is a writer or an expert on grammar, but if you keep finding contradictions in the listing, you have reason to raise an eyebrow. If you can't correspond effectively with the host, run.
As Airbnb grew in popularity, various city, state, and country officials started heavily regulating what's permitted—and what's not. In many cities, Airbnb properties need to be legally registered to be operated as an Airbnb. Barcelona, Spain, and San Francisco, California, are such destinations, but you should research the rules of any place you trek to. You may even be asked at customs for this information, and having it on hand will ward off any confusion or difficulties.
Many unpleasant travel experiences can be avoided if you are willing to roll up your sleeves and do your due diligence to ensure that you're booking what you want. After all, you can't expect a place to be 100 percent up to your standards if you didn't take the time to research the details you were booking.
If strong and consistent Wi-Fi is important to you, don't assume all Wi-Fi speeds are equal across all listings. Or, if you're a light sleeper and the bedroom window faces a main intersection, you should ask about the traffic noise. Good hosts prefer to manage your expectations before you click 'book' because it equates to less headaches for them, too. How to become a great host.
When you browse through profiles, don't disregard the response rate. Especially if you are traveling to an unfamiliar destination where you won't be fluent in the native language, having a speedy, available host is essential. A host who isn't able to respond to an inquiry within a reasonable amount of time is typically a host who will not respond to you any faster when you have an issue you want resolved within the home after checking in.
Whether the home is spectacular and far too affordable, the location seems impossible for your travel dates, or all of the above and more, take the time to listen to your gut. Ask your host as many questions as necessary to make sure you are 100 percent certain before you hit "book. The best Airbnb key sharing services.


With a vacancy rate well below the national average, Perth city centre delivers a vibrant retail experience, which will be enhanced in 2017 through planned public realm works.
The city is ranked 11th in Scotland, out of 248 trading locations, and 134 in the UK in terms of comparison expenditure. The proportion of ABC1 residents within the core catchment area is over 50%, with total core catchment expenditure estimated at £631 million annually.
Perth's potential retail catchment population is 1.98 million, with 338,000 living within a 30-minute drive time.
The city has a strong presence from multiples and still maintains a thriving independent and speciality sector.
The city centre retail area comprises nearly a million square feet of floor space across 561 units, with more than 116,000 square feet of undercover shopping in the St John's Shopping Centre. It was recently bought over by Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS), which is moving ahead with a multi-million pound refurbishment that will increase the available retail space significantly. This development underlines Perth's credentials as a leading shopping destination and is sure to attract further big names into the city centre.
The St Catherine's Retail Park, covering 245,000 square feet, is also receiving significant investment with current anchor stores including PC World, The Range, Morrison's and TK Maxx.
To the north of the city centre, the Highland Gateway retail park offers 74,000 square feet across its units with Tiso as the anchor tenant.
Nearby Aberfeldy, Auchterarder, Blairgowrie, Crieff, Dunkeld, Kinross, and Pitlochry all offer an array of independent shops and eateries serving visitors and their local communities, including the award-winning Highland Chocolatier in Grandtully, Dunkeld Smokery and Rannoch Smokery.


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Q: How to delete same data from two different database like MySQL and Neo4j in best way? I am using MySQL and Neo4j. I have a Post table in MySQL and Post Node in Neo4j. What is the best way to delete post data?
** My Code is working perfectly but for fault-tolerant, I am asking this question.
One bad Use Case: When deleting I am deleting from MySQL first but when It's gone to neo4j then for some reason neo4j data not delete then it sends back an error. But my MySQL account data is already deleted but not from Neo4j. How can I make this more fault-tolerant? Should I make a temporary table in MySQL for this?

A: You can do it in multiple ways.
Method 1:
Using MySQL transactions.

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*start a MySQL transaction

*run delete query for MySQL inside the transaction

*delete from neo4j

*if deletion in neo4j was unsuccessful, rollback the MySQL transaction

*if deletion in neo4j was successful, commit the MySQL transaction

This method can revert MySQL deletion if neo4j deletion was failed.
But this method can create a load on your MySQL server if too many deletions are happening at the same time. There's a certain limit on concurrent transactions.
Method 2:
Use the status column.

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*Delete from MySQL and mark status as DELETING

*delete from neo4j

*if deletion in neo4j was successful, change MySQL status to DELETED

*if deletion in neo4j was unsuccessful, change MySQL status back to ACTIVE
This method can work even in a heavy load on MySQL server because of not running long transactions.
But you will have to do manual handling in this.

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'Color Code' helps Mormon author deal with others
byDeseret News | May 07, 2010
Mormons We Know
Taylor Hartman couldn't have known he would discover innovative theories of personality that would influence millions of people.
He just knew he had to dig deeper to find the core motives behind people's behavior.
Hartman is the founder of "The Color Code" personality theories.
His first book, which he had no inclination to write and the manuscript for which was left behind in an airport for a week, has influenced millions of people.
Hartman began thinking about the field of psychology while serving a Mormon mission.
As a missionary, he found that he loved people and wanted to help them resolve their relationship problems.
Later, as a practicing therapist, he knew that the behaviorism that dominated the field of psychology in the 1970s didn't go far enough to effectively help him treat his clients.
Hartman concluded that all people are born with one of four personality types, to which he assigns a color. "Reds" are motivated primarily by power, "Blues" by intimacy, "Yellows" by fun and "Whites" by peace.
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In 1869, Karl Golmer, an immigrant from Germany and a devoted follower of the Templar movement, followed his leaders and settled in Jaffa. In 1870, he married Katharine Grossmann and a year later they had a son. In August 1838, he founded and operated a new mill within the precinct of the American Colony near the railway station (HaTachana - the renovated station compound today).
The capstone above the building's front door records the year of construction as 1904 and the name of the tenant as Karl Golmer. Thus the first incarnation of Golmer House came into being alongside and to the east of Breisch House and Friedel House.
At that time, wooden fences and ornamental shrubs around the houses demarked the borders of each plot. Later, the space between Golmer House and the wall would become a street known as The Rabbi from Bacharach Street, named after a book by Heinrich Heine.
The house, a cubic structure built over two floors, fulfilled a dual purpose of workshop and residence.
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There were two entrances to the building from two directions: one coming from the wall of the Colony as it then was, (The Rabbi from Bacharach Street as it is called today), and the second from the north, allowing some distance between it and Breisch House (Beer-Hoffmann Street as it is today). It was a functional house without decorative elements, having rectangular windows and doors with prominent plastered sandstone on the front facade. All openings had metal bars with typical Templar detail. On the northern and southern facades there are high arched openings with large wooden bow wings – a stylistic detail of the client, probably from the American structures next door.
The Templars based their style of construction on the simple and the practical, creating a distinct separation of functions: the cellar had no openings to the front and served for storage, the ground floor served as workshop and storeroom, and the floor above was intended for residential purposes. The wet units (toilets, shower and a kitchen) were concentrated in rooms along the southern facade.
In 1914 the house passed into the ownership of the Karl Streicher family. His wife Frederika and their three daughters Maria, Helen and Gertrude lived in the house until 1939, when the house became government property. During the 1950s, the ground floor was used as a carpentry workshop and the building was later sealed off because of a real concern that it was in danger of collapse.


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"Looking at the sky, the clouds, the moon and the stars really does make me feel calm and hopeful…Nature makes me feel humble and ready to face every day with courage." – Anne Frank
An evening for highly commended young participants, friends and families to celebrate prize-winning entries of the Somerset Anne Frank Awards creative writing competition, where young people in Somerset, aged 10-18 years, were invited to write their thoughts on a quote from Anne Frank's diary. Coinciding with Holocaust Memorial Day, this awards evening celebrates the creativity of youth and celebrates the inspiring figure herself.
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An Attitude of Gratitude: Mission Focus on Uganda
Click HERE for the Life in the Missions- Focus on Uganda" Information Sheet to distribute to your PREP or School Children tied to one of the the 2017 Catechetical Mission Resources.
Click HERE for the Grateful and Giving Tree Mission Activity Heart Template also from the 2017 Mission Resource.
Read about the the Mission Focus on Uganda and enjoy the Grateful and Giving Tree Mission Activity with complete write-up below:
Focus on Life in the Mission land of Uganda
Jinja is the seat of a Catholic Diocese headed by Bishop Charles Martin Wamika. The locals called the area the "Place of Rocks" – a word that sounded to the British that colonized the area like "Jinja." And so, it was named.
Here live about 650,000 Catholics in the diocese with 89 priests in 21 parishes. They are spread across an area that is 250 square miles larger than the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. Most people do not live near a parish church. They attend Mass—when it is available—at an outstation that is closer to their village. Because there are so few priests, some parishes may be responsible for 20 or 30 outstations and only have Mass every few months. Catholics still meet weekly for a Liturgy of the Word service to listen to the weekly Bible readings and learn basic faith formation. The children also do the same and meet for 3 to 4 hours to learn about Jesus.
Reverend Alex Okello is the Diocesan Director for the Pontifical Mission Societies in Jinja, which is the parent organization of the Missionary Childhood Association. As part of his job, he travels to all the parishes and now the few local Catholic schools as well. Father Alex encourages the children to be as generous as they can with their time, talent and treasure as they grow in their faith. As MCA members, students do service projects and sacrifice their time and talent—they clean the grounds, raise vegetables for the pastor to eat— because most of them rarely have spare change to give up. Most parishes and schools in Uganda have one communal box that all students can contribute to when they do have something to give to MCA.
Father Alex and Missionary representatives from the Diocese of Jinja, have traveled to the United States, including to the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, and spoken in our parishes about his life in the Missions and how our prayers and sacrifices make a difference to the children he works with. Father Alex also spoke in the city of Boston. After one of his visits there, at the parish of St. Peter's, the students were inspired to run a lemonade stand, giving away the drinks for free will donations, if people would listen to a story about the work of Catholic Missionaries, especially in Jinja, Uganda. They raised $258.01 in one morning!
Just like in the Bible, where the Apostles brought the Good News to everywhere, the Good News and works from Boston didn't stop there. Father Alex went back to Jinja and spoke to his MCA students about the students' prayerful efforts. He challenged his MCA members to "think outside the box" and do the same, telling them the story of Plymouth's lemonade stand.
Jinja's students rose to the challenge! They made and sold World Mission Rosary bracelets, hand-made jewelry and soap, along with tea and fruit juice, to their fellow students and parishioners and raised the equivalent of $38.57 for the Missionary Childhood Association!
Although they received a total of $31,000 from MCA worldwide for the maintenance of schools and orphanages, the students of Jinja sacrificed almost $200 so that other children can learn that God loves them too!
Here is an activity for children that are elementary school age to cultivate the virtue of gratitude. After reading about children in Uganda or, perhaps below, about children in Zambia, this activity ties to identifying thankfulness for everything received from God.
Click HERE for the complete Grateful and Giving Tree Mission Activity.
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