How to restore the computer's system after the system is corrupted, EaseUS Todo Backup offers three kinds of ways: restore from bootable CD/DVD, Pre-OS, or under windows.
As we have said in previous posts, we need backup the system anytime, who knows when the system crash again, computer infected by virus or system attacked by hackers. Today we will introduce how to restore system from bootable CD/USB, Pre-OS, or under windows. During the process, we need a backup, so please make sure you have backup the system.
When we meet the two situations, we have to restore system from bootable CD/DVD or USB: 1. system crash, and cause to all applications don't works under Windows, 2. we couldn't restore system partition under Windows since all system files have been in use. A bootable CD/DVD can help we boot Windows in case of system crash, restore system to original state. Before restore, please ensure you have created the bootable CD or USB, and have the backup.
Step 1. Put the bootable CD into the CD-ROM and change your BIOS settings: set CD-ROM as first boot device. Press "Del" when you are restarting the computer. Move CD-ROM Drive beyond Hard Drive. Press "F10" to save and exit.
Step 2. Boot from WinPE based bootable CD/DVD.
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Step 4. Select the destination location which you will recover to. And confirm the recovery information, then click "Proceed" to restore.
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There are two kinds of Pre-OS environment:Linux Pre-OS for Free and all Trial editions and Windows Pre-OS (which is also known as WinPE) for all paid editions. Linux Pre-OS is the limitation version of Windows Pre-OS.
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Step 2. Restart the computer and we will get a Windows boot menu. Select EaseUS Todo Backup and, we will get into EaseUS Todo Backup.
Step 3. Click "Browse to Recover". Select the image file you want to recover and then select the source you want to restore.
Your operating system isn't corrupted, but you want to restore the computer's system to an earlier date when everything worked correctly. EaseUS Todo Backup could help to recover the system to the previous state, as long as you backup it.
Step 1. Run the EaseUS Todo Backup, and find out the system backup history in manage window, click "Recover". Select a restore point according to its created time and source.
Step 2. Customize the destination location and confirm the recovery information, then click "Proceed" to recover.


Animal Control welcomes and appreciates volunteers. To volunteer just pick up an application at Animal Control, fill it out, and we will contact you when your application has been approved. Volunteers are used primarily to socialize the animals. This helps prepare them for adoption and also gives them the attention that is important for any prospective pet. Volunteers can also walk dogs and assist with adoptions. Volunteers can choose the hours they work between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., 7 days a week. Any time spent volunteering is greatly appreciated.
For more information, call Animal Control at 575-439-4330.
1. What projects require a building permit?
2. We can no longer care for our family pet. What options are available to us?
If you have to get rid of your pet for any reason, there are many options available. You can advertise in the local newspaper or on the radio. Most newspapers and radio stations offer free advertisements for pet giveaway. Local supermarkets have bulletin boards and allow pet owners to place flyers on these. Animal Control also has two bulletin boards. One is located inside the building and the other is located outside on the Southern wall.
If none of these resources work or if you must give your pet away immediately, you can do an owner impound at Animal Control for a $20 fee. If you do an owner impound please bring any shot records, vet records, and tags for your pet. These can greatly increase the chance of adoption for you pet.
3. Does Animal Control have a volunteer program? If so, how do I volunteer and what would my duties be?


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Unclaimed Death Benefits
A death benefit because of a life insurance company Have you been denied a death benefit because of a life insurance company's failure to inform you that an insured had passed away? Many states require insurers to turn over the proceeds of unclaimed death benefits to unclaimed property funds if they know that an insured has passed away, but are unable to locate a beneficiary. However, recent investigations have indicated that some insurance companies have failed to follow these regulations, even when they are well aware that an insured has died.
Our firm is offering free legal consultations to anyone denied a death benefit because of an insurer's questionable practices. To find out how we can help you, please contact one of our unclaimed life insurance death benefit lawyers today.
Some Life Insurers' Implementing Captive Reinsurance Claim Schemes to Defraud Policyholders
Some life insurers are engaging in abusive accounting practices, utilizing a strategy by which they significantly increase policyholders' Universal Life and/or Flexible Premium Adjustable Life policies' costs, monthly deductions, and/or premium payments. This typically occurs in policies in which the policyholder is older than 50 years of age and the policy covers a large face value. Insurers count on people purchasing these policies when they are young adults with beneficiaries unaware of the policies and with policyholders believing death benefits will be paid to their beneficiaries upon their deaths.
These schemes are unethical attempts by insurers to avoid life insurance claim payouts for the purpose of resolving their unjust use of captive reinsurance schemes. Universal life and flexible premium policyholders are sent letters advising of future, and considerable, increases. Often, insurers state that such increases are due to surges in mortality rates. To avoid coverage losses, consumers are forced to pay increases that may be triple or quadruple the original costs.
The strategy, by enabling insurers to receive greater profits at the expense of policyholders, causes financial tragedy for families denied access to their rightful benefits. Worse, many insurers attempt to ensure policyholders do not know of their options should they opt to close their policies or are unable to afford their policies. Because of this, tens of thousands of American seniors either allow their policies to lapse or rescind their policies yearly instead of pursuing other options that may provide better financial value.
For example, a life settlement transaction may bring four to eight times more money to a policyholder than what would have been paid by the insurer for a policy surrender; however, many insurers have avoided death benefit payouts and have kept information about life settlements from reaching a broad audience. In fact, most seniors over the age of 65 do not know about the option of selling their life policy; even more—90 percent—who have lapsed a policy may have considered selling the policy had they been aware that a life settlement was an option.
In one class action lawsuit filed in the District of Maryland, allegations included that a major life insurance company was imposing groundless insurance cost increases for the purpose of benefiting its shareholders and eliminating near-term liabilities—elderly policyholders—over the insurer's inappropriate handling of wholly owned captive reinsurance companies. Specifically, the insurer and its parent corporations developed a scheme to take funds meant to pay policyholder death claims and turn those funds into investor and executive staff benefits.
The insurer deceptively divested billions in liabilities to its wholly owned captives and other affiliates so that a fake surplus would appear on its balance sheets and it could pay hundreds of millions of dollars in what has been described as "extraordinary stockholder benefits." The insurer was, in fact, placing these funds into the wholly owned captive reinsurance companies, which were unable to satisfy assumed debts, to free the many millions of dollars that would be, in any other case, legally required to be held as reserves to pay death benefits. Meanwhile, the captive reinsurance companies were based in jurisdictions that permit reinsurers to not file public financials, effectively hiding the true purpose of the transactions.
To locate new cash to fund future dividends and to put off potential financial ruin over near-term liabilities, the insurer advised its policyholders that large insurance cost increases were required because the insurer had not appropriately considered future pay-outs, such as the number of death claims, when these claims would occur, for the length of time the insured would maintain their polices, how the firm's investments would perform, and the cost of policy administration. There was no indication prior to this insurer's 2015 letter to policyholders that its policies' profitability had become severely degraded. Rather, policyholders believed their policies were performing without issue and building cash value and found themselves, due to the insurers actions, either having to forfeit their policies or allow the cash values to be taken—actions that were the insurers ways to unethically cancel the policies or take accumulated policyholder savings.
New York Unclaimed Death Benefit Investigation
In the summer of 2011, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman expanded a probe into the way life insurance companies identify deceased insureds and pay death benefits. In July 2011, The Wall Street Journal reported that Scheiderman's office had issued subpoenas to nine life insurance companies: AXA SA, Genworth Financial Inc., Guardian Life Insurance Co. of America, Manulife Financial Corp., Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co., MetLife Inc., New York Life Insurance Co., Prudential Financial Inc., and TIAA-CREF.
The New York investigation is trying to determine if these life insurance companies are doing enough to identify deceased insureds and make payments to beneficiaries. The New York Attorney General is also trying to determine if the companies properly turned over unclaimed life insurance proceeds to the state's unclaimed property fund. Insurance companies can use a database prepared by the Social Security Administration called "Death Master," which lists all Americans who die to make such determinations. While is known that insurance companies use the database for other parts of their business, they often ignore its existence when it comes to making sure unclaimed death benefits are paid to the rightful beneficiaries.
The New York subpoenas were issued under the Martin Act, a state law that doesn't require prosecutors to prove intent to defraud. Originally passed in 1921, the Martin Act gives New York Attorney General exceptionally broad enforcement authority to bring both civil and criminal actions. The Martin Act also grants the Attorney General extremely broad investigative authority, including the ability to subpoena any document from anyone doing business in New York. New York regulators contend failure to comply with a Martin Act investigative subpoena can constitute prima facie proof of fraud.
California Unclaimed Death Benefit Investigation
In the spring of 2011, the California Insurance Commissioner also embarked on an investigation of life insurance death benefit payouts. Like the New York investigation, the California probe focused on whether unclaimed death benefits were paid in a timely manner, either to named beneficiaries or to the state after a company had learned that an insured person has died. As part of the probe, the California Insurance Commissioner issued subpoenas to MetLife, Prudential Insurance Co. of America, Nationwide Life Insurance Co., The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc., Sun Life Financial Inc., New York Life Insurance Co., The Lincoln National Life Insurance Co., Pacific Life Insurance Co., John Hancock Life Insurance Co. and Aegon Group. At the time the subpoenas were issued, California had already settled a similar complaint against John Hancock valued at $20 million.
Florida Unclaimed Death Benefit Investigation
In May 2011, the state of Florida convened a hearing to determine whether or not life insurers were properly handling unclaimed death benefits. During the hearing, the Florida Insurance Commissioner said the state's audits and examinations of the 40 largest insurance groups may go on for another 18 to 24 months. The commissioner also asserted that the investigation could recoup "north of $1 billion" for both beneficiaries and state unclaimed property funds. In connection with the probe, Florida announced on May 18 that John Hancock had reached a settlement with the state, and had agreed to pay $2.4 million for "investigative costs and attorneys fees," and establish a $10 million fund to pay back beneficiaries of life insurance policies. The $10 million fund is slated to l be used to return monies to beneficiaries as they are located, including interest payments owed since the date of death.
State Task Force Unclaimed Death Benefit Probe
In May 2011, a task force was established through the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) by regulators in 10-states to investigate whether a number of large life insurance companies failed to pay death benefits to beneficiaries. The alleged practices targeted by the investigation include use of the Death Master File by insurers for purposes of terminating payments under annuity contracts, but failure to use this same information to facilitate the payment of claims on life insurance policies. State members of the task force include California, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Dakota, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
Unclaimed Death Benefit Investigations
Several states are investigating various insurance companies over the handling of unclaimed death benefits. In some of these instances, it has been revealed that insurance companies often learn of the deaths of insured individuals via various databases, including one operated by the Social Security Administration called "Death Master," which lists all Americans who die. In some cases, despite knowing of their death, life insurer companies continued taking premium payments from the policyholder's account until the cash reserves were used up, and then canceled the life insurance contract. At the same time, these insurers use the information gleaned from the "Death Master" and other databases to justify cutting off annuity payments for customers who had died.
Insurers claim their actions are lawful, and they assert that they are only legally obligated to pay death benefits if a beneficiary or other party makes proper notification of a death. According to a report published by The Wall Street Journal in April 2011, some states don't see it that way, however. In at least two – Florida and California – "regulators are questioning if the legal dynamics change if insurers learn of a customer's death while monitoring databases to determine when to cut off retirement-income checks such as annuity payments." Regulators in those states have issued subpoenas to insurance companies to testify at hearings into their practices.
According to the same Journal report, Manulife Financial Corp.'s John Hancock unit became the first insurer to disclose a settlement with officials over the issue of unclaimed death benefits, saying it had agreed with 23 states to set up a system to determine which policies should be handed over to those states. The insurer, however, still maintains it had not violated any laws.
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Have you chatted lately with anyone in their 20s about the so-called road to success? If you're a Baby Boomer or older, you may have noticed that they don't go about things the way we did.
Climbing career ladders is a thing of the past. Job-hopping is a given — once every 18 months for 20-somethings, according to Penelope Trunk, author of The Brazen Careerist: The New Rules for Success (Warner Business Books, 2007). And job hunting is a constant, an ongoing process of networking and skills building, Trunk told me in a phone interview.
One other thing: For members of Generation Y, entrepreneurship is not a distant option. Technology makes it easy to start a business with little or no capital investment; necessary software often can be downloaded for free; online social networking offers a free marketing channel, and cell phones and laptops mean you can work anywhere.
Many 20-somethings see entrepreneurship as a "safety net" when no decent jobs are available, Trunk said. Her point is especially relevant on the Cape, where young people may find business opportunities more abundant than good jobs.
I was reminded of Trunk's comments earlier this month when I heard Chris Wilson speak at a marketing seminar about online networking. At 24, Wilson is right in step with the "nimble and quick" approach Trunk deems essential in today's world.
Raised in Sandwich, where his family owns the Belfry Inn, Wilson moved back to the Cape from Arizona last year after a cycling accident left him with two broken arms and derailed ambitions as a competitive cyclist.
Not long after, he kicked his keen entrepreneurial drive, likely inherited from his dad, into high gear. Now, in addition to working 20 to 30 hours a week at a "paying job," usually as a bartender, he's involved in four — yes, four — local business startups.
There's Whipkick, a marketing services firm offering what Wilson calls podium promotion; capethings.com, an e-commerce venture that strikes me as quite promising; a partnership in a Web-based, Cape-branded clothing line, and a sideline called Cape Bay Jeans.
"I have the normal pressures of any 24-year-old — parents telling you to get knowledge in a certain field, work five to eight years in a career, then come back and do whatever you do on your own," said Wilson, who is about a year away from his college degree. "But just because you're bartending at night doesn't mean you're not moving forward with your own thing."
Or in his case, four things.
I asked Wilson about something else Trunk observed about Generation Y — that they are "productivity mavens" who could teach older home-based business owners a thing or two about "keeping things moving faster."
He didn't disagree. "It's all about limiters. "¦ What limits you from being an entrepreneur is not your intelligence; the primary thing is your energy."
Energy, I would say, is a subject about which Chris Wilson knows a lot.
Marilee Crocker is a freelance writer and editor who lives in Brewster. Her column about home-based business runs the first and third Sundays of the month. You can reach her at marileecrocker@hotmail.com.


The Reaction Research Society (RRS) held another launch event at our private testing site, the Mojave Test Area (MTA), on October 27, 2018. We had a really big day in hosting a launch event for Weigand Elementary School and supporting the projects of several of our members. This was one of the more perfect days for a launch. The day time temperatures stayed below 90 degrees Fahrenheit and the winds were nearly still the whole day.
Our pyro-op for the event was John Newman, of the Friends of Amateur Rocketry (FAR) group.
John allowed myself, Dave Nordling, and Larry Hoffing apprentice under him for the event as we are both in training to become licensed pyrotechnic operators in California.
The RRS welcomed Weigand Elementary School and the Los Angeles Police Department's (LAPD) Community Service Program (CSP). They had just finished the six session program and had ten (10) alphas ready to launch.
RRS member, Michael Lunny, had come out to the MTA the week before to help Osvaldo with mixing of the micrograin propellant. The simple mixture of zinc and sulfur powders is relatively safe, but requires time to properly mix and load. With the larger demand for alpha rockets with school projects and our growing membership, it's no longer a process that can be done in the early morning hours before launch day.
RRS member Alastair Martin was at our event doing a great job in video-recording many aspects of our event. Alastair and Bill Janczewski, both newly elected to the position of Media Coordinator at the RRS, have been helping expand the presence of the RRS in social media and to the public at large.
Alastair got a lot of great shots and video-footage which I'll share as they come in. Some of the short videos and photos from the 2018-10-27 event are already posted on the RRS Instagram page.
Just before the briefing, two of our new members had the chance to experience loading their own alpha rockets with the micrograin propellant. Xavier Marshall and Wilbur Owens were coached in the process and got a first-hand feel for classic micrograin rocketry. Michael Lunny's alpha rocket was already set to go the week before when he helped Osvaldo load the ten alphas for Weigand Elementary.
We conducted our safety briefing at the beginning of the event before all present. We discussed the many natural and man-made hazards to help everyone become aware and be more safe. John Newman made us aware of a native species of snake, the Mojave Green Rattlesnake, which is sometimes known to become aggressive when discovered. The Wikipedia page is linked below.
Frank also reminded everyone about keeping their distance from the Desert Tortoise, which is a federally protected species that is also indigenous to the Mojave desert and the MTA. It isn't very common to see these animals during the height of the day, but everyone needs to be aware and take heed of their surroundings to protect themselves and the environment.
Besides avoiding heat exhaustion and spiders, collecting and properly disposing of trash, and maintaining their hydration, all attendees must remain under the cover of our reinforced bunker during hazardous operations. With the conclusion of the briefing, we proceeded to a propellant demonstration to show the combustion process on a sample of composite propellant and micrograin powder.
The next step was getting everyone into the bunker, while John Newman conducted the event as our pyro-op. Larry and I were on hand to assist in the loading and readiness for firing. The RRS alpha had a steel box frame launcher which is our preferred method of guiding these speedy metal rockets up and downrange west.
We got started loading them into the rack by the numbers. The kids did a great job of painting them and making them their own. Most importantly, they label them with large numbers. The color of the fins matter the most since that is the only part left sticking out of the ground at the end of flight.
After launching all ten of the rockets, we all took our lunch break. The day was very pleasant, but we all enjoyed a little bit of shade. After lunch, LAPD CSP packed everyone up for the long drive to Los Angeles.
We started working on membership projects starting with launching Michael's alpha. It's always rewarding to launch your first alpha and it's an experience that never gets old. It's usually one in a series to come. Big thanks to Michael for helping the society get ready for the event.
Xavier Marshall tried a new approach to launch by allowing me to use the fly-away railguide that I had customized for the 1.25″ RRS alpha propellant tube. Additive Aerospace makes many standard models which this one was derived from the 38 mm design.
The first rail launch of an RRS standard alpha was successful. The flyaway railguide seemed to hold as the micrograin rocket sped off the rails. We took video from the facing side of the rail to get a better look at the operation. I was able to get one good still from my camera phone video from the blockhouse. You can see the railguide just above the fins as the rocket has cleared the rails so the flyaway railguide has sprung open and now is free to tumble away.
The railguide fit to the alpha very well but the rail buttons were a little sticky as the rocket was slipped into place. I think the dusty aluminum rail is more to blame for this. The workmanship on these flyaway railguides from Additive Aerospace is quite good. Flying one of these devices with a micrograin rocket was expected to be challenging given the high acceleration that micrograin rockets are known for.
The railguide was not recovered intact. I recovered most of the pieces and the plastic end pieces showed fractures. It's not clear if the railguide broke on the ground from the fall, but given the spread of the pieces, it could be possible the sudden acceleration of the RRS alpha fractured the lower clamp as the rocket took off. Review of Alastair's video in slow motion may answer what the failure mode is. All pieces were recovered within 50 feet of the rail.
The recovered pieces of the flyaway rail guide. A successful launch but the mechanism didn't survive for more than one attempt.
Jack Oswald and his team had a set of sample end-burner motors with their next batch of propellant for burn-rate testing. After setting up the first motor, a key part was missing and the pressure transducer had to be mounted too close to the exit plume. It was expected that the pressure transducer wouldn't survive the first burn but the test was expected to take good data. The test was executed, but unfortunately the test over-pressurized due to the grain separating from its liner during the initial startup. A lot was learned but the other motors were not able to be tested.
Jack's BEM test starts out okay. A leakage stream is seen coming out the side.
My last photo taken of that day was the last of the three member alphas sitting in the box rails ready to go. Wilbur Owens had the honor of flying his first alpha rocket at sunset.
With the last of our thirteen alphas flying out, we proceeded with the first firing of the horizontal thrust stand built to test loaded alpha propellant tubes. Osvaldo made some modifications to my stout steel frame adapted to the concrete slab in front of the old RRS blockhouse. Dave Crisalli poured this concrete slab as a working platform in the 1970's. USC in recent times drilled the slab with 1/2″ female anchor bolts to test small 50-lbf motors. It made sense to use this existing foundation for our horizontal thrust stand.
Osvaldo uses his 185 lbf son, Matteo, as a quick load cell calibration check as Jack Oswald observes the 1124-lbf ranged load cell output on the laptop in the blockhouse. Awkward, but effective.
After some initial software and operator problems with getting and keeping the S-type load cell calibrated, the system was ready to go.
It has been MANY years since the RRS had made direct impulse measurements of an RRS alpha micrograin rocket, but we felt this hardware would be useful for other similar projects in our near future. Although horizontal testing of a micrograin rocket is not indicative of the actual vertical flight, we felt we could still learn much from this testing.
We retreated to the blockhouse and got the testing underway. After two false starts from the bunker, we got the alpha motor to fire in the horizontal position and captured it on video.
The results were good in that the load cell readings were captured and the structure adequately retained the rocket in its very brief (0.4 second) thrust bit. Osvaldo crunched the numbers from the readings we got from the test. Load cell readings indicated we reached a peak thrust of 544 lbf. Burn time was only 0.4 seconds.
The RRS is very grateful to Interface Force Inc. of Arizona for their generous donation of the S-type load cell we're using.
An S-type load cell, made by Interface Force Inc.
These devices are not very expensive ($350?? each) and are available in sizes from just 100 lbf to up to several thousand pounds. Button cells are more compact and also work well, but they tend to be more expensive.
The big surprise was that our concrete pad wasn't as well secured as we had hoped. The pad was only 6 inches thick which means that the slab was only an inch or so beneath the surface. I do recall being told this slab poured by RRS member, Dave Crisalli, in the 1970's, was only intended to be a working surface and that it wasn't very deep. USC in recent times had drilled the pad with 1/2″ female anchor bolts for a small 50-lbf.
The concrete slab held fast initially, but suddenly broke free displacing itself by over half its length.
Another observation was that we get a little bit of gas leakage at the end of the burn at the bulkhead. This has been seen in other alpha flight videos and thus it wasn't a surprise.
Osvaldo did not see any damage to the seals when we disassembled the rocket from the stand. This may be a weakness of the seal design but it doesn't seem to harm performance. More experimentation will shed light on this.
Check out the RRS Instagram page to see this footage. I'll be uploading it to our YouTube page soon as Instagram has a 60-second time limit for video.
While we were conducting test operations at the MTA, Wilbur Owens located his rocket downrange and started the laborious process of alpha recovery by shovel. Osvaldo's extractor tool has made short work of this step, but I don't know if it was available that day?
Jack and his team had a quantity of unspent composite propellant which had to be properly disposed. He had quite a bit from a failed attempt to cast a previous motor that hardened too quickly. The RRS MTA is a good place to do this. With the low winds, we are able to safely touch off the two batches in the waning hours of the day.
The first burn was the smaller of the two. The sun had already set so we were losing the light fast.
The first propellant disposal burn was a bit brighter than I thought but manageable.
With the light almost gone, the second batch lit up the night just for a brief moment before fading.
Frank had said that the LAPD CSP is looking to start the next school program in January of 2019. We are very grateful to the LAPD CSP for their continuous support to our classes. The RRS is proud to help the community by sharing the hobby we love.
As mentioned in our last monthly meeting, the next event with the RRS will be our visit to Chapter 96 of the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA). RRS members, Xavier Marshall and Wilbur Owens, invited the RRS membership to join them at their hangar at the Compton Airport on Saturday morning, November 3rd, at 10:00 AM. The RRS is interested in getting inexpensive shop space that is reasonably convenient to our membership residing in the Los Angeles area. The RRS is looking to help cultivate practical machining skills such as lathe work and milling. Many of our members already have these skills to some degree, but want to help other members become more adept at making their own nozzles, nosecones and other rocket parts.
The next RRS meeting will be November 9th at 7:30PM at the Ken Nakaoka Community Center in Gardena, California. We hope to have Jack Oswald and his team present their results. Despite the failure of the first and only sample hot-firing a great deal was learned which will make the next set of tests more likely to succeed.


Department of Orthopaedic, Sancheti Institute for Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, Pune, India.
Few months back, I wrote an editorial on 'Patient is the centre of all Medical Research' , and I believe this editorial is a follow up to the same. Many colleagues who read the earlier editorial contacted the editorial office and presented contrasting and conflicting opinions on the editorial. Most in principles agreed that the outcome of research should be beneficial to the patient, but had difficulty in accepting that research design should consider this as the major outcome measure rather than objective clinical outcome measures. The difficult was not is accepting that the final suit will be worn by the patient, but that the concept should be ingrained in the fabric of research itself.
Currently a lot of academic research is designed based on, finding the gap in literature or finding topics where the literature is sparse and trying to conduct a study to either establish or reinforce a particular hypothesis. Many a times the basis of original hypothesis is not really tested. For example few days back, I was attending a research meeting of physiotherapy masters students and one student wanted to do a study on 'Effect of therapy protocol 'A' on balance and proprioception in chronic stroke patient'. The further inquiry lead to fact that this protocol is simply a modification of an established protocol. When asked if there is any significant modification done, the answer were some additional exercises, however there was no rational behind adding those exercises, does this new protocol target something that was deficient in the established regimen or the modification was done simply to find a topic for thesis? Again a final query, whether the results of this research would impact the clinical practice or patient outcome, was not answered to satisfaction.
While writing research protocols, researchers do a good review and base their study hypothesis on the arguments from literature review. The hypothesis tries to establish scientific relation between variables and is in form of a question similar to what was posed in the above example. The aim of answering the hypothesis is to provide a scientific explanation of the topic that is studied. I believe in addition to hypothesis, every clinical project should also have the question that states 'how would result of this study affect clinical practice and patient care'. This 'Clinicothesis' [an intellectual proposition of Clinical value] is completely focuses on clinical and practical application of the results. From literature review we may conclude that a particular scientific hypothesis needs to be tested and will answer a scientific query. However if from literature review and also personal experiences the researcher come to a conclusion that doing this study would not impact patient care in any meanininful way (Clinicothesis), then it would be waste of resources to conduct the study. Thus at times these would be conflicting scientific and clinical propositions and in clinical studies it is wise to conduct studies where the clinical application has a solid base.
Probably this is what can be done to establish a patient centric medicine. The word 'Patient Centric Medicine' (PCM) was introduced by British psychoanalyst Balint E in 1969 , however I believe the context was quite different. The original concept was introduced against the illness based medicine that was prevalent in those days. The original movement was supported by many and a renewed focus on patient, the social context of his lives and also the system of society that help the patient were proposed to be taken into account while taking clinical decisions about patient . Although the original use was in different context of clinical practice yet it emphasised the importance of shifting the focus from the illness to the patient as a whole. I have used the word in contract to Evidence based Medicine to shift the focus from evidence back to patient again. This has been quite evident in small private case discussion forums where clinicians come together to discussion some complex cases. There are few who would simply quote papers and evidence to make a point, completely ignoring the patient factors and the operative surgeon's opinions. This doesn't mean EBM is not trying to be patient centric, just that we are trying to remind ourselves and the research community at large that Clinical paradigm and being patient centric is as important as choosing the correct evidence based research methodology. In that sense at times even biased studies would be more clinically relevant while some strictly unbiased studies might have no clinical relevance at all .
The main difference between EBM and PCM, is that EBM Tries to create the hierarchy of valid studies based on reduced bias, while PCM will try to create the hierarchy based on clinical relevance of the study. EBM is an excellent concept to design and execute studies and if it is combined with Clinicothesis and interpreted using PCM concept, the final outcome of studies will create real impact in real world of patient care and not simply exist in pages of journals.
We will continue to expand this concept in future editorial too, but to conclude patient oriented research based on valid Clinicothesis and interpretation of studies based on their PCM are important concepts to integrate to current academic research practices. Please write to us at editor.jocr@gmail.com for your comments and suggestions about the concept.
1. Shyam A. Patient is centre of all Medical Research. J Orthop Case Rep. 2016 Nov-Dec;6(5):1-2.
2. Balint E. The possibilities of patient-centered medicine. J R Coll Gen Pract. 1969 May;17(82):269-76.
4. Shyam A. Bias and the Evidence 'Biased' Medicine. J Orthop Case Rep. 2015 Jul-Sep;5(3):1–2.


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name "ncurses"
default_version "6.2"

dependency "libgcc"
dependency "libtool" if ohai["platform"] == "aix"
dependency "config_guess"

source url: "http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ncurses/ncurses-6.2.tar.gz",
       sha256: "30306e0c76e0f9f1f0de987cf1c82a5c21e1ce6568b9227f7da5b71cbea86c9d",
       extract: :seven_zip

relative_path "ncurses-6.2"

env = with_embedded_path
env = with_standard_compiler_flags(env, aix: { use_gcc: true })

########################################################################
#
# wide-character support:
# Ruby 1.9 optimistically builds against libncursesw for UTF-8
# support. In order to prevent Ruby from linking against a
# package-installed version of ncursesw, we build wide-character
# support into ncurses with the "--enable-widec" configure parameter.
# To support other applications and libraries that still try to link
# against libncurses, we also have to create non-wide libraries.
#
# The methods below are adapted from:
# http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/chapter06/ncurses.html
#
########################################################################

build do
  license "MIT"
  license_file "https://gist.githubusercontent.com/remh/41a4f7433c77841c302c/raw/d15db09a192ca0e51022005bfb4c3a414a996896/ncurse.LICENSE"

  env.delete("CPPFLAGS")

  update_config_guess

  # build wide-character libraries
  cmd_array = ["./configure",
           "--prefix=#{install_dir}/embedded",
           "--with-shared",
           "--with-termlib",
           "--without-debug",
           "--without-normal", # AIX doesn't like building static libs
           "--without-cxx-binding",
           "--enable-overwrite",
           "--enable-widec"]

  cmd_array << "--with-libtool" if ohai["platform"] == "aix"
  command(cmd_array.join(" "),
    env: env)
  command "make -j #{workers}", env: env
  command "make -j #{workers} install", env: env

  # build non-wide-character libraries
  command "make distclean"
  cmd_array = ["./configure",
           "--prefix=#{install_dir}/embedded",
           "--with-shared",
           "--with-termlib",
           "--without-debug",
           "--without-normal",
           "--without-cxx-binding",
           "--enable-overwrite"]
  cmd_array << "--with-libtool" if ohai["platform"] == "aix"
  command(cmd_array.join(" "),
    env: env)
  command "make -j #{workers}", env: env

  # installing the non-wide libraries will also install the non-wide
  # binaries, which doesn't happen to be a problem since we don't
  # utilize the ncurses binaries in private-chef (or oss chef)
  command "make -j #{workers} install", env: env

  # Ensure embedded ncurses wins in the LD search path
  if ohai["platform"] == "smartos"
    link "#{install_dir}/embedded/lib/libcurses.so", "#{install_dir}/embedded/lib/libcurses.so.1"
  end
end

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


As British Columbia's sweltering heat wave fades, hundreds of people living in the province's Interior who have been kept from their homes by nearby wildfires are being allowed to return.
Aug. 6, 2009 9:23 p.m.
VANCOUVER — As British Columbia's sweltering heat wave fades, hundreds of people living in the province's Interior who have been kept from their homes by nearby wildfires are being allowed to return.
More than 360 residents who were under evacuation orders because of the Terrace Mountain fire, north of Kelowna and near Fintry, will be allowed to return Thursday morning.
But they've been told not to get too comfortable.
"Those allowed to return will remain on evacuation alert and must be prepared, as they may have to leave the area again without much notice," said Bruce Smith, an information officer with the Regional District of Central Okanagan.
The Terrace Mountain blaze covers about 80 square kilometres. The fire is 40 per cent contained and is about one kilometre away from the nearest homes.
Residents of Fintry have been evacuated on two different occasions, once being told to pick up and leave just two days after returning home.
While hundreds have been told they can go back, about 2,150 also affected by the Terrace Mountain blaze still cannot. An additional 2,200 remain on evacuation alert and could be forced out at a moment's notice.
Fire information officer Mitch Miller said crews were able to hold the Terrace Mountain fire on Wednesday.
"We're continuing to work on our fireguards and I guess if the fire's not spreading, that makes it a successful day," he said.
Meanwhile, in Brookmere, south of Merritt, about 50 residents have been told they, too, will be allowed to return to their homes.
The residents were forced to flee on Sunday and the Brookmere fire is estimated at about 21 square kilometres. That fire is 30 per cent contained.
Alyson Couch, a fire information officer with the B.C. Forest Service, described Wednesday as a very good one for fire crews.
"We're seeing positives, we're seeing a progression in containing the fires," Couch said.
Though substantial progress is being made, Couch stressed it's too early to declare victory.
"Anything could happen," she said, adding that a windstorm could undo days of hard work.
But Isabelle Jacques, a fire information officer stationed at the Mount McLean blaze near Lillooet, said she and fire officials at the scene can see light at the end of the tunnel.
Jerry Sucharyna, an information officer with the District of Lillooet, said no decision has yet been made on when more than 2,000 residents evacuated from Lillooet because of the Mount McLean fire can return.
"We will let everybody know as soon as we know," Sucharyna said.
The Mount McLean fire is 38 square kilometres and is not contained. It has sat one kilometre outside the Lillooet city limits for several days.
Sucharyna conceded some of the Lillooet residents are itching to return home.
"Everybody wants to go home. Who wouldn't want to?" he said.
Dan Immel, a pilot with Oregon-based Columbia Helicopters, has been dropping water and flame retardent on the Mount McLean blaze since arriving at the site earlier this week.
Immel said from up above, Lillooet appears to be doing just fine.
"I don't think it's going to be much longer before they let folks back in, would be my guess," Immel said.
Immel described being part of the effort to save homes in Lillooet as very rewarding. And, of course, the job has its perks.
"It's kind of like a giant video game," he said.
Columbia Helicopters has sent two of its aircraft to B.C. to help fight the wildfires.


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Home Car News Holden boss Dave Buttner resigns after the company posts its lowest sales...
Holden boss Dave Buttner resigns after the company posts its lowest sales since 1948
By- Anoj Kumar
Monday, 2 December 2019, 10:42 EST
Modified date: Monday, 2 December 2019, 10:42 EST
Holden boss Dave Buttner has resigned as chairman and managing director after only 16 months in the work among the shortest tenures in the company's 71-year history following the lowest earnings because the company was formed at 1948.
The former Toyota executive order had come out of retirement to become just the second Australian boss to run Holden after it was directed for 25 years by overseas executives. Mr Buttner had vowed to turn Holden around after the shutdown of Australian automobile manufacturing in October 2017.
However, Holden that had 50 per cent of the full automobile market in the 1950s, and has been last Australia's top-selling new in 2002 has fought to remain inside the Top 10 vendors list within the previous two years.
So far this season Holden has published a 26.6 percent decrease in sales over three occasions the rate of the market downturn of 8.0 per cent using its five cheapest yearly outcomes in 71 years: September (2863), October (3086), July (3266), April (3483) and February (3825).
The September 2019 result was that the first time the monthly sales tally of Holden had dipped under 3000, which was enough to push at the brand.
It's understood senior Holden team were informed via email this morning, although traders had not been informed as this article was written.
A copy of this Holden bulletin obtained by CarAdvice says: "Since his appointment at 2018, Dave has pushed a clear focus In Holden since it moved with the marketplace to a predominantly truck (ute) and SUV portfolio. Professionalism and his experience have been significant Assets for Holden via a difficult period."
"Early in his tenure, Dave established the Leadership for Holden to earn its way on ute buyers in Australia and New Zealand and the consideration record for SUV. He has led the implementation of important projects to support this vision, including a substantial reinvestment in reinventing the Holden brand."
Mr Buttner is going to be replaced by Kristian Aquilina as chairman. Mr Aquilina is Holden's executive director of sales, marketing, and aftersales.
Mr Aquilina has been in roles Using Holden for 22 years before returning as advertising director and was managing director of Holden towards the end of June 2018 in New Zealand from 2014.
The private bulletin to Holden Staff issued now by Julian Blissett, General Motors' senior vice president of international operations, thanked Mr Buttner (envisioned Above) for his leadership at Holden and asked employees to provide Mr Aquilina (pictured below) that their"full service" in his new function.
Dave Buttner
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That Sugar Film (Blu-ray, MADMAN ENTERTAINMENT, PG)
THAT SUGAR FILM is one mans journey to discover the bitter truth about sugar. Damon Gameau embarks on a unique experiment to document the effects of a high sugar diet on a healthy body, consuming only foods that are commonly perceived as healthy. Through this entertaining and inf...ormative journey, Damon highlights some of the issues that plague the sugar industry, and where sugar lurks on supermarket shelves. THAT SUGAR FILM will forever change the way you think about healthy food.
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Steven Universe Season 2 (Blu-ray, PG)
Believe in Steven! Steven Universe is a half-human, half-Gem hero who's learning to save the world with the magical powers that come from his belly-button. Steven may not be as powerful as his intergalactic warrior companions, the Crystal Gems. Or as smart. But that doesn't stop ...him from joining Garnet, Amethyst and Pearl in their magical adventures - where Steven always finds a surprising way to save the day. Contains all 26 episodes from Steven Universe Season 2.
I Want To Eat Your Pancreas (Blu-ray, PG)
A high school boy stumbles across a secret journal in a hospital one day. He soon finds out the diary belongs to his classmate, a girl named Sakura Yamauchi, who is revealed to be suffering from a terminal illness in her pancreas and only has a few months left to live. A secret t...hey share that brings their hearts closer together.
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Parasite (Blu-ray, R13)
Ki-taek's family of four is close, but all are unemployed and the future looks bleak. However, when the son, Ki-woo is recommended by a fellow university student friend for a well-paid tutoring job, hope spawns for a regular income. Carrying the expectations of the family, Ki-woo... arrives at the house of Mr. Park, the owner of a global IT firm, where he meets Yeon-kyo, the young lady of the house. The job interview is a success and soon Ki-woo begins work. But very soon, following this first meeting between the two families, an unstoppable string of mishaps lies in wait Winner of the Palme dOr (Best Film award) at the Cannes Film Festival and the Sydney Film festival Official Competition the first ever for a Korean film this family tragicomedy is the latest masterpiece from Bong Joon-Ho, the director of The Host and Snowpiercer. PARASITE confirms his position as one of the worlds most inventive and captivating filmmakers.
Mystify - Michael Hutchence (Blu-ray, M)
MYSTIFY MICHAEL HUTCHENCE is a powerfully intimate and insightful portrait of the internationally renowned frontman of INXS, Michael Hutchence. Deftly woven from an extraordinary archive of rich imagery, Michaels private home movies and those of his lovers, friends, and family, t...he film delves beneath the public persona of the charismatic Rock God and transports us through the looking glass to reveal a multifaceted, intensely sensitive and complex man. For an all too brief time, we revel in Michaels Dionysian beauty and sensuality on stage and off. We listen to the range of his extraordinary voice and witness the charmed way he travels through life as he is propelled to world acclaim. But Michael struggled with the idea of success, the creative limits of pop stardom and how to express his integrity; a longing that shaped his life and music and gave birth to a desire to go far beyond the constraints of pop.A violent event strikes Michael and changes his life dramatically, fracturing his sense of self and robbing him of his connection to life. Made vulnerable, he is unable to navigate the complex challenges he faces, and has little defence against the onslaught of the tabloid press that descend on his world. Amidst the darkness, Michaels newborn daughter, Tiger, becomes his one bright light. MYSTIFY MICHAEL HUTCHENCE is written and directed by Richard Lowenstein, director of the majority of both INXS and Michael's music videos and the 1986 feature film, Dogs in Space, in which Michael played the lead.
ACCA Blu-ray + DVD : Complete Series (Blu-ray, PG)
ACCA is a giant organization formed long ago by the threat of a coup d'tat. Now residing over the thirteen autonomous regions of a kingdom, it has continued to protect the peace of civilians for almost one hundred years. One of the most cunning men in ACCAs history, Jean Otusnick...named Jean the Cigarette Peddlerhas taken on the role of vice-chairman of the Inspection Department. Always smoking a cigarette, he wanders the thirteen districts, keeping an eye out for foul play. Little does he know that someone is keeping an eye on him. From peaceful daily snacks to threatening rumors, Jeans quiet life is slowly getting swallowed up by the worlds conspiracies
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Expanse, The Season 3 (Blu-ray, R13)
As the war between Earth and Mars ignites across the solar system, the terrifying next phase in the evolution of the protomolecule threatens the very existence of humanity. Caught in the middle, the Rocinante crew struggles to deal with tensions amongst themselves, while striving... to survive and aid those in peril.
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Impulse Season 1 (Blu-ray, M)
Based on the third novel in the Jumper series by Steven Gould, Impulse follows 16-year-old Henrietta, aka Henry Coles - an outsider in her new town of Reston, New York. With a major chip on her shoulder and no friends, she remains withdrawn and isolated, but everything changes wh...en a traumatic encounter with a classmate triggers something deep within Henry unleashing a power she cannot control - she has the ability to teleport.
Mirai (Blu-ray, PG)
From acclaimed director Mamoru Hosoda (Summer Wars, Wolf Children) and Japans Studio Chizu comes MIRAI, a daringly original story of love passed down through generations. When four-year-old Kun meets his new baby sister, his world is turned upside down. Named Mirai (meaning futur...e), the baby quickly wins the hearts of Kuns entire family. As his mother returns to work, and his father struggles to run the household, Kun becomes increasingly jealous of baby Mirai until one day he storms off into the garden, where he encounters strange guests from the past and future including his sister Mirai, as a teenager. Together, Kun and teenage Mirai go on a journey through time and space, uncovering their familys incredible story. But why did Mirai come from the future? Continuing to cement his status among Japans best animation directors, Hosoda brings his trademark balance of gorgeous visuals and heartfelt emotion to this ingenious take on a highly relatable scenario tenderly drawn from his own experiences as a father.
Penguin Highway (Blu-ray, PG)
Budding genius Aoyama is only in the 4th grade, but already lives his life like a scientist. When penguins start appearing in his sleepy suburb hundreds of miles from the sea, Aoyama vows to solve the mystery. When he discovers that the arrival of the penguins is related to a mys...terious young woman from his dentist's office, they team up for an unforgettable summer adventure!


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Lip-Syncing for Change
McGillicuddy's revenge
Mechanical Headphones
Melodies of Movement
Metric Music
Molecular Biologist - Heal Thyself
Moon Echo Fugue
Music Church
Music demixulator
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decimalising music; replacing the octave with the decave; making it metrical to bring music in line with brussels.
Pythagoras devised the tuning system which, at least until the renaissance, dominated music theory. It is based on the following proportions: Octave = 2/1 Fifth = 3/2 Fourth = 4/3. Later, 'even tuning' modified the Pythagorean system providing a more pleasing sound. However, we've been bored of it all along. Medieval monks invented modality to try to inject a bit of zing into diatonic composition, and from Bach onwards chromaticism was flirted with until in the 20th century had an efflorescence in atonality and polytonality, which even today everyone thinks sounds 'orrible. There are many tuning systems throughout the world, from the earscraping clash of chinese systems to the giddy trip of the indian. But they're just crazy.
I propose an entirely different system to all. The decimalisation of music. Making music metrical. In a flash, the tired old scale harmonies of western music will be rejuvenated as we translate the canon into decative music. It is also a statement of progressiveness. As more countries join Europe where the metric system is applied, it is important that the new look of the world is complemented by a new sound.
The rewards are enormous. Everything will sound like Captain Beefheart. No more Britney Spears or the Eastenders theme, no Sound of Music (unless we rewrite *that* song replacing doh-ray-me-fah-so-la-te-doh with the numbers 0-9 which are the basis of the metrical system in music (with semitones no longer called sharps or flats but rather a more objective and decorous .5).)
The main notes would be the cardinal numbers and the .5s between. Thus, there would be 20 official notes, with others available if the need for accuracy is paramount in a given composition (say, if writing a piece about the fact that the average number of arms is not 2, but something like 1.99 given that most of us have 2 but a few have 1 or 0 (thus, whereas 50% are usually above average it is the case that nearly everyone has an above average number of arms).)
The extra notes would require bigger instruments to make fingering possible by anyone bigger than an osmond, so music would become lower. This would spell the end to chirpy highpitched radio dross aimed at tone-deaf toddlers, and a new era of plaintively lower-register music. Which might usher in a more reflective era of history; perhaps a new Enlightenment sensibility would arise, and peace on earth.
I've even composed a song to help garner support for this project:
"7 diatonic notes - no thanks, I've got 10
12 chromatic notes - no ta, i've got vingt"
(repeat 9 times & DS al coda)
[It occurs to me that in the decimal system music would be even more receptive to mathematical permutation than it already is. We might see 'God Save the Queen' divided by 'The Star Spangled Banner' and performed in the National Theatre sounding like 'Land of Two Rivers']
— JOC, Feb 11 2004
Wow. You thought it sounded bad before? Those ratios are there for a reason. Bone.
— yabba do yabba dabba, Feb 11 2004
[rods tiger] Uh oh, nothing there this time!
We need a standard "Middle C". I propose that this standard be defined as the pitch created by the forced expulsion of 1 liter of air at 0 degrees celsius out of a balloon at 1 kilometer per hour.
— Rubi, Feb 11 2004
There is a standard middle C... it's defined as the C below the 440 Hz A note. Can't get much more standard than that.
Regarding the idea - the author clearly wrote it not having actually ever heard what the scales would be like (or with no concern for it). Cacaphony.
Having said that, there are many atypical non-Western scales from around the world, several with 20 tone equal temperament (what the author describes) per octave. Many have more tones than that - there's even one East Indian scale with something like 50 notes in the scale. So quite baked, really, but it sounds like fuck, which is why we don't use it much.
— waugsqueke, Feb 11 2004
Um, metric? Then not only would you have Standard vs. Metric for measuring speed and rice and such, you'd have the clash between America and Everyone Else for music, too? No, I don't think so. <sniffle> Imagine those poor little kids learning to play the clarinet and having all the music change. </sniffle>
— spacecadet, Feb 12 2004
The good news: Music already is metrical.
The bad news: Metrical doesn't mean what you think it does.
The really bad news: This would sound terrible. Like [waugsqueke] says, only kiloterrible if you really like to talk metrically.
— swamilad, Feb 12 2004
This is the same sort of negative response we had before the metric hour. And now look who's laughing. Oops 5:61 is that the time already I must be going.
— PainOCommonSense, Feb 12 2004
While the scales are there for a reason, I have always had trouble with the measures for time and duration of notes. Rather than use measures, beats, half-beats, all in different times, I beleive it would work better to use a system based on the second or miliseconds.
Yes, our musical system could be simplified, but certain things are there for a reason.
— discontinuuity, Jul 25 2005
Better to stick with the current scale.
You could apply decimilization to the time signature, however. 10/0.1 time, where there are ten beats in a bar, and each tenth note gets one beat.
— Cuit_au_Four, Jul 26 2005
That would be 100/10, no? Time signatures should never require decimalization.
— daseva, Jul 26 2005
The 4 in 2/4 time signature means that a quarter note counts as one beat. So that would be 10/10.
— yabba do yabba dabba, Jul 27 2005
//We need a standard "Middle C". I propose that this standard be defined as the pitch created by the forced expulsion of 1 liter of air at 0 degrees celsius out of a balloon at 1 kilometer per hour// SI standards would be expressed in metres cubed, kelvin and metres per second.
— AbsintheWithoutLeave, Jul 27 2005
There is so much that is wrong here! 12 equal temperament does not provide a more //pleasing sound// than Pythagorean; it does close the pythagorean comma and provide a good approximation to 3 prime intervals and a recognisable approximation to 5 prime intervals, and as such has some musical value; I rarely use it personally. 53 and 152 equal temperaments, for example, provide excellent approximations of many interesting intervals. 10 and 20 equal temperaments, to my ear, have no musical value. I can provide some examples if anyone is interested.
— spidermother, May 31 2006


Kunsthalle Exnergasse invites you to submit exhibition proposals for the year 2015. Corresponding exhibition programmes are decided in a 2-step application and review process upon by an advisory board. Current board members: Maria Bergstötter, Andrea Löbel, Paul Petritsch, Maruša Sagadin, Claudia Slanar.
Submissions for solo exhibitions will not be reviewed. We only accept applications via the Online Application Form.
Please read carefully the below listed guidelines regarding the application and review process and the available facilities of Kunsthalle Exnergasse before submitting your proposal.
The application and review process consists of 2 steps.
The advisory board will review the applications and pre-select a short list of up to 20 project proposals for step 2.
Through your own user account you can edit your application. Once you have submitted the application, you will not be able to make any changes, or resubmit. Incomplete application forms will not be considered. You will receive an e-mail confirmation of your successful submission. If you do not, please send an email to exhibition.proposal[@]wuk.at.
Please do not call or email to inquire about results. Final results will be emailed to all submitters. No calls please.
These pre-selected projects will be invited to submit a more developed proposal including additional information on the artists and their works. Kunsthalle Exnergasse and an advisory board will then make the final selection of projects. The selected projects will be presented at Kunsthalle Exnergasse in 2015. All projects in step 2 will be informed about the results via email.


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The Process Dashboard development team is pleased to announce a valuable and unprecedented training opportunity.
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Successful project management leverages well-chosen tools to establish an empowered culture. Accordingly, tool expertise (or lack thereof) can either be a key enabler or a limiting factor for the speed and effectiveness of your process improvement efforts. This tutorial shows participants how to perform many fundamental and advanced project management techniques using the open-source Process Dashboard application.
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Participants will be provided with the mindset, experience and skills to use the tool more effectively so their teams and organizations can work smarter, with less overhead.
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Following are links to several worthwhile articles on the first anniversary of George W. Bush's departure from office — most of which appeared as part of a "One Year Gone" collection at Big Hollywood. I'm in agreement regarding the unhinged viciousness with which President Bush was vilified, as well as his accomplishments and faults. Do read at least the first few — they're well worth it.


Confidence: Once you are done with aerobatic training then you will be more confident in your approach. There is nothing better than finishing of a challenging task. During your training phase you get to learn all the important recovery actions that help you during any difficult situation. This gives you the confidence to fly the plane during different conditions and get rid of the fear.
Knowledge: You need to have full knowledge of all the aspects related to aerobatics. One cannot get to fly a plane if he does not have proper knowledge in this field. Whether it is about steel roof construction or flying a plane it is really important to have proper knowledge. You just need to be a pro in order to become a pilot. You not only risk your life but you risk the life of others without proper knowledge. During your aerobatic training you not only get to learn about the different tactics involved in the field of flying but the instructors also make you mentally strong. They train you to face all the hardships that can come in your way and give you the motivation to get rid of any kind of fear. The psychological training is as important as the engineering aspects involved in this field.
Kinesthetic feel: You need to be aware of the capabilities of the plane that you are flying. It is important that you understand the load factor and carry objects that meet the capacity of the plane. There are different "G" loads in the plane and you need to be aware of the kinesthetic feel in a coordinated flight. You need to be instinctively correct when you're flying the plane. Go with your instincts and do what you feel would be the best. Aerobatic training helps you in making correct decisions at the right time. If you are not able to take the right decision on time then you might land in trouble. This training gives you the power to take instinctive decision without compromising on the safety.
Proper motor skills: Professionalism is important in every field and same is the case with aircraft. You get to learn proper motor skills when you go through aerobatic training and this helps you in the long run. These skills are really important when there is any kind of turbulence or your flight goes through unwanted conditions. Motor skills can come in handy during a crash or when your plane is not able to land properly. It helps in understanding any kind of unusual behavior and maneuver the flight successfully. Physically practicing this method can help in improving your instincts.
Aerobatics involves death-defying stunts and adrenaline-pumping sorties that can be scary for most but incredibly invigorating for some, especially those trainee pilots who have to undergo several hours of acrobatic training. Only a handful amongst us is fortunate enough to man the controls of a fighter or acrobatic aircraft that has to be maneuvered dexterously while performing those spine-chilling stunts. It surely gives the pilot a high to completely turn the aircraft upside down or fly it dangerously low to the ground defying gravity.
But are you aware that every such daredevil feat is the culmination of endless hours of extremely regimented training? Only a few are chosen to sit inside the cockpit after meticulously screening thousands of overenthusiastic applicants. From the time aerobatics originated, this aerial or airborne sport has evolved tremendously. Following are some facts about this aerobatics that are as intriguing and fascinating as the sport itself.
The credit of performing the first aerobatic feat goes to Wright brothers-Orville and Wilbur-who were also the first to fly an improvised version of an airplane. It was in the month of September in 1904 that the brothers made the plane (which they'd constructed themselves) take a complete 360˚ turn. They pulled off this heart-stopping feat in the absence of ailerons (present in modern-day aircrafts) that are instrumental in making the aircraft tilt to the right or left rendering the stunt unmistakably death-defying.
Lincoln Beachley, an American pilot is regarded as the 'father of aerobatics' since he was the one who pioneered this mid-air sport. He amused and thrilled crowds by enacting 'death dips'.
It was in the year 1927 in Zurich, Switzerland where the first ever international aerobatic event was staged.
The names or terminologies of the aerobatics feats or tricks are as bizarre and exotic as the exploits. Sample these-Chandelle, Dive, Loop, Roll, Barrel Roll, Wingover, Hammerhead turn, and Cuban Eight.
Since 1950, not a single pilot has met with a fatalistic mishap while performing stunts or feats up in the air.


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It's my fault. I have a nifty process for preventing spam comments, and it requires an extra step. I labelled the buttons for the three steps Preview, Save, Confirm. I can now see that leaves the impression that your comment is already saved at the second step (it isn't). I have fixed the button labels to reflect what's really happening. They are now Preview, Confirm, Save.


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The Garden of Betrayal
Written By: Lee Vance
Narrated By: Mark Deakins
Manhattan, 2002: Mark Wallace has it all—he's married to Claire, the love of his life; they have two bright, beautiful children, and his is a high-powered Wall Street job. Until one night while on a neighborhood errand by himself, his twelve-year-old son, Kyle, vanishes, brutally snatched off the streets of New York.
Seven years later, Kyle has never been found. The loss, guilt, and mystery surrounding their son's disappearance have almost destroyed the Wallaces' marriage, leaving their daughter alienated and distant. Mark has thrown himself into his work—he is now an energy markets consultant for a private hedge fund run by the father of a friend—and, though successful, is living on emotional autopilot.
Now, on the same day that a natural gas pipeline in remote western Russia is blown up by suspected terrorists, a new lead opens in Kyle's case. When the very next day a colleague slips Mark classified information on Saudi oil production and then suddenly turns up dead, apparently a suicide, it remains for Mark, with the help of his technophile daughter and still-grieving wife, to find the sinister connections among everything that's going on. Their personal struggle is equally compelling—three people who must once again learn how to be a family.
Politically savvy, emotionally complex, and frighteningly believable, The Garden of Betrayal is a tense and timely imagining of the casualties of recession-era Wall Street gaming and the backroom global oil wars, a riveting, compulsive read that will grip you from first page to last. It also places Lee Vance on the level of today's best and best-selling thriller writers—Richard North Patterson, Christopher Reich—who not only thrill us but make us think.
Garden of Betrayal
by Lee Vance
This title is due for release on August 3, 2010.
This title is due for release on August 3, 2010


Each ailment has its recommended number of sessions. After reviewing your New Client Form I will let you know how many sessions to expect.
Some people experience relief after their first session. Others need a few sessions or more. Every ailment is different. A cough or cold may heal in one session, whereas a healing for stress may need a couple sessions before there is complete relief.
Around your physical body is your energy body. This is the blueprint for everything that is going on in your life. It's through cleansing and energizing this energy body and its chakras that rapid healing occurs.
A Pranic Healer never uses their own energy. Rather, we use our body as an instrument for the healing.
All sessions are non-touch. Our main tool is our hands. The Pranic energy comes through our system and is directed to the client and area in need.
Pranic Healing can get very specific and is very detailed oriented.
Through a technique called 'Scanning' we are able to feel the chakras, organs, energy body, all systems of the physical body and anything else that may be causing problems.
A chakra is an energy center. It has a physical, psychological and spiritual function. It draws prana into our system and sends it to the corresponding organs. The chakra also expels used up prana from these areas.
The chakras are acupuncture points. The location of these points are further described in the book 'The Chakra and their Functions' by Master Choa Kok Sui.
Prana is a Sanskrit word meaning 'life force'.
Every culture has its version of this word. In China there is 'chi', in Japan, 'ki', in the Polynesian tradition there is 'mana' and so forth.
For our bodies to be healthy and strong we need prana. The same goes for our projects, finances, relationships and our emotional health.
The Prana we work with comes from the Air, Earth and the Trees. Each one is very important and plays a vital role in the health of our body and our lives. These principles are discussed further in Level 1 Pranic Healing.
How is this different from Reiki?
All healing comes from the same place.
Pranic Healing is different in that it focuses on cleansing. Alot of healing modalities don't clean first. Sometimes 70% of the Pranic Healing session is just cleansing.
Pranic Healers clean out the blockages, negative thought forms, emotions... anything at all causing problems. After the area, organ or chakra is clean, THEN we go in and energize.
We also use an 'energetic garbage can' to throw the dirty energy in to. This prevents the healer and the client from getting contaminated.
Pranic Healers focus heavily on energetic hygiene. In Pranic Healing classes, you will learn many techniques to maintain healthy energy levels.
Can you guarantee I will be healed?
No. I cannot make any guarantees or promises. While I have seen many miraculous cases and watched many people be healed, there are many factors involved. These factors include right diet, lifestyle choices and more.


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IPv4 Addressing
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TCIP/IP IP address organized into four segments consisting of numbers separated by periods. It represents a 32-bit integer whose binary values identify the network and host. It supports 4.2 billion hosts. A host has several interfaces with its IP address. One connects to the LAN and other to the Internet by using two Ethernet cards.
A host address divided into two parts:
identifies the network and
identifies a particular host
Class-based IP addressing
It designates officially predetermined parts of the address for the network and host addresses
IP addresses organized into three classes depending on their size – A, B, and C.
Class A: Uses only the first segment for the network address and the remaining three for the host.
Class B: uses two segments making up 16-bit integers whose maximum value is 65,534.
Class C: The first three segments used to identify the network, each identifies a subnet, and the last-segment identifies the host. Most IP addresses reference class C networks.
Classless Interdomain Routing (CIDR) addressing
It determines hosts-address-parts dynamically using a netmask, designed for midsized networks with hosts greater than 256 and smaller than 65,534.
The netmask has the network set of bits set to 1s, with the host bits set to 0s. All the numbers in the network part of the host address set to 255, and the host part set to 0. So the netmask for Class C host address is 255.255.255.0.
In Classless Interdomain Routing (CIDR), the netmask determined by the network class. The number specifies the size of the network address and attached to the end of the IP address. An IP address whose network part takes up to the first three bytes, the number of bits used for the network part is 24 (8 x 3). The number of network size is attached to the end of the host address with a slash like 192.168.1.44/24. CIDR gives an advantage of specifying network size of any size in bits like 14, 22, or even 25, and the host address uses the remaining leftover.
Left Over Bits
Maximum Number of Hosts
/8 24 /255.0.0.0 16,777,215 (A Class)
/16 16 /255.255.0.0 65,534 (B Class)
/17 15 /255.255.128.0 32767
/19 13 /255.255.224.0 8191
/23 9 /255.255.254.0 511
/24 8 /255.255.255.0 255 (C Class)
/25 7 /255.255.255.128 127
/26 6 /255.255.255.192 63
/29 3 /255.255.255.248 7
Subnetting
CIDR allows a network administrator to officially take host part of an IP address and break it up into subnetworks with fewer hosts. A network on the Internet has an official IP address which network administrator using CIDR network masking creates smaller networks.
Reserved Addresses
The number 127, 0, or 255 cannot be part of an official IP address.
Network Address 127.0.0.0 and IP address 127.0.0.1: Designate the network address for the loopback interface of the system. It enables a user to communicate with each other within the system, without having to route through a network connection.
255: A unique broadcast identifier used to broadcast messages to all sites on a network. It references all nodes connected at that level. The host part address set to 255 for a broadcast address, leaving the network part untouched.
Reserved for non-Internet LANs (RFC 1918): Small businesses or Home networks are free to use 192.168 (for Class networks) numbers on local machines. They can set up Intranet using network cards (Ethernet cards or hubs) and configure devices with IP addresses starting from 192.168.1.1. The host segment can go up to 256.
Gateway Addresses 192.168.1.1: Networks connected to the Internet or extensive network provides a gateway address. Connections from a network to other network passes through this gateway.
IPv6 and IPv4 Coexistence Methods
IETF methods fo providing IPv6 and IPv4 cooperation:
Dual-stack: Allows IPv4 and IPv6 to coexist on the same networks
Translation: It uses NAT tables which enables IPv6 devices to communicate with IPv4 devices freely
Tunneling: Allows transmission from one IPv6 network to another through IPv4 networks that cannot handle IPv6 addresses. Also allowing IPv6 hosts to operate on or through IPv4 networks. IPv6 packets encapsulated within the IPv4 packet.
The standard networking protocols currently in use are TCP/IP, Xerox NS (XNS), IBM's SNA, NetBIOS, the OSI protocols, and UUCP.


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Sci-fi novels paired with appropriate RPGs
Gareth Branwyn 10:40 am Fri Oct 16, 2020
In a follow-up on Tor.com to Linda Codega's matching fantasy novels with roleplaying game rules so that you can "game the book" if you desire, she now has a sci-fi pairing. As with the fantasy round-up, there are a lot of fascinating, unique, and somewhat obscure indie rules systems to consider.
A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
Arkady Martine's staggering debut takes us to the far reaches of space, and this is a story that does not just glance across colonialism, but deeply and meaningfully wrestles with it. The main character fights to be herself in a world intent on literally, taking her and her culture apart. Diving into the nuances of a native language, learning, and what authority means at home or in an independent state, A Memory Called Empire challenges what it means to both admire and despise the dominant culture.
If you love words, and loved the way that their meaning developed and changed in this novel, you'll want to pick up Dialect, by Thorny Games. It's an award-winning game where players use a card system to create a culture through language and symbols, written in part by Beth LaPensee, a Native author who has a unique perspective that makes Dialect a perfect (anti)colonial match with Martine's work. Mix it with War in the Year 3000, by designer Ben Roswell, and judge your warmongering ability based on two things: Cool and Doubt. This rules-lite system focuses on your ability to spin at high speed on the high-stakes battleground of public opinion. With the expansive Dialect and the focused storygaming of War in the Year 3000 you have the perfect groundwork for a system-spanning war on the hearts, minds, and social media feeds of the populace.
War Girls by Tochi Onyebuchi
This is a book that ricochets across a battlefield, never stopping unless it's trying to make you cry. Full of emotion, mechs, and war, War Girls is action-packed and deeply rooted in Nigerian culture, even in the far, extreme futurism it embodies. While mecha-fiction might be a rare find, mecha games are laid out in the veritable feast that is the Sad Mecha Jam Collection, full of lyrical pieces on the nature of war, mechas, pilots, and legacies. Jams are game design communities that coalesce around a theme or idea, and the Sad Mecha Jam has become almost legendary in the little niche world of indie game design. I cut out a lot of my favorites from the submissions to offer a few really incredible games to compare to War Girls.
One of the best pieces that mix a robust set of rules for action and fighting with deep emotional moments between pilots is Hilt // Blade, by Darren Brokes, perfect for the world of War Girls and Onyebuchi's grounded sense of the future. If you want something dedicated to the larger world of grime and grease, try Lancer, out of Massif Press, which is full of exceptional worldbuilding and has a veritable ton of specialty Evangelion-style mechs (I mean, just check out the art on The White Witch, which uses a ferrofluid as a manipulative armor source), or Beam Saber, by Austin Ramsay which plays on the dominating politics of war and creates characters out of the mechas themselves.
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Create your own fully-rendered CGI fantasy monsters with Google AI
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Pupums' all-natural dog treats care for your dog just as much as you do
A good parent doesn't raise their child on a constant diet of fast-food hamburgers and other junk. Yet, many pet owners may be feeding their dogs even worse culinary horrors without even realizing it. While there are strict guidelines about the types of by-products and chemicals that can find their way into food consumed by… READ THE REST
This wooden chess, checkers, and backgammon set will definitely class up your game night
Thanks to Netflix's wildly popular series, The Queen's Gambit, chess, a game invented about 1,500 years ago, is surging back into public consciousness. But while the Game of Kings may be riding a wave of increased awareness right now, it is, by no means, the only game that has survived the test of time into… READ THE REST


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IRIS Università degli Studi dell'Aquila
Experimental validation of a model for delta-chymotrypsin activity in aqueous solutions of surfactant aggregates
The hydrolysis of N-glutaryl-L-phenylalanine p-nitroanilide and N-succinyl-L-phenylalanine p-nitroanilide catalysed by α-chymotrypsin was studied in the presence of cationic (cetyltrimethylammonium bromide and cetyltripropylammonium bromide) and non-ionic (t-octylphenoxypolyethoxyethanol and polyoxyethylene-9-lauryl ether) surfactants. The ratio of reaction rates in surfactant rich systems to those in pure buffer solutions was simulated by a previously developed model by Viparelli et al. [Biochem. J. 344 (1999) 765] based on the pseudo-phase approach introduced by Bru et al. [Biochem. J. 259 (1989) 355] for enzymatic reactions in reverse micelles. The system was depicted by three pseudo-phases: free water, bound water and surfactant core. The substrate and enzyme concentration in the pseudo-phase was related to total substrate and enzyme concentrations in the reaction medium.Superactivity occurs only in the presence of cetyltripropylammonium bromide. Plots of reaction rate ratio versus surfactant concentration were bell-shaped. Model simulation indicated that this behaviour could be attributed to the equilibrium between the enzyme confined in the free water and that in the bound water pseudo-phase, and to partition of the substrate in the pseudo-phases. The two enzyme forms must have different catalytic behaviour. The overall reaction rate depends on the two enzymatic reactions. Reasonable agreement was found between experimental results and model predictions. Copyright © 2001 Elsevier Science B.V.
Titolo: Experimental validation of a model for delta-chymotrypsin activity in aqueous solutions of surfactant aggregates
VIPARELLI P
ALFANI F
CANTARELLA, Maria
JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR CATALYSIS B-ENZYMATIC
Abstract: The hydrolysis of N-glutaryl-L-phenylalanine p-nitroanilide and N-succinyl-L-phenylalanine p-nitroanilide catalysed by α-chymotrypsin was studied in the presence of cationic (cetyltrimethylammonium bromide and cetyltripropylammonium bromide) and non-ionic (t-octylphenoxypolyethoxyethanol and polyoxyethylene-9-lauryl ether) surfactants. The ratio of reaction rates in surfactant rich systems to those in pure buffer solutions was simulated by a previously developed model by Viparelli et al. [Biochem. J. 344 (1999) 765] based on the pseudo-phase approach introduced by Bru et al. [Biochem. J. 259 (1989) 355] for enzymatic reactions in reverse micelles. The system was depicted by three pseudo-phases: free water, bound water and surfactant core. The substrate and enzyme concentration in the pseudo-phase was related to total substrate and enzyme concentrations in the reaction medium.Superactivity occurs only in the presence of cetyltripropylammonium bromide. Plots of reaction rate ratio versus surfactant concentration were bell-shaped. Model simulation indicated that this behaviour could be attributed to the equilibrium between the enzyme confined in the free water and that in the bound water pseudo-phase, and to partition of the substrate in the pseudo-phases. The two enzyme forms must have different catalytic behaviour. The overall reaction rate depends on the two enzymatic reactions. Reasonable agreement was found between experimental results and model predictions. Copyright © 2001 Elsevier Science B.V.


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Home Security Malware & threats Cisco Develops New Network That Can Spot Threats in Encrypted Traffic
Cisco Develops New Network That Can Spot Threats in Encrypted Traffic
American multinational technology conglomerate, Cisco recently unveiled new intent-based networking solutions, that use advanced automation and machine learning to control networks. The network solutions – which were years in the making – come to assist IT managing hundreds of devices today and are expected to supervise up to 1 million by 2020. Termed "intent-based network" the new invention is said to be able to identify malware without breaking into the encrypted traffic.
With a vast global install base, Cisco can swiftly analyze data and provide clients with insight into how to spot anomalies most effectively as well as anticipate network issues before they have chance a to happen, while also safeguarding privacy. The main goal is to help network engineers manage their networks better by automating the edge of the network and implementing the power of machine learning and analytics directly at the foundation level.
Presented as one of the most significant breakthroughs in enterprise networking, the new system will be able to anticipate actions and stop security threats in their early stages, while continuing to evolve and learn.
As the security threat landscape continues to evolve, networks will have to adapt by continuing to learn, change and provide better protection. With the new approach, Cisco is providing clients with the fundamental blueprint for networking which utilizes reimagined hardware and new software.
Cisco's new Digital Network Architecture (DNA) is exactly that – a hardware and software combo that powers the new network solution. These include the DNA Centre, which is a centralized management dashboard or the Software-Defined Access – a tool designed to allow simpler network access for users and devices.
Also part of DNA is Encrypted Traffic Analytics (ETA) which according to Cisco is the most advanced solution for targeting abnormalities across billions of devices. ETA takes advantage of cyber-intelligence to spot attack signatures even in encrypted traffic. Cisco said encryption is a "double-edged sword", as it can be used to provide protection, but also to hide malicious actors from view.
The development of such tools is extremely valuable since not all attacks come from unprotected sources. Actually, more than 50% of cyber-attacks are hidden in encrypted traffic as a means to conceal their delivery, so Cisco's new tool is bound to make quite a difference in the ecosystem.
Cisco's new ETA solution examines a number of data sources like transport layer security handshake metadata, domain name severs contextual flows linked to the encrypted data and the HTTP information taken from the same IP address within 5 minutes, in order to determine a potential threat.
Even if Cisco has been focusing mostly on hardware products, the company also has an interest in software. For example, its new Catalyst 9000 family of switches –which are centered on mobility, cloud, loT, and security – comes with a DNA software subscription.
The Catalyst 9300 and 9500 series will be available this month, while the Catalyst 9400 will follow next month. The switches are expected to deliver unmatched security, performance, and flexibility due to the upgrades in both hardware and software areas. As for the DNA Center and SD Access, they will land in August, while the Encrypted Traffic Analytics product will become available in September.
Read more security articles from Tech Insight here.
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