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Aurora Pro Patria 1919 - włoski klub piłkarski, grający obecnie w Serie C, mający siedzibę w mieście Busto Arsizio, leżącym w Lombardii.

Historia
Klub został założony w 1919 roku. Obecnie występuje w rozgrywkach Serie C, a w latach 1955-1956 zaliczył swój ostatni sezon w rozgrywkach Serie A.

Barwy klubowe to kolor biały i niebieski. Nazwa Pro Patria w języku łacińskim znaczy "Dla Ojczyzny". Piłkarze Pro Patrii noszą przydomek "i Tigrotti" (Tygryski).

Reprezentanci kraju grający w klubie
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Tomgram: Pratap Chatterjee, Inside the Devastation of America's Drone Wars
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In our part of the world, it's not often that potential "collateral damage" speaks, but it happened last week. A Pakistani tribal leader, Malik Jalal, flew to England to plead in a newspaper piece he wrote and in media interviews to be taken off the Obama White House's "kill list." ("I am in England this week because I decided that if Westerners wanted to kill me without bothering to come to speak with me first, perhaps I should come to speak to them instead.") Jalal, who lives in Pakistan's tribal borderlands, is a local leader and part of a peace committee sanctioned by the Pakistani government that is trying to tamp down the violence in the region. He believes that he's been targeted for assassination by Washington. (Four drone missiles, he claims, have just missed him or his car.) His family, he says, is traumatized by the drones. "I don't want to end up a 'Bugsplat' -- the ugly word that is used for what remains of a human being after being blown up by a Hellfire missile fired from a Predator drone," he writes. "More importantly, I don't want my family to become victims, or even to live with the droning engines overhead, knowing that at any moment they could be vaporized."
Normally, what "they" do to us, or our European counterparts (think: Brussels, Paris, or San Bernardino), preoccupies us 24/7. What we do to "them" -- and them turns out to be far more than groups of terrorists -- seldom touches our world at all. As TomDispatch readers know, this website has paid careful attention to the almost 300 wedding celebrants killed by U.S. air power between late 2001 and the end of 2013 -- eight wedding parties eviscerated in three countries (Iraq, Afghanistan, and Yemen). These are deaths that, unlike the 14 Americans murdered in San Bernardino, the 32 Belgians and others killed in Brussels, and the 130 French and others slaughtered in Paris, have caused not even a ripple here (though imagine for a second the reaction if even a single wedding, no less eight of them and hundreds of revelers, had been wiped out by a terror attack in the U.S. in these years).
Any sense of sadness or regret for Washington's actions, when it comes to the many killed, wounded, or traumatized in its never-ending, implacable, and remarkably unsuccessful war on terror, is notable mainly for its absence from our world. So it's an extraordinary moment when any Americans -- no less a group that has been deeply involved in prosecuting the drone war on terror -- publicly expresses empathy for the "collateral damage" inflicted in that ongoing conflict. That's why TomDispatchregular Pratap Chatterjee brings genuine news today from the heart of America's drone wars, from those who should best be able to assess the grim reality of just what Washington has been doing in our name. Tom
Drone Whistleblowers Step Out of the Shadows
In Washington's Drone Wars, Collateral Damage Comes Home
By Pratap Chatterjee
In a trio of recent action-packed movies, good guys watch terrorists mingling with innocent women and children via real-time video feeds from halfway across the world. A clock ticks and we, the audience, are let in on the secret that mayhem is going to break loose. After much agonized soul-searching about possible collateral damage, the good guys call in a missile strike from a U.S. drone to try to save the day by taking out a set of terrorists.
Such is the premise of Gavin Hood's Eye in the Sky, Andrew Niccol's Good Kill, and Rick Rosenthal's Drones. In reality, in Washington's drone wars neither the "good guys" nor the helpless, endangered villagers under those robotic aircraft actually survive the not-so secret drone war that the Obama administration has been waging relentlessly across the Greater Middle East -- not, at least, without some kind of collateral damage. In addition to those they kill, Washington's drones turn out to wound (in ways both physical and psychological) their own operators and the populations who live under their constant surveillance. They leave behind very real victims with all-too-real damage, often in the form of post-traumatic stress disorder on opposite sides of the globe.
"Sometimes I am so sad that my heart wants to explode," an Afghan man says, speaking directly into the camera. "When your body is intact, your mind is different. You are content. But the moment you are wounded, your soul gets damaged. When your leg is torn off and your gait slows, it also burdens your spirit." The speaker is an unnamed victim of a February 2010 drone strike in Uruzgan, Afghanistan, but he could just as easily be an Iraqi, a Pakistani, a Somali, or a Yemeni. He appears in National Bird, a haunting new documentary film by Sonia Kennebeck about the unexpected and largely unrecorded devastation Washington's drone wars leave in their wake. In it, the audience hears directly from both drone personnel and their victims.
"I Was Under the Impression That America Was Saving the World"
"When we are in our darkest places and we have a lot to worry about and we feel guilty about our past actions, it's really tough to describe what that feeling is like," says Daniel, a whistleblower who took part in drone operations and whose last name is not revealed in National Bird. Speaking of the suicidal feelings that sometimes plagued him while he was involved in killing halfway across the planet, he adds, "Having the image in your head of taking your own life is not a good feeling."
National Bird is not the first muckraking documentary on Washington's drone wars. Robert Greenwald's Unmanned, Tonje Schei's Drone, and Madiha Tahrir's Wounds of Waziristan have already shone much-needed light on how drone warfare really works. But as Kennebeck told me, when she set out to make a film about the wages of the newest form of war known to humanity, she wanted those doing the targeting, as well as those they were targeting, to speak for themselves. She wanted them to reveal the psychological impact of sending robot assassins, often operated by "pilots" halfway around the world, into the Greater Middle East to fight Washington's war on terror. In her film, there's no narrator, nor experts in suits working for think tanks in Washington, nor retired generals debating the value of drone strikes when it comes to defeating terrorism.
Instead, what you see is far less commonplace: low-level recruits in President Obama's never-ending drone wars, those Air Force personnel who remotely direct the robotic vehicles to their targets, analyze the information they send back, and relay that information to the pilots who unleash Hellfire missiles that will devastate distant villages. If recent history is any guide, these drones do not just kill terrorists; in their target areas, they also create anxiety, upset, and a desire for revenge in a larger population and so have proven a powerful weapon in spreading terror movements across the Greater Middle East.
These previously faceless but distinctly non-robotic Air Force recruits are the cannon fodder of America's drone wars. You meet two twenty-somethings: Daniel, a self-described down-and-out homeless kid, every male member of whose family has been in jail on petty charges of one kind or another, and Heather, a small town high school graduate trying to escape rural Pennsylvania. You also meet Lisa, a former Army nurse from California, who initially saw the military as a path to a more meaningful life.
The three of them worked on Air Force bases scattered around the country from California to Virginia. The equipment they handled hovered above war zones in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as Pakistan and Yemen (where the U.S. Air Force was supporting assassination missions on behalf of the Central Intelligence Agency).
"That is so cool, unmanned aircraft. That's really bad-ass." So Heather thought when she first saw recruitment posters for the drone program. "I was under the impression," she told Kennebeck, "that America was saving the world, like that we were Big Brother and we were helping everyone out."
Initially, Lisa felt similarly: "When I first got into the military, I mean I was thinking it was a win-win. It was a force for good in the world. I thought I was going to be on the right side of history."
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Infliximab treatment in combination with cyclosporin A in patients with severe refractory rheumatoid arthritis
Concise report
T I Temekonidis1,
A N Georgiadis1,
Y Alamanos2,
D V Bougias1,
P V Voulgari1,
A A Drosos1
1Department of Internal Medicine, Medical School, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece
2Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology
Professor A A Drosos, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical School, University of Ioannina, 45110 Ioannina, Greece;
adrosos{at}cc.uoi.gr
Objective: To investigate whether infliximab can be used in combination with cyclosporin A (CsA) in patients with refractory rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who cannot tolerate methotrexate (MTX).
Materials and methods: Eighteen patients with refractory RA receiving low dose CsA (2 mg/kg/day) and prednisone (5 mg/day) were treated with intravenous infliximab. The patients were given infliximab (3 mg/kg weight) at 0, two, six, and every eight weeks thereafter for a total period of 12 months. Clinical improvement was evaluated according to the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) 20% response criteria.
Results: Eighty per cent of patients receiving the combination treatment with CsA and infliximab achieved the 20% ACR criteria for response to treatment, whereas 39% satisfied the 50% response criteria. In addition, a 76% reduction in swollen and tender joint count was found. Finally, a reduction in C reactive protein and erythrocyte sedimentation rate was maintained throughout the study. In general, treatment was well tolerated, with minimal adverse drug reactions. Two patients dropped out; one because of an immediate hypersensitivity reaction and the other because of the development of pulmonary tuberculosis.
Conclusion: Multiple infusions of infliximab and low doses of CsA improve patients with refractory RA. It seems that CsA may be an alternative disease modifying drug to be used in combination with infliximab in patients with refractory RA who cannot tolerate MTX.
cyclosporin A
ACR, American College of Rheumatology
CRP, C reactive protein
CsA, cyclosporin A
DMARDs, disease modifying antirheumatic drugs
ESR, erythrocyte sedimentation rate
IL1, interleukin 1
MTX, methotrexate
RA, rheumatoid arthritis
TNFα, tumour necrosis factor α
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/ard.61.9.822
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a disease mediated by T cells, the initiation and perpetuation of which are dependent on the response of Th1 lymphocytes to an as yet unknown antigen.1,2 As a consequence of activation of Th1 cells various cytokines are released, especially tumour necrosis factor α (TNFα) and interleukin 1 (IL1), resulting in chronic inflammatory synovitis, which leads to joint damage and bone destruction.3,4 Patients with RA are usually treated with disease modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) until complete remission is reached. Unfortunately, complete remission occurs only in very few patients.5 Thus, patients are given a combination treatment with two or more DMARDs simultaneously for a long period.6,7
Blockage of TNFα is an effective targeted treatment which can modify the course of RA.2 Infliximab is a chimeric IgG1 monoclonal antibody that binds to cell bound and circulating TNFα and abrogates the biological effect of TNF. It has been approved to be used in combination with methotrexate (MTX) for patients who have continuous active RA despite adequate treatment with other DMARDs.8,9 However, not all patients with RA can tolerate MTX and there have been no reports using infliximab with other DMARDs or DMARD combination treatment in patients with RA. Cyclosporin A (CsA), on the other hand, has been shown to be effective in the treatment of such patients10 as well as in combination treatment with MTX in patients with refractory RA.6
To investigate the efficacy, tolerability, and safety of infliximab in combination with CsA, we conducted a 12 month pilot study in patients with severe refractory RA.
Eighteen patients who fulfilled the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) criteria for RA11 were studied. The patients had had active disease for at least three months, were refractory to many DMARDs, and had discontinued MTX treatment because of various side effects. The current treatment was CsA and prednisone and despite this, the patients had active disease. We therefore investigated whether infliximab would provide additional clinical benefit to patients who had active RA. The patients were given intravenous infliximab (3 mg/kg) at 0, two, six, and every eight weeks thereafter for a total period of 12 months. At the time of the start of treatment the dose of CsA for each patient was 2 mg/kg, the dose of prednisone 5 mg/day, and these remained stable during the study. The mean time of CsA treatment was 16.1 (SD 8.3) months, ranging from six to 41 months. During this treatment period CsA was well tolerated without serious adverse drug reactions. Patients were excluded from the study if they had (a) a history or presence of malignant diseases, (b) known liver or kidney abnormalities or history of viral hepatitis B and C, (c) major complicating diseases such as amyloidosis or heart or lung disease, (d) a positive tuberculin skin test using PPD/RT23 (2 IU/0.1 ml or abnormal chest radiograph suggesting chronic infectious disease, granulomatous disease, or other pathological findings.
Clinical assessment
Each patient underwent a complete physical examination before treatment and at each visit until the end of the study and every two months thereafter. Clinical disease variables included (a) duration of morning stiffness (minutes), (b) grip strength (mm Hg), (c) total joint count with tenderness or swelling, (d) number of swollen joints, (e) number of tender joints, (f) pain score (VAS; cm). Laboratory disease variables included C reactive protein (CRP; mg/l) and erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR; mm/1sth) that were performed at each patient's visit, which corresponded to infliximab infusion at weeks 0, two, six, and every eight weeks thereafter.
The clinical improvement was evaluated according to the ACR 20% response criteria.12
A joint was defined as active if patients had synovitis with pain, swelling, and tenderness on pressure.
Disease was defined as active if patients had six or more active joints, high CRP (≥10 mg/l), and high ESR (≥40 mm/1sth).
A complete blood count with differential and platelet count, as well as serum values of liver enzymes, bilirubin, albumin, glucose, and creatinine, and urinary analysis were obtained before treatment and at each patient's visit, until the end of the study and every two months thereafter. Finally, 2 ml blood serum from patients (at each visit) were stored at –20°C for the measurement of autoantibody profile.
There were 15 women and three men with a mean age of 58.9 (SD 7.6) years and disease duration of 11.5 (SD 4.9) years. Eighty three per cent of patients were positive for rheumatoid factor and all were refractory to many DMARDs. The mean number of DMARDs received by our patients was 4 (SD 0.5). After treatment, most patients achieved a substantial clinical and laboratory response, as evaluated by the reduction of tender and swollen joints, by the reduction of pain score, and by the improvement of the global assessment judged by the physician. In addition, a decreased acute phase response was noted during the follow up period (table 1). More specifically, 76.6% of patients had an improvement of swollen joints and 76% had improvement of tender joints. Also, 46% of patients showed a reduction in the pain score, whereas 39% presented improvement of the global assessment as it was evaluated by the physician (fig 1). The clinical improvement was associated with a decrease in CRP and ESR of 71.5% and 38% respectively. Both clinical and laboratory improvement were evident after the first infusion of infliximab and the response increased with time (fig 1). Thus, after 12 months of treatment, 80% of patients fulfilled the 20% ACR response criteria, and 39% satisfied the 50% response criteria (fig 2).13
Clinical and laboratory response of patients with rheumatoid arthritis treated with infliximab and cyclosporin A
Response to combination treatment with infliximab and cyclosporin A. A reduction of 76% of swollen and tender joints was found, which was associated with a reduction in CRP and ESR of 71.5% and 38% respectively. Improvement of pain score and GAP were also noticed. TJC, tender joint count; SJC, swollen joint count; GAP, global assessment by a physician; ESR, erythrocyte sedimentation rate; CRP, C reactive protein, VAS, pain score.
American College of Rheumatology criteria for response to treatment. Eighty per cent of patients receiving the combination treatment of infliximab and cyclosporin A achieved the 20% response criteria, and 39% of patients satisfied the 50% response criteria.
Infliximab was well tolerated, with minimal adverse drug reactions. One patient developed acute aching, pain, and tingling affecting the legs, which occurred six hours after the fifth infusion. This side effect responded very well after 12 hours of treatment with diclofenac. Two more patients developed an upper respiratory tract infection after the fifth and sixth infusion respectively. Both responded very well to oral erythromycin and antihistamines. In addition, two patients discontinued treatment. One stopped receiving infliximab after the fifth infusion owing to an immediate hypersensitivity reaction, which was manifested by redness of the face, dry cough, and mild dyspnoea. This patient responded well to intramuscular injections of antihistamines and hydrocortisone. The second patient was withdrawn from the study because of the development of pulmonary tuberculosis after the sixth infusion, despite the fact that she had a negative PPD skin test and normal chest radiograph. None of our patients developed hypertension requiring treatment and none had serum creatinine concentrations increased 30% above the baseline measurement. Finally, none developed clinical features or laboratory abnormalities suggesting systemic lupus erythematosus or other autoimmune diseases.
Studies have shown that infliximab is effective and safe in combination with MTX in patients with refractory RA.8,9 However, not all patients tolerate MTX and there have been no reports using infliximab with other DMARDs in patients with RA. On the other hand, a recent study by Maini et al has shown that combined treatment with low dose CsA and anti-TNFα treatment caused a significant reduction in severity of disease in collagen induced arthritis, suggesting that CsA could be given in combination with anti-TNFα.14 Thus the present study was designed to investigate the efficacy, tolerability, and safety of infliximab treatment in combination with CsA in patients with refractory RA who cannot tolerate MTX. We have treated severe, long standing mostly seropositive patients with RA.
Eighty per cent of our patients had a clinical response according to the ACR 20% criteria,12 whereas 39% achieved the ACR 50% criteria.13 The degree of improvement is particularly noteworthy in view of the inclusion of patients resistant to at least four DMARDs and with aggressive disease.
Infusions of infliximab were generally well tolerated. One patient developed pain and aching involving the legs and two developed infections in the upper respiratory tract. Two patients dropped out, one because of an immediate hypersensitivity reaction and another because of the development of chest tuberculosis, which probably represents a de novo tuberculosis infection, as our patients had a negative PPD test and normal chest radiograph before the start of of infliximab treatment. The absence of serious side effects with CsA is probably attributed to the low dose of CsA used and to the fact that none of our patients received non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, which may increase blood pressure and interfere with renal function.10 These results are comparable with those reported in the studies of Maini et al and Lipsky et al in which they used infliximab in combination with MTX.8,9,15 It seems that infliximab can be used safely with CsA. The combination of infliximab and CsA provides a strategy for future trials in RA to investigate whether anti-TNF treatment offers substantial progress in retarding the destructive disease process and improving the patients' quality of life.
Another factor to take into consideration is the development of antibodies against infliximab. Such antibodies developed in patients after repeated treatment with the drug. The incidence of this however, was reduced by concomitant treatment with MTX.8,9 In the present study we do not yet know if the use of infliximab together with CsA may reduce the development of such antibodies. Serum samples from two patients who stopped receiving infliximab are now under investigation at the central laboratory of Schering Plough Pharmaceuticals in the United States.
This pilot study provides evidence that CsA may be an alternative DMARD, to be used in combination with infliximab in patients with refractory RA. However, double blind comparative studies with a large number of patients are needed to demonstrate the efficacy and safety of infliximab in combination with CsA.
We thank Mrs Eleni Horti for her secretarial assistance.
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On Monday, the National Football League Players Association held a press conference in Sacramento to criticize a bill (AB 1309) that would limit the ability of out-of-state players to file for workers' compensation in California, the Sacramento Bee's "Capitol Alert" reports.
The bill is scheduled to be heard by the Assembly Insurance Committee on April 24.
Officials for several professional sports leagues argue that injured players from out-of-state teams are inappropriately benefiting from California's workers' compensation system, which increases team costs and the cost of purchasing workers' compensation for all employers in the state.
The league officials say that certain players receive workers' compensation payments from California even though they played very few games in the state.
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Players argue that they are entitled to file for workers' compensation in California regardless of where their team is based because they pay income taxes for each game they play in the state.
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There has been already several x86 based Arduino compatible boards, but there is always place for another one. News sources tells that Intel and Arduino Introduce Curie-Based Educational Board. Intel and Arduino are releasing their first product pushed directly on the education market, the Arduino/Genuino 101 board powered by the Intel Curie module: The Arduino/Genuino 101 is the first development platform for the Intel Curie modules which are a recent development from Intel's Maker and Innovator group.
This year at CES, Intel introduced Curie — a button-sized system-on-chip module made for low-power wearables. The button-sized Curie is a single package encapsulating microcontroller, Bluetooth, a 6-DOF IMU, and battery charging circuitry; the requisite hardware for anything marketed as a 'wearable'. The Curie's brain is a 32-bit Intel Quark microcontroller with 384kB of Flash 80kB SRAM, giving it about the same storage and RAM as a low-end ARM Cortex microcontroller. Intel has big plans for the Curie module, with a few products in the works already.
Curie module needs a carrier board to interface with this hardware – an Arduino/Genuino 101 is carrier boad that provides the same form factor and pinout found in the most popular Arduino offering (USB connection and connectors for Arduino shields). And it is cost about the same (around $30 USD). While that may not be the flashy wearable technology that some expected, the new Curie-enabled Arduino board can still be a really important piece of technology.
Unlike Raspberry Pi and other dev boards aimed at a younger audience, the Arduino 101 features all the flexibility and creative freedom allotted by Arduino's feature-enriching shields, while integrating the robustness of Intel's new 32-bit Quark microcontroller-powered Curie module, that lets users add brains to just about anything.
The Curie module features 384 kB of flash memory, 80 kB of SRAM (24kB available for sketches), an integrated DSP sensor hub, Bluetooth low energy, and a six-axis accelerometer and gyroscope sensor. There's even a 128-node neural network to integrate a little bit of machine learning.
So how much do all these features cost? The Arduino Curie will retail at $30 when it's eventually released in 2016.
Computing devices are getting smaller by the day, and today at CES in Las Vegas Intel's CEO Brian Krzanich announced new details about one of its big (little?) efforts in the space. Curie, Intel's button-sized wearable hardware module that was first unveiled a year ago, will begin shipping this quarter and will cost less than $10, he said.
The collaboration with ESPN will kick off with the X Games in Aspen in 2016, where the low power Intel Curie module will be integrated into the Men's Snowboard Slopestyle and Men's Snowboard Big Air competitions, where it will help to provide real-time data on athlete performance on in-air rotations, jump height, jump distance, speed, and force on landing.
The Red Bull partnership meanwhile is a global deal that will cover "multiple genres and platforms," Intel says.
Intel has in the past announced other Curie collaborations with hardware makers to complement these deals with content companies announced today. They include the Arduino 101.
This board joins a throng of others in the low-cost microcontroller development board space, each of which will have attributes that its manufacturers will hope make it stand out.
The Internet of Things (IoT) is the big growth wave in tech—from smart cities, homes, and classrooms to energy management, wearable devices, and much more. The Intel Quark microcontroller family extends intelligent computing to a new spectrum of devices requiring low power consumption for sensor input and data actuation applications.
Internet of Things We're Gonna Crush Next?
At US$15, the Quark D2000 microcontroller development kit is Chipzilla's latest attempt to plant a flag in the cheap-as-chips breadboarding market.
For software development, there's the Eclipse-based Intel System Studio for microcontrollers, including the GNU compiler collection (GCC), Intel Integrated Performance Primitives for microcontrollers, Intel QMSI (a support package for the microcontroller's software interface), and a bunch of sample applications.
We covered a similar phenomenon when the Raspberry Pi 2 came out.
[Kevin] got a new Arduino 101 board into his lab. The board has a processor from Intel, an accelerometer, and Bluetooth Low Energy out of the box while staying within the same relative price bracket as the Atmel versions. He was admiring the board, when he noticed that one of the components glittered under the light.
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It is interoperable with other Intel®-based systems—simplifying integration of edge products in end-to-end IoT architectures. More can be handled at the device level, reducing the need for more costly and potentially unnecessary gateways, depending on the application.
The Arduino/Genuino 101 is a learning and development board which contains the Intel® Curie™ Module, designed to integrate the core's low power-consumption and high performance with the Arduino's ease-of-use. The 101 adds Bluetooth Low Energy capabilities and has an on-board 6-axis accelerometer/gyroscope, providing exciting opportunities for building creative projects in the connected world.
tinyTILE is an Intel® Curie™ module based board, a miniaturised adaptation of the Arduino/Genuino 101 board, measuring approx 35 x 26mm.
Short Description: tinyTILE is an Intel® Curie™ module based board measuring approx 35 x 26mm.
It can be programmed using the Arduino IDE*, Intel's own software – Intel® Curie™ Open Developer Kit (ODK), or Anaren Atmosphere* – a cloud-based ecosystem that offers a complete end-to-end IoT solution. Each of these environments provide unlimited development possibilities with the tinyTILE.
A dress using Intel Curie accelerometer on TinyTILE and its small form factor to control colors of the optical fibers with arm movements.
Intel's flirtation with the maker community appears to have fizzled out, although the chip giant insists its passion remains.
After announcing plans to axe its Edison, Galileo, and Joule compute modules later this year, Chipzilla has said it will stop making its Arduino 101 board and its much-hyped Curie module, too.
The Arduino 101 will be available for order until September 17, 2017, according to Intel, and the processor giant will continue to fulfill orders, if any, through December 17, 2017. The Curie module will be available until January 17, 2018, and fulfillment will continue until July 17, 2018.
Intel will no longer update its Curie Open Developer Kit. It plans to leave its community forum for Curie products open until September 15, 2017.
Intel has apparently ended efforts to drive its x86 architecture into microcontroller-class chips and end nodes on the Internet of Things. Analysts generally applauded the move, although they noted it reflects in part on a market for wearables that has not emerged as fast as predicted.
Multiple reports said Intel has ended sales of Currie and other IoT boards using its Quark processors. However, the company did not directly respond to questions about Quark, a stripped down x86 chip CEO Brian Krzanich announced in his first keynote at the company's annual developer conference.
At one time, Intel fielded as many as three Quark chips — the SE, D2000 and D1000. All were spins of the original synthesized Pentium-class core Krzanich announced in 2013 as a 32nm part, one-fifth the size and one-tenth the power of Intel's Atom core.
Intel rolled out several IoT boards using Quark chips, including several compatible with Arduino starting in October 2013.
"IoT remains an important growth business for Intel and we are committed to IoT market segments that access, analyze and share data. These include retail, industrial, automotive and video, which will drive billions of connected devices," the spokesman said, suggesting the company will focus on Atom-based gateways as its new low end.
Krewell and others said Quark may continue as a block in future SoCs, but it is not likely to appear as a standalone chip. Lack of influence over the software stack in IoT end nodes shouldn't have a big impact for Intel, said Linley Gwennap, principal of market watcher The Linley Group.


One month ago, I was lying next to him in a hospital bed, holding his hand, listening to the sound of the ventilator. One month ago, a thought began to seep in; the though that this might be the hospital trip he doesn't come home from.
This is the story of grief. It's an ugly monster, which is bound to show it's face, in some form, to everyone. When you learn that you will never again see your loved one laugh, smile, cry, etc. the regrets start to settle in. The "what ifs" and "whys" try to take over all your thoughts. Somedays I am better about battling these toxic talons of the grief monster, and somedays I let the thoughts in. "What if we had just stayed at the hospital the day before?" "What if I hadn't gone to bed so early?" "Why didn't I take more pictures and videos of him more recently?" "Why didn't I play with him more instead of doing …" These thoughts are a slippery slope into despair. You can't unthink them, but you have to try to fight against them. Once they breed they take over and it's easy to fall into a pit you can't or don't want to dig yourself out of.
After arriving home from the hospital I felt empty and I was immediately confronted with decisions to make. The first came when I was tidying the kitchen and I saw the sippy cups on the drying rack. I immediately began packing them up and putting them in his closet. Later, I had to cancel his diapers from the Amazon subscription. We went to his school to gather his things, Community Peds Care came to get his equipment for other kids to use. With each of these instances, I found myself getting very angry and of course very sad. Letting go of his body was the most painful experience I've ever had to endure. Letting go of his things is like slightly reliving that moment over and over again. So, the rest of his belongings will stay right where they are until I find the strength to make those decisions.
Instead, my mind turned to decisions about the memorial service. We held service on March 4 at Trinity. It was a beautiful tribute to his beautiful life. So many people came from near and far to help us celebrate him. After that was over, and families and friends went back to their lives and things have been much more quiet on the home front. I have been writing in a journal, working on a memory garden and have been working on planning an inclusive playground build in his memory. These are good, productive things and positive ways to channel my grief, but I would be lying if I said they made me feel better. A solution has to match the problem and my problem is that I miss my little boy so bad it hurts. There is no solution for that.
Most days I think the only thing that gets me out of bed is Ella. She's such a bright, happy baby. It's nearly impossible to be sad when you're around her. I know she won't really get to know her big brother, but she should know a mother who shows the same devotion to her as she did him. As much as I would like to crawl in that dark hole, she deserves better. She deserves the best.
My therapist gave me lots of paperwork on symptoms of grief and coping strategies. She described grief, not in stages, but in a cycle. The Loss is the beginning, but there is no end. You suffer, settle and then things get stirred up again. That cycle will repeat over and over again for the rest of my life. The hope is that the settling part of the cycle begins to last longer and longer.
Dan went back to work on the 13th, I will go back on the 28th. This is the last step towards beginning this new normal without my little boy. This new life will include all the things I do, minus what I did to take care of him. In place of those, there will be the garden and the playground. Somedays I wonder why I'm even bothering because as I already stated, I know these things aren't going to make me feel better. But, they're the only things I know how to do to "be" with him in some way. Humans traditionally try to avoid pain at all costs, but there will be days when I let the pain in. When I let myself feel it all to remind myself that he lived. I hurt because he lived.
I dont know how you feel.All I can do is say what I feel and empathize through my own losses.
Henry will never leave you his imprint is everlasting and you will continue to grow as a human with the gifts he left inside of your spirit. Let those parts grow into a garden of love for yourself and others. Never be ashamed or frustrated with your grievance it is the most painful growth but remember to see the beautiful flower it will become. Some of the most beautiful flowers have the longest thorns and stems. Allow your self to reach through the dark and into the sun and when you feel the comfort and warmth of its rays remember that feeling is the Embrace of God and the Kiss from Henry.
Every time I saw your posts I always looked up to what an amazing mommy you were aND still are to Henry. Henry was a hero because of the love you and your husband provideo to him.
I admire your strength and courage to continue posting. I can only imagine how different your life is now. Our children with 1p36 need so much time, equipment, energy that the hole they leave when they are gone is gaping. I wish you had more time with Henry. He was/is so obviously loved by his family. I am glad that Ella is there to hug, cuddle and gives you a reason to wake up in the morning. I am so sad she will never get to know her big brother better.
I know all too well the what ifs that run through my mind when something goes wrong. I find myself blaming myself for not being able to always keep Zoe safe. She has regressed and shown signs of brain damage after having prolonged seizures in the night. What if I had found her a sooner? What if I hadn't found her? What if I had demanded she stay in hospital, etc. We are incredibly lucky to have Zoe in our life still and I've come to accept that it really does come down to luck or fate or whatever you want to call it. We try to protect our children but we can only do so much. You gave Henry your love and you took great care of him. What happened was beyond your control and that is scary to accept. Zoe wears a shirt that says, "My mom thinks she is in charge, that's so cute" to remind me that no matter how many nights I stay up late checking on her, worrying, etc in the end it is not in my hands. The reality is, we can not keep our eye on our children 24hours a day. At some point, we need to sleep. I hope you are able to find some peace and the what ifs become quieter over time.
I keep you and your family in my thoughts and I thank you for sharing Henry's story all along.
And no more dead than they.
And so I did not cry.
And left you to your game.


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Cindy McCain: I Don't See Any Reasonable Republicans
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ABC News reports:
Nearly a year after her husband's death, Cindy McCain said the current Republican Party is "not the party of Abraham Lincoln, nor the party of Ronald Reagan." McCain added that her husband "never did anything deliberately to be hurtful or anything. I don't see anybody carrying that mantle at all, I don't see anyone carrying the voice — the voice of reason."
That sentiment appeared to extend to one of the late senator's closest friends and colleagues, Sen. Lindsey Graham, who's widely considered to be one of President Donald Trump's closest allies.
"Lindsey has his own political career to worry about and his own political life," McCain said. "I would just hope that in the long run, everyone would begin to move in the right direction, including Lindsey or anybody else."
John McCain's family is asking Americans to reach out to one another and agree to disagree in honor of the late senator's commitment to civility in public life.
The family is making the request near the anniversary of McCain's death from brain cancer. It's part of the family's effort to define his legacy in an era of harsh exchanges over politics on social media and cable television.
McCain's widow, Cindy, says Arizona State University has donated about 26 acres in Tempe, Arizona, for a library that the McCains hope will be a national "gathering place" for civil discourse.
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Q: return to calling method or get results of the selection of a JCheckBox that's the problem..
This is a simplified version of what i would like do:
public class Class{
    public void main(){
       Vector<Boolean> boo=new Vector<Boolean>;
       System.out.println("Hi all");
       ArrayList<String> a=new ArrayList<String>()
       a.add("hi");
       a.add("all");
       JRadioButtonExample b=new JRadioButtonExample(2,a);
       boo=b.getCheck();
       for(Boolean b:boo){
         System.out.println(b);
       }
    }
}

I must call an external class for the GUI..
The problem is that i can't manage to syncronize the system.out.println in the main with the actionperformed in the JRadioButtonExample.
The JRadioButtonExample class is as follows:
import java.awt.FlowLayout;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.event.WindowAdapter;
import java.awt.event.WindowEvent;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Vector;

import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JCheckBox;
import javax.swing.JFrame;

public class JRadiobuttonExample extends JFrame {

static JCheckBox b[];
static Vector<Boolean> check=new Vector<Boolean>();
JButton altervista=new JButton("RUN");
JButton selectall=new JButton("select all");
JButton deselectall=new JButton("deselect all");
static int num;
int i=0;

public static JCheckBox[] getB() {
    return b;
}
public void setB(JCheckBox[] b2) {
    b = b2;
}
public Vector<Boolean> getCheck() {
    return check;
}
public void setCheck(Vector<Boolean> check2) {
    check = check2;
}
public JRadiobuttonExample(int num, ArrayList<String> lbl) {

    super("JRadiobuttonExample");

    getContentPane().setLayout(new FlowLayout(FlowLayout.LEADING));

    b= new JCheckBox[num];

    for(i=0; i<num; i++) {
        //creo i bottoni
        b[i] = new JCheckBox(lbl.get(i));
        getContentPane().add(b[i]);
    }

    //adding buttons
    getContentPane().add(selectall);
    getContentPane().add(deselectall);
    getContentPane().add(altervista);

    //adding listeners
    AscoltatoreSel asc1=new AscoltatoreSel();
    selectall.addActionListener(asc1);
    setVisible(true);

    AscoltatoreDesel asc2=new AscoltatoreDesel();
    deselectall.addActionListener(asc2);
    setVisible(true);

    Ascoltatore asc=new Ascoltatore();
    altervista.addActionListener(asc);
    setVisible(true);

    this.pack();
}

class Ascoltatore extends WindowAdapter implements ActionListener{
    public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e){
        System.exit(0);
    }
    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){
        if(e.getSource()==altervista){
            setVisible(false);
            boh(b);
        }
    }
}

class AscoltatoreSel extends WindowAdapter implements ActionListener{
    public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e){
        System.exit(0);
    }
    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){
        if(e.getSource()==selectall){
            for(i=0; i<num; i++) {
                b[i].setSelected(true);
                setVisible(true);
            }
        }
    }
}

class AscoltatoreDesel extends WindowAdapter implements ActionListener{
    public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e){
        System.exit(0);
    }
    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){
        if(e.getSource()==deselectall){
            for(i=0; i<num; i++) {
                b[i].setSelected(false);
            }
        }
    }
}

public static void boh(JCheckBox[] b){
    JCheckBox[] buttons=getB();

    for (JCheckBox c:buttons){
        check.add(c.isSelected());
    }

}

}
Thanks in advance!
p.s. if all checkboxes are selected i need to get boo=[true;true]

A: JRadioButtonExample is Observable, your Class is an Observer
In the JRadioButtonExample you should keep a list of the Observer's which you want to notify when this object's state changes. You implement a method like below, notifyObservers() to notify all the registered observers.
import java.awt.FlowLayout;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.event.WindowAdapter;
import java.awt.event.WindowEvent;
import java.beans.PropertyChangeListener;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.Observer;
import java.util.Vector;

import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JCheckBox;
import javax.swing.JFrame;

public class JRadioButtonExample extends JFrame   {

    static JCheckBox b[];
    static Vector<Boolean> check = new Vector<Boolean>();
    JButton altervista = new JButton("RUN");
    JButton selectall = new JButton("select all");
    JButton deselectall = new JButton("deselect all");
    static int num;

    private ArrayList<PropertyChangeListener> listeners = new ArrayList<PropertyChangeListener>();

    public static JCheckBox[] getB() {
        return b;
    }

    public void setB(JCheckBox[] b2) {
        b = b2;
    }

    public Vector<Boolean> getCheck() {
        return check;
    }

    public void setCheck(Vector<Boolean> check2) {
        check = check2;
    }

    public JRadioButtonExample(int num, ArrayList<String> lbl) {

        super("JRadioButtonExample");

        getContentPane().setLayout(new FlowLayout(FlowLayout.LEADING));

        b = new JCheckBox[num];

        for (int i = 0; i < num; i++) {
            // creo i bottoni
            b[i] = new JCheckBox(lbl.get(i));
            getContentPane().add(b[i]);
        }

        // adding buttons
        getContentPane().add(selectall);
        getContentPane().add(deselectall);
        getContentPane().add(altervista);

        // adding listeners
        AscoltatoreSel asc1 = new AscoltatoreSel();
        selectall.addActionListener(asc1);
        setVisible(true);

        AscoltatoreDesel asc2 = new AscoltatoreDesel();
        deselectall.addActionListener(asc2);
        setVisible(true);

        Ascoltatore asc = new Ascoltatore();
        altervista.addActionListener(asc);
        setVisible(true);

        this.pack();
    }
    public void addPropertyChangeListener(PropertyChangeListener listener){
        this.listeners.add(listener);
    }
    public void notifyObservers(){
        for (Iterator iterator = listeners.iterator(); iterator.hasNext();) {
            PropertyChangeListener name = (PropertyChangeListener) iterator
                    .next();
            name.propertyChange(null);

        }
    }

    class Ascoltatore extends WindowAdapter implements ActionListener {
        public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e) {
            System.exit(0);
        }

        public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
            if (e.getSource() == altervista) {
                setVisible(false);
                boh(b);
            }
            notifyObservers();
        }
    }

    class AscoltatoreSel extends WindowAdapter implements ActionListener {
        public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e) {
            System.exit(0);
        }

        public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
            if (e.getSource() == selectall) {
                for (int i = 0; i < num; i++) {
                    b[i].setSelected(true);
                    setVisible(true);
                }
            }
            notifyObservers();
        }
    }

    class AscoltatoreDesel extends WindowAdapter implements ActionListener {
        public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e) {
            System.exit(0);
        }

        public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
            if (e.getSource() == deselectall) {
                for (int i = 0; i < num; i++) {
                    b[i].setSelected(false);
                }
            }
            notifyObservers();
        }
    }

    public static void boh(JCheckBox[] b) {
        JCheckBox[] buttons = getB();

        for (JCheckBox c : buttons) {
            check.add(c.isSelected());
        }

    }
}

Your Class should implement PropertyChangeListener, and and should register itself as al listener to the JRadioButtonExample.
And implement propertyChange(..) method, that's where you want to print().
import java.beans.PropertyChangeEvent;
import java.beans.PropertyChangeListener;
import java.util.ArrayList;

import java.util.Vector;

public class Class implements PropertyChangeListener{
    private JRadioButtonExample b;

    public Class(JRadioButtonExample b){
        this.b = b;
        b.addPropertyChangeListener(this);
    }

    public static void main(String[] args){
        ArrayList<String> a = new ArrayList<String>();
        a.add("hi");
        a.add("all");
        JRadioButtonExample myButton = new JRadioButtonExample(2,a);
        Class myClass = new Class(myButton);
    }

    @Override
    public void propertyChange(PropertyChangeEvent evt) {
        Vector<Boolean> boo = b.getCheck();
         for(Boolean bool : boo){
               System.out.println(bool);
         }
    }
}

A: You need to register ActionListeners on each of the checkboxes in the array in order to do something when they are clicked.  Like so:
// In your constructor:
  public JRadiobuttonExample(int num, ArrayList<String> lbl) {
    // ...
    for(int i=0; i<num; i++) {
      b[i] = new JCheckBox(lbl.get(i));
      // Add this line below:
      b[i].addActionListener(createCheckboxListener());
      getContentPane().add(b[i]);
    }
    // ...
  }

  // Then add this method
  /** Do something when a checkbox is checked */
  private ActionListener createCheckboxListener() {
    return new ActionListener() {
      @Override
      public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
        if (e.getSource() instanceof JCheckBox) {
          JCheckBox source = (JCheckBox)e.getSource();
          System.out.println("You clicked on: " + source.getText());
        }
      }
    };
  }

Additionally, I would look to see if you had any compilation errors in your code.  When I tried to run your sample code, it would give me errors such as undeclared variables, etc.
Here's the full working example:
import java.awt.FlowLayout;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.event.WindowAdapter;
import java.awt.event.WindowEvent;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Vector;

import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JCheckBox;
import javax.swing.JFrame;

public class JRadiobuttonExample extends JFrame {

  static JCheckBox b[];
  static Vector<Boolean> check=new Vector<Boolean>();
  JButton altervista=new JButton("RUN");
  JButton selectall=new JButton("select all");
  JButton deselectall=new JButton("deselect all");
  static int num;

  public static JCheckBox[] getB() {
    return b;
  }
  public void setB(JCheckBox[] b2) {
    b = b2;
  }
  public Vector<Boolean> getCheck() {
    return check;
  }
  public void setCheck(Vector<Boolean> check2) {
    check = check2;
  }
  public JRadiobuttonExample(int num, ArrayList<String> lbl) {

    super("JRadiobuttonExample");

    getContentPane().setLayout(new FlowLayout(FlowLayout.LEADING));

    b= new JCheckBox[num];

    for(int i=0; i<num; i++) {
      //creo i bottoni
      b[i] = new JCheckBox(lbl.get(i));
      b[i].addActionListener(createCheckboxListener());
      getContentPane().add(b[i]);
    }

    //adding buttons
    getContentPane().add(selectall);
    getContentPane().add(deselectall);
    getContentPane().add(altervista);

    //adding listeners
    AscoltatoreSel asc1=new AscoltatoreSel();
    selectall.addActionListener(asc1);
    setVisible(true);

    AscoltatoreDesel asc2=new AscoltatoreDesel();
    deselectall.addActionListener(asc2);
    setVisible(true);

    Ascoltatore asc=new Ascoltatore();
    altervista.addActionListener(asc);
    setVisible(true);

    this.pack();
  }

  /** Do something when a checkbox is checked */
  private ActionListener createCheckboxListener() {
    return new ActionListener() {
      @Override
      public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
        if (e.getSource() instanceof JCheckBox) {
          JCheckBox source = (JCheckBox)e.getSource();
          System.out.println("You clicked on: " + source.getText());
        }
      }
    };
  }

  class Ascoltatore extends WindowAdapter implements ActionListener{
    @Override
    public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e){
      System.exit(0);
    }
    @Override
    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){
      if(e.getSource()==altervista){
        setVisible(false);
        System.out.println(b);
      }
    }
  }

  class AscoltatoreSel extends WindowAdapter implements ActionListener{
    @Override
    public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e){
      System.exit(0);
    }
    @Override
    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){
      if(e.getSource()==selectall){
        for(int i=0; i<num; i++) {
          b[i].setSelected(true);
          setVisible(true);
        }
      }
    }
  }

  class AscoltatoreDesel extends WindowAdapter implements ActionListener{
    @Override
    public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e){
      System.exit(0);
    }
    @Override
    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){
      if(e.getSource()==deselectall){
        for(int i=0; i<num; i++) {
          b[i].setSelected(false);
        }
      }
    }
  }

  public static void main(String []args){
    System.out.println("Hi all");
    ArrayList<String> a=new ArrayList<String>();
    a.add("hi");
    a.add("all");
    JRadiobuttonExample b=new JRadiobuttonExample(2,a);
    Vector<Boolean> boo=b.getCheck();
    for(Boolean b2:boo){
      System.out.println(b2);
    }
  }

}

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The Ball family has been called the Kardashians of the NBA. Since the oldest son, Lonzo, was in high school, the Ball family has been in the media due to the high caliber that the three sons were able to play basketball at. The Ball brothers, Lonzo (20), Liangelo (19), and Lamelo (16), became stars when videos of them playing high school basketball began to show up on all different types of media platforms. Their high school, Chino Hills in California, was seen as the top high school basketball program in the country. This was in mainly due to the Ball brothers. As of recently, the most famous member of the ball family has been their father, Lavar. Many sports analysts have been debating if Lavar Ball has been using the success of his children to put himself in the media, as well as promote his own business, Big Baller Brand.
When Lonzo decide to attend UCLA on a basketball scholarship, it was known that he would only stay for one year before declaring for the NBA draft. Lavar knew this better than anyone, so he continued to talk to the media about Lonzo's future. He began to make comments that his son, a freshman in college, was already better than the reigning MVP in the NBA, Stephan Curry. It did not stop there. Lavar had also made public statements that the only NBA team that Lonzo would play for would be the Los Angeles Lakers and that all other twenty-nine teams should not consider drafting him. These comments did not stop after Lonzo was drafted either. The night that Lonzo was selected by the Lakers, press immediately went up to Lavar where he told them that his son would not only lead the Lakers to the playoffs in his first season, but he would also win the rookie of the year award.
Lonzo's start to his first NBA season was nothing like what Lavar had been boasting about. He started out with the worst shooting percentage for any player to start out their career at 30.9%. The Lakers also had one of the worst records in the NBA over that time period. This did not stop Lavar from sharing his mind though. He continued to talk to the media saying that everything that was happening was the fault of the head coach, Luke Walton. He continued to bash the Lakers organization to the point that the Lakers had to start enforcing the "Lavar Ball Rule". This stated that press is prohibited to talk to families of the players at any time while they are inside of the Staples Center. This was not the name of the rule that was created, but the media called it this because they saw that this rule was directed at Lavar. This did not stop his antics. Instead of keeping to himself, he decided to state that Lonzo will not come back to the Lakers when his contract ends. Instead, he will go to any team that signs his two brothers, Lamelo and Liangelo.
Outside of the NBA, Lavar has made his presence known by his decision to take his youngest son, Lamelo, out of high school because he was made ineligible for the NCAA due to an action by Lavar. Lavar is the owner of a company called Big Baller Brand, where he sells clothing articles for high prices. He also gave his sons, Lonzo and Lamelo, their own customized shoe with their name on it. Since Lonzo is in the NBA, there is no violation for him to use his name to make money. Lamelo, on the other hand, is not allowed to do this because it is a violation of the NCAA amateurism policy. He would no longer be able to play for any college basketball team, so Lavar decided it would be better to take his son out of high school early, and have him play professional basketball overseas in Lithuania.
The most recent incident involving Lavar Ball is that he is trying to start his own Junior Basketball Association (JBA) to rival the NCAA. This new league would pay players coming out of high school for the one year that they need before going to the NBA. In order to get people to join the JBA, he has been direct messaging the top recruits in the nation on social media telling them that they have been "invited to change history". Tyler Herro, a basketball player committed to the University of Kentucky, received one of these messages from Lavar. Forty-one other players received a similar message to this one. All of these comments and actions by Lavar ball have come in the last two years. It raises the question; is there anything Lavar Ball will not do in order to get into the light of the media?


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Overview of solvent legislation
Perchloroethylene (PER):
ECHA's "Substance Evaluation Report for Perchloroethylene" published in October 2014 concludes, based on the REACH registration dossier, that no further regulatory actions such as authorization or restriction are needed at the EU level. PER was one of the few substances that came out of this evaluation with no further information requested.
PER is not considered a Substance of Very High Concern (SVHC). Therefore, companies can continue to use the solvent which is, due to its excellent solvency power and its easy and effective recycling behaviour, still considered the benchmark in the industry. In order to continue using the substance in accordance with REACH, users need to ensure strict compliance with risk management measures or instructions on uses specified in the registration dossier or extended safety data sheet.
SAFECHEM collected some statements of various industry stakeholders about the cleaning with PER. You can watch the video here.
Trichloroethylene (TRI):
The use of TRI after 21 April 2016 (Sunset Date) is only allowed if an authorization for the relevant use is granted. On the 10th of August, the European Commission adopted the decision related to the application for authorisation for the use of Trichloroethylene (TRI) in industrial parts cleaning by vapour degreasing and granted the authorisation.
The authorisation has a review period of 4.5 years which is valid as of the Sunset Date (21st of April 2016); in consequence, the review period will expire on the 21st of October 2020. All users who need to continue using TRI after the Sunset Date and are in compliance with all requirements from Authorisation and the EU Commission Implementing Decision can continue to use TRI.
The authorisation dossier and the EU Commission Implementing Decision are available here.
1-Bromopropane / n-propylbromide (nPB):
At the end of September 2016, the European Commission drafted the amendment of Annex XIV, including n-PB due to its classification as toxic for reproduction (category 1B). Hence it is a Substance of Very High Concern (SVHC). According to the principles of REACH, n-PB cannot therefore be considered a drop-in replacement for TRI. The amendment proposed a sunset date for n-PB of 36 months after its inclusion in Annex XIV. After the sunset date, the use of n-PB is only allowed if an authorization is granted for the specific use. In June 2017, the European Commission implemented an amendment of Annex XIV including nPB due to its classification as toxic for reproduction (category 1B).
The amendment mentions 4 July 2020 as a sunset date for nPB. Once the sunset date has passed, the use of nPB is only allowed if an authorization is granted for the specific use. This information is available on the ECHA website via the following link:
https://echa.europa.eu/authorisation-list/-/dislist/details/0b0236e1804d5364
Alkoxy-Propanols
Alkoxy propanols are synthetic solvents also known as modified alcohols. These solvents provide excellent cleaning results for many applications due to their balanced ability to dissolve polar and non-polar substances. These products have a low toxicity and a good environmental profile and are not therefore considered SVHCs.
Alkoxy propanols have been registered for surface cleaning and textile cleaning applications respectively.
Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs):
At the United Nations conference in Rwanda in late 2016, 197 nations agreed to drastically reduce their use of HFCs, potent greenhouse gases used in air conditioners, refrigerators, and solvent cleaning and vapour degreasing applications. HFCs were developed in the 1990s to replace hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) and other ozone-depleting substances. Although HFCs used in solvent cleaning applications are not ozone depleting, they have high global warming potentials (GWPs). The continued growth of HFCs would make them a major contributor to climate change; therefore, all the members of the UN decided to phase out their production under the same treaty that dealt with HCFCs, the Montreal Protocol.
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Legacy website of the
ICTY | TPIY | MKSJ
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
About the ICTY
Legacy website of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
Since the ICTY's closure on 31 December 2017, the Mechanism maintains this website as part of its mission to preserve and promote the legacy of the UN International Criminal Tribunals.
Visit the Mechanism's website.
Plavsic case: The Accused will remain detained at the Detention Unit in adapted Conditions.
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The Hague, 19 January 2001
CC/P.I.S./555-e
Plavsic case: The Accused will remain detained at the Detention Unit in adapted Conditions
On Friday 19 January 2001, the President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Judge Claude Jorda, issued an Order on the Defence Motion requesting modification of the conditions of detention of the accused.
The President's Order is based on the fact that the accused explicitly withdrew her initial request to be detained in a "safe-house" or in a detention facility in Republika Srpska.
The Order also considers that Biljana Plavsic surrendered voluntarily and that she is the only female detainee to date.
The Order reads that Biljana Plavsic will remain detained at the Tribunal's Detention Unit in adapted conditions:
-	she will be detained in a part of the Detention Unit exclusively used for female detainees
-	she will be guarded by female security officers
-	she will have the possibility to use the Detention Unit's recreation facilities and library in the absence of male detainees
-	she will on request be able to meet other detainees during activities organized by the Detention Unit.
-	she will be provided as soon as possible with an additional cell directly accessible from her current cell.
The President's Order was made following hearings in closed sessions held on 11 and 17 January respectively, during which all interested parties were heard: the accused and her counsel, the Prosecutor, the Registry and the Host-country.
Order of the President on the Defence Request to Modify the Conditions of Detention of the Accused
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In a piece written in September, Confusing the planes, I grumbled about people describing the Holy Guardian Angel as a form of their "higher self," or some similar phrase. If we use terminology like this at all, it should be to state that the HGA has a lower self, which is me – or you.
An analogy I once used successfully (but for which I always blew the punchline thereafter) was comparing a human existence to the Great Pyramid of Gizeh. I steered my questioner to the idea of striving to get to the very top from the base of human existence, then explained to her that in fact, it's the opposite, and the pyramid is inverted. All each of us people is, is an apex, a point, and the HGA is the pyramidal totality. She went quiet for some time, so I assume the idea went in.
Mystery school training is, to put it simply, a matter of dragging people backwards through the brambles of their own ideas about themselves. It's about pulling us away from that apex that is a base, not towards one. As each goal, as each piece of self-image, is seen as another fantasy, another provisional notion to be released, so the territory occupied by the entity we think of as our personal self shrinks. At the same time the conception of our total Beingness expands. Very few people who get as far as working a grade or degree relating to Netzach can be strict atheists, because at that point the sense of how much greater consciousness (and unconsciousness) is than our individual selves, becomes overwhelming. The usual vocabulary of atheism becomes inadequate to describe the emerging picture, as does the tired notion of "defining" the HGA. It defines us.
I spent half an hour this morning discussing a mutual friend with an acquaintance. The mutual friend has slumped into a depression. He is not only letting opportunities go by, but seems to be actually engineering life-failures and alienating people. It's as if he's decided to put himself through one of those dark initiatory phases where he finally hits the wall of his own intransigence. What he'll do after this happens, no-one can say, but it appears to be an effort to either bounce himself back up with refreshed willpower, or … not. It isn't true that we always end up making what others will see as positive (nice, easy to appreciate) decisions.
My acquaintance couldn't see my point about him choosing his path, or preferred not to, and I didn't push the argument. But at a certain stage, serious aspirants begin to see not only that we have a True Will operating through us, but that we have been expressing and living out a version of that Will all along. However, the scale and scope of it is frequently beyond our ability to observe and express in our lives, so we end up producing a lifelong series of spontaneous and messy negotiations with it that prevent us accepting its full extent. Actually to confront the fact that the New Age catch-phrase that "we create our own reality" is a truth, marks a point of no return.
Such an insight is immensely empowering, though it begins as a very lonely feeling, and a seemingly mad one. The Thelemite who comes to a full comprehension of this point is compelled to deal with the fact that such a realisation separates him from other people in a basic way. It's no wonder, to quote The Book of the Law (II, v. 21), that compassion is the vice of kings. Held within inner understanding, knowledge of our ultimate causality over our own lives, while initially shocking, becomes a treasured and energising insight with the passing of time. But when that insight and understanding collide with the messiness of the consensual world, it's easier, and seemingly more practical, to be forbearing and withhold the stark truth from someone unprepared to hear it, even in connection with a third party.
Once opened, that door leads in only one direction; just as the HGA, once perceived or somehow otherwise appreciated, can only seem to expand beyond whatever conception or definitions we place on it.


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Japan Freight Railway Company () ou JR Freight () é uma das empresas constituintes do grupo Japan Railways (Grupo JR). Fornece transporte de carga nacional. Sua sede está em Xibuia, Tóquio, perto da estação de Xinjucu.

Empresas ferroviárias do Japão


As long as the Democrats try to please the rich in order to extract campaign contributions from them and allow the Republicans to play mind games with America's working class, the entire US will be out of kilter politically.
The corporatization of US politics put the traditional transatlantic model – the US as a low-cost consumer society, while the EU was a high-cost consumer economy – on its head.
It is high time that the Democrats at long last apply some of the medicine to the Republicans that the latter have long applied to them.
Whatever the problem of the Republican Party, the Democrats in the United States have a profound problem when it comes to waging political battles: They fear confrontation.
Worse, in their supposed endeavor to be more attractive to the presumed American "mainstream," the Democrats barely noticed that they effectively allowed Republicans to set the term of political reference.
The Democratic Party could have stood up for its cause and argued that its case for "liberalism" (U.S.-style) reflected the socio-economic needs of large swaths of the American electorate, far from "just" the poor.
After all, the remarkable fact about U.S. economic life is the large share of the population, even well above median income levels, that lives paycheck to paycheck and needs to labor hard to make ends meet financially.
The high cost of living in the United States compared to more democratic societies is a direct reflection of the excessive power which U.S. corporations hold over the entire political process in the country. This allows them to extract far higher profits out of the flesh of consumers than, say, in Europe.
In a way, the corporatization of U.S. politics put the traditional transatlantic model – the United States as a low-cost consumer society, while the EU was a high-cost consumer economy – on its head.
This was only the first of the Democrats' series of linguistic surrenders.
After Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis lost the presidential election to George H. W. Bush in 1988, Democrats caved further. Many blamed the "liberal" image of Dukakis for his loss, although it was more a function an incompetent campaign that lost in a race that should not have been close given the overall economic conditions of the country at the time.
Democrats concluded that they had to do more than just shed the "liberal" label. So, they reinvented themselves as "New Democrats." This in their view moved them more to the mainstream. In some ways, it did the exact opposite. It further removed them from Americans, who deeply needed to be represented in their struggle to make a decent living.
And yet, a New Democrat, Bill Clinton, surprisingly beat George Bush, the Elder, in 1992. Clinton won primarily because of his overwhelming charisma that overshadowed the patrician image of the incumbent.
Clinton also had made healthcare one of the key planks of his platform, a matter that was very important to many Americans and representative to the liberal wing of the Democratic Party.
Yet, other than that Clinton was a center-right conservative as his signature under the Defense of Marriage Act among other things exemplified.
Bill Clinton failed the country on healthcare and in the 1994 midterm elections, Republicans won 54 additional seats in the House of Representatives winning the majority in the House for the first time since 1952.
This devastating loss prepared the Democratic Party to drift further to the right in an effusive effort to win back at least some of the many votes they had lost. In 1995, conservative members of the House formed the Blue Dog Coalition to give a greater voice to center-right Democrats to achieve that.
Yet, in the end it left Democrats depleted of many of the values they had traditionally fought for and when deciding to vote for members of the House or the Senate, many voters decided thereafter to vote for the Republican original rather than the Democratic carbon copy, especially in swing districts and swing states.
Later on, anybody who had previously wanted to associate themselves with American liberalism rebranded themselves as "progressives," including the popular Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
Despite a brief respite that brought eight years of Barack Obama, Democrats never regained their mojo. As they were eager to collect their share of campaign contributions from Wall Street firms and Silicon Valley, any notion of antitrust in the digital economy or regulation in the financial sector went out of the window.
Little wonder then that the Hillary Clinton's noble and dynamic sounding claim to being a "progressive" was revealed as a hoax.
Clinton lacked all the charisma of her husband or Barack Obama. Yet, her disconnect from the American people and their grievances (some justified, others not) was blatantly obvious.
The transformation of the Democratic Party over the last 30 years had left it empty of the liberal values that once defined it and that spoke to large parts of the hard-working American middle class. This vacuum was filled by the populist plutocrat Donald Trump.
Part of the resulting damage is home-made. Bernie Sanders, who almost became the 2016 Democratic Presidential candidate, declaring himself to be a democratic "socialist" was — and is — a complete joke.
In Europe, Sanders' policy prescriptions are widely regarded as mainstream, at most he would be considered a traditional Social Democrat – which is very far from being a socialist.
Now we have the case of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the 28-year-old woman from the Bronx in New York who recently beat the fourth-highest ranking Democrat in the House leadership, Joe Crowley, a staunch defender of the Democratic establishment in the Democratic primaries.
It is with utmost certainty that this very charismatic young Democrat will win the general elections in the deeply Democratic 14th district. Unfortunately, she too has unhelpfully self-branded herself as a Socialist.
In which lies a broader message: As long as the Democrats try to please the rich in order to extract campaign contributions from them and allow the Republicans to play mind games with America's working class, the entire United States will be out of kilter politically.
Just don't make the mistake to blame the Republicans for those artful distortions. Fraudulent representation in politics is their good right, as long as they aren't called out for it.
In short, it is high time that the Democrats, at long last, apply, some of the medicine to the Republicans that the latter have long applied to them.