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Top Organizations for Gun Safety
by Peter Palivos | Apr 13, 2021 | Gun Control, Las Vegas, Law, Peter Palivos, Peter Palivos Attorney
Many families have lost their loved ones because of gun crimes. As a result, many organizations have been formed to reduce the vice. Firearms regulations are laws set to control gun manufacture, vending, transfer, ownership, alteration, or usage by citizens. The...
President Joe Biden's Plan for Gun Control
by Peter Palivos | Apr 5, 2021 | Gun Control, Law, Peter Palivos Attorney, Schools
Gun violence is a big problem in the United States. Nearly 40,000 people lose their lives due to guns each year. Mass shootings are far too common. There have been assaults in the retail, entertainment, and educational sectors, such as Wal-Mart, Sandy Hook Elementary...
The Best Mental Health Resources for Veterans
by Peter Palivos | Apr 5, 2021 | Peter Palivos Attorney, Veterans
Military One Source provides numerous options for veterans and families seeking aid and mental health services. In addition, sexual assault helplines are available 24/7 and provide assistance in finding resources and support. As with many of these resources, this...
How to Help Veterans Adjust to Life as Civilians
by Peter Palivos | Mar 1, 2021 | Peter Palivos Attorney, Veterans
Individuals who have never served in the military do not always understand the commitment that military members make when signing up for service. Fewer still understand the difficulties of leaving the military and rejoining civilian life. Some of these challenges...
Tips for Veterans in Quarantine Due to Coronavirus
The outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic has put veterans in a challenging situation. Apart from having a high chance of being infected with the virus, they are also at an increased risk of getting other health complications as they face lockdown. Therefore, they need...
What Gun Control Looks Like in Other Countries
by Peter Palivos | Jan 26, 2021 | Gun Control, Peter Palivos Attorney
Other developed nations have laws controlling gun ownership that are very different from regulations in the United States. Unlike Americans, the residents of most other countries are not assumed by law to have the right to own a gun. United Kingdom In the United...
Must See Veteran Documentaries
by Peter Palivos | Jan 26, 2021 | Peter Palivos Attorney, Veterans
Veterans that have served in any branch of the military deserve their country's highest regard and appreciation. They give up their lives and loved ones to fight for strangers' freedom and the protection of whichever nation they serve. One of the best ways to...
Having Civil Conversations About Gun Control
by Peter Palivos | Jan 1, 2021 | Gun Control, Peter Palivos Attorney
The current political climate makes conversations about issues like gun control more intense and heated than ever. Navigating such a sensitive topic can be done in a way that is productive if approached carefully. Both sides can learn from opposing views while...
Career Resources for Veterans
by Peter Palivos | Jan 1, 2021 | Peter Palivos Attorney, Veterans
It is estimated that more than 200,000 enlisted members and officers leave the military each year. Quite a few of them aren't even close to being prepared for that change, even if they go through a program designed to help with the transition. The choices...
Is the Gun Control Message Getting Lost?
by Peter Palivos | Dec 3, 2020 | Gun Control, Law, Peter Palivos Attorney
The 2020 election saw a pair of presidential debates and one vice-presidential debate. Throughout all the questions asked and topics covered, none of the three moderators brought up the issue of gun control. This is reflective of a broader trend. Gun control advocates...
Different Fields of Law
Current Efforts in Gun Control
Nonprofits Supporting Veterans Rights
The Top Law Schools in the United States
Lessons to Learn from Working with Veterans
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140 Greber BLVD, Gatineau, Quebec
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Home / card game No Thanks! (ENG)
No Thanks! (ENG)
Regular price $14.99 CAD 1 in stock
Boxed Games card game
No Thanks! is a card game designed to be as simple as it is engaging.
The rules are simple. Each turn, players have two options:
play one of their chips to avoid picking up the current face-up card
pick up the face-up card (along with any chips that have already been played on that card) and turn over the next card
However, the choices aren't so easy as players compete to have the lowest score at the end of the game. The deck of cards is numbered from 3 to 35, with each card counting for a number of points equal to its face value. Runs of two or more cards only count as the lowest value in the run - but nine cards are removed from the deck before starting, so be careful looking for connectors. Each chip is worth -1 point, but they can be even more valuable by allowing you to avoid drawing that unwanted card.
The first versions of the game supported up to five players, but a 2011 edition supports up to seven.
This game was originally published in Germany by Amigo as Geschenkt ...ist noch zu teuer!, meaning Even given as a gift, it is still too expensive!. Amigo's international edition, titled No Merci! (a delightful multi-lingual pun), had rules in several languages, including English. The game has subsequently been released in other countries under an assortment of names.
2006 Golden Geek Best Light / Party Game Nominee
2006 As d'Or - Jeu de l'Année Nominee
2005 Tric Trac Nominee
2005 Spiel des Jahres Recommended
2005 Kinderspielexperten "8-to-13-year-olds" Nominee
2005 Fairplay À la carte Winner
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Europeans Still Grapple with Technology Policy Will Government Programs Ever Be Nimble Enough to Keep Pace with Technology Leaps?
By Laurent Belsie, writer of The Christian Science Monitor | The Christian Science Monitor, August 25, 1993 | Go to article overview
Laurent Belsie, writer of The Christian Science Monitor, The Christian Science Monitor
AFTER decades of experience with technology policy, Europe should have a firm grasp on it.
But it doesn't. Like the rest of the world, European nations are dissatisfied with their technology programs. They are casting around for something better.
"There's a general feeling that there have to be better ways" to encourage technology, says an official with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
The latest defeat: the continent's high-profile high-definition television (HDTV) standard. After years of work and billions of dollars spent on an analog system, the alliance is unravelling. The Europeans appear to be following the American lead and developing digital HDTV.
This dissatisfaction with technology policy is not solely European. For different reasons, the United States and Japan are also unhappy. The US has inventions but too few commercial products. Japan has commercial products but too few inventions. Technology moves so fast and so unpredictably that skeptics doubt governments will ever be nimble enough to keep up.
The skeptics may be wrong. But at the moment there are no yardsticks to judge how well government techno-policies are doing and whether their benefits outweigh their costs.
Europe has made a promising start. Last month a group of independent experts released a report on Eureka - an eight-year-old initiative to boost Europe's technological strength.
The panel investigated 417 completed or relatively advanced Eureka projects, reviewed completed questionnaires from 1,170 industrial and another 487 research-oriented Eureka participants, and took an in-depth look at 70 representative projects. Its overall conclusion: "The great majority of both large and small firms found participation in Eureka a worthwhile experience." But even eight years into the program, the panel warns that its conclusions are partly based on expected results. Only 11 percent of the projects were completed.
Eureka is decidedly different from previous European technology initiatives. Instead of jump-starting whole new industries or mega-projects such as the supersonic Concorde, Eureka tries to help existing industries create new products. The private sector is supposed to initiate the projects, which range from integrated circuits to agricultural robots to low-priced diapers.
Serge Gregory, French National Project Coordinator, does not even consider Eureka pure technology policy. "It's a system that responds well to the challenges of industries," he says. "It brings together companies that probably would not have come together otherwise." It is these kinds of initiatives that the Clinton administration proposes in its technology policy program.
The panel found several Eureka benefits:
* Nearly two-thirds of the firms sampled felt they had improved their worldwide technical standing. …
Publication information: Article title: Europeans Still Grapple with Technology Policy Will Government Programs Ever Be Nimble Enough to Keep Pace with Technology Leaps?. Contributors: Laurent Belsie, writer of The Christian Science Monitor - Author. Newspaper title: The Christian Science Monitor. Publication date: August 25, 1993. Page number: 8. © The Christian Science Publishing Society. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All Rights Reserved.


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Le X-Seed 4000 est un projet de construction futuriste conçu en 1995 par Taisei Corporation et devant être construit au Japon à Tokyo.

Description
Le X-Seed 4000 culminerait à  mètres de haut et pourrait faire face au mont Fuji, la plus haute montagne du Japon, dont il reproduirait la forme en le dépassant de plus de . Il reposerait sur une base de  de diamètre implantée dans l'océan au large de la capitale japonaise, possèderait 800 étages et abriterait jusqu'à 1,6 million de personnes. Il y aurait donc une sorte de ville en hauteur, avec des magasins, des bureaux, etc. Le X-Seed 4000 devrait aussi être un modèle de respect de l'environnement, en intégrant des panneaux solaires et des éoliennes.

Difficultés et remise en cause
On ne sait pas vraiment comment bâtir un tel édifice, ni le nombre d'ingénieurs qui devraient s'atteler à la tâche. D'autre part, cette construction, qui était censée faire face à une croissance démographique excessive, perd de son sens alors que le Japon devrait voir sa population diminuer d'ici 2050. Le projet ne sera donc probablement jamais lancé, d'autant plus que le coût de sa construction était évalué, en 2006, entre 300 et 900 milliards de dollars américains.

Annexes

Articles connexes
 Sky City 1000
 Sky Mile Tower
 Aeropolis 2001

Liens externes
 Site du projet X-Seed 4000
 Site de la Taisei Construction Corporation

Projet architectural abandonné
Monument au Japon
Architecture utopique
Gratte-ciel constituant une vision architecturale mesurant 500 mètres ou plus

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The majority of invasive breast carcinoma is thought to develop over long periods of time from certain pre-existing benign lesions. Subsequent tumor progression is driven by the accumulation of additional genetic changes combined with clonal expansion and selection. Epithelial- mesenchymal interactions are known to be an important factor for the normal development of the mammary gland and for the breast tumorigenesis. Insight into the mechanisms of the causation of cancer by estrogen will be identifed determinants of susceptibility to breast cancer and new targets for prevention and therapeutic intervention.
This study included 116 cases of liver serologically confirmed biopsies, which were clinico-pathologicaly assesed. We evaluated the portal and intraloburlarly inflammatory infiltrate, the injury of segmental bile ducts, the hepatocytic necrosis, fibrosis stage and other additionally histopathological aspects. This results sustain the importance of histopathological evaluation for diagnosis and therapeutic management for the lesions.
The stomach is one of the most common sites of malignant neoplastic disease in the digestive tract. Malignancy affecting the stomach, ranked in frequency II, is an important cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Gastric cancer is unknown, but we know a number of local risk factors, environmental or general. Heredity as a risk factor is substantiated by the high incidence of disease in people with blood group A II and aggregation in families. Environmental factors involved mainly via food. Anatomical seat of predilection is antro-pyloric region (70%), followed by lesser curvature (20%) cardial location, the stomach walls and background are much more rare region (10%). Typically, gastric cancer tumor appears as a primitive single location multiple metastases are characteristic.
The study was conducted over a period of seven years in respiratory medicine department of the Municipal Hospital Caracal, which worked with 45 beds. During this period, 4862 patients were investigated. Bacteriological examination of sputum can be helpful in diagnosing bronchopulmonary infections if measure of sampling, decontamination and rapid processing are met. Bacteriological investigation of cough request must be made only when indicated, requiring a permanent and effective communication between clinician and laboratory doctor. Bacteriological investigation of cough request must be made only when indicated, requiring a permanent and effective communication between clinician and laboratory doctor. The pathological products for cyto-bacteriological examination must be accompanied by receipts, stating information on diagnosis, treatment with antibiotics on the way or completed, for the lab doctor to be endorsed on the arguments of pathology. Identifying microbial spectrum and the sensitivity of germs is the best means of argument for antibiotic choice; with empirical treatment there are significant differences from one region to another. Mycological examination is particularly important in diagnosing and detecting sputum superinfections and tracking the etiologic agent in some diseases rebellious to treatment with antibiotics.
The aim of this study represents the confirmation of the utility of cytologic investigation in the screening of the preneoplastic and neoplatic lesions of the uterine cervix,comparing the cytologic results with the histolgic diagnosis of the resected specimens.
Our study was carried out on a total number of 158 patients, with a mean age of 32, all tested and identified cytologically (Pap-test) as presenting minor cellular abnormalities, respectively ASCUS (10) and LSIL (119), and major cellular abnormalities, respectively SIL-borderline (8) and HSIL (21), and who, either voluntarily or upon cytopathologists' recommendation, were colposcopically examined. Subsequently, they were subjected to cervical biopsy or excision therapy. In patients with ASCUS cytology, 6 cases were morphologically diagnosed with benign cervical lesions, 3 were diagnosed with LSIL, and one patient was diagnosed as HSIL (CIN 2). Out of 119 LSIL smears 108 were confirmed by histopathology, while 11 were diagnosed as HSIL (CIN 2). In SIL-borderline patients, 5 cases were screened as LSIL and 3 as HSIL. In patients with HSIL cytology, 18 were diagnosed histopathologically as HSIL (CIN 2 and CIN 3/CIS), while 3 were diagnosed as invasive squamous carcinoma.
In practice approach during a diagnostic imaging of a mediastinal masses that are driven more often overlapping stages: Detection or confirmation of a replacement process mediastinal space; Lesion characterization to its classification in a category of mediastinal masses (tissue, cystic, vascular, fatty, mixed, etc..) And, achieving the distinction between a tumor and one nontumoral process; Locating and establishing extension previously detected anomaly ; Specify the nature of mediastinal mass detected and if the balance of evolutionary stage. Using the above criteria we analyzed 504 cases of mediastinal masses included in the study for their classification in anatomic and clinical entity. Because the number of cases of magnetic resonance imaging examinations and ultrasound examinations was significantly reduced compared to computed tomography in each group will present a systematic analysis of injury criteria for diagnosis, radiology, ultrasound, CT and MRI-confined I encountered issues and examples of iconographic type.
Prostate adenocarcinoma is frequently diagnosed on needle biopsies in early, organ-confined stages. New prognostic factors would help identifying at this stage patients at risk for unfavorable evolution, that would benefit from alternate therapy. This study aims to find correlations between the extent of neurocrine differentiation (NED), a feature commonly seen in prostate carcinoma, and known factors of disease evolution such as histological grade, malignant cell proliferation and serum PSA levels. Immunohistochemistry for choromogranin A and neuron-specific enaolase (NSE) was used to calculate expression scores in order to asses the extent of NED in prostate biopsies. Tumour proliferative activity was estimated by calculating percentages of Ki-67 immunoreactive cell nuclei. Results show that the presence of numerous clusters of chromogranin A positive cells is a feature that differentiate tumours with Gleason score 9 from those with a score of 6. Also, the same extended neuroendocrine differentiation is associated with high tumour proliferative activity. Multinomial regression analysis showed that high Ki indices, serum PSA values and NSE scores are predictive for moderately and poorly differentiated prostatic adenocarcinoma.
Nimesulide is a weakly acidic non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAIDs). Like many non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, Nimesulide is very sparingly soluble in water (≈ 0.01 mg/mL).The poor aqueous solubility and wettability of Nimesulide gives rise to difficulties in pharmaceutical formulations for oral or parenteral delivery, which may lead to variable bioavailability. Based on the Biopharmaceutical Classification System (BCS), Nimesulide is considered a BCS 2 drug (poorly soluble and highly permeable). Solubilization in surfactant solutions above critical micelle concentration (CMC) offers one approach to the formulation of poorly soluble drugs. Weakly acidic and basic drugs may be brought into solution by the solubilizing action of surfactants. In this study, different concentrations of Tween 80 was used in combination with buffer (pH 7.4) to increase the solubility of Nimesulide. The results show that the dependence of the released amount on the Tween concentration is not linear, very low Tween concentration showing a decrease of "solubility", probably connected to a critical micelle concentration at the interface Nimesulide solution. An "analytical" artefact connected to a decreasing ultraviolet absorption of Nimesulide because of Nimesulide precipitation, the formation of a colloidal solution is possible, and the phenomenon remains to be searched further. It is hard to explain that for an almost complete solubilization a significant Tween quantity is necessary and this should be more than that of other slightly soluble drugs.
The analysis of heavy metals in the leaves and stems of Rubus caesius species has been performed. The mean levels of heavy metals in vegetal dried samples were in normal limits. Differences depend on the presence of organic compounds with ligand character and on the environmental conditions. The results indicate that there is not any real danger by utilization of pharmaceutical preparations of Rubii caesii folium.
11. When and How Nurse's Interventions are Beneficial for Dysphagic Patient?
To eat and to hydrate represent two basic needs and constitute the base of Abraham Maslow's pyramid, a theory which identifies human basic needs. A swallowing disorder (also called dysphagia) is difficulty or discomfort in swallowing. As a result, it can be difficult to eat and drink. Food represents the energy source and the biological substrate for our body cells. Water and food are introduced into the body through natural (digestive tract) and parenteral way (pathological conditions). Dysphagia represents a negative aspect that affects the development of this physiological need, so vital for survival. Swallowing difficulties can occur at any point along the swallow, from when the food or drink enters the mouth, to when the bolus passes through the esophagus and into the stomach. Dysphagia is probably more common than you think........The nurse, as a member of the interdisciplinary medical team, plays an important role in the medical care of patients registering such pathology. Consequently, the following questions are asked, which? how? and when? are nursing interventions essential for the dysphagic patient? To answer these questions, the nurse has to know closely the causes of dysphagia, its clinical aspects, as well as the interventions needed to provide the patient's optimal nutrition, nutrition should represent a safety measure in such pathology.


Gender recognition is a relevant problem due to the number and importance of its possible application areas. The challenge is to achieve high recognition rates in the shortest possible time. Most studies are based on Local Binary Patterns (LBP) and its variants to estimate gender. In this paper, we propose the use of Binary Robust Independent Elementary Features (BRIEF), Oriented FAST and Rotated BRIEF (ORB) and Binary Robust Invariant Scalable Keypoints (BRISK) in gender recognition due to their good performance and speed. The aim is to show that ORB and BRISK are faster than LBP but allow to achieve similar recognition rates, which makes them suitable for real-time systems. For the best of our knowledge, it has not been studied in literature.


New release of Pontoon is out the door. It's mostly a bugfix release eliminating annoying glitches like broken contributor profile links. Thank you for your first contribution to Pontoon, Benoit!
Some new features are also available, e.g. displaying warnings on unsaved translations as suggested by flod. And — Terminology Search is now also available as a standalone feature, making it easier to access. It works similarly as the Search tab in the out-of-context translation panel.
I'm interested in improving the social aspects of Pontoon to do things that we cannot currently do with Verbatim. Basically, be able to find out easily who made a contribution or suggestion and have a means to contact them. That way we could thank them, offer advice on how to improve their contributions and invite them to community events.
Benoit, any suggestions and/or patches in that directions are very welcome. Keep them comming!


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import * as ts from 'typescript';
import * as Lint from 'tslint';
import {
    collectVariableUsage, hasModifier, VariableUse, getPropertyName, isIdentifier, isPropertyAccessExpression, isElementAccessExpression,
    isStringLiteral, isBinaryExpression, isAssignmentKind, UsageDomain,
} from 'tsutils';

export class Rule extends Lint.Rules.AbstractRule {
    public apply(sourceFile: ts.SourceFile): Lint.RuleFailure[] {
        return this.applyWithFunction(sourceFile, walk);
    }
}

interface IEnum {
    name: string;
    isConst: boolean;
    declarations: ts.EnumDeclaration[];
    members: Map<string, IEnumMember>;
    canBeConst: boolean;
    uses: VariableUse[];
}

interface IEnumMember {
    isConst: boolean;
    stringValued: boolean;
}

interface IDeclaration {
    track: IEnum;
    declaration: ts.EnumDeclaration;
}

function walk(ctx: Lint.WalkContext<void>) {
    const seen = new Set<ts.Identifier>();
    const enums: IEnum[] = [];
    const declarations: IDeclaration[] = [];
    const variables = collectVariableUsage(ctx.sourceFile);
    variables.forEach((variable, identifier) => {
        if (identifier.parent!.kind !== ts.SyntaxKind.EnumDeclaration || seen.has(identifier))
            return;
        const track: IEnum = {
            name: identifier.text,
            isConst: hasModifier(identifier.parent!.modifiers, ts.SyntaxKind.ConstKeyword),
            declarations: [],
            members: new Map(),
            canBeConst: !variable.inGlobalScope && !variable.exported,
            uses: variable.uses,
        };
        for (const declaration of variable.declarations) {
            seen.add(declaration);
            if (declaration.parent!.kind !== ts.SyntaxKind.EnumDeclaration) {
                // TODO review with ts>=2.5.0, maybe const enum can merge with namespace
                // https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/16804
                track.canBeConst = false;
            } else {
                track.declarations.push(<ts.EnumDeclaration>declaration.parent);
                declarations.push({
                    track,
                    declaration: <ts.EnumDeclaration>declaration.parent},
                );
            }
        }
        enums.push(track);
    });
    declarations.sort((a, b) => a.declaration.pos - b.declaration.pos);
    for (const {track, declaration} of declarations) {
        for (const member of declaration.members) {
            const isConst = track.isConst ||
                member.initializer === undefined ||
                isConstInitializer(member.initializer, track.members, findEnum);
            track.members.set(getPropertyName(member.name)!, {
                isConst,
                stringValued: isConst && member.initializer !== undefined && isStringValued(member.initializer, track.members, findEnum),
            });
            if (!isConst)
                track.canBeConst = false;
        }
    }
    for (const track of enums) {
        if (track.isConst || !track.canBeConst || !onlyConstUses(track))
            continue;
        for (const declaration of track.declarations)
            ctx.addFailure(
                declaration.name.pos - 4,
                declaration.name.end,
                `Enum '${track.name}' can be a 'const enum'.`,
                Lint.Replacement.appendText(declaration.name.pos - 4, 'const '),
            );
    }

    function findEnum(name: ts.Identifier): IEnum | undefined {
        for (const track of enums) {
            if (track.name !== name.text)
                continue;
            for (const use of track.uses)
                if (use.location === name)
                    return track;
        }
    }
}

function onlyConstUses(track: IEnum): boolean {
    for (const use of track.uses) {
        if (use.domain & UsageDomain.Type || use.domain === UsageDomain.Namespace)
            continue;
        if (use.domain & UsageDomain.TypeQuery)
            return false;
        const parent = use.location.parent!;
        switch (parent.kind) {
            default:
                return false;
            case ts.SyntaxKind.ElementAccessExpression:
                // wotan-disable-next-line no-useless-predicate
                if ((<ts.ElementAccessExpression>parent).argumentExpression === undefined || // compatibilty with typescript@<2.9.0
                    (<ts.ElementAccessExpression>parent).argumentExpression.kind !== ts.SyntaxKind.StringLiteral)
                    return false;
                break;
            case ts.SyntaxKind.PropertyAccessExpression:
        }
    }
    return true;
}

type FindEnum = (name: ts.Identifier) => IEnum | undefined;

function isConstInitializer(initializer: ts.Expression, members: Map<string, IEnumMember>, findEnum: FindEnum): boolean {
    return (function isConst(node, allowStrings): boolean {
        switch (node.kind) {
            case ts.SyntaxKind.Identifier:
                const member = members.get((<ts.Identifier>node).text);
                return member !== undefined && member.isConst && (allowStrings || !member.stringValued);
            case ts.SyntaxKind.StringLiteral:
                return allowStrings;
            case ts.SyntaxKind.NumericLiteral:
                return true;
            case ts.SyntaxKind.PrefixUnaryExpression:
                return isConst((<ts.PrefixUnaryExpression>node).operand, false);
            case ts.SyntaxKind.ParenthesizedExpression:
                return isConst((<ts.ParenthesizedExpression>node).expression, allowStrings);
        }
        if (isPropertyAccessExpression(node)) {
            if (!isIdentifier(node.expression))
                return false;
            const track = findEnum(node.expression);
            if (track === undefined)
                return false;
            const member = track.members.get(node.name.text);
            return member !== undefined && member.isConst && (allowStrings || !member.stringValued);
        }
        if (isElementAccessExpression(node)) {
            if (
                !isIdentifier(node.expression) ||
                // wotan-disable-next-line no-useless-predicate
                node.argumentExpression === undefined || // compatibility with typescript@<2.9.0
                !isStringLiteral(node.argumentExpression)
            )
                return false;
            const track = findEnum(node.expression);
            if (track === undefined)
                return false;
            const member = track.members.get(node.argumentExpression.text);
            return member !== undefined && member.isConst && (allowStrings || !member.stringValued);
        }
        if (isBinaryExpression(node))
            // TODO revisit 1 ** 2 in later versions of typescript
            return node.operatorToken.kind !== ts.SyntaxKind.AsteriskAsteriskToken &&
                node.operatorToken.kind !== ts.SyntaxKind.AmpersandAmpersandToken &&
                node.operatorToken.kind !== ts.SyntaxKind.BarBarToken &&
                !isAssignmentKind(node.operatorToken.kind) &&
                isConst(node.left, false) && isConst(node.right, false);
        return false;
    })(initializer, true);
}

function isStringValued(initializer: ts.Expression, members: Map<string, IEnumMember>, findEnum: FindEnum): boolean {
    return (function stringValued(node): boolean {
        switch (node.kind) {
            case ts.SyntaxKind.ParenthesizedExpression:
                return stringValued((<ts.ParenthesizedExpression>node).expression);
            case ts.SyntaxKind.Identifier:
                return members.get((<ts.Identifier>node).text)!.stringValued;
            case ts.SyntaxKind.PropertyAccessExpression:
                return findEnum(<ts.Identifier>(<ts.PropertyAccessExpression>node).expression)!
                    .members.get((<ts.PropertyAccessExpression>node).name.text)!.stringValued;
            case ts.SyntaxKind.ElementAccessExpression:
                return findEnum(<ts.Identifier>(<ts.ElementAccessExpression>node).expression)!
                    .members.get((<ts.Identifier>(<ts.ElementAccessExpression>node).argumentExpression).text)!.stringValued;
            default: // StringLiteral
                return true;
        }
    })(initializer);
}

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I am submitting herewith my resume for your perusal and consideration for the Any sutabile post in your company .
My basic objective is to hone in my skills for comprehensive personality development and be an epitome of trust and reliability in the industry. My prime goal is to understand professional environment and capitalize on opportunities.
I'd appreciate the chance to meet with you in person to discuss as to how I could be a vital part of your organization.
** Dedicated & hardworking individual with PGDM (Marketing) from Indore Indira Business School, Indore. Worked as Sales Executive for 8 months with Raj Machinery.
** Possess knowledge of Marketing, Market Research, Channel Management, Customer Relationship Management, Competitor Analysis, Brand Management, Product Promotion etc.
** Ability to build strategy for new product launch, product positioning and brand management by developing and leveraging strong relationships with key decision makers.
** Worked on academic projects "Business plan on bulk milk processing unit", "STP of fast track watches and Shahrukh Khan", "Uses of mobile phone in young female generation", "Best banking manager" and "Financial Analysis on JK Lakshmi Cement".
** Excellent Relationship Management skills, articulate, combine strong business acumen with the ability to conceive profitable and efficient solutions utilizing technology.
** Spearheaded entire gamut of functions and planning to promote Sales through various modes; Singlehandedly arranged all essentials such as brochures, pamphlets and the like for product promotion and advertising.
** Targeted Hotels under construction for product promotion for boost in Sales; offered attractive bargains and offers for bulk purchases.
** Carry out all the aspects of sales activities such as lead generation and business development and ensuring the achievement of volume, collection targets & identifying potential locations and prospective dealers.
** Maintain active interaction with existing clients to rebuild confidence ensuring prolonged retention.
Explore new business opportunities through systematic prospecting to generate business enquiries.
** Coordinate and communicate day to day activities with Sales and Operation team to guarantee that all the work is directed towards a common organizational goal.


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Being a mother for the first time is not easy. I wish babies came with a manual. I heard nothing but great things, so I thought motherhood shouldn't be that hard. Well not everyone lays their cards out. I actually found the first few months (which is also known as the 4th trimester) to be pretty hard. So let's be transparent here and talk about the things I really wish I knew.
1* Breastfeeding shouldn't stop you from going out: Breastfeeding is hard, as it needs patience and dedication, lots of it. Try not to let breastfeeding act as a burden on your social life; you can breastfeed anywhere anytime. Be flexible. You can even pump. Despite it being hard, it is totally worth it and gets easier. You should basically be available ANYTIME during the day and night to feed your baby. Oh and expect a lot of holding. So yes it is very demanding. But you will soon appreciate and enjoy the special bond between you and your little one. It will be a moment of peace and love. Other problems might come up with breastfeeding, like mood swings, and negative comments from people. Embrace the breastfeeding journey!
2* Night cuddles: You will forget what it is like to have uninterrupted sleep! But it will get easier, when? Each baby has a different sleeping pattern so there is no set time frame. But it's not just the feeding that wakes you up, there's diaper change, and there's burping (may take anywhere between 30 sec and 10 mins). Not to forget to mention the amount of times you wake up with every newborn grunt wondering if your baby is choking. You get to be protective with your first one. But the night cuddles are the best. It's when everyone is asleep and it's just you and your baby, skin to skin, holding one another peacefully. Although it is tiring, but just wait few months and his smile will make you forget all the fatigue and exhaustion you were going through. It just takes one smile!
3* Getting sick is actually good: Don't freak out if your baby was born with a bit of jaundice, or has reflux or runny nose or hiccups. It's fine! Just contact his pediatrician if you are concerned. Babies will get sick, and getting sick will strengthen their immunity so it's perfectly normal, don't worry. So look at it as him getting sick is making him stronger!
4* Your baby makes you stronger: At many times, I felt I wanted to give up. It is very easy to feel overwhelmed and sometimes you find yourself not trusting your judgment, thinking you are doing it wrong. Believe in yourself and trust your instincts. You and your baby are in this together, and he will appreciate everything you are doing for him, regardless! You will soon feel how resilient you've become.
A small tip: make sure you're up to speed on laundry, and not just the baby's!
6* Wearing a stranger's body: Finally, and most importantly, your postpartum body becomes totally new to you. It becomes a foreign thing; nothing works like it did. Hormones are super powerful! They can do a lot. Learn to accept your new body, as it will take quite some time to heal, that's if it did! And remember, you gave life so it is completely normal. Learn to accept who you've become and make the best out of it. Train your mind to make your place a happy, and cheerful environment. It works and it feels great.


At first I was offended by his remarks, but having known him for his directness, I realised he meant what he said. The truth is that the Third World — which once constituted large parts of Africa, Asia and Latin America — has shrunk, and many countries in the Far East, in East Africa and those like Brazil, Chile and Argentina are no different from places in the US and Europe. Singapore's urban life, its systems of transport, public housing and infrastructure are similar to Jakarta's, Madrid's and Bogota's; public life in Seoul, Shanghai, Canberra and Mexico City is at comparable levels; social life and culture in Rio, New York and Cairo are vibrant and on par; as is the commerce and night life of Hong Kong, Dubai and Tokyo. Other than obvious historic and climatic differences, cities in most parts of the world have settled into a comfort zone of such cosmopolitan similarity that new places no longer baffle. People fly in and out of cities once seen as exotic, inaccessible and altogether strange.
The Indian city, however, remains decidedly Third World, and getting more so. The last few decades of a supposedly liberalised economy has pushed it further into what Donald Trump described as 'shithole', by cloistering the affluent in small pockets and allowing the poor to fill all the unoccupied crevices of the city. Delhi's per-capita GDP rate, for instance, gives no indication of its true demographics. Its 22 million population makes up the highest number of urban poor in the world.
People spread like water from a broken drain, living in makeshift places, defying all regulations and planning. Look at the larger public parts of most cities. The wide open green at Delhi's India Gate today functions as an unselfconscious city maidan for the capital's poor, a theme park without a theme. When 80% of the city is formed out of migrants from neighbouring states, ceremonial space for government monuments is naturally the first to go. Mumbai's Marine Drive is similarly a public space without intent, as is Chennai's Marina Beach. Jaipur's northern hillocks, once a landscape of green, are covered with tin-shed tenements.
My classmate's Third World reference was directed at the growing formlessness of the city. Third World had nothing to do with poverty, but a lack of civic control — something that clumps Indian cities with the tribal towns of West Africa. Dusty places like Lagos and Accara have developed through constant migration, their civic life formed out of temporary commerce — daily vegetable markets, cattle fairs, public festivals and informal street life; their urban life is strikingly similar to the increasing migrant reality of Indian cities.
More and more, as people move in from surrounding states and rural areas, our towns are becoming small-time artisan centres, with legal and illegal industry, shanty towns and temporary bazaars. The established public culture of museums, theatres and other institutions is rapidly being replaced. Even commerce is more chai shop than coffee shop, more dhaba than bistro.
This may not be an altogether bad thing. A major complaint against New York, Hong Kong and Dubai is that their increasing affluence has excluded the poor and the middle classes, not only in housing infrastructure and public transport, but also day-to-day commerce and social patterns. Unless you are a high wage earner, don't try buying a coffee, a theatre ticket or a meal in a Manhattan restaurant; the Indians and Pakistanis who man the newspaper kiosks and small stores are quick to return to the Third World tenements in Queens..
In India, wherever you look, the signals are directed towards a future urbanity made up of rural migrants, and a civic life that will become more haphazard and informal. By 2025, migrants are expected to make up almost 90% of India's big cities. In the long run, this may be good for cities that have too long been based on imaginary European models and middle-class Indian values.
The Indian city will become a recognisable original First World entity only if it gives cohesive structure to its enlarging new majority. Unless migrants have a say in the kinds of places being made for them, Delhi and Mumbai will remain Third World cities, and Trump's label will become all the more applicable.


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Enriqueta Duarte (born February 26, 1929) is an Argentine freestyle swimmer who competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics.  She was the first Argentine female to swim the English Channel on 16 August 1951.

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Xangati Product Suite XSR12 Announced
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Xangati announced Xangati Product Suite XSR12, a major software release that delivers industry-leading, real-time, high fidelity visibility and rapid triage for the entire client, desktop, compute, networking and storage infrastructure.
XSR12 is designed to ensure a superior user experience for Citrix XenApp, XenDesktop or web-based applications, such as e-commerce, delivered to users' desktops or mobile devices. With XSR12, Xangati brings its holistic and predictive view of performance management to highly dynamic and elastic cloud environments. Distancing Xangati from providers of competing offerings, XSR12 also integrates fully with infrastructures designed on the FlexPod converged infrastructure, providing native support of Cisco Unified Computing System's (UCS) Virtual Interface Card and NetApp storage devices.
XSR12 is a comprehensive, highly scalable solution that provides app-aware infrastructure intelligence for an enterprise's world-wide computing infrastructure of client, desktops, servers, networking and storage on a live and continuous basis. With XSR12, Xangati introduces two new dashboards, the Virtual App Dashboard and the Web App Dashboard, to support Citrix XenApp and web-based applications, respectively. Fully integrated with HDX technologies that provide a native touch-enabled look-and-feel for demanding 3D applications, XSR12 gives performance insights to help deliver the fullest value in any Citrix XenApp deployment.
"Xangati's support of Citrix XenApp and NetScaler AppFlow in its latest release provides a fully integrated view of application activity and infrastructure performance and helps ensure a consistently great user experience for our joint customers," said Calvin Hsu, VP of Product Marketing, desktop and applications virtualization group at Citrix. "Together, Citrix and Xangati are enabling our customers to deploy an effective virtual-application delivery solution to mobilize their business operations while simultaneously reducing costs."
"The newest iteration of Xangati's XSR12 Intelligence Suite covers even more ground, offering an amazing degree of environmental visibility for Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop administrators. Another key feature is the introduction of support for Cisco UCS products, which offers a powerful new set of troubleshooting tools for UCS admins as well as adopters of FlexPod and Vblock converged systems," said Steven Hill, senior analyst, Current Analysis.
For e-commerce giants, millions in revenue are at risk from lost sales when performance issues affect a customer's ability to shop and complete a sale. The XSR12 Web App Dashboard tracks performance metrics in high fidelity for every URL across the infrastructure by integrating with Citrix Netscaler's Appflow, providing impactful and actionable insight in real-time, while the customer is still fully engaged. Xangati's patented, highly scalable, distributed, scale-out architecture enables enterprises to track millions of web interactions second-by-second, allowing rapid response to performance issues and sophisticated predicitive analytics to remediate any potential risk of downtime. Xangati XSR12 learns instantly from these interactions and correlates various cross-silo metrics into new performance, availability and relative-capacity indices to assure the best end-user experience.
XSR12 delivers application-aware infrastructure performance management for complex private cloud environments, including environments based on the FlexPod converged architecture, which today accounts for a $3 billion investment by 4,100 companies in over 100 countries. FlexPod consists of NetApp FAS storage and the Cisco UCS with either VMware or Microsoft virtualization technology to provide a proven integrated approach to the cloud. XSR12 protects this stack by adding holistic performance intelligence to the existing traditional corporate infrastructure, while supporting the FlexPod vision that is instrumental in shaping and driving the design of the modern dynamic cloud environment. With its new support of Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines, XSR12 now offers seamless integration with both Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware vSphere virtual machines in a common dashboard.
"We are bringing increased application awareness to our solution, so our customers can gain the intelligence needed to effectively manage end-user business productivity of critical XenApp applications and the end-to-end user experience of web applications that drive revenue in the mobile world," said S. "Sundi" Sundaresh, CEO of Xangati. "With XSR12, enterprises can now manage their increasingly complex data center and cloud infrastructure with confidence, empowered with a single, continuous view into their infrastructure performance to provide essential insight into how application service levels are affected.
New functionality in the XSR12 release includes:
- Virtual App Dashboard with full Citrix XenApp and NetScaler AppFlow support with full integration with HDX technologies
- Web App Dashboard to track web services for e-commerce, gaming and other mission-critical applications
- FlexPod Support with integration with Cisco UCS servers and NetApp storage devices
- Multi-Hypervisor Support offering seamless integration with both Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware vSphere virtual machines
- Enhanced VDI, VI and other dashboards with new performance, availability and relative-capacity indices
XSR12 will be released at the end of September 2014.


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Stocks in Motion: Winn-Dixie a Winner
The food retailer is getting a new CEO.
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Updated from 11:19 a.m. EST
Shares of
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were among the
NYSE's
winners Friday, rising 9.5% after the company said it hired a new chief executive.
The food retailer said that Peter L. Lynch would replace Frank Lazaran, effective immediately. "The board concluded that making this change was a necessary step toward achieving our objectives," the company said. Lynch most recently served as president and COO of
, one of the largest grocery store chains in the U.S. Shares traded up 38 cents to $4.39.
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fell 3.7% after the casino-supply company posted fourth-quarter earnings and sales that beat expectations, but warned that first-quarter results would fall below estimates. The company earned $6.5 million, or 27 cents a share, up from $5 million, or 19 cents a share, a year ago. Analysts polled by Thomson First Call were expecting earnings of 26 cents a share. Sales rose to $25.9 million, up from $17.6 million a year ago. Analysts were looking for $22.7 million. Looking ahead, Shuffle Master forecast first-quarter earnings of 21 cents to 23 cents a share, below analysts' expectations of 25 cents a share. Shares traded down $1.63 to $42.64.
( DPH) fell 3.9% after the company lowered financial guidance for several reporting periods and announced a restructuring plan. The auto-parts company now expects fourth-quarter sales of $6.9 billion to $7 billion, about $200 million below previous guidance. It also forecast a pro forma loss of $70 million to $90 million.
Analysts had been expecting sales of $7.06 billion and earnings of 7 cents a share. During 2005, Delphi forecast a pro forma loss of $200 million on sales of $28.5 billion to $29 billion. Analysts had been expecting earnings of 59 cents a share on sales of $29.03 billion. Low production volumes and commodity price pressures led to the revised financial guidance. As part of the company's restructuring plan, Delphi said that it would cut 8,500 jobs during 2005. Shares traded down 34 cents to $8.30.
Quantum Fuel Systems
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Roanoke Electric Steel
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rose 8.6% after the steelmaker posted a big jump in fourth-quarter earnings and sales. The company earned $15.9 million, or $1.44 a share, on sales of $143.7 million. A year earlier, Roanoke earned $700,735, or 6 cents a share, on sales of $91.6 million. Increased shipments and margins for mill products led to the solid results. Shares traded up $1.54 to $19.48.
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RAYNHAM POLICE LOG: 7-21-11
• Francis Simmons, of 68 Broadway, Taunton, was arrested on a warrant at Bernie & Phyl's furniture store, 240 New State Highway, at 1:58 p.m. Police responded to the scene for reports of a fight in front of the business, according to a police log entry. The entry said that the victim had since driven home but was requesting an ambulance.
• Stephen Colbert, of 53 Winthrop St., Medway, was arrested and charged with assault and battery on a police officer, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct at the Marriott, 37 Paramount Drive, at 2:57 a.m. Also arrested during the incident — officers were called for a disturbance in room 158 — were Donald Lawrence, 96 Edgewater Drive, Blackston, who was charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest, and Susan Fidgeon, 3 Chilson Ave., Mansfield, who was charges with disorderly conduct.
• A profanity was spraypainted on a fence at 926 N. Main St. and was reported at 8:33 a.m.
• A lightpost was damaged after a vehicle collided with it at Central Dodge, 191 New State Highway, at 11:48 a.m.
• Someone reported the smell of marijuana in the hallway drifting into her apartment at Chesnut Farms, 1305 N. Main St., at 7:07 p.m. An officer walked through the area and didn't smell anything, according to a police log entry.
• Someone took a mailbox and its post from 215 Judson St. The theft was reported to police at 8:12 a.m.
• A car versus bicycle crash took place at Broadway and Elm Street West at 3:36 p.m., with personal injury reported. A patrolman was notified for crash reconstruction.
• A motor vehicle accident resulting in personal injury took place near Silko Honda, at 1580 New State Highway, at 4:24 p.m. According to a police log entry, a vehicle ran a red light and clipped another vehicle that flipped over.
• Two incidents of counterfeit money being passed at Chili's restaurant, at 500 South St. W., were reported at 5:22 p.m.
• Megan Alen and Sean Keating will be summonsed for shoplifting at Stop N Shop, 36 New State Highway, at 10:10 p.m., according to a police log entry.
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A US marine scientist in California who has been studying an octopus with no formal name decided to call the specimen "adorabilis." The presently unnamed deep-sea creature is just too "cute" to resist assigning it such a name, she says.
"As someone who is describing the species you get to pick what the specific name is. One of the thoughts I had was making it Opistoteuthis adorabilis - because they are really cute," Stephanie Bush of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) told Science Friday.
The researcher has been studying the tiny anonymous octopus from the genus Opisthoteuthis for many months. She says the deep-sea cephalopods "are really gelatinous and fragile, and they have relatively large eyes for the size of their body."
The "cute" marine animals have a well-developed web between the arms – "they'll just spread that web and kind of parachute along," Bush said. She added that understanding behavior of individual species is an important task, "in order to have a healthy functioning ocean eco system."
MBARI scientists collected several of the octopuses live last year as part of its ongoing research off the California coast. Having lived at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, one of the octopuses has laid eggs.
Dozens of eggs have now been developing for over a year, and the rare marine creatures inside them are not ready to hatch out of the eggs yet. They have a lengthy incubation period, and researchers might need to wait for up to three years before more "adorabilis" octopuses are born.
Classifying and naming a specimen is also a long process that could take years, it appears. "It involves publishing papers, collecting specimens and distributing them to museums around the country," Kim Fulton-Bennett, a spokesperson for MBARI, told Science Friday.


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The Pentagon is building robotic wingmen to fly alongside fighter planes
A futuristic rendering of what Kratos' semiautonomous drones might look like in combat (Courtesy of Kratos Defense and Security Solutions)
By Aaron Gregg
Aaron Gregg
Reporter covering the defense industry, commercial aviation and government contractors.
A Pentagon effort to incubate businesses in Silicon Valley may be bearing some of its first fruit, as a San Diego company rolls out a set of new drones it says could accompany human-piloted fighters into combat.
On Tuesday, Kratos Defense and Security Solutions officially announced two new classes of drones designed to function as robotic wingmen for fighter pilots. Development of the UTAP-22 Mako has been funded by the Defense Department's Silicon Valley laboratory, dubbed DIUx. Separately, the company showed off a larger, 30-foot-long drone backed by the Air Force called the XQ-222 Valkyrie, with a range of more than 4,000 nautical miles. Kratos is promoting the pilotless planes at the Paris Air Show next week in preparation for a new round of testing.
Aviation experts say the speed and altitude capacities published by Kratos suggest the drones could fly in tandem with an F-16 or F-35 fighter. The company says it has already successfully flown the drones alongside manned aircraft and that it will soon embark on an advanced round of testing above California's Mojave Desert employing a more sophisticated array of sensing technology to determine just how autonomous the drones can be.
In those tests, a pilot in an accompanying airplane is preparing to monitor the drones from a small Android tablet. For most of the flight, the drone will attempt to maneuver without the help of a human, relying on artificial intelligence technology and sensors to mimic the nearby plane's movements.
That test scheduled for July is to be followed by a "demonstrated military exercise" sometime in the second half of this year, the company said.
"In order to exploit the maneuverability of one of these aircraft, you need to have the sensing ability of when to exploit it," said Dave Deptula, a retired Air Force general who now serves as dean of the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, an Arlington think tank.
The effort comes as the military explores what role robotics might play in the wars of the future; some argue that unmanned systems are more likely to accompany — but not replace — manned systems like the F-35 Joint Strike fighter. The Navy is exploring similar options in using autonomous submarines that can scout the ocean floor and seek out mines.
The use of robotic systems to augment manned aircraft could theoretically make air combat safer if, for example, autonomous aircraft can be sent ahead to absorb an enemy's attacks first. The aircraft are also less expensive to deploy than manned aircraft; the reusable drones cost between $2 million and $3 million.
The Mako represents a step forward from the unmanned Predator and Reaper drones now largely used for aerial surveillance and for targeted attacks in places like Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
"These systems can conduct fully autonomous missions," said Steven Fendley, president of the company's unmanned systems division.
Officials at DIUx did not respond to requests for comment on the new Kratos drones. Former defense secretary Ashton B. Carter helped launch the Silicon Valley outpost in 2015, tasking the Defense Innovation Unit Experimental with finding and funding innovative technologies outside greater Washington. The effort had its early stumbles: Carter reshuffled its leadership team and members of Congress took steps to limited the agency's funding, saying it lacked direction.
Kratos' $12.6 million contract with DIUx to explore the autonomous use of high-speed drones is tiny compared with larger military hardware development contracts, which can reach into the billions of dollars. Still, observers see the successful testing of an autonomous drone as step forward for the agency.
"This is an example of where DIUx went out and found innovative ideas and are funding them, and it's an excellent way to reinforce companies that are not already fully established," said Deptula, the retired Air Force general.
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Norway holds rate, delays rate rise to first half 2014
Norway's central bank kept its policy rate steady at 1.5 percent, saying economic growth and inflation had been slightly lower than projected so it first expects to raise rates in the Spring of 2014.
Norges Bank started easing its upward rate bias last October when it delayed a planned rate increase until this year from end-2012. At its previous meeting in January, the bank maintained a slight upward bias but it has now delayed any rate change until next year.
"The analysis suggests that the key policy rate be kept lower longer than previously anticipated," the bank quoted its governor Oeystein Olsen as saying.
"The first increase in the key policy rate is now projected to take place in spring 2014," he added. Norway's central bank last cut its rate in March 2012 by 25 basis points.
While growth and inflation remain low, the central bank said household debt and house prices were still rising faster than income.
The central bank said it would introduce a countercyclical capital buffer to give banks more capital to draw on in an economic downturn. The size would be determined later this year.
Norway's inflation rate fell to 1.0 percent in February from 1.3 percent in January and the central bank said its policy rate was low because inflation is low and because interest rates abroad are low.
The central bank targets inflation of 2.5 percent.
The bank added that growth prospects for trading partners had weakened though global growth remains robust. Capacity utilization in the Norwegian economy is above normal and unemployment is low.
"At the same time, there are now prospects that it will take longer for inflation to move up to the inflation target," the central bank said.
Norway's Gross Domestic Product rose 0.4 percent in the fourth quarter from the third quarter for an annual rate of 2.1 percent.
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In 1917, the industrialist, Joseph Butler commissioned McKim Mead and White to design a gallery for this collection of American Art. In 1939, two wings were added to the rectangular parti and in 1967 second floors were added to the wings.
The parti for the West Wing was the logical completion of the existing gallery circulation. The courtyard was excavated to provide for vault and registrar space, above it a two-story skylight covered court was constructed. The court is closed on the west by a two-story gallery and stair on axis with the court. The mass of the west wing is a counter balance to the original east gallery and is clad in white marble like the original.


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Rose Rocca - Court action
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A 52-year-old woman has been placed on a six-month good behaviour undertaking after pleading guilty to carrying on an unlicensed conveyancing business.
The County Court of Victoria upheld an appeal by Rose Rocca – proprietor of CSM Conveyancing and Property Solutions – against a previous decision by Ringwood Magistrates' Court.
The County Court set aside this previous court ruling, made in May 2013, which saw Ms Rocca convicted and fined $4000 for breaching the Conveyancers Act 2006 by operating a conveyancing business without a licence.
In its decision on 7 March 2014, the County Court found Ms Rocca guilty without recording a conviction.
The Business Licensing Authority refused Ms Rocca's application for a conveyancers' licence in late 2009 because she had not performed the required one year of work experience. It warned her to stop operating as a conveyancer if she had not already done so.
However, in late 2010, Ms Rocca agreed to act as the conveyancer for a consumer who was selling her home and buying another property. The consumer paid $3500 to Ms Rocca but later became concerned that there was no documentation confirming her as the registered owner. The consumer ultimately did not suffer financial loss.
The County Court also dismissed a further charge of contravening the Business Names Act 1962. Ms Rocca was ordered to pay $602 court costs.
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Environmental damage through a proliferation of laptops seems to me to be probably indisputable, but what's the alternative? Is it fair for rich countries to consume vast amounts of resources but stop poor countries having access to the same services 'for the good of the world'? Can we really in good conscience deny other people what we take for granted? Perhaps if we were sending out hundreds of millions of Macs or PCs there might be an argument here, but the XOs are massively less damaging to the world than any of those devices.


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Crimea hostage to nuclear blackmail Putin
June 5, 2017 IMMPolitics
"All-Union health resort"? "Resort worldwide"? "Showcase" of Russia and "Russian world"? Sure! The transformation of Crimea into a military base that began two hundred years ago, but gained unprecedented speed after its annexation by Moscow, approached the final stage. Possible accommodation on the Peninsula of nuclear weapons will be the last step of the Kremlin towards the creation of an impregnable fortress — a private black sea "Gibraltar". Will burn if Crimeans in the flames of nuclear war — Putin is not interested.
Talk about the fact that in the Crimea will host Russian nuclear weapons (NW), are quite long. The first sounded the alarm to Internet users. 24 Mar 2014 has published a number of photos uploaded to the Peninsula of military equipment to the comment anonymous Russian military:
"To me these pics something became clear. No this is not the Marines… These machines when given the missile crews, but not always, and when they carry nuclear warheads. So parachute in the photo, two armored personnel carriers of communication and one armored personnel carrier guard a military unit, providing storage of nuclear warheads".
However, it is obvious that SCS does not mean that the weapons themselves. The same publication on June 27, citing "internal channels" reported that "near the village. Guards (Simferopol) Ukrainian old nuclear waste warehouses, which are located opposite the Russian airfield, began to import and store nuclear warheads". Other evidence of this was not, though, according to the Crimean expert Andrey Klimenko, "in Crimea since the Soviet Union has the infrastructure to host nuclear weapons". The charges, in his opinion, can be placed on the aircraft, and ships, and, of course, the missiles stationed in Crimea.
At the September Board of the Ministry of defense of Russia Sergey Shoigu said about the need to deploy full forces on the Crimean direction, and about the possible deployment of "Iskander" in Crimea, said that such complexes can appear anywhere on the territory of Russia: "Where want, there and put!".
In mid-October 2014 President Barack Obama received from Congress a letter signed by the head of Committee on Affairs of armed forces Howard McCone, in which the President informed that "at the beginning of August the Russian government adopted the decision on the transfer to the Crimea bombers Tu-22M3 and complexes "Iskander-M" that have the potential to strike precision cruise missiles R-500, including with nuclear warheads".
November 11, the news Agency Reuters issued a statement of the commander of the NATO forces in Europe General Philip Breedlove that Russia throws in the Crimea means of delivering nuclear weapons, while stressing that the Alliance is unknown whether the Peninsula actually warheads.
At the end of the year, almost at the same time was made a few important statements. 15 Dec Sergei Lavrov just said that Russia has the right to deploy nuclear weapons where wish:
"Crimea was not a non-nuclear zone in an international legal sense, he was a part of Ukraine, which is a state not possessing nuclear weapons. Now the Crimea became part of the state, which in accordance with the Treaty on the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons has such weapons. The Russian state has in accordance with international law, every reason to dispose of their legitimate nuclear Arsenal according to their interests."
However, the next day the commander of the strategic missile forces Colonel General Sergey Karakayev explained that "the formation of military units of the strategic missile forces on the Crimean Federal district is not planned". The tactical warheads were not discussed.
However, two days later, state Department spokesman Victoria Nuland warned Russia about the appropriate consequences, if that will afford to place nuclear weapons in Crimea.
After that, the issue of nuclear weapons on the Peninsula has faded into the background, although from time to time continued to be made loud statements. So, on may 28, 2015, Alexander Turchinov said that the Ukrainian special services have information about the "systemic work conducted by the Russian Federation for placement on the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea offensive nuclear weapons".
According to Mustafa Dzhemilev, of 16 December, he "it is known that they (the Russians) almost completely restored the nuclear repository in the tract Tashan near Yalta… imported to the Crimea and missiles capable of carrying nuclear weapons."
Thus, despite the screaming headline, most likely in 2015, the invaders were limited to the restoration of the nuclear infrastructure on the Peninsula and the transfer of the means of delivery of nuclear weapons, but not the actual charges. Regarding next year, experts ' opinions divided.
So, in early August 2016 Chief Directorate of intelligence of the Ministry of defense of Ukraine Vadim Skibitsky said that everything you need to deploy nuclear weapons in Crimea, but the warheads while on the Peninsula is not delivered:
"Means of delivery of nuclear weapons now located on the territory of Crimea — on the airfields and the naval base of Sevastopol. It's warships and submarines. The actual nuclear warheads are in the territory of the southern military district of the Russian Federation".
But Mustafa Dzhemilev on 6 December stated that nuclear weapons in the Crimea is already there and even called his number:
"According to our data, on the Peninsula even delivered nuclear weapons. The information service of the Mejlis (banned in Russia organization — approx. ed.) have data brought six nuclear warheads".
However, to confirm these figures in other sources failed. Moreover, the speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Andrei Parubiy at the meeting of the NATO parliamentary Assembly in Tbilisi on 29 may 2017 and could not be determined, there are nuclear weapons in the Crimea or not:
"Now Russia is conducting intensive militarization of the occupied Peninsula is illegal, placing there the latest models of weapons and military equipment. Including plans to place, and according to some has already placed nuclear offensive weapons".
Naturally, the Federation Council member Frants Klintsevich denied the statement Parubiy made the supposedly "for the purpose of demonizing Russia":
"We have no strategic or tactical reasons to place in Crimea nuclear weapons. Moreover, it is beyond elementary common sense: the Crimea — all-Russia health resort, and the issue of deployment of nuclear weapons is not discussed at any level".
In the end, today we can say that on the Peninsula deployed carriers for all types of nuclear weapons: aircraft-Tu-22M3 in the guards missile cruiser "Moskva" in Sevastopol, ground missile complexes "Iskander-M" and onshore "Bastion", and a fully prepared infrastructure for transportation and storage of nuclear warheads. Thus, the equipment of the carriers charges represents only a technical, but not a strategic problem.
However, it should be recognized that reliable data on the real presence of the actual warheads in the Crimea at the moment, although completely discard this option should not be.
But anyway, Crimea continues to be held hostage to nuclear blackmail of Russia, even if such weapons on the Peninsula. As recognized even in 2015, Vladimir Putin himself, he was willing to use the atomic bomb a year earlier, with the annexation of the Crimea, in case of conflict with Western countries. Where exactly was supposed to fall missiles, the Russian President did not elaborate, but since it was about the action on the Peninsula, to eliminate the possibility of attack on Crimea was not. Given the geographical characteristics of a single nuclear explosion would be for the Peninsula Apocalypse. But he played in the revival of the Empire and rising from its knees, Putin was ready to easily sacrifice the most Crimeans, to which he allegedly was in a hurry.
And that anybody did not have doubts, Russian MP Vyacheslav Nikonov security summit in Bratislava on 28 may 2017, said that Russia can go on the use of nuclear weapons in the event of putting NATO forces in the Crimea. As in the case of Putin, the fate of the inhabitants of the Peninsula, while this scenario was not even discussed.
Empire always easy to sacrifice your own citizens for the conservation area. And to turn the Crimea in the wilderness of Russia for two hundred years learned.
Only this time the desert was not atomic.
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This post is part 2 of Enerskin's series on compression sportswear about the performance benefits of compression. To read an intro on compression, its history, and the different types, check out part 1 here - What Is Compression Sportswear?
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