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Уролесан — лекарственное средство, применяемое в урологии и гепатологии. Является комбинированным фитопрепаратом.

История
Уролесан (урохолесан) был синтезирован в 1976 в ИФНМУ Францем Ивановичем Мамчуром и . За его создание в 1992 году они были награждены Государственной премией Украины.

Состав
Действующими веществами уролесана являются компоненты растительного происхождения.
 Пихтовое масло. Это эфирное масло обладает антисептическими свойствами и улучшает периферическое кровоснабжение, что определяет его использование при почечнокаменной болезни, инфекционно-воспалительных болезнях мочеполовой системы и заболеваниях печени.
 Масло . Данное эфирное масло обладает широким спектром свойств, необходимых в урологии и при болезнях желчевыводящих путей: обезболивающее, спазмолитическое, антисептическое, диуретическое, усиливает секрецию печени и повышает её антитоксическую функцию, увеличивает экскрецию с желчью холестерина и билирубина.
 Касторовое масло — растительное масло , усиливающее перистальтику кишечника.
 Жидкий экстракт плодов , который используется при различных формах мочекаменной и жёлчнокаменной болезни, других заболеваниях жёлчных путей.
 Экстракт шишек , имеющий болеутоляющие свойства при мочекаменной болезни, пиелонефрите и цистите.
 Экстракт травы , усиливающая перистальтику кишечника при атонии.

Фармакодинамика
В инструкции утверждается, что составляющие компоненты уролесана оказывают противовоспалительное действие в мочевыводящих путях и почках, усиливают кровоснабжение почек и имеет антибактериальное действие. Также утверждается, что препарат влияет на химические свойства мочи: подкисляет её и увеличивает экскрецию мочевины и хлоридов, образует защитный коллоид. Нормализирует тонус мочеточников. Кроме того, уролесан содействует выведению солей в виде мелких конкрементов и песка из почек и мочевого пузыря.

Также в инструкции содержится утверждение, что уролесан позитивно влияет на печень, увеличивая приток крови, и жёлчный пузырь, нормализуя его тонус. В некоторых источниках утверждается, что уролесан нормализует микрофлору желчевыводящих путей и что при хроническом холецистите он способствовал нормализации показателей церулоплазмина.

При хроническом пиелонефрите уролесан уменьшает интенсивность ПОЛ и эндогенного интоксикационного синдрома, повышает иммунологическую реактивность. Усиливаются эти эффекты при употреблении совместно с кобальтом.

Фармакокинетика
Уролесан хорошо всасывается и начинает действовать в течение 20—30 минут. Продолжительность действия составляет от 4—5 часов, максимальный эффект возникает через 1—2 часа. Выводится из организма через ЖКТ и почки.

Показания

Официальное применение
 Острый и хронический цистит и пиелонефрит.
 Мочекаменная болезнь, в том числе её профилактика.
 Хронический калькулёзный и бескалькулёзный холецистит, дискинезия желчевыводящих путей, жёлчнокаменная болезнь.

Экспериментальное применение

Согласно результатам одного из исследований, препарат можно длительно употреблять в любом триместре беременности, а также с профилактической целью при бессистемной бактериурии и латентной форме гестационного пиелонефрита. Однако применение препарата в период беременности и кормления грудью официально не изучено.

В качестве вспомогательного средства уролесан можно применять при хроническом простатите. Применение уролесана в кардиологии способствовало уменьшению уровня КФК и МПО. При ХОБЛ данный препарат в комплексе с базовым лечением способствовал улучшению показателей спирографии и уменьшение показателей активности сурфактанта легких. При неаллергической бронхиальной астме уролесан можно применять в качестве патогенетической терапии, так как он уменьшает уровень среднемолекулярных пептидов и улучшает показатели внешнего дыхания.

Противопоказания
 Повышенная чувствительность к уролесану и к его компонентам.
 Гастрит (кроме гипоацидного), язва желудка и двенадцатиперстной кишки.

Побочные эффекты
 Со стороны ЖКТ: диспепсия (тошнота, рвота).
 Аллергические реакции, в том числе ангионевротический отёк.
 Со стороны нервной системы: головокружение, астения.
 Со стороны органов кровообращения: артериальная гипер- и гипотензия.

Передозировка
Симптомы: тошнота, головокружение.

Лечение: употребление обильного тёплого питья, покой, назначение активированного угля,  атропина сульфата (0,0005–0,001 г).

Примечания

Литература

Диуретики

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चंद्र शेखर प्रसाद
Shri Chandra Shekhar Prasad was born on 9 August 1981 in Bishanpur Adhar Village of Sitamarhi in Bihar. He holds a Doctorate in Theatre on the Subject 'Loknatya Nach ka Samajik Sandharbh Mein Vishleshan' in 2013 from the Department of Indian Theatre, Punjab University, Chandigarh. He is also a recipient of the prestigious research fellowship of Inlaks India Foundation. He also worked as a Research Assistant at the Institute of Development and Communication (IOC), Chandigarh. He has been working as the repertory Chief of CEVA Drama Repertory, Chandigarh since August 2012. . Shri Prasad has also worked as a visiting faculty for the Department of Indian Theatre, Punjab University, in 2011. Apart from this, he has held the post of Secretary, Chandigarh Sangeet Natak Akademi for the year 2013-14.
Shri Chandra Shekhar Prasad has adapted, designed and directed a number of Plays including Gulistan based on the works of Sheikh Saadi, Munshi Premchand Namak ka Daroga, Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore's Munna ki Wapsi and Ramkanhai ki Murkhta, Mahasweta Devi's Dayan. Who am I based on Rahi Masoom Raza's novel Os ki boond Marjeeva , a Maithili Play by Avdhesh Pokhrali, Total Gorakhdhanda- based on a Chinese folk tale. He has also worked as a playwright, associate director and lighting designer for many plays.
Shri Chandra Shekhar Prasad is awarded the Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar of the Sangeet Natak Akademi for the year 2015 for his notable talent in the field of theatre direction.

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Athens homeless man charged with illegal use of highway
A homeless man was arrested Sunday on warrants an officer obtained after the man ran from him last week in an area in east Athens where the man frequently panhandles, Athens-Clarke police said.
When the officer tried speaking with 43-year-old John Joseph Blaha Wednesday afternoon, it wasn't because of panhandling, but because the officer spotted Blaha jaywalking across five lanes of travel on Oconee Street, causing traffic to slow as he crossed, police said. The man frequently solicits motorists at the Athens Perimeter exit ramp onto Oconee Street, holding a cardboard sign reading, "I need a miracle."
When the officer told Blaha he wanted to speak to him, the man asked permission to urinate behind a tree but then took off running up a hill toward the Tent City homeless camp, according to police.
A judge subsequently signed warrants charging Blaha with obstruction of a law enforcement officer and illegal use of a highway by a pedestrian, and the officer arrested the man at about 3:30 p.m. Sunday when he saw Blaha walking on Lexington Road.


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Django and AJAX
Published: July 2, 2006. Filed under: Django, JavaScript.
One hot topic that keeps coming up over and over again on the Django mailing lists and in IRC has to do with when Django will get "AJAX support". There are two answers to that question; one can be stated with authority, and the other consists entirely of my own unofficial and non-binding opinion. Let's start with the first:
We've already got it, and more is on the way
Doing AJAX with Django has always been pretty easy, though maybe in a way that's not obvious to users of other frameworks. All you have to do is use a slightly different template — to return XML- or JSON-formatted data instead of HTML — and you're golden.
This has gotten quite a bit easier in the past week, thanks to the first draft of a new module: django.core.serialization. In essence, the serialization system is designed to make it easy to translate Django model instances into various other formats. Serializers for XML, JSON and simple Python are now included in Django, so you could now do this in a view:
from django.core import serializers
def my_json_view(request):
data = serializers.serialize("json", MyModel.objects.all()[:5])
return HttpResponse(data, mimetype="application/javascript")
And voilà: you have a view which returns the latest five objects from a model in JSON format. Perfect for AJAX requests. You could even have the same view respond to both "normal" and AJAX requests by adding a parameter to the URL and changing output types based on that.
The same idea can easily be applied to most of the common operations people want to use AJAX for; comment posting, for example, could be handled by firing an XMLHttpRequest to a view which would save the comment and return it serialized in the format of your choice.
Jacob and I have also tossed around ideas for a Django "web services" API which would let you make calls from JavaScript or any other language to create, retrieve, update or delete arbitrary objects; the new serialization framework would make it extremely easy to have this output in any format you like, and would provide a powerful way for you to do pretty much anything you like via AJAX.
And now it's time for me to step up on my soapbox and issue a big fat disclaimer: the following represents nothing more than my own opinion, and has no necessary bearing on what will actually end up happening in Django. This is just what I think, and doesn't attempt to speak for anyone or anything else, and what I have to say on this topic is inflammatory and is almost certainly going to make some people angry. Read on with that in mind, and at your own risk.
So. You may have noticed that the above example dealt only with the server side of things, and left out the business of actually constructing and firing off an XMLHttpRequest. That's as it should be, because — and I know this is heresy — I think people should actually write JavaScript instead of relying on a framework to handle it for them.
Yes, I know that Rails and TurboGears and all the other guys have those nifty "helpers" where you tell the framework what effect you want and it drops in the correct JavaScript for you. But something like that would be a really bad idea for Django.
Besides thinking people should write JavaScript when they need JavaScript, there are a couple of reasons why I feel that way: offering built-in systems for automatically doing XMLHttpRequests and other effects would tie Django to a particular JavaScript toolkit, which I think would be an awful idea. Or else it would require us to maintain code in the framework for all of the popular JS toolkits, which would be an even worse idea. It would also mean getting opinionated and telling people how they should develop, which is an absolutely terrible idea.
But the big, overriding reason is still this: it's high time that a lot of so-called "web developers" out there finally grow the hell up and learn how to write JavaScript.
Whenever people start talking about how they'd like Django to offer the kinds of "JavaScript helpers" you find in other frameworks, they inevitably fall back to a single line of reasoning: "why should I learn JavaScript and deal with all those DOM quirks and other incompatibilities when all I want is this simple effect?"
My tried-and-true response to that has always been to ask why, if we buy that reasoning, a web framework should expect them to learn CSS just to float a sidebar on the left side of the page, or learn HTML just to put in a list of links. HTML and CSS have just as many quirks and incompatibilities across browsers, and can take just as much time to master, as JavaScript; why, then, should we expect web developers to have to learn any of them? Shouldn't the framework just automatically generate all the client-side code?
Of course, that's a ludicrous thing to suggest. HTML and CSS are foundational technologies of the Web, and no-one is suggesting that web developers shouldn't have to know them. In fact, a "web developer" who didn't know HTML and CSS has no right to the title.
But here's the thing: JavaScript is just as foundational as HTML and CSS. Now, granted, when I first got into this business JavaScript was something of a red-headed stepchild; 99% of all the JavaScript deployed on the public Web was devoted to making images change when you rolled your mouse over them, and the other 1% was written by scary people who called it "DHTML".
But now… now it's 2006, and we're slowly realizing that those "DHTML" guys were really onto something. The rich interaction possibilities opened up by JavaScript are being recognized for what they are, and have even spawned a whole raft of new buzzwords and new toolkits. And even though it was always technically that way, we're coming around to see (or, in some cases, being dragged kicking and screaming into seeing) that the Web really is based on three technologies: HTML for structure, CSS for style and JavaScript for behavior and interaction.
Which means that here and now, in 2006, if you call yourself a "web developer" you have absolutely no excuse for not knowing JavaScript. And if you don't know JavaScript, you have absolutely no right to call yourself a "web developer".
Yes, JavaScript takes time and effort to master. And yes, there are still lots of inconsistencies in how the major browsers deal with advanced JavaScript. But HTML and CSS take time and effort to master. And advanced HTML and CSS are still rendered inconsistently in the major browsers. And, just as in HTML and CSS, it's possible to write JavaScript which works around the inconsistencies. And, just as in HTML and CSS, smart people have already written that code and made it available online, for free.
So, once again: you have absolutely no excuse for not knowing JavaScript.
Of course, once you've learned JavaScript you should feel free to use toolkits like Dojo, MochiKit and Prototype; they provide tons of useful code for dealing with common situations and for smoothing out the wrinkles in the various browser implementations. That's pretty much what libraries are for, and you should take all the advantage of them you can.
But, and here's the thing, when you use those libraries to write JavaScript you should actually use those libraries to write JavaScript. Using a "helper" from your framework to call the appropriate code for you is like using a motorized wheelchair because you're too lazy to walk. And, just as people who actually are walking will get places faster than you will in your powerchair, people who actually write JavaScript are going to leave people who rely on "helpers" in the dust.
So, to get back to the actual topic at hand:
You can already do AJAX with Django, and it's not really hard at all.
It'll probably get easier in the future as the serialization stuff improves, and even easier if/when we get a web-services API in place.
Using "helpers" to avoid writing JavaScript is bad and wrong. Learn JavaScript. Write JavaScript. It'll be good for you.


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Eldrör är den del av ett eldvapen som projektilen vid skottlossningen genomlöper och där projektilen får sin riktning, hastighet och eventuella rotation.

Eldrörets hålighet är uppdelad i tre delar: patronläge, lopp och mynning. Innerdiametern hos ett eldrör benämns kaliber. Vid finkalibriga vapen (kaliber mindre än 20 mm) kallas eldröret pipa.

Riktningen ställs in vid sikte mot målet.

Loppets längd påverkar hur långt man kan skjuta med viss precision. Haubits har typiskt kortare eldrör men högre utgångsvinkel än motsvarande kanon, och år avsedd för kasteld snarare än flackeld.

Om loppet är försett med räfflor bringas projektilen att rotera axiellt, vilket förbättrar stabiliteten och medverkar till en rakare projektilbana, enligt principen om rörelsemängdsmoment ("gyroeffekten"). Dock ger rotationen i kombination med luftmotståndet en liten avvikelse i sidled, förutom den ballistiska kurvan som orsakas av gravitationen, se ballistik. För de underkalibriga projektilerna med styrfenor, såsom pilprojektiler, används däremot helst rakborrat lopp.

Historik
De tidigaste kanonerna kända i Europa är från 1000-talet. Från början användes slätt lopp och vanligen rund stenkula, från 1600-talet gjutjärn. Från 1500-talet började praktisk användning av spränggranater, vilket blev standard på 1800-talet. 1803 började brittiska armén använda Henry Shrapnels kanonskjutna granatkartesch,
Frontladdade kanoner hade varit standard men Martin von Wahrendorff uppfann den första moderna bakladdaren 1837, som snabbt blev ersättare.
På 1800-talet blev även eldrör med räfflat lopp vanliga, vilket även kunde användas till runda kulor.
:en:RML 17.72 inch gun från 1870 var 450 mm och användes på fartyg och i kustartilleri.

Längsta eldröret i bruk i första världskriget hade Pariskanonen, 28 m, 238 mm kaliber, och sköt genom stratosfären innan projektilerna landade i Paris, upp till 130 km bort.
:en:Obusier de 520 modèle 1916 med 560 mm kaliber, 30,4 m långt, tillverkades men hann inte användas under första världskriget.

Schwerer Gustav hade andra världskrigets grövsta eldrör, 80 cm, och var 32,5 m långt.
Bara mörsarna :en:Mallet's Mortar och :en:Little David var grövre, 914 mm, men de har inte använts i strid. Detsamma gäller tsarkanonen, 890 mm, från 1586. Nazitysklands fasta kanon V-3 hade ett lopp på över 130 meter, kaliber 15 cm, och arbetade med flerkammarprincip, men fungerade aldrig tillfredsställande för att användas.

Detta kan jämföras med Yamato-klassens fartygspjäser som "bara" mätte 460 mm.
(Se vidare :en:List of the largest cannons by caliber)

Referenser

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#2 13/07/2015, 17:56 Looks like spurious serial port errors, probably because one is not available.
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The Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS; ) in Mannheim, Germany, is a linguistic and social research institute and a member of the Leibniz Association. Under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Henning Lobin, director of the institute, and Prof. Dr. Arnulf Deppermann, vice director of the institute, IDS employs a staff of about 160. The IDS was established in Mannheim in 1964 and is still headquartered there. It is the central extramural institute for research and documentation of the German language in its contemporary usage and its recent history. As a member of the Leibniz-Gemeinschaft (Leibniz-Association), the IDS is financed both by the federal government and by the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg.

Organization and structure
The work of the IDS is divided into four departments and two central sections:
 Department of Grammar
 Department of Lexical Studies
 Department of Pragmatics
Department of Digital Linguistics
 Department of Central Research
 Public Relations, Documentation, and Library Section

Research
In the Department of Grammar, the grammatical structure of contemporary German is identified and described. The department is divided into two areas that work with contemporary theoretical and methodological standards of German linguistics and simultaneously employ computational-linguistic and statistical methods. Research is conducted in two areas, the area Description and Development of Grammatical Knowledge and the area Language Technologies and Information Systems. The Rat für Deutsche Rechtschreibung (Council for German Orthography) is also affiliated with this department.

The Department of Lexical Studies deals with lexicological, lexicographical, and corpus-based research in which specific lexical fields are studied, enabling comprehensive documentation of the German vocabulary. Research is conducted in the following three areas: Lexicography and Documentation of Language, Lexical Syntagmatics and Empirical and Digital Lexical Studies.

The Department of Pragmatics researches language use and language variation, that is, the form and development of linguistic diversity. In particular, spoken language usage is considered. The area Interaction is a leading international center for conversation research and interactional linguistics. The area Spoken Corpora includes archives, such as the "Archiv für Gesprochenes Deutsch (AGD)" (the Archive for spoken German).

The Department of Digital Linguistics is divided into two areas. The area Research Coordination and Research Infrastructure deals with tasks and projects related to the internal and external communication of information and networking. The area Corpus Linguistics supervises the expansion, annotation, and analysis of (written language) electronic corpora of German and develops methods and techniques of corpus-linguistic, empirical research.

The research activities pursuing predominantly cross-departmental objectives are directly subordinate to the director and pooled together in the organizational unit Central Research, for instance, the program areas Research Infrastructures and Corpus Linguistics belong to this unit. The area Language in the public sphere investigates issues that affect the status and function of the German language in society.

The Public Relations Section manages the areas of public relations and the media, publications, documentation, and the library. Within the framework of its support services, the IDS maintains the German Language Archive, which is the largest collection of audio recordings of spoken German. Prospective users can order audio documentation and transcripts. Besides, the IDS provides online the archive corpora of written language (nine million book pages) as well as a specialized library that collects literature that encompasses all areas of present-day German linguistics.

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Cisco Systems' (CSCO) new brand campaign leverages a pretty big ask of its channel partners: to change the world for the better.
The campaign, which was unveiled on Tuesday, shows how Cisco is working to bring clean drinking water to impoverished countries, protect endangered wildlife, and deliver healthcare to children in need.
While the task at hand may seem much too large for any one channel partner to handle on their own, Cisco is banking on the power of its new marketing assets and training solutions to help resellers make big changes for our planet. The most noteworthy solutions include the Engage Marketing Suite, which features a series of three Marketing Velocity eLearning courses that Cisco said can be completed in less than 10 minutes. The program also includes an hour-long "Enchange to Engage" webcast with insight from Cisco brand experts, according to the announcement.
Finally, partners also have access to Partner Marketing Central, a hub with pre-written social media posts, digital assets and a best-practices playbook designed specifically to boost partner and customer engagement.
Saving the world through technology is certainly a worthwhile cause, but it remains to be seen whether Cisco and its partner ecosystem are up to the task. It will be interesting to see how the company's bold new awareness campaign plays out and whether or not partners are willing to play ball.


Eternal Security is the teaching that "once saved, always saved". There are two extremes relating to this doctrine. Catholics teach that if you die with mortal sin you can go to hell for eternity. Pentecostals, Assemblies of God, Methodists and Lutherans also teach that salvation can be lost. Anglicans, Baptists and Presbyterians as well as a lot of churches teach the other viewpoint; you can't lose your salvation.
Once again this is a doctrine that people are not supposed to divide over, but I have personally seen people split from churches over this doctrine.
Here we have multiple arguments for eternal security. 1Peter 1:23 says that we are born again by incorruptible seed. Seed cannot be removed. Seed is what makes a thing what it is. An apple seed grows into an apple tree which produces apples. An apple cannot be changed into something else. You can't remove the essence of apple from any part of the plant. This verse appears to be saying that once a Christian, always a Christian. Living and abiding forever means that there is no death; eternal life is assured.
Ephesians 1:13 says that we are sealed with the holy spirit. Once we are sealed, we cannot be unsealed. Likewise, Phil 1:6 promises that once God starts his work in us, he will perfect (complete) it until the day of Christ, the day Christ comes back.
Gal 5:4 infers that to be severed from Christ is possible. Romans 6:16 implies that it is possible to obey sin to the point of spiritual death. And Hebrews 6:4-6 reeks of condemnation to those who were once enlightened and fell away, calling it "impossible". These and other verses appear to make salvation dependent on a life of faithfulness.
Can salvation be lost? If you are born again in any real sense, where there is seed involved, how can you lose that? When you were born of your mother, your origin started as a seed. You can't stop being the son of your biological parents. You may be adopted, you may be disowned, you may forsake them forever, but you will always be the son of those parents.
If this verse is true in any literal sense, which I believe it is, then no, you will forever be the born again son of God that was created when you believed. You can be sure in your salvation. But that is just my opinion. Â Read on.
This issue is like many others in that there are opposing viewpoints that appear to be valid. Some minimize this conflict by calling this a "nonessential doctrine". Â As stated above I have seen believers split from churches over this controversial doctrine.
Hebrews 6:4-6 presents a clear problem for those that want to teach eternal security. Â Because while 1 Peter 1:23 and Phil 1:6 appear to make it obvious that you can be secure that the seed, the holy spirit, is sealed and will remain forever, Hebrews 6 talks of those that have received the holy spirit and have fallen away. Â Once fallen away, it becomes impossible to renew them to repentance again. Â At the very least this is an example that many verses are hard to understand because these verses in Hebrews 6 appear to teach that you can lose you salvation.
Some teach that the "believers" in Hebrews weren't really believers at all because while they professed a faith they never really were born again. But that doesn't appear to jive with what Hebrews says in that the people involved "were made partakers of the Holy Spirit." Anyone that has the holy spirit isn't just claiming to be a Christian! The verse says they partook of the spirit.
A better explanation is that the verse is an example of "reductio ad absurdum". Â This figure of speech "presents an argument based on a false premise (that a true Christian can fall away) and follows it to its senseless conclusion (that Jesus would have to be sacrificed again and again). The absurdity of the conclusion points up the impossibility of the original assumption."i This reasoning is called reductio ad absurdum, in which a premise is disproved by showing that it logically leads to an absurdity. In other words the writer is saying that because Christ can't be crucified again, you can lose your holy spirit.
At the very least this is a prime example of how hard some sections of scripture are to understand.
i. Good explanation of this at http://www.gotquestions.org/Hebrews-6.html.


Last year, in July, I reported an issue to Python's issue tracker. This issue can be seen at http://bugs.python.org/issue6483. Since then, there has been no action on this bug from the developers.
The bug describes that every object stored in a module will not be deallocated if the module is deallocated and it's m_size = -1 (which it should be if the module has no state). The problem seems to be that Python copies the dictionary of the module but forgets to decrease the reference count of the copy when the module is deallocated. This bug may have serious impact if objects are stored in the module which write status to a file when they are deallocated, because the deallocation functions are never called.


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JEFF McNEIL
Nickname: Flying Squirrel Position: 2B-3B-OF
Home: N/A Team: METS
Weight: 195 Throws: R
DOB: 4/8/1992 Agent: Paragon Sports
Uniform #: 6
Birth City: Santa Barbara, CA
Draft: Mets #12 - 2013 - Out of Cal State-Long Beach
2013 APP KINGSPORT 47 164 26 54 9 2 0 18 11 2 17 14 .413 .409 .312
2014 SAL SAVANNAH 59 232 38 77 20 2 2 38 15 3 20 34 .401 .461 .332
2014 FSL ST. LUCIE 58 207 31 51 8 2 1 13 2 2 22 25 .329 .319 .246
2015 EL BINGHAMTON 4 15 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 .250 .200 .200
2015 FSL ST. LUCIE 119 468 80 146 18 6 1 40 16 5 35 59 .373 .382 .312
2017 PCL LAS VEGAS 18 71 12 18 5 0 1 6 2 0 3 10 .295 .366 .254
2017 FSL ST. LUCIE 30 105 13 34 7 0 3 15 2 2 7 19 .388 .476 .324
2018 PCL LAS VEGAS 31 125 23 46 10 2 5 28 3 0 14 19 .427 .600 .368
2018 EL BINGHAMTON 57 214 49 70 16 3 14 43 3 0 22 23 .402 .626 .327
2018 NL METS $545.00 63 225 35 74 11 6 3 19 7 1 14 24 .381 .471 .329
2019 IL SYRACUSE 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1.000
2019 NYP BROOKLYN 1 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .250 .250 .250
2019 NL METS $568.00 133 510 83 162 38 1 23 75 5 6 35 75 .384 .531 .318
June 2013: McNeil was the Mets 12th round pick, out of Long Beach State, where they teach how to play baseball the right way. One of his teammates was his double-play partner was Matt Duffy. Jeff hit .348 his final year as a Dirt Bag. McNeil signed with Mets scout Drew Toussaint.
Jeff thought his future was in golf until he was nearly out of high school. McNeil was good, too, playing the U.S. Junior Amateur in 2009.
The baseball player in the family was younger brother Ryan, who would become a third-round choice of the Chicago Cubs in the 2012 Draft out of high school. But McNeil decided to join his brother's summer league team before his senior season and showed he had a future in baseball as well as golf.
Baseball won out, and the native of Santa Barbara, California, landed at Long Beach State. Like Duffy, he didn't hit a homer out of cavernous Blair Field in his three seasons, but he impressed otherwise.
Golf, though, is still very much part of his life. On a early August off-day, in 2015 McNeil shot a five-under-par 67 at Martin Downs Golf Club in Palm City, Florida.
"I still have it occasionally," he said. "Not a single bogey."
McNeil went back and got his degree from Long Beach State in recreation and leisure and interned at Virginia Country Club in Long Beach.
"I can see myself in the business side of golf someday," he said. "Maybe even try to play a little bit on the mini-tour."
In 2016, the Baseball America Prospect Handbook rated McNeil as the 27th-best prospect in the Mets organization.
For most of this summer, Jeff waited, waited, waited for a callup that he figured would eventually come. Consistently batting well over .300, McNeil believed if he continued plugging away at the highest levels of the Minors, he would end the year in Flushing.
Prepared though he was, when the call finally came, McNeil scrambled. Watching television at his home in Las Vegas, McNeil stuffed all his belongings in a suitcase. Then he raced to the airport, where he narrowly missed his red-eye flight to New York. He quickly rebooked a slightly later one. "It was a little stressful," McNeil said, laughing.
The hectic day did not, however, affect McNeil's debut. Entering the 6-3 win over the Padres as a pinch-hitter in the eighth inning, McNeil punched the first pitch he saw into shallow center field for a single. The ball, which he plans to frame and give to his mother, was already on display in his locker after the game.
"It felt amazing," McNeil said. "You always want to get your first hit out of the way. I'll come back tomorrow and try to do the same thing."
He should continue to receive those opportunities. The Mets' roster flux offers a prime chance for McNeil, who hit safely in his last seven games at Las Vegas. He placed among the Eastern League's home run and OPS leaders throughout his time there.
A career .311 hitter in the Minor Leagues, McNeil credited his 2018 surge to being fully healthy for the first time in two years. Now recovered from a sports hernia and a torn hip labrum, which limited him to 51 games the past two seasons, McNeil says he has added enough bulk to turn his doubles into homers.
"I'm having a pretty good year," said McNeil, whose wife, parents, and siblings flew in from Santa Barbara, Calif., to watch his debut at Citi Field. "I was swinging the bat well. I was putting together good at-bats. I knew if I did that, I would eventually get a call."
The issue with McNeil is his defense. A natural second baseman, McNeil is blocked at that position by Asdrubal Cabrera, at least until the Mets find a trade partner for the veteran. Instead, McNeil figures to play third base with the Mets -- a position he manned early in his Minor League career, but only recently began revisiting. Manager Mickey Callaway said that McNeil could bounce around the infield, and even the outfield, in Flushing.
"We feel comfortable with him at multiple positions now," Callaway said. "That was kind of a goal of the last couple of weeks, was to kind of hone on a couple more positions, to give us more options." (DiComo - mlb.com - 7/24/18)
Clustered in a rack on one end of the Mets' dugout, different players' bats are typically identifiable only by the numbers stuck to their knobs and the names on the barrels. But one group of bats, belonging to Jeff McNeil, stands out.
Unlike nearly every other player in Major League Baseball, McNeil uses a bat with no knob. Instead of mushrooming out near the bottom, McNeil's lumber widens gradually toward the end. Although his bats are of average size—34 inches, 32 ounces—McNeil says the unorthodox weight distribution gives him more control.
"It just feels lighter because it's so balanced," McNeil said. "The weight's throughout the bat. It's not all in the barrel."McNeil initially began using the model in 2016, when Mets Minor League hitting coordinator Lamar Johnson handed them out to a group of Minor Leaguers. Instantly, McNeil liked the feel of his, hitting a home run in one of his first at-bats with it. He used it exclusively from that point forward. (Anthony DiComo - MLB.com - Aug. 4, 2018)
2018 season : McNeil was never a top prospect, and when he arrived in the big leagues, he first drew attention for his unusual knobless bat. But since he took over at second base following the Asdrubal Cabrera trade, he's been a revelation at the plate, commanding attention for his outstanding contact ability and all-around hitting prowess. McNeil hasn't slowed down, either,
Jeff came up to the Mets on July 24, 2018, and immediately began doing what he has done since he started in Rookie level in 2013. McNeil hit. In this home run time in baseball, he has sprayed line drives all over the field and by the end of the season he had hit .329 for the Mets. It should have surprised no one. He had hit .329 all the way back in Kingsport. He had hit .300 pretty much everywhere. He is the best hitter for average in baseball right now that nobody talks very much about, at least outside New York.
Since the day McNeil got into the lineup with the Mets last July, there is one player with more than 200 at-bats who has a higher average than McNeil's .349. That player is Christian Yelich. Yelich is nine points higher, at .359. That is how good McNeil has been since his debut. He is a throwback contact hitter out of the past. Once he got into the Mets' lineup, nobody could get him out.
The least surprised person in the ballpark about all this seems to be McNeil himself. He's not arrogant. He just knows what he can do, mostly because he's been doing it since he signed his first professional contract. He works the count. He hits the ball where it's pitched. And keeps hitting.
"Every level of the Minor Leagues, I've hit the ball hard," McNeil said. "When I got here [to the Major Leagues], nothing changed."
Even with his lefthanded, line-drive swing, McNeil has never been treated like a phenom. But he made Mets fans pay attention, almost right away. In a lost season when the Mets seemed to stop hitting for months after an 11-1 start, McNeil came up the Minor Leagues and was on first base every time you looked up. (Lupica - mlb.com -4/18/19)
If Jeff held any lingering hope of letting his "Flying Squirrel" nickname fade into obscurity, he abandoned it before a live national audience on April 30, 2019. During an interview, McNeil grinned, laughed and admitted to the moniker, which he has had since college. At the time, a teammate thought he looked like a flying squirrel, diving all over the field. The nickname followed him to pro ball and eventually to the Majors, where McNeil's play has served only to highlight it in bold.
McNeil's second hit (of four on the day), a bunt to the right side of the infield with two outs and a man on third, revealed his inner squirrel. (DiComo - mlb.com - 4/30/19)
July 16, 2019: McNeil received the MLB Players Alumni Association "Heart and Hustle" award for the Mets. This esteemed award honors active players who demonstrate a passion for the game of baseball and best embody the values, spirit and traditions of the game. The Heart and Hustle Award is also the only award in Major League Baseball that is voted on by former players.
July 26, 2019: McNeil makes his push for a puppy with a three-run blast. During the Mets batting practice, representatives from the North Shore Animal League set up a pen near the Mets' dugout to house a group of puppies up for adoption. The Long Island-based rescue and adoption organization does this every year to raise awareness for puppies seeking a home. When Jeff McNeil wandered over to meet the dogs, he became so smitten with one that he grabbed his cell phone and started a video chat with his wife, Tatiana, asking her if she would be willing to add a third member to their household.
"She's really smart!" McNeil pleaded to his wife, knowing that she would be responsible for tending to the pooch when the Mets go on the road.
A few hours later, McNeil hit a three-run homer in the Mets' 6-3 win over the Pirates, which he believes will help his cause.
"Hitting a home run after holding a puppy, I think it gives me a little bargaining chip," McNeil said. "If my wife wants more homers, then we have to get a puppy."
In fairness, McNeil has 10 home runs this season, the previous nine coming with no puppies in sight. He also has an NL-leading .340 average, 27 doubles and 44 RBIs. But in his eyes, none of that makes up for the lack of a cuddly pet. That could change; McNeil scheduled a follow-up with the North Shore Animal League to meet the puppy again.
If he hits another home run, Tatiana McNeil may not have much of a choice.
"I got in the dugout and said, 'We're getting a puppy,'" McNeil said. "Yeah, I was pretty happy. How could you not be happy with a puppy in your hands?"(A DiComo - MLB.com - July 26, 2019)
Sure, being on the road for half the year is a bummer for a ballplayer. They have to sleep in a strange bed, away from their family and friends and all their normal routines. There is one upside, though: all the amazing restaurants they get to try out.
With the Mets set to begin a series with the White Sox in Chicago, All-Stars Pete Alonso and Jeff McNeil went to one of the world's most inventive, interesting and absolutely nutty restaurants out there: Alinea.
The restaurant from Chef Grant Achatz is noted for its upscale American cuisine served in the most creative ways possible. Their website refers to a reservation (somewhere between $260-$395, before drinks) as a "multi-sensory, multi-course" meal. That includes intricate platings, liquid nitrogen drinks and a forever-evolving menu. It's basically edible art.
So, when the guys sat down for their meal, McNeil was already overwhelmed. And that was before they reached the famous dessert, where the artistically decorated plate is brought down from the ceiling, and the food is made on the table in a swirl of smoke. (Michael Clair - MLB.com - July 30, 2019)
Jeff, one of the founding members of the Mets' "cookie club" that routinely gathered after games in the summer of 2019 to eat cookies and talk about baseball, says he doesn't plan to change his dessert routine. He acknowledges, however, that COVID-19 protocols may prevent him, J.D. Davis, Dominic Smith and others from meeting in person to eat the cookies together.
"That'll be tough," McNeil said. "We may have to do some Zoom calls and order in. I know I'll still be trying to order in. Especially when we go to Philly, we've got Insomnia [Cookies] right there. They deliver in a lot of the cities we go to. So I'm not worried about getting the cookies. I guess it's being able to eat it with the cookie club."
In 2019, McNeil, Davis, Smith, Michael Conforto, Brandon Nimmo and Pete Alonso often ordered milk and cookies after games, meeting in one of their hotel rooms to eat them. During those hangout sessions, they also broke down that night's game, scouted upcoming opponents and even talked about things happening in their personal lives.
But everything centered around the cookies. "I'll get two snickerdoodle and two of the double chocolate chip, with two milks, and crush," McNeil said earlier this year. "No dipping. It's four cookies and then two milks, straight down."
Cookies or not, the Mets are relying on McNeil to construct another strong season after hitting .318 with 23 home runs last year. Those numbers included some pronounced splits: a .349 average with seven homers in the first half, followed by a .276 average with 16 homers after the All-Star break.
"I feel like I can do both," McNeil said. "Last year in the second half, I didn't really change anything. The ball just started to go over the fence a little bit more. This year, I came in a little bit stronger, a little bit bigger, but I'm still not going to change my approach. … My job is to get on base and if the homers are there, it's a bonus." (DiComo - mlb.com - 7/9/2020)
McNeil is a good table setter at the top of the order. He works pitchers for a free pass and hits for a good batting average. He is a solid lefthanded hitter.
Jeff gets a 50 for his hit tool. But he has a 20 for his power, or total lack of same. (Editor's note: In 2019 with the Mets, he hit 23 homers.)
A flat-planed, left-handed swing and contact-oriented approach enable Jeff to hit the ball the other way and occasionally find the gaps, but he has bottom-of-the-scale raw power and a slender frame that that does not project to add more. He hit .312 at high Class-A St Lucie in 2015 with a .373 on-base-percentage. (Spring 2016)
McNeil has excellent bat control and an innate ability to make contact.
In 2018, a finally healthy Jeff showed up."He's finally healthy and moving around better," one Mets talent evaluator said. "He could always hit, and now he is moving better than ever before. He has a simple setup at the plate with a good swing and knows the strike zone."
September 23, 2018: With each passing game, what Jeff is doing seems like less of a fluke. The prospect of his repeating it grows more plausible. The idea of keeping him as the Mets' regular second baseman in 2019 appears increasingly smart.
It is difficult to deny what McNeil has accomplished over his first two months in the big leagues, rapping out at least three hits in a game eight times. The most recent such effort, when McNeil finished 4-for-5 in the Mets' 8-6 win over the Nationals, reaching base in five of his six plate appearances.
"It's awesome to come up here and have instant success," McNeil said. "I'm 200 at-bats in and still hitting well. It gives me a lot of confidence going into next year." (Di Como - mlb.com)
At a time in the Major Leagues when everybody except the batboy seems to be swinging for the fences. Jeff strikes out about once every nine at-bats. Among players with 300 plate appearances over the last calendar year (April 2018 - April 2019), he is one of just six players striking out in fewer than 10 percent of his plate appearances. He really does seem to have come to this time from another time. He goes from left field to third base. He bats eighth sometimes. Or leadoff. He hits the ball where it's pitched. And keeps hitting. (Lupico - mlb.com - 4/18/19)
April 30, 2019: So far in his career, Jeff has reached base safely in 71 of his 79 career starts, with 33 multi-hit games and 13 of three or more.
July 1, 2019: McNeil is not only a big leaguer, but an All-Star and the Majors' leading hitter. Hours after learning he had made the National League All-Star roster, McNeil contributed three singles, including a go-ahead two-run knock in the eighth inning, to lead the Mets to an 8-5 win over the Braves at Citi Field. McNeil's performance gave him sole possession of the Major League batting average lead, at .348
On the McNeil family ball field, there was no lack of incentive to avoid home runs. Balls that went over the right-field fence tended to land in a stream, forcing the pitcher to navigate the fence and wade through water to retrieve them. Beyond that was a farm, with all the hazards that hoofed beasts tend to create.
Ryan McNeil cannot estimate quite how many times he had to hop that fence and ford that stream at the family's home in Santa Barbara, Calif., but he knows there were many. He and his brother, Jeff, played every day after school, taking turns pitching and hitting.
"Jeff's the most frustrating hitter I've ever faced in my career," Ryan McNeil, a pitcher for six seasons in the Cubs organization. "He doesn't give you an easy at-bat, ever. He's always up there swinging. He's always up there battling. That's the last thing you want to see as a pitcher."
It is the swing that allows McNeil to do what he does. As the left-handed-hitting McNeil sets in the batter's box, he holds his front leg almost straight, putting the bulk of his weight on his left knee. When the pitch approaches, he lifts his front leg for just a beat, before dropping his shoulder and attacking the ball. Sometimes, he lunges. Sometimes, he slashes. The swings often look defensive, but they carry a certain potency to them, earning him early-career comparisons to Ichiro Suzuki.
But that's not why McNeil is in the big leagues. That's not why McNeil was an All-Star. McNeil was an All-Star because of his unique ability to put bat on ball, what his brother, Ryan, calls a lost art. Ten years ago, 42 qualified big leaguers hit at least .300 over a full season. Twenty years ago, 55 players achieved the feat. Halfway through 2019, only 19 players are on pace to make the cut.
"To hit .340, .350, it's not easy," said Mets hitting coach Chili Davis. "Pitchers realize that he's a tough out. Although he doesn't hit 30 homers, in a lot of situations where you need to put the ball in play, get a hit, he's a threat."
For McNeil, that often means trying to punish pitches early in at-bats—he's slugging .754 when he swings at the first pitch—and defending the strike zone late. With two strikes, McNeil shortens his swing as he becomes hell-bent on contact. It's an effort that results in loads of foul balls: Among the 259 batters to see at least 250 two-strike pitches this season, McNeil is tied for second in percentage of two-strike pitches he fouls away, according to Statcast data. Less than 13 percent of the two-strike pitches he sees strike him out, which is tied for the 17th-lowest rate among the same group.
"It's impressive that he's kept it up," teammate Pete Alonso said, "but I'm not surprised when I see something a little squirrelly."
His ability to rank near the league leaders in contact categories while still punishing the balls he does put in play is unique. McNeil is no slap hitter. Among players with at least 600 plate appearances this century, only 19 have a strikeout rate as low as McNeil's with an isolated power figure—slugging percentage minus batting average—as high as his. The list is topped by Barry Bonds, Albert Pujols, Rafael Palmeiro, Gary Sheffield and Vladimir Guerrero.
Like his hitting coach, McNeil does not care for the modern implication that batting average doesn't matter. A high average, McNeil knows, results in high on-base and slugging numbers, which are more well-regarded by modern analytic thinking. His ability to spoil pitches, and thus avoid strikeouts, makes the skill repeatable. The Mets have bought in by making McNeil their leadoff hitter.
"I'm not surprised I put the ball in play so much," said McNeil, who has only spent the better part of 27 years perfecting the craft.
In Ryan McNeil's eyes, six years in the Minors may have helped his brother more than he knows, turning him into a complete hitter before he ever stepped foot in the big leagues. So many thousand other pitches on the Wiffle Ball field played a similar role.
"It makes me feel a little better knowing that he beats other people too," Ryan McNeil said, laughing. "It's not just me." (Anthony DiComo-MLB.com-July 22, 2019)
Perhaps the baseball world should have seen this coming. Late at night on July 24, 2018, Jeff approached home plate for the first time as a big leaguer. He swung at the first pitch he saw, lining it into center field for a single.
A career was born that day, if not yet a reputation. McNeil came to the plate 248 times his rookie season, swinging at the first pitch 110 times -- a rate of 44.4 percent, good for 14th in the Majors. A year later, McNeil increased that rate to 50.7 percent, making him the league's only hitter to swing at the first pitch more often than not. Apparently, not even that was enough to deter pitchers from throwing strike one to him. As the season wore on, McNeil began swinging at the first pitch with increasing frequency, doing so 55.9 percent of the time in September 2019.
It's a habit that has continued in the spring of 2020. Not only did McNeil swing at the first pitch he saw in Grapefruit League action in February 2020, but he has done so at least once in nearly every game since. Fastballs, changeups, curveballs -- it hasn't mattered.
"I'll keep hacking," McNeil said. "I'll still walk if they're going to walk me, but yeah, if I get a good pitch early in the count, I'm going to try to do some damage."
The habit is one McNeil has had since childhood. That aggression at the plate? It's natural. "There are so many things that are just natural about him," Mets hitting coach Chili Davis said. "He's a natural ballplayer. Those are the kinds of guys that -- they're here, they're in the game, but I don't think you see as many of them anymore because they're being coached a certain way from Little League on up."
Under the Mets' previous front-office regime, the organization implemented a policy at the lower levels of the Minors requiring randomly selected hitters to take a strike in each of their at-bats. The idea was to help young hitters learn the strike zone.
For some, it worked. But for McNeil, it was an annoyance. He recalled frequently working his way into 1-0 or 2-0 counts, only to watch a fastball whiz by right down the middle. It was not until McNeil reached Double-A that the Mets freed him (and others) to swing as he saw fit. Perhaps not surprisingly, McNeil fared better at those levels than in Class A ball, batting .320 at Double-A and Triple-A.
"You only get three strikes," McNeil said. "I don't want to give the pitcher one. I know I'm good enough that if it's in the strike zone, I can usually put a pretty good swing on it and get a hit. So yeah, you only get three strikes I guess, so why waste one?"
Pitchers have caught on, frequently throwing McNeil first-pitch breaking balls and changeups, but he hits those, too -- at this point, he says, he's come to expect them. Davis quipped that if McNeil is aware of the scouting report against him, he certainly doesn't care about it.
Asked if he plans to lead the league in first-pitch swinging for a second straight season, McNeil just laughed. "No," he said. "I'll lead the league in hitting. I'll try to do that. That's a goal." (DiComo - mlb.com - 3/5/2020)
2019 Season: Jeff McNeil, 3B, Mets: He's penciled in to be the Mets' regular third baseman in 2020 after making 123 starts at five positions in his first full season. He exceeded every expectation with an All-Star season that included 38 doubles, 23 homers and a .916 OPS.
April 24, 2020: Who has the best hit tool on the Mets? Jeff McNeil:
Despite playing in an era in which it's harder than ever to make contact, and harder still to overcome sophisticated defensive alignments, Jeff McNeil's .321 career batting average ranks second in Mets history among hitters with at least 800 career plate appearances. He swings at seemingly everything, leading the league in 2019 in first-pitch hacking. It doesn't matter.
McNeil has always had a preternatural ability to put the bat on the ball, hitting .348 as a junior at Long Beach State and .311 over seven years in the Minors. It's McNeil's hit tool that forced the Mets to call him up to the Majors in 2018, when he batted .329 in 63 games. A year later, McNeil maintained a .318 average while increasing his home run total, from three to 23. He was one of only nine qualified National League hitters to bat above .300 last season, and one of only four to hit at least 23 homers while striking out 75 times or fewer. -- Anthony DiComo
As of the start of the 2021 season, Jeff's career Major League stats were: .319 batting average, 30 home runs with 117 RBI and 293 hits in 918 at-bats.
Jeff is comfortable playing almost anywhere, with third base being his best spot. He also plays second and shortstop almost equally well, as well as some outfield and first base.
"The more positions I can handle the better off I am," McNeil said. "I can basically play everywhere. I grew up playing shortstop. When I went to college, I played second and left field my freshman year. And then my sophomore and junior year, I played center, second, and some right.
"I feel comfortable wherever they put me, but I'm most comfortable at second and third as of right now."
McNeil has strong footwork, quick hands and solid range on the infield, though his arm is light to play short everyday. He feels most comfortable at second or third base and can also play the outfield.
Scouts regard Jeff as a strong fundamental player with plus makeup and instincts. He profiles best as a utility player. (Spring 2016)
Jeff gets a 50 grade for his work at any of the infield positions.
In 2019 with the Mets, McNeil played second base, third base, left field, and right field. (Baseball-Reference.com - Feb 2020)
Jeff's speed is his best tool. It rates a 60, so he can steal bases.
April 21, 2016: McNeil was on the D.L. with a sports hernia that required surgery.
May 23-June 4, 2019: Jeff was on the IL with left hamstring strain.
August 13-24, 2019: McNeil was placed on the IL with a strained hamstring. McNeil pulled up in pain just past first base as he attempted to beat out an infield grounder. He grabbed his left hamstring, then walked off the field gingerly alongside manager Mickey Callaway and trainer Joe Golia.
Aug 14, 2019: McNeil received a bit of optimistic news. An MRI revealed that the left hamstring strain he suffered is mild.
Sept 25, 2019: Jeff was on the IL with right distal ulna fracture. He will miss the final four games of New York's season. Batting in the sixth inning, McNeil dropped his bat in pain when Marlins reliever Josh Smith struck him on the wrist with an 89 mph fastball.
Oct. 2-Nov 4, 2019: McNeil had surgery on his broken right wrist to repair his right distal ulnar fracture.
Aug 3, 2020: Jeff left the game due to lower back tightness
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As you know, one of our favorite weekend must's pretty much always involves coffee, breakfast and a stroll around the local farmer's market. So today I wanted to take you to one of my Saturday favorites: the Phoenix Public Market. If you haven't been you should definitely check it out. Shop the open-air market and pick up some groceries and flowers, shop the local vendors and then hit the cafe after for some good eats (you can't leave without wandering and / or trying all of their bakery items… the macarons are awesome). An easy morning like this calls for a flowy frock of the same nature… and this dreamy draped pullover is seriously so comfortable and light, you honestly can't go wrong. I particularly love the crochet inset detail and light, feminine hue. And don't forget your backpack to store all your market scores!
Thanks for exploring with me today.
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Doosan Lentjes is to deploy its circulating fluidised bed (CFB) boiler technology at a new 75MWe biomass-fired power plant located in Sodegaura, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. The project will be executed under the terms of a larger EP contract awarded to Lentjes' parent company Doosan Heavy Industries and Construction (DHIC) headquartered in Korea.
Scheduled to be completed in June 2022, the project will support the plant owner, Osaka Gas Group, in the economic implementation of a sustainable energy generation concept. In doing so, they will benefit from the reliability and fuel flexibility of the Doosan Lentjes' CFB boiler technology, which is capable of efficiently burning climate-friendly fuel types, as, in this case, biomass wood pellets. Integrated and additionally installed emissions control equipment will further improve the environmental performance of the new power plant to meet stringent local emissions regulations.
Commenting on the project, Doosan Lentjes product director Damian Goral said: "For several reasons, this CFB boiler contract is an important project for us – not only is it our newest reference on the highly regulated Japanese market, it also emphasises once again that our technology is recognised to be flexible in delivering performance beyond conventional fuel firing.
Doosan Lentjes' scope of work will encompass both engineering and procurement of the boiler island, including the major boiler and key flue gas cleaning equipment. Moreover, the company's contribution is also expected to cover advisory services for both erection and commissioning along with training.
Doosan Lentjes is a specialist in designing, supplying and commissioning flexible and highly efficient circulating fluidised bed (CFB) boiler solutions, helping customers around the globe efficiently and ecologically generate power from a wide range of fuel types, including those with difficult combustion properties.


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New barber shop to open on St Mary's
A new barber shop and treatment room is coming to St Mary's next year.
Rosanna Hogan, who owns Cut Loose hair salon on The Strand, hopes to launch Unit 2 in February.
The new venture is named after its address at Unit 2 Gleaner House, which was previously leased by Scilly Now & Then magazine.
Rosanna wrote on Facebook: "I've wanted to have the opportunity to expand for a very long time... and finally it's happened!
"Our barber shop is going to be traditional but edgy - a back in time feel.... I'm so excited about this as it's been months in the making."
She revealed that she and stylist Gemma are doing an advanced barbering 'Fades and Blades' course next month.
Meanwhile, the treatment room, which will be open at separate times to the barbers, is "about privacy and truly relaxed pampering".
Cut Loose will remain open as usual, while a fourth member of staff will join the team next summer and other therapists and professionals are welcome to use the space.
Rosanna said she wanted to bring something new to the islands, adding to This is Scilly News that she "may not get there straight away, but by the summer I'm hoping to establish what I really envisage".
She also thanked Cut Loose clients for being so supportive, as well as her colleagues for visualising her goal.
Unit 2 is located between Becky's Scilly Cakes and Healthwatch opposite the library on St Mary's.


So I'm basically brand new to Avid Media Composer 8.3 and so far I love everything about the workflow. However one new thing that comes up that has me a *little* bit confused is AMA linking and Avid transcoding. So first off I'd like to say that I've researched it and have read other threads on this forum regarding the differences. Instead my question relates to transcoded material and how it'll link against the original source material.
If I transcode aren't I losing the RAW video quality? What I'd really prefer is if I could transcode the video, edit with the transcoded material, and then export the project using ALL the effects I applied but instead of using the transcoded video it would instead use my source material. (a.k.a RED Raw). This would be great because all the edits would continue to be in Red Raw and there wouldn't be any compression. So how does this work? Before Media Composer 8.3 there was no support for 4K or UHD video. So how did Hollywood editors edit in Avid and then export in 4K? I'm assuming they transcoded into 1080p Avid and then exported against their source material.
Before Avid supported 4k, you'd export your project with a cut list that would go to your finishing house. In the film days, your cut list would refer to the negative so that it could be cut and a film print made. Nowadays, you're exporting an EDL that refers to the source video files. You can conform to 4k in DaVinci Resolve, Baselight, Quantel Pablo, whatever your finishing system was. That will be made to create your DCP. The Avid was meant to cut with offline media and then conform later. Even with 4k editing, it will be most practical in most cases to continue cutting at 1080p using DNxHD36 media and then conforming to 4k at the end.
Regarding transcoding versus working RAW, yes you're losing a generation and therefore you're losing some quality by transcoding. Since you mentioned MP4, that's a format that is already so compressed that you're probably not losing much more that wasn't already lost in the camera's compression itself. In the case of Alexa, now you can consolidate the ProRes444 directly into Avid so the footage is rewrapped but not transcoded. Again, if you need to finish in 1080p, even though DNxHD175x is a lossy codec, it's a very high quality codec and projects finish on it all the time. If you need to deliver 2k and above, you'll most likely be conforming in a system that can handle it. When you asked how do Hollywood editors edit at 4k, they don't (mostly). They'll cut at 1080, and then conform to 4K.
Also, just to nitpick, you mentioned RAW wasn't compressed, but it's very compressed. I believe most RED cams default to 8:1 compression and even at it's least compressed variant, is still 3:1.
Some RAW formats are compressed such as R3D (RED) as you mention, and others are not, such as ARRIRAW and DNG. It always pays to get all the details of the format being used to plan accordingly.
As mentioned above you can start in another package, transcode and include an AAF or EDL or XML, and send that to Avid. Once the edit is done you export an AAF, EDL, or similar and send that to the package you started in. You can then reconnect to the camera originals.
Many folks, including notalentwannabes like myself use this workflow. I start in Resolve and finish usually in Resolve. If you want to output 4K you will need the licensed version. The Lite version I believe works now up to and including UHD. By the way, when folks say Conform, think reconnect to camera originals.
Resolve and packages designed for Dailes can make multiple copies of your camera originals and you can do a quick color correction pass referred to as a one-light.
Many RAW formats are compressed some aren't. But you can't export out the RAW media as a cut sequence.
You would either transcode to a finishing resolution making what adjustments you want to the RAW. Or transcode to a lower res for fast editing and relink later in the grade to the RAW.
but which ever route you won't output RAW.


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Q: Do modern terminals generally render all utf-8 characters correctly? I am writting an application in C that will be ran in a terminal, and it would be handy but not necesary to use some of the less used unicode characters. From my experimentation, I have not had any trouble rendering them. However, I would not use any non ascii characters if it were a likely source of trouble in the future.
So, in short, can I count on just about any terminal or terminal emulator in the modern *nix world (mainly linux, freebsd, and osx) to properly render arbitrary utf-8 characters?
If I cannot make such an assumption, there are particular subsets of unicode characters defined for various purposes, so would some such subset at least be reliably rendered in any likely modern *nix terminal or terminal emulator?
NOTE: When I say arbitrary, I do mean arbitrary: any unicode characters. But for completeness of my question, I will note that I am primarily interested in arrows and mathematical characters, this link has lists of both: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_symbols.

A: No, you should not assume that. Even in a modern system, the set of fonts installed, the font used by the terminal application, and environment variables such as LANG, LC_*, etc. may influence whether certain characters can be displayed correctly on the terminal or not.
You might be able to make reasonable guesses based on the value of the TERM, LANG, and LC_* environment variable as to what is supported, but it's still going to be a guess. I'd suggest either not relying on it at all or providing some means of enabling/disabling the use (via an environment variable and/or via commandline flags to the application).

A: For the most part, this depends on the font, not the terminal. But there are a couple of things the terminal software has to take into account. For example, halfwidth and fullwidth forms of CJK characters.
Also, Unicode characters are added on a regular basis. There's no way that every font and terminal software is automatically updated as soon as a new version of the Unicode standard is released.
In general, you should assume that there are always Unicode characters that are not rendered correctly, even on a modern terminal.

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Commercial vacant land available this lot should be purchased with Lot 89J there it would square off to approximately 246 x 375 asking $322,875.00 total. There is more land available next to this lot - Lot Y1 which brings the land to the corner of Lurline. which is approximately 385 x 270. owner would like to retain existing restaurant which lot will have to be subdivided. This is succession property.
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More live-appearances followed then.. sharing stages with bands like DOMINUS PRAELII, APOCALYPTIC RAIDS, CAUCHEMAR, COBRA, PENTARAM (Chi), ENFORCER, SATAN....
2013 saw the band entering the studios again to record two new songs for a 7"EP to be released on INKAS NOIZE Records in 2014 - that EP got excellent feedbacks from the underground medias & public and in the next weeks (after the band shared the stage with german Metal Queen DORO), the band inked a deal with french record label INFERNO Records.
Today the band delivers its best effort to date - the first full-length album "Waves Of Steel" which shows a more mature band with an even bigger potential now ! Get Ready !!
MANDRAGORA's music is best described as Old-School Hard-Rock/Heavy-Metal highly recommended for fans of ACID, ACCEPT, SAXON, IRON MAIDEN, JAGUAR,
Bassist Jorge had this to say about their new album :
"Hey brothers! We are very excited to present our debut album "Waves of Steel".
This debut album represents the effort of all the members. And it's been two years of hard work and patient waiting, but believe me it's been worth it.
We are from a small town, maybe lost on the map but we a breathe Heavy Metal. We are between the sea and steel industries: Nuevo Chimbote city.
We want to go out on the road right now to show our music. Right now we are going to tour Peru and some countries in South America. And of course, we hope to get to Europe soon and conquer their scenarios. We will drink tons of beer and Peruvian Pisco to celebrate!
Cheers mi brothers and much Metal for your lives !"
About "Waves Of Steel" :
- Recorded in 2015 and Mixed in 2016 in Perú by PAUL PINTO, peruvian Producer at the Quartet Note Studios
- Mastered in 2016 in Denmark by the well known FLEMMING RASMUSSEN, at the Sweet Silence Studios
- Artwork by Juan Camilo Mäzutier > https://www.facebook.com/MazutierArt
MANDRAGORA are :
Fátima Natthammer: Vocals
Jorge Mandrágora: Bass
Herman Roll: Lead Guitars
Paulo Roquet: Rhythm Guitars
Abel Ríos: Drums
DISCOGRAPHY :
Steel Metal - Demo 2010
First Attack - EP 2014
Steel Metal Attack - Compilation 2015
WAves Of Steel - Album 2017
MANDRAGORA (Peru) "Waves Of Steel" CD 2017
MANDRAGORA "Waves Of Steel" Album .. details, artwork, pre-orders... now revealed !


It's not rocking the world yet, but we're feeling the tremors.
So as you've probably heard, Titanfall developer Respawn decided to launch a brand-new game, Apex Legends, yesterday. It came as an enormous surprise to most people, as we might have only had a day or two warning before the game was thrust into our laps. And thus, there's a whole lot we still don't know about the game – or at least, a whole lot more I don't know about the game, because I don't really plan to play it.
But either it's way better than I was expecting or curiosity is a bigger people mover than I gave it credit for, because apparently within eight hours of going live, Arux Legends secured over a million players. That's not bad for a free-to-play Battle Royale game that's looking to compete against the biggest video game currently in the world (or ever, one could argue).
However, all this good news comes at a cost: when people first realized that Respawn, the company best known for the critically-praised Titanfall, was working on a battle royale game set in the same universe, they assumed that it was going to be some kind of filler game to remind people they exist before Titanfall 3 came out, as Respawn had very publically said they were working on that title.
However, as it turns out, that's not the case: when EA bought Respawn back in 2017, they used all the work they had put into a prospective Titanfall 3 and made them turn it into Apex Legends. Or, to put it another way: there is no Titanfall 3 coming.
He's… not wrong. There's a lot of stuff not to like in that synopsis, and if they had been more forthcoming with their plans then people would have likely dismissed the game without giving it a chance. But by keeping it a mystery, they've managed to get a lot of players in a very short time.
…But now we're still left to wonder if they can keep them.


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Opioids are a broad category of drugs that includes heroin and prescription painkillers, such as morphine, Vicodin, and Percocet. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), an estimated 21% to 29% of people prescribed opioid painkillers abuse them and as many as 6% of these individuals transition to heroin use.1 About 2.1% of adults aged 26 and older have used heroin at some point during their lives.2 If you or a loved one struggles with compulsive opioid use, you may need the assistance of a rehabilitation program.
Although they do not necessarily mean you have an addiction, opioid tolerance and dependence are often present when someone is struggling with an opioid use disorder. Tolerance means that you need increasingly larger or more frequent amounts of the drug to achieve the same high. Dependence may develop over time as a person takes more and more opioid drugs to overcome tolerance. Physiological dependence means that your body requires opioids in order to function at an optimal level. If you abruptly quit using opioids once you're dependent, withdrawal symptoms will emerge. In order to alleviate these withdrawal symptoms, many people return to opioid use, thus creating a cycle of drug abuse and withdrawal symptoms that can ultimately lead to the development of an opioid use disorder—more commonly referred to as opioid addiction. Opioid addiction is a chronic and progressive condition that often requires treatment from a professional rehab.
An addiction to more than one drug.
Previous opioid withdrawal or detox experiences.
A co-occurring mental health disorder, such as anxiety or depression.
A medical concern or special circumstance, such as pregnancy.
A history of treatment noncompliance.
Runny nose and tearing eyes.
Group counseling, to build sober social skills and to practice utilizing coping skills.
Individual therapy, to learn to recognize opiate-using triggers and to cope with them using positive, healthy behaviors.
Family therapy, to improve communication between family members and heal any damaged relationships or boundaries.
Support group meetings, to build relationships with other individuals in recovery and provide mutual support and encouragement.
Medication-assisted treatment (MAT), which combines behavioral therapy with opioid dependence medications, such as methadone or Suboxone. These medications help to reduce cravings and decrease the risk of relapse. They can be taken for months or even years after treatment has been completed.
Those with a sober and strong support system.
Those with reliable transportation to the facility.
Those with relatively mild addictions.
Those with little to no risk of experiencing severe withdrawal.
Those who have already completed inpatient rehab and want step-down treatment.
What matters most is that you find professional treatment to help you recover from your opiate addiction and live a happier and healthier life.
A residential private rehab facility or treatment program can be extremely beneficial for someone struggling with an opiate addiction. Using opiates doesn't necessarily indicate addiction; many use opiate medications that are prescribed to help manage moderate to severe pain, but abusing or misusing opiates may indicate a need for treatment. This means using opiates in a manner that isn't prescribed, such as taking larger or more frequent doses, or snorting or injecting crushed opiate tablets. Once you're addicted to opiates, it can be very difficult to quit on your own, in part, due to withdrawal symptoms and intense cravings. A residential rehab can provide you with the evidence-based therapeutic interventions necessary to teach you stress-management, emotional-regulation, and drug-refusal skills. These skills can help you to obtain and maintain sobriety, even when faced with opiate triggers.
Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), which analyzes the connection between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, and teaches the patient how to recognize and avoid opiate abuse.
Contingency management (CM), which provides patients with tangible rewards, such as vouchers, to encourage abstinent behaviors.
Community reinforcement approach (CRA), which is a 24-week outpatient program in which patients receive counseling, classes to learn vocational skills, classes to improve social functioning, and material incentives. Patients learn several different coping mechanisms to promote abstinence.
Multidimensional family therapy, which improves family functioning.
These therapies may be combined with methadone or Suboxone as medication-assisted treatment (MAT) to help people quit abusing heroin or prescription painkillers, such as OxyContin.
Inpatient opiate rehabilitation programs are required by federal law to protect the privacy of their patients. The overall privacy of your private rehab center, though, depends on which opiate rehab facility you choose. Private rehabilitation facilities may offer options such as a private room and high security.
If corporate responsibilities have kept you or your loved one from getting help for a substance abuse problem or behavioral addiction, executive rehab programs are the answer. By combining great substance addiction and behavior treatments with the flexibility of computer and cell phone access, an executive or CEO can get healthy in a private and comfortable environment.
Many modern addiction treatment centers offer the luxury amenities you'd expect to find in the nation's finest hotels, with your success and comfort being the top priorities. From private rooms and 5-star chef-prepared meals to fine linens and gym facilities, you can get the best substance and behavior addiction treatment for yourself or your loved one while relaxing in style.
Private rehab facilities take several steps to help you achieve your goal of ending your addiction to opiates.
Before you begin your opiate treatment program, you meet with the staff to assess what type of care you need.
Detoxification is the process of eliminating opiates from your system.
Once the opiates have left your system, you start therapy to help you end your addiction. This will likely include group and individual therapy.
If your addiction to opiates stems from another medical condition, your treatment staff will assist you in getting the medical help you need, along with any other specialized care you may need.
Extended care and aftercare. Once your opiate treatment program is completed, your recovery journey is not over. You will need the support and structure provided by various aftercare outlets as you reintegrate into your life. Aftercare may include attending group meetings, such as Narcotics Anonymous, or individual counseling.
One of the biggest concerns when you're considering a private rehab facility is paying for treatment. Some private rehab facilities take health insurance, while others require private payment. Don't let treatment costs keep you from investigating your options. Many facilities will work with you and your family to finance your care costs.
For instance, some rehabs offer sliding scale options, in which the treatment cost is reduced to what you can reasonably afford to pay based on your income and financial situation. Others offer the opportunity to create a payment plan in which you pay off your treatment bill in affordable installments. Some opiate addiction treatment centers provide scholarships or grants for people who need formal substance abuse treatment but can't finance a program themselves.
Other people may resort to crowdfunding on sites, such as GoFundMe and IndieGoGo, in order to raise the funds they need from family members, friends, and caring anonymous individuals. These sites provide you with the opportunity to share your story of opiate abuse and addiction and express your earnest desire to get clean and sober.
Other options include purchasing health insurance from the healthcare marketplace, opening a healthcare credit card, or taking out a loan.
There may be treatment programs near you, but it may be better to relocate for treatment. Relocating or traveling may assist you in achieving a fresh start, without the distractions of friends or family. Staying near home may allow you to see your loved ones more frequently, which may be helpful if they support your treatment.
Once you've completed your treatment at a rehab facility, you'll need community support. It's critical to find group support, such as local NA meetings, and to continue any other treatment recommended by your care providers, which may include individual counseling, group therapy, sober living homes, alumni programs, or vocational training. If you're interested in attending a support group but would prefer an alternative to the 12-step approach, there are non-12-step programs, such as SMART Recovery and Secular Organizations for Sobriety, which utilize evidence-based approaches for addiction and mental health treatment. They focus on empowerment and self-reliance.
Opiate rehabilitation can be complex, and there are many aspects of treatment to investigate further. Interventions, for example, are a means of getting an addicted loved one to accept treatment. Assessment, intake, detox and opiate withdrawal are all steps along the path to wellness. Understanding the differences between residential treatment and outpatient treatment is critical to making an informed decision.
You should also learn more about the various methods of treating opiate addiction. Religious treatment incorporates the addict's faith into care. Holistic treatment involves alternative therapies, such as yoga and tai chi in care. There are many 12-step programs, such as Narcotics Anonymous, and non-12-step programs, which don't have the spiritual emphasis. All can be effective; it just depends on which one is best suited for you and your loved one. Sober living is another important treatment option for many. Sober living continues after you leave your opiate rehab facility. It's generally a group home, where you live with others who are in recovery and find work as you reintegrate into your life. This is a critical aspect of your aftercare and recovery plan.
Opiate addiction is treatable. No matter how discouraged you or your loved one may be, you can turn your addiction around with help.
1. National Institute on Drug Abuse. (2018). Opioid Overdose Crisis.
2. National Institute on Drug Abuse. (n.d.). Heroin.
3. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. (2006). Detoxification and Substance Abuse Treatment, Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP), 45.
4. National Institute on Drug Abuse. (2018). Treatment Approaches for Drug Addiction.
6. National Institute on Drug Abuse. (2018). How long does drug addiction treatment usually last?
What are the street names for opiates?
Am I addicted to opiates?
Signs of being addicted to opiates include needing increasingly larger amounts of the drug to achieve the same effect and taking opiates in a manner other than the one prescribed. If you're uncertain, talk to a medical professional.
What are the long-term effects of opiate abuse?
Over the long term, opiates change the way your brain works. Your brain cells become used to the opiates, which is what causes addiction. Over time and with sobriety, your brain can recover.


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Resurgence of ASF reported in some areas in Philippines
The Philippines' fight against the African swine fever (ASF) just got more complicated after areas previously cleared from the dreaded virus reportedly saw its resurgence.
Agriculture Secretary William Dar confirmed on October 11 that some areas in Batangas and Ilocos that were already declared ASF-free have again recently recorded a few cases of the virus.
Dar said that the ASF is bound to spread if the public will not cooperate with the government in containing the virus.
"There are people who keep on selling infected meat that's why the virus also keeps on spreading," Dar commented in a briefing with reporters.
Right now, ASF has already spread to five regions, 11 provinces, 31 municipalities, and seven barangays in the Philippines.
Back in June, the Department of Agriculture (DA) declared six local government units (LGUs) in Batangas ASF-free, the first local declaration in the country since the virus hit the country in 2019.
The cleared areas include the municipalities of Rosario, Malvar, Taysan, San Jose, Nasugbu and Lipa City.
"After 16 months, the public and private sector finally reaps their fruit of labor, as six out of 18 areas are declared as ASF-free zones," DA said in an earlier statement.
To fight the virus, the LGUs, the Agricultural Training Institute – International Training Center on Pig (ATI-ITCPH), National Livestock Program, hog raisers organisations and the Philippine College of Swine Practitioners (PCSP) had to form a technical working group on ASF called the Bantay ASF sa Barangay or BABay ASF.
During the declaration of ASF-free areas, Samuel Castro, head of the National ASF Task Force, noted that BABay ASF continues to face challenges in the Philippines. He then encouraged declared ASF-free areas to document their best practices in order to help other regions to move forward.
The country is currently under a state of calamity due to the ASF outbreak. This was declared in May 2021.
Latest data from the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) here in Manila (Post) showed that the country's local pork output has remained flat due to the continuous spread of ASF.
For this year, Post sees the country producing almost the same annual output for pork, or around 1.0 million tonnes in carcass weight equivalent (CWE), due to the recent ASF outbreaks in Cagayan Province and Ilocos Norte (both located in northern Luzon).
The latest report by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) also noted that the country's total pork production declined by 25.8% from January to June 2021 from 783,083 tonne CWE to 579,502 tonne CWE during the same period last year.
As this happens, data from the National Meat Inspection Service (NMIS) showed that inventories of frozen or imported pork in accredited cold storages in the Philippines have been reaching historically high levels over the last few weeks.
From September 20 to September 27, inventories of frozen pork in accredited cold storages in the Philippines stood at 79,390.78 tonnes. While this is slightly lower than the peak of 83,197.70 tonnes during the previous week, this is more than a 100% from the 39,004.51 tonnes recorded during the same period last year.
From August 8 to August 14, frozen pork inventory also peaked at 77,761 tonnes.
- Manila Bulletin