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NATO Needs to Adapt Quickly to Stay Relevant for 2030, Report Urges
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BRUSSELS — A high-level look at NATO's next 10 years recommends significant changes to confront the new challenges of an aggressive Russia and a rising China, urging overhauls to fortify the alliance's cohesion and to better coordinate with democratic allies around the world.
NATO did well boosting military deterrence after the Russian invasion of Ukraine and annexation of Crimea in 2014, the report commissioned by the alliance says. But with a similar challenge to the West arising from an ambitious and authoritarian China, it says the alliance now needs to make similar advances on the political side, including reaching out more consistently to Asian allies anxious about Beijing's ambitions.
Covering 138 specific recommendations in some 60 pages, the report will be a major source of discussion on Tuesday, the start of a two-day meeting of NATO foreign ministers that is likely to be the last for Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. The report is scheduled to be released Tuesday evening, but its contents were described in advance to The New York Times by several people familiar with them.
The report was requested by the NATO secretary-general, Jens Stoltenberg, after President Emmanuel Macron of France said a year ago that NATO was experiencing "brain death" because of a lack of strategic coordination and American leadership.
According to a diplomat from a NATO country, the report is a kind of riposte to Mr. Macron but also an effort to respond to his legitimate criticisms of an alliance that has been slow to adapt its structures and its reach, and where decision-making is a cumbersome and often arduous process that hinders quick reaction.
Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg of NATO, second from left, had requested the report following President Emmanuel Macron's comments on the poor health of the organization due to a lack of strategic coordination and American leadership.Credit…Al Drago for The New York Times
A co-chairman of the 10-member group of experts, A. Wess Mitchell, told NATO ambassadors in a private briefing that the report showed that "NATO is alive and kicking both in its cerebral function and its muscle tissue.''
In an interview, Mr. Mitchell, a former U.S. assistant secretary of state for Europe, acknowledged that the quotation was accurate. He said that the report was aimed at the future for an alliance whose last formal strategic concept was written a decade ago, when a different kind of relationship with Russia was hoped for and in which China was not even mentioned.
"Our intention is to be candid about the challenges to NATO, with a tone of well-grounded optimism,'' Mr. Mitchell said. The main message, he said, is that "NATO has to adapt itself for an era of strategic rivalry with Russia and China, for the return of a geopolitical competition that has a military dimension but also a political one.''
NATO, he added, is "first and foremost an alliance of Euro-Atlantic democracies, and must evolve politically to match its military evolution.''
In this new world, internal division is damaging, Mr. Mitchell said. "That strategic competition makes schisms inside potentially more dangerous, because they can be exploited. So it also puts an emphasis on political cohesion.''
To that end, the report does not recommend the scrapping of NATO's principle of consensus, but suggests ways to speed up decisions. For example, numerous NATO partnership decisions with countries like Israel and even Austria are being held up by one country, in this case Turkey. The report suggests that such disputes be raised to the ministerial level, not left with the anonymity of ambassadors.
China is a significant part of the report, and it recommends setting up a consultative body to coordinate Western policy toward Beijing and to highlight Chinese activities that could affect Western security. Those include issues like spying, supply chains, information warfare and arms buildups.
With its technological ambitions, military expansion and trade policies, China can no longer be seen as simply an Asian player, the report argues, and NATO has been slow to respond to the challenge.
The report urges the creation of analytical centers better able to study disruptive and emerging technologies and to better use artificial intelligence, so the alliance can enhance its security and deterrence against cyber and hybrid warfare, beyond the traditional battlefield.
Shipping containers at a port in Qingdao, China. The NATO report recommends setting up a consultive body to look into Chinese activities that could affect global supply chains.Credit…Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
It should also use those capacities to improve the fight against terrorism and to better coordinate policies that defend NATO's southern members, which are less worried about Russia than about Islamist terrorism and state-sponsored wars, like in Libya, that create uncontrolled migration.
The report is also blunt about the problems of democratic adherence inside the alliance, arguing that with ideological rivals like Russia and China, the political health of the alliance matters more.
It recommends creating a Center of Excellence for Democratic Resilience and recommitting all members to the principles of the NATO founding treaty, whose prologue commits them to uphold "the principles of democracy, individual liberty and the rule of law."
The report also urges closer coordination with the European Union and its own military efforts and ambitions. It recommends a permanent staffing link and a more explicit encouragement by NATO of E.U. efforts toward a more capable European defense, so far as they strengthen the alliance, contribute to fairer burden-sharing and do not exclude non-E. U. allies.
A senior diplomat from a NATO country called the report comprehensive, a foundation from which Mr. Stoltenberg can build recommendations to political leaders from the alliance for their next summit meeting, expected early next year. NATO is expected, as the report urges, to approve the preparation of a new strategic concept to replace the one of 2010.
The European Union has already begun preparations to work with a new Biden administration. The European Commission and the European Council are studying proposals to work together with the United States on issues like health and pandemics, trade, climate, data protection and antitrust enforcement and screening of sensitive foreign investments, aimed particularly at China.
For the NATO report, Mr. Mitchell and his co-chairman, Thomas de Maizière, a German legislator and former defense minister, were joined by other experts from various NATO countries, including Hubert Védrine, a former French foreign minister; Marta Dassu, a former Italian deputy foreign minister; and Tacan Ildem, a senior Turkish diplomat and NATO's former assistant secretary-general for public diplomacy.
The group met virtually in scores of sessions with politicians, diplomats and experts and approved the report by consensus.
Orignially published in NYT.


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The Colorado Plateau presents a contrast between deep and seemingly recent erosion and apparently only mild late Cenozoic tectonic activity. Researchers have recently proposed multiple sources of epeirogenic uplift and intriguing patterns of differential incision, yet little or no quantitative constraints exist in the heart of the plateau to test these ideas. Here, we use both optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) and uranium-series dating to delimit the record of fluvial strath terraces at Crystal Geyser in southeastern Utah, where the Little Grand Wash fault crosses the Green River in the broad Mancos Shale badlands of the central plateau. Results indicate there has been no deformation of terraces or surface rupture of the fault in the past 100 k.y. The Green River, on the other hand, has incised at a relatively rapid pace of 45 cm/k.y. (450 m/m.y.) over that same time, following a regional pattern of focused incision in the "bull's-eye" of the central plateau. The Little Grand Wash fault may have initiated during Early Tertiary Laramide tectonism, but it contrasts with related structures of the ancestral Paradox Basin that are presently active due to salt dissolution and focused differential erosion. We also hypothesize there may be a Pliocene component of fault slip in the region linked to broad-wavelength erosional unloading, domal rebound, and extension. An apparent rapid decrease in incision rates just upstream through Desolation Canyon suggests the Green River here may have recently experienced an upstream-migrating wave of incision.
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06 Incredibly Powerful Interviews On Life, Leadership, Business, Innovation and Change
Asif Saleh
BRAC, Innovation, Social Change and Life: An Interview With Asif Saleh, Senior Director, BRAC [Read the full interview]
Asif Saleh is the Senior Director of Strategy, Communications and Empowerment at BRAC and BRAC International. In this interview, Asif reflects on his early life and journey to becoming who he is today, talks about BRAC and major strategic changes that are happening in the world's number one NGO, future of BRAC and development work, discusses the theory of change management, idea of smart innovation, and ambition of BRAC Innovation Lab, shares BRAC's plans for investment, his thought on strategy, social mobility and his concern about declining quality of our education system and risk of potential failure to manage our huge young population and explores why life is a nonlinear journey and the struggles and hardships that we desperately want to avoid are our becoming and why we should actively resist the culture of immediacy that relentlessly promotes the idea of overnight success and our temptation to work for award or money or recognition alone. The interview is sublime, intellectually challenging and eminently empowering in its entirety, a feast for your mind. Read the full interview here.
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Tausif Ahmad
The Ambition Of HungryNaki: An Interview with Tausif Ahmad, COO, HungryNaki [Read the full interview]
Tausif Ahmad is the Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of HungryNaki– a fast growing food delivery startup based in Dhaka. Launched in 2013, the company has grown significantly over the past few years. It has already reached operational break-even, not a very common thing in Dhaka's fledgling startup scene, and now eyes further expansion and growth.
We recently spoke to Tausif to know more about HungryNaki, online food delivery and ecommerce industry in Bangladesh. In this interview, he reflects on his journey to what he is doing today, talks about HungryNaki, early days and current state of the food delivery startup, challenges of HungryNaki, discusses automation, ambition and future plans of HungryNaki, shares his thought on management and competition and explores why having a business model is critical for building a company and why we should use difficulty as a guide in doing almost everything in life, focus on doing good work no matter how small it is and actively resist the temptation of choosing talking over doing. Read the full interview here.
Muhammad Nazimuddaula
G&R CEO Nazimuddaula On G&R's Next Growth Frontier, Diversification Strategy, Competition and The State Of Digital Advertising In Bangladesh [Read the full interview]
G&R, the oldest digital ad network in Bangladesh, has been going through a transformation over the past few years. The company, founded in 2009, is finally arriving somewhere after all these years, thanks to the growing digital dominance in Dhaka's advertising industry.
We recently spoke to Co-founder and CEO of G&R, Muhammad Nazimuddaula about what's going on at G&R, its product strategy going forward, changing digital advertising landscape, his take on growing competition and challenges in the digital advertising space and major digital advertising trends in Bangladesh.
The advertising industry is going through a major shift globally. We are seeing, for the first time in decades, the great unbundling of TV, thanks to Netflix and relentless pursuit of TV ad dollars by major social media networks, slow death of advertising as we knew it, a handful of alternatives to banner ads and more. The interview, while largely sheds light on G&R's future strategy, will also help you to develop a deeper understanding about some of these changes in the context of Bangladesh. Read the full interview here.
Myth vs. Reality: Four Behaviors That Define Successful Leaders [Read the full interview]
What makes some CEOs successful while others crash and burn? The stereotypical view — often promoted in magazines and on television — is that these leaders are charismatic, armed with an Ivy League degree and larger than life. That impression is both superficial and wrong, according to Elena Lytkina Botelho and Kim Powell, consultants at ghSMART, a Chicago-based management consulting firm. After a 10-year study, Botelho, Powell, and their colleagues found that successful CEOs have four behavioral attributes that are often overlooked because they are not particularly glamorous. These CEOs make decisions quickly; they are relentlessly reliable; they excel at managing relationships; and they adapt swiftly to changing circumstances.
Botelho earlier worked for McKinsey and AIG-Brunswick after getting her MBA at Wharton. At ghSMART, she co-leads CEO Genome, a research project and client practice that supports CEOs and executives on their path to the corner office. The research explores paths and behaviors that lead to the top, as well as typical setbacks that CEOs encounter and ways to prevent them. Read the full interview here.
Masud Al Hasan
Building A One-stop Destination For Famous and Heritage Foods Of Bangladesh: An Interview With Masud Al Hasan, Founder, Proshiddho.com [Read the full interview]
Masud Al Hasan is the founder and CEO of Proshiddho.com– a Dhaka-based ecommerce startup that is building a one-stop destination for famous and heritage food products from all parts of Bangladesh such as Shahi Doi of Bogra, ChomChom of Tangail, Chanamukhi of Brahmanbaria and more.
In this interview, Mr. Hasan talks about his motivation behind starting Proshiddho, early days and current state of the company, challenges of building a platform, discusses how Proshiddho collaborates with famous and heritage food manufacturers across the country and manages the complex process of sourcing and distribution, shares his thought about competition and why delivering on your promise is the key to building trust and why building a business from scratch is the ultimate difficult job. Read the full interview here.
Ahsanul Alam
The Ambition of Othoba: An Interview With Ahsanul Alam, Head Of Operations, Othoba.com (Mr. Alam has passed away later this month) [Read the full interview]
PRAN-RFL, country's one of the biggest and fastest growing conglomerates, launched its own ecommerce marketplace Othoba.com later in 2015. Although a relatively late entrant to the market, Othoba has grown quickly over the past one and half years and has become one of the key players in Dhaka's ecommerce industry within a short period of time. Othoba now plans higher. PRAN-RFL has an incredible reach all over the country. The company's distribution network has penetration even to the deep rural areas which if utilized properly can offer a significant advantage to Othoba in a market where logistics is a big challenge for ecommerce beyond big metropolitan cities.
We recently had an opportunity to sit down with Ahsanul Alam, Head of Operations of Othoba.com to know more about Othba.com and ecommerce industry in Bangladesh. In this interview Mr. Alam recounts his serendipitous journey to the ecommerce world, discusses the beginning and current state of Othoba, challenges and opportunities for the company, competition and state of e-commerce in Bangladesh, talks about the ambition of Othoba and the importance of leading by example and why showing is far easier and effective a way to lead than asking people to do things. Read the full interview here.
Ahsanul Alam, Asif Saleh, Masud Al Hasan, Muhammad Nazimuddaula, Tausif Ahmad
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This looks like a nicely built, sturdy coop. Wish there was more information on how it was built, materials list, cost, etc.
The pics were helpful, but I would love to see the plans for the disgn of this beautiful coop.
The whole thing is 5ft x 10ft, 7ft tall in the front, 6ft tall in the back. The coop is 5ft by 3ft.
Nice coop - I got all different colored pullets, too!
Nice coop! Very pretty! Hope your also going to do something to deter digging under the run!
Love this! If you don't mind me asking, what are the overall dimensions of the coop+run??
Thats a really good looking coop. Great job.
I sure like the cedar. And your hens look so good up there on the roost.


Housing in Australia is unaffordable — everyone knows that. Or at least that's what you'd be led to believe with all the talk in the media, measures introduced federal government in the... The newly released annual Demographia report on housing affordability has found – once again – that Australia has some of the least affordable housing markets in the world.
The newly released annual Demographia report on housing affordability has found – once again – that Australia has some of the least affordable housing markets in the world.... We asked the Urban Development Institute of Australia's Victorian chief executive, Danni Addison, for her five-point plan for tackling housing affordability: 1 Supply/demand imbalance To help with housing affordability, we need more homes.
Australia's worsening housing affordability has been blamed on investors and foreign buyers but apparently this is not the case, according to a new report.


Age assessment: time for progress?
Care provided to unaccompanied asylum seeking minors in Britain is currently compromised by the issue of age assessment. Existing guidelines are rarely followed leading to striking defects in the protection for a high risk group of children and adolescents.
From the perspective of child protection those under 18 are cared for, educated, and protected when required by Social Services. This is a duty and not a moral gift of sympathy, enshrined in the Children Act (Sections 17 and 20). For national agencies and current budgets a great deal therefore appears to depend on a rigid definition of whether an individual is 18 years of age or younger. A growing challenge to this watershed is provided by those seeking asylum in the United Kingdom who are unaware of their exact date of birth, or travelling without appropriate identity papers or perhaps simply not accepted as minors by the Immigration Services. With the changes in immigration dispersal in 1999, these clients are now placed across the country. Declared numbers of unaccompanied asylum seekers to the United Kingdom known to be under the age of 18 has risen from 2000–4000 in the years 1999–2000 to over 6000 in 2002 and 2003. Most of these children have come from Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. At the same time there has been a parallel increase in minors accompanied by an adult, whether relative or friend.1 Recent events on the Indian Ocean's rim may radically alter this pattern.
CH, aged 12 years, was taken out of her school in rural Africa one morning, along with her father who taught there. At home she was restrained with her brother and sister while her parents were interrogated and killed. CH was abducted and became one of a number of girls used for sexual favours in the military group. In the next three years she had two live births and a miscarriage. When the leader of the militia disappeared, she was separated from her children and bartered between strangers before being flown to Heathrow Airport. She was accompanied through customs by a guardian who subsequently appeared to have abandoned her on a railway platform in Leeds. CH was found by transport police who put her in touch with the National Asylum Seekers Service (NASS). NASS provided her with a room in a large hostel for adults. There she deteriorated, becoming withdrawn, anxious, and troubled by poor sleep and abdominal pain. When admitted to a local hospital with haematemesis she was found to have a stomach ulcer, gonorrhoea, and malaria. On the fourth day of admission on an adult ward the nursing staff called a paediatrician as they thought she may be a minor. CH is now in the care of a foster family, receiving appropriate medical and psychological help.
If the age of minors in this position is not determined, and they are not given the benefit of the doubt as recommended by United Nations High Commission for Refugees, the British Home Office, or Social Services, a succession of abuses is encountered. They will be interviewed and taken to court without assistance, housed or detained with adults, and on occasions may be made homeless. As a group they are known to be needy and susceptible to abuse from others; such management compounds their suffering in direct contravention of national and international guidelines. A lack of clear age assessment additionally feeds the trafficking of children into or through the UK.
It is difficult to determine just how many minors are failed by current provisions as the collection of such figures is complex and prone to error. The numbers of children cared for by local government has not increased in parallel to arrivals, remaining fairly static at 2000–3000 in 2002 and 2003.2 In 2003, a Refugee Council survey revealed 268 unaccompanied minors were held in asylum detention centres (personal communication). In the same year an estimated 3000 individuals were made homeless when the National Asylum Seekers Service ceased payments to their hostels: a proportion of these were under 18 years of age, never having received age assessments. Operation Paladin carried out in Heathrow Airport for the last three months of 2003 showed problems with children who arrive "accompanied" or with letters of "transfer of parental responsibility". Not all such arrivals could be traced; such tracking is a central component of child protection. The workloads of charitable groups such as the Refugee Council have risen; in 2003 this service was referred an average of 148 cases a month for dispute of age, over double the numbers of 2001 (personal communication).
A diversity of systems and guidelines for best practice has evolved to assess age in adolescents. These tend to involve combinations of history collection, physical anthropometry, and radiographs.3 Their lack of uniformity identifies an underlying difficulty: there is no method by which chronological age can be estimated precisely in this age group. Paediatricians in the United Kingdom care for small numbers of individuals in late adolescence and early adulthood in graduate outpatient services, but often have little experience in this area. "Save the Children" and the United Nations High Commission for Refugees recommend clear national procedures involving child experts to deliver safe and dignified age assessments which do not violate human rights. As the application of radiographic reviews may violate such rights, this precludes the use of a set of investigations widely employed in the past.
There is little published research into optimal methods of age assessment, and scant data outside forensic dentistry to show how to achieve more accurate results.2 There are clear demonstrations of the inadequacy of the use of any single physical measurement technique, particularly radiographs, whether of wrist, shoulder, teeth, or jaw. Variations between ethnic groups, nutritional state, and socioeconomic status, as well as secular trends in some measures, are too complex to allow the rapid application of any method. Further, the scientifically determined margins of error will frequently make it impossible to determine exactly which side of 18 years an individual may fall. A meeting convened at the Kings Fund, London, in 1999 was used to establish national guidelines recognised by all agencies.4 These emphasised the importance of stating the error involved in any age assessment of at least ±2 years.
Assessment of most unaccompanied individuals is usually undertaken initially by immigration or police officers. Disputed cases are then referred to the local social services for age assessments. Pressures on all these facilities in terms of time and numbers result in significant numbers of minors being treated as adults by default, despite the "benefit of the doubt" guideline. As an example of the numbers concerned, Hillingdon Social Services covering Heathrow Airport looked after over 600 asylum seeking children under the age of 16 years at the end of 2003 (personal communication). Several strategies have been applied to this problem. The use of a dedicated police officer for child protection, as well as a specific questionnaire for use by staff working in Heathrow's Terminal 3, has improved referral systems. Social Services has developed a specific age assessment tool and has emphasised the importance of specific training. However practices vary significantly across the country and are rarely robust.
The scale and impact of these failures, compounding child abuse, suggest rapid and specific remedies are needed. By developing existing systems, it should be possible to deploy skilled, trained assessors to work at major ports of entry. Such individuals could be social workers experienced with adolescents, accountable to and audited by a child protection team with a paediatric opinion available to them in some form. It would be optimal for them to be financially independent of borough Social Services. With appropriate application of the "benefit of the doubt rule" such reception teams could dispense with the arbitrary nature of a classification system built around a definition of age of 18 years. Nomination of such helpers would allow some control over the processes of age estimation. As Lord Laming stated in the Victoria Climbié case, "The use of eligibility criteria to restrict access to services is not found either in legislation or in guidance, and its ill-founded application is not something I support".5 Such flexibility has existing legal support. The Children Leaving Care Act of 2000 provides guidance to local authorities to attend to those leaving care at 18 years of age. In a recent High Court case the Hillingdon Local Authority was charged with providing the full care package owed to asylum seekers after 18 as "looked after" young people ( EWHC 2075).
The fairness, legality, and ethical base of any national framework for age assessment has to take into account legal history, jurisprudence, as well as the paediatric wisdom, "What if this were my child?". Although it may be difficult to quantify the inadequacies of the current system, it clearly compounds abuse to a vulnerable group of children. We must do better.
The author would like to gratefully acknowledge the guidance, help, and advice given by Barry Jones, Child Protection Officer for Heathrow Airport, Helen Johnson of the Refugee Council, Rajendra Rayan, solicitor with the Refugee Legal Centre, and Dr Donald Bentley, paediatrician.
Mornstad H, Reventlid M, Teivens A. Validity of four methods for age determination by teeth in Swedish children. Swed Dent J1995;19:21–130.
RCPCH. The health of refugee children: guidelines for paediatricians. London: Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, 1999.


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Manny Lewis Review
Andrew F Peirce December 29, 2015 2 min read
Manny Lewis is a comedian who can connect with millions of fans, yet struggles to connect with anyone else to create a meaningful relationship. From the mind of stand up comic Carl Barron, Manny Lewis is a look into the mind of the Australian comedian and how he manages to find love in today's day and age. It's a simple film, but it's a film with heart and two great central performances by Carl Barron and Leeanna Walsman.
The story within Manny Lewis isn't anything revolutionary – Lewis is a comedian who is depressed and struggles to connect with people in life. The one person he does happen to connect with though is a sex phone operator. A relationship spawns when he meets a girl at a cafe, and as is the case with these sorts of films, she turns out to be the phone operator. After each date, he confides in the phone operator about his problems, and how he feels the relationship is progressing.
Whilst I've never been a huge fan of Carl Barron's stand up comedy, I did find that the way he implements the sardonic self deprecating humour here is great. Australian humour is a hard thing to display in films as often it comes across as mean spirited or just plain nasty. Here, thanks to Barron's self assured performance as the titular character, it helps serve the story and build his character. When he's on stage lamenting about the troubles of his life, it is amusing, but since it's told in such a way that the character never becomes the butt of his own jokes, it then becomes quite heartfelt.
Unfortunately, the film is fairly formulaic with the way the story is told. Plot points are obviously telegraphed to the point of frustration at times – when Walsman's Maria mentions a boat journey to Brazil, you just know how the film is going to end – and others are seemingly dropped for extended periods of time (Manny's contract with a US manager is brought up at the beginning and then only brought in for the climax when it's required). Whilst it doesn't really challenge the viewer with new and exciting plot points, it does at least deliver interesting performances from Barron and Walsman who have great chemistry on screen together.
At its core, Manny Lewis touches on the life of a stand up comedian greatly. Whilst we have seen the role of the 'sad clown' portrayed many times over, this is a nice Australian take on that theme and Barron delivers the role just fine. Roy Billing makes an appearance as Lewis' father, and it's here that I wish the film spent a little more time exploring that relationship. Whilst the core romance is fine, the predictability of it can be a little tiring. However, the relationship of Lewis and his father is something that is interesting and (for me at least) was the core emotional throughline of the film. One scene in particular where they sit down to watch a movie together is sadly comedic.
There's no doubt that this is Carl Barron's idea through and through, and whether this is pulled from real life or not, he's acted in and co-written a fine film that whilst it may not be the most unique film out there, it is filled with interesting characters that help build an enjoyable enough film. I sure do hope that this isn't the last that we get to see of Barron in a film as he has a great screen presence.
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Director: Anthony Mir
Cast: Carl Barron, Leeanna Walsman, Roy Billing, Damien Garvey
Written By: Carl Barron, Anthony Mir
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Andrew F Peirce
Andrew is passionate about Australian cinema, Australian politics, Australian culture, and Australia in general. Found regularly talking online about Sweet Country, and reminding people to watch Young Adult.
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My Art & My Stetson: Between Europe and America the Unique Story of a Portuguese Artist and Dandy
Manuel de Queiroz
This story is about Aleixo de Queiroz Ribeiro, a Portuguese sculptor, and his celebrated marriage in Philadelphia to Sarah Elizabeth Stetson, the widow of the multimillionaire philanthropist John B. Stetson, owner of the biggest and most renowned hat company in the world. Based on real people and events, the novel explores Aleixo's early years in Paris where he crosses paths with some of the era's greatest names in sculpture, like Rodin and Saint-Gaudens, his brief and controversial stay in Lisbon, and his departure for the United States, where he becomes Portuguese Consul in Chicago and renowned sculptor. Intrinsic to the narrative itself, the history of an extraordinary era emerges, not as mere background scenery, but rather as it was witnessed and experienced by the actual individuals who lived it: the fall of the monarchy and the turbulent early years of the Republic in Portugal, the Spanish-American War, the Paris Universal Exposition of 1900, the First World War, etc. From the end-of-the-century Parisian effervescence to the interaction with the high society of Philadelphia and New York, from early artistic devotion and persistence to a certain mature dandyism in the later years, from public recognition to critical derision, from sensibility to pragmatism, and from ambition to disappointment, My Art and My Stetson dramatically conveys the conflicts and yearnings of a charismatic, controversial, and misunderstood man, as well as the numerous contradictions inherent to the epoch during which the narrative takes place.
Manuel de Queiroz was born in Porto, North of Portugal, and lives in Lisbon where he works as a writer, architect, and urban planner. His first novel, O Dedo na Ferida (The Finger on the Spot), published in 2001, won the 2002 Portuguese PEN Club Award for First Novel. In 2008, he published the novel, Os Passos da Glória, selected for the Fernando Namora Award shortlist. In 2020, this novel won a grant from the Portuguese Government for its publication in the USA, under the title, My Art and My Stetson.
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Q: Custom delegate is always nil in UITableViewController in swift I am trying to implement custom delegate in my project. Delegate is always nil in my case I don't know what am I doing wrong here ?
I have table view controller and I am using custom cell. Custom cell has few labels. I am adding Tap gesture for one of the label. When user tap on label, Pop over controller open and when user select the item then delegate from that viewcontroller return the value for label and this action is taking care by delegate.
I implemented same thing in Objective C and it is working fine but in swift my delegate is always nil. Please help me with it.
Here is my code
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        var cell = UITableViewCell(style: UITableViewCellStyle.Default, reuseIdentifier:"cell" as String)

        cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier("cell1", forIndexPath: indexPath) as! UITableViewCell

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Founded in Taiwan by Chiang Kai-shek, the Rev. Moon and Nazi war criminals and Nippon, the World Anti-Communist League (WACL) was first used by Nixon to extend the methods of counterinsurgency Southeast Asia and Latin America.Seven heads of state then participated in their meetings. Later, came alive again in the Reagan era, becoming an instrument of U.S. military-industrial complex and the CIA during the Cold War. He then ordered political killings and the formation of the counterinsurgency in all conflict areas, including in Afghanistan where he was represented by Osama Bin Laden.
After the Second World War, the U.S. Secret Service agents used Nazi Ustasha fascist and anti to create a network, you stay-behind . If agents recruited in the future states of the Atlantic Alliance should remain secret, those States that had fallen under Soviet control were, however, to act publicly. Was created, therefore, in 1946, a sort of international entity to coordinate the actions of the players from the East transferred to the West: the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations (Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations, ABN).
Ukrainian fascists, Hungarians, Romanians, Croats, Bulgarians, Slovaks, Lithuanians, etc. met under the direction of Yaroslav Stetsko. Ex-collaborationist leader in Ukraine, Stetsko is held responsible for the slaughter of 700 people, mostly Jews, committed in Lvov on July 2, 1941.
Eight years later, at the end of the Korean War, the United States replaced France in Indochina . President Eisenhower established a regional defense system directed against the USSR and China. On September 8, 1954, following the model of NATO, SEATO was created which brings together Australia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines, Thailand, the United Kingdom and United States. On December 2 the device is completed with a bilateral defense treaty between the U.S. and Taiwan .
In parallel, the CIA, under the direction of Allen Dulles, the intelligence structure of these states and provides an organization of anti-party links in the region. It is well, around the same Chiang Kai-shek, an Anti-Communist League of Peoples of Asia (Asian People's Anti-Communist League, APACL).
In addition to the Taiwanese president Chiang Kai-shek, the APACL counts among its members Paek Chun-hee, the future president of South Korea; Ryiochi Sasakawa, a war criminal, a millionaire and benefactor of the Japanese Liberal Party, and the Reverend Sun Myung Moon , prophet of the Unification Church. Also appear in the ranks of the General Prapham APACL Kulapichtir (Thailand), President Ferdinand Marcos (Philippines), Prince Sopasaino (Laos) , Colonel Dang Cong Do-representative of President Nguyen Van Thieu, Vietnam) , etc.
L'APACL is under the control of Ray S. Cline, then chief of the CIA station in Taiwan , and publishes the Asian Bulletin, which is drafting by Michael Lasater, future head of the Department of Asia at the Heritage Foundation .
Since 1958, the president of the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations (ABN) participates in Taipei at the annual conference of the Anti-Communist League of Peoples of Asia (APACL). Stetsko Cline and oversee the establishment of the Political Warfare Cadres Academy in Taiwan, the institution responsible for training the cadres of the regime of Chiang Kai-shek for anti-repression.
The academy is the Asian equivalent of the Psychological Warfare Center in Fort Bragg (USA) and the School of Americas in Panama . Gradually, the CIA is a network of political groups and trainers in global counterinsurgency. In 1967, ABN and APACL merge and adopt the World Anti-Communist League appeal (World Anti-Communist League, WACL) and extend its activities to the entire Free World. New members include Los Tecos, also called Legion of Christ the King, Mexican fascist formation created during World War II. The League called the first stage of growth during the years 73-75, when Richard Nixon and his security adviser Henry Kissinger in the White House.
Its funding is generously insured by the Unification Church. However, this reality is no longer publicly reconoda since 1975. The Reverend Sun Myung Moon then said to have broken their ties with the League, but continues to exert its leadership through its Japanese representative Osami Kuboki.
The role of WACL in implementing plans Phoenix (1968-1971) and Condor (1976-1977), including the murder of thousands of suspected sympathizers with communism in Southeast Asia and Latin America, is still not enough documented.
Operation Phoenix in Vietnam was probably applied by the Joint Task Force Warfare Unconventionnal Maj. Gen. John K. Singlaub later president of the WACL. However, Singlaub has always denied involvement in that operation.
On the other hand, General Hugo Banzer, who imposed his dictatorship in Bolivia from 1971 to 1978, chaired the Latin American section of the WACL.Banzer organized a plan to physically eliminate his opponents communists in 1975. Banzer Plan was presented as a model for a Latin American meeting of the WACL, in Asuncion, in 1977, in the presence of Paraguayan dictator, Gen. Alfredo Stroessner. A motion directed to proceed in the same way, for disposal in Latin America for priests and religious followers of liberation theology was presented by the Paraguayan delegation and adopted by the World Conference WACL in 1978 [9 ].
Neither knows for sure the role of WACL in the strategy of tension that struck Europe during that period. The Frenchman François Duprat, founder of New Order, the Italian Giorgio Almirante, founder of MSI, the Spanish Jesus Palacio, founder of CEDADE, the Belgian Paul Vankerhoven, president of Circle of Nations, and others like them, are active in the WACL. And the League which gets smuggled from Italy to Stefano delle Chiaie , wanted in Italy for terrorism, and sends it to Bolivia, then under the regime of Hugo Banzer, where he immediately appoints second head Klaus Barbie of the death squads.
The documentation is minimal also in relation to the role of WACL in the Lebanon war. It is known, at best, who recruited mercenaries integrated the ranks of the Christian militias of former president Camille Chamoun in 1975, weeks before the outbreak of the conflict.
On arrival at the White House in 1977, Jimmy Carter wants to end the sordid practices of their predecessors. Admiral Stansfield Turner appointed head of the CIA and is dedicated to eliminating authoritarian regimes in Latin America.It is a difficult time for the WACL, who no longer receive funding from its members. This is then converted into a den of anti-Carter, is preparing for better days and spontaneously established relationships with the leading organization of anti-Carter United States, the National Coalition for Peace Force (National Coalition for Peace Through Strength).
That face of rejection comes from the American Security Council, which President Eisenhower designated with the term "military-industrial complex" . Its co-chairs are Daniel O'Graham general , who participated with George H. Bush on the reassessment of the Soviet threat in the Commission Pipes-called Team B  -, and General John K. Singlaub .
Numerous officials of the League are linked to the campaign committees for the election of Ronald Reagan. For many, the Republican governor of California is not a stranger. Indeed, at the end of World War II, Reagan participated as spokesman for the Crusade for Freedom (Crusade for Freedom) in raising funds for the establishment in America of immigrants from Eastern Europe fleeing communism. It was in fact transferred to the Nazis and Ustasha fascist members of the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations (ABN). As Vice President George H. Bush, it is also a friend. As patron of the CIA, was the head of Operation Condor.
Since the arrival of Ronald Reagan and George H. Bush to the White House, the WACL regains its former vigor and continues its development. Previous contacts bear fruit. The U.S. military-industrial complex is responsible for financing the creation of a U.S. branch of the WACL under the name of World Peace Council (Council for World Freedom, USCWF). Gen. John K. The Singlaub having as vice president of General Daniel O'Graham. But, the thing does not stop there. The military-industrial complex takes over the WACL to make it a central tool of the global anti-repression. Singlaub thus becomes president of the WACL.
To combat the Soviet presence in Afghanistan, the American Security Council  funded a thematic section of the WACL: the Committee for a Free Afghanistan (Committee for a Free Afghanistan) based in the Heritage Foundation. The operation begins on the occasion of an official visit by Margaret Thatcher and Lord Nicholas Bethell, department head of MI6, the United States and headed by General J. Milnor Roberts.
The Committee is directly involved in logistical support to "freedom fighters", awarded by decision of CIA Director William Casey  and run by Osama Bin Laden . The link between the WACL and the Saudi businessman Sheikh Ahmed Salah ensure Jamjoon collaborator of public works emporium Saudi Bin Laden Group, and a former Prime Minister of South Yemen .
In the Philippines, President Ferdinand Marcos who represents the WACL. But when it was overthrown in 1986, John K. Singlaub and Ray Cline arrive in the country to choose new partners there. Then create a guerrilla and paramilitary unit deposited in the general preference Fidel Ramos , a friend of Frank Carlucci , George H. Bush and Bin Laden.
To combat the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua, the WACL install a rear base in the ownership of John Hull in Costa Rica with Argentine instructors. The League also uses the facilities offered in Honduras the Chief of Staff, Gen. Gustavo Alvarez Martinez, who recruited mercenaries using as cover to Refugee Relief International humanitarian.
In Guatemala, the WACL with Mario Sandoval Alarcon, the leader of the Movement of National Liberation. Sandoval, who was vice president from 1974 to 1978, is the true master of the country since the general-president Romeo Lucas Garcia is just a puppet. Sandoval created death squads that killed more than 13 000 people in five years.
In Salvador, the WACL is based on Roberto d'Aubuisson, formed in Taiwanese academia and beneficiary of the aid of Guatemalans. D'Aubuisson becomes at once ANSESAL chief, the local equivalent of the CIA, and leader of a right-wing paramilitary organization, the Republican Party Nacionalista (ARENA). It also creates death squads and killed the Archbishop Oscar Romero.
But the success of the WACL also cause their downfall. In 1983, Undersecretary of Defense Fred C. Iklé  at the Pentagon created a secret committee of eight experts, the Council for the Defense of Freedom, chaired by Gen. John K. Singlaub . It is known that the Committee establishes the secret intervention in Afghanistan as a model to extend counseling to Nicaragua, Angola, El Salvador, Cambodia and Vietnam, but not enough documentary evidence of the details of their action.
In 1984, Ronald Reagan left to the League in general and in particular John Singlaub set Irangate private financing under the direct authority of Col. Oliver North in the National Security Council. The scandal broke in 1987, destroys everything and destroys the WACL.
French political analyst. Founder and president of the Voltaire Network and the Axis for Peace conference. Last work published in Spanish: The Big Lie.Manipulation and misinformation in the media (Monte Avila Editores, 2008).
 See: "Stay-hebind: U.S. networks destabilization and interference" by Thierry Meyssan, Voltaire, July 20, 2001.
 The French army lost the battle of Dien Bien Phu on 7 May 1954.
 On the other hand, the January 29, 1955, Congress carte blanche to President Eisenhower authorized to enter into war to defend Taiwan if the island is attacked by the Communists.
 See: "Reverend Moon, le retour" text in French, Voltaire, March 26, 2001.
 Sopasaino Prince, vice president of the National Assembly of Laos, was intercepted by French authorities at Paris' Orly airport on 23 April 1971. He carried in his luggage 60 kg of pure heroin.
 S. Ray Cline had been the most listened analyst views the outbreak of the Korean War. He was head of the CIA station in Taipei from 1958 to 1962. Its coverage was as director of the U.S. Naval Auxiliary Communications Center.Then became deputy director of the CIA through a turnover caused by the Bay of Pigs fiasco. Published a memoir, Secrets, Spies and Scholars, Edotirial Acropolis Books, 1976.
 Michael Laseter was primarily responsible for the Church Universal and Triumphant (CUT) by Elizabeth Claire. In the mid 70's, the sect was in the midst of a scandal when it was discovered a military arsenal at its headquarters in California. One of its leaders was appointed executive director of the WACL representation in Afghanistan in the 80's.
 The School of Americas (SOA) was moved then to Fort Benning, U.S.. Our electronic library offers a comprehensive guide school students in French, from 1947 to 1996.
 This operation appears to have been conducted in coordination with Monsignor Alfonso Lopez-Trujillo, then secretary general of the Latin American Episcopal Conference (CELAM).
 See: "1980: slaughter in Bologna, 85 dead", Voltaire, March 14, 2004.
 The National Coalition for Peace Force grew to 257 members of Congress.
 Lt. Gen. Daniel O'Graham was deputy director of the CIA in charge of relations with other intelligence agencies (1973-74) and later director of the DIA (1974-76). Executive Director of the American Security Council, was one of the main proponents of the proposed "Star Wars." Frontier High founded which he chaired until his death in 1995.
 In 1975, the far right accuses the CIA of having been penetrated by communist infiltrators and minimize the red menace. President Ford then appointed George H. Bush as director of the Agency and authorizing implementation of a counter-check. Richard Pipes sets "Team B" which publishes an alarmist than justify the resumption of the arms race. Today we know that the Commission deliberately falsified data Pipes for open markets and industrial military complex. On this topic, see: "Washington's manipulators" by Thierry Meyssan, Voltaire, January 11, 2005, and "Daniel Pipes, the expert haine" text in French, Voltaire, May 5, 2004.
 John K. Singlaub was an officer in the OSS during World War II.Kuomintang guerrillas set of Chang Kai-shek against the Japanese. During the Korean War, he was head of the CIA station, and later, during the Vietnam War, he led the Green Berets. He was then counterinsurgency instructor at Fort Benning. Moving into retirement, he became director of training of the American Security Council. It was under that post he assumed the chairmanship of the Coalition and, later, president of the League.
 The National Endowment for Democracy assumes the financing of the Committee since 1984. This shall then part of the funds received humanitarian supplies for their political objectives in Afghanistan, mostly to Doctors Without Borders, Bernard Kouchner, and International Medical Assistance.
 United States deliberately destabilized Afghanistan, but did not expect the scale of military response from Moscow. Washington then moved his allies to engage in war, not with the aim to "liberate" the Afghan people but explicitly to prevent the USSR could have a step towards the Arabian Sea.
 In 1983, the WACL shirts printed with the image of Osama Bin Laden and the inscription "Support the Afghan Freedom Fighter. He Fights For You! "(Support to Afghan freedom fighter. He fights for you!).
 Osama Bin Laden is not presented then as a Muslim believer, but as an anti businessman chosen by Prince Turki, head of Saudi intelligence services, to participate with the United States in the war against the Soviets. Bin Laden first deal to direct the construction of infrastructure needed by "freedom fighters" after administering the procurement of foreign mudjahidines join them. Osama Bin Laden only belatedly transform Muslim believer to establish its authority over them.
 General Fidel Ramos is elected president in 1992. At the end of his term in 1998, joined the Carlyle Group. See: "Le Carlyle Group, une affaire d'initio" (The Carlyle Group, a case of insiders) text in French, Voltaire, February 9, 2004.
 See: "L'honorable Frank Carlucci" (The Honorable Frank Carlucci) French text, by Thierry Meyssan, Voltaire, 11 février 2004.
 Fred C. Iklé was the second of Caspar Weinberger at the Pentagon. This historic fighter of the Cold War is now a member of the Center for Security Policy (CSP) of the Project for a New American Century (PNAC) and manager of the Smith Richardson Foundation.
 The committee includes generles Harry Aderholt and Edward Lansdale, Colonel John Waghelstein, Seale Doss, Edward Luttwak, the largest F. Andy Messing Jr. and Sam Sarkessian.
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Q: getting error while running hdfs dfs command hdfs dfs -mkdir /tmp

WARN fs.filesystem failed to initialize file systemhdfs://dev-cluster:8020:
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: java.net.UnknownHostException: dev-cluster

A: The error is saying you have no host known to the DNS server setup by your client that's named dev-cluster.
If you're trying to use an HDFS nameservice, then you've not fully configured the hdfs-site.xml for the command to use a nameservice


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International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care (2)
Cardiology in the Young (1)
European Psychiatry (1)
Health Technology Assessment International (2)
AEPC Association of European Paediatric Cardiology (1)
European Psychiatric Association (1)
EPA guidance on physical activity as a treatment for severe mental illness: a meta-review of the evidence and Position Statement from the European Psychiatric Association (EPA), supported by the International Organization of Physical Therapists in Mental Health (IOPTMH)
Brendon Stubbs, Davy Vancampfort, Mats Hallgren, Joseph Firth, Nicola Veronese, Marco Solmi, Serge Brand, Joachim Cordes, Berend Malchow, Markus Gerber, Andrea Schmitt, Christoph U. Correll, Marc De Hert, Fiona Gaughran, Frank Schneider, Florence Kinnafick, Peter Falkai, Hans-Jürgen Möller, Kai G. Kahl
Journal: European Psychiatry / Volume 54 / October 2018
Physical activity (PA) may be therapeutic for people with severe mental illness (SMI) who generally have low PA and experience numerous life style-related medical complications. We conducted a meta-review of PA interventions and their impact on health outcomes for people with SMI, including schizophrenia-spectrum disorders, major depressive disorder (MDD) and bipolar disorder. We searched major electronic databases until January 2018 for systematic reviews with/without meta-analysis that investigated PA for any SMI. We rated the quality of studies with the AMSTAR tool, grading the quality of evidence, and identifying gaps, future research needs and clinical practice recommendations. For MDD, consistent evidence indicated that PA can improve depressive symptoms versus control conditions, with effects comparable to those of antidepressants and psychotherapy. PA can also improve cardiorespiratory fitness and quality of life in people with MDD, although the impact on physical health outcomes was limited. There were no differences in adverse events versus control conditions. For MDD, larger effect sizes were seen when PA was delivered at moderate-vigorous intensity and supervised by an exercise specialist. For schizophrenia-spectrum disorders, evidence indicates that aerobic PA can reduce psychiatric symptoms, improves cognition and various subdomains, cardiorespiratory fitness, whilst evidence for the impact on anthropometric measures was inconsistent. There was a paucity of studies investigating PA in bipolar disorder, precluding any definitive recommendations. No cost effectiveness analyses in any SMI condition were identified. We make multiple recommendations to fill existing research gaps and increase the use of PA in routine clinical care aimed at improving psychiatric and medical outcomes.
Integrating patients' views into health technology assessment: Analytic hierarchy process (AHP) as a method to elicit patient preferences
Marion Danner, J. Marjan Hummel, Fabian Volz, Jeannette G. van Manen, Beate Wiegard, Charalabos-Markos Dintsios, Hilda Bastian, Andreas Gerber, Maarten J. IJzerman
Journal: International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care / Volume 27 / Issue 4 / October 2011
Background: Patient involvement is widely acknowledged to be a valuable component in health technology assessment (HTA) and healthcare decision making. However, quantitative approaches to ascertain patients' preferences for treatment endpoints are not yet established. The objective of this study is to introduce the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) as a preference elicitation method in HTA. Based on a systematic literature review on the use of AHP in health care in 2009, the German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) initiated an AHP study related to its HTA work in 2010.
Methods: The AHP study included two AHP workshops, one with twelve patients and one with seven healthcare professionals. In these workshops, both patients and professionals rated their preferences with respect to the importance of different endpoints of antidepressant treatment by a pairwise comparison of individual endpoints. These comparisons were performed and evaluated by the AHP method and relative weights were generated for each endpoint.
Results: The AHP study indicates that AHP is a well-structured technique whose cognitive demands were well handled by patients and professionals. The two groups rated some of the included endpoints of antidepressant treatment differently. For both groups, however, the same six of the eleven endpoints analyzed accounted for more than 80 percent of the total weight.
Conclusions: AHP can be used in HTA to give a quantitative dimension to patients' preferences for treatment endpoints. Preference elicitation could provide important information at various stages of HTA and challenge opinions on the importance of endpoints.
Information on ethical issues in health technology assessment: How and where to find them
Sigrid Droste, Charalabos-Markos Dintsios, Andreas Gerber
Background: Comprehensive health technology assessments (HTAs) include thorough reflections on ethical issues associated with health technologies, their use, and value-based decisions in the assessment process. As methods of information retrieval for effectiveness assessments are not applicable to information retrieval on ethical issues, a specific methodological approach is necessary.
Objectives: In the absence of existing adapted methods, our objective was to develop a methodological approach for the systematic retrieval of information on ethical issues related to health technologies.
Method and Results: A literature search was conducted to verify the non-existence of published comprehensive methodological approaches for the information retrieval on ethical issues for HTAs, and resulted in no hits. We, therefore, developed a step-by-step workflow following the workflow of information retrieval for effectiveness assessments: Step 1: Translation of the search question using the PICO scheme and additional components. Step 2: Concept building by modeling and linking search components. Step 3: Identification of synonyms in all relevant languages. Step 4: Selection of relevant information sources. Step 5: Design of search strategies for bibliographic databases. Step 6: Execution of search strategies and information seeking, including hand-searching. Step 7: Saving of retrieval results and standardized reporting of the process and results. Step 8: Final quality check and calculation of precision and recall.
Conclusions: Systematic searching for information on ethical issues related to health technologies can be performed following the common retrieval workflow for effectiveness assessments, but should be performed separately applying adapted procedures and search terms on ethical issues relevant to the research question.
Direct non-medical and indirect costs for families with children with congenital cardiac defects in Germany: a survey from a university centre
Andreas U. Gerber, Agnieszka Hompanera Torre, Guido Büscher, Stephanie A.K. Stock, Christine Graf, Sabine Schickendantz, Konrad Brockmeier, Markus Lüngen
Journal: Cardiology in the Young / Volume 20 / Issue 2 / April 2010
Parents of children with congenital cardiac disease suffer from psychological stress and financial burdens. These costs have not yet been quantified.
In cooperation with paediatricians, social workers, and parents, a questionnaire was devised to calculate direct non-medical and indirect costs. Direct non-medical costs include all costs not directly related to medical services such as transportation. Indirect costs include lost productivity measured in lost income from wages. Parents were retrospectively queried on costs and refunds incurred during the child's first and sixth year of life. The questionnaire was sent out to 198 families with children born between 1980 and 2000. Costs were adjusted for inflation to the year 2006. Children were stratified into five groups according to the severity of their current health status.
Fifty-four families responded and could be included into the analysis (27.7%). Depending on severity, total direct non-medical and indirect costs in the first year of life ranged between an average of €1654 in children with no or mild (remaining) cardiac defects and an average €2881 in children with clinically significant (residual/remaining) findings. Mean expenses in the sixth year of life were as low as €562 (no or mild (remaining) cardiac defects) and as high as €5213 (potentially life-threatening findings). At both points in time, the highest costs were lost income and transportation; and day care/ babysitting for siblings was third.
Families of children with congenital cardiac disease and major sequelae face direct non-medical and indirect costs adding up to €3000 per year on average. We should consider compensating families from low socioeconomic backgrounds to minimise under-use of non-medical services of assistance for their children.
Atomic Structure of β-Tantalum Nanocrystallites
Karsten Tillmann, Andreas Thust, Andreas Gerber, Martin P. Weides, Knut Urban
Journal: Microscopy and Microanalysis / Volume 11 / Issue 6 / December 2005
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 November 2005, pp. 534-544
The structural properties of β-phase tantalum nanocrystallites prepared by room temperature magnetron sputter deposition on amorphous carbon substrates are investigated at atomic resolution. For these purposes spherical aberration-corrected high-resolution transmission electron microscopy is applied in tandem with the numerical retrieval of the exit-plane wavefunction as obtained from a through-focus series of experimental micrographs. We demonstrate that recent improvements in the resolving power of electron microscopes enable the imaging of the atomic structure of β-tantalum with column spacings of solely 0.127 nm with directly interpretable contrast features. For the first time ever, we substantiate the existence of grain boundaries of 30° tilt type in β-Ta whose formation may be well explained by atomic agglomeration processes taking place during sputter deposition.


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Q: Redactor image upload not working on laravel 5 Same code working in laravel 4 but not working in laravel 5.
Here is all codes :
//Redactor Image Upload
Route::post('image/upload', function(){
    $image = Input::file('file');
    $filename = 'bdtimes'.rand(10, 99999999).'.'.$image->getClientOriginalExtension();
    $move = Image::make($image->getRealPath())->save('uploads/images/original/'.$filename);

    if($move){
        return Response::json(['filelink'=>'/uploads/images/original/'. $filename]);
    }else{
        return Response::json(['error'=>true]);
    }
});

Redactor Script :
$(function()
{
    $('#redactor').redactor({
            focus: true,
            imageUpload: '{{ url() }}/image/upload',
            imageManagerJson: '{{ url() }}/image.php',
            plugins: ['table', 'video','imagemanager','fontcolor','fontsize','fullscreen'],
            maxHeight: 300,
            minHeight: 300
        });
});

In Chrome Developer Tool this error showing when i try to upload image.
Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 500 (Internal Server Error)        http://localhost:8000/image/upload

What is problem ? Please help me .
Thanks

A: Updated Answer
There is a problem with the token. Change the Redactor script..
$(function()
{
    $('#redactor').redactor({
        focus: true,
        imageUpload: '{{ url() }}/image/upload?_token=' + '{{ csrf_token() }}',
        imageManagerJson: '{{ url() }}/image.php',
        plugins: ['table', 'video','imagemanager','fontcolor','fontsize','fullscreen'],
        maxHeight: 300,
        minHeight: 300
    });
});

A: This means that some line in your route is having an error. Looking at your code I do not see any obvious issue, it could be related to import etc what is not shown here.
Try using dd() after every line to print debugging info until you locate exact line what is broken.
You can also look at the ajax  request response from Chrome Developer Tool as it must have more info about the exact error.

A: I had the same problem when using redactor with yii framework. I think the problem is with setting the route to the upload directory. So the developers of redactor changed some code to prevent this.
In RedactorModule.php > public function getSaveDir() change this:
 $path = Yii::getAlias($this->uploadDir);
   if (!file_exists($path)) {
       throw new InvalidConfigException('Invalid config $uploadDir');
  }
   if (FileHelper::createDirectory($path . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . $this->getOwnerPath(), 0777)) {
  return $path . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . $this->getOwnerPath();

to this:
 $path = Yii::getAlias($this->uploadDir) . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . $this->getOwnerPath();
   if(!file_exists($path)){
      if (!FileHelper::createDirectory($path, 0775,$recursive = true )) {
           throw new InvalidConfigException('$uploadDir does not exist and default path creation failed');
       }
      }
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Digital breaths: The benefits of bioengineering
Friday 29 June 2018, 6.00pm, Presbyterian Church Hall, 91 Tenby St, Wanaka.
Professor Merryn Tawhai, Auckland Bioengineering Institute, University of Auckland.
2016 MacDiarmid Medal winner and newly appointed Director of MedTech Core, Professor Merryn Tawhai explains how a fascination with mathematics and biology has led her to developing technology for healthcare, and why New Zealand has the capability to become a world leader in this market.
For further information, https://royalsociety.org.nz/news/video-digital-breaths-the-benefits-of-bioengineering/
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Each afternoon, we rested from our mental exercise and watched a "ship" being attacked by pirates on the lake below. No, I am not imagining this. I heard the cannons.
I came home refreshed and fired up.
And just a little depressed because it's going to be a whole year before I can go to another slumber party with my girl friends.


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