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Some of the leading tech and beauty visionaries are collaborating on a project specifically aimed at helping owners future-proof their salon businesses. Six rapidly expanding companies, which offer very real yet different ways to be more financially and environmentally sustainable, are pooling their resources to offer leadership that will help the industry ensure it's well-placed for the demands of future clients and recruits.
"The beauty industry needs to prepare for the rapid change that is coming. Disruptor brands and services are already here that could seriously impact salon businesses. It is unrealistic and unfair to leave the burden of change solely on the service providers," said Joshua Howard, CEO of Vish Color Management. "At Vish, we believe suppliers and manufacturers need to shine a light on how to strengthen salon businesses and so are delighted to team up with other like-minded innovators to possible routes to greater security".
The six brands – Vish, REACH.ai, Sustain Beauty Co, Canvas ME, Qnity, and Green Circle Salons hope that working together will amplify their message that owners are not alone. By gifting a transformative package that has the potential to completely change the trajectory of one lucky business, the six brands aim to highlight the possibilities to the rest of the industry. The project will have a value of nearly $26k to the chosen salon.
"Being sustainable isn't just about cutting back on energy or chemicals; it's also about ensuring your business has a long and prosperous future. This collaboration will allow one lucky salon to improve chair occupancy, gain a competitive edge in recruiting talent, capture missed revenue opportunities, reduce waste, level up their business and financial acumen, cut back on chemical use and so much more!" says Valorie Tate, co-founder of Sustain Beauty Co.
"All of these are first steps to future-proofing the industry and together they make a huge impact." adds Erin Kuhn, President of Qnity. "What salons stand to gain from this package is almost unimaginable."
Each brand will offer key services to one particular salon chosen by the group. The package or services include extensive support and goods that will revolutionize the salon. Vish, which reduces color waste and so boosts profits practically overnight, will provide all hardware, education, and onboarding required along with a six-month subscription, while REACH.ai uses targeted AI-driven texts and emails to fill last-minute openings and cancellations for a full year. Sustain Beauty Co will provide a kit including Ping Color Mixers, a Pro Care machine with a case of foils and Scrummi's biodegradable items. Green Circle Salons will deliver a lifetime membership, six-month subscription, PPE and salon waste recovery toolkit, and all training. Canvas ME – the Linkedin of the beauty world and the industry's 1st all-in-one portfolio and recruitment platform – is including one year's subscription with up to three job postings a month, a business page, and account support, while Qnity, the trusted guide for education and coaching for salons and spas is providing six months of free coaching utilizing Qnity's full suite of visual tools to create lasting results in sales growth, profitability, engagement, execution and more.
"We believe in community and by coming together we will provide our collective solutions and expertise to help the industry," add Matt and Jen Martinelli, co-founders of CanvasMe. "While only one salon will receive the collaborative package, we hope this inspires many salons and the industry at large about the many resources they can take advantage of to move towards a stronger future for everyone."
The six companies are launching their project on the 15th of December at thegreatcollab.com and it will run until January 15, however, the group plan to continue working together to keep the conversations going long into the future.
About The Great Collaboration: The Great Collaboration is the first project of its kind, specifically aimed at helping owners future-proof their salon businesses. Six companies focused on business growth, financial and environmental sustainability; REACH, Vish, CanvasMe, Qnity, Sustain Beauty Co., and Green Circle Salons have teamed up to completely transform one salon's business. While The Great Collaboration will ultimately help one salon, it aims to inspire the entire beauty industry.
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Priyanka Dutta, Kolkata: The Durga Puja-Muharram controversy took another serious turn on Thursday. Two days after Mamata Banerjee's reaction to the Calcutta High Court's observation on handling of religious festivals, the high court blasted the West Bengal government over its latest notification on Durga idol immersion.
"You are exercising extreme power without any basis…Just because you are the state, can you pass arbitrary order?" the Calcutta High Court questioned on a recent order banning idol immersions after 10 pm on September 30 – when Durga Puja ends – and on October 1, when Muslims will mark Muharram.
The Mamata Banerjee-led government had issued a notification prohibiting Durga idol immersion between September 30 and October 1 on account of Muharram, observed by Muslims as a day of mourning. The immersion could continue on October 2.
During arguments over the past two days, the court said a state "cannot hinder a citizen's right to practice religion assuming that there will be law and order problems". Acting Chief Justice Rakesh Tiwary today said the Mamata Banerjee government must provide "concrete grounds" for its decision. "If you dream that something will go wrong, you cannot impose restrictions," said the judges.
Three petitions have challenged the restrictions on the traditional immersion of idols at the end of the five-day Durga Puja. "You cannot interfere with the faith of the people, treat them with equality," Justice Tiwary said.
The court said while it didn't dispute the state's right to regulate, the administration cannot restrict one's religious rights.
Rahul Sinha, BJP's national secretary and the state's former party president, had said that Banerjee's logic was "baseless". He said that people should first make immersion of such a party before the immersion of Durga idol which is trying to do communal politics.


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Q: Make a cell's contents visible within a very tall cell People say a picture is worth a thousand words, so bear this image in mind:

I've zoomed out the browser for you to understand what I mean. I have this table which has several cells within it. On some occasions, the cell can get really tall (as you can see in the image). If the zoom were set to 100%, changes are that, most certainly, you cannot always read the marked cell's contents. It, simply, might be out of the screen.
I need its contents to be always visible. Is there any CSS or jQuery magic to achieve this?
Here's a fiddle to be cleared: https://jsfiddle.net/fmxw1sb4/

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Thanks in advance. Best regards,
Emiliano

A: Simplest solution is to make the title fixed and give top:50% if this is the only component you have in the page.
Update your markup to

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.title-col {
  position: fixed;
  top: 50%;
  transform: translateY(-50%);
}

If there are some more components other than the table. Then I suggest a different solution. change .title-col to position: absolute; use javascript to change the top value.
var defaultTop =  $('.title-col').offset().top;

$(window).on('scroll', function() {

 if($(window).scrollTop() > $('table .content').offset().top) {
   $('.title-col').css('top', $(window).scrollTop() + defaultTop - $('table .content').offset().top)
 } else {
     $('.title-col').css('top', defaultTop);
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});

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https://jsfiddle.net/karthick6891/fmxw1sb4/1/

A: I think I've already achieved what I was trying to do. You can see it in version 3 of jsfiddle (https://jsfiddle.net/fmxw1sb4/3/)
Try it on your own because it won't work correctly in jsfiddle.
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.content {
  vertical-align:middle;
  width: 100px;
  position: realtive;
}

.follow {
  position: absolute;
  top: 50%;
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  width:80%;
  border:1px solid;
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function follow() {

var defaultTop = 0;

    var prevH = 0;

    $(".follow").each(function() {

        if( defaultTop ==0) {

            defaultTop = $(this).parent().offset().top;

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            prevH = $(this).parent().height();

        }

        var wScrollTop = $(window).scrollTop();
        var wHeight = window.innerHeight;

        var cellTop = defaultTop;
        var cellBottom = defaultTop+prevH-60;
        var relativeBottom = cellBottom - wScrollTop;
        var up = 0;
        var down = 0;

        if(cellTop <=  wScrollTop+wHeight) {
            if(cellTop > wScrollTop)
                up = cellTop;
            else
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            if(wScrollTop + wHeight > cellBottom)
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            $(this).css('top', (up+down)/2);
        }
        else
            $(this).css('top', wScrollTop+cellTop+200);
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}

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No Rain Comes From Heaven
Hiroshige, Evening Rain over Karasaki, ca. 1834
The high priest used to ask the Lord to not answer the prayers of travelers. There is a story of Rabbi Hanina ben Dosa (an early pious person) which illustrates the purpose of this custom. He was going along the way when it began to rain. He looked up to the heavens and said "Lord of the heavens! The whole world should be at leisure while Hanina is in pain?" Sure enough, the rain stopped. When R. Hanina was safe at home, he looked up to the heavens again, and said "Lord of the heavens! The whole world should be in pain while R. Hanina is at leisure?" And the rain began again.
In November of 2010, Rabbi Mosheh Lichtenstein of the Har Etzion Yeshiva wrote a letter dissenting with the Israeli rabbinate and the other leaders of his yeshiva, in which he argued that the people of Israel should not fast in response to an ongoing problem of drought. In this letter, he outlined several points of disagreement with the prevailing rabbinic consensus. I will make mention of three of the more salient ones here:
The problem of drought, at least in our experience, does not constitute a life-threatening problem for our people. For past societies, rainfall was livelihood, but for us, rainfall is about lifestyle.
We are not at a spiritual level wherein God's providence can be interpreted in causal relationship with our actions, or as spiritual guidance.
We must be wary of spiritual inflation. "Just as inflation ruins the value of a currency, it has a similar effect spiritually…When in doubt—minimize fasts and prayer rallies and do not allow them to proliferate, for their harm outweighs their good."
To provide proper context for this letter, first it must be understood that a straightforward reading of the Mishnah and the Gemara offers a clearcut program of action: if the land of Israel has seen no rainfall by the end of the second month of the Hebrew year, the Jewish communities living in Israel must respond with a series of fasts of increasing severity. Beginning with daytime fasts, they progress to full 24-hour fasts. As the drought grows more severe, they also limit other activities: washing, anointing, wearing shoes, sex, labor. In the most severe of the fasts these communities must not even open their markets for business. On these days they would bring the ark from the synagogue into the town square, putting dust on its crown and on the heads of the political leader and the chief of the courts. Then they would pray and offer exhortations. This program of total social crisis is to be discontinued only if it rains.
Why does R. Lichtenstein seek to undermine this paradigm? I suspect that he is trying to defend against a heedlessly simpleminded use of the Law. He is concerned that the rabbinate is prescribing a zealously literal rendering of the Law which encourages a meaningless re-enactment of rites outside context. What motivates R. Lichtenstein is a widespread, if rarely articulated, feeling: that fasting for rain is a stupid, useless, superstitious, and antiquated thing to do (the English website which offers a translation of his letter alludes to this sentiment by citing rabbis praying for rain on boats and hot air balloons). He is trying to offer people with this basic feeling a respectful, traditionally bounded way to say thanks but no thanks to fasting for rain. That was how they did it then, but a lot has changed and we aren't qualified to do it that way even if a lot had stayed the same.
There are different genres of fasting, with different explicit or implicit purposes. It is important to keep track of what kinds of fasts are doing what. There are fasts of collective repentance (Yom Kippur); there are fasts of collective woeful memory (Tisha B'av, etc); there are fasts of individual repentance (when appropriate); there are fasts of spiritual self-betterment (not often encouraged); there are fasts in response to a nightmare (!). Then, there is fasting for a drought. The primary purpose of this fast is to make the drought stop and to make it start raining.
Why can fasting fix a drought? To understand this, we need to learn a few things about how we think of the One God and His relationship to the heavens. Why do we think of God as being in the heavens? In large part, the heavens and their celestial bodies are unimaginably remote, as with God, so it makes sense to imagine their connection. Also, specifically at night, the heavens are the same wherever you go. In the face of the welter of surprising and disorienting earthly occasions, changes that come of movement in either space or time, you can look up there to the sky if you want to get oriented. This is a basic appealing quality of the universality of God and His eternal order.
Finally, the heavens produce rain. Rain can mean a lot of things in our culture, like the undignified end to your trip to Six Flags, or a nice place for kissing, but within the project of this essay I mostly consider its agricultural dimension: something which is essential to your survival but that you have no control over whatsoever. Metaphorically, we can say that whatever aspect of human life meets these qualifications is like rain (this explains the tight symbolic association with blessing, for which rain is both the sign and the signified). As with nature more broadly, God controls this completely. He withholds and bestows it at will.
Says the complainer: Why should the One God ever be so cruel as to withhold rain? He knows, certainly, that we human beings can barely get it together to achieve success or happiness without being deprived of the basic conditions of our survival!
This is a trenchant complaint, intrinsic to monotheism: why is God doing this to us?
The Deuteronomic answer to this question is that there is a causal connection between human roguery and divine roguery. Basically, when we are righteous we bring God's blessing upon ourselves, but drought happens because we deserve it.
Thus the prevalent refusal to fast amongst modern religious Jews. Nobody these days wants to humor this kind of theological victim-blaming. It is no surprise that modern rabbis would want to explain it away. In an age of rampant outrageous suffering worldwide, it seems not only insensitive but also false. On the other hand, in an age of global climate crisis, it may be more appealing than ever to assert a connection between human moral worth, and, well, the weather.
Contemporary political ecologists claim that there is indeed something motivating climatological suffering that implicates broad social patterns as a cause. Mike Davis, author of Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World, defines drought in this way:
Drought is the recurrent duel between natural rainfall variability and agriculture's hydraulic defenses. It always has a manmade dimension and is never simply a natural disaster…Hydrological drought always has a social history. Artificial irrigation systems obviously depend on sustained levels of social investment and labor upkeep, but even natural water-storage capacity can be dramatically affected by human practices that lead to deforestation and soil erosion. As we shall see, the most devastating nineteenth-century droughts were decisively preconditioned by landscape degradation, the neglect of traditional irrigation systems, the demobilization of communal labor, and/or the failure of the state to invest in water storage.
That is, much more than just rain needs to vanish before disaster strikes. If six weeks of suspension of rainfall brings you to the brink of starvation and social collapse, it really means you've already come to the brink of starvation and social collapse. All the institutional supports, social and natural, which did buttress your existence have withered. This is not only recently true, either. The possibility for collective politics—planning, building, distributing—is an early prerequisite for agriculture, not a blessed intervention. It is a historical naivety to imagine that the human creatures of yesteryear actually lived harvest-to-harvest unless they were already in deep poverty.
This leads first to an anthropological point (in contradiction to R. Lichtenstein) and then to a historical/political point.
The rabbis of the Mishnah were not enacting a ritual of fasting and crying out from an immediate native experience of suffering. It is sometimes thought that the writers of ritual designed it as a natural expression of their own life experiences—feasting out of sheer delight, speaking psalms ecstatically when the feeling moved them, etc.—and that subsequent performers of the ritual are merely re-enacting their vitality. This is misleading. Ritual is a symbolic genre that speaks in especially condensed referential symbols. It is by its very nature a genre of re-enactment, not of free expression. You are always reminded of your feelings by a ritual. Neither you, the ritual writers, nor anyone along the line made use of ritual purely as a tool for expression. Rituals exist as prescriptions or prompts for affective responses, not as their outlets. It is useful to think of them as scripts. The writers of ritual were breaking away from the flow of their own experience to reflect upon and re-inscribe their experience in symbolic form.
Thus, the authors of the Mishnah do not mean to prescribe fasting in the event that it does not rain and you feel like you will starve; they do so in the event that it does not rain so that you feel like you will starve. The ritual's purpose is to evoke (not respond to) a feeling of utter dependency on the whim of God. It searches for a naked need for divine support, evoking it in order to serve as a reminder that we do ultimately rely on the rain for our survival.
As per Mike Davis and other political ecologists, the deep poverty and starvation of the modern period is not solely a consequence of nature's savagery. It is a consequence of a globalized system of labor extraction and the erosion of local institutional support structures. Davis makes a thorough case that famine and drought are always due to institutional mismanagement, and that in late colonialism this was a global mismanagement of an economy that was globalized expressly for the benefit of empire. The starving peasants of the colonialized world were ground between the three gears of imperialism, the world economic system, and the world climate. "Suddenly, the price of wheat in Liverpool and the rainfall in Madras were variables in the same vast equation of human survival," Davis writes. When contemplating the horrors that were inflicted upon peasants in Asia, it seems better to ask not where the rain was when they needed it, but rather why the British were carting off their entire surplus of grain to feed their own people.
Millenarian revolutionary groups in third world countries intuited a basic connection between imperial interference and climate failure. The Boxer rebels in Beijing put up anti-missionary posters that declared: "No rain comes from heaven. The earth is parched and dry. And all because the churches have bottled up the sky." Mwari spirit media in Zimbabwe said to their warriors: "These white men are your enemies. They killed your fathers, sent the locusts, this disease among the cattle, and bewitched the clouds so that we have no rain. Now you go and kill these white people and drive them out of your fathers' land and I will take away the cattle disease and the locusts and send you rain."
For these indigenous revolutionaries, the function of religiously grounded discourse was to proclaim a causal link between the subjective evil of imperialism and the more pervasive non-subjective evils of drought and famine, a link which they did not have the political knowledge to assert. They knew that their natural conditions were cause for riot.
Inflation is what happens when everybody has too much of something, and it isn't worth so much as a result. This is something that happens to commodities, things with exchange value. Objects with inherent use value, such as food, are immune to inflation. You just have more of them and it is great for everyone. When R. Lichtenstein cautions against spiritual inflation, he is comparing fasting to money, as though it were an object of exchange between the Jews and their Lord. If fasting is compared to a riot instead of money, this logic fails. This makes more intuitive sense: fasting is an event, not a thing. It happens in public and is massively disruptive. The point of a fast, as well as a protest, is to make a public problem of things which would otherwise remain quiet. This is what it means to refuse food when the Lord does not feed you.
There is another genre of speech-act to which it is fruitful to compare a prayer. It is the utterance of a half-believed superstition. The UC Berkeley Folklore Archive yields these two entries on the folk saying "Rain, rain, go away, come again another day":
I first heard this rhyme while going to my elementary school. It was a common rhyme used among all the children…It was commonly thought if one called this out just as it was starting to rain, the rain would actually disappear until 'another day.' I didn't, as a child, believe in this magic whole-heartedly, but if it started to rain, I didn't ever want to take the chance of not saying the rhyme.
I still find myself using this rhyme upon occasion when I don't want it to rain and it has just started to sprinkle. I know perfectly well that this has no effect on the weather, but the habit of using it apparently became quite fixed when I was young.
This relationship of ambivalent belief with folk sayings is not at all uncommon. Furthermore, they are often used as persuasive tactics within human relationships. Think of "You must come down to the basement with me, I'm afraid of the monsters," said by an adult to her friend, or "It's bad luck if we don't meet eyes after we toast." Nobody in these conversations needs to rationally believe the content of these assertions in order to respond on an affective level. In the former case, for instance, you would still come off as a jerk if you refused to visit the basement with your nervous friend. Unlike what is asserted within the bounds of reason, the reception of these speech acts is conditioned by the nature of the relationship. These sayings vibrate on that specific relational frequency, not on a transcendent truth/reason frequency. They are a realm in which reason does not veto.
I don't bring this up because I think prayers are foolish; I do think that the dissociation between reason and affect that is so clearly on display when you utter a superstition is also at play in a prayer. A prayer also does not derive its power from the truth claim that it makes.
What do we mean, when we ask the question "Do the Jews believe their prayers?" The juxtaposition of two assertions from the Mishnah produce an interesting possibility: "When do we begin to assert God's power over the rains? At the end of the holiday of Sukkot" (M. Taanit 1:1); "God judges our yearly measure of rainfall during the holiday of Sukkot" (M. Rosh Hashanah 1:2).
Why would we begin to incorporate rain into our prayers after God has already made His decision? Since, as we know from Deuteronomy, these decisions are based on the merit of our actions, what are praying and fasting for? If they were solely meant to effect change in our own character, then we would have to wait till next year for any changes to our sentence. We must say, then, that prayer and fasting work outside the ledger of providential justice. It is an attempt at affective influence on God, in defiance of what is or ought to be the case. You can say something to God that you don't reasonably believe God can or will answer to, but which still has affective validity because of the bounds of your relationship to God. R. Hanina b. Dosa was a charmed individual; he could play games with rain because he was beloved by God. His case is unusual, but it is not exceptional. Prayer is a kind of tonic to divine justice. It can't make it go away, but it can make it easier to swallow.

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A number of other diseases that are characterized by a clinical picture similar to autism or having autistic traits.
Classical autism (infantile autism): The characteristics manifested by these children include social and communicational adjustment disorders, limited, stereotypical fields of interest, and developmental disorders that appear in the first three years of life. In most cases, the child behaves abnormally even in infancy (before the age of one year).
Asperger syndrome: The signs in this condition are similar to those of infantile autism, but milder. The disease occurs and can be diagnosed in childhood.
There are a number of diseases characterized by a clinical picture similar to autism or that have autistic traits: These include fragile X syndrome, a test for which should be carried out in all such cases, and other syndromes with or without mental retardation. These include chromosome disorders such as a duplication of an area below the centromere on the long arm of chromosome 15, etc. Other conditions such as phenylketonuria should be investigated. However, it must be ascertained that the mother herself does not have phenylketonuria, since such mothers can give birth to children with both physical and mental problems unless she adheres strictly to a special diet throughout pregnancy. The mother's status regarding phenylketonuria can be ascertained by evaluating the phenylalanine/tyrosine ratio. Psychiatric disorders are also sometimes included in the differential diagnosis. All these conditions must be considered by the geneticist.
The pattern of inheritance is still not clear, and apparently not all cases are hereditary. According to the results of several studies, it appears that genetic factors cause around 80% - 90% of all cases of autism.
In addition, there are cases in which environmental factors during pregnancy and/or birth are associated with abnormal development of the brain center responsible for autism.
The genetic factors are probably heterogeneous - an analysis of various studies has shown that more than 12 genes are implicated in autism, to the extent that in different families the causative gene can be completely different.
The general opinion is that, at least in some cases, transmission is multifactorial, i.e. there can be more than 1 gene involved and the environment exerts an influence as well. In other cases transmission is by autosomal recessive inheritance - in these cases one gene with reduced penetrance is involved, and this is influenced by different environmental conditions. This is supported by the occurrence of further cases of autism of different types in siblings.
This is not precisely known and probably differs in different families. The disease is four times more frequent in males.
Usually there are no defects that can be identified by ultrasound examination during pregnancy.
In cases where the affected individual is the only one in the family: The frequency of childhood autism is 1 in 2,000. Mild autism (based on the severity of the definition used) is of course more frequent, approaching 1%.
The risk for siblings to be affected is 75 times higher than the regular risk for the general population. The total risk for siblings is approximately 5% in the case of autism defined by classical criteria. The percentage is slightly higher if the fetus in the following pregnancy is a male. Distantly related family members have no significant additional risk for having an affected child.
If there are two affected siblings: The risk of having a third affected child is approximately 12% - 25%. More distant relatives do not have a significant additional risk for having an affected child. As mentioned, the frequency of this condition in the general population is approximately 1% depending on the definition used.
The genes that cause autism have yet to be found. According to mathematical/genetic estimates, there are probably more than 10 different genes that in different combinations can cause this condition. Different families probably carry different abnormal genes and different mutations. In addition environmental conditions also affect the expression of the disease. The complexity of the causes of autism is probably the reason that the genes have not yet been found.
The key for identifying genetic defects in diseases with genetic heterogeneity such as autism involves finding families with multiple cases of PDD and autism. Research groups are therefore concentrating on and are interested in such families at the present time.
Studies conducted in recent years have raised the question that genes in a number of sites in the genome, particularly 2q, 7q, 16p, and 19p, may be implicated. Recently, evidence has been found in some patients that there is a genetic defect in chromosome 15, in the region 15q11-q13. According to a number of researchers, however, this is only responsible for approximately 15% of all cases of autism. In these studies the gene itself has not been identified, and even if it is present and a mutation in it is associated with autism, it does not cause the condition by itself, but only together with environmental influences. Therefore, until the picture becomes clearer, it is not practical to examine families with only one case of autism/PDD.
There are to date no clinical genetic tests for diagnosing this condition. Only in families with multiple cases is it possible to carry out investigations that may lead to the possibility of performing practical tests in some families in the future, initially by indirect tests (linkage analysis), and in the more distant future, once the gene itself has been found, by identifying the mutation or mutations. This will be done in cooperation with a genetic institute. See information sheet: Indirect testing for genetic markers in a family that has one or several patients - when there are a number of different genes that can each cause the disease - the gene, or most of the genes not having been located / identified / mapped - multifactorial diseases.
This cannot usually be performed, unless a specific syndrome such as fragile X syndrome, etc. is found. See diagnostic testing above.
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Fulltext Islamic art element in modern furniture design based on three types of design thinking approaches
Shahriman Zainal Abidin, Rafeah Legino, Mohamad Hariri Abdullah, Nur Izyan Syazwani Ismail
The Pertanika Journal of Scholarly Research Reviews, 2018;4(2):49-55.
This paper discusses the three most prevalent elements of Islamic art that a r e embedded in modern furniture. This study is isolated from three design thinking approaches. A comparative study has been executed between three most apparent elements of Islamic art, which are arabesque, geometric and calligraphy. Those three types of design are applicable and relevant to modern furniture design nowadays. Therefore, the Islamic model was the paradigm in defining the furniture design character. The unstructured parameter within the appropriate method is a significant way of collecting the findings and usually used in the area of furniture design. The main results of this study are on how Islamic pattern is linked with the artistic design elements. The outcome of this investigation also contributes to a significant tendency in contemporary furniture design thinking solutions. Finally, this paper ends with discussions from three types of design thinking, which is the normative, reflective and hermeneutic design that collaborates with the current modern furniture design.
Matched MeSH terms: Hermeneutics
Fulltext A Heideggerian hermeneutic study: Malaysian Chinese women's expectations and lived experiences of childbirth
Lee Na
Pregnancy and childbirth are generally regarded as a turning point for women even though it is not an illness. This is because the physiological and psychosocial adaptation can bring about stress and anxiety. Ontologically a pregnant woman is not merely an object that can be classified as a
primigravida or according to her obstetric condition. The contention is that she is also a daughter, a working woman, and a wife with her past, present and future. All these determine who she is and influence how she thinks, acts, feels and behaves during childbirth (Polt, 1999). This journal is about Heideggerian hermeneutic study: Malaysian Chinese women's expectations and lived experiences of childbirth.
Chronic illness and sustainable careers: How individuals with multiple sclerosis negotiate work transitions in a middle-income country
Vijayasingham L, Jogulu U, Allotey P
Soc Sci Med, 2020 01;245:112699.
PMID: 31785425 DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112699
Reports of work change and transitions are common amongst individuals with chronic illnesses such as multiple sclerosis (MS). However, there is little research on the lived experience of these work transitions. The scarcity of this research is particularly evident within low-and-middle-income countries, where protection laws and resources such as anti-discrimination laws and reasonable work modifications may not exist or be well enforced. In this paper, we explore how and why individuals with MS seek and achieve work transitions in the structural context of Malaysia. We interviewed ten working individuals with MS (July-december 2015) using a joint hermeneutic phenomenology and constructivist grounded theory approach. Using a broad conceptual lens of 'sustainable careers', we examine their careers as a series of experiences, decisions, and events, paying attention to the influences of context, time, their personal levels of agency and sense of meaning. Participants described work transitions as early as within the first year of diagnosis, that were prompted by voluntary, involuntary and semi-voluntary reasons. Key aspects of the process of seeking new roles included an exploration of alternative roles and paths, and then acquiring, trialing/adapting and remaining engaged in their new roles. Participants identified the perception and experience of 'being unemployable', based on how their diagnosis and short-term symptoms were responded to by employers. Nevertheless, participants used various strategies and career resources to obtain and maintain meaningful work roles. However, success in obtaining or maintaining new roles were not equally achieved. This research draws attention to the cumulative economic disadvantage of a chronic illness diagnosis, even at milder and episodic stages. Furthermore, it reiterates the need for cohesive structural protection in low-and-middle-income countries to facilitate a more equal ability to remain economically resilient and capable of engaging in meaningful long-term careers when living with a chronic illness.
"Stain in life": The meaning of urinary incontinence in the context of Muslim postmenopausal women through hermeneutic phenomenology
Hamid TA, Pakgohar M, Ibrahim R, Dastjerdi MV
Arch Gerontol Geriatr, 2015 May-Jun;60(3):514-21.
PMID: 25662038 DOI: 10.1016/j.archger.2015.01.003
UI is a worldwide chronic condition among postmenopausal women. Little is known about the meaning of lived experiences of urinary incontinence of these women's viewpoints in their context.
Matched MeSH terms: Hermeneutics*
Fulltext Mental Health Conceptualization and Resilience Factors in the Kalasha Youth: An Indigenous Ethnic and Religious Minority Community in Pakistan
Choudhry FR, Khan TM, Park MS, Golden KJ
Front Public Health, 2018;6:187.
PMID: 30065918 DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2018.00187
The Kalasha are a religious, ethnic, and linguistic minority community in Pakistan. They are indigenous people living in remote valleys of the Hindu Kush Mountains in northern Pakistan, neighboring Afghanistan. The Kalasha are pastoral, as well as agricultural people to some extent, although they are increasingly facing pressures from globalization and social change, which may be influencing youth and community development. Their traditional world view dichotomizes and emphasizes on the division of the pure (Onjeshta) and the impure (Pragata). There remains a scarcity of literature on mental health and resilience of indigenous communities in South Asia and Pakistan generally, and the polytheistic Kalasha community specifically. Thus, the current study was conducted with the aim to explore the cultural protective factors (resilience) of the Kalasha youth (adolescents and emerging adults) and to explore their perceived etiological understandings and preferred interventions for mental health support systems. The theoretical framework of Bronfenbrenner's (1, 2) ecological systems model was used. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) was conducted, considering the advantage of its idiographic approach and the "double hermeneutic" analytic process. This methodology was consistent with the aim to understand and make sense of mental health and resilience from the Kalasha indigenous perspective. A total of 12 in-depth interviews were conducted with adolescents and emerging adults (5 males, 7 females), along with ethnographic observations. The analysis revealed 3 superordinate themes of mental health perceptions and interventions, each with more specific emergent themes: (1) Psychological Resilience/Cultural Protective Factors Buffering Against Mental Health Problems (Intra-Communal Bonding & Sharing; Kalasha Festivals & Traditions; Purity Concept; Behavioral Practice of Happiness and Cognitive Patterns); (2) Perceived Causes of Mental Health Issues (Biological & Psychosocial; Supernatural & Spiritual; Environmental); and (3) Preferred Interventions [Shamanic Treatment; Ta'awiz (Amulets); Communal Sharing & Problem Solving; Medical Treatment; Herbal Methods]. The overall findings point to the need for developing culturally-sensitive and indigenous measures and therapeutic interventions. The findings highlighted the Kalasha cultural practices which may promote resilience. The findings also call for indigenous sources of knowledge to be considered when collaboratively designing public health programs.
Investigating Malaysian Nurses' perspectives of intercultural teaching in transnational higher education learning environments
Arunasalam ND, Burton R
Nurse Educ Today, 2018 Oct;69:165-171.
PMID: 30092544 DOI: 10.1016/j.nedt.2018.07.011
BACKGROUND: In recent years, many ASEAN countries, including Malaysia have embraced Transnational Higher Education (TNHE) post-registration top-up nursing degree programmes. These are bridging programmes that allow registered nurses to upgrade their diploma qualifications to a degree level.
PURPOSE: To investigate the teaching and learning experiences of Malaysian nurses on Transnational Higher Education post-registration top-up degree programmes in Malaysia.
DESIGN: Hermeneutic phenomenology and the ethnographic principle of cultural interpretation were used to explore the views of eighteen Malaysian nurses from two UK and one Australian TNHE universities (determined by convenience and snowball sampling methods) to ensure data saturation. Semi-structured interviews were conducted in English and Bahasa Malaysia (Malaysian language) to enable nurses' voices to define, describe and evaluate their TNHE classroom experiences.
DATA ANALYSIS: Data were analysed using thematic analysis.
FINDINGS: The nurses' experiences within the short one or 2 weeks TNHE intercultural teaching and learning environment identified four categories: language and teaching and learning issues; TNHE degree requirements, guidance and support; shock and coping strategies and acclimatisation. They suggest there was a conflict between the assumptions and expectations of the TNHE 'flying faculty' and nurses' about the programme of study. There were also mismatches between Western and Malaysian pedagogical preferences, guidance and support, and professional values.
IMPLICATIONS FOR EDUCATION/PRACTICE: There is a need for TNHE 'flying faculty' to internationalise the theoretical knowledge to reduce cultural incongruities and dissimilarities. Cultural immersion will stimulate intercultural views and knowledge to equip nurses for promotional and/or global opportunities whilst enabling the 'flying faculty' to create new learning environments. The research provides insights to inform TNHE provider institutions to improve teaching and learning to enable nurses to make the theory-practice connection.
Using hermeneutic phenomenology and the ethnographic principle of cultural interpretation with Malaysian nurses
Arunasalam N
Nurse Res, 2018 Jun 07;26(1):23-27.
PMID: 29799178 DOI: 10.7748/nr.2018.e1557
BACKGROUND: The interpretive paradigm and hermeneutic phenomenological design are the most popular methods used in international cross-cultural research in healthcare, nurse education and nursing practice. Their inherent appeal is that they help researchers to explore experiences. The ethnographic principle of cultural interpretation can also be used to provide meaning, clarity and insight.
AIM: To examine the use of hermeneutic phenomenology and the ethnographic principle of cultural interpretation in a research study conducted with Malaysian nurses on part-time, transnational, post-registration, top-up nursing degree programmes provided by one Australian and two UK universities.
DISCUSSION: To enable the researcher to undertake international cross-cultural research and illuminate Malaysian nurses' views for the reader, cultural aspects need to be considered, as they will influence the information participants provide. Useful strategies that western researchers can adopt to co-create research texts with interviewees are outlined. The paradigm and research designs used in the study revealed the views and experiences of Malaysian nurses.
CONCLUSION: Hermeneutic phenomenology enabled the exploration of participants' experiences, and the ethnographic principle of cultural interpretation enabled the researcher's reflexivity to provide emic and etic views for the reader.
IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE: This paper adds to the discussion of the paradigms and research designs used for international, cross-cultural research in Asia. It identifies the influence participants' cultural values have on their confidence and level of disclosure with western researchers.


James Jones just wanted to buy a phone.
He found the one he was looking for on Craigslist and decided to meet with the potential seller.
But once Jones arrived at the meetup location, a Marietta home, three men — Jordan James Baker, Jonathon O'Neil Myles and Kalynn Shiquez Ruthenberg — robbed him, stole his shoes and fatally shot him.
On Friday, Baker and Myles pleaded guilty to armed robbery, robbery by force and two gang charges as part of a deal to avoid murder charges in the 2015 case, the Cobb County District Attorney's Office said in a statement.
Ruthenberg, an associate of the Crips gang, was sentenced to life plus 25 years in Jones' murder in November. Baker and Myles, who were 18 and 19, respectively, at the time of the murder, testified against their accomplice in his trial.
Jones, a Daytona Beach, Fla., native, was a junior majoring in chemistry at Clark Atlanta University at the time of the attack three years ago.
Authorities say Baker, Myles and Ruthenberg posted the Craigslist ad, luring Jones to his death. When Jones arrived at the Jamaica Cove home, the three men stole his cellphone.
Ruthenberg pulled out his .45-caliber gun and fired a shot at Jones. He then ordered Baker and Myles to steal Jones' Nike shoes before firing one final fatal shot.
Baker and Myles were sentenced to 30 years with 20 to serve in prison and the remainder of the sentence on probation.
But that likely won't soothe Jones' family, whose loved one had hoped to be a doctor.


My kids absolutely love our themed tracing activities, and when I have them out for a writing workshop activity or a quick print and go morning review, they all but cheer. I think they love them because they like seeing what character or theme is up next, and they truly love anything that lets them choose their colors and "rainbow write." We just recently wrapped up using our Snowman alphabet tracing printables, and I know my kids will be very excited to start using these Cupid themed "love letters" (get it? I couldn't help myself) soon, too!
Like our "love letters" printable dry erase writing activity, these sheets work on tracing and writing upper and lowercase letters.
I recommend grabbing both activities, the first for a more in depth literacy center for working on single letters at a time, and this activity for a quick review or fun activity to review all letters at once.
You can choose to review either upper or lowercase letters with these printables, as there is a page of each. Since I typically use them as a work work choice or entry task, I usually use both.
At this time of year, it's about time for me to bring out a brand new pack of sharp crayons (our others have definitely seen better days) so this always gets kids more engaged, but some of our other favorite writing tools for these include colored pencils, twistable crayons, skinny markers, and pipsqueak markers are also fun.
I find that the simplest activities can be made to be some of kids' favorites simply by changing up the tools you use!
You can have kids randomly trace letters, or you can play a game of "letter hunt," which is what I like to play in small groups.
I will say a letter or sound, and then kids will search or "hunt" for that letter, tracing it as they find it.
Ready to work on tracing letters? Grab your copy of the Valentine themed alphabet tracing printables by clicking the blue button below.
Then, for tons more Valentine's Day fun, including 27 print and play centers and activities, hop over and grab our Valentine math and literacy centers!


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Angry Birds (hrv. ljutite ptice) je videoigra finskoga računalnoga studija "Rovio Entertainment".

Igra je prvi put objavljena za Appleov iOS u prosincu 2009. Više od 12 milijuna primjeraka igre kupljeni su na Appleovom App Storeu, koji je potaknuo tvrtku na nastanak novih verzija za ostale pametne telefone s ekranom osjetljivim na dodir, uključujući Android, Symbian i Windows Phone operativne sustave. Od tada je igra proširena na igraće konzole i osobna računala, na kojima se može igrati u Google Chromu jer je igra isprogramirana u HTML5 tehnologiji.

Glavni likovi su stilizirane ljutite ptice bez krila, koje preko praćke napadaju svinje, koje su im ukrale jaja. Svinje se sakrivaju u kućicama izrađenim od leda, drva i metala. O vještini i preciznosti igrača ovisi, hoće li će ljutite ptice biti uspješne. Precizan udarac na krhki dio konstrukcije kućice omogućuje, da se ona sruši i dovede do prelaska nivoa. Igra ima elemente fizike.

Igra "Angry Birds" dobila je pohvale za svoju uspješnu kombinaciju zaraznosti, komičnoga stila i niske cijene. Popularnost je dovela do novih inačica igre, crtanoga filma, kao i do planova za igrani film ili televizijsku seriju. Do sada je igra preuzeta oko 1,7 milijardi puta na svim platformama ukupno, pa je najuspješnija igra na mobilnim uređajima do sada.

Lik iz igre bio je maskota Svjetskoga prvenstva u hokeju na ledu u Finskoj i Švedskoj 2012. Likovi iz ove igre često su dio reklama.

Serije igre Angry Birds
 "Angry Birds", prva verzija iz 2009.
 "Angry Birds Seasons", 2010.
 "Angry Birds Rio", 2011.
 "Angry Birds Space", 2012.
 "Angry Birds Star Wars", 2012.
 "Bad Piggies", 2012.

Izvori

Videoigre
Videoigre iz 2009.
Finski proizvodi

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This is the first time I am listening to a Mr V mix and got to say I love it! Deep tune selection, flawless and smooth mixes.. hits the mark for background BBQ music as well as a party mix!
Absolutly great deephouse Mix. Thankx from Good old Germany.
Loving the sounds brethen...keeping jamming it.
Very good mix. Finally something else but only mainstream. Good work.
I am always a big big fan of Mr V !


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Q: Singleton Bean for quick access to shared data I have several questions regarding the use of Singleton Bean.
First let me describe the situation.
There's a web-application that will have many clients sending and receiving data to/from it. Some of this data must be persisted in database, but I need most of it to be available on the server for quick access and to take the strain off database.
I'm going to use Singleton Bean for that shared space and here are my questions:

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*If client_1 tries to update his data in singleton member that is currently LOCKED by client_2 writing to it, what exactly happens to client_1 data? Do Ineed to prepere for such case, or is it like a stack and his write operation will take place after client_2 finished his?

*If I use hashmap, which keys will correspond to individual writing clients, would it be safe to place a @Lock(READ) on a set method which can only update existing records and not add new ones. The way I see it, since every client could only write to his own record there's no need to block others from updating their own records at the same time.

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*client_1 will wait to client_2 complete then itself update the data

*hashmap is not thread safe you might also be interested in to take a look one of below:

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*Using ConcurrenthashMap or SynchronisedMap

*Using a ThreadLocal

*Using ReadWriteLock

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*EJB singletons provide synchronised access to methods.  If client_1 calls a Lock.WRITE method at the same time as client_2, client_1s call waits until client_2 is finished.  You can also configure a timeout value to specify that if this wait is too long, client_1 returns an error.

*In this scenario, the map would be used to store references - a client could retrieve their state object from the map (protected by a read lock), and then modify that object with no synchronisation at all.  Updates to the map itself should be protected by a write lock (this is likely to only be required when you add or remove entries).  Note that if you're going to use any Java synchronisation primitives (such as a ConcurrentHashMap), you need to declare you're using bean-managed concurrency - @ConcurrencyManagement(BEAN).
It's worth noting too that JPA provides caching for you automatically, so you may find that adding your own cache doesn't provide much performance benefit.  Also, this model assumes that a single client will not make concurrent requests - if they do, you'll be making concurrent updates to a single object, and will need some extra synchronisation.


1. We affirm the core doctrines of the historic orthodox Church, including the inspiration and authority of Scripture, the triune nature of God, the deity of Jesus Christ, the creation of the world, the fall of humanity, the need for salvation, the return of Jesus and God's ultimate victory over evil.
2. Jesus is the full and complete revelation of the character of God. He reveals that God is love (I Jn 4:8) – the kind of self-sacrificial love that was most perfectly revealed when Jesus gave his life for us on the cross (I Jn 3:16).
3. "Salvation" is not about believing in Jesus to escape hell when you die. It is rather about cultivating a loving and submitted relationship with Jesus that allows us to participate in the wholeness of God's life here and now. "Salvation" thus empowers us to live like Jesus and to become the means by which the wholeness of God's life brings healing to our broken society as well as to God's broken creation. We will experience the fullness of our "salvation" when we and the entire creation are reconciled to God by means of the cross (Col 1:20).
4. The kingdom of God advances not by acquiring power over others, as the church has traditionally done, but by humbly serving others, the way Jesus did. We must therefore be careful not to identify God's kingdom with any political or nationalistic ideologies.
5. The call to be "peacemakers," to "love our enemies," and to never retaliate, lies at the center of the Gospel we are called to preach and to live. Hence Jesus said, "love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Father in heaven" (Mt 5:45).
6. Living in community with others is a central kingdom value, for, among other things, all believers need trusting relationships with others that include the invitation to speak truth into each other's lives. However, while offering feedback to people who have invited us to do so is loving, we are guilty of judging others if we give this to people who have not invited us to do so. Rather, whatever sin we think we see in another such person's eye, we are to consider it a mere dust particle compared to the plank of sin protruding out of our own eyes (Mt 7:1-3; I Tim 1:15-16). Our one responsibility to people with whom we are not in an intimate relationship is to agree with God that they were worth Jesus dying for and to reflect this agreement by how we think about them and act towards them.
7.When Jesus gave up his life for us on the cross, he destroyed every "dividing wall of hostility" that separates people from one another and created "within himself one new humanity" (Eph 2:14, 16). As followers of Jesus, we are called to manifest this one new humanity by investing no significance in ethnic, gender, or class distinctions. Moreover, we are called to manifest this one new humanity by cultivating relationships that cross these divides and by working to bring reconciliation between people groups who are separated by these divides.
8. The Bible is the written word of God that he inspired for the ultimate purpose of pointing to the cross-centered life and ministry Jesus, who is the very "life" of Scripture (Jn 5:39-40; Lk 24:25-27, 45-46). Scripture should therefore be interpreted through the lens of Christ crucified and in ways that ultimately point the crucified Christ. Moreover, Scripture must always be used in ways that exemplify the self-sacrificial love of the crucified Christ. Jesus.
9. We can only follow the example of Jesus' loving, self-sacrificial life (Eph 5:1-2) if we are continually being filled with the Spirit (Eph 5:18), led by the Spirit (Rom 8:14) and empowered by the Spirit (Acts 1:8).
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Joyce Wheeler holds bachelor of music performance and music education degrees from Drake University, where she studied with Dr. James Luke. She studied clarinet performance with Mitchell Lurie while attending graduate school at the University of Southern California. Ms. Wheeler is a member of the Des Moines Symphony Orchestra, the Symphony Wind Quintet, Amadeus Trio and the Stadler Ensemble. She has performed as soloist with the Des Moines Community Orchestra and the Wartburg Symphony. In addition, she has appeared with Des Moines Metro Opera, Iowa Composers Forum, the Nebraska Chamber Orchestra, Quad Cities Mozart Festival, Glorianna Productions touring company of New York, and at the National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors national convention.
She is currently Teaching Artist of clarinet at Drake University and has served as faculty affiliate at Simpson College and Central College, teaching clarinet and saxophone. Ms. Wheeler recently served as chair for the Music Teachers National Association Junior Performance Competition in Iowa.
When my family moved to another state, there was no orchestra at my school (I played the cello), and since most of my friends were in the band, I started the clarinet because I loved the sound.
It would be impossible to choose even a few.
Cajun/Zydeco (BeauSoleil), Latin (Buena Vista Social Club, Mambo Kings), Jazz/Blues (Otis Redding, Etta James), lots of Motown.


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By Andrew Whitehouse, University of Western Australia
The importance of the early childhood years in shaping adult life is not a new concept. For many years now, parents have been playing, talking, reading, singing, and exercising their children in increasingly more refined ways in the (quite correct) belief that these behaviours will lead to better and happier outcomes.
However, there is a growing body of evidence that our ability to promote the healthiest outcomes for children starts well before birth.
Barker hypothesis
Over the past 25 years, there has been a revolution in the way that the scientific world perceives the origins of many diseases of adult life. The Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) concept emerged from observations of Professor David Barker and colleagues, who found that children with low birth weight were at increased risk of developing heart diseases and type II diabetes later in life.
The Barker hypothesis was that pregnant women "programme" the developing fetus for the metabolic world in which she (and presumably her offspring) will be living. In those instances where nutrient flow is disrupted, the fetus is biologically programmed to expect a life of "thrift".
If this offspring then encounters a world of "plenty", such as the modern Westernized world, this mismatch will result in susceptibility to a range of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases.
Subsequent epidemiological and experimental research has linked reduced size at birth to a host of chronic adult diseases, including osteoporosis, polycystic ovarian syndrome and obesity.
Although fetal nutrition has received the most research in the DOHaD field, other environmental factors during prenatal life have also been investigated.
Season of birth
Among the most interesting associations observed are those between season of birth and a range of neurodevelopmental disorders. Schizophrenia, for example, is known to be more common among adults born during the winter and spring months. This small but significant effect – around a 7% increase in risk – is thought to reflect differential exposure seasonal factors that may influence fetal neurodevelopment, such as changes in temperature, as well as maternal nutrition, sunlight exposure and risk of infection.
Similar "season of birth/conception" effects have been observed for multiple sclerosis, autism and language impairment, albeit at varying times of year.
Fathers have also come under investigation in the DOHaD arena, through the study of epigenetics. Epigenetics refers to changes in gene function that do not involve changes to the genetic code but still get passed down to offspring. One study of historical records in Northern Sweden found that men were more likely to die from cardiovascular disease if their paternal grandfather was exposed to abundant nutrition during childhood (based on regional harvest statistics).
A further study found that fathers who smoked during mid-childhood had sons with a greater body mass index. These findings, combined with a great deal of animal research, suggest that environmental exposures can have inter-generational effects that are passed down the male line.
One of the challenges for the field is how translate newfound knowledge into public awareness without unnecessarily alarming prospective parents. This website has previously published on this issue.
We now have a clear indication that several environmental toxins, such as tobacco, alcohol and illicit drugs, can be harmful to offspring health and should be avoided. But the mechanisms underlying other factors, such as the season of conception/birth, are still far from conclusive, making it premature to submit any recommendations to parents about timing the conception, pregnancy or birth of their child around specific seasons.
A final word of caution: the very idea of the developmental origins of health and disease is very attractive to media, and it's not uncommon to read reports about over/underweight mums/dads "causing" [enter disease of choice here].
I urge readers to view these reports with a "critical eye", appraising the science behind the stories before making their own conclusion.
The DOHaD field is now well into its third decade. Increasingly, larger and more detailed inter-generational data sets are becoming available, enabling even greater insights into how early life (and even pre-life!) experiences can affect adult health. Enjoy the excitement of this field – I am!
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Bukowel () ist ein Wintersport-Resort im Gorgany, einem Gebirgszug der Ostkarpaten in der Westukraine. Der Name leitet sich von einem gleichnamigen Berg ab. Der höchste Berg des Skigebietes ist der  hohe Dowha. Das Resort gehört dem umstrittenen Oligarchen Ihor Kolomojskyj. Ab dem Jahr 2004 investiert Kolomojskyj 600 Millionen Dollar in den Bau des Skigebietes auf dem Reißbrett.

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2021 forderten rund 55 Umweltverbände vom Internationalen Olympischen Komitee (IOK), die Ukraine nicht als Austragungsort der Winterspiele in Betracht zu ziehen. Kritisiert wird, dass die ukrainische Regierung unter Präsident Wolodymyr Selenski eine Olympiakandidatur als Vorwand nutze, um mehrere umstrittene Bauprojekte in den Karpaten umsetzen zu können. Die Karpaten sind eine der größten Waldregionen Europas und umfassen die letzten Alten Buchenwälder und Buchenurwälder Europas. Das Ökosystem könnte durch die Bauvorhaben aus dem Gleichgewicht gebracht werden.

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Do engineers have a good scope for studies in the UK? I am a computer engineer and wish to pursue a masters degree.
Engineers are much needed in the UK. You can pursue your higher education from a good university in the UK.
Are student visas to the UK readily available or is it complicated?
If you are aged 16 or under, and you have an offer from a UK-based school, you achieve 30 of the 40 points you need. The last part, however, pertains to your financial abilities to sustain and support yourself while you are studying in the UK. That's the part which takes the longest to clear. Although, authorities are being urged to relax regulation for students over sixteen, the situation does seem bleak, at least until the next UK general election in May 2015.
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Quality of online courses depends upon the subject and the level at which you wish to study.
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Both, employers and higher educational institutions will accept the qualification. However, you would also need to show them an evidence of your abilities.


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Right now they (Amazon) have several bundles for ~270 US dollars. Yes this is actually almost exactly 100 dollars cheaper than the normal full price here in Mexico.
I'm reading this is the same price they had for prime day earlier this year. So I'm not sure if they'll go lower for the "good weekend" (Mexican equivalent of Black Friday) this week.
But I guess there's nothing wrong with waiting three-four days.
Edit: I've looked around and everything points to it going down a little more. If not on amazon, at least on the few retail options I have. So... I'll sit here waiting.
Regarding all this FF love, I read recently that Sony in fact was a stakeholder in Square-Enix. Apparently 6 months or so ago they divested their remaining shares. I'm not sure how much control they wielded over the day to day, but as both a major client/partner and as a stakeholdey tr it's easo imagine they had a disproportionate influence over decision making which might explain the history of FF & KH tied to Sony, as well as various other seemingly self destructive behavior at Square.
FFVII-R: I never knew what to make of that. The reveal footage seemed to scream "we have no idea what to do with this" and what we did see, I wasn't sure I wanted to see. Not long before, Square said in several interviews that they weren't going to remake VII because they felt that there was no way they could please everyone. If they changed it it would upset fans, and if they didn't change it it wouldn't reach new audiences. And that's a pretty wise choice. I was stunned and confused when they announced the remake....and dismayed when what we saw tried to make it this modern FFXV looking realistic thing that may or may not be an action game. Part of me was curious about it, and part of me is glad that it's dead. VII is a classic, and shouldn't be altered (Advent Children and Crisis Core did enough to "reinvent" it negatively.) That's a game I'd love to see remastered rather than remade. The graphics and controls have aged poorly. The original pre-rendering is lost to the ages. They need to rebuild the graphics in a modern engine, update the art, but keep the game the same, and streamline parts that don't. work. It's a classic that will keep re-selling, but I don't know that the cost of just updating and remastering it is worth it to them given the sales volume Square seems to expect from everything. Trying to make a new game of it seems like trying to remake Gone with the Wind for newer audiences starring Vinn Diesel and Taylor Swift. Or trying to make a Monster Hunter movie featuring fatigues and Humvees.
@Dezzy In the US it's $16, $20, $20..... I'm sure those prices are "priced for sale reduction" so they can, by February, put them on DwG sales. I'm just impatient and needed to pre-order by one day, a game that was released almost 9 years ago.... Technically the games, with their age are really worth $20 (heck they're charging that for 8-bit Undertale....) it's just it's old and nobody liked it so it's $3 used Plus since BC is all digital only, it's $3 for a manual unlock dongle or $20 for not needing one....I wonder if you still have to switch discs with the physical edition since it's not reading off the disc?
And yet, as you say, that's what makes each one a memorable journey. I can easily say that virtually any DQ is a far superior video game to any FF. The mechanics are more honed and refined, and they just play perfectly. In part because they're always the same. FF is always this odd mishmash of experimental systems. In that sense, DQ is a far superior engineered product, and FF is artwork. Controversial but timeless. With the exception of DQVII. That's a piece of art right there, and entirely unforgettable. The mood in that game is so heavy and dark despite seeming so light.
@DarthNocturnal You know, I love Dissidia NT. It's such a weird game, but so wondeful. I loved the demo in January and didn't get enough time to play it since it was the same weekend as MHW demo. I finally bought it on sale last week, but I'll never play it. I just don't see booting a PS4 to play it. Sure, old Dissidia was basically MH with FF characters, and this one is this weird 6-way team game, but it's cool. And it's just wasting away on PS4. Honestly what it needs is a Switch port. I can't imagine it doing well on XBox bu Japan alone with Switch would make it shine. And Nintendo wants to (for unimaginable reasons given Switch's mobility) focus on online........it's a perfect fit.
Unfortunately don't know how involved Sony was in creating/funding that game. The original arcade cabinet uses a weird modified DualShock controller.....not sure if they have any claim to the game or not. The original design was a standard fight stick setup. Obviously something prompted a change to a custom DualShock type controller to be licensed from Sony instead, and I'm sure that "something" wasn't "because it plays better that way"
@NEStalgia Definitely, any old unwanted game will be cheap on eBay but digital all the way for me, especially with backwards compatible games whose disc is used as a licence key. Does Xbox have more Final Fantasy games than PS4 now (counting 2019)? Isn't it ironic.
I agree, I think that if Square Enix remakes Final Fantasy VII they should just update the visuals but not making them realistic and respect the general gameplay although it can be polished and updated. When they saw the project in action they probably felt that it was just a flashy action film game and refused keep funding it, especially considering the huge budget that was required and the cult status of the original game. It was said that it would be a series rather than just one remake.
I have played the Dragon Quest games released on DS (not IX) but I haven't played the two ones on 3DS (VII and VIII) but I definitely will. I liked IV quite much but it was the first I played, it's polished gameplay but even the story and characters were quite interesting. By the way, would you recommend me to play the DS version of Final Fantasy IV or the SNES version? Because III and IV were remade in 3D for DS. I assume you'd recommend the DS version of III (originally a NES game) but IV being a SNES game it's more difficult to tell.
Don't feel too bad if you don't play Chain of Memories. The assets, worlds and most monsters and boss battles are recycled. The card mechanics take too long to click and they don't suit the boss battles anyway. I suspect that the GBA version is much simpler in 2D. After this I'll play KHII and Dream Drop Distance for the first time (probably much better than the 3DS version) and then I'll be ready for Kingdom Hearts III, which should help Square Enix to recover from their recent huge expenses.
1: Make a Sonic Blade sleight deck.
3: Use Hi-Potion cards to restore cards.
@DarthNocturnal That helped me with Riku. I tried but it doesn't work with Vexen. I run out of cards if I keep using sleights. Besides, I can avoid the ice needles sometimes but not when he rushes and freezes me. It's so annoying to have super fast battles in a game like this.
@Yosheel The $100 off on Xbox One consoles start on Sunday and include "participating retailers", I assume it includes Xbox.com. What starts on Thursday is the digital sale for Xbox Gold members, people without Gold can get digital deals on Thursday next week.
Yes you mentioned that before. I was just confirming that the current discount they have in Amazon Mexico is exactly 100 dollars off.
Reading about rumored offers other stores will have, and what they did on previous years, I do expect it to go a bit lower.
@Yosheel Yes, I was just clarifying that because I was a bit confused by the dates. By Sunday all deals should go live, not long until you get one!
Yeah, I think XBox officially has more FF than PS4! XBox (by next year) has FFVII, FFVIX, FFX, FFX-2, FFXII, FFXIII, FFXIII-2, FFXIII-LR, FFXV, WoFF, Type 0. PS4 is missing FFIII, FFXIII-2, FFXIII-LR, though it does have Dissidia NT and FF XIV Online (if that counts?) So X1 technically leads PS4 by one. (maybe that's one the One stands for? ) Sadly, it seems like FF interest on XBox is really really (really) low going by Amazon ranking compared to Switch which is itself really really low compared to PS4, even when these games have been on PS4 for ages. Could be more digital buyers on XBox though.
Speaking of 13, according to the website the X360 download is 14GB. The X360 release required two DVDs so that makes sense if they were both DL. But the PS3 release supposedly used nearly all 40GB of the BD. What on earth did they do with that thing? Supposedly 360 had a much more compressed version to fit on the discs (I'm sure the X1X download is larger than 14GB, but I'm eager to find out.) But that can't be all of it. I also noticed Deus Ex Director's Cut is digitally on PS3 but never was on X360....how odd.
VII-R: Given square's current trends I would think a flashy action film is what they kind of want from such games. But their teams are often at war with each other. I swear the inside of Squeenix must operate like a Yakuza district. Technically the original FFVII compilation story is no less a nonsensical mess than XIII trilogy. The core is great, but man it went off the rails in so many directions (and no surprise the guy behind Crisis Core is the guy behind XV....) That's why I still love IX the best. It was a straight forward, self contained, complete fantasy story that had great twists without just going into the nonsensical bizzarre territory VII, XIII, and XV do. I never loved VIII a lot but that was also straight forward. In some ways I'm not sure if everyone loves VII because of what it is, or what it seems like it is. In reality it's a seriously messy story with endless deus ex machina, and then in the pre-sequels just goes into space magic. Yet, like everyone else, I love it.
KH: DDD I have very conflicted thoughts about. I adored it on the 3DS, but going back to it now, it feels...off. I compared it to a worse Sunset Overdrive, which is a weird stretch but the Flowmotion feels like the Sunset Overdrive grinding, except you can't see where you're going half the time I can get back into that easily enough...it's a cool, but flawed idea. But add that to the random splicing between "save states" of the two characters on a timer and I want to hit something. The world, game, scenarios are awesome, but I hate when "clever" game mechanics get in the way of enjoying the game.
All that being said, I can enjoy it a lot more now that TWEWY released on Switch. I thought "Joshua" was this weird enigmatic god-like that they created just for DDD and I thought it was an FFXIII level of story disaster where you're supposed to accept this character as this important being of this world with no explanation. I had no idea he's a main character in TWEWY, which I hadn't played before. Makes a lot more sense now that he's one of the crossovers. Neku and Beat make more sense, too, but I gathered they were crossovers I didn't know...I didn't realize that about Joshua. The story feels a lot more "together" with that detail added!
The DS version of IV introduced annoyances that the original didn't have; for starters they bumped the difficulty up to twelve, so you need to grind but the game is not any more interesting to play.
I'd say the best version is the PSP one.
FF XIII on Steam is about 60 GBs. Something about how it stores like, 3-4 versions of all pre-rendered scenes. One for 720, one for 1080, and then again for the Japanese language option (since they changed character lip movement to match for the English release). This is why having it as a separate free DLC would be preferred... maybe PS3 did the same.
As for IV, I feel both the versions based on the Japanese original IV and the versions based on the DS version each have their own merits (and shortcomings). The former lets you retain most party members that were temporary in the original version, and has a nice helping of bonus dungeons. The latter has Augments, which can be fun (although unlocking some requires sacrificing others, so you may want to read up on that), and tweaks some boss battle patterns.
@NEStalgia laughing at you? Nope. But my eyebrows did go up in surprise. I think I share some of your hang up but with 13-2. Put my two least favorite characters in the spotlight but move the mythology forward. Why do you torment me squeenix?!
@Ryu_Niiyama Wait, so you don't like Snow? I mean at first I was like "WHOA!" but then I was all like "Whoaahh" and then I was all "Whoooooaaaaaahhh.....". Cha...like, totally.
@DarthNocturnal FFXIII is bigger than FFXV on Steam? Geeze. And it's 14GB on X360. I'll find out tonight what it is on X1X.
@Yosheel The difficulty of 12 is just Japanese 1. Our SNES version was just FF for the mentally incapacitated. I admit, I do favor the simpler difficulty to the masochistic Japanese levels in most games though. These days, so do the Japanese.
I dislike how the NA release removed a bunch of side abilities. Cecil lost the Dark Knight's signature ability, for Pete's sake.
Anyone planning on picking up Hitman? It's always been a series i've enjoyed but the timing of release and the fact they always seem to be heavily discounted so soon after launch has me sat steadfast on the fence.
Sad thing is that if we don't support these types of games then I can see them disappearing, but can't really blame people with a full price release during the busiest time of year? It's been such a strange & bumpy road for the series & now the devs are back solo... If their future hangs on the sales of this then I fear the worst as there is just so little buzz about it?
Unfortunately I think both Tomb Raider and Hitman will be added to Squenix's $30 million loss this quarter.
I think Just Cause 4 will do OK though because that's a bit more distinct.
Don't forget, those with Gold get the Black Friday deals starting tomorrow.
As for the games shown: I thought the amount of games shown was decent enough, but besides missing the whole "biggest ever" point, they also have a very weird understanding of the word "surprises". But having said that, I liked Just Cause 4, although I never finished any of the previous ones, and I really liked Hellblade, so that goes on the "to watch" list.
but I saw no great surprises that they themselves thought they had in store for us.
I guess I'm just glad that it didn't turn into the Crackdown 3 show, something I somewhat (for lack of a better word) feared it would end up being.
As for ineXile and Obsidian: I don't agree with you on that one. These studios have been apart for so long, have each gone their own way, developed their own working ethos, methods and skill sets, so trying to put them back together again is like trying to mend a broken marriage with two people that have become total strangers to each other.
So, keeping them apart and letting them both play to their own strengths is actually the best thing that Microsoft can do. And both of these studios have become big and good enough in their own right to come up with enough interesting titles. And two studios means more games than one studio, obviously, so that is also a good thing.
Always disliked that series, ever since it moved on to 3D games. Not because of Sony, mind you, but simply because I don't like how continuously more bloated and self-gratifying it became as a series and as an IP.
Long story short: I got your point, so I understood how you see it, but my point was simply that games don't always need to have a female protagonist, unless of course it fits, otherwise it's just bolting one on for the sake of appeasing the crowd, but it will do nothing special for the game itself. And that probably led to me mentioning the whole historically correct thing, because games like Assassin's Creed heavily lean upon that, and unfortunately for women, a lot of leading characters in history were men, and most societies were male-oriented. Of course there were plenty of women around, and also plenty of famous and/or important women, but in general, it was mostly a male environment.
I don't mean to offend anyone, but suffice to say that I strongly feel and believe that gender neutrality simply doesn't fit and/or apply in games based upon ancient history, UNLESS the characters that are a part of that historical setting in the game actually were of a certain predisposition and/or gender conviction in real life as well.
I just felt I still owed you a reply, one way or the other, so there you go.


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