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Transportation and Telecommunications Minister congratulates Zain Bahrain on winning awards
His Excellency the Minister of Transportation and Telecommunications, Engineer Kamal bin Ahmed Mohammed praised Zain Bahrain's efforts in applying innovative customer experience and human resources strategies.
He was speaking during a meeting with Zain Bahrain General Manager, Mohammed Zainalabedin, following the operator's selection for a series of prestigious international accolades.
Praising the company's vital role in supporting the IT and telecommunication sectors, and by extension Bahrain's economy as a whole, His Excellency the Minister said that awards such as these going to innovative local companies like Zain Bahrain demonstrate the great developmental strides the Kingdom has made over the years.
"Zain Bahrain innovations have put the Kingdom on the international telecommunications map through a range of firsts that helped it achieve top industry rankings. The operator's achievements are in no small part thanks to the hard work of its employees, who benefit from one of the most productive and rewarding working environments in the industry," he continued.
"This commitment to quality and excellence is the key to promoting Bahrain as an important regional investment destination, and comes in line with the Kingdom's vision for the future across all sectors, including the telecommunications industry," His Excellency the Minister said.
Mr. Zainalabedin said that Zain Bahrain followed Zain Group's lead in providing a work environment that encourages productivity and innovation among its staff.
"We implemented innovative HR practices that bring leadership characteristics to the forefront through a range of initiatives, including unique training and development programmes. These efforts have been recognized many times by our peers through several awards, including excellence shields from the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs three years in a row," he said.
"But the true measure of the success of our policies is reflected in the satisfaction of our employees, their career progress and their productivity, which, in turn, adds to the productivity of the company as a whole," Mr. Zainalabedin added.
The meeting followed Zain Bahrain being awarded the Middle East Customer Experience Program of the Year and Best Customer Experience Brand Strategy at the annual Middle East Customer Experience (CX) Conference in Dubai; the Excellence Award in Human Resources Management at the Arab Gulf Forum for Human Resources Management, organized by Act Smart Public Relations Consultancy, Bahrain; and the Best Human Resources Innovation Strategy Award by the Anatolian Inventions and Inventor Association (ABDER), Istanbul, Turkey, which falls under the umbrella of the International Federation of Inventors' Associations, Geneva, Switzerland. The latter award also brought praise for Zain Bahrain's HR and telecommunications innovations from the Turkish Minister of Science and Technology.
The meeting was also attended by Zain Bahrain Human Resources Manager, Dana Bukhammas, Corporate Communications Manager, Samya Hussain, and Organizational Innovation Manager, Amina Al-Hawaj.

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def f(a, step, n):
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A: It looks like broadcasting should be enough:
def f(a, step, n):
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f(np.array([1,3,4]), 10, 4)

output:
array([[ 1,  3,  4],
       [11, 13, 14],
       [21, 23, 24],
       [31, 33, 34]])

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The wizards at Mervin Manufacturing have revitalised their Bent Metal brand for 2016/17, taking the expertise found in their Lib Tech, Gnu and Roxy boards and applied it to bindings. They've kept things simple this season, offering three models with varying degrees of stiffness.
The Bent Metal Logic is easily the softest of the three, with a urethane highback that gives you a surfy feel in the powder and maximum tweakability in the park. Forward lean is adjusted with a cube (also urethane) that can be turned to set the highback at one of four different angles.
The drive plate underfoot is designed to compliment the highback perfectly; biax fibreglass layers in the build offer easy flex, aided by the reduced-size disc that allows your board to bend more freely.
It's super lightweight, too. The buckles are aluminium, and the toe strap is as pared back as possible while still delivering the reliability you need. As for the ankle strap, foam is used (but not over-used) to give you a comfortable yet responsive ride.
Even though it's soft, don't assume the Logic isn't strong – as with all Bent Metals, the baseplate and heelcup come with a lifetime warranty.
"Stripped back to a simple lightweight shell, the Bent Metal Logic bindings fit nicely in the simple-but-effective category. Everything locks in nicely and feels dead comfortable, with the low-profile straps well in keeping with the bulk-free overall look and feel.


H Mart Troy 2nd Year Anniversary Customer Appreciation Event!
Celebrating 2nd year anniversary with the biggest savings, the best food, the most incredible shopping experience for Smart Card Members only!
HMART GLENVIEW 3RD YEAR ANNIVERSARY!
10월 18일부터 28일까지 진행되는 H마트 글렌뷰점 오픈 3주년 이벤트! 많은 방문 부탁드립니다! Hmart Glenview presents 3rd anniversary customer appreciation event! Thank you for your support!
HMART San Diego Asian Food Festival!
East Meets West with Our Asian Food Festival in Hmart San Diego! Taste your way through Asia!
MOON CAKE FESTIVAL IS HERE!
Celebrate Fall! Our moon cake gift boxes are here. H Mart invites you to experience the Mid-Autumn Festival with our selected moon cake specials!
새로운 H MART ONLINE 오픈기념 이벤트!
고국통신 백일장 이벤트에 참여하시고 밥솥, 스탠드, 누들 쿠커 받아가세요!
HMART San Jose Asian Food Festival Event!
East Meets West with Our Asian Food Festival in Oakland and De Anza! Taste Asian food and enjoy our festival!
HMART'S SMART APP IS COMING SOON!
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Hmart Annandale celebrates its 10th year with special event!
Thank you to our customers for your patronage! Hmart will strive for the best quality & services!
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Growing up with the traditions of this festive Jewish holiday I was grateful for the songs from my Mom's record player and her beautiful voice. As my musical tastes developed I was left wanting more; maybe even something updated.
Well, my silent request has been answered with some new releases for this Hanukkah.
The first to hit my doorstep is Hanukkah Rocks by the LeeVees. Tracks include "Sour Cream or Applesauce" and "At the Timeshare". Every song is a bit tongue in cheek with modern music accompaniment that I enjoy as much as (or more than) traditional recordings. Check it out!
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U.S. to become world's largest oil producer before 2020, IEA says [Google+ Hangout]
By By Tiffany Hsu
This post has been corrected. See below for details.
The U.S. will become the world's top producer of oil within five years, a net exporter of the fuel around 2030 and nearly self-sufficient in energy by 2035, according to a new report from the International Energy Agency.
It's a bold set of predictions for a nation that currently imports some 20% of its energy needs.
Recently, however, an "energy renaissance" in the U.S. has caused a boost in oil, shale gas and bio-energy production due to new technologies such as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. Fuel efficiency has improved in the transportation sector. The clean energy industry has seen an influx of solar and wind efforts.
Quiz: Why are California gas prices so high?
By 2015, U.S. oil production is expected to rise to 10 million barrels per day before increasing to 11.1 million bpd by 2020, overtaking second-place Russia and front-runner Saudi Arabia. The U.S. will export more oil than it brings into the country in 2030.
Around the same time, however, Saudi Arabia will be producing some 11.4 million bpd of oil, outpacing the 10.2 million from the U.S. In 2035, U.S. production will slip to 9.2 million bpd, far behind the Middle Eastern nation's 12.3 million bpd. Iraq will exceed Russia to become the world's second largest oil exporter.
At that point, real oil prices will reach $125 a barrel. By then, however, the U.S. won't be relying much on foreign energy, according to the IEA's World Energy Outlook.
Quiz: How much do you know about China's economy?
Globally, the energy economy will undergo a "sea change," according to the report, with nearly 90% of Middle Eastern oil exports redirecting toward Asia.
"No country is an energy 'island,' and the interactions between different fuels, markets and prices are intensifying," according to the report.
And what of energy efficiency efforts?
Fossil fuels, which enjoyed a 30% jump in subsidies last year to $523 billion worldwide, will still surpass renewable energy sources, according to IEA. But so-called green power will become the world's second-largest form of generation within three years and will threaten coal's supremacy by 2035.
That progression, however, "hinges critically on continued subsidies" for wind, solar and bio-fuel technologies, which last year amounted to some $88 billion and needs to reach $4.8 trillion through 2035, according to IEA.
Even then, however, "the world is still failing to put the global energy system onto a more sustainable path," according to the report.
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Global energy demand will boom by more than a third by 2035, rising to 99.7 million barrels a day from 87.4 million last year. China's demand will rise 60% over the period; India's will more than double. Demand in developed countries will increase just 3%, with the desire for oil and coal losing share in the overall energy mix.
Energy-related carbon dioxide emissions will creep up, causing a long-term average temperature increase of 3.6 degrees Celsius. Energy production will continue to suck at the world's water resources – it already accounts for 15% of total water use.
[10:15 a.m.: A previous version of this post gave an incorrect conversion of the temperature increase in Fahrenheit. The correct Fahrenheit increase is 6.5 degrees.]
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Q: Is there a way to convert FlutterQuill to HTML content? var json = jsonEncode(_controller.document.toDelta().toJson());

Do we have a Dart plugin for converting FlutterQuill to HTML  content?

A: Using packages delta_markdown and markdown:
You may want to convert your delta to HTML with a method like so:
import 'dart:convert';

import 'package:delta_markdown/delta_markdown.dart';
import 'package:flutter_quill/models/quill_delta.dart';
import 'package:markdown/markdown.dart';

String quillDeltaToHtml(Delta delta) {
  final convertedValue = jsonEncode(delta.toJson());
  final markdown = deltaToMarkdown(convertedValue);
  final html = markdownToHtml(markdown);

  return html;
}

You can learn an alternative solution that needs to be implemented in FlutterQuill on this issue: Support conversion of Delta to HTML and Markdown #15

A: Recently there was an issue in their GitHub account and someone found a workaround via Markdown.
But keep in mind that it is not entirely correct yet and as far as I know there isn't any straightforward conversion into HTML yet.
Another thing you can try is to create a fork of the zefyr HTML editor, use their Delta converter, and update it to work with Quill deltas. I tried that for myself. It worked in simple cases, but in our project there were harder cases, so we ditched this solution.


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Multiplan (1983) 4 Spreadsheet DOS OS2
Microsoft Multiplan was an early 8-bit spreadsheet application for CP/M and MS-DOS with ports to numerous other platforms in the early 80s. Initially it competed against VisiCalc and later Lotus 1-2-3. A companion product, Microsoft Chart, provided graphing support. Multiplan was never ported to Windows, where it was replaced with Microsoft Excel. Excel also replaced Multiplan on the Macintosh platform.
Wingz (1989) 0 Spreadsheet Windows OS2
First released in 1989, Wingz was a highly promoted cross platform spreadsheet available for Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, OS/2, NeXTSTEP, and Unix. At the time, it had a number of advantages over Microsoft Excel and others. It featured spreadsheets up to 32768 cells in both directions, in-cell editing, a powerful graphing system, and a macro-programming language called HyperScript. important features. Although the 1.1 updated corrected much of this, it hurt the products sales and acceptance.


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Home Heavy Metal Toxicity
Heavy Metal Toxicity
What is Heavy Metal Toxicity
Heavy metal toxicity is a term used to describe the condition a person is suffering from when it is determined they have high levels of heavy metals in their body – they could also be described as being "heavy metal toxic".
Heavy metal toxicity is caused when the build-up of heavy metals such as aluminum, arsenic, cadmium, lead, and mercury disrupt the normal biochemical process in the body. The heavy metals may come from exposure to multiple sources including cookware, fish, soda cans, freeway dust, cosmetics, vaccines and many, many more.
In particular, heavy metal toxicity can contribute to degenerative diseases, but other conditions can be linked to heavy metal toxicity including chronic fatigue, memory loss, hypothyroidism, insomnia, unexplained tremors, depression, joint pain and chronic headaches.
Heavy metal toxicity can be determined by a urine analysis, which shows the levels of heavy metals in the body. If metal levels are found to be high, chelation therapy is a safe, FDA approved treatment of heavy metal toxicity. Ridding the body of heavy metals is an important step in relieving debilitating symptoms of heavy metal toxicity and helping to improve overall health.
What are the Symptoms of Heavy Metal Toxicity
Symptoms of heavy metal toxicity are very varied and unless a practitioner is really informed about the threat to health which heavy metals pose, heavy metal toxicity may be overlooked as the root cause of the condition. Lack of energy, poor circulation, weight-gain, high blood pressure and unexplained aches and pains are some of the symptoms of heavy metal toxicity. Other symptoms of heavy metal toxicity include:
Cold hands and feet
Frequent colds and flus
Loss of memory
Metallic taste in mouth
Sore or receding gums
Where do Heavy Metals Come From
Many people do not realize that they are exposed to heavy metals on a daily basis and are unaware where heavy metals come from. The truth is that heavy metals often come from the most innocent-looking sources, from everyday cookware to lipsticks to children's toys. Being aware of where heavy metals come from is an important step in avoiding them. Here are some of the most common heavy metals and their sources:
Aluminum: Aluminum is found in soda cans, cookware, deodorants, automobile exhaust, dental amalgams and vaccinations.
Arsenic: Arsenic is present in some drinking water, pesticides, mushrooms, pressure-treated lumber and poultry.
Cadmium: The main source of cadmium is cigarette smoke but it is also present in coffee, steel cooking pans, fertilizers, batteries, copper refineries, pesticides and processed foods.
Copper: Copper is found in hot tubs, swimming pool chemicals, cookware, jewelry, piping, fungicides, dietary supplements and multi-vitamins/mineral.
Lead: Lead is found in dyes, airplane fuel, lead based paint, old plumbing, tobacco smoke, textiles, and car batteries.
Mercury: One main source is mercury amalgam fillings which leak into the mouth and then into the body. Other sources include, fish (especially tuna), cosmetics, plastics, fabric softeners, floor waxes/polishes, tattoos, hair dyes and batteries.
Common Heavy Metals
The most common heavy metals that humans are exposed to are aluminum, arsenic, cadmium, lead, and mercury. A build-up of these common heavy metals can lead to a person being labelled with heavy metal toxicity.
What Can Be Done About Heavy Metal Toxicity
The first thing that can be done about heavy metal toxicity is to find out what your heavy metal levels are. At LifeWorks Wellness Center, urine analysis is done to establish the levels present in a patient's body. When the test results are known, the practitioner will advise what can be done about heavy metal toxicity. The preferred protocol at LifeWorks for removing heavy metals from the body is chelation therapy.
Chelation therapy involves getting EDTA by IV drip, along with vitamin C, B complex, Magnesium and specific homeopathics. Normally the practitioner will recommend treatments 2-3 times per week for a total of 10 and then re-evaluate to see if more are needed. Each treatment takes between 30-40 minutes to deliver.
Why You Should Find Out What Your Heavy Metal Levels Are
It is important that anyone suffering from a serious health condition be tested to find out what their heavy metal levels are because they could be the underlying cause of the condition. High levels of one or more heavy metals can lead to many different conditions occurring from fatigue and headaches, to Alzheimer's, gastro-intestinal irritation, autism, kidney disease and many more.
If you are lucky enough to be healthy it doesn't mean you don't have significant quantities of heavy metals in your body which may affect your health in the future, It is important to find out what your heavy metal levels are and if they are high you should begin treatment to reduce them.
Heavy Metal Toxicity Treatment Options
The primary heavy metal treatment option is chelation therapy, using EDTA (Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid). EDTA is approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a heavy metal treatment option, and is considered safe and routinely used for that purpose.
Heavy metals have been shown to relentlessly accumulate in human tissue over a lifetime. The removal of these metals with chelation therapy helps to normalize biochemical activity thereby improving circulation and energy.
It is becoming increasingly clear that we all intoxicated with numerous toxic metals, which is why it is important to investigate heavy metal treatment options. When these metals are chelated and periodically removed by EDTA the treatment can benefit well-being, prevent toxic metal induced disorders later in life and very often results in a reduction of minor symptoms such as headaches, muscle aches/spasms and fatigue.
Get Tested for Heavy Metals
Lifeworks Wellness Center is long recognized as one of the foremost natural health clinics in the US. At our Tampa Bay, Florida alternative medicine office we have been offering treatment for heavy metal toxicity for a long time and many of our patients have benefited from it. Our patients fly in from all over the world because they simply can't find clinics offering tests for heavy metals where they live.
We have helped many patients regain their health and we would love to help you, too. To become a patient, or for more information, feel free to call our New Patient Coordinator at (727) 466-6789 or simply submit an online web form with your request.
Heavy Metals & Your Health
What are Heavy Metals
A heavy metal is defined as any metal that can have a toxic effect on the body. The term "heavy metals" originally referred to the dense metals such as cadmium, mercury and lead but it now refers to any toxic metal...
Could You Be Heavy Metal Toxic
If you have any of the above and are experiencing symptoms such as lack of energy, poor circulation, weight-gain, high blood pressure or unexplained aches and pains, the answer to your health riddle may be Heavy Metal Toxicity...
Heavy Metal Toxicity Symptoms
Heavy metal toxicity describes a condition which exists when a person has very high levels of heavy metals in their body and the metal build-up is causing toxicity to occur. Sometimes the person will show signs of a seemingly disrelated health condition...
About Heavy Metal Toxicity
What is Heavy Metal Poisoning?
In today's world we are constantly bombarded by heavy metals and this can ultimately lead to heavy metal poisoning. This form of poisoning can result in a number of serious health conditions developing; from joint pain to chronic fatigue to hypothyroidism and many more...
Mercury Poisoning
Mercury has been found in some infant vaccines, silver dental fillings as well as contaminated fish. Exposure to mercury leads to the disease we know as mercury poisoning, which can produce toxic effects in high enough doses. Toxic effects include damage to the brain, kidney, and lungs and symptoms typically include sensory impairment (vision, hearing,...
Have you ever considered you could be lead toxic? It's everywhere, even in lipstick. – Do you regularly eat fish, or do you have amalgams? Then the chances are you're mercury toxic. -Environmental pollution can be a killer. Are you poisoned? – Are you breathing in freeway dust every day? Then your body is...
What Is Lead Poisoning
Lead poisoning is a term used to describe a condition a person is suffering from when it is found that they have high levels of lead in their body. Lead is one of the most toxic of the heavy metals and even a small amount can cause health issues.
What Is Mercury Poisoning
Mercury poisoning is a condition which exists when a body has an excess of the heavy metal mercury, in their system. Exposure to mercury is high as it is a naturally-occurring element found extensively in the soil, water and the air.
What is Arsenic Poisoning
Arsenic is a semi-metallic chemical which has been used as a poison for many years, particularly in the Victorian era. Ground water naturally contains levels of arsenic, which in turn finds its way into the food grown in the soil and into drinking water.
Heavy Metals in the Body
Heavy metals are literally everywhere in today's western world. The best-known are aluminum, lead, and mercury but there are many more, all of which can have a toxic effect on the body if the levels are high.
Heavy Metal Toxicity Treatments
Heavy Metal Testing
It is important that anyone suffering from a serious health condition undergo a heavy metal toxicity test to find out what their heavy metal levels are because they could be the underlying cause of the condition. If you have any of the following symptoms...
Heavy Metal Toxicity Treatment
Heavy metal toxicity occurs when abnormal levels of heavy metals such as lead, mercury and aluminum, build up in the body...
What is EDTA
Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid, widely abbreviated as EDTA, is an amino acid that can be given IV to bind up heavy metals and rid them from the body...
What is Chelation Therapy? The word "Chelation" comes from the Greek word "chele" which means a claw of a crab or lobster and implies a strong, pincher-like grasping. In the case of chelation therapy, the grasping is done by a chelating agent and the object grasped is a metal atom. What is Chelation...
In today's modern society of nutrient depleted food (fast food, processed food, vegetables picked green and shipped thousands of miles and stored in coolers for weeks or months before we eat them), and daily exposure to hundreds of toxic chemicals, our bodies are "left out in the cold" so to speak, and health suffers. Many...
Chelation Therapy in Clearwater
Have you ever considered that you could be lead toxic? (It's in lipstick, household products, toys, freeway dust, old pipes, old paint) · What about mercury? (Did you eat tuna or other fish this week? Do you have silver/amalgam fillings?) · Are you experiencing lack of energy, poor circulation, weight-gain, high blood pressure or ...
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Cirque du Soleil shows on MSC cruises
Posted by: Howard Jarvis in Cruise, News archive 20. November 2015
New productions to take place in purpose-built lounges
MSC Cruises has announced an exclusive partnership with Cirque du Soleil, to create original live entertainment shows on board its new ships.
The productions will take place inside purpose-built lounges, featuring 450 seats, including a 200-seat restaurant. The line said the €20 million lounges will also include "the latest audio-visual technology" and have been designed specifically for the shows.
The new Cirque du Soleil productions will take place six nights a week during sailings, with two performances a night, all on the line's four new Meraviglia project ships.
The first of these ships, the 4,500-passenger MSC Meraviglia, is being built at the STX shipyard in Saint Nazaire, France. It will set sail on its inaugural season in the western Mediterranean from June 2017 and will be the first to have three homeports: Genoa, Marseille and Barcelona.
Further Meraviglia project ships are scheduled for delivery in 2019, 2020 and 2022.
"Together with Cirque du Soleil we are now designing a totally new, live entertainment experience," said Pierfrancesco Vago, executive chair of MSC Cruises.
The partnership with Cirque du Soleil was unveiled aboard MSC Fantasia in Barcelona during All Stars of the Sea, an annual MSC Cruises travel-trade gathering, which rewards the company's top performing partners in front of an audience of 1,800 agents.
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2018 John Deere Gator RSX welcome to our website for the latest compact tractor reviews, ratings, prices and comparisons. Last year, we traveled to Little Goose Ranch in Big Horn, Wyoming. The work ranch, complete with horses, cattle, and 4,000 acres of flat fields, wavy pastures, and narrow mountain paths, was the perfect place for our latest UTV assessment. The John Deere Gator RSX 850i, represented on the left, turned out to be the race horse of the evaluation.
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Week 5 Balance & Simplicity
Freedom from entanglements
"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." Matthew 6:19–21
"I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do all this through him who gives me strength." Philippians 4:11–12
"Jesus looked at him and loved him. 'One thing you lack,' he said. 'Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.'" Mark 10:21
"The more you have, the more you are occupied. The less you have, the more free you are." Mother Teresa
"Christian simplicity frees us from this modern mania. It brings sanity to our compulsive extravagance, and peace to our frantic spirit. It liberates us from what William Penn called 'cumber.' It allows us to see material things for what they are — goods to enhance life, not to oppress life. People once again become more important than possessions. Simplicity enables us to live lives of integrity in the face of the terrible realities of our global village . . ."The witness to simplicity is profoundly rooted in the biblical tradition, and most perfectly exemplified in the life of Jesus Christ. In one form or another, all the devotional masters have stressed its essential nature. It is a natural and necessary outflow of the Good News of the Gospel having taken root in our lives."
— Richard Foster
"Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth, or power. Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter."
What is one thing you like about the Rhythm of Balance & Simplicity and why?
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DESIREE as a new tool for interstellar ion chemistry
Schmidt, Henning
Stockholm University, Faculty of Science, Department of Physics.
Johansson, Henrik
Thomas, Richard
Geppert, Wolf
Haag, Nicole
Reinhed, Peter
Rosén, Stefan
Larsson, Mats
Danared, Håkan
Stockholm University, Faculty of Science, The Manne Siegbahn Laboratory .
Rensfelt, K.-G
Liljeby, Leif
Bagge, Lars
Björkhage, Mikael
Blom, Mikael
Löfgren, Patrik
Källberg, Anders
Simonsson, Ansgar
Paál, Andras
Zettergren, Henning
Stockholm University, Faculty of Science, Department of Physics.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2493-4161
Cederquist, Henrik
2008 (English)In: International Journal of Astrobiology, ISSN 1473-5504, E-ISSN 1475-3006, Vol. 7, no 3-4, p. 205-208Article in journal (Refereed) Published
A novel cryogenic electrostatic storage device consisting of two ion-beam storage rings with a common straight section for studies of interactions between oppositely charged ions at low and well-defined relative velocities is under construction at Stockholm University. Here we consider the prospect of using this new tool to measure cross-sections and rate coefficients for mutual neutralization reactions of importance in interstellar ion chemistry in general and specifically in cosmic pre-biotic ion chemistry.
2008. Vol. 7, no 3-4, p. 205-208
URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-32615DOI: 10.1017/S1473550408004229ISI: 000273383100003OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-32615DiVA, id: diva2:281118
1. Ions in cold electrostatic storage devices
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Ions in cold electrostatic storage devices
We have constructed a compact purely electrostatic ion-beam trap, ConeTrap, which we have mounted inside a double-walled vacuum chamber. In the inner vacuum chamber, we can obtain ultra-high vacuum (UHV) conditions and reach thermal equilibrium at well controlled temperatures down to 10 K. The chamber was constructed partly with the purpose of making high-precision measurements in ConeTrap, but also as a test-chamber for testing components (such as the detector-assembly tested and described in this thesis and paper III) to be used in the DESIREE (Double ElectroStatic Ion Ring ExpEriment) facility. The latter is a double electrostatic ion storage-ring being constructed at Stockholm University, in which the conditions are meant to mimic the environment in the interstellar medium. The interaction between two oppositely charged ions at very low relative velocities (controlled collision energies down to 10 meV) may then be studied in a section of the storage device where the two ion beams merge.
The lifetime of loosely bound electronic systems, for example He-, is, at room temperature (and even at much lower temperatures), significantly affected by photons from blackbody radiation from the experimental device and its surroundings. The cryogenic temperature and low pressure obtained in the test chamber have made it possible to use ConeTrap to make the first correction-free lifetime measurement of the long-lived J=5/2 fine-structure level of the metastable 1s2s2p 4Po state of He-. Under the assumption of a statistical population of the fine-structure levels, at the time when the ions are created, we have also deduced the lifetimes of the short-lived J=1/2 and J=3/2 fine-structure levels. Furthermore, we have used ConeTrap to measure the pressure dependent storage lifetimes of He+ and Ar+ ions over wide ranges of temperatures and pressures, and we have thus been able to store positive ions with storage lifetimes of tens of seconds.
Stockholm: Department of Physics, Stockholm University, 2010. p. 89
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-32659 (URN)978-91-7155-983-8 (ISBN)
2010-01-29, FA32, AlbaNova universitetscentrum, Roslagstullsbacken 21, Stockholm, 10:00 (English)
Greenwood, Jason
Dpt of Physics and Astronomy, Queens University, Belfast, UK.
At the time of the doctoral defense, the following papers were unpublished and had a status as follows: Paper 2: Submitted. Available from: 2010-01-07 Created: 2009-12-15 Last updated: 2009-12-15Bibliographically approved
2. Fragmentation of Amino Acids and Microsolvated Peptides and Nucleotides using Electrospray Ionization Tandem Mass Spectrometry
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Fragmentation of Amino Acids and Microsolvated Peptides and Nucleotides using Electrospray Ionization Tandem Mass Spectrometry
This thesis presents three different series of high energy (keV) collision experiments as well as a brief scientific introduction to the field. In the first series, protonated glycine and leucine were collided with carbon dioxide and a beam attenuation method was applied to determine their total fragmentation cross sections. A technique was also presented for how to restore the resolution in mass spectra obtained with a hemispherical electrostatic analyzer followed by a position sensitive detector (micro-channel plate equipped with a resistive anode). In the second series of experiments, Collision Induced Dissociation (CID) and Electron Capture Induced Dissociation (ECID) studies were performed on the nucleotide adenosine 5'-monophosphate anion (AMP-) in water complexes. The two dissociation techniques revealed different fragmentation patterns and a numerical solvent evaporation model was used to interpret the spectra. It was then found that the CID and ECID processes were associated with different internal energy distributions. The third experiment concerned ECID of the protonated dipeptide glycine-alanine ([GA+H]+) in complexes with water, methanol, acetonitrile or crown ether. Depending on the attached molecular species, different ratios between the two competing channels ammonia loss and N-Cα bond cleavage were observed. Quantum chemical calculations revealed that a notable shift in the location of the captured electron occurred for the case of two acetonitriles and one crown ether compared to the bare ion and the ion in complexes with either water or methanol. Finally, this thesis will discuss developments of the electrospray ionization platform as well as the new Double ElectroStatic IonRing ExpEriment (DESIREE) facility.
Jensen, Jens
Linköpings universitet, IFM.
3. Probing biomolecular fragmentation
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Probing biomolecular fragmentation
This thesis deals with fragmentation of complex molecular ions, especially biomolecules, in gas phase collision experiments. The aim is to investigate the relations between energy deposition and fragmentation and to shed light on the mechanisms behind energy and charge transfer processes in collisions involving the building blocks of life. Further, the question how a solvent environment influences the dissociation behavior is elucidated. In the first part of the thesis, results from different collision experiments with biomolecular ions are presented, focusing on electron capture induced dissociation of hydrated nucleotides and small peptides. The investigated processes may be relevant for the understanding of radiation damage and the optimization of sequencing methods used in protein research. Our results clearly demonstrate that effects due to surrounding solvent molecules are substantial. While the dissipation of internal energy by evaporation of the loosely bound solvent molecules may protect the biomolecule, the influence which this environment has on the electronic structure may lead to an enhancement or suppression of certain dissociation channels. The second part of the thesis focuses on recent instrumental developments. Here, the aim was to optimize and complement the techniques used in the experiments above and to have versatile tools available for different kinds of gas phase collision studies involving complex molecular ions. Therefore, we have constructed an electrospray ion source platform for the preparation of intense beams, with options of accumulation and cooling of mass selected ions, allowing for a large variety of experiments. This device is also intended to serve as an ion source for the new storage ring facility DESIREE (DoubleElectroStatic Ion Ring ExpEriment), which is currently under construction at Stockholm University. In these unique storage rings, oppositely charged ions may interact at very low relative velocities in a cryogenically cooled and ultrahigh vacuum environment.
Stockholm: Department of Physics, Stockholm University, 2011. p. 124
2011-03-11, FB55, AlbaNova universitetscentrum, Roslagstullsbacken 21, Stockholm, 13:00 (English)
Scheier, Paul
University of Innsbruck, Institute of Ion Physics and Applied Physics.
Schmidt, Henning T.
Schmidt, HenningJohansson, HenrikThomas, RichardGeppert, WolfHaag, NicoleReinhed, PeterRosén, StefanLarsson, MatsDanared, HåkanRensfelt, K.-GLiljeby, LeifBagge, LarsBjörkhage, MikaelBlom, MikaelLöfgren, PatrikKällberg, AndersSimonsson, AnsgarPaál, AndrasZettergren, HenningCederquist, Henrik
Department of PhysicsThe Manne Siegbahn Laboratory
International Journal of Astrobiology


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Do you ever have that panic attack that starts in the pit of your stomach or your body fills with anxiety and it's all you can do to concentrate?! I used to have panic attacks and trouble breathing every time I had to speak in front of a group. I've also gotten that sick feeling in my stomach and clammy hands. Life is stressful and we can't always control that, but there are things we can do to lessen the overwhelming feeling of panic.


Editor's note: This is a guest post from my good friend Pauline of InvestmentZen.com. Pauline is a 'budgeter extraordinaire' and an investing maverick with considerable reputation in the personal finance community.
Budgeting has always been like watching paint dry to me. My brain can't get around it. I understand the main concept: spend less than you earn, and am pretty good at putting it in practice. But who really enjoys writing down they've been spending $0.47 on a stamp and $2.19 on celery? Not me, that's for sure. And I don't blame you either if you have been postponing budgeting for years.
Today though, I come bearing good news. You can budget in just a few minutes per month, and forget about it. Here is how I do it.
And so on. Now break down your goals into smaller, more manageable monthly goals. If you need $15,000 for a new car within 60 months, you need to save $250 every month. Christmas is four months away, so that's $50 you must save with each pay-check. Do that for all your short term and long term money goals. You will be able to track your progress and gain momentum when you see yourself actually moving forward and getting closer.
Saving money is not easy, especially when it is there at your disposal, waiting to be spent. We all have a limited amount of willpower, and the hardest you make accessing your money, the more likely you are to avoid spending it. If it is in your checking account, one debit card swipe and it's gone. On the other hand, if it is in a high yield savings account, you need to log into your online banking and make a transfer in order to be able to access the money. If it is locked for a year or two with a CD, then there would be a penalty on top to withdraw anything. And the worst that could happen would be having to withdraw from your 401k and pay the taxes, when the markets are down.
So to resist temptation, let's make the money disappear every month. To meet your retirement goal, you should take advantage of your company match, and the money will be taken off your paycheck straight away. You won't miss it if you don't see it.
Then, all the other savings accounts can be funded via automated payments on pay day. You should do the same for your mortgage, your bills, and any other recurring expense. You have to pay all that anyway, so make it easy on yourself and set up monthly debits then forget about it.
Knowing that your savings and investing goals are met every month, whatever is left in your checking account is yours to use freely. The thing I dislike the most about budgeting is you have so many lines of spending they make you dizzy. Oh my god, I overspent by $12.99 on eating out, but thankfully I am under by $27.43 on transportation. Who cares, really? You are in a good place because you are actively saving for retirement, college for the kids, and other short term money goals. So have fun with the rest of your money. And if it is gone by the 25th, next month, tighten the belt a bit more.
That's it. Budgeting shouldn't be more complicated than this.
I just realised that I don't have a savings goal. I save every month, but I don't have a goal to save X amount of dollars. My budget does not change either. It's basically the same thing each month. I'm pretty sure that's a bad thing. It means that there is no growth and if there is no growth, there is no change. I need to do something about this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
haha usually a goal helps me push harder but at least you're saving that's something to be proud of!


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Q: How would i go about adding arguments to my discord.js commands? What would be the best way to add arguments to my discord commands?
e.g, !ban {username}
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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    intents: ["GUILD_MESSAGES", "GUILDS"],
});

const botOptions = {
    token: "",
    prefix: ['!','.'],
    commands: [
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            name: ['joined','j'],
            roles: ['@everyone'],
            channels: [],
            method: (msg) => require('./userJoined')(msg),
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    const findCommand = botOptions.commands.find(command => command.name.includes(commandName));
    if (typeof findCommand !== 'undefined' && checkPrefix) {
        const { name, roles, channels, method } = findCommand;
        const rolePermission = msg.member.roles.cache.some(role => roles.includes(role.name.toLowerCase()));
        const channelPermission = channels.includes(msg.channelId);
        if (channelPermission || channels.length === 0 && rolePermission) {
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A: If you're trying to add args (arguments) you should first split the message into an array
    let messageArray = message.content.split(" ");

Now you just have an array full of arguments, the first argument in the messageArray variable is basically the command which is being executed, after that the rest are just the message args.
    let messageArray = message.content.split(" ");
    let cmd = messageArray[0]; // getting the command, this line can be removed
    let args = messageArray.slice(1)

In the example above we sliced the messageArray variable at its 2nd element which is the first argument of the message (not including the cmd).
So here is a small example how this works
!mix 3845345343 4353943
3845345343 being args[0]
4353943 being args[1]
and so on if you have more args


Jawbox has teamed up with Dischord Records to reissue their out-of-print major label debut, Jawbox . First released in 1996 on Atlantic, the album has been out of print for years.
For the reissue, the band and label enlisted Dan Coutant at Sunroom Audio for a complete remaster and the album will be available on CD and vinyl on September 22, 2015.


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DJJ: Teens in custody after escape from juvenile facility
Police say the pair broke free after scaling a perimeter fence
By Allyson Henning - Reporter
Posted: 12:39 PM, December 03, 2018 Updated: 2:34 PM, December 03, 2018
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Two 15-year-olds have been taken into custody after their escape from a Jacksonville juvenile residential facility, authorities said Monday.
According to the Sheriff's Office, both teens now face escape charges in connection to the incident.
The escape happened Friday morning at the Duval Youth Academy. A Department of Juvenile Justice spokesperson confirmed the teens are in custody but said she could not provide any other details.
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Staff at the Ricker Road facility told police that the two teens got free about 4:15 a.m. after scaling a perimeter fence. It's unclear how the pair got outside, or where they went once they did so.
News4Jax spoke with a man who said the teens were captured on his property just a few blocks away from the facility.
"I went and was getting my stuff together to go catch them down there when the officer came back up with the two juveniles in handcuffs," Henry Boree said.
The DJJ spokesperson said the agency is investigating the incident to see if policies and procedures were followed by staff, who are contractors hired by the state.
"Should a failure be identified, staff will be held fully accountable for their actions," she said.
Thanks to a tip - both suspects have been located and arrested on escape charges. Thanks to all for the RTs and assisting in getting this information out to the community. https://t.co/m3o6qximPt — Jax Sheriff's Office (@JSOPIO) December 3, 2018
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Deborah Meier
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Deborah Meier is a visionary teacher, author, and founder of successful small schools in New York City and Boston. Harry Boyte, senior scholar at Augsburg College, is founder of the youth civic empowerment initiative Public Achievement and a leader in the movement to democratize higher education.
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A Manifesto by the Powerful
By Diane Ravitch on October 19, 2010 8:40 AM
Dear Deborah,
I am sure that you must have seen the "manifesto" published in The Washington Post and signed by 16 school superintendents. It was titled "How to Fix Our Schools: A Manifesto by Joel Klein, Michelle Rhee and other education leaders."
The responses to this article have been fascinating. Some have criticized the use of the term "manifesto," because a manifesto is usually a declaration of belief by those who are out of power, not by those who hold power. Think, for example, of the Declaration of Independence as a manifesto, though certainly it outclasses the superintendents' manifesto in gravity and significance! Then there is the Communist Manifesto, which sought to rally the workers of the world to take power. Then there was the Unabomber Manifesto, a screed against technology by deranged mathematician Ted Kaczynski, who managed to kill three people and maim 23 others. In 1962, student activists issued the Port Huron Statement, the manifesto of the Students for a Democratic Society, which called upon the youth of their generation to act against social injustice.
The superintendents' manifesto does not come from the powerless. It was written by men and women who are in charge of major school systems and who certainly have far more power than parents, teachers, principals, or ordinary citizens.
What are their basic principles? The superintendents want the public schools to operate according to market principles. Their manifesto is a companion piece to the film "Waiting for 'Superman.'" Like the film, the authors of the manifesto want to be free of the rules governing the hiring and firing of teachers. They believe that teachers alone are responsible for whether students do well or poorly in school. They believe that poverty has no bearing on student achievement: Only the teacher matters. They want merit pay. They want more data by which to judge teachers and students. They want more online instruction. And they want more charter schools so that more children can escape the inadequate schools for which they are responsible as superintendents.
Two of the superintendents who endorsed the manifesto have already resigned: Michelle Rhee and Ron Huberman in Chicago. A third alleged signatory, Arlene Ackerman of Philadelphia, announced that she never signed the manifesto and wrote a letter opposing it, calling its goals "simplistic." Ackerman, a veteran educator, said that eliminating tenure "or the entire union" would not end school failure, because schools are now expected "to solve many of the ills that the larger society either cannot or will not fix." She referred specifically to "hunger, violence, homelessness, and unchecked childhood diseases (asthma and diabetes)."
Ackerman also offered "some stern, unsolicited advice to all of us who care about fixing our public schools: Be careful in this time of polarity not to get caught up in the scripted political agendas of individuals and organizations who seek to divide rather than bring us together. A collaborative approach to reform may not be easy, glamorous, or movie-worthy, but it is a stronger and sustainable solution that is likely to outlast the tenure of individuals or politicized agendas." Sound advice, Dr. Ackerman!
Valerie Strauss of The Washington Post printed Ackerman's letter, and she printed two other columns on this subject. One quoted a letter by Jonathan P. Raymond, the superintendent of the Sacramento City Unified School District, describing his reaction to "Waiting for 'Superman.'" He said he came away from it "with an overwhelming sense that we have to stop blaming teachers for problems that have multiple causes, ranging from poor administrative oversight and accountability to a lack of parent engagement." In a tone very different from the finger-pointing in the "manifesto," Superintendent Raymond wrote: "I know how hard teachers work to educate every child and challenge students at their ability level. We need to work equally hard to give our teachers the tools and supports they need to be successful. Let's stop scapegoating and come together to find solutions that work."
Strauss asked Raymond why he refused to sign the manifesto, which was circulated to leaders of 65 districts. Superintendent Raymond responded, "Real reform can't be pushed down from Washington. It needs to bubble up from the men and women who are accountable to the children and families we serve." He also objected that the manifesto made no mention of "family," "collaboration," or "teamwork," and referred to parents only with reference to school choice.
Buffalo schools Superintendent James A. Williams also declined to sign the manifesto. He said to Strauss in an interview that unions can be problems, but he didn't see better progress in right-to-work states. Nor did he know of any evidence that charters were doing a better job than regular public schools. He said, "They should come out and tell the truth. If they want to privatize public education, they should say so."
If anyone wants to know what the research says on all of these issues, read Richard Rothstein's outstanding research review, called "How to Fix Our Schools," posted by the Economic Policy Institute.
If anyone wants to read the response of a New York City high school teacher, read Ilana Garon, "Rhee and Klein's 'Manifesto': The Usual Nonsense," on Huffington Post. Without due process rights, this teacher could never have written this column.
The superintendents' manifesto displays their conviction that those they "superintend" must be compelled or incentivized to do what the leaders want. Perhaps they should heed the advice of legendary football coach, Vince Lombardi, who said "Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow."
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Induction of genotoxicity by accelerated heavy iron particles in the hematopoietic system in mice. 利用統計を見る
Tanaka Kaoru
Katsube Takanori
Ninomiya Yasuharu
Hirakawa Hirokazu
Liu Cuihua
Maruyama Kouichi
Vares Guillaume
Nakajima Tetsuo
Fujimori Akira
Nenoi Mitsuru
Purpose: The genotoxicity induced by high LET iron particles was studied and compared to that by low LET X-rays in the ground-based experiments carried out at NIRS using total body irradiation (TBI) of mice with the Heavy Ion Medical Accelerator in Chiba (HIMAC) and an X-ray generator (Pantak 320S, Shimadzu).
Materials and Methods: C57BL/6J Jms strain female mice of 8 weeks old were used. TBI was performed at a dose ranging from 0.1 to 3.0 Gy for iron particles (500 MeV/nucleon, 200 keV/μm), or from 0.1 to 5.0 Gy for X-rays (200 kVp, 0.5 mm Al + 0.5 mm Cu filter). The RBE of iron particles to X-rays for induction of acute genotoxicity and late residual damage in the hematopoietic system was determined respectively at one and two months after TBI using the frequency of micronuclei in bone marrow erythrocytes as the endpoint. The health condition (body weight gain and the hemogram of the peripheral blood) was also investigated. Animals were treated in accordance with the Guidelines for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals established by NIRS.
Results and Conclusions: Reduction of body weight gain after TBI was in a similar way observed in the groups exposed to high doses from iron particles or X-rays. X-rays caused more efficiently hematological abnormality than iron particles. Iron particles and X-rays reduced the ratio of polychromatic erythrocytes (PCEs) to PCEs plus normochromatic erythrocytes (NCEs), an indicator for bone marrow proliferation, in a similar way, while iron particles resulted in more efficiently micronucleated PCEs and NCEs at low doses than X-rays. The relative effectiveness of iron particles to X-rays for induction of genotoxicity in bone marrow erythrocytes was higher at a low dose (0.5 Gy) than that at a high dose (3.0 Gy).
Acknowledgments: This work was partially supported by both the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas, Grant Number 15H05935 "Living in Space" and three HIMAC Research Project Grants (22B258, 14J286 and 16J295). The expert technical assistance and administrative support of Ms. Hiromi Arai, Mr. Sadao Hirobe, Ms. Mikiko Nakajima, and Ms. Yasuko Morimoto are gratefully acknowledged.
COSPAR 2018 (42nd Assembly, 60th Anniversary)


A twisted I-cord trim acts as built-in jewelry at the edges of a simple stockinette sweater. See workshop on last page for an I-cord brush-up. Go for a rainbow effect: Use different colors of I-cord trim at the neckline, cuffs and waist.
Sized for Child's 2, 4 and 6 Shown in size 4.


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  resources :users, except: [:index, :create] do
    resources :posts, only: [:index]
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The 4th annual West Side Walk for Gilda's will be held on Saturday, September 22, 2018. West Side Walk for Gilda's Club is a fall pledge walk event and community open house/block party that will start and end at Gilda's Club on our beautiful property at 1806 Bridge Street. Free registration opens at 11 AM, the walk begins at 12 PM, and the Block Party will run from 1-2 PM.
This FREE walk is approximately 1.5 miles and will start and end at Gilda's Club Grand Rapids.
We invite walkers to also consider giving back by setting up a personalized individual or team fundraising website. Fun prizes and incentives are available starting at $100 raised. All proceeds will go to support the free emotional health program for those on a cancer or grief journey offered through Gilda's Club Grand Rapids.
Come as you are, walk as you are! The West Side walk is designed to engage anyone interested in walking….regardless of level of fitness. For those unable to walk, we invite you to take part in the Block Party hosted at Gilda's Club.
We are excited to support recent development and new business on Grand Rapids' West Side encouraging neighbors to "Live, work, play, and support West Side"
After the walk, Gilda's Club invites everyone to stay for a Block Party featuring information about and tours of Gilda's Club, various West Side vendors, and family friendly activities.
Sorry I couldn't make it this year!
Thanks for doing this Michelle.
Terah would have loved this! What a beautiful gesture of love!


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Nov 6 2015 Issue
Dollar volume keeps rising despite a slight downturn in local house sales
The first industrial "total war"
Post-war era — returning veterans needed housing
A focus on community-building contributions
A test of your trivia knowledge
The number of Second World War veterans has dwindled significantly and those surviving are now mostly in their 90s with a smattering over 100 years of age. The estimate is that the number of survivors are now under 80,000 out of the 1.1 million who served. With just 26,000 Canadians participating in the Korean War from 1950 to 1953, the number of survivors is even smaller and they are also an aging population.
The remaining veterans only grudgingly relate their stories of the Second World War and Korea. What they really want to focus on are the good times they experienced while on leave or during training, or how they developed strong bonds of fellowship or played practical jokes on one another. The actual fighting on the battlefield, on the high seas or in the air often brings back only painful memories.
It's only in recent years that they have become more willing to tell the real stories of what it is like to be in a war. They recognize that as the years pass, their sacrifice in the name of freedom has fewer voices to tell what happened.
Invariably, veterans downplay their contribution to the war effort, merely saying they had a job to do. The job, of course, defies being downplayed — to rid the world of tyranny and preserve the rights and freedoms we now cherish.
If anyone knew the face of tyranny in its ugliest form, it was the men and women who confronted death on a daily basis during the Second World War. They knew that the rise of Hitler, Tojo and Mussolini had placed the world in peril of becoming awash in a sea of blood. It was their job to put a stop to the fascists who had no qualms about enslaving and murdering whole races of people. The proof of the bestial intent of the fanatics was witnessed first-hand by the Allied fighting men and women: civilians made to labour as slaves in the Nazi war factories; the surviving Jews, Gypsies and citizens of numerous European nations starved and murdered behind the barbed wire of concentration camps; whole countries laid waste and pillaged by German, Italian and Japanese invaders. What they saw was evil in human form unleashed upon the world.
While there remain veterans who were first-hand witnesses to the brutality of the Second World War, no one survives who experienced the horrific conditions of the First World War trenches. The"war to end all wars" did end nearly 100 years ago on November 11 with the signing of an armistice, but war itself did not end.
It was the technological advancements made immediately before and during the Great War that make it possible to kill people on a grand scale. It was the world's first truly "total war," with the mobilization of nations and all their resources — military, civilian and industrial — into the proverbial "war machine," which also meant that all were regarded as legitimate targets for destruction.
When machine guns swept the battlefield, scores were mowed down by bullets manufactured in the millions. Trains made it possible to transport millions of soldiers directly to the front, where the vast resources and political and military organization of industrialized nations allowed tens of thousands to be slaughtered in the course of just one day of battle. On the first day of the Battle of the Somme on July 1, 1916, 21,000 British troops were killed, primarily by machine gun fire. On the same day, the Newfoundland Regiment of 801 men suffered 310 killed in a matter of minutes while attacking German trenches near Beaumont Hamel. Throughout the course of the 10-month-long battle, over 1.2-million men on both sides were killed — a testimony to the ability of nations to organize themselves into efficient killing machines.
What the military commanders failed to, or refused to, recognize was that flanking manoeuvres were impossible as the trenches, manned by millions of troops, extended from the Swiss border to the North Sea in an unbroken chain. As a result, any attacking force sent over the top directly faced masses of machine guns, automatic rifles and artillery.
Without the advances in the chemical industry, it would not have been possible to produce mustard gas to blind and disable men and chlorine gas to choke them to death. At Ypres in May 1915, Canadian and French Algerian troops were the first to encounter chlorine gas. The Algerians, who bore the brunt of the war's first gas attack, fled in panic. But using advice from their companions, the Canadians soaked handkerchiefs in urine and held them over their mouths and noses while successfully repelling a German attack. The use of gas gave new meaning to the term, the "fog of war."
The industrial output of nations was tapped to build massive battleships able to lob huge shells from mass-produced naval guns. The industrial capacity of Germany was used to produce the U-boats that hunted and then sank civilian and military ships alike.
Without the advancements in manufacturing steel and engines, it would not have been possible to build the tanks first used in the Great War, although limited in effectiveness until used in the Second World War. The same manufacturing skills were used to produce the aircraft that patrolled the skies above Flanders or dropped bombs on troops and civilians.
All the major weapons systems now used in 21st-century battlefields represent the evolution of the technologies first used in 1914-18. The killing power of the "great military-industrial complex" was first tried and tested with menacing effectiveness at the Somme, Ypres, Passchendaele and Vimy Ridge.
During the Great War, the youth whom politicians sent to the battlefield were at first ignorant of industrialized warfare's potential to inflict mass destruction. Canadians came to the trenches of Europe in 1915 as innocent lads and left as battle-hardened men who had no doubt that the steel helmets produced in a factory provided little protection from the shrapnel raining down upon them from an exploding shell. The reality was that new artillery innovations accounted for more than half the casualties on the Western Front.
"Day after day they fight and trudge on through fields of fire and whether death may or may not come," wrote war correspondent Philip Gibbs of British, Australian and Canadian soldiers in October 1918, "... whether their bones ache with fatigue or their bodies are weak with their burden of toil they keep on going ... Knowing the frightful hours ahead of them, they go to the enemy's guns ... There is nothing funny in shell fire, but they kill their fear by some magic they have, and many who are the most afraid do the most heroic things."
If anyone should be remembered on November 11, it is the men and women who endured industrialized destruction in the hope that they were helping to bring about a better world. What they hoped for may not have yet become a reality, but it is something that future generations should remember as the ultimate reason for their unselfish sacrifice. As First World War Canadian poet John McCrae wrote, "To you with falling hands we throw/ The torch — be yours to hold it high."


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Posted on March 18, 2017 March 19, 2017 by Ken Kremer
Sunset Delta Set to Dazzle Cape with Mighty Air Force SatCom Launch March 18 – Watch Live
ULA Delta IV rocket poised for sunset blastoff with the Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS-9) mission for the U.S. Air Force from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fl, on Mar. 18, 2017. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com
CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL – As sunset dawns on the venerable Delta rocket program, the sole Delta slated to launch from the Cape this year is set to dazzle at sunset tonight, Saturday, March 18.
And the launch site is drenched with brilliant blue skies this afternoon as I watched the Delta rocket exposed to the heavens as the mobile service tower rolled away from on site at pad 37.
Florida's Space Coast will light up with a spectacular sunset burst of fire and fury as a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta rocket roars to space with a super advanced tactical satcom for the U.S. Air Force that will provide a huge increase in communications bandwidth for American forces around the globe.
Blastoff of the Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS-9) mission for the U.S. Air Force is slated for 7:44 p.m. EDT on Saturday, Mar. 18, 2017 from Space Launch Complex-37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.
Close-up view of nose cone encapsulating the Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS-9) mission for the U.S. Air Force slated to launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fl, on Mar. 18, 2017. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com
WGS-9 will be delivered to a supersynchronous transfer orbit atop a ULA Delta IV Medium+ rocket.
Thus 'March Launch Madness' continues unabated tonight – with a dizzying pace of launches.
Because it's been barely two and a half days since a SpaceX Falcon 9 successfully dazzled sky watchers and launch enthusiasts on Thursday, March 16, just after midnight by delivering the EchoStar XXIII commercial television satellite to geosynchronous orbit – as I witnessed and reported on here.
So it's past time to 'get your ass to the Cape' – because the weather is glorious in central Florida. And … a Atlas rocket is slated to launch in only five or six days – late next week! in six next Friday.
Saturday's sunset launch window runs for one hour and 15 minutes from 7:44-8:59 p.m. EDT.
You can watch the Delta launch live on a ULA webcast. The live launch broadcast will begin approximately 20 minutes prior to liftoff at 7:24 p.m. EST here:
http://www.ulalaunch.com/webcast.aspx
The weather forecast for Saturday, Mar. 18, calls for a 90 percent chance of acceptable 'GO' weather conditions at launch time.
The primary concern is for cumulus clouds.
In case of a scrub for any reason the chances for a favorable launch dip just slightly to 80% GO on Sunday, March 19.
WGS-9 and her two sisters are the most powerful US Air Force military communications satellite ever built.
WGS-8 was launched on a Delta in December 2016.
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV rocket carrying the WGS-8 mission lifts off from Space Launch Complex-37 at 6:53 p.m EDT on Dec. 7, 2016 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com
It is the ninth satellite in the WGS constellation that serves as the backbone of the U.S. military's global satellite communications.
"WGS provides flexible, high-capacity communications for the Nation's warfighters through procurement and operation of the satellite constellation and the associated control systems," according to the U.S. Air Force.
"WGS provides worldwide flexible, high data rate and long haul communications for marines, soldiers, sailors, airmen, the White House Communication Agency, the US State Department, international partners, and other special users."
United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV rocket carrying the WGS-8 mission for the U.S. Air Force launches at 6:53 p.m EDT on Dec. 7, 2016 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fl. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com
The 217 foot tall Delta IV Medium+ rocket will launch in the 5,4 configuration with a 5 meter diameter payload fairing and 4 solid rocket boosters to augment the first stage.
The is the seventh flight in the Medium+ (5,4) configuration; all of which were for prior WGS missions.
WGS-9 also counts as the first of at least a trio of launches from the Cape this March- with the possibility for a grand slam fourth at month's end – if all goes well with another SpaceX Falcon 9 launch from pad 39A.
Stay tuned here for Ken's continuing Earth and planetary science and human spaceflight news.
Ken Kremer
Learn more about USAF/ULA WGS satellite, SpaceX EchoStar 23 and CRS-10 launch to ISS, ULA SBIRS GEO 3 launch, EchoStar launch GOES-R launch, Heroes and Legends at KSCVC, OSIRIS-REx, InSight Mars lander, ULA, SpaceX and Orbital ATK missions, Juno at Jupiter, SpaceX AMOS-6, ISS, ULA Atlas and Delta rockets, Orbital ATK Cygnus, Boeing, Space Taxis, Mars rovers, Orion, SLS, Antares, NASA missions and more at Ken's upcoming outreach events at Kennedy Space Center Quality Inn, Titusville, FL:
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Data enricher
=============

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Enrich objects by processing special properties known as data instruction.

* `<ref>` - Resolve a reference to another part of the document using a dot key path
* `<ifset>` - Checks if a reference is null. If so, replace the object by null.
* `<switch>` - Choose one of the child properties based on a property in the document
* `<src>` - Load an external resource (through HTTP)
* `<merge>` - Merge a set of objects
* `<enrich>` - Enrich an object with extra data by matching properties
* `<tpl>` - Parse text as [Mustache](https://mustache.github.io/) template
* `<transform>` - Transform the input using a function. The following functions are available
                  You can pass in a string with the following format `<function>:<arg>`
                  Alternatively you can pass in an object to pass multiple args `{ function: <string>, args: [...] }`
  * [`hash:algo`](http://php.net/hash) - Replace `algo` with the algoritm
  * [`hash_hmac`](http://php.net/hash_hmac)
  * [`base64_encode`](http://php.net/base64_encode)
  * [`base64_decode`](http://php.net/base64_decode)
  * [`json_encode`](http://php.net/json_encode)
  * [`json_decode`](http://php.net/json_decode)
  * [`serialize`](http://php.net/serialize)
  * [`unserialize`](http://php.net/unserialize)
  * [`strtotime`](http://php.net/strtotime)
  * [`date`](http://php.net/date)
  * `public_encrypt`
  * `private_encrypt`
  * `private_decrypt`
  * `generate_private_key`
  * `generate_public_key`
  * `generate_signature`
  * `verify_signature`
* `<jmespath>` - Project an object using the [JMESPath](http://jmespath.org/) query language
* `<dateformat>` - Takes a date and a format (defaults to `Y-m-d`) and formats the accordingly. Optionally you can set the timezone if you wish to output timezone information.

## Installation

    composer require legalthings/data-enricher

## Usage

#### Source

```json
{
  "foo": {
    "bar": {
      "qux": 12345,
    },
    "term": "data enrichment",
    "city": "Amsterdam",
    "country": "Netherlands"
  },
  "amount": {
    "<ref>" : "foo.bar.qux"
  },
  "message": {
    "<tpl>": "I want to go to {{ foo.city }}, {{ foo.country }}"
  },
  "shipping": {
    "<switch>": "foo.country",
    "USA": "UPS",
    "Netherlands": "PostNL",
    "_other": "DHL"
  },
  "user" : {
    "<src>": "https://api.example.com/users/9870"
  },
  "search_results": {
    "<src>": {
      "<tpl>": "http://api.duckduckgo.com/?q={{ foo.term }}&format=json"
    },
    "<jmespath>": "RelatedTopics[].{url: FirstURL, description: Text}"
  },
  "profile": {
    "<merge>": [
      { "<ref>": "foo.bar" },
      { "<src>": "https://api.example.com/zoo/99" },
      {
        "apples": 100,
        "pears": 220
      }
    ]
  }
}
```

#### PHP script

```php
$json = file_get_contents('source.json');
$object = json_decode($json);

$enricher = new DataEnricher();
$enricher->applyTo($object);

echo json_encode($object, JSON_PRETTY_PRINT);
```

#### Result

```json
{
  "foo": {
    "bar": {
      "qux": 12345,
    },
    "term": "data enrichment",
    "city": "Amsterdam",
    "country": "Netherlands"
  },
  "amount": 12345,
  "message": "I want to go to Amsterdam, Netherlands",
  "shipping": "PostNL",
  "user" : {
    "id": "9870",
    "name": "John Doe",
    "email": "john@example.com"
  },
  "search_results": [
    {
      "url": "https://duckduckgo.com/Names_Database",
      "description": "Names Database - The Names Database is a partially defunct social network, owned and operated by Classmates.com, a wholly owned subsidiary of United Online. The site does not appear to be significantly updated since 2008, and has many broken links and display issues."
    },
    {
      "url": "https://duckduckgo.com/c/Tor_hidden_services",
      "description": "Tor hidden services"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://duckduckgo.com/c/Internet_privacy_software",
      "description": "Internet privacy software"
    }
  ],
  "profile": {
    "qux": 12345,
    "zoop": "P99",
    "zooq": "Q99",
    "apples": 100,
    "pears": 220
  }
}
```


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Rudy Likes the Idea of Nasdaq and N.Y.S.E. Under the Same Roof
By Devin Leonard • 05/31/99 12:00am
Mayor Rudolph Giuliani is quietly pushing to create a soaring financial citadel in lower Manhattan that would house two fierce rivals: the New York Stock Exchange and the newly merged Nasdaq-American Stock Exchange.
Sources told The Observer that Mr. Giuliani is urging the Nasdaq-Amex to move into a tower above a 500,000-square-foot complex that the city has promised to build for the New York Stock Exchange's rapidly expanding trading operation. The plan would create what one source close to the talks described as "the pre-eminent financial building in the world" across the street from the New York Stock Exchange's 77-year-old headquarters at Broad and Wall streets.
According to the source, Mr. Giuliani is willing to "sweeten" the $200 million incentive package that he has offered to lure the Washington, D.C.-based Nasdaq-Amex to the city if the financial giant moves in with the New York Stock Exchange. The Nasdaq-Amex is also considering a site controlled by developer Douglas Durst in Times Square and another in Battery Park City.
The plan faces some daunting obstacles, not the least of which are the formidable egos of Richard Grasso, chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, and Frank Zarb, chairman of the National Association of Securities Dealers, which owns the Nasdaq-Amex. It seems unlikely that either Mr. Grasso or Mr. Zarb will approve the project if he feels it would allow his competitor to outshine him.
Michael Jones, chief administrative officer for the Nasdaq-Amex, told The Observer there are a number of potential problems with the plan and said the exchange is still considering moving to New Jersey.
City Hall officials declined to comment. Nonetheless, sources said the Giuliani administration is cautiously optimistic. So are real estate executives who are closely watching the negotiations.
The city administration's willingness to offer more financial assistance to get Nasdaq-Amex to move to the downtown location would seem to be something of a reversal for the Giuliani administration. After all, when the administration first negotiated the $200 million package with the Nasdaq-Amex, it took the position that it wasn't going to attempt to steer the exchange to any particular site because the Nasdaq-Amex was bringing new jobs to New York City.
A number of influential downtown property owners and business leaders were outraged that the administration wouldn't use its influence to keep the nation's largest stock market from snubbing the city's historic financial district for Times Square. They lobbied city officials to reconsider the decision.
But a source said the administration's new position wasn't shaped by downtown interests. He said it was actually Mr. Grasso who first suggested that the Nasdaq should move into the Wall Street tower. "Nobody was thinking of them going there," the source said. "Nobody thought it was possible. It only became logical after Dick Grasso brought it up. Nobody thought they would want to coexist together." A spokesman for the New York Stock Exchange confirmed that his exchange had "no objection to New York City talking to the Nasdaq" about moving into the tower. He declined to comment further. But clearly it would be in the exchange's interest to find another occupant for the 1.5-million-square-foot tower and move the entire project along. At this point, it's only in the design stage.
Mr. Giuliani's enthusiasm for setting up the two exchanges under one roof is understandable. The city and state agreed to acquire the land for the new building and to spend an estimated $450 million on construction as part of a deal struck last December to keep the New York Stock Exchange from leaving the city. According to a source, the Nasdaq-Amex's rent payments in the tower would help offset the cost of buying the land.
More important, the project would help shore up long-suffering lower Manhattan. The city's historic financial district has only recently begun to recover from the investment banking industry's implosion after Black Monday and the rise of have-modem, will-travel money managers who have fled Wall Street to such fashionably rustic locales as Sun Valley, Idaho, and Jackson Hole, Wyo.
The presence of both the fast-growing New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq-Amex would restore lower Manhattan as the country's financial epicenter. Both exchanges are moving toward longer trading hours which promise thousands of new jobs for Wall Street. Such a flurry of new activity would bolster the city's efforts to turn lower Manhattan, now desolate after dark, into a thriving residential mecca rivaling nearby SoHo or TriBeCa. "As they all go to 24-hour trading, it will explode downtown," a source said. "Are you kidding me? They'll need restaurants, supermarkets, everything."
Until recently, it would have been impossible to imagine the two exchanges sharing the same building. But now that the New York Stock Exchange, the nation's largest stock market, has begun talking about trading some of the Nasdaq-Amex's stocks and possibly even buying its way into the smaller market, the prospect of their sharing an address is no longer laughable. "The stock exchange is very supportive of it, very supportive of it," the source said. "And I think Frank is very supportive of it."
The source said Gov. George Pataki's administration was also behind the plan. Maura Gallucci, spokesman for the administration's Empire State Development Corporation, acknowledged that her agency had been in discussions with the Nasdaq-Amex. But she declined to comment further. "It's no secret that we've been working with Nasdaq in finding a new home for them in New York," she said. "However, it's premature to discuss any specific site."
Whether Mr. Zarb, a former Ford Administration energy czar, will actually sign a lease in the skyscraper is another question. Under his leadership, the Nasdaq has aggressively competed with the New York Stock Exchange for market share and media attention. Probably the most visible element of Mr. Zarb's tireless campaign to enhance his exchange's brand name is his interest in moving the Nasdaq's headquarters to 42nd Street and Sixth Avenue. The Nasdaq is already installing what promises to be Times Square's largest electronic billboard in the Condé Nast Building at 43rd and Broadway in a bid for more television coverage.
Given Mr. Zarb's hunger for the spotlight, he may balk at sharing an address with Mr. Grasso. However, Mr. Jones, Mr. Zarb's chief administrator, said the Nasdaq's misgivings about the plan had nothing to do with ego. Instead, he questioned whether the city could meet the extensive power and technology demands of the two exchanges with a single skyscraper building.
Mr. Jones seemed equally underwhelmed by the city's willingness to offer more incentives to get the exchange to forget about Times Square and Battery Park City and move to Wall Street. "We would hope the city and state would do that regardless of the location," he told The Observer .
Mr. Jones didn't rule out the possibility of the Nasdaq moving in with the New York Stock Exchange. But he spoke more enthusiastically of Times Square and Battery Park City. What's more, he said the exchange was also considering consolidating its Washington and New York operations in New Jersey. The Nasdaq currently has an office on Whitehall Street in lower Manhattan. The American Stock Exchange is located nearby on Trinity Place.
Several sources responded that the building, which is currently being designed for the New York Stock Exchange by the architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, could accommodate the technological needs of both exchanges. As for the needs of the two exchanges to maintain separate identities, it could be as simple as creating separate entrances. Another source insisted the city had an "ironclad" agreement with the Nasdaq that it wouldn't move to New Jersey.
Mr. Jones' statements are undoubtedly intended to send a message: The Nasdaq isn't about to be pressured by the Giuliani administration.
A source familiar with the negotiations said Mr. Zarb was much more agreeable in private meetings with city officials. Moreover, the source said he expected his interest in the Wall Street skyscraper to grow the more the New York Stock Exchange talks about joining forces. "There's going to have to be an alliance," he said. "It's big enough down there for both of them."
Filed Under: Manhattan, NYSE Group Inc., Frank Zarb
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