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CyanogenMod Installer now in Google Play store
After crossing the 9 million user mark, CyanogenMod releases an Android installer to simplify swapping your phone's current version of Android for CyanogenMod's custom ROM.
Seth Rosenblatt
Nov. 12, 2013 2:08 p.m. PT
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One of Android's biggest hang-ups could be going the way of the rotary phone, thanks to a new app released on Tuesday by CyanogenMod.
The first app published by CyanogenMod since it received $7 million in funding and incorporated in September is the CyanogenMod Installer, which streamlines installing the customized version of Android.
Installing custom versions of Android, called custom ROMs, is tricky business. CyanogenMod's new installer app aims overcome the learning curve and make it easy for any Android user to install its custom ROM.
While CyanogenMod didn't immediately have many details available, an explanation of how the installer would work by CyanogenMod co-founder and developer Steve Kondik made it clear that it would not be a "one-click" root-and-ROM procedure.
Kondik told CNET in September that the app would include step-by-step instructions, have the ability to resume installing in case of power failure, and that it would restore your device's factory settings if the install failed.
"It's horrifying to install CyanogenMod," said CyanogenMod's CEO Kirt McMaster at the time.
At its launch, the installer is limited in scope. Unlike the current version of CyanogenMod, the Installer will only work on a limited number of devices from the Google Nexus, Samsung Galaxy, and HTC One hardware lines.
The installation procedure requires connecting your phone to a Windows computer and running a Windows MSI file. A CyanogenMod representative said that Mac compatibility is in the works.
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CyanogenMod also offers several cautions. It advises that if you use the installer, you should back up your data; use a high-quality USB cable that can handle data transfer; avoid moving the phone around until the install is complete; to install only with a fully charged battery; to not use a USB hub; and to disable your antivirus software during installation.
CyanogenMod's 9 million users make it the most popular aftermarket version of Android. McMaster and Kondik hope that if their company can attract that many users with its more complicated, "command-line" installation, as McMaster described it, then an easier installation path will lead to even more people using it.
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Irene Papas (în ; ) a fost o actriță greacă și cântăreață ocazională, care a jucat în peste șaptezeci de filme într-o carieră ce s-a întins pe o perioadă mai lungă de cincizeci de ani.

Familie
Papas s-a născut sub numele de Irini Lelekou (Ειρήνη Λελέκου) în satul Chiliomodi din apropiere de orașul Corint, provincia Corintia, Grecia. Mama ei era profesoară, iar tatăl ei preda dramaturgia clasică. A făcut parte din consiliul de administrație al Fundației Anna-Marie.

Carieră
Papas și-a început cariera de actriță în Grecia (a fost descoperită de regizorul Elia Kazan), dobândind acolo o celebritate pe scară largă, înainte de a juca în filme celebre pe plan internațional precum Tunurile din Navarone (1961) și Zorba Grecul (1964) și în filme aclamate de critici precum Z (1969). A fost o figură de frunte a ecranizărilor cinematografice ale tragediilor antice, deoarece a portretizat-o pe Elena în Troienele (1969), jucând alături de Katharine Hepburn, pe Clitemnestra în Iphigenia (1977), precum și personajele titulare din Antigona (1961) și Electra (1962). A interpretat rolul Penelopei în miniserialul Odiseea din 1968 regizat de Franco Rossi. A apărut, de asemenea, în rolul Catherinei de Aragon în filmul Anne of the Thousand Days – Ana celor omie de zile (1969), alături de Richard Burton și Geneviève Bujold.

În 1976, a jucat în filmul Mohammad, Messenger of God (cunoscut, de asemenea, sub numele de The Message) despre originea Islamului și mesajul profetului Mahomed. Una dintre ultimele ei apariții în film a fost în Mandolina căpitanului Corelli.

În 1978, Papas a colaborat cu compozitorul Vangelis la realizarea albumului Odes ce conținea opt cântece populare grecești interpretate mixt vocal, respectiv în format electronic. Cei doi au colaborat din nou în 1986 la albumul Rapsodies, ce conținea șapte imnuri liturgice bizantine redate în format mixt vocal-electronic.

În 1982, a apărut în filmul Lion of the Desert, împreună cu Anthony Quinn, Oliver Reed, Rod Steiger și John Gielgud.

Activitate politică
Papas a fost membră a Partidului Comunist din Grecia (KKE), dar și o prietenă apropiat a fostului prim-ministru Andreas Papandreou și a celei de-a treia și ultima lui soție Dimitra Liani. Atunci când Liani a fost atacată de către mass-media greacă pentru pretinsa influență asupra soțului ei bolnav în timpul ultimului mandat de premier al lui Papandreou (1993-1996), Papas a susținut-o public.

Viață personală

În 1947, Papas s-a căsătorit cu regizorul de film Alkis Papas, de care a divorțat în 1951.

În 1954, l-a cunoscut pe actorul american Marlon Brando, cu care a avut o lungă relație, care a fost ținută secretă, în acei ani. Cincizeci de ani mai târziu, după moartea lui Brando, actrița și-a adus aminte cu drag de relația lor,

A doua ei căsătorie a fost cu producătorul de film José Kohn în 1957; acea căsătorie a fost ulterior anulată. Papas a fost mătușa regizorului de film Manousos Manousakis și a actorului Aias Manthopoulos.

În 2003, a făcut parte din consiliul de administrație al Fundației Anna-Marie, un fond care a oferit asistență oamenilor din zonele rurale ale Greciei.

În 2013, Papas a început să sufere de boala Alzheimer, petrecându-și ultimii ani în Chiliomodi.

Actrița și cântăreața a decedat la 14 septembrie 2022, la vârsta de 93.

Filmografie

 1951 Dead City
 1953 Torna!
 1953 The Man from Cairo
 1953 Infidelele (Le infedeli), Mario Monicelli, Steno
 1954 Teodora (Teodora, imperatrice di Bisanzio), Riccardo Freda
 1954 Attila
 1956 Legea preriei (Tribute to a Bad Man), regia Robert Wise
 1958 Climax! (TV)
 1959 Bouboulina
 1961 Tunurile din Navarone (The Guns of Navarone), regia J. Lee Thompson
 1961 Antigone
 1962 Electra, regia Michael Cacoyannis
 1964 The Moon-Spinners
 1964 Zorba Grecul (Alexis Zorbas), regia Michael Cacoyannis
 1966 Ierburi amare (Zeugin aus der Hölle), regia Zika Mitrović
 1966 Roger la Honte
 1967 Fiecăruia ce i se cuvine (A ciascuno il suo), regia Elio Petri
 1967 The Desperate Ones
 1968 Odiseea (L'Odissea, TV miniseries)
 1968 The Brotherhood
 1968
 1969 Z, regia Costa-Gavras
 1969 A Dream of Kings
 1969 Anna celor o mie de zile (Anne of the Thousand Days), regia Charles Jarrott
 1971 Oasis of Fear
 1971 The Trojan Women
 1971 Roma Bene
 1972 1931: Once Upon a Time in New York
 1972 Don't Torture a Duckling
 1973
 1973 Sutjeska, regia Stipe Delić
 1974 I'll Take Her Like a Father
 1974 Moses the Lawgiver (TV miniserie)
 1977 Mesagerul lui Allah (Mohammad, Messenger of God), regia Moustapha Akkad
 1977 Nuntă însângerată (Noces de sang), regia Souheil Ben-Barka
 1977 Iphigenia
 1979 Eboli, regia Francesco Rosi
 1979 Bloodline
 1979
 1981 Lion of the Desert
 1981 L'assistente sociale tutto pepe
 1983 Eréndira
 1983
 1984 Melvin, Son of Alvin
 1985 Into the Night
 1985 The Assisi Underground
 1987 Sweet Country
 1987 Chronicle of a Death Foretold
 1987 High Season
 1987 A Child Called Jesus (film TV)
 1989 Island
 1990 Nirvana Street Murder
 1994 Jacob (film TV)
 1996 Party
 1997 The Odyssey (TV miniseries)
 1998 Anxiety
 1998 Yerma, regia Pilar Távora
 2001 Captain Corelli's Mandolin
 2003 A Talking Picture

 Premii și onoruri internaționale
 1961: Antigone (film)
 1962: Festivalul Internațional de Film de la Salonic (premiul pentru cea mai bună actriță, pentru filmul Elektra)
 1962: Uniunea Criticilor de Film Greci (premiul pentru cea mai bună actriță, pentru filmul Elektra)
 1969: New York Film Critics Circle (nominalizată la premiul pentru  cea mai bună actriță în rol secundar, pentru filmul Z)
 1971: National Board of Review (premiul pentru cea mai bună actriță, pentru filmul The Trojan Women)
 1985: Premiul Fennecus (nominalizată la premiul pentru cea mai bună actriță într-un rol secundar, pentru filmul Into the Night)
 1989: Australian Film Institute (nominalizată la premiul pentru cea mai bună actriță, pentru filmul Island'')
 1993: Festivalul Internațional de Film Hamptons  (premiul pentru o contribuție deosebită)
 1993: Premiul Flaiano pentru Teatru (premiul pentru întreaga carieră)
 2000: Institutul Național de Arte din Madrid (premiul pentru întreaga carieră)
 2000: Festivalul Internațional al Filmului Feminin (premiul pentru întreaga carieră)
 2001: Universitatea din Roma (doctorat onorific în arte și litere)
 2002: Premiul Woman of Europe (premiul pentru întreaga carieră)

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Legături externe

Nașteri în 1926
Nașteri pe 3 septembrie
Decese în 2022
Decese pe 14 septembrie
Actrițe grecoaice
Cântărețe grecoaice
Comandori ai Ordinului Artelor și Literelor
Comuniști greci
Greci expatriați în Italia
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Today marks the end of a nearly 25-year career with the Alachua County Sheriff's Office for Capt. Emery Gainey, who is leaving for a job in Tallahassee with Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum.
"It's not a matter of not having a lot of fun here," Gainey said Tuesday. "I'm leaving because it's just a great opportunity that was made available to me."
Gainey, 48, is only a few months shy of his 25-year mark with the Alachua County Sheriff's Office, having started as a patrol deputy in 1982. He spent time working in community relations, public information and human resources during his time at the Sheriff's Office, and he was promoted to second-in-command as a colonel under former Sheriff Steve Oelrich in 2005, according to Human Resources Bureau Chief Louise Grimm.
"He was definitely a valuable part of the agency for many years," she said.
Gainey ran for sheriff in the 2006 election after Oelrich announced he was leaving, but he lost the November election to Sadie Darnell.
Once Darnell was elected, she chose to bring in her own second-in-command, Chief Deputy David Huckstep.
Gainey was reassigned to oversee special projects and was demoted to the rank of captain.
Gainey's last day at the Sheriff's Office is today, and he said his job with the Office of the Attorney General begins June 11.
His position in Tallahassee will be as a law enforcement liaison, and he will coordinate statewide programs among law enforcement agencies.
"There's not a lot I haven't done here," Gainey said when asked why he chose to leave Gainesville. "Now I have an opportunity to take a lot of that training, experience and networking to a statewide basis."
Darnell said she received Gainey's letter, which stated his intent to retire, on May 7. Gainey said Tuesday that he originally planned to retire, but changed his plans once the position in Tallahassee came together.
Darnell said she accepted Gainey's letter earlier this month with mixed emotions.
"On the one hand, I regret not having an opportunity to get to know him better and work with him," she said. "But I'm also excited about his new future and new role and look forward to working with him in that regard."
Gainey said he will miss Gainesville, but is excited for the new opportunity that awaits him in Tallahassee.
"I've had a great, just really a wonderful career here," he said.


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Dr. Chung has recently published "CelloMind: Intonation and Technique", a prominent cello method book co-authored with Hans Jorgen Jensen, Distinguished Cello Professor at Northwestern University Bienen School of Music.
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Dr. Chung is the cellist of the Desautels Piano Trio and the Nacka Duo, which continues to tour extensively in recital and lecture performances at world music conferences, primarily focusing on the art of chamber music. In 2007, Minna made her Carnegie Hall debut with her Pangea String Quartet featuring signature works commissioned by the Kronos Quartet. Currently, Dr. Chung tours as a member of the Munich Symphony Orchestra, performs regularly with the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, and enjoys performing in various music collaborations across the country. International tours include Canada, UK, Sweden, Germany, Serbia, Poland, Brazil, Asia and the USA.
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How wonderful to be able to see this portal! The architects who came after me managed perfectly to express what I wanted this façade to convey.
I still remember how I worked during that winter of 1911… While I was convalescing from a long illness that had left me at death's door, I began to draw the first sketches. My concentration on the design was such that my disciples were afraid to come and consult me on aspects of the work, for fear of disturbing me. The Façade of the Nativity conveys the joy of living, but this Facade of the Passion, does just the opposite. It is about the suffering of Christ and His death. That is why it had to be austere, stark, cold and un-ornate.
I described its nature myself when I said: "Some may find this doorway too extravagant. But I wanted it to inspire fear, and to do so I used plenty of chiaroscuro, recesses and protrusions, all of which provided a gloomy effect. What's more, I am prepared to sacrifice the very building itself, to break down arches and cut away columns, in order to give some idea of the cruelty of His Sacrifice".
That is also why the facade faces west, and therefore receives the last rays of sunshine before it gets dark. This layout heightens the symbolic effect of darkness and shadows that I wanted to achieve.


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- Allow special indexers to index `None` as well as remove unused index properties from the entity
- Added IDs to system check errors, allowing them to be silenced
- Computed fields now allow the computing function to be passed as a string containing the name of a method, rather than the function object itself.
- `ListField` and `SetField` can now still be pickled when a non-callable default is specified. This was preventing them being used
 in migrations.
- Improve the approx SQL representation of Datastore commands (update, delete etc.)
- Default value for failure_behaviour in `process_task_queues` is now `RAISE_ERROR`. Tasks will no longer fail silently when processed using this method in unit tests.
- Add djangae.compat to handle SDK structural changes

### Bug fixes:

 - Fixed performance issues and bugs in the Djangae core paginator
 - Fix several issues with the test sandbox
 - Initialize the app_identity stub in the test sandbox
 - Replace `print()` statements with `logging.debug()` in all unittests
 - Silence stdout output during testing
 - Logging output silenced during `manage.py test` execution
 - Fix management command `--help` output
 - Create .editorconfig to ensure basic editor settings are consistent between users
 - Fix import error in SDK 1.9.60
 - Add .flake8 file to move towards enforcement code standard

## v0.9.10

### New features & improvements:

 - A new contrib app `djangae.contrib.processing.mapreduce` has been added to provide a Django-friendly API to mapreduce. The existing
   `djangae.contrib.mappers` API has been reimplemented in terms of `djangae.contrib.processing.mapreduce`
 - Add support for the latest App Engine SDK (1.9.51)
 - The default ports for the API server, admin server and blobstore service have changed to 8010, 8011, and 8012 respectively to avoid clashes with modules
 - Switched the default storage backend (in settings_base.py) to cloud storage. If you need to retain compatibility make sure you
 override the `DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE` setting to point to `'djangae.storage.BlobstoreStorage'`.
 - Added AsyncMultiQuery as a replacement for Google's MultiQuery (which doesn't exist on Cloud Datastore).  This is the first step towards support for Cloud Datastore and therefore Flexible Environment.
 - Added a configurable memory limit to the context cache, limited the number of instances cached from query results and corrected `disable_cache` behaviour.
- Added support for running migrations on the Datastore using Django migrations.
- Added a test to confirm query slicing works correctly.
- Added `ComputedCollationField` to generate correct ordering for unicode strings.
- Changed CloudStorage and BlobstoreStorage storage backends to return HTTPS URLs for images (instead of the previous protocol-relative URLs).
- Implemented an entirely new means of storing the indexes for contains and icontains queries. **If you have existing
  entities which use the current indexing, you MUST set `DJANGAE_USE_LEGACY_CONTAINS_LOGIC = True` in your settings!!**
  This will be removed in the next release of Djangae so you'll need to re-save your entities with this setting set to False before upgrading (see [detailed release notes](docs/release_notes/0_9_10.md)).
- Added support for the 1.9.54 SDK
- Implemented a full application that can be deployed to production GAE for testing real-world scenarios against GCP environment
- Added `djangae.contrib.backup` app

### Bug fixes:

 - When running the local sandbox, if a port clash is detected then the next port will be used (this was broken before)
 - Accessing the Datastore from outside tests will no longer throw an error when using the test sandbox
 - Fix an error which occurred when a migrations module is not importable
 - The in-context cache is now reliably wiped when the testbed is initialized for each test.
 - Fixed an ImportError when the SDK is not on sys.path.
 - Fix issue where serialization of IterableFields resulted in invalid JSON
 - Updated the documenation to say that DJANGAE_CREATE_UNKNOWN_USER defaults to True.
 - Fixed a hard requirement on PIL/Pillow when running the tests. Now, the images stub will not be available if Pillow isn't installed.
 - os.environ is now correctly updated with task headers when using process_task_queues in tests
 - process_task_queues can now be controlled by passing the `failure_behaviour` argument as appropriate
 - process_task_queues will no longer propagate exceptions from tasks, instead use the `failure_behaviour` to control what happens
   if an exception occurs in a task
 - Ensure that the order of values in a RelatedListField are respected when updated via a form.
 - Make mapreduce optional again (#926).
 - Fixed a bug where filter(pk__gt=0) would return no results, rather than all of them
 - We no longer truncate string keys automatically and the max string key length is now the Datastore supported 1500 bytes
 - Fixed AsyncMultiQuery offset and limiting

## v0.9.9 (release date: 27th March 2017)

### New features & improvements:

- Added preliminary support for Django 1.11 (not yet released, don't upgrade yet!)
- The system check for session_csrf now works with the MIDDLEWARE setting when using Django >= 1.10.
- System check for deferred builtin which should always be switched off.
- Implemented weak (memcache) locking to contrib.locking
- The `disable_cache` decorator now wraps the returned function with functools.wraps
- `prefetch_related()` now works on RelatedListField and RelatedSetField
- Added a test for Model.objects.none().filter(pk=xyz) type filters
- Use `user.is_authenticated` instead of `user.is_authenticated()` when using Django >= 1.10.
- Added `max_length` and `min_length` validation support to `ListField`, `SetField`, `RelatedListField` and `RelatedSetField`.
- Moved checks verifying csrf, csp and template loader configuration from djangae-scaffold into Djangae.
- Renamed `contrib.gauth.datastore` and `contrib.gauth.sql` to `contrib.gauth_datastore` and `contrib.gauth_sql` respectively.
    - This change requires you to update your settings to reference the new app names.
    - The old names still work for now but will trigger deprecation warnings.
    - DB table names for Datastore-based models have not changed.  DB table name for the SQL User model has changed, but wasn't entirely usable before anyway.
- Moved everything from `contrib.gauth.common.*` to the parent `contrib.gauth` module.  I.e. removed the `.common` part.
    - This change requires you to update your application to reference/import from the new paths.
    - The old paths still work for now but will trigger deprecation warnings.
- Cleaned up the query fetching code to be more readable. Moved where result fetching happens to be inline with other backends, which makes Django Debug Toolbar query profiling output correct
- Cleaned up app_id handling in --sandbox management calls
- The default GCS bucket name is now cached when first read, saving on RPC calls
- Updated `AppEngineSecurityMiddleware` to work with Django >= 1.10
- Added a test for prefetching via RelatedSetField/RelatedListField. Cleaned up some related code.
- Allow the sandbox argument to be at any position.
- Added some tests for the management command code.
- Added a test to prove that the ordering specified on a model's `_meta` is used for pagination, when no custom order has been specified on the query set.
- Added a `@task_or_admin_only` decorator to `djangae.environment` to allow restricting views to tasks (including crons) or admins of the application.

### Bug fixes:

- Fixed a minor bug where entities were still added to memcache (but not fetched from it) with `DJANGAE_CACHE_ENABLED=False`.  This fix now allows disabling the cache to be a successful workaround for https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7876.
- Fixed a bug where entities could still be fetched from memcache with `DJANGAE_CACHE_ENABLED=False` when saving in a transaction or deleting them.
- Fixed overlap filtering on RelatedListField and RelatedSetField (Thanks Grzes!)
- Fixed various issues with `djangae.contrib.mappers.defer_iteration`, so that it no longers gets stuck deferring tasks or hitting memory limit errors when uses on large querysets.
- Fixed an issue where having a ForeignKey to a ContentType would cause an issue when querying due to the large IDs produced by djangae.contrib.contenttypes's SimulatedContentTypesManager.
- Fix a problem with query parsing which would throw a NotSupportedError on Django 1.8 if you used an empty Q() object in a filter
- Cascade deletions will now correctly batch object collection within the datastore query limits, fixing errors on deletion.
- Fixed missing `_deferred` attribute in Django models for versions >= 1.10
- Fixed an error when submitting an empty JSONFormField
- Fixed a bug where an error would be thrown if you loaded an entity with a JSONField that had non-JSON data, now the data is returned unaltered
- Fixed a bug where only("pk") wouldn't perform a keys_only query
- Dropped the deprecated patterns() from contrib.locking.urls
- Fixed a bug where search indexes weren't saved when they were generated in the local shell
- Fixed a bug where permissions wouldn't be created when using Django's PermissionsMixin on the datastore (for some reason)
- Fixed a bug where a user's username would be set to the string 'None' if username was not populated on an admin form
- Fixed `djangae.contrib.mappers.defer.defer_iteration` to allow inequality filters in querysets
- Fixed a bug in `djangae.contrib.mappers.defer.defer_iteration` where `_shard` would potentially ignore the first element of the queryset
- Fixed an incompatibility between appstats and the cloud storage backend due to RPC calls being made in the __init__ method
- Fixed a bug where it wasn't possible to add validators to djangae.fields.CharField
- Fixed a bug where entries in `RelatedSetField`s and `RelatedListField`s weren't being converted to the same type as the primary key of the model
- Fixed a bug where running tests would incorrectly load the real search stub before the test version
- Fixed a bug where IDs weren't reserved with the datastore allocator immediately and so could end up with a race-condition where an ID could be reused
- Fixed runserver port not being passed to devappserver

### Documentation:

- Improved documentation for `djangae.contrib.mappers.defer_iteration`.
- Changed the installation documentation to reflect the correct way to launch tests

## v0.9.8 (release date: 6th December 2016)

### New features & improvements:

- Cleaned up and refactored internal implementation of `SimulatedContentTypeManager`. Now also allows patching `ContentType` manager in migrations.
- Add ability to specify GAE target instance for remote command with `--app_id` flag
- When App Engine raises an `InvalidSenderError` when trying to send an email, Djangae now logs the 'from' address which is invalid (App Engine doesn't include it in the error).

### Bug fixes:

- Fixed an issue where Django Debug Toolbar would get a `UnicodeDecodeError` if a query contained a non-ascii character.
- Fixed an issue where getting and flushing a specific `TaskQueue` using the test stub (including when using `djangae.test.TestCase.process_task_queues`) would flush all task queues.
- Fixed a bug in our forced contenttypes migration
- Fixed `./manage.py runserver` not working with Django 1.10 and removed a RemovedInDjango110Warning message at startup.
- Restore `--nothreading` functionality to runserver (this went away when we dropped support for the old dev_appserver)
- Fixed a bug where the `dumpurls` command had stopped working due to subtle import changes.
- Utilise `get_serving_url` to get the correct url for serving images from Cloud Storage.
- Fixed a side effect of that ^ introduction of `get_serving_url` which would add an entity group to any transaction in which it was called (due to the Datastore read done by `get_serving_url`).
- Fixed fetching url for non images after introduction of `get_serving_url` call inside `CloudStorage` url method.
- Fixed fetching url for files after introduction of `get_serving_url` call inside `BlobstoreStorage` url method when file is bigger than 32MB.
- Fixed `gauth` middleware to update user email address if it gets changed

## v0.9.7 (release date: 11th August 2016)

### New features & improvements:

- Added support for Django 1.10.
- Changed the querying of `ListField` and `SetField`, which now works similiarly to PostgreSQL ArrayField. `isnull` lookup has been replaced with `isempty`, `exact` with `contains` and `in` with `overlap`. This is a breaking change, so stick to Djangae 0.9.6 or update your code.
- Made a slight efficiency improvement so that `my_queryset.filter(pk__in=other_queryset)` will use `other_queryset.values_list('pk')` rather than fetching the full objects.
- Added clearsessions view.

### Bug fixes:

- Fixed a circular import in djangae.db.utils.
- Fixed sandbox problem with non-final django versions in the testapp.
- Fixed a bug where the console URL stored in a mapreduce job's status entity was incorrect.

### Documentation:

- Added documentation about querying `ListField` and `SetField`.

## v0.9.6 (release date: 1st August 2016)

### New features & improvements:

- ALLOWED_HOSTS is now set to ("*",) by default as App Engine deals with routing and this prevents
  users being confused when their deployed app returns 400 responses.
- Added version string to `__init__`.
- Added an `--install_deps` flag to the `runtests.sh` script to allow triggering of dependency installation without having to delete the SDK folder.
- Added an `--install_sdk` flag to both the `runtests.sh` script and to the `install_deps.py` script in the bundled 'testapp'.
- The `count()` method on `ShardedCounterField` is deprecated because its function was ambiguous or misleading and was often mistakenly used instead of `value()`. It is replaced with a `shard_count()` method.
- It is now possible to have a per-app djangaeidx.yaml file which can be distributed. The indexes in this file
  are combined in memory with the ones from the project root's djangaeidx.yaml. This means that a user of your app
  will not be required to run queries to generate indexes or manually add them to their project file.
- Made a small performance improvement to avoid checking for changes to djangaeindx.yaml files when on production.

### Bug fixes:

- Fixed a regression that prevented precreated users from logging in when `DJANGAE_CREATE_UNKNOWN_USER` is False.
- Fixed a bug where the IntegrityError for a unique constraint violation could mention the wrong field(s).
- Changed the default value of `DJANGAE_CREATE_UNKNOWN_USER` to `True` to match the original behaviour.
- Fixed a bug where simulate contenttypes was required even on a SQL database
- Fixed a bug where filtering on an empty PK would result in an inequality filter being used
- Fixed a bug where making a projection query on time or datetime fields will return truncated values without microseconds
- Fixed a test which could intermittently fail (`test_ordering_on_sparse_field`).
- Fixed a bug where an empty upload_to argument to FileField would result in a broken "./" folder in Cloud Storage.
- Fixed an issue where pre-created users may not have been able to log in if the email address associated with their Google account differed in case to the email address saved in their pre-created User object.
- Made configuration changes to the bundled 'testapp' to allow the `runserver` command to work.
- Fixed a bug in the `install_deps.py` script in the bundled 'testapp' where it would always re-install the App Engine SDK, even if it already existed.

### Documentation:

- Added documentation for:
    - Creating users for gauth.
    - djangaeidx.yaml.
- Improved documentation for:
    - Installation
    - Transactions
    - JSONField
    - RelatedSetField
    - Running management commands locally and remotely
- Fixed incorrect documentation for:
    - The restrictions on projection queries.
- Removed "experimental" flag from the "namespaces" feature of the Datastore DB backend.

## v0.9.5 (release date: 6th June 2016)

### New features & improvements:

- Added the ability to pre-create users in the Django admin who can then log in via Google Accounts.  (Previously you could only pre-create users via the shell.)
- Added new `assert_login_required` and `assert_login_admin` methods to `djangae.test.TestCase`.
- Improved ordering of `sys.path` so that libraries in the application folder take precedence over libraries that are bundled with the SDK (with some hard-to-avoid exceptions).
- Added `djangae.contrib.locking`, for preventing simultaneous executing of functions or blocks of code.
- Moved and renamed several functions from `djangae.utils` to `djangae.environment`.
- Added new task utility functions: `is_in_task()`, `task_name()`, `task_queue_name()`, `task_retry_count()`.
- Extended runserver's file watcher patching to allow ignoring of directories.
- Add tasks utility functions to djangae.environment.
- Alias DatastorePaginator -> Paginator, and DatastorePage -> Page to be more like Django
- Moved `ContentType` patching to `djangae.contrib.contenttypes`. `DJANGAE_SIMULATE_CONTENTTYPES` setting has been removed, add `djangae.contrib.contenttypes` to `INSTALLED_APPS` instead. `djangae.contrib.contenttypes` needs to be after `django.contrib.contenttypes` in the `INSTALLED_APPS` order.
- Allow customization of which user data is synced in gauth `AuthenticationMiddleware`.
- Allow passing `on_change` callback run when ShardedCounter is changed.

### Bug fixes:

- Fixed `atomic` and `non_atomic` transaction decorators/context managers so that they can be called recursively.
- Fix `JSONField` behaviour in forms: it's properly validating JSON string before saving
it and returns json object, not string when accessed through `cleaned_data`.
- Fixing `ListFormField.clean` to return `[]` instead of `None` for empty values.
- Fix computed field `None` values.
- Made retrieving `blob-key` in `BlobstoreFileUploadHandler` easier by using `content_type_extra`. This removes
ugly hacks from before Django 1.7, and fixes issue with regex in `BlobstoreFileUploadHandler` not recognizing
filenames properly.
- Making auth backend catch race condition when creating a new user.
- Fix for `RelatedIterator` that fails when related iterated fields model is set as string.
- Ensure `MapReduceTask `uses the db returned by the application router(s) unless explicitly passed.
- Fixed bug with `__iexact` indexer where values containing underscores would not be correctly indexed.  (Existing objects will need to be re-saved to be correctly indexed.)
- Allow running Djangae tests with non-stable, non-master version of Django.

### Documentation:

- Added a note about `dumpurls` command in documentation
- Updated contributing documentation

## v0.9.4 (release date: 4th April 2016)

This is our first release bringing support for Django 1.9, and dropping support for 1.7.

If you're still using Django 1.7 in your project:
- Upgrade! 1.7 is no longer supported upstream either and has known security issues
- If you can't upgrade, either pin your requirements on 0.9.3 release, or use the 1-7-stable branch, which may receive small fixes if necessary.

### New features & improvements:

 - Added support for Django 1.9
 - The deletion query code has been rewritten entirely to use `DeleteAsync` and now tries to perform deletions in transactional batches of 25. This should result in improved performance but may introduce subtle changes in behaviour, please keep an eye out for issues. For more details take a look at the extensive comment in the `DeleteCommand` class for all the reasons why this is particularly tricky to get right and keep fast.
 - Refactored unique constrains to make them more robust and reliable, fixing edge cases that could cause duplication of unique values.
 - Refactored `InsertCommand` (related to the unique constrains), performance improvements.
 - The Google auth backend has been updated, and a new setting `DJANGAE_CREATE_UNKNOWN_USER` has been added. This replaces the previous settings `DJANGAE_FORCE_USER_PRE_CREATION` and `DJANGAE_ALLOW_USER_PRE_CREATION`.
  - For new projects, `DJANGAE_CREATE_UNKNOWN_USER` defaults to False, meaning you will have to create user objects in the database with matching email addresses to allow people to access your site. For existing projects, the auth backend will recognise the old auth-related settings.
  - If `DJANGAE_CREATE_UNKNOWN_USER=True` then a Django user object will be created automatically when a user accesses your site (if there is no matching user already).
 - Added support for `keep_parents=True` in concrete model inheritance
 - Added support for filters aside from exact on special lookups like `__month` or `__day`. So things like `datefield__month__gt=X` work now
 - Replaced `ensure_instance_included` with `ensure_instance_consistent`
 - Added `ensure_instances_consistent` for the multiple object case
 - Added option to pass `_target` argument to `defer_iteration` in mappers

### Bug fixes:

 - Fixed a bug when saving forms with a RelatedListField or RelatedSetField (#607)
 - JSONField fixes after removing SubfieldBase dependency - to_python added and default value not converted to string anymore

### Documentation:

 - Improvements to storage documentation
 - Replaced links in docs to use https version

## v0.9.3 (release date: 8th March 2016)

### New features & improvements:
- Added support for namespaces
- Refactored cache
- Added Djangae's `CharField` that limits the length by bytes, not characters.
- Improved exception message when encountering multiple inequality filters or uniqueness validation
- Now allowing to override `google_acl` option when uploading to Google Cloud Storage
- Added `BinaryField`
- Added documentation for storage backends
- Added `DJANGAE_IGNORE_REGEXES` settings that allows to only restart dev server for changes on specific filenames. In default, restart dev server only when a `.py`, `.html` or `.yaml` file changes
- Allow `MapReduceTask` tasks to be run on a specific task queue
- Added `ensure_instance_included` to `djangae.db.consistency`
- `djangae.contrib.gauth` now always add users with their emails lowercased
- Provided limited options for `on_delete` on `RelatedSetField` and `RelatedListField`
- Renamed `AppEngineUserAPI` to `AppEngineUserAPIBackend`

### Bug fixes:
- Special indexing now works on fields that are primary keys too
- Fixed a bug with special indexing of datetime fields, that now allows for `__year` or `__month` lookups
- Allow serializing queries containing non-ascii characters
- Don't parse floats as decimals, fixing a bug that causes them to be returned as strings after multiple saves
- `.distinct(x).values_list(x)` no longer cause an error due to the same column being projected twice
- Don't die in `allow_mode_write` if the tempfile module is unavailable
- Fix problems with querying on related fields
- Fixed bug when using `RelatedListField` on a form
- Don't allow ordering by a `TextField`
- Properly limiting number of results when excludes are used
- Allow migrations to work on gauth sql User model

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Accounting: Method of inventory valuation based on the assumption that goods are sold or used in the opposite chronological order in which they are bought. Hence, the cost of goods purchased first (first-in) is the cost of goods sold last (last-out). To visualize this, it may be easier to consider inventory to be a stack of plates. The first plates added (first-in) will stay at the bottom of the stack as long as new plates are added on top. In times of rising prices the FILO method records the sale of the most recent (hence, more expensive) item first. FILO is the same as the last in, first out (LIFO) accounting method.


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Gebruik me is een lied van de Nederlandse zangeres Zoë Tauran in samenwerking met rapper Frenna. Het werd in 2022 als single uitgebracht.

Achtergrond
Gebruik me is geschreven door Zoë Tauran, Francis Junior Edusei, Carlos Vrolijk en Brahim Fouradi en geproduceerd door Project Money. Het is een nummer uit de genres nederhop en nederpop. In het lied wordt een ongezonde relatie beschreven. De liedverteller houdt veel van de ander, maar weet dat de ander niet van de haar houdt. Toch wil ze bij de ander zijn, tot zo ver dat ze vraag of de ander haar "gebruikt", om toch een beetje liefde te voelen. Tauran vertelde dat ze de situatie die in het nummer wordt beschreven, zelf heeft meegemaakt. Het is de eerste keer dat de twee artiesten met elkaar samenwerken.

Hitnoteringen
De artiesten hadden succes met het lied in de Nederlandse hitlijsten. In de Single Top 100 kwam het tot de tweede plek en was het zestien weken te vinden. De piekpositie in de Top 40 was de 27e plaats. Het stond vier weken in deze hitlijst.

Single uit 2022
Nummer van Zoë Tauran
Nummer van Frenna


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Where did synth-pop and electro-pop come from, and what it's difference?
Reinaldy Rafli
I recognize that they're both using synthesizer on their songs, that I think that they're came from the same roots, but nowadays they likely to expand their type.
For example, I define The 1975 (band) is a mix of synth-pop and rock, but Au Revoir, Simone (band) is kinda electro-pop that likely to synth-pop.
Is it correct that both genre came from the same roots?
What's the difference between those genres?
Synth Pop really just means any pop music that is oriented around synthesizer sounds. It's a broad term and most synth pop bands could also be labelled with another more specific genre such as dream pop, new wave, new romantic or so on. You could argue that synth pop in the widest sense doesn't culturally 'come from' anywhere apart from the increasing availability of synthesizers from the 70s onwards.
The term 'Electro' on its own most usually refers to the crossover between early electronic pop music such as Kraftwerk, American DJ-oriented hip-hop and disco cultures, and funk music. One example is Herbie Hancock's Rockit. Another is Afrika Bambaataa & the Soulsonic Force's Planet Rock, which features robotic voices and an emphasised harsh electronic sound.
As for "Electro-Pop" - I don't think that term is widely understood to mean anything very specific. You might notice that Au Revoir, Simone aren't labelled as 'Electro-Pop' in their Wikipedia article, while referenced artists in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electropop include Britney Spears, LMFAO, and Taio Cruz. It could be just a synonym for 'synth-pop', though it's somewhat redundant these days to say that, as electronic instrumentation is so common. It could also refer to a pop act that references the gritty early 'electro' sound (Such as techno artists do in the 'electroclash' genre).
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Today you can get computers with different designs but what about having a living room decorated in your PC? A Russian artist made a model of a living room that has a sofa, armchairs, coffee table and a working lamp, in his computer. The living room is even containing a gumball machine, bottle of coke and the New York Times magazine.
Other creative works are food that has been imaginatively transformed into a variety of landscapes.
Someone's little sister is pissed "Mom, he took my doll house stuff again!" Mother clearly believes son is homosexual.
I had the KT3Ultra. Nice board. Yours is nicer though. Heh.


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PT. BEKA Indonesia
Benson Engelbert Kawengian is a serial entrepreneur based in Jakarta and Singapore. He currently manages a boutique investment and asset management firm, Beka Capital with focus sectors in property, infrastructure and technology.
In his 10+ years of entrepreneurial journey, he has build and sold multiple companies. Most recently, he was the founding partner of PT. Pico TBA, an engagement marketing company, in partnership with HK-listed Pico Group. He has been a Director of PT. Datra Internusa, a coating manufacturing company in Indonesia since 2010. He also had a brief professional stint as an Analytics executive at Bloomberg LP.
He is deeply passionate about education and children. He is former Curator of TEDxJakarta, and former Host of TechCamp Jakarta. Along this line, earlier this year, he invested in a football-education company dedicated to teaching technical skills to as many children as possible in Indonesia.
Benson earned his MBA from University of Queensland with High Distinction, and went to UCLA and University of Canterbury for his undergraduate studies.


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Chasing dreams is never easy. That's why they're called dreams – they exist in that space somewhere between reality and delusion, and it's our job to bridge the gap between the two. If you are on your path to chasing your dreams, there are probably some obstacles you're expecting. Hard work. Long hours. Lots of rejection. Feeling overwhelmed. Feeling like the newbie. Imposter syndrome. Demanding bosses. Lessons learned the hard way. You probably know there will be many things, people, and events that try to limit you. But you may have never guessed that the person who may work the hardest to limit you would be yourself.
Shining bright takes bravery. Standing out isn't always comfortable – that's why it's called standing out, you're separate from the rest. One thing that can be particularly challenging about success is feeling that it creates distance between you and your loved ones who have perhaps not attained success. It's incredibly common to have feelings of guilt about surpassing your support system. Surpassing them doesn't mean abandoning them – but you might tell yourself that it does. And if you do that, you might limit your potential in order to make those around you comfortable. When you get past the long hours and tough bosses and hard lessons, the final gatekeeper to success may be you. We spoke with Deana Davis (IG: @deanadavis_lsw), author of "Self Love Work Book" about signs you limit your potential to make others comfortable, and why you do it.
Expecting perfection is limiting
When we talk about limiting your potential to make loved ones comfortable, the mind might instantly go to not trying as hard, and not going after goals. But sometimes, limiting behaviors manifest in a very different way, as shown by one of Davis' stories about a client. She brought up a client who is in medical school, and who wants to pay homage to her family who paved the way for her to get there. Every step she takes, she takes under the pressure of, "I must be perfect, for my family." But those expectations of perfection can be limiting in and of themselves.
You must feel free to fail
Davis explained that her patient would be incredibly hard on herself if she didn't get a perfect grade on something, full of fears that her family wouldn't be proud of her. Because of this, she didn't feel she had the freedom to make mistakes and to even fail sometimes – both of which are an integral part of success, in the long run. When the client would get a bad grade, "Rather than thinking 'Okay things happen,' she felt she failed her family," explains Davis.
With failure comes growth
"It's a limiting thought process…A 'lack mentality,'" says Davis, about those who are so focused on perfect results to impress others, that they don't appreciate the lessons learned in making mistakes. "With failure comes growth. There needs to be the freedom to fail. It's about how you view it."
When it's part of your heritage
"From a historical standpoint, certain ethnicity groups are pre-wired to dim their own light," explains Davis. "That's a component a lot of people don't think about as they're transitioning into adulthood or motherhood or their careers. That pre-wiring sets the tone of dimming one's light instinctually. In therapy, you learn to think 'Let me step out of that shadow of historically dimming my light.'"
How the pressure impacts the relationship
Whether living under the pressure to be perfect to honor your ancestors or feeling guilty for making progress, both of those limiting experiences can impact the relationship with the very people you hope to please. Davis explained that a lot of that impact will depend on where someone is in their personal growth.
Some don't even see it
"Someone who hasn't put any work into growing or healing or maturing, they may not feel the resentment," explains Davis. "They may think 'This [the pressure to dim one's light] is okay. This is what I'm supposed to do…I don't want my mom or dad to think that I think I'm better than them."
If you're healed, you don't take it personally
"For someone who is more experienced with growth and healing and focused on themselves, the focus shifts. Their success isn't supposed to be about anyone else," says Davis, adding that these individuals can say to their family, "This isn't about you. I understand you may feel that I'm acting like I'm better than you, but this is actually about me."
Taking back control of the process
"Someone who is healed may not feel resentment," Davis says of goal-getters with families who hold limiting beliefs. "They're more open to shining their light. They can say 'I don't care what you think. This is what I want to do. If you don't want to be a part of my process, I'm okay with letting you go.' Not like cutting them off but, just not making them a part of the process."
Are you limiting yourself?
If you're struggling to know where you stand in all of this, Davis listed some signs you may be limiting yourself for the comfort of others. One such sign is, "You're constantly saying yes to things that you don't want to do. You're putting your own needs on the back burner for other people. You can do it without realizing it or recognizing it. In that sense, you're being a people pleaser. That is another form of limiting yourself. You're limiting yourself so that other people can feel comfortable."
SOURCE: MADAMENOIRE.COM


Owners of electric cars are able to install charging stations for the loading of their vehicles' traction battery at their own garage. These wall charging stations have the benefits to load the vehicles' battery a lot faster, thereby being more energy-efficient and without complicated wiring compared to standard domestic sockets. MCD Elektronik developed a test system for the testing with various current loads for a well-known manufacturer of these charging stations. This results in that the approved product is usable in different variants for power classes from 3,5 kw up to 22 kW.
The FCT station performs functional tests and programming efforts at the control PCB of the product, while the EOLT station tests all quality relevant characteristics of the final product, meaning, the integrated PCB inside the housing. After a positive test result, an appropriate label is printed and the product cap is screwed onto the housing. The wall charging station is now ready for delivery.


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Volume 93 Issue 44 | pp. 10-14
Issue Date: November 9, 2015
Medical Imaging Turns To Oft-Neglected Part Of Light Spectrum
Advances in far-infrared spectroscopy could aid cancer diagnosis, but technology faces challenges
By Mitch Jacoby
Department: Science & Technology | Collection: Life Sciences
News Channels: Analytical SCENE, Biological SCENE, Materials SCENE
Keywords: terahertz, spectroscopy, imaging, biomedical, cancer
Structural changes in human scar tissue that are nearly invisible to the eye show up in terahertz images months after the wound appears to have healed (left, 3 months after injury; right, 6 months).
Credit: Pickwell-MacPherson group/Chinese U. Hong Kong
The slice of the electromagnetic spectrum sandwiched between the infrared and microwave regions used to be known as the "terahertz gap" because scientists lacked the tools to access it. Not anymore.
"In the last several years, terahertz spectroscopy has really found its footing," says Yale University's Charles A. Schmuttenmaer, one of the field's pioneers.
Previously, he explains, the difficulty in generating and detecting terahertz light restricted scientists' ability to explore ways to use the light to study matter. Now, thanks to advances in instrumentation, commercial terahertz equipment has become widely available, and that has spurred development of terahertz imaging for cancer diagnosis and other biomedical applications.
Before these recent developments, only a limited number of scientists worked with light in the terahertz region (1 THz = 1012 Hz), also known as far-infrared radiation. For decades, they used this portion of the electromagnetic spectrum and the nearby microwave region to interrogate molecules for studies in spectroscopy, astronomy, and other areas.
The recent advent of affordable, fast-laser-based systems for generating and detecting THz light has led to nearly exponential growth in the number of research papers in the THz field, says Emma Pickwell-MacPherson. Those papers detail "a plethora of potential applications," says Pickwell-MacPherson, an engineering professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and a specialist in THz imaging of biological tissue.
THz light interacts with matter differently than other types of radiation. Unlike the familiar effects of infrared light, for example, which include inducing bending and stretching motions of water and other molecules, THz light causes collective motions of groups of water molecules—water cluster dances, in effect.
Water absorbs THz light quite strongly. That property means that THz spectroscopy is highly sensitive to changes in the water content of materials. And because skin and other tissues are full of water, that sensitivity can be exploited for biomedical imaging applications.
For example, as Pickwell-MacPherson explains, healthy tissues and tumors differ in terms of how they interact with THz light based on differences in their water and blood concentrations, tissue structures, and other factors that alter their optical properties. So if a THz beam illuminates a patch of skin containing normal and cancerous regions, those differences can be discerned by analyzing the light reflected by the skin. Because water absorbs THz light so strongly, a tumor can be detected even when the differences between it and healthy tissue are subtle.
"That sensitivity can be a blessing and a curse," Pickwell-MacPherson says, because any small change will strongly affect the signal, even one caused by an experimental artifact. As a result, researchers must take pains to control humidity, temperature, and other variables. She acknowledges that the sensitivity to experimental conditions has led to some debate about the practicality of this imaging strategy, which has slowed its adoption.
Still, THz-based imaging offers several advantages over traditional medical imaging techniques. Those benefits are driving scientists in academia and industry to push on with development despite the limitations. The biggest driver is safety. Unlike X-rays, which are used in various ways to image tumors, THz light does not ionize biological material and thus bypasses numerous health concerns.
In addition, as Joo-Hiuk Son, a physics professor at South Korea's University of Seoul, points out, THz imaging has an advantage over magnetic resonance imaging. MRI excels at imaging deep tumors but struggles with ones at the surface. In contrast, THz light cannot penetrate deeply into soft tissue. Therefore it may be better suited than MRI to image carcinomas, a large category of common types of cancer, which includes most breast cancers that develop just below the skin and malignancies or outer layer of organ tissue.
Terahertz Spectroscopy 101
Light with submillimeter wavelengths and a frequency range of roughly 0.1 to 10 THz, or 3 to 300 cm–1, is known as terahertz radiation. It can penetrate plastics, paper, and textiles, but it is absorbed strongly by water, making it a sensitive probe of biological tissue. Unlike the relatively high-frequency stretching and bending motions that infrared light induces in individual water molecules, THz light causes groups of water molecules to coalesce and disassemble repeatedly.
These animations show IR-induced vibrations in individual water molecules.
Credit: Martin Chaplin/ London South Bank U.
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These animations show the kinds of collective motions THz light induces in water molecules—causing clusters of molecules to coalesce and disassemble repeatedly.
Credit: Matthias Heyden/Ruhr University Bochum
A number of studies conducted around 2005 by researchers at TeraView, a THz instrument maker in Cambridge, England, demonstrated the benefits of THz imaging techniques in detecting human breast cancer. One study, conducted on tissue samples removed during surgery, showed that THz imaging was sensitive enough to pinpoint tumors that did not contain calcium deposits. Noncalcified tumors are easy to miss because they do not show up in X-ray scans and often cannot be detected in manual breast exams.
The researchers also showed that THz techniques can distinguish the small but significant differences in the refractive index and THz absorption properties of adipose, fibrous, and tumor tissue in breasts. This distinction could aid oncologists in determining the most suitable treatment option (Opt. Express 2009, DOI: 10.1364/oe.17.012444).
Another potential advantage of THz imaging compared with standard medical imaging methods is the relatively small size of THz instruments. Unlike MRI systems and X-ray and computed tomography (CT) scanners, THz imaging systems can be small and portable and therefore used directly in the operating room, says Sir Michael Pepper, chief scientific director of TeraView, which is building and testing such devices.
TeraView's portable instruments feature a handheld probe that's connected via optical fibers and electrical cables to a small central unit that houses an ultrafast laser. Similar probes, including ones based on Raman spectroscopy and mass spectrometry, are also being developed to identify the borders of cancerous tissue during surgery.
Pepper points out that delineating this boundary is critical for a surgery's success. For example, in breast cancer cases, surgeons try to remove as little healthy tissue as possible to ensure a patient's quality of life is as high as possible after the procedure. But more than 25% of breast cancer patients need to undergo follow-up surgery because post-surgery pathology tests show that surgeons don't excise all of the tumor the first time.
The objective is to reduce the number of follow-up surgeries by using the handheld THz scanner to more precisely identify the border between healthy and cancerous tissue, Pepper says. Improved precision would improve clinical outcomes and reduce costs.
Vincent Wallace, a physicist at the University of Western Australia, together with TeraView researchers and other scientists is test-driving the portable THz scanner in a clinical trial at Guy's Hospital in London. The researchers used the portable scanner to analyze 46 freshly excised breast tissue samples from 30 patients. By comparing the results of the THz analyses to those of standard pathology methods, they conclude that the technique accurately recognizes and distinguishes between benign and malignant tissue in an ex vivo setting (Eur. J. Surg. Oncol. 2015, DOI: 10.1016/j.ejso.2015.08.036).
"We are continuing to develop classification algorithms to differentiate between tumor and normal tissues from freshly excised samples," Wallace says. Pepper adds that the goal is to collect enough data to build confidence that the technology will not give false-negative results.
"False positives, one can live with," Pepper says. "But a false negative, meaning incorrectly identifying a cancerous region as healthy, that could be deadly." After the development work has been completed, the team plans to move the technology into the operating room for tests during surgeries, as well as to extend the trials to a hospital in Perth, Western Australia.
Arnie D. Purushotham is a surgeon and professor of breast cancer at King's College London who is familiar with the tests involving the handheld THz device. He notes that using the device to scan a patient during surgery is more challenging than using it to analyze excised tissues. He says, "if after refining the device, it can identify with a high level of reliability the presence or absence of cancerous cells at the edges of a specimen during removal of cancerous tissue, then there is a huge likelihood it will be applicable to patient care."
Weak terahertz spectroscopy signals limit the technique's ability to penetrate and image tissue. Treating tissue with gold nanorods boosts signals and contrast, as seen with these treated (right) and untreated (left) tissue samples (bottom).
Credit: Joo-Hiuk Son/U. Seoul
Researchers have also been making inroads using THz imaging to analyze other types of malignancies. At the University of Seoul, for example, Son and coworkers showed that the technique can readily distinguish healthy mouth tissue from oral cancer, pinpointing the locations, shapes, and sizes of tumors. The study also showed that contrast is sharper when THz imaging is conducted at –20 °C instead of 20 °C. The team attributed the sharp contrast to differences in the structures of normal and diseased cells at cold temperatures, not the effects of water, which were reduced by freezing the samples (Biomed. Opt. Express 2013, DOI: 10.1364/boe.4.001413).
In a related study, Son and coworkers showed that THz imaging can also be used to detect cancer in freshly excised brain tissue. The THz imaging data closely match results of MRI and visual analyses. According to Son, those findings futher support surgeons' use of a compact THz imaging system to determine tumor boundaries during an operation (Biomed. Opt. Express 2014, DOI: 10.1364/boe.5.002837).
Despite these advances, THz imaging for biomedical applications still faces big challenges. Perhaps the biggest one is the strong attenuation of THz light by water. Because water strongly absorbs THz light, a THz beam can't penetrate deeply into biological tissue.
One possible way around that problem would be to replace some of the water in a tissue sample with a material that is a weaker THz absorber. In a proof-of-concept study, Son and coworkers showed that glycerol might do the job. It is biocompatible, absorbed by tissue, and has a THz absorption coefficient that is smaller than water's. The study showed that infusing glycerol into a sample doubled the intensity of the THz signal compared with an untreated sample (Opt. Express 2013, DOI: 10.1364/oe.21.021299).
The team also tested an approach to boost contrast between healthy and cancerous tissues. High image contrast is another requirement for extending the reach of THz imaging. Specifically, the researchers showed that by functionalizing gold nanoparticles with antibodies that bind to cancer cells, the particles collected around tumors and strongly reflected THz light, selectively enhancing those tissues' contrast.
THz imaging is a fertile area of science that's growing quickly. It's also one that seems to attract conservative practitioners. None of the scientists contacted by C&EN describe the bioimaging tool as the best thing since sliced bread. Pickwell-MacPherson, for example, is "cautiously optimistic" about the technique's future.
Wallace takes a similar position. "The field of medical imaging using THz technology is very much in its infancy, and there is a great deal of work yet to be done to show its true potential."
But the potential payoff could be big. "If there is even a 1% chance that I could get this technique to work well," Pickwell-MacPherson says, "and thereby reduce the death rate due to breast cancer or skin cancer, then I think it's worth doing."
CASTING A WIDE NET
Tetrahertz spectroscopy shines in areas besides medical imaging
Dulled and damaged by some 600 years of aging and accumulated dirt (top left), this gilded icon was restored (top right) thanks in part to terahertz imaging (bottom left), which peered below the surface layers revealing how and where the artist applied gold sheets (bottom right).
Credit: Antonino Cosentino/CHSOS
Six centuries had taken their toll on "Virgin with the Child and a Saint," a painting by an unknown artist that now sits in the library of Taormina, in Sicily, Italy. A thick layer of accumulated dirt had dulled the gold background, and the painting's figures were barely recognizable.
Thanks in part to terahertz (THz) spectroscopy, a noninvasive imaging technique, the gilded icon just recently got a much needed makeover (e-Conservation J., published July 6).
Project leader Antonino Cosentino of Cultural Heritage Science Open Source, an art conservation center in nearby Aci Sant'Antonio, sought to understand what techniques the artist used to apply gold touches to the 14th-century creation and how best to repair and restore it.
Cosentino and coworkers used several analytical methods, but he says that THz imaging gets credit for revealing buried square edges of the gold gilding. That detail provided proof that the gilding background was made with gold leaves, as opposed to other gilding methods, which is important for art history and restoration.
THz imaging also enabled the team to scrutinize the painting's primer, grain structure of the wooden support, and other hidden layers. That information was key to understanding the causes of cracks in the paint surface and suggested possible repair options.
"THz imaging allows us to detect features that cannot be examined with other methods," Cosentino says. "In the future, more mature hardware and software will likely make THz imaging cheaper and more user-friendly."
Following the Energy Trail
Low-cost solar cells and other devices that can capture the nearly limitless power of the sun could offer inexpensive solutions for the world's growing energy needs. Terahertz (THz) spectroscopy is helping scientists design the most effective devices by tracing the electron dynamics that underlie the operation of these devices.
Terahertz spectroscopy shows that sunlight drives these iridium and porphyrin compounds to inject electrons into SnO2 particles, a key step in splitting water.
Dye-sensitized solar cells and closely related perovskite solar cells capture sunlight and convert it to electricity. Solar water splitters trap the sun's energy in the chemical bonds of a fuel—hydrogen. In both types of devices, energy harvesting begins as sunlight excites electrons in a layer of light-absorbing molecules known as sensitizers. These sensitizers then inject the electrons into semiconductor particles such as TiO2, to which the molecules are anchored.
This process occurs quickly and is out of reach of most spectroscopy methods. But many research teams can now follow it using variations of a subpicosecond pump-probe THz spectroscopy technique reported 15 years ago by Yale University's Charles A. Schmuttenmaer (Phys. Rev. B 2000, DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.62.15764).
In recent studies based on the THz technique, Schmuttenmaer's group showed that fluorinated and metalated porphyrins are excellent sensitizers for light-harvesting water splitters—but work better when injecting electrons into nanoparticles of SnO2 instead of TiO2 (Acc. Chem. Res. 2015, DOI: 10.1021/ar500363q).
The Yale team also used the THz method to show that codepositing a phosphorus porphyrin and an iridium cyclopentadienyl compound forms a tag team that efficiently hands off electrons at the potentials required for water splitting (J. Mater. Chem. A 2015, DOI: 10.1039/c4ta07018f).
And in related work, Kenneth Wärnmark of Lund University and coworkers also used fast THz spectroscopy to show that a low-cost iron complex collects solar energy and transmits it to semiconductor particles with exceptional efficiency (C&EN, Oct. 19, page 5).
Alan Goren (November 11, 2015 4:51 PM)
Great article. I am a retired professor and I find that C&E News is doing a wonderful job in helping stay abreast of chemical advances.


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2008 - Individual Artist
Nick Lane is an Iowa trombonist who has recorded on hundreds of CD's, played thousands of concerts before millions of people. Born & raised in Marshalltown, he attended Drake University for 2 years before graduating from Boston's Berklee College of Music. Although he recorded/toured with jazz trumpeter Maynard Ferguson for 4 years in the 70's, he moved to LA in '81 and began working with numerous rock bands.
Rod Stewart took him on 5 world tours from '84-95, He joined Tom Petty for his Pack Up The Plantation tour, album & movie and later the Who for their Quadrephenia tour & video. For the last 10 years he has subbed with the group Chicago including a recent Direct TV special. Additional recording credits include Yes, Joe Cocker, Bonnie Raitt, Eric Burdon, Supertramp, REO Speedwagon, Carol King, Aaron Neville, Neil Diamond, Canned Heat, etc and more contemporary acts such as Fall Out Boy, Cold Play, No Doubt, Macy Gray, Pussy Cat Dolls, Pink, Ziggy Marley and Lalah Hathaway.
In addition to 2 solo CD's (instrumental R&B) he recently released a CD "Songs for the Heartland" featuring music he composed for orchestra, chorus and solo trombone for the Central Iowa Music Festival held each summer in Marshalltown 2000-2006. The festival promotes Iowa music and musicians and provides student scholarships and acceptance to the Tanglewood Music Camp….summer home of the Boston Symphony.
For his many contributions to the music industry and to Iowa musicians and students, Nick Lane joins the Hall of Fame Class of 2008.
Honoring achievements, educating youth, and inspiring artists.


How rich is Ivanka Trump? – How Rich?
Ivanka Trump was born in New York City, New York on October 30, 1981. She is the daughter of Donald Trump, the President of the United States and real estate billionaire mogul, and Ivana Trump, a businesswoman and model. She has four siblings: Eric, Donald, Barron and Tiffany.
Ivanka attended the Chapin School in the heart of Manhattan and then transferred to Choate Rosemary Hall in Connecticut. Upon graduation, she attended Georgetown University and then transferred to the Wharton Business School, earning a bachelor's degree in economics.
Despite being a socialite, Ivanka has only had two serious relationships. Her first was with Greg Hersch, a Wall Street investment bank, but they broke up after four years of dating. In 2005, Ivanka entered into a relationship with Jared Kushner, a real estate developer. They were married in a Jewish ceremony in October 2009. They have three children: Arabella Rose, Joseph Frederick and Theodore James.
From 1997 until around 2007, Ivanka has been a successful model by posing for Seventeen magazine, Forbes, Golf Magazine and Harper's Bazaar. She has also walked fashion runways and starred in advertisement campaigns for the likes of Tommy Hilfiger, Versace and Sassoon.
In 2005, Ivanka started her business career by working with Forest City Enterprises. Two years later, she partnered with Dynamic Diamond Corp. to form a diamond and gold jewelry line. Ivanka's retail flagship store has been a success by launching fine-jewelry stores across the U.S., Canada, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Ivanka eventually joined the family firm by serving as the executive vice president of development and acquisitions at the Trump Organization. In addition, she serves on the board of 100 Women in Hedge Funds.
She also has her own fashion line that consists of clothes, shoes, handbags and other accessories.
In 2009, Ivanka published the book entitled "The Trump Card: Playing to Win in Work and Life." She is also publishing her second book entitled "Women Who Work: Rewriting the Rules for Success." Ivanka is an avid reader of Ayn rand books as well as business and finance textbooks.
Over the years, Ivanka has been involved in politics. She donated $1,000 to the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton in 2007. Ivanka endorsed Mitt Romney for U.S. President in 2012 and hosted a fundraiser for Democrat Cory Booker. She has explained numerous times that she is neither a Republican nor a Democrat.
Despite the bloodbath in the U.S. political arena, Ivanka maintains good friendships with Chelsea Clinton, Paris Hilton and Georgina Bloomberg.
It is expected that Ivanka will play a pivotal role in the Trump administration over the next four years.
We estimate that Ivanka Trump's net worth is $150 million (2016).
So how much is $150 million really?
$150 million could help pay for a little more than 10 percent of a U.S. presidential campaign. $150 million could also help you pay for a luxurious condominium in the heart of Manhattan or Washington, D.C.


Updated 10:06 a.m. Good morning on this snowy Friday. Alternate-side parking has been suspended.
Try to think back to the first minutes of 2015.
A former governor died and was given a king's farewell.
A police officer's funeral drew thousands in Brooklyn.
Two officers were shot in the Bronx.
A pioneering beauty queen died.
The mayor and police remained locked in a standoff.
… As a police slowdown continued.
And people gathered in Union Square to mourn a massacre in Paris.
What a crazy year. All eight days of it.
The temperature in the city plummeted—from 56 on Sunday, to just 8 yesterday morning, the lowest since last January.
The mercury is returning to just plain cold today.
There's no reversing most of the other stuff.
But you can travel all the way back to New Year's Eve using our Week in Pictures slide show time machine.
Here's what's happening Friday and this weekend.
The snow ends by noon with only an inch or two to show.
Back down to 14 tonight.
On Saturday, we won't even see 20 degrees.
The mercury creeps back above freezing on Sunday.
• The funeral in Brooklyn for an M.T.A. officer, Thomas Choi, who died following 14 months in a coma after being hit by a car on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. 8 a.m.
• A British imam convicted of orchestrating terrorism, Mostafa Kamel Mostafa, faces a possible life term at his sentencing in Manhattan federal court. 10 a.m.
• Devils host Islanders, 7 p.m. (MSG, MSG+). Nets host 76ers, 7:30 p.m. (YES).
• This just in: Alternate-side parking was suspended at 10 a.m.
• Scoreboard: Rockets bomb Knicks, 120-96. Rangers depose Kings, 4-3.
• "Here in the Real World," a show of John Miller's "pedestrian paintings," opens at Metro Pictures.
• Avert your eyes, travelers: the annual No Pants Subway Ride happens at 3 p.m.
• And if you're looking for things to do outside the city this weekend, The Times's Metropolitan section has suggestions. See Friday and Saturday listings for Westchester, Long Island, New Jersey and Connecticut. See Sunday listings for Westchester, Long Island, New Jersey and Connecticut.
So how about those Knicks!
Their defeat at the hands of the Houston Rockets was their 14th in a row, extending the franchise record.
The team has now lost 24 of their last 25 games.
The faithful still show up at Madison Square Garden.
But last night, some of them wore paper bags over their heads.
"Little Excitement at Garden," The Times's headline read, but the suspense is actually building: When, if ever, will the Knicks win again?
They have a chance tomorrow night against Charlotte, one of the league's weaker teams.
And Jan. 19-23, they play three games against fellow losers with a combined winning percentage of .287.
What's your prediction? Tell us in the comments or via Twitter at @nytmetro.


Ah, holidays. Martinis on the beach and long summer nights. No wonder that vacation is on everyones' calendars and takes priority above all else. However, once the long-waited holiday is over we feel loomed and gloomed of the incoming must-dos. Does taking time off really impairs our fitness routine. Do we actually need time off to recharge properly and come back stronger or we'd better keep up without fitness schedule?
Should you take time off fitness?
The jury is still out on this. Some people think that taking time off is no big of a deal and that the most important thing is to continue where you left off after you return. It provides a good pause that lets the mind and the body fully recharge. However, this is true and tested only for those who already have established fitness routine. If you are just getting started, taking time off might not be the best idea. I strongly encourage you to continue working out while you are on holiday. It does not have to be the intensive routine you are following at home, but at least training everyday – it can be swimming, can be hiking or running – whatever strikes your fancy. Just keep on pushing. For a beginner, following the routine for a given period of time is crucial to his/her success. A week off the fitness schedule and it becomes increasingly difficult.
Plus, if you take longer time off, your cardio fitness starts to deteriorate quickly. While just a week off won't impair it much, taking a whole month vacation without activity is shown to decrease the VO2 by the staggering 20% (calculate your VO2 max here).
Once again, I am a big fan of activity, big or small, during the time off. I get bored quickly of doing nothing, so hitting the gym or going to a hike really shake up monotonous the routine. Last time I signed up for a package of 10 jazzercise classes and the studio was on just a 5 minute walk from the hotel. I didn't need any specific equipment – I went there in my workout shoes and clothes. You can do the same – no need to lug additional equipment while you are traveling. However, the fitness review site fitaholicgear.com recommends you getting a pair of jazzercise shoes because they have a pivot point and are more flexible than the rest of the athletic shoes. So, if you want to perform better on your next class, get a pair.
Do you know what is the best thing? You can dance in your hotel room if you prefer. You might be on the most isolated island on the world, as long as you wear your laptop and you've downloaded the fun dancing videos, you can work out! Of course, it is super fun to meet new people, so nothing beats the live experience.
According to an article on huffingtonpost.com you must schedule the time for physical activity. If you don't you'll risk not finding the time in your already busy schedule. If you plan for it, you will have the time.
But why workout at all?
Did you know that people who work out to feel good are more inclined to make exercise part of their life than those who simply exercise to look good. Just find an activity that sparks joy!
If you are earning your living from dancing, you really have to pay attention to your feet and your shoes. From your dance shoes, to your casual ones, even to the slippers at home. The legs are the dancer's only tool, all the equipment he or she has and ultimately, they have to take a good care of them!
Never wear shoes that are too tight.
#2: fill them with wet newspapers as much as you can and leave them for 24 hours.
If the shoes are only a bit tight both methods would help them stretch just enough.
Blisters are result of two things: moisture and fraction. Tape your feet before the dancing to prevent blisters, put spray deodorant on your feet. Prevention is always better than cure!
Wear anti-sweat slippers at home. My friend recommended me to get LeKapmoz as they were the ultimate women's slippers for sweaty feet, and now I swear they changed my life.
If you have fungus under your nails, cure them. Be consistent. Usual course of a treatment is 2-3 months, and you have to take care of your feet daily. My husband had to do this for 3 months straight. He gave up on week 3 the first time and the nails were not healed. The bad part just needs to grow and it takes time.


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Mastercard is ignoring a critical flaw that allows hackers to spoof valid payments [Update]
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Vendors relying on Mastercard's Internet Gateway Service (MIGS) for processing online payments ought to double-check every transaction before they send out items to customers: There is a critical flaw in the system's validation protocol and it appears the company is completely ignoring it.
Independent security researcher Yohanes Nugroho has stumbled upon a glaring flaw in the MIGS protocol that allows hackers to spoof the payment system and trick merchants into accepting invalid transactions as successful – without even knowing.
"It can be said that this is a MIGS client bug, but the hashing method chosen by Mastercard allows this to happen," the researcher explains. "Had the value been encoded, this bug will not be possible."
According to Nugroho's findings, crafty attackers can exploit this shortcoming to inject invalid values in third-party intermediate payment services to bypass Mastercard's system altogether and relay the request straight to vendors.
As the researcher observed, "instead of validating inputs on the merchants server side before sending it to MIGS," the requests are only checked on the client side. Since this data never reaches Mastercard's servers, it remains susceptible to spoofing.
This means that, if successful, hackers would be able to pass on invalid payment transactions as absolutely legitimate proof of payment. While merchants will still have to confirm the transaction, most users rarely ever check their bank accounts before approving the requests – which is exactly why this loophole is so worrisome.
Nugroho has been able to confirm that at least one payment gateway – Fusion Payments, a company valued at $20 million – was susceptible to this attack.
Fusion Payments has since rewarded the researcher with a $500 bug bounty. They have also already implemented a filtering measure to prevent attackers from exploiting this hole.
This is what Nugroho said about Fusion's implementation of MIGS:
Initially, they (Fusion) didn't even check the signature from MIGS. That means we can just alter the data returned by MIGS and mark the transaction as successful. This just means changing a single character from F (false) to 0 (success[ful]).
So basically we can just enter any credit card number, got a failed response from MIGS, change it, and suddenly payment is successful. After they fixed the bug, I discovered that they are vulnerable to the Mastercard hashing bug.
Redditors claim that hackers are already exploiting the vulnerability in India, where MIGS is relatively wide-used, but we haven't been able to confirm this is indeed the case.
What is particularly worrying though is that the vulnerability can be exploited on practically any system reliant on MIGS, not just Fusion Payments. Still, Mastercard continues to ignore Nugroho's warnings.
The researcher, who has previously reported and been rewarded $8,500 for finding a similar bug in the MIGS system, told TNW he reported the bug to Mastercard on August 17, but its representatives are yet to acknowledge the flaw. That is despite the fact that his password-protected disclosure post has been accessed by company employees at least three times so far.
In addition to his bug report, he also emailed some of the Mastercard security officers that processed his previous disclosure. He never heard back from them either.
We have contacted Mastercard for more details and will update this post accordingly should we hear back.
Meanwhile, vendors, better stay on your toes – some seemingly valid payment requests might not be all that legitimate after all.
Update: Mastercard's Senior Vice President of External Communications, Seth Eisen, had this to say:
We are aware of and have looked into the claims made by this researcher. While this specific claim has does not exist within our system, we have identified a potential for a misconfiguration on merchants' sites that could potentially affect how data is delivered. We are providing specific training and resources to the small number of merchants who could be impacted to minimize any exploitation of such an action.
Published September 6, 2017 - 5:09 pm UTC
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