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William Addison
Real name : Wallace Arnold
Profession : University professor
Tom Ligon :
May 06 1987 (# 705) to May 14 1987 (# 711)
When William Addison comes into Dr. Sharon Knowles' office, it is as a man who is seeking information to assist a person in his family who has been raped. In fact, he comes to discover the new address of Lucy Pickett. In addition to her home, William Addison discovers that the young woman, still haunted by the trauma of her rape, attempted to commit suicide.
The reality is quite different. William Addison is actually Wallace Arnold, Lucy's rapist. At that time, Lucy was her assistant. While he was conducting research in his office, and after having drunk, he called Lucy in his office. Using his authority, he held her against her will and raped her. Following the trial, Willam lost everything : his family esteem, his work and his peers' recognition that goes with it. Hoping to regain all, he comes to Santa Barbara with the intention of revenge.
As Cruz finds out later, during his investigation at Monterey prison, Dr. Addison was sentenced to two years in prison and was paroled after one year and a half. In his quest for revenge, he harasses the young woman on the phone, whether at the Capwell guesthouse or at Johnny's Place. Feeling trapped, he does not hesitate to try to kill Cruz by depositing some drug in his tequila. Then, disguised as a doctor, he goes to Cruz's hospital room to finish his job, where Elena Nikolas saves his life again.
The trap developed by Cruz leads Addison to take as hostage Elena in Cruz's home, and offers a curious exchange : Lucy against Elena. After a gunfire exchange, Addison manages to escape. Then, he returned to the Capwell guesthouse, in the only purpose of finally ending with Lucy. Here, Cruz's trap closes on him. Wounded by gunshots, he will then be taken to the hospital at first, then certainly in prison.
The stalking against William Addison combined to the need of protecting the young Lucy Pickett allowed Cruz to divert his mind from the terrible tragedy that struck his life : the disappearance of Eden.
The photos of William
Tom Ligon


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Q: Angular Material - Type 'string' is not assignable to type 'MatSnackBarHorizontalPosition' I have created a function that shows the message using material snackbar.
showMessage(message: string, position = { horizontal: "right", vertical: "bottom" }): void {
    const _htmlMessage ="some message";
    this.snackBar.openFromComponent(SnackbarComponent, {
        data: {
            html: _htmlMessage
        },
        duration: 2000,
        horizontalPosition: position.horizontal,
        verticalPosition: position.vertical
    });
}

but this shows:

Type 'string' is not assignable to type 'MatSnackBarHorizontalPosition'.ts(2322)
snack-bar-config.d.ts(42, 5): The expected type comes from property 'horizontalPosition' which is declared here on type 'MatSnackBarConfig'

but if I directly assign the value like this:
duration: 2000,
horizontalPosition: "right",
verticalPosition: "bottom"

this works. How can I solve this?

A: Solution 1 : Define the type for position.
import {
  MatSnackBarHorizontalPosition,
  MatSnackBarVerticalPosition
} from '@angular/material/snack-bar';

showMessage(
    message: string,
    position: {
      horizontal: MatSnackBarHorizontalPosition;
      vertical: MatSnackBarVerticalPosition;
    } = { horizontal: 'right', vertical: 'bottom' }
  ): void {
    const _htmlMessage = 'some message';
    this._snackBar.openFromComponent(SnackbarComponent, {
      data: {
        html: _htmlMessage
      },
      duration: 2000,
      horizontalPosition: position.horizontal,
      verticalPosition: position.vertical
    });
}

Sample Solution 1 on StackBlitz

Solution 2: Cast both horizontal and vertical as respective types.
import {
  MatSnackBarHorizontalPosition,
  MatSnackBarVerticalPosition
} from '@angular/material/snack-bar';

showMessage(
    message: string,
    position = { horizontal: 'right', vertical: 'bottom' }
  ): void {
    const _htmlMessage = 'some message';
    this._snackBar.openFromComponent(SnackBarOverviewExample, {
      data: {
        html: _htmlMessage
      },
      duration: 2000,
      horizontalPosition: position.horizontal as MatSnackBarHorizontalPosition,
      verticalPosition: position.vertical as MatSnackBarVerticalPosition
    });
  }
}

Sample Solution 2 on StackBlitz

References
MatSnackBarHorizontalPosition & MatSnackBarVerticalPosition (Type aliases)

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Russia Plans to Block Pirate Sites Without Trial & De-Anonymize Their Operators
Like most regions in the world, Russia has an online piracy problem, with millions of citizens regularly using pirate sites to access free movies, music, TV shows, and other content.
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Back in 2018 the Ministry of Culture began mulling amendments to copyright law and this week it became clear that it has a tightened site-blocking regime in mind, along with other significant changes.
Local publication RBC had the opportunity to review the draft, which includes measures for the blocking of sites where pirated content is made available, without rightsholders having to go to court as they do now.
Instead, they will be able to go directly to the web hosts of sites making content available without a license, with instructions to block platforms, if they are unresponsive to takedown demands.
Furthermore, if the amendments are approved, owners of platforms where pirated content is made available will be compelled to sacrifice their anonymity. All such sites will be required to publish the names, addresses, and other contact details of their owners.
It isn't yet clear how this requirement will be enforced, or how contact details will be checked for authenticity. However, it seems unlikely that company names and/or home addresses (in the case of individuals) will be willingly given up, particularly when site operators are already breaking the law by knowingly hosting or linking to infringing content.
The draft amendments were agreed by the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media, telecoms watchdog Roscomnadzor, and the Ministry of Economic Development, after consultation with entertainment industry companies, RBC reports.
News of the amendments arrives just days after authorities held talks with major rightsholders, hosting platforms, and search providers, with the aim of writing the terms of an anti-piracy memorandum into law.
The currently voluntary agreement aims to create an ever-growing centralized database of infringing content to enable hosting platforms and search engines to take down media and links both quickly and efficiently.
According to comments made this week by Sergey Selyanov, head of the Association of Film and Television Producers, the memorandum is working as planned.
Finally, local search giant Yandex has reportedly developed and launched its own set of tools for detecting pirated content online. Using information being made available in the recently-established piracy database, Yandex is using machine learning to "clean up" its own search results. The company is currently declining to offer any additional details.
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There's something magical about photography. It's the ability to capture and preserve a single moment in time. In many ways, it's the closest we've ever come to time travel.
Life moves fast - here one minute, gone the next - and one of the few ways to keep a moment fresh in our memories is through photography. I would argue that the art of photography is never more important than on our wedding day.
If you've been reading this blog for a while, you know I've interviewed a photographer once before, but I know many people who are talented behind-the-camera.
Dave and Mariah Poyzer are a husband and wife team who specialize in wedding-based photography. They have a deep appreciation for quality, as well as a high value for variety - everything from digital photography to Polaroids to cakes.


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Q: Using 'Between' operator after 'THEN' within 'CASE' statement within 'WHERE' I'm trying to do something like this
select *
from m
where CASE WHEN x=1 THEN trunc(m.ATT_DATE) between '18-01-01' AND '18-12-31'
WHEN x=2 THEN trunc(m.main_date) between '18-01-01' AND '18-12-31'
ELSE 1 END = 1;

x is a variable
I get this error
ORA-00905: mot-clé absent
00905. 00000 -  "missing keyword"
*Cause:
*Action:
Erreur à la ligne 182, colonne 42

A: I would write this as:
select m.*
from m
where (x = 1 and trunc(m.ATT_DATE) between date '2018-01-01' and date '2018-12-31') or
      (x = 2 and trunc(m.main_date) between date '2018-01-01' and date '2018-12-31') or
      (x not in (1, 2));

Notes:

*

*Usually, case expressions can be replaced by simple boolean logic in a where clause.

*One of the problems with your query is that Oracle doesn't recognize booleans, so a then clause cannot return a boolean expression.

*Date constants should be introduced with the date keywords.

*Date constants should use an ANSI/ISO standard format, such as YYYY-MM-DD.

A: You can't put logic inside the case result like that, and if  you could then you'd have a boolean result mixed with a numerical result.
Depending on what you want to happen if x is neither 1 nor 2, you could either return nothing in that situation with one of these:
select *
from m
where (x=1 and trunc(m.att_date) between date '2018-01-01' and date '2018-12-31')
  or (x=2 and trunc(m.main_date) between date '2018-01-01' and date '2018-12-31');

select *
from m
where (x=1 and m.att_date >= date '2018-01-01' and m.att_date < date '2019-01-01')
  or (x=2 and m.main_date >= date '2018-01-01' and m.main_date < date '2019-01-01');

select *
from m
where case when x=1 then m.att_date when x=2 then m.main_date end >= date '2018-01-01'
  and case when x=1 then m.att_date when x=2 then m.main_date end < date '2019-01-01';

where the last two compare against a full date/time range instead of using trunc() which would prevent any indexes on those columns being used; or if you want to include all rows when x is not 1 or 2:
select *
from m
where (x=1 and trunc(m.att_date) between date '2018-01-01' and date '2018-12-31')
  or (x=2 and trunc(m.main_date) between date '2018-01-01' and date '2018-12-31')
  or x not in (1,2);

select *
from m
where (x=1 and m.att_date >= date '2018-01-01' and m.att_date < date '2019-01-01')
  or (x=2 and m.main_date >= date '2018-01-01' and m.main_date < date '2019-01-01')
  or x not in (1,2);

select *
from m
where case when x=1 then m.att_date when x=2 then m.main_date
    else date '2018-01-01' end >= date '2018-01-01'
  and case when x=1 then m.att_date when x=2 then m.main_date
    else date '2018-01-01' end < date '2019-01-01';

The first two add explicit checks for x (and the first is what @Gordon is doing...); the third uses the case .. else .. to supply a default value that is in the range, which is probably going to end up doing more work than really necessary.
Personally I'd use the middle one in each case.


Indian skipper Virat Kohli on Saturday shared a video of his wife, actor Anushka Sharma, scolding a man for littering on a road.
In the video, Anushka can be seen pulling over the car next to hers and asking the man inside not to throw garbage on the streets.
"Why are you throwing garbage on the road? Don't throw garbage on the road. Please be careful," she said.
Virat captured the incident on his phone and shared it on Twitter, saying, "Saw these people throwing garbage on the road and pulled them up rightfully. Travelling in a luxury car and brains gone for a toss. These people will keep our country clean? Yeah right!!! If you see something wrong happening like this, do the same and spread awareness."
"Lot of people who don't have the courage to do something like this find it funny. Everything for people nowadays is meme content. Shame," he added.
The 'Pari' actress was previously associated with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. In 2017, she was named as the face of a countrywide campaign to clean the streets, roads and for the infrastructural development of the country.
For those unversed, 'Swachh Bharat Abhiyan' was launched in October 2014 by the Narendra Modi-led government to make people aware about the advantages of cleanliness.


There are three main types of entertainment media: music, video, and games. Apple already has a subscription service for music, we know for a fact that they're full-steam ahead on original content for TV shows and movies, so it makes sense that they'd be looking at games too.
On mobile, Apple is clearly the dominant player in the industry. Surely any subscription gaming service from Apple would start — and perhaps end — with the iPhone and iPad. The Mac is perhaps further behind on PC gaming than it's ever been. I don't think that's going to change. But Apple TV still strikes me as a missed opportunity, simply because it doesn't ship with a gaming controller. Maybe this company-wide emphasis on services revenue is the thing that could make Apple reconsider that.


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Flower Crowns and Jean Shorts: Coachella's Modern Hippie Dress Code
At this year's Coachella there was a subtle shift away from bohemian fashion toward the understatedly sexy and slightly edgy.
Lizzie Crocker
Updated 07.12.17 7:11PM ET / Published 04.20.16 12:27PM ET
It's hard to pinpoint exactly when Coachella became a sacred ground for young celebrities in flower crowns and jean shorts, but the annual three-day music festival in Palm Springs, California, is now a parody of itself, overrun by peace sign-flashing models and It Girls draped in fringe and dripping with self-regard.
This year saw no shortage of maxi dresses, crochet bikinis, gladiator sandals and other overdone bohemian styles we now associate with "festival fashion."
For the uninitiated, imagine if Woodstock's hippies had been dressed by stylists and designers. The result is a uniform that's contrived and costume-y, perhaps best described as Paris Hilton-Meets-Joshua Tree chic.
Photos: Scenes from celebrity instagrams of Coachella
But amidst the reliable braids, crop tops, and printed flairs, there was a subtle shift away from the bohemian toward the understatedly sexy and slightly edgy. Take Kendall Jenner's black lace bralette and matching cowboy hat, for instance, or Bella Hadid's body chain.
Sandals were swapped out for sneakers (Emma Roberts paired pink Converse high-tops with a studded black miniskirt) and combat boots replaced suede ones on model Chanel Iman.
For her Coachella debut, Taylor Swift bleached her hair and declared choker necklaces "the new flower crowns" in an Instagram post.
Model Kaia Gerber, Cindy Crawford's daughter, was among those sporting the trend, which first popped up during New York Fashion Week.
Other popular accessories included bindi-style forehead jewelry and bandanna neckerchiefs.
Indeed, this year's It Girls embraced the '90s with looks that were more Courtney Love in her heyday than Sienna Miller circa 2004 (Miller is perhaps single-handedly responsible for making hippie aesthetic hip again.)
At the festival's brand-sponsored pool parties, the crochet bikinis made less of a splash than the one-pieces, from Kylie Jenner's cut-out Louis Vuitton suit and matching headscarf to Poppy Delevingne's blue-and-white checkered maillot.
On the male festival-goers, Brooklyn Beckham's floral Gucci shirt was a huge hit with GQ.
Many of these standouts will likely inform summer trends. ShopStyle, a fashion search engine linked to 1,400 e-commerce sites, reported that searches for chokers climbed 107 percent over a four-day period that began on Friday, according to WWD, while lace bralette searches jumped 120 percent. Bandanna neckerchiefs won the search engine contest by a long shot with a 207 percent spike, which means you'll probably see them on the racks at Zara and Topshop as soon as next week.
But if ShopStyle is any indication, plenty of Coachella staples will feature prominently in summer trend forecasts. Round sunglasses, off-the-shoulder tops, white dresses, and crochet were among the most-searched trends from the festival.
While the departure from over-the-top boho looks was a breath of fresh air, the general scene at Coachella was no different from previous years: young celebrities milling around the festival like college students on spring weekend--and being paid to post photos on Instagram.


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But after talking to the students, Walter wrote that there didn't appear to be any malicious intent in the image.
"We have confirmed that the students involved are friends and participated voluntarily in creating the picture, which they say was intended to be a joke," he wrote, according to WBRC.
The black student in the image confirmed that the photograph was intended to be humorous, according to CBS42.
"I didn't think about it when we first took the photos," he said. "I would still like to say sorry again to anyone that I offended."
In a tearful interview with CBS42, the mother of one of the white students said she has received death threats because of the image. She said she is "so sick of the threats and the bull crap."
"They were really making fun of racist people," she told the TV station.
Jenny Seals, St. Clair County superintendent, wrote in a statement that the photograph is still serious, even if it wasn't supposed to be that serious.
"All students involved will be disciplined appropriately," she wrote, according to WBRC. "We will continue to educate our students on the values of dignity, equality, and decency and on the importance of making good decisions in life."
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Why pet antibiotics could make their owners sick
Health and Fitness 27 April 2019 Arabia Day Newsdesk 0
At a small animal hospital in the United Kingdom, researchers have found a gene that enables bacteria to be highly resistant to linezolid —...
At a small animal hospital in the United Kingdom, researchers have found a gene that enables bacteria to be highly resistant to linezolid — an antibiotic that doctors use to treat serious infections in humans.
New research warns about the dangers of transmitting drug-resistant bacteria between humans and their pets.
Healthcare professionals give linezolid when bacteria that are resistant to other antibiotics cause serious illness in people.
These bacteria include streptococci, vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE), and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). MRSA is common in hospitals, prisons, and nursing homes where people may have open wounds and weak immune systems.
Doctors will often use linezolid for skin infections, pneumonia, and drug-resistant tuberculosis. Its mechanism of action is unique because it blocks the process of bacterial protein production before it starts.
Linezolid began commercial use in 2000 and joined the World Health Organization's (WHO) List of Essential Medicines.
Bacterial resistance to linezolid is low. New research that scientists presented at this year's European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, has raised concerns, however.
It suggests that an antibiotic resistance gene (optrA) has the potential to spread between different bacterial populations in animals and humans.
Pets could carry antibiotic-resistant bacteria
The researchers at Public Health England's Antimicrobial Resistance and Healthcare Associated Infections Reference Unit found that bacteria that were resistant to linezolid were transmitted between pets in a small animal hospital in the U.K.
Katie Hopkins, a clinical scientist with Public Health England who led the research, says that this is the "first report of optrA-positive enterococci isolated from companion animals in the U.K."
The results of the study are concerning, says the researcher, because they suggest that these antibiotic-resistant bacteria could spread from pets to owners. And this may lead to more serious infections that are difficult to treat in humans.
"In order to minimize transmission of resistant bacteria between companion animals and people, veterinary surgeries need to ensure adequate cleaning takes place and pet owners should wash their hands after handling pets."
Linezolid is not licensed for veterinary use in the U.K., but the gene optrA plays a role in the resistance to florfenicol, a veterinary medicine.
Hopkins adds that standard protocols for the management of infected animals are in place to prevent transmission to veterinary staff, and other therapeutic options are available in case of infection.
Drug-resistant DNA may spread in animals
Linezolid resistance is rare for the bacteria enterococci, but researchers had previously detected it in isolates from both humans and animals.
In addition, research in recent years showed that antibiotic-resistant genes, such as optrA, may be present on mobile bits of DNA. This means that these genes can spread to other bacterial populations in animals and humans.
In the new study, Hopkins and colleagues performed routine testing for antibiotic resistance and found that samples of Enterococcus faecalis — a bacterium that causes infections in the urinary tract — showed signs of resistance to linezolid.
The researchers examined three wound swabs (two came from cats, and one from a dog) and a third cat rectal swab. All four samples were positive for optrA and transmission appeared to have occurred between animals.
"Our findings further the 'One-Health' view that antibiotic-resistant bacteria can be shared by animals and humans, although the direction of transfer is often difficult to prove."
"We currently do not know the prevalence of linezolid-resistant enterococci in companion animals, and, therefore, a joint approach to monitoring emergence and dissemination of resistance mechanisms of public health importance is needed," continues the lead researcher.
Hopkins adds that cleaning and decontamination prevented further transmission of bacteria, and researchers found no evidence that transmission of the antibiotic-resistant gene had happened between animals and humans.
Further research is necessary to find out if this gene can spread from pets to humans. However, researchers recommend that pet owners pay special attention to hygiene standards when they interact with their pets.


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Topic "Infections" in Vietnamese - total 46 documents
Title: Anthrax
Summary: The document explains what Anthrax is and how the bacterial disease can it be treated.
Title: Avian influenza ('bird flu')
Summary: A new epidemic of severe influenza amongst flocks of poultry was identified in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) in December 2003 and has subsequently spread to several other Asian countries including Vietnam, Japan, Thailand, Cambodia, China, Laos and Indonesia. The virus is called influenza A H5N1. This influenza virus has since infected a small number of humans who have had contact with diseased birds or their faeces. Some of the people infected with this virus have died. Should this virus develop the ability to be transmitted easily between people (eg. by combining with a human influenza virus), it is possible that many more humans may be infected.
Title: Barmah Forest virus infection
Summary: Barmah Forest virus is a germ that can infect people through mosquito bites. Past infection with Barmah Forest virus may have a protective effect against future infection. Barmah Forest virus is related to Ross River virus.
Title: Beat the bite - mosquito poster
Summary: This translated document outlines measures to protect yourself and your family from mosquito-borne diseases.
Title: Boils and skin infections
Summary: Contents: What is a boil? What is Impetigo? How are Boils and Impetigo treated? How are Boils and Impetigo spread? How can you stop the spread of Boils and Impetigo?
Title: Campylobacteriosis
Summary: Information about symptoms, transmission and prevention.
Title: Cosmetic Injectables - understanding the risks (Video with subtitles)
Summary: This video shows you the risks of cosmetic procedure
Title: Cryptosporidiosis
Summary: A guide to cryptosporidiosis, an infection which causes diarrhoea. Includes information on causes, prevention and symptoms.
Title: Facts about hand hygiene
Summary: Hand hygiene means cleaning your hands with soap and water or an alcohol-based hand rub. Good hand hygiene is the most effective way to stop infections spreading. Many infections, such as the common cold and flu, are caused by spreading germs from person to person. Even when your hands look clean they can still be carrying germs. This is because they are so small that you just can't see them. This is why when we touch other people or objects we can spread germs without even realising it.
Title: Gastroenteritis
Summary: Gastro is an illness which may cause some or all of the following symptoms: diarrhoea, stomach cramps, vomiting, nausea, fever and headache. Germs which cause gastro get into your body through your mouth and it usually takes several days for symptoms to appear. This time is known as the incubation period. Sometimes symptoms may occur within hours of the germs entering your body but it is usually longer. When people get gastro they often assume that the last meal they ate gave them food poisoning. This is usually not the case.
Title: Gastroenteritis in children - from Department of Health & Human Services
Summary: A translated consumer factsheet for use by hospital emergency departments about Gastroenteritis in children. It includes information covering what it is, symptoms and treatment, breastfeeding and bottle feeding, and also ways to stop the spread of Gastroenteritis. Also provides list of emergency numbers and helplines.
Title: Giardiasis
Summary: The document explains causes and prevention of giardiasis, an intestinal infection causing symptoms like diarrhoea, stomach cramps and nausea.
Title: Hand, foot and mouth disease
Summary: Symptoms and prevention of hand, foot and mouth disease, a usually mild illness that mainly affects children under 10.
Title: Hepatitis A by DHHS
Summary: Information about symptoms, transmission, prevention, immunisation and treatment.
Title: Hepatitis B: inflammation of the liver
Summary: Hepatitis means 'inflammation of the liver'. Hepatitis B (also referred to as hep B) is caused by the hepatitis B virus (HBV) and is a viral infection that can lead to serious illness or death.
Title: Hygiene and infection control
Summary: Information on immunisation, exclusion of sick children and hand washing.
Title: Influenza campaign poster 2019
Summary: Information for consumers to protect against the influenza virus. Download and print any of the A3 campaign posters and display them in receptions, waiting rooms or anywhere they can be seen.
Title: Legionnaires disease
Summary: A guide to Legionnaire's disease, including causes, prevention, symptoms and treatment.
Title: Leptospirosis
Summary: A guide to leptospirosis, a bacterial infection that can affect humans and animals, and which is more common in north eastern NSW and Queensland. People who have close contact with animals are more at risk from this disease. Information includes causes, symptoms, prevention and treatment.
Title: Listeriosis
Summary: A guide to preventing listeria infection or listeriosis, a rare but serious foodborne disease.
Title: Mastitis
Summary: This translated fact sheet provides information on mastitis, the inflammation of the breast, which may lead to infection. It includes information on common causes, signs and symptoms, prevention and treatment.
Title: Measles - community fact sheet
Summary: Measles is a very infectious viral illness. People can get unwell with measles 7 to 18 days after contact with a person sick with measles.
Title: Measles - information for contacts
Summary: Information for 'contacts' of people with measles - meaning those who've shared the same air as someone with measles. Includes information about symptoms and treatment to prevent the disease.
Title: Measles (NSW Health)
Summary: Fact sheet about measles, including information about how the infection is spread,symptoms, treatment and immunisation.
Title: Measles is about (poster)
Summary: Health facility posters provide information about measles signs and symptoms and prompt the general public to inform health care workers to ensure measles cases are quickly identified.
Title: Meningitis
Summary: The brain and spinal cord are surrounded by a lining called the meninges. Infection or inflammation of the meninges is called meningitis. There is normally a fluid between the meninges and the brain or spinal cord called cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). In meningitis, the CSF becomes infected.
Title: Meningococcal disease
Summary: Information about meningococcal disease, an uncommon but serious disease, which is more likely to affect small children, adolescents and young adults. Includes symptoms, prevention and treatment.
Title: Murray Valley encephalitis
Summary: A guide to Murray Valley encephalitis (MVE), a serious mosquito borne disease, usually occurring in remote north western Australia.
Title: Pandemic influenza - your questions answered
Summary: Pandemic influenza is a human disease caused by a completely new influenza virus. The virus is different to the seasonal influenza virus that normally affects humans, and may cause infection in many people because almost no one will be immune to it.
Title: Parvovirus B19 and Fifth disease
Summary: Information about parvovirus B19, a common virus causing 'fifth disease', a mild illness that is more likely to affect children.
Title: Pertussis (whooping cough)
Summary: Information about pertussis (whooping cough), a disease that can be very serious in small children, but is preventable by immunisation.
Title: Psittacosis
Summary: Information about psittacosis, an uncommon disease that can be passed to humans by birds. Includes causes, symptoms, prevention and treatment.
Title: Rabies and Bat Lyssavirus infection
Summary: A guide to rabies and bay lyssavirus infection, serious diseases transmitted by bites and scratches from infected animals. Includes information on prevention.
Title: Reducing infectious diseases
Summary: It is natural that as children begin to have more contact with the wider world they become more exposed to viruses and bacteria that can cause disease.
Title: Ross River fever
Summary: A guide to Ross River fever, a disease spread by mosquitoes which causes flu-like symptoms.
Title: Safe retrieval and disposal of needles and syringes
Summary: This resource provides information on how to dispose of needle and syringes safely and what to do in case of a needle stick injury.
Title: Salmonellosis guide
Summary: A guide to the foodborne disease, salmonellosis, including symptoms and prevention with good hygiene.
Title: Sexually transmissible infections booklet
Summary: A translated information booklet that explains the aspects related to sexually transmitted infections (STIs). It covers questions from what they are and how to catch them, to how to prevent them, how to tell if you have one, and about alcohol, drugs and STIs.
Title: Shigellosis
Summary: A guide to shigellosis, an infection caused by the Shigella bacteria, resulting in symptoms like diarrhoea, fever, nausea and stomach cramps. Inlucdes information on prevention and treatment.
Title: Tinea
Summary: Tinea is a highly contagious fungal infection that can infect the skin, affecting areas include the feet, groin, scalp and under the breasts. To ensure you receive the appropriate treatment and know about good hygiene to prevent the spread of tinea, read this information brochure.
Title: Treating pandemic influenza
Summary: The flu is a highly contagious viral infection that can cause severe illness and life-threatening complications, including pneumonia. The flu is spread by contact with fluids from coughs and sneezes. This fact sheet provides information about what symptoms to expect with the flu, and how to treat influenza with antiviral medication during a pandemic.
Title: Tuberculosis - information for contacts
Summary: Tuberculosis, or TB for short, is a bacterial infection. It can affect almost any part of the body but most often the lungs; this is called pulmonary TB. In Australia there are just over 1000 cases of TB diagnosed each year, with approximately 400 of these in Victoria.
Title: Tuberculosis - positive skin test
Summary: A skin test for tuberculosis (TB) is also called a Mantoux test or Tuberculin skin test (TST).
Title: Tuberculosis - tablets for latent infection
Summary: The most commonly used antibiotic is called Isoniazid, and taking this will reduce the chance of you becoming sick with tuberculosis disease.
Title: Viral illness in children
Summary: A translated consumer fact sheet for use by hospital emergency departments about viral illness in children. It includes information on what causes a viral illness, symptoms, treatment, home care, and what to expect.
Title: What is Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA)?
Summary: A guide to MRSA (Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus), a bacteria which can cause infections that most antibiotics cannot kill. Includes information on prevention and treatment.


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Which actresses starred pregnant
Angelina Jolie in the movie "Substitution"
Reese Witherspoon in Vanity Fair
Kate Winslet in the movie Divergent
Lena Headey in the series "Game of Thrones"
Sarah Jessica Parker in the TV series Sex and the City
Scarlett Johansson in the movie "Avengers: Age of Ultron"
Actors are used to working hard and hard, because, sometimes, filming lasts for months seven days a week. Naturally, actresses also have to work during pregnancy.
For the sake of the perfect picture, which each of us has the opportunity to enjoy in a movie or on TV at home, actresses are ready for a lot. Including, and hide your pregnancy.
Let's see which of the representatives of Hollywood starred in popular films in an "interesting position."
Angelina Jolie has repeatedly admitted that shooting in the film "Change" was given to her extremely hard, because the history of the picture is very sad. While a pregnant woman needs a positive.
But Jolie's professionalism did its job. The round belly helped to hide the voluminous dresses. Interestingly, during the filming of this film, Angelina was pregnant with twins.
Reese Witherspoon is convinced that pregnancy is not a reason to stop working. During the filming of the film "Vanity Fair" the actress was already 5 months pregnant. However, this did not stop Reese from working without a stunt double.
Dark clothes with a high waist helped to hide the pregnancy. In turn, the operators tried not to film the actress in full growth.
To hide Kate Winslet's 5th month of pregnancy, stylists dressed her in dark clothes, and cameramen filmed from the right angle so as not to focus the viewer's attention on her stomach. Only a rounded face betrayed the actress.
Lena Headey was in an "interesting position" just during the filming of Season 5. All the shots where Lena was naked were filmed with her stunt double.
Sarah Jessica Parker found out that she was expecting a replenishment during the filming of the 5th season of the cult TV series Sex and the City. At first, Sarah was dressed in outfits that were bulky enough to hide her pregnancy.
However, as a result, the number of episodes was reduced in the season, since it became impossible to hide the pregnancy of the actress.
When the movie "Avengers: Age of Ultron" was filmed, Scarlett Johansson was expecting a baby. The director decided to shoot, first of all, all the shots with Scarlett in order to be in time before the belly appears. However, the actress got tired very quickly, and she was replaced by a stunt double.


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American Airlines Fat Shames A Dog
byNick John Whittle
In what appears to be a failed attempt to raise a scandal, a passenger travelling on an American Airlines flight has accused the carrier of fat shaming his dog.
Passenger Lachlan Markay heads for Twitter to hint at fat shame. Photo: American Airlines
Lachlan Markay's post has caused a stir, at least on Twitter. The US writer tweeted that his dog, Lou, was refused access to the cabin on account of its being overweight. American denies it fat shamed the dog. The airline states that the dog was simply too tall for the carry-on "kennel".
Super cool of @AmericanAir to destroy our holiday travel plans because Lou is five pounds over the weight limit. Never had a problem on AA or any other airline, so I sure know which one I'm never booking with again. pic.twitter.com/ny8CSUvU8s
— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) July 3, 2019
There was some public sympathy for Mr Markay. If nothing else for the fact that his holiday, he claims, had been "ruined" by AA's decision. But the majority of comments threaded to his initial post were of fervent condemnation of the airline for what appeared to be a blatant case of fat shaming.
Rules of carriage
American Airlines is specific about what it expects of owners who prefer their pet to travel with them in the cabin. For what the carrier terms "carry on pets" the rules are clear. A passenger may travel with one "kennel" as long as the following criteria are met:
The passenger pays the carry-on pet charge.
The pet stays in the kennel under the seat in front for the entire flight.
The pet "must be able to stand up, turn around and lie down in a natural position in their kennel (without touching any side or the top of the container)".
The size of a rigid kennel cannot exceed the dimensions of the space beneath the seat in front.
Soft-sided and collapsible kennels are required to fit beneath the seat without being "excessively collapsed".
Rules of carriage are in place to ensure the safety of passengers. Photo: American Airlines
The rules appear to be fair enough, especially regarding their concern for the safety of passengers and the animals. The FAA's protocol in respect of the carriage of pets in-cabin is the same as that of hand luggage. Airline guidelines are governed by safety compliance, and the ease of a crew's handling of cabin emergencies.
American Airlines states that if a pet does not meet the criteria required of its carry-on service the animal must be checked into the hold of the aircraft. This AA does on a first-come-first-served basis.
In an email to Simple Flying, the carrier clarified that it was not the dog's weight that forced its staff to prohibit the animal's cabin access, but its dimensions. American told us that this distinction was "reiterated" to Markay at the time of his online complaint.
A spokesperson for American said, "Lou could not … stand up, turn around and lie down in a natural position in their kennel (without touching any side or the top of the container)."
The worms turn
An hour later Markay tweeted that he had been able to board the flight with Lou. That led some industry observers to question whether AA had repealed its decision solely in response to Markay's public caviling.
It is likely the need to keep in with the crowd steered the carrier's decision in a small way. The airline would rather be seen to be lenient in such a case, especially when it is publicized. However, the wisdom of the airline's U-turn is still to be fathomed.
Support for Markay's plight was quickly droned out by censure. Photo: American Airlines
Not everyone was sympathetic to Markay's plight, and some slammed AA for its backtrack. In fact, Markay's announcement that "AA wisely decided to make an exception" was met with more disapproval and anger than was his first gripe about the ban.
Nick John Whittle
I think that he should have checked with the airline before booking. I agree that American should have not changed their position, it was completely fair. If the dog can't stand up turn and lie down without touching the wall he should have dealt with the consequences.
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Tropical palaeoecologist Shira Yoshimi Maezumi extracting a sediment core from Laguna Manguezais in the vicinity of Santarem.
Climate change may have brought huge disruption to ancient South American societies before Europeans arrived in 1492, University of Exeter academics have discovered.
The European colonisation of the continent by Europeans had a devastating impact on local communities. It brought warfare, disease epidemics and mass migration, and caused the demise of 95 per cent of Native Americans.
New interdisciplinary research led by the University of Exeter shows alternations to the climate also brought about widespread changes to how people lived during this period. Recent advances in archaeology, paleoecology and climate science show major ecological and climate change also took place in the centuries before the conquest. This contradicts previous assumptions about how ancient societies in this region operated until they had contact with Europeans.
These preliminary findings will be discussed by scientists at a conference in Cornwall this week. International experts in archaeology, ethnohistory, paleoecology and paleoclimatology will be sharing their data and will work to piece together what happened in South America in the years before 1492.
Increases in the amount of rain may have caused changes to land use and wildfires. Research has shown the Llanos de Moxos savannas in Bolivia were seasonally flooded in about AD 1400. The construction of geoglyphs in Acre in Brazil ended around AD 1400, which suggests people didn't live there after this time. A similar trend is seen in Central Brazil, where the spread of 'circular villages' stops during the same period.
These cultural changes now need to be compared against data collected about the climate, environment and geology, some of which show the beginning of reforestation before the arrival of the Europeans.
José Iriarte, Professor of Archaeology, who is organising the event, said: "Analysing these trends is at the heart of one of the major controversies in American archaeology and climate science. By bringing all these international experts together we have a unique opportunity to shed light on this global issue.
The workshop, called Land use and climate changes at the Eve of Conquest in the Neotropics: An interdisciplinary Approach is sponsored by the Pre-Columbian Amazon-Scale Transformations project, funded by the European Research Council. It will be held in Cornwall from 1-4 February.


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Home 2018 September Asia Oceania Vanuatu's political scene changes rapidly: PM
Vanuatu's political scene changes rapidly: PM
September 20, 2018 | by	mnews |
anuatu Prime Minister, Charlot Salwai (c), NZ High Commissioner Jonathan Schwass (r) and UNDP Country Director, Bakhodir Burkhanov (l) By Godwin Ligo
While administration and political reforms have been conducted worldwide, Oceania has its own narratives.
Prime Minister Charlot Salwai made the above statement in his official opening remarks at the Regional Conference on Legal and Regulatory Framework for Political Parties yesterday.
The Pacific island states, usually referred to as Oceania, vary significantly in many critical respects of their geography and social, economic and political system.
Generally speaking, the Pacific was once considered to be unique in the former colonial world for the longevity of its political institutions and constitutions.
"However, over the past two decades, the region has become increasingly unstable politically," said PM Salwai.
"The political conflicts in the Pacific Islands have created the so called an arc of instability stretching from Papua New Guinea to Solomon Islands, Vanuatu to Fiji, and more recently Tonga, as reflected by the 2006 riots in the capital Nuku'alofa. The political instability in the Pacific has continued since the start of the 21st century.
"As those of you who follow Vanuatu politics and current affairs will know and understand the political landscape in Vanuatu, the issue of political stability, potential constitutional reform and the role of political parties have long been issues in the news here in Vanuatu. And I say that Vanuatu's political scene changes rapidly.
He mentioned the Government had previously announced its plan to look at introducing measures to provide for increased political stability and improved governance in Vanuatu. In particular, the issue of creating a modern, effective and transparent legal and regulatory framework for the creation, registration and operation of political parties remains a key challenge and priority.
"We have withdrawn our broader constitutional reform bill in order to allow us to focus on the key on the key issue of political parties and look to create consensus on the key content that should be included in a Bill to regulate political parties," he said.
"I have appointed a Taskforce to do a detail analysis, and to provide a working paper to the parliament in November of this year. This will form the basis for preparing us for a drat Political Parties Bill, which will be table in Parliament hopefully next year.
"It is for this reason that we asked UNDP to assist us through the Vanuatu Electoral Environment Project, which is funded by the Governments of New Zealand, to provide us with information from the Pacific region and beyond on this important topic as well as facilitating consultation on which measures could be introduced in Vanuatu."
On Friday, the Vanuatu Government will be holding a consultation meeting with a wide range of national stakeholders to discuss the dialogue at this regional conference and what might be relevant to the situation in Vanuatu.
"It is for this reason that I am looking forward to hearing how Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Fiji, New Zealand and other countries have addressed some of these issues and o hear what has worked, and maybe just as importantly, which has not worked and why," said PM Salwai.
He acknowledged UNDP and all the donor partners who have contributed to this event – the Governments of New Zealand, and Australia respectively, the European Union and the Konrad AdenauerStiftung Foundation.
"I would like to close by referring to the UN Sustainable Development Goal 16 which talks of good governance and effective political institutions and also the VNDP that has as a key commitment the enactment of political reforms that promote stability, accountability, constituency representation and civic engagement," he said.
"As a country, we recognise, that in order to achieve the goals outlined in the VNDP, that stability, good and effective governance of our countries is a prerequisite to service delivery and strong, continuous, sustainable development and economic growth.
"This conference is an important step for Vanuatu in considering the systems in the other countries as we look to examine and improve our governance systems with the aim of being robust but stable parliamentary democracy."
With these remarks,PM Salwai welcomed the regional participants to Vanuatu and declared the conference officially opened.
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Conseil scolaire catholique MonAvenir () is a Roman Catholic French first language public-separate school board that manages elementary and secondary schools in the Greater Golden Horseshoe. The school board operates 46 elementary schools, 11 secondary schools, and two combined institutions within that area. Conseil scolaire catholique MonAvenir is headquartered in the Centre d'éducation catholique Omer-Deslauriers (Omer Deslauriers Centre of Catholic Education) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

The school board was formed in 1998 after several local school boards were amalgamated into the French-language Separate District School Board No. 64. From 1999 to 2017, the school board was known as the Conseil scolaire de district catholique Centre-Sud. The school board adopted its current name in 2017.

The school board does not operate public-secular French first language in the Greater Golden Horseshoe. Public-secular French language schools in the Greater Golden Horseshoe are operated by Conseil scolaire Viamonde.

Jurisdiction
The CSDCCS provides French-language school services to the following areas in Ontario:

the cities of Toronto, Hamilton and Kawartha Lakes
the regional municipalities of Durham, York, Peel, Halton, Niagara and Waterloo,
the Counties of Brant, Dufferin, Haldimand, Norfolk, Northumberland, Peterborough, Simcoe and Wellington,
the District Municipality of Muskoka, and
in the District of Parry Sound, the Town of Parry Sound and the Townships of Carling, McDougall, McKellar and Seguin.

History

The school board was formed as the French-language Separate District School Board No. 64 in 1998, as a part of the province-wide restructuring of Ontario's school boards resulting from the Fewer School Boards Act, 1997, The new school board assumed control over public French-language separate school previously managed by other school boards in the Greater Golden Horseshoe. French separate school boards and departments that were amalgamated into the new school board includes the Conseil des écoles catholiques du Grand Toronto, the French language unit the Metropolitan Separate School Board (reorganized into the Toronto Catholic District School Board after the enactment of the Fewer School Boards Act).

In 1999, the school board was renamed Conseil scolaire de district catholique Centre-Sud. In May 2017, it was renamed to the Conseil scolaire catholique MonAvenir.

Schools
The Board's schools cover the Greater Golden Horseshoe area of Ontario. The school board operates 46 elementary schools, 11 secondary schools, and two schools that provides both elementary, and secondary levels of education.

See also
List of school districts in Ontario
List of high schools in Ontario

Notes

References

External links
 School Board information
 Conseil scolaire catholique MonAvenir
 Conseil scolaire catholique MonAvenir

French-language school districts in Ontario
Roman Catholic school districts in Ontario
Education in Toronto
North York
Lists of schools in Toronto
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto

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Shipping Container Apartments
Thousands of shipping containers sit idle behind barbed wire fences and on empty docks every day.
Sixteen shipping containers, shown on Thursday, Nov. 12, 2015, have been turned into apartments at 12th and Grand avenues in downtown Phoenix.(Photo: Tom Tingle/The Republic)
The latest apartments in downtown Phoenix are the stuff of sustainable dreams.
The Containers on Grand, a sustainable housing project made of shipping containers, opened for public viewing Thursday night.
The complex features eight 740-square-foot, one-bedroom apartment units built out of 16 decommissioned steel shipping containers.
The apartments, near Grand and 12th avenues, are part of the city's "Containers on Grand" collaborative project with the architects and contractors of StarkJames.
The apartments are available for rent for up to $1, 000 a month and already have a waiting list. One of the fully furnished and decorated units will soon be available as an Airbnb rental.
"The size is pretty decent, " said Kevin Harper, 34, a recent Valley transplant and prospective renter. "It's interesting how they used the space and how they used the containers."
Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton praised the sustainable living spaces.
"This project is special in so many ways, " Stanton said. "First off, I think it looks great. I love it on a personal basis. This project has a wonderful feel to it and I know that its going to be ... hugely successful."
Stanton said the multihousing container project is the first of its kind in the United States. Las Vegas has the Downtown Container Park, a retail and dining attraction created out of 30 shipping containers, but it does not include housing.
"This is going to put us on the map, " Stanton said.
Bob Graham, president of the Grand Avenue Members Association and an architect at the Motley Design Group, said that the association is thrilled to have the new addition to the area.
"We're really excited to see new quality redevelopment on Grand Avenue that is out-of-the-box, " Graham said.
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Seeking a Scottsdale home with superb views? Here is a luxury home that will sweep you off your feet.
This gorgeous Tuscan-style home is located in the stunning gated community of Vista Monterey in North Scottsdale. With 3,992 square feet of living space, this single-level home boasts five spacious bedrooms, plus an office that can easily be converted into a sixth. Enjoy an extra-large backyard with a grassy area, private heated swimming pool and spa and a built-in barbecue. Interior features include a very open great room floor plan, chef's kitchen with an island and premium upgraded appliances, high ceilings, granite countertops and more.
If that isn't enough to win you over, this property backs to NAOS land and offers stellar views of the vibrant Sonoran Desert and rugged mountains that you can enjoy from your backyard oasis. The home is situated in a prime location near the 101 freeway and the most upscale amenities the area provides. Just next door is the Pinnacle Peak Country Club, and Troon North Golf Club and McDowell Sonoran Preserve are just a short drive away. This home is also just minutes from Desert Ridge Marketplace, Scottsdale Quarter and Kierland Commons.
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Ariel Leader twin-cylinder, two-stroke motorcycle, 1963.
Ariel began producing bicycles in the West Midlands in 1870, and in 1898 made their first powered vehicle, a tricycle using a de Dion engine. Introduced in 1959, the Ariel Leader's radical design was intended to appeal to the commuter market by combining the performance and handling of a motorcycle with the weather protection normally only available on a scooter. The Leader was powered by a 250cc engine giving it a top speed of 69 mph. In common with most of the British motorcycle industry, Ariel struggled to compete with Japanese imports in the 1960s, and closed in 1967.
'100 Years of Progress, 1835-1935', GWR poster, 1935.
London & Edinburgh Shipping Company poster, early 20th century.
'Cheshire Lines Railway', Cheshire Lines Railway poster, c 1925.
'To Ireland via Holyhead', LNWR poster, early 20th century.
'Perfection', LNER poster, c 1930s.
'Holiday Excursions - Every Dog Has His Day', GNR poster, 1913.
'The Midland Pullman - the Train of Today', BR poster, c 1960s.
Diesel Train near Basenthwaite Lake, BR (LMR) poster, c 1950s.


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    module Github

      def Github.public
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                                                     repo_name:   Mobilize.config.fixture.github.public.repo_name
      end
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          return Mobilize::Github.find_or_create_by  domain:     _domain,
                                                     owner_name: _owner_name,
                                                     repo_name:  _repo_name
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China's next environmental challenge is hard to see
The slow, harmful effects of unregulated chemicals are a growing risk to public health
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Public health campaigns have been telling people for years to apply a generous layer of sunscreen when they go to the beach, and to make sure they're fully protected before getting into the water. But recent research from Hong Kong Baptist University finds that sunscreens are also having a shocking effect under the surface by causing deformities in fish embryos.
Few people have heard of chemicals commonly used in sunscreens, such as benzophenone-3 (BP-3), ethylhexyl methoxycinnamate (EHMC) and octocrylene (OC). When they are applied to the skin they block ultraviolet radiation, but in the water they also cause abnormalities in the young of zebrafish, and accumulate in the food chain where they can ultimately reach the human body.
The authors of the paper, which was published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology, have called for regulations to cover the use of such chemicals in personal care products.
Pollutants concealed in everyday products aren't as noticeable as smog or foul-smelling waterways and the damage they cause isn't immediately visible. But China is already the world's largest manufacturer of chemicals and neither regulators nor the public know much about the tens of thousands of different substances being transported and used around the country.
Meanwhile, the use of the chemicals is causing a rise in environmental health issues. Experts say that systems designed to deal with visible pollution and accidental releases aren't well-suited for managing hidden pollution, and urgent changes are needed to address this.
Abnormal zebrafish embryos, from Li, Adela Jing, et al. "Joint Effects of Multiple UV Filters on Zebrafish Embryo Development" Environmental Science & Technology 52.16 (2018)
Seeing the danger
In recent years, China has strengthened its system of environmental management and seen some impressive results. PM2.5 levels in Beijing in 2017 were 35% lower than in 2013 following a three-year action plan that was initially regarded as next to impossible to achieve. The 2015 Environmental Protection Law and the Party leadership's focus on "ecological civilization" have also empowered regulators to impose heavy fines on polluting firms and even shut down factories and jail offenders.
Visible pollution is being brought under control, but hidden pollution is still mostly unregulated.
There are about 45,000 chemicals known to be in circulation on the Chinese market (the actual number may be much larger), but fewer than 3,000 are regulated. These include substances that present clear risks because they are explosive, flammable or highly toxic. However, Greenpeace has calculated that about half of the 45,000 chemicals could cause long-term harm to the environment or human health.
"China's management of chemicals focuses on those which are dangerous and present definite and immediate risks," explained Wang Yan, toxics campaigner at Greenpeace. "Management of chemicals which have slower harmful effects on health and the environment is weaker, particularly when it comes to transportation, processing and use, and release into the environment."
Wang added that China's emphasis is on workplace safety and the prevention of accidents, with less thought given to people's health and protection of the environment. For example, the BP-3 found in sunscreen was identified as a potential endocrine disruptor as early as 2012. Its use in cosmetic products is restricted by EU regulation. But BP-3, like many other similar chemicals, is not regulated in China.
Liu Jianguo, associate professor at Peking University's College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, has written that dangerous and polluting production methods and use of chemicals have shifted from developed to developing nations, such as China, where technology and regulations are less developed.
Regulatory blind spots
Experts interviewed by chinadialogue said that China faces a growing challenge to manage chemical risks in an environmentally safe way and that current measures are inadequate. One problem is that environmental regulators are focused on more visible issues, such as smog and water pollution, and give little priority to hidden risks.
Ma Jun, director of the Institute for Public and Environmental Affairs, added that "environmental law enforcement agencies are facing multiple challenges with limited resources".
China has no national law on the management of chemicals. The highest-level relevant rules are the Regulations on the Safety Administration of Dangerous Chemicals, revised in 2011 by the State Administration of Work Safety (now the Ministry of Emergency Management). These regulate about 3,000 substances, which are included on a register of dangerous chemicals. The regulations were developed from a 1987 set which had been in place for 20 years and covered mainly explosive, flammable and highly toxic substances.
The aftermath of the 2015 chemical warehouse explosion in Tianjin. Management of chemicals in China has long focused on preventing incidents like this, with less attention paid to public health and the environment (Image: Wu Hao/Greenpeace)
The 2011 revision added "harmful to the environment" to the definition of dangerous chemicals, which allowed the regulation of chemicals for environmental reasons. The Ministry of Environmental Protection then published a trial method for registering chemicals hazardous to the environment in 2012, including those representing persistent and bioaccumulative risks. It included extra regulations for 84 environmentally-harmful substances and required firms manufacturing and using the chemicals to register and submit annual reports of releases and transfers.
Unfortunately, these departmental regulations were not enforced properly, and in 2016 they were annulled – a rare surrender for China's environmental regulators. Industry media outlet REACH24h said at the time that "the Ministry of Environmental Protection held a number of seminars and training sessions to encourage implementation, but with industry resistance and a lack of supporting documents, the regulations could not be maintained".
Wang Yan said that "environmental management of chemicals is marginalised, both within the environmental regulatory system and that for chemicals".
A worsening health crisis
With effective regulation still not in place, environmental health issues are becoming more apparent. A report from the China National Cancer Centre, China's Cancer Burden, published this year, shows that the most common cancer among women is breast cancer; incidences between 2000 and 2013 grew by 3.5% annually – the highest rate of growth globally. Rates in cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou are approaching those in the developed world.
In the most recent evaluation of endocrine-disrupting chemicals from the World Health Organisation and UN Environment Programme, a worldwide increase in incidence of some diseases is attributed partially to "unidentified environmental factors". These include cancers of the endocrine system, such as breast and testicular cancer, reproductive diseases and infertility. The report also noted that "chemicals to which all humans in industrialized areas are exposed have been shown to interfere with hormone synthesis, action or metabolism".
A different regulatory approach
China's environmental regulators have wanted to bring chemicals under their jurisdiction for a long time. The first attempt to establish an actively maintained list of chemicals, including those representing persistent and bioaccumulative risks, and require those manufacturing and using the chemicals to register and submit annual reports of releases and transfers, resulted in failure. However, it was regarded as an embryonic form of a pollutant release and transfer registry, a key part of any system for managing environmentally-harmful chemicals and encouraging firms to use less or opt for alternatives. The US Toxic Release Inventory and the EU's Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (PRTR) both improved the management of toxic and harmful chemicals in those jurisdictions.
According to Ma Jun, "International experience shows that a PRTR system allows the media, environmental groups and the public to use openly available information to pressure firms into cutting emissions, and can give the government a more comprehensive and accurate grasp of how firms are releasing and transferring harmful chemicals".
After the above mentioned regulation was abandoned, policy-makers lowered their ambition and no longer aimed to create a complete regulatory system all at once. A source close to policy-makers said that "merging regulation of chemicals with governance of water, soil and air is a more realistic direction at the moment".
In 2017 the then Ministry of Environmental Protection published an initial list of chemicals to be prioritised for regulation that included 22 persistent organic pollutants and endocrine-disrupting chemicals. The change resulted from powers granted by a State Council action plan on water pollution, and required licenses to release the substances in waste water, limits on their use in products, and encouragement to switch to alternatives.
In June the Communist Party Central Committee clarified the direction on soil pollution, saying that the risks associated with harmful chemicals in the environment should be assessed, with strict restrictions on the manufacture, use and import of high-risk chemicals, which should be gradually eliminated and replaced. This new authority will be a further boost to management of environmentally-harmful chemicals.
But industry insiders say that dividing management across air, water and soil is only a short term measure. "This will make both regulation and public oversight more difficult," said Ma Jun.
The creation in March of a Ministry of Ecology and Environment from the old Ministry of Environmental Protection is cause for optimism though. According to leaked reports, the ministry is actively working on a new set of regulations based on the principles of "risk prevention and control at the source". They will classify harms, assess risks and manage chemicals by banning, restricting or controlling their use.
This is the first in a series of chinadialogue articles on the environmental regulation of chemicals in China. We are grateful to the Swedish Chemicals Agency for its support.
Ma Tianjie
Ma Tianjie is China Dialogue managing editor in Beijing. Before joining China Dialogue, he was Greenpeace's Program Director for Mainland China where he was a regular commentator on China's environmental challenges contributing to a range of media organisations. He holds a master's degree in environmental policy from American University, Washington D.C.
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Vater Staat als Personifikation des Staates ist eine politische Metapher. Als Fortentwicklung der traditionellen Vaterlands-Metapher setzte sie seit dem 19. Jahrhundert neue Akzente in der politischen Kultur. Sie wird meist liebevoll-ironisch gebraucht und schreibt dem Staat die – väterliche – Rolle einer fürsorglichen und gerechten auch zeitweise strengen Obrigkeit zu, welche die soziale Ordnung und damit letztlich das Leben jedes einzelnen Menschen mehr oder weniger weitreichend regelt.

Die Wendung vom Vater Staat wurde ein verbreiteter stehender Begriff in der politischen Debatte.

Gebrauch
Das Bild entspricht tendenziell dem Staatsverständnis der sozialistischen und teilweise auch konservativen Strömungen des politischen Spektrums. Die einen sehen den Staat in erster Linie als Sozialstaat (Sozialisten) die anderen eher als Garanten der Ordnung (Konservative).

Dem Liberalismus scheint eine solche Betrachtungsweise fremd und sie verwenden die Metapher vom Vater Staat daher auch abwertend-polemisch als Begriff gegen ein "etatistisches" Staatsverständnis, das in ihren Augen die Eigenverantwortung des Individuums auf den Staat abwälzt.

Die unterschiedlichen, ideologisch motivierten Vereinnahmungen des "Vater Staat" bringt der Gewerkschafter Heinrich Stühmer (1863–1945), dem 1899 der bürgerliche deutsche Staat als Hort des Kapitalismus eine klar übermächtige und als solche fragwürdige Vaterfigur war, wie folgt auf den Punkt:

Der Begriff wird manchmal komplementär zu Mutter Natur genutzt.

Siehe auch
 Vater Staat (Thomas Schütte)
 Nationalallegorie
 z. B. Uncle Sam
 aber Germania, Mütterchen Russland (Mutter Heimat)
 Vater Rhein
 Vaterland und Muttersprache
 Pater patriae
 Patriarchat (Soziologie)
 Absolutismus, Leviathan (Thomas Hobbes)

Literatur
 Daniela Dahn: Wir sind der Staat! Warum Volk sein nicht genügt. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-498-01333-2.
 Alexander Neubacher: Total beschränkt. Wie uns der Staat mit immer neuen Vorschriften das Denken abgewöhnt. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt u. a., München u. a. 2014, ISBN 978-3-421-04655-0.
 Rolf Winter: Wer, zur Hölle, ist der Staat? Geständnisse, Fragen und Empörungen eines Pazifisten. Rasch und Röhring, Hamburg 1992, ISBN 3-89136-450-4.

Weblinks
 Uncle IDW

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Q: High Level Synthesis of a Microprocessor I am working at an FGPA shop right now using Xilinx FPGAs. I do not have a ton of experience with designing logic, especially when it comes to microprocessors. One of the big movements my team is looking at is to adopt High Level Synthesis (HLS) which translates an algorithm written in C down to RTL that can then be placed and routed onto an FPGA or even forwarded to an ASIC design.
A similar question was asked here Convert C to FPGA, but I want to direct the response of this question directly to the architecture of a microprocessor.
My question is what would it take to implement an algorithm for a microprocessor? You obviously have the ISA, so I am assuming the your inputs would be each operand, depending on how many your processor takes, and the op code? I am assuming there would need to be some buffer allocated to represent the caches/registers for the architecture? Also, you would probably need to allocate space for RAM since ISAs have register indirect operations that might require those type of memories to be already allocated.
For example, lets say I want to make an Intel 8008. Can you give me pseudocode to demonstrate the algorithm that can be put through a high level synthesizer to get that hardware?
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When I ask for pseudo code I obviously do not mean a full product. I just want the major steps that would be involved in the design of the algorithm. I am guessing it would revolve around fetching, decoding, and executing the input to the function. The comments with the emulators and the AUGH look like they will be a big help.

A: This article by Ken Chapman goes through the design process that was used to create the PicoBlaze processor used in Xilinx FPGAs.
https://www.dc.uba.ar/materias/disfpga/2010/c2/descargas/TechXclusive%20Creating%20Embedded%20Microcontrollers.pdf
The article doesn't specifically talk about C.  But the point is to try and implement the logic in a similar way to what is described.


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A little bit of vital information, such as strats and cheats on all the Sim games. Uses scripts not fully compatible with IE5 (could be just my settings).
Stuff on all games by Electronic Arts. Clean design, lots of good strategy blurbs.
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Nice clean layout. Go here if you're having problems developing your city. Also has some nice bitmaps terrains he created.
Nice design, easy to navigate, reliable news.
Cities and terrains to download and some tips. However not much in the news department.
This site is being redesigned. Nothing here just yet.
Source for SC3000 and other Sim games. This site has lots of links, and is up to date with the BAT and SC3000 information.
A Personal site that has information about SimCity 3000, and Warhammer, although the SC3000 section seems to be taking over.
Tons of information on SimCity 2000. One of the few sites where the SC2000 section is still updated regularly. Also has all the stuff on SCURK, SimTower, and Streets of SimCity.
A general webring connecting to all sites having to do with SimCity.
A friend's homepage. Has some StarTrek, StarWars, and Starcraft things.
A friend's homepage. Nothing but a few links as of now.
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Retired Texas police dogs had to be sold or destroyed under state law. Voters just changed that.
By Karin Brulliard / The Washington Post
Police dogs spend all day working with handlers. They typically live together.
But when law enforcement K-9s in Texas have retired, they haven't always gone home with their handlers. Laws in the nation's second-largest state treated the dogs as surplus public property that, like firearms or police cars taken out of commission, needed to be auctioned off, donated to charity or destroyed.
That changed Tuesday, when voters overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment that allows dogs, horses or other law enforcement animals to be adopted at no cost by their handlers or other "qualified" caretakers.
It was backed by the Sheriffs' Association of Texas, whose members were regularly perplexed by how to handle dog retirement legally - complying with laws that viewed the animals as surplus - and ethically, in ways that made sense to officers who view K-9 partners as family and departments who mark dogs' retirements or deaths with ceremonies.
"It's the right thing to do," said Collin County Sheriff Jim Skinner, who chairs the legislative committee for the sheriffs' association. "There's been a lot of great dogs with great handlers, and the right thing should have been done by them. But it's better late than never."
The change is one of the latest examples of nuance legislators and courts are bringing to laws that view animals as property. Some animal rights activists have pushed for far more, including legal personhood for animals, but smaller shifts have already changed animals' status to something different from appliances - or inanimate police equipment.
"It's a really antiquated law," Richard Geraci of the Retired Police Canine Foundation said of Texas' former approach, which he added is common across the United States. "These issues really need to be modernized in the interest of the animals. . . . It's a living thing."
In Texas, the previous laws led departments to come up with creative workarounds. When Skinner became sheriff in Collin County in 2017, two K-9s were "old and ailing" and ready for retirement, he said. Instead of euthanizing them or auctioning them off, he said he "took them out of active duty," but didn't officially retire them. That kept the dogs and handlers together, but it prevented Skinner from being able to replace the dogs. The Austin Police Department has sold its retired dogs and horses to handlers or employees for $1, the Statesman reported.
But Skinner said some departments over the years have put down their retired dogs.
"There's different ways that people have tried to deal with this. But here's the reality: We're peace officers, and we stand for the rule of law, and we want to do the right thing," he said. "We've asked for this exception, to not treat these animals like property, for all the obvious reasons."
Skinner said the issue was particularly important to him for personal reasons: Nearly four decades ago, he was an Air Force K-9 handler in the Philippines. He was so attached to his dog, Jessie, that he extended his tour to stay with her.
"I knew I might be her last handler. That was during the time period when dogs were done, they were either abandoned or euthanized," Skinner said. "That's what the military did with them, and it broke a lot of hearts."
(Things changed for U.S. military working dogs in 2000, with the passage of a law that made them available for adoption. A 2016 law funded overseas military dogs' repatriation and gave handlers the first pass at adopting the animals.)
Skinner and other sheriffs approached members of the Texas legislature, which unanimously passed a proposed amendment in April and referred it to the ballot that went to voters Tuesday.
"Few people are qualified to humanely care for and properly supervise a police dog or horses," one sponsor, state Sen. Brian Birdwell, R, wrote to constituents this year, "and these animals need to be cared for by a capable individual at the end of their service."
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