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2nd Generation Volvo S60/V60 Instrument Cluster Brightness Problems
Volvo has a long and solid reputation as a producer of safe and reliable vehicles. The Swedish car maker has been producing the S60 model since 2000 and its second generation version, the V60 from 2010 up to today. This compact executive vehicle utilizes a four-cylinder, turbocharged direct injection engine. As reliable as these Volvo models are, they do experience problems occasionally that may require the help of a qualified foreign car mechanic.
One issue that some 2nd generation S60/V60 Volvo drivers have experienced with their cars concerns the brightness of the instrument panel on their dashboard displays. The brightness of the instrument cluster seems to change on its own and doesn't correspond with the amount of natural light. The sensor, when working properly, is supposed to gauge the amount of sunlight and adjust itself accordingly. In theory, the brightness of the light will increase as the sun goes down. This sensor, often referred to as the twilight sensor, has been know to reset itself.
While this may not be a serious cause for concern for the driver, it is possible that this could be an indicator of a more serious electrical problem. Other sensors could also start to malfunction, like the rain sensors that detect when the car is driving through a tunnel which turns on the headlights automatically.
If you are the owner of a Volvo S60 or V60 and are experiencing issues with the brightness of your vehicle's instruments cluster, there may be an electrical problem that needs to be addressed. Be sure to take your car in to an independent Volvo service garage for a complete diagnosis and estimate for repair.
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Stanley's Supporters' Club surpasses 500 members
Stanley's Supporters' Club have had an increase in members of over 65% on last year
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The Official Accrington Stanley Supporters' Club (OASSC) recently surpassed 500 worldwide members and they're hoping to attract even more Stanley fans into the fold.
This year the OASSC have had an increase in members of over 65% on last year's membership total, and it wasn't too long ago when the Supporters' Club was close to folding altogether.
At that time, there were less than five members attending meetings compared to the 80 that turned up for the recent Q&A with owner Andy Holt and managing director David Burgess.
The Supporters' Club's current membership also spans 15 different countries including the United Kingdom.
The 14 other countries are Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, New Zealand, Republic of Ireland, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland and the United States of America.
Peter Leatham, Chairman of the OASSC said: "We are delighted to have reached our initial target of 500 active members and would like to thank all those who continue to get involved and support us in supporting our club.
"We now have members in over 15 countries and it continues to show the popularity of the Accrington Stanley name worldwide."
A year's membership costs just £5 or you can become a lifetime member of the OASSC for £100!
Further details about the OASSC's memberships can be found on their website, CLICK HERE to find out more.

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The Boardroom Isn't Ready for the Next SolarWinds
Attacks like Log4j, SolarWinds and Colonial Pipeline have board rooms across the nation questioning their preparedness in combating cybersecurity risks. What can boards do now to be more effective for the next big attack? Read More
Written by Brett Galloway and Virginia Gambale
Last year, attacks such as SolarWinds and Colonial Pipeline have served as a powerful wake-up call for enterprises. The SolarWinds supply chain attack demonstrated that cybercriminals could gain access to some of the world's most highly regarded companies while remaining undetected for months. Meanwhile, the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack directly impacted the socioeconomic health of the United States through gas shortages and price increases, transforming ransomware into a top-tier national security threat overnight.
Coming off the one-year anniversary of the SolarWinds intrusion, concerns remain about the effectiveness of the capabilities and programs that have been put in place and the effectiveness of the board's governance of cybersecurity risk.
After a decade of investment and innovation, the time has come to shift from capability development toward outcome-driven cybersecurity readiness. That is where the board needs to step in.
The board of directors is responsible for providing oversight to every aspect of the business, including cybersecurity risk. Boards need to elevate cybersecurity effectiveness by: (1) shifting their focus from compliance to risk management; (2) urging the chief information security officer (CISO) and the security team to implement a threat-informed defense to manage those risks; and (3) forming a cybersecurity oversight committee within the board to increase its capability to govern cybersecurity risk. Here's why this matters and how it can work.
Shifting from Compliance to Risk Management
Gartner notes that many board-level executives still believe that internal audits and regulatory compliance are their primary guides to address cybersecurity. This typically occurs because cybersecurity board reporting is buried in the audit committee, or there is an over-emphasis on addressing internal audit findings instead of concentrating resources on building an effective program.
All cybersecurity risks are not created equal. Some represent nuisances, and some manifest as catastrophes. If the board is focused solely on compliance, it will encourage a "check box" mentality that tends to push the organization to spread its resources thinly across all risks. To change that, the board must help the security organization focus the security program on the context of the organization's particular risk profile.
Putting in Place a Threat-Informed Defense
In part, this means shifting from a traditional emphasis on investing in the defensive walls at the organization's perimeter. For years the CISO reassured the board that this metaphorical wall stood around the company to keep cyber intruders out. Intruders kept breaking through. The era of building higher walls and promising to keep intruders out has come to an end.
Practically, security teams are adopting an "assume breach" mindset, and vendors are moving perimeter-focused technologies to lateral movement and persistence solutions, for example, that help detect and prevent breaches and attacks from happening. If breach is assumed, the central questions for the organization and board of directors become, "Are we ready?" and "Is our security program effective at protecting against the most important and likely risks?"
This requires that the organization to practice what Richard Struse of the Mitre Engenuity Center for Threat-Informed Defense aptly calls a threat-informed defense: the appliction of a deep understanding of adversary tradecraft and technology to protect against, detect and mitigate cyberattacks.
How do members of the board know that the organization is practicing a threat-informed defense? There are several indicators. Is the security team using the Mitre ATT&CK framework of known adversary tactics, techniques and common knowledge to systematically communicate and reason about adversary behavior? Is the team being proactive and strategic about validating control effectiveness rather than only reacting once a breach or attack has occurred?
Breaches don't happen because companies neglect to develop proper security programs. Breaches don't happen due to a particularly sophisticated adversary. Breaches happen because security controls — combinations of people, technology and processes designed to detect and block the adversary — fail regularly, and when they do, they fail silently. If you leave it to the adversary to test your defenses, then you are waiting too long to test them, and you will get burned.
Creating a Cybersecurity Committee to Enable More Effective Governance
With the rise in breaches and shift from capability creation to assuring effectiveness, board members must ask questions to ensure technology capabilities are aligned to the
business's risk profile, and that they sufficiently protect against those risks.
To execute this governance responsibility, board members need to be reasonably well educated on the cybersecurity landscape, including defensive capabilities, threat behaviors and risk management practices. Boards need to form a dedicated cybersecurity committee that can stay deeply engaged and serve as a proxy for all members. This strategy is so critical that Gartner predicts 40% of boards will have a dedicated cybersecurity committee in just three years. Having a cybersecurity subcommittee doesn't mean that the entire board gets a pass. All members still need to be informed should they have to play a role in significant events and decisions.
Research from Forrester shows enterprise leaders consider accelerating the shift to digital business to be their most critical priority in 2021. As digital transformation initiatives accelerate, so do cybersecurity risks. By applying a threat-informed defense strategy and forming a cybersecurity committee to oversee program effectiveness, the board can shift from compliance management to a more holistic business risk management mindset.
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Q: big bug: gedit doesn't open, sh makes sh in infinite loop so, my gedit doesn't open anymore: in command line it shows its classical amount of typical warnings, then stops at a certain point and doesn't do anything else; there below the whole of its output before it (appears to) freeze in the terminal:
(gedit:25142): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk-widgets.css:544:12: Expected '('

(gedit:25142): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk-widgets.css:1039:0: Junk at end of value

(gedit:25142): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: button.css:41:13: Expected '('

(gedit:25142): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: button.css:46:29: Expected ',' in color definition

(gedit:25142): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: button.css:98:16: Not using units is deprecated. Assuming 'px'.

(gedit:25142): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: button.css:98:24: Not using units is deprecated. Assuming 'px'.

(gedit:25142): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: toolbar.css:34:23: Not a valid image

(gedit:25142): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: toolbar.css:93:22: Not a valid image

(gedit:25142): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: popover.css:27:4: Junk at end of value

(gedit:25142): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: popover.css:37:17: Expected '('

(gedit:25142): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: albumlistview.css:26:20: Not using units is deprecated. Assuming 'px'.

i noticed in my system monitor, that one sh process was creating what i suppose are subprocesses, but of itself, in infinite loop, that is, one sh creating a 'kid sh' and so on, and impossible by the way to stop it although of course for now it doesn't bother me.
anyways, i'd like my gedit back! ^^ i tried to rename the plugin folder to see if it would load without them. (didn't work)
it indeed happens that i was working on a plugin at the time it began to go mad, but it perfectly worked the very last time i opened it, and i haven't changed the plugin between the last good opening and the moment when gedit bugged.
one other important data though: since i was debugging my plugin, i tried (how i thought worked) this method to remove the abovementioned stupid warnings of gedit.
what i then did:
created a foo.sh file, with inside:
_supress() {
  eval "$1() { \$(which $1) \"\$@\" 2>&1 | tr -d '\r' | grep -v \"$2\"; }"
}

_supress gedit "WARNING"

following the running of this file, gedit didn't work at all as i wanted; and since i already had one opened gedit at the time, it kept showing me up that opened gedit window, then returning to bash, after precisely showing the above warnings and no more.
but then at the time (when i tried gedit after foo.sh), it returned to bash (after showing me up the opened gedit), while now it doesn't, it only stays running without doing anything visible, "waiting" for ctrl+C.
i obviously missed a clue anyhow on the method of above; i tried other versions, among which:
eval "gedit() { \$(which gedit) \"\$@\" 2>&1 | tr -d '\r' | grep -v \"WARNING\"; }"

again, didn't work;
that's when i realized that, once i closed the last opened gedit window, gedit didn't open anymore at all (aside the above warnings and the staying on the spot);
my sys monitor then told me what i said above (sh self creating in infinite loop, i guess not a coincidence). i tried to restart the whole computer: at reboot it was same story
i'm a bit desperate, and configured gedit well enough for that a total re installation be a complete personal tragedy :(
waiting for help! thanks in advance :)
EDIT: it's kindofa big problem however bc i'm already at +12,000 processes in less than half an hour, and my kernel seems to only allow +32000:
>cat /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
32768

i don't know though if those sh would show up if i don't open gedit at all on reboot... am gonna try.
EDIT: good news, sh didn't loop again at restart, so i'm pretty sure it's connected to the bug of gedit, and would begin if i retried to reopen gedit.
EDIT: another thing: got no problem at all if running it on root; of course then i don't have all of my personal configuration, but it means it's only "my" gedit that's bugging, though i don't exactly know where would be defined the difference between the two instances... (as obvious from above, i'm fairly newbie on bash&co)

A: I would start with an empty config directory:
mv $HOME/.config/gedit $HOME/.config/gedit.crap

and re-add bit by bit the old directory content to $HOME/.config/gedit to seek the real culprit.
If you have messed up also the system configuration you should reinstall gedit from scratch.

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Schools and groups are welcome to visit outside of the main season by prior arrangement, subject to event bookings and staff availability. You can also check our events page for other opportunities to view the historic interiors.
*Please note that there are occasional closures of St Mary's Guildhall and the café for civic and private events. Please contact us to confirm opening arrangements if travelling a long distance to see us.
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School and Group visits are very welcome during the open season, and at all other times of the year by arrangement. Please see the Group Visits page, for more details.
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The Village Museum is included in my Bucharest tours "Best of Bucharest"-Full-Day City Tour and Essential Bucharest – Half-Day Bucharest City Tour.
"The architecture of a country is, perhaps, the most accurate expression of its history, and nothing can give us a more certain insight into the past and more authentic knowledge of a civilization.
The National Village Museum, the second largest open-air museum in Europe, is by far the most acknowledged and appreciated museum in Bucharest, by visitors from abroad and Romanians alike. The museum was set up in 1936, at the same time with the nearby Herastrau Park, and was inaugurated in the presence of King Carol II. It was at the time one of the first ethnographic museums in the world.
The creation of the Village Museum is the result of the exceptional monographic research campaign, extended for over a decade, initiated and advised by Professor Dimitrie Gusti, founder of the Sociological School of Bucharest. Peasant artifacts (household, technical installations and even churches) and interior objects (pottery, fabrics, furniture, tools) considered representative of their places of origin, were acquired from all the regions of the country and were presented here in a setting close to their original condition. Conforming to the criterion of authenticity and respect of local construction practices, the reassembling of the rural households was made with peasant craftsmen brought from the very villages of origin of the houses. The museum is in fact a synthesis of all Romanian villages, in all their originality and diversity.
The Village Museum was evoked in a beautiful poem by Marin Sorescu, a widely popular Romanian poet of the 1970s generation. Click on this link to read the poem!


B'nai B'rith International commends the commissioners at the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) for again resisting a formidable campaign for punitive, one-sided action on the Middle East. They chose positive investment instead of divestment, voting against a resolution supporting divestment from three American companies engaged in business with Israel. They also rejected the slurring of Israeli policy with the label of "apartheid." However, the church did separately encourage countries to prohibit products made by Israelis in disputed territories.
From June 30 through July 7, the PC(USA) is convening in Pittsburgh for its General Assembly, the primary policymaking body of the 2 million-member mainline Protestant denomination.
By a vote of 333-331-2, delegates opted on July 5 to replace a church overture for divestment from Caterpillar, Motorola Solutions and Hewlett-Packard with one on constructive investment. This motion was later adopted by a vote of 369-290-8.
Although deliberations at the assembly continue, and some resolutions-including the one on goods made by Ahava and other companies producing in Palestinian-claimed territories-signal areas of important disagreement with our organization on Israel's record and circumstances, a significant number of Presbyterians have continued to show their desire to avoid many of the most immoderate and harmful proposals.
They have done so in the face of assertions by some speakers that Israel is guilty of "apartheid," "ethnic cleansing" and "the worst form of terrorism," responsible for inspiring 9/11. One speaker, hinting at Presbyterian-Jewish relations, said that Jesus didn't worry about relations with the Pharisees when he cleansed the Temple and challenged tax-collectors and priests.
Presbyterians working to enhance understanding of the complex conditions in the Middle East deserve appreciation for their efforts.
Several mainline Protestant denominations have debated and declined proposals to single out companies doing business with Israel for economic sanctions. Today, July 6, the General Convention of the Episcopal Church, although not scheduled to consider divestment, will discuss resolutions on the Middle East, including several on investment issues and on adopting for study "Kairos Palestine," an inflammatory 2009 Palestinian Christian document that called for indiscriminate boycotts of the Jewish state.


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Thomas Jefferson, Revolutionary: A Radical's Struggle to Remake America. Kevin R. C. Gutzman (New York: Saint Martin's Press, 2017).
The challenge a historian faces when writing about Thomas Jefferson is which Jefferson does one choose? The choices of "Jeffersons" include: Jefferson the radical, Jefferson the democrat, Jefferson the philosophe, Jefferson the scientist, Jefferson the statesman, and Jefferson the planter, just to name a few. Kevin Gutzman has chosen Jefferson the radical statesman as his subject, with perhaps a slight emphasis upon the statesman more so than the radical. Gutzman begins his volume with a powerful claim regarding Jefferson as a statesman, "Thomas Jefferson's influence on American political history outstrips that of any other figure." In support of this bold thesis, Gutzman explores Jefferson's influence in five realms of his life: federalism, freedom of conscience, education, and Jefferson's views on Africa-Americans and Native Americans. Gutzman believes that one may find in these areas a Jeffersonian vision which is both coherent and consistent, and one that he pursues throughout his public career. In doing so, Jefferson became the most important and influential of American political figures.
On the crucial subject of federalism, Gutzman is right to emphasize Jefferson's deep commitment to the need for strict limitations on the powers and scope of the federal government. Jefferson pursued this line in the "Summary View of the Rights of British America." Gutzman uncovers the important meanings in this curious document, a document which is part Country Tory with its appeal to the King George III to rein in Parliament's excesses, and part radical, a monarchist would say impudent, in calling the King to account for his failures to curb Parliament's excesses. Fundamental to Jefferson's view of federalism is his assertion that the colonies are already autonomous states on par with the United Kingdom, Spain and France, and thus incorporated into the United Kingdom by a shared executive, and not by any authority Parliament possessed. This viewpoint provides a crucial context for the Declaration of Independence. In that document, Jefferson continued the argument against King George's negligence in curbing Parliament, and hence the need to declare the independence of the thirteen "states." Gutzman's point here is well taken; the heart of the declaration is not the phrase ". . . all men are created equal," but the indictment hurled at George III, for it is this indictment that justifies the status of the new colonies as free and independent states.
Gutzman's argument suggests that the reading of the first several lines of the Declaration of Independence is best understood as the assertion of thirteen "states" that they share an equal right to independence with the United Kingdom, France, Spain et al. This interpretation was the original one of the framers and thus the correct one. Further evidence may be found in the debates over the admission of Missouri in to the federal union. When opponents of Missouri's admission as a "slave state" invoked the "all men are created equal" clause to buttress their case for denying Missouri admission to the union as a slave state, it was Senator Richard Mentor Johnson who reminded the Congress that the meaning of the phrase was "that all communities stand upon an equality; that Americans are equal with Englishmen and have the right to organize such government for themselves as they shall choose, whenever it is their pleasure to dissolve the bands which unite them to another people." Johnson received no rebuttals from the innovators in the Senate who wished to change the plain meaning of Jefferson's words. Time would, however, erode the original intent and meaning of Jefferson's words and give to the phrase a more abstract, teleocratic, and even at times a Jacobin quality.
Gutzman's proper understanding of Jeffersonian federalism makes intelligible many of Jefferson's subsequent actions and appeals to limit to the scope and authority of the federal government. These include: Jefferson's sympathy for Shay's Rebellion, Jefferson's reservations concerning the constitution that came out of the Philadelphia Convention, the Kentucky Resolutions, many of Jefferson's policies as President, particularly in his first term, and his later anxieties concerning the Union in the wake of the Marshall Court's decisions in McCulloch v. Maryland and Cohen v. Virginia, and yes, the Missouri controversy.
In addition to being the country's foremost statesman, Jefferson could also lay a claim to being the father of American education, and certainly Jefferson has an even more powerful claim to founding the first truly American university, the University of Virginia. Jefferson's views on education were deeply influenced by his beliefs regarding the liberty of conscience. In brief, this later principle may be best summed up by Jefferson's quote, "Inquiry, yes, but inculcation, no." This quote, however, is best applicable to Jefferson's views regarding religious beliefs and principles. For example, Jefferson supported developing a library of religious works of all kinds at the University of Virginia, but religion was viewed by Jefferson as a field of study, not a set of dogmas to be transmitted to the students. When it came to inculcating some of the values and prejudices of the Enlightenment, well that was a different matter altogether. Some of the values espoused by Enlightenment thinkers were to a large extent his values; their prejudices, his prejudices. Most crucial for Jefferson as a goal of education was the creation of an aristocracy of merit rather than a monied aristocracy, and the formation of a people capable of self-government, which is to say, a republican citizenry. This citizenry, however, was to be secular one: committed to freedom of conscience, absorbing the many of the values of the Enlightenment as these passed through the filter of American pragmatism. Religion was to be moved to the sphere of private life where it may shape ethics and behavior, but not much else. Not only are these views still with us in America, but they retain considerable power in shaping the conversations Americans have with each other about the role of education and religion in society.
Gutzman's last two topics deal with the racial views of Jefferson, specifically his views concerning blacks and Indians. With respect to the former, Jefferson's views were conventional for his time. He opposed slavery, favored the policy of colonization as a way to bring about slavery's demise, and believed that whites and blacks could not co-exist on equal terms without violence resulting. The chief reason Jefferson's iconic status was diminished during the culture war of the last three decades was due in large part to Jefferson's racial attitudes and his conviction in the inherent intellectual and moral inferiority of most black Americans. Unlike so many academics on the Left, Gutzman is not ready to dismiss Jefferson as one more racist and hypocritical dead-white-male from days past. Gutzman points out that Jefferson's efforts to end slavery were sincere and he is unafraid to see Jefferson for who he was; he is not reliant upon either the drawers of icons or the iconoclasts for his views of Jefferson. Most importantly, Gutzman illustrates that in Jefferson's Virginia there was a range of views on slavery as well as the inherent capacities of black people; there was no monolithic view on this subject in Virginia or the South. Conventional too was Jefferson's views on Indians. Jefferson was much more optimistic concerning the inherent abilities and endowments of the Indians, and like many Virginians he favored assimilation. Gutzman is right to point out that in terms of policy Jefferson laid the ground for the dispossession of the Indians, but was this not always the case with many Virginians? When it came to the "sons of the forest" were not Virginians always ambivalent? Many First Families of Virginia were and are proud of their descent from Pocahontas; in Jefferson's day such descent conferred a kind of blood title to Virginia. There was also the common view that the Indian must give way to the march of white civilization, hence Jefferson's support for extinguishing Indian title to lands as a tool to encourage assimilation and feed agrarian cupidity.
If there is a glaring omission in Gutzman's otherwise excellent book it is the absence of a discussion of Jefferson's views on political economy. Granted, political economy is not the most exciting topic, but any cursory glance at the Annals of Congress or the Register of Debates reveals that political economy and public finance dominate the conversation. As Edmund Burke once put it, "The revenue is the state." I would go so far as to say that Jefferson's views on political economy were at the heart of his vision for America, and for a time these views had triumphed over those of the Hamiltonians and later the Whigs. This leads to another mild criticism, could not any acolyte of Alexander Hamilton's make the justifiable claim that we now live in Alexander Hamilton's world rather than Mr. Jefferson's? Let us make a brief case for this view. By 1848, the Bank of the United States was dead, the Treasury was issuing its notes for currency, westward expansion was in full swing, federally funded internal improvements were accepted, grudgingly in some quarters, as unconstitutional, and tariff rates were beginning to come down—Jeffersonian policies all. Soon the Whig Party would fall, the Republicans rise (and as a sectional party at that), the Late Unpleasantness would conclude, and one by one the planks of Jeffersonian political economy would be dismantled. Once Jeffersonian federalism was defeated at Appomattox Courthouse the way for the triumph of the Hamiltonian vision of America was paved.
The above quibbles aside, Gutzman has provided us with an outstanding case for the importance of Jefferson in clear, coherent, and well-supported prose. In some places this might lead to a revocation of tenure; we surely hope that no such fate awaits this most talented and articulate historian of the Jeffersonians.


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Home Health Omicron COVID variant was in Europe before South African scientists detected and...
Omicron COVID variant was in Europe before South African scientists detected and flagged it to the world
Christina Edwards
Dutch well being authorities introduced on Tuesday that they discovered the new Omicron variant of the coronavirus in circumstances courting again so long as 11 days, indicating that it was already spreading in western Europe before the first circumstances had been recognized in southern Africa. The RIVM well being institute stated it discovered Omicron in samples courting from November 19 and 23.
Those findings predate the optimistic circumstances discovered amongst passengers who got here from South Africa final Friday and had been examined at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport.
"It is not yet clear whether the people concerned [in the earlier cases] have also been to southern Africa," the RIVM stated, including that the people had been knowledgeable of their Omicron infections and that native well being companies had began contact tracing.
People wait in entrance of an "Appointment Desk" for quarantine and coronavirus illness (COVID-19) take a look at appointments inside Schiphol Airport, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, November 27, 2021.
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"In the coming period, various studies will be conducted into the distribution of the Omicron variant in the Netherlands," the institute stated, noting that it would additionally re-examine extra samples from earlier COVID take a look at outcomes.
Belgium and Germany have additionally stated that pattern exams verify the variant was in these nations before South African well being officers alerted the world on November 24 to its existence.
South African scientists have been praised for first detecting the new variant and alerting international well being authorities to it final week. But Omicron has now unfold to about 20 different nations, and amid mounting concern that it may very well be considerably simpler to move from particular person to particular person, and that it may have at the least some resistance to present remedies and vaccines, many countries have imposed journey restrictions on passengers from southern African nations.
How the White House is responding to Omicron
South African politicians and scientists have stated they really feel as if they're being punished for his or her superior COVID-19 screening program, which caught the variant and enabled different nations to reply shortly to it, however has resulted in the journey bans which largely goal southern African nations.
Japan and France confirmed their first circumstances of the new variant on Tuesday as nations round the world scrambled to shut their doorways, and scientists raced to take a look at current medication towards it.
It remained unclear on Tuesday whether or not the Omicron pressure makes folks extra severely sick than the already-well-known variants, however the World Health Organization has warned that the international threat it poses is "very high" based mostly on early proof.
WHO chief Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stated it could lead on to surges round the world with "severe consequences."
On Monday, President Biden and his prime medical coverage advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci stated the variant was not a trigger for panic, however that it was a trigger for concern. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has already taken motion, increasing its vaccine steering on Monday evening to advocate that every one U.S. adults get a booster shot.
Dr. Fauci on new variant of concern Omicron
American epidemiologist Dr. Michael Osterholm, Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, advised CBS News on Tuesday that the U.S. may very well be in for a tough winter if folks do not take that recommendation.
"People don't realize we're more susceptible today in this country as a whole because of the number of people who are now six, seven or eight months out who have not gotten their boosters and who are now starting to revert back to a much higher risk," he stated.
Overnight, the CEO of vaccine maker Moderna was quoted as saying the current vaccines could also be considerably much less efficient towards Omicron, telling the Financial Times: "All the scientists I've talked to… are like, 'this is not going to be good.'"
But most scientists, together with the ones who developed the Oxford University/AstraZeneca vaccine, have reserved judgement, pointing to the lack of clear data and urging folks to wait till present analysis yields actual knowledge from experiments on the variant. That's anticipated to take up to two extra weeks.
Omicron poses threat for worldwide an infection
"Despite the appearance of new variants over the past year, vaccines have continued to provide very high levels of protection against severe disease and there is no evidence so far that Omicron is any different," AstraZeneca stated in an announcement. "However, we have the necessary tools and processes in place for rapid development of an updated COVID-19 vaccine if it should be necessary."
All the main Western vaccine makers, in addition to the producers of Russia's home Sputnik vaccine, have stated they're already engaged on, or prepared to work on, tailoring their formulation particularly for the new variant, if it ought to show obligatory.
Local and state officers in the U.S. and elsewhere, nevertheless, aren't ready to discover out. In addition to the refrain of officers calling on folks to get their vaccines and booster pictures, some measures have been reinstituted round the world already.
New York City has issued new advisories recommending a return to masking indoors, and throughout England, masks had been once more obligatory in crowded or indoor public settings from Tuesday.
"We're telling you to get those masks back on now," New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio stated on Monday. "It's smart to do."
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Home Google Gmail How to Change the View in Gmail
August 31, 2018 By Kermit Matthews
How to Change the View in Gmail
Gmail is one of, if not, the most popular email clients in the world. It provides email service to many for free, and you can even set up a custom domain name if you want to use you own branded email.
Gmail also has a number of different ways that you can change the view of your inbox. Our tutorial below will show you how to switch between different display densities, as well as how you can enable or disable the conversation view option. Note that the steps below were performed using the new version of Gmail.
How to Switch Between Default, Comfortable and Compact View in Gmail
When you are using the new Gmail version there is a setting called Display Density. This allows you to select the type of view that you want to use. The three options are Default, Comfortable, and Compact. The Compact view shows the most messages in the inbox at once.
Step 1: Go to your Gmail inbox at https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox and sign into your Gmail account if you haven't done so already.
Step 2: Click the gear icon at the top-right of the window.
Step 3: Select the Display density option.
Step 4: Choose the type of Gmail view that you want (Default, Comfortable, or Compact), then click the OK button.
How to Turn on or Turn Off Conversation View in Gmail
The steps in this section are going to show you how to either switch from conversation view or switch to conversation view. This is the setting in Gmail that groups messages together if they are all part of the same conversation. Some people like it and some people don't, so find out how to change this setting for your Gmail account.
Step 1: Sign into your Gmail account and go to your inbox.
Step 2: Click the gear icon.
Step 3: Select the Settings option.
Step 4: Scroll down to the Conversation view option, then choose whether to turn conversation view on or off.
Would you like to have access to some features that Gmail is testing? Find out how to enable experimental access in Gmail so that you can try them out.
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Q: How to parse a xml document without a root node? I have an xml document which has no root node. It looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
    <Line>
        <City>Paris</City>
        <Country>France</Country>
    </Line>
    <Line>
        <City>Lissabon</City>
        <Country>Spain</Country>
    </Line>

No I want to read Line by Line and write the contents to a database. However, XmlDocument seems to insist that there must exist a root node. How can I process this file?

A: If you want to parse it as an XML document, you can add a root node like Denis proposed in his comment.
If you would just like to read each line and write it to a database, you can handle the file like an ordinary (text) file and read its contents line by line using a StreamReader.
This would look something like this:
string line;

// Read the file and process it line by line.
var reader = new StreamReader(FILEPATH);
while((line = reader.ReadLine()) != null)
{
    // Depending on what you need, you could strip the XML tags
    // And write the line to the database
}

reader.Close();

A: You could try something like this (simple WinForms app with a button and a rich text box to display output for testing):
using System;
using System.Text;
using System.Xml;
using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace WindowsFormsApp11
{
    public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
        public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
            XmlReaderSettings settings = new XmlReaderSettings
            {
                ConformanceLevel = ConformanceLevel.Fragment
            };
            using (XmlReader reader = XmlReader.Create(@"c:\ab\countries.xml", settings))
            {
                while(reader.Read())
                {
                    if (reader.Name != "Line") // Ignore the <Line> nodes
                    {
                        switch (reader.NodeType)
                        {
                            case XmlNodeType.Element:
                                sb.Append(string.Format("{0}:", reader.Name));
                                break;

                            case XmlNodeType.Text:
                                sb.Append(string.Format(" {0}{1}", reader.Value, Environment.NewLine));
                                break;
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
            richTextBox1.Text = sb.ToString();
        }
    }
}

A: May be not the best solution, but you could create a List (or array) from your XML and insert missing nodes:
// Read lines into List
var list = File.ReadLines("doc.xml").ToList();
// Insert missing nodes
list.Insert(1, "<root>"); // Use 1, because 0 is XML directive
list.Insert(list.Count, "</root>"); //Add closing tag to the end
// Create final XML string with LINQ
var xml_str = list.Aggregate("", (acc, s) => acc + s);
// Having a string, we can create, for instance, XElement (or XDocument)
var xml = XElement.Parse(xml_str);
Console.WriteLine(xml.Element("Line").Element("City").Value);
//Output: Paris


LiveTrain NYC is a real-time map of MTA subway trains. The map shows the MTA trains moving in real-time based on the trip updates provided by the MTA.
The map uses the MTA's GTFS real-time feed of schedule updates to estimate the position of the trains on the network. If you select a train's marker on the map you can view its full scheduled timetable, showing when the train is expected to arrive at each station on its route.
The trains shown on the map can be filtered by route. It is also possible to click on the station markers to view the scheduled departures at that stop.
If you prefer teveling by bus then you should have a look at the MTA's real-time map of bus locations. MTA Bus Time is a Google Map that shows the live position of buses on New York's bus system.
The bus locations are determined by GPS. It is possible to search the map by intersection, bus route or individual bus stop. If you click on an individual bus you can view its next three scheduled stops.
Tweat.it is a Google Map that shows the locations in real-time of mobile food vendors in New York City.
Tweat.it automatically reads Tweets by public food vendors to find when a location is mentioned. It then plots that vendor on the map. This happens automatically in real time so you always have up-to-the-minute information about the location of your favorite food truck vendor.


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hearing tests - mobile applications - automation
Introduction With the need for hearing screenings increasing across multiple populations, a need for automated options has been identified. This research seeks to evaluate the hardware requirements for automated hearing screenings using a mobile application.
Objective Evaluation of headphone hardware for use with an app-based mobile screening application.
Methods For the purposes of this study, hEAR, a Bekesy-based mobile application designed by the research team, was compared with pure tone audiometric tests administered by an audiologist. Both hEAR and the audiologist's test used 7 frequencies (125 Hz, 250 Hz, 500 Hz, 1,000 Hz, 2000 Hz, 4,000 Hz and 8,000 Hz) adopting four different sets of commercially available headphones. The frequencies were regarded as the independent variable, whereas the sound pressure level (in decibels) was the dependent variable. Thirty participants from a university in Texas were recruited and randomly assigned to one of two groups, whose only difference was the order in which the tests were performed. Data were analyzed using a generalized estimating equation model at α = 0.05.
Results Findings showed that, when used to collect data with the mobile app, both the Pioneer HDJ-2000 (Pioneer, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan) (p > 0.05) and the Sennheiser HD280 Pro (Sennheiser, Wedemark, Hanover, Germany) (p > 0.05) headphones presented results that were not statistically different from the audiologist's data across all test frequencies. Analyses indicated that both headphones had decreased detection probability at 4kHz and 8kHz, but the differences were not statistically significant.
Conclusion Data indicate that a mobile application, when paired with appropriate headphones, is capable of reproducing audiologist-quality data.


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package com.mana.innovative.utilities;

import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import java.util.Scanner;

public class PropertyVariableParser {

    /**
     * The Log.
     */
    private final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger( PropertyVariableParser.class );

    /**
     * Replaces variables with the pattern ${aSystemPropertyValue}.
     *
     * @param propertyValue a string with the pattern $
     *{
     * ASystem.property.value
     *}
     * @return replacement of propertyValue with the value of System.getEnv(propertyValue);
     */
    public String replaceVariables( String propertyValue ) {
        final Scanner scanner = new Scanner( propertyValue );
        scanner.useDelimiter( "\\$\\{" );

        while ( scanner.hasNext( ) ) {
            String propertyName = scanner.next( );

            final int endIndex = propertyName.indexOf( '}' );

            if ( -1 != endIndex ) {
                propertyName = propertyName.substring( 0, endIndex );
            } else {
                continue;
            }

            final String systemPropertyValue = System.getProperty( propertyName );

            if ( null == systemPropertyValue ) {
                log.warn( "no such system property: " + propertyName );
            } else {
                propertyValue = propertyValue.replace( "${" + propertyName + "}", systemPropertyValue );
            }
        }
        scanner.close( );
        return propertyValue;
    }
}

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Curtis Franklin Jr.
New 'Crypto Dusting' Attack Gives Cash, Takes Reputation
This new form of crypto wallet fraud enlists unwary consumers and companies to help defeat anti-money laundering methods for law enforcement and regulators.
A fraction of a bitcoin anonymously dropped into your cyberwallet may seem like a bit of good fortune, but opinions can change rapidly when you're labeled a likely criminal. That's the situaton companies and individuals are finding themselves in when they're the victims of "crypto-dusting" - one of the newer, and more challenging, hacks involving popular cryptocurrency.
The anonymous bitcoins were coming from BestMixer.io, a cybercurrency "mixer" often used to anonymize cybercurrency transactions to improve privacy or hide criminal activity. If you look inside the transaction record, says Dave Jevans, CEO of CipherTrace and chairman of the Anti-Phishing Working Group, you find a plan-text message that's a welcome from the BestMixer team.
But this "gift" comes with a price: "You have engaged in a transaction with a known money-laundering service, so it will raise the risk on your accounts for any exchange that has implemented anti-money laundering protocols," he says.
In addition, creating hundreds of thousands of newly tainted accounts could provide a smokescreen for the illegitimate transactions regulatory algorithms are supposed to catch. As for choosing their victims, Jevans says the methodology is simple: "They're just putting it in your crypto wallet. When they do a run, they look at the last 75,000 addresses and send to them. When you open up your wallet, it's there."
"It's logical, but I think it's shortsighted," says Mounir Hahad, head of Juniper Threat Labs at Juniper Networks. "The whole notion of 'tainted' is specific to the way the algorithms are deployed today." And, he points out, those algorithms can change.
While they're changing, there are some specific steps that consumers and companies can take to protect themselves. "On the consumer side, when you receive money like this — a small amount from an unknown source — the best thing to do is go in and block it from being sent," Jevans says. "If you ever spend it, it will wreak havoc with your privacy."
Larger organizations and enterprises have a somewhat more complicated task. "They'll need to work with their vendors on anti-money laundering and be able to cipher out the mixer coin that came from crypto duster attacks," he says.
Fortunately, this is an attack method that may have a short lifespan, according to Hahad. It should be relatively easy to tweak the anti-money laundering algorithms used by regulators and law enforcement to ignore the tiny fractional transactions that are part of the attack.
"This is not something that regular folks should be worried about — it's for regulators and law enforcement," he explains. "It will make their lives more difficult for a while, but as soon as they can patch their algorithms they'll be back in business."
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White Fang follows the story of a wolf in North America. Heis travels and his exploits. this adventure story revolves around a rather remarkable wolf who meets all kind of people.. people who care for him people who hate him and the odd one or two who dont care. I first read this book when i was 8 years old and ended up reading it 3 times because i loved it so much. I dont want to give any spoilers but this book is a must to read for any age, but if your a kid then you do not want to miss this book.


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Iraqi teen reprints storybooks in braille for people who are blind
Emerald Pellot
A 19-year-old in Dohuk, Iraq is reprinting books in braille to make them more accessible.
When Rezhin Ahmad struggled to find braille books written in Kurdish, she took matters into her own hands. Braille is a tactile writing system with raised dots that can be read with the fingers and is typically used by people with low vision or who are blind.
Ahmad used a braille printer that belonged to her teacher to make the copies. She first had to translate each book by hand into braille in order to reprint them.
"I wrote them all and it is all handwritten," Ahmad told the Associated Press.
The teen opted for a book called Beautiful Words and has since made six copies for other readers who are blind.
"There wasn't any braille, neither in books nor in papers. Now, we are very happy that a book is written for us, one that visually impaired people can enjoy reading," one of the readers, Heyhat Asaad, told the Associated Press.
People who are visually impaired struggle to find support in Dohuk. There aren't any accommodations made at public institutions or on public transportation. Meanwhile, people who are blind or have low vision can only receive an education until secondary school.
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Medicine Monopolies, & Malice
Chiropractic Economics December 28, 1997
Dr. Chester Wilk was the lead plaintiff in a successful antitrust lawsuit brought against the AMA and 14 other medical organizations and individuals. The discovery phase of the lawsuit revealed a major scandal… Now Dr. Wilk speaks candidly in this exclusive interview on his new book, "Medicine, Monopolies and Malice."
Now that your book is gradually working its way into bookstores around the country, what is your outlook for the coming months?
The chiropractic profession has a profound story to tell the world through the use of well-documented facts presented in Medicine, Monopolies and Malice. This will not only provide a public awareness of the many therapeutic advantages of chiropractic, but will expose the gross dishonesty of the American Medical Association toward chiropractic conduct which undermines rational and safe health care. In the final analysis, the injured parties are the health care consumers.
You put a lot of confidence in your book as being the tool to create a major impact on health care and chiropractic. On what do you base your confidence?
We must not underestimate the powerful facts that we have going for chiropractic. This is where our real strength lies. My book simply combines all of this information. Our other strength is our patients. Reviews from patients are that once they pick the book up, they become so engrossed in its message that they can't put it down.
Our publisher is absolutely convinced this book has all of the human interest elements needed to become a major best seller. In addition, these people, who are publishing experts in their field also say this book has the potential of a great movie.
Can you elaborate?
The book exposes some of the grim and outright obscene stratagems of the AMA and it's allies from an autobiographical approach. My story exposes the real motivations behind how and why there is such gross dishonesty toward chiropractic, and why the chiropractic profession has tolerated it in the past.
Can it be that the leaders of the AMA were simply ignorant of the truth?
Not at all. What they have done transcends ignorance. If what they have done is not fraudulent, then they would have to be incredibly stupid. Of course, even the federal court found the AMA was "not objectively reasonable," which is a kind way of saying its conduct toward chiropractic was stupid. The federal court has also said that the AMA's evidence was "incredible and unworthy of belief," and that the AMA, "could not be trusted beyond its next confrontation." That's a kind way of saying the AMA was untrustworthy and that it lied. And so the federal court supports what I say. These are the kind of facts we need to bring out to the public. They are timely, provocative and can be entertaining, which is what talk shows look for in a guest speaker.
We are dealing with a serious subject. How can it be made entertaining?
By using humor. We should not take ourselves too seriously and need to look at the humorous side of some of the very foolish things that organized medicine has done through the years. Humor is a very powerful tool; it holds the attention of people a lot more than a dry interview. Look at the popularity of Rush Limbaugh who uses humor extensively to drive home serious messages in what could be a dry and boring subject to a lot of people. Of course the humor needs to be appropriate and send an important message.
Can you give some examples of appropriate humor?
Will Rogers said that it is the easiest thing in the world to write about political humor with all of the politicians in Washington writing the scripts. The same can be said of the AMA and its allies. For example, after outlining some of the dastardly deeds of the AMA, I may refer to the AMA as the "American Malignancy Association" because of its malignant influence on rational health care. Of course, this is done after laying a solid foundation, so that with humor it doesn't come off sounding mean or sarcastic.
As for the AMA's Committee on Quackery, which stated its prime mission being the "containment and elimination of chiropractic," I might say that it is amazing that the entire committee didn't get AIDS. Why? How could they screw 250 million people and not get it?
Regarding Doyl Taylor, the Secretary of the AMA Committee on Quackery, who committed 12 years to our elimination, and then took an early retirement, skipped town and the jurisdiction of the federal court during our trial I say he suffered from yellow spinalitis, which is characterized by a big yellow stripe down his back. Much of the similarity and parallel to what the AMA has done is quite grim and painful. Humor can be used to drive home a serious message with impact. Besides, it has been rightfully said that the greatest tool against evil is humor.
What are some examples of painful and grim analogies?
Let's take a key document that was smuggled out of the heavily guarded AMA headquarters and made public. The document said that it was the AMA Committee on Quackery's,"prime mission to contain and ultimately eliminate the chiropractic profession." This document is outright obscene!
Suppose we replaced the word "chiropractic" with Jews, Blacks, Women, Hispanics, Polish, Homosexuals, Senior Citizens, Chrysler Motors and so on all hell would break loose! We'd see a national scandal that would rock this entire nation. We showed it to the Justice Department and they looked the other way, although years later one of their lawyers admitted, "You were right, you proved us wrong!"
We had to file a private lawsuit because the AMA had done such an outstanding job of making us look so bad no one would stand up for us. Does this sound familiar of another era 50 years ago?
Doyl Taylor, who was in charge of the "elimination" of chiropractic said he didn't know the first thing about chiropractic. He said that he, "didn't know a chiropractor from an antelope," yet he devoted 12 years of his life to the elimination of a profession of which he confessed total ignorance. He took the position that he was just doing his job. Does this sound familiar?
The AMA's past record of behavior is unconscionable and needs to be graphically exposed. A colleague once referred to the past conduct of the AMA as that of an evil empire. I agree.
Why do you believe that Rush Limbaugh would be an important person to get as a supporter for chiropractic? Isn't he politically partisan?
Yes he is, but then so is our president. It would be near-sighted and naive to reject the support of either man because our issue is not conservative, liberal, Democrat or Republican. We are dealing with trying to bring honesty and integrity into health care. From my vantage point, I see massive fraud in health care based on exclusion and isolation from hospitals and health maintenance organizations (HMOs) of a state licensed and a superior government-proven and recommended therapeutic method of health care.
Rush Limbaugh is heard by more than 20 million people on more than 660 radio stations in America and around the world. He is a major influence in this country. Most of his listeners are avid followers who hang onto his every word. He speaks of health care frequently and what we can do to address its problems, yet he never mentions chiropractic. It seems that chiropractic does not exist in his mind. He needs to be properly informed. Whether you agree with Rush or not, you can be assured that his views are based on his honest beliefs and not influenced by what is popular at the time. I believe he will have no qualms about speaking candidly for honest health care, which cannot be honest unless chiropractic is properly utilized. I believe he will recognize this once he is made aware of all the facts.
Both our major political parties agree that Medicare is in serious trouble, that it will bankrupt by 2002, but they can't agree on how to fix it. How do you feel about it?
They remind me of a bunch of politicians arguing over the seating arrangements on the Titanic. Their current course is doomed unless they change the direction of health care. This means utilizing health care based on which treatment is safer, more cost effective and therapeutically superior. That leaves no question as to what role chiropractic must play if health care is to survive. CBS reported that there are 80,000 unnecessary disc surgeries done annually, and the average chiropractor will tell you those figures are way too low.
Imagine, 2,000 unnecessary disc surgeries per week! In addition, reputable studies tell us that thousands of people die every week from medication reactions, and I'm not referring to street drugs. Why isn't someone sounding the alarm?
What makes it especially insidious is that the abusive and improper utilization exists on a grand scale and goes unchecked. This is why I urge chiropractors to rally behind a national media exposure program and get this vital message out! The drug houses aren't going to do it unless they can package chiropractic and sell it over the counter for a profit. If they could, it would be their biggest selling product!
We've heard politicians tell us privately how great we are, but they simply don't speak out the truth when on CNN News or C-Span. Why? I think it's be-cause they are more concerned with how it impacts them personally or politically rather than what they feel deep in their hearts to be true. The first U.S. President who has the foresight and courage to say what has to be said on health care will go down in history as truly fixing what is wrong with our health care system. Every president wants to leave a legacy that he, and perhaps some day, she, can point to with pride.
check your bookstore…
Copies of Medicine, Monopolies and Malice (1996, Avery Publishing, Garden City, NJ 1-800-548-5757) may be obtained at your local bookstore. If it is not in stock, have your bookstore order it.
To Contact the Author
Please contact Chester Wilk, DC at 5130 Belmont Avenue,
Chicago, IL 60641 773-725-4878.
The Documented Facts
1. Spinal manipulation was found by the U.S. Government to be therapeutically superior to medicine for the care of low back pain. It's superiority is also supported by government studies from Canada, Great Britain and New Zealand.1
2. Chiropractic is found to have more scientific research to support what it does than does medicine.2
3. An internationally renowned medical professor and author found that a chiropractic college he visited had superior facilities to any medical school in America that he has ever visitedand he's visited most of them.3
4. A medical journal survey found that chiropractic patients enjoy a three time better patient satisfaction ratio over medical patients.4
5. State workers' compensation studies show that chiropractic is more cost effective by as much as a 10 to 1 ratio over medical patients.5
6. Chiropractic care is proven to be much safer than medical care.6
7. 90% of the chiropractic patients polled found that chiropractic was therapeutically helpful.7
1. United States Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, "Medicine, Monopolies and Malice," pp. 48, 196, 199-200, 203 (government study and guidelines).
"The Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness of Chiropractic Management of Low Back Pain," University of Ottawa, 1993. Conducted by Pran Manga, PhD (found chiropractic is "markedly superior" in terms of safety, therapeutic effectiveness, cost-efficiency, and patient satisfaction), "M.M.M" pp. 199, 206.
"British Medical Research Council," 1990, Dr. T.W. Meade, FRCP (randomized controlled study on 741 patients in eleven medical hospitals. "M.M.M." pp. 207-208.
"Royal Commission of Inquiry on Chiropractic in New Zealand," 1979, "M.M.M." pp. 162, 208.
2. Paul Shekelle, MD, MPH, Head of a back study of RAND Corporation (research and development) Santa Monica, CA, 1992, "M.M.M." pp. 49, 199, 208.
3. John McMillam Mennell, MD, "M.M.M.," pp. 121, 154-155.
4. "Western Journal of Medicine," superior patient satisfaction, "M.M.M." p. 198.
5. Workers' Compensation records of California, Oregon and Utah, "M.M.M." p. 204.
6. "The Relative Safety of Chiropractic," "M.M.M." pp. 30-31.
7. "Demographic Characteristics of Users of Chiropractic Services," The Gallup Organization, "M.M.M." p. 206.
Filed Under: 1997, issue-01-1997, Magazine Issues


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Election Details Going Out to Native Hawaiian Roll Voters - Honolulu Civil Beat
Native Hawaiians
Election Details Going Out to Native Hawaiian Roll Voters
It's in order to participate in the process of a future constitutional convention for kanaka maoli self-governance.
By Chad Blair / July 31, 2015
A notice of election to eligible Native Hawaiian voters will be sent out Monday.
The reason, according to a press release, is to inform the voters of details on participating in a constitutional convention for self-governance.
Election-America, a private elections company, will send out the notices. The vendor was hired by Na'i Aupuni, an independent nonprofit overseeing the elections
It's estimated by Na'i Aupuni that 95,690 Native Hawaiians have been certified by the Native Hawaiian Roll Commission to participate in the elections.
www.naiaupuni.org
The commission operates separately from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, a quasi-state agency tasked with the care and perpetuation of the indigenous population and its culture. But Hawaiians can register through an OHA website registry.
The filing deadline for Hawaiians to run for the "con con" is Sept. 15. Those who have not registered yet but want to vote in the elections have until Oct. 15, 2015 to register.
"Na'i Aupuni encourages all Native Hawaiians to participate in this historic opportunity," says the press release.
Registrants must be descendants of the aboriginal peoples who lived in the Hawaiian islands prior to Western contact 1778, and must declare their allegiance to Hawaii sovereignty and community.
Last week, Judicial Watch announced that it had obtained what it calls "the race-based enrollment list of native Hawaiians" created in accordance with the Kana'iolowalu, the "controversial racial registration campaign" run by the Native Hawaiian Roll Commission.
The list was obtained via court order. The Grassroot Institute of Hawaii, a Libertarian-learning nonprofit that argues Kana'iolowalu is unconstitutional, partnered with Judicial Watch on getting the roll list.
Election results will be announced Dec. 1. It's not yet clear when the con con will be held.
Chad Blair
Chad Blair is the politics and opinion editor for Civil Beat. You can reach him by email at cblair@civilbeat.org or follow him on Twitter at @chadblairCB.
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A pedestrian died after being hit by a bus in Peterborough last night (Tuesday December 14).
Police were called at 4.37pm with reports of a collision between a bus and a pedestrian in Alderman's Drive.
The pedestrian, a man believed to be in his 50s, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Sergeant Craig Wheeler, from the Beds, Cambs and Herts Road Policing Unit, said: "We are unable to identify who the deceased is therefore I am asking for help from members of the public.
"He is a white man, about 5' 8", very slim with mousy brown hair which is thinning, and light-coloured facial hair and he was wearing dark clothing and flip flops.
"He has several distinctive tattoos, in particular a scorpion on his right shoulder, a Chinese dragon on his left shoulder, a rose on the left side of his chest, the name 'Ada' on his left bicep and four names on his right forearm which are not legible.
"If anyone believes they know who this man is please get in touch as a matter of urgency."
Anyone with information should contact police via webchat at https://bit.ly/3vsiYDw and quote incident 405 of 14 December. Those without internet access should call 101.
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What about this year's Technical Program? There has been a complete transformation. What has happened? Machine learning technologies have now come completely to the fore front. I looked at the list of Accepted Papers for the Technical Program and counted the number of papers that mention ML keyword including those three letter acronyms (TLA's) that our industry loves: neural networks, CNN, DNN, LSTM, adversarial networks, GAN. The number of machine-learning and artificial-intelligent architecture research papers grew by 68%, from 56 submissions in 2018 to 92 in 2019.
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