NEW YORK – September 25, 2018 – Seabury Solutions, a subsidiary of New York-based Seabury Capital Group LLC and the market leader in providing Information Technology solutions for the aviation industry, announced a recently established partnership with PartDB Co., Ltd. ("PartDB"), the Republic of Korea-based leading provider of Engineering IT and VR solutions, as part of continued strategy to expand its global client base.
The partnership is aimed to grow the companies' Asia Pacific customer base for Seabury Solutions' line of software solutions that enable airline customers to digitally transform operations and enhance their ability to meet demand from the fast-expanding aviation market.
Korea Aviation Engineering & Maintenance Service Ltd ("KAEMS"), a subsidiary of Korean Aerospace Industries ("KAI"), Seoul's first aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul ("MRO") company.
Air Busan has begun the implementation of Alkym, with the airline incorporating eleven Alkym modules to manage its aircraft technical operations. KAEMS' Alkym implementation will form the backbone of the technology the company intends to utilize for MRO work on a local LCC due to begin operations in the fourth quarter of 2018.


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Three Ways CEOs Should Prepare for Supply Chain Threats
The onslaught of recent events has exposed the vulnerabilities of global supply chains. They create a significant downstream impact, and compound to generate even more risks for businesses.
In such a volatile market, anticipation is the best way to ensure continued success. CEOs must anticipate how physical threats around the globe can trickle down and directly impact the organization. With the right insights and processes, the impact of disruptions can be mitigated. What's more, they can provide a strategic competitive advantage for companies that are dependent on their supply chains.
Here are three strategies that CEOs should incorporate into their operations to protect against today's biggest threats.
1. Start from the end and work your way back.
Don't underestimate the power of a tabletop exercise. Pinpoint critical links in your supply chain and better understand each process that affects your product, from creation to the moment it's in your customer's hands. Start at the end of this lifecycle and work your way back. Consider key data such as the location of your suppliers, the product's journey and its various components, and the people that make it happen.
Make sure you have the right people at the table to assess this — not just from operations, but also logistics, inventory management, shipping, business, sales, customer service and even HR. Once you've created a clear timeline, evaluate each step in the process and rank where the biggest breaking points could be. Having identified current risks that could pose a threat to your supply chain — extreme temperatures, storms, explosions, labor strikes and inflation — consider with the group how these factors could impact the entire workflow, and what would be the best contingency plan.
The right technology could allow your business to be the first to know about threats and activate contingency plans. For example, given the most recent lockdown in China due to the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses worldwide are struggling to find new providers for resources like bathroom fixtures, chemicals for medical purposes, and materials for tech products. Early knowledge of the lockdown would have been key for businesses to switch providers before their competitors and avoid the bottleneck of organizations trying to mitigate the consequences of the shutdown.
2. Incorporate artificial intelligence to make sense of all the risk data relevant to your business.
In today's world, businesses need to focus on mitigating risk in all forms. Many rely on endless sets of data to make decisions, prioritize activity and pivot accordingly, but raw data can't create a clear picture of a risk to the business. And it's daunting for any individual or team to keep track of every critical event. Incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) is vital because it helps you make sense of all that data. Without AI, it's not humanly possible to process the volume of data that must be analyzed.
AI can monitor critical events across the globe, sift through irrelevant or duplicate data; verify information pulled from public forums, like social media, and correlate and classify these critical events against an organization's key locations, assets and people. In the process, companies only receive information relevant to their business, and have a clear picture of how and when they need to activate contingency plans. From there, they can analyze the information and determine the next steps.
For example, getting a product into the consumer's hands isn't a straight line. There's a myriad of fleets, vendors, manufacturers, distributors, suppliers and other resources that all need to come together to finalize the process. AI can help a business determine which physical threats or world events will disrupt one of these elements associated with operational agility, so that businesses can look for alternative solutions or activate backup plans.
More importantly, the right technology can help a CEO determine when to react to disruptions. Conversely, the wrong reaction at the wrong time, too late or too soon, can create unnecessary costs for a company and result in disastrous financial consequences.
3. Monitor key factors that could disrupt your supply chain.
There's no manual or step-by-step guide to determining which risks will be the most impactful to your business. However, there are some best practices that CEOs should be in the habit of carrying out as part of their daily risk assessments.
Risks from events like the Russian invasion of Ukraine are easier to prepare for because there was anticipation of the threat. Tensions were rising before the invasion, and circumstances surrounding the impending conflict became world news. However, smaller local events like protests, power outages or violent crimes also impact businesses, and AI can help monitor these smaller incidents that don't always hit the headlines but have a major impact on your operations. For example, in October 2021, trucking companies on the West Coast were threatened when ports worked by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union shut down, while those on the East Coast were threatened by the upcoming winter weather. In this scenario, AI registered both threats on opposite sides of the country but filtered them to only notify trucking companies on each coast about the threat that was relevant to their drivers.
In the case of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, CEOs could have done a quick tabletop exercise to analyze how the invasion would disrupt their supply chains. Even the smallest factors — such as a layover of delivery in the country — could have prompted organizations to look to alternative routes for delivery.
Man-made disasters can be harder to prepare for than natural ones. Even so, the right technology will detect these occurrences around the country the moment they happen, and correlate them with your supply chain's key characteristics, such as the location of your facilities, workers, routes, warehouses, fleets or crops. This information helps businesses determine what impact a threat could have on their most-valued assets and people, enabling guidance on when to activate contingency plans.
Managing risk is essential to keeping ahead of the competition and achieving operational resilience. CEOs face a myriad of risks from current events, large and small. While they know that their supply chains aren't a straight line, they might not understand the impact that local physical threats could have on their people and operations. They might also not have enough visibility into their supply chains to prepare and activate response plans. By becoming familiar with their supply chains, using existing technology to their advantage, and constantly monitoring risks, CEOs can set themselves up for success in a fragile economy.
Learn more about the complex web of threats executives must understand so they can protect their organization and stakeholders. Download the CEO Brief: Global Risk Impact Report.
This article was originally published in SupplyChainBrain in July 2022.
Global Risk Impact Report
While data can't predict the next catastrophe, it can provide a clearer picture of potential threats and their impacts, giving leaders insights they need to steer a safer course in today's volatile economy.

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This Black Monday is gonna hurt, and experts claim this axe isn't coming up for air anytime soon.
During the regular season, at least four head coaches were fired, on what is becoming known as Black Monday in the NFL world.
All because these teams were out of playoff picture?
The Redskins, Mike Shanahan is no longer head coach. The Vikings fired Leslie Frazier, Greg Schiano of the Buccaneers was also fired, and last but not least – Jim Schwartz with the Lions isn't coming back to that team anytime soon.
Their teams did pretty badly this season, the Skins were at 3-13, Vikings finished 5-10-1 and the Bucs at 4-12 all last in their divisions. Schwartz's Lions were among the best of the worst at 7-9.
The other firing announcements came 24 hours after the Cleveland Browns fired head coach Rob Chudzinski just after his team closed out the 2013 season with a seven-game losing streak to finish 4-12.
Shanahan was 24-20 in four seasons as coach of the Redskins, but his future was shot with the team's performance – adding to that, his questionable relationship with quarterback Robert Griffin III.
"Redskins fans deserve a better result," owner Dan Snyder said in a statement.
The Redskins started the season hopeful, with a 2012 record of 10-6, and the NFC East title.
The Vikings, however, fired Frazier after his team went 21-32-1 in three-plus seasons. Minnesota did make it to the playoffs last season, so there was hope there too.
"Unfortunately, we did not achieve consistent success and did not achieve the progress we expected," Vikings General Manager Rick Spielman said in a statement.
Schiano's Bucs had two mediocre seasons.
"The results over the past two years have not lived up to our standards and we believe the time has come to find a new direction," said Buccaneers co-chairman Bryan Glazer.
Detroit fired Schwartz after a late-season fade that cost the Lions a play-off berth as they lost their final four games.
Schwartz was 29-51 in five seasons with the Lions. They had one winning season, going 10-6 in 2011.
"I think it's a cut-and-dry wins and losses business," said Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford, who added that the players had to accept "quite a bit" of responsibility for the team's mediocre season.
Chudzinski, unfortunately lasted only one season with the Browns even though he has three years remaining on his contract.
So the NFL does realize that not all football teams can win, someone has to lose – wonder if the teams' owners feel better.


Chen, M., Anzai, D., Kirchner, J., Fischer, G., & Wang, J. (2018). Development of EOG-based Input System and Study on Improving Methods of Eye Movement Detection. IEICE Transactions on Communications, Title of Special Issue: Healthcare, Medical Information and Communication Technology for Safe and Secure Society.
Chen, Minghui, et al. "Development of EOG-based Input System and Study on Improving Methods of Eye Movement Detection." IEICE Transactions on Communications Title of Special Issue: Healthcare, Medical Information and Communication Technology for Safe and Secure Society (2018).


Xsens has developed a non intrusive (from outside of the pipe) high accuracy flow and fraction meters. The technology enables flow and fraction metering to be installed on standard process piping without any disturbance to the process. The meters has the accuracy and functionality characterizing in-line flow meters combined with the low cost and mechanical integrity obtained by clamp-on installation. This will reduce the cost of installation of such a meter with more than 90%. One of the first pilot installations is on fuel lines of ships to enable increased fuel control, more efficient operation and less use of fuel and reduced release of greenhouse gasses.


Navigation systems in cars are here to stay. They can be a real boon to getting where you need to go on time, especially in large European and American cities, with their labyrinths of one-way streets. But, for the less time constrained, there is another way of finding your way around new environs. True, it isn't as quick and easy as plugging in your destination and then mindlessly following the synthesized voice of your mechanized navigator. However, it is more fun, more romantic and much more stylish to plan your motoring trips with the aid of vintage travel guides.
Motoring at the turn of the (previous) century was a real challenge. Vehicles were far from reliable, tires could be counted on to blow out regularly, and gasoline and oil were difficult to find for an automobilist who traveled far from home. Which made the motoring exploits of Charles L Freeston all the more remarkable. In 1910 he wrote The High-Roads of the Alps: A Motoring Guide to One Hundred Mountain Passes. The book represented the sum of 17-years experience motoring on the mountain roads of France, Switzerland, Italy, and the Austrian Tyrol. Imagine—17 years means he started his driving exploits during the 1800s. He followed his first book with The Passes of the Pyrenees in 1912, then later a series of books about continental motoring in the 1920s.
Aside from the quaint style of writing, Freeston's guides are still very valid today. The maps included in his books are accurate, as are his sketches of areas where two or more roads may be available. His photographs are beautifully reproduced and especially interesting when he includes views of his faithful Sheffield-Simplex or Daimler motorcar climbing the major grades.
Armed with my 1910 guide, and the torque and horsepower from the inspiring engine of my press car, a Ferrari 355 F1, I felt the master of my destiny. Leaving Grenoble, the route climbs along several smaller rivers before entering a 600-foot tunnel and meeting up with the Infernet River. Let me tell you about the tunnel. I entered that first tunnel loafing along in fourth gear. Two hits to the paddle-shifter and the sound of the whooping Ferrari filled the passage with enough noise to bring down the mountain. It was glorious.
As Freeston details the locations of each tunnel and waterfall along the route, my drive soon became a series of aural and visual overloads. Remarkably, aside from paving the road, little had changed from that day in early July 1908 when Freeston came this way in a 45-horsepower Sheffield-Simplex motor car.
I stopped for lunch in La Grave, in the shadow of La Meije, a 13,000-foot mountain that dominates the scenery. Freeston describes La Grave. "Of La Grave it may be said that it occupies the most attractive position of any French village outside the region of the Mont Blanc range. It stands at 5,000 or so feet in altitude, which, if I may proffer an opinion, offers in almost every Alpine district the finest combination of picturesqueness, pure air that is not too rarefied, beautiful wild flowers, and an amplitude of excursions. It may only be personal preference, but looking back on the hundreds of towns and villages which I have visited in one district or another of the Alps, La Grave, though far less known to English tourists that the more popular Swiss resorts, is well qualified to occupy a place in one's list of specially memorable spots." True in 1908. True today.
Unfortunately Freeston never produced a motoring guide for North America. But that doesn't mean that good automotive guidebooks don't exist for American drivers. The Automobile Green Book, the official Tour Book of the Automobile Legal Association and the Automobile Blue Book, the Standard Touring Guide of America are two examples of books the well-equipped motorist would use in the 1920s. These books tend to be more terse and businesslike in their route descriptions, giving exact instructions how to journey from town to town.
I have occasionally used my 1922 Green Book to travel on back roads in New York and New England. It is somewhat harder to follow 70-year-old route instructions in the US than it is in Europe. America's road network, befitting the younger nation, changed at a faster pace than those in Europe. But invariably a landmark will crop up allowing progress to be made. Not the best way to get across town in a hurry, perhaps, but a fun way to spend a nice drive early on a Sunday morning. Best of all, you can spend hours plotting future trips and studying early motoring, hotel, and restaurant advertisements in the Blue and Green guidebooks.
Finding old guidebooks is surprisingly easy. Used bookstores usually have a small selection and antique stores can also be a source. Both of my Freeston guides were found by doing searches among used and antique book listings on the Internet.
It would be hard to imagine traveling in Europe without a ubiquitous Michelin Guide, or going on a trip in the US without a Rand McNally Road Atlas. Adding a copy of one of Charles L Freeston's books or an old Automobile Blue Book can make the trip more interesting, lots more fun, and somehow more adventurous than following the disembodied voice of a computer.
Freeston's style is one of British upper crust, mixed with genuine optimism for driving over alpine passes, surely one of the most difficult undertakings an early motorist could imagine.


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Use of HCA in subproteome-immunization and screening of hybridoma supernatants to define distinct antibody binding patterns
Adam T. Szafran, Baylor College of Medicine
Maureen G. Mancini, Baylor College of Medicine
Jeffrey A. Nickerson, University of Massachusetts Medical SchoolFollow
Dean P. Edwards, Baylor College of Medicine
Michael A. Mancini, Baylor College of Medicine
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology
Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology | Cell Biology
Understanding the properties and functions of complex biological systems depends upon knowing the proteins present and the interactions between them. Recent advances in mass spectrometry have given us greater insights into the participating proteomes, however, monoclonal antibodies remain key to understanding the structures, functions, locations and macromolecular interactions of the involved proteins. The traditional single immunogen method to produce monoclonal antibodies using hybridoma technology are time, resource and cost intensive, limiting the number of reagents that are available. Using a high content analysis screening approach, we have developed a method in which a complex mixture of proteins (e.g., subproteome) is used to generate a panel of monoclonal antibodies specific to a subproteome located in a defined subcellular compartment such as the nucleus. The immunofluorescent images in the primary hybridoma screen are analyzed using an automated processing approach and classified using a recursive partitioning forest classification model derived from images obtained from the Human Protein Atlas. Using an ammonium sulfate purified nuclear matrix fraction as an example of reverse proteomics, we identified 866 hybridoma supernatants with a positive immunofluorescent signal. Of those, 402 produced a nuclear signal from which patterns similar to known nuclear matrix associated proteins were identified. Detailed here is our method, the analysis techniques, and a discussion of the application to further in vivo antibody production.
High content analysis, High throughput imaging, Hybridoma, Machine learning, Monoclonal antibody, Nuclear matrix
10.1016/j.ymeth.2015.10.021
Methods. 2016 Mar 1;96:75-84. doi: 10.1016/j.ymeth.2015.10.021. Epub 2015 Oct 30. Link to article on publisher's site
Methods (San Diego, Calif.)
Szafran AT, Mancini MG, Nickerson JA, Edwards DP, Mancini MA. (2016). Use of HCA in subproteome-immunization and screening of hybridoma supernatants to define distinct antibody binding patterns. Cell and Developmental Biology Publications. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ymeth.2015.10.021. Retrieved from https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/cellbiology_pp/185


Present to you the low poly office building. The 3D model was created in modern style with acute forms and has level of detail like office from real life. The building consists of two floors, the first floor has workplaces, and the second floor has a meeting room, there is also has exit to the roof. The main features of the 3D model are detailed parts of exterior and office interior. Also low poly office building has big title for your company name.


Michael Frye's practice is devoted to litigation, with emphasis on employment discrimination cases, general civil litigation, and workplace injury claims against employers under West Virginia's "deliberate intent" statute.
Michael was born in Huntington, WV and received his bachelor's degree in Communications from Marshall University in 1988. After graduating from the University of Kentucky College of Law in 1998, Michael joined Jenkins Fenstermaker where he was a litigator until 2004. Michael then entered private practice in Kentucky until pursuing public service as an Asst. Commonwealth's Attorney prosecuting major felony cases. In 2015, Michael returned to his hometown and Jenkins Fenstermaker where he represents employers, corporations and similar defendants throughout West Virginia and Eastern Kentucky.
Michael has litigated numerous cases to successful conclusion and has prosecuted numerous appeals, including the presentation of oral argument before the Kentucky Supreme Court and Court of Appeals, the Ohio Court of Appeals, and the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals. In addition to trial experience, Michael has developed the skills necessary to successfully resolve cases through dispostive motion briefing, mediation, arbitration and settlement negotiations.
Michael is admitted to practice in West Virginia and Kentucky, as well as, the United States District Courts for the Southern District of West Virginia and the Eastern District of Kentucky. Michael is also admitted to practice in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky. Michael is a member of the West Virginia and Kentucky Bar Associations.


Serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine, 5-HT) is unique among the monoamines in that its effects are felt by as many as 13 distinct heptahelical, G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) and one ligand-gated ion channel (or more). These receptors are divided into seven distinct classes (5-HT(1) to 5-HT(7)) largely on the basis of their structural and operational characteristics.
Shown here is the general structure of the 5-HT1-class of these GPCR's. This structure is based on a homology model and molecular-dynamics simulation. This illustration represents an accurate look at the the receptor structure.
Other views are available, as well as a rotation-style animation.


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Jon Wertheim's Mailbag
Seles reflects on her HOF career
By Monica Seles
(Jon Wertheim is on vacation this week but we have an esteemed fill-in on the mailbag: Monica Seles. If you think she's thoughtful and candid in this space, you'll want to check out her new book, Getting A Grip.)
Of all your wins, which one meant the most to you? And conversely, which loss was the toughest to swallow?
— Tom Quicksell, Philadelphia
The win that meant the most to me was the first Grand Slam, in 1990 at the French Open. Until that match [against Steffi Graf], I knew I had the possibility of maybe winning a Grand Slam but I never expected to win at such a young age [16]. The most difficult loss was the 1992 Wimbledon final [against Graf]. That was the only time I got to the finals of Wimbledon. And even though I never played my best tennis on grass, I very much enjoyed playing there despite the loss.
What do you consider to be your greatest wins? I vote for your 1990 defeat of Martina Navratilova in Rome, 6-1, 6-1, and your 1993 defeat of Steffi Graf in Australia. With the level of your game in 1991, '92 and early '93, did you feel invincible?
— Omar Gonzalez, West Covina, Calif.
I did play some of my best tennis when I beat Martina in Rome and Steffi in the 1993 Australian Open final. When I look back at the level of tennis I was playing in the early '90s, sometimes it amazes even me!
Serena Williams, after winning the Australian Open in 2007, said she holds you in extremely high regard. What do you feel about the Williams sisters and their mentality on the court? Over their careers, they seem to attack tennis balls with a similar kind of ferocity and mental toughness that you showed when you played on the tour. (Thank you!)
— Andrew Miller, Cambridge, Mass.
Since I retired, I very much enjoy watching Serena Williams play. While I was playing, she was one of the toughest players I ever faced. Her ground strokes are so solid, her serve is one of the most powerful in women's tennis, and mentally she is just so strong. As you will read in my book, I played her when she was 16. When I lost to her, I had the feeling that the new generation was coming and she is going to be one of the best of it.
As a fellow two-hands-off-both-sides player who has been so influenced and inspired by your career, I would like to know if you have any plans to coach? Perhaps through the Monica Seles Tennis Academy? What are your plans post-Hall of Fame induction?
— Ron G., New York, N.Y.
I am very happy that I have inspired another two-hander on both sides! As you know, playing two hands on both sides allows you to create some incredible angles that definitely paid off during my tennis career! At the moment, I have no plans to open a tennis academy, but I am very excited about my Hall of Fame induction. It is a great honor for me.
When looking back at your milestone matches, where do you place your five-set victory over Gabriela Sabatini in the 1990 Virginia Slims Championships final?
— Stephen Males, Bermuda
That was the only five-set match I ever played in my career and I remember that I loved it. Playing Gabi always brought out the best in my game.
Do you watch tennis on TV just for fun? Which players do you like to watch?
— Bobby, Chicago
Yes, I do. I very much enjoy watching Serena, Venus Williams, Jelena Jankovic, Ana Ivanovic and Amelie Mauresmo. I also enjoy watching men's tennis. Like everyone (I hope!), I thought last year's Wimbledon final between Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer was the best tennis I have ever seen.
Which match makes you smile the most from pride of winning, smile the most from giving it your all but coming up short, and which match makes you burn wishing you could play it over?
— Mike Moore, Wilton Manors, Fla.
I think the match I look back on with a smile, even though I lost, was my 1998 French Open final, since just two weeks before my dad passed away and I had a lot of emotions going on inside of me. I would like to play my 1992 Wimbledon final versus Steffi Graf again. There was so much media attention over my grunting (I stopped grunting for this match only) instead of my playing and I got caught up in it. If I could play that match over again, I would have kept true to my style and played the way I was used to playing.
What did your father teach you about angles?
— Kathy, Michigan
As I was writing my book, I realized what a unique relationship my father and I had. He always made sure that tennis was fun for me. He taught me by drawing Jerry (from Tom and Jerry) on the tennis ball and I had to be Tom, and in order to catch him I had to hit the ball on the rise, which created those great angles.
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A fan of this short horror film sent it our way. DON'T LOOK AWAY is a frightening tale with a really interesting, horror concept. When a teenage girl tells her dad about a mysterious figure staring at her, all her father can say is: "DON'T LOOK AWAY".


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Roger Harden: "Coach Hall never lied to anybody"
Vince Marrow has even more recruiting swag now
Will Kentucky use running backs more in passing game next season?
With the departure of star running back Benny Snell to the NFL, Kentucky's offense obviously will have a different look next season.
During Friday's Blue-White Game, Kentucky showed briefly that it might include running backs A.J. Rose, Kavosiey Smoke and Christopher Rodriguez more in the passing game than it did with Snell at running back.
"I think we want to continue with that. A.J. is also very good, can catch the ball out of the backfield all those guys can do that and we want to continue to work on that and get the ball to them," Kentucky coach Mark Stoops said.
"And as we create shots in getting the ball down the field, as we start seeking out under things, there's going to be outlets there that we need to get the ball to them when we can. The quarterback's got to be on time and deliver that football on those checkdowns and we can get good yardage on that."
Smoke, a redshirt freshman, was just glad to get over his knee injury and be back on the field even for a scrimmage game. He ran five times for 132 yards, including an 87-yard run, and caught one pass for give yards.
"I had to show them I had speed, instead of just power. I feel like we were more explosive than the past, so everyone is just trying to work on their quickness," Smoke said. "That's the biggest thing this year."
"My biggest improvement is that I got leaner. I lost a lot of weight, so it brings a lot more speed than where I was in the past. I think I got faster once I lost weight. I got awareness and a little more stamina."
Larry Pup on April 15, 2019 at 12:09 pm
I will take these coaches at their word for now. Better work on their defense.
OldFan on April 15, 2019 at 2:20 pm
I agree LP.
GeneT on John Calipari on Johnny Juzang: "He is going to do great."
TheProfessor on "Lack of discipline" disappoints, worries Calipari after South Carolina loss
nostalgic33 on "Lack of discipline" disappoints, worries Calipari after South Carolina loss
Cats79 on "Lack of discipline" disappoints, worries Calipari after South Carolina loss
"Lack of discipline" disappoints, worries Calipari after South Carolina loss
Well John Calipari got the adversity he wanted with UK's second-half collapse at South Carolina


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Blu-ray Review: John Carpenter's 'Halloween' 4K Ultra HD
By Dr. Zaius | @ | October 18th, 2018 at 7:02 pm
Directed by John Carpenter
Written by John Carpenter, Debra Hill
Starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Tony Moran, Donald Pleasence, Nancy Kyes, P.J. Soles
John Carpenter's Halloween is one of the greatest horror films ever made, and turned the filmmaker from an up and coming director to a horror legend. If Psycho is the mother of all horror movies, then Halloween may be its spiritual son.
Forty years after its 1978 theatrical release, Halloween spawned not only sequels and remakes, but an entire sub-genre: the slasher film. This Friday, October 19th the 11th movie to enter the long-running franchise opens worldwide. This new film, also called Halloween, was directed by David Gordon Green (Pineapple Express) and written by Green, Danny McBride, and Jeff Fradley and is a direct sequel to Carpenter's seminal classic. With that in mind, it's a perfect time to revisit the original in the best way possible, with the new 4K Ultra Blu-ay Combo Pack.
Topics: 4K, Blu-ray, Blu-ray Review, Movies, Reviews
Tags: Debra Hill, Donald Pleasence, Halloween, Jamie Lee Curtis, John Carpenter, Nancy Kyes, P.J. Soles, Tony Moran
FEARnyc 2016 Retro Movie Review: John Carpenter's Halloween (1978)
By Dr. Zaius | @ | October 28th, 2016 at 12:00 pm
Halloween – 1978
Available now on DVD, Blu-ray, and Amazon Video
Written by John Carpenter & Debra Hill
Starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence, P.J. Soles, Kyle Richards, Nancy Loomis, Nick Castle
Original release date: October 25, 1978
FEARnyc screening: October 27, 2016
There is almost nothing left that can be said about John Carpenter's Halloween. It is widely recognized as a classic of horror, one of the scariest movies ever made, and the film that inspired and jump-started the slasher sub genre. What I can offer is perhaps a fresh perspective. You see, on Thursday night, at the final night of the weeklong FEARnyc horror film festival, I took my 12-year-old son Brandon to see Halloween on the big screen for the first time.
Introduced by FEARnyc director John Capo, Halloween starts with a long uninterrupted take tracking the killer arming himself, heading upstairs, putting on a clown mask, and stabbing a girl to death. We find out this was 6-year-old Michael Myers, and the victim was his older sister Judith. "That's him?," Brandon whispered. A few seconds later, when a 21-year-old Michael leaps on top of Loomis's station wagon to escape, "That was him?" Sitting next to him, you could feel his body tense up when Carpenter used one of his taut musical cues. Having seen Halloween countless times, I was enjoying my son's experience more.
Topics: FEARnyc, Film Festivals, Movie Reviews, Movies, Reviews
Tags: Donald Pleasence, FearNYC, Halloween, Jamie Lee Curtis, John Carpenter, Kyle Richards, Nancy Loomis, Nick Castle, P.J. Soles
Blu-ray Review: Escape From New York
By Adam Frazier | @ | April 21st, 2015 at 10:00 am
Blu-ray (Collector's Edition)
Director: John Carpenter
Screenwriter: John Carpenter, Nick Castle
Cast: Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence, Isaac Hayes, Harry Dean Stanton, Adrienne Barbeau, Tom Atkins, Charles Cyphers, Ox Baker
Rated R | 98 Minutes
"Call me Snake…"
Co-written and directed by John Carpenter (Halloween, The Thing), 1981's Escape from New York is set in a then near-future 1997, in a crime-ridden United States that has transformed Manhattan into a maximum security prison.
Synopsis: In a world ravaged by crime, the entire island of Manhattan has been converted into a walled prison where brutal prisoners roam. But when the US president (Donald Pleasence) crash-lands inside, only one man can bring him back: notorious outlaw and former Special Forces war hero Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell). But time is short. In 24 hours, an explosive device implanted in his neck will end Snake's mission – and his life – unless he succeeds!
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DVD Review: 'Escape To Witch Mountain' & 'Return From Witch Mountain'
By Empress Eve | @ | March 13th, 2009 at 9:54 pm
Disney'sWitch Mountain
Escape to Witch Mountain Special Edition (1975)
Directed by John Hough
Starring Ike Eisenmann, Kim Richards, Donald Pleasence, Ray Milland, Eddie Albert
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Return from Witch Mountain Special Edition (1978)
Starring Ike Eisenmann, Kim Richards, Christopher Lee, Bette Davis
After the death of their foster parents, picture perfect blond siblings Tony and Tia Malone (Ike Eisenmann and Kim Richards) are sent to a children's home, where their attempts to fit in become increasingly difficult as their "special powers" become more apparent. Previously, the young siblings had little memory of their lives before they came to live with the Malones, but they always knew they had special powers. But the more they use their powers, the greater the danger to them will be, as the greedy millionaire Aristotle Bolt (Ray Milland) and his opportunistic employee Lucas Deranian (Donald Pleasence) scheme to use the children's abilities to their own advantage.
Luckily, children in Disney movies are as smart and intuitive as Disney movie villains are obvious, because although Bolt and Deranian try enticing the children with their own playroom and all the toys and ice cream they could ever want, the two men are simply up to no good — and the children realize this soon enough. With Tia's special star case and as-of-yet deciphered map in hand, the siblings, along with their cooperative black cat Winky, go on the run from the bad guys. Along the way, they stowaway in the back of an RV driven by a cranky loner (Eddie Albert), who at first reluctantly helps the children, who think they know a place that will lead them to discover their true destiny — the mysterious Witch Mountain.
Topics: DVD Reviews, DVDs, Movies, Reviews
Tags: Bette Davis, Christopher Lee, Donald Pleasence, Eddie Albert, Escape to Witch Mountain, Ike Eisenmann, John Hough, Kim Richards, Ray Milland, Return From Witch Mountain, Witch Mountain


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Readers ask: What Year Did Apostle Paul Died?
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1 Was Paul alive when Jesus was crucified?
2 Was Paul the original 12 apostles?
3 Why was Paul sentenced to death?
4 How did Paul suffer?
5 How many years after Jesus death was Paul converted?
6 Was Paul before or after Jesus?
7 Who was the 14th apostle?
8 Who was not an apostle of Jesus?
9 What did Jesus say to his apostles?
10 Who was imprisoned with Paul?
11 Is Peter's death in the Bible?
12 Who betrayed Paul in the Bible?
13 How many books of the Bible did Paul write?
Was Paul alive when Jesus was crucified?
Historians agree Paul was in Jerusalem during Jesus ' ministry. That means Paul would have been in Jerusalem when Jesus was crucified. So Paul is in Jerusalem at the same time Jesus is creating this ruckus all over Judea yet the gospels never mention that Paul ever heard of Jesus until the stoning of Stephen.
Was Paul the original 12 apostles?
Paul, Apostle of the Gentiles In his writings, Paul, although not one of the original twelve, described himself as an apostle. He was called by the resurrected Jesus himself during his Road to Damascus event. With Barnabas, he was allotted the role of apostle in the church.
Why was Paul sentenced to death?
Although the Bible does not say how Paul died, it was told of that Paul was put to death by orders of the emperor Nero in Rome, in 67 AD. He had the rights of a Roman citizen, which meant that he could be put to death by having his head cut off with a sword, rather than by crucifixion.
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How did Paul suffer?
Question: What things did Paul endure during his life? Answer: It's in the article but he suffered constant persecution, prison on more than one occasion, stoning, shipwrecks and much more.
How many years after Jesus death was Paul converted?
Exact Answer: After 14 years After his death, Jesus made an appearance before Paul while he was on his way to Damascus. This is the time when Paul was converted into a Christian.
Was Paul before or after Jesus?
Paul the Apostle, original name Saul of Tarsus, (born 4 bce?, Tarsus in Cilicia [now in Turkey]—died c. 62–64 ce, Rome [Italy]), one of the leaders of the first generation of Christians, often considered to be the most important person after Jesus in the history of Christianity.
Who was the 14th apostle?
Saint Matthias, (flourished 1st century ad, Judaea; d. traditionally Colchis, Armenia; Western feast day February 24, Eastern feast day August 9), the disciple who, according to the biblical Acts of the Apostles 1:21–26, was chosen to replace Judas Iscariot after Judas betrayed Jesus.
Who was not an apostle of Jesus?
As for the other Gospels, Mark was said to be not a disciple but a companion of Peter, and Luke was a companion of Paul, who also was not a disciple.
What did Jesus say to his apostles?
Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it.
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Who was imprisoned with Paul?
According to the Acts of the Apostles, St. Paul and Silas were in Philippi (a former city in present-day Greece), where they were arrested, flogged, and imprisoned for causing a public nuisance. The song relates what happened next, as recorded in Acts 16:25-31: 25.
Is Peter's death in the Bible?
Peter is believed to have died as a martyr for his faith. Although his death is not described in Scripture, numerous writers of the time (or shortly thereafter) described his death as having occurred in Rome during the reign of the emperor Nero in 64 CE.
Who betrayed Paul in the Bible?
Demas or Demos was a man mentioned by the Apostle Paul in the New Testament of the Bible, and appears to have been involved for a time in his ministry.
How many books of the Bible did Paul write?
The Pauline epistles, also called Epistles of Paul or Letters of Paul, are the thirteen books of the New Testament attributed to Paul the Apostle, although the authorship of some is in dispute. Authenticity.
(31–36 AD: conversion of Paul )
56 Second Epistle to the Corinthians
57 Epistle to the Romans
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The mass housing is expected to be built on an area of 4.5 acres near the Mansfileld Boulevard, just north of the Great Woods Marketplace. The apartment blocks are planned to have 101 rooms and four floors. The houses will be built in accordance with the zoning regulations of state laws.
According to the plans, 10 percent of the units will have 3 bedrooms. The other one will be planned as 2 bedrooms. 25 percent of the units will be affordable.
The building will be connected to the city water and sewerage. The value of the land on which the buildings will be built is $ 1.3 million.
The housing project is expected to meet 10 percent of the housing needs of the people of the region. More housing needs to be built to solve the housing problem in the Norton region.
Ar Building will undertake the housing project. Ar Building has built over 9,000 homes in the Pennsylvania area for nearly 50 years. The company began to build 198 units in Cumberland, 88 units in North Smithfield, and a new project in RI and East Providence, with several ongoing developments in Rhode Island.
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Hi everyone, it's Andrea from The Cottage Market. I have a fun little DIY for you today. One that you can make in any style you want to fit your home decor or desk. It is a little Vintage DIY Note Holder or it can be a Notion Holder…your choice. It is pretty and oh so easy to make. I chose a butterfly print…but of course you know that you have a plethora of images to choose from here at The Graphics Fairy. Let's get to creating!
You will need: A piece of 1 inch thick wood (size of your choice…mine is 5X7)…smaller is very cute also and you would only need one leg, then you will need a little wooden knob, 2 small wooden candle holders (I got them at my craft store…they are very inexpensive and you can get them at any craft store like Michael's…JoAnne's…etc…, a print, paint, glue, clothespin, scissors, a little notion or note.
Paint the block on the sides and the back and also paint the knob and legs in the color of your choice. Allow to dry.
Brush glue on the entire front and place your image on it…smooth it out and allow it to dry. After it is dry…sand the edges for a worn look and also to have a custom fit.
Now glue on the legs and the top decorative knob with hot glue.
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Q: Change the Cell property to No fill if Match is Found |VBA|Excel| I want to delete the Content of the Cell within Row Range 1:6 and Column Range A:AE if match is Found "SUP" and "AL"
Range is Colored in yellow for the reference please have a look at the below image

A: Little bit confused but would this be what you meant?
Sub FindReplaceAll()

Application.ReplaceFormat.Interior.Pattern = xlNone

With ActiveWorkbook.Sheets(1).Range("A1:AE6")
    .Cells.Replace what:=UCase("SUP"), Replacement:="", ReplaceFormat:=True
    .Cells.Replace what:=UCase("SUP"), Replacement:="", ReplaceFormat:=False
    .Cells.Replace what:=UCase("AL"), Replacement:="", ReplaceFormat:=True
    .Cells.Replace what:=UCase("AL"), Replacement:="", ReplaceFormat:=False
End With

End Sub

If need be you can apply LookAt:=xlPart or LookAt:=xlWhole too.

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Georgia's Friday Blog, going on Safari!
In just under a month I leave for South Africa and after my stressful weekend, it couldn't come sooner.
From Friday morning through to Monday afternoon my blood sugar level didn't want to come down, upping my insulin ratio and dose by almost double, I thought would have done the trick. It wasn't budging.
After talking it over with my parents we came to a self-diagnoses of the problem – a build-up of fatty tissue from where I do my injections, and with a physically demanding day and a change over for injection locations seemed to have worked a treat.
All I can do now is hope it stays this way.
On another note an adventure safari dream trip in South Africa makes everything better, since first planning, more planning and even more planning the time has flown by and in about 3 weeks we will be setting off bright and early towards the African sun.
I love travelling; it's not only one of my passions but my happy place. I love experiencing new countries and cultures. It gives me a new lease on life and this trip will definitely shake my world up a bit.
I always seek out adventure along my travels, one of my fondest action packed trip was to Fraser Island just Australia, where we went four wheel driving and hiked across dunes of sand to the bluest lakes. I was a lot younger than I am now and a lot has changed including the fact that I never had my licence then and now I'm on my fulls, which opens my opportunities up. It was an amazing family trip, I loved every second of it.
However this trip will hold a lot more demand, with early morning game drives and hopefully Elephant riding.
I am literally counting down the days with an app on my iPhone to assist me, it goes to show that although this last almost week has been really difficult things do come around and I know there's not always going to be a holiday there to help pick me up, there is always a bright side to every dark side.
It's enough that my blood levels have been behaving a million times better, when everything is out of whack (diabetes wise) it drains you, physically, mentally and emotionally and when it starts sorting itself out it's like a weight is slowly being lifted off my shoulders.
That's enough out of me, have a good weekend.
Hi Georgia! another great blog 🙂 That darned bgl! glad it seems to be behaving a bit better now. I agree with you about Travel, you grow and learn so much by experiencing other cultures and places first hand. Very exciting to hear about your African Safari trip coming up! I do hope you are going to share some stories of Travelling with diabetes, being in Africa, and being on safari.


The Pelican Capital Needs A Big Pelican!
Australians love their Big Things - whether that be the Big Pineapple, the Big Merino, the Big Prawn or the Big Banana.
As The Entrance is internationally recognised as "The Pelican Capital of Australia", it seems only natural that we have a Big Pelican overlooking The Entrance channel, rather than this weathered sculpture that is in some serious need of some TLC.
A 10 foot concrete sculpture of a cute pelican - similar to the Big Penguin in Penguin, TAS - would complement the pelican feedings and be a "must-snap" photo opportunity for anyone visiting The Entrance.
Even better, if we went for 15 foot we could go for a world's record!
The actual design, features, educational aspects and the like can be looked out once we get the ball well and truly rolling, but to start with we would like The Entrance Town Centre and Central Coast Council to at least investigate making a Big Pelican for the Pelican Capital of Australia a reality.


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Q: Marklogic - Return the HTTP response without waiting for spawn process to get completed I have created a REST API that receives a HTTP POST request(array of json requests) from UI. This would trigger a Xquery code which would spawn the requests to execute some functionalities and it may 10-30 mins to get completed.
If the request gets into the XQuery code, we just want to send the response back with status "Upload triggered successfully" and let the task on server side continue running in background without UI waiting for the process to get completed. As the task runs in background, a report document is inserted and the completed request count is updated after each request process complete.
Please find below the code outline for the same.
declare function local:upload-record($req-xml, $chunk-size,$upload-uri){
    if (exists($req-xml))
    then (
    let $log := xdmp:log("Upload started")
    <!-- some code to execute functionalities-->

                     ,
                      xdmp:spawn-function(function(){
                        local:upload-record(subsequence($req-xml, $chunk-size+1), $chunk-size,$upload-uri)
                          },
                        <options xmlns="xdmp:eval">
                        <result>true</result>

                        <update>true</update>
                        <commit>auto</commit>
                        </options>))

     return $response)
     else xdmp:log("Job completed successfully")
};

let $req := xdmp:get-request-body("json")/node()

let $config := json:config("custom")
let $req-xml := json:transform-from-json($req,$config)
let $chunk-size := 10

let $resp := local:upload-record($req-xml, $chunk-size,$upload-uri)

return <response>Upload triggered successfully</response>

I need help in implementing below questions.

*

*To return status response once the request reached ML code without UI waiting for the process to get completed.

*Determine proper chunk size based on number of requests.(min req count: 1 max:1000).Maximum number of threads configured for the app server is 32.

Please let me know your thoughts. Thanks in advance!

A: Spawn the initial call to the recursive function and set the result option to false so that it doesn't wait to execute and resolve the results.
let $resp := xdmp:spawn-function(function() {
    local:upload-record($req-xml, $chunk-size,$upload-uri)
  },
  <options xmlns="xdmp:eval"><result>false</result></options> )


How Important is ITIL, and Other Certifications, to IT Service Desk Staff?
Some people have long predicted the death of ITIL, from either a past or future perspective, and its place as a valuable set of IT service management (ITSM) best practices. Especially before the "ITIL 4" announcement at the tail end of 2017 gave people hope that a replacement for ITIL 2011 would finally see the light of day.
So, how relevant is ITIL right now, especially for IT service desks and service desk agents? If you want some hot-off-the-press insight, new research data from HDI – in its 2018 Technical Support Practices & Salary Report – offers two different perspectives on the value of ITIL certification to North American service desk agents.
I think that many of us feel better knowing that we have our qualifications – whether these be from school, university, or later in life (and related to our chosen profession). There's an expectation that they will help us to get jobs and potentially earn us more in doing so. But what's the reality for service desk agents who have, or want, relevant industry certifications (including ITIL)?
The latest HDI research shows that only one in ten IT support organizations require a formal certification when filling service desk agent roles, with another 26% and 18% stating that certifications are important for hiring and promotion respectively.
While the available response options – which the survey offered in a "Which best describes how certification is viewed within your organization?" manner – are not necessarily mutually exclusive, the results do highlight some changes in opinion over time.
The most obvious change is the 2018 jump in the number of survey respondents who stated that "We don't feel that there's any added value to certification" – at 33% up from 8% in 2017. While shocking at first, this might simply be a conversion of respondents who had previous stated that "Other factors/skills are much more important than certifications" – given that this dropped from 26% to 7%. But it's interesting, and worrying, that one third of IT service desks see no value in certifications.
Then, while these are smaller year-on-year changes, certifications are influencing increased pay and promotion less, which has to be a concern for those who have invested their time, and potentially money, in acquiring them.
All in all, the HDI data paints a picture of decreasing IT service desk interest in, and demand for, certifications per se. However, what it doesn't show is "the personal perspective" – the need, or at least ambition, of service desk agents to learn more and to gain qualifications that will help them to step up onto the next rung of the career ladder.
Looking at the 2018 report's "Top 5 certifications for frontline staff" data in isolation offers an interesting view of the certifications service desk staff are required to have and which they are paid more for having. With the top two clearly Microsoft and then CompTIA in both cases. Followed by the HDI and ITIL certifications as shown below in the table on the left.
There are multiple possible reasons for the change in ITIL's popularity between 2016 and 2018, with these not necessarily mutually exclusive.
The first, and easiest to explain, is that the 2017 data might be based on a significantly different survey sample. Not only have ITIL and CompTIA certifications dropped, Cisco, Citrix, and IBM certifications are all elevated – with this perhaps an indication of organizations with very technically-focused service desks. This might also be impacted by the fact that the level of ITIL adoption in North America is circa 50% of organizations versus what's definitely likely to be higher levels of Microsoft product usage and HDI membership for the survey completers.
The second is that the relative age of the current version of ITIL (ITIL 2011) might have raised questions (in 2017) about the qualification's continued relevance so long after its launch. Especially in light of the buzz around other IT management approaches, particularly DevOps. Plus, there's likely to have been some merit in taking a "Let's wait for the new version" attitude. Before the announcement, in late 2017, of the development of a new version of ITIL potentially helping with the 2018 uplift even for those who favored the "Let's wait for the new version" attitude.
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Ultimately, whatever the concerns people might have about its age, ITIL – well, at least parts of ITIL – is still a great certification for service desk agents who want to learn more about IT support best practice and how the IT service desk fits into the larger IT service delivery and support picture. It also positions them well for moving on into other ITSM roles, ideally within the organization.
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Former British finance minister Rishi Sunak – a frontrunner to become Britain's next Prime Minister – has family ties to a technology partner of the World Economic Forum that has advocated for a Chinese Communist Party-style economy complete with trackable, digital identities and currency. Sunak, who topped the second round of voting by Conservative Members of Parliament (MP) in the Tory leadership race on July 15th following Boris Johnson's resignation, is widely considered the "neoliberal" or "globalist" candidate. The father of Sunak's wife Akshata Murthy is the founder of Infosys, an Indian information technology company that provides services to a
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Have you ever wondered why the fragrance of your perfume or the incense sticks lightened by your mom during prayers spread all over to your home? It all happens due to diffusion. Diffusion is a fundamental factor in both natural and human-made processes. Being a universal physical phenomenon, we deal with it throughout our daily life.
"Diffusion is the movement of particles from the area of higher concentration to lower concentration area, continuing until equilibrium is reached".
Let's check some notable examples of diffusion that occurs in our daily life.
When perfume (scents, incense sticks, room sprays, fragrance sprays) are sprayed at one part of the room, it spreads throughout the whole room due to diffusion. Perfume particles travel from higher concentrated area to the entire room where the concentration is less.
Helium balloons deflate slowly and lose their lift. This happens because helium diffuses from the helium-rich area (balloon) to low helium area (outside environment).
When we put tea bags into a cup of water, it automatically mixes in the whole cup of tea, and it happens due to diffusion. Tea bag contents diffuse from its higher concentration to lower concentration (water in the mug).
After a few seconds of opening a soda bottle, soda goes flat. This is because the CO2 (Carbon dioxide) concentration is higher in the bottle than the outside environment and hence, CO2 diffuses from its higher concentration to its lower concentration.
When we breathe the air, the inhale of oxygen and exhale of carbon dioxide is possible only because of the process of diffusion. Therefore, diffusion is a vital process in breathing.
Apart from having many household uses of diffusion, it also brings some cons with it; air pollution being the most prominent cons caused by diffusion. When harmful gases, fumes, and toxic particles are released from various human-made sources including factories (like cement factory, chemical factories, brick kilns, etc), vehicles, and waste burning; then .they pollute the normal air with the process of diffusion.
Our survival is very much dependent upon the process of diffusion; as in absence of diffusion our body cannot function properly; because it's diffusion which facilitates the smooth transport of minerals and biomolecules in our body.
Our body continuously needs to remove the toxic and waste products produced during metabolism and the most important organ to accomplish this activity are kidneys; however, Kidneys alone can't do this task, here also the concept of diffusion come into play. Kidneys are made up of nephrons, which are the structural and functional units of kidneys. They are microscopic tubules which filter toxic substance from the blood. Nephron first separate waste chemicals and toxic from the blood and then reabsorb water and nutrients in the blood through diffusion. Hence, diffusion plays a significant role also in the filtration of the blood.
The benefits of diffusion have been widely harnessed by the food industry, where coloring of edible foods is common in use.
Heat conduction or transfer also occurs through diffusion. Heat is transferred from higher temperature to lower temperature.


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Boris Johnson's bridge too far
How endorsement from the British prime minister killed the idea of a bridge between Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Boris Johnson's grand plan for a massive floating bridge or underground tunnel connecting Scotland and Northern Ireland appears to be a non-starter | Toby Melville/WPA Pool via Getty Images
By Andrew McDonald
September 24, 2021 4:04 am CET
PORTPATRICK, Scotland — Boris bridge, we hardly knew ye.
Boris Johnson's grand plan to save the United Kingdom's union of nations with a massive floating bridge or underground tunnel connecting Scotland and Northern Ireland appears to be a non-starter — to the disappointment of enthusiastic engineers and the delight of nationalist politicians who want to split up the U.K.
The infrastructure-loving British prime minister admitted it's not quite at the top of his to-do list this week on the train back to New York from Washington as he wrapped up a U.S. jaunt.
Pressed by reporters on where the much-vaunted post-Brexit link now sits among a raft of more prosaic rail projects, Johnson could only say it "remains an ambition." And he added: "It's not the most immediate [project] — it will be delivered substantially after the rest of the program that you have just described."
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It's a far cry from the heady days of 2018, when Johnson first jumped on the idea of a £15 billion fixed link connecting Northern Ireland to the British mainland. His downbeat comments come after the Financial Times reported that the idea has been killed by the Treasury as it counts the cost of the pandemic.
The idea of a fixed link between Scotland and Northern Ireland has been around since at least the 1800s but it's become embroiled in some very 21st century British politics. While many in Scotland doubted the feasibility of the project, Johnson's backing — and the political attention it brought — almost certainly made any kind of link much less likely.
Alan Dunlop, an architect widely credited with shaping the modern prototype of the fixed link, said he was disappointed that the idea looks set for the chop.
"If it is true it is disappointing because it could have been a world first. It could have been a truly remarkable structure," Dunlop said. "I think it's an opportunity missed, not only in infrastructure but socially, culturally and economically."
Portpatrick, port-problems
Blueprints for the project tend to settle on either a bridge or an underwater tunnel beginning somewhere near the small village of Portpatrick in Scotland and ending in Larne, Northern Ireland.
On a visit to Portpatrick and the surrounding area late last month, POLITICO found a mixture of hostility, skepticism and lukewarm enthusiasm for the prospect of a Boris bridge coming to town.
"They cannae just plonk a bridge in the village," June Hoad, who chairs a community council of locals in Portpatrick, argued over tea and biscuits overlooking the Portpatrick harbor. Though a bridge was never likely to bulldoze the village itself, in the most plausible blueprints it would have been in close enough proximity to affect the surrounding area and infrastructure — not to mention the stunning views.
"Maybe it will happen in times to come, but in the near future I think there would have to be some hell of a money spent on the roads and rail network before it could even be considered," said her fellow community councilor Cathie Buchanan. The two small roads that offer the only entry into Portpatrick and the nearby area are in a declining state, and the village's railway station has been closed since 1950.
"I think there are concerns about it because it keeps popping back up again," Buchanan said. "But I think everybody takes comfort to a certain extent from the fact that as the infrastructure is so poor, how can they possibly do it?"
"It's a pie in the sky kinda thing," Hoad added. "Never in my lifetime."
One big hurdle on the mind of almost everyone in the area is Beaufort's Dyke, a natural trench in the Irish Sea which became the U.K.'s largest offshore dump site for munitions after the Second World War. Its position, directly in the path between Portpatrick and Larne, added to local feeling that the project was never a realistic one.
Other locals had mixed feelings. "I think it would ruin the aesthetic of Portpatrick," said Lewis Higgins, a bartender at the Shutter Island-style Portpatrick Hotel overlooking the village. "But in the long term I could see how it would be a good thing to connect the four nations of the U.K."
Kiss of death
It's exactly that idea — shoring up the U.K. itself — that prompted Johnson's government to commission a proper feasibility study into the link. His administration is battling a Scottish National Party set on independence for Scotland, and is keen to remind unionist politicians in Northern Ireland, angered by Brexit's impact on their links with the rest of the U.K., of its commitment.
Yet it's Johnson's enthusiastic backing of an idea that's been floating around for centuries that seems to have cooled any enthusiasm in Scotland, where the British prime minister remains a divisive figure.
Ros Surtees, a Scottish National Party councilor for the area, described the proposals as a "ridiculous idea."
"You've seen the tranquillity and how beautiful Portpatrick is, people come [here] to get away from it all," she said. "The feasibility study alone is going to cost millions and we can actually do a lot with that money in our region."
It wasn't always this way for her party. Indeed, when the architect Dunlop proposed a bridge in 2018 to a national newspaper, the SNP's Brexit minister deemed a fixed link a "great idea." The Scottish government even confirmed it would start talks with Belfast and Dublin about the feasibility of a bridge.
Enter Johnson. Then foreign secretary under Theresa May, he publicly endorsed Dunlop's proposals in late 2018, and by the time the Union Connectivity Review (ordered by Johnson once he became prime minister) published its interim findings, SNP politicians were lining up to dismiss it. Transport Secretary Michael Matheson branded it a "vanity project" and First Minister Nicola Sturgeon dubbed it a "diversionary" tactic.
In Northern Ireland, the politics of the bridge are also split along constitutional lines. When Johnson loudly endorsed the idea in 2018 he did so at the Democratic Unionist Party's annual conference, Northern Ireland's staunch unionist party, which has long backed a fixed link. Northern Ireland's nationalist parties, on the other hand, have readily poured scorn on the project.
One of Johnson's trusted lieutenants, his Scotland Secretary Alister Jack, endorsed the idea in principle during an interview with POLITICO earlier this month. "For years they looked at a link between the South of England and France, for years it wasn't feasible and then one day it was feasible," Jack, the MP for Portpatrick and the surrounding area, said.
Dunlop, who has been involved in some conversations with the government, said he took "some heart" from knowing his plan may return one day, though he blames the political heat for making it all harder.
"The attitude here in Scotland for the nine months prior to [Johnson endorsing the idea in November 2018] was positive," he said. "If Boris Johnson was not the prime minister and if the Scottish government were more confident or more positive about their role in Britain, I think they'd maybe have had a different attitude towards it."
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The Fatal Child
The Ambrose Stories – Book 3
"Go to Tuscolo, and you will die."
Ambrose, Prince Under the Sky, is haunted by the words of his ancestor. He remains in the wastelands, a ragged and hidden king, searching for the secret that will lift the curse of the weeping goddess. Then one day Atti, a young princess, comes to him. His life is no longer his own. For her, Ambrose leaves his wandering existence and takes the throne, knowing that to do so may bring his fate upon him.
The story is seen through the eyes of two people who love Ambrose: Thomas Padry, adviser to the King, and the peasant girl Melissa who becomes Atti's maid. Between them they trace his journey through bloody battles and court politics, from bleak heathlands to the eternal darkness of the spirit world. (Look this up on Amazon)
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On writing The Fatal Child
Inspiration came from many places. I first saw Atti in an image of a man, fat and balding, calling through a locked gate to a young woman on the far side. They were surrounded by battle and slaughter. If she trusted him, she would escape death. But though he meant well, for her he spelled captivity. This was the first step into Atti's soul. Everyone who loved her would mean captivity for her in the end.
Then, as with The Cup, there were dreams: of a king in a long robe seated in the open air, and of a fireside talk on the eve of battle. These scenes occur late in the novel. Padry and Melissa were minor characters from The Widow, whom I wanted to use again. There were the ancient princes, doomed to their hellish existence. And there was the weeping goddess.
The Goddess Beyah is rarely seen, but her presence shapes all these stories. So how do you deal with a goddess whose tears poison the world? Do you gallop off and defeat her in battle? I think not. Do you put her on the couch and talk her out of it? No, because she represents our own sin, committed at the dawn of time. We cannot forgive our own sins. In all the myths of our culture there is only one way to deal with a force such as this. That is why The Fatal Child became a story about sacrifice. It is the sacrifice that saves.
The Cup of the World
The Cup of the World is about a young woman whose runaway marriage becomes tangled in treachery and danger.
The Widow and the King
The Widow and the King is a dark adventure story about her son Ambrose, hunted by ghostly enemies through a wasted land.
The Fatal Child is the third and last in the series. Ambrose reluctantly takes up his role as King of a land that is healing, but that cannot throw off the shadows of its past.
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The album features guest vocals by Gavin Mays aka Cities Aviv and Rachel Goswell of legendary band Slowdive. Recorded at multiple studios across New York City, a cabin in upstate New York, and Los Angeles (including the home studio of Jonathan Rado of Foxygen.) Known for their energetic live show, the band have played notable festivals such as Primavera, FYF, SXSW and Bonnaroo. The long-awaited return of Brooklyn's Beach Fossils, Somersault showcases a band in bloom. Charting into new musical territory with a refined song writing style, it's an album that captures flashes of life in New York grounded in personal experience. The band's self-titled 2010 debut established a sound that was both minimal and enveloping. With Somersault, the group's first release since 2013's Clash the Truth, Beach Fossils have channelled years of experimentation into expansion and reinvention. Augmented with more complex instrumentation, including string arrangements, piano, harpsichord, flute, and sax, the new songs offer multi-layered pop guided by sharp, poignant, and honest lyrics.
As the band's first release on Dustin Payseur's new label Bayonet Records, which he co-owns with wife Kate Garcia - the group made the most of their newfound independence, investing ample time in expanding its range both musically and lyrically. While Payseur handled the bulk of the song writing duties in the past, Somersault is a true collaboration between the founding member and bandmates, Jack Doyle Smith and Tommy Davidson. The new songs speak to a more fluid, eclectic sound, filled with lush compositions formed by studio experiments and sampling of the band's own recordings.
Orchestral pop gem Saint Ivy shines with plucked strings, buoyant basslines and a propulsive, wayward, guitar. Tangerine, a driving, tightly wound melody, rushes forward and briefly leaves the ground due to the gossamer guest vocals of Slowdive's Rachel Goswell. The effervescent Rise, which hinges on the spoken word of Gavin Mays (Cities Aviv) discussing a failed relationship, hangs, like many recent breakups, in a sense of suspension. The cloudy, wistful Social Jetlag, bustling with samples of crowded streets, features the type of candid, off-the-cuff lyrics that make the entire effort immediately illuminating. Recorded at multiple studios across New York City, a cabin in upstate New York, and even Los Angeles (including the home studio of Jonathan Rado of Foxygen, who helped engineer part of the album), Somersault turns the newfound chemistry between the trio into a sonic tapestry. Due to the variety of sessions and recording locations, the album was a Frankenstein-like series of reworking and reimagining songs. As the group pieced together different parts in a cycle of creation and cooption, and built out more elaborate songs track by track, the process became more reminiscent of a record created via sampling and arranging than one built by simply grinding out riffs. The long-simmering album, filled with breezy music both melancholic and uplifting, sees the band channeling their voices and honing their craft. Flowing between shimmering compositions and immersive soundscapes, Somersault evokes the laid-back mood of a warm, breezy city night, the air crackling with humidity and excitement. These songs pulse and pull, capturing a blend of promise and heartache. It's beautiful and layered, a refined, sweeping creation that threads together numerous styles, textures, and themes into a refreshing, singular vision.
2. Tangerine
3. Saint Ivy
4. May 1st
6. Sugar
7. Closer Everywhere
8. Social Jetlag
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On Sunday, the team travelled to Bendigo Radio Controlled Aircraft Club for the maiden flight of our 2014 competition air frame, 'Vision'.
After a successful design and build phase by the Construction Team, the Flight Operations Team took over to fit out the internal components in order to make 'Vision' flight ready.
Arriving at the airfield, the team members assembled the aircraft in preparation for its maiden flight. We were excited to see the culmination of several months of hard work.
'Vision' took to the skies and immediately impressed with its performance and control. The team was able to complete several flights and bottle drops allowing us to capture footage for our approaching Deliverable 2 submission.
The day was a resounding success for the team. As well as the first flight of 'Vision', we gained significant knowledge from experienced aircraft modellers. We would especially like to thank Les Davis from the Bendigo Radio Controlled Aircraft Club, for guiding us through the certification process.


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Q: Access my own Service methods from Activity I have a method in a service that I created, and I want to access this method from an Activity that implements a Progress Dialog. This method simply update my database, and it was returning an ANR problem, so I created a Thread and in this thread I want to call this method that is in my Service. I tried instantiating the Service, but the object is null
So, how to create an 'object' in my activity where I can access this method. Someone could help me with that implementation??
Thanks.
The code:
public class UpdateDBProgressDialog extends Activity {

    private String LOG_TAG = "UpdateDBProgressDialog";
    private TextView tv;
    private ProgressDialog pd;
    private Handler handler;
    private RatedCallsService rcs;
    private Intent intent;
    public boolean mIsBound = false;

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle icicle) {
        super.onCreate(icicle);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);
        pd = ProgressDialog.show(this, "Updating Database", "The application is updating the database. Please wait.", true, false);

        handler = new Handler() {
            @Override
            public void handleMessage(Message msg) {
                pd.dismiss();
            }
        };

        Thread thread = new Thread(){

            public void run() {

                try{
                    rcs.updateDB();// Here I'm trying to call the method that is from the service class. But it says 'rcs' is null.
                    handler.sendEmptyMessage(0);

                }catch(Exception e){e.printStackTrace();}
            }
        };
        thread.start();

        new Thread(){

            public void run(){

            try{

                Thread.sleep(10000);

                if(!RatedCallsService.RUNNING){

                    Intent i = new Intent(UpdateDBProgressDialog.this, RatedCallsService.class);
                    UpdateDBProgressDialog.this.startService(i);
                }

            }catch(Exception e){e.printStackTrace();}

        }}.start();
    }
}

I just want an object of the service so I can call the method I created there.

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When you start or bind a Service its onCreate method calls and whenever you  Start/Bind it again, its onStartCommand method will call. Because service is already created.

 @Override
    public int onStartCommand(Intent intent, int flags, int startId) {
        String action = intent.getAction();
        if (action.equals(ACTION_PLAY)) // where ACTION_PLAY="any.unique.name.play"
            processPlayRequest();
        else if (action.equals(ACTION_PAUSE)) // where ACTION_PAUSE="any.unique.name.pause"
            processPauseRequest();
        else if (action.equals(ACTION_SKIP))
            processSkipRequest();
        else if (action.equals(ACTION_STOP))
            processStopRequest();
        else if (action.equals(ACTION_REWIND))
            processRewindRequest();
        else if (action.equals(ACTION_URL))
            processAddRequest(intent);

        return START_NOT_STICKY; // Means we started the service, but don't want
                                 // it to
                                 // restart in case it's killed.
    }

And call it like:
Intent serviceIntent = new Intent(this, ServiceToStart.class);
serviceIntent.setAction("any.unique.name.play"); // onClick of play button
startService(serviceIntent);

A: If you want to invoke an operation on a Service from an Activity, there are two options. One is to create an Intent with any data set as extras on the Intent, and then start the Service kind of like you have done in the code. Then in the Service's onStartCommand, pull out the extras and invoke the appropriate method on your Service. For this option, you probably want to use an IntentService. The other option is to bind to the Service and directly invoke methods on it. To do this you will need to declare your Service's operations using AIDL. See the API documentation on Service for details.