Melanie Williams plans to open a home goods and gift shop called Story next to Black Market. She will own and operate both stores.
Vintage boutique Fox House Vintage has closed in order for owner Lauralee Estill to focus on her new position as event coordinator at Blue Grass Stockyard and Marketplace, a business her family has owned for four generations.
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On the other side of the Woodland Triangle, a new women's boutique, Chandler Reese, opened in February at 195 Kentucky Ave., in the space formerly occupied by Commotion! Consignment Riding Apparel, which relocated to Midway. The shop features clothing and accessories and a selection of Kentucky- and Lexington-themed home decor and gift items.
And finally, pBardo Art Gallery officially closed following the March 16 Gallery Hop due to owner Pat Bardo's retirement.


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Many varieties of the flower cards once existed, and are now extinct. Some of them were patterns related to particular places in Japan, and bore the name of cities, such as the Yamagatabana; among them was the Dairen, after the Chinese city in southern Manchuria, born during Japan's occupation of this region.
Also size varieties existed. Some patterns were alternatively made in a smaller version, called Kobana ("small flower cards"); for instance, Echigokobana was the small version of the standard-sized Echigobana, and besides the reduced dimensions also the illustrations had a few differences.
Other cards, known as Usukuchibana ("thin flower cards") were less thick than the usual Japanese cardstock, and were used by women.
Editions both small and thin, instead, were called Kaichuubana ("pocket flower cards"), easy to carry and to hide away.
The following table summarizes the names of the recorded patterns. This list may be incomplete: some of the patterns have an alternative name, and an official classification scheme has only been attempted in very recent years. However, a true distinction between the local patterns was only to be found from the Meiji period (1868-1912) onwards, as most samples prior to this time seem to contain elements in common with more than one pattern.
All of their names have the suffix -bana, i.e. "-flower", which specifies their belonging to the group of Hanafuda, or flower cards.
the Ryuukobana, i.e. "dragon and tiger flower cards", recently created, for four players (instead of the usual two), which has two additional suits, and is mentioned in page 4, among the special decks.
Two regional Hanafuda patterns are presented in this page: the Echigobana and the Kintokibana.
Echigo is the former name of the present Niigata, in the central-northern part of the country.
The main features of this pattern are an extensive use of silver and gold details over the main illustrations, and the presence of short poems (tanka) added to kasu or trash cards belonging to the Matsu (pine), Ume (plum), Fuji (wisteria), Shôbu (iris), Susugi (silver grass) and Momiji (maple leaves) families.
The tanka are divided into two halves, featured on each of the two kasu cards. This graphic element, which has nothing to do with the gambling game, was probably conceived as an attempt of disguising Hanafuda cards as Uta Karuta, or "poet cards" (see the relevant gallery), since the latter were not prohibited.
With the same purpose are also consistent the heavy silver and golden additions, some of which do not look as decorations, but probably are an expedient for almost completely covering the underlying subject (e.g. the suit of Shôbu, or iris), in a fashion similar to the "distorted" court cards in Mekuri and Kabu patterns (see page 5 and page 6 for some samples). Not in all editions, though, these coverings are so evident as in the samples shown.
Another feature that makes this pattern easily recognizable is the striped sky of all the cards of the Matsu, Ume and Susugi suits.
Some of the animals featured in tane cards are considerably stylized, in particular the boar in Hagi (bush clover), and the deer in Momiji (maple leaf). The blue ribbons, i.e. those of Botan or peony, Kiku or chrisanthemum and Momiji, in this pattern have a very dark colour.
But probably the most peculiar detail of the Echigobana deck is the "rain" card, which features a folded umbrella with two legs (evidently the calligraphist is inside!), while no trace of the usual frog is left.
However, a folded umbrella was also found in the Yamagatabana pattern, now extinct, but also in early editions (19th century, see below). This is not the only element of similarity with the original Hanafuda decks; also tanka poems featured in some of the kasu cards, as well as other minor graphic details, reveal that the Echigobana pattern is modelled on the pre-Meiji flower card decks (i.e. prior to 1868), while the design of the common Hachihachibana pattern , as well as some others, was created during the Meiji age (see page 2).
Modern editions comprise an extra card, but it does not specifically belong to the Echigobana pattern; the one used in Ôishi's edition, shown on the right, generically features the manufacturer's logo: a Tengu (a traditional character with a long nose).
A different edition of Echigobana cards is shown in D.King's page PLAYING CARDS OF THE WORLD.
The Kintokibana (officially Awabana) is a pattern born in Awa (Shikoku island, presently in the prefecture of Tokushima). The name Kintoki is referred to the legendary personage featured on the extra card (see below). Later, this pattern spread to the north, towards the mainland, where today is the prefecture of Okayama.
The most outstanding feature of the pattern is the presence of numerals, referring to the twelve families or suits. They are found on almost every kasu (trash) card, in the shape of an encircled Japanese-Chinese character.
Also all the tan (ribbons) but one feature a number, which is a part of the name of the month in Japanese language: "month 1" is January i.e. the suit of Matsu (pine), "month 2" is February i.e. the suit of Ume (plum), and so on.
Only two tane cards, from the suits of Fuji (wisteria) and Yanagi (willow), bear the encircled number, while the latter is not featured in other subjects, among which are all five kô cards.
Only the suit of Kiri (paulownia), shown further down, has all four numberless cards.
The use of numbers in this pattern is likely a trace of the time when Kabu and Mekuri games were prohibited, and Hanafuda packs were often used as legal substitutes for by-passing the ban. In fact, thanks to the added numbers the twelve Hanafuda flower families may be easily turned into four series of values from 1 to 12, i.e. as Mekuri and most Kabu patterns have (see page 5 and page 6 for details).
Besides the numbers, other differences with the "standard" Hanafuda pattern described in page 2 are the details in many individual cards: the striped pines in the suit of Matsu, the decorated curtain in the suit of Sakura, the white/silver blades of grass in the Susuki cards, the plain white background of the only kasu card of Yanagi (usually red), and a few others.
Furthermore, the kasu cards of Matsu and Susuki feature a tanka, similar to the ones found in the aforesaid Echigobana pattern, whose text is incomplete.
Finally, the extra subject of the Kintoki deck, after which this pattern was renamed: the Kintarô card.
Very popular in the Japanese folk tradition, yet based on a personage who actually lived around the 10th century, Kintarô was a child of extraordinary strength, who outrooted trees and wrestled with bears in the mountains where he lived.
Once grown up, he became a distinguished warrior or samurai, changing his name into Kintoki Sakata.
He is traditionally featured as a rather stout boy with tanned (red) skin, who wears only a breastplate with a large character for "gold" (kin), and carries an axe.


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UFC 269: Jordan Wright takes high life to…
UFC 269: Jordan Wright takes high life to higher dreams
'The Beverly Hills Ninja' doesn't apologize for his upbringing or lofty goals going into his fight with Bruno Silva
Jordan Wright gets his hand raised by referee Jason Herzog after his TKO victory over Ike Villanueva in his UFC debut Aug. 22, 2020, at UFC APEX in Las Vegas. (Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)
By Brian Martin | bmartin@scng.com | Daily News
PUBLISHED: December 10, 2021 at 1:25 p.m. | UPDATED: December 11, 2021 at 12:09 a.m.
Don't let the ZIP codes fool you.
If one isn't supposed to judge a book by its cover, nor should fighters be judged based on their upbringings.
That being said, Jordan Wright knows he has been more fortunate than most.
"Absolutely, I had a pretty good life growing up," the UFC middleweight said.
Life could get better for Wright should he prevail over Bruno Silva during the UFC 269 prelims on Saturday at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
Wright isn't the first fighter to grow up privileged and isn't ashamed of it. The 30-year-old Culver City resident was born in San Antonio and moved around a bit as a kid, just not exactly in the harshest of environments.
"I moved to California when I was about 7. First to Malibu. I lived there for a few years, then to the Pacific Palisades, and then to Malibu again," Wright (12-1, 1 NC) said. "And then right before I left for Albuquerque, I was at Beverly Hills."
Dad is a retired attorney. Mom is a business owner. And their son, the youngest of five boys who began with gymnastics at 4 before becoming enamored with martial arts via karate at 9, knew he wanted to fight for a living since he was 16.
Wright concedes his parents "weren't too happy about it," but were supportive as he went through the independent studies program his last two years at Malibu High with the intention of becoming a fighter.
"They saw my dedication, they saw how focused I was," Wright said. "Their main thing was, 'If you go to college and get an educational background, whatever you want to do in life,' so I did that. And they've been cool with it ever since. And now they're seeing the fruits of the labor, you know, being in the UFC, following my dreams, living a great life."
Jordan Wright kicks Joaquin Buckley in their middleweight bout at UFC 255 on Nov. 21, 2020, at UFC APEX in Las Vegas. (Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)
After high school, Wright moved to Albuquerque and began life as an aspiring mixed martial artist at Jackson Wink MMA Academy, going so far as to sleep and live at the acclaimed gym before starting as a student at the University of New Mexico.
Not only did Wright hone his craft at Jackson Wink, it's where trainer Greg Jackson dubbed him "The Beverly Hills Ninja," based on a 1997 Chris Farley film.
"When I was given that nickname, I was happy. I knew exactly where it came from," he said. "I saw it in the movie theater when I was like 6 or 7 years old."
About three years ago, Wright decided he had learned enough at Jackson Wink and returned to Los Angeles, landing at Dynamix MMA and training under former UFC veterans Antoni Hardonk and Vladimir Matyushenko. He also mixes in time with Brazilian jiu-jitsu legend Fabio Maldonado at Morumbi Jiu Jitsu and Fitness Academy in Ventura.
Armed with a 10-0 record with one no contest, Wright made his UFC debut at light heavyweight in August 2020, delivering vicious knee strikes and bloodying Ike Villanueva to force a doctor's stoppage.
Wright's next fight, nearly 13 months ago back down at 185 pounds, didn't go as planned as he was stopped early in the second round by Joaquin Buckley. He chalked up the defeat as a learning experience, unfortunately thanks to his karate background.
"Sometimes I let people dictate the pace on me too much. I'll back up and try to counter and I feel like they're relying on that a little too much. I wasn't giving enough pressure," Wright said. "So it kind of opened my eyes to that and I'm very thankful that I was able to be exposed in that way early on in my career, because I went straight back to the gym. After that, we started working on being able to pressure back against pressure."
Jordan Wright punches Jamie Pickett during his first-round TKO victory at UFC 262 on May 15, 2021, at Toyota Center in Houston. (Photo by Carmen Mandato/Getty Images)
He responded in May with a statement victory over dangerous striker Jamie Pickett, needing a little more than a minute to put him away with a barrage of elbows, knees and punches.
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Next up is an experienced veteran in Silva (21-6), by way of Curitiba, Brazil, who has won six in a row – including both his UFC bouts – all by knockout.
"It's the best kind of guy that you can really prove your worth against, to show that, 'Hey, I'm out here to hang out with the big guys and I will be champion,'" Wright said. "So it's a great test for me."
Proving just because one is born with a silver spoon doesn't mean they can't spit it out in favor of a mouthguard.
Jordan Wright pays his respects to Jamie Pickett after defeating him via first-round TKO victory at UFC 262 on May 15, 2021, at Toyota Center in Houston. (Photo by Carmen Mandato/Getty Images)
Main event: Lightweight champion Charles Oliveira vs. Dustin Poirier
Co-main event: Bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes vs. Julianna Pena
When: Saturday
Where: T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas
How to watch: Early prelims (3 p.m., ESPN+); prelims (5 p.m., ESPN/ESPN+); main card (7 p.m., PPV via ESPN+)
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{-# LANGUAGE MultiParamTypeClasses #-}
{-# LANGUAGE TypeFamilies          #-}
{-# LANGUAGE RecordWildCards       #-}
module Aws.Iam.Commands.ListMfaDevices
       ( ListMfaDevices(..)
       , ListMfaDevicesResponse(..)
       ) where

import Aws.Core
import Aws.Iam.Core
import Aws.Iam.Internal
import Control.Applicative
import Data.Text (Text)
import Data.Typeable
import Prelude
import Text.XML.Cursor (laxElement, ($//), (&|))
-- | Lists the MFA devices. If the request includes the user name,
-- then this action lists all the MFA devices associated with the
-- specified user name. If you do not specify a user name, IAM
-- determines the user name implicitly based on the AWS access key ID
-- signing the request.
--
-- <https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/APIReference/API_ListMFADevices.html>

data ListMfaDevices = ListMfaDevices
                      { lmfaUserName :: Maybe Text
                        -- ^ The name of the user whose MFA devices
                        -- you want to list.  If you do not specify a
                        -- user name, IAM determines the user name
                        -- implicitly based on the AWS access key ID
                        -- signing the request
                      , lmfaMarker   :: Maybe Text
                        -- ^ Used for paginating requests. Marks the
                        -- position of the last request.
                      , lmfaMaxItems :: Maybe Integer
                        -- ^ Used for paginating requests. Specifies
                        -- the maximum number of items to return in
                        -- the response. Defaults to 100.
                      } deriving (Eq, Ord, Show, Typeable)

instance SignQuery ListMfaDevices where
  type ServiceConfiguration ListMfaDevices = IamConfiguration
  signQuery ListMfaDevices{..} = iamAction' "ListMFADevices"
                                 ([ ("UserName",) <$> lmfaUserName ]
                                 <> markedIter lmfaMarker lmfaMaxItems)

data ListMfaDevicesResponse = ListMfaDevicesResponse
                              { lmfarMfaDevices :: [MfaDevice]
                                -- ^ List of 'MFA Device's.
                              , lmfarIsTruncated :: Bool
                                -- ^ @True@ if the request was
                                -- truncated because of too many
                                -- items.
                              , lmfarMarker :: Maybe Text
                                -- ^ Marks the position at which the
                                -- request was truncated. This value
                                -- must be passed with the next
                                -- request to continue listing from
                                -- the last position.
                              } deriving (Eq, Ord, Show, Typeable)

instance ResponseConsumer ListMfaDevices ListMfaDevicesResponse where
  type ResponseMetadata ListMfaDevicesResponse = IamMetadata
  responseConsumer _ _req =
    iamResponseConsumer $ \ cursor -> do
      (lmfarIsTruncated, lmfarMarker) <- markedIterResponse cursor
      lmfarMfaDevices <-
        sequence $ cursor $// laxElement "member" &| parseMfaDevice
      return ListMfaDevicesResponse{..}

instance Transaction ListMfaDevices ListMfaDevicesResponse

instance IteratedTransaction ListMfaDevices ListMfaDevicesResponse where
    nextIteratedRequest request response
        = case lmfarMarker response of
            Nothing     -> Nothing
            Just marker -> Just $ request { lmfaMarker = Just marker }

instance AsMemoryResponse ListMfaDevicesResponse where
    type MemoryResponse ListMfaDevicesResponse = ListMfaDevicesResponse
    loadToMemory = return

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"We must pledge ourselves to support those brave men and women who this very moment are carrying forth the struggle against British imperialism in the streets of Belfast and Derry," Mr. King told a pro-I.R.A. rally on Long Island, where he was serving as Nassau County comptroller, in 1982. Three years later he declared, "If civilians are killed in an attack on a military installation, it is certainly regrettable, but I will not morally blame the I.R.A. for it..."
This is a really complex story, so please read the whole thing. I really appreciate that Scott Shane, the author, was able to point out King's contradictions, while at the same time noting that Al Qaeda and the IRA are not same thing. I think beyond Peter King, the story does a good job of taking the term "terrorist" beyond the category of political slur. It's always worth remembering that people we now (rightly) lionize, once partook in the dark arts. It's always worth remembering that American local governments, for a century, collaborated with actual terrorists, targeting American citizens, while the federal government looked the other way.
In that effort, I present this excerpt from Fog of War. I've never understood why, say, the firebombing of Tokyo wasn't terrorism. If you haven't seen this doc, do so immediately. McNamara maintains that he and Curtis LeMay were "acting as war criminals," while at the same time not faulting Truman for dropping the atomic bomb. And, frankly, I find him quite convincing.
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Board index Playtonic Community Discussion
What are you playing now and what do you think about it?
Discuss stuff wot ain't games. You do have other hobbies, right?
polomi
Postby polomi » Tue Mar 17, 2015 7:45 am
What Are you playing right now? And what do you think about it?
I'm currently playing Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number, and I gotta say that it's a serious disapointment. It's not anywhere close to how enjoyable the first one was. In the first one, I didn't mind being reckless, rushing through rooms. It could be as fast paced as you wanted it to be. HM2 is not like that unfortunately, you really have to be more careful of snipers because of how open the maps are. That's my major complaint. The other aspects of the game are fine, but overall it's a disapointment. I won't be getting A+ on every mission this time, I'll just beat it and that's it.
Chruxl
Location: Ukelele Shop
Re: What are you playing now and what do you think about it?
Postby Chruxl » Tue Mar 17, 2015 7:58 am
I'm not playing much at the moment. I'm sort of going back and forth between Spelunky and Kingdom Hearts 2.5. I think they're fun! Hopefully if I portion it right, I can stretch Kingdom Hearts long enough to tide me over until A Hat in Time releases. Sadly, I suck at Spelunky...
Lizard64
Postby Lizard64 » Tue Mar 17, 2015 9:29 am
Super Mario 64. It's fun and it still holds up.. mostly. I am trying to get all 120 stars but some are proving rather difficult. I really enjoy the amount of depth in the jumping and platforming mechanics, but the camera is just plain bad by today's standards.
As for any current video games, I occasionally run around Guild Wars 2, and the new Unreal Tournament is pretty fun for a round or two. I want to give Deus Ex 3 another go because I haven't touched it since release and I rushed through it back then.
I'm really just waiting on games that haven't actually come out yet, like Playtonic's own game
Nightpaws
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Postby Nightpaws » Tue Mar 17, 2015 9:40 am
Currently playing Resogun. It's the first game I got for my PS4 and its as addictive as it is frustrating. Essentially a variation of asteroids with a graphics overhaul its a fun way to burn through an hour or so. Any longer and I want to lob it out the window!
Also, I've been playing a bit of Destiny. It's pleasant enough to play in short bursts but unless I've got someone to play with the fun is quickly lost as the game itself is a bit lacking in character.
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Postby Blue » Tue Mar 17, 2015 10:44 am
Currently I'm playing Dragon Age: Inquisition. Certain parts like combat have taken me a little while to get used to since it's my first Dragon Age game, but the game itself is pretty dang fun. I'm about 45 hours in, and that's only with a couple main quests and a lot of side-quests completed.
I've also been playing Daxter on the side, and that game is deceptively difficult. I honestly thought it wouldn't compare to the Jak and Daxter games in terms of difficulty, what with it being developed by a different company and all, but I was wrong: sparse checkpoints and tricky platformer puzzles abound. I'm still enjoying it a lot, though. Difficulty aside, it's still a fun game with varied levels and an enjoyable cast of characters.
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Postby Viellain » Tue Mar 17, 2015 10:49 am
Currently playing on a Russian Typing Site http://klavogonki.ru/. I know there's other typing sites and such, but I like to keep my typing sites very diverse and different for learning experiences.
Nomonoke
Postby Nomonoke » Tue Mar 17, 2015 11:45 am
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Postby NiloStudo » Tue Mar 17, 2015 12:19 pm
I've been a little too addicted to Pokemon Shuffle, eheh... (no I haven't paid anything)
Last time I turned the Wii U on though, I was continuing The Wonderful 101. I'm having a lot of fun with that, it's like playing a comic book - corniness, humour and all.
Postby polomi » Wed Mar 18, 2015 10:57 am
Just finished Hotline Miami 2. I hold on my previous opinion, but I'll add that Act 5 was pretty good! I enjoyed it.
I won't do the game in hard and I won't bother with the achievements, since it was such a pain to play in the first place compared to Hotline Miami.
Postby Alucard » Wed Mar 18, 2015 11:21 am
Jim Bexley Speed
Postby Jim Bexley Speed » Wed Mar 18, 2015 3:33 pm
Inspired by Ukelele I've decided to go back and play a few Rare games I missed out on. I'm currently playing Star Fox Adventures. I'm really enjoying it and am a little bit ashamed I haven't played it before, I think I have always heard mixed things about it. I guess fans of Star Fox thought it was too much of a departure and fans of Rare 3d platformers thought the same, personally I'm happy with the combination, my only gripe is the lizard dude in the store has the most irritating voice and mannerisms, (I'm assuming he is voiced by a Rare employee as was the tradition then)but whoever he is, he does my head in.
Postby Nomonoke » Fri Mar 20, 2015 5:46 pm
I've never played Star Fox Adventures. I hear a lot of either really bad or really mixed feelings about it, but when I watch Lets Plays, it doesn't seem that bad. Maybe I'll give that a run?
Turns out I don't have my Banjo Kazooie and Tooie cartridges anymore. May have gotten lost in the move. But I AM playing them on Emulators, and they're just as good as I remember!
GrayMagicΓ
Postby GrayMagicΓ » Fri Mar 20, 2015 6:09 pm
DLC? UGANDA WILL NOT HAVE THIS SICKNESS!
Honestly, I've... never played a Star Fox game in general. Heh. I was never very good with the flying. I guess that first question doesn't apply to me. I've also never played N&B.
But I do love dungeon crawling adventure-y games. Hm. I will take that as a "put on my list of older games to play" then.
CrazyChaos
Postby CrazyChaos » Sat Mar 21, 2015 4:32 am
Been playing Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate mostly. Is very cool.
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Postby GrayMagicΓ » Sat Mar 21, 2015 7:52 am
Postby John » Sat Mar 21, 2015 7:58 am
Rarewareusedtobegood
Postby polomi » Sat Mar 21, 2015 9:06 am
I'll play The Chronicles of Riddick - Assault on Dark Athena now. I really like the movies Black Pitch and the newest one (not the one in the middle though), so I'll probably like the game given that it has good reviews. I just wish it was a movie and not a game, I don't like story driven games at all.
And everyday I'm playing Rayman Legends, gotta reach that 11th awesomeness level. I think it is inferior to Rayman Origins in almost every way, but still a great platformer. If someone's interested in discussing it I have a lot of points to make on that topic.
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Interferon beta-1b (IFN-β1) – rodzaj białka z grupy interferonów. Stosowany do leczenia stwardnienia rozsianego. Znany pod nazwami betaferon (rynek europejski) lub betaseron (rynek amerykański i kanadyjski).

Działanie betaferonu
Stwardnienie rozsiane jest chorobą ośrodkowego układu nerwowego (mózg i rdzeń kręgowy) i jej dokładna przyczyna nie jest znana. Uważa się, że ważną rolą w procesie, który uszkadza OUN, odgrywa nieprawidłowa odpowiedź układu immunologicznego organizmu.

Wykazano, że interferon beta-1b modyfikuje odpowiedź układu immunologicznego, ułatwiając zmniejszanie aktywności choroby.

Wskazania do stosowania betaferonu
Betaferon jest wskazany do stosowania wśród pacjentów, u których po raz pierwszy wystąpiły objawy wskazujące na wysokie ryzyko wystąpienia stwardnienia rozsianego. Przed rozpoczęciem leczenia lekarz wykluczy wszelkie inne powody, które mogłyby tłumaczyć wystąpienie tych objawów.

Betaferon wskazany jest również w leczeniu ustępująco-nawracającej postaci stwardnienia rozsianego u pacjentów leczonych ambulatoryjnie (zdolnych do poruszania się bez pomocy), u których w ciągu ostatnich dwóch lat wystąpiły co najmniej dwa rzuty choroby z całkowitym lub częściowym ustąpieniem zaburzeń neurologicznych. W tej grupie pacjentów betaferon zmniejsza częstość oraz stopień nasilania rzutów choroby, jak również liczba przypadków wymagających hospitalizacji oraz wydłuża okres remisji.

Betaferon wskazany jest ponadto u pacjentów wtórnie postępującą postacią stwardnienia rozsianego w czynnym stadium choroby, potwierdzonym rzutami. U tych pacjentów betaferon zwalnia postęp niesprawności oraz zmniejsza częstotliwość rzutów choroby.

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Linki zewnętrzne
  na rynek europejski – dystrybutor Bayer Schering Pharma
 Betaseron na rynek amerykański i kanadyjski – dystrybutor Berlex

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It's no secret that mobile software — apps — are emerging with many new and interesting functions to change nearly everything about our daily lives. It's widely known that the convergence of hotels, social marketing and real-time guest interactions is already well underway via mobile and tablet devices. All pursuits in this field tend to obey the general paradigm that their usage will in turn enhance a guest's perception of a hotel. Apps built for improving meetings work the same way.
If there's a piece of software that can increase an event attendee's ability to enjoy an upcoming, current or past conference, this ignites a virtuous cycle of positive outcomes. In the aftermath of a successful meeting, the planners would subsequently receive higher recognition for their efforts, increasing their ability to propagate future business ventures. Likewise, the meeting or conference center (often a hotel) would indirectly share in this praise, contributing to a myriad of desirable metrics further down the road – more business bookings, heightened occupancies and, ultimately, increased revenues.
Many of your sales teams are already utilizing electronic group-RFP search engines such as Cvent. This program enhances your property's ability to secure new business. But what about enhancing the experience for your conference delegates once they are on property? That's the basis for Cvent's new meeting and event mobile app division entitled CrowdCompass. This is a totally new field. I had an opportunity to talk to the Director of Sales, Matthew Donegan-Ryan, and get a firsthand demonstration. CrowdCompass aims to be a holistic and interactive mobile platform with many takeaway lessons for hoteliers to better understand how technology will impact this side of the industry and how smartphone integration can augment guest satisfaction.
CrowdCompass's main function is for onsite coordination – showing when and where various sessions are taking place (in addition to a reminder system built around this). It's a self-service product principally targeted at event planners who are then given the power to edit content within the app in much the same way as a website's CMS. But the developer has added two other crucial features which give this software more depth and value to both organizers and attendees.
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A Memoir
Author: Ashley C. Ford
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"Just remember, you can always come home."
There it was. I expected and hated when my mother said those words. Two years before this call, I'd moved to Brooklyn from Indiana. Now I lived in Flatbush with my boyfriend, Kelly. Back home in the Midwest, our friends were building four-bedroom houses on one-acre lots with mortgages comparable to the monthly rent of our one-bedroom. After living in the city for a year or two, I marveled at home features I would have called standard before I left. Features like dishwashers, in-unit laundry, and backyards. The apartment we lived in now had one of those, the dishwasher. When it ran, the second phase of the wash cycle shook the floor and walls with a deep rumble. I felt it in my feet while I paced the floor.
I had gotten up from dinner to take the call from my mother. She still lived in Fort Wayne, my hometown. We hadn't lived in the same city, or the same house, since I left for college eleven years earlier. She called every few weeks—I answered every other call—and we usually had a good time talking for ten to fifteen minutes. I'd taught myself to keep our phone conversations light, or as I liked to think of it, complication-free, without lying. I didn't want to lie to her. I wanted to be able to talk to my mother the way I could with most other people, as myself. But she wasn't just anybody. She was my mother, so that was impossible. There were limits. We only dove into subjects that wouldn't end in arguments, which was mostly whatever would make us both laugh.
When she said that thing to me, that I could always come home, part of me wanted to reply, "Mama, I love you, but I'll work myself past the white meat, down to the bone, and fistfight every stranger I run across on the street before we live under the same roof again." That was the hyperbolic expression of a feeling I did not allow myself to verbalize, for fear of ruining our smooth interaction. And it would have. There was no way to make it sound like a joke because in some way, I wasn't joking. I got angry with myself for even thinking the thought because I knew it would hurt her to know it had ever been in my mind. I got mad at myself too, for not saying it out loud anyway. For not caring if it hurt her, if it meant telling the truth.
Before she called, Kelly and I were eating. We were lovers who lived together, trying to find out if we had whatever turned two people in love into the kind of family either of us wanted. We decorated and burrowed into our apartment, The Nest, as he began to call our tight, warm space. We hung cheap framed prints on the walls, topped bookshelves with action figures and small stuffed animals. We created a barricade between our softest selves and the sharp elbows of the city surrounding us. It wasn't that we couldn't take a hit, we just weren't used to the pace, but we still believed we could figure it out. Either way, we were finally home, in our home together, and I felt protected by our walls and the love shared there between them.
In our small kitchen, I wanted to cook for everyone and anyone, which mostly ended up being Kelly. It was a developing skill, but to my surprise, I was not a disaster. It was one of the ways I was learning to soothe myself, suggested by a therapist who told me, "Take the time to feed yourself food that feels good and tastes good. Who better to do that for than you?" It felt like exactly the kind of thing you pay someone to say to you. I still did it. Losing myself in the construction of a meal was the closest thing I had to a hobby.
The night my mother called, I made pasta. I tried to prepare the food to be served hot and ready minutes after Kel walked through the door. He would have eaten my pasta at any temperature I offered it to him, but I wanted to get it right. When he closed the bookstore where he worked, he didn't get home until nine forty-five p.m. at the earliest, closer to ten if he had to count the drawer more than twice. My timing didn't always work out, but this evening I pulled it off. Our plates were piled with thick ropes of linguine in a homemade garlic tomato sauce, oozing from the ends of our forks.
When my phone buzzed on the counter, I'd squinted at the screen before answering. I'd been trying to spend less time holding or even looking at my phone. Kelly could walk away from his phone for half a day before remembering it existed. Engaging with various social media platforms didn't appeal to him the same way. He often asked me to put mine away to be present with him, especially during meals. He wasn't wrong to ask, and I did not resent the request unless it embarrassed me. I knew I spent too much time on my phone, but sometimes I wished he could ignore that as well as I could. Still, I loved and wanted to be present with him. The only reason I gave a second thought to answering the phone during our meal was that my mother had worked the same job for more than two decades, and these days, was almost always asleep by nine, if not before. Seeing her name flash across my phone's screen worried me, so I picked up.
"Hello, Mother," I said in a faux posh voice. It was meant to keep things as jovial as the moment could stand. Usually, she would respond with her own equally posh voice, "Hello, Daughter," then we'd both giggle and tell each other something silly, or gossip, or ask the question we'd called to ask. This time my mother said, "Hi, baby," and I knew this wasn't a quick gossiping call. I walked into the bedroom to be on my own.
I shut the door behind me, and sat on the bed. My chest was tight with anticipation for whatever she said next. I started to count my breaths the way my first therapist had taught me, but couldn't remember how long I was supposed to hold the breath, or for how long I was supposed to let it out. I never thought enough about breathing until I needed to, and by then, it was too late. I've heard people describe panic as something that rises up inside them. For me, panic radiates in the threads of my muscles, bangs in the back of my skull, twists my stomach, and sets my skin on fire. It doesn't rise or fall. It spreads.
Was it one of my siblings? My worst fear was that my mother called to tell me something happened to either one of my two brothers, or my sister. Since high school, maybe even a little before then, I'd experienced recurring nightmares about one of them dying. Never dreamt of anything too gory, thank God. I never had to watch them die, not even in the worst iterations of my dreams. I always arrived in the aftermath, left to deal with the reality of losing them before waking and getting the chance to prove to myself my little loves were still here. My mother knew about my nightmares, and had sent me back to bed many times after I burst into her room to listen to my youngest brother's heartbeat, or watch my sister's back fall and rise with the deep and heavy, but living breath of sleep. The dreams intensified when I left for college, and again when I eventually left Indiana altogether.
Her voice pulled me back to our halting conversation. She reassured me from the other end of the phone line. "Nobody's hurt. Everybody's okay." The top half of my body collapsed with relief and I fell back onto the bed. I closed my eyes, and when that didn't shut out enough light, laid my forearm against my closed lids until the view behind them faded into purple and black like the climax of a bruise.
"So what is it, Mom?" I waited for her to speak, and cursed what felt like dramatic pauses under my breath. We'd never found an easy way to talk about hard things, so we struggled to say anything at all in hard times. If she was calling about money, I wished she would just ask for what she needed, so I could be honest about whether or not I could help, and we could be done. My mother huffed. She sensed my impatience. That I was an adult who was allowed to be frustrated with her annoyed her whether she verbalized it or not. For all the ways we chose to remain silent, communicating our displeasure never actually required words. She spoke.
"Your dad is getting out of prison."
My breath caught between my mouth and lungs, unsure in which direction it was most needed. My heart hit the gas, rushing blood to parts of my body calling out for it, and my hands trembled. What were those breathing counts again? Six in, six out? Six in, seven out? Was I going to cry? I touched my face with a shaking hand to be sure I hadn't already started. Nothing. My mother didn't speak, and it no longer felt like a performance. It felt right to have all that space for my words, my feelings, whether or not they decided to show up and tell me how to respond.
My heartbeat traveled to every end of me, pumping pumping pumping through my ears. I moved my mouth enough to ask the only question presenting itself with any clarity in my mind, "When?"
"In about two weeks. I just found out he's coming home." She paused, and once again, I was grateful to have room for my thoughts. "Are you okay?" I wasn't, but I didn't want to have to keep talking about how I wasn't okay. It was a relief to know my siblings were unharmed, and she hadn't done or said anything wrong. The ends of her questions lingered like she really did want to help, and I believed she did. The issue was that I'd been waiting to hear that my father was getting out of prison my entire life, and now that someone called me and said it was happening, all I could feel was how much I wanted to get off the phone.
I was tempted, as I always am, to take the bait when my mother offers me empathy. Tempted by my fantastical belief that one day I will lower my walls, and she will do the same. Then I end up blaming myself for not remembering to stick to the conversational paths offering the least resistance, furious at myself for veering too far into the unexplored or exiled. Or worse, I'd be drawn into her fantasy that we were already close. If my mother and I shared anything without having carefully considered it, it was this undying ember of a dream that we will someday, somehow find ourselves reaping the bounty of a blooming mother-daughter bond, the roots of which we both refuse to tend in the meantime.
I told her I was okay. She didn't press me, and I offered nothing else. I wondered if maybe she didn't want my answers anyway, and the single thought was convincing enough for me to keep my mouth closed. I thanked her for telling me about my Dad, told her I loved her, waited to hear it back, and hung up the phone.
Dazed, I walked back to the kitchen counter and sat down beside Kelly, wanting nothing more than to be close to him. I didn't want to be touched, even as I begged myself not to cry. I laid my phone back on the counter, facedown. He was still finishing his meal, but stopped eating and turned to me. My head spun with words, images, bits of conversations, music, and colors making up a swirl of debris zipping past my face, and returning seconds later, moving too quickly for me to reach out and hold onto anything long enough to make sense of the patterns they made, or whatever they tried to tell me. If I'd had the option, I would have called my grandmother to tell her the news myself, and hear her shout, "God is so good!" as if she'd just put in a prayer request for this very outcome. She had been reliably religious, and though I never would be again, her exclamations of joy brought me comfort when I needed it most. I needed it now.
I tried to count again, to breathe, or at least go numb enough to speak without crying. My emotions moved through me faster than I could name them. Feeling any of it felt like the beginning of losing control, and losing control felt like certain death in my body, if not my mind. If I didn't process the feeling, I wouldn't feel it, and if I didn't feel it, it couldn't kill me.
"What was that about?" he asked. I picked up my fork and took a bite of my food. It was cold now. It was still good, but not perfect. I chewed, swallowed, and spoke without looking up.
"My dad's getting out of prison in two weeks." I kept eating.
Kelly quit moving and stared at me, his eyes popped open, and his jaw lagged a bit, before he snapped it shut again.
"Well," he asked. "How does that make you feel?"
"I don't know," I said. I looked down at my phone, wondering if I should call my mother back and say more, or ask more. But what would I say? What questions did I have that she could answer? If I knew the right words, or the right questions, I didn't trust myself to say them the right way. If I called back, even if I needed to call back, we would fight. I felt certain that was true. Then, I stopped eating, and despite my own internal protests, began to cry.
"Kel," I sobbed. "I really don't know how I feel." I sat on the stool, gulping air, and swiping at my tears. My boyfriend watched me, sat patiently beside me, and when I lowered one of my hands into my lap, he covered it with his own.
I felt like I knew my father, and I knew he felt like he knew me too. In reality, we'd spent the majority of both our lifetimes mentally constructing versions of one another we couldn't physically confirm or deny the existence of. We dreamed of one another—what we might be like—long before we met. My uncle Clarence, my father's closest brother, used to stare at me when we were in the same room. Sometimes I caught him. "You gotta excuse me," he'd smile. A smile that felt familiar and safe from the beginning. "You look just like my brother, but smaller and with pigtails." Then he'd hug me, and we'd laugh to keep the sadness away. I always wished he'd say more about the little brother he loved, the man who left me with his face, and little else. He rarely did. I didn't see Uncle Clarence that often. I kept wishing anyway.
The few times I visited my father, though pleasant, bowed under the weight of our expectations. We were happy to see one another, but we could not always say the thing we wanted to say most and risk spoiling the other's dream. We never discussed them, yet somehow agreed on these terms. An unspoken pact between an emotionally desperate father and daughter. Made up contracts for a shoestring bond.
"That's okay, baby," my father would say, when I tried to apologize on the phone for not writing. "You write me when you want to. I'll be waiting patiently, and happily."
He kept writing. He wrote that I was his favorite girl, I was brilliant, and I was the best daughter anyone could ever hope for. For a long time, that was all I needed. Until, of course, I needed more.
My oldest memory is of my younger brother, R.C., eating a smashed overripe tomato. I remember the way he grabbed at the pulpy red flesh, and the way he could only hold it one way: as tightly as he possibly could. This is normal for small children who have not yet mastered their motor skills. There is no difference between holding and squeezing. They don't know any better. He didn't know any better, and neither did I. Of course, the guts of the fruit broke free into the spaces between his small fingers, and made a mess on the white tray top surrounding him. By the time he opened his hand to take a bite, there were only cold strings of bright skin and small white seeds.
My brother was too young to walk, but I wasn't. It was I who rooted around in the bottom of the refrigerator, found the food, and attempted to slice it for him with a butter knife. He'd been crying in his walker, the little wheels scooting back and forth across the floor as he flung himself from side to side. My mother slept so hard his wails didn't stir her. I didn't want her to wake up. I wanted her to sleep, and I wanted to help. My brother and I were fourteen months apart in age, so I must have been around three years old. I don't remember a time before him. I was supposed to have been a miracle baby for my mother. She'd had an ovary removed as a teenager, and her doctor told her the other one didn't work. It worked enough for me apparently. Then R.C. came along, and I was not a miracle anymore. I was a big sister, and to me, that was better. I loved him too much right from the beginning.
I saw my mother go to feed him each time he cried, so I thought food would make him happy. He was my best friend. I would take care of him. I rubbed his head and whispered, "Don't cry, baby. Don't cry."
When I was in college, one of my therapists at the on-campus counseling center told me I shouldn't remember any of this because I was too young. He told me most people don't have memories of themselves or their experiences at two and three years old. He asked me when I started speaking. I told him that I could speak in sentences before I could walk, a fact I'd been reminded of by my grandmother every chance she got.
"You couldn't walk straight for nothing. We called you Stagger Lee!" She'd say, laughter ripping through her entire body, infecting anyone else in the room, even me, often at my own expense. "But you'd point at something you wanted and say, 'I want that!' I thought, what kind of child is this?" She'd shake her head, recreating the same confused look she'd apparently worn all those years ago.
I told him my grandmother had a tendency to oversell my childhood intellect, so I couldn't be sure if it was accurate information. He wrote it down on his notepad, and I continued to tell him my stories, or what I remembered of them. My earliest memories are sunburnt Polaroids, frozen moments gone blurry at the edges and spotted all down the middle. Then, at four, the pictures become clearer and clearer, as do the voices within them. The loudest voice belongs to my brother, before he could properly pronounce my name, calling for me.
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"Ford's wrenchingly brilliant memoir is truly a classic in the making. The writing is so richly observed and so suffused with love and yearning that I kept forgetting to breathe while reading it." —John Green, #1 New York Times bestselling author
One of the most prominent voices of her generation debuts with an extraordinarily powerful memoir: the story of a childhood defined by the looming absence of her incarcerated father.
Through poverty, adolescence, and a fraught relationship with her mother, Ashley C. Ford wishes she could turn to her father for hope and encouragement. There are just a few problems: he's in prison, and she doesn't know what he did to end up there. She doesn't know how to deal with the incessant worries that keep her up at night, or how to handle the changes in her body that draw unwanted attention from men. In her search for unconditional love, Ashley begins dating a boy her mother hates. When the relationship turns sour, he assaults her. Still reeling from the rape, which she keeps secret from her family, Ashley desperately searches for meaning in the chaos. Then, her grandmother reveals the truth about her father's incarceration . . . and Ashley's entire world is turned upside down.
Somebody's Daughter steps into the world of growing up a poor Black girl in Indiana with a family fragmented by incarceration, exploring how isolating and complex such a childhood can be. As Ashley battles her body and her environment, she embarks on a powerful journey to find the threads between who she is and what she was born into, and the complicated familial love that often binds them.
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"Somebody's Daughter is the heart-wrenching yet equally witty and wondrous story of how Ford came through the fire and emerged triumphant, as her own unapologetic, Black-girl self." —The New York Times
"Somebody's Daughter stands out as one of the BEST memoirs of 2021." —BookRiot
"A master class on how to love your family and still live with individuality and freedom. Her story is particular to her, but it's also about every single one of us. I mean, it helped me to lead myself toward breaking old familial patterns and creating new ones, truly, because the way she talks about her family and the way that she talks about the boundaries she creates is just stunning." —Abby Wambach on NPR's Morning Edition, "Soccer Star Abby Wambach Recommends 3 Reads On Sports And Leadership"
"Perhaps the greatest contribution Ford makes is to offer her story — written in the most lively and lucid prose — in its most raw and unabridged form...By telling her truth so honestly and authentically, Ford invites us to tell ours, too." —The Washington Post
"Somebody's Daughter will leave readers gasping for air." —Natachi Onwuamaegbu, The Boston Globe
"Ford's vulnerability on the page is an extraordinary feat, as she masterfully traces how the yearning girl she once was became the empowered woman she is today." —Esquire
"Ford executes her task with both unstinting honesty and rare tenderness toward the deeply flawed, but steadfast, circle of adults who raised her. The resulting portraits, of her mother and grandmother, in particular, are remarkably vivid and humane, haunting the reader long after one has closed the book's pages..." —LA Review of Books
"Sure to be one of the best memoirs of 2021." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review
"Gorgeous, profoundly moving, and historically important — by a terrific writer." —Min Jin Lee, author of the New York Times bestseller and National Book Award Finalist Pachinko
"Armed with the insight and lessons from her youth, the author emerged as a bright young college student who learned to love herself for who she was and who she has yet to become." —The New York Journal Review of Books
"With a lucidity that is almost a superpower, [Ford] transports us into her singular experience of growing up poor and Black and female in Fort Wayne, Ind." —People magazine, Book of the Week
"This exquisite, honest memoir will resound widely." —BookMarks
"A thoughtful debut. Ford writes with a flush and sophisticated pen. But the heartbeat of Ford's firstborn is her ability to pinpoint critical moments on her self-discovering journey, and, like Baldwin and Abdurraqib, find respectable ways to perform and not drown in her suffering." —USA Today
"A radiant coming-of-age memoir." —Oprah Daily
"Rather than reduce these painful memories to a reflective interpretation, Ford lifts the language into a shimmering lyric register that is polyphonic... Her understanding that the ones we love are imperfect crafts a shining star for the reader to follow." —San Francisco Chronicle
"This remarkable, heart-wrenching story of loss, hardship, and self-acceptance astounds." —Publishers Weekly, starred review
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The focus for this discussion is the hospital as a corporate institution and its liability for injuries caused a patient or visitor. The fundamental question is: What legal duties does the hospital and its personnel owe the patient or the visitor? To attempt an answer to this question one must first have an understanding of the role and nature of a hospital in modern society.


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Carcassonne – The Classic Tile-Laying Board Game Gets a New Look
February 27, 2015 Tina G. McDuffie Leave a comment
Carcassonne 2.0 – The New Edition
The tile-placement game Carcassonne is a classic designer game, ranking right up there with Catan and Ticket to Ride. It's accessible, easy to learn and teach, and plays in 30 minutes to an hour. Now, nearly 15 years after its original release, it's got a new look, though the game play remains the same. Let's take a closer look at this updated classic.
Carcassonne – the original version
Carcassonne is the game that started the whole meeple phenomenon. A meeple, the plural is meeples, is a small wooden person-shaped figure used as a player's token in a board game. The term "meeple," was first coined in November 2000 by Alison Hansel during a game of Carcassonne when she fused "my" and "people" to describe the wooden figures players use in the game.
Carcassonne meeples
Play is simple: draw a landscape tile and place it, then optionally place a meeple. When you place a meeple on a road, he becomes a robber and scores you 1 point per tile of the road when the road is finished. Place a meeple in a city and he's a knight scoring you 2 points per tile when the city is completed. Place a meeple on a cloister and he becomes a monk, scoring 9 points for you when the cloister is complete: surrounded by 8 tiles, 4 sides and 4 diagonals. After scoring a completed feature, you get your meeple back and can use it again in a later turn.
You can also lay a meeple flat in a field as a farmer. Farmers score only at the end of the game, yielding 3 points per completed city served (touched) by the farm. Roads, rivers, and city walls mark the boundaries of the various farms in the completed landscape. You need to deploy farmers sparingly because unlike other meeple placements, farmers do not return to your supply: they're tied up until the end of the game.
Carcassonne New Edition – meeple placement
There are two more simple rules about meeple placement in Carcassonne:
You can only place a meeple, Carcassonne calls them "followers", on the tile you just placed.
You can't place a meeple on an already occupied feature.
So, if you can trace a line along the road you wanted to place your meeple on to another meeple, yours or another player's, then you cannot place a meeple on that road. The same is true for cities and farms. You can, however, maneuver your way into an already growing city, farm or road, by placing a tile and a meeple on a feature that isn't yet connected, but could be later. Of course, it's possible that your new feature may get separated rather than connected to the large one you're trying to horn in on.
Carcassonne 2.0 score board
When a feature containing two or more meeples is completed, the player with the majority of meeples on the feature earns all of the points. If there's a tie for majority, then all tied players receive the full points. Players' scores are tracked on the handy score board provided using one of each player's meeples.
The new edition of Carcassonne, nicknamed Carcassonne 2.0, features beautiful new cover art by Chris Quilliams and newly designed tiles and scoreboard by Anne Pätzke. No worries if you already have the original game and/or lots of expansions as the back of the tiles remains the same. The new Carcassonne edition is fully compatible with previously released expansions. Carcassonne New Edition also includes two mini expansions: The River and the new Abbot expansion.
The Carcassonne base game supports 2 to 5 players, ages 8 and up. You can add a sixth player with the Inns & Cathedrals expansion. Play time is about 60 minutes. Figure a little longer for each expansion you add.
Carcassonne's numerous expansions, standard and mini, add endless variety and new challenges to the game. Each provides new landscape tiles and enhancements. They can be mixed and matched as desired. We typically combine Inns & Cathedrals and Traders & Builders with the base set as our standard base game, then add another expansion or a few mini expansions to spice it up.
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A taxing question by Jeremy Beadles of the WSTA
To use football parlance - it was a game of two halves last week.
On Tuesday, I was able to welcome a revised European Union strategy to support member states in reducing alcohol-related harm, which recognised that alcohol taxation was not the most effective way of reducing alcohol misuse. However, by Friday the subject had been reintroduced by Patricia Hewitt MP, the Secretary of State for Health, who had decided to give an exclusive story to a group of young children interviewing her for a children's newspaper.
It was nice, for once, that when a European strategy document was launched it did not realise all our worst fears. In fact, many of the industry's key concerns have been taken on board during the internal consultation process.
The Strategy to Reduce Alcohol-Related Harm recognises that member states have the main responsibility for alcohol policy and does not propose any new harmonised legislation.
The European Commission sees its primary roles as coordinating and disseminating good practice across the EU and it will be setting up an Alcohol and Health Forum, bringing together experts from stakeholder organisations and representatives from member states, other EU institutions and agencies to provide input for and to monitor implementation of the strategy.
We are pleased the EC has recognised that the issue is not alcohol itself but addressing misuse and harmful drinking behaviour by consumers, and that there are different cultural habits related to consumption in the various member states. We are particularly pleased that there are no specific plans related to taxation or product labelling and that the EC recognises the importance of joint industry/government work at a national level. Officials in DG Sanco, the EU Health and Consumer Protection Directorate General, have obviously listened to our concerns in these areas.
The EC does not intend to implement the strategy through specific legislative proposals, but by encouraging member states to take action at a local level on a number of alcohol-related themes, including young people and children, road accidents and the impact of alcohol misuse on the workplace.
The communication also reflects the efforts of the trade to improve consumer education on all aspects of alcohol. The Wine & Spirit Trade Association is at the forefront of this agenda.
However, it is important to recognise that this debate is not over. Many non-governmental organisations have voiced their disappointment at the lack of legal and fiscal intervention. Now the EC has had its say it will soon be time for the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers to get involved, and we can expect taxation, bans on advertising and promotion, and labelling requirements to make appearances during the process.
The issue of taxation was raised on Friday when I was asked to comment on Patricia Hewitt's call for a tax increase on alcohol to curb binge drinking in the UK. It was obviously a slow news day because the story was picked up by the newspapers, TV and radio. My first reaction was surprise that an announcement of this nature had been given as a scoop' by the Secretary of State to a group of 7- to12-year-olds. The Government and the alcohol drinks industry have been working closely on a range of issues aimed at tackling alcohol misuse, including the Drinkaware Trust, Challenge 21 campaign and the Know Your Limits campaign, and increasing levels of taxation has not been mentioned at any point.
I was reassured by the Treasury's initial statement tax is a matter for the Chancellor'. I was even more reassured by its later statement which explained that tax on RTDs and spirits are linked and therefore to increase tax on RTDs by 10p would translate into a duty increase of 1.70 for most spirits, and to unravel the current taxation structure to allow RTDs to be taxed more heavily than spirits would take at least two years.
When debates like this are being played out on television some of the important points are often missed. The industry recognises that there is a cultural problem with alcohol misuse in this country but we do not believe that taxation is an effective route for tackling it.
A lot of the evidence suggests harmful drinking behaviours are still prominent in countries with the highest levels of alcohol taxation. The Scandinavian countries have very high taxes but they still have serious problems with alcohol misuse, home brewing and distilling, and legal and illegal importation of alcohol from abroad.
The UK already has high alcohol tax rates compared to other countries, and there is no evidence to suggest that targetting one particular product category over another will have any impact on overall consumption or harmful patterns of consumption.
It is to be hoped that the First News scoop Health Minister targets young binge drinkers with secret alcohol plan' does not reflect a change in government policy. But you can be sure we will be asking for a copy of the secret plan.
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Q: How to find position of missing values in a vector What features does the R language have to find missing values in dataframe or at least, how to know that the dataframe has missing values?

A: x = matrix(rep(c(NA, 1,NA), 3), ncol=3, nrow=3)
print(x)
     [,1] [,2] [,3]
[1,]   NA   NA   NA
[2,]    1    1    1
[3,]   NA   NA   NA

matrix of boolean values: is the value NA
is.na(x)
      [,1]  [,2]  [,3]
[1,]  TRUE  TRUE  TRUE
[2,] FALSE FALSE FALSE
[3,]  TRUE  TRUE  TRUE

indices of NA values:
which(is.na(x), arr.ind = T)
     row col
[1,]   1   1
[2,]   3   1
[3,]   1   2
[4,]   3   2
[5,]   1   3
[6,]   3   3

see if the matrix has any missing values:
any(is.na(x))
TRUE

A: It's hard to tell based on the example you've given, more details on the structure of "data" would be helpful, but, if you simply want to exclude any observation (row) of your data that has a missing value anywhere in it, try:
cleanDat <- na.omit(data)

Note, there is a nice tutorial on missing data which is where I looked to confirm I had this right.

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So glad we have him to tell us what we have to and don't have to believe. Meet the author of Selective Scripture: My life on the theological cafeteria plan.
December has apparently proven to be an interesting month for the Rev. Andy Stanley, son of a former president of the Southern Baptist Convention and lead pastor of North Point Community Church in Alpharetta — one of the largest congregations in the country.
Though it is only now breaking in to the open, the Baptist world has been rocked by a Dec. 4 sermon in which the son of famed TV evangelist Charles Stanley discounted the importance of believing in the virgin birth of Jesus.
The rest of the pathetic piece here.
He's too smart to call a moron. Wait. I know. Heretic.
he renders all the prophets false. Pope Andy should remember that false prophets were stoned. He might have been stoned when he spewed this heresy, but that's a different post. In fact, that is probably the most charitable assumption that could be made in Pope Andy's favor.
C.S. Lewis once presented a trichotomy: "Jesus could not just be a good man. He was either a liar, a lunatic, or [exactly who he said he was] Lord." Pope Andy makes Christ one of the first two.
Yesterday, January 1st, was the Solemnity of Mary, the Mother of God. Pope Andy makes the Mother of God, just mom. Her humility, her obedience, her example: no big whoop to Pope Andy.
Since he makes our Lord, just an ordinary guy, Pope Andy has more in common with the pseudo religion of Islam than he does with Christianity. Islam is a political system; Pope Andy is a multi-millionaire charlatan.
It may be 2017, but I'm kinda missing 1017, when heretics were more . . . expeditiously dealt with.


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Q: How can I report a percentage of the total count in the detail of a crystal report? I'm trying to get the total count of employee ids so that I can use it as the basis for a percentage in my report.  I'd like my report to look like this:
Types                 With Email
Customer    20%       15%
Vendor      40%       80%
Employees   40%       75%
Total People: 100

In my view I have the employee id, type and email address.  I can get the count and the first percentage (percentage of customers, vendors and employees).  What I'm have trouble with is the percentage of customers or vendors with email address.  I've tried using formula fields and summaries, but haven't gotten too far with them.  Can anyone point me in a direction?

A: Create a formula to calculate email-address presence:
//{@has_email}
If Isnull({employee.email}) Then
  0
Else
 1

It doesn't need to be added to the canvas.
Create a formula to calculate the % total:
//{@email %}

// summarize number of email address for a given type
Local Numbervar Total := Sum({@has_email}, {employee.type});

If Total <> 0 Then
  Total / Count({employee.id}, {employee.type}) * 100

Add to group header or footer and format with %.


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Coffee Helps Teams Work Together
· June 5, 2018
Summary: Caffeine has surprising effects when it comes to team work, researchers say. A new study reveals people who drank coffee gave more positive reviews about group task performance and were more on topic than those who drank decaf.
Source: Ohio State University.
Good teamwork begins with a cup of coffee for everyone, a new study suggests.
Researchers found that people gave more positive reviews for their group's performance on a task – and their own contribution – if they drank caffeinated coffee beforehand.
A second study showed that people talked more in a group setting under the influence of caffeinated coffee – but they also were more on-topic than those who drank decaf.
Coffee seems to work its magic in teams by making people more alert, said Amit Singh, co-author of the study and a doctoral student in marketing at The Ohio State University's Fisher College of Business.
"We found that increased alertness was what led to the positive results for team performance," Singh said.
"Not surprisingly, people who drank caffeinated coffee tended to be more alert."
Singh conducted the study with Vasu Unnava and H. Rao Unnava, both formerly at Ohio State and now with the Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Davis. The study appears online in the Journal of Psychopharmacology.
While many studies have looked at how caffeine affects individual performance, this is the first to examine the impact it has on teams, Singh said.
The first study involved 72 undergraduate students who said they were coffee drinkers. They were instructed not to drink coffee before the experiment.
Half of them first participated in what they were told was a coffee-tasting task. They were split into groups of five. After drinking a cup of coffee and rating its flavor, they were given 30 minutes of filler tasks to give the caffeine a chance to kick in. The other half of the participants did the coffee tasting at the end of the experiment.
Each group then read about and were asked to discuss a controversial topic – the Occupy movement, a liberal movement that highlighted social and economic inequality. After a 15-minute discussion, group members evaluated themselves and the other group members.
Results showed that those who drank the coffee before the discussion rated themselves and their fellow team members more positively than did those who drank coffee after the discussion, Singh said.
The second study was similar, except that 61 students all drank coffee at the beginning of the study. However, half drank decaf and the others drank caffeinated brew.
Those who drank caffeinated coffee rated themselves and their fellow group members more positively than those who drank decaf.
It had to do with alertness.
All participants rated how alert they felt at the end of the study, and those who drank the caffeinated coffee rated themselves as more alert than the others.
A key finding was that people who rated themselves as more alert – whether they drank caffeinated coffee or not – also tended to give higher marks to themselves and their fellow group members.
This suggests that any intervention that increases alertness (such as exercise) may also produce similar results, which the authors propose in the paper as a future research topic.
"We suspect that when people are more alert they see themselves and the other group members contributing more, and that gives them a more positive attitude," Singh said.
But the caffeine does more than just increase good feelings. The researchers did an analysis of the group discussion in the second study, rating how much each group member talked and stayed on topic.
Results showed that people tended to talk more after drinking caffeine, but they also tended to stay more on topic.
While many studies have looked at how caffeine affects individual performance, this is the first to examine the impact it has on teams, Singh said. NeuroscienceNews.com image is in the public domain.
"They're talking about more relevant things after drinking caffeinated coffee," he said.
One might think that if people are talking more about a controversial topic like the Occupy movement, that may cause friction in the group. But that's not what the study suggests.
People who drank caffeinated coffee were more likely than those who drank decaf to say they would be willing to work with their group again.
"Even though they are talking more, agreeing and disagreeing, they still want to work with them again," Singh said.
"Coffee didn't seem to make group discussions too uncomfortable and disagreeable."
Source: Amit Singh – Ohio State University
Publisher: Organized by NeuroscienceNews.com.
Image Source: NeuroscienceNews.com image is in the public domain.
Original Research: Abstract for "Coffee with co-workers: role of caffeine on evaluations of the self and others in group settings" by Vasu Unnava, Amit Surendra Singh, and H. Rao Unnava in Journal of Psychopharmacology. Published April 5 2018.
doi:10.1177/0269881118760665
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Coffee with co-workers: role of caffeine on evaluations of the self and others in group settings
This research explores the effect of consuming a moderate amount of commercially available caffeinated coffee on an individual's self-evaluated participation in a group activity and subsequent evaluations of the experience. Across two studies, results show that consuming a moderate amount of caffeinated coffee prior to indulging in a group activity enhances an individual's task-relevant participation in the group activity. In addition, subjective evaluations of the participation of other group members and oneself are also positively influenced. Finally, the positive impact of consuming a moderate amount of caffeinated coffee on the evaluation of participation of other group members and oneself is moderated by a sense of an increased level of alertness.
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Whitney Waldroup says:
It makes since that caffeine aides in effective teamwork. It is known that the chemical caffeine is most clearly shown to improve memory without unacceptable side effects. Because caffeine is a stimulant, when someone takes it before or close to the time of the task, learning can improve and the storage of memory increases because of an increase in arousal. When each person in a group experiences an increase in productivity, then the productivity of the whole group increases. When the brain is stimulated it causes individuals to be more alert therefore, you see them contributing more and that would increase the group's productivity. The article also stated that people who drank the caffeinated coffee had better attitudes. The fact that individuals had more positive attitudes could be a result of high productivity within the group and the fact that things are being accomplished.


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Washington, D.C. (Dulles) to/from Orlando, FL
Tickets must be purchased by 11:59 pm Eastern time on May 13, 2019 for nonstop domestic travel Tuesdays, Wednesday, and Saturdays May 18, 2019 through Jun. 19, 2019. The following blackout date applies: May 25, and 28, 2019.
The 75% discount applies to base fare only, not to fees or taxes, and requires purchase at FlyFrontier.com using promo code SAVE75. Promo code must be applied directly by customer on flyfrontier.com or requested of a Frontier Airlines Reservation Agent. Use of promo codes by third parties is expressly prohibited. All fare rules will apply. Certain flights and/or days of travel may be unavailable.
Fare(s) shown includes all transportation fees, surcharges and taxes, and are subject to change without notice.
Tickets purchased at FlyFrontier.com must be paid for at the time the reservation is made, you may request a full refund up to 24 hours after the time of purchase, if the purchase is made 7 days (168 hours) or more prior to your flight's departure. After the 24 hour period, for non-refundable tickets, a fee of up to $119 per passenger will be charged. The value of the cancelled ticket may be applied toward the purchase of a future ticket for 90 days after cancellation. The ticket may be canceled and refunded at the My Trips section on FlyFrontier.com.
Previously purchased tickets may not be exchanged for special fare tickets. Flight segments must be cancelled prior to scheduled departure time or the tickets (s) and all monies will be forfeited.
Additional travel services, such as baggage (https://www.flyfrontier.com/travel-information/baggage/) and advance seat assignments (https://www.flyfrontier.com/travel-information/seating-options/) are available for purchase separately at an additional charge. Fares include all transportation fees, surcharges and taxes, and are subject to change without notice. Some markets do not offer daily service. Schedules are subject to change without notice. Unless otherwise indicated, all flights are operated by Frontier Airlines. Other restrictions may apply.