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Posted on Monday 9 March 2020
Glaucoma patient Demola Oduyemi with consultant opthalmologist Saurabh Goyal
A man with aggressive glaucoma whose father and grandfather both went blind from the condition is urging others to check their sight.
Demola Oduyemi, from Sutton, was diagnosed with glaucoma aged 26 and has retained his sight thanks to years of treatment at St Thomas' Hospital.
This Sunday (8 March) marks the beginning of Glaucoma Awareness Week and Demola is encouraging other people, especially those who have family with the condition, to get their eyes checked regularly.
Glaucoma is the leading cause of irreversible and preventable sight loss in the world and affects around half a million people in England. It runs in families and is more prevalent in Afro-Caribbean communities.
It usually occurs when fluid in the eye cannot drain properly and increases pressure inside the eye, putting pressure on the optic nerve, which is responsible for sight. If it is not diagnosed and treated early it can lead to blindness. While some patients develop symptoms including blurred vision in the late stage of the disease, many patients have no symptoms at all and the condition is only detected through regular eye checks by optometrists.
Demola, who works in customer services and is in his mid-40s, was diagnosed in Nigeria after his father's sight had been affected.
He said: "My father went blind with glaucoma, as did my paternal grandfather and my mother also had it, although she wasn't blind. My father's doctor told him to get all his children tested for it – I was the only one who had it.
"I had surgery in Nigeria in one eye, which worked for a while, but after two years it started to scar over. After moving to the UK I came to London and I have been very fortunate to be a patient at St Thomas' for the past 18 years. The care I have received is nothing short of excellent. I have had lots of treatments, from eye drops, laser and surgery in both eyes.
"My glaucoma is very aggressive – if I had not been diagnosed as early as I was, I would have lost my sight without question. My sight is fine now, and although the road has been bumpy, I can still carry out everyday tasks without hindrance."
Demola urges everyone to be tested regularly before it is too late. He added: "Glaucoma is a silent sight-taker, silently creeping up on people, damaging the eye and causing vision loss. Lots of people who have the condition might not have any symptoms, and the first they know is losing some or all vision. Remember, vision can be maintained and lost vision cannot be restored."
Mr Saurabh Goyal, consultant ophthalmic surgeon at Guy's and St Thomas', said: "Most of the patients with glaucoma treated at St Thomas' are Afro-Caribbean, which is likely to be due to a genetic predisposition. Glaucoma can occur 10 years earlier in this group of patients compared with the general population, so we often see people in their 20s and 30s with glaucoma who may not be aware that they can be affected by the condition as it's usually associated with older people.
"Our research team led by Mr Sheng Lim has special interest in studying newer treatments for glaucoma in Afro-Caribbean patients, as their glaucoma is more aggressive and difficult to treat.
"Anyone with a family history of glaucoma should have their eyes tested by optometrists every one to two years, even if their vision is not affected. If the condition is detected early there are many treatments available, including eye drops, laser and surgical options.
"Being able to save the sight of patients like Demola is incredibly rewarding for me and the rest of the glaucoma team at St Thomas'. In the vast majority of cases, glaucoma-related blindness is preventable with early detection and effective management."
Currently you are entitled to free testing for glaucoma with standard sight tests by optometrists if you are over 40 and have a family history of glaucoma or if you have been told by an ophthalmologist that you are at risk of glaucoma.


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When you configure a particular service to run on a particular server, if the server you chose isn't the local server, SharePoint registers a timer job (an instance of SPServiceInstanceJobDefinition, to be exact) that has a singular purpose - to deserialize the SPServiceInstance that represents the service being provisioned from the database, and to call either Provision() or Unprovision() on it, depending on the case at hand.
The SPServiceInstanceJobDefinition is a specialization of SPAdministrationServiceJobDefinition - that is to say, it derives from the SPAdministrationServiceJobDefinition class - and so the SharePoint Administration Service (SPAdminV4) executes this job definition, not the SharePoint Timer Service (SPTimerV4). UPDATE: A timer job that inherits from SPAdministrationServiceJobDefinition will execute within the Timer service (SPTimerV4), but won't fire if the SPAdminV4 service isn't running.
In SharePoint 2007 you could force pending administration service timer jobs to execute by running stsadm -o execadmsvcjobs. In 2010, this stsadm operation will first check to see if the SPAdminV4 service is running; if it is, you'll get a nice little message that tells you, "The service is running, so we'll just let the service take care of executing that job." But what if you really *want* control over when the job fires - for instance, you want it to fire all jobs right now?
The answer is to disable the SPAdminV4 service - a simple net stop SPAdminV4 from a command prompt will do - and *then* run stsadm -o execadmsvcjobs. You'll see your scheduled timer jobs fire off at once. Nice, if you ever find yourself sitting around in a dev environment/lab, waiting for some service to provision when, unknown to you, it wasn't scheduled to run until tommorow at 3:00AM because of some time synchronization wonkiness happening across your VMs.


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Canadian Prime Minister Pays Tearful Tribute to Tragically Hip Singer
How Tom Petty heard the news of John Lennon's death
The four 80s songs that Billy Idol listed as his favorites
Foo Fighters releases trailer for their horror/comedy movie "Studio 666"
Gord Downie, lead singer of the Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip, died Tuesday night at the age of 53, following a battle with brain cancer. While the group's impact in the rest of the world was not enormous, they're a Canadian institution, roughly on a par with Bruce Springsteen in New Jersey or Billy Joel in Long Island.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, 45, is a longtime fan of the band and has frequently praised them over the years, and Downie, in particular, for his philanthropic work. On Wednesday morning, he gave a televised, tearful speech about Downie's death in which he described the singer as "a rock star, artist, and poet whose evocative lyrics came to define a country."
He noted that he found "inspiration and strength" from the singer's charity and social work.
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In number theory, the Teichmüller character ω (at a prime p) is a character of (Z/qZ)×, where  if  is odd and  if , taking values in the roots of unity of the p-adic integers. It was introduced by Oswald Teichmüller. Identifying the roots of unity in the p-adic integers with the corresponding ones in the complex numbers, ω can be considered as a usual Dirichlet character of conductor q. More generally, given a complete discrete valuation ring O whose residue field k is perfect of characteristic p, there is a unique multiplicative section  of the natural surjection . The image of an element under this map is called its Teichmüller representative. The restriction of ω to k× is called the Teichmüller character.

Definition

If x is a p-adic integer, then  is the unique solution of  that is congruent to x mod p. It can also be defined by

The multiplicative group of p-adic units is a product of the finite group of roots of unity and a group isomorphic to the p-adic integers. The finite group is cyclic of order p – 1 or 2, as p is odd or even, respectively, and so it is  isomorphic to (Z/qZ)×. The Teichmüller character gives a canonical isomorphism between these two groups.

A detailed exposition of the construction of Teichmüller representatives for the p-adic integers, by means of Hensel lifting, is given in the article on Witt vectors, where they provide an important role in providing a ring structure.

See also
Witt vector

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For the first time, I am truly feeling the nearly 8 months pregnant that I am! The relentless heat hasn't helped. But at least I'm managing not to swell up; yay for the little victories! I'm spending my time in water as much as possible which is making the hottest summer ever somewhat bearable. And possibly thanks to all the swimming, baby boy finally finally flipped to head down! More below!
Total Weight Gain: 28 lbs. The gain finally slowed down a bit!
Symptoms: Just feeling huge in general. And I swear I waddle; I don't think I ever waddled with the first two. Back pain is starting to kick in, and I'm still just generally uncomfortable. Which is strange because I was never uncomfortable with Liam, and with Finn, it wasn't until the very end. Regardless, I still absolutely love being pregnant!
Movement: Kane definitely seems to have obvious awake & asleep times now. When he's active, he's all over the place & so so strong. His kicks can hurt!
Position: Head down!!! I had never realized how uncomfortable a transverse baby could be, until I experienced it myself. I thought there would be this big moment when I would feel him flip, but he did it in my sleep just a few nights ago. I was expecting to have a bit more relief, but surprisingly that hasn't been the case. Kane is much higher than my first two, and I'm starting to guess bigger. I think a 10 (11?!) lb baby is going to be my reality, so I'm wrapping my head around that now. We peeked at Kane at my last midwife appointment and got the cutest picture of the bottom of his foot. My midwife commented on the sheer size of it, calling it a bear claw (which has kinda become a nickname for baby in my head ever since). I think some bear claw pastries will be in order the morning of his birthday. Anyways, that big foot doesn't surprise me. Immediately after Finn was born, the comments from the nurses were about how big he was in general (9 lb 10oz) & then especially how big his feet were! So I make big babies, with big feet. Oh Kane... my little Bear (claw).
Nesting: We bought Finn a new bed frame this week, so that we can convert his current one back to a crib. I can't wait to get that setup in our room. I really want to make a special space for baby while we are in this transition time before our new house is finished. I also need to clear out about half my closet, so I have a spot for baby's things. It's all just so exciting!
House Update: Our permits were finally submitted!!! As of now, we are expecting to move in sometime between Thanksgiving & Christmas which is really just terrible timing. At this point, I'm actually hoping for more delays, so that we deal with the big move and selling our house after the holidays are over.
Liam's Thoughts: He's been mentioning how I'll be busy taking care of Finn & Kane (not him, apparently he doesn't need taking care of anymore & does not put himself in the small child category), and how he's going to be extra helpful. He also loves to talk about how we'll all fit in the bed together when Daddy travels; he's willing to give up a spot right next to me, and instead snuggle on the other side of Finn or Kane. Love his heart!
Finn's Thoughts: This boy is pure sweetness! Whenever I climb on the table at midwife appointments to listen to baby's heart beat, he immediately kisses my belly and then my lips. He lays the love on hard! He is his most calm & gentle at these times, which makes me think he just may be the best thing to have around while I'm laboring. I cannot wait to see this sweet side as soon as Kane is here & he gets to be a doting big brother!
My Thoughts: I'm trying to really soak up this pregnancy, as it quite possibly could be my last. But at the same time, I have a hard actually picturing this being the last time. It's kinda a bizarre feeling. Recently, Conor & I revisited some old conversations about whether or not there will be a 4th. And while that decision won't actually be made for a couple years, it's on our mind. So I'm trying to enjoy this pregnancy as my last, but not truly be able to wrap my head around the fact that it may actually be my truth!
Our next appointment with my midwife is for our home visit, eek! Everything seems as though it's happening so quickly now. She'll be bringing lots of supplies with her, so that we will be ready for whenever baby decides to come. Although I am not expecting an early arrival, which means I'm being completely calm about Conor having one more business trip this week. And I'm also feeling good about the fact that my mom won't be flying in until two days before my due date. Liam & Finn were both three days late, so really, I'm banking on that timing again!
You look amazing! So exciting that your making strides towards your house! And are you planning on laboring & birthing at home this time around???
YAY for head down! And please don't stop having babies. They are the cutest.
I'm still just so thrilled that he turned for you. Hooray hooray hooray.
Reading your posts are so calming - you have such a Mama radiance! You look fab too! That's exciting about the house but yes awful timing unfortunately with everything that will be going on - excited to see though! Love the thoughts of the boys section, so darn sweet!
So glad he is head down! And that you are keeping cool this summer! I've spent a lot of time in the water as well. I'm actually going to be in the pool this afternoon, haha! It's a hot summer for sure!
Also, I love hearing your boys' thoughts. So cute!
I have the same feelings about this being the final babe and I may be more at peace than I originally thought! Growing boys seems to be more work lol. Yay for a head down baby!
Oh mama, you look amazing! I am so glad that he flipped.


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An independent agency established by Congress through the National Labor Relations Act that works to prevent unfair labor practices by either employers or labor unions, oversees union elections, and adjudicates claims.
abbrv.
The Essential Law Dictionary. — Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. Amy Hackney Blackwell. 2008.
(NLRB)
An independent agency created by Congress in 1935 to administer the National Labor Relations Act. The NLRB's purposes are to remedy unfair labor practices by unions or employers, and to hold elections to determine whether a particular group of employees wants to be represented by a particular union. NLRB refers both to the agency as a whole and to five members who sit as a court and issue decisions in labor disputes. These decisions can be appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals.
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Nolo's Plain-English Law Dictionary. Gerald N. Hill, Kathleen Thompson Hill. 2009.
National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
A federal agency charged with administering the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), the principal federal law governing union and private employer relations. The NLRB's primary duties are conducting elections to determine union representation of employees and enforcing the NLRA's prohibition on unfair labor practices. The NLRB is empowered to investigate, adjudicate and remedy unfair labor practices.
Claims before the NLRB are adjudicated by individuals appointed by the President and approved by the Senate to sit on the five member Board for a term of five years.
Practical Law Dictionary. Glossary of UK, US and international legal terms. www.practicallaw.com. 2010.
n. A federal labor agency that oversees union elections and other labor issues. Abbreviated NLRB.
Webster's New World Law Dictionary. Susan Ellis Wild. 2000.
A federal agency which prevents and remedies unfair labor practices by employers and labor organizations
an independent regulatory commission created in 1935 by the National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act), with five members appointed by the President subject to confirmation by the Senate. The NLRB is intended to protect employees' rights to unionize, prevent abuses by employers or unions, and oversee union and organizing elections.
Law dictionary. EdwART. 2013.
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Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by arlab, Jan 28, 2008.
still doesn't work, and then I realized I haven't install Rescue and Recovery yet. I hope this was the cause.
Installing RnR solved the problem?
I lost the blue thinkvantage button functionality on bootup when I did a clean install of vista x64.
I should note that for some reason the prompts to press "Retry, Abort, Fail" did NOT appear on my screen. There was a problem displaying the text or something.
But in the end, it worked! I know can boot into R&R.
Big thanks to the op for this - I hope that the boot CD you uploaded to rapidshare stays up.
I ask myself the same question... Weird.
Let's hope Lenovo fixes this problem soon.
Apparently my T61 did not come with the option to reset to factory settings. I was planning on one of the soft reformats and de-selecting all the bloatware, but I don't have that option. Any advice? I got Lenovo to send me a CD which should let me do a reformat.
Can you enter the pre-desktop area by pressing the "thinkvantage" button during bootup?
Yes. It doesn't give me the option to reload factory settings. I may have deleted the Recovery part of Thinkvantage in my efforts to reduce the number of processes, but after reinstalling it, I still can't reset to factory.
is there a Functioning driver for 7970 SLI for my M18xR2?
P670HS-G - Power Jack malfunctioning (motherboard) - or is it the charger?


Universal Soldier 2: Brothers in Arms (1998) - Sci-fi-central.com.
• Canada • 1998 • 92m • • Directed by: Jeff Woolnough. • Starring: Matt Battaglia, Andrew Jackson, Eric Bryson, Kevin Rushton, Desmond Campbell, Michael Copeman, Gary Busey, Burt Reynolds, Richard McMillan, Chandra West, Aron Tager, Barbara Gordon, Carla Collins. • Music by: Ivan Doroschuk, John Kastner, Steve Pecile.
After the terrible events of the original Universal Soldier testings, the budget has been slashed by the government. Under the orders of a CIA director, a gang of mercenaries take control of the new line of Universal Soldiers and try to use them into helping to smuggle diamonds to the highest foreign buyer. When Luc Deveroux, survivor from the first incident, continues to cause problems, his newly found younger brother is taken prisoner along with his news reporter friend Veronica Reynolds.
Matt Battaglia picks up the character of Luc Devereaux where JC Van Damme left off. This again sees him going AWOL but brings in other characters (including his reanimated brother Eric) and has yet more secret Government conspiracy in the shape of Gary Busey and Burt Reynolds.
This "made-for-TV" film is a poor distant relative of the first Universal Soldier. I'm not saying the first one is a great film (it's an OK action movie) but if the first one was the President of the USA then this film would be the equivalent of his white trash, wife-beating drunken brother living in a trailer in Louisiana - it's that embarrassing to compare them.
This fails in every aspect of what should be good in a film. The plot is lazy and relies on coincidence or unlikely events to move it on. A lot of things are either unbelievable or glossed over without explanation. However this is an action movie - so if the action is good then it matters less yeah? Unfortunately the action is poor, there's one explosion and all the fight scenes make WWF look fast and exciting, none of these guys have any moves or speed. The action only has one good touch - where an explosion is set to classical music - however even this is a rip off of John Woo (remember "over the rainbow" in FaceOff?).
The acting is lamentable. Battaglia's wooden performance will make even the hardest critic think that maybe Van Damme isn't that bad an actor after all. Jeff Wincott as brother Eric is not as wooden but still acts like he's being forced to do something he's not comfortable with. Chandra West as reporter Veronica should provide the human element to proceedings but all she is left with is rubbish one-liners and an unrealistic sense of calm. As for Burt Reynolds and Gary Busey.....I could fill a page with my comments on them.
Reynolds spends most of the film in the shadows (I understand why) and delivers a rubbish accent throughout - why does someone who just got a career boost with Boogie Nights (and to a lesser extent Bean) commit to appear in this type of rubbish. Not even once but again in Universal Soldier 3!! It also is sad to see Gary Busey do another low-rent villain in a rubbish film - it's hard to believe that he is very well known and once did some high-profile films. This is yet another flush on the toilet that is his recent career.
The direction is so-so, relying on editing that Homicide: Life on the Street did years ago. Slow-motion, "jumping" edits etc all make the film a little more interesting but really they're stolen from better directors and cannot achieve the impossible feat of saving this.
This is a boring, poorly acted, poorly plotted "action" movie. Please avoid this vacuous piece of twaddle. Oh and if you enjoy this or think that it's good then you deserve a slap.


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Q: How to communicate between Activity and Threads created by other Actvity When you have 2 activities ( A and B ) and A is the MainActivity, now you start your App and A starts B.
B is a activity with a Dialog interacting with the user, creating a Bluetooth Connection and 2 Threads, 1 Receiving and one Sending.
Now, what is the best way to send the Information from A to the threads of B and the other way round?
First I used a static WeakReference, but I heard this causes a lot of problems, so I want to ask for a more common solution.
Please keep in mind, when starting an Activity from another Activity, you can only pass Serializable Objs and simple data. So it is not possible to use a Handler that way.
Here is the static WeakReference I used:
public class T1 extends Thread{
private static WeakReference<T1> weak_T1;

public void T1 (){
weak_T1 = new WeakReference<T1> (This);
}

public static WeakReference getWeakReverence() {
    return weak_T1;
}

}

Here is a way to look for a running Thread in the stack:
for (Thread thread : Thread.getAllStackTraces().keySet()) {
    if (thread.getName().equalsIgnoreCase("T1")){
    T1A =thread;
     }else if (thread.getName().equalsIgnoreCase("T2")){
     T2A =thread;
     }
}

Also possible solution:
public class example extends Thread {
    private static example instance;

  private example() {
  }

  public static example getIsntance(){
    if(instance == null){
      instance = new example();
    }

    return instance;
  }
}

A: A WeakReference probably isn't what you want, here. That is, presuming that your Thread object either does not terminate, or somehow maintains some information useful to Activity A after Activity B has stopped. If you use a WeakReference, it might become "null" as soon as Activity B ends, and the thread terminates. Just use regular old strong references. It'll ensure T1, and the information contains, continues to exist until you're done with it.
public class ActivityB extends Activity
{
    private T1 t1;
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
    {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        t1 = startMyThread();
    }

    @Override
    public void onBackPressed()
    {
        ActivityA.tempT1 = t1;

        //This technique presumes that Activity A is guaranteed to resume after a
        //back button press, based on the arrangement of your backstack, etc. If
        //Activity A is started via some other means (e.g., an explicit startActivity(),
        //finish(), etc.), then this reference will have to be set prior to
        //that call, as well, in order to establish the appropriate "happens before" relationship.
        //If you fail to ensure that Activity A resumes after this point, you will
        //risk a memory leak.

        super.onBackPressed();
    }
}

public class ActivityA extends Activity
{
    public static T1 tempT1 = null;
    private T1 t1;

    @Override
    public void onResume()
    {
        super.onResume();
        if(tempT1 == null)
        {
            //Apparently, Activity B hasn't executed yet. Provide the user with a button to start it.
        }
        else
        {
            t1 = tempT1;
            tempT1 = null;     //To avoid a memory leak

            //We just retrieved the reference that Activity B left for us.
            //Now, change UI states so that the user can see information about t1.
        }
    }
}

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Some of Ariana's fans have misbehaved probably from Ariana's poor talent, and now Selena's ideas are for everyone, I don't think how that's possible. Try making your own and think twice+ VOTE FOR SELENA!!!!Our real Queen!!!!
All the singers have talent!!!
Ariana and Selena are two big, beautiful and fantastic singers.
I dont hate ariana, but i' m a selenators.
I think Selena is so good.
Having the most instagram followers isn't a talent. . . .
Arianators let Arianas talent speak..... Selenators should do the same... Oh wait, Selena have no talent????
PROBABLY selena is comming to WIN !!
I Love you Arianators but Selena didn't do anything for you.
You hate selena it's your opinion nobody asked your opinion arianators. .....there is million reasons why we selenators love selena and she is the most followed person in instagram. .nobody gets such platform without no reason. ...selenators we are together nobody can stop us loving her. ..so let's win this. ..her win means our win. ...go selenators. ..????????????????????????????????????????
If you don't like selena it's your problem.
There is a reason if he has so many fans.
it's pretty much battle between these two.
bt I hope at the end #Selena gonna win this.
Don't scream so much #arianators.you'll gonna lose your voice.At the end the one who deserve iy will win this.
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After a decade long wait—a fourth season of the popular mecha anime Full Metal Panic! (フルメタル·パニック!, abbreviated FMP!) has been announced with the title of Full Metal Panic! Invisible Victory (フルメタル·パニック! Invisible Victory). Crunchyroll reports that the announcement came during a fan event held in Akihabara, Tokyo on the 24th October 2015. In attendance was series creator Shoji Gatoh.
Much speculation followed a mysterious "coming soon" announcement, in Dragon Magazine, in September 2014. Further confirmation was provided, at the time, in a Twitter status by light novel illustrator Shikidouji.
This will be the fourth season of the show; following the original 2002 Full Metal Panic! (Gonzo), the 2003 Full Metal Panic! Fumoffu (Kyoto Animation) and the 2005 Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid (Kyoto Animation).
The series will undoubtedly follow the story from the light novel; which originally ran from September 9, 1998 – August 20, 2011. The story continuation is also portrayed in the manga Full Metal Panic! Σ (Sigma); which originally ran from August 1, 2005 – September 20, 2013.
A release date for the new season has been revealed to be premiering in fall (September, October, November, December) 2017. A revised release date for the new season has been announced at Anime Expo by Shikidouji to be April 2018. According to the official website the specific air date is Friday, 13th April 2018.
The full title has since been announced as Full Metal Panic! Invisible Victory; an expansion of the previous abbreviation IV, which is also the Roman numeral representation for the number four (this being the fourth season).
The animation studio XEBEC will produce the series under direction of Katsuichi Nakayama, and writing and composition of Shoji Gatoh.
Wow this is a surprise! So so so looking forward to this. Wonder when it will be released?
One could surmise a release date from the original ones: 1998 - light novel, 2000 - manga and 2002 - anime. The light novel ended in 2011, the manga ended in 2013 with the anime only since having been announced in 2015. We could then extrapolate a release date to 2017/2018 at the soonest.
It's also still uncertain which studio will produce the anime. The obvious choice, that many fans would agree with, is (Kyoto Animation). Otherwise (Gonzo).
That would be cool. Hope it comes out about then, something to look forward to.
Personally I wouldn't be too upset if Madhouse was chosen to animate it. I liked their work on Hajime no Ippo, Death Note and others.
Indy wrote: Personally I wouldn't be too upset if Madhouse was chosen to animate it. I liked their work on Hajime no Ippo, Death Note and others.
Agreed. I personally thought they (Madhouse) did a great job on One-Punch Man, which ended recently, particularly capturing the loose hand-drawn feel of the manga at times.
So it's been revealed that the animation production will be handled by XEBEC, who are probably best known for producing the series Love Hina.


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The Work of the Institute
The Tseu Medical Institute at Harris Manchester College is a foundation for embracing medical care, research and practice worldwide. Its aim is to foster links with emerging centres of medical expertise and embracing links with established research centres.
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As a specialist college for mature students, Harris Manchester takes students for the Graduate Entry Medicine [LINK TO PAGE?] programme, with approximately 10 on course at any one time. In addition, the College has graduate students undertaking masters and doctoral programmes in a range of medical sciences subjects, including a substantial cohort on the MSc in Evidence-Based Healthcare.
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Many notable historic features of national and state significance found along the planned route of the Pennsylvania Highlands Trail Network (PHTN) illustrate how humans have settled this rich region over the past 12,000 years.
Pennsylvania Highlands history revolves around the four major rivers in the region: The Delaware River and its two largest tributaries: the Lehigh and Schuylkill Rivers; and the Susquehanna River.
The easternmost portion of the trail begins at the Delaware River – a designated National Wild and Scenic River– in Riegelsville Borough, which is a listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The PHTN follows the D&L Trail, a National Heritage Corridor, through Delaware Canal State Park – a National Landmark. Following the trail north from Riegelsville leads to the historic cities of Easton and Bethlehem where the D&L Trail is adjacent to the Lehigh River and Canal. Both cities feature numerous noteworthy historic structures and sites. In particular, the Central Bethlehem National Historic District is historically significant for its Moravian cultural heritage and the south side of Bethlehem was the site of iron and steel making operations that were the heart of the American Industrial Revolution.
The historic feature that shines in this part of the Pennsylvania Highlands is the Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor. The D&L Trail follows the towpath of the Delaware Canal and the Lehigh Canal for most of its 165 mile length. The importance of this and other early canal systems is beautifully interpreted at the National Canal Museum, which is located in Hugh Moore Park in the City of Easton.
The Pennsylvania Highlands Trail Network (PHTN) is envisioned to travel through the historic towns and woods of Bucks and Montgomery Counties to reach the Perkiomen Trail, which passes by Mill Grove, the former home of John James Audubon. As it crosses the Schuylkill River near Valley Forge, the trail then follows the river upstream for 25 miles on the Schuylkill River Trail before climbing out of the valley to the Hopewell Big Woods region near the boundary of Berks and Chester Counties. The proposed trail route connects with the Horse-Shoe Trail near Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site, which showcases an early American Iron Plantation. Continuing with an iron theme that expands across the entire 13-county region, the PHTN is envisioned to co-align with the Lebanon Valley Rail Trail, which passes near Cornwall Iron Furnace National Historic District. The PHTN passes through the Susquehanna Gateway Heritage Area with its numerous historic towns along the big river and co-aligns the Mason Dixon Trail at Wrightsville. Further south the PHTN runs through the South Mountain Conservation Landscape, passing through Pine Grove Furnace State Park, site of yet another historic iron making community.


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Q: Is there a limit on email size? Is there a limit in the protocols email uses in regards to the size of an email?
I am wondering about collective limits on body and attachments as well as individual limits on either attachment or body.

A: The size limit is not set by the IMAP or POP protocols but by the individual SMTP servers. And the limit is variable from server to server (you don't even have to specify a limit at all).


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Flop Sweat On 2021 BMW M4? 289 Sitting At Dealers Right Now
by Thom Taylor facebook | More Articles: Coupes
In 2000 people were on waiting lists to get the BMW E46 M3. Then, in 2013 the F80 created a buzz after great reviews and again, there were waiting lists for potential buyers. But so far, the M4 is different. From our research in the Los Angeles area, most BMW dealers have plenty of 2021 M4 coupes-some have six or more. Is this flop sweat? Has the humorous beaver fang grille really tanked the legendary M4?
Crevier BMW in Santa Ana, California, lists 47 on the lot or "in-transit"
2021 BMW M4 inventory at Crevier BMW, Santa Ana, California
The most astounding search was of our local Crevier BMW in Santa Ana, California. Their website lists 47 either on the lot or "in-transit." After our local search, we ventured out to other states. Most dealers had two or more each. Houston has four; Omaha, Nebraska, has two; Morristown, New Jersey, has two; and so on. The inventory of 2021 M4s looks to be full. Let's look at the forums.
The i4Talk forum has a discussion going over the same thing-lots full of 2021 M4s. One poster talked to his local dealer who gave four reasons why he has seen no interest in the M4s he has on the lot. His reasons are because of Tesla, the beaver tooth grille, the price, and the grille.
Nation-wide BMW inventories show 289 listings for 2021 M4 coupes
2021 BMW M4 inventory 3-15-21
Another who has access to nation-wide inventories sees 289 listings for 2021 M4 coupes. One of the largest BMW dealerships in North America is located in San Antonio, Texas. It currently has an inventory of nine M4s. But some offer explanations.
San Antonio BMW M4 inventory
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One explanation is that most people don't buy $90,000 BMWs off of lots. They special order them. And the 289 figure represents over 400 BMW dealerships in the US, so it averages out to far less than one M4 per dealer. Some dealers still have 2020 M3s and M4s so they may be a bit hesitant in ordering the new and improved M4 when it still has the old version.
Another poster claims to know that in So Cal, where he says most M models are sold more than anyplace in the world, dealer-built floor models don't last 24 hours. However, that belies what our cursory search in So Cal indicates; remember Crevier? So we don't know if this is just a fanboy or he actually has inside info that the dealer websites aren't indicating?
Is Tesla really biting into BMW sales?
Whatever is going on from looking at websites, which should be up to date, there are lots of 2021 M4 coupes to choose from. Maybe it is just the initial surge of deliveries that are adding more models to dealers? Or, maybe it is just that Tesla really is biting into BMW sales?
But from the beginning, we have been more than disappointed in the massive grille bonked onto the front of certain BMW models. And BMW has been very aggressive in doubting, shaming, and explaining why it is the best thing since the Bangle Butt on 7-Series sedans. Oh wait, maybe that wasn't the best comparison.
What do you think-is it us or does the beaver tooth grille turn you off?
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The color of your eyes depends on how much melanin there is in your iris. If you have a lot of melanin, you'll have brown eyes (or some other dark eye color). If you have less melanin in the iris, you'll have a lighter eye color.
How to change your eye color to blue?
Are eye colors genetic?
Yes and no. A child's eye color definitely is influenced by the color of their parent's eyes. But the parents' genes can mix and match in many different ways.
At one time, brown eye color was considered "dominant" and blue eye color was considered a "recessive" trait. But modern science has shown that eye color is not that simple.
Eye color isn't just a blend of the parents' eye colors, as in mixing paint. Each parent has two pairs of genes on each chromosome, and multiple possibilities exist for how this genetic information is expressed in terms of eye color. The influences from each parent on eye color aren't fully known until after the child is born and begins to mature. [Read more about eye color genetics.]
What is the most common eye color?
Brown is the most common eye color worldwide. There are many shades of brown eye color. Also, the prevalence of eye colors varies geographically. Most people in Africa and Asia have dark brown eyes. In the United States, about 40% of the American population has brown eyes (all shades included).
Eye colors come in many different shades, hues and variations.
Eye colors that are considered brown eyes include:
Medium brown eyes
"Honey brown" eyes
Amber eyes
Even hazel eye color is sometimes considered a shade of brown eyes.
What is the rarest eye color?
Green is considered to be the rarest naturally-occurring eye color. Some surveys suggest green eyes also are considered the most attractive eye color.
Only about 2% of the world's population has green eyes, according to the demography resource World Atlas. In the United States, about 9% of Americans have a green eye color.
How to change your eyes to green color?
Can eye colors change?
Sometimes, yes!
Most non-Hispanic, Caucasian babies are born with blue eyes. In some cases, a baby's eye color will darken over time. It appears this is caused by more melanin developing in the iris during infancy and early childhood.
So, a child born with light blue eyes may end up with darker blue eye color or an entirely different eye color.
Most individuals achieve stable eye color by 6 years of age. However, a subpopulation of 10% to 15% of Caucasians can have changes in eye color throughout adolescence and into adulthood.
Unequal eye colors
If you look closely, many people have eyes with significant variations in eye color in different parts of the iris. This is normal and is caused by tissue variations in different parts of the iris.
But some people can have a pigment "freckle" (called a nevus) on one part of their iris. It's also possible to have a variation called heterochromia, where a small or large section of your iris has a different color than the rest of your eye. Sometimes, heterochromia can be so significant that one eye is a different color than the other. [Read more about heterochromia.]
In rare cases, infants with different-colored eyes may have a condition called Horner's syndrome.
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Pardis Mahdavi ready for role as head of School of Social Transformation
Pardis Mahdavi possesses a deep reservoir of empathy.
That quality makes her a perfect fit for her new position as director of Arizona State University's School of Social Transformation. Mahdavi has focused her academic career on diversity, inclusion, human trafficking, migration, sexuality, human rights, feminism and public health.
But her compassion comes from a very personal place.
She has faced displacement, discrimination and even the loss of home and country. As an academic researcher, it gives her a special insight into the poor, the disenfranchised and the marginalized.
"My approach to higher education has been informed by my personal journey as an Iranian-American woman growing up in the U.S., as well as my training as an anthropologist where we learn to be reflexive about complex power dynamics," said Mahdavi, who comes from the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver and assumed her new role on July 1. "All of this inspires a desire to think through things in different ways, to question paradigms, which is why I feel so welcome at ASU."
ASU Now spoke to Mahdavi about her past, her work and what she hopes to accomplish at the university.
Question: Why ASU and the School of Social Transformation — what drew you here?
Answer: The first time I stepped on campus and visited the School of Social Transformation, I was inspired by how closely my own values aligned with both the school and ASU. My core values coalesce around a series of frameworks that inform how I see the world, and while these values are complicated, for shorthand, I have come to think about them in terms of what I call the "5 I's". These are: innovation, interdisciplinarity, intentionality, inclusivity and intersectionality.
If you think about my first "I," innovation, there is no institution in the world as innovative as ASU, and President (Michael) Crow is known for being intentional — my third "I"! — in moving into a new paradigm for the 21st century. At the School of Social Transformation, we live and breathe values of interdisciplinarity, inclusivity and intersectionality, and I was so happy to know that there is a school out there that lives my values in this way.
Q: What about your own background is important for us to know?
A: I remember growing up my father saying something to me that has stayed with me my entire life. He said to me, "Pardis, remember: They can take everything from you — they can take your home, your belongings, they can even take your country — but the one thing they can never take from you is your education. They can never take your mind." My family lost everything in the Iranian revolution in the late 1970s. Then in the 1980s, we were living in Minnesota and we faced horrible discrimination there during Iran-Contra and the hostage crisis, so we lost everything again and moved to Southern California. Each time we moved, my father would say this to me. This is what drives me as an educator and as someone who cares about higher education, access and equity. I want to make sure that everyone has a chance to get that which can't be taken from them.
Q: You recently wrote an article called "The Snowflake Revolution" in which you state today's youth are much tougher than the media has portrayed them, and they are continuing the work that started in the 1960s. Why do you call them "fearless," and what happened in the decades in between?
A: Young people today are willing to risk a lot to be heard. They are willing to protest, to put themselves in harm's way, for what they believe in. This reminds me of students during the civil rights era and the protests of the Vietnam War. Today, we see a lot of students approaching their studies with questions about what learning and what tools they need to make a more just society. I love that students today are interested in connecting themselves, their stories and their learning to larger problems both in the U.S. and around the world.
Q: You've also written an op-ed in the Denver Post about how the #MeToo Movement is the start of a new sexual revolution. In what way do you mean?
A: Sexual politics undergirds a lot of social changes that have taken place in the U.S. and around the world. The #MeToo movement brings sexual relations back to the center stage, showing how sexuality can demonstrate some of the most devastating inequalities in our society today. By shedding light on this, we can start to push back, to advocate for gender equality, but not at the expense of racial or sexual equity. The #MeToo movement brings into focus that which many people already knew but didn't want to talk about — namely the power dynamics that come along with different forms of identities. But I think it's important to note that #MeToo didn't happen overnight or in a vacuum. Black and brown women have been talking about gender and sexual violence for years, both in the U.S. and in places like India, Iran, Korea and Nigeria. I think this movement would be stronger if it acknowledged transnational and intersectional ties.
Q: What are you most excited about in the work at ASU and the School of Social Transformation?
A: I can't believe that I get to be here at a university that is truly trailblazing in every way. I'm excited to be at a place that welcomes change and is committed to meeting the needs of higher education in the 21st century. I am eager to learn from everyone at ASU and the School of Social Transformation about how this innovative spirit infuses all that we do. And I am excited to be here at this moment in world history. I think that now more than ever we need people trained in and thinking about the world's biggest challenges from interdisciplinary and intersectional perspectives. The programs that we offer at the School of Social Transformation are so needed today, and I think that other universities will want to learn from us about what we are doing and how we are teaching these complex topics. I'm also thrilled to be among such a diverse group of faculty, staff and students. The School of Social Transformation and ASU both are so unique and a road map for the future.
Q: You're an anthropologist, author and former journalist. How would you describe the culture of the School of Social Transformation?
A: Thoughtful and transdisciplinary. At the School of Social Transformation it seems that people have actually transcended the concept of interdisciplinarity and are at the next iteration of it — which is amazing and exactly where we need to be going. People are pushing past disciplinary silos and thinking creatively about new frameworks that aren't hemmed in by particular disciplinary orthodoxy. The culture here is also extremely open and welcoming. It's like being in a big family.
The real work of democratic engagement as the School of Social Transformation evolves together will be a challenge, but one that I'm really looking forward to. One of the great things about being a big family is that we are able to weather some storms to make ourselves better. We also care deeply about each other, as well as about the mission of the school and the charter of the university. My parents showed me that family can get us through the toughest challenges in our lives. Family knows our weaknesses but makes us stronger. I'm so honored to be a part of this family now.
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Review: ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World
By Chiara Palladino | September 5, 2019
ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World (from now on: Orbis) is an interactive scholarly web application that provides a simulation model of travel and transport cost in the Roman Empire around 200 CE. Walter Scheidel and his team at Stanford University designed and launched the site in 2011–12, and the project saw a significant upgrade in 2014 (the old version is still available). The project is currently concluded.
The aim of Orbis is to allow investigation of the concrete conditions of travel in the ancient world, with a particular focus on the 3rd-century Roman route and transportation network. Orbis is a response to the long-standing scholarly debate about visual representations and study of "spatial practice" in the premodern world: traditional mapping approaches fail to convey the complexity of the variables involved in travel practices and provide a flat view of phenomena that are strongly connected with space and movement, such as trade, economic control, and imperialism. Orbis was conceived to respond to the specific question of how travel and transport constraints affected the expansion of the Roman Empire.
The data backbone of the model is a network of cities, roads, rivers, and sea routes reflecting conditions around 200 CE (with some additions from Late Antiquity). The model includes 632 sites, of which 301 are sea ports. The baseline road network encompasses 814 road segments, about 85,000 kilometers (52,600 miles) and 28,000 km (17,400 m) of navigable waters. Sea routes link 513 pairs of sites. Locations, names, and travel routes are mostly based on modern scholarship, such as the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. The simulation of expense is based on the tetrarchic price controls edict of 301 CE.
The simulation model
To calculate a route in the simulation, the user selects the start and destination from the drop-down menu or from the map, and chooses between different travel options, including time of the year, priority (fastest, cheapest, or shortest connection), type of route, modes of transport (depending on the nature of the route), and transfer cost (i.e. the cost added to any transfer change, e.g. from river to sea). The "Calculate route" button generates a preferred path, with fastest priority in purple, cheapest in green, and shortest in yellow. Individual sites can also be excluded or included in the route by selecting the "Exclude/Include Site" button on the map, and specific travel modes can be deactivated from the menu. The bar below the map provides details about the required days of travel and distance covered. A simple timeline shows distance, costs, and time involved between each stop along the route, displaying different options depending on the travel mode. The menu on the right allows different visualization options, including regions, site names, and terrains. The user can also download the routes in SVG format.
Network diagrams are accessible by clicking on the "Network" tab on the left, or by clicking on a specific site and then "Network." Network diagrams allow calculations of the connectivity between one chosen site and all the other sites included in the network. More distant sites, based on different priorities, are displayed in darker colors. The bar on the lower right offers a legend to interpret the cost measure of each site, based on money, distance, or days of travel, depending on the priority set by the user.
The network can also be visualized as a dynamic distance cartogram, which can be selected by clicking on the "Cartogram" button in the bar below the map. This visualization distorts the geography according to the cost or distance between individual sites and the central site of the network. The user can go back to the original representation by simply clicking "Georectify."
The results can also be displayed territorially as cost contour maps by clicking "Zones." This option reveals regions of similar connectivity cost based on the chosen central point within the network. This view often reveals surprising results, emphasizing how geographically closer places are not necessarily the best connected to the network center: in the image below, for example, reaching Ierusalem from Cappadocia takes more economic effort than travelling from Corinth or Carthage.
The results of calculations of two or more networks of the same priority can then be clustered by clicking "Cluster" on the right menu. This function shows which sites are closest, in terms of the priority chosen, to the center point of each network. In the final result, the "Zones" button allows to display each cluster as a colored region.
The "Flow" option generates a Minard diagram, which aggregates results of path segments calculated along the route from or to a selected site. The result is a display of the main arteries of transportation according to the network center, depending on priority, time, and mode settings. Most popular segments are recognizable by thickness.
The user interface of Orbis is excellent: a step-by-step tutorial is available for first-time users, with easy pop-up explanations for every part of the simulation. Hovering the mouse on single options generates short captions for each feature, whereas the discussions in the "About" section give a more exhaustive explanation of the system and its scholarly and technical framework, even including video tutorials. Most of the primary data is also available on GitHub.
Several factors invite caution in relying on Orbis alone as a research tool. Simulation models tend to enforce a deterministic approach that makes specific statements about reality, without always being substantiated with historical evidence. The data backbone of the model mixes several types of evidence coming from slightly different chronological and historical contexts, including information from secondary sources, without discriminating between different types of data. The application was clearly conceived as a large-scale simulation, and more complex geocomputational simulations need to be made in order to incorporate the model into a sophisticated research workflow. The application is thus not sufficient in itself for small-grained simulations, or for answering complex research questions that have to consider the specificities of the historical evidence. The authors, however, are fully aware of these limitations, and they accurately discuss the reasoning behind their choices in the documentation: users should carefully read those discussions to become more familiar with the premises of the model.
Despite its limitations, Orbis is a powerful tool for research and teaching, and an important demonstration of the potential of digital methods in geospatial modelling. The increasingly generalized availability of sophisticated quantitative methods in the digital world is a fundamental resource for improving research. For these reasons, an expansion of the model to more fine-grained research and different historical contexts is highly desirable. In fact, Orbis has already inspired further work of this kind. A "descendant" of Orbis, al-Thurayyā, was created in 2013–14. It encompasses a geospatial model of the early Islamic world, essentially based on the route sections described by Georgette Cornu's Atlas du monde arabo-islamique (1983). al-Thurayyā includes a travel simulation, but also a network model mapping connections between settlements across provinces.
TITLE: ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World
DESCRIPTION: a simulation model of travel conditions across the Roman world.
URL: http://orbis.stanford.edu/
NAME (creator or contributor): Walter Scheidel (Principal Investigator); Elijah Meeks (Technical Lead); Karl Grossner and Noemi Alvarez (Web Development); Ashley Ngu (Interface Design). Full list of contributors in the "Credits" section on the website.
PUBLISHER: Stanford University Libraries
PLACE: Stanford University
COLLECTION TITLE: [none]
DATE CREATED: 2011–2014
DATE ACCESSED: August 1, 2019
RIGHTS: CC BY-NC 3.0
CLASSIFICATION: mapping
(Header image: Tabula Peutingeriana (section)—top to bottom: Dalmatian coast, Adriatic Sea, southern Italy, Sicily, African Mediterranean coast. Image via wikimedia by Public Domain.)
Chiara Palladino is Assistant Professor of Classics at Furman University. She is currently involved in various interdisciplinary projects, including the Perseus Library, the Pelagios Association, and including the Mellon-funded grant "A framework for annotation interoperability", in collaboration with Johns Hopkins and Tufts. Her current research involves the investigation of meaningful linguistic patterns in premodern geographical narratives and the transmedial representation of descriptive geographies through digital mapping and non-GIS visualizations.
Chiara Palladino


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Going through anorexia nervosa is unquestionably a difficult and traumatic experience for all those touched by the disease. Seeking out help for anorexia nervosa is perhaps equally challenging. When you finally must up the confidence to seek out professional help, you may be confused by the sheer number of potentially effective treatments on offer. At Rehab 4 Addiction, we attempt to remove this confusion by explaining, in plain English, the advantages and potential drawbacks of each anorexia nervosa treatment that's available to you today.
Anorexia nervosa is a debilitating eating disorder. When you suffer from anorexia nervosa, you literally starve yourself. You will become dangerously underweight, and you may even die due to malnourishment. Anorexia nervosa is essentially a psychological disorder caused by a distorted physical self-perception. Whilst anorexia nervosa may affect both men and women, anorexia nervosa is most common amongst women aged between 14 and 24.
There exist many potential causes of anorexia nervosa, however, these causes may be split into two broad categories. These categories include environmental and genetic causes.
The environmental causes of anorexia nervosa include low self-esteem, an eagerness to please others, family upheaval, bereavement, sexual abuse suffered in childhood, and beginning university or college. Genetic causes of anorexia nervosa related to your genetic disposition towards developing anxiety, depression, low self-esteem and general emotional distress.
The symptoms of anorexia nervosa are many, and these symptoms may differ between sufferers.
What are the physical symptoms of anorexia nervosa?
How may anorexia nervosa be treated?
Anorexia nervosa is a chronic illness that should be treated without delay. Around 10-20% of people suffering from anorexia nervosa will die due to complications arising from the disease. Many of these people do not receive any treatment for anorexia nervosa. If treatment had been sought, many of these people would not meet this fate.
One of the best forms of treatment for anorexia nervosa is to attend an anorexia rehab clinic. You will reside within the clinic for around 30-60 days. This is known as residential or inpatient rehab. At Rehab 4 Addiction, we typically recommend inpatient rehab for those of you who may have attained poor results from attending a treatment clinic on an outpatient basis.
Anorexia nervosa is caused by emotional issues. It's thus essential for these emotional issues to be fully addressed during therapy sessions. Rehab clinics recommend by Rehab 4 Addiction offer therapy techniques that are specifically designed to address the emotional issues that cause anorexia nervosa.
These therapy techniques include cognitive and behaviour therapy, dietary counselling and psychotherapy. Cognitive and behavioural therapy (CBT) is particularly effective in treating anorexia nervosa because CBT helps you to identify, challenge and change unhelpful thoughts that contribute to your anorexia nervosa.
Many rehab clinics we recommend also offer family therapy. It's essential for your family to understand your issues with anorexia nervosa are caused by emotional issues, and family therapy seeks to achieve this aim.
How long does anorexia nervosa rehab last?
The estimated duration of your anorexia rehab is determined during an assessment at the beginning of your rehab programme. This assessment is conducted by a psychiatrist or team of psychiatrists. The psychiatrist will assess your personal circumstances and the severity of anorexia nervosa. You may begin to receive anorexia rehab treatment on an outpatient basis. In more severe cases, you will be admitted to a residential anorexia nervosa rehab clinic for around 30-60 days.
What specialists are involved in an anorexia nervosa rehab?
When you attend an anorexia nervosa rehab clinic, you will receive treatment from a wide range of professionals. These professionals ensure all aspects of anorexia nervosa are sufficiently addressed during your rehab programme. These professionals include psychiatrists, psychologists, specialist counsellors and nurses, dietitians and paediatricians. These professionals make up a multidisciplinary team who deliver on a vastly improved care plan for your needs.
Will I gain weight during an anorexia rehab programme?
During your stay at an anorexia nervosa rehab clinic, your physical health will be carefully assessed upon admission. If you are deemed to be underweight, a dietician will work closely with you in helping you gain weight slowly and steadily. This cautious approach to weight gain ensures the mental causes of anorexia nervosa are not unduly aggravated. At the beginning of your anorexia nervosa rehab programme, you will be given small amounts of food to consume. This amount is slowly increased as you begin to gain enough strength to process the additional food you are now eating.
The aim of anorexia nervosa rehab is to ensure you are eating three meals a day. You will also be given vitamin and mineral supplements.
Will I be given medication during my anorexia rehab programme?
Whilst medication is not capable of treating the underlying emotional causes of anorexia nervosa alone, you may be given medications that help to ease these symptoms. For instance, you may be given SSRI antidepressants to help treat depression and anxiety. You may also be given medication to help reduce anxiety. The rehab clinic you attend may only prescribe medication when you have not responded well to therapy.
What happens during an anorexia rehab?
Following the completion of inpatient anorexia rehab, you will begin to re-visit the rehab clinic on an outpatient basis. Intensive outpatient sessions is also known as an aftercare programme. These sessions ensure you receive ample therapy during the first 12-months of your recovery. Your family members will also be encouraged to attend aftercare sessions. This helps to strengthen your support network at home.
How may I access treatment for anorexia nervosa?
Rehab 4 Addiction is in contact with a large network of anorexia rehab clinics throughout the United Kingdom. These rehab clinics offered tailored treatment for anorexia nervosa. You thus benefit from treatment that's right for your precise needs. Get in touch today by dialling 0800 140 4690. We ensure you begin an anorexia rehab programme that's suitable for your needs.


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Leader pleads with US not to deport son #355405
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BELIZE'S PRIME Minister, whose rapper son spent 10 years in jail over a shoot out at a club he attended with P. Diddy and then girlfriend Jennifer Lopez, has asked US authorities not to deport him.
Prime Minister Dean Barrow made the plea on behalf his son, rapper Jamal 'Shyne' Barrow, in a letter to US Governor of New York David Paterson.
In 2001, Shyne was convicted on two counts of assault, reckless endangerment and gun possession over his role in the 1999 shoot-out at Manhattan's Club New York.
Shyne, who converted to Judaism and changed his name to Moses Michael Levy in jail, was released from Woodbourne Correctional Facility in New York recently after serving his 10-year sentence.
But he was taken to a federal immigration detention centre while immigration officials decide whether to send him back to Belize, caribbeannew360.com reported.
The US usually deports non-citizens who commit crime but the rapper is fighting the deportation.
Prime Minister Barrow told local news reporters: "…It is clear that he wants to stay in the Stares where he might continue his career. So I wrote in terms of petition for a kind of pardon that would allow him to stay," Barrow said.
Shyne is Getting Deported
It's as though some people never catch a good break and rapper Shyne is one who can testify to that. After serving close to a decade for the state, it is now official that he will be deported back to Belize.
As a close friend of the rapper, Angie Martinez was able to brief fans on the situation and provide a rundown as to what the current situation is with Po, according to Miss Info.
Shyne's team is fighting to stay in the US where his mother and his grandmother live and where they raised him….but it seems like he's going to have to continue the fight from Belize. Shyne will be released from Immigration custody but will then be deported to Belize soon. He has Harvard Professor Charles Ogletree advocating on his behalf in concert with his legal team.
They're still urging fans to reach out to Governor Patterson's office to petition for Shyne's pardon but deportation is eminent.
One would be under the influence that the reborn Moses Michael Leviy, that's Shyne folks, would be under plenty of added pressure and stress now that his departure has basically been guaranteed. Martinez assures those, however, that the New York native is finding a means to deal with his emerging predicament.
"Shyne is one of the strongest people I know and he's handling this situation just as I'd expect him to. It must be frustrating for all of his friends and family; he served his time, and keeps getting all these different dates and conflicting information. But he's a soldier, he's dealing with it."
As previously reported, the rapper was originally scheduled for release on October 6, but was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement where it would be determined if he would be deported back to Belize, where he was originally born.
Fellow rapper Raekwon spoke on the circumstances of Shyne's deportation recently on his IceWater Vlog stating that Po only did what he felt was best to ensure that he provided for his own. By remaining in the States, it might have been the smartest decision to ensure that food remained on the table so it is wrong to deter a man from supporting his family.
It looks like another win for the country, but another loss for the actual citizens that keep the country moving. Who would have thought that a person that was raised here since he was a child would be considered an alien to the States? Chances are that if the shooting never happened, it wouldn't have mattered.
Maybe the Land of the Free wasn't meant to include Shyne Po.
Re: Leader pleads with US not to deport son [Re: Marty] #355406
Shyne Barrow is coming home to Belize; he is expected to be deported from New York soon – that's what US media reports say. Leading hip-hop radio station in New York Hot 97 reports that their news director communicated with Shyne who said that he believes he'll be relocated to Belize soon, where he will then continue to fight for a pardon from New York's Governor David Paterson. A spokesman for the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement told MTV News Shyne is being held for violation of an immigration law, but he would not identify which law. So, according to those reports, he's coming home, but we could not get comment from his family spokesperson in Belize Housing Minister Michael Finnegan. He says they are still waiting for information from Shyne's chief strategist Professor Charles Ogletree.
But in the event of a deportation, which appears imminent, Shyne does have a home waiting in Belize. Two weeks ago when he was first released, Finnegan said that in the event of a deportation, Shyne is prepared to re-locate to the Caribbean, and specifically, his house on Goldson Avenue.
[October 6th 2009]
Michael Finnegan, Uncle of Shyne Barrow
"If he is even deported back to Belize he can work and operate out of Europe. He doesn't have to operate out of the United States. He isn't poor. If you notice, if you pass by my house, you'll notice that you will see construction going up in my yard. That is his alternative. It is his money that is being spent there, my sister's and his money, that is being spent there. It is a studio like thing that is being put there. If what they want to succeed in doesn't work, then there is an alternative. He wants to have an immediate access to something. When he comes here he says doesn't want no land from government. If he has to come here he wants to buy his own land, he has his own money, because he has money and he wants to do his own thing, do everything. But he wants an alternative and you know dah me raise ah. So if he has to come back home, he will come back to Goldson Avenue where he start out from which is my home."
That was two weeks ago, and today Finnegan would not comment on US media reports that Shyne's deportation is imminent. He would only say that the family is awaiting updates from their legal strategist.


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Konstantin koltsov Net Worth: How Rich is Aryna Sabalenka Boyfriend?
Konstantin koltsov is a Belarusian former ice hockey player and well known as the boyfriend of Aryna Sabalenka who is a Belarusian professional tennis player. On Aug 14th, 2021 his girlfriend Aryna Sabalenka displayed some unprofessional behavior towards Karolína Plíšková but later she apologized for her reaction. She apologized to Karolina Pliskova "My behavior today was not professional. I want to apologize for this," and later she took to Instagram and wrote, "@KarolinaPliskova was better today." The tennis player added, "PS sorry for that handshake… I just completely lost my mind in that moment." Pliskova said after the win "I'm quite calm. Of course, I have some nerves and emotions but I try not to show it that much," added "There is a lot of things happening on the court but I think the main thing is just to have a goal and follow that goal." she added, "I think I was super solid today. Just did everything I was supposed to do to win this match."
What is Konstantin koltsov Net Worth?
konstantin koltsov Net Worth
Konstantin koltsov is a Belarusian former Belarusian ice hockey player and well known as the boyfriend of Aryna Sabalenka. In 2016, he reportedly announced his retirement from professional sports after competing 18 seasons. He was born on April 17, 1981, in Minsk, Byelorussian SSR, the Soviet Union, he is 40 years old. He last played for HC Dinamo Minsk in the Kontinental Hockey League. He had played on the Belarus national team in the IIHF World Championships and Winter Olympics. In 2006, he signed a contract with the Russian Super League. He also played for the Spartak Moscow hockey team, during the NHL lockout.
The estimated Net Worth of Konstantin koltsov is around $1 Million USD.
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The march of "dignity" – an anti-libertarian force?
22 October 2012 by Rosalind English
The recognition of a right to life, liberty, and the autonomy of the individual and the mandate of government to secure these rights is being threatened by an increasingly illiberal notion of "human dignity", says evolutionary psychologist Stephen Pinker.
His 2008 broadside in The New Republic took to task a now defunct body, the US President's Council on Bioethics whose publication Human Dignity and Bioethics is shot through with disquiet about advances in biotechnology. It could not be more different from the enlightened report issued earlier this year by the Council's successor calling on the current administration not to stifle biomedical research with over-restrictive regulation (see my post). Does the contrast between the present advisory body's recommendations and the report put before the previous President signal a fundamental change in the way we approach progress in this field? Probably not. Only two weeks ago, Sir John Gurdon (the Nobel physiologist whom schoolteachers had written off as a scientist) bemoaned the regulatory restrictions that make important therapies too costly to pursue. Pinker's dismay at the "scientific illiteracy" of society rings true today:
Ever since the cloning of Dolly the sheep a decade ago, the panic sown by conservative bioethicists, amplified by a sensationalist press, has turned the public discussion of bioethics into a miasma of scientific illiteracy. Brave New World, a work of fiction, is treated as inerrant prophesy. Cloning is confused with resurrecting the dead or mass-producing babies. Longevity becomes "immortality," improvement becomes "perfection," the screening for disease genes becomes "designer babies" or even "reshaping the species." The reality is that biomedical research is a Sisyphean struggle to eke small increments in health from a staggeringly complex, entropy-beset human body. It is not, and probably never will be, a runaway train.
The heated debate about science in the current run up to the election reflects the deep divisions in American society vis a vis the ethics of biomedical innovation, genetic manipulation of animals or humans, embryonic stem cells and so-called "therapeutic cloning" that could furnish replacements for diseased tissue and organs. And the concept of "human dignity" has become, in Pinker's view, a stalking horse for anti-science prejudice (see my post "Defining dignity – nailing jelly to the wall?"). The general feeling is that, even if a new technology would improve life and health and decrease suffering and waste, it might have to be rejected, or even outlawed, if it affronted human dignity. This is not a development to be encouraged. Dignity is a "squishy, subjective notion", intended to "squelch research and therapy".
The report which is the object of Pinker's jeremiad is obviously old hat now but the concept of "human dignity" is still very much at the centre of bioethics (along with related expressions like "fundamental aspects of human existence" and "the central core of our humanity".) And the concept of dignity is natural ground on which to build an obstructionist code:
An alleged breach of dignity provides a way for third parties to pass judgment on actions that are knowingly and willingly chosen by the affected individuals. It thus offers a moralistic justification for expanded government regulation of science, medicine, and private life.
Pinker argues that there are three features of "dignity" undermine any possibility of using it as a foundation for bioethics.
First, dignity is relative. One doesn't have to be a scientific or moral relativist to notice that ascriptions of dignity vary radically with the time, place, and beholder.
As I noted in my post on Michael Rosen's book Dignity – its History and Meaning the notion began as a concept denoting high social status and the honours and respect due to rank. Pinker cites the case of the French king who found it beneath his dignity to move his throne back from the fireplace. One night he simply roasted to death when his attendant failed to show up. Dignity has come a long way since then, but the fact that it has transmogrified into something quite opposite – an inner value enjoyed by all irrespective of societal status – shows how amorphous the idea is.
Second, dignity is fungible. It is not a sacred value; here is Pinker at his Rabelaisian best, worth quoting in full:
every one of us voluntarily and repeatedly relinquishes dignity for other goods in life. Getting out of a small car is undignified. Having sex is undignified. Doffing your belt and spread- eagling to allow a security guard to slide a wand up your crotch is undignified. Most pointedly, modern medicine is a gantlet of indignities. Most readers of this article have undergone a pelvic or rectal examination, and many have had the pleasure of a colonoscopy as well. We repeatedly vote with our feet (and other body parts) that dignity is a trivial value, well worth trading off for life, health, and safety.
The third point is that dignity, in its original form, is positively harmful. Preserving the dignity of certain religious figures has led to riots and murder. On an even larger scale, "totalitarianism is often the imposition of a leader's conception of dignity on a population". It is the mark of a free society that disempowers the state from enforcing a conception of dignity on its citizens.
But wait – isn't there something good to say about dignity? After all, it is at the heart of the line of "right to die" cases, running from Pretty to Nicklinson and no doubt on into the distant future when Parliament finally responds to the pressure to change the law and allow us to choose our own way of going. But Pinker's reflections raise a fascinating question here. We are primed to respond to certain features in another human being which trigger ascriptions of worth. "These features include signs of composure, cleanliness, maturity, attractiveness" – a dignified person, in other words. In what way can a patient suffering from locked-in syndrome or some other physically disabling condition elicit the same reaction from those about him? This sort of "dignity", warns Pinker, is skin-deep:
it's the sizzle, not the steak; the cover, not the book. What ultimately matters is respect for the person, not the perceptual signals that typically trigger it. Indeed, the gap between perception and reality makes us vulnerable to dignity illusions. We may be impressed by signs of dignity without underlying merit, as in the tin-pot dictator, and fail to recognize merit in a person who has been stripped of the signs of dignity, such as a pauper or refugee.
… or, as Pinker might have added, the mute body in the bed, unable to enforce his or her wishes to have the tubes removed, or the fatal draught administered.
So it's the autonomy version of dignity that we must hang on to, not just in these cases, but generally. Dignity is not a "contentious moral conundrum". It should be more precisely specified as a matter of thoughtfulness, pushing against callousness and bureaucratic inertia
And, because it amounts to treating people in the way that they wish to be treated, ultimately it's just another application of the principle of autonomy.
Dignity in the sense of an inner value eliciting respect should be acknowledged. Maybe Mr Wackenheim the dwarf was correctly denied his lucrative soar through the French air (remember Michael Rosen's example) because it is possible that the sport of dwarf-tossing encourages people to mistreat all dwarves. But, for such a hypothesis – and others like it – to justify restrictive laws, it needs empirical support.
In a free society, one cannot empower the government to outlaw any behavior that offends someone just because the offendee can pull a hypothetical future injury out of the air.
In short, we must guard against the tendency to use "dignity" to condemn anything that gives someone the creeps.
Defining "dignity": nailing jelly to the wall?
Can an individual claim ownership of life's instructions?
Can morality be explained by science?
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Michael Cook says:
I thought that Pinker's article was surprisingly jejune for a Harvard professor and contained a lot of unwarranted (ie, undignified) personal abuse, as I pointed out in my commentary at the time. http://goo.gl/0GSLd Human dignity, admittedly, is harder to define than water or Napoleon, but one role of philosophy is to seek out the meaning hidden in commonly-held convictions. Pinker's real problem is that he has jettisoned metaphysics. His corrosive arguments will work equally well on any abstract concept, like equality or justice.