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Artemis Institute for Clinical Research Announces 10-year Anniversary
San Diego, CA – Artemis Institute for Clinical Research is celebrating a successful end to its 10th year in operation.
"The rigorous nature of clinical studies requires a superior patient experience, in order to maintain high retention and completion rates," says Dr. Vishaal Mehra, CEO of Artemis Institute for Clinical Research. "We started with one location, a couple of trials and a handful of loyal patient volunteers on October 22, 2008," added Dr. Mehra. "In 2018 alone, we are proud to have screened more than 800 study participants across our three locations.
A leader in Principal Investigator and Patient Focused clinical research, Artemis expanded to three sites in Southern California, covering multiple counties and serving varying populations. Offices are located in downtown San Diego (serving Central, Southern San Diego County and Baja California, Mexico), the City of San Marcos (serving the North County of San Diego), and the City of Riverside (serving the Inland Empire).
Founded by Dr. Vishaal Mehra, Artemis enrolls patients in trials for psychiatry, neurology, internal medicine and women's health. "The scientific advances made possible by clinical research is what motivates our team of over 70 professionals to pursue the most challenging studies. We work to improve the efficacy of today's medical treatments."
For more information, please visit: https://artemis-research.com/


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'Assessing Risk of Harm to Children and Parents' – a reset for disputes involving children?
The Government has on 25 June announced an "overhaul" of family courts to protect victims of domestic abuse, in particular those involved in private law children cases (usually disputes between parents). The announcement follows an expert panel report ("the Report") which followed an extensive public consultation and which identified systemic issues with the way in which the Family Court deals with domestic abuse. It notes that "Every day some of the most vulnerable people in our society come before the family courts, where difficult decisions are made in often highly emotive cases, and so it is crucial that the system is able to protect them from further harm and the risk of harm."
The proposed changes are numerous, wide-ranging and likely to be far-reaching from the point of view of the treatment of private law children cases by the Family Court.
Protections for victims attending court
"Special measures" are provisions that may be available to assist a vulnerable party participating in a court hearing. They include matters such as providing a separate entrance to the court building and separate waiting area and the use of screens in the courtroom. However, until now, they have not automatically been available – rather a judge must consider whether they are appropriate. Evidence provided during the consultation suggested that some judges felt reluctant to permit special measures in case it was seen as giving "preferential" treatment to the vulnerable party. The Government has now indicated that it will seek an amendment to the Domestic Abuse Bill currently passing through Parliament to ensure that victims of domestic abuse are automatically eligible for special measures in the Family Court.
Changes to approach in cases involving children
Unlike many of its continental counterparts, the English justice system is based on an "adversarial" approach – each party will present their case to the Judge, who will decide between them. Although cases involving children have always required Judges to have regard to the child's welfare, they still proceed on the basis of each parent presenting their own position and suggestions as to the best outcome for the child.
The Report notes that for many parents proceeding through the family justice system, and particularly those where abuse has been an issue, the adversarial approach heightens tension and can move focus onto the adults, rather than the voice and welfare of the child. It recommends that an investigative, problem-solving approach be adopted, with three phases –
an initial investigation and information exchange phase, focussing on understanding what has been happening for the child and the impact of any abuse on the child and family;
an adjudication phase, which would take place if no agreement could be reached after the first stage. This would be judge-led (rather than being based on each parent putting forward a case) and would focus on identifying any harm and risk, problem-solving and securing future welfare;
a follow up phase – proactively following up three to six months after an order is made to see how it is working.
The Government has indicated that a form of investigative procedure will be trialled within the forthcoming Domestic Abuse Courts.
It will be important to see how the proposed investigative process would work in practice. However, the adoption of a less adversarial system for resolving disputes regarding children and a greater focus on the voice of the child should be welcomed. The best outcome for the child should always be at the centre of the court's approach.
Review of the presumption that the involvement of each parent in a child's life will further the child's welfare
Reform to the law in 2014 created a presumption that, unless there was a risk of harm, the involvement of a parent in the life of their child would further the child's welfare. That sentiment had been widely adopted by Judges for many years beforehand. Strenuous efforts were made to ensure that a child had an ongoing relationship with both parents. The reasoning behind this was laudable – where abuse is not an issue, robust protections are important to ensure that a parent with whom the child lives does not wrongfully utilise the system (including the delays that often occur in court proceedings) to damage the relationship between the child and other parent.
The Report sets out concern, however, by survivors of abuse and charities that the Family Court has a strong "pro-contact culture", and that the strenuous efforts to promote and progress contact can result in the court minimising or ignoring the risk of contact itself being used to further abuse. Evidence received during the consultation indicated that the voice of the child was not fully being listened to or heeded, particularly if the child did not want contact to take place. Nor was there sufficient follow-up to see how the child was finding any contact ordered. The Report recommended that the range of options for hearing from and representation and support for children be explored more fully.
Survivors felt that their allegations of abuse were minimised or disbelieved and that the emphasis was on making contact happen. As a result, abusers could continue their abuse by repeatedly bringing court proceedings and through their continued contact with the child.
The Government has confirmed that it will review the presumption of parental involvement in a child's life. It will also consider whether it should be easier to obtain an order that a parent cannot make an application to court without the court's permission. At the moment, such orders are usually only made in "exceptional" circumstances.
It may be that these aspects of the recommendations prove most difficult. Whilst it is of critical importance that an abuser should not be permitted to use the court system, or their contact with the child as a means of furthering abuse, the 2014 changes came into effect in part to combat the problem of an innocent parent that a child didn't live with being marginalised and excluded from the child's life. Although a review may be needed, balancing these potential harms will not be straightforward.
Sheena Cassidy Hope Managing Associate, Professional Support Lawyer, Barrister
Kate Clark Partner
Adoption: Present and Future
Antonia Felix and Emma Willing discuss state primary schools applications
Sismey v Salandron - Collusion and consideration: first judicial treatment of Section 11, Inheritance Act 1975
Inequality in education and technology – a gender digital divide
Antonia Felix and Alex Brereton on separating parents and schooling issues for Spear's
Robert Hines for eprivateclient on "Preventing surveillance following relationship breakdowns"
Digital Legacy Programme – Apple's new pre-death planning tool
Antonia Felix and Emma Willing in The Dura Society on surrogate parenting myths and misconceptions in the UK
Supporting Resolution's Good Divorce Week for parents – a child-focused approach to separation
Co-parenting for separated parents at Christmas
All is fair in love and war: "No fault" divorces should soon be possible

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Identify and treat reversible causes of heart failure.
New and investigational drugs that have promise for heart failure treatment.
To assess patients for mechanical circulatory support and cardiac transplantation.
To establish safe and effective rehabilitation and education in cooperation with the patients physician and hometown hospital.
Today, over 5.1 million Americans have heart failure and over 650,000 new patients are diagnosed each year. It remains the most expensive hospital charge – in 2012, heart failure costs in the United States exceeded $40 billion, including the costs of healthcare services, medications and lost productivity. Nationally, heart failure clinics have been effective in reducing hospitalizations of patients and improving their quality of life.
To help those suffering from this debilitating disease, the Heart Failure Program, formally the Lincoln Heart Improvement Program, was developed in 1993 by Nebraska Heart Institute. The unique aspect of this program is the collaborative effort between the primary care physician and the Heart Failure Program. Patients benefit from a multidisciplinary, comprehensive service that includes cardiac evaluation and treatment.
Several new experimental and very promising drugs and medical devices are available and may be used by patients in the program. Patients have had remarkable response with significant increase in the ejection fraction and cardiac output and decrease in pulmonary capillary wedge pressure and symptoms of congestion. Additionally, quality of life has been improved through the success of some drug therapies and devices.
which is put in your body during surgery, is connected to a "control unit" that runs the pump. The control unit is outside your body as is connected to the pump by the "driveline" The control unit can be worn on a belt around your waist. It also has a separate power unit it can be hooked up to.
Providing quality, evidence based care of heart disease.
Providing a full range of advanced cardiac life support for people with acute and end-stage heart failure.
Making use of mechanical circulatory support devices like VADs for destination therapy.
Educating local communities about heart failure and advanced treatments.
Patients may require the services of the Nebraska Heart and Lung Transplant Program. This program has had much success since its beginning in 1986. Hospital length of stay, costs, and return-to-work rates are among the best in the country. In addition, survival is well above the national average.
Cardiologists, cardiovascular surgeons, nurses, and other professional staff associated with the Heart Failure Program have provided cardiac diagnostic and treatment services to patients throughout the region. Many have pioneered services and procedures to help treat and prevent heart disease. All cardiologists are certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and its subspecialty Board of Cardiovascular Disease, and all surgeons are certified by the American Board of Surgery and American Board of Thoracic Surgery.


Getting married? The best advice you may get is to plan ahead. The amount of time spent on planning a wedding, on average, is 120 hours. The average cost, 30,000. The average number of guests, 120. Then there's the decision-making: who will pay for the wedding, the couple themselves, or their parents? How will the costs be divided? And the budgeting: how much to allow for venue hiring costs, food, clothes and make-up, entertainment, flowers, photography, and the costs of the ceremony itself?
With 12 months to to go, begin planning, budgeting, organizing guest lists, and contacting vendors.
Use this iPhone app to get answers to all your questions about the wedding ceremony, or search the FAQs for answers and comments from other brides and brides-to-be.
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Collects guest list, RSVPs, sends reminders; allows you to create your own website for your wedding.
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Track your own exercise routines and compete with your friends. Fitness made fun and easy.
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Online shopping for the perfect wedding dress.
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Q: Unit Testing probability I have a method that creates a 2 different instances (M, N) in a given x of times (math.random * x) the method will create object M and the rest of times object N.
I have written unit-tests with mocking the random number so I can assure that the method behaves as expected. However I am not sure on how to (and if) to test that the probability is accurate, for example if x = 0.1 I expect 1 out of 10 cases to return instance M.
How do I test this functionality?

A: Split the test. The first test should allow you to define what the random number generator returns (I assume you already have that). This part of the test just satisfies the "do I get the expected result if the random number generator would return some value".
The second test should just run the random number generator using some statistical analysis function (like counting how often it returns each value).
I suggest to wrap the real generator with a wrapper that returns "create M" and "create N" (or possibly just 0 and 1). That way, you can separate implementation from the place where it's used (the code which creates the two different instance shouldn't need to know how the generator is initialized or how you turn the real result into "create X".

A: I'll do this in the form of Python.
First describe your functionality:
def binomial_process(x):
    '''
    given a probability, x, return M with that probability,
    else return N with probability 1-x
    maybe: return random.random() > x
    '''

Then test for this functionality:
import random
def binom(x):
    return random.random() > x

Then write your test functions, first a setup function to put together your data from an expensive process:
def setUp(x, n):
    counter = dict()
    for _ in range(n):
        result = binom(x)
        counter[result] = counter.get(result, 0) + 1
    return counter

Then the actual test:
import scipy.stats
trials = 1000000

def test_binomial_process():

    ps = (.01, .1, .33, .5, .66, .9, .99)
    x_01 = setUp(.01, trials)
    x_1 = setUp(.1, trials)
    x_33 = setUp(.1, trials)
    x_5 = setUp(.5, trials)
    x_66 = setUp(.9, trials)
    x_9 = setUp(.9, trials)
    x_99 = setUp(.99, trials)
    x_01_result = scipy.stats.binom_test(x_01.get(True, 0), trials, .01)
    x_1_result = scipy.stats.binom_test(x_1.get(True, 0), trials, .1)
    x_33_result = scipy.stats.binom_test(x_33.get(True, 0), trials, .33)
    x_5_result = scipy.stats.binom_test(x_5.get(True, 0), trials)
    x_66_result = scipy.stats.binom_test(x_66.get(True, 0), trials, .66)
    x_9_result = scipy.stats.binom_test(x_9.get(True, 0), trials, .9)
    x_99_result = scipy.stats.binom_test(x_99.get(True, 0), trials, .99)
    setups = (x_01, x_1, x_33, x_5, x_66,  x_9, x_99)
    results = (x_01_result, x_1_result, x_33_result, x_5_result,
               x_66_result, x_9_result, x_99_result)
    print 'can reject the hypothesis that the following tests are NOT the'
    print 'results of a binomial process (with their given respective'
    print 'probabilities) with probability < .01, {0} trials each'.format(trials)
    for p, setup, result in zip(ps, setups, results):
        print 'p = {0}'.format(p), setup, result, 'reject null' if result < .01 else 'fail to reject'

Then write your function (ok, we already did):
def binom(x):
    return random.random() > x

And run your tests:
test_binomial_process()

Which on last output gives me:
can reject the hypothesis that the following tests are NOT the
results of a binomial process (with their given respective
probabilities) with probability < .01, 1000000 trials each
p = 0.01 {False: 10084, True: 989916} 4.94065645841e-324 reject null
p = 0.1 {False: 100524, True: 899476} 1.48219693752e-323 reject null
p = 0.33 {False: 100633, True: 899367} 2.96439387505e-323 reject null
p = 0.5 {False: 500369, True: 499631} 0.461122365668 fail to reject
p = 0.66 {False: 900144, True: 99856} 2.96439387505e-323 reject null
p = 0.9 {False: 899988, True: 100012} 1.48219693752e-323 reject null
p = 0.99 {False: 989950, True: 10050} 4.94065645841e-324 reject null

Why do we fail to reject on p=0.5? Let's look at the help on scipy.stats.binom_test:

Help on function binom_test in module scipy.stats.morestats:

binom_test(x, n=None, p=0.5, alternative='two-sided')
    Perform a test that the probability of success is p.

    This is an exact, two-sided test of the null hypothesis
    that the probability of success in a Bernoulli experiment
    is `p`.

    Parameters
    ----------
    x : integer or array_like
        the number of successes, or if x has length 2, it is the
        number of successes and the number of failures.
    n : integer
        the number of trials.  This is ignored if x gives both the
        number of successes and failures
    p : float, optional
        The hypothesized probability of success.  0 <= p <= 1. The
        default value is p = 0.5
    alternative : {'two-sided', 'greater', 'less'}, optional
        Indicates the alternative hypothesis. The default value is
        'two-sided'.

So .5 is the default null hypothesis for test, and it makes sense not to reject the null hypothesis in this case.

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The second leg of Juventus-Ajax is right around the corner. Tomorrow at 8:00 pm GMT, Massimiliano Allegri's side will be looking for victory as they try and move on to the semifinals of the UEFA Champions League.
Today, at the Continassa, training is underway for the Bianconeri ahead of tomorrow's big match.
Juve skipper Giorgio Chiellini has not yet recovered from the injury that has already kept him sidelined in the first leg of the quarterfinals in Amsterdam, it is almost certain that the player will be unavailable to Allegri. In other news, Juan Cuadrado is also absent (outside of the Champions League squad list), while young Hans Nicolussi is training with the team.


A lunar volatiles harvester will be the key piece of industrial equipment for the first lunar settlement.
One possible lunar volatiles harvester design is described in Sandworms. This article continues with details of that design. A supporting spread sheet is also available at Story Calculations.
A general technical specification for Lunar Volatiles Harvesters can be found at Volatiles Harvester Spec.
Heat it to drive off volatiles. Recycle 85% of this heat.
This is essentially a high vacuum pump.
Save the fine iron spheres for reuse.
Provide kilowatts of power and remove the waste heat.
Control this complex device and communicate with Earth.
The miner must be easy to construct with lunar material substituted for material from Earth as much as possible.
The miner must be easy to repair by human and robot teams.
The lunar miner is a large piece of industrial equipment requiring a large amount of power to operate. The majority of this power can be used in the form of heat to drive the volatiles out of the regolith. Additionally, power is needed in the form of electricity to run the electronics, transport the regolith, and drive the minor forward.
Solar energy is the obvious source for the lunar miner's power. It is abundant ½ the time and is well understood. A number of possible ways to harness solar power have been discussed. Clearly a trade study is needed. The underlying physics is uncomplicated enough that such studies can be handled by students through the use of spread sheets (with some programming additions) and with ray tracing.
In this approach a large tracking reflector is placed at fixed location some distance from the lunar miner. The large reflector relays concentrated sun light to a small receiving disk on the miner.
The receiver disk on miner is of a manageable size.
The receiver disk has a simplified tracking function.
A large number of smaller collectors are built on a hill side near the mining operation. The units are on very short towers and built with very low mass design.
The miner carries one large circular collector dish.
The power does not have the relay losses.
The disk is large requiring a large moving base.
A single collector consisting of only a section of a turned parabola is mounted on the miner.
Tracking the sun is relatively easy.
The power receiver is in a fixed location.
The designs supports heat rejection and easy of maintenance.
The miner base is very large.
One of the most difficult tasks for a high power operation in space is to get rid of waste heat. All power systems operate by heat moving from a high temperature reservoir to a low temperature reservoir. The miner's high temperature reservoir is heated by the solar collector and must be maintained above 700 °C (973 K, 920 °F). The radiator field must keep the low temperature reservoir below 20 °C (293 K, 68 °F, room temperature).
The only reasonable process for the lunar miner is to dump the heat to deep space using thermal radiators. This is made more difficult because the lunar surface heats up during the day to over 200 C. Not only must the radiators not see the sun, they should not see the hot lunar surface.
This design problem is considerably easier for polar locations that for equatorial ones. The ground is not nearly so hot, around 0,0 °C (273 K, 32 °F). Also the nights are not nearly so long and the sun stays near the horizon.
A fluid (liquid or gas) is circulated through serpentine plumbing in metal panels which face the cold of deep space. Mechanical means will be needed to keep a view of the sun and of the hot lunar surface away from the thermal panels. This will include mounting panels on the back of the solar collector so they always face away from the sun and mounting metal louvers.
Even with a system that recovers 85% of the processing heat, the processed regolith fines ejected out the back of the miner will tale a significant amount of heat energy with them.
The equipment bays will also probably need smaller independent radiator panels to maintain the temperature of electronic equipment. These may need shades or louvers.
We also want to avoid projecting heat in front of the miner where it might drive volatiles off the unprocessed regolith.
Major thermodynamic study is needed. This is a significant omission from the Mark II design. Such studies cost tens of thousands of dollars, but are the only way to reliably size the thermal radiators.
Heat rejection from small space systems where the direction of the sun is fixed is not hard. Small radiator panels driven by heat pipes work very well. The task only becomes difficult for high power systems which is the very case we have here. As general rule the radiators need to be comparable in size to the solar collector. In this case their total area must be inconveniently big.
Fixed Panels - The panels do not move but have shields and shutters that open and close.
Tracking Panels - Panels are mounted on the back of the collector or on purpose build structures that track deep space. These must be connected through flexible tubes.
Regolith is a very gritty material. Handling volumes of such material on Earth often results in difficult maintenance problems. The material continually sand blasts the inside of your processing equipment. Maintenance is a particularly difficult and expensive problem for space equipment.
The front end of the regolith processor must dig material from the trench wall, screen out material larger than 100 um (1.0E-4 meters, course sand), and move it into the processing section. Material larger than this size contains only a very small portion of the volatiles and is directed to the bottom of the trench. After this screening the passed material is referred to as "fines".
The fines, and any volatiles released by the initial handling, must be move into a higher pressure area. This is necessary to prevent the escape of volatiles during the heating process and is a very difficult design problem. A "high pressure" area on the Moon would still be a very good vacuum on Earth.
The fines are then preheated with energy recovered from the exhaust material to create an efficient process. The warm fines are then moved to the main heating area and heated to 700 ° C. This drives off the volatiles. This heating process will involve some combination of contact with hot surfaces, infrared heating, microwave heating, electromagnetic induced heating, and the injection of hot gas.
The volatiles are then captured with a process resembling a high vacuum pump. Separation of the volatiles from fine dust will be a significant problem.
Then fines are move out of the high pressure area without significant lose of gaseous material. Most of the heat is recovered in this section. The warm fines are then moved to a lower pressure section.
The fines contain 1% to 2% ferromagnetic material made up of microscopic spheres of iron in dust particle sized glass spheres. These particles may be useful in processing the regolith because they are subject to being moved by electromagnetic force and heated by microwave energy. They also are a good quality iron ore. If ferromagnetic fines are needed for this process or are considered to be a variable resource, they need to be separated and handled in this last section. This sorting can be done only with the iron fines below the iron Curie temperature of 1053 K.
The remaining fines must then be ejected out the back of the miner in such a way as to fill the trench. Fine dust working back to cover the solar collector, thermal panels and solar panels may be a real problem. Mounting panels on the moving parts helps as the dust can be tipped off.
The Schmitt (pp 119) design requires processing 556 tones (1,225,424 pounds if on Earth) per hour of lunar regolith fines. With the trench 3 meters by 11 meters in cross-section, this requires a forward speed of 23 meters per hour. This would be a significant industrial operation even on Earth.
Solid - Iron fines consisting of microscopic iron particles embedded in glass beads and Ilmenite (FeTiO3).
The problem is to get the regolith fines to act as if they were a fluid. This might be done by mechanical vibration, inducing gas, electrostatics, and / or magnetically agitating the iron fines.
The most difficult design challenge is to set up a confined heating area. Volatiles must be blocked from escaping both out the front and out the back. This requires the maintenance of a "high pressure" area for the heating.
Finding low-maintenance materials for this environment will also be difficult. We are dealing with tones of pure grit.
One possible design for the cutting head is shown above and is based on Earth machines for similar materials. It features a slowly rotating head in the shape of a large acorn. It has curved slot openings each with a line of heavy carbide teeth. As the head turns the teeth scrap a layer of regolith into the interior.
On the Moon, a good head design would not only loosen the regolith but would screen the material. The material with particles smaller than about 0.1 mm, called fines, will be moved into the processor. Larger material ranging from boulders to course sand must be rejected, not processed, and moved out of the way.
The volatiles are predominately adsorbed on the surface of crystals. Since the fines have a much higher surface area than the larger material, the fines contain most of the volatiles.
This process defines the high pressure area with mechanical valves. The regolith fines are then handled in batches with two or three batch processors being in operation at any time. This process was described in the Mark II design 2, but not chosen.
This process defines the high pressure area with screw feeds. The regolith fines are then handled continuously with a high power, low speed screw mechanism feeding the material into the high pressure chamber and a second one moving it out. This device was described in detail in the Mark II design.
Works best for semi-liquids and will have trouble with pure grit.
The fines must be acting very much like a fluid. At four points where a pressure step is needed, the fines fall through a funnel designed so that the weight of the fines carries them down while they block volatile flow back.
At the points where a pressure step is needed, the fines encounter a lobbed gear device that compresses the fines while moving them. The compression squeezes out the volatiles. Above the gear is a space that tends to pump volatiles backward.
This is the approach intended for the HUS Model 1.0. It requires that the regolith fines act very like a liquid. This is done by the introduction of previously separated gases and iron fines. The regolith fines are moved by some combination of mechanical vibration, hot gas jets, electrostatics, and electromagnetic force on the iron fines. These actions induce two separate a standing waves. There is one standing wavy for the volatiles and one for the fines. The fines wave had four peaks that block volatile flow. The volatile standing wavy has a peak in the heating area to aide its recovery. This design is a tall order.
One big mirror of flexible material that unfolds will probably not concentrate the light well enough to do the difficult industrial work we need. A more likely arrangement would be to build the mirror in hexagon segments and assemble them. We need to work out the quality of the optics we need to do this job. We need to work out a control system for the mirror surface. The Sandworm needs a lot of work.
All the designs in this paper were done for an equatorial location. It now looks like we will be in polar locations for the foreseeable future. We need to adjust this design for the poles.
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Q: Having multiple instances of the same element in a partial order? I was wondering about how to represent a partial order which includes multiple instance of the same element. For example a partial order could include these two nodes: "(a ⋁ b) ⋀ a" and "(a ⋀ b) ⋁ b", and also include different combinations and sub-parts of these.
Linguistically you might take the following sentence:
"John went to see his friend, who owed him 10 dollars.", or:
"a" went to see "b", who owed "a" 10 dollars.
Represented as: (a ⋁ b) ⋀ a
The fundamental idea is that John is mentioned twice, and his friend only once. I wish to represent this fundamental idea as a partial ordered set (or perhaps pre-order), in order to be able to compare it against other such possibilities which might include "John" and "the friend".
⋁ and ⋀ might be meet and join, or alternatively they might be unison and intersection.


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Q: Django: how to highlight groups in a `SelectField`? I have a list of jobs, each being part of a group:
class Job(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length = 200)
    group = models.CharField(max_length = 200)

How can I display a SelectField, in which groups appear highlighted and corresponding jobs are listed below?
I have seen this this post which my be a first step, but I would like more details.
thanks

A: You might want to think about making group a ForeignKey to a Group model, but with the model given you could take advantage of the fact that Django forms' ChoiceFields allow you to specify groups for choices, which are rendered as <optgroup>s:
from itertools import groupby
from operator import attrgetter

from django import forms

from myapp.models import Job

def get_grouped_job_choices():
    choices = []
    for group, jobs in groupby(Job.objects.all().order_by('group', 'name'),
                               attrgetter('group')):
        choices.append((group, [(job.pk, job.name) for job in jobs]))
    return choices

class ExampleForm(forms.Form):
    job = forms.ChoiceField(choices=get_grouped_job_choices)

A: insin has provided a good view way of doing it.
But, there is a builtin django template tag to do just that!
You can do it using the regroup template tag.
From the docmentation,
{% regroup job by group as group_list %}

{% for group in gender_list %}

{{ group.grouper }}

        {% for item in group.list %}

{{ item }}

        {% endfor %}

{% endfor %}


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Sodium Gluconate Choose Bailin Group and focus on the industry for many years.
Analysis of the supply and demand situation of China's sodium gluconate market in 2022: the demand in the field of concrete admixtures accounts for 48%.
Sodium Gluconate has good retarding effect and good taste, and is widely used in construction, food, textile and washing industries. In 2021, the demand for concrete admixtures will account for 48.0%, and the demand for gluconolactone is The proportion is 21.0%; the proportion of demand in the field of printing and dyeing auxiliaries is 12.7%.
Sodium Gluconate is a kind of sodium polyhydroxycarboxylate, also known as sodium pentahydroxycaproate. Sodium gluconate can be divided into food grade sodium gluconate and industrial grade sodium gluconate according to different uses.
Classification and application fields of sodium gluconate:
Industrial and Food grade:
●Industrial grade Sodium Gluconate can be used in the production of concrete admixtures, steel surface cleaning agents, special cleaning agents for glass bottles, circulating cooling water corrosion and scale inhibitors, water quality stabilizers, and can also be used in electroplating, film manufacturing and other industrial fields
●For Food grade Sodium Gluconate ,It is a high-quality substitute for salt in the food industry, and can be widely used in the production and processing of meat products, beverages, bakery products, health food and feed products
●Sodium gluconate used in the pharmaceutical industry, it can be used to adjust the acid-base balance in the human body
As far as the production process is concerned, the production of sodium gluconate is divided into biological fermentation, homogeneous chemical oxidation, electrolytic oxidation, heterogeneous catalytic oxidation, and enzymatic processes. Among them, the biological fermentation method is the mainstream production process in the industry at present, and the enzymatic method, as a new process for the production of sodium gluconate, is expected to become the development direction of the industry production process in the future.
At present, the number of foreign manufacturers of sodium gluconate is very small, the output is low, and the product positioning is high-end, mainly used for medical injection and other purposes.
According to statistics, the global sodium gluconate output in 2021 will be about 625,000 tons. The main manufacturers of sodium gluconate in our country include Shenyang Bailin Technology Co. Bailin Group, In recent years, the annual production and sales volume of Sodium gluconate has been maintained at about 200,000 tons. The product is sold all over the country and overseas markets, and are exported to Vietnam, India, Saudi Arabia, Israel and other countries and regions all year round, and have won unanimous praise from customers.
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Conservation motivation for 2023: 15 inspiring stories of impact
Highlights of winner results from 2022
With a historic new deal for nature agreed in December 2022 at COP15, we are entering the New Year with renewed optimism, further strengthened by the achievements of our network of Whitley Award winners around the world.
Here, we look back at some of the top results from our winners from the last 12 months, who are already working to bring the goals and targets agreed at COP15 to fruition, turning the tide for our planet:
1. 2012 winner Budiono and his team have successfully established a 42,677 ha protected area for the Critically Endangered Mahakam River dolphin in Indonesia; the first freshwater protected area of its kind under the Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries. In 2022, Budi helped protect a total of 220,000 ha, home to 190 species, and by preventing this area from being converted into palm oil plantations, he is keeping over 78 million tonnes of carbon in wetland and peat swamps from emitting into the atmosphere. The team also saw a drop in Mahakam River dolphin mortality thanks to their conservation efforts.
Mahakam River dolphins.
2. 2018 winner Dominique Bikaba and his team secured a series of official titles to create 21 community forests in eastern DRC, together spanning 600,000 ha – two-thirds of it intact rainforest, helping to protect the world's only population of the eastern lowland gorilla by working with the communities who call these forests home. Together, they are also restoring deforested tracts of land, using tree planting to provide wood for communities living near Kahuzi-Biega National Park, so that local people no longer have to rely on resources from the park. So far, 2.6 million trees have been planted.
Planting around the Kahuzi-Biega National Park.
3. 2011 Gold Award winner Rachel Graham and her team's work to monitor species, gather data and advocate for change with organisations such as the IUCN Shark Specialist Group contributed to the largest shark and ray protection measures in CITES history. World governments listed the 19 requiem shark species and their 35 look alike species in the CITES Appendix II, including all small hammerhead sharks. The proposals were put forward by the host country, Panama, where Rachel works to reverse declines in marine wildlife.
4. Threats to the 0.9 million ha landscapes of Dauria World Heritage Site have been substantially reduced thanks to 2013 winner Eugene Simonov and 2010 winner Vadim Kirilyuk, whose scientific evidence and research-based advocacy have led to dam construction on the Ulz River being completely stalled, preserving the Ulz River Valley, an important carbon sink. Together, Eugene and Vadim are raising awareness of the harm caused to climate, biodiversity and coastal communities from largescale damming projects, working with governments, companies, and financial institutions to foster nature-friendly alternatives.
5. Scalloped hammerhead sharks are now better protected thanks to the work of 2019 winner, Ilena Zanella, and her team at Misión Tiburón. Last April, the President of Costa Rica signed a decree to expand the boundaries of the Hammerhead Shark Sanctuary (HSS) threefold, to cover 15,500 ha. The area was first declared a sanctuary after Ilena and her team identified it as an important nursery ground for these Critically Endangered sharks, and preliminary evidence shows that shark numbers in the area are recovering. Ilena continues to gain international recognition for her work, this year winning the Andrew's Prize for the Environment.
Ilena monitoring a young hammerhead shark.
6. Paula Kahumbu, our 2021 Gold Award winner, became the first National Geographic Explorer to join the National Geographic Society's Board of Trustees. Paula was also recognised as one of the Financial Times'25 Most Influential Women of 2022, for her pragmatic and solutions-led efforts to protect wildlife, including her Hands Off Our Elephants campaign, which is widely recognized for its success in engaging of the people of Kenya to support the protection of elephants.
7. 2008 winner Marleny Rosales-Meda received legal accreditation and re-certification of her School Cultural Environmental Education Program (PEACE) from the Guatemalan Ministry of Education. Her PEACE programme, which was created with WFN´s support in 2009, is centred on protecting biodiversity and promoting sustainable livelihoods around the Lachua Ecoregion wetland, an important Ramsar site. This latest government endorsement reflects the positive impact that her work has had on youth empowerment and positive engagement as conservation allies.
Marleny Rosales-Meda's education programme.
8. 2022 winner Micaela Camino spoke at the General Assembly of the United Nations about how the Chaco region's natural ecosystems have been shaped by indigenous peoples, many of who are now being forced to leave their homes due to deforestation for the industrial production of commodities for exportation. She called for the many indigenous and Criollo families of the Chaco region to have central role in developing alternative resources that respect their culture and land rights, as well as the conservation of nature.
9. 2017 winner Purnima Barman was awarded the UN's highest environmental honour, named UN Environment Programme's 2022 Champion of the Earth for Entrepreneurial Vision for her work leading the "Hargila Army," an all-female grassroots conservation movement dedicated to protecting the Greater Adjutant Stork, known locally as hargila, from extinction. Her work is changing local perceptions of the stork species, and empowering more than 10,000 women with economic opportunities while engaging them in conservation.
Purnima and members of the Hargila Army. Photo credit: Dipankar Das
10. 2014 winner Tess Gatan Balbas' community engagement work in the Philippines led to village officials declaring a 970 ha Wildlife Sanctuary for the Isabela Oriole in Baggao, where the highest population of this Critically Endangered bird remains in the wild. Tess and her team helped to rediscover this endemic species in 2003, and continue to work with communities and local governments to secure its protection.
11. TIME magazine recognised 2016 winner Farwiza Farhan as an 'emerging leader' for her work to protect the Leuser Ecosystem in Sumatra, featuring her on the 2022 TIME100 Next list. The accolade acknowledges Farwiza's contribution to 'shaping the future and defining the next generation of leadership', noting her climate and eco-action, including her battle to protect Sumatra's last pristine rainforest from largescale development. She was chosen as the cover star of TIME's Asia edition of the magazine and received praise from Bill Gates.
12. In October, 2019 winner José Sarasola became the first person outside the USA or Europe to receive the Tom Cade Award from Raptor Research Foundation for his first-of-a-kind research to systematically examine raptor electrocutions in Argentina. The Tom Cade Award recognises an individual who has made significant advances in the conservation of birds of prey. José's work has identified electrocution as one of the major threats to the Chaco Eagle, and he is mitigating this by working with power companies to make their pylons safe for wildlife.
The Chaco Eagle.
13. 2020 winner Rachel Ikemeh was awarded the National Geographic/Buffett Award For Leadership In Conservation, for her work in protecting the Niger Delta red Colobus monkey — a Critically Endangered species listed as one of the top 25 most endangered primates in the world. Rachel was recognised as an outstanding individual who has demonstrated leadership in protecting the natural resources in her home country, and as an inspirational conservation advocate.
14. 2009 Gold Award winner Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka was awarded the 2022 Edinburgh Medal and the Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Global Leadership Prize for her work with Conservation Through Public Health to improve the quality of life of people and wildlife, enabling them to coexist in and around protected areas. She also spoke at a COP15 side event about the need to empower local communities as partners to reduce zoonotic disease transmission between people and gorillas, as well as other wildlife.
Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka spoke at a COP15 side event. Photo credit: Reseau Environnement.
15. Our 2022 Gold Award winner Charudutt Mishra and the Snow Leopard Trust received the BBVA Foundation's Worldwide Biodiversity Conservation Award in recognition of their role in creating the Global Snow Leopard Ecosystem Protection Program, a first-of-its-kind alliance between governments, conservationists, and other organisations to conserve snow leopards and their mountain ecosystems. Through Charu's Gold Award, he is working to improve the way conservation is practiced worldwide by providing a strategic framework for community-based conservation.
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In store every day we are adjusting, fixing and optimising customers' instruments. Many repairs can be done on the same day.
It is, obviously, impossible to give completely accurate prices and times on repairs without seeing the instrument "in the flesh" but the list below should give you an idea.
Often small adjustments can be done while you wait and we rarely charge for these - we also do not charge for looking!
- re-corking clarinet tenon joint corks/ saxophone necks (crooks) £15.00 - usually completed within a couple of hours.
- regulation, re-felting/ corking keys, straightening keywork, re-seating pads, spring adjustment, general minor repairs approximately £25.00 - usually completed that day.
- servicing (full strip down, deep clean and polish, replacing worn corks/ felts (plus a couple of pads), full rebuild of mechanism, oil, spring adjustment and balancing, mechanism regulation for optimum playability, adjust and playtest) - £80-100.00 (flutes & clarinets) £120-50.00 (saxophones) usually completed within 2/3 days - the idea of a full service is to try to make the instrument like new again!
- full overhaul - as with servicing with complete pad replacement, worn springs replaced - varies on instrument - flutes/ clarinets from £200.00, saxes from £350.00 - prices depend on type of instrument, quality of replacement pads used and so on - usually completed within 2 weeks.
Please note the above is just a very rough guide, we can give an accurate quotation on viewing the instrument - feel free to contact us or pop into the shop to discuss any issues with your instrument - "walk ins" very welcome.


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Empowered Employees, Self-service IT and the Future Enterprise
IT in the Age of the Empowered Employee - Ted Schadler - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review
"Incremental innovation and process improvements have always come from those closest to the problem. It's the basis of kaizen, a system where employees continually improve manufacturing processes. It's also a founding principle of Six Sigma tap employees' relentless, incremental quality improvements.
The same is true in the way employees are harnessing consumer technologies social, mobile, video, and cloud. They're improving how they do their jobs and solving your customer and business problems. And it's not just a few employees; it's a critical mass of employees. In a survey of more than 4,000 U.S. information workers, we found that 37% are using do-it-yourself technologies without IT's permission. LinkedIn, Google Docs, Smartsheet.com, Facebook, iPads, YouTube, Dropbox, Flipboard the list is long and growing. Many of these scenarios are do-it-yourself projects. For example, want to ask me business questions on Facebook? Piece of cake, I'll just friend you. Personal iPhones for email, apps, and Internet access outside my clients' door? Check. Google Sites and Docs to exchange documents with partners? Sure, I can spin up a free site or IT can spend the $50/user/year and make it secure. YouTube to post fix-it-yourself videos for tough service problems? My kid's good with a Flip camera. She can film me doing the fix myself."
The popularity of Social Media, Mashups and App Stores is a clear indication that business users of today are do-it-yourself types. Social communities such as LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter in addition to devices like the iPhone and iPad appeal to this new enterprise user. The way I see it, in the near future, enterprise IT will have to implement technologies that empower business users the same way these technologies do. Enterprise applications need to have social functionality build in, while allowing users to pick and choose exactly the apps they need, as and when needed.
Use SOA, think about exposing data as APIs. Secure them where needed. Most importantly, keep service re-use and composition in mind. Because that's where your ROI would be. Re-using existing stuff to create new apps with the minimum time and effort. Use a social App Store within the enterprise to govern these new apps. Ensure that business users get a say via rating and commenting. Have activity streams so that users are aware what's going on in their enterprise social circle.
The list goes on... but do take a user-centric approach and build from there. That's why Google can't succeed in the social media space, they are technically brilliant but clueless about how the social web works. Look at Wave, an engineering masterpiece, but a miserable failure as far as user adoption is concerned. Now look at Twitter. Always in trouble with technology, fails consistently when too many users start tweeting. But the users love it. If you ask me, the problems faced by twitter are good problems to have. "So many users like us, we can't handle the love!". I remember YouTube going through a similar phase a few years back. Not any more. Because technical problems can be solved. But if users don't like what you have, how on earth are you going to justify the pay checks of all those engineers?
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10 years on, #Blockchain is ready for Business use... thanks to the #Hyperledger project!
Note: This isn't a Bitcoin hedging post. In fact, that was the last occurrence of that word in this article.
Is the Blockchain hype over? According to this year's Gartner Hype Cycle, Blockchain has crossed the peak of unrealistic expectations and is now heading towards the trough of disillusionment. This usually means that we'll stop hearing about Blockchain being the cure for world hunger, and instead will start hearing about real world case studies that demonstrate its use cases.
I also tend to agree with Gartner's prediction of Blockchain reaching the plateau of profitability, and therefore wider adoption in the enterprise within the next 5 years.
Blockchain for Business? Fundamentally, Blockchain emerged from business principles that have been around since humans started trading with each other.
We have incrementally digitised parts of this process over the past century. However, this digitisation process has taken a fragmented approach. Each participating entity digitised t…
How to run a Southwest Airlines Auto Checkin Mashup from your computer
If you are a regular reader, you would know about the Southwest auto check-in mashup and how Southwest decided to use a 'cease and desist' type threat to get it out of circulation. The threat worked, mainly because WSO2 is a reputed company and they were running the mashup as a 'demo'. Not to make money from it.
But I say they can't prevent people running it from their personal computers. Here's a little how-to.
Download the Free and Open Source WSO2 Mashup Server (A Windows installer and a .zip file are available. It's a Java program so you need a Java version 1.5 or higher installed too)
Install it and run the server as described in the user guideGotohttps://localhost:7443/ and give a username for the admin user
Download the Southwest Auto Check-in Mashup and extract the zipYou will have 2 .js files (alertme.js and southwestAutoCheckin.js) and a folder named southwestAutoCheckin.resourcesCopy those files and folder to [your-mashup-server-installation-director…
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Warmly welcome the visiting of professor Ji Joongjo from South Korea Jidao Institute of science and technology, a member of South Korea KATS ISO/TC213 National Standard Committee, to the headquarter of Sinowon Innovation Metrology Manufacture Limited on Aug. 28th, 2017. Professor Ji visited the Sinowon Customer Experience Center and verified the measuring accuracy of AutoVision 432 with the German special gauge, with the measuring error within 2 um during the first operation. Professor Ji and his teamate also visited the product line of Sinowon auto vision measuring machines. They are satisfed with the material, skill, design and production management of Sinowon iand thought Sinowon has stepped into the advanced rank in the metrology industry. Pro. Ji said, 'the market need the enterprise like Sinowon who devoted itself into the measuring industry. I'm willing to build the communication bridge of Sinowon and S. Korea enterprices and write the new chapter of the friendship between China and S. Korea'. Meanwhile, pro. Ji encouraged all the Sinowon fellows by saying, 'Measuring industry is the promising industry. Sinowon needs persistence to climb the new peak with the innovation method ' .