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Embarking on an Acid Trip: Analysis of the Benefits and Dangers of Lsd
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A thorough analysis of the hallucinogenic drug lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD-25) and its effect on humans are given. The various uses of the drug are also examined throughout several decades, beginning with its first synthesis in 1938 as well as first use by humans five years later to its current usage today by young adolescents. Various myths have also surrounded the capacity of the drug. For example early users believed that it could alter your personality and way of thinking or pave the way toward spiritual enlightenment, while in later decades, anti-drug campaigns led people to believe that the drug could cause insanity or genetic damage. The realities associated with the drug are that it can be used for psychoanalysis and other studies of the mind. Yet there is always the possibility the user may undergo panic attacks and hysteria from the inability to cope with the intense cortical overload. In the end it seems that our understanding of the properties of LSD are still very limited and it would be hard to proclaim judgment over whether or not the drug would be more harmful or beneficial in our current applications of it in scientific research.
Drug use has been an undeniable factor in human life. From Aspirin and Caffeine to Cannabis Sativa and Opium, its uses vary widely from medical purposes to substance abuse. History has also forced our society to cope with the reality that the problem will always exist as long as people can find ways to synthesize and obtain them. Even so, an effective way of combating this problem is to have a thorough understanding of how these drugs work, and how they affect the user. One type of drug that has created much controversy over its possible benefits and/or dangers would be the psychoactive drug Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD).
Lysergic Acid Diethylamide Drug Lsd Trip
Lysergic Acid Diethylamide is said to be the most powerful man-made drug. Street names include LSD, acid, or blotter. It is a fickle drug: one never knows if they will experience a "good trip," or "bad trip." With numerous physical repercussions, and a fine of $1, 000 or 6 months imprisonment for a first offense, possession isn't worth the risk. Unfortunately, most do not know much about this ...
The Psychoactive Drug Lysergic Acid Diethylamide
The drugs that have won the greatest attention in today's drug abuse problems fall under the category of psychoactive drugs, or drugs that can alter ones perception, way of thinking, and behavior. Of these, hallucinogens have the ability to "alter [the] consciousness in profound ways." (Williams & Knight, 1994) They have also been labeled illusionogenic, psychedelic, and mind-expanding, depending on whether scientists or users are talking about them. They include mescaline, psilocybin-psylocyn ("magic mushrooms"), phencyclidine (PCP) and methylenedioxyamphetamine (MDA).
Of this group, however, LSD, commonly known as "acid," is by far the most potent; it is approximately 100 times stronger than psilocybin and 3,000 times stronger than mescaline. Having been synthesized in the Laboratory in 1938 for the first time, LSD use largely grew over the years. By the 1960's many people had already tried the drug, and the numbers continued to rise with the onset of the hippy movement. Today its use has even spread to the club and rave scene (a seeming modern derivative of the hippy movement), to house parties, and even to recreational use. However the use of LSD was deemed illegal in 1965 under Schedule H of Canada's Food and Drugs Act shortly after it had gained worldwide popularity. As a result its possession is only allowed to qualified laboratory and research personnel conducting approved clinical and experimental investigations. Consequences of possession include a maximum penalty of $1,000 and six months imprisonment, for subsequent offenders there is a maximum penalty of $2,000 and imprisonment for a year, and if tried by indictment, LSD possession can carry a maximum penalty of $5,000 and three years imprisonment. (DEA Publications, 2001)
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A Guide to the "Not So" Wonderful World of LSD Discovery of LSDLSD (Lysergic acid) come from a fungus that grows on rye and other grains. Albert Hofmann, working at Sandoz, a Swiss pharmaceutical company, produced LSD for the first time in 1938. He was hoping that it could be used to stimulate circulation and respiration, though this idea failed. Hofmann forgot about the new found drug, and didn't ...
It might seem strange that with the strict penalties and anti-drug campaigns during recent years LSD is still around and so widely used today. Even so, many of the effects of LSD on the human body are still unknown. So what do we know of the effects of LSD? Well, when ingested, LSD is absorbed easily from the gastrointestinal tract, and rapidly reaches a high concentration in the blood. It is circulated throughout the body and, subsequently, to the brain. After two hours, less than 10 percent of the drug is still active; the rest is broken into inactive by-products by the liver. Even though only a small portion of each dose stays biologically active (and even less—only 0.01 percent—ever crosses into the brain), that tiny amount is plenty. How LSD produces its effects is still only partially understood, but we do know that it alters the action and supply of serotonin, a neurotransmitter that the brain uses to make sense of all the scents and sights and sounds that we perceive from the world around us. Because LSD is structurally similar to the serotonin molecule 5-HT, it is believed that LSD's affinity to 5-HT2 receptors causes the mediation, not modulation (what 5-HT does), of specific functions. (Kawasaki & Purvin, 1996) One doctor described that once LSD is inside the body, it interacts with the "deepest biological circuits and engines of human consciousness." (Stoneman, 1998) The result is a temporary overload of the central nervous system circuitry. The user may experience sensory crossovers such as the visualization of sound or the hearing of colors, often referred to as synesthesia.
While most of the specifics of LSD's actions on the brain are still a mystery, its effects on perception and thought have been documented in numerous studies. LSD begins to affect the body 30 to 90 minutes after ingestion and lasts six to nine hours. Initial effects are mostly physical such as dilated pupils, increased body temperature, muscular weakness, rapid reflexes, decreased appetite and increased blood pressure. Later effects are concentrated mainly on thought and sensory processes. As the drug begins to take its effect on the user's neurochemistry, visual, auditory, and tactile sensations mix and match in synesthesia. During the "peak," perceptions and thoughts can take on the "fluidity of dream states." Other common effects include distractibility, rapid mood swings, depersonalization, and distortions in the users perception of their own body. In addition there have been many scare stories of "bad trips" on LSD and the subsequent damage to the body. Still, the drug rarely causes serious physical problems. Users may suffer a "crash" period, though, which can lurk in the background of everyday consciousness for a few days after the effects of LSD wear off.
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Truths Behind LSD
Many myths have also surrounded the use of LSD. In the Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, an article describes how one patient developed catatonia one week following the consumption of LSD. While being the only case of reported catatonia psychosis developing after the ingestion, the fact that it happened was enough to suggest the need for a new diagnostic category for the pathology. It was also initially believed that LSD could "'open the doors of perception' or [lead the way to] spiritual enlightenment…" but these ideas were quickly dispelled following the subsequent rumors of permanent insanity, over-dosage and deaths relating to the use of the drug. (Williams & Knight, 1994) Studies have shown that LSD does not cause cancer, brain damage, or chromosome breakage as confirmed by several studies. For example in one study in Mutation Research, tests revealed that "in those experimental organisms tested, using accepted techniques, LSD proved to be, at best, a weak mutagen, if mutagenic at all." (Cohen & Shiloh, 1978) The doctors therefore ruled out chromosomal breakage, and regarded the cases of Leukemia in relation to 3 LSD users as being entirely coincidental.
Furthermore, despite the potency, it is virtually impossible to overdose on it. Yet that does not in any way mean that the drug is safe for regular usage. LSD can (and does) cause severe psychological discomfort, in some cases even trauma as was confirmed by the studies of Abraham and Alderidge in their journal Adverse consequences of LSD. "Evidence supports the association of LSD use with panic reactions, prolonged schizoaffective psychosis and post-hallucinogen perceptual disorder, the latter being present continually for as long as five years…. [And so] A hypothetical long term molecular mechanism of adverse effects is proposed." (Abraham & Alderidge, 1994) It is likewise noted in Problems of toxic psychosis as illustrated on the example of the so-called LSD psychosis, that there were observations of several forms of psychosis in LSD users. In several case studies in another journal by Henry David Abraham MD and Anitra Mamen MD, the doctors observed hallucinogen persisting perception disorder (HPPD), which "is a chronic, continuous, and possibly permanent disorder of the visual apparatus after the use of LSD." (Abraham & Mamen, 1996) HPPD is otherwise known as "flashbacks" or the reemergence of effects that the user experiences awhile after the use of LSD has discontinued.
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Since LSD is not retained in the body, they conclude that these flashbacks are probably psychological rather than physical in origin. Triggers can include stress, drug use, or cues associated with a past "trip." In one study the symptoms of HPPD frequently occurred after an LSD user smoked cannabis. Likewise in another Journal found within Psychiatry Research, 44 LSD-induced HPPD subjects were observed. Results indicated that the subjects had a "shorter VER (visual evoked response) latency, consistent with prior animal and human data on response to acute LSD administration which suggest LSD-induced cortical disinhibition…" confirming the disruption of the sensory pathways. (Abraham & Duffy, 1996) Further still, there was another study where several young people who had occasionally taken LSD developed palinopsia, a condition under HPPD where damage to the nondominant parieto-occipital cortex can cause prolonged afterimages even after the cessation of LSD usage. In the case of the three young people, their palanopsia was induced by reaction to medication containing clomiphene citrate. The first case involved a 21 year old college female who had occasionally taken LSD.
Though she had never experienced flashbacks, symptoms of palanopsia occurred after the use of anesthetics prior to the extraction of the patient's wisdom teeth. Even after a 4 month period of abstinence from the drug, the subject noted the visual preservation of afterimages for as long as 20 seconds. In a similar case, the doctors reviewed the case of a 17 year old boy who began to experience symptoms of palinopsia 2 months after his last ingestion of LSD. He experienced the prolonging of afterimages for up to a minute. In the last case study a 15 year old boy who had a history of narcotic usage began using LSD exclusively in 1992. He saw what he described as "ghost trails" left in the wake of an image in motion. Various other findings from electrophysiologic studies "support the notion that LSD may cause permanent alterations of the visual pathways." (Kawasaki & Purvin, 1996)
The Essay on Lysergic Acid Lsd User Drug
LSD The use of drugs among Americans is rapidly rising. They can be bought and sold almost anywhere, from the streets to hallways of schools. A drug on the rapid rise from the 70's is LSD. Some people attribute this to the fact its extremely inexpensive, $2-4 a hit, the wrong belief by users that it is a safer drug than marijuana because it isn't physically addicting. However, LSD is a ...
Although "acid flashbacks"—like other anxiety reactions—seldom last longer than 90 minutes, they can seem unendurable, since they tend to focus on unpleasant aspects of bad trips. Many users experience similar unpleasant reactions to LSD. Fear, anxiety, and depression may occur, even with experienced users who have had no prior adverse reactions. Going through a "bad trip," users feel that they are losing their identity, disintegrating into nothingness, and that there is no reality. "Pseudo-hallucinations give way to terrifying true hallucinations, sometimes resulting in violence, homicide, or suicide." (DEA Publications, 2001) In some cases, this psychotic state lasts several days or even longer. Because adverse effects are particularly common among new users, early LSD trips are usually taken in the company of experienced users who can often help curb acute panic reactions. No deaths resulting exclusively from LSD overdose have ever been reported. Dosage has also stabilized too. Today LSD averages 20-80 micrograms in contrast to 150-250 microgram doses common in the '60s. Cases of suicide, however, have occurred during or following LSD intoxication. Other results of violent or hazardous behavior include accidental (sometimes bizarre) fatalities, homicides, and self-mutilations.
Unlike most other drug users such as those who use crack cocaine, a large amount of users who try LSD, take the drug occasionally and refrain from using it too often. There seem to be no forms of physical or psychological dependence to the drug. Several factors provide LSD with a virtually inherent regulator to its regular use. First, the duration of the effects, which may persist for up to 12 hours or more, ensures that the user will not need to purchase the drug on a rapidly recurring basis. Second, tolerance to the drug develops rapidly if used daily, rendering its repeated ingestion useless, and cannot be overcome by ingestion of increased dosages. Third, the uncertain and mixed effects, especially adverse reactions, lead to erratic instances of LSD use. Finally, the extremely powerful and intense hallucinations often prompt users to abstain from using LSD, especially when users experience a bad trip. When a bad trip does occur, they tend to take two main forms – panic attacks and psychotic reactions. The most common adverse reaction to LSD, panic usually centers on a fear of dying or going crazy. Serious breaks with reality; psychotic episodes usually include hallucinations and delusions. LSD-fueled psychotic episodes are like bad trips that do not end when the drug wears off. Such reactions may be linked to the "unmasking" of pre-existing problems and may require professional intervention. (DEA Publications, 2001) As a result chronic LSD use may result in prolonged depression and anxiety.
The Essay on LSD The Hallucinating Drug
Lysergic acid diethlyamide (LSD) more commonly known in our culture as "acid," belongs to a group of illicit drugs classified as hallucinogens. Hallucinogens, when ingested, can cause severe hallucinations that may last anywhere from six to twelve hours depending on purity. Hallucinations are by definition "profound distortions in a person's perceptions of reality." The use of hallucinogens is not ...
The Benefits of LSD
While a great deal of literature tends to focus on the negative aspects of LSD use, many ignore the more practical uses it serves along the lines of psychoanalysis and therapeutic value. In the Journal of Asthma Research, an article documents an LSD study of sexual conflicts in eczema and asthma. In it they use LSD as an adjunct to psychoanalytic therapy in order to ascertain the value of a key dream that the subject had. In the case study, the subject had bouts of severe eczema and asthma, which were accompanied by depression. The subject also experienced a recurring dream that bothered her. Upon use of LSD, the subject was able to identify the meaning behind the beetle bug within her dream. The findings revealed the female patient's fear of lesbianism. Further study associated a second beetle bug dream with her father who was a quite person. The two associations revealed a "psychological struggle for femininity, induced by the confused identification led to a threat of penetration by the sting of the beetle bug and, where a man was involved, penetration by the penis." (Abramson, 1976) Subsequent testing under the influence of LSD led to more discoveries about the patient's life and helped to resolve her fear and conflicts involving her sexuality. In another study within Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, "a detailed account is given of the course and outcome of the treatment with LSD of an incapacitating compulsive-neurotic condition in a 30 year old male." (Brandrup & Vanggaard, 1977) According to the study, treatment with LSD took place over 18 months from 1962, and the patient has since been cured symptomatically of the disorder. In addition the psychologists noticed "a fortunate change in his general personality" (Brandrup & Vanggaard, 1977).
However the two also discussed how important constant supervision, observation and caution were, especially when using LSD on certain types of patients.
Albert Hofmann while testing a compound he'd discovered five years before, was accidentally contaminated when the chemical soaked into his body through his fingertips. What followed was the world's first LSD trip. Soon after its popularity waxed worldwide, the Psychedelic Revolution was born. Since then it has been said to have changed the way writers write, philosophers philosophize and pop musicians pop. It is also said to have altered art and spirituality. While it has been hailed as a guide to the innermost recesses of pure understanding, at the same time it has also been vilified as a recipe for personal disaster. Well whoever's right all depends on how you look at it. And many people have had the opportunity to look at it. In a 1999 survey, 12.2 percent of U.S. high school seniors admitted using it during the previous year, while an estimated 16.4 million Americans have tried it at least once. Since the drug is as potent and potentially risky as ever, a resurgence of LSD research is definitely needed. Because even after 50 – plus years LSD is still as mysterious today as it ever was. And for people who don't know what they're getting into when they try LSD, it can just as easily transition from a pleasurable new experience to the horror trip of one's life.
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Moving On Up: Lucas di Grassi
Paddock Magazine
Paddock magazine is joined today by Lucas di Grassi, a Brazilian professional racing driver who currently competes for Audi Sport Team Joest in the FIA World Endurance Championship, and for Audi Sport ABT in Formula E.
Full name: Lucas di Grassi
Date of birth: 11 August 1984
Place of birth: São Paulo, Brazil
Nationality: Brazilian
Team: Audi Sport ABT
The podium ceremony at Le Mans in front of more than 100,000 fans is something I will never forget.
What was your very first experience of motor racing?
When I was 10 years old, my father took me to a kart track 80 km away from São Paulo. He had some karting experience, but when I tried I was already faster than him! From that point on I started racing and realised that I wanted to be a professional racing driver.
How did you finance your early years?
Most of the backing came from my father in the karting days; from then on, when I stepped into the single-seaters in Brazil, I had some sponsors that helped me. When I moved to Europe to compete in the British F3, I made it to the Renault Driver Development programme which backed me all the way through European F3 and GP2.
One of the biggest challenges for every driver is to attract sponsorship. What is your recipe for success?
Together with my team I do everything I can to make the partners feel like they are part of the group. It is not just about simply driving around with a sticker but rather offering the sponsor and his guests or employees a real experience. I like this direct interaction because it gives me the chance to bring people closer to the fascination of my sport and a race series like Formula E.
How do you deal with the competition on the track?
Competition on the track is what it's all about, it's why we all love motorsport. I like tough and fair competition, going to the limits and taking risks sometimes. And I like it even more when we fight hard with our cars and have a good time together with my fellow drivers in the paddock.
What are your most important career highlights?
Maybe the biggest one is yet to come? I'm very happy to be able to look back on a lot of highlights in my career. For sure the podium ceremony at Le Mans in front of more than 100,000 fans is something I will never forget.
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Amazon Redshift is the cloud data warehouse of choice for organizations of all sizes—from fast-growing technology companies such as Turo and Yelp to Fortune 500 companies such as 21st Century Fox and Johnson & Johnson. With quickly expanding use cases, data sizes, and analyst populations, these customers have a critical need for scalable data warehouses.
A US-based retail company runs a large number of scheduled queries and complex BI reports. Their Amazon Redshift usage peaks between 8 AM and 6 PM, when their data scientists and analysts run heavy workloads. At night, they might have an occasional user who queries the data and generates a small report. Consequently, they don't need the same cluster capacity at night as they do during the day.
A healthcare consulting company is rapidly growing their Data as a Service (DaaS) business. They want to quickly create a duplicate environment and provide the cluster endpoint to their clients. After the duplicate cluster is created, it needs to be right-sized quickly based on the cost and performance requirements of the client.
An IoT service provider is on a rapid growth trajectory. Whenever a major event takes place, their sensors send in terabytes of new data that needs to be ingested into Amazon Redshift and analyzed soon after it arrives.
When database administrators (DBAs) don't have the nimbleness to react to these scenarios, the analysts can experience longer response times for mission-critical workloads. Or, they might be locked out altogether if the data warehouse is down for a resize. The DBAs, in turn, cannot support Service Level Agreements (SLAs) that they have set with their business stakeholders.
With Amazon Redshift, you can already scale quickly in three ways. First, you can query data in your Amazon S3 data lakes in place using Amazon Redshift Spectrum, without needing to load it into the cluster. This flexibility lets you analyze growing data volumes without waiting for extract, transform, and load (ETL) jobs or adding more storage capacity. Second, you can resize your Amazon Redshift clusters by adding more nodes or changing node types in just a few hours. During this time, analysts can continue to run read queries with no downtime. This gives you more agility compared to on-premises data warehouses that take days to scale. Third, you can spin up multiple Amazon Redshift clusters by quickly restoring data from a snapshot. This allows you to add compute resources that might be needed to support high concurrency.
We're excited to introduce elastic resize, a new feature that enables you to add or remove nodes in an Amazon Redshift cluster in minutes. This further increases your agility to get better performance and more storage for demanding workloads, and to reduce cost during periods of low demand. You can resize manually from the AWS Management Console or programmatically with a simple API call.
With elastic resize, you can start small and scale up on-demand as your needs grow, as illustrated in the following diagram.
"Coupang is disrupting how the world shops on phones. We cannot always predict analytical demand because of evolving business needs and ad hoc analyses that are unexpectedly required. With elastic resize, we can scale compute and storage quickly to finish large ETL jobs faster and serve more users querying the data," says Hara Ketha, senior manager of data engineering at Coupang.
Elastic resize is fundamentally different from the existing classic resize operation available in Amazon Redshift. Unlike classic resize, which creates a new cluster and transfers data to it, elastic resize modifies the number of nodes in your existing cluster. It enables you to deploy the additional nodes in minutes with minimal disruption to ongoing read or write queries. Hence, you can size up your cluster quickly for faster performance and size down when the job is finished to save cost.
You can still use classic resize when you want to change the node type (for instance, if you are upgrading from DC1 to DC2 nodes). The following stages describe what happens behind the scenes when you trigger elastic resize.
At the start of elastic resize, Amazon Redshift first updates the snapshot on Amazon S3 with the most recent data. Today, Amazon Redshift takes an automated snapshot every 8 hours or 5 GB of data change, whichever comes first. In addition, you can also take snapshots manually. Each snapshot is incremental to capture changes that occurred since the last automated or manual snapshot. While the first snapshot is taken, the cluster is fully available for read and write queries.
On the console and via the describe-clusters API operation, the cluster status shows as available, prep-for-resize during this stage. Additionally, an event notification (REDSHIFT-EVENT-3012) lets you know that a request for elastic resize has been received.
This stage, when the resizing actually happens, takes just a few minutes to finish. As the resize begins, the existing connections are put on hold. No new connections are accepted until the resize finishes, and the cluster is unavailable for querying. Some of the held connections or queries might fail if they were part of ongoing transactions. New nodes are added (for scaling up) or removed (for scaling down) during this period. Another incremental backup is taken to account for any data updates made by users during stage 1.
On the console and using the describe-clusters API operation, the cluster status now shows as resizing. Additionally, an event notification (REDSHIFT-EVENT-3011) lets you know that elastic resize started on the cluster.
After resizing is finished in stage 2, the cluster is fully available for read and write queries. Queries that were being held are queued for execution automatically. During this stage, data is transferred from Amazon S3 to the nodes. Because Amazon Redshift only subtracts or adds nodes, only a fraction of the data needs to be transferred. For example, if you resized a three-node dc2.8xlarge cluster to six nodes, only 50 percent of the data needs to be moved.
We also improved the rate at which we restore data blocks from S3 by 2x, cutting down the time it would have taken to finish stage 3. In addition, this improvement also makes restores from a snapshot faster.
Moreover, Amazon Redshift moves the data intelligently to minimize the impact of data transfer on queries during this stage. The most frequently accessed data blocks are moved first, followed by other blocks based on their access frequency. This results in most incoming queries finding the data blocks that they are trying to access on disk.
On the console and using the describe-clusters API operation, the cluster status now shows as available, transferring data. Additionally, an event notification (REDSHIFT-EVENT-3534) lets you know that elastic resize has finished and the cluster is available for reads and writes.
After the data transfer is finished, the cluster status on the console and via the describe-clusters API operation once again shows as available.
The new node configuration must have enough storage for existing data. Even when you add nodes, your new configuration might not have enough storage because of the way that data is redistributed.
You can resize only by a factor of 2, up or down, for dc2.large or ds2.xlarge node types. For example, you can resize a four-node cluster up to eight nodes or down to two nodes. This limitation exists to avoid data skew between nodes caused by an uneven distribution of slices.
For dc2.8xlarge or ds2.8xlarge node types, you can resize up to two times the original node count, or down to one-half the original node count. For example, you can resize a 16-node cluster to any size up to 32 nodes, or any size down to 8 nodes. This limitation exists to avoid data skew between nodes caused by an uneven distribution of slices.
Elastic resize significantly improves your ability to scale your Amazon Redshift clusters on-demand. Together with features such as Amazon Redshift Spectrum, it enables you to independently scale storage and compute so that you can adapt to the evolving analytical needs of your business.
To learn more about elastic resize and understand how you can size your clusters, watch the AWS Online Tech Talk: Best Practices for Scaling Amazon Redshift. You can also refer to the documentation for Resizing Clusters in the Amazon Redshift Cluster Management Guide.


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Mudhlem Cave
The cave is located in the small desert community of Mukaynis, near the Earth Satellite Station on Salwa Road.
For detailed directions, open maps.google.com and in search enter N 25° 07.392 E 051° 13.670
The cave's opening is quite wide, and there's a body of water after about 500 feet inside.
In old times people used to take this water for drinking
Advise:
If you decide to go into the cave, take with you at least two source of lights
Musfer Cave
10 miles west of Ar-Rayyan and five miles north of the Salwa Road, in the area of Rawdat Rasid. It is located at Saudi Arabian border. For detailed directions to the cave open maps.google.com and in search enter 25.175163, 51.211727
The cave is 40-feet wide and 16-feet high. A person can go inside up to 320 feet. Inside the cave you will find sand, rock and gypsum layers, which look quite interesting. formed with fibrous gypsum crystal, which sometimes give shiny glow. At the cave you will also find unique specifies of birds that are only seen in North of Africa.
Cave inside Dahl Al Hammam Park
The cave is located inside Dahl Al Hammam Park in Doha, on Arab League Street
This 325 sq. feet cave has depth of 200 feet. Its walls are primarily made of gypsum and limestone.
Although there are steps that descent into the cave, for security reasons public entrance is prohibited.


Running an athlete performance combine may be easier than you think! We made this module for you to serve as your go to guide to implement our stable performance tests. You can use these tests at tryouts to scout talent, with your existing team to collect "pre-testing" data and motivate your teammates, or you could use it these tests during your pod workouts to create competition. All you will need is a stopwatch and cones!
Measurement Quality Note: In order to gather consistent data it is important that the setup, the procedure and the instruction is consistent. In order to improve consistency and accuracy designate the same people to do the testing.


In the face of internet service providers like Comcast instituting bandwidth-capping, the Simple Help weblog details how to use a router running the open-source DD-WRT firmware to monitor your bandwidth. It's actually very simple to do, requiring no work on your part aside from installing DD-WRT on your router. DD-WRT automatically tracks bandwidth, so from there it's a matter of knowing where to look. If you're running the user-friendly Tomato firmware (we also showed you how to install Tomato), you can easily access your daily, weekly, or monthly bandwidth as well.
Like DD-WRT, Tomato automatically tracks bandwidth usage for you, so all you need to know is where to look. Just log into the Tomato interface, and then click on the Monthly link under Bandwidth in the sidebar (or, if you're using a default configuration, just follow this link). You'll get a simple table displaying your bandwidth stats for the month. Tomato also displays bandwidth use by week, day, and even in real-time if you're interested. I've used DD-WRT and Tomato exclusively over the past few years, so I'm not really sure what the status is for bandwidth monitoring on most default router firmware. If your router supports bandwidth monitoring, let's hear about it in the comments.


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Bartramia hampeana är en bladmossart som beskrevs av C. Müller 1858. Bartramia hampeana ingår i släktet äppelmossor, och familjen Bartramiaceae. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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This is going to be a short one today as we are still getting back into the swing of things after two days of driving and unpacking! I was reviewing my archives and realized how often I've worn this blazer since buying it. I love a neutral blazer, don't get my wrong. A navy or black blazer is a staple! But a brightly colored blazer can liven up an outfit while staying surprisingly versatile. Check out all the ways I've worn this blazer at the bottom of this post for some inspiration!
See how else I've worn this blazer with joggers, a sequined tank, light blue, striped top, cobalt top, orange, leopard, grey sweater dress, black and white stripes, and purple.
This is such a great work dress, love it!
I love your bright blazer! This is such a cute, polished look!
Love the color of this blazer, the brightness almost makes it a neutral! I've been wanting a red blazer for a long time to add to my collection!
I would definitely wear this outfit teaching. Great colours!
Loving the coral with the grey.
I think you're so right Laura!! Since much of our work clothing tends to be more muted, it's nice to have a pop of color to make it stand out!!
This is such a gorgeous office-friendly look for summer. The color of that blazer is so pretty, and I love the print and fabric of that dress! I love neutral blazers too, but I agree that sometimes adding a bright blazer can really make a look.
That color blazer is so pretty! I love the dress too!
Super cute! I love the pop of color!
Such a lovely look! love the blazer!
A color I would shy away from blazer-wise, but you've convinced me just how versatile of a color it is!!
Coral looks spectacular on you!


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Oslo mosque shooting a suspected terrorist attack – Norwegian police
by Nadarajah Sethurupan	| @ | August 11, 2019 5:14 pm
An attack by an armed man on a Norwegian mosque will be investigated as a possible act of terrorism, police said on Sunday.
The suspected shooter, who charged the al-Noor Islamic Centre near Oslo on Saturday, was a young, white male carrying several guns. He has not been named by authorities nor has the motive in the attack; he has been charged with murder and attempted murder.
Assistant Chief of Police Rune Kjold said at a news conference reported on my multiple outlets that the suspect expressed far-right, anti-immigrant views online, including praise for the Christchurch shooter, who killed more than 50 people at two Mosques in New Zealand, Media reported. However, he does not appear to be part of a larger network.
"We're investigating this as an attempt at carrying out an act of terrorism," he said, according to Reuters.
Shots were fired in the attack, but nobody at the mosque was killed. The stifled attack was credited to the people inside the mosque who overpowered the gunman before police arrived.
"These people showed great courage," Skjold added.
Shortly after the attack, investigators found the body of a young woman at the suspect's home near Oslo, who was identified as his 17-year-old stepsister, according to The Times.
Mohammad Rafiq, a 65-year-old retired Pakistani Air Force officer, went to disarm the attacker, the mosque told Reuters, after hearing "shooting from outside" and seeing the armed young man enter the mosque.
There were only three men present in the mosque at the time, and "He started to fire towards the two other men," Rafiq told Reuters. Rafiqu then seized the suspect, held him down, and disarmed him, sustaining an eye injury.
The attack took place one day before thousands of Muslims gathered at mosques for the Eid celebration, and the congregation targeted by the gunman expected up to 1,000 people to attend.
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Barclays has provided a US$43mn project finance facility for the construction of a seawater desalination plant storage and wastewater treatment facilities in the British Virgin Islands.
The project sponsor is UK firm Biwater, an engineering, water and wastewater provider. The plant will generate 2.3 million gallons of treated water each day and is to be built on a build, operate, transfer structure, with a 16-year water-purchase agreement.
The loan is 100% covered by UKEF, the ECA in the UK. Barclays was the sole advisor, arranger, lender and facility agent.


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Q: How to disable autohide in global menu? I am using the newest version of Ubuntu 14.04 and I like the global menu bar feature but I want the menus to always be visible not only when I hover my mouse over it. Is there a way to do that? Because the menus (like File, Edit, View etc.) disappear as soon as you move your mouse away from the menu bar at the top... :( Please help!
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A citizen holds up a sign at the March For Our Lives STL event on March 24. Starting at Union Station, participating citizens marched down Market Street toward the Arch. "[The march] allowed us to be vocal. It allowed us to grieve, but it also allowed us to feel powerful," sophomore Campbell Stewart said.
In light of the Feb. 14 Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Florida, citizens across the nation marched in solidarity with victims of gun violence and demanded action from Congress on March 24 during the March For Our Lives demonstration.
"The current students are the next generation to vote. They are the people that current laws are going to affect. It is our future, it is our safety and it's important for kids to be vocal about what they need because in the end, they are the ones who will face the aftermath," sophomore Campbell Stewart said.
Along with over 12,000 other people, Stewart attended the St. Louis march held at the Union Station from 10 a.m. to noon to show her support for gun control.
Although junior Tim McAuliffe was unable to attend the march, he supported the cause from his home.
Concluding that thoughts and prayers are not enough to invoke change to current gun policy, students like Stewart and McAuliffe encourage fellow peers to be vocal and get involved with the community. Sophomore Sabrina Bohn also upholds this idea as an active member of the Students Demand Action (SDA) organization.
The SDA has planned a nationwide school walkout April 20 at 10 a.m. After the walkout, from noon to 2 p.m., Bohn, McAuliffe, Stewart and other local students plan to gather outside of Attorney General Josh Hawley's office to protest for gun reform.
This is a great article. Good job Nayeon Ryu!
Great job on this timely story. Thanks Nayeon Ryu.


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This sweet, red, bell pepper has all the "right stuff" for eating. Its blocky, thick skin is perfect for stuffing. The 4-6 oz. fruit turns quickly from green to red while still on the bush. An excellent pick for cool growing areas.


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The fascinating sounds of the ancient Russian instrument gusli in the hands of the brilliant musician Pavel Lukoyanov, who travelled around the whole Europe with concerts.
Ancient Russian musical instrument in the "Winter Sun" project.
"Winter Sun" is an unusual soundtrack to our modern lifestyle, it is the "ray of light in the realm of darkness", which, making its way through the masses of habitual smog (in the literal and figurative sense of the word), reminds us of the existence of Heaven in its eternity. Authors in an unobtrusive way clearly show us an alternative way of spending our spare time, and give food for our spirit and mind without the multi- channel TV and social networking, which are the only way to relax between earning money for very many people nowadays.
What an incomparable feeling of harmony and pleasure you get while enjoying this creation of mu- sical art as presented by such a remarkable and unusual trio (piano, drums and gusli). Let this album come out under a famous label (such as ECM, for example, or TELARC), which would be just the thing it really deserves, and it will "warm up" hundreds of people all over the world, who are in need of this Russian win- ter warmth. But it happened to be so that today this wonderful album, just as it comes from its epilogue, is "hitchhiking" winding ways from one heart to another, touching us by beams of sun, sincerely hoping to win our love.


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Q: How to solve $y''-4y'+5y=e^{2x}$. Could somebody explain in detail the steps required to solve this problem?

A: First you need to solve the characteristic equation $m^2-4m+5=0$, obtaining $m=2 \pm i$. Then, the solution of the homogeneous equation $y''-4y'+5y=0$ is $y_h=c_1e^{(2+i)x}+c_2e^{(2-i)x}$, where $c_1, c_2 \in \mathbb{R}$. Applying Euler's Fórmula yields $$e^{2x}(\cos(x)+i\sin(x))+e^{2i}(\cos(x)-i\sin(x))=(c_2+c_1)e^{2x}\cos(x)+i(c_1-c_2)e^{2x}\sin(x).$$ Setting $A:=c_1+c_2$ and $B:=i(c_1-c_2)$ we get that $y_h=Ae^{2x}\cos(x)+Be^{2x}\sin(x)$, with $A,B \in \mathbb{C}$.
Now, we need to find a particular solution $y_p$ of the equation $y''-4y'+5y=e^{2x}$. There are two main ways: Using indetermined coeficints and variation of parameters.

*

*Indetermined coeficients: We know that a particular solution to the equation is of the form $y_p=ae^{2x}$, where $a$ is a constant. Plugging $y_p$ in the equation gives $$[ae^{2x}]''-4[ae^{2x}]'+5[ae^{2x}]=e^{2x} \Leftrightarrow 4ae^{2x}-8ae^{2x}+5ae^{2x}=e^{2x} \Leftrightarrow  ae^{2x}=e^{2x}$$ and therefore $a=1$. The general solution of the equation is $$y=y_h+y_p=Ae^{2x}\cos(x)+Be^{2x}\sin(x)+e^{2x}.$$

-Variation of parameters: Let $f$ be the function on the right hand-side of the equation, in this case $f(x)=e^{2x}$. In this case the two basis solutions are $y_1=e^{2x}\cos(x)$ and $y_2=e^{2x}\sin(x)$. And so the Wronskian is $$w(x)=\begin{vmatrix}
e^{2x} \cos(x) & e^{2x}\sin(x)\\
[e^{2x}\cos(x)]' & [e^{2x}\sin(x)]'
\end{vmatrix}=\begin{vmatrix}
e^{2x}\cos(x) & e^{2x}\sin(x)\\
2e^{2x}\cos(x)-e^{2x}\sin(x) & e^{2x}\cos(x)+2e^{2x}\sin(x)
\end{vmatrix},$$ hence $w(x)=e^{4x}$. Now, let $$v_1(x):=-\int \frac{y_{b_1}(x)f(x)}{w(x)}dx=-\int \frac{4x\sin(x)}{e^{4x}}dx=-\int \sin(x)dx=\cos(x)+C_1$$ and $$v_2(x):=\int \frac{y_{b_2}(x)f(x)}{w(x)}dx=\int \cos(x)dx=\sin(x)+C_2.$$ The particular solution is $$y_p=v_1(x)y_{b_1}(x)+v_2(x)y_{b_2}(x)=e^{2x}[\cos^2(x)+\sin^2(x)]=e^{2x}.$$ Hence the general solution of the equation is again $$y=y_h+y_p=Ae^{2x}\cos(x)+Be^{2x}\sin(x)+e^{2x}.$$

A: hint: Write it as $(y''- 5y') + (y' -5y) = e^{2x}$. This prompts you to let $u = y' - 5y$. So $u' - u =e^{2x}$, and this means $(e^{-x}u)' = e^x$. So:  $e^{-x}u = e^x+C$, and $u = e^{2x} + Ce^x$. Repeat this trick for $y$ and get the answer.
note: I infact solved a different question, but it shows you some trick to handle a similar situation..

A: Hint
You could have simplified the problem using $y=u\,e^{2x}$ making the equation to become $$u''+u=1$$

A: We shall solve the equation over $C^2(\mathbb R)$. First, we would like to solve the homogenous equation
$$y''-4y'+5y=0$$
consider the auxiliary equation
$$m^2-4m+5=0$$
This has the solutions $m=2\pm i$, this is to say, the general solution of the homogenous equation, $y_c$, is
$$y_c=e^{2x}(C_1\sin x+C_2\cos x)$$ where $C_1$ and $C_2$ are arbitrary real constants.
Now, when we look at the equation
$$y''-4y'+5y=e^{2x}$$
We found that one of the particular solution may be in the form $y_p=ae^{2x}$, pitting this into the equation, we found that,
$$a(4e^{2x}-8e^{2x}+5e^{2x})=e^{2x}$$
$$a=1$$
Hence $y_p=e^{2x}$ is a particular solution. Now, since the difference between any two particular solutions must be a solution to the homogenous equation, we have
$$y=e^{2x}(b_1\sin x+b_2\cos x+1)$$
To be the general solution, where $b_1,b_2$ are arbitrary real constants.


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Will the economy continue to grow despite challenges?
Nasir JamalPublished April 30, 2018
Pakistan's economy will grow by 5.8 per cent this year, highest in 13 years when it grew by 7.2on in 2004/2005, in spite of strong headwinds facing it.
Strong domestic demand on the back of increased public and private consumption, an improved security climate, and better energy supplies to the industry and massive Chinese investment in power and transport infrastructure under the multi-billion-dollar China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) initiative have been driving economic growth for the last five years.
The economy has actually been expanding ever since financial year 2013/2014, registering an average annual gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate of 4.8pc in the last five years compared with an average growth of 2.8pc between 2008 and 2013.
Many insist that the economy will continue on the growth trajectory for some years now despite multiple challenges like widening current account and fiscal deficits and a spiking foreign debt burden. But will it? There's no perfect answer for this.
"I think the economy will continue its growth momentum next year. The massive tax cuts allowed to individuals and companies in the just announced budget will increase aggregate demand and boost new investment by large corporations in capacity expansion and Greenfield projects, thus propelling a faster growth in 2018/2019 and beyond.
"Every decision entails certain trade-offs; we chose to grow the economy" says Ahsan Iqbal
"Moreover, the measures taken by the government to make it difficult to park illegal gains in land and property should divert the money into productive sectors and generate growth," noted Amyn Malik, partner at KPMG Taseer Hadi & Co.
He conceded that the external account vulnerabilities could drag down the economy.
But added: "The tax incentives given to legalise and bring back home tax-evaded money stashed outside Pakistan, growing interest of foreign investors, including Chinese and Russians, in this market of 207m people, and expected increase in exports on a weakening rupee will hopefully somewhat take care our of external account problems going forward. So I think our growth momentum will continue for some years to come."
Others however appear somewhat sceptical about the quality of growth and its sustainability in the medium term. Ali Asghar Poonawala, a financial analyst at AKD Securities, felt that the economy will continue on the present growth trajectory. "But the problem is that the economy is growing because of rising consumption and is fuelling imports. This type of growth cannot be sustainable."
The central bank in its second quarterly report too has expressed concerns over risks to the economy posed by a widening current account deficit.
"Risks to overall macroeconomic stability have increased due to widening imbalances in the country's balance of payments… the deficit will continue to eat fast the foreign exchange reserves and keep (the) economic managers engaged in making short-term international borrowing."
The bank's dollar reserves have already fallen to less than two-and-a-half months of the country's import bill because of the burden of financing the current account owing to the drop in private and official financial inflows and, 'despite modest recovery in exports, the balance of payments continues to reel under pressure of surging imports'.
The government admits that economic growth notwithstanding, many macroeconomic indicators remain weak.
But planning minister Ahsan Iqbal told a questioner at the news conference called to launch this year's economic survey that "this was the trade-off the government had to make to achieve higher growth so that the economy can absorb 2m people entering the job market every year. "Every decision entails certain trade-offs; we chose to grow the economy."
The current account deficit has already increased to $12bn in the first three quarters of the present financial year and is projected to widen to $15bn or above 5pc of GDP at the end of the fiscal. Another bailout from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) appears to be on the horizon in the wake of looming balance-of-payments crisis.
"So far we have sustained this growth momentum through heavy foreign borrowings. But now it appears we will have to knock at the IMF's doors once again. Once we revert to the Fund for another bailout, we will be doomed for many years.
"That'll be the end of our growth story that the outgoing Pakistan Muslim League-N government is touting to attract voters," a Lahore-based economist, who did not want to give his name for personal reasons, argued.
Published in Dawn, The Business and Finance Weekly, April 30th, 2018
Fuel cost for electricity generation surges 72.4pc
Stocks rise as market sees no change in policy rate
Challenge to FBR track system deal dismissed
Pakistan's burgeoning population will wipe out every economic gain the economy makes. Even the present economic growth is not sustainable. Nothing will change until people listen to the bad news.


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Hometown: Secaucus, N.J.
High School: St. Peter's Preparatory School
Position: Throws
Major: Chemical Engineering
Off the Track at MIT: Majoring in chemical engineering with a concentration in engineering... Also a member of the MIT football team.
Prior to MIT: Four-time letter winner in indoor and outdoor track and field, along with a three-time football letter winner at St. Peter's Preparatory School... In football, he was a three-year starter at right guad and a team captain as a senior... In indoor track, he captured the NJ Catholic School shot put championship in 2018... Jersey City Champion in the shot put in 2017 and 2018... County Champion in the shot put in 2017 and 2018... 2018 Jesuit Champion in the shot put... National Qualifier in the shot put in 2018... Ranked 34th nationally in the shot put in 2018 and has a personal-best indoors of 58 feet, 8.5 inches... In outdoor track, he was a four-time Jesuit Champion and a four-time Jersey City Champion in the shot put from 2015-2018... Non Public North A Champion in the shot put in 2018... Two-time National Qualifier in the shot put in 2017 and 2018... Two-time Jersey City Champion in the discus in 2017 and 2018... Jesuit Champion in the discus in 2017... County Champion in the discus in 2018... Outdoor personal bests of 56 feet, six inches in the shot put and 138 feet, nine inches in the discus... Member of the National Honor Society and the National Spanish Honor Society... Retreat leader of the Campus Ministry Team... Team captain of the football and track and field teams... 16-time First Honors student... Received the Science Gold Medal (highest grade in science) in his sophomore and senior year... Magna Cum Laude.
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Q: Setting up Pyramid Web Framework | FCGI on Shared Hosting How can I create a simple FCGI program in my ~/public_html that will be executed that will dispatch web requests to my pyramid website?
In django, using the code below works fine for me:
#!/usr/local/bin/python2.6

import sys
import os

sys.path.append('/home/username/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages')

os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'myproj.settings'

from django.core.servers.fastcgi import runfastcgi
runfastcgi(method="threaded", daemonize="false")

I'm stuck at the moment. By the way, This is my 2nd day in learning pyramid.

A: I've not used FastCGI myself but the guide for hooking up a Paster-based WSGI app into FastCGI should be the same (ie Pylons, TurboGears, Pyramid, all use Paster for WSGI).
The guide that I found that seems to make sense to me is at: http://turbogears.org/2.1/docs/main/Deployment/FastCGI.html
The key to hooking in any Paster-based wsgi app is the dispatch.fcgi file...
#!/usr/bin/env python
myapp = '/usr/local/myapp'
inifile = 'production.ini'
import sys, os
sys.path.insert(0, myapp)
from paste.deploy import loadapp
wsgi_app = loadapp('config:' + myapp + '/' + inifile
if __name__ == '__main__':
    from flup.server.fcgi import WSGIServer
    WSGIServer(wsgi_app).run()


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Q: Issues trying to verify JWT in Java using Auth0 I have a website and a Java server that communicate. When a user on the website logs in with proper credentials, the server generates a JWT and sends it to the client. The token is created like this:
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();

JwtToken token = new JwtToken(JWT.create()
            .withIssuer(user.getEmail())
            .withClaim("username", user.getUsername())
            .withIssuedAt(cal.getTime())
            .withExpiresAt(addHours(2))
            .sign(algorithm));

Where the addHours() method just simply takes the current time and adds n hours to it.
and the algorithm that's used in the sign() is:
Algorithm algorithm = Algorithm.HMAC256(secret);

With the secret being generated by:
Random random = new Random();
byte[] randomBytes = new byte[32];
random.nextBytes(randomBytes);
return Base64.getUrlEncoder().encodeToString(randomBytes);

Which, I think, should create 256 random bits and base64-encode them. (I read somewhere that a secret should be 256 base64-encoded bits, I am unsure if this is correct, please do let me know)
This all works fine, and gives me a token that I think is correct (the https://jwt.io website says it is valid too). Example of a token:  eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpc3MiOiJqdXN0aW4yNTA4OTlAaG90bWFpbC5jb20iLCJleHAiOjE1NDQ4MjUzOTIsImlhdCI6MTU0NDgxODE5MiwidXNlcm5hbWUiOiJKdXN0aW4ifQ.C2Tft5oy8fleYNz4oVCw6S28VGU7YzguA428sZ59QUM
So that token gets send back to the user, and it gets stored as a cookie. When the user tries to access something that requires authentication, they send a request with the token in the 'Authorization' header.
On the server-size I receive that token from the header and try to validate it. This is where I am running into issues. I am current doing the following:
DecodedJWT decoded = JWT.decode(token);

JWTVerifier = JWT.require(algorithm).withIssuer(decoded.getIssuer()).build();

verifier.verify(token);

This gives me the following exception:
com.auth0.jwt.exceptions.SignatureVerificationException: The Token's Signature resulted invalid when verified using the Algorithm: HmacSHA256

Any help would be much appreciated


Attention of Authorised Persons is invited to Regulation 8 of Foreign Exchange Management (Export and import of currency) Regulations, 2015, in terms of which a person may take or send out of India to Nepal or Bhutan and bring into India from Nepal or Bhutan, currency notes of Government of India and Reserve Bank of India for any amount in denominations up to ?100/-. Further, an individual may carry to Nepal or Bhutan, currency notes of Reserve Bank of India denominations above ?100/-, i.e. currency notes of ?500/- and/or ?1000/- denominations, subject to a limit of ?25,000/-.
2. It has now been decided that an individual travelling from India to Nepal or Bhutan may carry Reserve Bank of India currency notes in Mahatma Gandhi (New) Series of denominations ?200/- and/or ?500/- subject to a total limit of ?25,000/- Instructions regarding currency notes of Government of India and Reserve Bank of India for any amount in denominations up to ?100/- shall continue as hitherto.
3. Authorised Persons may bring the contents of this circular to the notice of their constituents and customers.
4. Necessary amendments to Foreign Exchange Management (Export and import of currency) Regulations, 2015 (Notification No. FEMA 6(R) /RB-2015 dated December 29, 2015) have been notified as Foreign Exchange Management (Export and import of Currency) (Amendment) Regulations, 2019 [Notification 6(R)/(1)/2019-RB dated February 26, 2019] in the Official Gazette vide G.S.R. No.151(E) dated February 26, 2019, a copy of which is annexed.


Are you looking for AC repair help to fix the problem faster? It's really very busy once a person's expensive air purifier will not operate properly. This is an expensive home machine, so it's almost always better to ask for expert help to fix it. There are many service providers, ready to assist you in your location. Just use the most appropriate one according to your choice. Here through the report, we will help you know what criteria should be properly assessed before appointing a conditioner repair technician to correct your problem appropriately.
Well-known agents, famously consistently lend the right permits. So, always check the license card before trying their help. It is always advisable to find the services of the company that owned your aircondition machine. If your product is under warranty period then you will get totally free or absolutely free service to repair oil palm, if possible you do not have to pay a little according to their service table.
The most important criteria should be examined. Really how long the agent was in the company. In addition to your skills and techniques, knowledge is also a very important thing to get to know the business of a-c mending agent before looking for him or his guidance.
The majority of service providers have the necessary coverage of Insurance Policy to accelerate their own service and life methods. The priceless insurance can protect their lives if there is an injury in the operation. So check whether the company or supplier you want to keep the service with, has the right insurance policy coverage or not.
The best way to hire a plumber is to check the reviews. You can rate their company's website because most reputable a-c organizations have their own official site. You can consult with your friends or acquaintances to assist you by showing the titles of some AC companies that give you free services as well.


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package com.inaka.galgo;

import android.content.ComponentName;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.content.ServiceConnection;
import android.content.pm.PackageManager;
import android.os.Build;
import android.os.Handler;
import android.os.IBinder;
import android.os.Looper;
import android.os.Message;
import android.provider.Settings;
import android.util.Log;

public class Galgo {

    private static final Handler UI_HANDLER = new Handler(Looper.getMainLooper()) {
        @Override
        public void handleMessage(Message msg) {
            if (null != sService) {
                String message = (String) msg.obj;
                sService.displayText(message);
            }
        }
    };

    public static final String ARG_OPTIONS = "galgo.options";
    private static final String TAG = "Galgo";
    private static GalgoService sService;
    private static ServiceConnection sConnection;
    private static GalgoOptions sOptions;

    /**
     * * Starts a new Galgo with custom {@link com.inaka.galgo.GalgoOptions}
     *
     * @param context Context
     * @param options Custom {@link com.inaka.galgo.GalgoOptions}
     */
    public static void enable(Context context, GalgoOptions options) {
        checkPermission(context);
        sOptions = options;
        init(context);
    }

    /**
     * Starts a new Galgo with default {@link com.inaka.galgo.GalgoOptions}
     *
     * @param context Context
     */
    public static void enable(Context context) {
        enable(context, new GalgoOptions.Builder().build());
    }

    private static void init(Context context) {

        sConnection = new ServiceConnection() {

            @Override
            public void onServiceConnected(ComponentName className, IBinder service) {
                GalgoService.LocalBinder binder = (GalgoService.LocalBinder) service;
                sService = binder.getService();
            }

            @Override
            public void onServiceDisconnected(ComponentName c) {
            }
        };

        // start a new service with our options
        Intent intent = new Intent(context, GalgoService.class);
        intent.putExtra(ARG_OPTIONS, sOptions);
        context.bindService(intent, sConnection, Context.BIND_AUTO_CREATE);
    }

    public static void disable(Context context) {
        context.unbindService(sConnection);
    }

    /**
     * Logs a String message to the screen. This String will be overlayed on top of the
     * UI elements currently displayed on screen. As a side effect, this message will
     * also be logged to the standard output via {@link android.util.Log}.
     *
     * @param message String to be displayed
     */
    public static void log(String message) {
        Log.i(TAG, message);
        Message msg = UI_HANDLER.obtainMessage(0, message);
        msg.sendToTarget();
    }

    private static void checkPermission(Context context) {
        String permission = "android.permission.SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW";
        if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.M) {
            if (!Settings.canDrawOverlays(context)) {
                throw new IllegalStateException("in order to use Galgo, " +
                        "please add the permission " + permission + " to your AndroidManifest.xml");
            }
        } else {
            int status = context.checkCallingOrSelfPermission(permission);
            if (status == PackageManager.PERMISSION_DENIED) {
                throw new IllegalStateException("in order to use Galgo, " +
                        "please add the permission " + permission + " to your AndroidManifest.xml");
            }
        }
    }
}


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Eleventh annual Center for Cancer Care 5K Walk/Run raises more than $57,000
Oct. 14, 2019 Updated: Oct. 14, 2019 1:30 p.m.
More than 400 runners and walkers took part in The tenth annual 5K Walk/Run to benefit the Center for Cancer Care at Griffin Hospital on Sept. 28, raising more than $57,000 for the Center's patient support programs.
Contributed photo.
Hundreds of participants raised more than $57,000 at the 11th annual 5K Walk/Run to Benefit the Center for Cancer Care on Sept. 28.
"We built the advanced and patient-centered Center for Cancer Care in response to the expressed need of Valley residents for locally available and comprehensive cancer treatment services," said Griffin Hospital President and CEO Patrick Charmel. "We are deeply thankful to all the participants, volunteers, donors and sponsors who made this such a successful event and are helping Griffin continue to bring good health to its community."
This year featured awards for the top individual fund-raiser and top team fund-raiser. The winner of the William C. Powanda Memorial Award for the top fund-raiser was Stephanie Ventimiglia, of Derby, who raised $4,455. Team Aversa raised $10,700 and won the Team Synergy Award as the top fundraising team.
The Walk/Run was supported by the Ansonia and Derby police departments. The event was sponsored by Jefferson Radiology, All About You, the Ansonia Rod & Gun Club, Smilow Cancer Hospital Yale-New Haven, R.D. Scinto, The Edge Fitness Clubs, Teamsters Local No. 1150, Southern Connecticut Dental, Frame It Easy, Ion Bank, Yale Therapeutic Radiology, Centrix, CW Fitness, and Star 99.9 FM.
Donations are still being accepted at griffinhealth.org/5k. For more information, contact Laura Murphy at lkmurphy@griffinhealth.org.


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Second chance | Inquirer Opinion
Philippine Daily Inquirer / 12:09 AM March 19, 2015
In donated toga and mortarboard hat, the 542 men sitting stiffly on monobloc chairs looked every inch the proud graduates that they were—no matter that their March 12 graduation program was held inside the New Bilibid Prison in Muntinlupa.
The men are the latest graduates of the Department of Education's Alternative Learning System (ALS), which gives convicts a chance to overcome illiteracy, finish school up to the secondary level, or acquire livelihood skills through vocational courses.
This is rare good news from the Philippine prison system where, only recently, powerful drug lords and convicts were exposed as living in luxury while still plying their lucrative trade behind bars, obviously in connivance with prison officials.
The depravity of life in prison—where petty criminals languish and serve time longer than their terms simply because they can't raise bail or hire a lawyer—often results in felons graduating into hardened killers, desperate men who'd do anything to survive the rigors of serving time in a hellhole.
Such a possibility impelled ALS valedictorian Bajunaid Kasim to spend at least four hours a day studying, as it took his mind off things that would have otherwise gotten him in trouble inside the maximum security compound.
Sentenced to life imprisonment for drug-related offenses, Kasim said he took the ALS course to prepare for life outside Bilibid. Because indeed, how many inmates regain freedom only to find themselves shunned by polite society, their history as ex-convicts all but stamped on their forehead? For want of job opportunities, most of these former inmates end up as lackeys or hitmen for crime syndicates, or as street thugs preying on the helpless—a social menace beyond redemption.
The DepEd's ALS provides a tiny opening, an escape from the vicious downward spiral in which inmates often find themselves trapped. The skills and learning they acquire inside prison are their passport to a fresh start, as these serve as tools with which to build productive lives. Reform and rehabilitation as an aspect of a modern penal system couldn't be better defined.
To be sure, there have been various ways and programs to provide inmates productive pursuits that would hopefully give them reason to hew to the straight and true. The "dancing inmates" of the Cebu jail easily come to mind.
But the DepEd's ALS is more notable in that it recognizes how much Filipinos value education and its role in changing lives. Former inmates are better served by that piece of paper that certifies them as the equivalent of high school graduates, or as having completed a vocational course, the one document that employers require before even considering a job applicant.
"It is important to educate the inmates since they were brought to the NBP to be reformed so that when they go out, they can be productive members of society and won't return to their old ways," noted ALS officer Eduardo Cabuhat.
Kasim confirmed this observation when he expressed hopes of returning to his home province of Maguindanao as an ALS teacher, especially for out-of-school youth displaced by the armed conflict in southern Philippines.
Education Secretary Armin Luistro, pleased with the progress of the ALS, has discussed with the Bureau of Corrections the possibility of expanding the program into a separate school with its own budget, with inmates comprising the bulk of the teachers.
That suggested bigger budget—some P20 million for a program that would benefit some 1,000 inmates—is certainly lower than the costs of rising criminality, lost productivity and an easily corrupted prison system. In fact, to further strengthen the program, the government can consider incentives to encourage employers to hire former inmates who are also ALS graduates, such as tax incentives for material imports, discounted income tax rates, or a bigger credit line.
And while at it, why not allot a certain number of job slots in government-owned and -operated companies for these inmates who can definitely use a leg up?
As Luistro also noted, these graduates may be considered "teachers" in their own right—for showing everyone that it is always possible for a person to get back on his feet after a fall.
"Dreams and hopes are never lost inside Bilibid," Luistro said in his speech at the graduation. Aspirations can still "shine even in the darkest moments of our lives."
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TAGS: Alternative Learning System, Department of Education, graduation, New Bilibid Prison


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In professional wrestling, a push is an attempt by the booker to make a wrestler win more matches and become more popular or more reviled with the fans depending on whether they are a heroic character ("face") or a villain ("heel"). It is not uncommon for a push to be accompanied by a turn or a change in the wrestler's gimmick. This is essentially the opposite of a burial, which in contrast to the high profile of a push is typically done with little or no fanfare. Sometimes the fans generate the push for a wrestler themselves when their approval for the wrestler's work generates a positive reaction from them that is not anticipated.

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In the Memphis territory, Nick Gulas began to push his son George to a main event spot despite having little in-ring experience and no athletic background. The fans quickly turned on him and the promotion, but Nick Gulas continued to push him despite the negative backlash and financial losses. In the end, Nick's insistence on keeping his son at the top of the card led to a hostile split of the territory.

A push can also be attributed to a political shift in the promotion's offices. Cowboy Bill Watts, whose promotions always consisted of an African-American main event heroic character, began pushing Ron Simmons, a midcarder, to main event status and eventually to the WCW World Heavyweight Championship upon being put in charge of World Championship Wrestling (WCW) at the same time he controversially pushed his son Erik into the wrestling scene.

In WWE, following the fallout from the Signature Pharmacy Scandal, smaller and less muscular wrestlers such as CM Punk and Jeff Hardy began to get pushed and Vince McMahon confirmed the paradigm shift by mentioning that today's fans are drawn by charisma and not size.

In WWE, when the company was being built around fan favorite John Cena, shedding his edgy, freestyle rapping anti-establishment persona which was popular in favor of a more motivational "against all odds" one, was met with a negative reaction by the fans to the point where he became one of the most booed wrestlers in the promotion.

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Posted on November 18, 2010 by Bobby Broadway
Mike Vick
On Monday Night Football the comeback of Mike Vick reached a new high as Vick put up a record-breaking performance that may never be duplicated.
Vick became the first player in NFL history with 300 passing yards, 50 rushing yards, four passing touchdowns and two rushing touchdowns in a game. Vick also became the first player in NFL history to have three passing touchdowns and two rushing touchdowns in the first half of a game.
While most praised Vick's performance there was at least one person who felt the need to make sure Mike Vick's accomplishments were put into perspective he felt was necessary. Steve Politi of NJ.com penned the article Michael Vick's comeback will only be truly a great story if dog fighting declines.
Politi starts his article with Mike Vick's tweet after his historic game, "God Can Turn Mistakes Into Miracles".
He mentions Vick's tweet as if to say that Mike Vick is out of touch with reality; Politi continues by calling Vick's performance on Monday Night "impressive" but
"A miracle has to be bigger than broken tackles and touchdowns passes. A decline in dog fighting? Now that would be the miracle."
Politi is either completely missing the point of what Vick is trying to say with his tweet or he is using the moment of Vick's success to grab attention. In this Politi is using Vick's success…
I will admit that I am not an avid reader of Politi's so it is possible that he has written a number of articles about dog fighting. What rubs me the wrong way is how Politi wraps Vick's historic night around this anti-dog fighting article. To be honest this article acts like dog fighting begins and should end with Mike Vick and that is not fair.
We all know what Mike Vick did was wrong and him serving 21 months in federal prison along with 2 months of home confinement is no one else fault but his own. What Politi fails to understand is that Vick being able to come back from losing it all too now being in the conversation for MVP is sort of miracle. We always hear stories of athletes who waste their talent and lose it all; constantly being mentioned in "What if" scenarios. How many times do we hear stories like this one turning into what seems to be a happy ending?
So when Mike Vick says, "God Can Turn Mistakes into Miracles" he is not saying it is miracle that he can put up record numbers by breaking tackles and scoring touchdowns. He is saying that it's a miracle that he was given the chance to play football again after all the mistakes he made in the past.
There is no need to diminish Vick's accomplishments, as stated in the article Vick being found guilty of dog fighting and serving time for it shined a necessary spotlight on an issue that had to be addressed. It's unfair to saddle Vick with the responsibility of eliminating dog fighting as the title of Politi's article suggest.
Sorry Mr. Politi, but if Mike Vick walks away from this experience an overall better person/player on and off the field his comeback is indeed a great story!!
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