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Winslow Sargeant: Stepping onto the train called Wisconsin – Part 2
26 Oct Winslow Sargeant: Stepping onto the train called Wisconsin – Part 2
Posted at 00:00h in Entrepreneurs, Interviews, Venture Capital	by	WTN News 0 Comments
This is Part 2 of a two part interview. Read Part 1.
Winslow Sargeant's combination of academic, commercial and government experience gives him rare insight into the world of entrepreneurship and risk. His memories of growing up in Dorchester remind him that to succeed at anything, tenacity is essential.
Winslow Sargeant
Madison is far removed from the place Sargeant knew as a child. In June, 1974, U.S. District Court Judge W. Arthur Garrity, Jr. ordered massive busing throughout the city of Boston as a supposed solution to the fact of racial segregation. Fierce riots between blacks and whites ensued, and Winslow and his siblings were caught in the crossfire.
It was a tough time, he said.
"You're riding a bus and you have police cars following, and people are throwing rocks at your busses, and some of us"-not him, he assures me—"older kids would carry eggs, [and] throw eggs at some of the protestors." His voice faded.
"No one was innocent," he continued. "I don't think that we knew how dangerous this was." One boy from Charlestown High School was shot and remains paralyzed, Sargeant said.
Most people now say that forced busing did not help alleviate racial segregation, but made matters worse, a sentiment shared by Sargeant. "White flight to the suburbs due to busing helped to create a public school system that is made up of kids from the economic lower class," he told me later in an email.
As a kid, the only professional black adults he saw were teachers, Sargeant said. His father, a former mason in Barbados turned custodian, and his mother, a nurse's aide, strongly pushed education as the key to a good future. Winslow listened to them, and later, despite being encouraged to consider joining a basketball team after being accepted to Northeastern University on an academic scholarship, he decided against it. "I knew that I wasn't as good as the professional recruiters were telling me," he said.
So, after graduating, he went to graduate school in, of all places, Iowa State University in Ames. After he located the state on a map and started school, he realized that he loved it there.
"I didn't know much about the Midwest," Sargeant said. "My friends told me there's nothing out there but corn and dirt roads. And that all they do out there is 'cow-tipping.'" He laughed.
Cow-tipping is two myths rolled into one: the first, that cows sleep standing up, and two, that wise guys try to push them over.
Sargeant asked a farmwoman if cow-tipping really existed. "She gently slapped my hand and said there's no such thing as cow-tipping. A cow weighs 600 pounds or more. There's no way that one person could push one over," he chuckled.
After Iowa, Sargeant came to Madison in 1988 after meeting John Wiley, now chancellor and then an associate dean in the engineering school. Sargeant had seen an ad in the magazine of the National Society of Black Engineers recruiting for black engineering graduate students, and Wiley was the contact person. What Wiley remembers best about Sargeant was his intensity. "I saw intense focus," he said. "He knew what he wanted. He thought it through."
Sargeant enrolled in graduate school in Madison in 1988, where he also met his wife, and then left in 1992 to work at IBM in Rochester, Minnesota. He received his Ph.D in 1995, and then took a job with ATT/Bell Labs in Allentown, Pennsylvania. There, he and his partners saw the potential of a computer chip they were designing, and so spun off Aanetcom. Cisco Systems provided the financing and bought their chips, too.
The rest is history.
Winslow Sargeant outlined some common reasons why good ideas go nowhere, at least when it comes to getting money from the federal Small Business Innovation Research grant program. Here they are:
At NSF, I reviewed thousands of proposals. I list some of the most common reasons proposals were not funded:
1. The commercial application was not made clear.
2. The Phase I program is six months and the proposal was too ambitious. Could not reasonably accomplish what was proposed.
3. The deadline was 5 pm (local time), but the proposal was submitted at 5:01 pm.
4. The technology/proposal was submitted on the wrong topic.
5. The requested budget exceeded $100K (for Phase I).
6. Not adhering to the solicitation (font size, page requirements)
Nowadays, Sargeant has more in common with the world of moneyed finance than with his old Dorchester stomping grounds, though his parents still live there. The neighborhood is still segregated, and few kids attend college. Most have no idea what opportunities lie beyond the place they call home.
Once, years ago while still at Northeastern and living at home, he told some young friends that he was pursuing a degree in engineering. "And I can remember one of the guys, who might have been 12 or 14 at the time, who said, 'Oh, Winslow, you're going to drive a train!' "
"All he knew was that an engineer drove a train," Sargeant said, sounding pensive. "And I looked at him and said, Yeah, I'm gonna drive a MBTA train."
After so many years, Sargeant does intend to be on a train, but this one is called Wisconsin.
Something's happening here, he says. The right mix of people and ideas is converging: at Venture Investors, his new job will be to help bring in some new money. "That's why I'm coming back," he said. "I can see that the train is starting to leave the station, and I want to be on that train."
He genuinely likes Madison, he told me. "Wisconsin is a welcoming place," he said. "That's why I would move my family here. I don't find it as racial as some other places I've been. People here really try to look at what you bring to the table."
His message to entrepreneurs here? It's similar to what he'd tell those black kids back in Dorchester: Keep your eyes on the prize. And—speaking specifically to Midwesterners—don't be afraid to fail.
"I think that the Midwestern attitude is very conservative. People are worried about the scarlet letter," he said. "Whereas on the coasts, people fail many times. Failure sometimes can be a badge of honor because it means you have experience."
"I've learned that in everything you do, there's a chance you're going to fail. But If you let that be the driving force in your life, you'll play it safe," he said. "You just have to launch out once in a while."
Katherine Esposito is the senior staff writer for WTN in Madison. She can be reached at kesposito@wistechnology.com.


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"""An emulator that mocks the core.platform.storage API."""

from __future__ import annotations

import mimetypes

from core import feconf

import redis
from typing import Dict, List, Mapping, Optional, Union

REDIS_CLIENT = redis.StrictRedis(
    host=feconf.REDISHOST,
    port=feconf.REDISPORT,
    db=feconf.STORAGE_EMULATOR_REDIS_DB_INDEX,
    decode_responses=False
)

class EmulatorBlob:
    """Object for storing the file data."""

    def __init__(
        self,
        name: str,
        data: Union[bytes, str],
        content_type: Optional[str]
    ) -> None:
        """Initialize blob.

        Args:
            name: str. The name of the blob.
            data: str|bytes. The data of the blob. If the data are string,
                they are encoded to bytes. Note that data is always retrieved
                from Cloud Storage as bytes.
            content_type: str|None. The content type of the blob. It should
                be in the MIME format.

        Raises:
            Exception. Content type contains unknown MIME type.
        """
        self._name = name
        # TODO(#13500): Refactor this method that only bytes are passed
        # into data.
        self._raw_bytes = (
            data.encode('utf-8') if isinstance(data, str) else data)
        if content_type is None:
            guessed_content_type, _ = mimetypes.guess_type(name)
            self._content_type = (
                guessed_content_type
                if guessed_content_type
                else 'application/octet-stream'
            )
        # TODO(#13480): In some places we set 'audio/mp3' as content type, but
        # it is not a valid MIME type. This needs to be fixed in our codebase
        # and we need to validate that existing files in storage do not have
        # this set. Only then can this exception be removed.
        elif content_type == 'audio/mp3':
            self._content_type = content_type
        else:
            if mimetypes.guess_extension(content_type) is None:
                raise Exception('Content type contains unknown MIME type.')
            self._content_type = content_type

    @classmethod
    def create_copy(
        cls, original_blob: EmulatorBlob, new_name: str
    ) -> EmulatorBlob:
        """Create new instance of EmulatorBlob with the same values.

        Args:
            original_blob: EmulatorBlob. Original blob to copy.
            new_name: str. New name of the blob.

        Returns:
            EmulatorBlob. New instance with the same values as original_blob.
        """
        return cls(
            new_name,
            original_blob.download_as_bytes(),
            original_blob.content_type
        )

    def to_dict(self) -> Mapping[bytes, bytes]:
        """Transform the EmulatorBlob into dictionary that can be saved
        into Redis.

        Returns:
            dict(bytes, bytes). Dictionary containing all values of
            EmulatorBlob.
        """
        # Since Redis saves all values in bytes, we do an encode on values and
        # also use byte keys.
        blob_dict = {
            b'name': self._name.encode('utf-8'),
            b'raw_bytes': self._raw_bytes,
            b'content_type': self._content_type.encode('utf-8')
        }
        return blob_dict

    @classmethod
    def from_dict(cls, blob_dict: Dict[bytes, bytes]) -> EmulatorBlob:
        """Transform dictionary from Redis into EmulatorBlob.

        Args:
            blob_dict: dict(bytes, bytes). Dictionary containing all values
                of EmulatorBlob.

        Returns:
            EmulatorBlob. EmulatorBlob created from the dictionary.
        """
        # Since Redis saves all values in bytes, we do a decode on values and
        # also use byte keys.
        return cls(
            blob_dict[b'name'].decode('utf-8'),
            blob_dict[b'raw_bytes'],
            blob_dict[b'content_type'].decode('utf-8')
        )

    @property
    def name(self) -> str:
        """Get the filepath of the blob. This is called 'name' since this mimics
        the corresponding property in the Google Cloud Storage API.

        Returns:
            str. The filepath of the blob.
        """
        return self._name

    @property
    def content_type(self) -> str:
        """Get the content type of the blob.

        Returns:
            str. The content type of the blob.
        """
        return self._content_type

    def download_as_bytes(self) -> bytes:
        """Get the raw bytes of the blob.

        Returns:
            bytes. The raw bytes of the blob.
        """
        return self._raw_bytes

    # Here we use object because we want to allow every object with which
    # we can compare.
    def __eq__(self, other: object) -> bool:
        if not isinstance(other, self.__class__):
            return False
        return self.name == other.name

    def __hash__(self) -> int:
        return hash(self.name)

    def __repr__(self) -> str:
        return (
            'EmulatorBlob(name=%s, content_type=%s)' % (
                self.name, self.content_type))

class CloudStorageEmulator:
    """Emulator for the storage client."""

    def __init__(self) -> None:
        """Initialize the CloudStorageEmulator class.."""
        self.namespace = ''

    def _get_redis_key(self, filepath: str) -> str:
        """Construct and return the Redis key for the given filepath. The key
        is the filepath prepended with namespace and ':'.

        Args:
            filepath: str. Path to do the file we want to get key for.

        Returns:
            str. Filepath prepended by the current namespace.
        """
        return '%s:%s' % (self.namespace, filepath)

    def get_blob(self, filepath: str) -> Optional[EmulatorBlob]:
        """Get the blob located at the given filepath.

        Args:
            filepath: str. Filepath to the blob.

        Returns:
            EmulatorBlob. The blob.
        """
        blob_dict = REDIS_CLIENT.hgetall(self._get_redis_key(filepath))
        return EmulatorBlob.from_dict(blob_dict) if blob_dict else None

    def upload_blob(self, filepath: str, blob: EmulatorBlob) -> None:
        """Upload the given blob to the filepath.

        Args:
            filepath: str. Filepath to upload the blob to.
            blob: EmulatorBlob. The blob to upload.
        """
        REDIS_CLIENT.hset(
            self._get_redis_key(filepath), mapping=blob.to_dict())

    def delete_blob(self, filepath: str) -> None:
        """Delete the blob at the given filepath.

        Args:
            filepath: str. Filepath of the blob.
        """
        REDIS_CLIENT.delete(self._get_redis_key(filepath))

    def copy_blob(self, blob: EmulatorBlob, filepath: str) -> None:
        """Copy existing blob to new filepath.

        Args:
            blob: EmulatorBlob. The blob to copy.
            filepath: str. The filepath to copy the blob to.
        """
        REDIS_CLIENT.hset(
            self._get_redis_key(filepath),
            mapping=EmulatorBlob.create_copy(blob, filepath).to_dict())

    def list_blobs(self, prefix: str) -> List[EmulatorBlob]:
        """Get blobs whose filepaths start with the given prefix.

        Args:
            prefix: str. The prefix to match.

        Returns:
            list(EmulatorBlob). The list of blobs whose filepaths start with
            the given prefix.
        """
        matching_filepaths = (
            REDIS_CLIENT.scan_iter(match='%s*' % self._get_redis_key(prefix)))

        # Create a pipeline that is then executed at one.
        pipeline = REDIS_CLIENT.pipeline()
        for filepath in matching_filepaths:
            pipeline.hgetall(filepath)
        blob_dicts = pipeline.execute()

        return [
            EmulatorBlob.from_dict(blob_dict) for blob_dict in blob_dicts
        ]

    def reset(self) -> None:
        """Reset the emulator and remove all blobs."""
        for key in REDIS_CLIENT.scan_iter(
                match='%s*' % self._get_redis_key('')):
            REDIS_CLIENT.delete(key)

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I bought a Chronarch MGL yesterday and went out with it today for a few hours. I put SniperFC 16 pound test on and it held right at 300' of the line, NO conditioner. This was more than I was expecting but wasnt going to bother taking some off and that hassle I just wanted to get fishing. I was throwing 1/4oz trokar boxer jighead with 3.8" Keitech fat paddletail on a Quantum Smoke 7' M/F rod. This reel really impressed me right at the first cast. I set the tension loose if drop lure from just 6" big overrun but no wobble side to side its free flowing. I started at full braking 4 on inside and 6 on the dial even this the distance was very good the line control perfect. Went to 3 brakes for a few casts then down to 4 on dial then 2 on dial and distance improved even more yet the line control was still there no fluffing of line at all. So went to 2 brakes and 6 on dial still no overrun to speak of and distance just kept improving. I made my way down to 2 on the dial before there was a start of line overrun but still very controllable and the distance was outstanding. I then went to 1 brake and 6 on the dial but didnt notice much gain over 2&2 Id say about equal. I then went to 3 on the dial and this got rather tricky. The spool just too fast not controlled with this size FC line so back to 2 brake inside and 2 on dial for most of the day and basically effortless, as far as thumbing is concerned, casting.
My biggest out of 8 for the day with the CHMGL was a 2-1/2 pound bass so no real workout. Then came the surprise catch of the day a nice 14" Crappie. The hit definitely felt different but I set the hook as if it was a bass and the fight was basically nill it just came in. So thinking it was a weak bass until about 3' from shore I realized it was a Crappie and the excitement hit.
Sounds like CH MGL is getting great reviews, I've seen a few stating the same thing. Great catches btw!
Congrats on the new reel and the catches. I'm getting out on the water tomorrow for the first time this season. And the first time out with my Chronarch MGL mounted on my new Megabass 2017 Destroyer FMJ.
Very nice. Love the papermouth (what my dad sometimes called a crappie). Yeah, that is one of the reels I wouldn't mind having, but I am finding it hard to justify any more reels. Now I have to live vicariously through these pages. Thanks for the read.
You guys are making me rethink instead of getting another JDM Met MGL, I should try a Ch MGL....I hear the Curado is going to be replaced at ICast....MGL?
Im the opposite now Im thinking what might I be missing out on with the JDMMETMGL. I got my ChMGL 20% off so that helped with the decision. Im really wanting to put braid on for a try. With the added line management that braid gives over FC Im thinking it will really launch lure at low brake settings. If braid does work better I have ZPI sic bearings on the shelf that can swap in see if any more benefit with those. With only a few hours use though I feel there is still more to gain. Like a few squirts of some L&L might help the FC at the lower setting.
Well the honeymoon is over . Im having an issue with the thumb bar like I did on an Okuma Helios. When I depress the thumb bar then turn the handle something is not releasing and there is a click click click click click sound as I reel in. It happens randomly sometimes once an hour sometimes 2-3 times in a row then gone for the rest of the day and next day. So beings Im still in the return period looks like its going back. Its unlikely Ill exchange it cause Ill be worried the next one might do the same at some point so dont need that hanging over a $230 purchase. My 70 actually hangs with the MGL distance wise so might get money back and get another 70 I see them on sale for $150.


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British scientists create a 'tractor beam' of ultrasonic sound
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A team of researchers from the Universities of Bristol and Sussex have developed the world's first functioning sonic tractor beam able to operate outside of a lab environment. The device uses 64 miniature speakers to generate high-amplitude, ultrasonic sound waves. These waves create an "acoustic hologram" (read: force field) capable of moving pea-sized objects without physically touching them. Adjusting the output of individual speakers allows the researchers to move, rotate and hold items at will.
"We all know that sound waves can have a physical effect," Bruce Drinkwater, Professor of Ultrasonics in the University of Bristol's Department of Mechanical Engineering, said in a statement. "But here we have managed to control the sound to a degree never previously achieved."
Pushing things around with sound is not a particularly new idea, however most conventional acoustic levitation systems require the object be completely enclosed by the speakers. This new system has the potential for use just about anywhere. The team recently published their findings in the journal Nature Communications.
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Steve White & The Protest Family
It's a Half an Inch of Water
From ABC to Deacon Blue and Madness to Right Said Fred, the list of bands who take their names from other band's lyrics is worth a Wikipedia page all of its own. But I can only think of one band named after a mondegreen.
Now a mondegreen, as you well know, is a mis-heard lyric, and in this case it's the line "It's a half an inch of water" from John Prine's That's The Way That The World Goes Round that gives Paddy Nash & The Happy Enchiladas the non-eponymous bit of their name.
We first met Paddy and Diane at the Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival in 2012, where we played a number of gigs, official, unofficial and very unofficial with them before deciding that they were wonderful and we were following them home to Derry.* **
You know who you are….
So, we were delighted to be able to return the favour and put on a couple of shows for them in London. Despite some initial (and last minute) fretting from us as organisers, the Veg Bar gig was magical. The atmosphere was great, and the audience outstanding. We've had a few stand-out shows over the years but I don't think we've ever had a crowd sing along to every word of pretty much every song from every performer before, and it definitely brought the best out of all the acts.
The Sunday was a more relaxed affair at Walthamstow Folk Club and the folk club format really suited them, rewarding us with some of the stories behind the songs and two sets of songs with light and shade exploring a range of emotions. They really are extraordinary storytellers and performers.
There's a load of stuff out there on YouTube and what have you if you want to explore their music further, but if you want a better sense of them, then try their appearance on Radio 4's The Listening Project.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02np2j6
Wedding or Camper Van? Well, we'll be seeing the van in Tolpuddle this July.
* Or Derry/Londonderry as it was known at the time.
** We know a song about that.
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Officially released on 25th January 2019, the game features various Pixar studio creations alongside characters from the Final Fantasy franchise, Nintendo DS role player,'The Worlds Ends With You' and a number of other titles.
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Learning technologies. After a decade of trial and error, the majority of associations are still discovering which technologies best support learning for their members. Online learning is becoming commonplace and well accepted in schools, corporations and associations. Associations are successfully building on blended learning to get the best of both face-to-face and online learning experiences.
Associations are using learning technologies to make learning practical and accessible to members when and where they need it. The focus is on offering on-demand knowledge and resources. To keep up with the rate of change, more associations will be turning to rapid instructional design to improve their cycle times for developing timely education.
Outcomes-based learning. Associations are feeling pressure from members, regulators, sponsors and consumers to demonstrate learning outcomes. More professions are requiring continuing education and even some demonstration of continuing competence. There is a new outcomes-based ANSI/ASTM standard for certificate programs. Signature i sees growing evidence that outcomes-based learning will be the standard for judging whether an association is a learning provider of choice for members, customers and stakeholders.
Pioneering associations are experimenting with online assessments and personal portfolios that help members identify and track their professional development and individual learning needs. These online platforms connect members to information on appropriate educational opportunities and on-demand e-learning. Personal assessments and learning portfolios can create a continuing connection between associations and their members.
Unbounded learning. Associations need to think beyond traditional boundaries about what education is and where learning takes place. They need to see knowledge in everything and connect members to these learning opportunities. Successful associations are taking a strategic and systematic approach to a continuum of learning that includes preparatory education, competence, professional development, advanced practice and research.
Associations tend to create and deliver knowledge within their channels of departments and components. Members don't know your organizational chart and don't care. They want easy access to usable "chunks" and a quick hyperlink for more in-depth discovery and learning processes. In a truly integrated digital environment, they can and should come through any door or window to the answers they seek.
Members are not just seeking the facts and best practices of formal or explicit knowledge. They want access to tacit knowledge, interpretation and judgment. The programs that excel best at conveying this tacit knowledge are two-way and interactive. Associations need to facilitate this dialogue and offer mentoring and knowledge exchange that can be formal or informal, arranged or spontaneous, and for experts, novices and peers.
Never discount the value of informal learning even if your association cannot control, program or profit from it. A great deal of informal learning happens in places you don't typically think of as your education program. Stop fretting that people value the learning in the hallways at your conference more than they do the plenary or breakout sessions; just find better ways to support this learning activity. And one of the most valuable learning opportunities you provide is leadership development through volunteer experiences. If you want leaders for the profession, you need to create better leaders for your association.


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Edgar Latulip, depicted in two age-progressed images published by the North American Missing Persons Network.
For 30 years, Edgar Latulip was gone. He didn't remember his own name or realize he was living 80 miles from home, where he was listed as a missing person and where there were competing theories about how and where he had most likely died.
No one had seen him since September 1986 when, according to news accounts, Latulip disappeared from a Canadian group home, got on a bus bound for the south side of Lake Ontario and forgot almost everything.
He settled in a new city.
He built a new life.
But a recent recollection has led Latulip back to the world he left behind.
Police this week announced that Latulip, 50, had been found in St. Catharines, Ontario, not far from where he had vanished decades earlier.
And — most shockingly — it was Latulip who solved his own cold case.
Authorities had once said Latulip was "developmentally delayed" and had "mental health challenges." His mother had said her adult son — who was 21 when he disappeared — functioned at the level of a child.
The last time his mother saw him, Latulip was in the hospital, recovering from a suicide attempt, according to the Waterloo Region Record.
Latulip abandoned the home in Kitchener and, police said, headed for Niagara Falls — "a common suicide site," the Region Record noted. In an especially troubling sign, he had left the residence without his medication.
Soon after, police said, Latulip suffered a head injury and lost his memory.
But police said he started having flashbacks last month and remembered his real name: Edgar Latulip.
He told a social worker, who discovered that he was a missing person and contacted local authorities.
After a voluntary DNA exam, police were able to confirm his identity.
The Missing Children's Network called it "incredible news."
"Edgar's recovery is the reason why we never give up hope!" said Pina Arcamone, the organization's director general.
Phil Gavin, spokesman for Niagara Regional Police Service, said Latulip is now preparing to reunite with his family.
"It's a pretty huge thing to find out you're someone else," Gavin told The Washington Post, "so I think he's taking it slow."
In 1986, Latulip was a 21-year-old man with a 12-year-old's mind, according to local news reports and missing persons listings from that time. He was staying in a group home near Kitchener and living at least partly on a disability pension, according to a 2014 series in the Waterloo Region Record.
It was a Tuesday that September when he skipped town.
His mother, identified by local news media as either Silvia or Sylvia Wilson, told the Region Record that she feared her son had been killed and buried.
"This is always at the back of my mind," Wilson told the newspaper in 2014. "Having an answer would mean closure. When Edgar disappeared, I became quite sick. I had to take a leave of absence from work. I was near a nervous breakdown."
Latulip's missing persons poster showed a young man with wire-frame glasses and a toothy grin — a computerized image to show people what he might look like. It said he had a thin build, a scar above one eyebrow and troubling mental issues.
For years, investigators tried to find him, pushing paper and going door to door — and, later on, republicizing his cold case, along with several others, in hopes of solving the decades-long mysteries.
Sgt. Richard Dorling, a homicide detective with Waterloo Regional Police, which oversaw the initial investigation in Latulip's disappearance, began encouraging local media and members of the community to spread the word.
"Pass the information on," Dorling told the Region Record in 2014. "If you see a poster, a picture or an article, post it on Facebook, send it out on Twitter. I'm hoping somewhere out there, someone will remember something."
Authorities followed a lead in 1993 to nearby Hamilton after someone reported seeing Latulip there, but they never found him, according to the Waterloo Region Record.
At some point, he settled in St. Catharines.
Police would not comment this week on Latulip's life before his disappearance or the accident that caused him to forget it. It's also unclear what kind of life he built for himself after vanishing — whether he had a job, a home or a family. Authorities also would not reveal his assumed name.
But they did acknowledge that Latulip started working with the Niagara Regional Police Service last month to find out his true identity. Gavin, the police spokesman, said investigators took a DNA sample from Latulip and contacted Waterloo Regional Police Service, which helped them compare it to a sample taken from a family member.
Authorities recently learned it was a match.
Duane Gingerich, a Waterloo Regional Police detective on the case, said he was elated.
"I had hopes that he was out there somewhere," he told the Waterloo Region Record. "For us as investigators, this is great, this is awesome. It's satisfying because most of these cases don't turn out this way.
"You expect the worst when a person is missing for that period of time."
Then, police phoned Latulip's mother, who now lives in Ottawa.
"She was excited, happy, overjoyed," Gavin, the Niagara Regional Police spokesman, told The Post. "After 30 years of not knowing where her son is — knowing that he's alive, she's pretty excited about that."
Alana Holtom, a Waterloo Regional Police Service spokeswoman, told The Post that she had spoken with Latulip's mother Wednesday and learned that the mother and son were working on a plan to reunite.
"She said that obviously this has been a worry to her for a long time," Holtom said.


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Pneumatic tubes were once a vital part of communications networks in London, New York and Paris, says Tom Standage
By Tom Standage
In 2006 Ted Stevens, a senator from Alaska, inadvertently coined a phrase when he cluelessly described the internet as "a series of tubes". The internet is made up of many things – wires, optical fibres, servers, switches and routers – but tubes are not among them. Yet there was a time when communications networks really did rely on tubes. Messages written on paper whizzed along underground pipes, propelled by compressed air from steam engines. This steampunk internet has been largely forgotten but its origins shed light on the ways that rapid digital communication can create problems as well as solutions.
The first pneumatic-tube system was set up in London in 1854 to carry telegrams between the Central Telegraph Office (CTO) and the stock exchange, just 220 yards away. At the time around half of all telegrams received at the CTO related to stock trades. As the volume of incoming traffic increased, the connection to the stock exchange became overloaded, and time-sensitive telegrams started to pile up. It became apparent that it would be quicker to transport the messages in physical form rather than retransmit them electrically over such a short distance. Josiah Latimer Clark, an engineer at the Electric Telegraph Company, devised a novel way to do it.
An underground tube, an inch and a half in diameter, was laid along the route. Five messages at a time could be packed into a leather-coated cylinder with a felt bumper at the front. The carrier was then fired along the tube at 20 feet per second using compressed air from a six-horse-power steam engine. This increased the capacity of the network link tenfold, allowing ten messages to be sent each minute. In 1858 the system was upgraded with larger tubes that had a greater capacity and then expanded across London. While the network largely carried stock trades and business documents, it was also used for personal correspondence for people who could afford the expense. In the 1860s similar networks were built in Liverpool, Birmingham and Manchester. The idea quickly spread abroad: pneumatic-tube networks were soon operating in Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Prague, Rome, Naples and Milan.
One of the most elaborate versions was built in New York, linking several post offices in Manhattan and Brooklyn. With tubes eight inches in diameter, it could handle small parcels. At its inauguration in 1897, a tortoise-shell cat was sent from the south end of Broadway to Park Row, nearly a mile uptown. The cat was dazed, but otherwise unharmed. Paris developed the most extensive network – it opened in 1879 and was capable of delivering a message anywhere in the city within two hours. Sending a "pneu" involved filling in a pre-paid form and handing it in at a post office, or posting it into a mailbox on the back of a tram. The missive would soon wing its way through the pneumatic-tube network to the post office nearest the recipient.
Pneumatic tubes are still used to carry order slips in some libraries, to move cash out of tills in large shops, and to transport blood samples in hospitals. But improvements in communications technology, and the use of vehicles to carry mail, meant tubes were no longer needed to send messages. They had largely died out by the mid-20th century, though the Paris system remained in operation until 1984.
Pneumatic tubes carried information in physical form, because it was quicker than electronic transmission over short distances. Today, by contrast, many things that used to be sent in physical form (such as books, music and movies) can be delivered more quickly as data. But when it comes to interpersonal communication, sending texts or emails is now so cheap and easy that messages pile up, and the speed of the network becomes irrelevant: the limiting factor is our human inability to cope with the incoming deluge. As a result, there are still times when the best way to get through is to walk over to a colleague's desk to get a quick answer, or send someone a hand-written note. The story of the pneumatic tube reminds us that the occasional need to step from the digital back into the physical realm is as old as digital networks themselves.


Young actress Barbara Miguel made waves at the recently concluded Harlem International Film Festival by bagging the Best Actress award for her performance in the indie film Nuwebe by director Joseph Israel Laban. The only Filipino film in competition at the festival which ran from September 11 to 15, 2013, Nuwebe is a drama about a 9-year old girl impregnated by her own father. The film delves into the repercussions caused by the event to the girl, her family and the community around her.
The synopsis for the film posted on its Facebook page goes: "Nuwebe" (English Title: Termitaria) is inspired by the actual story of one of the youngest mothers in Philippine history. Krista was just 9 years old when she got pregnant. Her mother believes that she was impregnated by malevolent supernatural creatures but the real story will prove to be more complicated than it seems."
The film also competed at the 2013 Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival. It competed in the New Breed category. The synopsis for the film provided by the Cinemalaya website is as follows: "Inspired by the actual story of one of the youngest mothers in Philippine history, "Nuwebe" follows the story of Krista who at the tender age of 9 got pregnant from the sexual abuse perpetrated by her own father. What follows is a story of struggle and renewal. Krista's story is complex. She refuses to see herself as a victim. Despite her situation, she demonstrates an incredible level of resilience and determination to overcome the trauma of her past. Her mother on the other hand is torn between her love for her child and her love for her husband."
Aside from Barbara Miguel, the cast of Nuwebe also includes Jake Cuenca, Nadine Samonte, Anita Linda, Manny Castañeda, Archie Adamos, Renaissance Tuason, Mikael Liwag, Isadora Villasquez, Renerich Ocon, Mariah Fernandez, Blair Arellano, and Derick Cabrido.
Barbara Miguel is most well-known by Filipinos for her appearance in the drama series Munting Heredera which was aired by GMA-7 from May 2011 to February 2012.


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Jesus' Bold Moves
By Craig Etheredge | July 13, 2021 | No Comments | Blog
There are lots of bold moves made throughout history. Some became popular because of the actual movement or because of the well known individual who did it. Some are made by ordinary people on a daily basis. Everyday, God calls on us to make a bold move that will initiate a change.
When God Makes a Bold Move
Anytime God wants to initiate something new, he calls one of his own to make a bold move. You can count on it.
It was certainly bold for Abraham to leave his retirement plans in Ur and venture out into an uncharted land. It was bold for David to face off against the giant, Goliath. It was bold for Moses to return to Egypt where he was a wanted man. It was bold for Joshua to circle Jericho. It was bold for Elijah to build an altar. It was bold for Daniel to pray. It was bold for Nehemiah to initiate a building project. God always begins his new work by calling his people to make extraordinary, risk-taking, hair-raising, wisdom-defying bold moves. Without them, nothing great ever happens.
The greatest bold moves of all were reserved for Jesus. If I were to ask you, "What were Jesus' bold moves?" you would probably say something like: leaving heaven, confronting the Pharisees, enduring the cross, maybe even the resurrection—you can't get bolder than that!
Did you know, though, that there were a series of bold moves Jesus made early in his ministry that were so critical, so strategic that if he had not taken them, the movement would have died before it had a chance to live?
Before Jesus' Bold Moves
John the Baptist was wildly popular. Massive crowds came from all over Israel and bordering countries to hear his hard-hitting prophetic message of repentance. John was like the Billy Graham of his day. He was a magnet to the people and a lightning rod to the religious leaders. Whether you agreed with John or not, there was no denying the fact that excitement was stirring and the people could sense it.
Eighteen months earlier, John had baptized Jesus in the Jordan River, just north of the Dead Sea. At that time he started pointing people to Jesus, declaring, "Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!" (John 1.29). Some followed Jesus, but the crowds were still gravitating to John.
Then tragedy struck. John was put in prison by Herod Antipas, the Governor of the Galilee region, for publicly exposing Herod Antipas' illicit affair with his own brother's wife, Herodius. With John out of the picture, the crowds were left without a leader and the movement could have begun to dissipate. But in that moment, Jesus made a series of bold moves.
When He heard that John had been arrested, He withdrew into Galilee. He left Nazareth behind and went to live in Capernaum by the sea, in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali. This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah: Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali, along the sea road, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles! The people who live in darkness have seen a great light, and for those living in the shadowland of death, light has dawned. From then on Jesus began to preach, "Repent, because the kingdom of heaven has come near!" As He was walking along the Sea of Galilee, He saw two brothers, Simon, who was called Peter, and his brother Andrew. They were casting a net into the sea, since they were fishermen. "Follow Me," He told them, "and I will make you fish for people!" Matthew 4.12-19
Jesus' Four Bold Moves
Jesus stepped into the vacuum of leadership and made four bold moves:
First, he moved his home base of operation from Nazareth (his hometown) to Capernaum. Capernaum was a thriving city on the north shore of the Sea of Galilee. It would have been the equivalent of moving from a small West Texas town to the big city of Dallas.
Second, Jesus began to preach the message that John the Baptist had been preaching, namely "Repent for the kingdom of heaven has come."
Third, Jesus began to give leadership to the movement. From this point forward, John would never again be the focal point. His work was done. Now all eyes were on Jesus.
Finally, Jesus started calling out men to form his leadership team. He had been grooming Peter and Andrew, James and John for this moment. Now it was their time to make a bold move of their own.
As a result of Jesus' moves, the ministry continued to grow and the movement of God went to a whole new level. From this point forward miracles exploded, Jesus' popularity soared, and leaders multiplied. If Jesus hadn't made these moves, my guess is the movement would have smoldered, fizzled, and slowly died out.
Making a Bold Move in Your Ministry
Let me draw out a principle here that is vitally important. For ministry to move forward, it requires leaders to make Spirit-directed, risk-defying, faith-emboldened bold moves. These moves create momentum, increase focus, infuse energy, establish new norms, surface new leaders, and result in growth.
You are simply not going to get where you want to go apart from making some bold moves. If there was ever a time when the church needed leaders to make bold moves, that time is now.
Everyday, everyone is called to make a bold move. But not everyone answers that call. People make their own choices, whether they are aware that they're being called to make a bold move or not. Are you ready to make a bold move?
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During gastrulation, three major cell lineages are being established. They are the Ectoderm, Mesoderm and Endoderm. Following gastrulation, various cell lineages are derrived from these three primary cell types. For example, the Ectoderm gives rise to the epidermis and its derrivatives such as nails, hair and teeth. On the other hand, the Ectoderm also gives rise to the Central Nervous System.
Pander, Christian (1794-1865) was the Russian zoologist who studied the chick embryo. He discovered the three layers that form in the early development of the embryo, and is considered the father of embryology. Pander's work was extended by Baer.
Remak, Robert (1815-1865) was the German physician who is the founder of electrotherapy. He also reduced the four germ layers of Baer to three and gave them their modern names of ectoderm, mesoderm, and endoderm. Remak devised a cellular interpretation of vertebrate development.


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Par Pharmaceutical Begins Shipment of Generic Zegerid®
Jul 2, 2010 9:28am
WOODCLIFF LAKE, N.J., July 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Par Pharmaceutical Companies, Inc. (NYSE: PRX) today announced that it began shipping the 20mg/1100mg and 40mg/1100mg strengths of omeprazole and sodium bicarbonate capsules to the trade. Omeprazole and sodium bicarbonate capsules are the generic version of Santarus' Zegerid®. Annual U.S. sales of Zegerid capsules are approximately $195 million, according to IMS Health data. Par has been awarded 180 days of marketing exclusivity for being the first to file an ANDA containing a paragraph IV certification for these strengths of the product.
On April 14, 2010, the District Court of Delaware held that the patents covering Zegerid are invalid. The case is currently on appeal at the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Important information about omeprazole and sodium bicarbonate capsules
Omeprazole and sodium bicarbonate is a combination of omeprazole, a proton-pump inhibitor, and sodium bicarbonate, an antacid.
Omeprazole and sodium bicarbonate is indicated for the short-term treatment of duodenal ulcer, the short-term treatment (4-8 weeks) of active benign gastric ulcer, the treatment of heartburn and other symptoms associated with Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD) and short-term treatment (4-8 weeks) of erosive esophagitis which has been diagnosed by endoscopy.
About Par Pharmaceutical Companies, Inc.
Par Pharmaceutical Companies, Inc. is a U.S.-based specialty pharmaceutical company. Through its wholly-owned subsidiary's two operating divisions, Par Pharmaceutical and Strativa Pharmaceuticals, it develops, manufactures and markets higher-barrier-to-entry generic drugs and niche, innovative proprietary pharmaceuticals. For press releases and other company information, visit www.parpharm.com.
Certain statements in this news release constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. To the extent any statements made in this news release contain information that is not historical, these statements are essentially forward-looking and, as such, are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and contingencies, many of which are beyond the control of the Company, which could cause actual results and outcomes to differ materially from those expressed herein. Risk factors that might affect such forward-looking statements include those set forth in Item 1A of the Company's most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K in other of the Company's filings with the SEC from time to time, including Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and Current Reports on Form 8-K, and on general industry and economic conditions. Any forward-looking statements included in this news release are made as of the date hereof only, based on information available to the Company as of the date hereof, and, subject to any applicable law to the contrary, the Company assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements.
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In the last few years we've seen advances in storage technology that have tremendous potential for IT customers. Some of these are enabled by investments made in developing flash solid-state drive (SSD) technology and adapting it to enterprise storage systems.
These new storage technologies improve the processes of storing and retrieving information. They reduce costs, and lead to greater storage efficiencies and capabilities.
•	Tiering products with the ability to place or move data based on a probability of access to maximize the performance of the storage system.
•	All-SSD storage systems designed for near- zero latency to provide the highest level of performance in a storage system.
•	Faster networks and network convergence where the pipes used in storage to move data allow greater bandwidth and bring the ability to standardize on one type of infrastructure throughout an organization.
•	SSD add-in technology where the non-volatility and performance of SSDs can be exploited in a direct manner.
•	Forward error-correction technology as a new way to protect data from a failure.
•	Scale-out NAS systems to address enterprise demands for the volumetric increase in unstructured data to be stored.
There's another type of product that has not received as much attention, perhaps because it is not simply a matter of using a new technology. That is the process of automating information management to make it easier for administrators to understand the value of data. This area may be more difficult to master, but new developments may yield greater economic value – primarily in operational expense – than some of the newer technologies.
An example of automated management would be what is called "Active Management." This Active Management is similar to Storage Resource Management (SRM), but besides monitoring storage resources it takes automated actions based on conditions and rules defined by default or through customization by the storage administrator.
Yet despite their clear benefits, the adoption rate for these technologies and processes will be slow. That's mainly because IT is conservative in adopting new concepts and technologies. This does not mean that the technologies won't be embraced and be successfully deployed. It will just take longer.
The excitement around a new technology needs to be kept in perspective with how long it takes to be deployed successfully by IT. The technology adoption rate reflects the inertia and conservative nature for handling the critical task of storing data.
The longer technology adoption rate can kill start-up companies when they can't get the investments required to get to the point of profitability. Many investors have an aggressive profile that defies the reality of adoption rates. Larger companies can handle the conservative adoption more successfully, but with much internal angst.
But no matter how great a new storage technology may be, the customer needs to understand it to make correct decisions about investing in it before it takes hold in data centers.


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Some of you probably have outdoor clothing you wear that is made from Polartech or Polarfleece material. The company that makes these materials is called Malden Mills. The owner of the company is a deeply religious man of the Jewish faith named Aaron Feuerstein. The factory employs 3,400 workers and is the main employer for two neighboring towns. The area once had many mills but most had closed and moved to areas where they could pay people less money to work. Mr. Feuerstein, however, felt that people should be paid a decent wage and so refused to move his factory, in spite of the higher production costs.
On December 31, 1995, his 70th birthday, his factory caught fire and burned to the ground. The workers believed it was the end of the line for their jobs. Surely Mr. Feuerstein, at 70 years of age, would take the $300 million in insurance money and call it quits. While the smoke was still rising from the charred remains of the fire Mr. Feuerstein called his workers together at a school gymnasium and spoke to them. They were about to discover what kind of man they really worked for. He announced that he would not abandon them and that he was going to rebuild the factory. He told them that he was keeping all 3,400 of them on the payroll for one month and that each would get a $275 Christmas bonus. Once the factory was rebuilt they would all be welcomed back. Grown men wept in the audience as he spoke. After the first month ended he paid them for another month. After the second month ended he paid them for a third month. It cost him $1.5 million dollars a week to do this, but he held steadfastly to his promise and did not abandon them. He even paid their hospitalization insurance.
His employees responded in kind by salvaging what equipment they could from the burned buildings and in temporary shelters began production once more. At one stage, production levels were equal to that which they had been before the fire.
Mr. Feuerstein received much praise from around the country but he said he did only what was the moral and right thing to do. He used his money to support his beliefs in God rather than make money his God.
As each of you lives your life try to remember Mr. Feuerstein's example and treat people you encounter with fairness and kindness. You will be amazed at how much better you will be treated in return.
Good night, gentlemen.


Over the past 7 to 10 years Chinese society has undergone rapid transformation socially, economically and politically. The face of this change is best seen in China's youth. They are the people who are moving China forward. Many youth find themselves caught between tradition and modernity as they try to find their sense of identity and place in an ever changing society.
Some of the changes in Chinese society can be seen in the weddings and marriage customs of young Chinese newlyweds. Zheng Ying met her husband through a mutual friend and they now live together in their new home in Guangzhou. Old Chinese traditions often saw newly married couples move directly into the groom's home, but now, with China's economic growth, couples are becoming wealthier and more independent and many are buying their own homes and abandoning old traditions.
Modern Chinese wedding ceremonies often infuse Western style opulence alongside ancient Chinese traditions. With a massive surge in the disposable income available to Chinese citizens, no expense is spared in making the ceremonies as lavish as possible. In a country where image and stature are of great importance, the typical Chinese family is spending great amounts of money on their child's wedding.
These photos explore the rapid cultural and economic changes taking place in China through the wedding ceremonies of young Chinese couples.
A woman counts her total tokens, which she receives as she works. After work she'll calculate how many basket she carried out and this calculation is her earning of the day. Every token value is taka 2.5 ($0.031 USD).
Labor in bangladesh lead their live by poor earning. After working 11 hours a day they have earn less then $2 USD. In modern age they have work manually till now.
According to ILO (International Labor Organization), the harsh reality is that some 375 million working women and men are not able to earn enough to keep themselves and their families above the $1.25 a day extreme poverty line. That is around one in eight of the employed population of the developing world where more than a quarter of working women and men live with their families on $2 a day or less.
Legs of a worker in bangladesh.
Labor in bangladesh lead their live by poor earning. After working 11 hours a day unloading coal they have earn less then $2 USD. In modern age they have work manually till now.
Mr. Babul age of 55 have work all day to lead his family.
Labor in bangladesh work all day long by unloading coal from cargo.Carrying every basket from cargo to unloading place there have distance about 800 fit.They've earn taka 2.5 ($0.031 USD) per basket.In whole day they've earn taka 180-200 ($2.5 USD).
Every labor have to bring his food from his home.In lunch break they get time only 20min for rest.This time is too short for them to go home & get lunch.So they carried out lunch box from home & at lunch time they eat together under open air.
Labor in bangladesh lead their live by poor earning. After working 11 hours a day by unloading coal they have earn less then $2 USD. In modern age they have work manually till now.
This is the token that after carrying every bucket of coal unloading the labor earn 1.After work they've calculate how many basket they carried out & this calculation is their earning of the day.Every token value is taka 2.5 ($0.031 USD).


What this should instill in you is HOPE.
HOPE that if you keep working at your recovery, things will get better.
HOPE that you really can change the way you think and feel about food.
HOPE that you can someday live in peace with your body.
Because your brain literally changes the way it thinks and perceives things over time.
How does this work in eating disorder recovery?
We identify the thought patterns that are leading you to the eating disordered behaviors.
For example, if you believe that eating fat makes you fat, then you will probably avoid foods with fat in them.
But, because the body needs fat, your cravings will eventually win out, and you'll find yourself feeling out of control with something like peanut butter, chips, cookies, ice cream, pizza….you get the point.
Then, because you believe that eating these foods will make you fat, you feel terribly guilty about eating them. And you feel awful about yourself.
This is the "plasticity" of the brain that Sam Harris refers to in the quote at the top. Plasticity means that it can be molded and shaped.
First, we would look at your belief that eating fat will make you fat, and whether or not this is scientifically true (spoiler alert – it's not).
Then we could do some "experiments" where we have you eat some foods with fat in them to see if it does make you fat.
As you start to see that your belief is false, your brain starts to think differently about foods with fat in them. It starts to see them as tasty, beneficial, and safe to eat.
Then we would work on your belief that becoming fat is an awful thing…..etc.
You see how this works? We "rewire" your brains thoughts gradually over time to support recovery, rather than the eating disorder.
What this all means is that you CAN recover and you CAN have a profoundly different life. One that is rich and full of connection and joy — the very things that the eating disorder takes away from you.


XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio have designed satellite broadcast systems that differ, but they achieve the same high quality of satellite radio. A milestone of this success is the fact that satellite radio signals that are available across the United States and into Mexico and Canada. Rock and Roll – No it's not a genre any more! XM Satellite Radio has two satellites named Rock and Roll which remain in parallel geostationary orbit to offer radio coverage throughout the USA. Sirius Satellite Radio has chosen to use three satellites in an inclined elliptical orbit. This configuration provides 16 hours per satellite of signal, which provides a great redundancy if any moon were to fail. Playing it smart, Sirius and XM both have spare satellites, which can be called on at a moments notice if needed.
XM satellite radio and Sirius satellite radio have Earth-based broadcast stations that are used to send up information to the satellites, which is then dispersed throughout the world. Sirius and XM both have disk jockeys that manage, create and program music which is then sent up to the satellites. The information is then taken in by the satellites and sent through a rebroadcast of the streams to earth. The significant advantage of this is that, unlike earth-based radio stations whose signals reach listeners 150 miles away, satellite radio signals have a considerable power, and are receivable anywhere within the continental United States and hundreds of miles in each direction of the borders. Satellite Radio is growing to become a worldwide network and offerings are increasing throughout the world. XM satellite radio and Sirius satellite radio are making it happen!
So How Does Satellite Radio Work: First, a receiver decodes and plays the received signals through an antenna. Initially, some cars have utilised a tuner that takes the antenna signals and then passes them to some satellite radio-ready radio for playing. Ad the concept has grown out of their car and into the home, house kits for satellite radio usage direct RCA inputs for home theatre and traditional stereo systems. A developing number of choices is happening, and each company is developing a wide range of products for customers. Already we are seeing recipients for car-only, boom boxes, computer-only, and portables for use in automobile and home configurations. The companies making these products are all, Audiovox, Delphi Skyfi, Terk, and plenty others are jumping on board. Both XM satellite radio and Sirius satellite radio have licensed recipients, and other goods for customers use.


Do I Really Have to Get a Sleep Test?
Dr. Aldon Hilton, Since 2001, Aldon J. Hilton DDS has helped over a thousand sleep apnea sufferers with a dental sleep retainer. www.snoringandsleepapneasolutions.com.
I get maybe a dozen phone calls like one I received recently from a potential patient. He didn't have a sleep test and his first question was: Do I really have to get a sleep test?
He explained that he knew that he had sleep apnea because he estimated that he was at least 100 pounds overweight. He also had a bed partner that once told him that he stopped breathing, and snored so loudly that he could be heard down the hall of his apartment building.
He never felt like he had a good night's sleep, lacked energy during the day, and was prone to taking naps at his desk in the afternoon. So why wasn't this enough information? Why did he still have to have a sleep test?
What he described to me were his symptoms. In medical terms, this was part of his chief complaint and medical history. A quick Internet search of sleep apnea symptoms might convince anyone that they had sleep apnea. I agreed with him that he probably did have sleep apnea and should be tested for it. I referred him to a sleep lab for the sleep study. Why would I do that when I think he has sleep apnea?
Symptoms are not a diagnosis. One of my daughters had all of the symptoms of a cold, until she visited with her physician and got the diagnosis of having the flu. Along with an initial consultation with a sleep medicine physician, the sleep study is another part of the diagnosis. It's like getting a blood test for suspected high cholesterol. Without a sleep study to confirm the symptoms, a physician would not know what appropriate treatment to recommend.
In addition, without a sleep study and a medical diagnosis, medical insurance companies will not pay for treatment. They need to know that you have a medical condition bad enough that it warrants treatment. Without a study, there is no proof of a "medical necessity" and therefore no insurance benefits.
I explained all of this to him, referred him to a sleep center for the consultation, sleep study and diagnosis.
When I followed up with him, he still hadn't gone for a sleep test and was adamant that he didn't want to. I explained to him that he's going to go to a place and sleep in a comfy bed. They will probably even tuck him in and watch over him all night like he was a newborn. He can even watch TV until he falls asleep. This is the easiest testing someone has to endure. Having blood drawn is more difficult than sleeping, really!
There are many reasons why people don't get a sleep test at a sleep center, but the main reason is the fear of the unknown. They don't know what to expect and there is a natural barrier, that we all have, to things that are simply unknown. Luckily, there have been many advances in sleep testing and you can now perform a sleep test in the comfort of your own home. It's called home sleep testing and it's something that I have offered to a number of patients that come to see me.
Bottom line, if you think you have sleep apnea, you need to get a sleep test. You should be wary if a dentist agrees to treat you for your snoring or "suspected sleep apnea" without first getting a sleep test.
Snoring and sleep apnea are medical problems. Dentists are only legally qualified and licensed by the state they practice in to diagnosis dental problems. They can legally and ethically treat you for your snoring or apnea with a sleep retainer if you have a sleep study.


In its first incarnation in 1883, the train's original route ran between Paris and Istanbul but such was its appeal to passengers drawn by the romance and mystery of long-distance international rail travel that further routes were soon added.
This elegant and much loved train discontinued service in 1977 and might have been consigned to history had not American sea-freight entrepreneur James Sherwood bought a number of classic pre-war carriages and dining cars at auction. Magnificently restored and re-launched in 1982, today's Venice Simplon-Orient-Express connects Paris and Venice and upholds the tradition of offering passengers the very highest standards of on-board service, comfort, luxury and gastronomy.
The Venice Simplon-Orient-Express also has a 1930s bar car decorated in Art Nouveau style and an on-board boutique selling a selection of gifts and home ware as well as a range of accessories for ladies and gentleman.
The VSOE's elegant cabins date back to the 1920s and have all been carefully restored to their former glory.
By day, the private double cabins consist of a seating area with a banquette-style sofa, table and footstool. Whilst passengers are at dinner, the sofa is converted into upper and lower berths complete with the finest bed linen. There is a washbasin in the cabin, whilst a WC is located in each carriage. All passengers in a double cabin are given the very best in personal service by their cabin steward, who is available 24 hours a day to attend to their every need.
As its name suggests, the train originates in the ancient Italian city of Venice. Owing to its construction upon marshland, Venice is largely navigated by a system of canals rather than streets. The city is renowned for its architecture, from its stilted houses to its magnificent palaces and also possesses a rich cultural and artistic heritage and excellent cuisine.
On its journey from Venice the train passes through Italy's spectacular Dolomite Mountains. Regarded as one of the most beautiful mountain landscapes in the world, the Dolomites achieved UNESCO World Heritage Site status in 2009. Although the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express no longer travels through the historic Simplon Tunnel which connects Italy with Switzerland, the alternative Alpine passes it uses continue to provide passengers with magnificent mountain panoramas.


I think we have uncovered the actor who will play Captain Britain in Spider-man Far from Home. Can this be the actor? We discuss and provide logical evidence. We Think Joakim Skarli is hidden in plain sight on IMDB as London Tourist. He looks remarkably like the Capt. Britain character pictured on this pic. Can it be? OMG!!! We also talk about the SuperboringBowl and other nerdy crap.


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Q: What's the difference between burning a book and throwing it into a black hole There is a big concern about loosing information inside a black hole. As far as I understand, the black hole is characterized classically by its mass, angular momentum and charge. Semi-classically, thermal radiation is added.
Lot's of effort is paid to somehow restore the amount of information that crossed the horizon of a black hole, e.g. holographically on the surface of the event horizon. Why is it not allowed to simply loose the information? Is it related to the reversibility of fundamental laws of nature?
If I burn the book, all the information that was stored in the special arrangement of paper and ink atoms are lost as well. Of course, the atoms still exist, but the content of the book that they were storing is lost.
What is the difference in the quality of information loss between the burning and the crossing of the event horizon?
Could the black hole just simply be a cosmic fire that burns everything irreversibly into thermal radiation?

A: I'll answer based on limited reading in this area of physics.
As I understand it, the background is the view that general relativity and quantum physics both espouse a unitary approach. That is, the evolution of the physical systems (quantum fields plus spacetime) is unitary. In Hawking radiation there is a non-unitary element apparently "creeping in", but it depends on exactly how the calculation is done. If we allow a black hole to completely evaporate then, arguably, the overall evolution "ought not" to be non-unitary. On this argument all the information that went into the black hole during its lifetime should reappear in the physical phenomena, a bit like burning a book (where the information goes into the smoke and ashes). The information would be in the Hawking radiation.
I put the words "ought not" in inverted commas in order to signal that this is not an area where we can claim sufficient confidence to say for sure that it has to be unitary. After all, general relativity suggests a singularity inside the black hole horizon; if we suppose there is not really a singularity then that's all very well but then we don't know what there would be instead.
But let's propose that the overall evolution is unitary. Can we make that plausible?
The difficulty is in making this intuition look convincing. One of the problems is that you can imagine something like a book or a living thing falling in (lots of information) or something of the same mass but little structure (little information) and there is no particular reason why the Hawking radiation immediately after it fell in would be very different in the two cases.
Also, for a large black hole the Hawking radiation is much too weak to account for information of stuff falling in right there and then. So to get the information back at evaporation there has to be a way for it to be stored somehow. As I understand it, attempts so far to give an account of the whole process have not looked convincing enough to gain widespread assent. It is more a case of different people placing bets on whether a feasible model will be found sometime.
But as I say, I am not an expert on this, just reporting as one who is familiar with the background. If there is recent news then I hope another person will answer and provide it.

A: Let's first consider how information is put in the book: Some nice clean paper is tarnished by ink.
There exists a only a very small probability that the ink leaves the paper and goes back to the ink canister. But the laws of physics allow it by being time-symmetric.
Surely a recycling pant can take ink out of paper. But said plant must use energy and it must cool itself, IOW it must tarnish the energy.
Well, the waste heat will then contain the information that was in the book. Waste heats produced when processing different books are different from each other.
Now, a black hole can be used as a cooling device in a recycling plant. Then later empty space can be used as a cooling device that cools the black hole.
Does a black hole clean the waste heat, by removing the information, like the recycling plant cleans the paper? Well, it shouldn't if it obeys the same laws as the plant.


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High-efficiency fabrication technology for switchable mirror devices
(Nanowerk News) Kazuki Tajima, Energy Control Thin Film Group, the Materials Research Institute for Sustainable Development of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), has developed a new fabrication technology that can lead to low-cost, large-scale, low-voltage driven switchable mirror devices.
A switchable mirror device is an electrochromic device that can switch between the mirror state and the transparent state when a voltage of a few volts is applied. The developed technology is a technology for the fabrication of switchable mirror devices; first, functional layers, including a switchable mirror layer and an ion storage layer, are formed on transparent substrates, and then these substrates are bonded together with an adhesive electrolyte. The technology has advantages in productivity, cost reduction, stability, and scale-up over the conventional device fabrication process, in which functional layers are formed one after another on a single transparent substrate. It provides a feasible option for fabricating switchable mirror devices, which will dramatically expand the uses and applications of switchable mirror devices.
Details of this technology was presented at the 11th International Nanotechnology Exhibition & Conference (nano tech 2012) at Tokyo Big Sight in Koto, Tokyo on February 15-17, 2012.
Figure 1: Change in the appearance of the developed switchable mirror device (left: mirror state; right: transparent state).
Social Background of Research
Window glass of houses, office buildings, vehicles, and trains functions to bring in sunlight. It also brings in much of the heat energy (infrared light) of sunlight and increases the cooling load in summer. In recent years, the use of insulating windows such as double glazing has been promoted to reduce the cooling load. For further energy savings, it is necessary to control the amount of sunlight brought in freely according to the season, weather, and time. Glass that allows users to control the amount of sunlight passing through is called smart window. Some such products are commercially available. However, in many cases, the amount of light passing through the glass is controlled by electrically coloring the thin film coating on the glass and thereby absorbing excess light. As a result, such products have the drawback that the absorbed light increases the glass temperature and the radiated heat from the glass is released into the room. The developed switchable mirror controls the amount of light by reflecting the light instead of absorbing it, and the glass temperature is not increased. It can effectively block sunlight by switching between the mirror state and the transparent state and is thus expected to significantly reduce cooling load.
History of Research
AIST is conducting research and development of the application of switchable mirror thin film materials to smart window. There are two types of switchable mirror based on their working principles: gasochromic type that control light with diluted hydrogen gas and electrochromic type that control light by electrically transporting hydrogen ions (protons). AIST has discovered an original gasochromic material for a switchable mirror thin film (AIST press release on August 4, 2010) and has fabricated a solid-state electrochromic switchable mirror film (AIST press release on November 21, 2007). The electrochromic switchable mirror has a multilayer structure. In order to increase the size of the mirror according to its use, the process time needs to be reduced to achieve high productivity and low cost, and high hydrogen ion conductivity in the layer needs to be provided to stabilize switching performance. AIST has conducted research and development to make improvements in these areas.
Details of Research
The developed technology enables the fabrication of a switchable mirror device by bonding together transparent substrates with functional layers using an adhesive electrolyte. The adhesive electrolyte plays two roles: as an adhesive to bond the substrates together and as an electrolyte with high hydrogen ion conductivity. This technology can significantly reduce process time compared to the conventional technology, in which functional layers are formed one by one on a single transparent substrate by magnetron sputtering. For example, the conventional technology utilizes vacuum processes requiring time to stabilize the vacuum state. Further, it employs reactive magnetron sputtering to form a solid electrolyte layer (oxide) which requires a process time of several tens of minutes. In addition, the functional layers are exposed to the air and a protective layer needs to be formed to mitigate the environmental degradation of the layers. In the developed technology, a device can be easily fabricated by forming an adhesive electrolyte by the coating process in a few minutes and then bonding the substrates together (Fig. 2). In addition, conventional electrolyte solutions are liquids and require a sealing structure for leakage prevention. In the developed technology, the electrolyte solidifies at room temperature in the air and acts as an adhesive electrolyte and a packaging material of the device. Therefore, a sealing structure is not required and high stability of performance is expected.
Figure 2: Comparison of switchable mirror device fabrication processes.
The developed switchable mirror device typically consists of a transparent substrate, a transparent electrode, a switchable mirror layer (metal), a catalyst layer (metal), an adhesive electrolyte, an ion storage layer (oxide), a transparent electrode, and a transparent substrate layered in this order. After fabrication, the device has hydrogen ions in the ion storage layer and its state changes when the hydrogen ions move according to the polarity (plus or minus) of the applied voltage. When voltage is applied so that the hydrogen ions move toward the switchable mirror layer, the transported ions react with the switchable mirror layer, forming metal hydride (Fig. 3, right). Since the metal hydride is transparent, the device changes from the mirror state to the transparent state. This change is reversible. When voltage of the opposite polarity is applied, the hydrogen ions move out of the metal hydride in the switchable mirror layer and the layer returns to the original metal, returning the device to the mirror state (Fig. 3, left). The device can be switched between the mirror state and the transparent state by applying voltage. The amounts of transmitted and reflected light can be controlled freely using this switching process.
Figure 3: Switching of the states of the switchable mirror device (left: mirror state; right: transparent state).
Figure 4 shows the photos of switchable mirror devices fabricated using various substrate materials. Since the developed technology can fabricate a switchable mirror device at room temperature, it is possible to use a non-heat resistant resin as the substrate material. Different materials can be bonded together using this technology. For example, glass can be bonded to poly(ethylene naphthalate) (PEN) and PEN can be bonded to poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET). A large switchable mirror device can be easily fabricated (for example, the 150 mm-square device in Fig. 4 is 25 times as large as those fabricated by the conventional technology.) The switching speed of a device fabricated by the conventional process decreases with increasing size. In contrast, the adhesive electrolyte used in this technology has high hydrogen ion conductivity, allowing smooth transfer of hydrogen ions; and therefore the switching speed does not decrease with increasing size. In addition, while a device fabricated by the conventional technology normally requires a driving voltage of ?5 V, the device fabricated by the developed technology can be driven at a low voltage of ?1 V, due to the above properties of the adhesive electrolyte.
Figure 4: Photos of the switchable mirror devices using various substrate materials (Top left: glass + PEN (mirror state), substrate size: 150 mm-square; top right: glass + PEN (transparent state), substrate size: 150 mm-square; bottom left: PEN + PET (mirror state), substrate size: 80 mm-square; bottom right: PEN + PET (transparent state), substrate size: 80 mm-square).
Figure 5 shows changes in the optical spectra of the developed switchable mirror device. It shows that the device transmits almost no light in the mirror state (shown in red). The maximum transmittance and reflectance, and amounts of the changes achieved by switching can be freely altered through structural control of the functional thin films in the device.
Figure 5 : Changes in the optical spectra of the developed switchable mirror device (Substrate: glass; left: change in transmission spectrum; right: change in reflection spectrum).
The developed technology that uses the coating process to bond substrates together provides a feasible option for fabricating switchable mirror devices. Either this technology or the conventional technology using magnetron sputtering can be used, depending on the use and size of the switchable mirror device. Most notably, the coating process can use industrial printing techniques. The technology is expected to lead to a basic process for the mass production and scale-up of switchable mirror devices.
Switchable mirror devices are driven only by electricity and expected to be used in a wide variety of applications, including energy-saving windows for houses, office buildings, vehicles, and trains, and electronic and optical devices, toys, and addition to existing products. The researcher will develop a more adaptable fabrication technology to meet various specifications for expected applications of the device. He will also work to develop various switching abilities, including high durability and selectivity of abilities to change optical characteristics.
Source: AIST
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Gradačka Poljana este un sat din comuna Nikšić, Muntenegru. Conform datelor de la recensământul din 2003, localitatea are 6 locuitori (la recensământul din 1991 erau 0 locuitori).

Demografie
În satul Gradačka Poljana locuiesc 3 persoane adulte, iar vârsta medie a populației este de 19,7 de ani (16,0 la bărbați și 21,5 la femei). În localitate sunt 1 gospodărie, iar numărul mediu de membri în gospodărie este de 6,00.

Referințe

Legături externe
 Gradačka Poljana pe Wikimapia
 Gradačka Poljana Map — Satellite Images of Gradačka Poljana (Maplandia)

Localități din comuna Nikšić

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Q: CSS relative hrefs and iFrames in IE9 I have a quite specific IE9 problem that relates to this for example (but here it only refers to IE8 and less) IE8 web font iframe bug workarounds
I have pages that have iFrames inside iframes like so
Top page
 -- iframe1.html
 -- -- iframe2.html
 -- -- -- iframe3.html

The iframe 2 is loaded by iframe1 dynamically. I also have a fonts.css style sheet that has fonts encoded in this way:
src:url(data:font/opentype;base64, /*FONT HERE */

that is located next to iframe1's folder in
/%folder_with_top_page%/%folder with iframe1.html%/style/fonts.css

iframe2.html loads the fonts.css file from that folder:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../style/fonts.css" />

And this works with other browsers just fine, except in IE9 the result is following:
page loads
page flashes with correct fonts
page reverts to New Times Roman/default serif font

Looking at the Network tab in dev tools in IE9 it shows that the browser is trying to load the fonts file from the root folder:
404 %folder_with_top_page%/style/fonts.css

Everything works just fine if I also place the fonts.css file there, but that seems unnecessary. There is also a file called fonts.css in %folder_with_iframe3.html%/style/fonts.css, which loads fine and seems to relate to the problem described in the first link, but I assumed the problem was fixed in >IE9? I know that the page structure isn't optimal in any case, but it's not up to me to change it.
My questions are as follows:
1) Is this the same problem as described in the link I posted but in IE9 instead?
2) Which would be the workaround that makes the most sense: just inserting the fonts file to the "correct" (= wrong, root-ish) folder, putting the fonts.css file to the same level as the file thats loading it (aka copying the file to %folder_with_iframe2.html%/style/fonts.css) or something else (such as appending the CSS again to the page with jQuery after the site has loaded).
The behaviour only happens with iframes but not when loading the pages individually.

A: I just stumbled on this post while diagnosing a similar issue with an embedded iframe trying to load a stylesheet with a relative link, and the request going to the outer page.  To solve it, I appended the link tag to the DOM, then set the href attribute with JS.
var cssLink = "<link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' id='addcss'/>";
$('head').append(cssLink);
$('#addcss').attr('href', src);

I was able to reproduce the issue consistently when including the href in the initial tag, and was unable to reproduce it after implementing this fix.