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May 31, 2016	by	Greg Prickett	-
Police Equipment: Then, Now and It's Impact on Police Culture
May 31, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — At my first police department, I was issued all the equipment I would need to be a cop in the housing projects of a major city. I was issued a Smith & Wesson model 64 in .38 Special, two speedloaders, one set of handcuffs, a 26-inch wood baton, a vest, and a badge. I provided an extra set of handcuffs and a flashlight. That's what all cops carried back then.
Almost every department carried revolvers, although a few carried semi-auto pistols, and most of those departments carried revolvers in either .38 Special or .357 Magnum. Where I worked, we didn't carry shotguns—the cars didn't have lockable racks in them, and the officers who did carry them would slide them under the front bench seat. There were also no cages in the cars, no radars, no computers, and no cameras. There was a radio, but it wouldn't scan.
Most of the cars had two "cherries" on a bar on the roof, one red, one blue, each with two sealed beam lights. Some of the richer suburbs had a lightbar called the Twinsonic, where the sealed beams were driven by a chain connected to a central motor. On both, the siren speaker was mounted directly over your head and was deafening when turned on—to the point that one could barely hear the radio, even at full volume.
That was it, and it was enough. Most gunfights used 3-5 rounds and were over quickly.
It's different today. Police are typically issued a high capacity semi-automatic pistol, typically with a plastic frame and in .40 S&W. Officers now carry up to four extra magazines for the pistol, about 75 rounds total instead of the 18 we carried. They are issued two sets of handcuffs and also carry disposable "flexcuffs" which are like cable ties. They carry an expandable baton. They carry a badge and wear a vest, just like the old days. But they also have new toys. They have a taser on their belt. Pepper spray. Some now have body cameras.
The cars are equipped with scanning radios and GPS antennas so they can be located instantly. The light bars are made up of very bright LEDs, much brighter than the sealed beams of the old days. The siren speaker is now on a push bumper, which none of the old cars had. They have cages to separate the officers from the prisoners in the back seat, and a military style patrol rifle and a shotgun are mounted to the cage with electronic locks. The car has a computer and video.
Some of this is progress, but some is not. The more equipment that we give officers, the more options they have, but it is a deceptive trade off. In the old days, an officer could shoot the suspect, hit them with a wood stick, or go hands on. Those were his only options, unless he could talk the guy out of fighting. Good officers could do that.
Nowadays there are many more options for the officer, and they can control a suspect with pepper spray or a taser. The officers are much more inclined to go to a force option instead of talking, because we have taught them to go to a force option. We sometimes train them on verbal judo, but we spend much more time on defensive tactics or at the firing range.
Think about it for a second. Andy Griffith used to handle things by talking. He normally wasn't armed, and if he was it was a Colt .38 revolver or a Winchester pump shotgun. Yeah, that was television and not reality, but the basic ideas were the same. We used to do more with less, still enforce the law, and not have near the problems we have today.
If you make officers dependent on tools, instead of their ability to communicate with people, what do you think that they will use, as a default?
The problem is that the police will not want to change their way of doing business. It's what they are used to, what they are trained to do, and they are currently protected when they use force.
Changing the culture of police will also require changing their equipment.
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31 May 2016	at 11:08 am	- Reply
Years ago I was in the kitchen making dinner and I heard this noise. I thought it was the television television but my television wasnt on. I heard a woman screaming and it was in front of my house on the street. A man was tossing a girl around by her hair. I went out my front door and hid by a bush to check and make absolutely certain the man did not have a gun. When I saw he did not have a gun I got out from that bush and told him "You let go of that girl right now!" He immediately but go of that girl and she ran down the street. He collapsed on the sidewalk with his head in his hands crying. He told me something about the girl being his child and remembering when she was a baby. I got my next-door neighbors teenage child to help me try locate his daughter. We handled the situation without cops without guns. I have no previous training in such matters but it worked.
If an average citizen such as myself can attend to a volatile situation without a gun then I believe a well trained police officer with average communication skills can do the same without the need for extreme measures or unnessary over-reaction caused by fear.
jdgalt
31 May 2016	at 1:58 pm	- Reply
Police equipment may have worsened the problem, but it didn't cause it. The problem is that, ever since about the Nixon administration and its war on drugs, police management have considered their departments to be at war with all or most of the civil population, rather than working for them; and they intentionally select for that mindset when recruiting.
Police jobs, of course, have always been very attractive to the kind of person who wants to bully people and beat them up. But before the Sixties, nearly all police departments were run by Andy Griffith types, kindly managers who made a strong effort never to hire those natural bullies, and to purge any that did get hired. But the war on drugs reversed that policy and gave us the culture they have now. And with every Ferguson and Baltimore, that culture gets worse and they see it as more necessary and more justified. Pretty soon we'll be a complete police state, just like any country in Latin America 50 years ago, and there'll be no going back.
The one thing that will stop it is to strip police of all immunity and give ordinary people the right to prosecute crimes done them, so that bully cops can go to prison. Which requires constitutional change. It's time to demand it at the ballot box before we're down to only the fourth box to get our freedom back.
Greg Prickett
"Police jobs, of course, have always been very attractive to the kind of person who wants to bully people and beat them up."
That's BS. Very few of the officers I knew wanted to get into fights. Most would go out of their way to avoid them, and to talk the suspect out of fighting us. It was for simple reasons, too. The suspects were normally younger, faster, and stronger than us, and we bruised easily.
1 June 2016	at 2:25 pm	- Reply
We accept certain jobs may be of particular interest to pedophiles, and it's not unheard of for firemen to be arsonists: Why should it be surprising for a profession that bestows extraordinary powers and abilities over the general populace to attract those most interested in abusing those powers? Concerns over police misbehavior were commonplace enough two thousand years ago that Juvenal could use it as a metaphor; I have no doubt they predate writing itself and probably lag the invention of policing by minutes.
I realize your "That's BS" comment was pure knee-jerk, a response to the claim you assumed jdgalt would make, rather than the one he or she actually made. (Frankly, I'm much more inclined to call BS on the following sentence, describing a halcyon period of American law enforcement that bears little resemblance to, say, the LAPD or many Southern police departments at the time.) Unfortunately, it seems of a piece with law enforcement's all-too-often response to *any* criticism: Simply deny the problem exists, no matter how ridiculous it makes one sound.
Or at least the *potential* for a problem exists — and, as jdgalt says, our collective success in addressing this potential problem has varied over the years.
However, the plural of 'anecdote' is not 'data.' I'm glad you worked with seemingly fair, open-minded officers — but, if so, it owed more to your department's hiring practices, internal code of conduct, disciplinary philosophy, and reputation than to the position of policeman not being naturally attractive to sadists, sociopaths, and criminals.
2 June 2016	at 10:08 am	- Reply
I've been reading your posts for a while and I'm still not sure if you actually believe the things you write or if this is all some extended pro-cop troll.
Of course there are cops out there looking for any excuse to kick some ass. Not keeping this in mind should you find yourself interacting with one is downright dangerous.
od that this article never used the M-word
(militarization)
The police are over-militarized, but this was focusing on a different part of the issue.
OldCop
Interesting, I did a presentation a few months ago on changes in law enforcement over the last 38 years. The audience was a group of deputies, most of whom weren't born when I went through the academy.
There was amazement that we only had one department on the radio (no inter-agency except using a scanner to cross talk) and no walkie-talkies. So if you were away from your car you were on your own.
However with backup a long way off and limited communications you used your wits and talked a lot more. De-escalation was they way good cops made it though tough situations.
The huge brick we carried that the admin types claimed was a walkie-talkie never worked when you needed it to. You either talked your way out of a fight or you won. Those were the only two options.
The radio we had did have 12 channels, one for each of the 6 patrol divisions, one each for traffic, Tactical, NCIC checks, car-to-car, investigations, and special events.
1 June 2016	at 8:06 am	- Reply
Fascinating post. As you know, there is a psychological term called "anchoring." That is, most people will default to an established norm even when that norm is nuts in a given situation.
So, I suppose, if every patrol officer looks like a swat team member most patrol cops will naturally default to swat team behavior even though such behavior is inappropriate to a given situation. Or more simply stated, you are what you eat (or wear).
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Transfer to the city hotel.
Overnight at IBIS TAMARIND HOTEL ***.
Jakarta city tour: National Museum, Sunda Kelapa Old Harbor.
Sightseeing transfer to Bandung (West Java) via Puncak tea plantation.
Overnight at SUKAJADI GUEST HOUSE ***.
Bandung country sightseeing: Tangkuban Prahu crater, Ciate hot spring.
Cultural Sundanese show: Angklung (bamboo) music.
Sightseeing transfer to Baturraden (Central Java).
On the way visit Kampung Naga traditional Sundanese village.
Overnight at ARDI KENCANA HOTEL ***.
Sightseeing transfer to Borobudur (Central Java).
On the way, have fantastic tour exploring Dieng Plateau.
Visit: Sulfur spring, color lake, Hindus temples.
Overnight at MANOHARA BOROBUDUR ***.
Visit Borobudur, Pawon and Mendut temples.
Hotel accommodation in ABADI HOTEL ***.
Hotel accommodation in BROMO PERMAI **.
Early morning JEEP adventure to Mount Bromo.
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Nearness (Nähe) is an evening of new works by two artist duos — plan b (Sophia New and Daniel Belasco Rogers) and Kovács/O'Doherty. plan b will present Together/Apart, a performative lecture and live video work, and Kovács/O'Doherty will present 1–100, a process-based spatialised sound work. The event is presented as part of Place Rhythm. Pulse, the ausland series focusing on performance, sound, and presence, organised and curated by Gretchen Blegen.
The works of both artist duos presented at this event share a common concern with the thematic core of nearness. Both works consider the possibilities of proximity and commonality — of matching without lining up, of the difference between the identical and the adjacent.


Joe Pass, who in between being somewhat and more than somewhat famous taught guitar lessons out of his Northridge, Calif., garage, is one of a kind, a master of his genre and instrument.
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If you're old enough to have been around back then, you might remember Java's early, epic peak. It left the labs, and its hype meter pinned. Everyone saw it as a revolution that would stop at nothing less than a total takeover of computing. That prediction ended up being only partially correct. Today, Java dominates Android phones, enterprise computing, and some embedded worlds like Blu-ray disks.
For all its success, though, Java never established much traction on the desktop or in the browser. People touted the power of applets and Java-based tools, but gunk always glitched up these combinations. Servers became Java's sweet spot.
Java has its share of new features and options, but for the most part it is a stable platform. That makes life much easier for developers who are building something to last.
Java developers have Eclipse, NetBeans, or IntelliJ, three top-notch tools that are well-integrated with debuggers, decompilers, and servers. Each has years of development, dedicated users, and solid ecosystems filled with plug-ins.
Meanwhile, most Node.js developers type words into the command line and code into their favorite text editor. Yes, some of the best text editors like Atom have elaborate collections of plug-ins that do almost anything, but even then it feels like Node.js is more old school than Eclipse. Soon we'll be replacing our mouse with an Atari joy stick.
Some developers use Eclipse or Visual Studio, both of which support Node.js. Of course, the surge of interest in Node.js means new tools are arriving, some of which, like IBM's Node-RED offer intriguing approaches, but they're still a long way from being as complete or as dominant as Eclipse or IntelliJ.
The weird thing is that the developers don't seem to use these tools. The command line was supposed to disappear 35 years ago with the arrival of the Mac, but no one told the Node.js developers. The options are there. WebStorm, for instance, is a solid commercial tool from JetBrains that incorporates many command-line build tools.
Of course, if you're looking for an IDE that edits and juggles code, the new tools that support Node.js are good enough. But if you ask your IDE to let you edit while you operate on the running source code like a heart surgeon slices open a chest, well, Java tools are much more powerful. It's all there, and it's all local.
Meanwhile, many Java developers use SQL. Even when they use the Java DB—formerly Derby, a database written in Java for Java developers—they write their queries in SQL. You would think they would simply call Java methods, but you'd be wrong. You have to write your database code in SQL, then let Derby parse the SQL. SQL is a nice language, but it's completely different from Java, and many development teams need different people to write SQL and Java.
To make matters worse, many Java coders use elaborate libraries and schemes to convert the data from the SQL query into Java objects just so they can recast it into templates. It's a crazy process, and ultimately pretty wasteful.
Many of the introductory programming courses continue to use Java because many serious programmers tend to like statically typed code both for the simplicity and the safety. The code just feels more rigorous after the compiler catches the obvious bugs.
When databases spit out answers, Java goes to elaborate lengths to turn the results into Java objects. Developers will argue for hours about POJO mappings, Hibernate, and other tools. Configuring them can take hours or even days. Eventually, the Java code gets Java objects after all of the conversion. And when it comes to configuration, the Java world still clings to XML and even offers two major parsers to give developers more reasons to fret.
Java boasts incredible tools for monitoring clusters of machines. There are deep hooks into the JVM and elaborate profiling tools to help identify bottlenecks and failures. The Java enterprise stack runs some of the most sophisticated servers on the planet, and the companies that use those servers have demanded the very best in telemetry. All of these monitoring and debugging tools are quite mature and ready for you to deploy.
Android apps are often written in Java and 90 percent of the new phones run some version of Android. Many people don't even use desktops any more because the phones are good enough for everything.


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Pavane pour une infante défunte
Ma Mère l'Oye
Scheherazade.2 – Dramatic Symphony for Violin and Orchestra [co-commissioned by New York Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, and Sydney Symphony Orchestra: UK premiere]
Leila Josefowicz (violin)
LSO/John Adams – UK premiere of Scheherazade.2 with Leila Josefowicz – Ravel's Pavane and Mother Goose
Thursday, October 29, 2015 Barbican Hall, London
Reviewed by Nick Breckenfield
Introducing Scheherazade.2, John Adams suggested we might find connections to the narrative in Ravel's Mother Goose. Composed for long-time collaborator (and champion of his Violin Concerto and The Dharma at Big Sur), Leila Josefowicz, I wondered, listening to this impressive and engrossing 55-minute work – more akin to Berlioz's Harold in Italy – whether it would work without the back story of a modern-day Scheherazade, pluckily and feistily withstanding a male-dominated world whether in 'The Pursuit by the True Believers' (first movement) or against 'The Men with Beards' (third). On balance – simply on musical values – it most probably would.
I then wondered if a man could play the solo part – as so often, from the front desk of violins, one does in Rimsky-Korsakov's version, or the role of Richard Strauss's wife in Ein Heldenleben. It will be interesting to see how Scheherazade.2 is taken up, although whoever does so has been set a very high benchmark by Josefowicz, who played with enormous conviction and assurance, and from memory.
On first hearing Scheherazade.2 appears to be one of Adams's most traditional works; no synthesiser, guitar or amplification, nor timpani (though there are three percussionists with a variety of instruments, including multiple gongs). The most distinctive sound is the cimbalom (here played by Christopher Bradley), which Adams has used before to notable effect (in The Gospel According to the Other Mary), which dominates the opening passages of the first movement.
The second and final movements offer some respite for our heroine – a possible love-interest in the former, and an escape, against a welter of stabbing orchestral chords, in the latter, dying away – perhaps a tad inconclusively – at the end. In another Strauss allusion, in my mind at least, the third movement's 'Men in Beards' are a harder-hearted and more unanimous version of Heldenleben's critics, sniping and carping and – most importantly – not listening to their self-parodying dogma.
The – a languorously sensual Pavane pour une infante défunte and a beautifully realised complete Mother Goose – were both guided and delicately moulded by Adams's hands (only for some of his own work did he pick up a baton), a perfect foil to Scheherazade .2. The large audience gave all three pieces warm acclamation.
Scheherazade.2: world premiere


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These States Are Fighting For Reproductive Rights
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If you've been keeping an eye on news regarding women's reproductive rights, you've probably noticed that things are looking relatively bleak. But the battle is far from over. As some states have become emboldened to attempt to restrict reproductive health care access, Oregon and Illinois have stepped forward to propose legislation to expand care for all. For starters, the Reproductive Health Equity Act currently being proposed in Oregon, would ensure that Oregonians are entitled to reproductive care, even if the Affordable Care Act is repealed as the GOP has promised. Though birth control is guaranteed to those in need under the ACA, if the program really is rolled back, those who depend on Obamacare for contraceptives may not have many options left. The Reproductive Health Equity Act would protect from federal rollbacks of the ACA, ensuring reproductive health services for all Oregonians, no matter how much money they earn and whatever their immigration status. "While Oregon has been a leader on many health care policy fronts, there are still many who have been left behind due to citizenship status, discrimination and the insurance they have," Amy Casso, director of the Gender Justice Program at Western States Center in Oregon, told Refinery29. "No one should have to go bankrupt or deep into debt because they don't have affordable reproductive health care."
And in Illinois, advocates have come together to support House Bill 40, which guarantees access to reproductive care services, including abortion. Notably, it would ensure that those enrolled in Medicaid would have abortion coverage. (Currently, only 15 states even allow state Medicaid funding for abortion.) "The measure is necessary to ensure that every woman in Illinois can make her own health care decisions and have access to safe medical care, regardless of what happens in Washington, D.C.," Lorie Chaiten, director of Women's and Reproductive Rights Project at ACLU of Illinois, told Refinery29. "Every woman, regardless of whether she has private or government-funded health insurance, should have affordable and comprehensive health care coverage that includes coverage for abortion care, so she can make personal health decisions based on what is best for her and her family." These efforts are hopefully representative of a movement of resistance against what seems like an increasingly stringent agenda to restrict reproductive rights. And if you want to get in on the resistance, there are a few ways you can start now.
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It could be the fact that Easter comes early this year, or perhaps the beautiful simplicity of a cross, but there has been a noticeable influx of religious necklaces, earrings, bracelets, and ear cuffs this season. Crosses in different shades of silver, gold, and brass have been spotted in jewelry stores in the mall, from Macy's to Claire's.
Of course, there is no doubt that devout Christians would wear such beautiful jewelry, but people of other faiths and backgrounds are jumping on the bandwagon too. They have such a timeless look and can work with any outfits. In most situations, they are considered a staple. Crosses have been worn by individuals of all walks of life, from the Pope to Madonna.
While this looks perfect for Holy Week and other Christian holidays, it can also be worn year round. Crosses range from petite and demure to dangly and large, meaning there is a style for everyone. This is a beautiful trend that is not limited by one's religious beliefs-everyone can join in!


So You Think Your Medical Device Was Safety Tested? Think Again.
Medical devices such as artificial joints, heart defibrillators and surgical mesh have become an integral part of the healthcare industry. As consumers, we would naturally expect that those devices have been tested for safety and effectiveness. In reality, many implants and other high-risk devices on the market have not undergone any safety testing. Rather, the manufacturers have frequently only filed paperwork and paid the mandatory FDA user fee to market those items.
In 2011, the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, an independent, non-profit organization that works outside of the government to provide unbiased and authoritative advice to decision-makers and the public, released a consensus report concluding that "the FDA's finite resources would be better invested in developing an integrated premarket and postmarket regulatory framework that provides a reasonable assurance of safety and effectiveness throughout the device life cycle." In summary, they recommended that the FDA completely overhaul its system that regulates medical devices because presently it doesn't ensure patient safety either before or after products are on the market. Surprisingly, Congress is currently working on a new law that neither addresses the failures of the current FDA process nor forces manufacturers to sufficiently safety test devices. Rather, its goal is to allow them to market devices even faster. That's a shame.
"Medical devices often aren't tested before they come on the market.
There's no systematic way for the government, researchers, or patients to spot or learn about problems with devices.
Transvaginal surgical mesh came onto the market in the early 2000s for prolapse repair and bladder support. Even after thousands of reports of adverse affects, repeated alarms by health advocates, and multiple lawsuits, these implants are available because they were grandfathered in under a loophole in the law. No testing was required.
"Require that implants and other "life-sustaining" devices be tested at least as rigorously as drugs.
Patient safety seems to be a relatively unimportant element in the current system regarding the approval of medical devices. If you have concerns a medical device, please contact your physician immediately.


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Episode 214: Dealing with Darkness through Comedy — Interview with Adam Cayton-Holland
Aug 22, 2018 by Gabriela Pereira
published in Podcast
Hey there word nerds!
Today I have the pleasure of hosting Adam Cayton-Holland on the show!
Adam is an author and national touring comic who has appeared on shows including Conan, The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail, and Happy Endings just to name a few. He has also been named one of Esquire's "25 Comics to Watch" and Variety's "10 Comics to Watch."
Adam has been described as "genial" and "with pretty decent teeth", and co-created, writes, and stars in truTV's show Those Who Can't along with his fellow members of the comedy troupe, The Grawlix. His writing has appeared in places such as Spin and The Atlantic as well.
Adam is also the author of the new heart-wrenchingly gorgeous memoir Tragedy Plus Time.
Listen in as we chat about this amazing book and how to tackle a tragic event with humor on the page.
In this episode Adam and I discuss:
The art of weaving someone else's life along with yours in a memoir.
How to create moments that feel real on the page and get readers to respond.
The broader impact of memoir, and how to navigate that responsibility.
Knowing what to cut out and what to fight for in revision.
How to choose the right structure for your memoir.
Plus, Adam's #1 tip for writers.
About Adam Cayton-Holland
Adam Cayton-Holland is a national touring comic who has appeared on Conan, @midnight, The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail, Happy Endings, Deadbeat, Flophouse, Hidden America with Jonah Ray, and was named one of Esquire's "25 Comics to Watch" and Variety's "10 Comics to Watch." Adam co-created, writes, and stars in truTV's Those Who Can't along with his fellow members of the comedy troupe, The Grawlix. His albums I Don't Know If I Happy and Backyards are available on iTunes, and his writing has appeared in Village Voice, Spin, The A.V. Club, and The Atlantic. Adam has been described as "genial" and "with pretty decent teeth." He is the author of the memoir Tragedy Plus Time, which is available now.
To connect with Adam check out his website at adamcaytonholland.com.
Tragedy Plus Time: A Tragi-Comic Memoir
Adam Cayton-Holland went from a painfully sensitive kid growing up in Denver, Colorado, to a writer and performer with a burgeoning career in comedy. His father, a civil rights lawyer, and his mother, an investigative journalist, taught Adam and his two sisters to feel the pain of the world deeply and to combat it through any means necessary. Adam chose to meet life's tough breaks and cruel realities with stand-up comedy; his older sister pursued law like their father; their youngest sister, Lydia, perhaps the most brilliant and talented of the "Magnificent Cayton-Hollands", struggled with mental illness and ultimately took her own life.
Adam and Lydia ("Lee") grew up cracking jokes and running bits off one another, developing a similar, shared sense of humor. Their close bond continued through young adulthood as Lydia worked both at the door and behind the scenes giving incisive notes on Adam's increasingly popular comedy shows. The devastating tragedy of Lydia's suicide strikes the Cayton-Holland household at the same moment Adam's career is finally taking off. Yet success is hollow as Adam falls deeper and deeper into his grief, reliving the trauma of Lydia's death until he seeks help through Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy.
Both a moving tribute to a lost sibling and an inspiring meditation on mental illness, grief, and recovery, TRAGEDY PLUS TIME is an unsentimental, unexpectedly funny, and incredibly honest love letter to every family that has ever felt messy, complicated, or (even momentarily) magnificent. In the tradition of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and Truth & Beauty, this memoir offers a tender look at the bonds that hold a family together and the difficult truth that you can't always save the person you love.
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The solution aims to assist with operator's evolution to 4.5G and 5G, unlock the full potential of 2100 MHz spectrum resources and site assets, and maximize return on investment (ROI) for customers.
The 2100 MHz frequency band is widely adopted by operators for mainly deploying UMTS networks across the world. The number of 2100 MHz sites outside of China is higher than that of all other bands. Currently, 70% of operators enjoy over 15 MHz bandwidth on the 2100 MHz band. However, UMTS users are continuously migrating to LTE with the development of 4G, resulting in lower UMTS network loads. A growing number of operators are seizing this opportunity to implement refarming of the 2100 MHz band for LTE.
How to ensure a smooth experience for both UMTS and LTE users during refarming is a real concern among many operators. SDAs support UMTS multi-sector and LTE 4T4R converged evolution. This approach offers high LTE user experience, while UMTS capacity increasing. UL 4T6S features six-sector 4T4R to boost LTE capacity, fulfilling the LTE capacity requirements for the next three to five years. Meanwhile, the UMTS capacity will jump higher. Dual-band 4T4R radio frequency (RF) modules allow for co-deployment of 1800 MHz and 2100 MHz. This not only provides an optimal LTE experience, but also supports 5G-oriented evolution, and reduces TCO by over 40%.
Buffer zones have to be configured in the traditional UL refarming approach to prevent co-channel interference between UMTS and LTE. The refarmed spectrum within the buffer zone cannot be used, resulting in the waste of spectrum resources. Huawei UL Zero Buffer Zone solution boasts intelligent scheduling to eliminate co-channel interference between two RATs, simplifying the deployment process and improving delivery efficiency.
Huawei has helped more than 30 operators from France, Thailand, Saudi Arabia and other countries to deploy UL Refarming on 2100 MHz. With MBB services' gradual LTE-oriented migration, Huawei One UL2100 solution will accelerate the evolution towards 4.5G and 5G on 2100 MHz for more and more operators.


Fabulous photos. Happy Yorkshire Day!!
Thanks! Happy Yorkshire Day to you too!
Happy Yorkshire Day! The Yorkshire Dales are one of my favorite places on earth!
Thank you! Yes, the Dales are wonderful aren't they – I'm lucky to get out there regularly taking photographs and running workshops.


2013 might have been the year Lupita Nyong'o owned the red carpet, but it doesn't mean she's going anywhere for 2014. The 12 Years a Slave star's bold style and veritable acting chops guarantee her a place in the spotlight come awards season. With the aid of stylist Micaela Erlanger, Nyong'o has so far chosen a parade of colorful, sophisticated dresses from designers like Miu Miu, J. Mendel, and Prada. Opting for silhouettes that cinch her at the waist — from a Prabal Gurung tuxedo-dress to a Veronica Beard jumpsuit — Nyong'o's style is always perfectly refined, but never boring. And now the 30-year-old actress can add W magazine cover star to her résumé: Nyong'o graces the glossy's February issue, shot by Juergen Teller. See the actress's best red-carpet looks in our slideshow.
March 4, 2014 Where: At Los Angeles International Airport. Photo: CALA/Broadimage/© Corbis. All Rights Reserved.


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using Microsoft.AspNet.Identity;
using Microsoft.AspNet.Identity.EntityFramework;

namespace AdsListing.Migrations
{
    using System;
    using System.Data.Entity;
    using System.Data.Entity.Migrations;
    using System.Linq;

    internal sealed class Configuration : DbMigrationsConfiguration<AdsListing.Models.AdsListingDbContext>
    {
        public Configuration()
        {
            AutomaticMigrationsEnabled = true;
            AutomaticMigrationDataLossAllowed = true;
        }

        protected override void Seed(AdsListingDbContext context)
        {
            if (!context.Roles.Any())
            {
                this.CreateRole(context, "Admin");
                this.CreateRole(context, "User");
            }

            if (!context.Users.Any())
            {
                this.CreateUser(context, "admin@admin.com", "Admin", "123456");
                this.SetRoleToUser(context, "admin@admin.com", "Admin");
            }
        }

        private void SetRoleToUser(AdsListingDbContext context, string email, string role)
        {
            var userManager = new UserManager<ApplicationUser>(new UserStore<ApplicationUser>(context));

            var user = context.Users.Where(u => u.Email == email).First();
            var result = userManager.AddToRole(user.Id, role);

            if (!result.Succeeded)
            {
                throw new Exception(string.Join(";", result.Errors));
            }
        }

        private void CreateUser(AdsListingDbContext context, string email, string fullName, string password)
        {
            // Create User Manager
            var userManager = new UserManager<ApplicationUser>(new UserStore<ApplicationUser>(context));

            // Ser User manager password validator
            userManager.PasswordValidator = new PasswordValidator
            {
                RequiredLength = 6,
                RequireDigit = false,
                RequireLowercase = false,
                RequireNonLetterOrDigit = false,
                RequireUppercase = false,
            };

            //Create user object
            var admin = new ApplicationUser
            {
                UserName = email,
                FullName = fullName,
                Email = email
            };

            //Create user
            var result = userManager.Create(admin, password);

            //Validate result
            if (!result.Succeeded)
            {
                throw new Exception(string.Join(";", result.Errors));
            }

        }

        private void CreateRole(AdsListingDbContext context, string roleName)
        {
            var roleManager = new RoleManager<IdentityRole>(new RoleStore<IdentityRole>(context));

            var result = roleManager.Create(new IdentityRole(roleName));

            if (!result.Succeeded)
            {
                throw new Exception(string.Join(";", result.Errors));
            }
        }
    }
}

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At UNSW we pride ourselves on being one of Australia's most international universities. We encourage our students to spend time studying overseas at one of our partner institutions and also encourage overseas students to study at UNSW.
UNSW has a large and active exchange program with more than 170 different student exchange opportunities around the world. For more general information visit the UNSW Exchange Website.
Today's engineers are global citizens and many students taking Civil and Environmental Engineering programs have taken the opportunity to be part of the UNSW Exchange program to study in other countries.
Read our exchange stories from Penny Peng and Natasha Belijic to learn from our students about what it's like to go on Exchange and what you need to consider in terms of finding the right matching courses with UNSW. Everyone has concerns about being in another country, far away from family and friends, but our students say that this can also be one of the best experiences of your life because you learn so much about another culture – and about yourself.
A list of courses which have been previously approved can be found here.
Please note this list is subject to change and should be used as a guide only when selecting your electives.
Students can also refer to the FAQs - International Exchange guide for further information.
If you have any questions regarding the application process or relevant partner Universities please contact the Global Education and Student Exchange Office.
The UNSW School of Civil and Environmental Engineering also welcomes overseas students at partner universities to take courses with us as part of their degree program in their home countries. More information about Inbound Exchanges.
As a research student from a partner university, the UNSW School of Civil and Environmental Engineering invites you to apply for exchange as part of the Practicum Exchange program. For more information, visit UNSW Practicum Exchange Program.
Overseas students enrolled in the Study Abroad program are welcome to apply for an internship at UNSW for one or two semesters. More information about Study Abroad Internships.


Just 15 minutes from Barcelona we find Castelldefels, a city open to the sea and ready to welcome families with open arms. Enjoys a privileged location between two natural spaces of great landscape value such as the Mediterranean Sea, with 5 km of white sand, and the Parque Natural de Garraf, a perfect place for trekking and excursions in family.
The vocation of Castelldefels to children is undeniable, as the Seal of Destination for Family Tourism Guarantees it (Sello de Destino de Turismo Familiar = DTF) that was awarded by Agencia Catalana de Turismo de la Generalitat de Cataluña in the year 2015. This certificate distinguishes the municipalities that are especially sensitive to this segment of tourism demand, and provide equipment and services tailored to the needs of families with children.
Castelldefels stands out among other destinations for the facilities and services dedicated to the tourism family such as the delivery of identification bracelets for children or family rooms with accommodations or directly communicated between them so that the family is always together. In addition, also have cribs in the case of travel with a baby.
They also have children's pools with safety, clubs for children on the beach, meals adapted in restaurants and a wide programme of animation, fun and services intended to entertain children in the House so they spend big. If to all this we add its 300 days of sunshine a year and the mild Mediterranean climate, we will obtain the perfect destination for a family holiday.
Castelldefels Beach has received several awards that guarantee their quality and suitability for children. Since 2006 it obtained the Bandera Azul and one year later, in 2007 the Instituto de Calidad Turística Española It has awarded the Q distinctive quality to its services and facilities. In addition, in the year 2011 was awarded the Bandera Ecoplayas. These certifications will be adding the ISO 9001 and Sictec.
The 5 km of coast of Castelldefels are divided between the beach of la Pineda, Lluminetes Beach and the beach of the Apeadero. In any of them can play with kids, swim in the warm waters of the Mediterranean, a walk, and why not?, the courage to practice any water sports.
This beach has several bars in which a snack, play room for children, sun loungers, awnings and umbrellas to be more comfortable, sporting facilities, wooden walkways to access the sand, showers, surveillance, portable toilets and WiFi free.
In high season, children can play in any of the nine areas of children's play provided on the beach to which joined other three located in the green spaces that are together in it. There is also a of the Mini Club Infantil del Parc del Mar, a place of leisure and fun for children aged 4 to 9 years.
The other great natural environment that characterizes Castelldefels is the Parque Natural del Garraf, almost thirteen thousand hectares which is divided into two very recognizable geological areas: one of limestone and Dolomites and a reddish clay. This makes your landscape is colorful and cheerful.
Families who love nature will find multiple amusement options since several routes on foot or by bicycle, activities that allow us to enjoy the landscape and fresh air that we breathe there can be. In addition, at the entrance to the park itself is the Centro de Actividades Ambientales where are tasks of education and environmental awareness. There is also an Astronomic Observatory.
The itineraries of the Park are duly marked and tend to be circular, visiting different places showing us their natural and cultural wealth. At the information points we can request brochures to make these routes of self-guided form. The itineraries are the Camino de las Costas, Camino Medieval and Sierra de Can Perers. In addition, there are two guided tours to the Fons de Vallgrassa and to the Morella.
And in the heart of the Park, you will find a little surprise: la Plana Novella, an art nouveau Palace built in 1890 which currently serves as a Buddhist temple and residence for the monks. Here we can make the tour not only to understand the characteristics of the building but also to bring us closer to the Buddhist culture.
The guardian of the city is undoubtedly the castle which rises at the point, highest hilltop, watching the city at his feet for centuries. It was built in the 16th century although since the century ten existed a church in the same place built on Iberian and Roman remains. Their function was, in principle, protect the city of Muslims and, later, of the Barbary pirates.
The castle was acquired by the Ayuntamiento de Castelldefels in 1988, and since then began work for the recovery and restoration that have survived to this day. Currently it is a living space where he held various events and activities in the city.
In addition to free weekend visits, the second Sunday of each month held an open day which is called from "Domingos en el Castillo". A unique opportunity is to visit it because it recreates the trade in the blocks and they carry out different activities and shows on the inside and also in the gardens.
But not just here in Castelldefels offers more fun family holiday. Popular festivals will help us to plunge into the history and tradition of the city and we also have a wide variety of theatrical performances, music concerts, exhibitions, readings of stories, dance displays and other activities valid throughout the year.
The most outstanding parties of Castelldefels son Sant Ponç (last week-end of may), las Fiestas del Mar (16 de julio), la Fiesta Mayor de Verano (15 de agosto), la Castañada (31 de octubre) y la Fiesta Mayor de Invierno (8 de diciembre).
You can also visit some of its monuments, as for example, Iglesia de Santa María, built from the old building from the 10th century between the years 1900 and 1901 and that after the fire suffered during the Civil War, it would be restored in 1948.
Another fun activity that we perform with children is to find the twelve towers which are still scattered throughout the city. These buildings were built in the 16th century due to the attacks that Berber pirates took place in the Mediterranean coasts. Although currently they are privately owned and the interior cannot be visited, do not cease to be a great adventure travel Castelldefels in search.
Finally, we can take a tour of masías, typical rural buildings of Catalonia of which we find some copies in Castelldefels. You can visit those that are owned by the city.
Castelldefels, we are going to find all kinds of services and a high quality resource for sport because we are professionals, amateurs or tourists in search of thrills and new experiences. Conditions of this city are more than optimal so that we devote to the sport in a unique natural environment with optimal conditions both of weather facilities.
Not only you will find professionals who will advise us in any moment but also an equipment suitable for every sport and a great attention in regards to medical and health services. All this brings together so that we can always fun with maximum safety.
Different facilities of the town will allow us to devote ourselves to the rowing, canoeing, kayak, cable and skiing, sailing, basketball, hándbol, volleyball, football and indoor football, tennis, paddle, swimming, badminton, running, triathlon, trekking, cycling and BTT (Mountain biking) among others. Moreover, its calm waters have made Castelldefels is a certified city with the Polo de Excelencia Turística by Turisme de Catalunya in rowing and canoeing.
Castelldefels has preserved its agricultural tradition offering an extensive range of local produce which you can taste in its restaurants in the form of traditional, but also modern dishes in a delicious fusion of flavours, smells and colours.
Some of these products are cherries, artichokes or asparagus that characterize the typical "taste of the orchard" of the area.
The third weekend of September is celebrated the Mostra de Cuina de Castelldefels that restaurateurs in the area gather to develop their most representative dishes to give them to prove to the audience.


If you have visited the Great Wall of China in Beijing, you can't miss the world's longest Grand Canal of Suzhou (蘇州). Undisputed the grandest and most beautiful "Venice of the East", Suzhou is famous for her classical gardens, canals and bridges. Harshad, Tracy and I took 2 days off to visit this magnificent ancient city garden.
Spring is the best season to visit Suzhou. The gardens come alive with colorful fishes, flowers and birds. Enjoy a walk or a slow canal cruise under a clear sunny sky and cool spring wind. This is the perfect retreat away from the buzzing and polluted city life. We visited the 1,000-year old Leaning Pagoda of Tiger Hill (虎丘), strolled at the famous Lion Forest Garden (狮子林) and took a 1-hour night cruise through a "under-bridge water art gallery" around the ancient city canal.


In preparation for the annual open enrollment period, CMS has updated its "Medicare and You" publication to inform beneficiaries of the changes for 2014. Medicare open enrollment period for calendar year 2014 began October 15, 2013 and will continue through December 7, 2013.
CMS emphasizes that the Medicare is unaffected by the new health insurance marketplaces, also called exchanges. The marketplaces established under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) (P.L. 111-148) serve uninsured individuals who are not eligible for Medicare. Rather, Medicare beneficiaries should use the Medicare Plan Finder.
Beginning in 2014, Medicare will cover an annual consultation with a primary care physician. The first of these visits may be the "Welcome to Medicare" exam; if a beneficiary already has undergone the Welcome exam, the annual visit must occur at least 11 months afterward. In addition to the recommended screenings for cancer, heart disease and diabetes, the annual examination may include screenings for depression, alcohol misuse, and detection of cognitive impairment. Patients may receive a personalized plan for preventive services and a list of their risk factors.
For the first time, Medicare will cover less than a one-month supply of a prescription drug. This will allow beneficiaries and their physicians to test a patient's response to a new drug or to coordinate the refill dates for all their prescriptions.
In 2014, Medicare beneficiaries covered by prescription drug plans will receive a 50 percent discount on covered brand name drugs when they exhaust the initial level of benefits and reach the "donut hole" of limited coverage. They will pay 47.5 percent of the plan's cost of these drugs and 72 percent of the plan's cost of generic drugs, during the coverage gap. If their expenses exceed the out-of-pocket threshold of $4,550 they will have catastrophic coverage for the rest of the year.
CMS has made this year's edition of "Medicare and You" available for download onto an individual's computer and for all e-readers. People who are notified about the publication by email and download it will not receive a print copy.


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Frequent Filers: Scapegoats for the Appeals Backlog?
By Steven Greenspan, JD, LLM
Original story posted on: June 17, 2015
Ever since the Office of Inspector General (OIG) raised the topic of "frequent filers" in its 2012 report, "Improvements Needed at the Administrative Law Judge Level of Medicare Appeals," there has been a steady swell of distaste for this subtype of appellant.
While there is no standing definition for frequent filers, the OIG defined them in the report as those providers who "file appeals much more frequently than others."1 As a practical matter, the OIG defined frequent filers as providers who filed at least 50 appeals in FY 2010. The OIG identified 96 providers who met the criteria for their frequent filer universe and the OIG asserts that those providers accounted for nearly one-third of all Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) appeals in FY 2010.2
More recently, Chief ALJ Nancy Griswold testified before the United States Committee on Finance that 51 percent of incoming ALJ appeals in 2015 have been filed by five appellants. Senator Claire McCaskill (D-Missouri) shared the same statistic in a hearing for the Committee on Aging, except the Senator substituted "health systems" where Chief Judge Griswold said "appellants."3 While they probably mean the same thing, the statistic can be misleading because even one health system/appellant could comprise more than 100 hospitals.
With the Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals (OMHA) processing a record number of cases, including a backlog that that now tops 870,000 pending appeals, providers, fairly or not, are now being targeted as complicit actors in the current instability of the Medicare appeals process.4 Unsurprisingly, the Council for Medicare Integrity, a Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) lobbying group, issued a press release in February 2015 touting frequent filers as being the root problem of the ALJ backlog.5
In a recent hearing for the Committee on Aging, Senator McCaskill stated that, "[Providers] are deliberately gumming up the appeals system by instituting a policy of appealing everything, regardless of merit."6 Senator Ron Wyden (D-Oregon), in a Senate Finance Committee hearing earlier this year, said, "… clearly, there is a small number [of providers] that has figured out a way to really hotwire the system, to just game it, and … play the odds."7
The treatment of frequent filer appellants runs the gambit from accusatory to downright hostile. And yet, without considering whether the perception of those providers who frequently submit appeals is appropriate, or providing a single shred of evidence to support that providers are "gaming" the system or "deliberately gumming up" the appeals system with meritless cases, legislative proposals have been introduced to combat the so-called serial appellant.
The FY 2016 President's Budget for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) proposes to establish a refundable filing fee at each level of Medicare appeal. In a written statement, Chief Judge Griswold held forth that, "A filing fee would encourage those who frequently file to more carefully assess the merits of their appeals before filing."8 The goal of the proposal, "to invest in the appeals system to improve responsiveness and efficiency9," is meaningful, but in an effort to promote efficiency, it is hard to conceive of a more administratively burdensome task than instituting a refundable filing fee at each level of appeal. Although the details of this proposal's implementation has not been released, it bears asking whether providers and adjudicative bodies at each level of the Medicare appeals process are equipped to handle the impending deluge of appeals-related transactions.
Another question that needs to be asked is whether the threat of frequent filers to the efficacy of the appeals process justifies the introduction of new hurdles and potential barriers to due process.
Thomas Naughton, Senior Vice President, MAXIMUS Federal Services, recently testified that in most appeal programs 20 percent of the population is responsible for 80 percent of the appeals, but in the audit contractor world, "Five (5) percent is probably responsible for the majority of all appeals."10
However, the American Hospital Association (AHA) released a RACTRAC survey on March 30, 2015, and its results show that provider appeals are up nationwide, and not just limited to a small fraction of the Medicare provider population. In the nationwide survey, hospitals reported appealing 45 percent of all Recovery Auditor denials and of the report's 88,705 completed appeals, 69 percent of were overturned in favor of the provider.11
In light of testimony provided by the Deputy Administrator and Director for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and HealthDataInsights, the CMS Recovery Auditor for Region D, that only 9 percent12 of all Recovery Auditors' determinations were ultimately overturned upon appeal, it is understandable that even well-intentioned Senators, such as McCaskill and Wyatt, who sit at the forefront of hugely important Medicare reform initiatives, tend to view providers who frequently challenge claim denials with a degree of suspicion. The 9 percent figure sounds like a very successful rate, but the number is misleading; it assumes that an unchallenged denial is never inappropriate, overreaches by not limiting itself to Part A appeals, and is tough to reconcile with the almost 70 percent overturn rate for appealed claims, according to the AHA, its member hospitals, and the OIG.
The number is also misleading because it is designed to not measure the actual claim overturn rate, but rather measures appeals determinations at each level of appeal. For example, if a provider were to appeal a claim and lose at the redetermination and reconsideration levels of appeal, but win at the ALJ level, CMS reports that three appeals were decided with two losses and one win, and would report an overturn rate of 33 percent. The reality is that the claim is favorable and the overturn rate should be 100 percent – that is the number that really matters.
Interestingly, the OIG report provided Medicare Part A overturn rates for frequent filer providers and non-frequent filer providers with each group having identical, 67 percent overturn rates.13 This number is particularly important, as it appears to validate the frequent filers' appropriate use of the appeals process.
Recovery Auditors are plainly incentivized to deny claims and hospitals are understandably compelled to challenge inappropriate denials. The regulations are unambiguous; hospitals should never deliberately submit a meritless claim to Medicare for payment. It is conceivable that knowingly submitting and thereafter appealing meritless claims could rise to the level of a violation under the False Claims Act.
The evidence suggesting that providers are engaging in this type of behavior is sorely lacking. After all, appeal volume alone is not indicative of provider wrongdoing and a proposal to establish a refundable filing fee will not stop the relatively small number of frequent filer providers from disputing claims that should never have been denied in the first place. If anything, it sure will make that process a lot more challenging, administratively burdensome, and expensive for all Medicare participating hospitals and CMS.
Steven Greenspan serves as Vice President of Regulatory Affairs at Executive Health Resources (EHR) and is responsible for overseeing EHR's regulatory research and hospital advocacy efforts, and collaborates closely with the EHR's appeals management teams to offer support on complex Medicare, Medicaid, and Commercial Appeals matters.
sgreenspan@ehrdocs.com
editor@racmonitor.com
1 "Improvements Needed at Administrative Law Judge Level of Medicare Appeals." November 2012, p8.
3 "Creating a More Efficient and Level Playing Field: Audit and Appeals Issues in Medicare" (unofficial transcript; oral testimony). April 28, 2015.
5 "Hospital Industry's 'Frequent Filers' at Root of ALJ Backlog." http://medicareintegrity.org/hospital-industrys-frequent-filers-at-root-of-alj-backlog/. February 17, 2015.
6 "Challenging the Status Quo: Solutions to the Hospital Observation Stay Crisis," McCaskill testimony, (unofficial transcript). May 2015.
7 "Creating a More Efficient and Level Playing Field: Audit and Appeals Issues in Medicare," Wyden testimony (unofficial transcript; oral testimony). April 28, 2015.
8 "Creating a More Efficient and Level Playing Field: Audit and Appeals Issues in Medicare," Griswold written testimony. April 28, 2015.
9 Fiscal Year 2016 Budget in Brief: Strengthening Health and Opportunity for All Americans. http://www.hhs.gov/about/budget/budget-in-brief/cms/medicare/index.html.
10 "Creating a More Efficient and Level Playing Field: Audit and Appeals Issues in Medicare," Naughton testimony (unofficial transcript; oral testimony), April 28, 2015.
11 "Exploring the Impact of the RAC Program on Hospitals Nationwide," American Hospital Association, RACTRAC Survey, 4th Quarter 2014. March 30, 2015.
12 "Challenging the Status Quo: Solutions to the Hospital Observation Stay Crisis." Written testimony of HDI for Committee on Aging. Also referenced by Sean Cavanaugh, Deputy Administrator and Director of CMS in the same hearing. May 2015.
13 "Improvements Needed at Administrative Law Judge Level of Medicare Appeals." November 2012, p24.
Steven Greenspan, JD, LLM
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Q: Document Library - While uploading the same type of file its not uploading separately In Document Library while uploading the same type of file its not uploading separately. Its getting override.
Example - I've uploaded one excel and one word file in document library. Now If I'm again uploading one excel file in document library its replacing my old excel. Its not getting loaded separate.
If I'm uploading another new type of file like powerpoint, jpg its uploading separate.
When I remove the check box its saying "A file with the name excel - copy.xlsx already exists". Is it possible to upload same file name more than one time without replacing the old one.

A: No, all files in a library need to have unique file names. So either change the file names of the existing files, or the files you are uploading.

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2. You have reported damage to Fuller Laboratories by telephone or e-mail within two business days following receipt of damaged shipment. Your report should include: your purchase order number, Fuller Laboratories invoice number, shipping date, and a brief description of damage.
3. Before returned goods can be received an RGA (Returned Goods Authorization) must be issued by Fuller Laboratories and this authorization number must accompany any return shipment.
We have recently upgraded all of our IFA conjugates from FITC to DyLight 488.
The benefits include increased brightness and photostability. When conjugated to the highest quality affinity-purified antibodies, the result is a brighter and more defined reactivity without the need for special mounting media.


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Q: Cleaning up big bare git repository fails I can't clean up a git repo. If I try to, I get this error message:
$ git gc
Counting objects: 8828, done.
fatal: Cannot handle files this big
error: failed to run repack

If I google it, there are literally only 2 results: This question and the error message as a pastebin entry which was submitted 2 minutes after I first posted this question here. So no one else seems to have the problem.
Granted, there is a 4.8 GB file tracked with git and git takes about 8 to 9 GiB of virtual ram on my laptop when running git gc, and my raspi only has 1 GB of physical ram. However, it usually has a 1 GiB swap and I just added a 30 GiB swap to do this operation. So it should have enough ram.
Unfortunately, the error message doesn't contain the reason why the cleanup command can't handle files that big. So I don't know what the limiting property of my system is.
What is the problem and is it possible to do the cleanup on the raspberry pi? (Transferring it to a desktop computer doesn't seem like a good solution to me.)
I actually planned on cleaning up some way bigger repos using my raspi because it runs anyways and this way I might not need to have my computer run for hours.
I thought that maybe cloning the repo will yield a cleaned-up repo. However, I get this output:
$ git clone ../Documents
Cloning into 'Documents'...
done.
fatal: Cannot handle files this big
warning: Clone succeeded, but checkout failed.
You can inspect what was checked out with 'git status'
and retry the checkout with 'git checkout -f HEAD'

However, adding --bare to the clone command returns instantly with no error. (Probably some ext4 magic going on so the files are copied on-write.) Needless to say, no cleaning was going on. But this might contain a clue, so I let you know about it.

A: It was a bug in git. I told the guys from the git mailing list about the problems and they fixed it. The patches are in the newest few releases.


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A Quiz of Quotes
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Everything that can be invented has been invented—Charles Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
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George Cantor has been featured here and here and here before on GLL. Of course, he invented modern set theory and changed math forever. His birthday is soon, so we thought we would talk about him now—he was born on March 3rd in 1845.
Today we thought it might be fun to have a quiz on math quotes.
Wait. Cantor did not invent quotation marks, nor is he known for many quotes. He does of course have many famous results, and they will live forever. But his results were subject to immediate horrible criticism and therefore memorable quotes.
Leopold Kronecker was a particular source of barbs. For example: "What good is your beautiful proof on the transcendence of ? Why investigate such problems, given that irrational numbers do not even exist?"
As a complexity theorist I must say that Kronecker has a point when he also said:
"Definitions must contain the means of reaching a decision in a finite number of steps, and existence proofs must be conducted so that the quantity in question can be calculated with any degree of accuracy."
David Hilbert defended Cantor and said: "No one shall expel us from the paradise that Cantor has created."
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Quotes Quiz
On to the quiz. Each quote is followed by two possible authors in alphabetical order. You should pick the one you think is correct. The players are:
1. Douglas Adams 2. Bernard Baruch 3. Eric Temple Bell 4. Raoul Bott
5. Paul Erdős 6. Richard Hamming 7. Godfrey Hardy 8. David Hilbert
9. Admiral Grace Hooper 10. Alan Kay 11. Donald Knuth 12. John von Neumann
13. Alan Perlis 14. Henri Poincaré 15. Srinivasa Ramanujan 16. Marcus du Sautoy
17. Raymond Smullyan 18. Alan Turing 19. Moshe Vardi 20. Andrew Wiles
Those who can imagine anything, can create the impossible.
—Kay Turing
I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much of course–the computer industry didn't even foresee that the century was going to end.
— Adams Knuth
One man's constant is another man's variable.
—Perlis du Sautoy
The most damaging phrase in the language is: "It's always been done that way."
—-Hopper Perlis
The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.
Adams Hamming
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
—Knuth Vardi
No, it is a very interesting number, it is the smallest number expressible as a sum of two cubes in two different ways.
—Bell Ramanujan
Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.
—Erdős Hardy
Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.
—Hooper Poincaré
There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.
—Bott von Neumann
I hope we'll be able to solve these problems before we leave.
—Erdős Perlis
Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements; they are the only ones which can correctly be labeled 'wrong'.
—Knuth Smullyan
Everything that humans can do a machine can do.
—Perlis Vardi
"Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
— Bell Hooper
Just because we can't find a solution, it doesn't mean there isn't one.
— Adams Wiles
Mathematics is a place where you can do things which you can't do in the real world.
— du Sautoy Turing
Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton asked why.
— Baruch Hopper
The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.
— Hilbert Wiles
There are two ways to do great mathematics. The first is to be smarter than everybody else. The second way is to be stupider than everybody else – but persistent.
— Bott Knuth
Open Problems
"I always have a quotation for everything—it saves original thinking."
Here are the answers:
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Mathematical ideas and tools are often used to describe aspects of large macroscopic systems. Examples abound in areas as varied as finance to psychology. In a paper published last month in the SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, author Fabio Bagarello proposes mathematical models to analyze political decision-making. Using a dynamical approach which accounts for interactions between political parties and their constituents, the model tries to deduce whether parties should form coalitions under various circumstances.
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Maximus, Inc. (NYSE:MMS) Shares Sold by PNC Financial Services Group Inc.
Posted by Renee Jackson on Jan 15th, 2022
PNC Financial Services Group Inc. reduced its stake in Maximus, Inc. (NYSE:MMS) by 3.5% during the 3rd quarter, according to the company in its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 8,675 shares of the health services provider's stock after selling 315 shares during the period. PNC Financial Services Group Inc.'s holdings in Maximus were worth $721,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.
Other hedge funds and other institutional investors also recently made changes to their positions in the company. Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co. raised its stake in shares of Maximus by 278.0% in the second quarter. Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co. now owns 378 shares of the health services provider's stock valued at $33,000 after acquiring an additional 278 shares in the last quarter. Advisory Services Network LLC acquired a new stake in shares of Maximus in the second quarter valued at $46,000. Van ECK Associates Corp raised its stake in shares of Maximus by 125.1% in the second quarter. Van ECK Associates Corp now owns 833 shares of the health services provider's stock valued at $73,000 after acquiring an additional 463 shares in the last quarter. Fifth Third Bancorp raised its stake in shares of Maximus by 26.8% in the third quarter. Fifth Third Bancorp now owns 1,188 shares of the health services provider's stock valued at $99,000 after acquiring an additional 251 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Campbell & CO Investment Adviser LLC acquired a new stake in Maximus in the second quarter valued at $204,000. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 93.68% of the company's stock.
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Maximus stock opened at $77.15 on Friday. Maximus, Inc. has a 1-year low of $74.38 and a 1-year high of $96.05. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.97, a current ratio of 1.37 and a quick ratio of 1.37. The stock has a market cap of $4.78 billion, a PE ratio of 16.56 and a beta of 0.78. The stock's fifty day moving average is $79.40 and its two-hundred day moving average is $83.38.
Maximus (NYSE:MMS) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, November 18th. The health services provider reported $1.08 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.87 by $0.21. The company had revenue of $1.11 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $1.08 billion. Maximus had a return on equity of 22.53% and a net margin of 6.84%. Maximus's quarterly revenue was up 19.7% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the firm earned $1.02 earnings per share. On average, research analysts expect that Maximus, Inc. will post 4.16 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.
The company also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Monday, February 28th. Shareholders of record on Tuesday, February 15th will be issued a dividend of $0.28 per share. This represents a $1.12 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.45%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, February 14th. Maximus's payout ratio is 24.03%.
In other Maximus news, insider Ilene R. Baylinson sold 9,681 shares of the firm's stock in a transaction dated Friday, November 19th. The stock was sold at an average price of $81.32, for a total transaction of $787,258.92. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is accessible through this hyperlink. Also, General Counsel David Francis sold 6,188 shares of the firm's stock in a transaction dated Friday, November 19th. The stock was sold at an average price of $81.53, for a total value of $504,507.64. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. In the last ninety days, insiders have sold 41,767 shares of company stock worth $3,375,131. Corporate insiders own 1.90% of the company's stock.
Separately, Zacks Investment Research cut Maximus from a "buy" rating to a "hold" rating and set a $85.00 price target on the stock. in a research note on Tuesday, November 23rd.
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MAXIMUS, Inc engages in the operation of government and human services programs. It operates through the following segments: U.S. Services; U.S. Federal Services; and Outside the U.S. The U.S. Services segment offers a variety of business process services, and appeals and assessments for state, provincial and national government programs.
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Water plays a crucial role in plate tectonics by easing the brittle and ductile deformation of the Earth's lithosphere. Water lowers the Mohr-Coulomb for brittle fractures. During ductile deformation, it lubricates different deformational regimes. This is also important for the deformation in the asthenosphere.
In addition, water plays an important role in the formation of water-bearing minerals and the fluxing of melts, thereby substantially changing the rheology of the lithosphere and asthenosphere.
So, what would plate tectonics look like on a waterless Earth? Would it even work? Would there be different rates, or totally different processes taking over, similar to what is seen on adjacent solar system bodies?
Also see Fei et al., "Small effect of water on upper-mantle rheology based on silicon self-diffusion coefficients," Nature 498, 213–215 (2013) which concludes "that the effect of water on upper-mantle rheology is very small". The scientific jury may still be out on this one.
One way of looking at this question is to determine if Earth would possess an active-lid (multiple plate), stagnant-lid (single plate) or an intermediary state (e.g. episodic or sluggish) tectonic regime. This is one of the reasons comparisons are often made with Venus, especially in regards to the main difference been that Venus has a stagnant-lid with possible episodic active tectonic regime (see question and answer to Can Venus be considered to be tectonically active?, compared to Earth's active-lid tectonic regime.
However, there are other differences between Venus and Earth that also may account for the differences in tectonic regimes, asides from the relative absence of water on Venus. Some modelling by Bouffard, (2013) indicated that different plastic yield strengths of lithospheric rheology could account for the different tectonic regimes.
How water interacts oceanic lithosphere is a vital consideration for this kind of question, considering that most spreading ridges and all subduction zones are based on the oceanic lithosphere.
This answer is based on how the absence of water may have prevented a key theorised tectonic mechanism from even starting.
In the absence of water, this process of subduction initiation (should it be true) could not have started; as the authors believe could be the case for Venus where volcanism is evident, but the mechanism appears to be hotspot activity through the current stagnant-lid tectonic regime observed there - if this theory were true, then the absence of water would mean that Earth would potentially have had a stagnant-lid, punctured by hotspot activity.
In my opinion, the role of water in plate tectonics is to serve the plate driving mechanism. A spreading ridge is heated from bottom and effectively cooled on top by water.
Moon/Sun induced deformations of the ridge have to cause hot material to be transported upwards according to the second low of thermodynamics. Basically, the transported material cools and solidifies thus pushing the sides of the ridge apart on the ridge deformations induced by Moon/Sun.
I called the theory "Active Fracture Tectonics". You may wish to look through my blogs sukhotinsky.blogspot.com or divergent-boundaries.blogspot.com to get the idea in details.
The short answer is that we don't really know for sure.
In the larger scheme of things, a plate is simply a thin (and cool) boundary layer at the top of a convecting cell. Plates are a result of mantle convection and their composition will have little effect on convection itself.
At the same time water tends to lower melting point of mantle rocks which can have many important consequences, e.g., back arc volcanism (as water gets transported to great depths during subduction), onset of instabilities etc.


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Including: transportation, sightseeing and private Egyptologist tour guide as per program's itinerary.
In the afternoon, after lunch, you will be taken to the Egyptian Museum: gaze at the wonders of King Tutankhamen, including his golden death mask; stare upon the mummies of some of Egypt's ancient pharaohs (optional); lose yourself in the many rooms and galleries, where thousands of artefacts are awaiting your visit.
Afterwards you will be returned to your hotel; the evening is your own.
After breakfast your day will start with a tour of Cairo famous Churches, including: The Hanging Church and the Church of St. George the Martyr, 2 churches built into the walls of the Fort of Babylon and its remains could be Cairo's oldest structures; and the Church of Abu Serga (St. Sergius), where, it is said, the Holy Family took shelter in a cave, with the church being erected her to commemorate this. This whole area is a world famous destination for Pilgrims.
After lunch you will have the opportunity to visit the old market of Cairo (Khan El-Khalili) to test your haggling skills.
It is check-out time, after you have had breakfast.
Then you have time to do whatever you want until you are picked up for your transfer to Ramses railway station, where you will board the night sleeper service to Aswan, which departs at 2025. Dinner is served once Cairo has disappeared behind you.
Morning arrival at Aswan station. Here you will be met and assisted by our representative who will transfer you to your cruise boat: your floating hotel for your next 3 nights.
After the visit, you will be taken back to the boat for your lunch while it sails onward to Edfu, home of the best-preserved temple in Egypt: the Temple of Horus.
After your visit to this superb temple, you will be taken back to the boat in plenty of time before it departs Edfu and sets sail for Esna. Once you reach Esna you will watch as it sails through the Esna locks. Once through the locks, the boat continues on its course towards Luxor, which it will reach after you have had dinner.
You will have your final breakfast on the boat before you have to check out, but you will have the rest of the day to do as you please.
You will be driven to Luxor railway station to meet your train at night and once more dinner is served as a famous city disappears behind you.
An early wake up call for breakfast and then at 06:45 the train arrives at Giza station where you will be met by our Tour representative who will transfer you to your hotel. The rest of the day is yours until it is time to be transferred to the airport for your final departure.
All prices shown are per person sharing in 'Twin/Double room' Prices per person apply when there are 2 people traveling, sharing a room.
Below is a list of key highlights and what is included on this tour.
03 nights accommodation in Cairo at a 5-star hotel on bed and breakfast basis.
03 nights accommodation on board a 5 star Nile Cruise on full board basis (all meals included) including all above shore excursions.
02 nights accommodation on a sleeper train on half board basis (breakfasts and dinners included).
All transfers as per above-mentioned program.
Private and personalized sightseeing shore excursions for 3 nights on the cruise.
Private English speaking Egyptologist guides as per the itinerary.
Meals: 8 breakfasts + 5 lunches + 5 dinners.