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ROSA unrolled from the International Space Station's robotic arm. Credit: NASA
Interest grows in deployable structures
By&nbspJeremy Banik, Richard Pappa and Mehran Mobrem|December 2017
The Spacecraft Structures Technical Committee focuses on the unique challenges associated with the design, analysis, fabrication and testing of spacecraft structures.
Astronauts need enough electrical power to operate a base camp on the surface of Mars — as well as stay warm and connected with Earth — so NASA's structures and power experts spent 2017 developing concepts for large lightweight deployable solar arrays for the surface of the red planet.
Experts from NASA's Langley Research Center and Glenn Research Center began working on solar array concepts in October 2016 and aim to continue their design work in 2018. Type 1 arrays with about 1,000 square meters of area would deploy from Mars surface landers to supply 10 kilowatts of nighttime electrical power and 50-80 kilowatts of daytime electrical power near the equator, depending on the seasonal factors on the Martian surface. NASA is also eyeing how to develop Type 2 arrays that are easily transported from landers to remote sites to recharge human-occupied rovers and Type 3 solar arrays with flexible packaging that can squeeze into unused spaces on landers for emergencies. The project is partnering with small businesses and an annual design competition for undergraduate and graduate students called the 2018 Breakthrough, Innovative, and Game-changing Idea Challenge.
A project that aims to answer the electricity needs of human space exploration was also put to the test in June, when the International Space Station's robotic arm facilitated the unfurling of the photovoltaic cells mounted on a composite fabric called the Roll Out Solar Array, or ROSA.
ROSA operated June 17-25 so the Air Force Research Laboratory, which is leading the experiment, could measure its behavior and power production performance in the combined microgravity and extreme thermal environment of space. Unlike existing rigid panel solar arrays, ROSA shrinks mass by 33 percent and takes up 400 percent less volume during storage when rolled up. On June 18, ROSA unfurled under the power of the stored strain energy in the composite slit-tube booms, a thin mesh blanket of photovoltaic cells into a stiff solar sheet. It operated nominally even after 10 months of storage, launch and 215 on-orbit thermal cycles. The Department of Defense Space Test program, NASA and Deployable Space Systems Inc. are partnering with AFRL on this project.
The NASA-funded Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Indian Space Research Organization are also prepared to complete critical design reviews in November of key parts for its joint radar project to monitor changes in the Earth's cryosphere, ecosystem and surface. The NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar mission, which passed its preliminary design review in 2016, aims to keep a watchful eye on Earth with a dual frequency L-band and S-band polarimetric radar. India will provide a geosynchronous satellite launch vehicle with a 4-meter fairing, an I-3K spacecraft bus and the S-band radar electronics. NASA will assemble the radar payload, which includes the Radar Instrument Structure, L-Band radar electronics and the radar antenna. The antenna includes the S and L patch antenna arrays, a 9-meter deployable boom and a 12-meter deployable mesh reflector to serve as the RF aperture for both frequencies. The reflector and the boom assemblies had been poised to complete their reviews in November as a key step toward flight production. The spacecraft has a proposed launch date of December 2021.
The Spacecraft Structures Technical Committee's Handbook of Testing Large, Ultra-Lightweight Spacecraft, slated for publication by AIAA in late 2017, will provide both the theory and especially the practice of testing these unique spacecraft for project managers and technical specialists.
Exceptional year for R&D in structural dynamics
Testing a variety of adaptive structures
Systems integration fuels right-first-time launches of historic missions
A nod to tragic and triumphant events
A year of seeing the unseen
Dream Chaser completes a captive carry
Researchers measure xenon at low concentrations, demo novel approach to measuring particle velocities
Altitude-controlled balloons in development for Earth and planetary missions
Air transportation encounters inflationary headwinds on its recovery from pandemic
Landing safely on Earth, then the moon and Mars
Digital breaches heighten awareness of cybersecurity needs
Human-machine teaming is key to the future of aerospace
Continued progress toward the CFD Vision 2030 goals
Flight testing begins for new urban air mobility, electric propulsion aircraft
Dozens of urban air mobility projects underway
Space Launch System keeps pace
Hypersonics changing the world
Missile launches, large space boosters register solid performances
Explosive growth in electric propulsion
Toward bigger and better hybrid rockets
Hypersonics, advanced materials and shockwaves
Commercial human spaceflight leads year of firsts


National Master Oliver Chernin took first place in today's top quad with a 2.5/3 score.
Meanwhile, Varsity Dream Teamer Nathaniel Moor crusied to victory in quad two win a perfect score against very tough opposition!
The last section of the day was a six player swiss which was won by Adriel Alvarado with a perfect 3/3 score! Tied for second palce were Praneetha Kuppili and Harikumar Palaniappan with 2/3 each.
Thank you to everyone that participated this weekend!


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Home Cinema Audio Systems Ubon SP-50 Wooden Wireless Bluetooth Speaker Review: A Vintage looking speaker with...
Ubon SP-50 Wooden Wireless Bluetooth Speaker Review: A Vintage looking speaker with modern features and excellent sound output
Ubon, the Indian audio company, added a new wireless speaker to its list of products named Ubon SP-50 Wooden Wireless Bluetooth Speaker. The SP-50 comes with a wooden built with some parts created of plastic. Holding a price tag of Rs 2,990 the design of the Ubon SP-50 Wooden Wireless Bluetooth Speaker is retro and for the sound quality and other interesting features read the rest of our review of the Ubon SP-50 Wooden Wireless Bluetooth Speaker:
The design of the Ubon SP-50 Wooden Wireless Bluetooth Speaker seems to be from the early 1,900's. It is an old-school design mixed with modern technology. The BT speaker has a mixed built of wood and plastic. The majority of the SP-50 is made out of wood while some of its parts like the controls or the smartphone dock is made out of plastic. Even though it is made of two materials, but both have more or less same colour scheme which gives it a one-tone colour look.
The front of the speaker houses the speaker grills made out of plastic, inside which two small sized speakers are placed along with a small sub-woofer. The UBON logo prominently sits on the front of the speaker grills. The top of the speaker has the smartphone dock where you can place your smartphone or tablet in a dock cut out. The top also houses the media controls and the volume dial.
To elaborate, there are 4 buttons placed on top of the UBON SP-50 accompanied with the volume dial. The four buttons are — Previous, Next, Play/Pause and the Mode selection button. All the buttons are made out of plastic and have a sturdy feel, but the volume button is a bit hard to rotate i.e., its movement is not fluid.
The left and the right side of the speaker is plain and doesn't have anything. But the back of the device houses the main controls and connectors. There is a power on/off switch at the back of the UBON SP-50 speaker along with a USB connector, which can be used to play songs from a pen drive. There is also a microSD card slot that can be used to directly play the songs from a compatible card. Over that, there is also an AUX jack available here, which can be used to connect the speaker to the smartphone or other devices.
Ubon SP-50 Wooden Wireless Bluetooth Speaker Front
There is also a micro USB slot which is the charging port of the Ubon SP-50 Wooden Wireless Bluetooth Speaker. Weirdly, the LED notification light is located at the back of the device. It was hard to understand if the device was turned off or on when looking from the front. The light usually glows blue when in normal mode, red in low battery mode and blue + red while charging the speaker.
The device comes in only one colour variant – Brown Wood. Since it is light wood, we at times felt that if the device drops it might break. Also the surface will get scratched very easily.
Ubon SP-50 Wooden Wireless Bluetooth Speaker
The Ubon SP-50 Wooden Wireless Bluetooth Speaker has a boxy build and although it seems like one would want to carry it, it will be a hard task carrying this speaker inside a bag, as portability is a bit of an issue. These are best kept inside the house.
The Ubon SP-50 Wooden Wireless Bluetooth Speaker packs two 10W speakers and they have a frequency range of 60Hz to 15KHz (15,000Hz). There is also a small hole cut-out between the speakers, which houses the sub-woofer. It comes with Bluetooth 4.0 and has 10 metres BT working range, which is an acceptable distance.
The speaker comes with a 2,000mAh battery and the company has promised a battery life of 6 hours of playback time on a single charge. And when we tested the speaker it was able to give just about that much, which is a good battery backup for a Bluetooth speaker. As mentioned earlier, it can play songs via Bluetooth, microSD card, Pen drive, AUX cable and it also comes with an in-built FM Radio.
Ubon SP-50 Wooden Wireless Bluetooth Speaker connectivity panel
The company had also promised that it can reconnect with the last device connected to it which is true. Once our smartphone's Bluetooth was turned on, the Ubon SP-50 Wooden Wireless Bluetooth Speaker automatically detected and connected with the smartphone. So the headache of re-pairing a device goes away, as the device remembers.
Now coming to the main part of the Ubon SP-50 Wooden Wireless Bluetooth Speaker — the sound. In which the Ubon SP-50 Wooden Wireless Bluetooth Speaker performs quite well. In brief, the Ubon SP-50 Wooden Wireless Bluetooth Speaker is loud. It gives a good mixture of lows and highs. The treble is clear and it also has a good level of bass. Although the speaker doesn't have a wide sub-woofer, it delivers quite well in the bass department.
Ubon SP-50 Wooden Wireless Bluetooth Speaker smartphone holder
The company promised HD and stereo sound quality from the Ubon SP-50 Wooden Wireless Bluetooth Speaker and it was true to quite an extent. What we expected from this Speaker was delivered to us. Even though it did not exceed our expectations, it passed our tests with good marks.
The Ubon SP-50 Wooden Wireless Bluetooth Speaker delivers what the company said it will deliver, no more and no less. It offers good sound quality with good levels of treble and bass. The sound offered by it is clear and loud and even the low notes are precise. Its build quality gives a retro and vintage look but at times we did feel it is not too sturdy. And lastly the price, with a price tag of Rs 2,990, it has stiff competition in the market. As others are giving water proof capability for just Rs 200-300 more.
Excellent sound quality
Good bass and treble
Build not super sturdy
Slightly expensive
Not very portable
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URL: https://journal.rniito.org/jour/issue/view/11
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21823/2311-2905-2016-0-2
RECONSTRUCTIVE MICROSURGERY IN THE TREATMENT OF SURFACE FORMS OF CALCANEal OSTEOMYELITIS
Tsybul' E.S., Rodomanova L.A.
One of the most common complications associated with the treatment of calcaneus fracturesis, a necrosis of the edges of the surgical wound and as a result – chronic nonhealing ulcers of the heel region and osteomyelitis of the calcaneus. In the structure of skeletal lesions osteomyelitic chronic osteomyelitis of the calcaneus occurs in 3.1–14.8% of cases, and in relation to the bones of the foot – up to 51%. At the same time after open fractures of the total incidence of deep infection from soft tissue even higher than that for the surface (12.2% vs. 9.6%). The traditional approach to the treatment of osteomyelitis of the calcaneus is often accompanied by poor performance with recurrent osteomyelitis process and high
subsequent disability of working age.
Objective: to identify opportunities and assess the effectiveness of the use of reconstructive microsurgery techniques in the treatment of patients with superficial forms of osteomyelitis of the calcaneus, accompanied by the presence of soft tissue defect.
Materials and мethods.The results of treatment of 28 patients with superficial forms of osteomyelitis of the calcaneus, which in the period from 2006 to 2013 in RNIITO them. R.R.Vredena were performed reconstructive plastic surgery using microsurgical techniques. Defects covering tissues were located on the sole (20) and back-side surfaces (8) of the calcaneus. Scope of interventions included the radical surgical treatment of osteomyelitis focus, marginal resection of the affected heel bone and tissue replacement of defect cover flap with axial blood supply.
Results. With the localization of the defect cover tissues to non-reference surface of the heel region was carried out free plastic ray skin-fascial flap (9 cases). When the location of the defect on the plantar surface of the heel region favored medial plantar flap (10 cases). However, the presence of scarring and damage to the medial plantar artery was performed two-step replacement of defect prefabrikovannym flap medial arch of the foot (9 cases). Complications were observed in 7% of cases (2 patients) in 1 patient who had undergone plastic free radial flap in 1 case – after replacing a defect medial plantar flap. In both cases they were associated with impaired blood supply to the flap and ended necrosis of transplanted grafts. In the remaining cases (93%) failed to achieve full engraftment. Long-term results were followed up in 78,5% (n = 22) of patients in the period from 1 to 8 years after the end of treatment. In four cases, the plantar surface of the calcaneus formed edge wound defects, require additional surgical treatment. on the AOFAS scale results averaged 85 points, that, given the severity of the disease, regarded as a good result.
Conclusions. The use of microsurgical techniques for the treatment of patients with superficial forms of osteomyelitis of the calcaneus, including the presence of soft tissue defect, achieves sustained remission osteomyelitic process and restore support ability of the injured limb. Thus the support surface for the replacement of the heel region is expedient to use grafts comprising the plantar surface of the foot skin.
Traumatology and Orthopedics of Russia. 2016;22(2):7-14
Knee joint gait function in patients with ACL rupture before and after the surgery
Akhpashev A.A., Zagorodniy N.V., Kanaev A.S., Kaurkin S.N., Skvortsov D.V.
Materials and methods. The authors studied gait biomechanics in respect of time, velocity and dynamics in 34 patients with verified ACL rupture including 11 patients (first group) before the surgery and 23 patients (second group) after the surgery. Patients of the first group were followed in the period from 1 week up to 6 years (mean – 18 months), of the second group – from 1.5 months up to 5.5 years (mean – 13 months). Patients of the second group underwent standard arthroscopic ACL reconstruction with semitendinous and gracillis tendon autograft. Biomechanical gait examination was performed using strap down inertial motion sensors that register rotation angles in space. The authors measured time phases of gait cycle, movements in hip and knee joints in three mutually perpendicular planes as well as walking shock load.
Results. Time phases of gait cycle in both groups demonstrated normal values both on healthy and affected limbs. Movements in hip and knee joints were within the normal range, no reliable differences in the analogous indices for each limb were reported. Shock load in walking was registered within 1.6 g, symmetrical on both sides; shock load dynamics was absent in the group of patients after the surgery. Study results did not identify functional disorders during random flat surface waking that would be specific for ACL lesion as compared to normal values and to intact limb. However, a certain tendency was observed towards an increase of flexion-extension movement range in the knees following ACL reconstruction. The reported differences were not credible.
Conclusion. The authors did not observe any specific functional knee joint instability during normal activities in the first group of patients with ACL rupture. On the one hand, that means that ACL lesion does not manifest in such circumstances, on the other - knee joint instability does not progress during flat surface walking at a random pace. The obtained results give certain ground to reconsider the concept of "knee joint instability".
Traumatology and Orthopedics of Russia. 2016;22(2):15-24
ANALYSIS OF FAILURES AND COMPLICATIONS FOLLOWING TREATMENT OF DIAPHYSEAL FOREARM FRACTURES IN CHILDREN USING FLEXIBLE INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING
Korobeinikov A.A., Popkov D.A.
Introduction. Currently flexible intramedullary nailing (FIN) is the method of choice for treatment of diaphyseal forearm fractures in children.
Purpose of the study: to perform a quantitative and qualitative analysis of failures and complications encountered in treatment of children with diaphyseal forearm fractures using FIN fixation.
Materials and methods. The study included 55 consecutive continuous cases of diaphyseal forearm fractures in children operated by FIN fixation from October 2011 till October 2014. Follow up period covered timeframe from admission until implant removal but no less than 6 months. The authors studied age, gender, fracture pattern, surgical technique features, length of hospital stay, frequency of outpatient examinations, healing period, x-ray data and all complications.
Results. Complications during treatment were reported in 10 patients. Two patients demonstrated two complications. In two cases a surgical procedure was required to address the complications. Early postoperative complications were observed in two cases (neuropathy of superficial branch of radial nerve). In other cases patients developed complications at outpatient stage starting one to six months after the surgery which did not impact the final outcome.
Conclusion. Despite various complications observed following FIN fixation of diaphyseal forearm fractures in children, their severity and frequency had no impact on the final outcome in the authors' case series. Majority of issues were related to violations in surgical technique and adverse fracture pattern.
THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES
TIBIAL LANDMARKS IN ACL ANATOMIC REPAIR
Demesсhenko M.V., Malanin D.A., Suchilin I.A., Cherezov L.L.
Purpose: to identify anatomical landmarks on tibial articular surface to serve as reference in preparing tibial canal with respect to the center of ACL footprint during single bundle arthroscopic repair.
Materials and methods. Twelve frozen knee joint specimens and 68 unpaired macerated human tibia were studied using anatomical, morphometric, statistical methods as well as graphic simulation.
Results. Center of the tibial ACL footprint was located 13,1±1,7 mm anteriorly from posterior border of intercondylar eminence, at 1/3 of the distance along the line connecting apexes of internal and external tubercles and 6,1±0,5 mm anteriorly along the perpendicular raised to this point.
Conclusion. Internal and external tubercles, as well as posterior border of intercondylar eminence can be considered as anatomical references to determine the center of the tibial ACL footprint and to prepare bone canals for anatomic ligament repair.
RESULTS OF THE FOSFOMYCIN APPLICATION FOR THE IMPREGNATION OF BONE REPLACEMENT MATERIALS IN THE TREATMENT OF CHRONIC OSTEOMYELITIS
Konev V.A., Bozhkova S.A., Netylko G.I., Afanasiev A.V., Rumakin V.P., Polyakova E.M., Rukina A.N., Parfeev D.G.
Aim – to evaluate in the experimental study in vitro the duration of antimicrobial activity of fosfomycin-impregnated bone cement and to study the dynamics of radiological and morphological changes depending on the local antibiotic therapy in two-stage treatment of chronic osteomyelitis in rabbits.
Materials and methods. Duration of antimicrobial activity of bone cement (depuy cmw1 gentamicin) with fosfomycin in vitro was studied in comparison to cements with vancomycin and controls without additional antibiotics. Presence of the lysis zone of bacterial cultures was evaluated (Staphylococcus aureus ATCC6538 and ATCC33591, Klebsiella pneumoniae ATCC33495 and Escherichia coli ATCC25922) after application of 10 μl of the solution, collected from the cement samples after incubation for 24 hours. For the in vivo experiment, Chinchilla rabbits (n = 20) with local osteomyelitis of the tibia underwent two-stage treatment where substitution of the bone defect at stage I was performed with PMMA and stage II – with the bioresorbable material based on hydroxyapatite and triclacium phosphate (ReproBone). In an experience group (n = 10) before setting osteoreplacement materials with fosfomycin (group FOSFO), and by control (n = 10) – vancomycin (group VANCO). X-ray imaging was performed on the 1st and 21st day after installation of the cement spacer, and 45th day after substitution of the spacer with the bioresorbable material. Microbiological analysis of the samples was performed intraoperatively and on the 7th, 14th day after each stage. Histological study was conducted in both groups on the 14th, 21th day after stage I and 45th day after stage II of the treatment.
Results. Maximal duration of antimicrobial activity in vitro was observed in samples of PMMA with fosfomycin whereas minimal – in control samples of gentamicin-based bone cement. Relief of the infection was attained in all animals while application of fosfomycin resulted in a more rapid elimination of the bacteria. Reaction of the adjacent tissue to the implanted material and results of X-ray imaging in both groups did not differ significantly. Long duration of the broad-spectrum antimicrobial activity of the bone cement with fosfomycin with the comparable perifocal reaction in vivo necessitates further study of the use of this antibiotic in bioresorbable materials for the treatment of osteomyelitis in clinical practice.
BIOMINERALOGICAL INVESTIGATION OF APATITE PIEZOELECTRICITY
Pawlikowski M.
Investigation of apatite piezoelectricity was conducted in order to assess piezoelectric properties of bone. In the first stage, mineralogical analysis of different apatite crystals, regarding their purity and fitness for the experiments was performed. After the crystals had been chosen, 0.8 mm-thick plates were cut, perpendicular and parallel to the crystallographic Z axis. The plates were then polished and dusted with gold. Electrodes were attached to the opposite surfaces of the plates with conductive glue. So prepared plates were hooked up to the EEG machine used for measuring electrical activity in the brain. The plates were then gently tapped to observe and register currents generated in them. Acquired data was processed by subtracting from the resulting graphs those generated by a hand movement, without tapping the plate. Results indicate that apatite plates have weak piezoelectric properties. Observed phenomenon may be translated to bone apatite, which would explain, at least partially, piezoelectric properties of bone. Acquired results suggest that there is a relation between the mechanical workload of bones (bone apatite) and their
electrical properties. Considering the massive internal surface of bones, they may be treated as a kind of internal "antenna" reacting not only to mechanical stimuli, but to changes in electromagnetic field as well. Observed phenomena no doubt significantly influence the biological processes occurring in bones and the whole human body.
PARACRINE REGULATORS IN DISTRACTION OSTEOGENESIS (pilot study)
Stogov M.V., Emanov A.A., Kireeva E.A.
Purpose – to evaluate effect of protein extracted from lengthened skeletal muscles on callus formation in dogs after tibia lengthening using Ilizarov method.
Materials and methods. The authors studied properties of distraction callus formation in three groups of dogs after tibia lengthening by Ilizarov method. In the first group (n = 10) distraction was achieved at a rate of 1 mm in four stages during 28 days. In the second (n = 4) and third (n = 4) groups distraction was done at a rate of 1.5 mm in 6 stages per day within 20 days. Mean lengthening value in all groups amounted to 14,64±0,67% of the overall segment length. At the 10th day of distraction the authors introduced to animals of the second group into anterior tibial and gastrocnemius muscles of the lengthened segment at callus level the extract of sarcoplasmic proteins in amount of 1.5ml based on 1 mg of lyophilizate per 1 kg of body weight (protein concentration in injectate amounted to 30±2 gr/l). Animals in the third group received natural saline solution in the same manner. Extract consisted of lyophilized sarcoplasmic proteins harvested from anterior tibial muscle of animal at 14th day of lengthening by Ilizarov method (rate of 1 mm per day in 4 stages). Extraction was performed according to patented method (Russian Federation patent for invention №2476234) by consecutive muscle proteins sedimentation in KCl solutions of varied ionic strength. The lyophilizate was sterilized after obtaining and dissolved in normal saline solution prior to introduction.
Results. Radiographic signs of anatomically solid callus in the first group were observed in the average at 33±1 day of fixation; in the second group – at 24±2 day; in the third group – at 39±3. Difference in mean values of fixation in animals of second group as compared to first and third groups was significant (р = 0,04). After extract introduction the animals of the second group demonstrated a greater growth of γ-globulins and α2-globulins fraction volumes.
Conclusion. Skeletal muscles of limb segment lengthened by Ilizarov method produce specific factors that impact the process of distraction osteogenesis.
DIFFICULTIeS OF TOTAL HIP REPLACEMENT IN PATIENTS WITH ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS (case report)
Tikhilov R.M., Nikolaev N.S., Shubnyakov I.I., Myasoedov A.A., Boyarov A.A., Efimov A.V., Syundyukov A.R.
A distinctive feature of patients with ankylosing spondylitis is the formation of hip ankylosis in an extremely unfavorable functional position combined with upset of sagittal balance of the body along with a thoracolumbar kyphosis. Treatment of these patients poses considerable technical difficulties and is often associated with complications. The authors report a clinical case of a female 40 years old patient with confirmed rhizomelic spondylitis. The patient mainly complained of fixed malposition of the right lower extremity (hip ankylosis in extreme 1450 flexion and 1500 abduction) combined with a severe fixed spine deformity (thoracic kyphosis 920, lumbar lordosis 170). Considering significant sagittal balance disorder it was decided to go for a two-stage procedure. Total hip arthroplasty of the right joint was performed at the first stage. At the second stage the authors corrected thoracolumbar spinal deformity by Th12 (type PSO 4) and L2 (type PSO 3) wedge resections and converging resected vertebral bodies by a multilevel fixation system with transpedicular support elements. The interval between the stages was 11 months. Two-stage treatment of this patient al-lowed to avoid adverse postoperative complications and to achieve a significant functional improvement in one year after treatment started. The sum of points before and after the treat-ment amounted respectively to 46 and 79 on Harris Hip Score, 17 and 38 points on Oxford Hip Score (OHS). To summarize, comprehensive treatment with planning of all subsequent steps prior to hip replacement is the method of choice for avoidance of postoperative complications in patients with ankylosing spondylitis accompanied by a significant upset of sagittal balance.
TRAUMA AND ORTHOPEDIC CARE
Injury patterns of finger extensor tendons in population of Ivanovo region
Vashetsky V.E., Kirpichev I.V., Klimin D.N., Roslova E.P.
Acute injury of finger extensor tendons constitute a significant part in overall causes for hospital admission.
Purpose of the study: to evaluate injury patterns of finger extensor tendons in population of Ivanovo region.
Material and methods. The authors performed the retrospective statistical analysis of 163 medical histories of patients who underwent hospital treatment in the period from January 2011 till December 2014 at department of wrist reconstructive surgery and microsurgery of Ivanovo regional clinical hospital of war veterans. The study was carried out in full compliance with medical ethics. Excel 7.0 was applied for statistical analysis.
Results. Injury patterns of patients with finger extensor tendons demonstrated prevalence of males aging from 21 to 40 years old. Most frequent is the left hand trauma at home while handling devices with high-speed rotation mechanism. Most lesions occur in time interval from noon till 6 p.m. Patients with combined injuries prevailed. The authors observed hospital admittance within first 6 hours after trauma.
Conclusion. A typical patient with finger extensor tendons trauma is an active age male injured in everyday life and often in a state of alcoholic intoxication.
DEPENDENCY OF OSTEOGENIC EFFECTS ON CHARACTERISTICS OF MECHANICAL LOAD APPLIED TO OSSEOUS STRUCTURES
Avrunin A.S., Doktorov A.A.
Purpose of the study: to evaluate osteogenic rate of various characteristics of mechanical loading based on the authors' data as well as literature analysis.
Literature analysis proved that clinical outcome of physical training can be achieved not only by increasing the mechanical load but also by altering number of load iterations, rate of load acceleration, frequency of cyclic load, rest interval, distribution of load across the skeleton. Presented data provides a reasonable basis to apply alterations of all above-mentioned load characteristics to obtain clinical effect and customize every single baseline exercise plan to gain a maximum treatment and preventive effect in individuals with high risk of osteoporotic fractures.
Traumatology and Orthopedics of Russia. 2016;22(2):88-100
Management of femur and tibia metaphyseal bone defects during revision total knee arthroplasty – methods and outcomes (review)
Bovkis G.Y., Kulyaba T.A., Kornilov N.N.
Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is becoming an increasingly common treatment for a wide variety of diseases, as well as treatment for consequences from knee injury. The number of primary joint replacement operations have been steadily climbing. As a result, the number of revision procedures have also grown, accounting for 6–8% of arthroplasties. The problem of bone defects compensation remains one of the greatest challenges faced by the surgeon during revision TKA and usually requires a comprehensive approach, careful preoperative planning and preparation. The compensation of small, in depth and extent, bone defects (AORI Type I and II) does not present serious difficulties and their methods are well developed. Whereas the compensation of massive defects (Type 3) is extremely difficult. Until recently, structural allografts were the only method available to surgeons and still remain relevant and demonstrate good results. In recent years, as an alternative, it has become possible to use sleeves and cones made of porous metal, which are also showing very promising mid-term results. This review demonstrates the results from recent studies of mid-term and long-term outcomes of revision TKA, in which different methods of bone defect compensation were used. The clinical evidence did not demonstrate any obvious advantage of using one method over another, therefore, research in this area continues to remain relevant.
Traumatology and Orthopedics of Russia. 2016;22(2):101-113
MODERN APPROACHES TO SURGICAL TREATMENT OF CHARCOT NEUROARTHROPATHY (review)
Pavlyuchenko S.V., Zhdanov A.I., Orlova I.V.
The present review addresses a pressing orthopaedic issue of surgical treatment for patients with severe foot deformities occurring as consequence to Charcot neuroarthropathy. Described pathology is a severe threatening condition causing high risk of infections and potential limb loss. The paper describes main foot reconstructive procedures employed depending on pathology stage and localization as well as identifies ways to improve surgical treatment of affected patients.
Fracture eponyms: personal names
Zolotov A.S., Mikhaylov V.V.
The paper describes the origin of bone fracture eponyms. The authors compiled a list of 60 most established fracture names proposed by physicians in 16th-20th centuries who mainly were skilled, mature and outstanding experts from countries with advanced conventional medicine and often represented the recognized surgical schools. Eponym records are important for understanding the history and subject of the chosen profession as well as knowledge of eponymic fractures facilitates communication between physicians of allied disciplines.


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The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eyes are unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness.
If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness?
It seems to me that one of the most challenging disabilities would be the inability to see clearly or not at all. Without sight, life can really become complicated; therefore, various skillsets and tools have been developed for those who are sightless to empower them to be able to "see" in other ways. As a result, the visually impaired are more than able to participate in and contribute to our society, with certain restrictions. Now to accomplish all this, it is very clear that the one who is visually challenged has to turn from the darkness to a way of light. Without making a choice to be something, other than a hopelessly helpless blind person, the visually impaired person would be trapped in darkness.
There is a darkness, about which Jesus speaks, which is of a deeper and more negative nature than physical blindness. There is blindness far worse than physical visual impairment. It is a darkness that leaves a person blind to the things of the kingdom of God. Jesus, when talking to Nicodemus in John 3, makes it clear that this blindness occurs because the person has never been "born from above"…or born again. Jesus explains it like this: "Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again" (John 3:3).
Back in the first few chapters of the Bible, our ancestors were spiritually alive, and they walked with God daily; however, God warned them that if they sinned—which they did—they would die. Once they did so, the part of them that made them God conscious (their spirits) actually died, and they could no longer be intimate with God. They could not see Him any longer. They no longer enjoyed fellowship with God. There was no more listening to Him or just talking with Him.
Jesus came and made a covenant with humankind so the human spirit could be brought back to life. He made it possible for a person to be reborn. He made it possible for us to "see" the kingdom of God. His whole mission and purpose for living, suffering, bleeding, sacrificing his body dying, and rising from the dead was to make it possible for you and me to be born from above. Now, because He lives, we can also live. And because we live, we can see the kingdom of God.
Sadly, too many people are stumbling around in darkness because they do not believe or cannot clearly see how to simply believe in Jesus as Savior. They refuse to reach out to the one who has the cure for their spiritual blindness. They won't receive the ability to see the kingdom of God. As a result, their lives are a mere existence where they do indeed exist, but they do not really live. Try as they may, they are in darkness, and they will not accept the remedy for their blindness.
I have heard many say that believing in Jesus as the only Savior is narrow-minded. Need I remind the reader that the rock-solid path of living — on which we are journeying — came through the narrow gate? Therefore, if going through this gate gives life and sight to those who are spiritually stumbling in the quicksand of their darkness, would not taking that narrow path be a good thing? I wear glasses, and there is only one prescription that will give me the clear vision that I need. It is a very narrow prescription that must be followed if I really wish to see. Help me understand why this narrow visionary concept is a bad thing if it saves me from being visually impaired.
Please don't stumble along on your journey. You do not have to falter in such a way. You can have eyes to see! Jesus is offering to give sight to those who cannot see the kingdom of God. He is willing to give sight so you can walk along His stepping-stones of rock-solid living and avoid the devastating sand traps. He has the perfect prescription for your spiritual eyes. God loves you so much that He gave His one and only biological son—Jesus—that if you believe in Him, you will not perish, but you will have eternal life (share in God's life forever). Open your eyes to Jesus today, and then you can begin to see the light of eternity all around. Believe Him. Believe in Him. Receive Him—not only as the Savior of the world but also as your Savior.
Back from the days of the early space race, there is a legend that goes something like this: The United States and Russia were in serious competition. The official view of the Soviets was atheistic, and in the United States, we believed in freedom of religion and expression. The Russian cosmonauts were interviewed and asked by their propaganda machine, "Did you see God out there in outer space?" The cosmonaut, wanting to be safe, said what was expected. He reportedly said, "I have been all out there into outer space, and I did not see God anywhere." Later one of the American astronauts was asked a similar question: "When you went into outer space, did you see God anywhere?" The astronaut reportedly said, "I have been all the way into outer space and I saw God everywhere." What was the difference? They both went into space. How could their perspective be so very different? The answer is that one did not believe. He simply could not and did not see. The other was a believer, and he had eyes with which to see.
Which one are you? Can you see the kingdom of God? Is there light in those eyes of yours? Are you focused on the Son of God, or are you in the dark? Step on the stepping-stones of a solid foundation. On Christ the solid rock, choose to stand. All other ground is sinking sand. Indeed, this is the ultimate truth—all other ground is sinking sand.


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RACE PREVIEW: Charlotte Motor Speedway
The greatest weekend in racing is upon us! NASCAR's time to shine will come with Sunday night's Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Ty Dillon will pilot the No. 13 GEICO Military Camaro ZL1 in the season's longest race. This will be his third start in the 600-mile race.
The GEICO Military Camaro ZL1 team will be honoring a fallen hero on this Memorial Day weekend. Corporal Robert "Bobby" Steele's name will be displayed on the windshield header of Dillon's Chevrolet. CPL Steele served his country honorably in the United States Marine Corps. He tragically lost his life on August 28, 1967, in a rocket mortar attack of his hootch as he slept after changing shifts to help a fellow soldier while stationed in the Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam. He paid the ultimate sacrifice fighting for the freedoms that citizens of the United States of America enjoy today. Steele's younger sister, Becky, was a childhood friend of Larry Rogers, Germain Racing's General Manager.
Also being honored by Germain Racing and GEICO this weekend is Sergeant First Class Matthew Thomas of the United States Army. A proud Army Ranger, he led his fellow Rangers with enthusiasm and grit, demonstrating courage and fortitude both in training and in combat. He passed away on March 10, 2019, after a career of service to his country. SFC Thomas was the troop leader for J.D. Barnette, the son of a GEICO Racing team member.
Dillon Weekend Chatter
How are Germain Racing and GEICO planning to honor Memorial Day weekend?
"We will run the GEICO Military scheme this weekend at Charlotte. The 'geckoflage' makes it such a cool paint scheme, and everyone loves it. We always enjoy running this race and honoring those that have died while fighting for our freedom and those that are still actively fighting as we speak. Getting to have this scheme on track for Memorial Day weekend is very special."
How do you prepare for 600 miles of racing?
"The Coca-Cola 600 is just a long race. It takes a lot of work to be ready for the length of time that I'll be inside of the GEICO Military Camaro ZL1. This year, it will be nearly 100 degrees in Charlotte on race day. So, preparation in the weeks leading up to the weekend is incredibly important. I make sure that I'm hydrated and that I've been eating the right foods for a few weeks before the race. Doing all the work the day before won't help you past mile 500. It also helps that the more you compete in this race, the more you can better prepare yourself. I'm going into my third Coca-Cola 600. It never feels any shorter, but I do know how to approach it."
On Friday afternoon, Dillon can be found at Speed Street with the GEICO Gecko! He will be at the GEICO display to keep the race weekend excitement going by meeting fans, taking photos, signing autographs and more! When: Friday, May 24 from 5:00 - 6:00 p.m. Where: Uptown Charlotte, Speed Street Dillon will also be visiting the Circle K tent on Speed Street with Twisted Tea! He'll play cornhole with the tournament champions, meet fans and sign autographs. When: Friday, May 24 at 6:00 p.m. Where: Uptown Charlotte, Speed Street
Dillon is going to stop by the merchandise rig on Sunday afternoon to kick off race day! If you don't yet have your No. 13 team gear, you'll be able to purchase t-shirts, hats, koozies and more for him to sign.
When: Sunday, May 26 at 2:15 p.m. ET
Where: Charlotte Motor Speedway Fan Midway
Fans will have the opportunity to see Dillon when he visits the Team Chevy stage Sunday afternoon in the fan midway. He will answer questions in a Q&A session and sign autographs.
On race day, Dillon will also stop by the infield Circle K! He will be signing autographs. If you stop by to stock up on Twisted Tea before the race gets started, he'll even sign your cans!
Where: Charlotte Motor Speedway Infield – Circle K
Tickets and Tune In!
The Coca-Cola 600 will be run on Sunday, May 26. Tickets to Charlotte Motor Speedway can be purchased at NASCAR.com/tickets.
The race will air live at 6:00 p.m. ET on FOX, Performance Racing Network and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.
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Srinagar: The National Conference delegation Friday called on Governor SP Malik at the Raj Bhavan here and reiterated party's concern over the unabated human rights violations across the valley.
"The deputation included Haji Ali Mohammad Sagar, Abdul Rahim Rather, Chowdary Muhammad Ramzan, Sakina Itoo and Saifullah Mir," the statement said.
"Despite repeated assurances coming from the state and the government of India, the human right violations continues. People have now lost faith over such assurances resulting in large scale disenchantment among all sections of the society particularly the youth," the leaders said and urged the Governor to initiate a conciliatory process with the alienated educated youth to instil a sense of security in them.
"A sharp rise in militancy in Kashmir over the last four years is a direct consequence of the alarming level of alienation in Kashmir witnessed during PDP-BJP combine. We are concerned about catch and kill policy where youngsters are not given a chance to return back to mainstream. Such acts add to the alienation and anguish on the ground and need to be stopped," Sagar said on the occasion, the statement reads.
"The recent minimal poll percentage across the valley has proved beyond doubt that holding ULB elections was not the right decision in the backdrop of central governments confusing stand on states special status," Sagar said.


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Google appoints new Motorola Mobility CEO after takeover deal closes
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Google has appointed a new CEO to Motorola Mobility after completing its takeover of the smartphone maker.
In a press release announcing the completion of the takeover, Google CEO Larry Page announced that Sanjay Jha has stepped down as the CEO of Motorola Mobility. He will be replaced by Google employee Dennis Woodside.
Jha originally took the post of Motorola Mobility CEO in August 2008 and oversaw the company's demerger from network equipment manufacturer Motorola Solutions, as well as its switch to Google's Android smartphone and tablet device platform.
Google's takeover closed after Chinese regulators finally approved the takeover earlier this week.


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Mississippi approves magnolia emblem to replace Confederate flag
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Mississippi will fly a new state flag with a magnolia to replace a Confederate-themed flag state politicians retired months ago as part of the national reckoning over racial injustice.
The new flag, which also bears the phrase "In God We Trust", was approved by the state's voters on Tuesday.
The magnolia flag was the only design on the general election ballot, and voters were asked to say yes or no. A majority said yes.
Legislators will have to put the design into law, but they are expected to do that with little fuss since they already accomplished the more challenging task of retiring a flag that some people wanted to keep.
A display stand in Jackson, Mississippi with a number of the recently retired state flags (Rogelio Solis/AP)
Mississippi has been without a flag since late June, when legislators surrendered the last state banner in the US that included the Confederate battle emblem — a red field topped by a blue X with 13 white stars. The rebel flag has been used by Ku Klux Klan groups and is widely condemned as racist.
The new Mississippi flag has the state flower on a dark blue background with red bars on either end. The magnolia is encircled by stars representing Mississippi as the 20th state. The flag also has a single star made of diamond shapes representing the Native American people who lived on the land before others arrived.
White supremacists in the state legislature adopted the Confederate-themed flag in 1894 amid a backlash to the power black people gained after the abolition of slavery.
For decades, the flag was divisive in a state with a significant black population, currently about 38%.
A majority of voters chose to keep the flag in a 2001 election, but several cities and counties and all of Mississippi's public universities had stopped flying it because of the Confederate symbol.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Image Publishing, Inc. has announced that its latest book, 'Alabama Home Sweet Home' (ISBN-13: 978-0974703732), which profiles some of the states most famous natives, is now available for sale throughout the state.


Two versions of the Ginger Scald featured in Scott Lynch's "The Lies of Locke Lamora." The one on the left is made with sherry, the one on the right with Marsala.
Guest bartender Travis E. Poling drinks beer and reads books, and every now and then he writes books about beer. The latest is San Antonio Beer: Alamo City History by the Pint with co-author Jeremy Banas. Poling has been a journalist in the San Antonio area for nearly 30 years and is at work on his third book on beer, researching a historical novel and serving as guest curator for an upcoming museum exhibit on brewing in Texas.
It wasn't until reading about the upcoming fourth novel in the Gentlemen Bastards cannon that Scott Lynch came to my attention. The premise from this Wisconsin fantasy writer was intriguing, so I shopped my own home library and to great delight found Lynch's debut novel The Lies of Locke Lamora.
The setting for this 2006 debut fantasy is the city of Camorra, reminiscent of an Italian city-state with the canals of Venice, a ruling Duke and a peerage protected by the Secret Peace from a hierarchal thieving class ruled by the ruthless Capa Barsavi.
We meet Locke Lamora as a newly orphaned thief in training and follow him through his unconventional upbringing in revealing flashbacks in between the ambitious con action of the Gentlemen Bastards gang led by the adult Lamora.
This is a caper tale, with deceptions on multiple levels, and a story of revenge served both with calculating cold and hot abandon. The character of Locke is as likable as he is cunning, making him at ease posing as a brandy merchant from far lands in a long con of the Don Lorenzo and Doña Sofia. His team, through multiple talents and disguises, brings the falsehood to life.
Beginning, middle and end are all satisfying with numerous twists including a threat to the Camorri underworld by the mysterious Grey King, who is picking off the underbosses. And while this novel wraps nicely, there are enough hints throughout to tease future plot lines. There are mentions of an absent female member of the team, who may have been a love interest of Lamora, lands across the sea from Camorra, and the mysteries of the long-gone alien race that built the mostly indestructible bones of the city on which Camorra was built.
Here's my variation on the drink using a French ginger liqueur as the spicy base. To recreate the fictional ajento I tried infusing the wine with radish, but the concoction became a bit sulfurous after a few hours. The muddling imparted a cleaner flavor.
Pour first three ingredients in a fluted glass. Remove a 1/8-inch slice from the center of the radish and set aside. Chop the rest of the radish and muddle it with the wine (for a different take, use sherry instead of Marsala). Add the bitters to the wine, strain and top off the drink. Stir three times with a heated rod (I used a metal kabob skewer heated on a gas burner). Garnish with the slice of radish on the rim.


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Father and son arrested after 'drug lab' explodes
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TWO people were seriously injured and two others arrested after an explosion at a suspected drug lab in Alicante.
It is believed that gas bottles kept in a store room at the house in El Moralet caused the explosion, while paint solvent helped spread the flames.
Emergency services received a call that a home was on fire.
When they arrived at the scene they found a father and son attempting to extinguish the flames.
As fire-fighters fought the flames, the Guardia Civil questioned the father and son to find out the possible cause of the explosion.
Both men told officers that there were two gas bottles in the storeroom and that nobody had been injured.
Shortly after, information came to light that two young people had been seriously injured in an explosion in a farmhouse and were being treated at Alicante General Hospital.
One of them had burns to 45 per cent of his body.
Since the father and son's explanation did not seem to fit with the extent of the explosion, officers quickly saw the link between the two incidents, according to official sources.
Upon return to the property they found various marijuana plants – weighing a total of 10kg – and drug paraphernalia, cannabis resin and 100 gas bottles in the basement.
Gas is used to turn marijuana into cannabis, which is why the Guardia Civil suspect it was a drug lab.
Father and son were arrested on drug charges.
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AT Express > News & Events > News > Gain in home building points to sustained U.S. growth
Gain in home building points to sustained U.S. growth
Builders started work on more homes in September and American consumers this month were the most optimistic in seven years, signaling the U.S. economy will ride out a global slowdown.
Housing starts climbed 6.3 percent to a 1.02 million annualized rate from a 957,000 pace in August as multifamily and single-family projects advanced, the Commerce Department reported today in Washington. The Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan preliminary sentiment index for October increased to 86.4, the strongest since July 2007, another report showed.
Gains in residential construction will help underpin the economic expansion as the recent drop in mortgage rates lifts home sales and gives builders reason to take on more projects. Other figures showing factory production rebounded last month and claims for jobless benefits dropped last week to the lowest level in 14 years added to evidence the turbulence in global markets has yet to depress the world's largest economy.
"The fundamentals continue to look solid," said Gus Faucher, an economist at PNC Financial Services Group Inc. in Pittsburgh, who correctly projected an increase in homebuilding. "The turmoil in the market doesn't reflect the underlying U.S. economic fundamentals."
Stocks rallied, trimming this week's decline, as earnings beat estimates (NHSPSTOT) and investors speculated that central banks will support economic growth with more stimulus. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index rose 1.3 percent to 1,886.76 at the close in New York.
The increase in starts was in line with the median forecast of 76 economists surveyed by Bloomberg, which projected a gain to 1 million. Estimates ranged from 955,000 to 1.1 million after a previously reported 956,000 rate in August.
The firming in consumer confidence reflected a jump in Americans' expectations about the economy six months from now as that gauge rose to 78.4 in October, a two-year high, the report from the University of Michigan showed. The index of current conditions, which measures Americans' views of their personal finances, was unchanged at 98.9.
Job gains on pace for their strongest year since 1999 and cheaper gas prices are keeping households upbeat about the economic expansion amid the weakening in Europe and emerging nations. Faster wage increases and more broad-based improvement in the labor market would help further spur the consumer spending that makes up about 70 percent of the economy.
"An improving job market and lower energy costs are going to offset a lot of what's happening," said Joseph LaVorgna, chief U.S. economist of Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. in New York, who projected the index would rise to 86. "Consumers' take-home pay is going up and they're paying a lot less at the pump."
Fuel Costs
The average price of a gallon of regular gasoline was $3.14 yesterday, the cheapest since February 2011, according to figures to AAA, the biggest U.S. auto group.
Falling energy costs help explain why Americans were more sanguine about price pressures. Consumers expected inflation to climb 2.8 percent over the next year, their lowest forecast in four years, today's report showed.
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard said yesterday the central bank should consider delaying plans to end its bond-buying at the end of this month to halt a decline in expected inflation.
Today's homebuilding report showed permits for future projects also increased, rising 1.5 percent to a 1.02 million annualized pace and pointing to a sustained pace of construction.
Construction Breakdown
Building of multifamily projects such as condominiums and townhomes jumped 16.7 percent to an annual rate of 371,000. Work on single-family properties rose 1.1 percent to a 646,000 rate in September from 639,000 the prior month.
All four regions of the U.S. showed increases, led by a 13.9 percent jump in the West.
Today's figures followed a report yesterday from the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo that showed builder confidence waned a bit in October after reaching its highest level in nine years the previous month.
Cheap borrowing costs will probably help underpin the market. The average 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage fell to 3.97 percent last week, the lowest since June 2013, according to Freddie Mac data. In November 2012, the rate fell to 3.31 percent, the lowest in figures back to 1971.
"The trend in starts continues to be up," said David Berson, chief economist at Nationwide Insurance in Columbus, Ohio. "As the job market's gotten better, as the mortgage rates have remained low and in the last week gone even lower, the underlying demand for single-family homes has improved."
After adding to gross domestic product through much of 2013, residential construction has been uneven this year. Homebuilding contributed 0.27 percentage point to the 4.6 percent annualized gain in the economy in the second quarter. It subtracted from GDP in the previous six months.
Some lenders, including San Francisco-based Wells Fargo & Co., have tempered their outlook for an industry that hasn't completely healed from the downturn that brought on the last recession.
"While the residential real estate market has definitely gotten better, which is good for the U.S. economy, it has not fully recovered," Chief Executive Officer John Stumpf said on an Oct. 14 earnings call. "I believe there are several factors holding the housing market back from a complete recovery," including slow household formation, elevated student debt levels and still-tight credit, he said.
Some of the ingredients for a pickup in the housing market remain in place. The economy has added an average 227,000 jobs per month through September. The unemployment rate has fallen to 5.9 percent from 6.7 percent at the end of last year.
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Guidelines on how hotels and wider hospitality sector will operate after Covid-19
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Fáilte Ireland has published sector-specific operational guidelines for the tourism industry to ensure the safe re-opening of tourism businesses on June 29th.
The National Tourism Development Authority developed the guidelines in collaboration with industry groups and they are in line with the Government's Roadmap for Reopening Society and Business and the Return to Work Safely Protocol.
The guidelines provide detailed advice on the necessary systems to be implemented in order to instil public confidence and reboot business while adhering to public health advice and Government protocols. They are the first in a suite of new supports being rolled out by Fáilte Ireland to help tourism businesses to recover and re-open safely.
The guidelines have been issued for Hotels & Guesthouses; Self-Catering businesses; Caravan & Camping businesses; Visitor Attractions; Activity Providers; B&Bs & Historic Houses; Restaurants & Cafes.
Fáilte Ireland's sector-specific operational guidelines will be regularly updated in line with Government public health advice as and when this advice evolves. This includes any further guidance that is given following work by the Health Protection Surveillance Centre and National Public Health Emergency Team on the application of the existing social distancing requirements in specific, defined and controlled environments in the hospitality industry during periods of low incidence of the disease.
Paul Kelly, CEO of Fáilte Ireland, said the new guidelines are a 'critical part in helping tourism businesses reopen safely': "Throughout this crisis we have been working with tourism and hospitality businesses to give them the guidance and supports they urgently need. The next phase of our response is recovery, re-opening and rebuilding the tourism  industry and renewing its vital contribution to job creation and regional development.
"This is the greatest crisis our industry has ever faced and the reality is that many tourism businesses will not be in a position to re-open. The purpose of the operational guidelines we have developed in collaboration with industry groups is to try to help those businesses that can re-open their doors to do so safely. I would like to thank the industry groups, individual businesses, worker representation groups, relevant State agencies, Government departments and all those involved in the development of these guidelines. We will continue to focus all of our resources on providing critical operational and business supports to ensure the re-opening of as many tourism businesses as possible and to safeguard the viability of our tourism industry."
Jenny De Saulles, Director of Sector Development at Fáilte Ireland, added: "We have worked closely with a number of industry groups and an infection control expert to develop these operational guidelines that will equip tourism and hospitality businesses with the necessary information and advice to enable them to re-open safely while also helping to instil public confidence. Our consumer tracker research is finding that health and safety protocols in premises and 'safe breaks' are emerging as strong themes as people plan their domestic holiday."
Speaking about the guidelines for re-opening, Tim Fenn, Chief Executive of the Irish Hotels Federation, said: "The health and safety of employees and guests will always be our main priority. Hotels have already begun to adapt their services and facilities in anticipation of reopening under COVID-19 guidelines and the publication of these standards gives them further clarity on what they must do, while providing important reassurance for guests that they can book and look forward to an enjoyable and safe staycation in an Irish hotel this year. Ireland's hotels have a well-earned reputation globally for their high service standards and we will be applying that same commitment to the implementation of these new standards."
Following the development of the new guidelines for safe re-opening, Fáilte Ireland is working with tourism businesses to support them to determine the capacity of their business and the financial implications of this new operating model. A new suite of financial recovery supports, a 'Calculating Capacity' tool and supports around HR for re-opening are now available on the COVID-19 Business Support Hub.
You can see the full guideline for each sector HERE.


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Not long ago the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) raised the allowable concentrations of Monsanto's Glyphosate (also known as "Roundup Herbicide") on food crops. This sparked global outrage by citizens, scientists, researchers and activists all over the world because Glyphosate has been linked to cancer, birth defects, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease and more. You can view those studies and read more about that here.
Unlimited amounts of pesticide approved...
Now, they've approved unlimited amounts of the GMO Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) Toxin Residue in your food.(1) You can take action here. Crops with a Bt trait have been modified to produce a protein that is toxic to multiple forms of insect larvae, it is an insecticide. They've been used for a number of years as topical sprays in agriculture. The justification for crops that are genetically engineered to carry the Bt trait is that it allows farmers to protect their crops while eliminating or decreasing the amount of pesticides sprayed. GM Bt toxins are not the same as topically applied Bt spray, again plants are genetically modified to produce the Bt toxin from within.
"This regulation eliminates the need to establish a maximum permissible level for residues of Bacillus thuringiensis Cry1F protein in soybean under the FFDCA" (1)
How can the EPA claim that Bt residues are completely safe? Why do we continue to put our trust in government and believe everything they say? Is it so shocking that governments and the corporations that run them don't really have our best interests in hand? According to the EPA, they are "reasonably certain" that no harm will result from the constant consumption of Bt-tainted foods. Multiple studies have proven this to be false.
Reasonable certainty...
"There is a reasonable certainty that no harm will result from aggregate exposure to the pesticide chemical residue, including all anticipated dietary exposures and all other exposures (including drinking water) for which there is reliable information."(2)
Monsanto and the EPA said/say that the Bt toxin produced inside the plant is destroyed in the human digestive system and would not have any impact at all on those who consume it. They were/are wrong.
A study published by doctors at Sherbrooke University Hospital in Quebec found Bt-toxin in the blood of 93 percent of pregnant women tested, 80 percent of umbilical blood in their babies, and 67 percent of it in non-pregnant women. Multiple toxins from GMOs were detected in maternal and fetal blood. The study also found that the fetus is considered to be highly susceptible to the adverse affects of xenobiotics, which are foreign chemicals found within the organism that is not naturally produced. (3)
This alone caused multiple countries to halt shipment of GM corn into their country.
Bt toxins were also detected in the gastrointestinal contents of livestock feed GM corn. This raised concerns about the toxin in insect-resistant in GM crops. They are further proof that Bt toxins may not be effectively eliminated in humans and that there may be a high risk of exposure through consumption of contaminated meat. (3)
The study concluded that these modifications should not be approved safe for consumption given the clear fact that further study is warranted.(3) This study (one of many) directly contradicts Monsanto and the EPA's safety claims. This is a pesticide; it breaks open the stomach of certain insects and kills them.
I'd also like to mention that a recent study determined that meal-derived DNA (including GMOs) fragments carry complete genes that can enter into the human circulation system through an unknown mechanism.(6) You can read more about that here.
Some studies have even linked Monsanto's Bt toxin to cancer, damaging kidney cell lines and more, especially when it's combined with Round-up herbicide. (4)
In government-sponsored research in Italy, mice fed Monsanto's Bt corn showed a wide range of negative immune responses.(5)
To view more articles on GMOs from Collective Evolution, click HERE
Big difference between conventional praying vs GMO
Below is an excerpt written by Jeffrey Smith, a consumer activist, author and politician. For more on his background you can click here. He's done a lot of research and provided more information below that I thought would be good to share. I obtained this excerpt from here. Before you judge the source, it's important to examine the sources cited for information given.
Farmers have used Bt-toxin from soil bacteria as a natural pesticide for years. But they spray it on plants, where it washes off and biodegrades in sunlight. The GM version is built-in; every plant cell has its own spray bottle. The toxin doesn't wash off; it's consumed. Furthermore, the plant-produced version of the poison is thousands of times more concentrated than the spray; is designed to be even more toxic; and has properties of known allergens—it actually fails the World Health Organization's allergen screening tests. (4)
The biotech companies ignore the substantial difference between the GM toxin and the natural bacteria version, and boldly claim that since the natural spray has a history of safe use in agriculture, it's therefore OK to put the poison directly into our food. But even this claim of safe use of Bt spray ignores peer-reviewed studies showing just the opposite.
When natural Bt-toxin was fed to mice, they had tissue damage, immune responses as powerful as cholera toxin(5), and even started reacting to other foods that were formerly harmless.(6)Farm workers exposed to Bt also showed immune responses.(7)The EPA's own expert Scientific Advisory Panel said that these mouse and farm worker studies "suggest that Bt proteins could act as antigenic and allergenic sources."(8)But the EPA ignored the warnings. They also overlooked studies(9)showing that about 500 people in Washington state and Vancouver showed allergic and flu-like symptoms when they were exposed to the spray when it was used to kill gypsy moths.
Now thousands of Indian farm laborers are suffering from the same allergic and flu-like symptoms as those in the Pacific Northwest simply from handling genetically engineered cotton plants that produce Bt-toxin. According to reports and records from doctors, hospitals, and pharmacies, as well as numerous investigative reports and case studies, workers are struggling with constant itching and rashes; some take antihistamines every day in order to go to work.
Affecting livestock as well- contaminated meat?
When they allow livestock to graze on the Bt cotton plants after harvest, thousands of sheep, goats, and buffalo died. Numerous others got sick. I visited one village where for seven to eight years they allowed their buffalo to graze on natural cotton plants without incident. But on January 3rd, 2008, they allowed their 13 buffalo to graze on Bt cotton plants for the first time. After just one day's exposure, all died. The village also lost 26 goats and sheep.
One small study in Andhra Pradesh reported that all six sheep that grazed on Bt cotton plants died within a month, while the three controls fed natural cotton plants showed no adverse symptoms.
Getting back to the Bt-toxin now circulating in the blood of North American adults and newborns—how did it get there? The study authors speculate that it was consumed in the normal diet of the Canadian middle class. They even suggest that the toxin may have come from eating meat from animals fed Bt corn—as most livestock are.
I'd like to speculate on another possible source. But I warn you, it's not pretty.
What is RoundUp Ready?
The only human feeding study every published on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) was conducted on Roundup Ready soybeans. Here's their back story: Scientists found bacteria growing in a chemical waste dump near their factory, surviving the presence of Monsanto's Roundup herbicide. The herbicide normally kills bacteria, but this organism had some special gene that allowed it to survive. So Monsanto scientists figured, "Let's put it into the food supply!"
By forcing that genes from that bacterium into soybean plants' DNA, the plants then survive an otherwise deadly dose of Roundup herbicide—hence the name Roundup Ready.
In the human study(10), some of the subjects were found to have Roundup Ready gut bacteria! This means that sometime in the past, from eating one or more meals of GM soybeans, the gene that had been discovered in the chemical waste dump and forced into the soy, had transferred into the DNA of bacteria living inside their intestines—and continued to function. That means that long after we stop eating GMOs, we may still have dangerous GM proteins produced continuously inside of us.
When the results of the study emerged, the funding from the pro-GMO UK government mysteriously dried up, so they were not able to see if the same type of gene transfer happens with Bt genes from, say, corn chips. If it does, it means that eating Bt corn might turn our intestinal flora into living pesticide factories—continually manufacturing Bt-toxin from within our digestive systems.
I don't know of a test that can confirm that this is happening, but the Canada study may be showing the results—where Bt-toxins are found in the blood of a very high percentage of people.
If the "living pesticide factory" hypothesis is correct, we might speculate even further. Bt-toxin breaks open the stomach of insects. Could it similarly be damaging the integrity of our digestive tracts? The biotech companies insist that Bt-toxin doesn't bind or interact with the intestinal walls of mammals, and therefore humans. But here too they ignore peer-reviewed published evidence showing that Bt-toxin does bind with mouse small intestines and with intestinal tissue from rhesus monkeys.(11)In the former study, they even found "changes in the electrophysiological properties" of the organ after the Bt-toxin came into contact.(12)
If Bt-toxins were causing holes in the intestinal walls of newborns, the passage of undigested foods and toxins into the blood from the digestive tract could be devastating. Scientists speculate that it may lead to autoimmune diseases and food allergies. Furthermore, since the blood-brain barrier is not developed in newborns, toxins may enter the brain causing serious cognitive problems. Some healthcare practitioners and scientists are convinced that this is the apparent mechanism for autism.
Thus, if Bt genes were colonizing the bacteria living in the digestive tract of North Americans, we might see an increase in gastrointestinal problems, autoimmune diseases, food allergies, and childhood learning disorders—since 1996 when Bt crops came on the market. Physicians have told me that they indeed are seeing such an increase.
The discovery of Bt-toxin in our blood does not confirm all this speculation, but it does provide food for thought. And hopefully, that food is non-GMO—but not if Monsanto has its way. They are now introducing a new variety of sweet corn that has two types of Bt-toxin, and also has the Roundup Ready gene. So besides containing the insecticide, their toxic Roundup herbicide will also accumulate in the kernals.
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Eurographics 2013, the 34th Annual Conference of the European Association for Computer Graphics, will take place from May 6th to May 10th in Girona, Spain.
There will be several events co-located with Eurographics 2013. The list is not yet finished. Questions regarding the co-located events should be directed to the organizers of the specific event.
The 13th EGPGV, the Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization will take place on May 4 - 5 in Girona, Catalonia, Spain. The importance of parallel computing is again increasing rapidly with the ubiquitous availability of multi-core CPUs, GPUs as well as cluster systems. Computationally demanding disciplines such as realistic 3D computer graphics and high-performance scientific visualization are strongly affected by this trend and require novel efficient parallel graphics and visualization solutions. EGPGV is the premier international event focusing on parallel graphics and visualization technology, where novel solutions exploiting and defining new trends in parallel hardware and software architectures are presented. The aim of the symposium is to strongly encourage exchange of experiences and knowledge in parallel and distributed visual computing and its application to all aspects of computer graphics and data visualization. All papers should have a direct relation to some aspect of parallelism in graphics or visualization such as multi-core computing, GPU rendering/computing, distributed systems, clusters or grid environments.
See the symposium web site (www.egpgv.org/egpgv2013) for details.
3DOR 2013 will take place as the 6th workshop in this series on May 11, 2013 in Girona (Spain), in conjunction with Eurographics 2013. 3D object representations have become an integral part of modern computer graphics applications, such as computer-aided design, game development and film production. At the same time, 3D data have become very common in various domains such as computer vision, computational geometry, molecular biology and medicine. The rapid evolution in graphics hardware and software, in particular the availability of low cost 3D scanners and modeling tools, has greatly facilitated 3D model acquisition, creation, and manipulation, giving the opportunity to a large user community to experience applications using 3D models. As the number of 3D models is growing rapidly, the problem of creating new 3D models has shifted to the problem of searching for existing 3D models. Thereupon, the development of efficient search mechanisms is required for the effective retrieval of 3D objects from large repositories. The aim of the 3DOR Workshop series is to stimulate researchers from different fields such as Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, Machine Learning and Human-Computer Interaction who work on the common goal of 3D object retrieval, to present state-of-the-art work in the field. This will provide a cross-fertilization ground that will stimulate discussions on the next steps in this important research area.
Co-located with the workshop will be SHREC'13, the 8th edition of the 3D Shape Retrieval Contest, the aim of which is to evaluate the effectiveness of 3D-shape retrieval algorithms.
See the workshop web site (3dor2013.di.univr.it) for details.
UDMV, the 1st Eurographics Workshop on Urban Data Modelling and Visualisation, will take place on May 5, 2013 in Girona (Spain), in conjunction with Eurographics 2013.
The objective of the workshop is to discuss the modelling and visualisation of the city, and aims at sharing associated techniques, methods, uses and points of view.
Managing and understanding urban data are major issues as there are represented by several kind of different data at different scales. Urban data not only embed the geometry of the city model, but also data related to human activities (eg. social data, transports) and to physical phenomenons (eg. light, wind, heat).
Thus, the management of urban data becomes a huge challenge for current computing capabilities, specially considering all the sustainable development parameters related to architectural design, urban planning and urban climate studies; but also considering the specific needs of entertainment, cultural heritage or any domains using urban data.
The issues found in urban data modelling and visualisation are shared by various domains (eg. Computer Graphics, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Human-Computer Interface, GIS, and others) and are related to data quality, the complexity of the cities and the decision-making processes.
See the workshop web site (udmv.udg.edu) for details.
BEAMING Project's meeting (open to all participants of EG2013) will take place as a sepecial session of EG2013, May 8 2013.
The famous 1960s TV series Star Trek popularised the notion of people instantaneously 'beaming' their physical bodies to remote places. The EU FP7 BEAMING project aims at the same idea, but where what is transported is digital information rather than atomic level constituents of a person's body reconstructed at the destination. BEAMING has the concept of visitors who digitally beam to a remote destination, and who are able to interact with local people there. The equivalent of the Star Trek 'transporter' system is, in BEAMING, an advanced immersive virtual reality system, including full body real-time motion capture. The motion capture data is transmitted across the internet to control a representation of the visitor in the destination. The most high level representation of the visitor is as a physical humanoid life-sized robot, but also other virtual representations as avatars are possible.
A fundamental idea is that locals should not have to wear any special equipment in order to see and interact with the representation of the visitor, but should be in their normal environment. The locals are tracked and information about their activity is streamed back to the visitor. The visitor in the transporter VR system will perceive either a real-time digital reconstruction of the remote environment, and the local people there, or see live 3D streamed video.
The BEAMING project has developed a number of prototype applications including its use for virtual rehearsal for acting, immersive tele-journalism, a medical application, and a teaching application.
In this special session at Eurographics 2013 we will present an overview of the project, followed by a description of advances in the technology including digital capture and display of the destination. There will also be presentations about the medical application, the overall software platform, and the work on robotics and haptics.


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Audi ups site capacity with automated storage system
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Car manufacturer Audi has upped productivity at its largest Nordic sales and service centre with the result that it can now service four to five more cars per day.
It did so by installing an automatic Tornado storage system from Constructor UK, to store all mechanic tools, which has freed up space and increased capacity.
The centre, which is located in Gothenburg, Sweden, can now boast an additional servicing point, as a result of the space savings, which in turn has pushed up productivity levels.
The system is set up so that a mechanic who needs a tool can walk to the automatic system, order the tool, and sign for it. When the work is done, the mechanic immediately returns the tool to the system. If other mechanics need the same tool, they can see who has it.
"Today's cars are highly complex machines whose servicing requires an increasing number of tools. When compared to an automatic system, the traditional methods for keeping tools in order and managing them are inefficient," says workshop manager Mats Lindblad.
"We have 15 mechanics. The automatic system saves their time, since they need not spend time looking for tools," he says.
Audi service centre's original motivation for acquiring the automatic storage system was to save floor space. Previously, there were tool racks here and there, but now the tools are stored in the Tornado system, 6.5 metres high and four metres wide.
"The automatic system enabled us to add a new servicing point to the workshop. Since the total capacity has increased and lead times have shortened, we are able to service four to five more cars per day," says Lindblad.
All 1,300 tools in the workshop were measured and weighed before the Tornado was made – some of the largest ones more than 30cm in length. The system features 48 pallets, each with a capacity of 300kg.
"The automatic system, which was implemented at Audi workshop at the beginning of the year, has drawn envious admiration from other units in the group eager to acquire a similar Tornado system," says Lindblad.
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