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by drmu | Oct 15, 2010 | Vision 2020 | 0 comments
"Without a vision, the people perish" – Proverbs 28:19
While this document is entitled "ReVision 2020: Restoring Sight to the Blind", it is not about physical blindness. Instead, it is about the occasional unwillingness of society in general and leaders in particular to look into the future and prepare for predictable challenges and crises. It is about restoring sight because Mauritius once created a vision for itself known as "Vision 2020: the National Long Term Perspective Study". Written in the 1990's, it attempted to see 25 years into the future. Our challenge is to look much further, even beyond our own natural life times.
Lessons from the past
While we find it difficult to imagine, our current civilisation is probably not going to last. A glance at history reveals this pattern has been consistently repeated. The Egyptian, the Persian, the Greek, the Roman, the Ottoman and the British Empires once reigned over vast swathes of the earth. They are no more. The difference today is that our civilisation is so global, interdependent and militarised that if part of it collapses, it may well bring down the whole.
Jared Diamond, in his classic book "Collapse: How our societies choose to fail or succeed", identified five fundamental factors that have historically contributed to collapse:
Hostile neighbours
Collapse of essential trading partners
Failure to adapt to environmental issues
Today, mankind faces eight environmental problems that have led to collapse in the past:
Deforestation and habitat destruction
Soil problems (erosion, salinization, and soil fertility losses)
Water management problems
Overhunting
Effects of introduced species on native species
Increased per-capita ecological footprint
Further, he says four new factors may contribute to the weakening and collapse of present and future societies:
Anthropogenic climate change
Buildup of toxins in the environment
Energy shortages
Full human utilization of the Earth's photosynthetic capacity
Somewhat alarmingly, Mauritius faces all of the fundamental factors and all of the environmental problems. While our geographical isolation means we may never have hostile external neighbours (although we can be less confident if we consider our territory to be our Exclusive Economic Zone), there is certainly potential for internal hostility between communities and classes. Moreover, our high dependency on food and energy imports means that we will feel the impact of conflicts elsewhere. Diamond's point about photosynthetic capacity may be overstated for the world as a whole, but with about a third of Mauritius' total land area devoted to sugar cultivation, few countries have less room for manoeuvre.
It is obvious that Mauritius is on an unsustainable path and heading towards inevitable collapse. Some may be tempted to avoid facing up to this stark reality and bury their heads in the sand, passing on the burden of dealing with it to another generation. However, with awareness comes responsibility and the more honestly we confront the truth, the stronger we will feel compelled to change direction. The purpose of this document is to collectively set a new course for our nation – a vision for the future that guides us away from the abyss and towards sustainability.
While religious myth and the history of Mauritius seem to concur that paradise and people are incompatible, our capacity to create hell on earth belies our latent capability to create heaven as well. Whether the future of mankind is one of intelligently designed paradise or self-inflicted purgatory is fundamentally our choice and within our power. If we can wreak so much havoc upon our environment when we are collectively asleep, should we not be able to help regenerate and restore it once we are awakened?
The corollary of warnings of doom and gloom are the dreams of hope and inspiration. Therefore, we must liberate our imaginations to perceive a vision of the highest potential that we can conceive. This is a role for the innocent child within us, recalling our idealistic youth before it was tainted by frustration and failure. Who knows what is possible? Only one thing is certain: if we fail to achieve sustainability then future generations will curse us. However, as we progress on the pathway to sustainability we may find it is actually the stairway to heaven.
As the scales fall from our eyes and we exercise our imaginations, our vision of the future will become clearer. Therefore, this is a living document. It should be constantly challenged and consistently updated. However, this does not meant that we should not act until our dream is perfected. Time does not afford us that luxury.
We have built up too much momentum in the wrong direction. Our train is travelling at high speed and the rails are leading to the edge of a cliff. As well as digging up the tracks and relaying them, we need to slow down the train. We can do this by taking stock of everything that we are now doing and reversing those actions that do not pass the test of sustainability. Once we are more confident of our course, then we can accelerate towards our goal.
For now, we should apply the precautionary principle, conserving our resources rather than constructing new edifices that seem to be the flavour of the month. In time, we will determine what is really of lasting value and build physical and social structures that can be set in stone, emulating the spirit of the great cathedral builders of centuries ago. Until we reach that point, we should be careful that what we construct can be easily dismantled or we may find that the paths we would like to take in the future are smothered by concrete jungles.
The task before us may seem daunting and we might prefer to abdicate responsibility, leave it up to others and grab onto their coat-tails. However, it is becoming clear that no country is making much progress towards sustainability. As a remote island, highly dependent on imports, major perturbations to the world's natural and economic climates will hit us hard. We cannot float alone so we will either sink or swim together with other nations. We have no choice but to lead the way and advocate for others to follow us. The example of our diverse and fragile society transforming itself to live in harmony with nature will be a catalyst for our sisters and brothers in other nations to do the same. In the (slightly modified) words of Frank Sinatra's song, New York: if we can make it here, we can make it anywhere.
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It was a delicate extraction. So as to not disturb this fallen leaf, I carefully lifted the lid of my trunk to retrieve my camera bag.
Something about complementary colors in dawn street lamp light compelled me to photograph.
Having recently produced some videos, the idea of motion and sequence is on my mind. With my camera set to a slow shutter speed, I experimented with taking pictures while walking across the parking lot.
My final destination: the eyeglass shop.
After these 10 minutes of shooting, the camera went back in the trunk, and I went into nearby Denny's Pantry for breakfast.


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Q: Adding one inside a loop but on 3 values I have this
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$id=0;

$sql = mysql_query("SELECT item_product,amount,quantity FROM products_added WHERE cookieid=$cookieid") or die(mysql_error());

while ($rows = mysql_fetch_array($sql)) {

$product        = $rows['item_product'];
$amount         = $rows['amount'];
$qty        = $rows['quantity'];

?>

<input class="itemname" type="text" id="product_<?php echo $id++;?>" value="<?php echo $product;?>">
<input class="itemamount" type="text" id="amount_<?php echo $id++;?>" value="<?php echo $amount;?>">
<input class="itemqty" type="text" id="qty_<?php echo $id++;?>" value="<?php echo $qty;?>">

<?php } ?>

But it returns this
<input class="itemname" type="text" id="product_1" value="Apples">
<input class="itemamount" type="text" id="amount_2" value="1.50">
<input class="itemqty" type="text" id="qty_3" value="10">

<input class="itemname" type="text" id="product_4" value="Bananas">
<input class="itemamount" type="text" id="amount_5" value="3.50">
<input class="itemqty" type="text" id="qty_6" value="5">

But i need this
<input class="itemname" type="text" id="product_1" value="Apples">
<input class="itemamount" type="text" id="amount_1" value="1.50">
<input class="itemqty" type="text" id="qty_1" value="10">

<input class="itemname" type="text" id="product_2" value="Bananas">
<input class="itemamount" type="text" id="amount_2" value="3.50">
<input class="itemqty" type="text" id="qty_2" value="5">

I know i could use the incremental id from my database rows however i need it to be clean and start at 1 every time.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I know its got something to do with a loop in a loop but can not seem to get the logic.
Cheers
Jonny

A: As you might know $id++ is equivalent to $id = $id + 1. You are writing a new value into $id all the time.
Simple, don't increment every time:
<?php

$id=1;

$sql = mysql_query("SELECT item_product,amount,quantity FROM products_added WHERE cookieid=$cookieid") or die(mysql_error());

while ($rows = mysql_fetch_array($sql)) {

$product        = $rows['item_product'];
$amount         = $rows['amount'];
$qty        = $rows['quantity'];

?>

<input class="itemname" type="text" id="product_<?php echo $id;?>" value="<?php echo $product;?>">
<input class="itemamount" type="text" id="amount_<?php echo $id;?>" value="<?php echo $amount;?>">
<input class="itemqty" type="text" id="qty_<?php echo $id;?>" value="<?php echo $qty;?>">

$id++;

<?php } ?>

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a. An amount of goods or valuables, especially when kept in a concealed or hard-to-reach place: maintained a cache of food in case of emergencies.
b. The concealed or hard-to-reach place used for storing a cache.
2. A fast storage buffer in the central processing unit of a computer. Also called cache memory.
To hide or store in a cache. See Synonyms at hide1.
n., v. cached, cach•ing. n.
1. a hiding place for ammunition, food, treasures, etc.
2. anything hidden in a cache.
3. a piece of computer hardware or a section of RAM dedicated to selectively storing and speeding access to frequently used program commands or data.
4. to hide in a cache.
In evasion and recovery operations, source of subsistence and supplies, typically containing items such as food, water, medical items, and/or communications equipment, packaged to prevent damage from exposure and hidden in isolated locations by such methods as burial, concealment, and/or submersion, to support evaders in current or future operations. See also concealment; evader; evasion; evasion and recovery; recovery; recovery operations.
a hiding place, hence, the items hidden; the stores of provisions hidden by travellers or explorers on their journeys.
Examples: cache of green boughs, 1866; of jewels; of meat, 1865; of a barrel of pork, 1842; of provisions; of silver, 1860; of treasure.
A temporary storage area in a computer's memory.
noun store, fund, supply, reserve, treasury, accumulation, stockpile, hoard, stash (informal) A cache of weapons and explosives was found by the police.
backlog, hoard, inventory, nest egg, reserve, reservoir, stock, stockpile, store, treasure.
bury, conceal, ensconce, hide, occult, secrete.
Software assisted cache replacement strategies achieve the least cache miss rate as compare to hardware cache replacement strategies.
Finally, we improve the memory behavior of the 1-step approach by reformulating the problem into the processing of sequential data and control streams, which significantly reduces cache miss penalties.
First, in Section 2 we depict several proposals aimed at reducing the cache miss latency.
In UIR scheme, the requested data are broadcast after the next IR, thus, due to cache miss the expected query latency is L/2 seconds.
The penalty of a primary cache miss that hits in the secondary cache is at least 12 cycles, and the total penalty of a miss that goes all the way to memory is at least 75 cycles (plus any delays due to contention, which is modeled in detail).
Rather than waiting for a cache miss to perform a memory fetch, data prefetching anticipates such misses and issues a fetch to the memory system in advance of the actual memory reference.
Some strides are often called critical because they generate a very high cache miss ratio (i.
3) Second, we do not incur a cache miss if a reference is to a code block in the cache at the point of the reference.
On a cache miss, the 603's cache blocks are filled in four beats of 64 bits each.
A bus cycle in which the data requested are not in the cache is called a cache miss (cache misses dramatically slow the processor down).
These performance and scaling benefits permit larger key spaces to be supported by a single server and decrease cache miss rates thereby reducing load on backend database servers.
The researchers also found that Dense Footprint Cache led to a significant improvement in "last-level cache miss ratios.


Details of the process of lightning formation and orientation of the downward leader required to solve applied problems in the field of lightning protection are considered. It is shown that it is necessary to take into account the mechanism of the bipolar leader formation in the thundercloud electric field, according to which the thunderstorm cell cannot be regarded as a conducting charged electrode, the potential carried by the downward leader channel is determined by the start point and path of the lightning, and the effect of the thunderstorm cell charge reveals itself to a much less degree. An algorithm is proposed for calculating the orientation height, charge per unit channel length, and attraction radius of lightning from the value of the return stroke current. It is stated that lightning current measurements currently used at tall structures cannot serve as a basis to estimate the frequency of dangerous lightning strikes to structures of ordinary height. A scheme of the field research of lightning is proposed that allows the required statistics of lightning currents to be accumulated for a foreseeable time period at admissible material costs. The need to study the mechanism of the competing development of counter discharges from ground-based electrodes is proven, and the relevant technique is offered.


Since May 1st 2012, there have been more than 83.500 views, or an average of 341 views per day.
The best month so far was November with 18.342 views. And the best day was November 28th with 952 views.
Views coming from Italy count for 35% of the total. Then comes USA with 9%, Germany 5%, UK 4.4%, Poland 3.9%, Brazil 3.2%, France 2.6%, Belgium 2.3%, India 2.3%, and Canada 2%.
1 view coming from Brunei, Andorra, Tanzania, Kyrgysztan, Macao, Greenland, Gibraltar, Haiti, Zimbabwe, Honduras, Afghanistan, Congo, Reunion, El Salvador, Saint Vicent and the Granadines, and Suriname.
In 2013 I will continue to write and improve the blog with more and better information, close opinion and detailed analysis. Thanks to your visits I'm glad to say that creating this blog was a great idea that now works and can become much bigger. Have a great new year full of good things.
Juan Felipe, keep up the good work in 2013, and especially the analysis. I may not always agree with your conclusions, but I always enjoy reading the articles.
Thanks a lot thysi. I can notice you don't always agree but that's the main goal of this blog: to find different opinions and propose different solutions. Thanks for reading and keep in touch!
Complimenti! Addirittura più volte siete stati citati negli articoli dell'Ansa.
Grazie AutoItalian. Anch'io vi seguo. Buon anno a tutti!
i like to read on your website.
Thank you very much SlumLord. Have a great new year and keep reading and commenting. Greetings!
Great site, Juan,best of luck for 2013!
How come you missed Sri Lanka? I'm a regular reader 🙂 Keep up the great work! Well done.
Thanks argt21. All this work is all for you. Regards in Sri Lanka!
Juan Felipe..one more country: Albania!
you are doing an impressive job. I'm used to quote your articles, as well as BestSellingCars and CarsItaly, as the main source for the FGA data analysis, especially for the Panda vs Trio never ending struggle, when I leave a comment on Quattroruote or Mr. Cavicchi's blog. And since I'm also an enthusiast reader of Guillermo Alfonsín of es.autoblog (even if, while speaking of FGA future plans, he often makes a lot of confusion…), I enjoy your comments too on that blog.
Grazie Dario! buon anno a te!
Only recently found your very interesting and constructive site which I will keep a keen eye on for the latest news.
Thank you very much Richard. I love to share my passion with others. A lot of analysis is to come. Regards!


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Cost of rubber production and income for rubber farmers vs rice farmers
by Bangkok Pundit | 9th September 2013 | @bangkokpundit
One issue on whether subsidies and aid provided to rubber farmers is sufficient does depend on the cost of production for rubber and income/profits earned by rubber farmers. The focus of this post will be quite narrow as want to link to in subsequent posts on this issue, but will also try to briefly compare with rice farmers
The government recently put out some figures
NOTES: Blue = rubber; green = rice. English language text has been added by BP
Source: InsideThaiGov
BP: Figures below do differ from the above, but many of the figures that BP will be citing are not necessarily from 2013 (it is actually quite difficult to find up-to-date information).
On number of households. Presentation from 2010 from Knowledge Network Institute of Thailand:
From July 2013 report from Knowledge Network Institute of Thailand:
1. Rice in Thailand Agriculture
* Share of Paddy land 47% of agr. Land (23.8 million ha).
* Two third of agr. hh are rice farm hh. with ave. farm size of 3.5 ha/hh.
* 27% (10 million) of total labor force participating in rice production.
TDRI in August 2013:
Of them, about 4.8 million households (18 million people) are rice farmers.
Meanwhile, according to a TDRI study,2.59 million of the poorest rice farming households do not produce enough rice to join the scheme.
From the Rubber Association from July 2012, they state "1 million families or more than 6 million people across the country".
BP: Regardless the number of rice households is significantly higher.
Now, below on production cost, income after expenses/profit
In 2008, a report published by the Thai Department of Agriculture which concluded that the average cost of production per kilogram was 50.57 Baht with labor being 60.45% of the cost of production.
Khao Sod quotes the Secretary General Office of Agricultural Economics in 2013 as stating that the production cost for rubber was 64.19 baht per kilogram.
Khao Sod spoke to some people with knowledge in the industry who stated that the rubber organization [BP: More on this in the next post, but it is partially industry-subsidized from a tax on exports] provides money of thousands to 10,000 per rai and that when done with rubber taping that the wood from the trees can be sold.
A further report from 2009 entitled "</The Study of Production Function and Cost –Benefit Heava Brasilionsis [rubber tree] Farming in Surat Thani" by Anuman Chanthawong of Suratthani Rajabhat University which surveyed 399 farmers (divided into 3 equal groups of less than 10 rai; 10-20 rai; more than 20 rai) in Surat Thani province. It found that over the complete 25 year life cycle, farmers of up to 20 rai earned 1,499,000 Baht per rai whereas those over have over 20 rai earned 1,542,200 per rai. After expenses the return was 309,290 Baht [per rai] for those with less than 10 rai; 309,368 Baht [per rai] for those with 10-20 rai; 322,432 baht [per rai] for those with more than 20 rai. The rate of return for less than 10 rai was 23.83 %, areas between 10 – 20 rais was 23.84%, and areas more than 20 rai upwards was 24.00%
On July 3, 2013, the farmers council of Rayong stated that for a 20 rai farm in Rayong that the cost of production was 79.37 Baht a kilogram.
Below are some screenshots from a recent report from the Bank of Thailand:
BP: Note these are costs and price received in the Northeast only… As you can see there is a reasonable gap between cost and the prices that farmers get, but the cost of production is rising.
NOTE: English language text has been added by BP
BP: Production costs have been going up for a while, but have skyrocketed in the last 2 years. On the increase in prices over the last few years, there is an obvious reason. In 2008, it was estimated that labor costs made up 60% of the product cost. During the 2011 election, Pheu Thai Party promised to increase the daily minimum wage to 300 Baht a day and that this would mean there would be a single rate across the country. At that time, the minimum wage was between 159 to 221 Baht – with the amount being higher in urban provinces and lower in rural provinces. As of January 1, 2013, the minimum wage has increased to 300 Baht a day. To give you an example of how much this has increased specifically. In Surat Thani, where we have recent protests as of January 1, 2011 the minimum daily wage was 172 Baht this increased to 240 Baht as of April 1, 2012 and then to 300 Baht as of January 1, 2013. Hence, it should not be surprising for the large increase in the production cost over the last few years….
Nevertheless, income per rai has been reasonably high in comparison with other agricultural goods. It may not be as high as 17,000 baht per rai, but a few at Panthip put it at 12,000-13,000 Baht per month (when the price is at 80 Baht per kg) although this would reduce by 40% if someone is hired to do all the tapping work.
For rice, Srisompun and Isvilanonda from Knowledge Network Institute of Thailand in a paper last year:
As for the cost of rice production, in Suphan Buri Province, the irrigated SP1 village recorded an increase in production cost from 2,813.9 baht per rai in the wet season of 1987/88 crop year to 5,224.6 baht per rai in the 2007/08 crop year, or 85.67% increase.
The Nation in November 2012:
Based on what farmers told The Nation they get on average 12,000 Baht per tonne with costs of 6,000-8,000 baht per tonne
Wichian Phuanglamjiak, a deputy head of the Thai Rice Growers' Association, said the estimate of per-rai farming cost was higher at Bt7,000 to Bt9,000, while the post-deduction rate for a similar policy initiated, but no longer in use, by the Democrat-led government would earn farmers Bt7,500 while the rate designated by the current government would earn them Bt12,000, however, with a delay in payment. He did not elaborate.
The Nation in August 2013:
The Rice Department targets a reduction in production costs from the current average of Bt8,371 a tonne to about Bt6,490 a tonne.
Below is a screenshot from a recent reportfrom the Bank of Thailand:
BP: Only thing BP is not sure about is whether the above production cost figures are for all types of rice or just standard rice (i.e jasmine rice sells for significantly more and well it also has a higher production cost). Nevertheless, if you look at the number of kgs per rai that farmers get, it is not even 1 tonne. Hence, you can see why the monthly or yearly income can be quite low for rice farmers. Remembering that farmers sell by tonne whereas rubber farmers sell by kg…
The above is a bit of a mess, but that is because all of the sources vary. Nevertheless, from an overall review of the literature it is quite clear that rice farmers have been earning less than rubber farmers for a while. With the low prices rubber farmers are facing some difficulties, but historically they have done quite well. Having said that, BP is skeptical whether rubber farmers are currently earning 17,000 Baht per rai as government figures state (they may have done so last year or in 2011 when prices were much higher).
In addition, it should be pointed out that a major reason for the increased production cost is the government increase on the minimum wage. BP doesn't think the government will suddenly reverse the minimum wage increase so on this ground alone, the government will feel pressured – together with the fact because of the high subsidies it provides to rice farmers – to pacify as many of the farmers they can.
Topics covered: Thailand rubber Thailand rubber price

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Here's why I never will.
Let's face it, we live in a society that directly and indirectly tells us that if we live in a bigger body—a body that's larger than the normative ideal—our goal should be to make ourselves smaller. This messaging infiltrates our lives and our consciousness through advertising, media, pop culture, and beyond. It's everywhere.
In my industry, the fitness world, where I've been a personal trainer for more than a decade, I've observed the strong and enduring focus on how moving your body can make it look, rather than the endless benefits that exercise can bring to one's mental and physical well-being. Weight loss diets are seen as the gateway to ultimate wellness. Almost every woman I know has been on some kind of diet in her life. But the truth is that weight loss diets tend not to work and, perhaps more importantly, have many negative consequences. Diets based on caloric restriction or avoiding certain food groups can make you feel frustrated and deprived and, because they're so unsustainable, set you up to feel like you've failed if you can't stick to them. Make no mistake—the dieting life can do more harm than anything else.
Still, many fitness educators and trainers focus on their clients' "ideal" body mass index (BMI), which, as a measurement of an individual's health, is deeply flawed. Beyond the fact that BMI isn't a useful standard to chase, I believe that focusing on size and weight and, in turn, encouraging your clients to hyper-focus on their weight, robs people of the joy and fulfillment that exercise can bring.
As I mentioned, diets don't work.
For numerous reasons, weight loss diets don't do what we think and hope they will do. Most people, even after losing weight, will gain it back. Why? Most weight loss diets are based on restriction and deprivation and ignoring hunger, cravings, and food- and eating-related desires. The thing is, being hungry all the time just isn't sustainable.
Dieting doesn't aid athletic performance.
It's simple: If we are under nourished, we cannot perform at our optimal level. There's no part of hunger and lack of caloric intake that builds an athlete. It's tough to muster the energy to get through a challenging workout if you're really hungry, or super tired because you haven't been eating enough before you work out or refueling properly after you exercise. I encourage my clients to focus on getting stronger and improving their health—this is my job as a trainer—which they can't do if they're restricting their calories so much. Ultimately, I challenge my clients to consider whether they'd prefer to get stronger and improve their health, or continue to push against their hunger in the hopes that it will help them be thin.
Recommending weight loss alienates clients.
Recommending diets can be triggering for people and can give them the sense that they are not good enough as they are. Unfortunately, this is the message so many people with larger bodies get on a daily basis. I want my clients to accept themselves, not feel like they have to reject themselves until they lose weight (and therefore become "acceptable"). I work with clients to empower them, to help them discover how it feels to do something new or cool with their bodies. Recommending someone lose weight won't make them feel strong, powerful, and motivated. It will make them feel like they're less than. Plus, I'm much better able to help people work toward their health and fitness goals if I don't focus (or urge them to focus) on size reduction and the scale.
Dieting can basically be an endless cycle and it can take over your life.
When I was chronically dieting my mind was constantly focused on point values, fat and carb grams, weighing myself, and measuring every bite. I was hyper-focused on exercise because the more I did, I told myself, the more I could eat. Exercise was never a source of joy but rather a tool to purge calories from eating "bad" food, or permission to eat more food. I would stress about "weigh-in day," and once it was over, I'd eat ravenously as my "cheat day." Sometimes after cheat day, it would get increasingly hard to reel it in. This cycle of restriction and "cheating" took up a lot of my headspace and took me away from my true passions and life's ambitions. It made it almost impossible to enjoy exercise for what it is—a chance to be in my own body, to test its limits, to discover how strong I am.
Simply put, diets don't work and they rob us of our true happiness and well-being.
I strongly believe that dieting doesn't result in better health and wellness for women. All it does is take up precious energy we could be using to pursue our talents and passions in the world.
I promote body acceptance, even if you are on a journey to change your body. We cannot power the effort to become the highest, best version of ourselves with rejection and self-loathing. We simply can't.


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Eight California School Districts Granted Federal Waiver
Tuesday, August 6, 2013 | Sacramento, CA
School districts including Los Angeles, Oakland and San Francisco are being allowed to follow their own accountability standards for the next year. The eight districts are part of a collaborative effort to take a more well-rounded approach to education. Michael Hanson is Superintendent of the Fresno Unified School District.
"Kids' attendance rate in kindergarten and first grade matters for their literacy rates for third grade," Hanson said. "And if we don't dig into those things now and/or if we wait for the state to get around to doing that, we're going to lose ground."
In the past the US Department of Education has only granted waivers on a state-wide basis. California's request for a waiver was rejected last year.
The eight districts are Los Angeles, Fresno, Long Beach, Oakland, Sacramento, San Francisco, Sanger, and Santa Ana Unified School Districts. They will measure accountability based on factors such as test scores, attendance, graduation rates and expulsion and suspension statistics. The federal government will evaluate their results in a year.
California Lawmakers Threatened By Anti-Vaccine Activists During Public Hearing


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Sometimes it's the simple things that can make the biggest difference, particularly when it comes to dementia.
A new free app, developed by Dementia Services Development Centre (DSDC) at the University of Stirling in collaboration with Space Architects, is now able to assess how dementia-friendly a home is and make suggestions for its improvement in just 20 minutes.
They range from things as easy to do as extended curtain rods to allow more light into a room to adding a colour contrast between the toilet seat, bowl and floor in the bathroom.
The app, known as IRIDIS (Intelligence Research Iterative Design Interface System), works by asking questions about the user's surroundings as well as directing photographs to be taken.
Lesley Palmer, Chief Architect at DSDC, said: 'This is a unique opportunity to revolutionise how we improve day-to-day life for older people and people living with dementia around the world. We are creating a simple way for anyone to assess how dementia-friendly their environment is, and find out how to improve their surroundings.
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authority, enfranchise, enfranchisement, entitlement, franchise, jurisdiction, lease, leasehold, lease holding, legal power, licence, licentiateness, licentiation, lien, occupancy rights, permit, right to use, tenancy.
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authority, enfranchise, enfranchisement, entitlement, franchise, jurisdiction, lease, lease holding, leasehold, legal power, licence, licentiateness, licentiation, lien, occupancy rights, permit, right to use, tenancy.
अधिभोगिता, अभिधारिता, पट्टाधृति, अनुमति, पट्टी, पगड़ी, पट्टीदारी, पट्टेदारी, अमलदारी, लीज़ होल्डिंग, फ़्रैंचाइज़, लीज़, लीज़होल्ड, अधिभोग क्षेत्र, लीएन, लियन, अधिभोग अधिकार, धारण अधिकार, आधिपत्य अधिकार, क्षेत्राधिकार, लाइसैंस.


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What the Trans-Pacific Partnership May Mean for Texas
The good and the bad.
By Tom MichaelJuly 30, 2015 7:17 amBusiness & Your Money
Photo via Flickr/rcbodden (CC BY 2.0)
This story originally appeared on Marfa Public Radio.
The White House is in the final stages of negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Representatives from 12 countries – mostly from the Pacific Rim – are in Hawaii this week. And they're facing a Friday deadline to reach a deal. What might this mean for Texas?
"These are important markets for Texas," says Calman Cohen, who leads a group called ECAT, the Emergency Committee for American Trade. "Many of your good products from Texas are going into these countries. For example, take a major neighbor of Texas: Mexico. Texas exports of goods and services in 2011 amounted to 87 billion dollars. We think through the Trans Pacific Partnership agreement, as barriers are further reduced, those exports can increase. And from that perspective, having an increase in exports to these countries, would be a boon for the Texas economy."
Opponents to the deal say one unintended export would be jobs. Jere Locke is the former director of The Texas Fair Trade Coalition. Although the White House is pushing it, not everyone in President Obama's own party is on board.
"Democrats here in Texas aren't supporting it either. And there are problems that go past the obvious, which is the loss of jobs."
Locke believes the loss of jobs is "obvious" based on the last big trade deal – NAFTA – two decades ago – which his group says was a disaster. "And now we have 20 years experience with NAFTA and we've seen that the U.S. lost about 1 million net jobs to NAFTA."
How does Calman Cohen and ECAT see the jobs issue? "Well, I see it basically the other way around. Our country has a very open economy. What we don't always have are access to the markets of some of our TPP countries. If this agreement is successful, it will address some of the very very high tariffs that affect products that Texas might want to send. For example in Japan, the beef products that come into their economy are taxed at a rate of 38 percent. We'd like to see that come down."
And if the deal is made, Congress still gets its say, in an up-or-down vote.
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Breath-Holding with Hyperventilation: An Invisible Danger
by Circle - Stories, on Sep 6, 2021 10:05:45 AM
By Dr Joanna Chan Shi-En
Breath-holding is sometimes seen as a gauge of fitness, and may be practised in various settings on land and in water by fitness enthusiasts, swimmers and divers. Trends like the Wim Hof method, popularised by the Dutch extreme athlete of that name, incorporate hyperventilation and breath holding in a breathing exercise touted to have beneficial effects.
Don't Mix With Water!
As a technique to lengthen breath-holding, some people may take many fast breaths beforehand to increase the amount of time they can then spend holding their breath. This is known as hyperventilation or over-breathing.
Unknown to many, deliberate hyperventilation practised in the context of swimming or in the water can be deadly. It puts swimmers at risk of a phenomenon known as "Shallow Water Blackout" (hypoxic blackout), a common cause of drowning among competitive, advanced swimmers and divers (1,2). It is so named because many reports of this occur at less than 5m, although it can happen at any depth.
Hyperventilation exercises popularised by the Wim Hof method have led to deaths worldwide (3,4) when practised in or near bodies of water. The official Wim Hof website warns people not to use these breathing techniques near the water due to this risk.
How does Shallow Water Blackout (hypoxic blackout) occur?
The build-up of carbon dioxide (CO2) is what alerts our brain that we need to take a breath. Taking a series of fast breaths (hyperventilation) expels CO2 from the lungs, and lengthens the time till the brain tells the body that the next breath needs to be taken.
If hyperventilation is done prior to immersion in water, lower-than-normal CO2 levels in the swimmer's blood means that the swimmer is not prompted to take a breath despite the fact that oxygen levels are being depleted through breath-holding and exercise. Once oxygen levels dip below the level needed to maintain consciousness, the swimmer faints without any warning as the urge to surface and breathe has been suppressed.
After fainting has occurred, CO2 levels build up and the unconscious swimmer takes a reflex breath while still underwater, leading to water entering the lungs (aspiration) or provoking a spasm of the airway. This begins the drowning process, and results in death unless the swimmer is observed to be in difficulty and rescued in a timely manner.
This loss of consciousness may be mistaken for a deliberate breath-holding exercise as there is no struggle or signs of distress. Drowning is hard to spot and rescue may be delayed. In reports from the 1970s, breath holding experiments indicated that the time between loss of consciousness and death may be no longer than 2.5 minutes, as in such cases the swimmer has already had a long period of breath-holding prior to falling unconscious and is already at risk of oxygen-deprivation injury (5).
Picture credit: Aquatics International, Nov/Dec 2011 Issue. Image from
http://www.shallowwaterblackoutprevention.org/
Keeping safe in the water
Shallow Water Blackout is known to occur with the following features of breath-holding:
Hyperventilation.
Competitive breath-holding, when the swimmer is competing with themselves or with friends in play or in the course of sport training or work, including military diving (1,2,5,6). The competitive nature of sports may lead to self-misjudgement of capabilities in highly trained swimmers, who are at risk.
Repetitive prolonged breath-holding, whether static or concurrently with training activities, such as repetitive underwater laps in which the swimmer may not surface between laps (2,6).
The Shallow Water Blackout Prevention website recommends a ban on prolonged breath holding in pools for the general public and summarises safety recommendations as follows:
▪ Never hyperventilate.
▪ Never ignore the urge to breathe.
▪ Never swim alone.
▪ Never play breath-holding games.
▪ No repetitive underwater laps. One lap, breathe.
Dr Joanna Chan Shi-En
Dept of Emergency Medicine
Singapore General Hospital
Further education materials and videos
Shallow Water Blackout Prevention is a non-profit organisation started in 2011 by the family of Gene "Whitner" Milner, to raise awareness of the dangers of hyperventilation and prolonged breath holding after the death of 25-year-old Whitner in his own backyard pool while practising breath holding for spear-fishing. See the website (http://www.shallowwaterblackoutprevention.org/) for more resources, including signage, teaching aids and videos.
(1) Bart RM, Lau H. (August 1, 2021.) Shallow Water Blackout. In Editor. StatPearls. StatPearls Publishing. Retrieved on August 24, 2021.
(2) Boyd C, Levy A, McProud T et al. Fatal and Nonfatal Drowning Outcomes Related to Dangerous Underwater Breath-Holding Behaviors — New York State, 1988–2011. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2015 May 22; 64(19): 518-521.
(3) Jan Duin R (Jul 2 2016). Het Parool. 'Iceman'-oefening eist opnieuwleven. https://www.parool.nl/nieuws/iceman-oefening-eist-opnieuw-leven~bd0a4600/ Retrieved on August 24, 2021.
(4) Drowning death claims Sacramento yoga instructor (August 4, 2017). Penney & Associates Injury Lawyers. https://www.penneylawyers.com/serious-injuries/drowning-death-claims-sacramento yoga-instructor/ Retrieved on August 24, 2021.
(5) A B Craig Jr. Summary of 58 cases of loss of consciousness during underwater swimming and diving. Med Sci Sports. Fall 1976;8(3):171-5.
(6) Szpilman D, Orlowski JP. Sports related to drowning. Eur Respir Rev. 2016 Sep;25(141):348-59.
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Q: Sending a Json from a POJO to server tomcat so i ve been searching my question throw out internet and didnt excatly satisfied with answered ! what i m looking for is some features of jackson or streamoutputwriter to do send a Json to my server ! i ve found a way to get a json from my server
public GetJsonfromServer() {

    try {
        ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();

        URL restServiceURL = new URL(targetURL);

        HttpURLConnection httpConnection = (HttpURLConnection) restServiceURL.openConnection();
        httpConnection.setRequestMethod("GET");
        httpConnection.setRequestProperty("Accept", "application/json");

        if (httpConnection.getResponseCode() != 200) {
            throw new RuntimeException(
                    "HTTP GET Request Failed with Error code : " + httpConnection.getResponseCode());
        }
        BufferedReader responseBuffer = new BufferedReader(
                new InputStreamReader((httpConnection.getInputStream())));
        String output = "";

        System.out.println("Output from Server:  \n");
        while ((output = responseBuffer.readLine()) != null) {
            Object s = mapper.readValue(output, Object.class);
            System.out.println(s);
        }
        BufferedWriter requestBuffer = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(httpConnection.getOutputStream()));
        requestBuffer.write("hello from client");
        requestBuffer.flush();

        httpConnection.disconnect();
    } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

this works fine for me i can convert the json that i get from server to object ! i would be glad if you help me to find a way to send a json to server with desired method (GET,POST , ..) !( i m using java on eclipse )


1 250 yards. Open. 2-year-olds. Maiden Claiming: $12,500. Purse: $9,250.
Time: :13.59. Exacta: 8-11, $22.50. Trifecta: 8-11-6, $246.80. Superfecta: 8-11-6-7, $463.84. Scratched: Fast Prize Jet, Jess Send Me a Rose, One Shamless Secret, Play Girl Reb.
2 300 yards. Open. 3-year-olds and up. Maiden. Purse: $11,500.
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3 400 yards. Open. 3-year-olds. Derby. Purse: $20,000.
Time: :20.24. Exacta: 4-8, $3.50. Trifecta: 4-8-2, $36.80. Superfecta: 4-8-2-7, $30.32. Pick 3: 3/8/12/13/14-3/5-4, $10.20. Daily Double: 5-4, $3.80.
4 6 furlongs. Fillies and mares. 3-year-olds and up. Claiming: $6,250. Purse: $11,500.
Time: 1:13.28. Exacta: 3-1, $11.00. Trifecta: 3-1-6, $131.70. Superfecta: 3-1-6-4, $32.82. Pick 3: 3/5-4-3, $12.10. Daily Double: 4-3, $8.70.
5 About 5 furlongs. Fillies and mares. 3-year-olds and up. Maiden special weight. Purse: $28,000.
Time: :58.93. Exacta: 1-8, $66.50. Trifecta: 1-8-7, $460.40. Superfecta: 1-8-7-5, $209.78. Pick 3: 4-3-1, $15.80. Super High Five: 1-8-7-5-4, $476.35. Daily Double: 3-1, $5.20.
6 6 furlongs. 3-year-olds and up. Allowance optional claiming: $25,000. Purse: $32,000.
Time: 1:10.86. Exacta: 4-7, $8.50. Trifecta: 4-7-5, $39.10. Superfecta: 4-7-5-1, $35.15. Pick 3: 3-1-4, $14.50. Daily Double: 1-4, $10.40.
7 About 7½ furlongs. Open. 3-year-olds and up. Allowance optional claiming: $25,000. Purse: $32,000.
Time: 1:31.95. Exacta: 7-9, $29.90. Trifecta: 7-9-4, $102.40. Superfecta: 7-9-4-6, $99.22. Pick 3: 1-4-7, $70.40. Pick 4: 3-1-4-7, $95.50. Super High Five: 7-9-4-All-All, $49.95. Daily Double: 4-7, $23.80.
8 6½ furlongs. State bred. Open. 3-year-olds and up. Allowance. Purse: $33,000.
Time: 1:18.84. Exacta: 7-2, $27.90. Trifecta: 7-2-3, $42.50. Superfecta: 7-2-3-8, $11.19. Pick 3: 4-7-7, $74.80. Daily Double: 7-7, $31.50.
9 About 5 furlongs. Open. 3-year-olds and up. Waiver claiming: $10,000. Purse: $17,000.
Time: :58.13. Exacta: 10-5, $38.30. Trifecta: 10-5-8, $303.00. Superfecta: 10-5-8-7, $132.58. Pick 3: 7-7-10, $81.80. Super High Five: 10-5-8-7-All, $67.35. Daily Double: 7-10, $8.00.
10 6½ furlongs. Open. 3-year-olds and up. Claiming: $4,000. Purse: $10,000.
Time: 1:19.34. Exacta: 3-5, $36.30. Trifecta: 3-5-9, $162.10. Superfecta: 3-5-9-7, $73.44. Pick 3: 7-10-3, $60.20. Pick 4: 7-7-10-3, $288.60. Daily Double: 10-3, $21.00. Scratched: Fast Cast.
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Q: Koin - single instance per parameter value I have a module:
single{ (name: String) -> Person(name) }

When I do:
val alice: Person by inject {parametersOf("Alice")}
val bob: Person by inject {parametersOf("Bob")}

I get 2 instances of Alice. All parameters other than the first are ignored.
Is there a simple way to make Koin treat those 2 as different? Parameters are not known in advance, so I can't use named properties. factory won't do either, I need to reuse instances with same parameter sets.

A: There is no such thing directly in Koin, but it's easy enough to make something that works this way.
1) a class that does create-if-not-present:
class DistinctFactory<K, V>(private val newInstance: (K) -> V) {
    private val _locker = Any()
    private val mRepo: HashMap<K, V> = HashMap()

    operator fun get(id: K): V {
        return mRepo[id] ?: run {
            synchronized(_locker) {
                mRepo[id] ?: run {
                    newInstance(id).also {
                        mRepo[id] = it
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

2) Koin single of DistinctFactory:
single { DistinctFactory<String, Person> { Person(it) } }

3) Koin factory that uses the previous single:
factory { (name: String) -> get<DistinctFactory<String, Person>>()[name] }

test:
val alice: Person by inject {parametersOf("Alice")}
val bob: Person by inject {parametersOf("Bob")}
val aliceAgain: Person by inject {parametersOf("Alice")}

alice === aliceAgain

A: module {

    val personCache = HashMap<Int, Person>()

    factory { parameters ->
        val hash = parameters.values.hashCode()
        personCache.getOrPut(hash) {
            Person(parameters.get())
        }
    }
}


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It wasn't so obvious for Faith as she took quite a while to establish a master hand. Even up to now, we are only 95% sure, simply based on the fact that she uses the right hand to hold the pen.
So why only 95% sure? Well, I see the way she hold the pen to write and draw is quite wobbly and so perhaps she has unwittingly been using the non-master hand? Hence, I reserve the 5% to anticipate that one day should she decide to switch to the left.
er.. my niece use right hand... then she injured her finger... then she started using left hand... now she sometimes use right and sometimes left hand... We dun know she right or left handed.. whahahaha!
why pixelled your face?? lol..
Aloe: Well for me, I am a lefty but I play golf and pool right handed. I used to be able to use chopstick with both hands. Now right hand long time neber practice, rusty liao.
Spinnee: Hence my final reservation of 5% that she may switch to the eventually master hand later in time.
HiaoAunty: Faith is 4 now and again like I said to Spinnee above, there is still the 5% chance that she may switch.
Sunflower: I didn't say right is bad but just wonder if any of my lefty genes were passed down. That's all.
Jaschocolate: Dunno leh... all the brushes available that day all that size leh.
KingMeng: Brush not I give one lah.... The school provided the brush for art class lah. You also damn tuut lah you. Pencil how to do painting?
Okie let me put the record straight. Children at 4 years of age are not supposed to be holding pencils to write.
Fat paint brushes are the correct "instruments" at Faith's age. Just look at the way Faith gripped the paintbrush, she is holding it beautifully as in like holding a pencil (some children of 4 years cannot). It is interesting to note that she is painting the entire paper blue (would had been good if i could ask her to interpret that... sea? sky? or draw something with that paintbrush). I studied Language and Art so therefore I know such stuff.
HiaoAunty: She was painting the sky actually. Then again, that was all she could paint since there was only blue in the palette.
I write, eat as a lefty. I cannot use mouse on my left hand, play pool and badminton with my right.
Barffie: For me is everything left except, golf, snooker/pool and mouse.


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By Loren Nelson, 03/04/20, 2:30PM CST
Goaltenders were allowed to cross center ice in the late 1960s, and Greenway's Bill "Pie" Joy delighted in creating havoc in front of the opposing team's net during delayed penalty calls, as he did here in front of goaltender Andy Micheletti and defenseman Ron Olson in a 1967 semifinal against Hibbing. Photo courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society
Author's note: One in a series of state tournament related stories and excerpts from Tourney Time that we will be publishing throughout the 2020 state tourament. Read the book for more about Greenway's back-to-back championships in the late 1960s and Ron Beck's incredible run as International Falls' unbeatable goaltender.
The referee raised his arm to signal a penalty. This was Ron Beck's starting bell.
Like a thoroughbred bursting from the starting gates, the International Falls goaltender raced full speed to the other end of the rink.
Because the penalty was being called on the opposing team, in this case South St. Paul, Beck knew there was no threat of being scored upon. By rule, the whistle would blow as soon as the Packers controlled the puck. Until then it was Beck's job to position himself in front of the crease and block the vision of the opposing goaltender.
Beck was a senior during the 1965–66 season when International Falls coach Larry Ross implemented the highly unusual goalie-screening-goalie tactic.
"I don't know where the idea came from," Beck said. "I suppose they figured, 'Beck is a pretty good skater, let's send him down there.'"
"Down there" could be a dangerous place. Opposing players salivated at the chance to bump and jostle Beck. Against South St. Paul and defenseman Jim Carter, a future NFL linebacker who stood 6 foot 4 and weighed 210 pounds, the bumping and jostling was taken to the extreme.
Carter slammed into Beck, knocking him into the air.
"I'll tell you, my feet were higher than my head," Beck said. "I didn't know exactly where I was when I got up."
The Broncos didn't have a proven backup goaltender. Losing Beck to injury would have been a disaster for a team in the midst of a fifty-nine-game winning streak and run of three straight state championships.
"I came to the bench, and Larry Ross said, 'That's the end of that,'" Beck said.
At about the same time Ross was decommissioning Beck as a front-of-net presence, Greenway coach Grant Standbrook stumbled upon the same idea. The Raiders were struggling with delayed penalties, failing to control the puck long enough for the goalie to come to the bench for an extra skater. Standbrook was practicing the goalie-skater exchange one day when he raised his arm to signal goaltender Rick Metzer to come to the bench.
Bob Tok was the player designated to go on the ice for Metzer. Problem was, Tok happened to be tightening his skates when Metzer arrived at the bench.
"He was frustrated by the fact that Bobby wasn't ready," Standbrook said about Metzer. "So he kept on going to the other end."
The innovative Standbrook liked the look of Metzer screening the opposing goalie and assigned Metzer to that duty on occasion, just as Ross had briefly deployed Beck. When Bill "Pie" Joy took over as the Raiders' goaltender in the 1965–66 season, Standbrook sent him to the other end on delayed penalties, too.
"He just said it makes sense, rather than me coming over to the box," Joy said. "He said we could get down to the other end quicker if I just did it myself."
Bob Gernander took over as Greenway's coach entering the 1966–67 season. He continued to send Joy, then a senior, to the other end on delayed penalties.
"It was a big part of his game, and he loved it," Gernander said about Joy. "And anything that would make the goaltender happy, I would let it go."
Joy was racing end to end regularly during the 1967 state tournament. He tripped on his straps while joining the attack on a delayed penalty in the quarterfinals against Minneapolis Roosevelt. In the semifinals, against Hibbing, he was involved in a jousting match in front of the Bluejackets' goal and was called for high-sticking.
He rushed the length of the ice to join the attack in Greenway's 4–2 championship victory over St. Paul Johnson.
"I almost scored in the state tournament after the puck went off the opposing goalie," Joy said. "It might have been against Hibbing. I whiffed on it. The puck was sitting right there."
The way Gernander remembers it, the practice was outlawed the following season. Goaltenders no longer were allowed to participate in the play in any manner past the red line. The NHL implemented this rule (No. 27.7, a.k.a. "the Gary Smith Rule") after the 1966–67 season when Smith, the former Toronto Maple Leafs goalie, was knocked out cold after carrying the puck beyond the red line.
"It was novel," Joy said. "It was different. People still remember me as the goalie who would skate to the other end. I guess I was famous because of it."
By Loren Nelson 04/17/2020, 2:30am CDT
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Q: CSS, floating boxes are bumping each other I am a noob, so my code is pretty simple:
    .pictureBoxWrapper1 {
    width: 225px;
    /* background: silver; */
    margin: 0 auto;
    padding:7px;
    float:left;
    border:dotted;
    margin-right:10px;

}

Unfortunately it is still giving me some unexpected results like this:

as you can see I have two of the boxes on the left that are "bumping" into each other.
Is there some way that I can make my box not expand no matter what text/images are in it?
UPDATE:
Pastebin for entire CSS file
http://pastebin.com/tp1WS4r3

A: max-height: 200px;

They'll not get bigger than 200px

A: This is happening because your images are of more size. You can try restricting the image size either by using style in image tag,

or through css
#bg {
  position: fixed;
  top: 0;
  left: 0;

  /* Preserve aspet ratio */
  max-width: 100%;
  max-height: 200px;
}

HTML

A: i think you should .fix your image height to 160px and also set box height to 308px;
for confirm and detail solution pls online your code if possible.

A: You can use min-height or max-height inside your css like:
max-height: 200px;
min-height: 200px;

or clear the float after multiple of 3 elements, example
after the 3rd element add

after the 6th element add

after the 9th element add

and so on and so on
Hope this helps

A: Making them the same size would help - but not if they aren't the same size.
For multi-sized boxes, you can use CSS3 columns instead of "float:left" boxes to arrange them in a loose grid.
http://www.w3schools.com/css/css3_multiple_columns.asp
The columns class is designed to allow paragraph text to flow in columns - such as with a newspaper - but can be hijacked by applying the same style to discreet boxes.
First create a wall container for the boxes - which I will call bricks.

.wall {
  width: 100% !important;
  column-count: 3 !important;
  column-gap: 25px;
}

Next you need a brick. But there is a problem! You will probably want to add a margin to the bottom of each brick to space them out. Unfortunately CSS columns are a bit quirky and will actually break a margin into the next column - leaving gaps at the top of some columns but not others. This is why you will need two containers for each brick. Like so:

    Any contents ...

Add a "nobreak" style to the outer brick - so that you can add a margin for the inner brick that stays with it.
.wall .outer-brick {
  display: block-inline !important;
  /* prevent brick's padding splitting across columns */
  break-inside: avoid !important;
  /* !useful "margin" between inner-bricks to match column-gap   */
  padding-bottom: 25px;
}
.wall .outer-brick .inner-brick {
  /* CSS3: border and padding taken away from width */
  box-sizing: border-box !important;
  /* !useful for contents, but not important */
  padding: 5px 15px;
}

That's it. Even with very different sized boxes, they will be evenly arranged, both horizontally and vertically, in columns. The more you have the better it looks.
See demo with randomly generated bricks at http://codepen.io/timitee/pen/wWRgqk


Tonight hubby made his signature Crab Cakes and sauteed veggies fresh from the garden. I cooked up some dessert- Ben & Jerry's Superfudge Brownies topped with Vanilla Ice Cream and SuperHotFudge Sauce.
makes a generous 1 qt.
Over a double boiler, melt the chocolate and butter, stirring frequently. Add the cocoa and whisk until dissolved.
Using a slotted spoon, gradually stir in the sugar. The mixture should be the consistency of wet sand. Cook, stirring occasionally, over simmering water for 20 minutes. Check the water level occasionally and add more as needed.
Gradually stir in the milk and cream and keep stirring until completely blended. Continue cooking, stirring and checking the water occasionally, for 1 hour.
Preheat the oven to 350. Butter and flour a 13″x9″ pan.
Over a double boiler, melt the chocolate and butter, stirring frequently. Let cool to room temperature.
Beat the eggs and salt in a mixing bowl until very fluffy. Gradually beat in the sugar and vanilla. Fold in the cooled chocolate mixture. Add the flour and fold just until blended.
Pour the batter into the prepared pan and smooth the top. Bake 20-25 minutes.


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Linear and Weakly Nonlinear Instability of Fluid Flows
Professor Andrei Kolyshkin
Department of Engineering Mathematics
E-mail: andrejs.koliskins@rbs.lv
Abstract: Linear stability theory is widely used in fluid mechanics to predict when a particular base flow becomes unstable. The critical values of the parameters of the problem (for example, the critical Reynolds numbers) are usually calculated by solving the corresponding linearized eigenvalue problem. The structure of the critical motion which takes place just above the threshold can also be analyzed by means of the linear stability theory. However, the evolution of the most unstable disturbance above the threshold cannot be described by the linear theory.
Weakly nonlinear theories are used in such cases to derive an amplitude evolution equation (or a system of evolution equations). The coefficients of such equations (one example is the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation) can be calculated by means of the method of multiple scales.
In this plenary talk we discuss both linear and weakly nonlinear models of fluid motion in detail. Two examples are considered: stability of shallow water flows and stability of transient rapidly decelerated flow in a circular pipe. The results of joint work with Prof. M.S. Ghidaoui are discussed.
Brief Biography of the Speaker:
Andrei Kolyshkin received his undergraduate degree in Applied Mathematics in 1976 at the Riga Technical University. In 1981 he received a Ph.D in differential equations and mathematical physics at the University of St. Petersburg. Andrei Kolyshkin is currently a full professor at the Department of Engineering Mathematics at the Riga Technical University. His current research interests include investigation of stability problems in fluid mechanics with applications to open-channel flows and transient flows in hydraulic systems and mathematical models for eddy current testing. He is the co-author of three monographs published by Academic Press and CRM. Andrei Kolyshkin has participated in more than 30 international conferences and has published more than 50 papers in refereed journals since 1990. As a visiting professor and visiting researcher he spent a few years at the University of Ottawa and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
The List of Recent Speakers has been updated again
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This file contains a draft List of Some Plenary and Invited Speakers in the Recent WSEAS Conferences


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Das Nationalpark-Zentrum in der oberösterreichischen Gemeinde Molln (Nationalpark Allee 1) wurde 2001 eröffnet und ist der größte Holz-Atrium Bau Österreichs. Architekt war Dieter Utner. Im Haus befindet sich der Sitz der Nationalpark-Gesellschaft Kalkalpen.

Konstruktion und Verwendung
Für die Fassade wurde unbehandeltes Lärchenholz verwendet und für den Leimbinder-Ständerbau Fichte. Die Fußböden sind aus Buche gefertigt. Unter dem Zentrum befindet sich ein Parkdeck und im Obergeschoss sind Veranstaltungs- und Seminarräume mit insgesamt 100 m² untergebracht. Der überdachte Innenhof bietet 300 Sitzplätze. Das Gebäude ist barrierefrei. Seit der Eröffnung gibt es hier die Dauerausstellung "Verborgene Wasser".

Das "Café am Teich" im Erdgeschoss trägt seinen Namen nach einem künstlich angelegten Biotop. Dieses wird vom Mollnerbach gespeist, der zwischen dem Zentrum und dem benachbarten Spar-Markt fließt. Am Vorplatz zur Marktstraße befindet sich ein Trinkbrunnen.

Weblinks

 Nationalpark Zentrum Molln. In: kalkalpen.at.

Einzelnachweise

Bauwerk aus Holz
Molln
Bauwerk der Moderne in Oberösterreich

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Looking for meaning of Haffafa name in Urdu or English . Here the the complte details of name Haffafa , what it means and should you name your boy or girl this name. Haffafa is mostly the name of Girls in muslim countries and is from urdu origan. If we translate name Haffafa then its meaning in Urdu and Engish is Glittering shining thin .


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Located on Picton's stunning harbour, the hotel is just 500m from both the ferry terminal and the train station with direct access to the heart of Picton and the foreshore & marina with all the activity providers.
The captivating Chartroom Restaurant offers panoramic views and invites you with its seasonal menus offering Marlborough produces and local wines.
For a casual night mingle with locals and guests in the Boatshed Bar and sample some of the world famous Marlborough wines & our exciting bar menu.
The team of The Picton Yacht Club looks forward to welcoming you in the very near future and extending to you their warm and friendly hospitality.


Olivia Culpo has festival style figured out.
The 2012 Miss Universe winner stepped out to Revolve's Coachella party in the Californian desert yesterday clad in a casual look that packed the perfect punch for the weekend of music and revelry.
Olivia Culpo in a crop top, jean shorts and chunky sandals.
The 26-year-old flaunted her toned abs in a black crop top worn over a leopard-print bikini top. On the bottom, she rocked denim Bermuda shorts, clipping a useful black belt bag to her waist.
For footwear, the model reached for edgy sandals. The asymmetrical style featured a super chunky white heel with a black upper.
A closeup look at Olivia Culpo's sandals.
Culpo was joined at the event by Winnie Harlow. The "America's Next Top Model" alum turned heads in a highlighter yellow bikini top with a matching see-through skirt. For footwear, Harlow selected the Fila Disruptor II — FN's 2018 Shoe of the Year. Adhering to the popular dad shoe trend, the $65 kicks feature a ridged outsole for improved traction, with a padded collar on the inside for additional comfort.
Winnie Harlow wears a highlighter yellow look with Fila sneakers.
A closer look at Winnie Harlow's Fila Disruptor II sneakers.
Elsewhere, Shay Mitchell mastered festival style in a monochrome boho look. The "Pretty Little Liars" actress wore a knit dress with a one-piece bathing suit underneath. Her shoes were black Western-style booties with a pointed silhouette and a chunky heel.
Shay Mitchell wears a knit dress over a bathing suit with Western boots.
A shot of Shay Mitchell's Western booties.
Meanwhile, Victoria Justice kept cool in the desert heat in a Topshop crop top and daisy dukes. She accessorized with a black cowboy hat and a red bandana tied around her neck, choosing brocade thigh-high boots with a chunky heel to finish her look.
Victoria Justice in a Topshop crop top and denim shorts with thigh-highs.
A look at Victoria Justice's thigh-highs.
Click through the gallery to check out more of Olivia Culpo's best street style.
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Categories: FoodNewsTrending
Bel Group to launch vegan versions of its best-selling cheese lines
Image: Alp Aksoy / shutterstock.com
"I am convinced that we must build a food model that can have a positive impact on our entire ecosystem."
This week, French multinational giant Bel Group has announced plans to roll out plant-based cheeses in each of its core brands in the coming months.
The group, which owns popular cheese brands including The Laughing Cow, Kiri, Babybel, Boursin, and more, made the announcement after buying major shares in All In Foods – a plant-based business that makes vegan dairy products – earlier this year.
Image: Microgen / shutterstock.com
'Sustainable and responsible future of food'
The group revealed that it would soon launch a new international brand fully dedicated to plant-based products whilst stating that a plant-based version of Boursin is set to hit US markets by the end of this month.
Meanwhile Bel is also developing vegan mini Babybel cheese which will be released in U.S. supermarkets by next year.
In addition, from January 2021 onwards, Bel plans to release cheese blends under its The Laughing Cow brand across the US, UK, Canada and Germany, since "there is strong potential among flexitarians" in these markets.
Bel Group's chairman and CEO, Antoine Fievet, said: "I am convinced that we must build a food model that can have a positive impact on our entire ecosystem.
"All Bel employees are mobilized to open a new path with our partners for a more sustainable and responsible future of food."
Vegan cheese demand
While plant-based dairy alternatives were initially considered a niche market, recent reports have confirmed their mainstream value.
According to a study published by Transparency Market Research, the global vegan cheese market is predicted to reach a whopping $7 billion by the end of 2030.
The study's findings cite 'climate change, mounting concerns related to animal cruelty, and health' alongside lactose intolerance and the pandemic as driving factors for the 'exponential' increase.
"Reports linking the spread of coronavirus from animals are pushing consumers away from the consumption of meat and meat-based products. The increasing consumption of plant-based products is expected to fuel the demand for vegan cheese in the forecast period," the study stated.
"However, due to lockdown enforced to contain the spread of the virus, the production of vegan cheese is impacted and moderate growth is expected in the vegan cheese market in the upcoming two-three years."
'New food model'
These findings have prompted most key players in the market including Bel to conform to the "new food model" that prioritises health and eco-responsibility.
"There is no future without responsibility," added Fievet.
"In the age of Covid-19, [we're] more convinced than ever that…responsibility is the only way to face challenges and to stand the test of time. We are keeping our course, remaining determined in action, and accelerating."
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Hughes Drawing 1A Attention
By: Chris Horne | April 13, 2006
5-11, 175-pound Kempsville (Virginia Beach, VA) defensive back recruit Trenton Hughes performed pretty well at the Scout.com combine in Durham on March 26th, running the 40 in 4.53 seconds and showing off a 33-inch vertical leap. Those numbers were solid, but Hughes feels he can improve upon them in future combines.
"We did pretty good up there," Hughes said. "I got second team all-combine at cornerback and everything. I'm not too happy with the 40 time there. I was not happy with that when I heard that. That's all going to change in the next few combines."
In addition to the Virginia Beach combine in the first week in May, Hughes also plans to head to North Carolina State for an Adidas combine on May 20th. Showing off his speed and athleticism is important, as Hughes is being recruited as a defensive back but played linebacker last season as a junior.
"He played will linebacker for us [in 2005], but he's going to play corner [in 2006]," Kempsville head coach Jeff McGowan said. "A lot of schools like him at safety. He has real long arms. And, he can really run."
Hughes, who played well at linebacker, is excited about the opportunity to play defensive back. He is encouraged after performing well in one-on-one's at the Scout combine.
"I'm very confident," Hughes said of moving to cornerback. "I just came from playing well against nationally-ranked receivers, so I'm very confident heading into the season.
"Last season, coach McGowan just put me in a position to make plays and I just like to hit. I'm just an athlete and I'll player wherever."
According to Hughes, Maryland, N.C. State, Temple, UVa, East Carolina, Virginia Tech and Akron are showing the most interest. He has an official offer from Akron already and is hoping for more. Hughes is interested in both in-state programs.
"I'm highly interested in Virginia and I look forward to seeing what Virginia Tech has to offer," Hughes said. "Virginia Tech has been sending me letters. I haven't gotten anything from Virginia in a period, but they have expressed some interest in me. I'm going to Virginia's summer camp.
"I'm open right now. I'm just waiting to see which schools offer."
Right now, Hughes is also participating in track and field. His events are the 100 and 200 meters as well as the long jump, which is his specialty.
"Since Percy's (former Landstown star Percy Harvin) not here,


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package mx.udlap.equations;

import mx.udlap.sofia.R;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.DialogInterface;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.app.AlertDialog;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.EditText;
import android.widget.TextView;

public class Equation_solver extends Activity {
	EquationMethods methods = new EquationMethods();
	Equation_Methods2 methods2 = new Equation_Methods2();
	public String equation,Resultado;
	public int a,b,c;
	@Override
	protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
		super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
		setContentView(R.layout.activity_equation_solver);

		//Elements
		Button solver = (Button) findViewById(R.id.equation_solverB);
		Button graphic = (Button) findViewById(R.id.equation_graphicB);
		Button resultB = (Button) findViewById(R.id.equation_ResultB);
		final TextView result = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.solver_Result);
		final EditText eq = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.ecuation_textField);

		//Click listener
		solver.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() { //Boton Paso a Paso
			@Override
			public void onClick(View v) {
				setValues(eq);
				if (methods2.validacion(a, b, c)){
				Intent sendTo = new Intent(Equation_solver.this, mx.udlap.equations.Equation_solver_answer.class);

				setValues(eq);
				/*xy.setText(methods.PasoaPaso(a, b, c));
				eq.setText("");*/

				Resultado = methods.PasoaPaso(a, b, c, equation);
				sendTo.putExtra("result", Resultado);
				startActivity(sendTo);
				}
				else{
					new AlertDialog.Builder(Equation_solver.this).setTitle("Alerta!")
            		.setMessage("La ecuacion esta mal escrita.").setNeutralButton("Volver a intentar.",
            		new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
            			public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog,int which) {
            		}
            		}).show();
				}
			}
		});

		graphic.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() { //Boton Graficar
			@Override
			public void onClick(View v) {
				setValues(eq);
				if (methods2.validacion(a, b, c)){
					Intent sendTo_graphic = new Intent(Equation_solver.this, mx.udlap.equations.Equation_graphic.class);
					equation = eq.getText().toString();
					sendTo_graphic.putExtra("equation", equation);
					startActivity(sendTo_graphic);
				}
				else{
					new AlertDialog.Builder(Equation_solver.this).setTitle("Alerta!")
            		.setMessage("La ecuacion esta mal escrita.").setNeutralButton("Volver a intentar.",
            		new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
            			public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog,int which) {
            		}
            		}).show();
				}
			}
		});

		resultB.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
			@Override
			public void onClick(View v) {
				setValues(eq);
				if (methods2.validacion(a, b, c)){
					equation = eq.getText().toString();
					result.setText(methods.getX1X2(equation).toString());
				}
				else{
					new AlertDialog.Builder(Equation_solver.this).setTitle("Alerta!")
            		.setMessage("La ecuacion esta mal escrita.").setNeutralButton("Volver a intentar.",
            		new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
            			public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog,int which) {
            		}
            		}).show();
				}
			}
		});
	}

	@Override
	public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
		// Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
		//getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.ecuations, menu);
		return true;
	}

	private void setValues(EditText eq){
		equation = eq.getText().toString();
		a = methods.getA(equation);
		b = methods.getB(equation);
		c = methods.getC(equation);
	}

}

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Medaglia Pio XI
Contatti e Mappe
Benedetto XV
Pio XII, Servo di Dio
Giovanni XXIII, Santo
Paolo VI
Giovanni Paolo II, Santo
Accademici ordinari
Accademici onorari
Accademici defunti
Ex Accademici
Serie Interrotte
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Amburgo, Germania, 25/12/1904 - Ottawa, Canada, 3/3/1999
Titolo Scienziato ricercatore, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche del Canada, Ottawa. Premio Nobel in Chimica, 1971
Nomina 24/9/1964
Commemorazione – Dr. Herzberg was born in Germany and during his doctoral and post-doctoral studies in Germany he was associated with such eminent scientists as Max Born and James Franck. His early interests were in astronomy and later in atomic and molecular physics. In spite of his extraordinary accomplishments at a young age, Dr. Herzberg had to leave Germany and move to North America in 1935. He went to Canada where he wrote his classic books on spectroscopy, and later moved to the Yerkes Laboratory at the University of Chicago. After a brief stay in Chicago he went back to the National Research Council of Canada with which he was identified for the rest of his career.
Dr. Herzberg was clearly the father of modern molecular spectroscopy. The entire world of spectroscopy considered him its champion and statesman. Even spectroscopists who did not know him personally considered him their teacher because of his classic papers and books, which had a great impact. His contributions to molecular spectroscopy, in particular to the spectroscopy of molecules of astronomical interest, were truly outstanding.
Dr. Herzberg received many honours and was a member of several Academies including the Royal Society and the US National Academy of Sciences. He was awarded the Nobel prize in chemistry in 1971.
C.N.R. Rao
Summary of scientific research
My main interest is in atomic and molecular spectroscopy. The Lamb shift on the ground states of H and He atoms was determined for the first time. However, most of the work was in molecular spectroscopy, that is, of the spectra of many diatomic and polyatomic molecules. Much effort was spent on the determination of the structure of free radicals on the basis of their spectra. The most important among these were CH2, CH3 and H3. The last named was discovered in 1979. It is a radical that is stable only in the Rydberg states but unstable in its ground state.
Another of my interests was the study of forbidden transitions in diatomic and polyatomic molecules. The first important result was the discovery in 1931 of what are now known as the Herzberg bands of O2 in the near ultraviolet, which proved to be important for the production of ozone in the upper atmosphere; they are also prominent in the light of the night sky. Another forbidden transition is the infrared atmospheric oxygen bands which I assigned to a 1delta upper state in accordance with the prediction of Mulliken. This state is now much discussed as an energy carrier in chemistry, biology and medicine. Another series of studies dealt with the determination of dissociation energies of diatomic molecules, especially O2, H2, N2, P2 and others.
Early work on the structure of polyatomic molecules showed that the C-C single bond is shortened when adjacent to a triple bond and it was followed by a great deal of further work on such problems and is continuing in many other laboratories.
More recently I turned my attention more and more to the application of molecular spectroscopy in astrophysics, that is, in planetary atmospheres, in comets, in stellar atmospheres and in the interstellar medium. The first observation of the quadrupole spectrum of H2 led to the identification of molecular hydrogen in the atmospheres of the outer planets and quite recently to the identification of shock waves in the interstellar medium. The discovery of the CH+ ion and its identification in interstellar space and the identification of the H2O+ ion in the tails of comets were further interesting results of work in this field.
Experimental texts of the quantum theory of molecular hydrogen
G. Herzberg Commentarii 49 pp. 36 ... Continua
Absorption spectra of molecular ions
G. Herzberg Commentarii 15 pp. 8 ... Continua


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Currently, there are only a handful of highly-efficient buildings in the country which meet the criteria for a NZEB, but the idea is gaining momentum and starting to move from concept to reality. HUD is among the governmental organizations looking to incorporate net zero energy efficiency criteria into its requirements for subsidized affordable housing.
In January 2010, HUD committed to creating energy-efficient, green and healthy housing as part of a broader effort to develop inclusive, sustainable communities. Researchers have found commercial and residential buildings are among the top energy users, making green building design one of the primary means to lower energy consumption.
Renew300 is a joint effort by HUD, US Department of Agriculture, and Treasury to expand the use of solar energy and other renewable energy resources in federally-assisted housing. In July 2015, HUD and the Department of Energy announced an expansion of the Federal renewable energy target from 100 megawatts to 300 megawatts of solar and other renewable energy resources for Federally-assisted housing.
What do these standards mean for affordable housing? While the strict standard for a NZEB is not currently required at the Federal level, states such as California are aggressively moving in this direction. California currently leads the nation, with 137 verified or anticipated net-zero buildings. This is not surprising since the state has set ambitious targets for all new residential buildings to be net zero by 2020, and all new commercial buildings to be net zero by 2030.
Starting in January 2020, California will implement codes for new housing construction requiring solar panels for low-rise housing three stories and under. Many affordable housing units fit within this scope. While the new code will not require net zero for all energy to be produced from renewables, it will require installation of solar panels based on the project size, number of bedrooms, square footage and climate zone. These factors will be built into an equation to determine the number of solar panels required for a project.
In phase two, the code will be expanded to all new construction for buildings four stories and above. While the new code will initially only apply to new construction, discussion is underway within the California Energy Commission, which ultimately oversees this section of the code, to consider expansion of the code for net zero criteria to existing buildings.
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The Royal Cornwall Hospital has apologised to a mum of three after cancelling her planned operation twice, on the day she was due to go under the knife.
Dawn Pickett from St Cleer near Liskeard, was diagnosed with type two diabetes five years ago, and despite trying to control the illness with healthy eating and medication, her blood sugar levels remained high.
She was left with only one option, bariatric surgery, an operation commonly used to aid weight-loss, but can also help people suffering with diabetes.
Mrs Pickett chose to go ahead with the operation – which involved her having to consume nothing but milk for an entire two weeks before surgery.
But after booking sick leave from work and sitting in a gown in the hospital waiting room for hours on end, she was told that the operation had been cancelled and it would be rescheduled for one month's time.
A month later, Mrs Pickett arrived back at the hospital at 7.30am and at 3pm, she was again told the operation was cancelled.
The mum, who also suffers from bi-polar, said that the last minute cancellations have had a negative effect on her mental health and left her "stressed, anxious and upset".
She said: "I was left with no other option really, other than having a gastric bypass. Its weight-loss surgery but it also helps diabetes sufferers, 99 per cent of the time after the operation, people with diabetes can actually go into remission.
"I was referred to surgery two-and-a-half-years ago, but first I had to pass a psychology test and the waiting list for that was 18 months.
"In February this year I had the test and then had to wait to see the surgery team – that was another six months.
After finally being given a date for the operation to go ahead, Mrs Pickett felt relieved, but her waiting wasn't over.
She added: "Before the operation I had to stick to a very strict diet, where I could only consume four pints of milk and nothing else for two weeks before.
"It was hard, but I stuck to it. I arrived at 7.30am for my appointment, I was assessed by the pre-op team and sent to the waiting room in a gown to wait to be called in for the operation.
"Then at 1pm, they came in and handed me a pre-typed letter saying that they were sorry, my operation had been cancelled. I was told to go home, eat normally for two weeks, then return to the milk diet for two weeks and come back in for a second time.
"They couldn't get me in sooner than a month because you can't do the milk diet for more than two weeks at a time.
"It was really hard. I had had to book sick leave from work, my husband had booked time off, my kids thought I was going to be in hospital and then I wasn't.
Mrs Pickett also suffers from bi-polar disorder and said that the cancellation took a toll on her mental health.
Despite being left feeling "anxious and upset", she decided to start the process over again to get ready for the next operation date she had been given.
"I ate normally for two weeks, then did the milk diet for two weeks and went back for the second time," said Mrs Pickett.
"I saw the anaesthetist, then the nurse who took my blood pressure and things like that. Then I met the surgeon and was told to wait until I was called down.
"I waited there all day in the waiting room.
She said that to cancel the operation for a second time was "ridiculous".
Mrs Pickett added: "They just wave you off and expect you to do it all again.
"It's twice it's happened now, you make all of these arrangements and it's just cancelled at the last minute.
After the second cancellation, Mrs Pickett was given a third operation date, but was told that this too could be cancelled on the day if there were not enough beds.
"I was told that the operations couldn't have gone ahead because there wasn't enough beds," added Mrs Pickett.
"And that if there were no beds available on the next date it could be cancelled again, for a third time.
"I don't know if I want to go through it all again.
"It's the whole thing, the diet, the cancellations, stress, booking time off.
"If I don't accept the next date, I can request to stay on the waiting list and have the operation after Christmas, but it will push me down the list.
Also Mrs Pickett faces extra stress if she does choose to go through with the operation and it is cancelled again, if she does not have the surgery she could suffer serious health problems.
She said: "If I postpone it or choose not to have it at all, it means that I will have a lower life expectancy and be at risk of other problems associated with diabetes.
"Two and half years ago, when I was told that I should seriously consider the surgery, I was really panicked thinking that I would die of a stroke or heart attack.
The hospital has now apologised for the cancellations and said that the situation was "unacceptable".


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