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Integrated Mood and Anxiety Program
A powerful response to depression and anxiety
Depression and other mood or anxiety disorders are among the most common of mental illnesses – but that does not mean they are any less debilitating. After decades of treating these diseases, Homewood's Integrated Mood and Anxiety Program (IMAP) has established a set of therapeutic approaches that gets to the heart of recovery. Our experienced multidisciplinary team—including psychiatrists, nurses, social workers, and other clinicians—provide compassionate care that explores the biological, psychological, social, and spiritual aspects of these illnesses.
Group work is at the centre of the IMAP program, where participants will explore themes of self–esteem, communications, anger, leisure and lifestyle balance, relationships, managing anxiety, emotion regulation, and loss and grief. We also work diligently to prepare patients for their reintegration to their home and work environments by involving families and emphasizing strong discharge plans.
IMAP is for people who:
are at least 18 years of age;
are ready to engage in a group-based treatment program and willing to be involved in an active schedule; and
have a primary diagnosis of depression, anxiety disorders (generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, panic disorder, agoraphobia) and/or bipolar disorder (not in a manic phase or rapid cycling).
The overall rating of quality of care, given by IMAP patients who have received treatment
The percentage of patients who would recommend Homewood and the IMAP program to others
The percentage of patients who felt Homewood staff listened carefully to them during their treatment
To be admitted to the program, you require a referral from your doctor or other healthcare professional. We can help you with the patient referral and admissions process. Click below to learn more, or read on about additional Health Centre programs.
Admission to the Program
Homewood Health Centre's Program for Traumatic Stress Recovery creates a sense of community, where trauma survivor helps trauma survivor through the healing process.
Homewood offers the IMAP Family Information and Support Day approximately every eight weeks. The program is open to families and friends of current or past patients who have been invited to attend by their loved one.
Contact the Program Manager at 519.824.1010, extension 32211.
If you're interested in other Homewood programs, click below.
See all Specialized Elective Programs


Decking can be a lot easier if you try at home. A simple yet elegant looking lunch table on your deck with led bulbs all along the railing can be enough to impress anyone.
Make your deck look more beautiful than ever by placing a nice leather 4 seater sofa set . A nice floor can add a little more to it.
You can use a simple wooden platform on uneven surface of deck to use it in better way. Painting it can make it look better and way more appealing.
A nicely painted wooden platform to depict a classy look. One cannot simply stop himself of admiring you for the choice.
Make the base of you amazing looking platform strong by placing plies of steel sheets. No more fear of having crushed hollow platforms.
Decorate your deck with a nice wooden dining table set to have food with your family. Adding a bbq grill machine can make it perfect for the night parties.
Even a simple looking wooden platform piece can be very useful. For the people who want more useful stuff rather than fancy design.
Beautifully arranged deck. Best for bon fire parties at home and can get comfy with the couches at the same time.


We have just received our order and the trophies look spectacular! Thank you so much for your fantastic service. You have been prompt, efficient and professional and the trophies are even better than we imagined. We would be happy to recommend your company to anyone requiring your services. I only wish I was lucky enough to be receiving one of these!


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Unimod Help
Database fields
Adding or modifying
Symbols & mass values
Cross-link entries
Guidelines for Naming Modifications
Standard short name for a modification are agreed by members of the protein modification workgroup of the Proteomics Standards Initiative. Names are chosen according to a number of (mandatory) rules and (non-mandatory) recommendations.
1 These are names for modifications. Specificity, (residue, position, terminus), linkage, chirality, neutral loss behaviour, etc., can be indicated separately, in an application specific manner, and should not be part of the name.
2 Legal characters for modification names are the ASCII characters 0-9 A-Z a-z together with the following symbols and punctuation characters # ( ) * + , - . / : > [ ] { }
3 Names are not case-sensitive.
4 Names have a minimum length of 3 characters and a maximum length of 64 characters.
5 Modifications that correspond to deltas with different elemental formulae cannot have the same name.
6 2H not D for deuterium
7 Nucleon number comes before the element symbol, not after. That is, 18O not O18
8 There is no requirement to specify nucleon number for the most abundant natural isotope of each element. That is, N not 14N
9 Reserved keywords are delta, label, lipid, cation, and xlink.
10 The colon character is reserved for delimiting keywords from the remainder of the name
11 The plus character is reserved for delimiting combined modifications, e.g. Label:13C(9)+Phospho
12 Parentheses are reserved for counts in formulae, e.g. Delta:H(2)C(3)
13 For glycosylation, the name is constructed from the monosaccharide composition, e.g. Hex(1)HexNAc(1)dHex(1)
14 If there is no suitable name for a lipid, a name can be constructed from the keyword Lipid: plus the nominal monoisotopic mass of the delta. No instance at present
15 For isotope labels that do not change the elemental composition of the residue or terminus, the name is constructed from the keyword Label: plus a count of the labelled atoms. For example, Label:13C(6). This is an implied substitution, so that Label:13C(6) is the same as Delta:C(-6)13C(6)
16 For isotope labels that are also chemical modifications, the name is constructed from a unique keyword, and a colon delimited count of the labelled atoms. Where an isotope tag has an accepted acronym or trademark, like ICAT, this should be used as part or all of the keyword. For example ICPL and ICPL:13C(6). Heavy and light are not sufficient for isotope labels. Like Label:, this is an implied substitution
17 Where there is no obvious or unambiguous name, use the keyword Delta: followed by the complete empirical formula of the delta. For example, Delta:H(2)C(3)
18 For cations, use the keyword cation, the element symbol, and the oxidation state using Roman numerals in square brackets. If there is only a single oxidation state for the element, and this is I, it can be omitted, e.g. Cation:Na and Cation:Fe[II]
1 Names are not intended to be IUPAC-style systematic nomenclature, ( http://www.chem.qmul.ac.uk/iupac/AminoAcid/ and http://www.acdlabs.com/iupac/nomenclature/93/r93_296.htm). The aim is a controlled list of common or trivial names.
2 Names should semi-descriptive or, at least, recognizable.
3 If there is a generally accepted name or acronym for a modification, this should be adopted.
4 As far as possible, the length of a name should be 24 characters or less.
5 Names can be unambiguously delimited from application specific prefixes and suffixes using any of the illegal characters, especially space, underscore, and @
6 As far as possible, there should be a one to one relationship between a name and a delta of a given empirical formula. Exceptions are allowed where the structures are different or where there are generally accepted names that convey additional useful information.
7 Use American English spelling (e.g. sulfate).
8 Use case to enhance readability.
9 Minimise use of hyphens. Not required for prefixes like di and tri. Do not use a hyphen to indicate "loss of" because this is too ambiguous.
10 The preference is to name the modification as a moiety, not the reaction or the reagent or the modifed residue. For example, acetyl and not acetylation or acetyl-L-lysine. This is only a preference, not a rule. It runs into difficulty when the modification is the removal of a moiety, because it is difficult to name the absence, and it may be necessary to use the reaction or process as the name.
11 Many modifications are essentially substitutions that are specific to a single residue. These can be most clearly represented using an arrow syntax, e.g. Arg->Orn, Trp->Kynurenin. This syntax must never use 1-letter codes for residues to avoid confusion with elements.
12 Try to avoid starting a name with something that might be mistaken for a specificity, e.g. N- or C-, which are often used to indicate protein terminus PTMs.
13 Related modifications should be differentiated by suffixes rather than prefixes so that they sort together in an alphabetical list.
Non-standard Amino Acid Residues
There is no universal set of three letter abbreviations for non-standard residues. This list is drawn from:
Waters / Micromass data sheet
DeltaMass
Chemnetbase
Aad 2-aminoadipicacid
Abu 2-Aminobutyric acid
Acm Acetamidomethyl
Aib 2-Aminoisobutyric acid
Bum t-butyloxymethyl
Cit Citruline
Cmc Carboxymethylcysteine
Cya cysteic acid
Dha dehydroalanine
Dhb Dehydroamino-2-butyric acid
Gla 4-carboxyglutamic acid
Glp pyroglutamic acid (also Pga, pGlu and
Hse homoserine
Hsl homoserine lactone
Hyl Hydroxylysine
Hyp Hydroxyproline
Iva Isovaline
Nle Norleucine
Orn Ornithine
Pip 2-Piperidinecarboxylic acid
Pyr pyruvic acid
Sar Sarcosine
Sec selenocysteine

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<?php

namespace home\controllers;

use yii\web\Controller;
use common\helpers\FuncHelper;

class UploadController extends Controller
{
    public function actionIndex()
    {
        echo 111;exit;
        /* 首页 套餐 幻灯片 */
        $group_ppt = ShopGroup::find()->where(['status'=>1])->orderBy('SORT desc')->limit(3)->asArray()->all();
        $article_ppt = Article::lists(3);
        $recommd = array();
        $recommd['all'] = array_merge($group_ppt, $article_ppt);
        $recommd['active'] = $article_ppt;
        $recommd['package'] = $group_ppt;

        //var_dump($group_ppt);exit();
        return $this->render('index',[
            'group_ppt' => $group_ppt,
            'recommd' => $recommd,
        ]);
    }

    public function actionFiles(){
        $targetFolder = '/upload/avatar/';
        if (!empty($_FILES)) {
            $tempFile = $_FILES['Filedata']['tmp_name'];
            $md5_file_name = md5($_FILES['Filedata']['tmp_name']).'.'.substr(strrchr($_FILES['Filedata']['name'], '.'), 1);

            $targetPath = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . $targetFolder;
            $targetFile = rtrim($targetPath,'/') . '/' . $md5_file_name;

            // Validate the file type
            $fileTypes = array('jpg','jpeg','gif','png'); // File extensions
            $fileParts = pathinfo($_FILES['Filedata']['name']);

            if (in_array($fileParts['extension'],$fileTypes)) {
                move_uploaded_file($tempFile,$targetFile);
                FuncHelper::ajaxReturn(0, 'success', array(
                    'file_path'=>"/upload/avatar/{$md5_file_name}",
                ));
            } else {
                FuncHelper::ajaxReturn(-1, '上传失败');
            }
        }
    }
}

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Q: I am unable to add the text after the PDF table inserted in latex \begin{table}
\centering
    \caption{TEST}
    \vspace{-25mm}
    \makebox[0pt]{%
    \includegraphics[width=18cm,height=27cm,scale=2.5]{Table1.pdf}}
\label{table1}
\end{table}

I am able to insert the pdf in the latex page floating environment. The table has only 3 rows and 3 columns. It fit 1/4 of the page accurately according to the A4 size. But remaining page it shows empty.If, I add another pdf table same issue happening. I want to write the text in remaining of the page .Help me to solve this issue.

A: Too long for a comment:
Whithout a minimal working example (MWE) that illustrates your problem is imposible find real the problems-s and possible solutions. As is, the question is a guess game, since we cannot see the PDF image, nor the  document class, preamble and context that possibly are causing/influencing the output, that is also hidden.
Unless you edit the question to produce compilable code starting with \documentclass{...} and ending with \end{document}, the only evident for me is that:

*

*The scale option have not sense, and it is not used, if you use width or height options.

*Accordingly, your image is set to fill the whole page (assuming that you are using A4) and maybe exceeding margins.

*Do not set both width and height unless (a) do you want a flattened or stretched image with exactly this dimensions or (b) do you use also keepsaspectratio to scale porportionally as far as possible without exceed these dimensions. Usually is enough fix only the width (or alternatively only the height) since the image always will be scaled proportionally).

*The zero box is useless if you want the imagen between margins.

*If the pdf image have white margins, you should now about the trimand clip options. See How to crop background from image automatically?.

*For the love of God, for a simple 3x3 table, write it in LaTeX, using a tabular environment o similar.

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On August 17th 2017, just after 1pm UK time, a brief message went out to the LIGO/Virgo follow-up team that a new Gravitational Wave event (GW) had just been detected. As part of that world-wide team the Mullard Space Science Laboratory sprang into action. Alice Breeveld, Sam Emery, and myself, Paul Kuin, received that message, and almost simultaneously another one from Fermi satellite that they had detected a short Gamma Ray Burst (GRB). This was the first time a GRB and a GW had been detected together. The GW signature looked like one from two neutron stars merging – with a false alarm probability of 1 in 10,000 years; this time it was real. The time delay between the Fermi and LIGO alerts was about 2 seconds, so there was a good possibility the LIGO and Fermi detections were connected and carefully planned follow-up observations were started by many telescopes around the world.
Initially, LIGO gave us a huge area on the sky to search for an event (LIGO itself being not very sensitive to the exact direction from which a gravitational wave comes from), covering nearly the whole sky. Although smaller, the Fermi sky search area was still fairly large. Only when the results from the VIRGO gravitational wave observatory in Italy were added the area to search was reduced to a 30.7 square degrees (for comparison: our Moon has a diameter of half a degree). From the GW, an estimate of the distance was also made of 40±8 Mpc (about 130 million light years).
So, we sprang into action. For the Swift satellite follow-up, Phil Evans from Leicester University and Jamie Kennea from Penn State University had prepared detailed plans over the last two years for following up on detections of gravitational waves. The initial search with Swift concentrated on the area on the sky identified by the GRB, first looking at the galaxies. Each time the search area changed the observing plan had to be re-generated by the operations team in Penn State, and uploaded to the satellite, so there is some delay there as well. Swifts's strategy was to observe the area with the most massive galaxies first and to look for any new X-ray sources, because that is what we expected to see from a GW and GRB.
The X-ray and UV data were processed automatically by the Swift processing centres at NASA-Goddard and in Leicester. Just after midnight on August 18th, a new optical source was found by the Swope ground-based telescope at Las Campanas observatory in the search region close to a galaxy 40 Mpc away. The Swope source was quickly confirmed by other observatories.
At that time, Swift had started to observe the 30.7 sq. deg. area of high probability; this needed many individual observations, because each image covers only 10 percent of a square degree. We discussed the new Swope source in emails with the Swift follow-up team, and we decided to observe the Swope source for 2000 seconds, prioritising this over about 14 other patched of sky that were planned be observed. It took several hours before we got that data, and a few more before it was on the ground to process. Around 15 hours after the initial discovery we saw that UVOT had captured bright UV and optical light, but that, if there were X-rays, they were too faint detect. We sent out a notice with preliminary UVOT magnitudes derived by Alice Breeveld. We were surprised because we had expected to see X-rays if the source was a short GRB.
More data coming in: is this the one? or the two?
Throughout the morning of August 18th, images were arriving from all the extra patches of sky that Swift observed in the target area, and Sam Emery diligently went through all of the most promising images, checking new source candidates reported by the NASA Goddard processing center. No good alternative was found.
Swift continued to re-observed the Swope candidate and, after some discussion about how to correct for the nearby galaxy, Sam Emery reported the UVOT magnitudes of the Swope source. Other people within the large electromagnetic follow-up collaboration reported magnitudes in the visible and infrared wavelength in LIGO/VIRGO communications. Optical and IR spectra showed a featureless spectrum. Ryan Foley (UC Santa Cruz) used all the information so far to conclude that this was not a supernova, but a rare event.
Then, near midnight on August 18th, Daniele Malesani, Darach Watson, and Jens Hjorth (DARK/NBI) used the available reported magnitudes to derive a spectral energy distribution and fit that with a black body spectrum. Its brightness and the source distance could be used to infer the speed of the ejected matter, which was 0.2-0.3 times the speed of light (very fast!). This was consistent with the spectrum having no spectral lines – such high speeds would wash those out.
However a mystery remained. The ultraviolet data did not fit the black-body spectrum particularly well, and privately I suspected a combination of two blackbodies would be a much better fit, suggesting two components for the emission.
By the start of August 19th, when we were all getting excited about these discoveries, the results were still a bit strange. The Swope source had a very red spectrum, with no features consistent with the high speed, and looked different from any nova or supernova we'd ever seen, but the distances to the sources were a match. What we were observing was closer to what we would expect for the merger of two neutron stars: called a kilonova.
But still the data didn't quite fit even the kilonova expectations. What differed from the expectation was the bright UV emission we had observed, 15 hours after the gravitational wave detection. In our subsequent observations the UV emission got fainter, while the red emission got stronger.
During the following days Brad Cenko, the Swift Primary Investigator, who had been coordinating our efforts, got into touch with some of the people who had made the kilonova predictions with such amazingly fidelity for an event that had only ever been theorised.
Chris Frey and his group in Los Alamos quickly computed new models with different viewing angles. They explained that UV emission could not pass through matter saturated with newly created elements, Lanthanides and Actinides, heavier than Iron, but as long as the heaviest element produced by the neutron reactions was Iron, UV emission would be seen. This had actually been considered as a possibility by Brian Metzger at MIT a few years before, but had not been simulated in latest computer models. Because the atomic properties of the Lanthanides and Actinides are not well-known, it makes any modelling fairly complicated. On top of that, the models must also take into account nuclear reactions for building new elements out of neutrons, absorption of light (photons) by the newly created matter, dynamical effects due to tidal forces and heating, the gravitational waves themselves, and so on. However it looked like the event was a neutron-star-merger kilonova!
The smoking gun was that several weeks after the initial coalescence of neutron stars, radio observations were predicted to be detected. It was just that no one knew for sure how long the wait was going to be.
For the measurements from the early UVOT data we had to make a correction for the extended emission from the nearby galaxy. We kept collecting data after the (no strongly suspected) kilonova emission had disappeared and thus obtained a good measurement of the nearby galaxy. This allowed us to make a better correction to our observations of the kilonova, and we passed those to the people in Los Alamos to help in their modelling.
The new models from our Los Alamos collaborators were for a range of viewing angles and mass for the ejected matter, while keeping the electron content high, meaning a smaller amount of Lanthanides produced. The figure above shows the result.
Our companion paper which was led by Mansi Kasliwal focussed on the problem of the GRB jet and overall emission spectrum. Their models showed clearly that if the jet interacts with the ejected matter in a particular way, a cocoon is formed around the core of the jet. The result of the simulations is shown in the figure below.
Snapshots from a hydrodynamic simulation of a cocoon generated by a choked jet leading to emission consistent with our observations. On the left the brightest parts of the image have the highest energy density where there is turbulence. On the right the brightness shows the places where most movement occurs. For the best fit we would be observing at an angle of 40 degrees, the ejecta mass would be 0.1 solar mass and the jet luminosity is 2.6 1051 erg/s. The jet would have been fully choked by 4sand the cocoon would have broken out around 10 s.
Everyone involved in the electromagnetic (EM) follow-up of the LIGO/Virgo event had signed an agreement of confidentiality, so before we could use data from other groups in our analysis our leaders had to make collaborations. Brad Cenko set up a collaboration with the NUStar team and with Mansi Kasliwal at Caltech who was leading the GROWTH collaboration that included the Swope telescope which discovered the optical source and we shared our data for analysis. After about three weeks we had drafts of our publications ready and Science had agreed to publish – though of course our paper had to pass its standards and peer review.
It was difficult to keep all this secret, because as scientists we are not at all used to secrecy. We like to discuss ideas with friends and hear other opinions from colleagues. And, of course, some hints that there was a discovery leaked out. For example, some observatories listed the title of the observing programs, and even the target galaxy. Mistakes were made putting information on the web, only to be hidden again – apparently without being discovered outside the EM collaboration. It was just a weird experience! Fortunately there was also an exciting Black Hole merger, and a Nobel Prize, which seemed to distract the news hunters for a while.
Before the discovery we knew of the existence double neutron stars, and also that some of these systems will lose enough orbital momentum through gravitational waves to eventually merge. Now, for the first time we had actually observed them merging and not just with photons, but with measurements of the distortion of space-time.
We also suspected that short GRBs might be caused by the merger of two neutron stars, and now we have a confirmation. This is an amazing triumph of theory predicting observation.
The observed faintness of the short GRB and the upper limit of X-ray emission point to the merger being seen off-axis i.e. the powerful jet was not pointed towards Earth.
The models predicting that ejected matter would create the heavy elements in the Lanthanides and Actinides, and this is consistent with the overall redness of the spectrum, especially at later times after the event, and so we now know that binary neutron star mergers are of one of the largest, or the largest, source of such elements (like gold).
And of course we have now seen gravitational waves from both Black Hole-Black Hole and neutron star-neutron star mergers.
The surprise was the bright UV emission. Maybe we were just lucky. Next time the viewing angle may be in the plane of the dense neutron ejecta with the Lanthanides blocking all the emission. It is likely that the emission at late time became dominated by the neutron-rich ejecta which due to the high opacity of the Lanthanides would only slowly release the generated heat.
The Fermi team reports in their analysis a weak, lower energy, second peak about a second after the first peak. This is intriguing and it will be interesting to see if that can be explained with the cocoon model.
I end with a link to a video from NASA. It is an animation of the binary neutron star merger, based on what we think probably happened 130 million years ago. Our models will continue to improve and confirmed by watching and studying more of these amazing events. But the first will always remain a special kilonova.


It took six months of partisan delays — and several railroad accidents — before Democrats let the Senate confirm a federal railroad administrator, even though none of them actually voted against the nominee in the end.
It's been 354 days and counting in Senate purgatory for the president's nominee to head the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Two-hundred eighty-seven days and counting for the under secretary of state for management. Noncontroversial lower court nominees have languished for weeks and weeks — for no discernible reason — before they, too, were confirmed unanimously. These are just a few examples of the historic obstruction Senate Democrats have visited upon President Trump's nominees for two years and counting.
The Senate needs to restore normalcy. And this week, we will vote to do just that.


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Q: Prevent clickable image in product page, disable product-image link With Woocommerce and my Storefront child theme, I am trying to prevent the fact that when clicking on a single-product image, it opens a new page with the full size image.
I want the image to be unclickable so nothing happens if the user clicks on the image in the product page.
In my child-theme functions.php, the following code prevents zooming and opening the image in a lightbox, but I want to fully deactivate the linking.
add_action( 'after_setup_theme', 'remove_hemen_theme_support', 100 );
function remove_hemen_theme_support() {
    remove_theme_support( 'wc-product-gallery-zoom' );
    remove_theme_support( 'wc-product-gallery-lightbox' );
}

How can I achieve this?

A: Add this filter, it should remove your hyperlink
function e12_remove_product_image_link( $html, $post_id ) {
    return preg_replace( "!<(a|/a).*?>!", '', $html );
}
add_filter( 'woocommerce_single_product_image_thumbnail_html', 'e12_remove_product_image_link', 10, 2 );

A: you can overwrite the template woocommerce/single-product/product-thumbnails.php in your theme.
it runs the:
apply_filters(
    'woocommerce_single_product_image_thumbnail_html',
    sprintf(
      '%s',
      esc_url( $props['url'] ),
      esc_attr( $image_class ),
      esc_attr( $props['caption'] ),
      wp_get_attachment_image( $attachment_id, apply_filters( 'single_product_small_thumbnail_size', 'shop_thumbnail' ), 0, $props )
    ),
    $attachment_id,
    $post->ID,
    esc_attr( $image_class )
);

A: How I did it with the same theme.
I created a simple plugin (but you can use functions.php) with functions I need for override the theme and inside I have this code:
add_action( 'wp', 'ts_remove_zoom_lightbox_gallery_support', 99 );

function ts_remove_zoom_lightbox_gallery_support() {
     remove_theme_support( 'wc-product-gallery-zoom' );
     remove_theme_support( 'wc-product-gallery-lightbox' );
 }

The difference between our function is that I am using "wp" instead "after_setup_theme".
Try it and let me know if is work.


Shooting is a fascinating and absorbing hobby and one that's enjoyed by millions of people of all ages and both sexes all over the world. It's also one of the safest sports – provided you learn and follow safe handling procedures. The design and performance of guns is a fascinating topic and one that richly repays study in its own right. The author, an experienced shot with rifle and shotgun, reviews the many types of guns in use, with particular focus on shooting for sport, and explains the rewards and benefits of taking up the hobby. A great introduction to shooting for those who think they would like to try it but are not sure where to start.


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Q: how to insert into table with preselected values from a minus query? I get specific values by using a statement like
select id from x minus (select id from y)

it returns multiple rows which I all need to insert into another table. How do I achieve this?
I tried something like this which didnt work:
insert into table (id, name) values((select id from x minus (select id from y), 'name')

so the table in the end has all values I got before plus another column with 'name' in it.
Any help is appreciated. Thanks

A: Just use :
insert into yourFinalTable(id, name)
select id, 'name' from x minus select id, 'name' from y;

A: tihs will work:
create table ns_table3(val1 varchar(20));
create table ns_table4(val2 varchar(20));
insert into ns_table3 values('1');
insert into ns_table3 values('2');
insert into ns_table3 values('3');
insert into ns_table3 values('4');
insert into ns_table4 values('1');
insert into ns_table4 values('2');
select * from ns_table3;
1
2
3
4
select * from ns_table4;
1
2
create table ns_table5(val1 varchar(20),val2 varchar(20));

insert into ns_table5  select val1,'name' from ns_table3 minus select val2,'name' from ns_table4;
select * from ns_table5;
sample ouput required:
3   name
4   name


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Shimane, Lacquerware and more
Mino traditional Japanese paper Mino washi
Traditional Japanese paper
Mino washi is a type of Japanese paper made in Gifu prefecture. Washi is made from paper mulberry which is a plant that grows in the city of Mino, a place of abundant forests. Ancient manuscripts in the Shosoin Repository* indicate the history of …
Tosa traditional Japanese paper Tosa washi
Tosa washi is a kind of traditional Japanese paper made in Kochi prefecture, both in the city of Tosa and around the town of Ino. In the past, it was used to make a holder for wallets and medicine or paper lanterns. Now it has a wide range of u…
Joboji lacquerware Joboji nuri
Joboji lacquerware (called Joboji nuri in Japanese) is produced in the town of Joboji in Iwate prefecture. More than 98% of the lacquer used in Japan is imported from China or other countries. The Joboji area is known as the leading producer of do…
Kiso lacquerware Kiso shikki
Kiso lacquerware (called Kiso shikki in Japanese) is produced in Kiso district, now the city of Shiojiri, Nagano prefecture. The area where this craft is produced is a plateau approximately 900 meters above sea level. The climate has cool summers…
Hidehira lacquerware Hidehira nuri
Hidehira lacquerware (called Hidehira-nuri in Japanese) is produced in the area around the town of Hiraizumi, in Iwate prefecture. The defining feature of Hidehira lacquerware is the use of gold leaf produced in the area around Hiraizumi, which re…
Sekishu traditional Japanese paper Sekishu washi
Sekishu washi is a traditional Japanese paper produced in the Iwami region of Shimane prefecture. As an ancient craft, it has a history of around 1300 years. The name Sekishu is found in writings from the Heian period (794-1185). There is also a s…
Hida-shunkei lacquerware Hida shunkei
Hida-shunkei lacquerware is produced around the city of Takayama in Gifu prefecture. The name is said to come from the fact that the articles produced initially had a similar coloring to Hishunkei tea containers. This craft is notable for having …
Uchiyama Japanese paper Uchiyama gami
Uchiyama Gami is a type of traditional Japanese paper made in the Oku-shinano region of northern Nagano prefecture. As a region that gets heavy snowfall during the winter, papermaking production developed to provide supplementary income. This craf…
Wood, bamboo crafts (6)
Kinki (2)


This plants habitat is Salinas Grande; Catamarca & Cordoba, Argentina. This plant has a nice brownish/pink body color that can go almost bronze in stronger sunlight with short grey spines. The plant grows best in part shade. Water in the summer but let it dry out during the winter. The flower is white with brownish tones.


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PepperBall Wins U.S. Army Less-Lethal Protection Contract
by Guy J. Sagi - Tuesday, June 19, 2018
PepperBall has been awarded a contract with the U.S. Army valued at $650,000 to provide Variable Kinetic System (VKS) non-lethal launchers designed for personal-protection use by Soldiers in the field. The purchase was made in support of U.S. Forces-Afghanistan Joint Force Protection Directorate. The U.S.-made VKS has the same fire-control system and look and feel of a standard-issue M-4 and was tested and recommended by members of the National Tactical Officers Association.
"We are truly honored the U.S. Army has selected PepperBall's VKS to use as its non-lethal protection in its mission to defend the United States," said Ron Johnson, CEO of United Tactical Systems. "Our VKS platform was the only non-lethal source that was capable of complying to the U.S. Army's standards."
The launcher offers a Dual Feed System, in which a user can quickly switch from "Hopper Mode" to "Magazine Mode" during an operation. The former offers a capacity of 180 rounds and the latter 10 or 15.
The VXR projectiles compatible with the launcher are designed for high-intensity/crowd control and are effective to 50 yards. Filled with a proprietary irritant, they produce a strong kinetic impact and burst on contact to release a debilitating cloud that affects eyes, nose and respiratory system.
PepperBall products are in use by more than 5,000 agencies worldwide, including the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard. The company, which originated under a 1996 DARPA program, sold exclusively to law-enforcement and military agencies until recently, when it branched out with a LifeLite product now available to the public. Its effective range is a more personal-defense-applicable 60 feet, although it packs a chemically identical, less-lethal projectile. The three-in-one unit has an LED flashlight, but when the launcher's safety is disengaged a laser activates for aiming. Read more about the LifeLite Flashlauncher here.
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A Transport that communicates on a connected TCP socket.
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References ndn::nfd::LINK_TYPE_POINT_TO_POINT, nfd::face::StreamTransport< boost::asio::ip::tcp >::m_socket, nfd::face::MTU_UNLIMITED, NFD_LOG_FACE_INFO, nfd::face::Transport::setLinkType(), nfd::face::Transport::setLocalUri(), nfd::face::Transport::setMtu(), nfd::face::Transport::setPersistency(), nfd::face::Transport::setRemoteUri(), and nfd::face::Transport::setScope().
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References nfd::face::StreamTransport< boost::asio::ip::tcp >::getSendQueueBytes(), nfd::face::StreamTransport< boost::asio::ip::tcp >::m_socket, NFD_LOG_FACE_TRACE, and NFD_LOG_FACE_WARN.
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References doClose(), nfd::face::DOWN, ndn::nfd::FACE_PERSISTENCY_PERMANENT, nfd::face::FAILED, nfd::face::Transport::getState(), and nfd::face::Transport::setState().
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References ndn::detail::ScopedCancelHandle::cancel(), and nfd::face::StreamTransport< Protocol >::doClose().
Reimplemented from nfd::face::StreamTransport< boost::asio::ip::tcp >.
Definition at line 99 of file tcp-transport.cpp.
References nfd::face::DOWN, ndn::nfd::FACE_PERSISTENCY_PERMANENT, nfd::getGlobalIoService(), nfd::face::Transport::getPersistency(), nfd::face::StreamTransport< Protocol >::handleError(), nfd::face::StreamTransport< boost::asio::ip::tcp >::m_socket, NFD_LOG_FACE_TRACE, nfd::detail::SimulatorIo::post(), and nfd::face::Transport::setState().


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With summer in view, many people are wondering whether it will be as hot and dry as last year. And what about those cloudbursts – can our drains cope or will the streets soon be flooded on a regular basis? KWR researcher Stef Koop developed three tools that cities can use to gain insight into their water management performance and governance capacity. On 25 March he will defend his dissertation at the University of Utrecht.
Cities around the world are facing major challenges. Within 40 years two people out of three will be living in an urban environment, altogether some 6.4 billion citizens of the world. To cope with this growth and to prepare for climate change, cities must adapt their water infrastructure, waste water treatment and spatial layout. But how?
Many cities are striving for water-wise management: they are wondering how to use water smartly. But even those cities that are already pursuing an integrated approach to the entire water cycle – and are for instance confronted with cloudbursts or the reuse of water – are encountering practical difficulties. Where to start and what is feasible?
Koop and colleagues from KWR and the University of Utrecht found that cities lack the practical means to achieve their targets. Koop developed a set of measurable indicators that cities can use to assess their water management performance and governance capacity. In this way a city can both identify its own areas of concern and compare itself with and learn from other cities.
Globally 74 cities have already been analysed using this methodology. More than 40 of them appear in the Urban Water Atlas for Europe, published by the European Commission which, just like the Dutch government, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the United Nations, has water as its top priority.
The bluer the better. Like many Dutch municipalities, Utrecht is relatively vulnerable for downpours. The governance capacity framework shows the key improvement options.


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Training Day in This Snippet of Brutal Response Book 1
by Shea Pool | Dec 8, 2022 | Book Release, Header Feature, Snippets, What to Watch
Brutal Response Book 1: Topgun Requiem
Mia only wants to be better. Better at training, better at fighting, and most importantly better than her father.
Brutal Response 01 snippet –
Mia's breath came out as soft white puffs in the chilly night air. She kept a tight grip on her rifle, staying low and close to the hard gray bunker wall. Listening for the enemy wouldn't do any good—not when they could move in near-perfect silence.
Her eyes had long since adjusted to the dark. The cloudy night made it harder, leaving the gradations of shadows more difficult to pick out.
That didn't bother her. A stablight would have given her position away. The guards didn't have better vision than her, and she should play to her strengths.
Timing would be key. Taking on multiple opponents ate away her margin of error. A simple miss in a one-on-one firefight might be enough to drive a man under cover and give her greater tactical flexibility.
But soldiers with backup were brave. A bullet offered as suppression fire would kill her as well as any other.
She stopped at the corner, taking slow, even breaths. Her heart kept the same steady rhythm it had for the entire battle. This wasn't a true challenge. If she kept her focus, she'd complete her mission without any trouble, as she had so many times before.
A shifting shadow betrayed her enemies' position. She spun around the corner and pulled the trigger twice, barely registering the outlines of two men holding rifles before they dropped to the dark ground.
Mia darted forward, staying low. She was too exposed on this side of the bunker and didn't know if the enemy had overwatch. The briefing hadn't been definitive either way. When she reached the end of the wall, her slide added another layer of dust to her pants and took her behind the wall of a metal storage shed and closer to her next destination.
A wide pile of scrap and discarded building supplies lay behind the shed and stretched along the back wall of the bunker to form a natural border of concrete, metal, and plastic. Trying to run around it would leave her open, so a small passage through was her only choice.
Mia swept the immediate area for targets. A quick point-to-point move took her to the back of the shed without suffering any gunfire. Another second placed her at the mouth of the junk corridor. A new enemy, this one holding a pistol, popped up from behind a slab of concrete. He didn't manage to stand all the way up before she put two rounds into his chest.
This was too easy. This was turning into nothing more than target practice.
Mia advanced down the corridor at a quick jog. Loud shots rang out behind her, and she twisted to return fire at the two enemies who'd somehow flanked her. The first man went down with ease, but her rifle chimed empty before she could finish off the second.
"Damn it." Mia dove behind the concrete slab and beside the body of her third victim, dropping her rifle and reaching for her sidearm.
The enemy peppered the area with shots. She stayed behind the barrier but could hear the gunfire drawing closer. Her opponent eschewed the spray-and-pray approach, instead taking careful shots that thudded against her barrier and all around her.
Mia yanked out her sidearm and rolled from behind her cover. She went for a trifecta, three shots to the center of the mass, more than enough to take down any unarmored man.
One round struck the guard in the chest, and he staggered backward. The second nailed his shoulder, making him drop his weapon. Mia's final shot grazed his wounded shoulder and sparked against the shed with a loud pinging nose, and the guard toppled backward.
She gritted her teeth. The enemy was down, but she wouldn't get maximum points. She'd expected and trained for a perfect run. The bastard had moved more than she'd anticipated, and that was on her.
Mia took a deep breath, stowed her sidearm, and retrieved and reloaded her rifle. She still had a job to do. If the pre-briefing intel had been right, she'd picked off most of the exterior guards. Her mission remained the same: breach and find her primary target.
She scanned the area. There were no shadows of movement. No loud gunshots, nothing to imply a threat to her. Getting through the corridor and sweeping around should take her to the weakest door in the bunker.
Mia hefted her rifle and charged through the corridor before turning to sprint along the back edge of the waste pile. Two towers loomed on opposite ends of the security fence. They'd once held snipers, but she'd taken those guards out on her initial perimeter run.
For the first time in the battle, her heart kicked up and her stomach knotted. Her target had been hidden inside the bunker because the enemy was expecting her. She'd downed enough guards that somebody must have noticed over comms and prepared inside. The hardest part of the mission lay ahead.
Mia reached the far edge of the pile, and another short burst of speed took her to the heavy reinforced door and the intimidating numeric keypad. The sloping walls provided plenty of natural cover.
Holding her breath, she reached for the keypad. She would have preferred a more explosive entrance to throw off whoever waited inside, but the pre-briefing intel claimed the codes would remain valid for the entire raid.
"This better work."
Mia jabbed the keypad with her finger, imagining each button as the eye of an enemy soldier until the pad flashed green. A loud, echoing thud sounded, and the door clicked open. Success!
She switched her rifle to full auto and threw open the door, then snapped her free hand back onto the rifle. She was unsurprised at the two men waiting at the far end of a long hallway running across the bunker, and as gunfire erupted from inside, she ducked behind the door. The stream of bullets bounced off the thick metal.
At a lapse in their firing, Mia shoved her rifle around the corner and offered two quick bursts, hoping the men had stayed in position. There were no screams and no new gunfire, so she risked poking her barrel around the door and then her head. Both men lay on the ground, victims of her near-blind firing.
Mia rushed inside toward a room she knew would lay behind the open doorway to her right, thanks to the pre-mission intel. Her heart soared and sweat poured down the sides of her face. She was so close to her objective.
Hesitation killed, so she wouldn't allow any. Mia dove into the room and behind a table near the doorway. Two enemies waiting inside opened fire, but taken off-guard by her diving entrance, they shot wide and missed her.
Mia hit the floor and rolled to keep her momentum, which allowed her to line up a shot into the chest of the first guard before she jumped to her feet and landed behind a thick support column.
Enemy bullets riddled the column. Mia counted the shots while she reloaded and switched her fire selector to single-fire mode. She didn't have time to play with the man, and she couldn't risk any more mistakes like the failed trifecta. When she'd counted up to the enemy rifle's capacity, she ran around the corner and placed three shots into the man's chest as he reloaded.
Before her enemy had hit the floor, she ran toward a table in the center. A datapad sat on the table, flashing a series of codes. It was her primary target. She'd expected more enemies in the back of the bunker. She'd gotten lucky.
She narrowed her eyes, taking deep, slow breaths to focus on the patterns. Intel hadn't given the location and had only provided a general briefing concerning the enemy's code regime. That wasn't enough. Careless entry of the stand-down code could end with her swarmed in the bunker and the enemy's coordinated attack proceeding from there.
Seconds ticked by. Every lost moment could lead to another casualty.
Her breath caught. She recognized the numeric pattern.
Mia entered the code into the datapad. The pad beeped and stopped flashing.
She sighed with relief and whispered, "That's right. Full retreat and regroup. How do you like that?" She wiped her forehead with her sleeve before consulting her wrist-chrono. Her eyes widened.
"Seventeen seconds slower?" she shouted and ran her hands through her short ash-blonde hair in frustration. She kicked the table so hard it rattled. "How the hell could I have been seventeen seconds slower? That's nearly sixty percent worse than my last attempt under these conditions. The score loss from the trifecta is nothing compared to the points I'm going to lose from this time."
Mia picked up the datapad with a scowl. The earlier missed trifecta must have affected her more than she'd expected. She'd thought she'd cracked the code quicker, too.
She tightened her hand around the datapad, but when she heard cracking, she set it back on the table. Destroying the datapad wouldn't make her time any faster, and she'd have to justify it to her father. It was her failure, not the equipment's.
"End scenario," she shouted.
The two dead men, their bodies nothing more than light, disappeared, along with their weapons. She set her practice rifle on the table and braced herself against it with her arms, biting her lip in frustration.
Questions swirled in her mind. Had she missed the shot because she'd practiced too many simulation rounds in a row? Would she have made it if she had used a stablight?
That didn't track. She'd mixed hand-lit and dark runs all throughout the night, each time with randomized enemy positions and varied objectives, including direct assassinations alternating with datapad and other recovery objectives. A couple of seconds had been dropped here and there, but not seventeen. Her thirteen-year-old self could have done better.
She rubbed her eyes, grabbed her practice rifle, and stomped from the room, thinking through her every movement during the training session. By the time she arrived at the door, she'd decided upon a different explanation: arbitrary randomized ammo limits that emptied her rifle and made her seek cover and switch weapons.
The scenario setting had been intended to simulate scavenging equipment from the field without time to check it under fire conditions. The limits had proven troublesome in the past, earning her scorn. Her father had insisted that anything that annoyed her made for better training.
Mia gave a firm nod. She'd identified the weakness and moved on to identifying a solution. She couldn't change the scenario too much, so she should change herself. Wasting valuable seconds counting rounds would only give her less time. She would drill harder on her rifle to sidearm transitions. Optimally, she would have traded and fired while jumping for cover.
She squinted. The sun peeked over the hills surrounding her combatives course on their property at the edge of the Cycovich Wilderlands. Mia and her father had built the course together years ago. She was thankful he wasn't there to see her humiliate herself by dropping seventeen seconds on a standard bunker breach scenario.
The appearance of dawn didn't surprise her—despite losing seventeen seconds, she'd never lost overall track of time throughout the night, no matter the mission or scenario. That was part of her training, too. Chronos could fail, and her life might come down to knowing roughly what time it was.
Her gaze slid to the open-air gym beyond the fence. Logs and stones for lifting lay near benches with weight racks, hanging bars, climbing walls, and other conditioning gear, all packed in a tight area near the combatives course.
Physical conditioning formed the basis of all true combat ability. Her father had told her that constantly.
Another course would improve her time almost without effort if she kept the same settings, but doing the same scenario, even with randomized conditions, would make it too easy. That meant she'd need at least two different rounds with different scenarios for it to be a proper training scenario run.
She slung her practice rifle over her shoulder, still torn between hitting the gym and running the combatives course for several more runs.
"Damn it." Mia sucked in a breath. "Why did I have to screw up?"
Improving her time didn't matter. When her father returned, he wouldn't care that she'd managed to bring her time down with quick practice. He'd demand to know why she'd given up so many seconds in the first place.
"I could hack the system," she whispered. "Erase the run record or insert a foul code and make it look like a broken parameter forcing a reset. He's told me himself how finicky the system can be."
Mia's shoulders slumped. He would notice. He always did. That would only make her failure worse and force her to explain herself.
Her stomach churned as she imagined the disappointed look her father would give her if she tried to cheat.
Her frustration wouldn't justify it. All those years he had on her, and she'd failed yet again to beat her father's record. Given her last performance, she wasn't going to get closer to matching him this morning.
"Damn it, son of a bitch." Mia kicked a pebble through the fence on her way to the storage rack, where she shrugged out of her tactical harness and left it inside, along with her rifle and sidearm.
Her father's words echoed in her mind.
Never let failure cripple you. That's true weakness. My daughter isn't weak.
Mia vaulted over the fence and headed for one of the logs. She lacked her father's rippling, bulky form, though she was middling-to-tall for a woman, and her muscles were well-defined.
She crouched and stuck her hands underneath the huge log, then grunted and pulled until she'd brought the edge up to her chest. Keeping her breathing slow and regular, she lowered the log back down, fighting against the natural urge to let gravity take it down. Shortcuts bred weakness.
Settling into a rhythm, Mia continued her reps with the log. Her father had told her that she hit weights most full-grown men would struggle with and most women would never dream of doing. Those same people would tell her moving the log at all was a victory.
Those people were weak. She didn't need to beat weak people. Her only true target was her father, and she could never match his weight and rep records without a significant improvement.
Mia continued her controlled breathing and quickened her lift pace with her advancing reps until the log was pumping up and down like a piston. She might not be able to match her father pound-for-pound, but her improvement had been steady over the years. Reaching him in the future wasn't an impossible goal.
"Oh, perfect. I'll beat him by the time he's a withered old man. That's impressive."
Mia Ada Verick, daughter of the great Emery Konan Verick. She needed to be better than everyone. And everyone included her father.
Reps flowed together until her muscles screamed for her to stop. She did five more after and then squatted slowly to set the log down.
Her father kept telling her to stop trying to beat him and instead beat herself. The objective would always be there, even when he was old and gray.
Fight yourself, and no matter who wins, you'll always get better.
Mia walked over to a bench, where a large flat boulder lay at the end. She sat on the edge of the bench, stuck her legs underneath the boulder, and, with a grunt, raised her legs, moving the heavy stone with them.
"I can see the wisdom, Dad," she muttered. "But how do I know that it's not just your pity for someone incapable of beating you?"
As Mia pumped her legs, her grunts grew in volume. She had to do better. She would do better. There was something out there she could beat her father at. That was the only way they'd ever be true equals.
She let out a strangled laugh. Her plan had been to beat his records on the combatives course while he was away for a work assignment. Nearly a week on her own, and she'd only managed to come close twice. After today's disaster, she didn't know if it was possible.
Mia pushed her legs through the burning reps before finally lowering the stone and checking her chrono. The confirmation that she was ahead of schedule weakened the sting of the night's failures.
She had time before she had to return to the house to clean up and begin her studies. That was the one area her father didn't care about as much. He told her to self-select her own areas of study.
Her gaze drifted to the simulation pod attached to the back of their combined garage and machine shop. The pod resembled a mechanical octopus trying to eat a giant metal clam with all its cables and tubing burrowing into the bowed walls and swept roof of the garage.
Mia rubbed her chin. She could jack in and see if she could tie her father's dogfighting record. That would be a small victory, at least.
She sighed. That wouldn't work. She wouldn't want to stop until she hit her goal. That risked her neglecting her studies and earning that terrible look of disapproval.
"A few hours this evening." Mia returned to the storage rack to pick up her real rifle and sidearm, along with her tactical harness filled with magazines. Target practice offered training and stress relief, a perfect combo to push out the negativity tensing her muscles.
Find out if Mia is ever able to beat her father's time on December 13th, when Brutal Response Book 1: Topgun: Requiem is released. Until then head over to Amazon and pre-order it today.


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Patrick Boyle murder: detectives arrest three men
Detectives have arrested three men in connection with the murder of Patrick Boyle in Huyton in July.
Officers were contacted at just after 5.55pm on Thursday 1 July following reports the 26-year-old had been shot twice in the chest in the street in Newway. He was taken to hospital where he was sadly pronounced dead a short time later.
A 24-year-old man from Huyton was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder and conspiracy to possess firearms
A 20-year-old man of no fixed abode was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder and conspiracy to possess firearms
A 25-year-old man of no fixed abode was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to possess firearms and ammunition.
All three men have been taken to police stations for interview.
Detective Chief Inspector Simon Hurst said: "This continues to be a complex and challenging investigation and it's pleasing to see these arrests. All men will now be questioned.
"Our investigation continues and I would still urge anyone with information to come forward, either directly or anonymously via Crimestoppers, and we will continue to take appropriate action."
If you have information about the incident, please DM @MerPolCC or message Merseyside Police Contact Centre on Facebook, quoting reference 21000459469.
You can also pass information anonymously via Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111, or contact them via their online form at: https://crimestoppers-uk.org/give-information/give-information.


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Textile fiber which is used for yarn or fabric production that should have some properties. Generally physical, chemical and structural properties is important to know for know the textile fiber. Here, I have given a list of properties name which is required to know.
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10 Things Most People Get Wrong About E-Cigarettes
By James Dunworth / Lifestyle / 3 Comments
Janice took a long drag of her cigarette, then burst into a fit of coughing. She hawked up a gob of phlegm, before using a handkerchief it to pat it away with a grimace of disgust.
She turned, shuffling back into the hospital on her zimmer frame, shivering in the late winter drizzle.
"You ought to give up, love," said a nurse from the ward as Janice paused, breathless, by the hospital doors. "You're only 54 and you've already got emphysema."
"I know," said Janice between gasps. "But I've tried dozens of times over the years and I can't."
"Why don't you try e-cigs," said the nurse. "My brother tried them, and he hasn't had a cigarette for 6 months."
"Oh, I don't know – aren't they unhealthy?"
The above is a typical scenario going on all over the country. Smoking might be killing smokers, but there are so many misconceptions about e-cigarettes that they stick with the tobacco cigarettes estimated to kill between half and one third of their number.
That's a terrible shame, because as we saw last week both anecdotal evidence and hard data have shown that e-cigarettes can help smokers immensely, even in the short term:
So let's have a go at clearing up some of those misconceptions!
1. Scaremongering news articles aren't always true…
"E-Cigarettes Cause Lung Damage," screamed newspaper headlines all over the world.
Except it wasn't true, as scientists were quick to point out. In fact an unpublished study which had not been peer reviewed claimed e-cigs increased airway resistance (humid air does the same).
Unfortunately, most people do not have time to dig into the truth behind newspaper articles, and accept them as true.
So ever wonder where those hysterical articles in newspapers come from?
Unfortunately, there is a well-funded, and well-organised campaign to discredit electronic cigarettes (Tweet this). I believe that at least some stories originate from this campaign. To find out who and why, we need to listen to the old adage – follow the money.
So who do electronic cigarette threaten? Several of the most powerful interest groups in the world.
i. Government
The amounts that governments make from tobacco taxation is staggering.
According to Statista, in 2017-18 the UK government made 12.3 billion pounds from VAT and excise taxes on tobacco. That number is several billion less than when we first wrote this blog post – probably due to the increasing number of vapers in the UK.
Statista also calculates that the USA raised 17.16 billion dollars at its peak in 2010. Meanwhile, Tobacco Free Kids estimate that individual states have received 425 billion dollars received from the tobacco industry – they spent just 2.6% of this on stop smoking programs.
The problem of lost revenue was highlighted when an Italian MEP asked the EU what it intended to do about the loss of tax revenue caused by ecigs replacing cigarettes.
Since then the EU has made an attempt to ban e-cigarettes. When that was rejected, they bundled together severe restrictions on e-cigs with legislation MEPs wanted passed – just one of which, according to economists at London Economics, will lead to an additional 9.6 million cigarettes being smoked per day (Tweet this).
ii. The Pharmaceutical Industry
Meanwhile, the billion dollar nicotine cessation market is in severe decline due to e-cigs.
It's a threat that was highlighted by an industry body very early on in the development of e-cigs – in 2010 to be precise:
While that's probably good for smokers (a number of studies show that NRT is no more effective than cold turkey, at least if not combined with additional support), it's very bad for pharmaceutical companies.
That's why we've seen millions of dollars in funding being awarded to charities that campaign against ecigs, funds being awarded to anti-nicotine extremists to conduct studies into ecigs as well as leaked memos from companies like GSK expressing worries.
Not only do some of these companies have budgets larger than small countries, they also have a track record of corruption. What's more, as one scientist complained to me at the e-cigarette summit last year, scientists who support e-cigs face the very real risk of having their future research budgets cut.
iii. Tobacco Companies
Tobacco companies are more complex, despite the fact that e-cigarettes are hurting their profits.
Originally, they seemed to be clearly against electronic cigarettes, with warnings that the devices were not safe.
They've since tried to muscle into the electronic cigarette market, although so far their efforts have lost them money.
The current danger, according to Professor Etter in his 2015 ecig prediction for this blog, is that the tobacco industry will try to force out competitors through restrictive legislation, forcing users to use their cigalike devices putting them into a position to stifle the e-cig market in the future.
2. They are not a gateway to smoking
A key argument against electronic cigarettes is that they could potentially be a gateway to smoking.
Fortunately, in the UK, thanks to Action on Smoking and Health and The Smoking Toolkit, we have some of the best data in the world, and that data shows that less than one percent of non-smokers are taking up vaping (Tweet this).
Via Are electronic cigarettes a gateway to smoking (infographic)
3. Nobody wants children buying e-cigarettes
"Think of the children," has been a rallying cry of the anti e-cig movement.
According to this movement, the e-cigarette industry is deliberately targeting children to get them hooked on nicotine young. So far, evidence has included the fact that some e-cigs are pink and that e-liquids are provided in a range of flavours.
But vapers like flavours too! In fact, a survey of 10,000 vapers by ECigaretteForum showed that only 22% of them chose to vape tobacco flavours:
In fact, some parents are desperate for their children to switch from cigarettes to vaping. But the industry self-regulated against selling to children long before governments considered it. Frankly, leaving aside arguments over whether children who already smoke should be allowed to vape, the issue is one of self-preservation. Selling e-cigs to children would be industry suicide (Tweet this).
4. The industry is already regulated
An unregulated industry?
In fact the electronic cigarette industry is already heavily regulated. Some of the regulations we have to comply with include:
General Product Safety Regulations 2005, as amended by CHIP4, CLP and REACH in 2009.
Chemicals (Hazard Information and Packaging for Supply) Regulations (CHIP) 2009.
Weights & Measures (Packaged Goods) Regulations 2006.
Plugs and Socket (Safety) Regulations 1994.
Click here for a more comprehensive list!
We've had several Trading Standards inspections over the years, and have frequently checked with Trading Standards to ensure that products are compliant before we introduce them. Trading Standards have also enforced the testing of e-liquid, and on occasions have forced its withdrawal when it some companies have been non-compliant.
That's not to say there are never any problems. Trading Standards lack the budget and manpower to effectively enforce all regulations and sometimes they don't understand the regulations they need to enforce.
However, many UK companies have also elected to be regulated by the Electronic Cigarette Industry Trade Association (ECITA), submitting to a 6 monthly audit. And ECITA are often way ahead of the curve with regulation – both a ban on children using e-cigs and mandatory testing of e-liquid was introduced by ECITA with more comprehensive testing than that required by Trading Standards.
5. Most vapers are polite and respectful
Sure, you get extreme examples of unacceptable vaper behaviour. But the vaper who gets unruly on a plane and gets himself arrested is no more representative of vapers than an aggressive drunk is of all alcohol drinkers.
And when we ran a survey of 1100 vapers, we found that the vast majority of them believed in being respectful towards vapers, non-vapers and smokers alike.
6. Many scientists believe they are far safer than tobacco cigarettes
"Safe doesn't exist. But electronic cigarettes are low risk compared to regular cigarettes. It's the equivalent of having a four-wheel-drive Volvo compared to a high-powered motorcycle with bald tires in an ice storm." David Sweanor.
The majority of scientists involved in e-cigarette research don't believe ecigs are 100% safe. But they do believe that e-cigarettes carry a tiny fraction of the risk of tobacco cigarettes.
(Since this blog post was originally written, Public Health England carried out a survey of the evidence and estimated that e-cigarettes are at least 95% safer than tobacco cigarettes.)
For a snapshot of what scientists think on e-cigs, check out:
32 Great Ecig Quotes
ECigarette Summit Quotes
Interviews with Ecig Experts
7. Dozens of studies back up e-cigarette safety
We're often told that electronic cigarettes have not been studied.
While that may have been the case a few years ago, that's simply not the case now.
Some of the dozens of studies that have been carried out include studies on:
impurities in e-cigs
effects of e-cigs on the lungs
effects of e-cigs on the blood
e-cigs as a potential gateway to cigarettes
the attraction of e-cigs to children
A great introduction to e-cig studies is our list of 20 Top E-Cig Studies That Prove The Doubters Wrong.
8. Most malfunctions are caused by misuse
E-Cigarette explosions have reached the news in both the US and the UK many times.
But most problems have been caused by a simple reason, one highlighted by the UK fire service again and again – using an electronic cigarette battery with a charger that was not designed to take them. (iPhone chargers seem to be the worst culprit.) Even so, the London Fire Brigade estimates that smokers are 266 times more likely to have a fire than a smoker.
Mechanical mods are a different case. These have no electrical protection, usually come with strong warnings and are only suitable for modders who know what they are doing.
For more information on batteries – and how to avoid battery danger – click here.
9. Banning them WILL cost lives
Another alternative to tobacco cigarettes is banned in almost all of Europe.
That alternative is Snus. And in the one country where it is legal, lung cancer rates in men are HALF those in the rest of the EU.
The EU is keen to repeat its mistake, but what would the consequences be?
Economists at London Economics wanted to know what the impact of just one of the EU's restrictions on ecigs, the ban on higher nicotine eliquids. So they sat down and crunched the numbers.
Their conclusion?
An additional 105,000 lives will be lost per year across the EU
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10. Vaping is NOT smoking
"I've switched to e-cigs!"
"So you're still smoking?"
When we asked on social media what the most common misconception about vaping was, this was one that kept coming back!
Some people assume that because e-cigarettes (at least the cigalike ones) look like cigarettes, and because the vapour looks like smoke, people are still smoking.
Smoking involves the combustion (burning) of tobacco leaves. Scientists tell us that this is what is bad about smoking (the combustion more than the tobacco – it doesn't matter what you burn, smoke is bad for you).
Vaping involves heating up a liquid to produce vapour. Although it can sometimes contain nicotine (not all e-liquids do!), there is no combustion involved.
And if using nicotine patches is not smoking (at least if used in the manner intended!) neither is vaping!
I bet you can think of many, many more misconceptions – if you can, let me know in the comments below!
Also see: 14 REALLY Dumb Things People Say About ECigarettes
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STOPTOBER: Firefighters urge smokers to vape to prevent fires, London Fire Brigade, October 2018
Tobacco tax revenue and forecast in the United States from 2000 to 2024 (in billion U.S. dollars), Statista, 2019
United Kingdom (UK) HMRC tobacco duty receipts from fiscal year 2000/01 to fiscal year 2017/18 (in billion GBP) Statista, 2019
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It is a misconception that the vapor contains nicotine . It may contain nicotine and it may not.
I vape without any nicotine content in my e- juice.
Hi Mick, you're quite right, and to be strictly accurate we should have said most or some eliquids contain nicotine.


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Q: Two loops nested inside another loop in x86 assembly I've got a problem looping in assembly language.
When we want to use the counter register for looping in nested loop,
what we first do is move the value of counter register into the stack for outer loop and then fetch it back when we're done with the inner loop, this way we're capable of using one counter register for looping into the nested loop with different number of iteration on each loop.
But what about nested loop inside a nested loop?
I want to print a pyramid made of of the character S. What I am getting is,
SSSSSSSSSS
SSSSSSSSS
SSSSSSSS
SSSSSSS
SSSSSS
SSSSS
SSSS
SSS
SS
S

What I actually want is,
 SSSSSSSSSS
  SSSSSSSS
   SSSSSS
    SSSS
     SS
     S

Here is my code for the program
MOV BX,10           ; HOLD 10 IN BX FOR INNER LOOP
     MOV AX,0           ; START ITERATIONS FROM 0
     MOV CX,10          ; MAX NUMBER OF ITERATIONS

    L2:

        PUSH CX         ;PUSH CX IN A STACK
        MOV CX,BX       ;STORE NEW VALUE IN CX FOR INNER LOOP ITERATION

            L1:

                MOV DX, [SI]               ; MOVE THE STRING INTO DX
                MOV AH,02H                 ; DISPLAY EVERYTHING FROM DX
                INT 21H

            LOOP L1

        MOV DX,0AH     ;PRINT LINE FEED AFTER PRINTING EACH LINE OF ASTERIKS
        MOV AH,02H
        INT 21H

        SUB BX,01     ;DECREASE THE VALUE OF BX BY 1

        POP CX        ;RESTORE ORIGINAL VALUE OF CX FOR OUTER LOOP
        ADD AX,01     ;INCREMENT VALUE OF AX BY 1

    LOOP L2

     MOV AH, 4CH                  ;RETURN CONTROL TO DOS
     INT 21H

In order to achieve what I want, i need to add another loop inside the nested loop that prints space characters (i.e 020H). But for this I need another counter register and I am not able to do it. How can I solve this problem?

A: You are already doing what needs to be done in the given ASM. You can push the current value of CX to the stack (save it) and pop it later on to restore it. You would need to do this when you require additional nesting.
In the code JohnB provided he simply added in a loop to print out the spaces before printing the asterisks. No additional nesting is required, meaning it is fairly straight forward.
It's a bit like this:
For each line
    Print an incrementing number of spaces
    Print a decrementing number of asterisks
Repeat

Which is exactly what JohnB has shown you.

A: About like that?
L2:

    PUSH CX         ;PUSH CX IN A STACK

    ; insert this
    MOV CX, 10      ; width of your tree = 10
    SUB CX, BX      ; subtract length of "s" string
    SHR CX, 1       ; divide CX by 2 => number of spaces at the beginning
    JCXZ endL3      ; no spaces? don't do anything

       L3:
            MOV DX, 20H ; space character
            MOV AH,02H                 ; print space
            INT 21H

        LOOP L3

    endL3:

    MOV CX,BX       ;STORE NEW VALUE IN CX FOR INNER LOOP ITERATION

        L1:

            MOV DX, [SI]               ; MOVE THE STRING INTO DX
            MOV AH,02H                 ; DISPLAY EVERYTHING FROM DX
            INT 21H

        LOOP L1

    MOV DX,0AH     ;PRINT LINE FEED AFTER PRINTING EACH LINE OF ASTERIKS
    MOV AH,02H
    INT 21H

    SUB BX,01     ;DECREASE THE VALUE OF BX BY 1

    POP CX        ;RESTORE ORIGINAL VALUE OF CX FOR OUTER LOOP
    ADD AX,01     ;INCREMENT VALUE OF AX BY 1

LOOP L2

Btw, for what purpose are you initializing and incrementing AX? You overwrite it anyway when moving data to AH/AL.


Newswise — MONTREAL, July 4, 2011 – The children most likely to walk or cycle to school live in urban areas, with a single parent, and in an economically disadvantaged home, according to survey results that were published in Pediatrics today by Dr. Roman Pabayo of the University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre and the university's Department of Social and preventive medicine. Pabayo's study is unique in that it follows the same group of children as they age throughout the school years, and it shows that children increasingly use "active transport" to travel to school until they reach ten or eleven years of age, at which point the trend then reverses.
"The study is important for the well-being of children because most children are not meeting physical activity guidelines needed for optimal growth and development," Pabayo explained. "Active transportation to school represents an affordable and easy way to incorporate physical activity in the daily routines of children. In a separate study on children in Quebec, we have actually found significant associations between weight and whether the child cycles or walks to school." The term active transportation relates to physical exertion, and excludes public transportation, school buses and driving.
The study looked at the habits of 7690 Canadian children, and it revealed that a variety of interesting factors are associated with transport choice. For example, children of parents who reported that their child had many friends in their area were more than twice as likely to increase their active commuting over two years in comparison to other children. Adolescents were less likely to increase their active transportation if there were no traffic lights or pedestrian crossings on their route to school. Whether a child has someone with whom to commute or older siblings were found to be particularly influential.
Future studies must be undertaken to explain these trends and factors identified in the study. "Why are children from Saskatchewan and Manitoba the most likely to use active transport at a given point in their lives? What about children from poorer backgrounds? Why are there different patterns as children age across socio-demographic and regional lines? If we can gain a better understanding of the factors that influence how children get to school, we may be able to encourage more families to bike or walk to school, leading to lifelong healthy behaviors," Pabayo said.
About the studyThe research was funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and by the Quebec Inter-University Centre for Social Statistics and was carried out while Pabayo was affiliated with the University of Montreal's Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre (health risks research theme), and the Research Centre of Sainte Justine University Hospital. Respectively, the institutions are officially known as Université de Montréal, Centre de recherche du Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CRCHUM) and Centre de recherche du Centre hospitalier universitaire Sainte-Justine.


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Fusion Energy at COP26
Aneeqa Khan, member of the Fusion CDT management board, took part in a panel discussion at COP26 alongside UKAEA and other organisations. See below for the UKAEA press release on the event.
Fusion energy at COP26:
Gamechanger for our global energy future
Fusion energy included in UN dialogue and deliberations for the first time – watch panel debate in UK Pavilion 11:30 – 12:30 GMT on 12 November
Fusion energy promises a step change in the way the world's future energy demands are met in a low-carbon, safe and sustainable way.
This will be the message from scientists and engineers from the fusion energy community to world leaders on the final day of the COP26 conference in Glasgow.
Fusion – the process that powers the sun and stars – promises a near-limitless low carbon energy source for the long term. It has the capability of meeting the global surge in electricity demand expected in the coming decades.
Professor Ian Chapman, UK Atomic Energy Authority CEO, said: "Fusion energy is low carbon, safe, efficient, and the fuels exist in abundance. It's a gamechanger for our global energy future. I'm in no doubt that fusion will be a complementary part of the energy mix for generations to come. It's one of the biggest scientific and engineering quests in history, up there with the Apollo programme, and the rewards for success will be huge for our planet."
Fusion energy has been one of science and engineering's biggest challenges yet. Teams of scientists and engineers around the world are working intensely on research and development breakthroughs in fusion, and these endeavours are continuing to gain momentum. The Joint European Torus (JET) is at the forefront of this research – as is the ITER project, a collaboration of 35 nations in the south of France.
The ITER members, including China, India, Japan, Korea and Russia, along with the European Union, are constructing one of the world's largest international science and engineering collaborations in history. ITER is now in full assembly phase, and soon to be completed.
Dr Bernard Bigot, Director General of ITER and chair of the panel at COP26, said: "Fusion scientists and engineers are closer than ever to getting this revolutionary clean, sustainable energy switched on. Here in Glasgow, we are inviting leaders to look towards a future in which fusion is a key part of the worldwide zero carbon energy mix."
Alongside international collaborations, more than US$2 billion of private investment has been pumped into a rapidly expanding number of innovative fusion companies.
This surge has led to fusion being classed as a critical piece of the future global energy puzzle, and complementary to other sustainable energy efforts.
The COP26 panel session is hosted by UKAEA and will stream live on the UK Government's YouTube channel. Representatives from UKAEA, University of Manchester, Max Planck Institute and Energy for the Common Good will also contribute.
UKAEA is a world leader in the drive to commercial fusion power, with plans well advanced for a prototype fusion power plant (STEP, the Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production), set to be operational in the early 2040s.


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Giuliano da Sangallo
1443 Florence
Giuliano da Sangallo (c. 1445 – 1516) was an Italian sculptor, architect and military engineer active during the Italian Renaissance.He was born in Florence. His father Francesco Giamberti was a woodworker and architect, much employed by Cosimo de Medici, and his brother Antonio da Sangallo the Elder and nephew Antonio da Sangallo the Younger were architects. His son Francesco da Sangallo was a sculptor. Giuliano was the preferred architect of Lorenzo de' Medici, so a significant number of his commissions came from the Medici.During the early part of his life Giuliano worked chiefly for Lorenzo de' Medici, known as 'the Magnificent', for whom he built a fine palace at Poggio a Caiano, begun in 1485, between Florence and Pistoia, and strengthened the fortifications of Florence, Castellana and other places. Lorenzo also employed him to build a monastery of Augustinian Friars outside the Florentine gate of San Gallo, which was destroyed during the siege of Florence in 1530.It was from this building that Giuliano received the name of Sangallo, which was afterwards used by so many Italian architects. While still in the pay of Lorenzo, Giuliano visited Naples, and worked there for the king, who sent him back to Florence with presents of money, plate and antique sculpture, the last of which Giuliano presented to his patron Lorenzo. After Lorenzo's death in 1492, Giuliano visited Loreto, and built the dome of the Basilica of the Madonna, in spite of serious difficulties arising from its defective piers, which were already built. In order to gain strength by means of a strong cement, Giuliano built his dome with pozzolana brought from Rome. Soon after this, at the invitation of Pope Alexander VI, Giuliano went to Rome, and designed the fine panelled ceiling of Santa Maria Maggiore. He was also largely employed by Pope Julius II, both for fortification walls round the Castel Sant'Angelo, and also to build a palace adjoining the church of San Pietro in Vincoli, of which Julius had been titular cardinal. Giuliano was much disappointed that Bramante was preferred to himself as architect for the new Basilica of St. Peter, and this led to his returning to Florence, where he did much service as a military engineer and builder of fortresses during the war between Florence and Pisa. Soon after this Giuliano was recalled to Rome by Julius II, who had much need for his military talents both in Rome itself and also during his attack upon Bologna. For about eighteen months in 1514–1515 Giuliano acted as joint-architect to St. Peter's together with Raphael, but owing to age and ill-health he resigned this office about two years before his death.Giuliano's work includes: Villa Medici at Poggio a Caiano, near Florence (1485), noteworthy for its pedimented portico is strongly influenced by Vitruvius and Alberti Santa Maria delle Carceri in Prato (1485) Tomb of Francesco Sassetti (1485–90) in Santa Trinita, Florence Palazzo della Rovere at Savona (1496) Sienese Sketchbook - Sketches, measurements, and technical notes ↑
Items by Giuliano da Sangallo
Benevento: arco di Traiano.disegno di Giuliano da Sangallo | Giuliano da Sangallo
Reproduction of a decorative relief of Trajan's Arch portraying scenes of Trajan in Benevento
drawing (image-making)
Byzantine (culture and style)
View at University of Bologna
Medici-Villa in Poggio a Cajano | Giuliano da Sangallo
Blick in den Großen Salon mit Fresken (Francabigio, Allori, Pontormo, Allori); Aufbewahrung/Standort:
View at Architekturmuseum der Technischen Universität Berlin in der Universitätsbibliothek
Palazzo Gondi in Florenz. Konsole | Giuliano da Sangallo
Wanddetail Konsole im Innenhof; Aufbewahrung/Standort:
Palazzo Gondi in Florenz | Giuliano da Sangallo
Fassade; Aufbewahrung/Standort:
S. Spirito, Florenz | Giuliano da Sangallo
Detail der Decke im Vestibül der Sakristei: Kassette mit Darstellung der Justizia; Aufbewahrung/Standort:
S. Maria delle Carceri, Prato | Giuliano da Sangallo
Kandelaber im rechten Chor; Aufbewahrung/Standort:
Palazzo Strozzi in Florenz | Giuliano da Sangallo
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Eingangsloggia mit Giebel und Majolika-Fries; Aufbewahrung/Standort:
Palazzo Gondi in Florenz. Kapitell | Giuliano da Sangallo
Kapitell einer Säule im Arkadeninnenhof; Aufbewahrung/Standort:
Deckendetail der Vorhalle der Sakristei; Aufbewahrung/Standort:
Blick in den Innenhof mit Brunnen; Aufbewahrung/Standort:


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Bitcoin has risen to prominence in the last few years — and calls to regulate bitcoin have risen right along with it. Three justifications are common: protecting consumers, preventing illegal transactions and transfers, and promoting macroeconomic stability.
But those using or facilitating transactions with are already subject to a fair amount of regulation. So it is difficult to justify additional, special regulations for bitcoin on those three grounds.
Consider the consumer protection case. Some note that bitcoin users can be harmed by excessive price volatility or fly-by-night exchanges that abscond with or fail to secure deposits. They are right on both counts. But it does not follow that additional, special regulations are in order.
For starters, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network already requires bitcoin exchanges operating in the United States to register as a money services business. And, more generally, existing laws and regulations already deal with fraud and theft. Just this month a Chicago trader appeared in U.S. District Court charged with stealing bitcoin from his employer to cover trading losses. No new laws or regulations are required to prosecute such cases.
What about volatility? I routinely advise my friends and family to buy and hold a diversified portfolio of low-fee index funds; not to attempt picking winners and losers; and never to spend more on financial assets than they are prepared to lose. I tell them they have little business placing big bets on bitcoin. But I also recognize that they are free, responsible adults and should be treated as such. Regulators should recognize this as well.
It is similarly misguided to adopt additional, special regulations for bitcoin on the grounds of preventing illegal transactions and transfers. Some will use bitcoin for nefarious ends — just as they have used dollars, euros and other national currencies in the past. But there is no more reason to think bitcoin will encourage criminal activity than there is to think a slightly faster car will result in more bank robberies.
Drug cartels and terrorist organizations have already developed elaborate schemes for moving wealth around the world with little risk of detection. They do not stand to gain much from bitcoin. Imposing additional, special regulations would do little to reduce the underlying criminal activity, while preventing much more benign uses of bitcoin as a consequence.
Finally, consider the case for regulating bitcoin to promote macroeconomic stability. Should bitcoin use pick up, the argument goes, the Federal Reserve will be unable to conduct effective monetary policy. It will not be able to smooth out undesirable macroeconomic fluctuation. As such, regulation should be adopted to discourage bitcoin use — if not banning it entirely.
I will not mince words here. This is perhaps the worst justification for regulating bitcoin. For starters, it presupposes that the Fed is any good at smoothing out macroeconomic fluctuation. It isn't. Recent experiences (and, indeed, its entire history) suggest the Fed probably makes matters worse. Loose monetary policy in the early- to mid-2000s resulted in an unsustainable housing boom. Tight monetary policy in the time since produced the greatest economic downturn since the Great Depression and an unnecessarily slow recovery thereafter. If promoting macroeconomic stability is the goal, one should think twice before looking to the Fed.
But, facts of monetary history aside, there is still good reason to reject the macroeconomic stability justification. Note that bitcoin only undermines the Fed's ability to conduct monetary policy to the extent that users chose bitcoin over dollars. If individuals prefer bitcoin to dollars, regulations and outright bans would merely prop up the dollar by preventing users from switching to an alternative they deem superior.
Alternatively, the Fed could commit to managing the dollar in such a way that would discourage users from switching to bitcoin in the first place. Both strategies would preserve the Fed-managed dollar. But the latter leaves users with a money that more closely resembles their ideal.
Common justifications to regulate bitcoin fall short. There is some scope for regulatory reform, though. Forty states have regulations pertaining to bitcoin that are either too broad or unclear. Clarifying and narrowly tailoring existing regulations would go a long way toward reducing regulatory ambiguity in the market for bitcoin. Calls for additional, special regulations push in the wrong direction.
William J. Luther is an adjunct scholar with the Cato Institute's Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives, director of the American Institute for Economic Research's Sound Money Project, and an assistant professor of economics at Kenyon College.


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The law of the country is above Muslim personal law, the comment of the Karnataka High Court regarding the marriage of a minor girl
The Karnataka High Court has held in two separate cases that the POCSO Act and the IPC override the Muslim Personal Law Act with respect to the age of marriage of girls. The Karnataka High Court rejected the contention that the marriage of a minor Muslim girl after attaining the age of 15 years would not be considered a violation of the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006.
What did Justice Rajendra Badamikar say?
A bench of Justice Rajendra Badamikar said that the POCSO Act is a special Act and it overrides personal law and as per this Act, the age for engaging in sexual activities is 18 years. The bench said that the petitioner is the husband of the victim and in view of the facts and circumstances that there is no serious dispute regarding the marriage. The petitioner himself has also presented the relevant documents before the court.
what is the matter
The Karnataka High Court was hearing the bail plea of a 27-year-old Muslim man, whose wife was 17 years old and had become pregnant. A case was registered against the accused for offenses punishable under sections 9 and 10 of the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006, and sections 4 and 6 of the POCSO Act. He is alleged to have married a minor Muslim girl and got her pregnant.
FIR was registered against the girl's husband
Although the Karnataka High Court had granted bail to the husband of the minor Muslim girl, the matter came to the fore then. When on June 16, 2022, the victim/accused's wife had a medical checkup at the primary health center. On examination, it was found that she was pregnant. Moreover, it was also revealed that she is only 17 years old. After this, the police sub-inspector of KR Puram police station lodged a complaint against the petitioner.
The petition of the accused in the second case dismissed
However, in another judgment of the same judge, the court rejected the bail plea of a 19-year-old man. A case has been registered against him under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and POCSO Act. He is alleged to have taken a 16-year-old girl with him to Mysore on 6 April 2022. Where he had raped a minor girl twice in a hotel room.


Help your teenager plan the party – make a guest list and invite only a specific number of people.
Don't send e-mail invitations. They can be forwarded to a large number of people quickly and you may lose control of who has this information.
Set rules ahead of time like no alcohol, drugs or tobacco. Set a start and end time for the party.
Have a plan for dealing with vehicles. Include parking information in your party invitation.
Call parents of any teen who arrives in possession of alcohol or under the influence. If you can't get in touch with the parents, keep them there or call the police if necessary. You can be civilly liable if you know they are intoxicated and you let them leave.
Secure all forms of alcohol, firearms, and other potentially hazardous items in your home in a safe place.
Invite some other parents to help chaperone if there will be a large number of teenagers.
If you are concerned that your child might have a party anyway, you can call your local police and ask them to drive by at some point over the time you are gone. Make it a point to tell your child that you have asked the police to do this.
Know where your child will be. Call the parent in charge to verify the occasion and location of the party to ensure there will be adult supervision.
Make certain that the host will not be serving or allowing alcohol. Ask how they plan to handle the situation if a teen shows up with alcohol or having drunk somewhere else.
Indicate your expectations to your child and the parent hosting the party that if the teens plan to leave and go somewhere else, you will want to know.
Find out their policy on alcohol, drugs and tobacco use.
Remember, it is illegal to serve minors!