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Q: How to manage two major versions using SVN? At the company I'm working we support two versions of the software we develop. One version is available for customers, and one version the developers are developing new functionality in.
The version available for customers is also changed by developers, to fix the bugs our customers have found.
So, for example we have a 4.1 version available for customers, and we are developing 4.2. As soon as we release 4.2, 4.1 gets closed, and we start developing on 4.3.
Currently we have two trunks, one for each version that is open for development. Every time a bug is fixed in the released version, we have to merge it in the new version too. This is extra work. Next to this, we would like to work in advance, and have a version already finished 'on the shelf', and already start on a new version. Which would mean if we fix a bug in the released version, we would have to merge it in three trunks!
Is there a better way of structuring this, and possibly eliminate the duplicate merges? Are we doing something completely wrong?
Thanks in advance.

A: The usual terminology here would be that you have one trunk (the code leading to 4.3) and two branches (4.1 and 4.2), even though the branch for 4.1 will be closed according to your description when 4.2 is released (at the same time that the new 4.2 branch is created).
You can avoid the three-end situation when you do your "advance work" in a feature branch that is not intended to be bug free. That is, you'd have three open ends:
trunk (will be 4.2 some day)
branches/4.1
branches/conquer-the-world (a feature planned for 4.3)

and only merge bugfixes from 4.1 into 4.2. When conquer-the-world is finished (some point after the release of 4.2, I presume), merge it into trunk.

A: I don't understand why merging changes from one branch to another is extra work.
In the same way of thinking, you could say that fixing bugs is extra work and develop bug free code in the first place.
In other words a bug fix merge is normal work and is included in the bug fixing activity.
By the way, don't change your version control structure: it is perfectly OK.


On Thursday night, The Trane sponsored Basingstoke Bison host their Annual End of Season Awards night in conjunction with our corporate hotel provider for the Herd �the Apollo Hotel�. in Basingstoke.
The evening commences at 7pm with dinner being served at 7.30pm followed by the awards and after dinner disco hosted by the �Voice of the Herd� Daren Bavister, who will no doubt bring his very own unique hockey humour to the evening.
During the evening we will be holding a shirt auction for those jerseys that weren�t taken in the �Own & Loan� programme as well as the blood jerseys.
As announced previously we will also be holding 2 draws during the night.
1.	Is for a Season Ticket for 2019 / 20 season.
2.	Is for use of the Sponsors box for you and up to 12 of your friends for a game (this will include a ceremonial puck drop, choosing the man of the match for both teams and presenting the beers on the ice).
The Apollo hotel have very kindly offered preferential room rate for those fans who would like to stay overnight. The rate is �59 for single occupancy and �69 for double occupancy per room bed and breakfast.


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Alice au pays des merveilles (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) est un film musical britannique de William Sterling, adapté de l'œuvre homonyme de Lewis Carroll et sorti en 1972.

Synopsis
Alice est sortie en barque avec ses deux sœurs et ses deux amis. À un moment, alors que tout le monde se repose dans une prairie, elle aperçoit un lapin blanc.

Fiche technique
 Titre original : Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
 Titre français : Alice au pays des merveilles
 Réalisation : William Sterling
 Scénario : William Sterling d'après l'œuvre homonyme de Lewis Carroll
 Musique : John Barry
 Chansons : Don Black (paroles), John Barry (musique)
 Photographie : Anthony Mendleson
 Montage : Peter Weatherley
 Pays d'origine :
 Langue : anglais
 Format : couleur
 Son : Mono
 Tournage : du  à .
 Durée : 101 minutes
 Genre : comédie musicale.
 Dates de sortie :  :  ;  :  ;  :

Distribution

 Fiona Fullerton : Alice
 Michael Jayston : Lewis Carroll / Charles Dodgson
 Hywel Bennett : Robinson Duckworth
 Michael Crawford : le lapin blanc
 Davy Kaye : la souris
 William Ellis : le dodo
 Julian Chagrin : Bill le lézard
 Freddie Earlle : le cochon d'Inde Pat
 Mike Elles : le cochon d'Inde Two
 Ralph Richardson : la chenille
 Fred Cox : Tweedledum
 Frank Cox : Tweedledee
 Peter O'Farrell : le laquais poisson
 Ian Trigger : le laquais grenouille
 Peter Bull : la duchesse
 Patsy Rowlands : la cuisinière
 Roy Kinnear : le chat du Cheshire
 Robert Helpmann : le chapelier
 Peter Sellers : le lièvre de mars
 Dudley Moore : le loir
 Dennis Waterman : le 2 de pique
 Ray Brooks : le 5 de pique
 Richard Warwick : le 7 de pique
 Dennis Price : le roi de cœur
 Flora Robson : la reine de cœur
 Rodney Bewes : le valet de cœur
 Spike Milligan : le griffon
 Michael Hordern : la simili-tortue
 Victoria Shallard : Lorina
 Pippa Vickers : Edith
 Ray Edwards : l'aigle
 Stanley Bates : le singe
 Melita Manger : l'écureuil
 Angela Morgan : Lory
 June Kidd : la pie
 Michael Reardon : la grenouille
 Brian Tripping : le canard

Bande originale
Musique de John Barry et paroles de Don Black sauf précisions.

 The Duchess Is Waiting, interprétée par Michael Crawford
 Curiouser and Curiourser, interprétée par Fiona Fullerton
 You've to Know When to Stop, interprétée par Davy Kaye
 The Royal Processions (instr.)
 The Last Word Is Mine, interprétée par Michael Crawford et Fiona Fullerton
 Digging for Apples, interprétée par Freddie Earlle
 There Goes Bill, interprétée par Freddie Earlle et Mike Elles
 How Doth the Little Busy Bee, interprétée par Fiona Fullerton
 Dum and Dee Dance (Nursery Rhyme), lyrics de Lewis Carroll et Don Black, interprétée par Fiona Fullerton
 From the Queen an Invitation for the Duchess to Play Croquette, interprétée par Peter O'Farrell and Ian Trigger
 The Duchess' Lullaby, lyrics de Lewis Carroll et Don Black, interprétée par Peter Bull and Patsy Rowlands
 It's More Like a Pig Than a Baby, interprétée par Fiona Fullerton
 I See What I Eat, interprétée par Robert Helpmann, Peter Sellers, Dudley Moore et Fiona Fullerton
 Twinkle, Twinkle Little Bat, interprétée par Robert Helpmann, Peter Sellers
 The Pun Song, interprétée par Robert Helpmann, Peter Sellers, Dudley Moore et Fiona Fullerton
 Off With Their Heads, interprétée par Flora Robson
 The Croquet Game (instr.)
 Off With Their Heads (Reprise), interprétée par Flora Robson
 I've Never Been This Far Before, interprétée par Michael Crawford et Fiona Fullerton
 The Moral Song, lyrics by Lewis Carroll et Don Black, interprétée par Peter Bull
 The Me I Never Knew, interprétée par Fiona Fullerton
 The Lobster Quadrille (The Mock Turtle's Song) (instr.)
 Will You Walk a Little Faster, Said a Whiting to a Snail, lyrics de Lewis Carroll et Don Black, interprétée par Michael Hordern et Spike Milligan
 They Told Me (Evidence Read at the Trail of the Knave of Hearts, lyrics de Lewis Carroll et Don Black, interprétée par Michael Crawford

Autour du film
 Fiona Fullerton fut sélectionnée parmi plus de 200 jeunes filles pour jouer Alice.
 Retrouvaille entre Fiona Fullerton et Michael Jayston après le film Nicolas et Alexandra.

Lien externe

Film britannique sorti en 1972
Film musical britannique
Film tiré d'Alice au pays des merveilles
Film musical des années 1970
Film avec un British Academy Film Award de la meilleure photographie
Film avec une musique composée par John Barry

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"PSO algorithm for an optimal power controller in a microgrid" by Waleed Al-Saedi, Stefan Lachowicz et al.
Originally published as: Al-Saedi, W., Lachowicz, S., Habibi, D., & Bass, O. (2017, July). PSO Algorithm for an Optimal Power Controller in a Microgrid. In IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science (Vol. 73, No. 1, p. 012028). Available here.
This paper presents the Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm to improve the quality of the power supply in a microgrid. This algorithm is proposed for a real-time selftuning method that used in a power controller for an inverter based Distributed Generation (DG) unit. In such system, the voltage and frequency are the main control objectives, particularly when the microgrid is islanded or during load change. In this work, the PSO algorithm is implemented to find the optimal controller parameters to satisfy the control objectives. The results show high performance of the applied PSO algorithm of regulating the microgrid voltage and frequency.


I've been scouring youtube for some cool instructional videos, and found this one about profiling and polishing granite countertops. Note that the information is great, but the guy's voice tends to be a bit soft, especially when compared to the grinder which he starts up at the 3 minute mark (be prepared to turn your sound up, and then down when he starts grinding – I startled a co-worker when I was watching it myself…). It's a bit noisy, but not as noisy as the real thing.


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Heroes, villains, fatal flaws, Jenny Robin Jones
Catching the Current
Jenny Pattrick
Black Swan, $27.95,
Union Belle
Deborah Challinor
HarperCollins, $31.99,
The Love Apple
Coral Atkinson
New Zealanders, we are told, are avid for their history. To help meet the need, historical novels are being published with unprecedented generosity – and subsequently appearing on our bestseller lists. In fact, according to one publisher, chick lit and historical novels are the fiction that sells these days.
Judging from three recently published historical novels there is no stinting on the research carried out in preparation for writing. For Catching the Current, Jenny Pattrick's research ranged from 19th century events in New Zealand to those in the Faroes, a group of nearly 20 islands midway between Iceland and the Shetlands with strong political links to Denmark. Multiple characters give rise to multiple relating of stories, requiring not only knowledge of relevant history but also sensitivity to the way it may have been internalised by the characters.
Jenny Pattrick is not a writer of whom you might say admiringly, "Each book is so completely different". In every one of her three novels the tone and writing style are of a piece – the born storyteller employing every trick of changing point of view, withheld information and timely authorial comment to achieve hypnosis. Catching the Current takes Con the Brake from The Denniston Rose, picks him up years earlier and presents him as a man with the sea in his veins who must "catch the current" of adventure and transform it into stories. Like his daughter Rose, Conrad is awash with heroic qualities and lovable flaws.
Pattrick's pleasure in her storytelling is palpable and she is generous both with her research and its parsimonious rendering. The challenge of presenting relevant facts about an unfamiliar time and place without sidetracking from the story is well enough met for the story to flow with pace and authority. This works especially well when Pattrick subtly invites us to make connections between Maori and Faroese as oral cultures dominated by predatory written ones. More often, unfortunately, she follows her impulse to tell us everything, switching place and point of view to capture every juicy morsel in the lives of our hero and heroine, Conrad and his Maori lover Anahuia.
Sometimes point of view is switched to nobler purpose, enabling Pattrick to add another dimension, when, for example, Conrad tells Anahuia a last story. Though it is his own story he tells it large, creating a tale of heroes and villains, heroics and fatal flaws, and the essentially first-person point of view allows for self-reflection: "Kone, foolish as always", "Kone, the great fool".
But these examples point to what pinions the novel on the side of shallow. As a character Kone/Enok/Conrad is relentlessly described in terms of easily recognisable features: tall, blond, handsome, argumentative, quick-tempered, impulsive, brave and strong. Characters are there less to develop than to fulfill their author-decreed destinies. Pattrick's affectionate championing of Conrad makes us lazy. We don't have to do the readerly work of creation that would make him remain with us when the book is finished. There is nothing to match the moving depiction of the latent homosexual Michael in Heart of Coal.
One can only sympathise with Deborah Challinor for wanting to maximise her painstaking research. But it's too easy, as a reader, to tell where she has succumbed at the expense of character and story. It's not that the union battle with the government is uninteresting, especially when it's of the mythic significance of the 1951 waterfront lockout, but subsuming it within a love story means much of the detail must be sacrificed – and Challinor is unwilling to make the cuts. The PhD in history wants us, by the end of the novel, to have a thorough understanding of the lockout, both cause and process, and at the same time to experience the love affair between Jack Vaughan and Ellen McCabe as an enduring passion in the league of Heathcliff and Cathy.
This is a big ask and Challinor runs around like a mother hen, trying to achieve it. Paragraph by paragraph she rounds up her chicks, making sure we see them as she does. This plays havoc with point of view, rarely consistent for a page at a time. As a result of being told so much and shown so little, the reader becomes lazy and boredom looms or, since Challinor's Children of War trilogy was a bestseller and Union Belle has appeared in the bestseller lists four times so far, settles for a fast, easy read.
Along the way there are some nice touches. Challinor builds a convincing portrait of life in a small, tightly knit town in the Waikato and resists the temptation to point out how attitudes to female roles have changed in the half century since the strike. She depicts Ellen as a young mother of the 50s, who accepts her lot with an "inward sigh" when husband Tom belatedly tells her he has invited a mate to dinner that night or calls a meeting at their home after tea and asks her to "rustle up some supper". Jack Vaughan, with his gentlemanly manners and offers of help in the kitchen, triggers feelings of dissatisfaction with Tom, but Challinor does not betray the reality of the times by suddenly making Ellen into a consciousness-raised feminist. The final pages of the novel, where Ellen is faced with choosing between her children and her lover, offer genuine pathos, all too quickly resolved by leaping ahead to 2004 and Ellen's assertion that she "would do it all again".
As with Wuthering Heights, the story is introduced by a character to whom the tale is then narrated, but in Union Belle this character feels extraneous and irrelevant. Cathy Martin, initially referred to as "she", as though possessing greater significance than an ordinary, named character, never rises above the functional, a device to frame the story.
Close-ups of Ellen and Tom relieving themselves are delivered with such insistent detail as to raise the question of symbolic meaning, especially when coupled with Fintan the long-lived and explicitly depicted "crapping parrot" of the McCabe household. But symbolic meaning proving elusive, I settled for a fast, easy read.
The Love Apple is Coral Atkinson's first venture into full-length fiction. Set towards the end of the 19th century, its canvas ranges from the oppressed in Ireland, through the Irish in New Zealand, the circus industry, early photography, tomato-growing, Maori interaction with Pakeha, to English notions of respectability. Atkinson divides her material into "books", each book beginning with a short overview of life in the time and place (Hokitika 1864, Ireland 1881, Christchurch 1894, Boer War 1900, Ireland 1904), thus freeing herself to tell her story unencumbered by the need to impart history at the same time. Clearly possessing deep love for both Ireland and New Zealand, Atkinson handles her research confidently, with only the occasional lapse into information for information's sake, as when, for example, the hero reaches for the wax matches. Was there any other kind at the time?
The author refrains from taking a moral stance while dealing with her characters' dilemmas regarding love, duty, war. Fundamentally her characters are exploring how, within the confines of their cultures and times, they can be true to their own natures. Sometimes, as in the case of Huia, who abandons her child, their behaviour looks selfish and exploitative, but Atkinson neatly presents the inner compulsions that drive them. She handles 19th century sex well too – it's modest without being coy, and genuinely erotic.
It needs to be, since sexuality and its imperatives figure importantly in the book. After tragically losing his beloved wife Vanessa and suffering long-term misery for indulging his lust for Huia, our young, well-born, immigrant hero Geoffrey abandons his calling as a photographer and takes up cultivation of that new symbol of love and lust, the love apple or common red tomato. Bitterness threatens and briefly it seems as if improvement in the lot of mankind can only come through the younger generation, in the form of happiness for the Irish-born waif PJ and his Kiwi Rosaleen. But of course, the novel being the genre it is, we know we are entitled to happiness. Sybil's husband will die at the appropriate time in one of those dangerous New Zealand rivers, allowing true love to run smooth at last. In an avant-garde touch she and Geoffrey will go on holiday together. We know they will make up for lost time.
With these three books, avid New Zealanders have more history at their fingertips, but it would be a pity if, in the rush to recognise new authors, we missed out on the solid satisfactions and sense of who we are and where we came from offered by the best of our early writers. William Satchell based a couple of mean yarns around the northern gumdiggers and bush settlers, while a third dealt with the Waikato wars. They and others offer the excitement of modern historical fiction plus the added fascination of relatively enlightened views expressed when the colony was in its infancy.
Jenny Robin Jones's Writers in Residence: A Journey with Pioneer New Zealand Writers was reviewed in our August 2004 issue.
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Leading by the nose, Elizabeth Crayford
Opening the fifth dimension, Lydia Wevers
"The frequent flyer friar" John McCrystal
Absolutely fabulous, Thom Conroy
The life and the work, Martin Edmond
Back to the future, Harvey Molloy
Marking time, Maggie Trapp
Keeping it in the family, Tina Shaw
Blank spaces, Tim Grgec
Playing at home, John McCrystal
Human error, Stephanie Johnson
A complicated relationship, Thom Conroy
"Lashings of empathy", Tina Shaw
Where perspectives collide, John McCrystal
Giving them what they want, Linda Burgess
Sport and sexuality, Bill Hastings
Back in the day, Chris Else
Fathoms deep, James Robins
Writing in circles, Kate Duignan

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Energy GRID Institute
DC-AMPS
District Energy: The Grid of Microgrids
Facilities Innovation
Policy Road-Mapping
Dr. David Tipper
Director of SIS' graduate Telecommunications & Networking Program
Professor at the School of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh
Dr. David Tipper is a professor at the School of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh where he is also the director of SIS' graduate Telecommunications & Networking Program. Dr. Tipper has a secondary appointment at Pitt's Department of Electrical Engineering. He is a graduate of the University of Arizona (PhD Electrical Engineering, MS Systems Engineering) and Virginia Tech (BS in Electrical Engineering).
At Pitt, Dr. Tipper teaches courses on communication systems, wireless networks, network performance modeling and analysis, network design, and infrastructure protection. Dr. Tipper's research has been supported by grants from various government and corporate sources such as NSF, DARPA, NIST, IBM, ARO, and AT&T.
Prior to joining Pitt in the fall of 1994, Dr. Tipper was a faculty member at Clemson University (South Carolina) and Molde University College (Norway). Dr. Tipper also worked in industry as a system engineer on a NASA project and as a Networking Technology Center staff member at The Mitre Corporation. Dr. Tipper is also a senior member of the IEEE.
Network design and traffic restoration; procedures for survivable networks; simulation and queuing theory with emphasis on transient/nonstationary behavior; virtual network design; and network control algorithms.
Contact: Jamie Turek [email]
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The odd wet day earlier this season meant I could play with our hop fabric designs and managed some remarkably guilt free summer sewing time! Those gloomy days meant there were some magical silver linings within those cloudy skies.
I really wanted to use the latest Hop Fabric designs in cotton poplin supplied by Woven Monkey to make curtains for Liz and Andrew's Shepherd's Hut. Attached here are the pictures of the two small windows, they each use a slightly different version of this stripy design. It is always nice to have an excuse to make up a few cushions, so a cushion made with the green and white toile completed this 'happy-hoppy' ensemble. As ever I am extremely appreciative of Sylvie's magic digital graphic design skills.
A few other examples of the things made earlier in the year with some of our hop fabrics. Door stops – I got carried away visualising large rustic doors so these aren't dainty, they are best described as fit for purpose – 'heavy'!
Other odd and ends stitched up were a set of place mats with the hop tile fabric and a mixed medley of beer mats to personalise that gift of a special bottle of beer.
It was made mostly from scraps I already had, favourite colours left over from other projects. The scrap pile hasn't gone down – I am sure those fabric scraps breed! Doing this portable appliqué project over the last 8 months has been a pleasure, but although I really enjoyed piecing this up I did not want to do the quilting. The solution and always a special treat was to have Debbie Holland quilt it for me on her super duper 'long-arm' quilting machine. Debbie produces beautifully detailed quilting to enhance and customise any project. It feels like Christmas waiting to collect it, I am always impatient to see the finished article.
The result is I have already missed having this easy appliqué project but have an idea for another one. This time round the blocks will be smaller and just as before easily carried in a small bag. It is surprising how much you can get done by only sewing for the odd few minutes now and then. At least waiting isn't boring anymore.
Beginning to think new specs could be needed!


There are some types of analysis. There are those based on cumulative valuation, linear weight measures, balance algorythms (also called algorythms plus/minus) and the pseudo-qualitative ones, also called influence-type algorythms or "wins"-type. There's a much more natural way to properly assess the player's performance, that is the mere average comparison, in which we obtain different types of "ratios".
The only ratio assumed to be generally accepted by the analysts and statisticians community different from those per-game and per complete game (40 or 48 minute) averages is the assists per turnover, which indicates the controlability degree for an external player, and yet it's not one hundred percent reliable, because it's not a hundred percent visible. Even more, possessions can be positive, neutral or negative.
Still, the analysis of different non-conventional ratios allows us to develop a player profile with a fairly high degree of accuracy even without having seen him playing ever. Here are some of them.
Two points per rebound (in other words, half rebound per point) means barely the boundary between the external and the internal player. A player who scores more than two points per rebound tends to be an external player or at least he can play in the perimeter. Similarly a player who scores less than two points per rebound tends to be an internal player or at least he can play in the zone. This logic is met in the 90 percent of the cases.
An internal player could be considered a power forward or a center in terms of total rebounds per block shot. In the 75% of the cases, those who average less than 5 rebounds per block will tend to be centers. On the other hand, internals who average more than 8 rebounds per block will tend to be power-forwards in the 90% of the cases.
The assist-per-steal ratio measures the degree of defensivity. Whereas steals-per-game ratio points us if the player can defend well or not, a player with more than five assists per steal tends in a 75% of the cases to not respect the principle of defensive balance. In other words, that player tends to be lazy -to be reluctant- to come back to defend and take his mark when the opposite point guard tries to move with the ball across the half court.
A player with more than 10 points per three-point shot made doesn't use it as a main weapon, which does not mean he could be an excellent three-point shooter in quantity and percentage. The external players tend in a 95 percent of the cases to score more than 30 percent of their points beyond the three-point line, in other words, more than a three-pointer for every 10 points, or less than 10 pts per 3-pointer made.
A player with more than 50 per cent of their points through triple (this is, less than six points per 3-point shot made) tends to have a limited ability to penetrate. There are flagrant cases of exceptional players with proven and successful careers with 5 or even with 4 points per three-point shot made, such are the cases of Leandro Masieri in Argentina (4671/1136 = 4.11), Nelson Qui�ones in Puerto Rico (4373/1045, 4.18), Damon Jones in the NBA (4326/941 = 4.59), Jukka Toijala in Finnish Korisliiga (5623/1197 = 4.69) and right now Alberto Corbacho in ACB, but in his seven-year stint in LEB Oro had a register of 2102/485 = 4.33.


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Our Research: We then review with you and agree what issues you want to address. We then research the vignettes and stories from a battlefield that correlate to your business's outcome requirements.
Ethos: We then show you how Corporate Battlefields can address your leadership challenges, on a field of battle, and what strategies we would use to galvanise your team's performance.
Proposal: We then present a bespoke programme proposal based on your outcomes required and your team's timeframe availability.
Battle Delivery: When we've agreed a strategy and the learning format with you, we will take your team to the hallowed acres of the chosen battlefield. At each of the selected outcome linked locations (Stands) on the battlefield our expert battlefield guide will deliver the cordite of the battle and its emotive history that relates to your required outcomes.
Business Delivery: Our Business Facilitator will then run the bespoke associated workshops and discussions which the Stand history has triggered in relation to your business and its challenges.
Experiential Learning: Always we find that these 'solution workshops' and discussions deliver deeper thinking by participants. This unique experiential learning platform will allow your team to produce gems of ideas for both immediate application and strategic change.
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Leadership Host: If one of our Leadership hosts attends an event they will deliver a modern day interpretation of pure leadership, and explain the principles of our favoured leadership model. The Leadership Host provides the gravitas for the programme and befriends and if desired mentors the client CEO. Together they listen to the team's workshop presentations and debates and ensures you have ownership of the process.
Programme Evaluation: Post programme evaluation details the outcomes and suggests a follow up. Our experienced and qualified business coaches can work with you and your executive team to develop the personal and interpersonal skills and capabilities to enable the successful implementation of your action plans.


Jager DJ, Karagozoglu KH, Maarse F, Brand HS, Forouzanfar T. 2016. Sialendoscopy of slivary glands affected by Sjogren's Syndrome. A randomized controled pilot study. Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery 74:1167-1174.
Prodan A, Brand H, Imangaliyev S, Tsivtsivadze E, Weijden F van der, Jong A de, Paauw A, Crielaard W, Keijser D, Veerman E. 2016. A study of the variation in the salivary peptide profiles of young healthy adults acquired using MALDI-TOF MS. Plos ONE 1: e0156707.
Zaura E, Brandt BW, Prodan A, Teixeira de Mattos MJ, Imangaliyev S, Kool J, Buijs MJ, Jagers FLPW, Hennequin-Hoenderbos NL, Slot DE, Nicu EA, Lagerweij MD, Janus MM, Fernandez-Gutierrez MM, Levin E, Krom BP, Brand HS, Veerman ECI, Loos BG, Weijden GA van der, Crielaard W, Keijser BJF. 2017. On the ecosystemic network of saliva in healthy young adults. The ISME Journal [Epub ahead of print].


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Josef Marschang (Mokrin (tegenwoordig in de Servische provincie Vojvodina), 24 mei 1931) is een Duits componist en dirigent.

Levensloop
Marschang is als dirigent en componist autodidact. Na de Tweede Wereldoorlog kwam hij met zijn familie naar Duitsland en werd woonachtig in Baden-Württemberg. Hij werkte als dirigent en dirigeerde verschillende blaasorkesten. Verder was hij als freelance componist bezig en schreef vooral werken voor harmonieorkest.

Composities

Werken voor harmonieorkest
 1971 Rosenberger Jubiläumsmarsch
 An der Wiesent, wals
 Apatiner Marsch
 Aus Alter Zeit, polka
 Dalmatiner Marsch
 Donauschwaben grüßen Neckarschwaben
 Donauschwaben Marsch
 Durch den Frankenwald, mars
 Empfang der Astronauten, mars
 Erfüllte Lebensträume
 Es ist so schön bei uns zu  Haus, mars
 Franken voran, mars
 Gruß an Aldingen, mars
 Grüss dich Siebenbürgen, mars - tekst: Robert Rohr
 Heimat so schön, wals
 Im Wein liegt die Kraft, mars
 Jung durch Lebensfreude, mars
 Kernei-Polka
 Memory of Benny
 Neudenauer Marsch, mars
 Noris Marsch, mars
 Rendevous im All, mars
 Ruf der Heimat, mars
 Schwarze Husaren, mars
 Stilles Sehnen, wals
 Treue Kameraden, mars

Vocale muziek

Liederen
 Wunderschönes Heimatland, voor zangstem en ensemble

Kamermuziek
 Der Sulmtal-Ländler, voor gitaartrio
 Die Marienkapelle von Hintergern, voor hakkebord-ensemble

Bibliografie
 Wolfgang Suppan, Armin Suppan: Das Neue Lexikon des Blasmusikwesens, 4. Auflage, Freiburg-Tiengen, Blasmusikverlag Schulz GmbH, 1994, ISBN 3-923058-07-1
 Paul E. Bierley, William H. Rehrig: The heritage encyclopedia of band music : composers and their music, Westerville, Ohio: Integrity Press, 1991, ISBN 0-918048-08-7
 Robert Rohr: Unser klingendes Erbe : Beiträge zur Musikgeschichte der Deutschen und ihrer Nachbarn in und aus Südosteuropa unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Donauschwaben von den Anfängen bis 1918, Passau: Verlag Passavia, 1988. 394 S., ISBN 38-7616-134-7

Duits componist
Duits dirigent
20e-eeuws componist


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Rolling Wheels
Wheels are designed for commercial vehicle aftermarket.
Alcoa Inc. Jun 02, 2008
Offered in 2 styles, Retro Wheel comes in 2 styles and sizes including 22.5 x 8.25 weighing 53 lbs and 24.5 x 8.25 weighing 66 lbs. Both wheel styles have hub piloted mounting systems with load rating of 7,400 lbs. Wheels are also corrosion resistant and never need painting, reducing maintenance requirements.
Alcoa Wheel and Transportation Products New Retro Wheel Stands the Test of Time
CLEVELAND - Alcoa Wheel and Transportation Products, a Cleveland, Ohio-based business unit of Alcoa Inc. has introduced a new wheel with a "retro" look to celebrate 60 years of innovation and technology.
The new Retro Wheel incorporates styling from the past with innovation from today's technology. Alcoa will offer two new styles for the commercial vehicle aftermarket in a limited edition. Sizes include a 22.5 x 8.25 weighing 53 pounds and a 24.5 x 8.25 weighing 66 pounds. Both wheel styles have hub piloted mounting systems with a load rating of 7400 pounds.
The wheels offer all the advantages of Alcoa innovation including classic styling, one-piece forged strength, true running with better heat dissipation for extended tire and brake life, and a five-year limited warranty. They resist corrosion, so the good looks last and never need painting, thereby reducing maintenance costs.
About Alcoa Wheels and Transportation Products
Alcoa Wheel and Transportation Products, headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, serves the commercial vehicle, automotive, and defense markets with products used in a range of applications including cast and forged aluminum wheels, aluminum space frames, specialized vacuum die cast products, niche products such as Dura-Bright® and Dura-Flange® wheels and M-Series(TM) medium truck wheels, as well as a variety of other aluminum components for these markets. AWTP is composed of three divisions: Transportation Products, Commercial Vehicle Wheels, and Automotive Wheels. It employs 2,800 people at 30 locations worldwide.
About Alcoa
Alcoa (NYSE:AA) is the world leader in the production and management of primary aluminum, fabricated aluminum and alumina combined through its active and growing participation in all major aspects of the industry. Alcoa serves the aerospace, automotive, packaging, building and construction, commercial transportation and industrial markets, bringing design, engineering, production and other capabilities of Alcoa's businesses to customers. In addition to aluminum products and components including flat-rolled products, hard alloy extrusions, and forgings, Alcoa also markets Alcoa® wheels, fastening systems, precision and investment castings, structures and building systems. The Company has 97,000 employees in 34 countries and has been named one of the top most sustainable corporations in the world at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
More information can be found at www.alcoa.com.
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https://www.profitconfidential.com/stock-market/stock-market-advice/wmt-stock-this-could-be-game-changer-for-wal-mart-stores-inc/ WMT Stock: This Could Be Game Changer for Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Gaurav S. Iyer, IFC Profit Confidential 2016-10-01T05:00:57Z 2017-06-26 04:56:58 Wal-Mart Stores Inc. NYSE:WMT WMT stock Walmart stock Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE:WMT) wants to invest in an Indian rival to Amazon. It could send Walmart stock (WMT) soaring. News,Stock,Stock Market Advice,Walmart Stock https://www.profitconfidential.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Wallmart-300x200.jpg
Walmart Stock Goes to India
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE:WMT) surprised investors earlier this year when it acquired the online retailer Jet.com, Inc. It was a massive acquisition that cost shareholders a ton of cash, but it was done to fuel Walmart stock (WMT). More importantly, it was the first step toward challenging Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN). Walmart has no choice but to fight Amazon. It's their only option to keep WMT stock moving to the right and up, particularly in light of new shopping patterns. Consumers are buying more things online, which ends up hurting the prospects of Walmart stock. For the company to remain a global powerhouse, it needs to poach Amazon's market share. One way they're trying to do that is by scooping up a minority stake in Flipkart. This online retailer is already going head-to-head with Amazon in one of the world's biggest markets: India. (Source: "Walmart May Invest in India's Largest E-Commerce Site Flipkart," Fortune, September 28, 2016.) Amazon is pouring tons of money into India. It sees the country as a goldmine for AMZN stock, but now Walmart is clued into the game. The company sees that India's growing middle class has created an astounding level of opportunity, so they want to back Flipkart in its fight against Amazon. For those who may be unfamiliar with Flipkart, it essentially does the same thing as Amazon, except it has been in India longer. And it was built by Indian businessmen who understand the country, who have local partnerships, and who already control a huge portion of the market. In other words, Amazon is the underdog in India. By contrast, Flipkart is the market leader. Walmart wants to invest in them right now, so that it can reap huge returns on Flipkart 's eventual initial public offering (IPO). This investment could end up driving 75%, 100%, or even 150% gains in WMT stock. But don't take my word for it; just look at history.
Why WMT Stock Is Poised for Growth
Does the Amazon-Flipkart face-off remind you of anything? For me, it brings back memories of a young Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE:BABA). The Chinese competitor to Amazon conquered its native market before coming across to the West. By then, it was large enough to secure a spot on the New York Stock Exchange. It was also the biggest IPO in history. What I remember is that another company got rich off Alibaba's success. That's right; I'm talking about Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO). The Internet giant bought a 15% stake in Alibaba for roughly $7.6 billion. That was in 2012. By the time Yahoo sold off its core assets to Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ), Yahoo's stake in Alibaba was worth approximately $32.0 billion. Yahoo didn't have anything to do with Alibaba's day-to-day business. The two companies didn't collaborate or actively try to fight Amazon. Just holding those shares of BABA stock led to a massive increase in the value of Yahoo stock. In fact, many commentators said Yahoo's stake in Alibaba was its saving grace. Here's a look at Yahoo's valuation before the Verizon acquisition. It's clear that the Alibaba stake stopped Yahoo's share price from collapsing into nothingness. Likewise, Walmart stock could skyrocket alongside Flipkart. It's such a brilliant move. Some might say Walmart is spending too much money in trying to fight Amazon, but don't listen to those folks. They are stuck in the past. Every ounce of data shows that online spending is shooting through the roof. Here's a chart from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis: The chart above shows a steady increase in the proportion of e-commerce sales relative to total sales. Even through the recession (the shaded grey area of the chart), we saw e-commerce become an essential part of American life. But since we're talking about India, let's take a look at that country's data. Here's a chart of monthly active users for Amazon, Flipkart, and Snapdeal in India. Although 2016 was a little slow, there is a clear upward trend which could benefit WMT stock. This kind of hands-off investment worked wonders for Yahoo stock, so I'm betting it could work for Walmart stock as well.
By Gaurav S. Iyer, IFC
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WMT Stock: This Could Be Game Changer for Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
By Gaurav S. Iyer, IFC Published : October 1, 2016
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE:WMT) surprised investors earlier this year when it acquired the online retailer Jet.com, Inc. It was a massive acquisition that cost shareholders a ton of cash, but it was done to fuel Walmart stock (WMT).
More importantly, it was the first step toward challenging Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN).
Walmart has no choice but to fight Amazon. It's their only option to keep WMT stock moving to the right and up, particularly in light of new shopping patterns. Consumers are buying more things online, which ends up hurting the prospects of Walmart stock. For the company to remain a global powerhouse, it needs to poach Amazon's market share.
One way they're trying to do that is by scooping up a minority stake in Flipkart. This online retailer is already going head-to-head with Amazon in one of the world's biggest markets: India. (Source: "Walmart May Invest in India's Largest E-Commerce Site Flipkart," Fortune, September 28, 2016.)
Amazon is pouring tons of money into India. It sees the country as a goldmine for AMZN stock, but now Walmart is clued into the game. The company sees that India's growing middle class has created an astounding level of opportunity, so they want to back Flipkart in its fight against Amazon.
For those who may be unfamiliar with Flipkart, it essentially does the same thing as Amazon, except it has been in India longer. And it was built by Indian businessmen who understand the country, who have local partnerships, and who already control a huge portion of the market.
In other words, Amazon is the underdog in India. By contrast, Flipkart is the market leader. Walmart wants to invest in them right now, so that it can reap huge returns on Flipkart 's eventual initial public offering (IPO). This investment could end up driving 75%, 100%, or even 150% gains in WMT stock.
But don't take my word for it; just look at history.
Does the Amazon-Flipkart face-off remind you of anything? For me, it brings back memories of a young Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE:BABA). The Chinese competitor to Amazon conquered its native market before coming across to the West. By then, it was large enough to secure a spot on the New York Stock Exchange.
It was also the biggest IPO in history.
What I remember is that another company got rich off Alibaba's success. That's right; I'm talking about Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO). The Internet giant bought a 15% stake in Alibaba for roughly $7.6 billion. That was in 2012. By the time Yahoo sold off its core assets to Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ), Yahoo's stake in Alibaba was worth approximately $32.0 billion.
Yahoo didn't have anything to do with Alibaba's day-to-day business. The two companies didn't collaborate or actively try to fight Amazon. Just holding those shares of BABA stock led to a massive increase in the value of Yahoo stock. In fact, many commentators said Yahoo's stake in Alibaba was its saving grace.
Here's a look at Yahoo's valuation before the Verizon acquisition.
It's clear that the Alibaba stake stopped Yahoo's share price from collapsing into nothingness.
Likewise, Walmart stock could skyrocket alongside Flipkart. It's such a brilliant move. Some might say Walmart is spending too much money in trying to fight Amazon, but don't listen to those folks. They are stuck in the past. Every ounce of data shows that online spending is shooting through the roof.
Here's a chart from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis:
The chart above shows a steady increase in the proportion of e-commerce sales relative to total sales. Even through the recession (the shaded grey area of the chart), we saw e-commerce become an essential part of American life. But since we're talking about India, let's take a look at that country's data.
Here's a chart of monthly active users for Amazon, Flipkart, and Snapdeal in India.
Although 2016 was a little slow, there is a clear upward trend which could benefit WMT stock. This kind of hands-off investment worked wonders for Yahoo stock, so I'm betting it could work for Walmart stock as well.


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The potential for small islands to pursue sustainable development depends upon maintaining the quality of their necessarily limited natural resources. At their most basic, these resources provide essential life-support systems: maintaining water supplies and soil fertility, and protecting the island from coastal erosion. Yet, historically, many small islands have developed by liquidating natural capital, a process having its origin in the 'frontier' culture of western economies. As a result, the natural life-support systems — for which there are few substitutes — are now critically diminished.
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This is a wise, thoughtful blogpost. (Your question on Twitter was a little joke of course):).
In rhizo people do share a culture? Inhabitants of that global village recognizing some shared interest. Nobody ever uses the Global Village any more.
Dave Cormier is an artist, his questions are more and more stupid and yet most people stay in the course and try to answer. Does that make the rhizo course a kind of congregation?
There is something in rhizo14 culture what I cannot follow, or my motivation is different from what is needed there. I like Dave's style but don't understand him either .. should I?
We should be independent thinkers but instead of it participants answer the teacher's questions as good pupils do. Perhaps I am too old. This is not my revolution, I had it on 1970's student movement ad so on. This rhizo14 rebellion seems childish – how to say politely with this my third language?
I loved your MOOC cow, it is something, suitable to rhizo14 culture..
I am curious, started the course because I wanted to understand rhizomatic learning. Now I lost that.
The course made me read some books about epistomology (that is where I come from) because Deleuze's philosophy seemed more important in this rhizomatic pedagogy. And I do not like these French philosophes that much.
Did try to watch who was leaving the course. In those two or three weeks the group is changed. Some left and some joined. My image of the course is a market, people come and go, people meet friends, visit the pubs in the corner of the market, buy some things and walk to look at the merchandise and leave. Does that make it a crowd?
Spring is coming here, little yellow flowers in the garden, i like that.
So nice to hear from your experiences. Now I know more than just mine. I suppose it is a natural motive to come to study rhizomatic learning and epistemology.
The course as a market? It is one interpretation about learner-centredness, many free options in supermarkets = curriculum. I don't like markets and shopping.
Spring is coming there already and we have just got winter and snow. The autumn was very long this year and we must wait three months before spring comes here. How is it possible, you are not so far from Finland?
I am and have also been fascinated by the concept of 'community as curriculum' – finding out (or hoping to experience) what that means, and how it plays out.
"on some levels I think yes, in the sense that the 'curriculum' – or at least the way the 'curriculum' plays out has pretty much been determined by participants- the fact that there is no content other than the blog posts we write, the comments we make (or very little, if you count Dave's videos and unhangout sessions as teacher created 'course content').
– Interactions – creating & maintaining community… this is where I get a little uncertain. Broadly I think yes, but on some points like norms and shared language I am less certain. Some norms I feel are emergent like those around remixing, creative expression, spontaneous creating and making. And there have been a few debates and different interpretations of terms – the meaning of rhizomatic learning, for one.
– conversational technologies – yes, I think all the spaces and platforms being used support the potential for interaction.
Slide 4 is interesting too – particularly thinking about rhizo14 on the 'sense of community' points. Possibly the weakest links might be 'feelings of membership', 'identification with the group', and perhaps 'immersion'. I'm kind of sensing participation is starting to drop off a little especially with a proportion of the participants also being involved with other MOOCs like FutureEd, and other communities / activities.
So yes – overall, I don't know. And perhaps it's difficult to ever know definitively – because each of our experiences through it will be different.
I got an excellent concept disjoint from you, thanks.
The slides are fine, I agree with it. Miia had another presentation in Finnish and I asked if she has slides about this topic in English – and that is a good intro.
Thanks for the support, my motivation has come back. Thanks!
The image of a core of people that feel close, with ripples going out with fewer people who are less close – resonates.
You saying that the weekly questions do not inspire you, resonates also.
@jeffmerrell crystallised my own question for this un-course: What is teaching presence – when your instructional goal is to shift power?
As a cognitive psychologist and a professional group facilitator, observing group dynamics is something I can do effortlessly. I have tried to name some of the patterns I notice, but that is not my focus. So I am may be doing less than I could to bring that to the foreground.
My attention is more on how the power dynamics shift in the different settings, how people make choices where to participate and why, how honesty and authenticity get 'performed' online, how I make choices about who to trust and why, many un-googable questions that fascinate but the lack of explicit norms of engagement in #Rhizo14 stops me from engaging with those I do not know about them. This is teaching me a lot about being a participant in a new group and how the power I hold as facilitator needs to be owned and named and intentionally used.
It is problematic to analyse group dynamics and as you said: every sentence resonates. How to speak about negative things? I don't know how to do it in English (I am honest and simple and may be rude even I don't mean it).


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using CWEBot.Interfaces;
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                L.Information("Read {bytes} bytes from compressed file.", fs.Length);
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                    {
                        VulnerabilityId = long.Parse(v.id.Replace("-", string.Empty).Replace("CVE", string.Empty)),
                        Title = FilterNonText(v.summary),
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StyleTop Looks
Check Out Stunning Photo of Simone Biles in a Bodysuit as She Shows off Her Toned Muscles
By Comfort Omovre
https://news.amomama.com/257676-check-out-stunning-photo-simone-biles-a.html
As the Tokyo Olympic Games countdown continues, Simone Biles showed that she is in her element as she flaunted her toned muscles in a red bodysuit.
American gymnast Simone Biles is ready for the Olympics and showed just how with a recent post she made on her Instagram page over the weekend.
The four-time Olympic gold medalist showed she is in her element ahead of the Tokyo Olympic Games as she flaunted her toned muscles in a red bodysuit in a picture she shared.
Simone Biles af the FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Championships on October 08, 2019 in Stuttgart, Germany | Photo: Getty Images
In the snapshot, Biles leaned back while clad in the bodysuit, stretching her hands backward as she did. She also pushed her upper body forward, flexing her muscles and showing off her abs.
Her bodysuit exposed her thighs, revealing her toned lower muscles. She gave a little smile as she stared at the camera, rocking a ponytail hairstyle. Biles had just the perfect caption for the post, writing:
"in my element PC: tagged ?."
Many of her 3.9 million Instagram followers took turns to like her post and gush over her stunning look in the photo. One fan wrote that she looked gorgeous, while another fan said she is fit and on fire.
Biles is stepping up her preparations for the Tokyo Olympic Games. Earlier in the month, her schedule for the year was confirmed following the announcement of the "Gold Over America Tour."
She showed her power when she slammed ESPN SportCenter's male-dominated image of the Greatest of all Time for different sports.
Following the announcement, it was confirmed that Biles would make her 2021 debut at the Tokyo World Cup, which is scheduled for May 4.
The Tokyo World Cup serves as the Tokyo Olympic Games' test event for gymnastics. After the test event, she will compete at the US Championships in early June and the US Olympic trials later that month.
The Tokyo Olympic Games follows and will be held in July. After the Olympics, the 19-time world champion will go on a 35-city tour across the United States joined by other female gymnasts.
Biles is one of the most powerful people in American sports and put her global fame in service to the #MeToo Movement as she took misogyny to the mat.
Last month, she showed her power when she slammed ESPN SportCenter's male-dominated image of the Greatest of all Time for different sports.
instagram.com/simonebiles
Simone Biles' Fans Are in Awe as She Poses in Nude Dress with Minimal Makeup
Instagram/simonebiles
Simone Biles Heats It up as She Rocks a Patterned Bikini in Makeup-Free Snap Showing Ocean View
Simone Biles Looks Unforgettable Enjoying a Date with Boyfriend Jonathan in a Blue Top & Jeans
Biles disagreed with the now-deleted post and posited that there were so many women she believes can belong in the picture, an opinion many others agreed with.
Biles is in a relationship with NFL star Jonathan Owens. The cute couple went Instagram official with their relationship last year and have continued to display their love to fans on social media. One can say the gymnast is in the best of hands heading into the Olympics.


The story of Jacob's mysterious dream about a ladder between heaven and earth and the story of Jacob anointing the pillar contain hints and clues about the Messiah.
The LORD revealed the vision of the ladder to Jacob as he slept. In his sleep angels ascended and descended upon him. God confirmed the covenant with him while he slumbered with his head upon a stone. In the morning he erected the same stone as a monument and anointed it with oil.
Sleep represents death. Just as Jacob slept at Bethel, Messiah slept the sleep of death and rested upon the stone. Through the "slumber" of the Messiah, the LORD revealed the ladder to heaven, which is Messiah's atoning suffering and death (the descent) and His triumphant resurrection (the ascent). Angels ascended and descended upon Him, and when He rose up, He moved the stone from before His tomb.
The stone on which Jacob's dreaming head rested became the token of the promises bestowed in the dream. Jacob set up the stone to mark the spot where his encounter with God had occurred. To consecrate the stone as a sacred site, Jacob poured out a libation of oil over the top. He intended to return there and worship God in the future. Later in the Torah, Moses consecrated every implement and furnishing of the Tabernacle through anointing: "And you shall anoint it, to consecrate it" (Exodus 29:36).
This is the first anointing ceremony in the Torah, and it alludes to Messiah, the Anointed One. The Midrash says Jacob anointed the stone with oil to indicate that in the future his descendants would be anointed to priesthood and kingship.


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This article was published on December 27, 2013
Target confirms debit card PIN info stolen in massive breach, but says data is 'safe and secure'
Ken Yeung
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If you've shopped at Target recently using your debit card, then you should be extremely watchful over your account. The retail giant today confirmed that PIN data has been stolen from debit cards as part of a security breach of its system that saw 40 million accounts being exposed. Amid this bombshell of news, Target says that it remains confident that "PIN numbers are safe and secure."
On December 19, the company announced that there was unauthorized access to payment card data in its US stores. Approximately 40 million credit and debit card accounts may have been affected during the time between November 27 and December 15. Since then, Target has been working with law enforcement agencies to try and ascertain what happened and how to fix the problem.
Since the incident, there have been reports that card data have been made available for sale in underground black markets. Credit card provider Chase Bank has placed some temporary restrictions on cards affected, limiting them to $100 withdrawals and $300 in purchases each day.
As for today's news, Target remains adamant that the PIN information is fully encrypted and that the only way to display the information is when it's received by its "external, independent payment processor":
The most important thing for our guests to know is that their debit card accounts have not been compromised due to the encrypted PIN numbers being taken.
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Pulitzer Center Update
'The Land Alcoa Dammed' Honored in SABEW's 23rd Annual Best in Business Competition
March 16, 2018 | Awards
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The sky at dusk is cut by the orange glow of the refinery at the Paranam Operations for Suralco, a subsidiary of Alcoa. The plant is no longer operational. Image by Stephanie Strasburg/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Suriname, 2017.
Three Pulitzer Center grantees have been recognized in the SABEW's 23rd annual Best in Business competition for their story, The Land Alcoa Dammed, originally published in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Written by Rich Lord and Len Boselovic, and photographed by Stephanie Strasburg, the story shows Suriname's struggle to share resources with Alcoa, a Pittsburgh aluminum company and major employer in the tiny Caribbean nation.
Their story is a part of a larger project funded by the Pulitzer Center, Stranded and Strapped: After 100 Years in Suriname, Alcoa Decamps, a four-part series covering Alcoa's messy departure from Suriname after 100 years in the country. The company leaves a hydroelectric dam, multiple company towns, a long-loyal workforce, and a struggling economy in its wake.
A non-profit, independent organization, SABEW works to "encourage comprehensive reporting of economic events without fear or favoritism and to upgrade skills and knowledge through continuous educational efforts."
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Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) and toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) are rare, severe drug reactions that are characterized by mucosal erosions with skin pain and detachment most commonly triggered by medications. SJS and TEN should be considered the same disease along a spectrum but, importantly, are conceptualized as distinct entities from erythema multiforme (EM) and reactive infectious mucocutaneous eruption (RIME), which are both infection-related entities (see Differential Diagnosis section).
SJS is characterized by involvement of detached and detachable skin that is less than 10% of body surface area (BSA), while TEN involves greater than 30% BSA. SJS-TEN overlap occurs when 10%-30% BSA is involved. Note that SJS can rapidly evolve into TEN, and both can have an unpredictable clinical course.
Investigations over the past decade have provided strong evidence that SJS and TEN are secondary to the host's inability to detoxify the culprit drug and its metabolites. This results in a cell-mediated immune response that activates cytotoxic T-cells and induces keratinocyte apoptosis via cell surface death receptor signaling. The primary medications most frequently implicated include allopurinol, NSAIDs, antibiotics, and anticonvulsants. Additional causes, albeit rare, include immunizations and infections.
An SJS/TEN-like generalized bullous eruption has been reported to occur in the setting of immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy. It may occur months after initiation of therapy and may develop in a background of an existing eczematous, lichenoid, urticarial, or morbilliform eruption, and often in the setting of the recent addition of another medication, such as allopurinol or trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole.
The term progressive immunotherapy-related mucocutaneous eruption (PIRME) has been proposed for this condition that shows good response to systemic corticosteroids and drug withdrawal.
Photodistributed SJS/TEN is a rarely reported phenomenon. Almost all reported patients have been women on an antibiotic, an anticonvulsant, or NSAID therapy who developed SJS/TEN limited to photoexposed areas 24-72 hours after sun or tanning bed exposure. Sun-covered mucosal surfaces were also affected.
SJS/TEN can affect all ages and races, with a slight preponderance seen in women (1.5:1) and an increasing incidence with age. Studies have linked certain HLA haplotypes and genetic p450 polymorphisms to increased risk of SJS/TEN when exposed to specific medications. AIDS is associated with a thousandfold increased risk of SJS/TEN.
The onset of SJS/TEN occurs 1-3 weeks, and sometimes as long as 8 weeks, after the ingestion of the culprit medication. It is typically preceded by nonspecific prodromal symptoms followed by characteristic skin and mucosal lesions.
Prodromal symptoms include fevers, malaise, arthralgias / myalgias, ocular irritation, upper respiratory tract symptoms, and oropharyngeal pain and may precede skin / mucosal findings by 1-3 days. Importantly, cutaneous pain or burning skin is a prominent early feature of SJS/TEN, and its presence could signify an ominous sign of impending necrolysis.
Cutaneous lesions may begin as a more typical exanthematous eruption that evolves to dusky, irregular, ill-defined coalescing macules with purpuric or detached centers. Lesions typically appear first on the central trunk, palms, and soles and then spread to involve the face and proximal extremities. As the disease progresses, large areas of serous blistering and sloughing may occur. Skin is typically painful and tender.
Mucosal lesions: Oral mucosal sloughing and crusting is present in more than 90% of cases and ocular involvement in more than 80%. Urogenital and, more rarely, respiratory and gastrointestinal (GI) mucosa may also be involved.
With severe involvement of the eyes, ulceration, scarring, visual impairment, and ultimately blindness may result. An estimated 50%-90% of patients will experience chronic ocular sequelae that may develop as long as 8 years following acute SJS/TEN.
Esophageal, anal, vaginal, and urethral meatal stenosis may be seen. GI bleeding, hepatitis, urinary retention, nephritis, anuria from dehydration and genitourinary injury, myocarditis, pneumothorax, obtundation, and seizures are rare complications. Other involvement includes GI lesions with diarrhea, cystitis, splenic inflammation, arthritis, pneumonitis, otitis media, paronychia, and nail shedding.
Prognosis: SJS carries a 1%-5% mortality risk, may or may not have systemic symptoms, and involves the trunk and face with many isolated lesions. TEN carries a 25%-35% mortality risk, invariably has systemic symptoms, and the lesions on the trunk and face are largely coalesced. Secondary infection of denuded skin plays a significant role in mortality, as does respiratory compromise from mucositis.
Risk factors that confer a worse prognosis include extent of BSA involved, older age, malignancy, number of medications, leukopenias, and elevated serum urea, glucose, and creatinine levels. SCORTEN is a prognostic scoring system for patients with epidermal necrolysis that contemplates many of the above-mentioned risk factors and several others.
Rapid identification and withdrawal of the offending drug and transfer to a burn unit with aggressive supportive care are the most critical steps in management.
Long-term ocular and genitourinary follow-up is vital in mitigating complications.
Related topic: postacute sequelae of SJS and TEN
L51.1 – Stevens-Johnson syndrome
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Erythema multiforme (EM) – Histologic features may not differentiate EM from SJS/TEN. Clinically, however, EM has characteristic target lesions (3 concentric colors that are round and well demarcated) that occur on the extremities more often than the trunk. Precipitating factors are usually infectious (HSV, mycoplasma, etc) and not medications. Lesions may be papular. Note that EM is not considered within the same disease spectrum as SJS/TEN and confers no risk in progressing to TEN. Nikolsky sign negative.
Staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome – Usually occurs in newborns, infants, and young children; mucous membranes and palms/soles are spared. The exfoliated skin is significantly more superficial (subcorneal vs epidermal-dermal). Also look for purulent discharge from the nose, and histologically very different from SJS/TEN. Nikolsky sign can be positive.
Acute generalized exanthematous pustulosis (AGEP) – Look for neutrophilia, eosinophilia, almost confluent erythema with overlying non-follicular pustules. Nikolsky sign can be positive. Histology will clearly differentiate AGEP from SJS/TEN.
Linear IgA dermatosis – Look for tense blisters; histology will help differentiate Linear IgA from SJS/TEN. Direct immunofluorescence will demonstrate linear IgA deposition. DIF is negative in SJS/TEN.
Toxic shock syndrome (TSS) and toxic-shock-like syndrome – Look for sudden onset of exanthematous eruption. Histology will help differentiate TSS and SJS/TEN.
Drug hypersensitivity syndrome (DRESS) – Look for facial edema (hallmark of DRESS), eosinophilia, hepatitis, and other viscera.
Pemphigus vulgaris
Paraneoplastic pemphigus – Significant involvement of the vermillion border.
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Below is a list of drugs with literature evidence indicating an adverse association with this diagnosis. The list is continually updated through ongoing research and new medication approvals. Click on Citations to sort by number of citations or click on Medication to sort the medications alphabetically.
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