Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS) today announced that AltaSens has adopted the Cadence® Modus™ Test Solution for its mixed-signal next-generation image sensors. By using the Modus Test Solution in conjunction with other Cadence digital and verification tools on a 90nm process technology, AltaSens successfully met its aggressive test coverage goals while saving several weeks on design convergence. For more information, please visit www.cadence.com/modus.
The Modus Test Solution enabled AltaSens to deliver its first complex digital-on-top (DOT) image sensor design much more efficiently. The Modus Test Solution's compression logic allowed AltaSens to perform a single pin test, which reduced the impact on the product package and led to reduced test costs. Using the Modus Test Solution's automatic test pattern generation (ATPG) capabilities, the AltaSens design team was able to meet fault coverage goals rapidly with greater than 98 percent static coverage, ensuring that the design functioned as intended and that there were no manufacturing defects that could compromise the image sensors.
To further ease design development, the Modus Test Solution shares a common user interface with the other Cadence digital and verification tools used by AltaSens, including the Genus™ Synthesis Solution, the Innovus™Implementation System and the Quantus™ QRC Extraction Solution. This enabled the AltaSens team to handle complex floorplan challenges out of the box. Additionally, the digital flow's integration with the Cadence Incisive® Verification Platform enabled functional verification throughout the design process, speeding time to market.
The Modus Test Solution enables design engineers to reduce test time by up to 3X, bringing down production test costs and increasing silicon profit margins. The next-generation test solution incorporates a patented, physically aware 2D Elastic Compression architecture that enables compression ratios beyond 400X without impacting design size or routing.


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Q: How to disable external javascript execution / site requests in phantomjs I am trying to run some tests on a website looking for issues.
For the record, I am using phantomjs with the ghostdriver in selenium from C#
Everything is working fine, but I would like to speed things up. Checking on the headers in fiddler, a lot of time is spent on external calls to external sites (facebook / twitter) for the social plugins all sites seem to think is a good idea these days :-\
I am not required to test these functions, so am trying to disable external site calls, which should speed my tests up some what.
Is there a way in phantom to get the effect that noscript / ghostery gives in firefox?

A: To filter invalid requests, you could use the onResourceRequested callback : this allow you to abort unwanted urls.
Here is a basic example for stackoverflow.
var system = require('system');
var page = require('webpage').create();
var domain = 'stackoverflow.com'
var url = 'http://www.stackoverflow.com';

page.onResourceRequested = function (requestData, networkRequest) {
    if (requestData.url.indexOf('.js')===-1 && requestData.url.indexOf(domain) === -1) {
        networkRequest.abort();
        console.log('aborted :'+ requestData.url)
    }
};

page.onResourceReceived = function (response) {
    console.log('Response (#' + response.url + ', stage "' + response.stage + '"): ');
};

if (system.args.length !== 1) {
    console.log("Usage: phantomjs filter.js url");
} else {
    page.open(url, function (status) {
        if (status = 'succeed') {
            console.log("status", status);
            phantom.exit(0);
        }
    });
}

Note that it's not recommended to abort js files, as this can cause a javascript error on you page.
Another way to speed up your test is to disable images using argument --load-images=false

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My throat is on fire!
What is pharyngitis? An inflammation of the pharynx causing a sore throat. This is a diagnosis most everyone has had at some point. There are multiple forms of pharyngitis that we will discuss in this blog.
The main symptom is a sore throat.
The most common pharyngitis is viral pharyngitis lasting 5- 7 days.
The next most common pharyngitis is bacterial lasting longer than 5 days.
The next most common being fungal.
Candida Albicans, which can be complicated with thrush.
All types of pharyngitis can lead to complications simple in house testing at one of our various locations can help narrow down a type of pharyngitis to better cure you.
Thank you for taking time to read this I will have a more specific blog on strep pharyngitis in the near future.
What's the Difference Between the Stomach Flu and the Flu?


REGULAR MEETING of Delta Municipal Council to be held Monday, October 6, 2014 at 7:00 p.m. in the Council Chamber of the Delta Municipal Hall, 4500 Clarence Taylor Crescent, Delta, British Columbia.
United Way Campaign Co-Chairs - Doreann Mayhew and Shannon Hadley.
Delegation regarding Delta Chamber of Commerce and Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters.
Correspondence from Ian Tait, Executive Director, Delta Chamber of Commerce and Delta Visitor Centre dated September 29, 2014 refers.
Backgrounder regarding manufacturing in BC, also refers.
Correspondence from Mayor Jackson to the Honourable James Moore, Minister of Industry dated September 30, 2014 regarding the Radio Tower Transmission Proposal, Point Roberts, Washington.
Correspondence from the Honourable James Moore dated September 23, 2014 refers.
Journal of the October 1, 2014 session of the House of Commons, Parliament of Canada also refers.
Correspondence from Lorcan O'Melinn, Vice President, Administration and CFO, British Columbia Institute of Technology and Dr. Peter Nunoda, President, Vancouver Community College dated October 2, 2014 refers.
Report by the Human Resources and Corporate Planning Department dated September 30, 3014 regarding Delta DLC Landfill Site Tax Exemption Program – New Applications.
Report by the Office of the Municipal Clerk regarding Amendments to the 2014 Council Meeting Schedule for October 27 and October 28.
"THAT a letter be sent to Port Metro Vancouver indicating Delta Council's support for the Delta Farmers' Institute's position regarding the Port Metro Vancouver Habitat Enhancement Banking Program - Westham Island Canoe Pass Tidal Marsh Project." Memorandum from the Director of Human Resources and Corporate Planning refers.
Memorandum from the Director of Human Resources and Corporate Planning dated October 2, 2014 refers.
9 items of external correspondence for information circulated to Council as of October 3, 2014.


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Sign says: Haifa billboards not making enough money
The city comptroller said there were serious flaws such as failures to register payments by advertisers and failures to issue receipts to them.
By Miriam Bulwar David-Hay (Translated)
City treasurer Jacky Vakim is furious that poor management of the municipal signs department has already cost the city of Haifa millions of shekels, and that now the municipal engineering department is preventing the city from making money by limiting the places where public billboards can be erected, reports Yediot Haifa. Vakim said Haifa was making just NIS 14 million per year from its public billboards and signs at a time when Tel Aviv and Jerusalem were making three times this sum. According to the report, the municipal signs department first came in for criticism by the city comptroller, who said the department was operating improperly, with serious flaws such as failures to register payments by advertisers, failures to issue receipts to them, and the unauthorized giving of discounts. Vakim told a recent council meeting that in the wake of the comptroller's criticisms, most of the department's staff had been replaced. He said the signs department had been "one big mess," with advertisers "putting signs up wherever they want and paying as much as they want," and the department had not made nearly as much money as it should have. "We are speaking about a significant loss to the municipality. I believe we can reduce some of the losses and change the rates even retroactively in certain cases," Vakim said. But he said he was now being frustrated by the engineering department, which was limiting the places where public signs could be put up. "At the moment we earn one third of the amount that Tel Aviv and Jerusalem earn (from public signs). Engineering management cannot decide that every second house in the city is designated for preservation (and therefore cannot have advertising signs placed on it). The policy has to change and become more flexible. Signage is a good source of income for every city and should be maximized," Vakim said. But a municipal spokesman said the limits on the placing of signs were designed to preserve order and esthetics, and to prevent a "wild competition" from breaking out between advertisers. The spokesman said it would be easy to maximize profits by allowing signs to be posted everywhere, but this would come at the expense of the quality of life of residents and of the beauty of the city.

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Q: How do I send an email via mime-mail-ses which has a proper "from" name? The SES data type has the sesFrom field. Everywhere on the Internet I see that I should write something like "\"My Name\" <mymail@gmail.com>" in order to display My Name in the "from" field. But when I put this into the sesFrom field I get
Not sent due to SESException {seStatus = Status {statusCode = 400, statusMessage = "Bad Request"}, seCode = "InvalidParameterValue", seMessage = "Missing '<'", seRequestId = "acf8bb7d-0440-11e8-94c8-45570c829243"}

I checked sources and all seems to be fine there. How do I set the sesFrom field, so a name is displayed?

A: OK, got it. Instead of writing "\"My Name\" <mymail@gmail.com>" :: Address and relying on OverloadedStrings one should write
Address (Just "Ny Name") "mymail@gmail.com"

I'd say the library should parse "\"My Name\" <mymail@gmail.com>" into that address, but whatever.


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Q: Recurrence General formulas In this post I will share general formulas for recurrences I have worked out, just for fun.
And you are more than welcome to share yours.
I will also include a table for a quick check.

A: *

*

$$u_{n} = au_{n-1} + b$$
$$\Downarrow$$
i: $$u_n = u_0a^n + \frac {b(a^n-1)} {a-1} $$
or ii: $$u_n = u_0a^n + Σ_{m=1}^{n} ba^m$$

Proof:
Introduce another recurrence $v$, define $v_n = u_n + \frac b {a-1}$
$\therefore u_n = v_n - \frac b {a-1}$
$v_n = u_n + \frac b {a-1} = (au_{n-1} + b) + \frac b {a-1} = au_{n-1} + \frac {ab}{a-1} = a(u_{n-1} + \frac b {a-1}) = av_{n-1}$
$\therefore v_n = av_{n-1}$ (definition of $v$ in terms of $v$)
$v_n = a^rv_{n-r} = a^nv_0$ (general formula for $v$)
$\because u_n = v_n - \frac b {a-1}$ (definition of $v$ in terms of $u$)
$\therefore u_n = a^nv_0 - \frac b {a-1} = a^n(u_0 + \frac b {a-1}) - \frac b{a-1}$ (substitute $v$ s with $u$ s)
$u_n = a^nu_0 + \frac {a^nb} {a-1} - \frac b {a-1} = a^nu_0 + \frac {a^nb-b} {a-1} = a^nu_0 + \frac {b(a^n-1)} {a-1}$
$\therefore$
$$u_n = a^nu_0 + \frac {b(a^n-1)} {a-1}$$
Notice that the second term is the formula for a geometric series (Kadry, 2014) $ba^{n-1}$
Therefore the expression above equals to:
$$u_n = u_0a^n + Σ^n_{m=1} ba^m$$

Reference:
Seifedine Kadry,
Mathematical Formulas for Industrial and Mechanical Engineering,
Elsevier,
2014,
Pages 65-111,
ISBN 9780124201316,
https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-420131-6.00005-1.
(https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780124201316000051)


Jase Wilson, Neighborly's CEO, simply describes his business as "modernizing access to public finance". FinTech Collective is excited to be part of helping Jase and the team tackle an inefficient and opaque $3.8Tn market.
Traditionally, cities use brokers and underwriters to find traditional institutional investors to buy bonds like large banks and financial institutions, explained Wilson. His company, a registered broker itself, has put that search online. It's not just large banks that buy the bonds on Neighborly. It's also people who live in the cities asking for funds. For example, with a Cambridge, Mass. project, residents who live in all five zip codes in the Massachusetts town bought bonds.


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HFP Medical
Falcony's platform has made it easier to spot trends and have constructive conversations about learning events in HFP Medical.
Growing a company through merging several smaller units into one is rarely an easy task. Faced with the challenge of scaling their processes, HFP Medical spent months looking for an optimal solution to their demanding internal communication needs. Learning from incidents and improving processes proved to be challenging when the company is spread out over five locations, and the tools used were MS Word, Excel, and even pen and paper.
"We wanted a process to capture all the learning," says Chris Adams, Managing Director at HFP Medical, regarding the importance of effective internal communication. "Now with Falcony, I can drive a more structured discussion of what we should do and why," continues Mr Adams. By adopting Falcony, HFP Medical has been able to facilitate internal communication and share best practises, thus capturing all the learning.
HFP Medical is a partnership between five surgeries in West London, that runs primary care health services. They formed in 2017 when three GP practices merged, and two more surgeries joined one year later. Across their five sites HFP Medical employs approximately 150 staff, of whom 60 are doctors. They care for 68 000 patients and average around 4 000 contacts per week. They are proud to work in the NHS and aim to continually improve on their services to help their patients every day.
CHALLENGES BEFORE ADOPTION OF FALCONY
HFP Medical is one of the rare mid-sized companies in the UK medical landscape. They are significantly larger than most standalone GP surgeries, but smaller than the huge medical centres staffing thousands of employees. As a result of their size, HFP Medical needed to change and standardise many of their processes in order to systematically log incidents and share learnings across locations. "Before Falcony, there tended to be a focus on the big things that could go wrong, so attention was disproportionately given to potentially life-threatening situations, which are quite rare. Big things that have gone massively wrong" explains Mr. Adams and continues. "In focusing on this, we were missing out on the details surrounding small things, where no harm has actually happened, but if we review it and change the underlying process, we make the service better and safer."
Prior to Falcony, HFP Medical documented incidents using MS Excel, Word or by simply writing them down on a piece of paper and storing it in a physical file. Even before merging five practices together this was barely a passable method of documentation, but now they needed a better, centralised system for incident reporting. "I looked at various systems over a period of 8 months but couldn't find anything suitable for our needs. Datix is often used by others in the NHS but they are better catered to massive healthcare settings. Smaller GP practices usually get by just writing things down somewhere and hoping to find it later," explains Mr Adams regarding his search for a system to track incidents and facilitate internal communication. "When I found Falcony, I liked that it seemed very simple and customisable. I made contact and found that Falcony's platform ticked all the boxes; clean, customisable and well designed. Cloud based is also a big plus."
Due to the subscription model that Falcony's platform is based on it was an easy decision for Mr. Adams to go with Falcony. "We could start small and expand from there. No upfront investment needed. I knew early on that I was going to give it a go," recalls Mr. Adams about the decision process. "I told the board what the cost per year was; they were happy."
ADOPTION OF FALCONY
HFP Medical set up a few templates in Falcony and started with a small number of staff as users in March 2019. "It was possible to just get going and make new iterations according to our needs," says Mr Adams. They have since then expanded the usage to every clinical staff member across their five surgeries.
One of the main draws of Falcony was the simplicity and customisation possibilities. The user friendliness of the platform means that users find their solutions intuitively, and that the entire reporting process is quick and easy. "The simplicity is paramount, because if it is too complicated users will just disengage and we end up not having anything reported," says Mr Adams. The admins are able to set up the reporting forms however they wish, making it possible to emphasise speed and simplicity. "We wanted to view incidents less as errors or accidents, and more as opportunities to learn and improve. So this was a cultural shift. The result has been that users are reporting even the minor stuff, not just the big events that have to be discussed," says Mr Adams regarding some of the initial changes that the adoption of Falcony brought about.
RESULTS AND BENEFITS
Mr Adams set out to streamline HFP Medical's incident reporting system in order to gather information for process improvement. With the shift of focus from documenting only what had to be documented, to collecting learning events, they have had an increase in entries logged. "Because it is so quick and easy to make an entry, we have had a steady increase in entries made. It is much easier for people to report something," explains Mr Adams.
Gathering rich data is also useful for spotting trends, some of which may only be apparent when viewing from a bird's view. "One of the benefits has become apparent only recently – I looked for patterns and was able to see the biggest categories for errors. Now that we know of them, we know how to mitigate and counter these issues," says Mr Adams regarding the benefits the platform offers. "We're in the people-business, and this has helped facilitate conversations. We need to talk about what is going well for us and what is not, Falcony has been useful for that."
Due to the particular nature of the healthcare industry in the UK and working in the NHS, HFP Medical has not been able to link their use of the platform to any direct increases in revenue or growth. However, having a tool like Falcony makes their business scalable. With a cloud based, centralised system for internal communication and reporting, they have removed many of the challenges that come with being scattered across multiple locations. "It is easier now to discuss learning events that have happened during our weekly clinical meetings. At one practice they pull up Falcony on the big screen and go through it. They discuss what is there, and if anyone has got something to add they literally type it in to the platform then and there," laughs Mr Adams.
Falcony has made the business more scalable and increased the number of observations reported to HFP Medical, which in turn has led to higher quality data to learn from. By analysing the trends found in their observations, they have also identified some key areas that require further attention, with the aim of making the business safer and better.
Contacts per week
"Before Falcony, there tended to be a focus on the big things that could go wrong, so attention was disproportionately given to potentially life-threatening situations, which are quite rare. Big things that have gone massively wrong. In focusing on this, we were missing out on the details surrounding small things, where no harm has actually happened, but if we review it and change the underlying process, we make the service better and safer. Falcony has helped capture all the learning."


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Freedom rider speaks to campus
Aaron Mudd
A freedom rider and civil rights activist shared stories with WKU students about his life-long struggle to establish a nonviolent international movement.
Activist Bernard Lafayette Jr. shared stories of his work with the civil rights movement, during which he said he was jailed 27 times and kidnapped twice. He spoke to students about his work in Selma, Ala. to help disenfranchised African-Americans.
"A lot of people experience going to jail and marching and participating in demonstrations," he said. "The most important thing we're talking about here is what lessons did you take away from those experiences, and how do you put those lessons into a learning pattern?"
Lafayette was invited to speak by Eric Bain-Selbo, head of the Department of Philosophy & Religion. Bain-Selbo estimated that a mix of 50 to 60 students and faculty came to hear the activist.
Lafayette is visiting Bowling Green, Ky. to attend the Southern Kentucky Book Fest, held on April 26. Lafayette wrote a book with Kathryn Lee Johnson entitled "In Peace and Freedom: My Journey in Selma."
"In Peace and Freedom is an account of how the Selma movement got started," he said. "There are many accounts of the atrocities that took place and the marches that took place, but I felt some sense of responsibility because most people didn't know how the Selma movement got started in the first place."
Lafayette's work with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee took him into rural areas of the South, where local African Americans felt too intimidated to vote.
"They were not welcomed by the people in that community to participate in the voting process," he said. "So our job, as directors of the various projects, was to get more people going down to attempt to register to vote to establish a case that they were being denied. Can't prove people were denied if they never tried."
According to American journalist and historian David Halberstam's "The Children," Lafayette was able to organize with other activists a larger march on Montgomery Ala. This ultimately pressured former president Lyndon Baines Johnson to push the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which prohibited voter discrimination.
But Lafayette paid a price for his successes.
While Lafayette was on a march through the mountains of Colombia, he was kidnapped by FARC, an armed group part of a conflict that continues to this day.
After a few hours trekking through the jungle together Lafayette sat down and demanded some food.
"I knew that the statistics show that if you're kidnapped, and they don't kill you within two hours, you have some running room," he said.
His kidnappers did not know how to handle adamant Lafayette.
"Unusual but genuine behavior has the potential to arrest the conscience of your assailant," he said. "Now that is unusual for somebody who is kidnapped to demand that they eat, but it was very genuine cause I was hungry."
Ultimately, his kidnappers led him out of the jungle on horseback.
Barrett Wright, a Glasgow graduate student, asked Lafayette for advice about how to conduct research. He wanted to know why people there did not resist oppression as openly as Lafayette did.
"One is you want to look at the earlier behavior of the dominant culture," he said. "What you want to do is look at previous behavior and the response."
Wright said that what Lafayette suggested was what he was discovering in his research. He said that whites and blacks formed a sort of parental relationship and the domination of another group doesn't always have to be forceful.
"The methods that he shared with me today was definitely to look at the landscape of the whites that were the dominant culture, look at them, what was their makeup," Wright said. "See that's one element that I hadn't really looked into yet."
Lafayette worked with Martin Luther King Jr. in his work to organize movements. Lafayette quoted the last words he remembers King telling him before King was assassinated. They are words that have guided him all these years.
"He said 'Now Bernard the next movement we're gonna have is to institutionalize and internationalize nonviolence'," he said. "Those last words I had from Martin Luther King, five hours later he was assassinated. So I was left with getting ready to prepare to institutionalize nonviolence and internationalize it, and that's what I've been doing since April 1968."
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During 2017 many questions were raised over the future of retail, with many claiming that retail as we know it was 'dying.' However, there is cause for optimism. If 2017 was the year of retail's decline, 2018 is the start of the 'retail evolution'.
It remains as true as ever that to survive it is imperative retailers fully understand their customer's wants and needs.
Stores will need to create excitement to pull shoppers into an environment where they want to spend time beyond making a purchase.
3. Are you ready to co-mingle?
Future developments will be largely mixed-use featuring retail, leisure, office space and residential elements.
As everything is now available at the touch of a button, customers want stores to offer bespoke products and informed guidance on product selection.
Retailers' must integrate online and offline sales channels in a connected space to continue to attract and retain customers.
Improvements in technology now allow brands to showcase the journey of a product; whether to protect their reputation, to inform their customers, or to ensure the quality and authenticity of goods.
Real-time engagement and rise of the 'Insta influencer' is changing how people shop and engage with brands.
In-store tech is driving 'assisted shopping' – think smart mirrors, voice assisted shopping and virtual reality.
Retailers are seeing the value of having a presence in outlet centres. This has generated global growth due to the belief that they provide a solution to 'excess stock and slow growth'.
Technology has changed the way people pay – retailers will need to accommodate this with store layouts and review payment methods accepted in store.
'Memories' – give shoppers something that lasts beyond their purchase and makes them want to come back for more.
'Fun and Community' – create curated spaces people want to visit and spend time in, with an emphasis on fun.
'Expanding Horizons' – incorporate culture, history into the wider retail experience.
'Togetherness' – shopping destinations should appeal to all ages and demographics.
Landlords, occupiers and owners that have too much of the wrong space in the wrong location will be defeated during this evolution period. However, we believe these spaces can be transformed by remixing the tenant offering, redeveloping or refurbishing spaces to create thriving destinations.
It's important to remember it is not a one-size fits all approach and strategic changes should be considered along with expert advice. One thing we know for sure, retail is not dead it is simply going through an evolutionary phase and the future is exciting.


Gawvi is back with his follow up to his hit EP, Lost In Hue, which released only about a month and a half ago. The infectious dance tunes are back, and Holding Hue certainly sounds like a continuation of his previous work.
The EP starts with "Desire," a sweet song about family and being there through good times and bad. Already we can see that Holding Hue is bit better lyrically than Lost in Hue, but overall it still has typical dance song depth. Darrein Safron's vocals fit the tempo nicely, and the tune is catchy, albeit slightly boring. "Still Got Me," sung by Jocelyn Bowman, is a mellow-sounding track dedicated to Gawvi's wife. This is one of the better songs and has a very attractive beat.
The best song out of the two EPs lyrically is "Don't Have To Feel Sorry." The lyrics from Darrein Safron are heartfelt cries saying that there must be more to life than what the world has to offer. John Givez also has a really nice verse about the problems he has, but follows it up with "'Cause I don't need no pity up in my party/And I don't see no shame in being honest." The beat throughout is one of the most unique I've heard from Gawvi and complements the lyrics perfectly.
"Free" is the only song here that I would say is not that good. The lyrics are hard to understand because of the beat, and the chorus is nothing new.
Overall, Holding Hue is the best Gawvi has put out to date. The songs slow it down and focus more on the message, more than in Lost in Hue, and the beats feel more unique. I forsee myself playing this over and over throughout the coming months.


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Tag archive for 'chicken pox'
By Staff On Monday, March 30th, 2015
Second chickenpox case reported by New Hope-Solebury School District
The New Hope-Solebury School District Health Office Monday notified local parents and guardians that a second case of chickenpox has been diagnosed in the district, this one involving a student attending the middle More...
By Staff On Friday, March 13th, 2015
Chickenpox case reported at New Hope-Solebury High School
The New Hope-Solebury School District today emailed a notice to local parents and guardians informing them that "there has been a case of Varicella (Chicken Pox) diagnosed in a student at the High School." The More...


Filed under: Other Stuff, Paper Stuff.
We're just two dorks who wanted to show gratitude for the love and support of our friends by throwing them (and us) a big party. Somewhere in the middle of all this, we got married, bringing Chinese / Vietnamese tea ceremony traditions to a modern, American event.
Elements of zen, DIY (do-it-yourself), art, and design were used to bring our story to life. Hope you enjoy my (Thao) OCD documentation.


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An experimental test may help confirm cases of chronic fatigue syndrome
By Shraddha Chakradhar @scchak
Researchers are developing a device that could offer an effective way of diagnosing myalgic encephalomyelitis, also known as chronic fatigue syndrome. R. Esfandyarpour
A new device could offer an effective way of diagnosing myalgic encephalomyelitis, also known as chronic fatigue syndrome. People with the disease experience symptoms such as fatigue, sleep abnormalities, and pain, but it's been notoriously hard to diagnose.
Stanford's Ron Davis first got the idea for the device back in 2015 while attending an event at the Institute of Medicine where panelists debated whether the disease was a real condition, he recalled.
But he knew it was real. His son, then in his late 20s, had been living with the disease for almost two years. It's estimated that ME/CFS affects 2.5 million Americans, but the true numbers are unknown, as more than 80% of people who have the disease don't have a diagnosis for it, according to the advocacy group MEAction. Davis' own son had gone through a nearly five-year struggle to get his own diagnosis of the illness.
"It has been viewed as a psychosomatic disease," said Davis, a biochemist and geneticist. "When doctors make their usual measurements, these patients come out to be normal. But, they're not measuring enough things."
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Now, Davis and other scientists at Stanford and the University of California, Irvine, have created a device that could make diagnosing ME/CFS much simpler. The research was published Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Known as a "nanoneedle," the new device picks up on certain changes in electrical signals to identify people with ME/CFS.
"It's an important finding because it demonstrates a biological difference between people with ME/CFS and healthy individuals," said Maureen Hanson, a molecular biologist at Cornell University who was not involved in the research. "There are still people who still don't believe the disease is a real biological illness rather than a mental problem."
The small device that Davis and his colleagues created was originally developed to detect changes in electrical signals when cancer cells were exposed to different treatments. They then decided to try it with samples from ME/CFS patients. Previous research from others had suggested that the disease causes cells to use up energy more quickly and have a more difficult time recovering from illness and other stressors.
And so the researchers decided to mimic this by stressing cells from 20 healthy controls and 20 ME/CFS patients by exposing them to increased levels of salt.
"We're forcing them to consume [energy] and they're not happy in this new environment," said Rahim Esfandyarpour, a bioengineer at the University of California, Irvine, and the study's lead author. "When they face this new environment, their reaction is different than the reaction of healthy cells."
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The cells from those with ME/CFS showed a clear spike in electrical signals, indicating a heightened stress response. In contrast, the samples from the control group were fairly level. Davis said he was surprised that there was such a delineation between the two groups.
"It was a very, very clear signal. The healthy cells had no signal whatsoever," Davis said.
Previous attempts at distinguishing ME/CFS samples had almost always resulted in some kind of overlap with healthy controls, Hanson said. In her own work studying the gut microbiome, she was able to show that the microbiota in those with ME/CFS was different, on average, but there were still some commonalities with healthy people. And although the current study was only in a small population, "it's still impressive that there's this complete discrimination," Hanson said.
Researchers don't yet know what's behind the discrepancy in the two groups. What's also unclear is whether the difference is unique to ME/CFS or whether other autoimmune diseases would also cause similar spikes in electrical signals.
"I think the next thing they need to do is test a lot more patients and compare a lot of other diseases — like MS — to make sure what they're seeing is truly because of ME/CFS," said Brian Vastag, a former journalist for the Washington Post who has been outspoken about his experience living with ME/CFS.
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Davis and Esfandyarpour already have plans to do just that and also intend to use the device to test potential new drugs for the disease, which currently has no treatments approved by the Food and Drug Administration. "A diagnostic test is probably the biggest thing that could happen for patients right now," Vastag said. "Treatment would be huge, but most patients still wait years to get a diagnosis."
For patients like Vastag and family members like Davis and Hanson — whose adult son also has ME/CFS — even the possibility of a diagnostic is promising. Although it can't help Davis' son, who is now bedridden, unable to speak, and relies on a feeding tube due to his ME/CFS, the new device "offers a tiny little point of hope as opposed to none, which has been the case for the past 30 years," he said.
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Roopa Hegde says:
Can anyone let me know if the detection service is available? My 18 year old son has been suffering since one year and almost in non-functional state. Can anyone help? Please?
Patricia Conte says:
Is this device available for people now who suffer from CFS.
jimells says:
Thank you for an article that doesn't include dismissive remarks from Regious Professor Sir Simon Wessely and friends. Everyone with half a brain understands this is preliminary work that needs replication and further development.
Instead of raining on our parade, how about encouraging NIH and the UK funders to finally step up and show us some money, Sir Simon? And speaking of NIH, about you, Dr Collins? We have a well-defined project that is desperate for funding. Can you not pry loose a few million from the thirty thousand millions you get from Congress every year?
Actually I already know the answers to these questions. US health authorities made a very loud statement recently when they abruptly cancelled the CFS Advisory Committee.
Eli green says:
I've been a little better in the last couple years but for many years I had to sleep at least 18 hours a day I hope I can take this test
David Denyer says:
Is it possible that this new device could also lead to diagnosis for other "phantom diseases" like Fibromyalgia considering that the disease has been linked to electric signals in nerves?
Mark Thorson says:
The famous physician S. Weir-Mitchell wrote case reports during the U.S. Civil War that we would instantly recognize as CFS. Weir-Mitchell was an expert in detecting malingering, and he knew every trick soldiers would use to shirk their duty. And yet, he believed what we call CFS was a real disease. He also believed extreme stress was the cause — many of his cases were men who endured forced marches followed by a battle. Weir-Mitchell was among the most eminent physicians of his time. Among many other accomplishments, he was a founder and second president of the American Physiological Society.
Such an amazing bit of American history! Thank you, Mark!
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Fellow Islanders, this year, when we celebrate the Fourth of July and we head down to the beach with friends and neighbors to set off fireworks, let's all commit to collecting the fireworks debris from the beach and disposing it in our home garbage bins.
Last fall, when I participated in a worldwide beach clean-up, I was amazed to find a lot of plastic fireworks paraphernalia. I understand the scenario — setting up the fireworks, having a great time, setting them off, and then when we're all good and tired, heading home. Then the tide heads in and sweeps the debris out into the Sound. The wildlife cannot distinguish it from food, and it ends up in the stomachs of our fish and birds. That's not what we intended.
So this year, when we head to the beach the evening of the Fourth, please bring a flashlight (there's one on your phone) and a bag and make sure to haul out the debris. And when we take walks during the summer, consider picking up any stray plastic that you may find. It will be a good act on your part!


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House of Cards Season 3, Chapter 28 – Frank Underwood
February 27, 2015 by FullCustodyDad / Fred Campos
I have taken the day off to watch Netflix's House of Cards Season 3. Spoiler alert, please don't read any further if you haven't see the episode or watched the show. This post is dedicated to my House of Cards Marathon, Season 3, Chapter 28. Enjoy and share in the discussion!
House of Cards Season 3, Chapter 28 Summary – Frank Underwood Decides No Re-Election
President Underwood (Keven Spacey) tries hard to rally his party to back his American Works bill. Instead of hearing him, they propose that he not seek re-election in 2016 in an effort to unite the party. Things aren't going well for Claire (Robin Wright) either. Claire's U.N. ambassador bid runs into trouble when she makes a miss quote during her confirmation hearing.
Frank and Claire work the phones in an effort to get support for both their causes. By evening Frank has gotten no supporters and wrecks his desk lamp and sits exhausted on the floor. Claire shows support by engaging him in encouragement sex. They both start their next day confident but Claire loses the confirmation by two votes. She shows great courage and speaks well to the press.
Frank then comes up with an idea to address his plan directly to the public. Frank finally agrees with his Democratic party, of not seeking re-election, but does an excellent job of pushing his American Works agenda in a bold address to the American people.
Doug Stamper (Michael Kelly) still feels lost not working for the President and continues to turn to drugs and alcohol. The President asks Seth Grayson (Derick Cicil) to visit and check in on Doug. Seth appears to show up at the right time to keep Doug from taking his addiction too far. Jackie Sharp (Molly Parker) is unhappy with her position as Whip. She is working Remy Danton (Mahershala Ali) to consider her for a Vice-President nominee.
I've always said, that 'Power is more important that money.' But when it comes to elections, money gives power… well a run for it's money. … We have to reverse our thinking. When the wind is blowing at Gail forces, there is no point in sailing against it." – Frances Underwood
Fred Campos' Thoughts on the Episode
This chapter has good character development and a very realistic twist in that Claire doesn't automatically win her confirmation as an U.N. Ambassador. The show makes me feel sorry for Claire loosing only by two vote (52-48), but I was impressed she was able to multitask and stayed calm. She did great without prep in her immediate press conference, showing she learned her lesson from the conformation hearing and this time kept her cool. The episode certainly shows how tough politics and "the process" really can be.
I loved the split screen view of both Claire and Francis during the scene of them rounding up support. In the previous episode, as well as others, they mostly exhibited a business relationship and sleep in separate beds. Excellent use of jazz music as Frank sat on the floor exhausted and distraught after obviously having it out and destroyed his desk lamp. I am not sure that sex solves everything, but I was pleased that Claire tried to connect and encourage her husband. It appears Frank and Claire are trying to work together and may perhaps love each other. I would like to see their relationship grow deeper.
Once pushed to a corner, Frank was up to his old tricks of appearing to be working with people who don't support him. He continues to twists situations to his advantage and was certainly doing this with his American Works program. Jackie is becoming more dark and cunning as a character. I think she'll be the new "Zoe Barnes" this season, as she'll do anything to get what she wants. I am intrigued as to where to writers will go with her in future episodes.
The show ends with a pregnant pause and close up of Claire's frying pan eggs. Season three is certainly off to a sizzling good start. I love it!
Four Stars for Chapter 28!
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Father of killer boyfriend released from custody as police continue probe
Shaquawn Alleyne
By Editor On May 4, 2021
The father of murder suspect, Shaquawn Alleyne, was released from police custody on Tuesday morning, four days after he was arrested for his alleged involvement in the murder of 20-year-old Shonnette Dover.
The older Alleyne was arrested on Friday last, moments after Dover's body was found buried in a sitting position in the backyard of his son's Canvas City, Wismar, Linden house.
Police were led to the crime scene by Dover's 15-year-old sister, who claimed that she saw when Shaquawn shot and buried Dover on the evening of April 3.
The older Alleyne was released on Tuesday morning, hours before the teen was charged Tuesday afternoon at the Linden Magistrate's Court with accessory after the fact of murder.
The News Room understands that the police investigators sought advice on possible charges from the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for both the teen and the older Alleyne.
While the DPP recommended charges for the teen, who has since been remanded to the Sophia Juvenile Holding Centre, no charges were recommended for the father. Instead, the DPP has reportedly asked police detectives to conduct further investigations.
Police have cordoned off the area where Dover's body was found buried (Photo: News Room/April 30, 2021)
While the older Alleyne was allegedly informed by his son of the murder, he was reportedly not present when the body was buried.
According to what the police reported on the morning when Dover's body was found, they questioned the teen hours prior in the presence of a Child Care and Protection Officer at the Wismar Police Station Criminal Investigation Department and subjected her to a video interview.
The child revealed then that on the night the victim went 'missing', the boyfriend, Shaquawn Alleyne was oiling "his brownish gun in the sister's living room." He then pointed the gun at Dover, who told him "he like play and he should put away that thing."
The 15-year-old further revealed that she then heard a sound like a squib and Alleyne said: "oh shoots, I shoot that girl."
According to the child, she saw her sister's mouth open and blood on her face. She claimed she told Alleyne they should take her sister to the hospital but he said "no she dead already."
Shonnette Dover
He then accompanied the sister to his father and told him what he did and his father said to him: "Don't tell (me) stupidness, why (you) playing with the gun?"
The teen and the boyfriend subsequently left and collected a spade from a man and dug a hole aback the house where the victim was buried; the suspect then hid the gun.
A post-mortem examination found that the woman died as a result of a single gunshot injury to the head.
Police have issued a wanted bulletin for Alleyne, also known as "Iswe", for questioning in relation to the murder committed between April 3 to 30, 2021.
It is believed that he escaped to French Guiana.
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I haven't done any gaming in a number of years, but I have an iMac with the 680MX arriving on Wednesday, so I thought I'd put it to good use.
I'm planning on Portal 2 (Portal was basically the last game I played), Starcraft II, and League of Legends (one of my closest friends from college is the head of marketing for Riot Games).
It depends on what games you like and also if you only plan on playing native Mac games and not under Bootcamp. With Bootcamp, you'd get the latest games like Tomb Raider (2013) and Hitman Absolution.
If you prefer RTS-type games like Starcraft, you can narrow by category.
It needs a good internet connection but you don't need to download the game itself.
And here I am fiddling with Civilization IV (it was $8, OK?), missing Strategic Conquest (almost prevented me from graduating university back more than a few years), Sim City 4 and Harpoon 2.
Not stressing my 680MX at all (at least with games). SketchUp, well, that's another story!
Thanks for the suggestions, Marvin.
Bergermeister, you made me remember I have Civ IV! I stowed it away because I spent to much time on it. Old or not, I'm sure it will look great on my new iMac.
I really had no good reason to get the 680MX other than I got a bonus at work and decided what the hell.
I've been cleaning up the files on my summer 2007 MBP. The iMac should be arriving Wednesday.
Cleaning a closet today turned up a few old games CD-Roms including Stronghold. Too bad they won't run anymore.
Are there any emulators or such?
I don't like the new versions of some of my old favorites; things have gotten too fancy or my brain hasn't updated.
Well my iMac arrived yesterday. I put migration assistant to work around 10:30 last night. When I went to bed at 11, it said it 24 (!) hours of work to do (this is to transfer roughly 90 GB of information). When I woke up at 7, it was probably 35-40% done and said there were 14 hours to go. Then when I looked again before hoping in the shower it said 39 hours (!!). When I got out of the shower, it said 31, and when I left for work at 8, it said 34.
So I guess I'll actually get to use my iMac...........when I get home from work tomorrow? Damn you, migration assistant.
Migration assistant is a piece of junk - it wouldn't surprise me if it uses the iSight to check when you're watching it and screws around with the times. I usually exclude everything except about <10GB of user folder data and do the rest manually. I've actually cancelled it in the past and reduced the amount it copies just so it would finish in a reasonable amount of time. All it's doing is copying files and setting permissions. Absolute worst case scenario, if you were copying 90GB at 5MB/s (which is slow even for lots of small files), it would still only take 5 hours.
No kidding! It finally finished sometime around 5am this morning - so somewhere around 31 hours!! I had heard migration assistant was bad when it first came out, but I made the obviously erroneous assumption that Apple had improved it.
It's definitely going to take a little time to get used to the size of this screen! It's damn impressive.


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Ash Wednesday & The Democrats' Problem With The 'Catholic Vote'
This blast from the not-so-far-off past might speak to some current problems that CNN, as well as other mainstream media news organizations, might have in the coming 2020 election cycle.
Turner's Rep in Ashes---CNN Boss Called a Bigot After 'Jesus Freaks' Slur
Outraged leaders of Christian groups labeled Ted Turner a bigot yesterday after the Mouth from the South called staffers who wore ashes
on their foreheads for Ash Wednesday "Jesus freaks."
The CNN honcho, who once proclaimed that Christianity is "for losers," made the insulting remark in the network's Washington newsroom last Wednesday at a staff meeting that preceded a retirement party for anchor Bernard Shaw.
About 300 people were present and three or four staffers had ashes on their foreheads to mark Ash Wednesday.
Sources said Turner stared at one of the staffers and said, "I was looking at this woman and I was trying to figure out what was on her forehead. At first I thought you were in the earthquake" in Seattle that day.
As puzzled staffers furrowed their brows, the cable tycoon unleashed this zinger:
"I realized you're just Jesus freaks. Shouldn't you guys be working for Fox?"
Turner laughed, and there were a few titters in the audience, but most of the 300 people greeted the remarks with stony silence.
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ISIS ENDGAME: How & Why the CIA Created ISIS as Cover for Nuclear and Biological Terror Attacks
BREAKING: CERN Complex in Switzerland Identified as CIA Headquarters
EARTH, Undisclosed Location — Based on breaking news and events, it appears it appears that CIA Headquarters located beneath CERN at Lake Geneva in Switzerland is plotting a wave of unprecedented cyber-attacks, cyber-hijacks and/or cyber-crashes targeting American, Canadian, British and/or NATO F-35 Lightning II fighter jets on July 10, 2019.
Exactly who the CIA will scapegoat for the impending wave of cyber-attacks and/or cyber-hijacks is not known, China, Iran, North Korea and/or Russia are the usual suspects. Needless to say, the alleged attacks will be construed as an act of war specifically designed to trigger World War III.
The F-35 Lightning II hack narrative was first identified back on January 20, 2015, when CNN published a report entitled, 'Chinese Hackers Stole F-35 fighter Jet Blueprints in Pentagon Hack, Edward Snowden Documents Claim' which suggests that China or whomever they sold the blueprints to will be scapegoated for the impending attack.
Back on September 16, 2016, it was reported that ten F-35 Joint Strike Fighters were grounded 'due to the discovery of peeling and crumbling insulation in avionics cooling lines inside the fuel tanks'. Needless to say, the grounding provided the necessary logistics cover for the installation of computer-based software that allows for the remote hijack of the planes at a later date.
The impending cyber-attacks, which will likely be scapegoated onto China, Iran, North Korea and/or Russia, will be the first-ever cyber-hijack of military aircraft. Consequently, numerous jets will suddenly lose power and drop from the sky like flies, most likely onto suburban areas below.
F-35 CYBER-HACK HIJACK NARRATIVE
Prior to the alleged and unprecedented cyber-attack and/or subsequent cyber-hijack of military jets such as the F-35, the CIA must created the fraudulent narrative that this type of attack is even possible. Considering that F-35's fly over Mach 1.6, operative tens-of-thousands of feet above cell towers and over territory with no internet availability, the entire notion of a cyber-attack on aircraft is laughable to say the very least. That being said, the CIA could claim that the fleet of F-35's were hacked on the ground prior and were outfitted with a timed Trojan Horse-like malware but that would requite that the hack was undetected. In order to foreshadow that U.S. military jets will suddenly start falling from the skies like bombs, CNN published a propaganda report back on September 15, 2016, entitled "Fighter Pilot Passes Out, Jet Goes Into Free Fall". The notion of an aerial-related cyber-hijack was first raised publicly by the Daily Mail back on March 16, 2014, when they published a report entitled "Is Missing Malaysian Jet the World's First Cyber Hijack?". The unprecedented report cited an anti-terror expert who said that a plane's altitude, speed and direction could be hacked by 'codes' and that planes could be landed using remote control. Roughly 8-months later on November 4, 2014, the software for a state-sponsored cyber-hijack of planes was evidently touted by Russia Today in a report entitled "Could Hackers Cyber-Hijack a Plane? UK Scientists Develop Tech to Fight Malware". The software was likely built with a backdoor which specifically enables commercial airliners to be cyber-hijacked, albeit from the CIA. In what appears to be pre-cyber-hijack attack propaganda and logistics, the Government Accountability Officer (GAO) reported on April 14, 2015, that newer aircraft are vulnerable to hacking. A day later on April 15, 2015, Russia Today published a report entitled "Hijack Hack: Modern Planes Vulnerable to Remote Midair Takeover" which was designed to further sell the notion that planes can now be hijacked by hackers.
David Chase Taylor is an American journalist and the editor-in-chief of Truther.org, a state-sponsored terror whistle-blower website. Taylor currently lives in Switzerland where he applied for political asylum on July 17, 2015. Taylor authored The Nuclear Bible, a book credited with foiling a nuclear terror attack upon Super Bowl XLV in Dallas, Texas on February 6, 2011, and Greenland Theory: Apocalypse Now, a book and website exposing the true power structure of the world, especially in respect to Greenland and its primary proxy state of Switzerland which is coincidentally home to the CIA. Taylor has also published The Bio-Terror Bible, a book and website exposing the global bio-terror pandemic planned for 2015. To date, Taylor has blown the whistle on over 100 state-sponsored terror plots, including the 2012 Democratic National Convention Terror Plot, the 2011 Super Bowl Nuclear Terror Plot, the 2014 Super Bowl Nuclear Terror Plot, the Terrorgate Scandal, the 2014 Memorial Day Massacre, the man-made asteroid attack planned for 2015, and the drone strike which killed "Fast and Furious" star Paul Walker. Taylor was also the first to expose Alex Jones' treacherous links to STRATFOR and is noted for the 10 reasons why the Rosetta Comet landing was a hoax.
THE RUSSIAN PEARL HARBOR: CIA PLOTTING JULY 10, 2019, RUSSIAN ATTACK AND/OR INVASION OF AMERICA AND/OR CANADA, POSSIBLY BIO-CHEMICAL OR NUCLEAR IN NATURE (JULY 10, 2019): CIA Headquarters Located Beneath CERN at Lake Geneva in Switzerland Plotting Russian Attack and/or Invasion of America and/or Canada on July 10, 2019, Exactly 2,620-Days After Vladimir Putin Became President of Russia Back on May 7, 2012, & Exactly 160-Days After US President Trump Suspended 'Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty' (INF) with Russia Back on February 2, 2019
RED ALERT: CIA PLOTTING NUCLEAR ATTACK/DETONATION IN EUROPE BY JULY 13, 2019 (JULY 10, 2019): CIA Headquarters Located Beneath Lake Geneva in Switzerland Plotting Nuclear Attack in Europe by July 13, 2019, Specifically to Trigger World War III—CIA Will Likely Blame Impending 9/11-Style Nuke Attack, ICBM Missile Strike, Nuclear Detonation and/or Rouge Nuclear Submarine Strike on Al Qaeda, China, Iran, ISIS, North Korea, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and/or Russia


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Ukraine's economy is now the most dynamic one in the rapidly growing CIS region. For the last four years, its growth rates have exceeded 7% a year on average, and its real annual growth has also exceeded 7%.
Moody's Investors Service said it changed its ratings outlook for Ukraine on Wednesday from stable to positive on exceptional macroeconomic performance that has helped foreign currency reserves and debt ratios.


The Automotive and Transportation Industries Branch ( ATIB ) is responsible for developing and implementing policies, initiatives and services aimed at encouraging innovation, international competitiveness, and sustainable growth in the automotive, truck, and rail sectors. Increasing sales facilitated production on a larger scale in factories with broader market distribution. The jobs were saved, the economy was helped, and the government gets repaid ahead of schedule. According to the Auto Alliance, the automotive industry spends nearly $100 billion on R&D , with $18 billion per year spent in the United States. Since then, we've provided vents for the biggest suppliers and manufacturers in the industry.
The automotive industries of the other belligerents were smaller in scale, and their facilities for armaments manufacture were proportionately greater than in the United States or Great Britain. If they are able to snap a little piece of the market just by their brand name, it will still be huge. Immediately I think of Apple contenting itself with a tiny fraction of the computer market for decades.
Advertising – Each year automakers spend billions on print and broadcast advertising; furthermore, they spent large amounts of money on market research to anticipate consumer trends and preferences. More luxurious and better-styled cars appeared at prices not much higher than that of the Model T, and these were increasingly available to low-income purchasers through a growing used-car market. The jobs have returned – although not nearly at the level they were before the industry began its steep decline in 2007. Another reason the early Canadian industry flourished was because of the demands of the first mechanized war, which allowed companies such as Ford of Canada to build thousands of vehicles for Canada's First World War effort. However, the automotive industry is still particularly concerned about product recalls, which cause considerable financial consequences.
Daewoo , owned by the Daewoo Group conglomerate, entered the automobile field on a large scale in the 1980s and had won nearly a fifth of the market before entering into financial receivership and reorganization in 2000. But few industry players are adequately prepared for — or even willing to fully acknowledge — the hurdles they must clear before AVs are able to produce real revenue. Trump railed about corporations moving jobs across the border to exploit what he called a lopsided North American Free Trade Agreement. Its historical return on invested capital has generally been below the cost of that capital, despite the restructuring that followed the 2008-09 financial crisis, and significantly lower than that of virtually every other major industry globally. Despite challenges within the industry in recent years, the U.S. automotive sector is at the forefront of innovation. Reminded of that blowhard who in 1999 predicted his company would reach a trillion dollar market cap.
The program has been established to provide $250 million over five years to automotive firms in support of strategic, large-scale research and development projects to build innovative, greener and more fuel efficient vehicles. The ATS is a legislated entitlement scheme which encourages competitive investment and innovation in the automotive industry. The most spectacular increases in automotive production after World War II occurred in Japan. J.D. Power is the premier provider of automotive intelligence to an extensive client base of vehicle manufacturers, component manufacturers and suppliers, and technology companies around the world. Two separate worlds are melding in order to design and develop these cars: the traditional automotive company and software outfits.


Additional Info: Designed by Marcello Gandini of Lamborghini Miura and Countach fame. The Shamal has an adjustable intelligent electronic active suspension that keeps the wheels parallel and level with the road. There were some 369 cars built from late 1989 til 1996 including around 23 RHD cars from 1992-1995.


This paleo, honey-sweetened Peppermint White Hot Chocolate is a favorite holiday drink in my house. It's nourishing, delicious, and super easy to whip up.
But anyway. Warming drinks. Like hot chocolates, apple ciders… Those sorts of things are all I want to drink this time of year! In fact, some days my breakfast is just a big ol' mug of Pumpkin Chai Latte, or more recently, this Peppermint White Hot Chocolate.
Now, to be honest, I'm really not a white chocolate fan. Why in the world would you put white chocolate in anything (or drink it) when you could use dark chocolate? Seriously, there's no comparison. White chocolate isn't really chocolate.
But when I saw this Lavender White Chocolate Steamer recipe over on my friend Megan's site, I started thinking. White chocolate wouldn't be all that bad if I consumed it whilst reminding myself that it's really not chocolate.
So I did. And I was happy.
This easy little drink is full of nourishing goodness. Including what actually makes it "white chocolate." Cocoa butter. It's full of antioxidants, and is a healthy saturated fat (yes, I just said that), like coconut oil. These facts make cocoa butter great for boosting your immune system, lowering inflammation, and helping to keep your heart healthy.
Cocoa butter also increases your brain's production of serotonin, which helps control hormonal mood swings. Pair that with the calming effect of peppermint, and you've got the perfect drink for getting your morning off to a gentle start, or soothing yourself down after a hectic day.
To add in a little extra nutrition, I whisk in a teaspoon or two of Perfect Supplements' gelatin. It's 100% non-GMO and kosher and provides a nice little protein boost to this Peppermint White Hot Chocolate.
Pour the coconut milk into a medium-sized saucepan. Whisk in gelatin.
Add in remaining ingredients and heat until the cocoa butter is melted.
Love this! Looks so soothing, warming and cosy all at the same time!
I a completely addicted to cocoa butter based cocoa! This is so up my alley!
YUM! Once my cocoa butter order gets here I am making this recipe! So excited!
So creamy and festive! I'll definitely have to make this when my family visits over the holidays. Looks delicious!
I love anything chocolate, including white chocolate drink. Definitely going to try it this holiday season!
This looks amazing! I'm going to try this for something new next week! Thanks!
Thank you, Renee! I hope you enjoy it!
Mmm – this sounds so warm and nourishing. We're supposed to get snow this weekend (!) so I am going to make some for my kids (and me)! Thanks for the recipe!
I wish I had a mug full of this deliciousness right now. I LOVE these flavors! The peppermint is so good in this nourishing white hot chocolate.
Yes, it's a great combination! I hope you get to enjoy some, Emily!
I am in hot beverage mode right now, so thanks for sharing this yummy sounding recipe!
Haha! I'm in the same mode! I hope you get to enjoy this, Jennifer!
This looks scrumptious, I just love anything white chocolate, especially during the holidays!
We just made this to enjoy after a morning playing in in *rare* snow… delicious!!!
I'm so glad you enjoyed it, Meredith!
I need a cup of this to cozy up in front of the fireplace!
The ingredients would make this soooo creamy!
This looks so good. I have some gelatin.. and it's time to add to this and enjoy!!
I hope you enjoy it, Carol!


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How Much You Need to Exercise for Better Mental Health, According to Science
BY Jake Rossen
With the recent controversy over the health benefits of fish oil and other wellness strategies, it can be reassuring to know that one thing remains constant: Exercise is good for your body. Any movement, even walking, brings about a host of cardiovascular effects that can help you live longer, feel better, and not run out of breath when chasing children or small animals.
The question of how much exercise is best, though, is open to debate. The answer often depends on your goals. For heart health, sessions four to five times weekly might be ideal. For mental health? As The Independent reports, scientists believe there's a pretty specific prescription: Exercising for 45 minutes three to five times a week.
The data comes from a new and expansive observational study published in The Lancet Psychiatry and conducted by researchers at Yale and the University of Oxford. The study examined 1.2 million subjects who filled out the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey at two-year intervals between 2011 and 2015. Subjects who didn't exercise at all had an average of three-and-a-half days per month when they felt mentally unwell—stressed, depressed, or otherwise burdened by emotional problems—while those who exercised regularly reported an average of just two days.
The study found that a regimen of three to five 45-minute sessions a week was optimal for reducing the reported instances of feeling stressed or depressed. Exercising for longer periods—some subjects reported exceeding 90 minutes in the gym—was associated with a drop-off in mental health benefits. Subjects who spent three hours at a time exercising actually reported an increase in depressive symptoms, a possible consequence of having obsessive personality traits that could influence their overall psychological state.
Researchers also found that the kind of exercise undertaken made a difference. While all varieties helped, people who participated in team sports promoting social interaction and gym classes like cycling or aerobics described greater self-satisfaction with mental health.
Because the study involved self-reported outcomes and exercise wasn't monitored, it's possible that the participants could have misinterpreted the volume of exercise performed. The scope of the study, however, makes a convincing case for a popular notion: If exercise were a pill, doctors everywhere would be prescribing it.
[h/t The Independent]
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What You Should Know About Necrotizing Fasciitis, the 'Flesh-Eating' Infection
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You've likely stumbled across one of several recent news stories describing cases of necrotizing fasciitis, or "flesh-eating bacteria." The condition can follow exposure to certain bacteria in public beaches, pools, or rivers. This July, a man in Okaloosa County, Florida with a compromised immune system died after going into local waters. Just two weeks before, a 12-year-old girl was diagnosed with necrotizing fasciitis after scraping her foot in Pompano Beach, Florida. The stories and their disturbing imagery spread on social media, inviting questions over the condition and how it can be avoided.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, necrotizing fasciitis can be caused by different strains of bacteria, with group A Streptococcus (strep) being the most common. When group A strep enters the body through a break in the skin like a cut or burn, a serious and rapidly spreading infection can develop. People will have a high fever, severe pain at the site of exposure, and eventual tissue destruction, which gives the condition its name. Necrotizing is to cause the death of tissue, while fasciitis is inflammation of the fascia, or tissue under the skin.
Because necrotizing fasciitis spreads so quickly, it's crucial for people to seek medical attention immediately if they see early symptoms: rapid swelling and redness that spreads from a cut or burn, fever, and severe pain. Doctors can diagnose the infection using tissue biopsies, blood work, or imaging of the infected site, though they'll almost always initiate treatment immediately. IV antibiotics, surgery to excise dead tissue, and blood transfusions are all used in an attempt to resolve the infection.
Even with care, necrotizing fasciitis can lead to complications like organ failure or sepsis. An estimated one in three people who are diagnosed with the condition die.
Fortunately, the condition is extremely rare in the United States, with an estimated 700 to 1200 cases confirmed each year. The CDC acknowledges, however, that the number is likely an low estimate.
Because group A strep can be found in water, the CDC advises people to avoid going into public waters with any kind of open wound. This applies to both public beaches and rivers as well as swimming pools or hot tubs. Chlorination is no guarantee against group A strep. Any cut or other wound should always be cleaned with soap and water. It's especially important that people with compromised immune systems from illness, diabetes, cancer, or another conditions be exceedingly careful.
Rising ocean temperatures may make necrotizing fasciitis more common, unfortunately. A recent study in the Annals of Internal Medicine suggested that warmer water temperatures in Delaware Bay has allowed another kind of bacteria, Vibrio vulnificus, to flourish, resulting in five cases of necrotizing fasciitis in 2017 and 2018. Previously, only one case had been confirmed since 2008. Florida is also known to harbor group A strep in seawater.
But, owing to its rarity, necrotizing fasciitis should not overly concern people with healthy immune systems and unbroken skin. If you suffer a cut with a reddened area accompanied by severe pain and fever, however, seek medical evaluation right away.
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Pioneering Heart Surgeon René Favaloro Is Being Honored With a Google Doodle
BY Ellen Gutoskey
Dr. René Favaloro (left) pictured with colleague Dr. Mason Sones.
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Argentinian heart surgeon René Favaloro is the subject of today's Google Doodle, which features a sketched portrait of the doctor along with an anatomical heart and several medical tools, The Independent reports.
The renowned doctor was born on this day in 1923 in La Plata, the capital of Argentina's Buenos Aires province, and pursued a degree in medicine at La Plata University. After 12 years as a doctor in La Pampa, where he established the area's first mobile blood bank, trained nurses, and built his own operating room, Favaloro relocated to the U.S. to specialize in thoracic surgery at the Cleveland Clinic.
"We is more important than I" —Dr. René Favaloro
Today's #GoogleDoodle celebrates the humble Argentinian surgeon who introduced coronary artery bypass surgery into clinical practice, a procedure that has saved countless lives since. → https://t.co/GmDpaS91cZ pic.twitter.com/6PTR1Wr4nR
— Google Doodles (@GoogleDoodles) July 12, 2019
In 1967, Favaloro performed coronary bypass surgery on a 51-year-old woman whose right coronary artery was blocked, restricting blood flow to her heart. Coronary bypass surgery involves taking a healthy vein from elsewhere in the body (in this case, Favaloro borrowed from the patient's leg, but you can also use a vein from the arm or chest), and using it to channel the blood from the artery to the heart, bypassing the blockage. According to the Mayo Clinic, it doesn't cure whatever heart disease that caused the blocked artery, but it can relieve symptoms like chest pain and shortness of breath, and it gives patients time to make other lifestyle changes to further manage their disease.
Favaloro wasn't keen on being called the "father" of coronary bypass surgery, but his work brought the procedure to the forefront of the clinical field. He moved back to Argentina in 1971 and launched the Favaloro Foundation to train surgeons and treat a variety of patients from diverse economic backgrounds.
Favaloro died by suicide on July 29, 2000, at the age of 77, by a gunshot wound to the chest. His wife had died several years prior, and his foundation had fallen deeply into debt, which Argentinian hospitals and medical centers declined to help pay, The New York Times reported at the time.
"As a surgeon, Dr. Favaloro will be remembered for his ingenuity and imagination," his colleague Dr. Denton A. Cooley wrote in a tribute shortly after Favaloro's death. "But as a man ... he will be remembered for his compassion and selflessness." Today would have been his 96th birthday.
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"Love, Sex and the I.R.S." Play Opens Friday
By Vanessa Wolf
A scene from Love, Sex and the IRS. Courtesy photo.
"Love, Sex, and the I.R.S." by William Van Zandt and Jane Milmore opens at the Historic Iao Theater this Friday night.
Maui OnStage describes the play as a cross between "I Love Lucy" and "Some Like it Hot."
The farce tells the tale of two out of work musicians, John (Jim Oxborrow) and Leslie (Tom Althouse), who have been cheating on their taxes for years, claiming to be a married couple. When an investigation ensues, Leslie must disguise himself as a woman.
The show is directed by Lee Garrow.
According to the theater, "Love, Sex, and the I.R.S." is one of the most popular stage comedies of the past 30 years. Rarely does a theater season pass without a production of "Love, Sex, and the I.R.S." somewhere in the United States.
Originally co-written by two struggling Hollywood extras, looking for a means to show off their comedy skills, Van Zandt and Milmore have since gone on to become full-time playwrights with thirty plays to their credit since 1979.
The Maui OnStage production also stars Patty Sylva, Julianna Scharnhorst, Beth Garrow, David Negaard, Perry Kunin and Russ Taft.
Performances are 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 3 p.m. on Sundays beginning Friday, Sept. 27 through Oct. 6 at the Historic Iao Theater.
Reserved seating tickets range from $17 to $28 (plus applicable fees).
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Q: using "AND" and "OR" in an SQL query I am trying to optimize a query. There are three different lookups in the table, which i think, are not required.
This is the original query, which i want to optimize.
SELECT DISTINCT(productid) FROM q_products
      WHERE visibility=1 and status=0 AND productid IN (productidList)
        UNION ALL
      SELECT DISTINCT(q_products.productid) FROM q_products,q_product_apply_access
        WHERE q_products.productid=q_product_apply_access.productid
        AND q_product_apply_access.partnerid='partnerid'
        AND q_product_apply_access.apply_status=0
        AND q_products.visibility=3 AND q_products.status=0
        AND q_products.productid IN (productidList)
        UNION ALL
      SELECT DISTINCT(q_products.productid) FROM q_products,q_product_aff_access
        WHERE q_products.productid=q_product_aff_access.productid
        AND q_product_aff_access.accid='accountid'
        AND q_products.visibility=2 AND q_products.status=0
        AND q_products.productid IN (productidList)

Let me walk you all through this query,
1) I am selecting distinct productid from q_products which have visibility=1 and status=0 and which are also in productidList
2) I am now selecting distinct productid from q_products and checking if same productid is present in another table q_product_apply_access, if so, then checking if q_product_apply_access.partnerid is same as given to us and also if q_product_apply_access.apply_status is 0 and then again, checking if those productids are in productidList.
3) It does similar things and at the end checks again if productids are in productidList.
My idea to optimize was is to do the following way ->
1) select all productids from q_products which are in my productidList.
2) check if those productids are in tables q_product_apply_access and q_product_aff_access and if yes, then their subsequent conditions are fulfilled.
3) when all this is done, i check which of those have q_products.visibility IN (1,2,3) and q_products.status=0.
I think in that way i can minimize lookups in the table and my query would be queried in minimal subset of productidList which may contain only upto 20-30 rows.
Here is my code for that , but I am not getting the correct answer. Can anyone tell me how I can do it? or How I should apply nested loops here?
SELECT DISTINCT(productid)
        FROM q_products as oc,
        q_product_apply_access  as ocaa,
        q_product_aff_access as ocfa
        WHERE productid IN (productidList)
          AND (
            (oc.productid=ocaa.productid
            AND ocaa.affiliateid='partnerid'
            AND ocaa.apply_status=0)
            OR
            (oc.productid=ocfa.productid
            AND ocfa.accid='accountid')
            )
          and status=0
          AND visibility IN (1,2,3)

A: The title of your question:

using "AND" and "OR" in an SQL query

Might be more accurately defined as:

Will using "AND" and/or "OR" statements help this query run faster?

And, the short answer is, NO.-- the optimizations will probably need to be done elsewhere.
So, the long answer:
After looking at this for a while, the requirements 'baked into' the original query prevent logical JOINs from speeding anything up. Your best bet to get this to run faster is to utilize indexes on the tables being referenced. My original answer was using inner-selects, but didn't meet the requirements. By requirements, I mean the necessity of returning a list of unique productids from the productid table meeting three different and distinct criteria.
That said, I would re-write the original query into something more readable, using JOIN statements and aliases for readability (note the absence of DISTINCT -- the UNION ensures unique records out of all 3 result sets):
SELECT p.productid
FROM q_products p
WHERE visibility = 1
  AND status = 0
  AND productid IN (productIdList)

UNION

SELECT p.productid
FROM q_products p
JOIN q_product_apply_access paa ON paa.productid = p.productid
WHERE paa.partnerid = 'partnerid'
  AND paa.apply_status = 0
  AND p.visibility = 3
  AND p.status = 0
  AND p.productid IN (productidList)

UNION

SELECT p.productid
FROM q_products p
JOIN q_product_aff_access paf ON paf.productid = p.productid
WHERE paf.accid = 'accountid'
  AND p.visibility = 2
  AND p.status = 0
  AND p.productid IN (productidList)

Original Answer
So, the problem you're having is a bit difficult as it's hard to wrap my head around the original query in the first place. That said, I threw together a possible solution using inner-selects as joins to the q_products table. I haven't tested it, so let me know how it turns out:
SELECT
*
FROM
    q_products p
    JOIN (
        SELECT productid FROM q_product_apply_access paa
        WHERE paa.productid = p.productid
          AND paa.partnerid = 'partnerid'
          AND paa.apply_status = 0
          AND p.visibility = 3
    ) paa ON paa.productid = p.productid
    JOIN (
        SELECT productid FROM q_product_aff_access paf
        WHERE paf.productid = p.productid
          AND paf.accid = 'accountid'
          AND p.visibility = 2
    ) paf ON paf.productid = p.productid
WHERE
    p.status = 0
    AND p.productId IN ( productIdList )

A: INDEX(visibility, status, productid)

with your original UNION ALL
Please provide SHOW CREATE TABLE; that may prompt other techniques.
(Edit)
After the fact, you can do
ALTER TABLE q_products ADD INDEX(visibility, status, productid);

It will take some time, depending on the size of the table.
An INDEX is usually much smaller than the table, itself.
Indexes are your first line of defense against slow queries.  (Rewriting is the second.)
How big is q_products?

A: Your original query, slightly reformatted, is:
SELECT DISTINCT(q_products.productid)
  FROM q_products
 WHERE q_products.visibility = 1
   AND q_products.status = 0
   AND q_products.productid IN (productidList)
UNION  ALL
SELECT DISTINCT(q_products.productid)
  FROM q_products, q_product_apply_access
 WHERE q_products.productid = q_product_apply_access.productid
   AND q_product_apply_access.partnerid = 'partnerid'
   AND q_product_apply_access.apply_status = 0
   AND q_products.visibility = 3
   AND q_products.status = 0
   AND q_products.productid IN (productidList)
UNION  ALL
SELECT DISTINCT(q_products.productid)
  FROM q_products, q_product_aff_access
 WHERE q_products.productid = q_product_aff_access.productid
   AND q_product_aff_access.accid = 'accountid'
   AND q_products.visibility = 2
   AND q_products.status = 0
   AND q_products.productid IN (productidList)

You've not told us whether there are any other values for visibility other than 1, 2, 3 so we have to assume there can be other values (but note the comments below this answer).
We can see that there are some common sub-expressions restricting rows from q_products (status = 0 and productid IN (productidList), where it isn't clear what productidList really is, but we can assume it works OK.
It would be really useful if MySQL had support for CTEs (common table expressions, aka WITH clauses):
WITH pv AS
     (SELECT productid, visibility
        FROM q_products
       WHERE status = 0
         AND visibility IN (1, 2, 3) -- or visibility >= 1 and visibility <= 3
         AND productid IN (productidList)
     )
SELECT pv.productid
  FROM pv
 WHERE pv.visibility = 1
UNION  ALL
SELECT DISTINCT(pv.productid)
  FROM pv
  JOIN q_product_apply_access AS a
    ON pv.productid = a.productid
 WHERE pv.visibility = 3
   AND a.apply_status = 0
   AND a.partnerid = 'partnerid'
UNION  ALL
SELECT DISTINCT(pv.productid)
  FROM pv
  JOIN q_product_aff_access AS f
    ON pv.productiond = f.productid
 WHERE pv.visibility = 2
   AND f.accid = 'accountid'

Since MySQL doesn't yet support CTEs, you probably have to write the CTE out verbatim 3 times and hope that the optimizer spots what you're doing.  Or, since all of the alternatives are about to filter more precisely on visibility, you include that term in a modified form of the CTE (and avoid selecting visibility explicitly) and write it out three times — like this:
SELECT pv.productid
  FROM (SELECT productid
          FROM q_products
         WHERE status = 0
           AND visibility = 1
           AND productid IN (productidList)
       ) AS pv
UNION  ALL
SELECT DISTINCT(pv.productid)
  FROM (SELECT productid
          FROM q_products
         WHERE status = 0
           AND visibility = 3
           AND productid IN (productidList)
       ) AS pv
  JOIN q_product_apply_access AS a
    ON pv.productid = a.productid
 WHERE a.apply_status = 0
   AND a.partnerid = 'partnerid'
UNION  ALL
SELECT DISTINCT(pv.productid)
  FROM (SELECT productid
          FROM q_products
         WHERE status = 0
           AND visibility = 2
           AND productid IN (productidList)
       ) AS pv
  JOIN q_product_aff_access AS f
    ON pv.productiond = f.productid
 WHERE f.accid = 'accountid'

This should produce the same result.  It is hard to be sure that it will be faster.  It may depend on whether there are suitable indexes on the status and visibility columns of q_products.  The first term of the UNION could be written more simply, but this presentation is uniform with the other two alternatives, which tends to make these things clearer (to the human reading the query, and possibly to the query optimizer too).
As always, studying the actual query plan may help you improve things.


Five people have died due to issues with weight-loss balloon devices since 2016, the FDA has announced.
The FDA has warned health care providers about deaths related to intragastric balloon systems developed by both Apollo Endo-Surgery and ReShape Medical.
The devices - used to treat obesity – are inserted into the stomach through the mouth and are then filled with saline until they expand, leaving the patient feeling full to help them lose weight.
The FDA states that all five deaths occurred within a month of balloon placement, with three patients dying as soon as one to three days after being fitted with the device.
The FDA is also aware of two more deaths in the same time period which are related to potential complications associated with balloon treatment.
CBSNews received a statement from Apollo Endo-Surgery, saying: "While the cause of death has not been provided or determined in all cases, Apollo has not received any communication or indication from the attending physicians or hospitals that the deaths have been due to the device. ... In each of these cases, we are not aware of any evidence that suggest a device malfunction or failure."
Earlier this year the FDA issued a letter to healthcare organisations recommending close monitoring of patients with the devices. It warned about the potential risks of acute pancreatitis and spontaneous over-inflation. Both Apollo Endo-Surgery and ReShape Medical have updated their product labelling to address the risks.
The devices that have caused the deaths – Apollo's Orbera Intragastric Balloon System & ReShape's Integrated Dual Balloon System – were both accepted for pre-market authorisation by the FDA and are Class III devices. HealthNewsReview reported six deaths associated with the Orbera and three related to the ReShape balloon.
Apollo Endosurgery commented on the reports saying: "Of the cases mentioned, only one patient received Orbera in the US. Additionally, it is very important to understand that the FDA's letter does not indicate that any of the patient deaths were related to the ORBERA device or the insertion procedure. While the cause of death has not been provided or determined in all cases, Apollo has not received any communication or indication from the attending physicians or hospitals that the deaths have been due to the device. From the period Jan 1, 2006 through March 31, 2017, the incident rate for patients while they have an Orbera is less than one-hundredth of one percent (<0.01%) with more than 277,000 balloons distributed in the same time period. In addition, since receiving FDA approval in August 2015 and subsequently being offered in the United States, the incident rate remains less than 0.01%, providing extremely strong testimony to the product's safety profile."
Apollo Endosurgery has also stated that in each case of death it is not aware of any evidence that suggests a device malfunction or failure.