One of my summer food favorites is picking and eating fresh tomatoes from the vine. There is nothing better. I always grow simple herbs like basil since it pairs well with tomatoes to make a perfect combination. It reminds me of my "pre-children" days spending time with my husband in Italy eating this simple dish; ensalada caprese. Its simply sliced fresh tomato layered with a slice of fresh mozzarella and topped with a basil leaf or two. Drizzle with olive oil. Simple and perfect.
Another seasonal favorite recipe of mine is this tomato almond pesto since it's simple to make, nutrient dense and my kids love it. It's also a great way to use up the tomatoes and basil that are more plentiful in summer time. I love that it uses almonds which are packed full of protein, calcium and fiber and it gives our family another meat free satisfying option.
Place the tomatoes, basil, almonds, garlic, red pepper flakes and salt in the food processor or blender. Blend for a minute or more to a fine puree.
While the machine is still running, add the olive oil in a steady stream; it will emulsify the puree into a thick pesto.
Scrape the pesto into a big bowl, toss in penne and mix to coat the pasta. Mix in parmesan and serve immediately.
Recipe adapted from chef Lidia Bastianich: In Focus Cooking.
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The Orpheus
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The Sixties Made Me
Music, Mods and Politics on a 1960s Essex council estate
Local and Family History Day
Sixties History
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Next Saturday (3 June) will be a great day. In the Galleywood Heritage Centre there will be a whole host of exhibitors showing different aspects of Chelmsford's History, recent history and further back. I can't really believe people consider the Sixties history – we are all still so young! but there will be The Essex Society for Family History, the Chelmer Canal Trust, the Essex Police Museum, the Western Front Association, and lots of others too. It's free and there's a cafe.
At 11.30 and at 1.30 I'll be talking about my books 'Beyond the Beehive' (set in 1965 Chelmsford and coming out in a lovely new edition in the New Year) and reading from my new book set in 1966 – working title 'The Girl in the Green Mac.' Come and join in. What were you doing on 30th July 1966 when the World Cup match was being played? What was your favourite record? Were you a Stones supporter or a Beatles fan? Do you still have your Sacks and Brendlor Suede coat?
The Heritage Centre is off Margaretting Road, Galleywood Common, Chelmsford CM2 8TR It would be great to see you there.
And to get you into the mood here's another chance to see the BBC documentary, first broadcast last year, about East Anglia in 1966. See you on Saturday!
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Room with Roses reminds us that high tea isn't only for cute Grannies.
As our pursuit of Brisbane's best high tea continues, a visit to Room with Roses was inevitable. Armed with long flowy dresses and a cute Grandma in tow, Ennvy tackled our mission of Room with Roses High Tea. From the moment you wonder through the Brisbane Arcade and ride the heritage listed elevator, you feel you have been transported to the time of The Great Gatsby. The settings are all fine China, the lounge chairs are oversized and fit for a Queen, the service is prompt and warm and the food is delicious. The High Tea came served on a traditional three tier stand with your choice of Tea or Coffee. On this occasion, my Grandma tried the English Rose Tea, and commented that the tea was light and refreshing and a nice twist on traditional English Breakfast tea. As the waiter brought out our three tier heaven of treats, we all looked at each other in delight. The first tier featured hand cut sandwiches and savoury delights which had us craving more after. The second tier featured fresh raspberry scones and orange and ginger scones, served with Chantilly cream and homemade raspberry jam and marmalade. The third tier featured tiny, petite fours, such as heavenly chocolate cake and lemon curd tarts. We loved every part of the high tea, with our favourite definitely being the raspberry scones, and highly recommend it as one of the best in Brisbane. The setting is perfect for any event from birthdays to Mother's Day to a lazy Sunday afternoon tea. So, next time you are in the hunt for Brisbane's best high tea, why not give Room with Roses a go.


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Sadie Dupuis started Speedy Ortiz in the summer of 2011 when she recorded her one-woman-band record The Death of Speedy Ortiz, which ironically became the birth of Speedy. After recruiting three more members, the band last year released the critically beloved Major Arcana record. Songs like "Tiger Tank" juxtapose muddy guitars against Dupuis' non sequitur lyrics and Tracy Bonham-esque vocals. Other fun facts: The band recorded a song called "Taylor Swift" and its website is a LiveJournal blog. This winter, Speedy Ortiz released the four-song Real Hair EP, satiating fans until its global tour ends and the members can get back into the studio and record more ferocious songs.
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Q: Docker: Are you trying to mount a directory onto a file (or vice-versa)? When initially building containers using Docker-compose, I forgot to put a credentials.json file in the directory before running docker-compose up. Now Docker seems to always assume credentials.json is a directory and not a file even if I have the file in the directory (see error below).
ERROR: for pair-backend  Cannot start service pair-backend:
OCI runtime create failed: container_linux.go:367: starting container process caused: process_linux.go:495: container init caused: rootfs_linux.go:60:
mounting "/host_mnt/Users/leed36/Desktop/GitHub/pair-app/credentials.json" to rootfs at "/var/lib/docker/overlay2/6808dee4b6f47e47f39143231ee71bb1728292fb69e2a672388bc1ba42c42ebd/merged/app/credentials.json"
caused: not a directory: unknown: Are you trying to mount a directory onto a file (or vice-versa)? Check if the specified host path exists and is the expected type

I have tried deleting the containers, docker system prune -a and docker volume prune and I still can't get Docker to mount this file.
Here is the docker-compose definition
    container_name: pair-backend
    build:
      context: ./backend
      dockerfile: Dockerfile
    env_file:
      - ./backend/.env
    volumes:
      - ./backend:/app/
      - ./credentials.json:/app/credentials.json

The only way I can get this to work is to rename the file to some other name and change the docker-compose.yaml
- ./credentials1.json:/app/credentials.json

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Hyperhomocysteinemia and increased risk of coronary artery disease in Iranian patients with diabetes mellitus type II: a cross-sectional study
Mohammad Reza Rajabi1,
Mohammad Reza Razzaghof2 &
Hamed Haddad Kashani ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0003-2606-28863
Comparative Clinical Pathology volume 29, pages223–230(2020)Cite this article
Hyperhomocysteinemia in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) has been proposed as a new risk factor for coronary artery disease (CAD). Due to the prevalence of DM and CAD in the Iranian population and the relatively high economic burden, research on these new risk factors sounds necessary. This study investigated the relationship between hyperhomocysteinemia and coronary heart disease in patients with type 2 diabetes. This study was a hospital-based cross-sectional study performed on 100 diabetic patients with indications of coronary artery angiography. After the measurement of serum HbA1c and homocysteine, the patients went through coronary angiography and, based on the results, were divided into two groups of normal and obstructed coronary arteries. Serum homocysteine and other related risk factors were further compared between the two groups. The mean serum homocysteine of patients was 13.18 ± 3.64 μmol/L in general and 15.02 ± 3.7 μmol/L in those with coronary artery obstruction. With hyperhomocysteinemia defined as serum homocysteine of ≥ 14 μmol/L, 48% of diabetic patients had hyperhomocysteinemia, of which 83% had coronary artery obstruction. The relationship between serum homocysteine and coronary artery obstruction was significant (P < 0.001). The serum homocysteine was the highest in patients with three-vessel involvement (15.39 ± 3.5 μmol/L), which was significantly higher than those with normal coronary arteries (P < 0.001). The mean serum homocysteine of diabetic patients (type II) with coronary artery disease was significantly higher than those with normal coronary arteries. It was also significantly higher in patients with three-vessel involvement than those with no vessel involvement.
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The researcher wishes to express his appreciation to the full cooperation of the patients and personnel who participated in this study and the Clinical Research Center of Shahid Mostafa Khomeini Hospital.
The dataset used in this study is available with the authors and can be made available upon request.
The financial support for the current research was provided by Research Deputy of Shahed University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Faculty of Medicine, Shahed University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Mohammad Reza Rajabi
Faculty of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Mohammad Reza Razzaghof
Anatomical Sciences Research Center, Basic Sciences Research Institute, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, Iran
Hamed Haddad Kashani
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All the authors participated in the study design. Mohammad Reza Rajabi and Mohammad Reza Razzaghof collected and documented the data and assisted in preliminary data analysis. Mohammad Reza Rajabi wrote the initial draft. Mohammad Reza Rajabi and Hamed Haddad Kashani in draft revision, data analysis, and editing of the final draft.
Correspondence to Mohammad Reza Razzaghof.
Informed consent or a substitute for it was obtained from all patients included in the study.
This study was approved be Shahed University of Medical Sciences under the grant number of 16/35/10/3560 in 14 July 2015. The informed consent form was signed by all parents. All procedures involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and ethical standards of the institutional and national research committee of Shahed University of Medical Sciences and obtained ethics committee permission number of SHUM.REG.1393.136.
Rajabi, M.R., Razzaghof, M.R. & Haddad Kashani, H. Hyperhomocysteinemia and increased risk of coronary artery disease in Iranian patients with diabetes mellitus type II: a cross-sectional study. Comp Clin Pathol 29, 223–230 (2020) doi:10.1007/s00580-019-03027-5
Issue Date: February 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00580-019-03027-5
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This month, the Jewellery Quarter Business Improvement District (JQBID) is hosting a series of free Personal Safety Workshops together with Kaizen Performance Centre.
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WaPo Admits: Republicans' Famous Memo On FISA Abuse Blasted By Dems Ended Up Getting It Mostly Right
Now that Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz has finally released his much-anticipated report on alleged misconduct by the FBI during the 2016 election, two famous memos — one released by Republican Rep. Devin Nunes while he was House Intelligence Committee chairman, and Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff, who has since taken over the position — have come under renewed scrutiny. The memos presented dueling versions of how the FBI began to surveil Trump campaign adviser Carter Page in an effort to investigate alleged "collusion" with Russia.
So who had it right? A fact-checker for The Washington Post has been forced to admit that Nunes got a "fair amount" right — in fact, his version of events aligned far more closely with what Horowitz found than the Democrats' rebuttal.
"[H]ow much is the Nunes memo itself vindicated?" The Washington Post's Aaron Blake asks in a fact-check published Friday. "A fair amount, it turns out," writes Blake, adding in an attempt at a qualifier "at least, in Horowitz's estimation."
Blake then walks through the parallel passages in each memo and compares them with what Horowitz's extensive report concludes, beginning with the most important disagreement between the two: "how accurate and complete the four [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)] applications to surveil Page were." It turns out that Nunes' claims aligned more closely with what took place, while Schiff's counter featured "probably the worst line of the Democrats' rebuttal."
Nunes: "In the case of Carter Page, the government had at least four independent opportunities before the FISC to accurately provide an accounting of the relevant facts. However, our findings indicate that, as described below, material and relevant information was omitted."
Democrats: "FBI and DOJ officials did not abuse the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) process, omit material information, or subvert this vital tool to spy on the Trump campaign. … DOJ met the rigor, transparency, and evidentiary basis needed to meet probable cause requirement."
Horowitz: "We identified at least 17 significant errors or omissions in the Carter Page FISA applications, and many additional errors in the Woods Procedures. These errors and omissions resulted from case agents providing wrong or incomplete information to [the Justice Department National Security Division's Office of Intelligence] and failing to flag important issues for discussion."
Horowitz additionally found that "a now-former FBI lawyer altered a document to make it look like Page wasn't a source for another government agency, when in fact he was — a fact that could have been exculpatory for Page," Blake notes.
Another key claim made in Nunes' memo is that the Democrat-funded dossier by Christopher Steele was "an essential part of the Carter Page FISA application." The Democrats countered by claiming that the FBI "made only narrow use" of the notorious, unverified and salacious Steele dossier:
Nunes: "The dossier … formed an essential part of the Carter Page FISA application. … Furthermore, Deputy Director McCabe testified before the Committee in December 2017 that no surveillance warrant would have been sought from the FISC without the Steele dossier information."
Democrats: "DOJ cited multiple sources to support the case for surveilling Page but made only narrow use of information from Steele's sources about Page's specific activities in 2016, chiefly his suspected July 2016 meetings in Moscow with Russian officials. … DOJ's applications did not otherwise rely on Steele's reporting, including any 'salacious' allegations about Trump."
Horowitz: "We determined that the Crossfire Hurricane team's receipt of Steele's election reporting on September 19, 2016 played a central and essential role in the FBI's and Department's decision to seek the FISA order." A fourth element of the initial FISA application, claiming Page coordinated with Russia on behalf the campaign, "relied entirely on" information from the dossier.
While Blake describes the differences here as "nuanced," the language in Horowitz' report is clear enough: Nunes' once again presents a more accurate description of events than the Democrats'.
A third key disagreement: whether the FBI was transparent about the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton's role in funding the Steele dossier:
Nunes: "Neither the initial application in October 2016, nor any of the renewals, disclose or reference the role of the DNC, Clinton campaign, or any party/campaign in funding Steele's efforts."
Democrats: "DOJ in fact informed the Court accurately that Steele was hired by politically-motivated U.S. persons and entities and that his research appeared intended for use 'to discredit' Trump's campaign."
Horowitz: A footnote in the application "stated that Steele was hired by an identified U.S. person (Glenn Simpson) to conduct research regarding 'Candidate # 1's' (Donald Trump) ties to Russia and that the FBI 'speculates' that this U.S. person was likely looking for information that could be used to discredit the Trump campaign." The FBI "assumed, but did not know at the time of the first application, that Steele was conducting opposition research."
While the Democrats' note is accurate, it fails to take into account that the ties to the DNC and Clinton were omitted in later applications despite the FBI having by then learned about the connection. Horowitz includes this omission as part of his list of 17 omissions and errors he details in his report.
Blake also looks at the differences in how the two memos presented the issue of Steele's role as a key source for the Sept. 23, 2016 Yahoo News report cited in the FISA application. The failure to correct the note stating Steele was not a source for that article is also something Horowitz included in his list of 17 omission and errors by the FBI:
Nunes: "The Carter Page FISA application also cited extensively a September 23, 2016, Yahoo News article by Michael Isikoff, which focuses on Page's July 2016 trip to Moscow. This article does not corroborate the Steele dossier because it is derived from information leaked by Steele himself to Yahoo News. The Page FISA application incorrectly assesses that Steele did not directly provide information to Yahoo News."
Democrats: "The Majority falsely claims that the FISA materials 'relied heavily' on a September 23, 2016 Yahoo! News article by Michael Isikoff … In fact, DOJ referenced lsikoff's article, alongside another article the Majority fails to mention, not to provide separate corroboration for Steele's reporting, but instead to inform the Court of Page's public denial of his suspected meetings in Moscow, which Page also echoed in a September 25, 2016 letter to FBI Director Comey."
Horowitz's finding: The FBI "failed to correct the assertion in the first FISA application that the FBI did not believe that Steele directly provided information to the reporter who wrote the September 23 Yahoo News article, even though there was no information in the Woods File to support this claim and even after certain Crossfire Hurricane officials learned in 2017, before the third renewal application, of an admission that Steele made in a court filing about his interactions with the news media in the late summer and early fall of 2016."
Blake again tries to give the Democrats some credit for their claim, particularly that the reference to the article appears to have been intended "to inform the Court of Page's public denial of his suspected meetings in Moscow," but, again, Nunes is correct in the key claim: Steele's role as a source was inaccurately denied.
While the Post titles its piece as a question — asking "Vindication For The Nunes Memo?" — the evidence provides a clear answer.
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DVD Review, Golden Age Article
DVD Review: Forgotten Noir and Crime, Volume 12
Forgotten Noir and Crime, Volume 12 collects another three rare low-budget films.
First up is The Treasure of Monte Cristo: A seaman (Glenn Langan) on shore leave is swept up into romance and marries a mysterious woman (Adele Jurgens) and then finds himself framed for murder. This is a clever plot and it's gutsy for a low-budget film to try to write a modern-day sequel to one of literature's great classics. There are nice location scenes and Langan and Jergens (who would later marry) are both pretty good. The rest of the acting is uneven and some plot points are not well-realized, including a confusing escape sequence. Still, this is a fun story.
The second film is Roaring City, the second of the Dennis O'Brien films which adapted two Johnny Madero radio scripts per film. Hugh Beaumont does seem to settle into his role as the tough talking private eye, strolling casually through scenes pipe in hand and finding a way to deliver the over the top hard boiled lines with as much credibility as he could muster. Similarly, Edward Brophy settles into his role as sidekick/roommate/drunk Professor Schicker. The film is fun and breezy but not without errors. Outside of Beaumont and Brophy, the acting is so-so and there's a pretty significant continuity error in the second half. O'Brien tells the Professor he's agreed to go on a date and pretend to be a woman's husband before he goes on the date and then after he's inevitably framed for murder, he tells the Professor all over again as if he hadn't told him the first time. Still, if you can get past hiccups like this, it's not a bad way to spend about an hour.
The final film is Sky Liner, which is about a murder occuring mid-flight and being investigated before the plane lands. This is a film with silliness that includes ridiculously fast autopsies, but it's a good setting and with a breezy pace that's a tad under 50 minutes. There is a longer version of the film that includes a juvenile song number and a subplot about a newlywed couple. I can't help but feel that this is probably the best cut of the film.
Overall, these are pretty good, low-budget films. They're quirky and fun. There's plenty of flaws to be found, but also fun elements that will bring a smile to the face of classic film buffs.
Rating: 3.75 out of 5
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Synthetic Bacteria Help Treat Phenylketonuria in Mice
The genetically engineered probiotic, already in clinical trials, may ease patients' strict dietary regimes.
Diana Kwon
Diana is a freelance science journalist who covers the life sciences, health, and academic life.
Aug 17, 2018 | 2 min read
People with phenylketonuria have to stick to strict diets to prevent the toxic buildup of phenylalanine, a key constituent of proteins, which otherwise can lead to severe neurological and cognitive impairments.
Researchers at Synlogic, a Massachusetts-based biotech, now report that a bacterium genetically modified to remove phenylalanine (Phe) from the blood shows promise in preclinical trials. The study, published this week (August 13) in Nature Biotechnology, reveals that the probiotic can significantly lower Phe levels in both mouse models of phenylketonuria (PKU) and in healthy monkeys.
The treatment, dubbed SYNB1618, is a reprogrammed version of a widely used probiotic, Escherichia coli Nissle. In rodent models of PKU, SYNB1618 taken orally after an injection of Phe decreased the levels of the amino acid by 38 percent compared to untreated animals.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) awarded Synlogic a fast-track designation for SYNB1618 this April, and researchers...
Aoife Brennan, the interim CEO of Synlogic, told The Scientist in May that the company sees treatment with SYNB1618 as a two-step process. "The first step is to get patients' blood phenylalanine under control," she said. "The next step is to relax the diet, and the hope is that with this product, patients who are in control will be able to add natural protein into their diet."
See "New Treatments for Phenylketonuria Aim to Loosen Reins on Strict Diet"
"I think there's a lot of interest in general in the microbiome, and so we're really excited about the possibly of a genetically modified probiotic to treat PKU," Christine Brown, executive director of the National PKU Alliance (NPKUA), a nonprofit patient advocacy group, told The Scientist earlier this year.
Other biotechs are also developing new ways to treat PKU. For example, earlier this year, the FDA approved BioMarin's pegvaliase (Palynziq), a substitution for phenylalanine hydroxylase (PAH), an enzyme that metabolizes Phe. Pharmaceutical companies, such as the rare-disease focused Ultragenyx, are working on ways to replace PAH using gene therapy.
Synlogic is currently developing bacteria-based drugs for a number of conditions, including other inborn errors of metabolism, such as urea cycle disorder. Brennan tells the Boston Business Journal that the latest preclinical data validate the company's platform for other applications. "The results were not only exciting internally, but also among researchers," Brennan says. "This is a platform that has really broad applicability. We're already getting suggestions of ways from scientists and people in the industry of ways we can use our platform."
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Oklahoma's 16-15 win against Oklahoma State on Sunday changed the top five of this week's USA Today/NWCA/AWN Division I coaches' poll.
The Sooners (5-0) moved up one spot to No. 4 after winning the first of two Bedlam duals this season. With the loss, Oklahoma State (1-1) drops from No. 3 to No. 5. Iowa (4-0) defeated Iowa State (5-1) 23-9 and moved up to No. 3.
Penn State (3-0) and Minnesota (3-0) remained at No. 1 and No. 2 for the fourth consecutive week. The Nittany Lions were idle, while Minnesota beat then-No. 18 Oregon State in Corvallis.
Cornell, Illinois, Ohio State, Missouri and Nebraska remained in the same positions from last week, filling out the top 10.
Cornell (3-0) topped Illinois (6-1) in an exciting 18-15 dual at Madison Square Garden in New York City at the second annual Grapple at the Garden. Top-ranked Jesse Delgado of Illinois defeated second-ranked Nahshon Garrett of Cornell 6-2 at 125 pounds. Delgado is the returning NCAA Division I champion while Garrett was third last year.
Nebraska improved to 5-0 after wins against then-No. 18 Stanford, Cal State-Bakersfield and Utah Valley.
Pittsburgh was idle, but moved up two spots after Lehigh upset then-No. 11 Virginia. The Mountain Hawks (4-3) moved back into the top 25 after the win against Virginia. After one-point losses to Bucknell and Pittsbugh, Lehigh beat its second ranked team of the season at the Northeast Duals in Troy, N.Y.
Northern Iowa (3-0) was the biggest mover this week, jumping up four spots to No. 12. Coach Doug Schwab's Panthers beat Wisconsin 29-9. The Badgers were the lone team to drop out of the top 25 this week.


Would it be a good idea to always create PDF/A documents?
I do not advise law firms to use PDF/A all of the time. PDF/A view mode in Acrobat will not allow you to do many of the day to day edits you need. For example, if you want insert pages in a PDF/A document, PDF/A View mode will prevent the change.
Instead, I advise creating PDF documents using a PDF Setting which is easy to conform later to PDF/A.
Using the steps below, you will modify the existing PDF/A setting provided by Acrobat to create a new one.
At the top right, under Standard Reporting and Compliance, set the Compliance Standard to None.
I've already created the Near PDFa setting. You can download the setting and save it in the location below instead of making your own.
Where do copy the settings file to?
A) Select the Adobe PDF from the Name list.
Your Print Window might look Different . . .
Acrobat Standard installs 1-button PDF conversion buttons into popular Office applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. Acrobat Pro additionally offers support for Visio, Project, Access, Publisher and Internet Explorer.
Follow these steps to set an Office PDFmaker button to always use the Near PDFa setting. The example below is from Microsoft Word.
The main reason to use this setting is that it embeds all fonts and sets the color space correctly for PDF/A conformance later on.
Fonts can be complex beasts and occasionally become corrupted. Try replacing the fonts on your system with known, good versions of fonts.
OpenType fonts from Adobe do not have embedding restrictions, but some other manufacturers may not allow their fonts to be embedded. The only workaround is to replace the typeface with one without any restrictions.
The same methods are used to create the PDF setting.
It seems that when I convert to PDF/A from Near PDF/A it works fine, unless I optimize the Near PDF/A first. Why is this? How can I fix it?
If you optimize, you are changing properties of the file which might make it difficult to conform.


In most cases, when an accident involving a car occurs, the main issue becomes determining the driver at fault. Therefore, if the driver is found negligent, meaning, he/she did not adhere by the traffic rules, they are at fault.
However, in certain situations, the law assigns the car accident liability to an individual who was not at the wheel or even in the car. As surprising as it may sound, it is absolutely possible and it has occurred in the past. Take, for instance, a driver who is involved in an accident but in the line of duty or service to his/her employer. Although the employer could be liable, there must be supporting evidence of that.
Holding an employer liable for an accident occurs on either of the two grounds: Vicarious liability and employer negligence.
Vicarious Activity: On this ground, the employer doesn't necessarily have to have been negligent in any way. This doctrine of the law states that an agent's actions are the same as those of the principal who directs the agent. This means that if the employee (agent) is working under the requirement (order) of the employer (principal) his actions are considered as the employer's. The latter hence becomes at fault.
Employer Negligence: This involves what the employer should have done but did not. They are held liable as it is their duty to do the particular task. Employer negligence can be looked at in two ways. One is where the employer fails to perform prior-hiring duties such as ensuring the driver is a safe one by looking at the necessary qualifications, work history and such. The second instance is where there's negligence in supervision of the employees. Employers are required by law to put in place the necessary policies by which the employees must operate. It is therefore the duty of the employer to make sure the rules are followed. A car accident involving such a situation could see the employer put at fault.
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Turns out that rascal George R.R. Martin has known about Jon Snow's parents this whole time, and he's been subtly telling fans for more than a decade—except nobody noticed.
Because at this point Game of Thrones fans have nothing better to do than scroll through 14-year-old forums while waiting for the now-delayed Seventh Season or the perpetually-delayed Winds of Winter, one Redditor found something interesting in a 2002 Q&A with Martin.
"Since all of their mothers died, who gave Jon Snow, Daenerys Targaryen, and Tyrion Lannister their names?"
"If anyone doesn't get it, 'Dany was most likely named by her mother, Tyrion by his Father, Jon by Ned.' Rather than saying Tyrion and Jon by their fathers, Ned was named as if he wasn't the father. Slightly subtle."
Maybe we should start paying more attention to what Martin says?


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Polanski's Bid to End Sex-Abuse Case Rejected
April 3, 2017 April 4, 2017 ASSOCIATED PRESS
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles judge has rejected Roman Polanski's bid to end his long-running underage sex abuse case without the fugitive director appearing in court.
Superior Court Judge Scott M. Gordon denied several requests to resolve the case, including sentencing that involved no more prison time.
Gordon refused to address how Polanski would be sentenced if he returned to the U.S. after 40 years abroad. The ruling says many of Polanski's requests have already been denied by other courts.
Polanski pleaded guilty to unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977 and fled on the eve of sentencing after he says the judge reneged on a promise about how he would be sentenced.
Polanski's attorney, Harland Braun, said Gordon's ruling failed to address alleged misconduct by previous judges handling the case.
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Today, I went to my stepdad's funeral. He was the most important person in my life, but it didn't stop my stepsister angrily saying, "Why are you crying? He wasn't even your real dad." FML
Dad jokes, part 43884
By DMO - United States
Today, I decided to get back into shape and go for a run. With a 1/4 mile left to run, I saw a hot chick a block ahead of me running. Trying to show off I ran hard and passed her stopping just outside my complex. I started to throw up right as she came past me because I had run so hard to pass her. FML
By Sica - France
Today, I broke my little toe. It got stuck in my panties as I struggled to get a leg through. FML
By stelno - United States
Today, my wife and I were out with another couple we're friends with. When we went back to their house we looked at old pictures. They showed us a great picture, and I said "It would've been a lot better if that fat chick didn't ruin it in the background." It was the woman from the couple. FML
By Anon - Canada
Today, I was on a date with this girl. I attempted to put my arm around her, but I elbowed her in the face instead. FML
By shocked - United States
Today, my "future" wife got drunk in front of my parents, who she was meeting for the first time. She called my dad a piece of shit and told my mom she wants to tear her own eyes out. FML
By Anonymous - United States - Sainte Genevieve
Today, I asked if my friend wanted to come meet my dog and give him a treat. We were walking to my back yard, her holding 3 hot dogs, when she said, "I think your dog is dead!" I said, "No, he's just old and sleeps all the time and won't wake up until you pet him because he's deaf." He was dead. FML
By Anonymous - United States - Spring Hill
Today, my new calculus teacher taught everything using nothing but soccer terms and analogies, just so the resident idiot meatheads would understand. I didn't learn a thing. FML
By angry girlfriend - Canada - Montreal
Today, I found out via Facebook status that my boyfriend is going to Hawaii with a group of friends, including his ex-girlfriend for a few weeks. When I confronted him about it, he said he didn't think I needed to know, and to mind my own business. I think I'm about to be single. FML
Today, my mother took me to go and see my grandfather, who I hadn't seen since I was 4. The first thing he said to me was, "Pfwoarr, look at those tits." FML
By bloodshedblack - United States
Today, I received more affection from my wife in a video game than I ever have in real life. FML
By Heather212
Today, I sat down on my bed completely naked in front of my husband and said, "Man, it's hot in here!" while spreading my legs. He just blew on my vagina, asked if that was better, and then walked away. FML
By lululee53 - United States
Today, after spotting my ex-boyfriend's truck in a desolate parking lot, I decided to "decorate" the muddy side of it with a rather large male appendage. After checking around me to make sure there were no witnesses, I got to work. I probably should have made sure he wasn't sitting in the truck. FML
Today, I finally worked up the courage to write a girl a note, with my number on it, and the words: "You're stunning. Get in touch sometime." Heart pounding, I saw her, got up, and passed her the note. Then I passed out at her feet. FML
By POLYBLOT - United States
Today, I took chocolax to help lose some weight before I left for Miami. Turns out it doesn't happen right away like in the movies, it happens six hours later in front of your girlfriends parents, that you've just met for the first time at a very upperclass restaurant. FML
By SkipBeatOtaku - 29/8/2020 23:02
Today, my estranged father died. No one bothered to tell me, and the only reason I found out was because his wife texted my sister. When I asked about the service, I was told I was no welcome in the state he had lived in, because I was no longer family. FML
By Wow - United States - Sanford
Today, I walked outside to see my dog killing my cat. My spouse tried to cheer me up - "Hey, at least we don't have to buy cat food anymore!" FML
By Chin... uh.... - United States - Phoenix
Today, I've learned two things. One, my Chinese cousins don't know much about the USA, and two, they now believe it's proper manners to shout, "FREEEEDOM" before ending a call with me. FML
By Anonymous - United States - Ithaca
Today, I was at my new boyfriend's house, and he was taking a shower. I had to take a crap real bad, but his apartment only has the one bathroom. I couldn't wait for him to finish, and ended having to shit in a plastic bag. FML
By notyourfriend - Canada - Peterborough
Today, my horrible boss sent me a Facebook friend request for the fifth time, in her attempt to not only bother me at work, but also through social media. FML
Today, I realized that getting an awesome new phone with all the new bells and whistles doesn't mean that people will now actually want to talk to me. FML
By Crystal Crackles
Today, I used my rear windsheild wiper and it shattered a large hole in the glass where the rotating part is. No one can repair the window until tomorrow afternoon. It's snowing. FML
By Off_Road - United States - North Pole
Today, while on the highway, a guy in a truck sped up to pass me. He was hauling a trailer, which hit me and ran me off the road. I called the cops and followed him all the way into town, where the cops pulled him over. They let him go without even a ticket, because, "He didn't know he hit you." FML
By genderbender - Reserved
Today, I went to the new gym I recently signed up for and started exercising in the men-filled weights room, despite being intimidated by them and the strange looks they were giving me. Workout over, I left the room and saw in front of me a door marked "Women's weights room". Oh. FML
By MDpending - United States
Today, just 8 months away from graduating medical school, I successfully diagnosed myself with basal cell carcinoma. At least all that studying is paying off. FML
Today, I was fired for not asking a senior citizen for proof that he was over 21 and legally allowed to purchase alcohol. When I told my manager he was clearly over 21, he replied, "But what if he WASN'T?" FML
By Che_likes_you - Australia - Melbourne
Today, I had to babysit my 7-year-old niece while my brother bought Christmas presents. After he left, she walked up to me and said in a very dark voice, "I'm gonna make you hate children!" Now my apartment looks like a bomb site. FML
By "cowboy_gold " - 25/1/2020 05:00
Don't ignore neighbor
Today, I came back to my dorm only to find the noise of my neighbor having loud sex. I thought I was talking in my head when I said at least do it against the other wall. But, when I was leaving later, he walked by apologizing and said that he thought that I was not there, then promised to do more quietly next time. FML
By totalloss - United States - Pompano Beach
Today, I had to sit between my parents in the car as they argued with one another for a whole hour over whether or not a thumb is a finger. FML
By a_dani365 - United States - Omaha
Today, I was working customer service at a large grocery store. I recently got a small, tasteful septum piercing that is barely visible. As I greeted a customer, she began to gag, held out her hand as though she was fending me off, and said, "I can't. Your nose ring makes me sick." FML
By Embarassed - United States - Kent
Today, my girlfriend dared me to put on her bra and panties and give her a lap dance. Feeling spontaneous, I decided to do it. Just as I was getting really into it, she told me I was on webcam for all her friends. Apparently it was a contest of who had their boyfriend the most whipped. She won. FML
By anonymous - Australia - Rockdale
Today, I received a bunch of flowers from my 'lover'. This would be fine except that I don't have a lover, and my boyfriend now thinks I'm cheating. FML
By fuck em all
Today, my entire family is giving me the cold shoulder, including my parents, for not going to my sister's wedding. No one seems to care her new husband bullied me so badly in high school that I still need medication for my anxiety 15 years after graduating. FML
By ohshat - United States
Today, I was on Facebook chat with my boss, talking about holiday hours. I had to go to my doctor's appointment, so I said, "G2G, love you" accidentally. Not only did he say it back, but he also requested a relationship with me on Facebook. FML
By Nola
Today, my fiancé got his associate degree in the mail. Wanting to surprise him when he got home, I opened it to display it before going out to buy groceries. His dog got a hold of his degree and shredded it to pieces. FML
By fmT719 - United Kingdom
Today, I came to the conclusion that my dad must have had a psychotic break, because when I came home, he was wearing sunglasses indoors, and blasted out Skrillex music all through the evening. The sound of diarrhea pouring into a gutter would make for better music than this. FML
By firemansam - this FML is from back in 2011 but it's good stuff - United Kingdom
Advent calendar time!
Today, I was out selling Christmas-themed calendars for charity door-to-door. I rang a doorbell and a wild-eyed man appeared at the door, shouted about being "on nights" and that I'd woken him up, called me a "bell end", threw a newspaper at me and slammed the door in my face. FML
Today, my toddler peed in his potty for the first time. He was so excited to show me that he flung the pot in the air dousing my face with his piss. Then he laughed. FML
By leftoutdrunk - Canada - Edmonton
Today, I volunteered to be my brother's designated driver. I told him throughout the night that I wasn't drinking, but he ended up leaving me at the bar and going to his friend's house in a cab for more drinks, taking my keys along with him. FML
By shadowfigure - United States
Today, I was doing karaoke with my girlfriend's family, when the 5 year old came over and shut off my microphone. FML
By False_Stupidity | 41
I get that she's upset and all, but what a bitchy thing to say!
There's more to being a dad than being a sperm donor. So probably a real dad in any sense of it.
Sorry for your loss as OP.
My stepdad raised my sister and me, so I completely understand. Our biological father has such a minor role in our lives that he's obsolete. My stepdad is my Dad. I'm sorry for your loss.
Noelletakumi | 36
I mean, I feel bad for the OP, but we don't know the situation here. Personally, my dad left my family in the dust and married a new woman and is raising my step-siblings as if they're his own. So I get if the step-sister feels bitter if they have a similar circumstance, but the both of them have my condolences.
Things like this can bring out the worst in people because they are upset. At my uncle's funeral my cousin got mad at me for crying and said "Its not like YOUR dad died!" and I wasn't upset about it because I understood that she was just upset and stuff like that spills out. All you can do is support her in a time like this while also having people who support you, since it was a major loss for you as well. I'm very sorry OP.
teentee401 | 36
I came here to comment something similar to 17. Hurt and loss can make people act irrationally. It was rude of her to say, but she just lost her dad, so she was probably just focused on her own pain. It's understandable.
kittykat1501 | 31
honestly, she was probably just upset and lashed out. probably nothing against OP, just can't deal with her feelings.
Bonngoo | 34
And I?
aperron96 | 18
really? think it out, its my stepdad raised (my sister and) me. Would you say "my stepdad raised I?" In this circumstance, "me" would be the appropriate term.
CarolMellow | 15
Nice to see a happy ending when it comes to step dad's instead of all these horror stories you usually hear. Happy for you :)
By senor_octubre | 24
Your dad is the one that raises you, cares for you, and makes sure you grow up to be a great person. The other guy is a sperm donor. Coming from a guy who loves his stepfather and would do anything for him I'm so sorry for your loss OP.
By RayN156325 | 21
She is probably just taking her anger out on you because of how upset she is, hope it all turns out better. Sorry for your loss OP
By 0262944 | 15
Damn, that sucks. But your stepsister is kinda right. She should be the one who is most devastated. Lol, I'd probably be the stepsister to say that.
Then you're a bitch.
0262944 | 15
Nah you a bitch. You don't even know me.
By buck16 | 9
Should have said "well at least he loved me"
Lizza330 | 28
This isn't the time to be petty.
By WolfsScar | 15
She's probably trying to vent on someone, don't take it personally..
By Leauge | 13
I'm sorry for your loss, also I hope you punched her hard.
ah yes punch someone who is grieving for their father. classy.
(also obviously what she said was cruel but that is no excuse for violence, especially at a funeral).
So sorry about your loss. Stepparent or not, they can still play one of the biggest roles in a child's life, and what your stepsister had to say, even if she was upset about her biological father's loss, it was completely uncalled for.
Damn, that sucks. But your stepsister is kinda right. It is HER dad and she should be the most devastated.
CravenCat | 9
Grief isn't a contest though. Everyone is allowed to be upset.
band_geek | 18
I said what their stepsister had to say was uncalled for. Not them being upset. OBVIOUSLY everyone has the right to be grieving, but just because someone that's not related to them by blood's upset, it doesn't mean anger should be taken out on them.


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Oh my, where to start. Anyone can tell from reading the summary of this book that it is going to be heart-wrenching. I am lucky in that I can't personally relate to Cistaro's story, yet I was still deeply affected by this book. I can only imagine how someone who can relate to Cistaro's story would experience this.
I enjoyed Cistaro's writing quite a bit and she wasn't afraid to go all in. I suspect it can be hard to articulate the feelings that Cistaro had to go through in her life and I applaud her for that. In fact, this book reminds me of another well-known memoir of a woman coming to terms with her mother's death and I think readers of that novel (you know what book I'm talking about!) may be interested in this book.
I will admit, though, that I did have some problems with the pacing of this book I felt that Cistaro did a fabulous job of digging deep and explaining her feelings, but I also felt that most of this book was stuck in neutral. I never felt that Cistaro was getting closer to making peace with her feelings about her mother until, well, she had made peace. I wish that there had been more of a forward-motion in the narrative throughout the book.
Would I recommend this book to others? Yes, although not universally. I don't think this is a book for just anyone and a reader needs to be in a certain "head space" for it. But, for some, this is an excellent memoir.


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Hervartov – St Francis church
plan of the church of St Francis
The church was erected in the years 1493-1496. During the Reformation it was in the hands of Evangelicals who changed the interior design. As part of the Counter-Reformation, the temple returned to Catholics. In the eighteenth and nineteenth, the interior was transformed. The present-day appearance we owe to the restaurants from 1976 and from the 90s of the twentieth century.
The church was erected in a log construction with a tower with a pole construction. It consists of a nave and a three-side ended chancel, to which the sacristy adjoins from the north. A tower with inclined walls and with an overhang porch was added to the nave from the west. Above the nave and chancel there is a shared gable roof with a ridge turret. Inside, the nave was covered with a flat ceiling, while the chancel was covered with an apparent vault with decorative ribs. Inside, the walls are decorated with precious polychromes from 1596 and slightly younger, from 1665. They present, among others the fight of Saint George with a dragon. The functions of the main altar are performed by a late-gothic triptych. The remaining equipment worth of mentioning is a late gothic group of Crucifixion painted on the boards from the beginning of the 16th century and a gothic painting depicting St. Francis of Assisi, Christopher and Catherine of Siena from 1460-70.
The building is the oldest and most valuable wooden church in Slovakia. Together with a number of other wooden temples in the Slovak Carpathians in 2008, it was added on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
St Francis church, photo: H.Bielamowicz, Wikimedia Commons
church from the west, photo: J.Kotulic, Wikimedia Commons
church from the north-west side, photo Wikimedia Commons
Website zabytkowekoscioly.net, Hervartov, kościół św. Franciszka z Asyżu.


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Azar Khalatbari, née le  à Téhéran et morte le  à Paris, est une journaliste scientifique française.

Biographie
Originaire d'Iran, école Jeanne d'Arc de Téhéran puis de l'institut du Bon Sauveur du Vésinet (Yvelines) et du lycée Saint Thomas d'Aquin (Paris), Azar Khalatbari est titulaire d'un doctorat en géophysique interne de l'Université Paris-Diderot, puis d'un diplôme national de master en histoire des sciences à l'Université de Lille. En 2011, elle suit le cycle national de l'Institut des hautes études en sciences et technologie (IHEST), et se passionne pour la poésie classique persane, qu'elle étudie. Elle passe plusieurs semestres aux États-Unis comme envoyée spéciale de journaux scientifiques français.

Azar Khalatbari se consacre à la physique fondamentale, l'astrophysique, les mathématiques et les sciences de la Terre. Elle se spécialise notamment sur les étoiles à neutrons, les déviations de l'espace-temps ou encore les rayons cosmiques. Elle collabore à la rédaction de Libération durant une décennie, entre les années 1990 et les années 2000. Pigiste, elle réalise des enquêtes sur ses thématiques de prédilection, mais également sur des sujets variés autour du monde des sciences. La journaliste se dit convaincu de l'importance de la culture scientifique dans la formation citoyenne.

Elle rejoint le magazine Sciences et Avenir en 2006, après avoir travaillé de 1989 à 1990 pour La Recherche, de 1990 à 1992  pour Sciences Illustrées, de 1990 à 1996, pour Sciences et Vie Junior, de1996 à 2006 pour Ciel et Espace. Elle a collaboré également avec La Recherche, France Culture (Front de Science, Itinéraire de Sciences, Continent Sciences) et Philosophie magazine.

En mars 2019, Azar Khalatbari reçoit le prix Jean-Perrin 2018, décerné par la Société française de physique, afin de récompenser l'ensemble de son travail de journaliste et d'autrice d'ouvrages de vulgarisation scientifique. Elle est membre de l'Association des journalistes scientifiques de la presse d'information.

En 2020, Azar Khalatbari choisit de mettre un terme à sa carrière de journaliste, pour se consacrer à la rédaction d'ouvrages de vulgarisation scientifique et s'adonner à ses autres passions, dont la sculpture et le dessin. Elle meurt le 15 avril 2022 à 61 ans.

Publications
Quand la terre se déchaîne, illustrations de Corine Delétraz, Éditions Milan, 109p, 2006,
Lumières du ciel profond : Le guide des plus beaux amas, nébuleuses et galaxies, Azar Khalatbari, Jean-Luc Dauvergne et Leïla Haddad, Éditions du Seuil, 200p, 2008,
Parcours d'astrophysiciens, Le Cavalier Bleu, 224p, 2011,
Que cherchons-nous dans nos origines ?, Étienne Klein, Azar Khalatbari, Sophie Marinopoulos et Michel Wieviorka, Éditions Belin, 160p, 2015,
La Nanorévolution, Jacques Jupille et Azar Khalatbari, Quae, 152p, 2018,

Honneur

L'astéroïde  a été nommé en son honneur.

Notes et références

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Journaliste française du XXIe siècle
Journaliste scientifique
Vulgarisation scientifique
Université Paris-Diderot
Université de Lille
Naissance en mars 1961
Naissance à Téhéran
Décès en avril 2022
Décès dans le 5e arrondissement de Paris
Décès à 61 ans
Éponyme d'un objet céleste


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General Mining Questions
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By IdahoMike, December 24, 2017 in General Mining Questions
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Reading surveying notes from the 1890's, the survivor had to survey underground placer workings on the located claim he was surveying. They probably had to verify there was no known lode veins in the workings. When he signed off on the survey, from my reading of surveying notes, he had to state if there were known lode veins on the claim. When the located claim was patented, how did the yes/no on known lode veins from the survey effect the mineral rights on the patented claim? Can mineral rights on a patented claim be split between surface and subsurface minerals?
All minerals are subsurface estate Mike. It doesn't matter if the minerals are placer or lode.
Known lodes are not included in placer claim patents. If a placer claim owner knows of a lode deposit on his claim he must either declare it as a lode claim and pay twice as much per acre ($5 per acre for lode as opposed to $2.50 per acre for placer) for his purchase or the lode will be excluded from the patent grant.
This was explained in detail in Section 11 of the 1872 General Mining Act.
SEC. 11. That where the same person, association, or corporation is in possession of a placer-claim, and also a vein or lode included within the boundaries thereof; application shall be made for a patent for the placer or lode claim, with the statement that it includes such vein or lode, and in such case (subject to the provisions of this act and the act entitled "An act to amend an act granting the right of way to ditch and canal owners over the public lands, and for other purposes," approved July eighteen hundred and seventy) a patent shall issue for the placer-claim, including such vein or lode, upon the payment of five dollars per acre for such vein or lode claim, and twenty-five feet of surface on each side thereof. The remainder of the placer-claim, or any placer-claim not embracing any vein or lode claim, shall be paid for at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per acre, together with all costs of proceedings; and where a vein or lode, such as is described in the second section of this act, is known to exist within the boundaries of a placer-claim, all application for a patent for such placer-claim which does not include an application for the vein or lode claim shall be construed as a conclusive declaration that the claimant of the placer-claim has no right of possession but where the existence of a vein or lode in a placer-claim is not known, a patent for the placer-claim shall convey all valuable mineral and other deposits within the boundaries thereof.
The inverse is not true. Known placer deposits found on a perfected lode claim are patented along with the lode minerals. Also unknown lode deposits on a patented placer claim belong to the patentee as long as they were discovered after the patent was granted.
Until a patent is granted both placer and lode claimaints own all the valuable minerals within their claim as long as the initial discovery supports the type of claim located. You can't locate a lode discovery as a placer claim and you can't locate a placer discovery as a lode claim.
A placer claim can never be located over a valid lode claim but a lode claim can be located over a placer claim IF the placer claim owner or an invitee discover a lode. Uninvited prospectors can not discover or locate either type of claim over an active claim.
You will probably find it helpful download and read the entire 1872 Mining Act if you want to get a better understanding of the principles behind the mineral grant.
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Google has launched a new cloud-based service called IoT Core that enables its enterprise customers to manage their IoT devices, as well as collect and analyze the data those devices produce.
IoT Core has access to all its data processing, analytics, and machine learning capabilities of Google's cloud and supports devices equipped with Intel, ARM, and Marvel processors. It's worth noting, however, that companies must manage IoT Core themselves, without assistance from Google. The service is currently available in preview mode with no stated release date.
IoT Core marks Google's first major move into the enterprise IoT. Competing cloud providers Microsoft and Amazon carved out IoT-specific services based off their cloud offerings a while ago — Microsoft launched Azure IoT in September 2015 and Amazon released AWS IoT later that year. Until now, Google hasn't had a specially dedicated service to compete with those offerings. But it does now, and that means a large segment of Google's cloud customers could be looking to integrate the IoT into core segments of their businesses, and need the tools to manage, process, analyze, and store all the data that produces.
Companies need help with IoT implementation and management. Forty-six percent of executives that are looking to deploy or have deployed an IoT solution cited system integration as a top challenge in implementing the IoT. That's because it's tough and expensive to manage all the devices, networks, software, analytics, and security protocols associated with implementing an IoT solution at scale, and many companies lack the resources to do so.
IoT Core doesn't do that, but there are services from competitors that do. IoT Core can't manage a company's IoT deployments — it only helps companies manage their deployments themselves. Services from competitors, like Microsoft's IoT Central, which was announced late last month does exactly that. Google has a broad addressable base, which is advantageous, but it may not be enough to outweigh the cost savings and efficiencies that outsourcing IoT deployment and management brings. That could draw players to competitors rather than Google.


Household encyclopedias and everyday knowledge in early modern Japan.
A certain type of household encyclopedias, collectively referred to as setsuyōshū, were incredibly popular in early modern Japan. The first setsuyōshū emerged late in the fifteenth century and was a kind of dictionary used for looking up Chinese characters through their Japanese readings. In the early modern period, along with the commercialization of print, the setsuyōshū genre went through some significant changes. Apart from being dictionaries, as they still continued to be, many editions started to also include encyclopedic information on a wide variety of subjects, ranging from astrology to etiquette and from maps to poetry. Alongside this expansion in content, the genre also expands in distribution, both geographically and socially. The genre was in fact aimed specifically at a popular audience, not just the elite. Considering this, is it reasonable to see the information contained within the setsuyōshūas a representation of contemporary common knowledge? What does the various kinds of information in the setsuyōshū tell us about early modern Japan? These are some of the questions that will be adressed in this presentation.
Steffen Remvik is a PhD candidate at IKOS, where he works on a project called "A history of setsuyōshū: the development of popular knowledge and the new social imaginary in early modern Japan".


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British Petroleum, Control the Information, Gulf Coast, Ken Feinberg, Oil Spill
The fear of not knowing…
"Boy...glad that's over..."
"We all knew we were experiencing health problems, but if you don't have money and access to health care, it's a win for BP," said Carol Farmer, 52, of Milton. "No one knows about us, and BP can brush it under the carpet."
Not knowing.
The country remains largely unaware of health problems occurring to cleanup workers and others in the Gulf of Mexico and those that are sick, don't know for sure the extent of their illness…or what they can do about it.
That's a whole hell of a lot of not knowing, and that makes a whole lot of fear. Hoping to help, the National Institute of Health is doing a long-term study of health problems in the Gulf, especially focussed on the clean-up workers and at a recent workshop in Gulf Breeze, 100 or so people showed up to take part, including Carol Farmer. The goal of the workshops and community meetings is to enroll up to 55,000 of the 150000 cleanup workers. Individuals participating in the health screenings will be told of any health problems and referred to doctors or clinics who can treat them at low or no cost.
The goal of the study is to better determine how to handle oil spills in the future.
That way, hopefully, there will be fewer problems such as:
Eddie Casanova 46, of Fort Walton Beach, said the whole left side of his body has rashes and bumps that came up after he began working the oil spill on Pensacola Beach, Fort Pickens, Johnson Beach and Pensacola Naval Air Station in 2010 and 2011.
Charles Everhart, 60, was on one of the first cleanup teams to hit the beaches in the summer of 2010 when the air was full of noxious fumes from the oil washing in from the Gulf of Mexico. Since then, he's been having eye, respiratory and throat problems, "I used to jog three miles a day," he said. "Now, I can't run a block without huffing and puffing."
Many others in the crowd who worried about immediate health problems…problems they say are being dismissed by doctors or left untreated because they can't afford medical treatment or don't have insurance…
Yes, money…again, money…always, money…
Money's the reason BP won't entertain too much discussion about health problems as it might open their company up to litigation or liability, and money's likely the reason why Feinberg, unlike his fund for Agent Orange and 9-11, is demanding proof of causality in order to make a health claim against the GCCF, something very, very difficult to do…
But, not everybody is dealing with so many worries as BP CEO, Bob Dudley reports:
"BP added exploration prospects equivalent to an area the size of Italy, an unlikely outcome given the firm's role in the Deepwater Horizon disaster. 'One of the surprises is that I thought we would have a more difficult time taking on exploration roles,' the American said. It's been the best year in 30 years for increasing exploration acreage for BP', he added…"
BP and Bob Dudley crow away about how they're back in business, making big profits, expanding…while many of the people their spill hurt, or made sick are still in the dark waiting…wondering…unable to afford medical treatment or the peace of mind contained in knowing when it will also be their time to finally get their lives back…
You know, just like Bob.
Read the article:
BP oil cleanup workers focus of health study
Drake Toulouse January 20, 2012 January 20, 2012 Bob Dudley, Carol Farmer, Charles Everhart, Eddie Casanova, Feinberg, GCCF, Gulf Breeze, Health cliams, National Institute of Health, nih, Oil workers, Stuart Smith
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John Newton, William Law, Justification, and Sanctification
God does not accept us based on what Christ is doing in us, but what he has done for us; justification and sanctification are distinct
Written by Shane Lems | Friday, March 11, 2016
It appears to me necessary for our comfort, when we know what [evil] is in our hearts, and necessary likewise to give the Redeemer the glory due His name, that we be sensible that our sanctification is not the cause, but the effect of our acceptance with God. …The precise reason why we are saved, is not because we are changed, …but simply and solely because He lived and died for us, paid the ransom, and made the atonement on our behalf.
Near the end of 1768 John Newton exchanged a series of letters with a pastor friend who had been reading William Law's writings. Law, who died in 1761, was a priest in the Church of England who later became a private teacher. Law's popular work focused on things like devotion, holiness, sanctification, and perfection. Newton's friend believed that righteousness and sanctification were synonymous. In other words, in his reading of Law's call to devotion, Newton's friend thought his sanctification was his righteousness. He believed that if he wasn't devout enough, sincere enough, or zealous enough, God would not accept him. In fact, he even was afraid that he would end up forsaking the Lord; he lacked peace, comfort, and assurance.
In these letters, Newton explained and applied the gospel by saying that our righteousness and sanctification are not the same. In other words, he said that God does not accept us based on what Christ is doing in us, but what he has done for us; justification and sanctification are distinct. Here are some slightly edited excerpts from Newton's letters:
"…With respect to the grounds of a sinner's acceptance in the sight of God, and the all-sufficiency, the alone-sufficiency of Jesus Christ to do all for, in, and by, those who believe on his name, I do have that conviction… and perhaps I sometimes seem to pass my proper bounds, and to speak in a too positive tone. But I think that the views which constrain me to dissent from Mr. Law, Dr. Smith, and many other respectable names, would embolden me to contradict even an angel from heaven, if I should hear him propose any other foundation for hope than the person, obedience, sufferings, and intercession of the Son of God."
"The desires we feel towards Him [the Lord], faint and feeble as they are, are the effect of His own operation on our hearts, and what He plants he will water. He does nothing by halves. Far be it from us to think that He should make us sensible of our need of Him, teach us to pray for assistance, make so many express promises for our encouragement, and then disappoint us at last."
"…It is my prayer, that he [the Lord] may comfort you with those views of the freeness and riches of His grace, which enable me to maintain a hope in His mercy even though I feel myself polluted and vile. For, when my state and acceptance with God is the point in question, I am in a measure helped not to judge of it by what He has done in me, so much as by what He has done for me. I can find no peace but by resting in the blood of Jesus, His obedience to death, His intercession and fullness of grace; and so, claiming salvation under Him as my Head, Surety, and Advocate, answer all objections which my conscience or Satan interpose, with the Apostle's arguments in Romans 8:33-34."
"The admission of a mixed gospel [that is, equating righteousness with sanctification], which indeed is no gospel at all, will bring disquiet into the conscience. If you think you are in the same circumstances, as to choice and power, as Adam was, I cannot blame you for fearing lest you should acquit yourself no better than he did."
"…It appears to me necessary for our comfort, when we know what [evil] is in our hearts, and necessary likewise to give the Redeemer the glory due His name, that we be sensible that our sanctification is not the cause, but the effect of our acceptance with God. …The precise reason why we are saved, is not because we are changed, …but simply and solely because He lived and died for us, paid the ransom, and made the atonement on our behalf. This is our plea and hope when we first come to Him (John 3:14-15), when we have finished our course upon earth (2 Tim. 1:12), and when we appear in judgment (Rom. 8:34)."
"…My hope is built, not upon what I feel in myself, but upon what He felt for me; not upon what I can ever do for him, but upon what has been done by Him upon my account. …It appears to me, therefore, that though the blessings of justification and sanctification are coincidental, and cannot be separated in the same subject (a believing sinner,),yet they are in themselves as distinct and different as any two things can be."
These letters can be found in Volume 6 of Newton's Works.
Rev. Shane Lems is a minister in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church and services as pastor of Covenant Presbyterian Church in Hammond, Wis. This article appeared on his blog and is used with permission.
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Reading é uma cidade localizada no estado americano de Michigan, no Condado de Hillsdale.

Demografia
Segundo o censo americano de 2000, a sua população era de 1134 habitantes.
Em 2006, foi estimada uma população de 1101, um decréscimo de 33 (-2.9%).

Geografia
De acordo com o United States Census Bureau tem uma área de
2,5 km², dos quais 2,5 km² cobertos por terra e 0,0 km² cobertos por água. Reading localiza-se a aproximadamente 329 m acima do nível do mar.

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Man shot, drives into ditch is later pronounced dead at hospital
HOUSTON – A man is dead after he was shot once in northeast Houston Sunday morning.
The shooting happened around 2:15 a.m. on Maxey Road near Fleming Drive, Houston police said.
A passerby called police when they saw the victim's car in a ditch along Maxey Road and reported hearing gunshots a short time earlier.
The victim was taken to Ben Taub hospital where he was in critical condition, but later died there, police said.
Police believe the victim may have lived at a nearby apartment complex.
Anyone with information about this shooting is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 713-222-TIPS.


Relative clauses of which the predicate contains a present, past, or passive participle can be used in a reduced form. Although it has been shown that participial relative clauses cannot always be considered to be non-complete variants of full relative clauses, they are generally called reduced relative clauses in the literature. Since they differ from full relative clauses in containing a non-finite predicate, they are also called non-finite relative clauses. Another type of non-finite relative clause is the infinitival relative clause. In English, in participial relative clauses, the antecedent noun is interpreted as the subject of the predicate of the relative clause. Because of this restriction, the status of relative clause has been put into doubt for participial adnominal modifiers, especially, because in a language such as English, they can occur in pre-nominal position, whereas a full relative clause cannot. While some linguists analyze both pre-nominal and post-nominal participles as verbal, others have argued that participles are essentially adjectival categories. In a third type of analysis, participles are divided into verbal and adjectival ones. This also holds for adnominal participles. Besides the relation to full relative clauses and the category of the participle, participial relative clauses raise a number of other interesting questions, which have been discussed in the literature. These questions concern the similarity or difference in interpretation of the pre-nominal and the post-nominal participial clause, restrictions on the type of verb used in past participial relative clauses, and similarities and differences between the syntax and semantics of participial clauses in English and other languages. Besides syntactic and semantic issues, participial relative clauses have raised other questions, such as their use in texts. Participial relative clauses have been studied from a diachronic and a stylistic point of view. It has been shown that the use of reduced forms such as participial relative clauses has increased over time and that, because of their condensed form, they are used more in academic styles than in colloquial speech. Nonetheless, they have proven to be used already by very young children, although in second language acquisition they are used late, because their condensed form is associated with an academic style of writing. Since passive or past participles often have the same form as the past tense, it has been shown that sentences containing a subject noun modified by a post-nominal past or passive participle are difficult to process, although certain factors may facilitate the processing of the sentence.


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