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Robotic Hernia Surgeries Cost More, But Are They Better?
By S. Nicole Lane
There's a shiny new surgeon in town and its name is da Vinci. The da Vinci surgical robot is being shown off during hernia screening events because surgery performed by a real-live person is apparently outdated.
Hernias are a big problem — and big business. An estimated 1.6 million people deal with groin hernias and more than 500,000 hernia surgeries occur annually in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as reported by Kaiser Health News.
But the question remains: are robotic hernia surgeries better and safer than traditional methods?
An Alternative Reason for Free Hernia Screenings?
Victoria Montei, the system director of surgical services at Midland-based MidMichigan Health system, told Kaiser Health News that with the word "free," people are more drawn to being tested and screened. Though small in cost, some copays prevent people from getting screened and testing is put on the back burner.
There's no research to support the effectiveness of hernia screenings and there are significant risks associated with all types of hernia surgeries. And according to science, there's simply no need to rush under the knife — or the robot. A 2016 study found that patients with few hernia-related symptoms can safely watch and wait.
While all surgeries pose common risks such as infection, a 2016 study found that groin hernia surgeries result in chronic pain, some of which is debilitating, for as many as 12 percent of patients, Kaiser Health News reported.
"My question is: Why are we doing this (i.e. screenings)?" Dr. Dana Telem, University of Michigan Medical School associate professor and director of Michigan Medicine's Comprehensive Hernia Program, told Kaiser Health News. "Even with the best intent, it makes me worry about the unintended consequences down the line."
"A screening for hernia? That makes no sense to me," Dr. Michael Rosen, director of the Cleveland Clinic's Hernia Center and medical director of the Americas Hernia Society Quality Collaborative, told Kaiser Health News. "Obviously, it's just there to drive people to the operating room."
Is Robotic Hernia Surgery Really Any Better?
Surgical robot manufacturer Intuitive Surgical features research published in the journal Hernia in 2018 on its website, which found that robotic hernia surgery leads to fewer post-surgical complications from conventional surgery 30 days later. However, another 2018 study published in Surgical Endoscopy concluded that outcomes from robotic groin hernia surgeries were similar to those from laparoscopic and conventional surgery. Not only that, but the longer robotic operation times may be contributing to increased rates of skin and soft tissue infections.
There have also been serious concerns when using the da Vinci robot for hysterectomies, according to Kaiser Health News, and with cancer-related robotic surgeries in women, according to the Food and Drug Administration.
More definitive information is on the way. Results from randomized clinical trials comparing robotic hernia surgery outcomes with conventional laparoscopic surgical outcomes are expected this fall.
Robots or Doctors?
Robots Don't Perform Surgeries, Doctors Do
The da Vinci System robot uses a "3D HD vision system and special wristed instruments that bend and rotate far greater than the human hand," according to the Austin Regional Clinic. This is sophisticated technology, and there's some question as to whether surgeons are being properly trained to use it.
"So you have surgeons who operate for half a day on pigs, take a ten-question multiple-choice test and have a proctor, another surgeon, do two surgeries and then they're turned loose with the machine," attorney Richard Friedman said to imarc Research.
Follow the Money Trail Into the Future
With each da Vinci robotic device costing an average of $1.5 million, many questions remain not only about the purported medical advantages of robotic hernia surgery but about the economic impacts. In the 2016 study mentioned earlier, which was conducted between 2012 and 2016, robotic surgeries averaged $7,162 each versus $4,527 for laparoscopic procedures and $4,264 for conventional open surgery.
Are there benefits to paying more for longer operations with potentially increased infection rates? Only time will tell.
S. Nicole Lane
S. Nicole Lane is a freelance journalist based in the southside of Chicago where she covers women's health, the LGBTQ voice, arts, and entertainment. Her byline can be found in Playboy, Rewire News, i-D, Broadly and various other corners of the internet. She is also a visual artist who works with small-scale sculptures.
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"Inguinal hernia repair: is there a benefit to using the robot?" 24 October 2017. Eric J. Charles et al.
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G7 countries set to support Russian oil price cap
G7 countries are poised to back a price cap on Russian oil purchases in a bid to limit the Kremlin's revenue from exports and its ability to finance its war on Ukraine.
The finance ministers of the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Canada and Japan will formally provide political support for such a decision during a virtual meeting on Friday afternoon, according to five officials briefed on the talks. However, the price cap level is still under discussion, they said.
The capping mechanism would be implemented at the same time as EU embargoes on Russian oil imports, two of the officials said. The measure would come into force on December 5 for crude and February 5 for refined products.
The plan is based on a system of incentives whereby importers who seek insurance coverage and shipping services from companies based in G7 and EU countries to transport Russian oil would have to respect the ceiling price. .
Although backed by the European Commission, the system still needs the backing of EU member states as it will require changes to the bloc's sixth sanctions package which was sealed after tense negotiations.
Officials also said support from third countries that buy large amounts of Russian oil, such as India, will be important for the cap to be more effective. A European official expressed the hope that other countries would join the initiative in the coming days, adding that the level of the price cap would be set jointly by all participating states.
"A ceiling price. . . ensures that every country can get the lowest possible price, and that's good for the world," said James O'Brien, sanctions coordinator at the US State Department.
Energy prices jumped following Russia's decision to launch a invasion of ukraine in February. This was followed by Western economic sanctions against Moscow and moves by countries to stop buying Russian oil. The price increases provided the Kremlin with a windfall in export earnings.
Over the past three months, oil prices have cooled, in part because Russian exports have held up better than expected, alongside fears that soaring natural gas prices could trigger a recession in Europe. Brent, the international benchmark, fell from around $120 a barrel in early June to around $94 a barrel, close to where it was on the eve of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Prices rose about 2% on Friday.
The June G7 had agreed to explore ways to limit Moscow's income without driving up world prices.
Since then, US officials have worked to find consensus within the G7 on the broad outlines of the cap and how it would be implemented. Oil industry executives and some G7 government officials have expressed skepticism about how the cap will work and whether enough countries will adopt it.
Last month, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, whose country holds the rotating G7 presidency, said of the proposal: "It only works if it is organized globally. You cannot do this unilaterally but only in close cooperation with many others. Otherwise, it will be useless. »
Meanwhile, marine insurers have privately expressed concern over the use of insurance as a cap enforcement mechanism, given that underwriters generally do not follow the commercial price of a cargo. Leaders and officials have acknowledged that fear of breaching cap conditions could mean insurers are overcompensating and withdrawing cover from a wider range of vessels.
Russia threatened on Thursday to stop selling oil to any country that adopts a price cap mechanism.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Friday that the move would be an "absurd decision" and "would lead to significant destabilization of oil markets", according to Interfax.
Asked about this threat, O'Brien said: "Russia needs to keep its energy machines running and needs the money. What he chooses to do is his decision.
Saudi Arabia, which leads oil producers' Opec+ alliance with Russia, has warned the group may have to cut production if prices remain 'volatile' and fears the market is underestimating the impact of the tightening Western sanctions on Russian oil supplies later this year.
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5 News editor Cait Fitzsimons says lots of her viewers voted for Brexit and ITN boss John Hardie is man to lead on pay gap reform
What next at UK media companies with highest gender pay gap figures?
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The Telegraph is the only news outlet to target a zero gender pay gap across the whole company, but Press Gazette understands there remains "growing anger" among staff over the size of the salary divide.
Telegraph Media Group had the second highest mean gender pay gap in the UK news media, according to Press Gazette's rankings, at 35 per cent.
The group's chief executive, Nick Hugh, has set 2025 as the year by which the company must achieve a zero pay gap, saying it "demonstrates where we see the future of The Telegraph".
Some companies want to reach a zero gender pay gap sooner, but only within higher salary brackets, while others have said they are aiming for total gender parity without publicly setting a deadline.
The Telegraph's pay gap pledge comes as…
The Guardian targets a 50/50 gender balance in the top half of the organisation within five years
The Financial Times aims to achieve gender parity across its global leadership by 2022
Sky pledges to fill half of its most senior roles with women by 2020
ITN aims to reduce its mean gender pay gap of 19.6 per cent by half over the next five years.
Press Gazette understands that at The Telegraph, two town hall-style meetings have already been held for staff to question senior editorial figures over issues that have arisen with publication of the gender pay gap.
The Telegraph pledged to regularly monitor its pay gap going forward, and has already successfully launched improved maternity benefits and coaching to support women before, during and after maternity leave.
It has also begun offering more opportunities for flexible working, while 50/50 gender shortlists were introduced last year for all roles.
However the FT's NUJ chapel committee has offered its support to Telegraph journalists fighting for change, referencing a "growing anger" among staff at their rival publisher .
The FT itself had the sixth highest mean gender pay gap across the UK news media at 24.4 per cent.
A statement sent by the FT chapel committee to all staff last week, seen by Press Gazette, asked the paper's journalists to fill out a confidential pay survey "in order to reassure ourselves and others that there is no problem with equal pay".
Chapel representatives also said their gender pay gap figures, including a median gap of 19.4 per cent, were "worse than had been predicted", saying they pointed to "an historic problem with gender pay at the FT and in general".
They requested time with senior FT managers to discuss the possibility of increasing transparency on benchmarking pay, hiring and promotions.
They also gave a list of demands they wanted implemented immediately, including:
Equalised shared parental leave between men and women;
A review of the salaries of all women returning from maternity leave;
An annual increase in trainee starting salaries in line with inflation;
And "genuinely flexible and widely available work arrangements and measures to prevent daily workload impinging on domestic life".
The chapel's statement also claimed that, placed alongside company data provided in annual pay negotiations, the gender pay gap figures showed the editorial gap has actually been getting wider over the past six years.
They added: "While we welcome the stated commitment to diversity, fairness and good business practice that accompanied publication of the pay data by the FT, we would like to see this reinforced by specific deadlines and targets aiming to make the 19.4 per cent gap a thing of the past.
"Targeted pay rises and negotiated pay settlements that favour the lower paid can make a difference."
In its gender pay gap report, the FT said it is developing and implementing plans to improve workplace diversity, including 50/50 shortlists for all hiring and internal recruitment.
John Ridding, the FT's chief executive, said: "It is clear from the changing composition of our teams that we are moving in the right direction. It is equally clear from our gender pay gap results that we have more work to do."
An FT women's WhatsApp group featured much discussion recently, Press Gazette understands, of a Buzzfeed article revealing how female journalists at the likes of ITN are fighting behind the scenes for better pay.
Women at ITN and BBC have also reportedly set up WhatsApp groups to discuss gender pay concerns.
Press Gazette reported last week that ITN chief executive John Hardie will "not receive a penny" in bonus pay unless he hits new gender and diversity targets.
ITN, which encompasses the news teams at ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5, reported the media's highest mean bonus pay gap at 77.2 per cent.
Conde Nast reported the highest mean gender pay gap in UK media at 36.9 per cent but declined to provide further comment for this story beyond the brief statement released with its figures last week.
The statement, signed by Conde Nast Britain chief operating officer Sabine Vandenbroucke and HR director Hazel McIntyre, said: "We recognise that we need to work to reduce the gap in the upper quartile [of earners].
"Our high proportion of female employees means that we already offer many family-friendly policies and have a relatively large number of flexible workers.
"We are developing a number of new initiatives across recruitment, retention, career progression, and mentoring programmes to make progress in reducing our gender pay gap going forward."
The statement claimed that across three-quarters of the UK business, there is "no evidence of an appreciable gender pay gap", with the publisher attributing the gap to the senior leadership team, many of whom are "long standing" at the company.
This is despite Conde Nast's employees being 74 per women across the business as of the snapshot reporting date of 5 April – with the top earners made up of 63 per cent women.
This means the company's gender pay gap is skewed by the salaries of the men who make up 37 per cent of the top quarter of earners in the business.
The Economist Group, which has the highest median gender pay gap in UK media at 29.5 per cent and fourth highest mean gap at 32.5 per cent, also declined to comment beyond the statement in its report.
In it, chief executive Chris Stibbs said that although the group employs similar numbers of men and women "we need to provide more opportunities for women to progress".
He said: "We are committed to achieving gender parity across the group and through annual measurement and reporting we will demonstrate improvement."
The commitments listed in the report include addressing high turnover in lower paid roles with careful recruitment, considering multiple male and female candidates for senior roles and creating better male and female balance in management teams.
"Some teams have achieved this and others have a way to go," it said.
The report also notes: "While the key challenge is of equal representation of women in senior roles and management teams, this will not be achieved by recruitment and career progression alone.
"We will also reexamine policies and practices, paternity and maternity support, management development, and deploy widely our diversity and inclusion training including understanding unconscious biases."
A spokesperson for The Economist Group pointed out that Wilmington, publisher of Health Service Journal and Compliance Week, has a higher median gender pay gap of 36.6 per cent and mean pay gap of 49.6 per cent.
Wilmington has fewer than 250 employees in the UK and published its figures voluntarily. Press Gazette made the decision not to include the publisher in its round-up of pay gap figures because of its small size.
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Gender pay gap figures 2018: Telegraph, Reuters, ITN, Guardian, BBC and FT publish reduced wage gaps + full list so far
Gender pay gap figures in full: Conde Nast, Telegraph and Economist groups among worst offenders for pay disparity in UK media
Gender pay gap: Women paid higher bonuses at Archant, Newsquest and Midland News Association but more men receive them
Channel 4's first female chief executive admits 28.6 per cent gender pay gap makes for 'uncomfortable reading'
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Great information, UK companies with 250 or more employees will have to publish their gender pay gaps within the next year under a new legal requirement. The move is part of attempts to fight workplace discrimination. The UK gender pay gap is 18.1% for all workers, or 9.4% for full-time staff. Women and Equalities minister Justine Greening said "helping women to reach their full potential isn't only the right thing to do, it makes good economic sense". Public, private and voluntary sector firms are now all required to disclose average pay for men and women, including any bonuses.
The gender pay gap myth has been debunked over and over. This is yet another step toward a marxist hellscape. The level of ignorance you have to have to think that forcing equality of pay according to gender, regardless of all the other factors that go into pay differences (job choice, hours worked, experience, negotiating skills, etc etc) is a good idea is truly astounding.
"Women and Equalities minister". Lol. Says it all really.


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Q: Command failed with exit code ENOENT I am new to Ionic and created a simple application. I have installed Android  Sdk. And added these Environment Variable
I am trying to build my app using cordova build commandcommand but getting  this error :-

Error: cmd: Command failed with exit code ENOENT

I am been searching whole day for the solution and finally ended up here.

A: For linux, you'll also need to add these lines in ~/.bashrc file
export ANDROID_HOME='/home/your_username/Android/Sdk'
export ANDROID_SDK_ROOT='/home/your_username/Android/Sdk'
export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_SDK_ROOT/platform-tools:$ANDROID_SDK_ROOT/cmdline-tools/latest/bin

Then check if android target is read with cordova requirements first.
Reference for Mac OS:
https://gist.github.com/kristopherjohnson/7568583

A: Command should be ionic platform add android and not cordova platform add android

A: I was getting the same error ...
In my case, it was occurring because of the changes in ionic CLI...
Now you need to run 'ionic cordova platform add android' (or ios) but the extension dont run this command yet...
I just insert 'cordova' in the source code of plugin (try to search the funcions that run the commands that start with 'ionic' and have to run 'cordova' together'
In the macOS, you find the source code at:
~/.vscode/extensions/vsmobile.cordova-tools-1.2.7/out/src/debugger/cordovaDebugAdapter.js
In the Windows, the path is:
C:\Users\yourusername\.vscode\extensions\vsmobile.cordova-tools-1.2.7\out\src\debugger\cordovaDebugAdapter.js
It worked for me...

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Q: Clone GIT to TFS (AzureDevOps) with git-tfs we have an local DevOps Server 2019 with our old projects and I am able to clone this projects with git-tfs to local Git repositories. Everything is fine. After that I can push this repositories to our AzureDevOps Git repositories. Everything ok.
Now we have some projects and colleagues who want to use TFVC for these special projects. So my idea was to clone these projects from local TFS to Git and then use git-tfs rcheckin to push it to our AzureDevOps project.
But when I use "git-fts rcheckin --remote azuretfs" I get "error: latest TFS commit should be parent of commits being checked in"
When I use "git-tfs checin --remote azuretfs" all files are uploaded to the AzureDevOps project but without the history.
So can anyone describe what I have to do?
Note: I don't want to use the MigrationTool offered by Microsoft because of to many erros during validation the templates of work items etc. (we dont use it...)

A: For those who are looking for the same:
With the 'old' git tf tool (https://archive.codeplex.com/?p=gittf) you can migrate old TFVC project to Azure DevOps(TVFC).
If you want to migrate old TFVC projects to AzureDevOps(GIT) you should use git tfs (http://git-tfs.com/)

A: What you could try without guarantee of success...
Note: As I said, you will be able to migrate the history from one branch only.

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*Create the folder/project in TFVC where you want to put the source code.

*Migrate this folder with git tfs clone (to have a git commit with the git-tfs metadata required to rcheckin)

*Add the already migrated history repo (let's call it RepoWithHistory) as a local remote in this new repository (let's call it NewRepo). And git fetch

*Clean metadata for only the commit coming from RepoWithHistory with something looking like: git filter-branch -f --msg-filter "sed 's/^git-tfs-id:.*$//g'" -- --all. But be careful to keep the metadata on the commits coming from NewRepo.

*Use git replace --graft <sha1_of_first_commit_of_RepoWithHistory> <sha1_of_last_commit_of_NewRepo> to graft the 2 histories (the history must be on top of the one from the new one)

*Use git rcheckin --no-merge to migrate the history to TFVC (that will be long...)

I hope it will help.
PS: perhaps you should try to do it on a small subset of commits to be able to verify it will works before doing it in the real TFVC project.


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While an odd combination, featured here are classic radio airchecks and classic sports cards.
If you miss the radio you grew up listening to, you can relive those fun times once again. We've carefully restored many classic sounds of radio from New York City and elsewhere from the 1950's, 60's, 70's and even some special moments from the 80's.
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This is a 2 CD set featuring the return of one of NYC radio's legends to the air.
Ron Lundy, a longtime star on WABC, was left without a job when the station switched to talk in 1982. This unscoped CD set features Ron Lundy sitting in for Harry Harrison on WCBS-FM in March of 1984. It was the first time Ron's voice was heard on NYC radio since WABC.
Not only do you get to hear Ron Lundy do AM Drive but you also get to hear one of the best ever oldies stations in it's prime.
The first CD features Ron Lundy's first 45 minutes on the air. The second CD features his final 45 minutes from that morning.


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## Development

To run the project on your computer, first clone the repository and create a virtualenv for the project. (It is recommended that you create and work inside of a python3.6 virtualenv, but you don't necessarily have to)

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## Acknowledgements

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I've been working with a new family that is partially populated by three vegetable-hating kids. Over the course of the past couple of months, I have stealthy slipped broccoli, spinach, eggplant, mushrooms, kale, peas, zucchini, and carrots successfully into their meals- but this cauliflower recipe is by far the winner in my book since they will actually devour a vegetable in it's un-hidden form. By breaking the cauliflower florets into tiny popcorn-sized pieces, tossing it with butter and parmesan cheese (or vegan butter and nutritional yeast for their vegan dad), and calling it by a fun approachable name, they get excited about something that would otherwise be pretty scary! You'll want to take them out of the oven before they get too caramelized or brown (the color and depth of flavor can be a little too much for little palates) but if you're making these for adults keep them in an extra 5 minutes for that extra golden goodness. I use "cheddar cauliflower" which is just a variety of cauliflower that is orange in color- but you can use the regular white variety with the same results.
Toss cauliflower with olive oil and salt, spread out in a single layer on a parchment lined baking sheet.
Remove from oven, toss with butter and parmesan cheese, season with salt, and serve hot!
Make sure your cauliflower is patted very dry after you wash it, and spread it out with a lot of room on your baking sheet so they roast instead of steam.
Customize your seasonings just as you would gourmet popcorn!


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Forbidden Horizon
Humanity is about to discover the greatest secret of all…
by – David Crane (Author)
The mission to Proxima B is launched. But every radical invention has a price, and every undertaking has its secrets.
It is the year 2098. Humans have established a permanent presence on the Moon and the European Consortium has launched the most ambitious endeavor in space exploration history: a manned mission to planet Mars. Not to be outdone, the United States with the help of a powerful private space corporation, aims for an even greater undertaking. The Americans build the first interstellar ship with an experimental time-space bending engine to reach the nearest star Proxima Centauri. The exoplanet Proxima B, located in the orbital habitation zone, has the potential to become another home for mankind. Commander David Blackstone of the United States Astronaut Corps is one of the best in his business. Facing an honorable retirement, he could not refuse an opportunity to make history. The mission to Proxima B is launched. But every radical invention has a price, and every undertaking has its secrets. And humanity is about to discover the greatest secret of all…
The story takes place in the United States around the 2090's. The story takes place around space exploration of two aerospace ships. The United States has created and now use robots for many things on earth, including aerospace. Commander Wagner and his crew are headed for Mars. They encounter many dangerous things like being hit by a piece of an astroid and high ration. They finally make it to Mars where they start their exploration of Mars. Wagner and his crew encounter a large black mass that ends up being a large and very advanced spaceship.
In the meantime, Commander Blackstone and his crew has just embarked on a trip to the nearest star names Proxima B with a new ship and a Flux Transit Generator. While they embark on their adventure, the Xalin Aliens have made themselves visible to the world. Communication is opening and they have been told by the Aliens that it is not their place to be exploring space as there is not other planet like earth in space. And that they need to take care of their own world. It is then revealed to the United States that many aliens where created to look like humans and put on earth to help them.
Once Commanders and his crew reach Proxima B, the Xalin Aliens reveal themselves to them, open communications with them and meet with them to answer their questions. They are then told that Proxima B is protected by them and that they cannot land on it. They are then told after their meeting that they are to return to earth and pickup Commander Wagner and his crew on the way back to earth.
The book was quite interesting, as it is fantasy but also something that could take place in the near future. The story line was well written and kept the reader engaged. The one thing I notice is that there is a tremendous amount of typos through out the book that will need to be corrected to make is a cleaner read. All in all, it was a great book to read.  - Kellylynn
About the Author: David Crane
I was born in the Ukraine in 1970, which was then a part of the Soviet Union, a country that no longer exists. I saw the world as a very different place while I lived behind the Iron Curtain. As a child, I never questioned anything because I was too busy trying to be a normal kid who played with toy soldiers, played soccer and hockey, who loved adventure and science fiction books, and occasionally skipped school to see my favorite movies. The world broadened for me after the famous Perestroika and Glasnost. Once forbidden movies, music, and literature from the West became more readily available.
Things changed when at the age of sixteen, I immigrated to United States with my family to join my relatives and seek a better life. I ended up a stranger in a strange land where everything fascinated me. New York City, the modern day Babylon, appealed to me with its myriad of languages, customs, and flavors. Assimilating into new culture, learning a new language, finishing high school and college, these were some of the best and most challenging years of my life. After earning my bachelor's degree in Fine Arts and Graphic Design, I sought beauty in all its forms until slowly and rather surprisingly a new irresistible desire emerged inside me: a love of writing.
I had great teachers who taught me the craft with great patience, fun and understanding. I learned from the books written by some of the best writers in the world: Jack London, Ernst Hemingway, David Morell, Isaac Azimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Frank Herbert… And the movies that always inspired me are on my shelf, waiting to be picked up when I need to go where the winds of creation will take me. For me writing is a labor of love. I want to share with my readers all the fun and joy of creativity and imagination. My hobbies include traveling, book and coin collecting, graphic novels, Japanese food and manga, military history and science.
I currently live in New York City where I enjoy the best the Big Apple has to offer.
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Finding time to worship everyday helps me to abide especially when the storms of life are raging around me. Christ is the eye of that storm. If I keep looking up at that circle of light in the eye of the storm instead of looking around at the dark clouds, then I know everything will be fine.
There is nothing like worshiping God, whether it is in song or a prayer of praise or in giving glory to His name with our bodies (standing, kneeling, lifting our hands). Worship is an act of faith, responding to who God is or what He has done. And in that act of faith, God's presence is not just honored, but sometimes it is revealed. That's when the "abiding" begins.
Our perspective begins to change. The things of the world, whether they are dark clouds of being overwhelmed or the grey fog of confusion or the beige-like "blahness" of going through the motions, move to the periphery and we begin to see light. We get our bearings; our compass is recalibrated from the illusions of worldly values and standards to the true North of Christ and His ways. And we begin to see the Light that gives life to our souls.
Some of us enjoy singing to God – the most popular form of worship. And I highly recommend taking some time to sing praises to God during the day. And if you can't sing, you can hum or whistle (which my wife loves to do). Turn on your iPod and play some praise music – and join in the song!
But you don't have to be a singer to be a worshiper. As I alluded earlier, you worship whenever you respond to the Person and Work of God. I worship God when I thoughtfully read a Psalm (especially the ones that are a part of the Daily Office). Just before I started writing this, I prayed the mid-day office. I paused and reflected and glorified God after each phrase. It took about 10 minutes. But it made a difference.
Or you can worship God by reciting a simple prayer of surrender, recognizing His greatness, His goodness, while confessing your dependency on Him. The "Jesus Prayer" is a great example of such a simple prayer ("Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.") You can pray that in your car or at your desk or when you are walking across the hall.
The abiding that leads to abounding doesn't have to be hours of profound intimacy with God. It can be a moment before you do each task. It's about finding simple ways of getting "God on your mind, Christ in your heart and the Spirit flowing through your body." And worship is the best way to start.
How do you get God more into your day?
What helps you to worship God in everyday moments?


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Make yourself at home in one of the 8 guestrooms. Complimentary wireless Internet access is available to keep you connected. Bathrooms have showers and complimentary toiletries.
The front desk is open daily from 6 PM - noon.


Alpena Surgical Associates, a general surgery practice in Alpena, has join MidMichigan Physicians Group. While the practice name will change, the overall operational changes within the practice will be seamless to the patient and the office will remain at its current location, 311 Long Rapids Plaza in Alpena. The general surgeons at this location are Brian Hanna, D.O., Michael Paulsell, M.D., Mark Puls, M.D., and Thomas Thornton, M.D.
MidMichigan Physicians Group, a subsidiary of MidMichigan Health, is a large multi-specialty practice currently covering more than 30 medical specialties in 16 communities across middle and northern Michigan. MidMichigan Physicians Group will own and operate the practice, employ the providers and staff, and provide centralized support services such as billing, physician recruiting, human resources, regulatory compliance, marketing and information technology.
This team of surgeons has advanced training in surgical treatment of conditions and diseases of the esophagus, stomach, small bowel, colon and gallbladder. They also deal with disease involving the skin, breast and soft tissue, as well as hernias. Special surgical procedures performed include breast cancer care, colonoscopy, hemorrhoid procedures, thyroidectomy, carpal tunnel release and more.
Those who would like more information about MidMichigan Physicians Group may visit www.midmichigan.org/mpg. Those with specific questions about the practice may call the general surgery office at 354-5717.


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Why the racing genre needs to be more hardcore
By Justin Towell published 29 September 14
Before I begin, let's clear up one common misconception: 'hardcore' does not necessarily mean 'hard' as in 'difficult'. Casual games can be difficult. Perhaps the best explanation is that hardcore games demand a greater understanding of how they work and more discipline on the player's part to get the most out of them. And in terms of racing games, that means more than just holding down accelerate and steering. It means involvement, as opposed to passively consuming the on-screen action. The original Super Mario Kart on SNES is hardcore. Gran Turismo 6 is hardcore. GRID Autosport can be hardcore. Indeed, most track-based racing games are hardcore (or at least can be configured to be) but they're sidelined because of the stigma attached to them. And that's exactly where I want to start...
I heard an awful thing the other day. Someone actually described a track-based racer as a 'corridor racer'. Ugh. What a disgusting, belittling way to describe one of gaming's most enduring and quality-rich staples. I assume they are inferring the track is like a corridor because you're constrained by barriers on either side. This sort of labeling plants damaging seeds of negativity, just as the phrase "it's too arcadey" did before it. And this thinking is only being cultivated by developers, resulting in the emergence of a different kind of racing game, particularly by the leaders in the field. Quite literally 'in the field' in the case of Forza Horizon 2, where you can take a supercar through a vineyard, smashing through the vines like they're made of cardboard.
You can flip the car and continue your race. You can hit oncoming traffic and it only feels like a glancing blow. You can even cut out a corner in the road completely by pointing towards the next checkpoint and tearing up the turf. Sounds like an arcade racer, doesn't it? But it isn't. Not quite. It's still dressed up as 'Forza the simulation'. I'd argue it's actually 'Forza the please-don't-get-frustrated-and-stop-playing' casual game. Yes, I did just use the 'C' word. By taking out the need to drive on the road or worry about hitting other cars, you hold the gas, you take in the views, you rewind if that doesn't work out. Essentially, it's a casual racing experience. A very good one, but casual nonetheless.
But Playground Games isn't alone in dumbing down driving, nor is it to blame. Forza Horizon 2 is just the latest in a string of ever-less involved racing games. The change in Nintendo is abundantly obvious, which is particularly telling considering the experiences it offered some 20 years ago were just as family-friendly as they are now. Frustration never used to be a problem because everyone just learned to be better. But today, frustration is interpreted by some as being a sign that the game in question isn't very good. Nintendo appears terrified people might stop playing because they 'can't do it'. I appreciate sometimes people want a game the whole family can play together, and that's perfectly fine. But since not every game is going to fit that bill, why dumb it down for everyone else?
Look at Mario Kart 8 compared to the original Super Mario Kart on SNES. By today's standards, the latter is a super-hardcore driving game, where margin for error is tiny, hazards are everywhere and deviating from the smooth track surface by even the smallest amount sees you floundering as the rest of the field disappears into the distance (with, I might add, no rubber-banding to let you catch up again). It's incredibly punishing and demands absolute mastery of your kart's controls. Yet it was massively successful when it was released, both critically and commercially. There is no way Nintendo would release a Mario Kart like it today.
By comparison, Mario Kart 8 is a round-edged, safety-foam-covered child's plaything that it's impossible to hurt yourself on. It's still a high quality game, of course it is. And it's hard to win on the highest skill level. But look at how little the trackside grass slows you down. How wide the tracks are compared to the SNES game. How slow the Kart is actually travelling when you look at the scenery gliding by. How much more time you are given to react to oncoming hazards.
If a game that was seen as casual on its release is now the epitome of hardcore kart racing, it's only because everyone has moved towards this hand-holding together. And somehow we have arrived at a place where a racing game can begin with automatic braking enabled. Automatic braking destroys a racing game because braking is the game. It's not about how fast you go, it's about how little you can slow down.
Someone asked me 'how do you go so fast?' I replied 'don't brake as much'. It was a joke. Of course the trick is actually to brake more. To slow the car properly so that you exit the corner carrying more speed. And that's something that most modern racing devs have completely forgotten. Or, more accurately, elected to ignore. Some racers not only offer automatic braking, but even steering assistance. Who is this for? Why not just watch the demo?
It's funny how far some of the frustration-relieving features have been taken, with undeniably impressive results. First introduced to racing games in GRID, the time-bending 'rewind' mulligan has been copied by everything from Formula One to WRC. If you try an overtaking move and end up flipping into a ditch, you only have to hit Y and have another go. Sure, it means you get to enjoy spectacular crashes even more (because they essentially mean nothing), but is the gameplay any more involving as a result? No. Instead, you can all-too-easily find yourself in a dull cycle of rewinding the same section, to the point where it starts to get silly. And any win won't feel half as gratifying. It's hollow. You didn't earn it.
Do-or-die moves of real motor racing are the reason racing games exist in the first place. Games are supposed to enable you to emulate that glory, that excitement. Hakkinen daring to take Eau Rouge flat-out to pass Schumi, or the two Williams almost banging wheels at the end of Hangar Straight in 1987. Mansell passing Berger around the outside of the Curva Peraltada in Mexico. The greatest racing moments often carry the biggest risk.
The really annoying thing is, there are quite a few driving games being released right now. And several of them are hardcore, at least when you set them to their most realistic settings. But they still feel like they're 'for the petrol heads'. They're niche. Segregated. Labelled as 'hardcore', almost apologetically. They target driving fanatics instead of bringing hardcore racing to the masses like games did in the past. I know I'm showing my age, but Super Monaco GP was a simulation at heart, yet looked and felt so good, it was a must for most game collections. Maybe Driveclub will bring hardcore gameplay back to the mainstream. There is a chance--it is, after all, a brand new title with limitless possibilities, and it'll have a version on PS Plus too, so it will be more easily accessible than most racers. I sincerely hope so.
Racing games don't have to be hyper-realistic. The best, arguably, are not. But the best racing games are the ones where you have to drive the car better to do better. Super Mario Kart, Sega Rally, Daytona USA, Gran Turismo 3... Are those games accessible and enjoyable from the start for players of all skill levels? Certainly. Fiendishly difficult and deceptively deep if you actually want to win? Hell, yes. We're all getting lazy because we're being encouraged... nay, conditioned, to believe that laziness is normal. I say it's destroying the genre.
Justin Towell
Justin was a GamesRadar staffer for 10 years but is now a freelancer, musician and videographer. He's big on retro, Sega and racing games (especially retro Sega racing games) and currently also writes for Play Magazine, Traxion.gg, PC Gamer and TopTenReviews, as well as running his own YouTube channel. Having learned to love all platforms equally after Sega left the hardware industry (sniff), his favourite games include Christmas NiGHTS into Dreams, Zelda BotW, Sea of Thieves, Sega Rally Championship and Treasure Island Dizzy.
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DOMOCELL focuses within the world of the electric vehicle, to the study of electricity networks in residential areas in large and mid-sized cities. At present, there are no public charging points, and residential buildings in the garages do not have electrical outlets so that residents can charge vehicles.
It is expected a major boom in the electric vehicle use, so various forums have raised the need to study the National grid, in order to get the network dimensioning to meet new electricity demand forecast, pricing policies, infrastructure drawbacks, and regulatory issues.
Identification of each vehicle and user access the network.
Calculate the amount of energy consumed.
Store the dates and times when connections and refills occur.
Allow easy deployment of connection to the electrical infrastructure.
Transmit the consumption data of each vehicle allowing power companies to read from the vehicle instead of the counter.
Detect fraud attempts and control them via power outages, and generate alerts using alarms.
The system can improve network efficiency, as it includes a load planning module and taking care of management demand depending on economic and physical constraints received by the electrical companies. Electric cars can be used too as distributed storage systems of the surplus of electricity, so this electricity can be distributed at different prices, matching with the users' consumption valleys.
This project is funded by the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism, within the National Scientific Research, Development and Technological Innovation Plan, with file number TSI-020100-2009-849.


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Missionaries Who Plant Churches (Interview)
Published by Tim Zulker on 2019-02-22 2019-02-22
John Ames is the pastor of Faith Community Church in Providence, RI. The church is a newly merged congregation of Faith and Hope Baptist Church and West End Community Church. WECC was a church plant that arose from The Philip Center's Summer OFF ministry in Dexter Park, Providence. John's wife Jenny is also on the board of directors of The Philip Center.
Tim recently had a conversation with John about the need for missionary-minded church planters in the inner city.
Tim Zulker: John, what's the difference between a church planter and a missionary who plants churches?
John Ames: A church planter [will often be working…] in downtown settings with college students, or with professionals looking for community. Those people will form tight communities and they'll invite their friends to it. So initially it won't be evangelism, it will be a gathering of Christians, and then hopefully relational evangelism can happen.
In the inner city, there are so many complexities and dynamics that surround cultures. There are socio-economic barriers. Trust issues. So you can't easily gather a crowd of like-minded people. Any crowd you gather will be very diverse. And it takes a different kind of person to do that.
Instead, in the inner city you find your entryways through a person of peace (Luke 10), the missionary model. You look for one person and begin to disciple them. Then that person is going to serve as a gatekeeper who will open opportunities to a whole network of people, whom you can then minister to.
I'll give you an example. There's a guy in our church right now who is a Congolese refugee. He's connected to the whole Congolese network in Providence, RI. We're ministering to him. He was a Baptist pastor in the Congo. If I'm just trying to gather a crowd, then I'm not thinking about how to empower him [to invite other Congolese] because his Congolese culture is going to change the DNA of the culture that we would be trying to build, especially in the three- to five-year window that most church planting networks give you.
TZ: Let's talk more about the long-term approach of a missionary-minded planter.
JA: Most church planting networks give you three years. I've heard some are moving toward five. They're saying, "We expect you to be a self-sustaining church within three years." That puts a lot of pressure on an entrepreneurially-minded planter and it's extremely unrealistic in New England, regardless of your setting, and impossible in the inner city.
TZ: Is a missionary-minded church planter thinking differently also about leadership?
JA: Yes, missionaries who have done it well have built up indigenous leadership. Then they've gone on to other churches, and started again to build up indigenous leadership [in another community].
Now if you're a church planter with that apostolic method… and just say you were able to establish a self-sustaining church in three years… then where does the funding come from for the second church? And the third church? So it become difficult for you to figure out how to do that unless you are handing it off to indigenous leadership.
TZ: Let's say that you've come as a church planter with a missionary mindset and you've raised funding for your family for lifetime of service—as a missionary would. Is it feasible that an inner city church could be self sustaining if you factor out the pastor's salary?
JA: It's reasonable that the church can lease a space, pay for children's programs, have some savings, pay for a church van, etc.—yes, that's very much a possibility. And then that requires that the indigenous pastor be bi-vocational. But by that point, all the work of building up the infrastructure, and building up the tithing base, has been done. So the bi-vocational ministry becomes probable. It may not be ideal, but we see that where that has worked.
TZ: For example?
JA: Faith and Hope Baptist Church wasn't able to pay their pastor, but they could pay for everything else. That's one example. They operated on a minimal budget, but they were able to sustain that.
And other churches have pursued a model where half of the budget is funded by tithing, and the other half is funded by a community development corporation [(CDC)]. This way the pastor is part-time executive director of the CDC, which is doing work in the community that he might be doing anyway. Then he's also a part-time pastor.
It's an inner city thing where they recognize they need another income stream to pay for what the church needs.
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NOTE: "Longstanding" for crypto means since at least 2015. "New" means the coin came out in 2017 – 2018. The oldest crypto Bitcoin (BTC) was created in 2010, so the whole space is new in that sense.
The above coins all have a solid chance at staying around long term in my opinion (each for different reasons), all have use cases, and all are in the top 20 by market cap here in August 2018 and have generally been top coins since shortly after their release.
TIP: There are some seriously cool projects with smaller market caps, for example RHOC. That said, I generally consider the market to be right, especially over time. That is to say, those projects that float to the top of the market cap list and sustain a top spot are generally the best projects.
NOTE: I can't see into the future, I will however come back and update this list as new coins come onto the scene or if and when old coins fade away.
Ethereum – ETH: Top alt that isn't Bitcoin, around since 2015, essentially the first and most popular distributed computing system. About half of other coins run on Ethereum. That said, needs to solve a range of issues including scalability issues. Luckily ETH like every other coin runs on software and software can be upgraded.
Ethereum Classic – ETC: This was the original Ethereum before ETH split off. ETC supporters wouldn't roll back a major hack, ETH supporters wanted to. The chain split. ETC is like a way cheaper and immutable Ethereum.
Ripple – XRP: A super fast coin attached to the Ripple project which is a centrally managed platform for payments. This long standing contender to the crypto throne since 2012, it is the top alt that isn't ETH. It is a little corporate, but undeniably a top coin. Purists hate it, but the market loves it… and it is way, way, way faster than BTC and ETH for payments.
Stellar – XLM: Like a decentralized XRP, but with an open source platform for building out custom tokens like Ethereum. Has been around since 2014.
Litecoin – LTC: Used to be the top alt before Ethereum came along and rained on its parade. It is the silver to Bitcoin's gold, not to be confused with Bitcoin Gold. This simple transfer coin is like a faster and cheaper to use Bitcoin, but as such its been knocked out of the top spot by more interesting projects like Ethereum over time.
Monero – XMR: One of the most popular longstanding privacy coins.
Zcash – ZEC: Also one of the most popular longstanding privacy coins. XMR is a little more popular, ZEC is closer to mainstream adoption with it being eyed by Coinbase and Gemini.
Neo – NEO: An Ethereum competitor that was one of the first popular distributed computing systems to market alongside Ethereum.
Dash – DASH: Used to be Dark cash, got rebranded to Dash. It is an interesting simple payment coin with master nodes and a cool team and community.
Bitcoin Cash – BCH: Bitcoin Cash is a Bitcoin fork that functions a lot like Litecoin and has strong backing by some of cryptos biggest players. It started due to an ideological split in the Bitcoin community over scaling issues in 2017 and has since become one of the top cryptos.
EOS – EOS: The darling ICO of 2017 that has a cult like following and preforms heart magic. All of that aside, they also have an interesting platform called Block.one. Their Ethereum looking logo is your first hint they are an Ethereum competitor.
IOTA – IOTA: A platform that uses a blockchain alternative and constantly gets flak for it. Still has real potential and a large following. It is an interesting project that'll add a lot to the space if it can prove itself over time.
TRON – TRON: Started as an Ethereum ICO, became its own network. Now it has to prove itself. Has some cool DApps, lots of potential.
Zero-x (0x) – ZRX: An Ethereum-based platform that can be used to create Decentralize Exchanges. Yes please.
BNB because it's Binance's popular token, NEM because it is quick and cheap, LSK a popular blockchain building platform, OMG solid Ethereum competitor, BTG (or any Bitcoin fork listed on exchanges) because it is Bitcoin with a few tweaks, NANO quick, speedy, and interesting project, XVG quick privacy coin with longevity, MKR Ethereum-based project attached to a decentralized stable coin, BAT Ethereum -based advertising token, SC digital cloud token, REP cool forecasting platform built on Ethereum, DODGE if Bitcoin was a joke it would be Dodge (somehow this joke keeps running and doge retains value despite itself).
Coins that have been in the top 20 – 30 by market cap on Coinmarketcap.com for the past few months, unless they are brand new, are generally the coins that belong there. The market sometimes gets it wrong in the short term, with coins launching to the top of the pack as they "pump," but over time the market tends to get it right (and the cream of the crop tends to float to the top).
Coins that have been in the top 20 – 30 for years are generally by far the best choices. So BTC, ETH, XRP, XLM, LTC, XMR, ZEC, and DASH, while maybe not always the most exciting in terms of price, speed, or technology, should always be your bread and butter. Further, BTC is king crypto, ETH is king alt, and XRP is maybe a bit of a mix of those two with some other qualities. If you have to only get three coins, those are probably your three.
Some of the coins that will see the biggest gains over time are not the best alternatives when it comes to tech or performance over time or safety, they are random cheap alts that might get pumped once or twice in their life. So if you are a speculator you'll really want to check out a longer list of coins.
Some of the coins that will do the best over time might not be on the top of the list yet, they might be coins with excellent technology that are under appreciated. Again, the market doesn't tend to get things wrong over time, but it can in the short term. So keep an eye on new coins with exciting tech that solve longstanding problems in the crypto space (problems generally include factors such as scalability and privacy).
Always pay attention to the news, if a coin is getting listed on a major exchange like Coinbase, or if a coin like XRP will be adopted as a trading pair on some major exchanges, or if an update has improved a coin's system (like if Ethereum gets its long awaited upgrades) then the whole game can change.
Consider the health of the overall market and technical analysis. The best coin in the world can be a giant trap in the wrong market (not only can coins go down 90%+, in the worst of times, with low volume coins, that can happen in the course of moments in crypto), the worst coin can be the score of the lifetime right before a bull market.


LAKELAND – Cody Burgess started and ended the Moccasins' scoring on Saturday here at Henley Field as Florida Southern swept a Sunshine State Conference doubleheader from Eckerd, taking game one, 10-5, and then winning game two, 6-5. Burgess hit a three-run home run in the second inning of game one and then won game two with a walk-off homer on the first pitch of the bottom of the ninth.
The two wins improve the Moccasins' record to 21-2-1 overall and 5-1 in the SSC while the Tritons drop to 10-13 overall and 3-9 in the conference.
Florida Southern jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the second inning as Hayden Marze and Vaun Brown drew walks while Burgess later homered to left field for his sixth home run of the season.
The Moccasins took advantage of another pair of walks in the third as Omar Villaman and Logan Browning were issued free passes with both scoring on a double off the bat of Marze, who would later score on a single by Brown.
Florida Southern starter Thomas Spinelli (3-0) retired the first 10 batters he faced in order before surrendering a one-out homer to Chase Achuff in the fourth.
Another base on balls by Eckerd starter Nick Alonzo (3-2) led to another Moccasin run as Burgess drew a lead-off walk in the fourth and later scored on an infield groundout by Austin Mauer.
Villaman singled to drive in the Moccasins' eighth run in the sixth for an 8-1 lead.
Florida Southern added a solo run in the bottom of the seventh as Browning led off with a double and later scored on a passed ball.
Eckerd then touched reliever Matt Martin for a solo run in the top of the eighth, but the Moccasins responded with a solo run in the eighth as pinch-hitter Ryan Frost led off with a single, moved to second on a walk by pinch-hitter Austin Huber and scored on a double by Tommy Georgevich.
Florida Southern broke a scoreless tie in the third as Burgess doubled and scored on a single by Mauer.
It was Burgess getting involved again in the fifth, getting hit by a pitch to begin the inning. Pablo Cabrera then homered to left field for a 3-0 Moccasin lead.
Eckerd tallied a solo run in the sixth off Moccasin starter J.J. Niekro, but Burgess got the score back leading off the second on a walk and moving to second on a passed ball. He would later score on a sacrifice fly by Mauer.
The Tritons then rallied for four runs on five hits off FSC reliever J.T. Hintzen to grab a 5-4 lead in the top of the eighth.
Browning tied the game in the bottom of the eighth with a lead-off homer off the scoreboard.
After Moccasin closer Leo Rodriguez (1-0) tossed a scoreless ninth, Burgess ended the game with his second homer of the day on the first pitch he faced to lead off the ninth.
Florida Southern has now played Eckerd 181 times with Florida Southern enjoying a huge 144-37 margin in the series, including a 70-14 margin in games played in Lakeland. The Mocs are 56-5 against the Tritons at Henley Field and have a 23-9 mark at Joker Marchant Stadium. FSC has now won 12 straight versus Eckerd.
Burgess' four runs in game two gave him six runs scored on the day as he crossed the plate twice in the opener. His walk-off homer in game two comes one month to the day when he last won a game on a walk-off homer (Feb. 17 vs. Lee).
Florida Southern hit six home runs in the three-game series vs. Eckerd. The Moccasins have now hit 37 homers on the season.
Florida Southern returns to action on Wednesday night in a non-conference game at Henley Field against #6 Flagler College in a rematch of a game won by the Moccasins, 2-1, in St. Augustine last week. The Moccasins will then host Lynn in a three-game conference series on March 23-24. The 1988 Moccasin team will be recognized on Friday night in celebration of the team's 30th anniversary of winning an NCAA Division II national championship.


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How Do You Calculate the Normal Weight for Your Age and Height?
By Staff WriterLast Updated Apr 13, 2020 4:22:22 PM ET
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The most common way to determine the normal weight for age and height is by calculating body mass index, states the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. There are a number BMI calculators available online, including one on the Medical News Today website.
Body mass index is calculated by dividing a person's weight in kilograms by the square of his height in meters. A BMI between 18.5 and 24.9 for adults over 20 years of age is considered normal, according to the CDC. The differences in body fat increase among children and teens; therefore, age and sex are stronger factors for calculating BMI in people under 20. Although BMI can be used as an acceptable guide, many experts criticize the formula as flawed. A BMI does not take a person's bone density or muscle mass into account. It does not measure fat directly or diagnose impending health risks associated with weight.
A number of other recommended methods for determining an ideal weight are available, as listed on Medical News Today. Waist-to-hip ratio is calculated by dividing the lowest waist circumference by the widest part of the hips. Waist-to-height ratio charts optimal girth based on height. Most gyms and doctors' offices offer a more scientific approach for calculating body fat percentage, using techniques such as dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry and bioelectrical impedance analysis.


The French Automobile company manufacturer Aixa-Mega is based in Aix-Les-Bains, Savoie was founded in 1983 to make microcars. By the year April 2013, US-based Polaris Industries procured Aixam- Mega.
The Aixam City Sporty is a two-door mini car designed and manufactured by French automaker Aixam-Mega. The Aixam City Sporty is a very compact car which can be driven even without a driving license in selected countries in Europe.
In 1992, the company initiated to design and produce average sized vehicles by the support of Mega Brands. About after 10 years, they started manufacturing electric and diesel range microvans.
As the company produces smaller models it reaches the speed up to 45km/ hr and thus driven without having a driving license in some countries including Slovenia, Slovakia, Spain, France, Portugal, Belgium, and Estonia. Their other models including the Aixam 500.5, 500, and 400 are considered basic when it comes to the latest mechanical standards. A range of either diesel or petrol engines were tried out to these models through the years.
Their other models including the Aixam 500.5, 500, and 400 are the basic models. A range of either diesel or petrol engines were tried out to these models through the years. Currently, the vehicles they offer include the Aixam Crossline or referred as A-series.
Aixam Crossline is an SUV that speeds up to 93 km/hr. They also manufacture the Aixam Mega e-City, Aixam City Gasol which is an electric car, the Mega Moskito Micro Pick-up, and the Mega MultiTruck.


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31 Indian varsities in top world university rankings
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The Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore is India\'s top institution in the \'Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2016-17\' list released yesterday, up nearly 50 places from its last year\'s rank.
London : India has improved its position in the global higher education, with a record 31 educational institutions making it to a new list of the world's top varsities topped by the University of Oxford.
The Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore is India's top institution in the 'Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2016-17' list released yesterday, up nearly 50 places from its last year's rank.
Only two Indian universities have made it to the top 400 universities' list. IISc (201-250 group), up from last year's 251-300 group, is accompanied by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay (351-400 cohort) in the top 400 table. There is no Indian university in the coveted top 200 list.
This year's list, which includes 14 new entrants, is topped by University of Oxford, the first UK university to top in the 12-year history of the table. Five-time topper California Institute of Technology came second while Stanford University was ranked third.
South Asia as a whole has almost doubled its representation in this year's list of the world's top 980 universities, claiming 39 places, up from 20 last year. Sri Lanka makes its debut in the table with the University of the Colombo in the 801+ band, while Pakistan has five new entries, taking its total to seven.
But the star of the region is India, which has 31 universities in the list. Its leading university – the Indian Institute of Science – is edging closer to the top 200, claiming a spot in the 201-250 band, its highest ever position and the country has four new entries in the top 800," said Phil Baty, the editor of the THE World University Rankings.
India's strong performance is partly thanks to the country recognising the importance of participating in global benchmarking exercises; just last month the government launched a new funding-backed project aimed at catapulting Indian Institutes of Technology to the top of world university rankings," he said.
Baty described as "encouraging" that the Indian government had displayed an ambition to create world-class universities, witnessed by the country's leading institutions "edging towards the world top 200". The other Indian universities on the list include IIT Delhi, IIT Kanpur and IIT Madras, all within the 401-500 ranks, and IIT Kharagpur and IIT Roorkee in the 501-600 band.
India has 19 institutes in the top 800, two more than last year and 12 others in the 801-980 band. Overall, India has 31 institutions, including 14 new names, in the list of 980.The calculation of the THE World University Rankings is subject to an independent audit by professional services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).
The rankings claim to be the only global performance tables that judge research-intensive universities across all their core missions: teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. It uses 13 calibrated performance indicators to provide the most comprehensive and balanced comparisons, trusted by students, academics, university leaders, industry and governments.
Other Indian universities which have found a place in the list include Jadavpur University, Aligarh Muslim University, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, University of Calcutta, University of Delhi, IIT Guwahati, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Panjab University, Savitribai Phule Pune University.
Sri Venkateswara University, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Tezpur University, Acharya Nagarjuna University, Amity University, Amrita University, Andhra University, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Manipal University, Osmania University, SASTRA University, Sathyabama University, SRM University, Vellore Institute of Technology have also made it to the list.
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Short Television Review: Torchwood: Children of Earth
*Torchwood* always had trouble finding its bearings. The first season was wildly uneven—there were some very promising episode (to my mind, ["Countrycide"](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countrycide) remains the series's creepiest episode to date)—but for the most part the show was a solid "meh." Still, I stuck with it through the second season, which improved notably, especially with the three-part arc of "Reset"/"Dead Man Walking"/"A Day in the Death." Apparently I wasn't the only person who thought there was promise in the series, as it as renewed for a third season. Instead of a full 13 episode run, however, the BBC commissioned a five-part miniseries, *Children of Earth*, to be broadcast over the course of a week.
In some ways, this is the perfect format for *Torchwood*: there's no time for filler episodes or extraneous plot details—everything is focused on a single story arc: cutting down both the number of episodes as well as the main cast means that the show is much leaner, and that lends it strength. The plot of the miniseries involves all of the world's children, which begin speaking in unison about what appears to be an imminent alien invasion—an invasion that someone really doesn't want *Torchwood* investigating. *Children of Earth* is at turns funny and dark; the final episode includes at least two very powerful, disturbing scenes that made me shudder, and leaves off with an uncertain future for the series and its eponymous team.
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