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CEN/TS 419221-4:2016
Protection Profiles for TSP cryptographic modules - Part 4: Cryptographic module for CSP signing operations without backup
M/460
This Technical Specification specifies a protection profile for cryptographic modules used by certification service providers (as specified in Directive 1999/93) for signing operations, without key backup. Target applications include root certification authorities (certification authorities which issue certificates to other CAs and is at the top of a CA hierarchy) and other certification service providers where there is a high risk of direct physical attacks against the module.
Schutzprofile für kryptographische Module von vertrauenswürdigen Dienstanbietern - Teil 4: Schutzprofil für CSP Signieroperationen ohne Sicherung
Profils de protection pour modules cryptographiques utilisés par les prestataires de services de confiance - Partie 4: Module cryptographique utilisé par le prestataire de services de certification pour les opérations de signature sans sauvegarde
Zaščitni profili za TSP kriptografske module - 4. del: Kriptografski modul za postopke podpisovanja CSP brez varnostne kopije
Ta tehnična specifikacija določa zaščitni profil za kriptografske module, ki jih uporabljajo overitelji (kot je določeno v Direktivi 1999/93) za postopke podpisovanja brez varnostne kopije. Ciljne vrste uporabe vključujejo korenske overitelje potrdil (overitelji potrdil, ki izdajajo potrdila drugim overiteljem potrdil in so na vrhu hierarhije overiteljev potrdil) in druge overitelje, kjer obstaja visoko tveganje neposrednih fizičnih napadov na modul.
35.240.30 - IT applications in information, documentation and publishing
CEN/TC 224 - Machine-readable cards, related device interfaces and operations
CEN/TC 224/WG 17 - Protection Profiles in the context of SSCD
9060 - Closure of 2 Year Review Enquiry - Review Enquiry
910/2014 - Regulation (EU) No 910/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 July 2014 on electronic identification and trust services for electronic transactions in the internal market and repealing directive 1999/93/EC
M/460 - Standardisation Mandate to the European Standardisation Organizations CEN, CENELEC and ETSI in the field of Information and Communication Technologies applied to Electronic Signatures
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SLOVENSKI STANDARD
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Protection Profiles for TSP cryptographic modules - Part 4: Cryptographic module for
CSP signing operations without backup
Sicherheitsanforderungen für vertrauenswürdige Systeme zur Verwaltung von
Zertifikaten für elektronische Signaturen - Teil 4: Kryptographisches Modul für CSP
Signieroperationen - Schutzprofil (CMCSO-PP)
Exigences de sécurité concernant les systèmes fiables gérant des certificats de
signatures électroniques - Partie 4 : Module cryptographique pour les opérations de
signature électronique des fournisseurs de services de certification - Profil de protection -
CMCSO PP
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: CEN/TS 419221-4:2016
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CEN/TS 419221-4
SPÉCIFICATION TECHNIQUE
ICS 35.240.30; 35.040 Supersedes CWA 14167-4:2004
Protection Profiles for TSP cryptographic modules - Part 4:
Cryptographic module for CSP signing operations without
Exigences de sécurité concernant les systèmes fiables Schutzprofile für kryptographische Module von
gérant des certificats de signatures électroniques - vertrauenswürdigen Dienstanbietern - Teil 4:
Partie 4 : Module cryptographique pour les opérations Schutzprofil für CSP Signieroperationen ohne
de signature électronique des fournisseurs de services Sicherung
de certification - Profil de protection - CMCSO PP
This Technical Specification (CEN/TS) was approved by CEN on 8 May 2016 for provisional application.
The period of validity of this CEN/TS is limited initially to three years. After two years the members of CEN will be requested to
submit their comments, particularly on the question whether the CEN/TS can be converted into a European Standard.
CEN members are required to announce the existence of this CEN/TS in the same way as for an EN and to make the CEN/TS
available promptly at national level in an appropriate form. It is permissible to keep conflicting national standards in force (in
parallel to the CEN/TS) until the final decision about the possible conversion of the CEN/TS into an EN is reached.
CEN members are the national standards bodies of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia,
Finland, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania,
Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and
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CEN/TS 419221-4:2016 (E)
European foreword ....................................................................................................................................................... 4
Introduction .................................................................................................................................................................... 5
1 Scope .................................................................................................................................................................... 6
2 Normative references .................................................................................................................................... 6
3 Terms and definitions ................................................................................................................................... 6
4 PP Introduction ................................................................................................................................................ 6
4.1 General ................................................................................................................................................................ 6
4.2 PP Reference ..................................................................................................................................................... 6
4.3 Protection Profile Overview ........................................................................................................................ 7
4.4 TOE Overview ................................................................................................................................................... 8
4.4.1 TOE type ............................................................................................................................................................. 8
4.4.2 TOE Roles ........................................................................................................................................................... 9
4.4.3 Usage and major security features of the TOE ...................................................................................... 9
4.4.4 Available non-TOE hardware/software/firmware .......................................................................... 11
5 Conformance Claim ..................................................................................................................................... 11
5.1 CC Conformance Claim ............................................................................................................................... 11
5.2 PP Claim ........................................................................................................................................................... 11
5.3 Conformance Rationale .............................................................................................................................. 11
5.4 Conformance Statement ............................................................................................................................ 11
6 Security Problem Definition ..................................................................................................................... 12
6.1 Assets ................................................................................................................................................................ 12
6.1.1 General ............................................................................................................................................................. 12
6.1.2 TOE services ................................................................................................................................................... 12
6.1.3 TOE Data .......................................................................................................................................................... 12
6.2 Threats ............................................................................................................................................................. 13
6.2.2 Threat agents ................................................................................................................................................. 13
6.2.3 Threats description ..................................................................................................................................... 14
6.3 Organizational Security Policies ............................................................................................................. 17
6.4 Assumptions ................................................................................................................................................... 17
7 Security Objectives ...................................................................................................................................... 18
7.1 General ............................................................................................................................................................. 18
7.2 Security Objectives for the TOE ............................................................................................................... 18
7.3 Security Objectives for the Operational Environment ................................................................... 20
8 Extended Components Definitions ........................................................................................................ 21
8.1 Extended Component Definitions — Family FCS_RND .................................................................... 21
9 Security Requirements ............................................................................................................................... 22
9.2 Subjects, objects, security attributes and operations ..................................................................... 22
9.2.2 Subjects ............................................................................................................................................................ 22
9.2.3 TOE Objects and security attributes ...................................................................................................... 23
9.2.4 TOE Operations ............................................................................................................................................. 23
9.3 Security Functional Requirements ......................................................................................................... 24
9.3.2 Security audit (FAU) .................................................................................................................................... 24
9.3.3 Cryptographic support (FCS) .................................................................................................................... 25
9.3.4 User data protection (FDP) ....................................................................................................................... 27
9.3.5 Identification and authentication (FIA) ............................................................................................... 29
9.3.6 Security management (FMT) .................................................................................................................... 30
9.3.7 Privacy (FPR) — Unobservability (FPR_UNO.1) ................................................................................ 32
9.3.8 Protection of the TOE Security Functions (FPT) ................................................................................ 32
9.3.9 Trusted path (FTP) — Trusted path (FTP_TRP.1) ............................................................................ 35
9.4 Security Assurance Requirements ......................................................................................................... 35
9.5 Security Requirements Rationale ........................................................................................................... 36
9.5.1 Security Problem Definition coverage by Security Objectives ..................................................... 36
9.5.2 Security Objectives coverage by SFRs ................................................................................................... 41
9.5.3 SFR Dependencies ........................................................................................................................................ 45
9.5.4 Rationale for SARs ........................................................................................................................................ 46
9.5.5 AVA_VAN.5 Advanced methodical vulnerability analysis .............................................................. 46
Bibliography ................................................................................................................................................................. 47
European foreword
This document (CEN/TS 419221-4:2016) has been prepared by Technical Committee CEN/TC 224
"Personal identification and related personal devices with secure element, systems, operations and
privacy in a multi sectorial environment", the secretariat of which is held by AFNOR.
This document supersedes CWA 14167-4:2004.
This document has been prepared under a mandate given to CEN by the European Commission and the
European Free Trade Association.
CEN/TS 419221, Protection Profiles for TSP cryptographic modules, is currently composed with the
following parts:
— Part 1: Overview;
— Part 2: Cryptographic module for CSP signing operations with backup;
— Part 3: Cryptographic module for CSP key generation services;
— Part 4: Cryptographic module for CSP signing operations without backup.
According to the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations, the national standards organisations of the
following countries are bound to announce this Technical Specification: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria,
Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia,
France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta,
Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland,
Turkey and the United Kingdom.
This 'Cryptographic Module for CSP Signing Operations - Protection Profile' (CMCSO-PP) is issued by
the European Committee for Standardization.
The document is for use by the European Commission in accordance with the procedure laid down in
Article 9 of Directive 1999/93/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 December 1999
on a Community framework for electronic signatures [1] as generally recognized standard for
electronic-signature products in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
The document has been prepared as a Protection Profile (PP) following the rules and formats of the
Common Criteria version 3.1r3 [CC1] [CC2] [CC3].
The set of algorithms for secure signature-creation devices and parameters for algorithms for secure
signature-creation devices is given in a separate document, ETSI/TS 102 176.
This document has been originally prepared as a single Protection Profile and approved as CWA 14167-
2:2002. Afterwards, while reviewing this Protection Profile for the evaluation, in order to make it
conformant to the Common Criteria 2.1, two Protection Profiles have been created for the same TOE,
one including the mandatory function of key backup and the other excluding this function:
— Cryptographic Module for CSP Signing Operations with Backup - Protection Profile (CMCSOB-PP),
version 0,28; CWA 14167-2:2004;
— Cryptographic Module for CSP Signing Operations - Protection Profile (CMCSO-PP), version 0.28;
CWA 14167-4:2004.
Correspondence and comments to this Cryptographic Module for CSP Signing Operations - Protection
Profile (CMCSO-PP) should be referred to:
Editor: Rémy DAUDIGNY
Email: remy.daudigny@thalesgroup.com
This Technical Specification specifies a protection profile for cryptographic modules used by
certification service providers (as specified in Directive 1999/93) for signing operations, without key
backup. Target applications include root certification authorities (certification authorities which issue
certificates to other CAs and is at the top of a CA hierarchy) and other certification service providers
where there is a high risk of direct physical attacks against the module.
CEN/TS 419221-1:2016, Protection Profiles for TSP cryptographic modules — Part 1: Overview
ETSI/TS 101 456, Electronic Signature and Infrastructure (ESI); Policy requirements for certification
authorities issuing qualified certificates
ETSI/TS 102 176, Electronic Signatures and Infrastructures (ESI); Algorithms and Parameters for Secure
For the purposes of this document, the terms and definitions given in CEN/TS 419221-1:2016 apply.
4 PP Introduction
This clause provides document management and overview information that is required to carry out
protection profile registry. Therefore, Subclause 4.2 "PP Reference" gives labelling and descriptive
information necessary for registering the Protection Profile (PP). Subclause 4.3 "Protection Profile
Overview" summarizes the PP in narrative form. Subclause 4.4 "TOE Overview" summarizes the TOE in
a narrative form. As such, these clauses give an overview to the potential user to decide whether the PP
is of interest. It is usable as standalone abstract in PP catalogues and registers.
4.2 PP Reference
Title Cryptographic Module for CSP Signing Operations – Protection Profile
CC revision v3.1 release 3
PP version v0.33
Authors Rémy Daudigny
Keywords cryptographic module, CSP signing device, qualified certificate signing, certificate
status information signing
Registration 419221–4
4.3 Protection Profile Overview
The Directive 1999/93/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 December 1999 on a
Community framework for electronic signatures [1], referred to as the 'Directive' in the remainder of the
PP, states in Annex II that:
Certification-service-providers must:
(f) use trustworthy systems and products which are protected against modification and ensure the
technical and cryptographic security of the process supported by them;
(g) take measures against forgery of certificates, and, in cases where the certification-service-provider
generates signature-creation data, guarantee confidentiality during the process of generating such
In the supporting ETSI Technical Specification "Policy Requirements for Certification Authorities (CA)
issuing Qualified Certificates" (ETSI/TS 101 456), it is stated that:
The CA shall ensure that CA keys are generated in accordance with industry standards, and
The CA shall ensure that CA private keys remain confidential and maintain their integrity.
This Protection Profile (PP) defines the security requirements of a Cryptographic Module (CM) used by
CSP as part of its trustworthy system to provide signing services, such as Certificate Generation Service
or Certificate Status Information Signing Services. The Cryptographic Module, which is the Target of
Evaluation (TOE), is used for the creation of CSP key pairs, and their usage for the creation and
verification of advanced electronic signatures in qualified certificates or certificate status information.
The private keys are referred to in this PP as Certification Service Provider Signature-Creation Data
(CSP-SCD). The public keys are referred as Certification Service Provider Signature-Verification Data
(CSP-SVD).
The Protection Profile's primary scope is for signing qualified certificates. However components
evaluated against this standard may be applied for other signature-creation tasks carried out by a
certificate service provider (CSP) such as time-stamping, signing certificate revocation lists (CRLs) or
issuing online certificate status protocol (OCSP) messages. It may also be used for other trusted service
providers creating electronic signatures.
This PP is Common Criteria Part 2 extended and Common Criteria Part 3 conformant. The assurance
level for this PP is EAL4, augmented with AVA_VAN.5 (Advanced methodical vulnerability analysis).
In Article 3.5, the Directive further states that:
The Commission may, in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 9, establish and publish
reference numbers of generally recognized standards for electronic-signature products in the Official
Journal of the European Communities. Member States shall presume that there is compliance with the
requirements laid down in Annex II, point (f), and Annex III when an electronic signature product
meets those standards."
This Protection Profile is established by CEN/ISSS for use by the European Commission, with reference
to Annex II (f), in accordance with this procedure.
1) In the remainder of this PP the term 'Certificate Service Provider (CSP)' is used instead of the commonly used term
'Certification Authority (CA)', as the former is employed by the Directive EC 1999/93 [1] this PP aims to support.
4.4 TOE Overview
4.4.1 TOE type
The TOE is a Cryptographic Module (CM) used for the creation and usage of Certificate Service Provider
Signature-Creation Data (CSP-SCD). The CM may optionally also perform hashing of the qualified
certificate content.
The TOE is configured software and hardware that may be used to provide the following cryptographic
a) Generation of CSP-SCD
b) Usage of the CSP-SCD to create advanced electronic signatures for qualified certificates based on
1) the hash value of the content of the qualified certificate, or
2) an intermediate hash-value of a first part of the qualified certificate and a remaining part of the
qualified certificate or
3) the complete content of the qualified certificate, where the hashing is also performed in the CM
(optional).
The TOE may implement additional functions and security requirements, e.g. for the creation of
Signature Creation Data (SCD) for loading into Secure Signature Creation Devices (SSCD) as part of a
Subscriber Device Provision Service. However, these additional functions and security requirements are
not subject of this Protection Profile.
The TOE shall provide the following additional functions to protect these cryptographic functions:
• User authentication
• Access control for the creation and destruction of keys
• Access control for usage of keys to create certificate signatures
• Auditing of security-relevant changes to the TOE
• Self-test of the TOE
The TOE shall handle the following User Data:
c) CSP Signature Creation Data (CSP-SCD): private key of CSP, created and stored internally in the TOE
d) Data to be signed representation (DTBS-representation): The data to be signed by the TOE may e.g.
be:
1) Certificate hash value: imported to the TOE
2) Certificate contents (optional, when hashing is performed in the TOE), data to be hashed (fully
or partially) and signed, imported to the TOE
3) other data to be signed by the TOE, such as CRL or the hash value of the CRL, or time-stamping
e) Certificate signature: created signature, exported from the TOE.
The TOE does not support backup and restoration of data. For the cryptographic functions, the TOE
shall support the cryptographic algorithms specified in ETSI/TS 102 176, or a subset thereof.
4.4.2 TOE Roles
The TOE shall as a minimum support the following user categories (roles):
• Crypto-officer (authorized to install, configure and maintain the TOE and to create and destruct
the CSP-SCD)
• Crypto-user (authorized to sign with existing CSP-SCDs)
• Auditor (authorized to read audit data generated by the TOE and exported for audit review in the
TOE environment)
The TOE may support other roles or sub-roles in addition to the roles specified above. The roles may
also be allowed to perform additional functions provided by the TOE as long as the separation between
different roles is given.
The interface to the TOE may either be shared between the different user categories, or separated for
certain functions, for example configuration.
Authentication of TOE users shall be identity-based.
Maintenance of the TOE as well as the management of the CSP-SCDs are highly critical operations that
need to be related to the individual users that performed the operation. It is therefore required that for
the roles System Auditor and Security officer of the CSP [CEN] the individual users shall be known by
the TOE as Auditor and Crypto-officer and the TOE needs to perform identity based authentication for
those roles. The Crypto-officer role is very powerful including user and key management. Therefore the
Auditor role is implemented to watch on Crypto-officer's actions and to detect misuse of Crypto-
officer's authorization.
The TOE manages two or more user identities for the role Crypto-officer to allow dual person control
for security critical actions like generation of CSP-SCD and CSP-SVD generation. The end-users may
access to the TOE signing service through a client application in the TOE environment. The client
application acts as agent for these end-users with a TOE user identity in the Crypto-user role.
4.4.3 Usage and major security features of the TOE
In most cases the TOE will be a separate component with its own hardware and software,
communicating via a well-defined physical and logical interface with the client application in the IT
environment. Examples of physical interfaces that may be used to connect the TOE to the client
application are the PCI bus, the SCSI bus, USB or Firewire.
Logically the TOE is responsible for protecting the CSP-SCD against disclosure, compromise and
unauthorized modification and for ensuring that the TOE services are only used in an authorized way.
Figure 1 — TOE general overview
NOTE This diagram is illustrative. It need not represent the exact implementation architecture
As shown in Figure 1, no relation exists with Trusted Service Providers (TSP). The end-users will
communicate with the client application, which in turn will call TOE services on behalf of the end-user..
The client application provides the human interface for user identification and authentication. The
client application is responsible for passing any user data in a correct way to the TOE. Different
mechanisms may be used to protect the user data on its way from the originating user to the TOE, but
all those mechanisms are not part of the TOE functionality and therefore not defined in this Protection
The TOE provides identification authentication, access control and audit for users of its services. The
client application in the TOE environment may mediate the TOE signing function to its end-users.
Therefore it is the responsibility of the client application to identify, authenticate and control access of
its end-users gaining access to the TOE services provided for the Crypto-user role. The end-users
authenticate themselves to the client application with his or her identity. The client application checks
the authorization of the end-user for the TOE signing service. If the end-user is allowed to use the
signing function the client application will authenticate them for the Crypto-user role to the TOE and
will map the identity of the end-user to the Crypto-user role. The client application performs identity-
based auditing to support accountability for the cryptographic operations. While the TOE will only
perform auditing for the client application the TOE environment audit might distinguish between the
end-users of the client application.
The client application that communicates with the TOE may itself consist of different parts
implemented on different systems. For example, a client application that initiates the generation of
qualified certificate may consist of two parts:
a) a registration application, which initializes the information for the certificate.
b) a signature-creation application, which may be
SIST-TS CEN/TS 419221-4:20
CEN/TS 419221-1:2016(Main)
Protection Profiles for TSP cryptographic modules - Part 1: Overview
This Technical Specification provides an overview of the protection profiles specified in other parts of CEN/TS 419221.
Protection Profiles for TSP cryptographic modules - Part 2: Cryptographic module for CSP signing operations with backup
This Technical Specification specifies a protection profile for cryptographic modules used by certification service providers (as specified in Directive 1999/93) for signing operations, with key backup. Target applications include root certification authorities (certification authorities who issue certificates to other CAs and who are at the top of a CA hierarchy) and other certification service providers where there is a high risk of direct physical attacks against the module.
Protection Profiles for TSP Cryptographic modules - Part 3: Cryptographic module for CSP key generation services
This Technical Standard specifies a protection profile for cryptographic module for CSP key generation services.
CEN/TS 419261:2015(Main)
Security requirements for trustworthy systems managing certificates and time-stamps
SIST-TS CEN/TS 419261:2015
This Technical Specification establishes security requirements for TWSs that can be used by a TSP in order to issue QCs and Non-Qualified Certificates (NQCs) as well as electronic time-stamps in accordance with Dir.1999/93/EC and with [Reg.910/2014/EU].
Security requirements for the Subject Device Provision Service, which includes SCDev/QSCD provision to subjects, are defined in this TS. However, requirements specific to SCDev/QSCD devices, as used by subjects of the TSP, are outside the scope of this TS. These requirements are defined as Common Criteria [CC] Protection Profiles (PP) in the EN 419211 series.
Recommendations for the cryptographic algorithms to be supported by TWSs are provided in ETSI/TS 119 312.
Although this TS is based on the use of public key cryptography, it does not require or define any particular communication protocol or format for electronic signatures, certificates, certificate revocation lists, certificate status information and time-stamp tokens. It only assumes certain types of information to be present in the certificates in accordance with Annex I of Dir.1999/93/EC and of [Reg.910/2014/EU]. Interoperability between TSP systems and subject systems is outside the scope of this document.
The use of TWSs that are already compliant to relevant security requirements of this TS should support TSPs in reducing their burden to establish conformance of their policy to ETSI TS 119 411-1, 119 411-2, and 119 421 (or equivalent ENs to be subsequently published) and in meeting the Annex I and Annex II requirements of Dir.1999/93/EC as well as the requirements from Annex I and Article 24.2 (e) of [Reg.910/2014/EU].
1.2 European Regulation-specific
The main focus of this document is on the requirements in Article 24.2 (e) of [Reg.910/2014/EU] whilst still facilitating the meeting of requirements in Dir.1999/93/EC, Annex II (f). In considering [Reg.910/2014/EU] it is important to take into account the following requirements of particular relevance to TSP trustworthy systems:
a) Article 24.2 (f) – "use trustworthy systems to store data provided to it, in a verifiable form so that:
(i) they are publicly available for retrieval only where the consent of the person to whom the data relates has been obtained,
(ii) only authorised persons can make entries and changes to the stored data,
(iii) the data can be checked for authenticity";
b) Article 24.2 (g) – "take appropriate measures against forgery and theft of data";
c) Article 24.2 (h) – "record and keep accessible for an appropriate period of time, including after the activities of the qualified trust service provider have ceased, all relevant information concerning data issued and received by the qualified trust service provider, in particular, for the purpose of providing evidence in legal proceedings and for the purpose of ensuring continuity of the service. Such recording may be done electronically";
d) Article 24.2 (j) – "ensure lawful processing of personal data in accordance with Directive 95/46/EC";
e) Article 24.2 (k) – "in case of qualified trust service providers issuing qualified certificates, establish and keep updated a certificate database";
f) Article 24.3 – "If a qualified trust service provider issuing qualified certificates decides to revoke a certificate, it shall register such revocation in its certificate database and publish the revocation status of the certificate in a timely manner, and in any event within 24 hours after the receipt of the request. The revocation shall become effective immediately upon its publication";
g) Article 24.4 – "With regard to paragraph 3, qualified trust service providers issuing qualified certificates shall provide to any relying party information on the validity or revocation status of qualified certificates issued by them.
EN ISO 9902-6:2021(Main)
Textile machinery - Noise test code - Part 6: Fabric manufacturing machinery (ISO 9902-6:2018)
SIST EN ISO 9902-6:2021
This document covers the different types of weaving and knitting machines defined in ISO 5247 (all parts)[2] and ISO 7839[3], respectively.
It is applicable to:
full-width weaving machines with weft insertion by:
shuttles;
rigid, telescopic or flexible rapiers;
projectiles;
hydraulic (waterjet) or by pneumatic (airjet) nozzle;
narrow fabric weaving machines with weft insertion by shuttles or needles;
jacquard machines;
knitting machinery including:
circular knitting;
flat bed knitting;
warp knitting;
raschel;
cotton (flat weft weaving);
other fabric manufacturing machines e.g.:
multi-phase weaving machines;
circular weaving machines;
stitch bonding machines.
NOTE Because of the high requirements on measurement conditions, grade 1 methods are normally not feasible for textile machinery.
EN 15746-2:2020(Main)
Railway applications - Track - Road-rail machines and associated equipment - Part 2: General safety requirements
SIST EN 15746-2:2021
This document specifies the significant hazards, hazardous situations and events, common to self-propelled road-rail machines - henceforward referred to as machines - and associated equipment, arising due to the adaptation for their use on railway networks and urban rail networks. These machines are intended for construction, maintenance and inspection of the railway infrastructure, shunting and emergency rescue vehicles, when they are used as intended and under conditions of misuse which are reasonably foreseeable by the manufacturer; see Clause 4.
This document deals with the common hazards during assembly and installation, commissioning, travelling on and off track, use including setting, programming, and process changeover, operation, cleaning, fault finding, maintenance and de-commissioning of the machines.
NOTE Specific measures for exceptional circumstances are not dealt with in this document. They can be subject to negotiation between manufacturer and the machine operator.
The common hazards dealt with include the general hazards presented by the machines, also the hazards presented by the following specific machine functions:
a) excavation;
b) ballast tamping, ballast cleaning, ballast regulating, ballast consolidating;
c) track construction, renewal, maintenance and repair;
d) lifting;
e) overhead contact line system renewal / maintenance;
f) maintenance of the components of the infrastructure;
g) inspection and measurement of the components of the infrastructure;
h) working in tunnels;
i) shunting;
j) vegetation control;
k) emergency rescue and recovery;
during commissioning, use, maintenance and servicing.
For a road-rail machine it is assumed that an EU road permissible host vehicle will offer an accepted safety level for its designed basic functions before conversion. Unless explicitly stated otherwise in a particular clause this specific aspect is not dealt with in this document.
This document does not deal with:
1) requirements with regard to the quality of work and the performance of the machine;
2) machines that utilize the contact line system for traction purposes;
3) specific requirements established by a railway Infrastructure Manager or Urban Rail Manager;
4) negotiations between the manufacturer and the machine operator for additional or alternative requirements;
5) requirements for use and travel of the machine on public highway;
6) hazards due to air pressure caused by the passing of high-speed trains at more than 190 km/h;
7) requirements which could be necessary in case of use in extreme conditions, such as extreme ambient temperatures (tropical or polar); see 5.30;
8) highly corrosive or contaminating environment, e.g. due to the presence of chemicals;
9) potentially explosive atmospheres.
Other special machines used on railway tracks are dealt with in other European Standards, see Annex E.


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Q: mysql UNION vs IN clause I have been trying to optimize one of my queries which looks like:
select toc.* from
    (select sender, max(convid) as maxconvid
     from MetaTable
     where sender in ('arjunchow','aamir_alam')
     group by sender) as tmp1
    inner join MetaTable as toc on
        toc.sender = tmp1.sender
        and toc.convid = tmp1.maxconvid;

When the mysql server is under stress, this query normally responds within 0.2 sec, but when the number of "sender" ids in the IN clause increase (>50), the query slows down terribly (~5-6 sec).
Is it advisable to use multiple union clauses instead of an IN clause given that my query may become a union of 50 queries. So my query will look like :
(SELECT
    convId,
    UNIX_TIMESTAMP(timeStamp) as timeStamp,
    UNIX_TIMESTAMP(createTime) as createTime,
    numMessages,
    rootMsg,
    sender,
    ipormobile,
    modIpOrMobile,
    UNIX_TIMESTAMP(modTimeStamp) as modTimeStamp
 from
    MetaTable
 where
    sender='arjunchow'
 ORDER BY convId DESC limit 1)
UNION ALL
(SELECT
    convId,
    UNIX_TIMESTAMP(timeStamp) as timeStamp,
    UNIX_TIMESTAMP(createTime) as createTime,
    numMessages,
    rootMsg,
    sender,
    ipormobile,
    modIpOrMobile,
    UNIX_TIMESTAMP(modTimeStamp) as modTimeStamp
 from
    MetaTable
 where
    sender='aamir_alam'
 ORDER BY convId DESC limit 1)

A: I had a similar issue with tag searching and actually had the opportunity to talk to MySQL techs about it; they recommended that I create a temporary table and add my values to that as you loop through the users then perform any operations you need to on that temp table. Any time you try to pack this much into a single command, it's going to get seriously bogged down.

A: Rewrite your query as following:
SELECT  *
FROM    MetaTable
WHERE   (sender, convid) IN
        (
        SELECT  sender, MAX(convid) as maxconvid
        FROM    MetaTable
        WHERE   sender IN ('arjunchow','aamir_alam')
        GROUP BY
                sender
        )

, make sure you have a composite index on (sender, convid) and make sure it's used (i. e. there is USING INDEX FOR GROUP BY in the explain plan)

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manos puestas
Manos Puestas is a highly professional and accomplished latin jazz duo featuring virtuoso guitarists, Matt Sullivan and Jon Lewis.
Matt and Jon first met and jammed in 1994 but went their separate ways when Matt travelled to Spain to study Flamenco and Jon followed his interest in World music with his band Le Cod Afrique. They met up again, in 1998 when they formed a Flamenco/Arabic inspired trio by the name of Janoob. This was superceded by a latin and hot club trio, Vanilla House Band which developed into the current Manos Puestas duo, trio and quartet.
Matt began playing at 17, jumping in at the deep end, learning jazz theory, which he applied to his then punk performances. He decided to switch to flamenco guitar and went to Spain to study technique and palos with various guitarists in Andalucia, including Juan Diego, Ricardo de la Joana and Mick Jingle. Matt returned to England and is currently guitarist for Britain's largest touring flamenco company, Camino del Flamenco. He also teaches Flamenco and jazz guitar technique and theory in the UK and Spain, including workshops at Jerez Flamenco Festival.
Jon studied piano and violin classically as a nipper, with masterclasses with Sir Peter Maxwell-Davies and the Coull Quartet. He took up guitar in his teens and played a variety of styles, ultimately leading to forming global dance band, Le Cod Afrique, performing throughout Europe, with many festival shows including Montreux Jazz Festival, WOMAD and Glastonbury. He now also works with Sierra Leonean master drummer Jah-man Aggrey in their duo TwoManTing.
Manos Puestas have now been playing extensively throughout the UK for a number of years, including venues such as Blenheim Palace and Henley Regatta. We are available for festivals, arts centres, corporate events, weddings, restaurants, etc. For some gigs we come as a quartet, working with guest musicians. Click on the Quartet link above for more details.

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MarmeeDear's Recipe Library – Tagged "dreamsicle" – MarmeeDear & Co.
We have always lived in the country and always had plentiful thickets of blackberries. Picking blackberries is just standard fare around here every summer…it's therapy plucking a plump ripe berry and dropping it into a basket. I sketched this for my nature notebook some years ago.
Here on our acres thickets are plentiful with berries and the little GrandDears are keeping up the tradition of plucking berries and bringing in cupfuls to make treats.
They all love our original recipe of BlackBerry Fritters found in The Young Man's Handybook. I think I've just found a new favorite!
Flipping through some old Southern Living Magazines I found a featured recipe of Buttermilk-Blackberry Popsicle. Hmmm…sounds interesting 'cuz recently I have acquired a taste for thick and creamy raw buttermilk we get from a local dairy…I keep it in a tiny glass bottle in my frig door and take a few swigs a few times a day…good fer ya!
Add in fruit and buttermilk mixture alternately to popsicle molds or mini paper cups (like little bathroom dixie cups) until 3/4 full. Place in freezer on sturdy shelf for 20 minutes. Then push in wooden Popsicle sticks into centers of each pop. Freeze overnight.
Note 1: You will have to run warm water over the outside of the mold or cup for a few seconds to be able to loosen the popsicle from the mold.
Note 2: Blackberries have seeds…some of these are blended in the processor but the popsicle will have small seeds still – so if you have an aversion to blackberry seeds or digestive issues you would need to put the berries through a strainer first to remove all seeds. The BOSCH accessory of the Berry Press does a great job of this if you want to go to the extra trouble of removing the seeds.
Note 3: I think after savoring and enjoying these dreamy frozen treats, that it would be delish with blueberries or strawberries too! So I am definitely going to try it as soon as the blueberry patch across the lane starts hanging heavy with plump blue deliciousness.
NOTE: I've tried it since with peaches and also strawberries and it is AMAZING!


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Choosing a Maine Coon
Cat Breeds > Maine Coon > Selecting a Cat Breed >
10 Dec, 2014 J. Anne Helgren 278,888 Views
One of the oldest natural breeds in North America, the Maine coon is second only to the Persian in popularity. This made-in-America breed is prized for his large size, sweet personality and silky all-weather coat. Considering the breed's intelligence and clown-like antics, it's no wonder that this cat ranks No. 2 among America's top favorites.
History and Origin of Maine Coone Cats
Maine coons have been on this continent since colonial days. They probably came over from Europe with the first settlers of the New World, since cats were often kept on sailing ships to control rodent populations. While there exists no actual evidence of where and when they arrived, some entertaining myths surround the breed's arrival. One such tale claims that Maine coons are descendants of longhaired cats owned by Marie Antoinette. According to the story, Captain Clough smuggled the queen's cats and other belongings to America in preparation of the Queen's rescue from her rendezvous with the guillotine. Unfortunately, he was only successful in rescuing her cats.
However they arrived, Maine coons carved their place in the New England countryside alongside the early colonists. Given Maine's severe winters, those initial years were hard on both felines and humans. Only the strongest and most adaptable cats survived. Through natural selection, the Maine coon developed into a large, rugged cat with his water-resistant coat and hardy constitution.
The Maine coon was an early favorite in the emerging American cat fancy in the late 1800s. In the early 1900s, however, cat fanciers of the era abandoned Maine coons for Persians, Angoras and other exotic imports. By 1950, the breed had all but vanished. Fortunately, a small group of breeders kept the breed alive.
Appearance of Maine Coons
One of the largest domestic breeds, male Maine coons weigh in at 12 to 18 pounds, while the "petite" females range from 10 to 14 pounds. The heavy, water-resistant coat, shorter on the shoulders and longer on the stomach and britches, makes the cat appear even larger.
Since the Maine coon is the result of "survival of the fittest" adaptation, the breed is muscular and broad-chested with substantial, muscular legs and large, well-tufted paws suitable for walking in Maine's winter woods. Slow to develop, the Maine coon takes 3 to 4 years to reach full size and weight.
Although brown tabby is the most common color and pattern, Maine coons come in many color schemes. In fact, all colors and patterns are accepted except chocolate, lavender, the Siamese pointed pattern and any of these combinations with white.
Maine Coon Cat's Personality
With their large, powerful, muscular bodies and powerful jaws, it's a good thing Maine coons are gentle giants. They are, in fact, jumbo-sized packages of love and devotion. Sweet and good-natured, Maine coons are completely loyal to their beloved humans. They generally bond with one person or family and are forever devoted to those favored few.
The only thing small about Maine coons are their voices. It's hilarious to hear tiny high-pitched squeaks coming out of Paul Bunyan-sized bodies. Like most cats, Maine coons spend much of their time snoozing, but when in action they are agile and lightning fast. Since their ancestors made their living as mousers, they are zealous hunters and enjoy playing with catnip mice and other prey. They particularly enjoy interactive toys in which their humans take part. Fetch is a favorite game.
As befits former seafarers, Maine coons are fascinated by water. They enjoy dabbling their feet in their water bowls, drinking from running faucets and walking around the still-wet shower or bathtub. This fascination doesn't extend to bath time, however.
Grooming a Maine Coon
Since the Maine coon's coat has a silky, all-weather texture and is water resistant, the fur doesn't mat as easily as a Persian's would. Regular grooming is still needed, however. To keep the Maine coon looking sharp, comb two or three times a week with a good quality steel comb. During the fall, when they shed their summer coats, and spring, when they shed their heavier winter coats, additional grooming is usually needed.
Association Acceptance
American Association of Cat Enthusiasts (AACE)
American Cat Association (ACA)
American Cat Fancier's Association (ACFA)
Canadian Cat Association (CCA),
Cat Fanciers' Association (CFA)
Cat Fanciers' Federation (CFF)
The International Cat Association (TICA)
United Feline Organization (UFO)
Maine coons are generally very healthy because of their working cat origins. However, some are prone to hip dysplasia and a very serious heart disease called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Be sure to question your breeder about these conditions.
Because Maine coons are so popular, there are some disreputable backyard breeders. Before you buy, check out the breeder with the cat associations and with the Maine Coon Breeders and Fanciers Association.
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Rail passenger dragged along tracks by train
A MAN is in hospital after falling from a crowded platform and being hit by a train at Ealing Broadway Station.
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Horrified passengers saw the 26-year dragged along the tracks at about 7pm on Sunday (12).
Martin Newman, 23, of Uxbridge, was waiting on the overground platform in Ealing Broadway Station when he witnessed the incident.
He said: "Someone gasped and I turned round to see him falling in front of the train and be pushed along. He looked like he had been crushed by it. It looked quite bad. I didn't see if he fell, jumped or was pushed. I'm relieved to hear he wasn't killed.
"The platform was really busy as a lot of people were waiting for the Reading train as the the train before only had two carriages and was full when it got to Ealing Broadway. People from the station came running down but I left, I had my girlfriend with me and I didn't want her to see it.
"The ambulance came really quickly, within a couple of minutes."
The victim was hit by the 5.05 Oxford to Paddington Service.
Mike Roberts, of Greenway Gardens, Greenford, saw the aftermath at about 7.15pm.
He said: "The overground platforms were cordoned off and police were running around handing out blankets. When I got outside there were about 10 police cars parked all around and three ambulances."
The London Ambulance Service say they sent an ambulance and two fast response cars, one with a paramedic and the other with an air ambulance doctor.
The victim was taken to St Georges Hospital, escorted by the air ambulance doctor, where he was treated for injuries to his hand and remains in a stable condition.
The police are not treating it as suspicious.
He is the eighth person to be injured or hurt by being hit by a train at overground stations in the borough in about a year.
It follows the death of a woman at Acton Main Line on November 26. She has been identified as Robina Shah, 46, of Acton.


Cookies for breakfast? That sound like a great way to start the day! These cookies are allowed onto the breakfast table because they are low in sugar, packed with good protein and balanced with healthy fats from Olivio and Peanut Butter. Choose your favorite dried fruits and use this simple cookie dough as a base for creativity!
In a small mixing bowl, combine the flour and baking soda.
In a medium bowl, whisk together the brown sugar with Olivio and then add in the egg. Add the banana and peanut butter and stir.
Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture and stir a couple times before folding in the oats and cherries. Be careful not to over mix so the cookies stay light and airy.
Bake for 12-15 minutes and store in an air tight container for up to 5 days.


International standard-setting bodies for financial regulation could find it harder to achieve their intended results in future as political movements threaten to remove the consensus such bodies need to operate efficiently, officials said.
Ashley Alder, chief executive of the Securities and Futures Commission ("SFC") in Hong Kong and chairman of the International Organization of Securities Commission ("IOSCO"), said he was concerned the direction of travel was away from a consensus regarding global standards.
"I think it is a challenge, not least because standard-setting bodies don't have a clear legal foundation," he told the Asian Financial Forum in Hong Kong on 16 January. "They're not treaty-based organizations, so they do require a huge amount of political consensus and support to operate properly."
Nearly 10 years since the financial crisis there was no longer a sense of urgency underpinning the consensus, he said.
Political events such as Brexit and the protectionist and deregulatory policies attributed to President-elect Donald Trump have threatened to disrupt the work done by international standard setters such as IOSCO and the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. In addition, the implementation of some regulations on a global scale has been held back by disagreements, such as that between U.S. and EU regulators on oversight of derivatives regulation.
Andrea Enria, chair at the European Banking Authority ("EBA"), said a lack of consensus was evident in the European Parliament, where MEPs have increasingly challenged decisions regarding the Basel III capital regime for banks. This had to some extent been driven by the impact on taxpayers from the rescue of several European banks during the crisis, he said, which made banking regulation "politically sensitive".
Enria, a panellist with Alder at the forum, said increased transparency and accountability were vital to maintaining the importance of the standard-setting process.
"With the experience we have had in Europe with the establishment of the EBA, I think we need to rethink the governance and decision-making processes," he said. "We need to have international standard-setting bodies which are able to decide also in the presence of disagreement."
As such, a decision-making process based on reaching consensus was "probably not the best way forward", he said.
"In Europe we moved from consensus decision making, committee style, to authorities which have majority decision making and the 'comply-or-explain' mechanism," he said. "We need to show the ability of these bodies to decide and then to challenge authorities and make sure the standards are actually enforced."
Enria said to see whether this process was feasible, achieving agreement on recovery and resolution for banks would be the main challenge. Without this a banking crisis could cause capital and liquidity to be trapped in individual jurisdictions, leading to a major disruption of cross-border activities.
"We need to put effort into achieving good agreements … that allow a positive interaction on a cross-border basis in cases of crisis," he said.


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The way allopathic medicine works is that, when you are stuck at a red light, they will sell you a hammer to knock out the red light and after the accident they will offer to patch you up and send you the bill for that too.
(Reinoud Fentener van Vlissingen, MD, psychiatrist at Rotterdam, Holland, ca. 1965)
[Author's note: A more up-to-date version of this article now appears here.]
Into Pharmageddon
I grew up with often lengthy debates at the dinner table in our home in Rotterdam, Holland between my father and various medical colleagues about the complete bankruptcy of the Western medical model, also known as allopathic medicine. At other times, my father regaled us with stories of the various bribery attempts of the pharmaceutical industry to get him to prescribe their wares, which he steadfastly refused. He was offended by the innate corruption of that industry, often clearly at the expense of the Hippocratic oath: "Do no harm." Nevertheless, big pharma won, for now, but today the blow back is worse than ever.
The overuse of anti-biotics was a frequent topic of conversation, and I can't believe that 50 years later nothing has been done about it, except the concern has now made it to TV. At least it has become part of the public dialogue.
We are now living the apogee of the allopathic model and pharmageddon, where the final concept of medicine is symptom suppression and "a pill for every ill." Not only can it not explain the proven healing of many alternative modalities, it is a failure in dealing with such basic things as heart disease (see Esselstyn), diabetes (see Barnard), and cancer, or, as T. Colin Campbell recently said: The war on cancer simply has failed.
Seen in that light, the opioid crisis is merely the logical end result of the pharmaceutical approach to medicine. In actual fact, the numbers are small: 42,000 deaths in 2016, or about 115 a day. Heart disease, which is completely reversible and preventable with a Whole Foods, Plant-Based diet, killed 630,000 in 2016, or 1,726 people per day, but somehow that is business as usual and not any kind of a national crisis.
The bottom line is that the pharmaceutical industry, ever since drugs have been allowed to be advertised on national TV, has done an end-run around doctors, and makes them into pill pushers and not materially different from the illegal variety of drug pushers. It all revolves around the paradigm of a pill for every ill and symptom suppression. Meanwhile, medical science is hopelessly obsolete as long as it remains stuck in a Newtonian concept which puts the body first, and considers the mind an epiphenomenon of the body, the absurd concept that was ridiculed effectively a long time ago by sci-fi writer Terry Bisson in his piece on "Meat that thinks."
Allopathy is much like the drunk who is searching for the keys he lost under the streetlight and tells the passing policeman he is looking where there is light, and is completely dumbfounded when the policeman asks him logically, but where did you lose them? There is a brilliant documentary on the dysfuncition of the medical system: Escape Fire. Recommended!
Whole Foods Plant-Based Nutrition to the Rescue
Vegetable to the rescue, from fill your plate.org
Dr. Esselstyn talks of "pharmageddon." In 2017, the Physician's Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) hosted a conference where 700 physicians committed themselves publicly to the new model of "prevention over pills". In Holland, which has a single payer model that definitely does reduce the paperwork for doctors and is generally more efficient, doctors are leaving mainstream medicine in droves to practice "real medicine," in one form or another. Dutch author Jan Willem van Aalst published a fascinating book (In Dutch for now) about a whole new approach to medicine, in which he resolutely puts the patient in charge, which of course they always were, but which tends to get lost in the shuffle in our industrial medical model that is focused on symptom suppression. The book takes the form of an encyclopedia of healing modalities. His work is deeply grounded in the work of quantum physicist Amit Goswami and his book The Quantum Doctor.
Here in the US, a revolutionary change within medicine is taking form in many ways, but perhaps most importantly through the American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM). Lifestyle Medicine is becoming the new specialty for any medical professional who understands the implication of the Whole Foods Plant-Based diet, and how it produces a natural nutritional abundance, in which the idea of nutritional supplements is completely moot, and probably 75% of prescription and over-the-counter medicines are furthermore unnecessary (think of a world without ant-acids or statin drugs, baby aspirin and a 75% reduction in insulin needs). The soon-to-be-released documentary Code Blue puts it all in perspective, following on the heels of Forks over Knives and What the Health and PlantPure Nation.
Patient-centric Medicine
There is only one form of patient-centric medicine, and that is the realization that the mind of the patient is the healer, which follows directly from Goswami's work The Quantum Doctor. The health insurance industry has it's own pretend "patient-centered healthcare," which is just a more effective way of delivering care and billing you. In fact, their model sets patients up to keep chasing their tail in a maze of "specialists," all operating within a Newtonian model of our reality that cannot possibly provide he answer. When all else fails, diseases are then called "psychosomatic."
Note: Early Encounters with the Medical Paradigm
At approximately age 13 or 14, I had an interesting conversation with my father, who was musing out loud about psychosomatic illness as if only some illnesses were psychosomatic. (With the benefit of hindsight, I now understand that "psychosomatic," is a typical term that betrays the failure of the mechanistic, Newtonian model of allopathic medicine to grasp the nature of illness and disease.)
Upon his remark about psychosomatic illness, I asked my father a simple question:
"But are there any other?" [than psychosomatic illnesses or diseases]
After a few moments of reflection, he answered:
"You may have a point."
While, needless to say, I had not fully grasped the insights of Amit Goswami of why the quantum model simply implies that the body is in consciousness (the mind) and not the other way around, I was reasonably familiar with the fundamentals of quantum mechanics at that age. In fact, I wrote an essay on nuclear genetics at age twelve that won me a prize, a book by the nuclear physicist Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker. It seems that indeed, I intuited the paradigm that is now explained so clearly by Goswami, which implies that it is the mind of the patient that is the healer, and doctors are only incidental to that, at best a help, at worst a hindrance. Reading Goswami today was an Aha! Erlebnis for me, finally connecting the dots on why this is so.
The concepts of The Quantum Doctor hark back on millennia of spiritual tradition saying the same thing. It is simply about who we are, and the realization that it is the mind of the patient that is the healer, quite in line with the work of Mary Baker Eddy. The doctor or other medical professional then plays the role of a subject matter expert who temporarily knows more and helps facilitate the healing. The doctor/patient relationship becomes a growth opportunity for both and doctor and patient are co-equal in that relationship and not codependent, as is the case in the dysfunctional allopathic medicine model. The reason the doctor/patient relationship is so totally dysfunctional today is because it is based on the patient deferring to the expertise of a doctor who operates within a mechanistic, Newtonian paradigm that is of necessity totally hit or miss in explaining or diagnosing his disease.
The experience with Whole Foods Plant-Based (#WFPB) nutrition shows that time and again, people are getting off of sometimes hands full of medications completely, while in other cases they can substantially reduce their dosage of medications. In other words, nutrition is the first step and it firmly puts the patient in the drivers seat: first get your vital stats as healthy as you can get them on your own, and the reversal for many diseases can be quite rapid. Except in acute conditions, any other form of intervention is pointless unless overall health is addressed first and the body is enabled to heal itself.
Amit Goswami on Quantum Physics, Consciousness and Health
The upshot of the #WFPB nutritional regime is simply that the single biggest thing patients can do for themselves is improve their diet, and not just by tinkering in the margin with any number of "diets" that are marginally better than the so-called Standard American Diet (SAD), which is a total nutritional disaster. Most so-called diets amount to little else than somebody's pet theory of what diet should be, with little or no peer-reviewed science to back it up.
The Whole Foods, Plant-Based nutritional paradigm is in fact a radically new paradigm for nutritional science as a whole, and it is solidly rooted in the work of T. Colin Campbell that was first published in his book The China Study, which recently saw an updated, 2017 version. It was followed by his book Whole, which reframes nutritionial science altogether. In the meantime, a whole avalanche of related information has resulted, including the clinical work of a growing list of physicians, including Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr, Neal Barnard, John McDougall, Dean Ornish, Michael Greger, Robert Ostfeld, Saray Stancic, and many others. One after the other will tell you that no drug in the world ever made such order-of-magnitude differences as the Whole Foods Plant-Based diet. Or, as Dr. Robert Ostfeld frequently says, patients frequently come to his office in tears to thank him for how rapidly they are making progress, which never happens for a prescription of statin drugs.
These new insights place the patient central in the healing process, which of course they always were. Step one is the realization that the mind of the patient is the healer and the healing modalities offered are merely a way of empowering the patient. The patient's will now moves center stage, including all our innate self-destructive tendencies that form the blocks to healing. Consequently, the new healing paradigm of true integrative medicine will have to include all viable healing modalities, including psychotherapy. In the process and in-line with what Amit Goswami has developed in the Quantum Doctor, the field of medicine has to move from Newtonian physics, which is the mechanistic paradigm of allopathic medicine to the paradigm of quantum physics, which makes it clear that of necessity the body is in the mind, and the mind is in charge at which point any healing modality that works for you is valid.
In the context of a conversation about these issues, someone asked me why it should take this long for our society to fully accept and embrace the implications of quantum mechanics in medicine. I responded with a question: "How long did it take the Vatican to embrace the heliocentric model?" and I added the observation that what else is the AMA today, but the keeper of socially embedded paradigm, like the Catholic Church was in the Middle Ages? The book on Rockefeller's Medicine Men (see bibliography) should make that much clear.
The New Healthcare Model
Recently, I wrote about the merger of Aetna and CVS under the title of The Worst of Sick-care Under One Roof and used the opportunity to point out that, when seen by the clear light of economic logic, the healthcare system is sinking under its own weight since it creates an economic incentive to provide more treatment and as long as we focus on the treatment of disease and not on health, we are creating the runaway nightmare that is now called the healthcare crisis. In the public dialogue, so far, nobody is addressing the real heart of the crisis.
My main suggestion in that article was that the Personal Care Physician should evolve in to a personal healthcare coach and a subject matter expert who is on retainer to the patient, and organized with their own mutual society. The effect of the solution would be that your personal physician is beholden to you and only to you, and is your go-to expert in terms of any treatment you may ever need, to select appropriate healing modalities. Based on the numbers, a 65% reduction of healthcare costs can eventually be realized based on diet alone, and the remaining 35% should become the domain of catastrophic health insurance that kicks in to complement your #WFPB diet and your supervision by your own PCP. It would be an approximation to the traditional Chinese model where you paid your doctor while you were healthy and stopped paying him when you were sick.
The fundamental assumptions for this back-of-the-envelope calculation of the economics of this paradigm change in health and nutrition are taken from the documentary Code Blue. The fundamental insight is that 86% of healthcare spending is on treatments for diseases of affluence that are all capable, in varying degrees, of being prevented or reversed with a Whole Foods, Plant-based lifestyle. Therefore, over time, as our society begins to implement this transition more and more, it is proposed that we can reduce that 86% of total healthcare spending by 75% as a result of a shift towards a better diet and lifestyle, in line with the precepts of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. If so, we will reduce total healthcare spending by 65% which will solve our healthcare "crisis," and make the American economy competitive once more, all else being equal.
Two Birds with One Stone: the Environment
The transition towards a vegan lifestyle is the biggest single thing we as a society can do for solving our environmental problems. A growing list of official reports speak to this, and generally the conclusion is that vegans are 14 times less resource intensive than meat eaters.
From the cover of the book Meatonomics:
Meatonomics is the first book to add up the huge "externalized" costs that the animal food system imposes on taxpayers, animals and the environment, and it finds these costs total about $414 billion yearly. With yearly retail sales of around $250 billion, that means that for every $1 of product they sell, meat and dairy producers impose almost $2 in hidden costs on the rest of us. But if producers were forced to internalize these costs, a $4 Big Mac would cost about $11.
Conclusions: Connecting the dots
Here are the steps to the new paradigm:
#WFPB nutrtion is the largest single thing the patient can do for their own health and wellness, and with it, the annual physical moves towards an assessment of health first, not a mere screening for illness. Most importantly, it empowers the patient to be in charge of their health. The key driver is the first ever evidence based nutritional paradigm being #WFPB, paired up with the clinical experience with a growing number of disease models, some of which were alluded to above.
Taking responsibility for your health also points in the direction that the human will is central, and that realization leads directly to the new paradigm of Quantum Healing and the Quantum Doctor. Ergo, Lifestyle Medicine, which is now focused on diet and exercise alone, must of necessity evolve towards quantum medicine. The role of the primary physician must be first as a health/nutrition coach, and second as a subject matter expert on the full complement of healing modalities where intervention or treatment in any form is called for.
In both areas we now have a fortuitous meeting of theory and practice.
In the case of #WFPB the experience with plant-based nutrition by a number of physicians in different fields, found their theoretical foundation in the research work of T. Colin Campbell.
In the field of alternative medicine and various attempts at a model for integrative medicine, real progress was not possible until these efforts met up with the concepts of the Quantum Doctor to provide the theoretical foundation and the model for a comprehensive understanding of the meaning of integrative medicine.
The Quantum Doctor provides a logical and sound explanation as to why the allopathic model repeatedly falls short - because it is based on an obsolete and simplistic model of the human experience. More importantly, the Quantum Doctor also provides a satisfactory explanation why many alternative healing modalities can work, when the traditional allopathic model has no explanation for them. Obviously, this new paradigm for medicine perfectly complements the implications of the #WFPB model: the patient must take responsibility for their own health and well-being.
The final payoff is that besides simply solving the healthcare crisis, the path to the Whole Foods, Plant-Based diet also solves our environmental crisis at the same time, since vegans provably are 14x less resource intensive than meat-eaters.
Note: The following might be considered the seminal books that can help the reader understand the parallel paradigm changes that are now going on in the areas of medicine and nutrition. I include the book Meatonomics because it provides good documentation of how our mistaken nutritional paradigm of prioritizing (animal) protein is absolutely woven into our society and extracts value because of its seriously distorted economics. Thomas S. Kuhn's classic, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, even if you once read it, is worth rereading by way of a refresher to understand just how deeply these paradigms are embedded in everything in our society, and how painful the change can be.
Ivan Illych, Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health
E. Richard Brown, Rockefeller Medicine Men: Medicine and Capitalism in America
T. Colin Campbell, The China Study, revised and expanded edition (2017)
T. Colin Campbell, Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition
Amit Goswami, The Quantum Doctor: A Quantum Physicist Explains The Healing Power of Integral Medicine
David Robinson Simon: Meatonomics: How the Rigged Economics of Meat and Dairy Make You Consume Too Much and How to Eat Better, Live Longer and Spend Smarter
Thomas S. Kuhn: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Posted by RogierFvV at 7:01 AM
Labels: #WFPB, ACLM, Amit Goswami, Code Blue, Escape Fire, Forks over Knives, Meatonomics, PCRM, pharmageddon, Quantum Doctor, Quantum Healing, SAD, war on cancer, What the Health
Of Oatmeal, Balsamic Vinegar, and Birdsbeak Paring...
Our February #WFPB/Suppers Mealprep at St. Helena's
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Sources for #WFPB recipes and support


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package com.stratio.crossdata.sh;

import com.stratio.crossdata.common.result.IDriverResultHandler;
import com.stratio.crossdata.common.result.QueryResult;
import com.stratio.crossdata.common.result.QueryStatus;
import com.stratio.crossdata.common.result.Result;
import com.stratio.crossdata.sh.utils.ConsoleUtils;

/**
 * Results handler for the Crossdata shell when the asynchronous interface is used.
 */
public class ShellDriverResultHandler implements IDriverResultHandler {

    /**
     * Parent Crossdata shell.
     */
    private final Shell parent;

    /**
     * Class constructor.
     *
     * @param parent Parent Crossdata Shell that will be informed when results are available.
     */
    public ShellDriverResultHandler(Shell parent) {
        this.parent = parent;
    }

    @Override
    public void processAck(String queryId, QueryStatus status) {
    }

    @Override
    public void processError(Result errorResult) {
        parent.println("");
        parent.println("Result: " + ConsoleUtils.stringResult(errorResult));
        parent.flush();
    }

    @Override
    public void processResult(Result result) {
        parent.updatePrompt(result);
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(System.lineSeparator());
        sb.append("Result: QID: ").append(result.getQueryId()).append(System.lineSeparator())
                .append(ConsoleUtils.stringResult(result));
        if (QueryResult.class.isInstance(result)) {
            QueryResult r = QueryResult.class.cast(result);
            sb.append(System.lineSeparator()).append("Result page: ").append(r.getResultPage());
            if (r.isLastResultSet()) {
                sb.append(System.lineSeparator()).append("Removing results handler for: ").append(result.getQueryId());
                parent.removeResultsHandler(result.getQueryId());
            }
        }
        parent.println(sb.toString());
        parent.flush();
    }
}

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The menopause is a completely natural part of ageing for every woman, but it can make you feel isolated and misunderstood. Here, we talk to four of the women from our Me.No.Pause campaign about what it's like for them, what they've learned and why they wanted to take part.
'In May 2017, I needed an emergency hysterectomy because I had fibroids. My ovaries were removed too, and this plunged me into a surgical menopause. Within a couple of weeks, I had multiple menopause symptoms, including insomnia, 40 hot flushes a day and such reduced bone density that I needed support to walk.
'At 35, after having my three children, I was diagnosed with cervical cancer and treated with chemotherapy. The treatment neutralised my ovaries and power-bulleted me into the menopause almost overnight – just as some of my friends were having their first babies. The first signs were hot flushes; I was on fire 20-30 times a day, and I started sleeping on the floor under an open window.
'I've been in perimenopause for the last four or five years. At first, the GP put my menopausal symptoms – such as anxiety – down to stress and told me to change my diet. But as time went on, I realised I was actually in perimenopause. Weirdly, the natural texture and colour of my hair also changed.
'At 52, I started experiencing menopausal symptoms, including terrible mood swings and around 15 hot flushes a day. I have multiple sclerosis (MS) and some of those symptoms got worse, too.
I'd undergone a hysterectomy in my thirties but kept my ovaries, which meant I didn't go into menopause at the time. So, when I started getting menopausal symptoms 20 years later, I didn't think 'menopause' but rather that something had gone wrong with my hysterectomy. Luckily, my GP put me straight.


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The End of Light group exhibit
Stravinsky Institute Foundation presents The End of Light – an art event at the Academy. The venue is an architectural gem and an Edwardian landmark that used to house the New York Academy of Science. Its grand neo-classical interiors serve as a backdrop to the two-day show featuring art installations and performances.
The End of Light is a farewell to the mental frame of Enlightenment expressed through a variety of media.
The End of Light presents a group of international artists, who channel their concerns and postmodern ambivalence into painting, sculpture, installation, performance, music, photography and video projection. The artists belong to different generations but they all share fin de siècle sensibilities. The "visible darkness" of our time, appealing to the artist's intellect rather than his rational (sensory) perception, becomes a common point of departure. The exhibit takes place in the grand old New York Academy of Science building, whose eclectic interior evokes the bygone age of Enlightenment, humanism, and veneration of science. The tension between the harmonious atmosphere of this neoclassical mansion and the liberal spirit of experimentation emanating from the exhibited works adds a layer of fine irony and dialectic complexity.
Curated by Julia Nitsberg
The event is generously supported by the Blavatnik Family Foundation.


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Любково — деревня в Кардымовском районе Смоленской области России. Входит в состав Тюшинского сельского поселения. По состоянию на 2007 год постоянного населения не имеет.

Расположена в центральной части области в 6 км к югу от Кардымова, в 8 км южнее автодороги  Смоленск — Дорогобуж — Вязьма — Зубцов. В 4 км западнее деревни расположена железнодорожная станция Пересветово на линии Москва — Минск.

История
В годы Великой Отечественной войны деревня была оккупирована гитлеровскими войсками в августе 1941 года, освобождена в сентябре 1943 года.

Примечания

Населённые пункты Кардымовского района

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Indiana  est une station aérienne de la ligne verte du métro de Chicago située sur le tronçon de la South Side Main Line. Elle se trouve dans le secteur de Grand Boulevard, dans le South Side, à proximité de la Wendell Phillips Academy High School.

Description
Indiana a été construite par la South Side Rapid Transit en 1892 dans le cadre de l'Exposition universelle de 1893 qui eut lieu à Jackson Park.

Conçue par l'architecte Myron H. Church, elle fut agrandie en 1908 dans le cadre de l'ouverture la branche de Kenwood et de Stock Yards.

Elle servait de station de correspondance entre les trois lignes, seule la ligne de la South Side Rapid Transit traversait la station tandis que les deux autres y faisaient demi-tour.

La pression des habitants du quartier, lasses du bruit et le manque de rentabilité de la ligne entrainèrent la fermeture des deux branches de Stock Yards et de Kenwood en 1957.

En 1987, la Chicago Transit Authority hésita, vue l'état de délabrement avancé de la station de fermer celle-ci, mais finalement en 1988, il décida plutôt de se lancer dans une profonde reconstruction.

Lors de la grande rénovation de la ligne verte entre 1994 et 1996, la station  ferma ses portes mais ne subit que des modifications mineures.

Le , la Chicago Transit Authority annonça la reconstruction de l'entrée principale de la station, le remplacement de l'auvent et de ses voies d'accès afin de les rendre accessible aux personnes à mobilité réduite. Ces travaux se sont terminés le .

Indiana se trouve dans une chicane coincée entre deux virages sur Indiana Avenue ce qui explique la forme de ses quais. Une autre station du métro de Chicago est dans le même cas : Sheridan sur la ligne rouge.

Indiana est protégée comme patrimoine architectural et plusieurs pièces de la station font partie du Smithsonian Institution.

Dessertes

Correspondances
Avec les bus de la Chicago Transit Authority :
  #1 Indiana/Hyde Park
  #39 Pershing

Notes et références

Ligne verte du métro de Chicago
Station du métro de Chicago


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Kim Kardashian, Kanye West Fighting Over Homeschooling Kids?
By GossipCop Wonderwall 9:09am PDT, Sep 10, 2018
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are fighting over whether to homeschool their daughter North, claims a new tabloid report. It's alleged their "relationship is going south" and they're having a "showdown" over the 5-year-old's education. Gossip Cop, however, has learned it's untrue.
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According to Star, West and Kardashian are "arguing over whether or not she should be homeschooled." A so-called "pal" tells the tabloid, "Kanye thinks going to a private school is a huge security risk, especially after Kim was robbed in Paris." For her part, asserts the unnamed source, "Kim wants her children to have football, prom and secret make-outs behind the bleachers."
Here's where the school report flunks. Going to private school is as much as a "security risk" as their daughter going anywhere, including playdates with friends. Additionally, there's a big difference between Kardashian being robbed in Paris and the little girl attending school, unless North plans on finger painting in hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of jewelry. And is school, particularly for youngsters, really about "secret make-outs behind the bleachers"?
It seems whoever came up with this fabricated claim thought the premise of West and Kardashian clashing over North's education was a juicy idea for an article now that a new school year has begun, but didn't really think out what it meant for a 5-year-old. Gossip Cop reached out to a rep for Kardashian, who tells us on the record the tabloid's story in entirely "false." Meanwhile, a source close to West also assures us the couple is not fighting over homeschooling their kids.
More significantly, their oldest daughter has already been going to school. In March 2017, the little girl's grandmother, Kris Jenner posted on Instagram a picture she and North made at preschool. Alongside the picture, Jenner wrote, "This is the art project North and I created at school today for Grandparents Day!" Significantly, this was well after Kardashian's robbery, so clearly the parents have no issue with sending North to a private school.
Of course, part of the equation when Gossip Cop makes a determination is how reliable Star has been in the past with its sourcing and reporting about the couple. Curiously, the tabloid seems to enjoy publishing articles that contend they're fighting or their marriage is troubled for one reason or another. A full nine months ago, for example, the magazine ran a cover story that claimed it had "breaking news" about Kardashian and West announcing a $1 billion divorce. That wasn't true and neither is this new report about them clashing over whether or not to homeschool North.
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Happy Cinco De Mayo my adult Walt Disney World Resort friends!!! What better way to celebrate the 5th of May than in the Mexican Pavilion inside World Showcase Epcot.
Let's start with the kiosk right outside, frozen margaritas… yum, yum, yum!! The Mexico Pavilion is a Mexican-themed pavilion that is part of the World Showcase, within Epcot at the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida, United States. Its location is next to the Norwegian pavilion.
Step inside Mexico my adulting friends,and visit The Tequila Cave, inside they serve up flights of a favorite adult beverages and chips and salsa!!
The architecture, the shopping inside the marketplace are authentic Mexican clothing, home decor, jewelry and so much more.
Don't forget to try the authentic dining at "La Hacienda", your taste buds will forever thank you! Again, authentic, delicious Mexican food and drink that will wisk you away right to the warm breezes of the beautiful country of Mexico!
Take a relaxing Grand Fiesta Tour starring The Three Caballeros inspired by the 1944 Disney film. Join Panchito, the Mexican charro rooster, and José Carioca, the Brazilian parrot, for jokes and fun as they search for their wayward friend throughout this fun-filled ride for all ages. Will they find him in time for the big finale in Mexico City? Will they find Donald as he makes his way through the beautiful ride of both ancient and modern Mexico?
There are three-dimensional delights as well: As you cruise down the Rio Grande, Audio-Animatronics dolls shake it up at the Festival of the Children while skeleton mariachis serenade you from above.
This is not only fun for all ages, but adults in my family make it a must do on every visit to Epcot!
So, when thinking about your next visit to Walt Disney World Resort, visit Epcot and "show your age", it's not only fun it's what Disney and all four theme parks are all about!
Visit http://disneyparks.disney.go.com for more articles and news on World Showcase and Epcot happenings!
We love Epcot so much. My son is all about shopping.


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Chris Jericho + M. Shadows Have Matching Tattoos
And he's got four tattoos of himself.
M. Shadows Will Be a Character in 'Call of Duty: Black Ops 4'
See a little bit of the action.
Serj Tankian, M Shadows Join SOAD Drummer's These Grey Men Album
The star-studded and long-gestating project will be released this year.
Jeff Cornell
M. Shadows Annoyed by Sites That Blow Things Out of Proportion
'I wish people would think for themselves,' says the singer.
Avenged Sevenfold's M. Shadows Plays Wikipedia: Fact or Fiction?
In this segment, we find out from Avenged Sevenfold's M. Shadows what's true and what's false about himself and the band on Wikipedia.
Avenged Sevenfold's M. Shadows Is Ready to Start Vocal Recovery
After two months of vocal rest, 'I got word today that my cords are good to go.' He also discusses the band's new song 'Mad Hatter' from 'Call of Duty.'
Avenged Sevenfold's M. Shadows: 'I Grew Up Listening to Slayer'
The Avenged Sevenfold vocalist speaks of his early love for metal and why their path to longevity will be different than the bands that paved the way.
Eddie Vedder + M. Shadows Comment on March for Our Lives
Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder and Avenged Sevenfold singer M. Shadows have spoken out about Saturday's March for Our Lives events which took place around the world.
Michael Christopher
M. Shadows Ready for Exciting + Different Summer Tour
The Avenged Sevenfold vocalist speaks about the eclectic summer tour lineup they've put together and how it may challenge some fans.
Avenged Sevenfold's M. Shadows Predicted Grammy Loss
Before the Grammy winners were revealed, M. Shadows wasn't too hopeful about the band's chances of winning. But at least his grandparents and parents were proud.


If you plan to take the SAT this spring or have a son or daughter who is, register now for one of the upcoming available exam dates. You can register for the May 4th or June 1st 2013 SAT tests. You have until April 5th to register for the May 4th exam. For an additional fee, you can register by mail, phone, or online by April 19th for the same May 4th test.
If you don't mind waiting until June to take the test, you have until May 7th for standard registration. For late registration by mail (for an additional fee), you have until May 17th. By phone and College Board's website, you have until May 22nd for the same additional fee.
Remember, SimuGator's SAT Edition timer and proctor can help prepare you for the test by timing your SAT practice tests before you take the real thing. To register for the SAT, visit College Board's website here and click Register at the top of the page.


Duke is the latest gift flashlight with many useful functions from LUMINTOP, which made by stainless steel or brass material. Follow the unique design of prince series, its head ,tube and body shell are made of a large area of carbon fiber with high temperature resistant, corrosion resistant. Dark black square carbon fiber decorated with gold line, the flashlight body would reflecting the dazzling color when you hold in hands, which impress you as a luxury gift as well as wearing its chic velvet bag.As its name 'Duke', this little light looks like a gentleman wearing delicate bowler hat and suit. Duke not only is a perfect gift also a practical tool.With its strong battery compatibility, you could insert both 14500 AA batteries and rechargeable lithium batteries.The multi-function side switch in head is easy for one-handed operation .Cycling from normal three modes mid-high-low ,you could also easily active the hide mode:strobe-SOS-signal by double click from low mode. In order to prevent turning on the light accidently, Duke could be locked by sleep mode for a few seconds long press . Efficient heat conductivity and excellent heat resistance due to its inner copper body and groove design back from the switch. The CREE XP-l HD LED come through the ultra-precise reflector and Double-side AR coated, tempered window, offers Duke a long beam distance. What is worth mentioning is the playable design of its tail part.The end of tail cap is a tritium tube,which allows you to easily identify the location of the flashlight in the dark.Also, the exclusive half ring buckle design not only fit lanyard and key chain perfectly, also allows the flashlight tail stand as camp lamps or candles, placed with the diffusers accessory.


Sale includes 1 BERNIE WRIGHTSON SWAMP THING ORIGINAL COMIC ART SKETCH SIGNED CARDBOARD STOCK. The sketch measures 8 1/2" x 10" and is in very good condition. There is a small smudge on the white left center border.	And check out our other listings in our "comics" category. Please see pictures to help determine physical condition. To check out our other listings. The item "BERNIE WRIGHTSON SWAMP THING ORIGINAL COMIC ART SKETCH SIGNED CARDBOARD STOCK" is in sale since Sunday, May 13, 2018. This item is in the category "Collectibles\Comics\Original Comic Art\Drawings, Sketches".
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