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No Uniform Cancer Risk from CT Heart Scans
NEW YORK -- The radiation dose from computed tomography (CT) coronary angiography carries a "nonnegligible" cancer risk that varies widely with age, gender, and scan protocol, researchers said.
NEW YORK, July 17 -- The radiation dose from computed tomography (CT) coronary angiography carries a "nonnegligible" cancer risk that varies widely with age, gender, and scan protocol, researchers said.
Lifetime cancer risk from a standard cardiac scan was 4.8-fold higher among women than men at age 20 and 2.4-fold higher for women than men at age 80, found Andrew J. Einstein, M.D., Ph.D., of Columbia University Medical Center here, and colleagues.
Lifetime attributable risk dropped from 1 in 143 to 1 in 219 for a 20-year-old woman with use of a dose reduction strategy and from 1 in 3,261 to 1 in 5,017 for an 80-year-old man, they reported in the July 18 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
"The general perception is that a cancer risk is associated with CT coronary angiography, although few quantitative data are available," they wrote.
The FDA has stated that a 10-mSv CT cardiac study may be associated with approximately a 1 in 2,000 risk of fatal cancer, but it was unclear how risk varied among patient groups.
Thus, their findings may help physicians choose among noninvasive tests for coronary artery disease for individual patients, Dr. Einstein and colleagues said.
"The results of this study suggest that CT coronary angiography should be used particularly cautiously in the evaluation of young individuals," they wrote, "especially women, for whom alternative diagnostic modalities that do not involve the use of ionizing radiation should be considered, such as stress electrocardiography, echocardiography, or magnetic resonance imaging."
The researchers used the National Academies' Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation 7th Report published in 2006 to estimate cancer risk estimates for radiation exposure from CT coronary angiography. This report was generated from epidemiological models and data from atomic bomb survivor studies and medical and occupational radiation studies.
The researchers also conducted computer simulations to model 64-slice CT photon transport in hypothetical patients.
They found that risk decreased with age and was lower for men than for women at every age, such that the risk was the same for a 20-year-old man and 70-year-old woman.
For women versus men, the lifetime attributable risk for a standard scan was:
1 in 143 (0.70%) versus 1 in 686 (0.15%), at age 20.
1 in 284 (0.35%) versus 1 in 1,007 (0.099%) at age 40.
1 in 1,338 (0.075%) versus 1 in 3,261 (0.044%) at age 80.
The differences by age were likely a factor of the long lag times between exposure and development of cancer and decreasing organ sensitivity to radiation with age, the researchers said.
One of the major contributors to the difference between men and women was the risk of breast cancer, they noted. Breast and lung cancers, both organs in the field of radiation, together accounted for 80% to 85% of women's attributable cancer risk at every age.
The other major contributor was the "strikingly" higher radiosensitivity seen for women, the researchers said. For the same 100-mSv dose of radiation to the lung at age 20, the attributable lung cancer risk was 346 cases per 100,000 for women but only 149 per 100,000 for men, according to the National Academies report.
Among the scan protocols considered, the researchers found that ECTCM (a strategy that reduces radiation during part of the heartbeat) reduced cancer risk. A dose reduction of 35% reduced estimated risk by the same amount.
The cancer risk with ECTCM was 1 in 219 for a 20-year-old woman (down from 1 in 143), 1 in 715 for a 60-year-old woman, 1 in 1,911 for a 60-year-old man, and 1 in 5,017 for an 80-year-old man.
A protocol to scan both the heart and aorta, on the other hand, increased the risk 43% to 46% in men and 24% to 28% in women. The lifetime attributable cancer risk with this protocol was as high as 1 in 114 for women age 20. The protocol "is commonly performed for patients with coronary artery bypass grafts and in the 'triple rule-out' of coronary artery disease, aortic dissection, and pulmonary embolism," the authors noted.
The investigators suggested that dose reduction strategies, such as ECTCM, should be used whenever possible along with adequate beta-blockade. "Particular attention should be given to the avoidance of unnecessary repeat studies," they said.
They concluded that their risk estimates could be used to assess the risk-benefit tradeoff for CT coronary angiography for patients, although the estimates were extrapolated without epidemiological data from patients actually undergoing scans.
"If CT coronary angiography is considered as an alternative to invasive coronary angiography, the risks and benefits of each test require consideration," they wrote, while noting that gold invasive angiography carries a 1.7% risk of major complications.
"The careful selection of patients for CT and the careful optimization of scan protocol in patients referred for testing can help to minimize cancer risk," they added.


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Topic: Could anyone explain the damage type HE? AP? Bullet?
Re: Could anyone explain the damage type HE? AP? Bullet?
Topic: Faction balance seems OK?
Re: Faction balance seems OK?
torinus wrote: You can put a negative review but still give it thumbs up. You just said you are having fun.
I played many games with fault but had fun, and I would never thumb down a game that I am having fun with.
Where? Isn't thumbs up = positive review?
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Q: how to connect to IBM Websphere MQ with a specific user using C# i have to connect to MQ server from a client. Server MQ runs with a user "admin". how do i connect to sever from client with a specific user "admin" using .net? , i would be running the code with my local credentials. Is there a way to do this? I am using MQ server and client 8.0.0.6 , Win server 2008 R2. "Admin" user doesnt have any password in Server. I have used below code to connect with the user
update on this - now i have a userid and password , when tried to connect throws 2035 error.
Hashtable props = new Hashtable();
props.Add(MQC.HOST_NAME_PROPERTY, "10.136.232.46");
props.Add(MQC.CHANNEL_PROPERTY, channelName);
props.Add(MQC.PORT_PROPERTY, 1414);
port number props.Add(MQC.USER_ID_PROPERTY, "mqchluser");
props.Add(MQC.PASSWORD_PROPERTY, "mqchluser");
props.Add(MQC.TRANSPORT_PROPERTY, MQC.TRANSPORT_MQSERIES_CLIENT);
MQQueueManager queueManager = null;
queueManager = new MQQueueManager(QueueManagerName,props );

A: You can use connection authentication to authenticate as a specific user. In the MQEnvironment class there is a UserId and a Password attribute for this:
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSFKSJ_7.5.0/com.ibm.mq.ref.dev.doc/q111180_.htm
But the queue manager you connect to needs to be configured properly too so it enables connection authentication and it uses the authenticated user id for authorization checks. And further the channel authentication records need to be configured to allow administrator connections.

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While not a huge fan of the A-line skirt, the bright pink brocade-style dress brightened her look and complemented her skin tone remarkably well. The intricate Eastern-inspired curves of the design at the bottom of the skirt are feminine and just faintly reminiscent of Arabic art. Knowing she'd be in a medium close-up frame the majority of the night, picking a line that flattered her upper body and showed off her toned arms was key. The waist complemented her body type, pinning in her waist and showing off the curve of her hips. It sounds like I'm trying to seduce her, but I assure you, it's not like that. We're just friends.
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Oppo A3 Release Date, Price, Specs! The Oppo R15 has arrived with the many good features. Good news is that with a similar hardware cheaper Oppo A3 will be able to purchase soon. We tried to know more about the opponents with which Oppo have to compete on Oppo A3 arrival. Chinese technology even recently was only visible through online shopping portals. The Smartphone will have to face other Chinese companies. That enjoys some comfortable position in the Smartphone market.
The strategy could pursue is very similar to many other manufacturers with some short history. A production and launch of recent devices more accelerated. Today we are going to tell you more about Oppo A3. The next Smartphone of this technology already has the approval of TENAA. It is interesting to know what to offer about the device. We tell you what their most important characteristics and options about this Smartphone.
The new terminal with the Android operating system has become official very soon. We refer to the Oppo A3 new edition. Oppo will have to compete within due time to arrival in the market. The new smartphone is put on sale after May 2018 2018 in China and the international market. The Chinese technology, which until recently was only visible through online shopping portals. The renewed phablet of Oppo A3 already has the approval of the TENAA. Perhaps we will get it the Launch Date of Oppo A3 will be 31st May 2018.
The Oppo has decided to create a terminal with good features and a contemporary and elegant design. Oppo new Smartphone will look like it will be free in several colors: blue, gold, red, black and silver. The weight of Oppo A3 will be 159 grams with dimensions of 156 x 75.3 x 7.8 mm thick. It will not have a fingerprint reader on the back. The possibilities in image and performance key to see which segments this device will be very attractive. The model comes with a large screen and with metal and glass finish.
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Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus first to sign on for WEC's new hypercar class
Viknesh Vijayenthiran November 6, 2018 Comment Now!
Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus on Monday announced it signed a deal that will enable it to race in the so-called hypercar class that will replace the premier LMP1 class of the World Endurance Championship from the 2020/2021 season on.
SCG will compete with a hypercar called the 007, which the company previewed in July with a series of computer-generated renderings. The final design is in a state of flux as the rules for the hypercar class are still being worked on.
As the highlight of the WEC is the 24 Hours of Le Mans, it means we could see an American team win overall in the famous French race for the first time since Ford's GT40 won half a century ago. (Ford's GT only won its class in 2016's running.) SCG plans to field two 007s throughout the season.
Announced in June, the hypercar class, whose name is yet to be confirmed, calls for race cars styled like the latest production hypercars, with particular focus to be applied on the appearance of the cars. The cars will also require KERS-style hybrid systems as well as all-wheel drive.
Importantly, the rules also mandate that road-going versions of the race cars will need to be launched. That's why SCG will build and sell 25 road-going versions of the 007 to hypercar collectors. Helping to develop the 007 is an engineering company by the name of Podium Technology.
WEC organizers are seeking to significantly reduce costs of the hypercar class compared to the current LMP1 class in an effort to lure more automakers. Right now the only automaker competing in the top class is Toyota. The Japanese firm is yet to formally announce an entry in the 2020/2021 WEC season but has announced plans to develop a hypercar, meaning it's only a matter of time.
Aston Martin has signalled its interest to compete with a race version of a new hypercar in the works code-named the 003. The rumored name of the Aston hypercar is Valhalla. Get it? To go with the Valkyrie.
Sweden's Koenigsegg has also shown some interest in the hypercar class.
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Whether or not humans have psychic powers or not has long been a hotly debated topic. Whatever your own beliefs are on this matter, it's hard to deny that there haven't been some pretty impressive predictions over the years. While skeptics may put it down to chance or informed guesswork, believers insist that these predictions are proof of the higher brain power that many humans apparently possess.
After Nostradamus, Edgar Cayce is arguably the next most celebrated psychic and for good reason. Nicknamed the 'Sleeping Prophet' due to the meditative state he would put himself into in order to make his predictions, Cayce is credited with foreseeing the start and end of both World Wars, the Great Depression, the deaths of Presidents Kennedy and Roosevelt, the shifting of the Earth's poles and the rise of Hitler -- to name just a few.
"... adverse forces that will come in 1929... unless another of the more STABLE banking conditions come to the relief, a great disturbance in financial circles...we may expect a considerable break and bear market..."
It wasn't just world events that Cayce was able to predict. In a reading from 1927 Cayce forecast future medical advancements that would make an accurate diagnosis from a single drop of blood a reality -- and this was a time when even the notion of blood as a diagnostic tool would have seemed like science fiction. Cayce's predictions didn't just involve other people -- he also correctly predicted his own death, foreseeing on January 1, 1945 that he would be buried within four days. He died two days later of a stroke.
The name Mark Twain is familiar to most but in the context of celebrated American author; lesser known are Twain's apparent psychic abilities. Like Edward Cayce, Twain also predicted his own death. Born in 1835 when Halley's Comet was visible, Twain foresaw that he would also die during a time when Halley's Comet was visible. Accurately, Twain died on cue -- in 1910, when the comet was once again visible in the night sky.
Unfortunately for Twain, his psychic abilities seemed to centre on death; he foresaw his brother's death in a vivid dream where he envisioned him lying in a coffin between two chairs in his sister's living room. The dream was so realistic Twain was unsettled for a long time after her awoke. A few weeks later Twain's brother was suddenly killed, and when Twain entered his sister's house he saw the exact same vision from his dream: his brother laid out to rest in his coffin between the two chairs, even with the exact same flower arrangement placed on his chest.
The famed Serbian American inventor Nikola Tesla predicted personal wireless devices -- in 1909. "It will soon be possible to transmit wireless messages all over the world so simply that any individual can own and operate his own apparatus."
Though far beyond imagination at that time, Tesla predicted that this wireless device would be hand-held, straightforward to use and that one day it would be possible to send wireless messages all over the world. In addition, "the household's daily newspaper will be printed wirelessly in the home during the night." Sound familiar?
"Today the most civilized countries of the world spend a maximum of their income on war and a minimum on education. The twenty-first century will reverse this order. It will be more glorious to fight against ignorance than to die on the field of battle. The discovery of a new scientific truth will be more important than the squabbles of diplomats."
Initially George Orwell's dystopian science-fiction novel 1984 seemed exactly that - science fiction. But fast forward to the 21st Century and things begin to look a bit spookier. Orwell's vision of a humanity kept under constant surveillance by Big Brother is something that is, unfortunately, familiar to most of us. In 1948, when Orwell wrote 1984, television technology was in its infancy and cameras were big and cumbersome; just the idea of closed circuit surveillance cameras was entirely removed from reality.
But it wasn't just CCTV that Orwell predicted with eerie accuracy -- like Tesla before him, Orwell was apparently a bit of a wizard at predicting the technology of the future. Orwell writes about "telescreens [that] received and transmitted simultaneously" -- in 2014, how uncannily similar this is to the handheld "telescreens" we carry with us everywhere we go and almost never turn off.
Orwell's genius is not reserved for technological predictions though, as he also correctly predicted future advancements in aesthetics. In 1984, surgeons were able to "alter people beyond recognition" and literally modify a person's appearance entirely. This was just a dream in the 1940s - the first face transplant didn't occur until 2005 - but in today's world, drastic changes in one's appearance are often seen as the norm.
In 1863, only 60 of the 118 elements were known -- and yet Dmitri Mendeleev, a Russian chemist, somehow designed a periodic table that foretold the weights and properties of the undiscovered elements perfectly. Is this an example of psychic powers being used to advance the knowledge of the world? Well, maybe... but in this case it's more likely that Mendeleev was an exceptional scientist and used his knowledge and some guesswork to make these scarily accurate predictions.
By establishing the atomic weight and properties of elements, Mendeleev began to see patterns in the table. He then observed the spaces and predicted which elements could, and would fill, them. Among many of these projected elements is germanium, which wasn't discovered until 23 years later; Mendeleev even named the element "ekasilicon."


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Massillon baseball has game to play, will face Walsh Jesuit in exhibition
Josh Weir
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MASSILLON With one call last week, Spike Ridgley's family vacation to North Carolina became a working vacation.
He suddenly needed to get ready for a baseball game. Specifically, the Massillon baseball coach needed to find out if he had enough players available for said game.
He does. So Massillon will face Walsh Jesuit in a nine-inning exhibition game on July 18 at Akron's Canal Park. First pitch is set for 7:05 p.m.
The game is part of the Senior Spotlight Series that the Akron RubberDucks are hosting. Hoban and St. Vincent-St. Mary will play this Saturday at Canal Park, followed by Massillon-Walsh Jesuit on July 18. A third game is in the works for July 25.
Spring sports were postponed in March because of the coronavirus outbreak and eventually canceled.
So this game gives Massillon a first and last chance to play a game with its 2020 varsity roster.
"The kids are excited about it," Ridgley said. "They really wanted to do it. I really wanted to do it. It's a great opportunity to be together and play with everything that has happened."
After a day at the beach last week, Ridgley walked back to his car to find a message on his phone from Roy Jacobs, the RubberDucks' senior manager for amateur baseball development. He offered Ridgley a spot in the game against Walsh Jesuit.
Ridgley quickly started reaching out to players to find out their availability, since most of them are playing summer ball and some might be going on vacation this time of year. He touched base with Massillon's administration to make sure he had the school's blessing. The school contacted the Ohio High School Athletic Association to make sure there were no problems.
By Friday evening, the Tigers were a full go for the game.
"As you can imagine, there was a lot of work to do," Ridgley said, before adding with a chuckle about his vacation, "I'm very fortunate that my wife April is as understanding as she is."
Tickets cost $10 and likely will go on sale early next week. Attendance will be capped at 1,000 to follow social distancing guidelines (Canal Park has a capacity of about 8,000). Fans will be required to wear masks while entering the ballpark and on the concourse. Masks can be taken off when fans are in their socially-distanced seats.
A fireworks show will follow the game.
Jim Pfander, the RubberDucks' general manager and chief operating officer, said the organization started brainstorming ideas for events once the Minor League Baseball season was postponed in April (it was canceled completely two weeks ago).
Pfander, a Hoban grad, recalled the final game of his high school baseball career in 1996, when he pitched a complete game as a senior with his parents watching. It is one of his favorite memories from his playing days.
"I thought about these kids and them not being able to experience something like that," Pfander said. "So it's important to give them one first time and one last time to be able to play together."
Massillon will almost have its full roster available, Ridgley said. One player will miss because of a family vacation. Of Massillon's four class of 2020 players — Aidan Longwell, Amar Ede Alkire, Heath Manson and Robbie Page — only Longwell is a question mark. The Kent State recruit has his graduation party (which already has been moved before because of COVID-19 concerns) slated for that day.
Ridgley is excited to be putting a game plan together and to face an opponent such as Walsh Jesuit, a regional finalist last season in Division I.
He hopes to have Manson start on the mound. He'd like Longwell to pitch, too, if the lefty is there.
With players coming from their summer teams, he can't know for sure which arms will be available.
Ridgley said there is a 25-person maximum in the dugout. He plans to have 18 players in addition to his coaching staff.
"I think it's a really neat opportunity," Ridgley said. "And it's a great place to play, too."
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New York Yankees C Gary Sanchez tries to steal base, injures groin
Whatever bad karma Gary Sanchez has accrued by throwing out baserunners for the New York Yankees came due on Thursday.
Gary Sanchez decided that Sep. 12 would be a great time to attempt his first stolen base of 2019. All the New York Yankees backstop has to show for it is an injured groin and a potential trip to the IL.
Sanchez told ESPN's Marly Rivera that he "overstretched" his leg when he was gunned down to end the top of the third inning. He exited the game in the bottom of the fourth frame.
The Bombers are running away with the American League Eastern Division. So why would Sanchez think it's a good idea to do a little racing of his own?
Well, according to the Kraken himself, he was just playing hard:
"It's a bit frustrating," he told Rivera. "I was trying to steal a base to help the team, giving it my all and hustling, and I made me an out and I got injured. It's just so frustrating."
Yankees fans chucking empties at their TVs as soon as they saw Sanchez take off for second base are likely even more perturbed than he is right now.
Sanchez has already missed significant time this season. He's only played in 104 of the team's 148 games.
Still, he's amassed a career-high 34 home runs to go along with 77 RBIs. But now there's just another caught stealing on the back of his baseball card.
The furthest home run ever hit in the history of baseball. Gary Sanchez is the destroyer of all worlds. pic.twitter.com/FqLy0JC97n
— Eric Hubbs (@BarstoolHubbs) July 5, 2019
The 26-year-old slugger has only tried six steals in 370 MLB games. If his latest injury is serious enough, he'll also make his sixth-career IL appearance, per MLB.com.
That's some perfectly awful symmetry for the New York Yankees and their fans as they look forward to October.
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Do-Nothing-But-Harm Congress Needs to Set Aside Anti-Abortion Fanatacism and Fund Zika Prevention
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Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fl), a rabid opponent of abortion rights who has said that birth defects should not warrant an exemption, has told Congress to set aside ideology on Zika funding – because of the harm to Florida's tourism industry and his reelection campaign © 2016 Karen Rubin/news-photos-features.com
Zika is a small label from a tiny source that has world-shattering implications for families, for communities, for society and the economy.
It is also shorthand for everything that has been so absolutely wrong with the Republican-controlled Congress. It is no longer sufficient to describe it as "Do Nothing." It is more appropriate to describe how their dysfunction, inaction, their idolatry to ideology has become destructive. Rather than a government with "limited power," the right-wing ideology has intruded into our personal lives in such devastating.
Rather than treat Zika – a neurotropic virus that grows in target brain cells, literally destroying the fetal brain as it develops – as the public health crisis that it is, the Right Wingers who control Congress have wrapped it up with abortion as an excuse to derail a vote.
The party that purports to hold a lock on family values? Pregnancy is stressful enough, but instead of being excited and happy at a pregnancy, a woman would be consumed by anxiety, and even hatred for the fetus and the baby that emerges.
When Zika first came to the world's attention in Brazil, I was thinking that Americans were luckier than the hapless Brazilian women, who were being told to defer child-bearing for four years, because while abortion is illegal in that Catholic country, it is a Constitutionally protected right here in the US – except that the Right Wingers have found ways to throw up so many obstacles to a woman's reproductive freedom, even declaring that a mother is a mere "vessel" to incubate the fetus, rather than a person with the same rights of self-determination as men.
Meanwhile, there are now approximately 18,000 confirmed case of the Zika Virus in the United States and territories, including 1,751 pregnant women infected, and that number is rising daily.
Earlier this year, the Senate overwhelmingly passed a bipartisan Zika funding measure by a vote of 89-8. Even Marco Rubio, now running for reelection to the Senate he demeaned during his run for the Presidency, who has said that birth defects should not be an "exemption" for an abortion, told his colleagues that Zika warranted setting ideology aside, but that was because of the harm it was having to Florida's tourism industry.
But then Republicans changed course, packing the bill full of partisan political riders — like demanding a ban on funding to Planned Parenthood, undermining key provisions of the Clean Water Act, even allowing Confederate flags in cemeteries— and shut Democrats out of the debate.
Now, the money that had been available to the CDC, $292 million " is out the door already and there are things we wish we could do but can't because we don't have the resources," Dr. Tom Frieden, Director of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said on "The Takeaway" on NPR. "The decisions made today, or not made, will have implications for decades to come."
There is so much that is not known about Zika – funding is needed for research for a vaccine, to diagnose, on better ways to control its spread, to understand the impacts of development for infants that do not manifest microcephaly immediately (Hearing loss? Learning disability?) and whether there are latent impacts that could impact even adults (a connection to Alzheimer's has been raised).
"We need the dollars and the legal authorities so that when there is an emergency, we can treat it as emergency.
"If get in early, can avoid problems – with an earthquake or flood you are providing assistance and picking up the pieces. But with an epidemic, if we can get there early enough, we can do the equivalent of stopping an earthquake…
"The long delay in providing additional supplemental funding makes it difficult to have robust response, and makes it more important to have an infectious disease rapid response fund so we can spend money quickly and effectively. Republicans and Democrats in the House and Senate are on board with creating such a fund," he said.
"Zika will be around for years to come, so it is important to invest now in better ways to stop it. The sooner we get the funding, we can embark on those projects," he said.
The failure to act on Zika is part and parcel of the right wingers' continued assault on abortion rights –– essentially a woman's right to choose, to control her own body and her own destiny, a family's right to protect itself and create the best environment for its children. They have gone so far as to block the use of an abortion pill that is safer and easier to use than surgical procedure, and even preventing doctors from using a safer regimen of the medication.
This is not about "life" – as we now see in Texas where their anti-woman, anti-choice ideological crusade has resulted in closure of dozens of Planned Parenthood clinics, with the result that the rate of maternal mortality has exploded.
"From 2000 to the end of 2010, Texas's estimated maternal mortality rate hovered between 17.7 and 18.6 per 100,000 births. But after 2010, that rate had leaped to 33 deaths per 100,000, and in 2014 it was 35.8. Between 2010 and 2014, more than 600 women died for reasons related to their pregnancies.
"No other state saw a comparable increase," writes Molly Redden in The Guardian. Those rates put Texas on par with the Third World, where having a baby is the most dangerous thing a woman can do.
This is further proof that the right-wingers who control Congress do not care about "life" they care about control. This is about modern-day enslavement of women. They see a woman as a vessel, a vassal, not as a free person with the rights to make their own life's choices. While they say they want individuals to be able to care for themselves, producing a generation born with microcephaly means they and their families will have to be dependent upon the state.
This cavalier attitude to life – particularly children – is also manifest in Congress' failure to act on lead in the drinking water in Flint and other urban areas, likely impairing their normal brain development, contributing to learning and behavioral problems and lowering their IQ's—and poor and minority children are unfairly at the greatest risk of lead poisoning. Half a million kids in the US already have elevated levels of lead in their blood and millions more are at risk.
The consequences for local school budgets – just as one example – to have to accommodate the special needs of children impacted by lead and now Zika-caused microcephaly – is mindboggling, making the challenge for school districts to keep Mylan's overpriced Epipens on hand seem like small potatoes.
The Republican controlled Congress' refusal to come to consensus and treat Zika as the public health emergency it is – no different than a terror attack – but instead, to hamstring it with poison pills that make it unpalatable to pass is not like the Do-Nothing-But-Harm Congress hasn't been doing mischief since its return from a 7-week vacation. This includes three bills designed to overturn Dodd-Frank protections of the financial system, a bill to neuter Obamacare, a possible impeachment of the IRS Commissioner, and a yet a new investigation, investigating the FBI investigators into Hillary Clinton's emails (is that the 9th or 10th Congressional investigation?).
But let's look at what the Do-Nothing-But-Harm Congress has done nothing about: gun violence prevention (No Fly, No Buy), the Flint water crisis, confirming Merritt Garland to the Supreme Court, and they are even dragging feet about adopting a Continuing Resolution in order to avoid yet another Republican government shutdown.
Congress needs to fund Zika programs and create an infectious disease emergency response fund, which, apparently is actually supported (at least with lip service) by Democrats and Republicans in the House and Senate.
After his meeting with Congressional leaders on Monday, Obama expressed confidence there would be no government shut down and there would be funding for Zika.
Ah, President Obama, ever the optimist. We'll see.
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For seniors, days spent in hospital separated from families and friends can often feel exceptionally long and difficult. They might feel lonely or helpless and require someone to speak with about their issues as they take on the recovery process. There is now a new service available from the team at Neighborly Home Care that is designed to help ensure loved ones achieve the optimal, personalized level of care they require during hospital stays.
The experienced specialists at Neighborly Home Care offer flexible care services that are designed to meet the schedules and the evolving care requirements of seniors and their families. One of the advantages of the company's one-on-one hospital visit service is that it is completely customizable for each client. This means that clients can decide on the number of days they would like to have visits. Clients can also work with the Neighborly Home Care team to decide how to ensure an effective care transition from the hospital back to the home environment. One-on-one hospital visits is a unique care service that is designed to completely support seniors during their stays at the hospital.
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Ever wonder why Ami is knitting constantly before she becomes Dark Mercury?
Though its clear that the knitting here is a symbol of their friendship, it can read a little deeper.
The French word "ami/amie" (アミ), meaning friend, is pronounced identically to the name Ami (亜美) in Japanese, furthermore the stem verb "編み", also read as "ami" means "to knit". So in a sense, Ami is connecting together their friendship through the process of knitting, all of which is "ami". Ami is really the force bringing them all together. Ami ami-ing her ami.
As their friendship weakens early in the series, when everyone becomes preoccupied with their own issues, Ami knits harder and harder trying to bring everyone together, but eventually when she slashes the mittens she makes, she is effectively, breaking their bond of friendship. Literally breaking the "ami" from them in three different senses.
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I am a musician specialising in electric, acoustic and bass guitar based in Leeds. I currently have many projects on the go including recording, writing and performing. See below to see what I've been up to recently.
I had a great time spending a few days down in London in late October recording bass guitar for the British country pop duo Ward Thomas. Everyone involved were really lovely people and great musicians and producers.
Just before this weekend I finished writing a collection of loops for 'Blocs Wave', an app developed by Novation. I did this along Singer/Songwriter/producer Neeta Sarl. I thoroughly enjoyed writing these and got to compose with drums, bass, synth bass, keyboards, electric and acoustic guitars and even things like mandolins and singing bowls! All the loops had to work over each other with regards to rhythm and key and were in a similar style to the work of Jon Hopkins. The pack is available on the app for £1.99 and is called 'Evolve'.
A couple of pictures from my weekend in Guildford.
Gig with a fantastic 10 piece band.
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I played at my old guitar teacher's wedding the night before being picked up from Witney in Oxfordshire to start the long journey to Croatia. We set off about 10/11ish and easily made our ferry across to Calais with no sea sickness to speak of and started to make our way to our first destination in Nijmegen. We spent two nights in Berlin and had a rehearsal in Noisy Rooms which is an awesome rehearsal space with great equipment.
We then proceeded to Prague via a music shop to buy some new gear as we had some laptop problems. The gig in Prague was…interesting and eventually turned into a blues and folk jam after playing some acoustic arrangements of Rogan songs. Leaving Prague early in the morning after some of us spent the night clubbing and some got an early night, we set off on our last leg of our trip to Tisno via Graz to pick up Josh's brother.
The next day we went out for a celebratory meal to Teresa (mostly because we were knackered) where we accidentally sat next to Craig Charles, who is hilarious and a truly lovely man, along with his family.
The trip back was long, hot and tiring but we managed the whole thing without trying to kill each other and even included a lovely night and dinner on the outskirts of Strasbourg. After the ferry we went via Witney again to Manchester and finally tumbled into Leeds about two in the morning with about 3500 miles on the clock.
Recording at Miloco Studios in London for Jennifer Ann. It was a great day recording two of her songs on acoustic and electric guitar as well as mandolin.
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We also had a nice review from Indie Shuffle comparing Worry to Bonobo and Air.
Rogan have been re-booked for Soundwave Festival again so we will be heading back to Croatia this year and maybe a few places along the way.
Laser lights at Rogan gig in Leeds.
Finally got a matching Markbass cab for my Markbass head! Happy days. It sounds fantastic and weighs next to nothing. Worth every penny even if just to save breaking my back!
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The Death of a Sadhu
Dr. Vineet Aggarwal April 21, 2020
A Sadhu is someone who has taken Sanyas after performing his own Pind-daan or post-funeral rites. You may wonder why would anyone even dream of attacking a Sadhu? Indeed who can kill a man who has already discarded his material life? Yet, there has been a dastardly incident in the country recently, where more than a hundred people perpetrated violence on two old, unarmed and feeble Sadhus over a mere suspicion, that led to their demise at the hands of the said crowd.
Sadhus, who were once accorded the highest place in the society by kings and rulers are today left without any support system and while there are multiple political reasons for such a sorry state of affairs, one of the prime reasons for their neglect is the ignorance of how the sages of India have guided its leaders towards achieving their goals since time immemorial.
This article is my attempt to re-introduce the readers to a few of these stalwarts from the Indian Puranic corpus, and make their contribution known to the world. Let me begin with the Saptarishis who can be alphabetically enumerated as – Atri, Bharadwaj, Gautam, Jamadagni/Yamdagni, Kashyap, Vasishth and Vishwamitra. You may have heard the names of a few of them but the real role they have performed in molding our ancient society remains largely undiscovered.
The sage Atri, even though unheard of by a vast majority of people, is the composer of the fifth Mandal of the Rigveda, the oldest Hindu scripture in the world. He is also one of the founders of the tradition of Vaikhanas Vaishnavism that teaches Bhakti towards Lord Vishnu. Him and his wife Sati Anasuya, sired three children who went on to achieve completely different goals in their lives, thereby blazing a brilliant trail for the rest of humanity to follow. The two were also met by Lord Rama during his exile where Anasuya gifted Sita some garments and unguents that could sustain her through the fourteen year exile in the forest.
One of their sons is Dattatreya, a popular figure in Maharashtra who is not just considered an Avatar but also has a lot of literary gems to his credit. He is the author of the famous Avadhut Gita, a seminal text on Advaita-Vedanta that gives beautiful lessons on Oneness of the entire world. Datta Guru, as he is known popularly in Maharashtra, is also one of the founders of the Nath Sampradaye, who have spread the worship of Shiva and practice of Yoga throughout the nation. More importantly, they also organized themselves into a military group at the time the Mughal tyranny was at its peak, and helped save many important Hindu cultural centers from the Jihadi onslaught.
The second rishi in our list is Bharadwaj, again not a very well-known figure for a common man but you would be surprised to hear the deeds him and his family had performed. Bharadwaj was the son of Deva-guru Brihaspati, the chief preceptor of the gods and is the composer of the sixth Mandal of the Rigveda. He is also the author of a treatise on archery known as the Dhanur-veda; Bharadwaj Samhita, a Vaishnav Pancharatra text, as well as has many contributions to Ayurveda that were extremely scientific and way ahead of their time. The Charak Samhita credits him with the statement that an embryo is not caused by wish, prayers, urging of mind or mystical causes, rather is produced from the union of a man's sperm and menstrual blood of a woman in her womb at the right time of her cycle.
Bharadwaj also had illustrious children – a son known to the world as Garga, and two daughters, Ilavida and Katyayani, who are married to Rishis Vishrava and Yagnavalkya respectively. Garga Muni is considered an authority on Jyotish-shastra or Astrology; Yagnavalkya was the author of the Shukla Yajurveda as well as the Shatpatha Brahmana and the guru of Raj-rishi Janak; and Vishravas was the father of Kuber as well as his half-brother Ravan, the main antagonist of the Ramayan!
Bharadwaj himself finds place in the Ramayan as a friend and disciple of Valmiki who also guides Rama and Sita to set up base in Chitrakoot. He also organized the Putra-Kameshthi Yagna for Maharaj Bharat, the king after whom our country was named BhArat! His other son Dronacharya, was the teacher of the Kauravs and Pandavs who fought in the famous war of Mahabharat utilizing the skills taught to them by the same guru. Bharadwaj therefore has an indirect influence on both the protagonists of the two great historical epics of ancient India.
The third of the Saptarishis is Gautam, who is infamously associated with the incident related to his wife Ahalya, but that is not all there is to him. He has compiled many verses in the Mandal one of the Rigveda as well as the Samveda; is credited with the descent of the river Godavari, the lifeline of the middle part of India; and is described as saving the people of the region from a severe drought that had lasted twelve years. Clearly, a man who did not just indulge in scholarly pursuits but also helped the common people around him to survive in difficult conditions.
The fourth sage Jamdagni also otherwise called Yamdagni, is the son of another illustrious rishi Ruchik of the Bhrigu clan, and is credited with the use of the first umbrella and sandals to protect one from sun's heat! He is the father of the Avatar Parshurama, who from a simple Brahmin boy, evolved into the Brahma-kshatriya who decimated an entire corrupt ruling class twenty-one times. Both of them have contributed verses to the Vedic corpus and showed the world how Sadhus not only take care of the spiritual upliftment of the society but also its practical necessities.
The fifth in the list is Kashyap, who is associated with the valley of Kashmir which was named after him as Kashyap-mir. You may be surprised to know that he is also the progenitor of all the species that live on this world today. Various Puranas describe him and his thirteen wives of having created life forms as diverse as the Devas, Daityas, Danavs, Garudas, Nagas, various animal forms and all vegetation! This gives a whole new meaning to the beautiful thought of ancient Sadhus of India – Vasudhaiv Kutumbakam – the world is my family. If that was not enough, Kashyap also demanded Parshurama to leave the earth alone after his carnage and rest on Mount Mahendra, thereby showcasing his compassionate aspect along with the creative one.
The sixth rishi that we shall talk about is Brahma-rishi Vasishth, a name that would be more familiar to those who have been watching the current rerun of the Ramayan on television. He is one of the sons of Brahma who is perhaps most closely associated with human kings such as Harishchandra, Dashrath and Lord Rama. He is the composer of the seventh Mandal of the Rigveda and the author of the Agni and Vayu Purans. He guided numerous generations of rulers not just the Suryavanshis from Ayodhya but even the Bharatvanshis as mentioned in the famous Dasrajna battle of the Rigveda.
The last but certainly not the least of the Sadhus that deserves to be mentioned here is Brahma-rishi Vishwamitra. The only one of the Saptarishis who was born a Kshatriya, he is a counterpart to Parshurama's reverse caste hopping. Many would know the role he played in the Ramayan but most people don't realize that had Vishwamitra not taken Rama and Lakshman to the forest with him, they wouldn't have received the knowledge of the divine weapons that he shared with them and that were used later in the forest of Dandak Aranya to annihilate the Asuras.
Also, had Vishwamitra then brought back the princes to Ayodhya, instead of taking them to Mithila, Rama and Sita would have never met and the Ramayan as we know it would not have happened Besides, Vishwamitra is also the composer of the third Mandal of the RIgveda, and the discoverer of the Gayatri Mantra that is chanted everyday by millions of Hindus worldwide. An inspirational man who challenged his destiny to become one of the greatest Sadhus that India has known, he also saved Raja Harishchandra, from the sin of Nara-bali by saving the child Shunahshepa and making the king repent for his actions.
I would also like to mention two more sages of ancient India that played a very important role in two of the most important historical events of this country – Valmiki and Ved-vyas. Both of them again represent the fact that even a low-born man could attain the highest of pedestals in the world of the Sadhus who were beyond the caste divisions. While the former was a hunter and bandit before his transformation by the hands of Narad muni, the latter was born to a fisher-woman and represents one of the first mixed-caste sages of India.
We all know Valmiki as the composer of Lord Rama's journey but his role did not end there. He also gave shelter to Sita and her unborn children when she had to take refuge in his hermitage due to the calumny heaped on her by the citizens of Ayodhya. He was instrumental in bringing Luv and Kush back to their original city at the time of Raam's Ashwamedh and reuniting the heirs of the kingdom with the Suryavanshi ruler.
Ved-vyas not just sorted the Vedas into four for the easier understanding of the common people in Kaliyug or the present era, he also wrote down the Puranas to make sure that those who cannot understand the philosophy of the Vedic corpus, can comprehend the teachings of Dharma by means of stories of the gods and illustrious kings of India. Many people know that he composed the Mahabharat but very few appreciate the fact that he was also the grandfather of Pandavs and Kauravs who fought the final war of annihilation. In a way, Vyas wrote down the history of his own descendants to guide the future generations about the principles that should be followed in life and the ones that should be avoided.
As would be abundantly clear from the list we have discussed above as well as their accomplishments, the Sadhus or sages of India are not mere ascetics and have performed vital functions for the society at different time periods. There are many more that can be added to this list but it should suffice to say that it is time for us Indians to re-acquaint ourselves with the contribution of the sages to our society and accord them the same respect our own ancestors gave to the Sadhus that they took guidance from.
While in today's materialistic world, we are busy running behind the pursuit of Artha and Kama, it is only because of the teachings of the Sadhus that we can fulfil the goals of Dharma and Moksha. As Corona has shown us, none of our financial and amorous conquests mean anything at the end of the day and we all have to understand the role these religious men perform in our lives.
A society that cannot protect its saints and sages, is certainly headed towards extinction.
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The Royal Bank of Scotland has revealed record profits of £7.9billion, up 21% on last year's results.
The bank said it had benefited from strong corporate lending and from good consumer banking results – particularly in its US business – leading to the large increase in its profits.
The bank said it had problems with bad consumer debts, and this had led it to set aside funds of £1.17bn in total to cover the debts. The bank claimed its problems with the debts could be easing off, although its unsecured personal lending increased by 10% to £13.3bn in 2005.


PRESS RELEASE — Downers Grove, Ill., March 21, 2018 – CompTIA, the leading provider of vendor-neutral, performance-based certifications for the information technology (IT) industry, today introduced an updated version of its CompTIA Network+ credential.
The new exam (N10-007) reflects current networking technologies in both wired and wireless environments. CompTIA Network+ is the only industry certification that covers both.
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In addition to the traditional multiple-choice question and answer format, the CompTIA Network+ exam includes performance-based questions. This requires test takers to complete hands-on simulations to demonstrate their ability to solve problems in a networking environment.
CompTIA Network+ is relevant for any IT professional responsible for configuring, managing and securing wired and wireless networks deployed by organizations around the world. Network field technicians and engineers, network administrators, computer and help desk technicians, systems engineers, network support specialists, and network analysts are some of the job roles that can benefit from earning this credential.
A recent CompTIA analysis of employment and hiring data found that employers across the U.S. posted more than 45,000 job openings for network and computer system administrators, computer network architects and computer network support specialists during the fourth quarter of 2017. These three job categories are projected to grow by an estimated 11 percent to 12 percent by 2027.
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Q: Is it possible in JProfiler 9.2 (or later) to ignore methods with the same signature in any class matching a pattern? As the title suggests: Can one ignore methods with the same signature in different classes matching a pattern?
I'd like to ignore hashCode and equals by default to prevent hotspots from being instrumented.
If it is possible, how would one configure it?

A: It is not possible as of JProfiler 10.1, but it will be implemented in JProfiler 11, where you will be able to specify * for the class in the list of ignore methods.


You need water to survive, but your home definitely does not. Throughout the year a house is bombarded with moisture in some form – liquid rain, solid ice or water vapor. Problems can develop with structure as well as your own comfort and health. How well does your home handle water?
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Mold and mildew in walls, ceilings, floors and around windows - Can cause serious health problems.
How does moisture cause these problems?
Basic physics tells us that water moves from wet to dry areas. Here's an example: Water in soil seeps into porous dry foundation walls, then moves into the dry basement floor, then wicks into carpet and wood baseboard, etc. Rain or melting ice can do the same starting at the roof and moving down.
Moisture also moves from hot to cold. Water vapor in warm, humid air condenses into liquid on colder surfaces such as windows and walls.
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Japan remains polarized on reform of pacifist constitution: survey
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(EFE).- Half of all respondents to a survey published Monday in Japan were in favor of reforming the pacifist article of the country's constitution, showing that society remains polarized on the review pushed for by the ruling party.
A total of 50 percent of the 3,000 people consulted by Kyodo news were in favor of revising Article 9 of the constitution, according to which the country renounces war as a sovereign right and the use of force to resolve international disputes.
Of those polled, 48 percent were against an amendment, which is one of the political priorities of the conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida with the aim of expanding national powers in defense matters.
The figures, released on the eve of Constitution Memorial Day on Tuesday, are almost the same as those of a poll carried out last year, which showed 51 percent support for a revision and 48 percent rejection.
Calls from the LDP to revise the constitution have intensified recently in the wake of China's military aggression, North Korea's continuing weapons launches, and Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
On Sunday, Kishida said in an interview with national broadcaster NHK that the constitution may have shortcomings and outdated elements after being in force for 75 years, and expressed hope that for progress in the discussions about its revision.
The LDP considers it necessary to clarify the renunciation of war established in Article 9, as well as of the powers of the Self-Defense Forces, as Japanese troops are called, since the constitution expressly prohibits the possession of military forces.
The legal framework was approved during the US occupation of Japan after its surrender at the end of World War II. It came into force in 1947 and has not been revised since.
To carry out constitutional reform, the support of two thirds of each chamber of parliament is necessary – a proportion that the ruling party would not reach on its own – followed by its ratification through a national referendum. EFE
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extern crate polygon;
extern crate vcdim;

#[cfg(feature = "print_info")]
use polygon::generate::Mode;
#[cfg(feature = "print_info")]
use vcdim::*;

/// Computes the VC-Dimension of some randomly generated polygons
/// and prints statistics about how many steps are saved compared
/// to the naive algorithm.
#[cfg(feature = "print_info")]
fn main() {
    let mut args = std::env::args().skip(1);
    let n = if let Some(n) = args.next() {
        n.parse().expect("n must be an positive integer")
    } else { 20 };
    let count = if let Some(cnt) = args.next() {
        cnt.parse().expect("count must be an positive integer")
    } else { 10 };
    let default_gen_mode = Mode::QuickStarLike;
    let gen_mode = if let Some(m) = args.next() {
        if m.starts_with("--mode=") {
            match &m[7..] {
                "2opt" => Mode::TwoOptLike,
                "quickstar" => Mode::QuickStarLike,
                "xmonotone" => Mode::Xmonotone,
                "monotone" => Mode::Xmonotone,
                "xmonotonegap" => Mode::XmonotoneGap,
                "monotonegap" => Mode::XmonotoneGap,
                _ => {
                    println!("Generation mode not recognised: {}\nPossible Values: 2opt, quickstar", &m[7..]);
                    return;
                }
            }
        } else {
            println!("Unrecognised argument: {}", m);
            return;
        }
    } else { default_gen_mode };

    let mut vcd = VcDim::with_random_polygon(n, gen_mode);

    for i in 0..count {
        let vc_dim = vcd.vc_dimension();
        if vc_dim >= 5 {
            vcd.export_ipe(std::fs::File::create(format!("./vc{}-n{}_{:03}.ipe", vc_dim, n, i)).unwrap(), 1f64).unwrap();
        }
        vcd.randomize_polygon(gen_mode)
    }
}

#[cfg(not(feature = "print_info"))]
fn main() {
    println!("WARNING: This does nothing if the feature `print_info` is disabled.");
    println!("         Please enable this feature.");
    println!("");
    println!("Example invocation:");
    println!("cargo run --release --example compute_savings --features print_info -- 10 5");
    return;
}

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Q: Second differences of primes determined by increasing first differences: every positive even integer? Suppose that $p(1)$ and $p(2)$ are primes.  For $n > 2$, let $p(n)$ be the least prime $p$ such that $p-2p(n-1)+p(n-2)>0$.  Does $p(n)-2p(n-1)+p(n-2)$ range through all the even positive integers?
Here are a few thoughts, based on comments.  Let $s(n) = p(n)-2p(n-1)+p(n-2)$.
(1)  Allow $p(1)$ to be any integer (not necessarily prime or positive).
(2)  Interpret "range through all even positive integers" to allow odd $s(1)$.
(3)  The main question is this:  what happens in the case $p(1) = 2$ and $p(2) = 3$?
(4)  What's the least choice of $p(2)$ for which there's a number $p(1) < p(2)$ such that some even positive integer is not $s(n)$ for any n?
Example for (3):  for $p(1)=2$ and $p(2)=3$, we have
$$(p(n)) = (2,3,5,11,19,29,41,59,79,101,\dots)$$
$$(s(n)) = (1,4,2,2,2,6,2,2,4,4,4,2,6,2,\dots)$$
$$(f(n)) = (3,2,6,18,46,45,70,56,59,26,\dots),$$
where $f(n)$ is the position at which $2n$ first appears in $(s(n))$.
Every even positive integer up to $120$ occurs among the first $30,000$ terms of $s(n)$.


She has been on a worldwide promotional tour for her latest movie Pitch Perfect 2, which sees herself and Rebel Wilson take the lead of a cappella group at high school.
And during her appearance on Friday night's episode of Alan Carr, the Hollywood actress opened up about the time she stayed at The Salutation hotel in Kent, owned by Gogglebox stars Dominic and Stephanie Parker.
The 29-year-old star said she stayed at the fancy B&B while filming Into The Woods but confessed how she poked fun at Dom's posh accent.
'Disney found this bed and breakfast for us to stay in and I got in late and the owner had to let me in,' she explained.
'Sometimes, in my defence before I tell this story, sometimes Brits do this thing where they put on other British accents, which are not their own. It's sort of cute and we're doing a bit and it's all in good fun.
'The guy who owned the bed and breakfast opened the door and he said (puts on posh accent), "Darling come in you must be exhausted" and I said, (in same accent), "oh can you help me with my bags. Be a love" and he continued to use that accent and was not doing a bit at all so I had to continue to use that accent and slowly phase it out.
'I thought this man is going to murder me because he knows that I have been making fun of him and he is clearly drunk. And then I was back in the UK and I was watching television and the owners of the bed and breakfast were on TV because it's Dom and Stephf rom Gogglebox!
Meanwhile, Anna looked absolutely flawless in a pink silk Roksanda dress with a pronounced collar and a black micro-belt detail, which she matched with a simple pair of black heels.
And as well as the hilarious follow-up to the popular film - which is released on May 15 in cinemas across the world – the Twilight actress has another job lined up: writing her own book.
She is set to release a collection of autobiographical essays next year after inking a publishing deal with Touchstone.
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Brazil to ease local content rules in oil industry
BRASILIA (Reuters) - President Michel Temer's government will ease requirements that oil industry equipment be produced in Brazil as part of its effort to draw investment and lower costs that have hindered development of vast reserves, a senior official said on Monday.
Rules for future contracts will allow the importation of oil industry equipment that is not available in the country, Temer's chief spokesman Marcio de Freitas told Reuters.
"This will make it cheaper to produce oil and reduce the cost for Petrobras," he said of Brazil's state-led oil company.
De Freitas confirmed an earlier report by financial newspaper Valor Economico that Brazil will stop favoring companies that offer to purchase a larger amount of goods and services locally when selecting winners in oil and gas rights auctions.
Temer's new centre-right government also intends to loosen minimum local content rules by not specifying whether individual components, such as bolts, have to be produced in the country.
Temer's administration has been taking action to boost private investment in the country's oil industry, such as removing a requirement that Petrobras be the sole operator of vast offshore reserves in the costly subsalt layer.
The largest deep-water oil fields ever found were discovered two decades ago but the fall in oil prices, restrictions such as the local content rules and the indebtedness of scandal-plagued Petrobras have slowed their development to a crawl.
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Women come and go through Woodcock's life, providing the confirmed bachelor with inspiration and companionship, until he comes across a young, strong-willed woman, Alma (Vicky Krieps), who soon becomes a fixture in his life as his muse and lover. Once controlled and planned, he finds his carefully tailored life disrupted by love.
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Three models of Cisco wireless VPN firewalls and routers from the small business RV series contain a critical unpatched vulnerability that attackers can exploit remotely to take control of devices.
The vulnerability is located in the Web-based management interface of the Cisco RV110W Wireless-N VPN Firewall, RV130W Wireless-N Multifunction VPN Router and RV215W Wireless-N VPN Router.
It can be easily exploited if the affected devices are configured for remote management since attackers only need to send an unauthenticated HTTP request with custom user data. This will result in remote code execution as root, the highest privileged account on the system, and can lead to a complete compromise.
Cisco Systems warned about the vulnerability in a security advisory Wednesday, but no patches are yet available. The company plans to release firmware updates that will address this flaw on affected models sometime in the third quarter of 2016.
Worse yet, this is not the only unpatched vulnerability that exists in these three Cisco devices. The company also warned of a medium-severity, cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw and two medium-risk buffer overflows that could result in denial-of-service conditions.
While exploiting the buffer overflows requires attackers to have an authenticated session in the device's Web-based interface, the XSS flaw can be triggered by tricking authenticated users to click on specifically crafted URLs.
"A successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary script in the context of the web-based management interface for the device or allow the attacker to access sensitive browser-based information," Cisco said in an advisory.
The XSS flaw makes it difficult for users to find a mitigation strategy in the absence of patches, because it can be combined with the other vulnerabilities. For example, if users disable external management in their devices in order to protect them from the critical vulnerability, the devices will still be exposed through the cross-site scripting flaw.