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By Nozomi Akanuma, Gonzalo Alarcón, R. Arunachalam, Sarah H. Bernard, Frank M. C. Besag, Istvan Bodi, Stephen Brown, Franz Brunnhuber, Antonella Cerquiglini, J. Helen Cross, R. Shane Delamont, Archana Desurkar, Lee Drummond, Rona Eade, Robert D. C. Elwes, Bidi Evans, Peter Fenwick, Colin D. Ferrie, Paul L. Furlong, Laura H. Goldstein, Sally Gomersall, Sushma Goyal, Jane Hanna, Yvonne Hart, Dominic C. Heaney, Graham E. Holder, Mrinalini Honavar, Elaine Hughes, Jozef M. Jarosz, John G. R. Jefferys, Jane Juler, Mathias Koepp, Michalis Koutroumanidis, Maureen Lahiff, Louis Lemieux, David McCormick, Brian Meldrum, John D. C. Mellers, Nicholas Moran, John Moriarty, Robin G. Morris, Nandini Mullatti, Lina Nashef, Jennifer Nightingale, T. J. von Oertzen, Corina O'Neill, Philip N. Patsalos, Stella Pearson, Charles E. Polkey, Ronit Pressler, Edward H. Reynolds, Mark P. Richardson, Leone Ridsdale, Robert Robinson, Greg Rogers, Euan M. Ross, Richard P. Selway, Stefano Seri, Simeran Sharma, Graeme J. Sills, Andrew Simmons, Shiri Spector, Mark Stevenson, Jade N. Thai, Brian Toone, Antonio Valentín, Nuria T. Villagra, Matthew Walker, William Whitehouse
Edited by Gonzalo Alarcón, King's College London, Antonio Valentín, King's College London
Book: Introduction to Epilepsy
Print publication: 26 April 2012, pp xii-xv
Chapter 114 - The psychoses of epilepsy
from Section 7 - Psychiatric, social and legal aspects
By Brian Toone
Print publication: 26 April 2012, pp 522-523
Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in adults
Brian Toone, Maria Clarke, Susan Young
Journal: Advances in Psychiatric Treatment / Volume 5 / Issue 2 / March 1999
Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and hyperkinetic disorder are well-established diagnoses in children, with estimates of prevalence in pre-adolescent children from 3 to 5%. Until recently ADHD was not thought to persist beyond adolescence, but results from long-term prospective outcome studies indicate that 30–70% of children with ADHD exhibit some symptoms as adults. Recognition of this disorder is important as the persistence of ADHD symptoms has been shown to be associated with academic and occupational failure and high rates of psychiatric comorbidity. With the establishment of a UK support group (LADDER) and increasing media attention highlighting this problem it is likely that there will be an increased demand for psychiatric assessment of adult ADHD in the next few years.
SPET study of verbal fluency in schizophrenia and epilepsy
John D. C. Mellers, Naoto Adachi, Noriyoshi Takei, Alice Cluckie, Brian K. Toone, W. Alwyn Lishman
Journal: The British Journal of Psychiatry / Volume 173 / Issue 1 / July 1998
The association between temporal lobe epilepsy and schizophrenia suggests that the critical abnormality may be pathology within the temporal lobes. People with schizophrenia-like psychosis of epilepsy (SLPE) provide a useful group in which to examine the importance of temporal and frontal lobe dysfunction in schizophrenia.
A verbal fluency activation paradigm and a 99mTc HMPAO SPET were used to study frontotemporal function in people with SLPE (n = 12), schizophrenia (n = 11) and epilepsy (n = 16).
People with SLPE differed from both other groups by showing lower blood flow in the left superior temporal gyrus during performance of a verbal fluency task compared with a word repetition task (F=5.4, P=0.01). During the verbal fluency task people with primary schizophrenia showed a greater increase in blood flow in anterior cingulate (F=4.5, P=0.02) than the other two groups. There were no between-group differences in frontal brain regions.
Our findings support an association between left temporal lobe abnormality and SLPE. The different patterns of activation observed in people with primary schizophrenia and SLPE suggests that different pathophysiological mechanisms may operate in these two groups. In SLPE the pathophysiology may be relatively confined to the dominant temporal lobe.
Increased Intracerebral Cerebrospinal Fluid Spaces Predict Unemployment and Negative Symptoms in Psychotic Illness a Prospective Study
Jim Van Os, Thomas A. Fahy, Peter Jones, Ian Harvey, Shôn Lewis, Maureen Williams, Brian Toone, Robin Murray
It has been suggested that the dimensions of cerebral ventricles are a risk factor for poor outcome in psychotic illness.
A cohort of 140 patients with functional psychoses of recent onset who had undergone CT scanning, were followed up for an average of 46 months and assessed on six dimensions of course and outcome of illness.
Left and right sylvian fissure volumes and, to a lesser extent, third ventricular volume predicted negative symptoms and unemployment over the course of follow-up, the latter association being mediated by poor cognitive functioning. There was a significant linear trend in risk over the distribution of sylvian fissure volumes in the cohort, and associations were especially evident in schizophrenic patients. No associations were found with global severity of illness, duration of hospital stay, homelessness, or affective symptoms.
These findings support the notion that dimensions of the cerebral ventricles are a continuous risk factor for some measures of outcome in the functional psychoses.
Age at Onset, Sex, and Familial Psychiatric Morbidity in Schizophrenia: Camberwell Collaborative Psychosis Study
Pak Chung Sham, Peter Jones, Ailsa Russell, Karyna Gilvarry, Paul Bebbington, Shôn Lewis, Brian Toone, Robin Murray
Although a genetic component in schizophrenia is well established, it is likely that the contribution of genetic factors is not constant for all cases. Several recent studies have found that the relatives of female or early onset schizophrenic patients have an increased risk of schizophrenia, compared to relatives of male or late onset cases. These hypotheses are tested in the current study.
A family study design was employed; the probands were 195 patients with functional psychosis admitted to three south London hospitals, diagnosed using Research Diagnostic Criteria (RDC), and assessed using the Present State Examination (PSE). Information on their relatives was obtained by personal interview of the mother of the proband, and from medical records. Psychiatric diagnoses were made using Family History – Research Diagnostic Criteria (FH-RDC), blind to proband information.
There was a tendency for homotypia in the form of psychosis within families. The lifetime risk of schizophrenia in the first degree relatives of schizophrenic probands, and the risk of bipolar disorder in the first degree relatives of bipolar probands, were 5–10 times higher than reported population risks. Relatives of female and early onset (<22 years) schizophrenic probands had higher risk of schizophrenia than relatives of male and late onset schizophrenic probands. However, this effect was compensated in part by an excess of non-schizophrenic psychoses in the relatives of male probands.
These results suggest a high familial, possibly genetic, loading in female and early onset schizophrenia, but do not resolve the question of heterogeneity within schizophrenia.
Low Birth Weight and Schizophrenia
Larry Rifkin, Shôn Lewis, Peter Jones, Brian Toone, Robin Murray
Journal: The British Journal of Psychiatry / Volume 165 / Issue 3 / September 1994
Low birth weight has been postulated to be a risk factor for schizophrenia.
Obstetric history, premorbid adjustment, and cognitive function during admission were assessed in 167 patients with DSM–III schizophrenia or affective psychosis.
A birth weight of less than 2500 g was significantly more common in patients with schizophrenia than in those with affective psychosis. Schizophrenic patients as a group had significantly lower mean birth weight, a finding which was particularly marked after controlling for sociodemographic confounders. In schizophrenic men, lower birth weight was highly significantly correlated with poorer premorbid social and cognitive ability, and with impairment of adult cognitive function.
Neurodevelopmental impairment may cause poor foetal growth, and schizophrenia in adult life.
Life Events and Psychosis: Initial Results from the Camberwell Collaborative Psychosis Study
Paul Bebbington, Soraya Wilkins, Peter Jones, Alice Foerster, Robin Murray, Brian Toone, Shôn Lewis
Data from the Camberwell Collaborative Psychosis Study were used to examine the proposition that there is an excess of life events preceding the onset of psychoses of all types. Of 97 patients from the study who had episodes within the past year that were datable, 51 had developed psychotic symptoms from an essentially symptom-free state, 29 had been suffering only from neurotic symptoms, and 17 had experienced a marked exacerbation of psychotic symptoms. DSM–III diagnoses were collapsed into three major groups: 51 cases of schizophrenia; 31 cases of mania; and 14 cases of depressive psychosis. Life-event histories were taken for the six months before onset, and when these were compared with equivalent histories from a psychiatrically healthy sample from the local general population, there was a significant excess of life events, particularly in the three months before onset of psychosis. This was apparent in all groups, and remained even when events were restricted to the independent category. The excess of events began rather earlier than has been found in previous studies. In our view, this study provides some of the strongest evidence for a link between life events and the emergence of psychotic symptoms.
A reply to Professor Copeland
Robin Jacoby, Graham Thornicroft Raymond Levy, Parimala Moodley, Klaus Bergmann, Gaius Davies, Marisa Silverman, Julian Leff, Jeremy Christie Brown, Brian Toone, Simon Wessely, Anthony David
Journal: Psychiatric Bulletin / Volume 16 / Issue 12 / December 1992
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2018, p. 798
Epilepsy, Behaviour and Cognitive Function. Edited by Michael R. Trimble and Edward H. Reynolds. Chichester: John Wiley. 1988. 214 pp. £32.00.
Brian Toone
Journal: The British Journal of Psychiatry / Volume 155 / Issue 5 / November 1989
An open letter to the President
Louis Appleby, Glyn Lewis, R. H. Cawley, Isaac Marks, Pamela Taylor, Raymond Levy, Klaus Bergmann, Nick Temple, Brian Toone, Stephen Wolkind, Eileen Joyce, Michael Gill, E. Guinness, Michael Farrell, V. L. Nimgaonkar, Deborah Chee, L. Mynors-Wallis, Peter Jones, Penny Thompson, Rachel Brown, H. Ring, Claire Gerada, Jenny Bearn, S. G. Potts, B. C. Beats, Lyn Pilowsky, Judith Jackson, G. F. Searle, Keith Lloyd, Helena Fox, Parimela Moodley, Tony Maden, S. W. Lewis, M. W. Orrell, D. Murphy, W. J. Levy, Brian Green, Alex Buchanan, Marian J. Perkins, Peter Misch, Gillian Mezey, M. Murphy, Anthony David, Robert Kerwin, Shirine Pezeshgi, M. Abas, P. Silverstone, J. H. Stone, G. O. 'Sullivan, R. Araya, R. Ball, E. Palazidou, Jane Milton, Anthony J. Pelosi, Janet Carrick, Dinesh Bhugra, Chris Hollis, Mark Berelowitz, N. R. Fisher, Deborah Brooke, Charles Hindler, Malcolm Battersby, Abigail Seltzer
Heterogeneity in Sporadic Schizophrenia
M. S. Keshavan, Brian S. Toone
Journal: The British Journal of Psychiatry / Volume 152 / Issue 4 / April 1988
Attitudes to psychiatry in doctors at the end of their first post-graduate year: two-year follow-up of a cohort of medical students
K. Sivakumar, Greg Wilkinson, Brian K. Toone, Steven Greer
Journal: Psychological Medicine / Volume 16 / Issue 2 / May 1986
Print publication: May 1986
The significantly favourable changes in medical students' general attitudes to psychiatry which we found after their 8-week clerkship in psychiatry and at the end of their clinical curriculum were not maintained at the end of their first post-graduate year. Three of their specific attitudes to psychiatry changed significantly in an unfavourable direction over this 2-year period. Our findings suggest that, while favourable changes in students' specific attitudes to psychiatry can be found following a clerkship, these attitudes do not seem to endure and, in some cases, they later become less favourable. The results are discussed with reference to the relationships between undergraduate medical training in psychiatry, attitudes to psychiatry, and subsequent career choice, particularly general practice.
Computerized tomographic scan changes in early schizophrenia – preliminary findings
Stuart W. Turner, Brian K. Toone, Jane R. Brett-Jones
Thirty patients who fulfilled DSM–III criteria for schizophrenia but who were within 2 years of presentation were compared with 26 age–matched normal volunteers with respect to CT scan appearances. In the index group the ventricle–brain ratio (VBR) was significantly greater. The VBR values were positively correlated with average alcohol intake and with early physical trauma, and negatively correlated with a family history of schizophrenia. The implications of these findings are discussed in the context of the present uncertainty about the meaning of CT scan findings in schizophrenia.
The Psychoses of Epilepsy and the Functional Psychoses: A Clinical and Phenomenological Comparison
Brian K. Toone, Elena Garralda, Maria Ron
Sixty-nine patients, each with a combined diagnosis of epilepsy and psychosis, were compared with 53 patients with a diagnosis of functional psychosis. The epileptic affective patients often lacked convincing psychotic features; ECT and lithium were rarely prescribed; only three showed evidence of bipolarity. The epileptic schizophrenic patients were judged to have the better premorbid personality, experienced more paranoid delusions and delusions of reference, and showed less catatonic features than the functional schizophrenic patients. The course of the epileptics' illness was more variable.
The concept that the schizophrenia-like psychosis associated with epilepsy is a distinct nosological entity is supported, but not the suggestion of a relationship between affective psychosis and epilepsy.


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Ashton-On-Ribble's popular Haslam Park secures further grant funding to restore children's play area
A popular park in Ashton-On-Ribble has secured further grant funding to restore a childrens play area.
Megan Titley
Published: 06:00 Thursday 28 November 2019
The Friends of Haslam Park group has won £4,400 from local charity, the Harris Trust.
READ MORE: Makeover for children's play area at Preston's Haslam Park
It brings current funds up to a total of £44,400 which will be used to install a new balance beam, double slide and activity net, swings, roundabout and see other equipment refurbished.
The friends group was also the successful applicant of £30,000 of which comes from the Lancashire Environmental Fund (LEF). It was on top of £10,000 Government money from the Parks Fund which was secured earlier this year.
Christopher Smith of the friends group said: "The money will be used to buy and install an additional piece of equipment to add to other equipment planned for the refurbishment.
"The grant is in addition to £40,000 of grant funding from Central Government and the Lancashire Environmental Fund already secured for the work.
"The upgraded total budget of £44,400 will cover new and refurbished play equipment, repainting of the surroundings and drainage work to make the Play Area a suitable place for young visitors to the park."
Lostock Hall family spruce up community nature spot during litter-pick
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A MESSAGE FROM CASTLE PRESIDENT KEN JENKINS
Orgill acquisition of Chalifour Hardware
Dear Castle Members
On August 10th the industry received the news regarding Orgill's acquisition of Chalifour Canada. The industry release provided by Timbermart positions the acquisition as a "strategic alliance" that would suggest Timbermart may have a preferred advantage. I am writing to assure you this is not the case. In reality, Orgill bought a company that was in significant demise. You will also note that Orgill makes no reference of an alliance in any of their statements regarding the acquisition. What you are hearing is an opportunistic spin being presented by Timbermart.
The definition of "strategic" is centered on vision, planning, preparation and good execution. None of these embody the Timbermart strategy of owning and operating a hardware distribution company. In reality, they dramatically overpaid for the asset in 2010 and since the acquisition of Canwel Hardware, Timbermart has lost in excess of $1 billion of purchase volume from members who have left the group. Timbermart will now need to address the shortfall between what they bought and then eventually sold the Chalifour business for. The impact of this shortfall will likely create significant anxiety amongst their remaining members.
In 2007, we identified that national hardware distribution in Canada was not functioning at a level necessary to support the needs of our members. It was at that time we commenced our relationship with Orgill and collectively, we have worked over the past eight years to develop a hardware distribution strategy that has delivered tremendous value to our members.
In 2011, and almost entirely with the support of Castle, Orgill launched aggressively into the Canadian market. We worked effectively in assisting Orgill with the development of a Canadian sales force and our members have played a key role in addressing continuous improvement to their product offering. Over the past eight years, Castle members have attended and supported the Orgill Dealer Markets and today our volume has provided Orgill with backdrop to acquire a Canadian distribution footprint.
National distribution requires scale and size to be effective. The acquisition of Chalifour and the combined volume of Castle, now provides Orgill with tremendous synergies that will deliver greater value to Castle members in the future. The timing of the acquisition, based on a strong US dollar, works well in Orgill's favor when acquiring a Canadian asset. The combination of an improving US market, Orgill's growing Canadian sales volume and a weak competitor in Chalifour, provided the perfect scenario for Orgill's acquisition.
As is typical when dealing with Orgill, they take advantage of opportunities to eliminate weak competitors. This follows their path of evolution in the US where Orgill has acquired several underperforming regional competitors in the past. A stronger, robust and larger Orgill in Canada is good for our members.
Castle has played an enormous role in the evolution of hardware distribution in Canada and we are largely the catalyst to the events over the past week. Every Castle shareholder should take great pride in changing the face of this important segment of our industry and the long term benefit that will be delivered as a result.
Ron Beal, Chairman, CEO and President of Orgill sent the following comment to me in a letter this past week. "Once again, thanks for your friendship, business, and support. We would never have ventured northward without the guidance and hand-holding by you, your team and the Castle members. Certainly we would not have lasted without the commitment and business from the Castle retail members. We look forward to repaying their confidence by bringing them the world-class hardware option they need and deserve".
In closing, it was your vision, commitment and support that has led us to this point. Don't ever let another group or competitor lead you to believe otherwise. Congratulations Castle!
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me directly. As always, we are at your service.
Personal Regards,
Ken Jenkins
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Q: How to set up SPI Communication between STM32F401REtx and MCP2515 master-STM32F401REtx (stm32 nucleo)
slave - MCP2515
i connected mcp2515 with           **
1.crystal oscillator (20Mhz + two 15pf external capacitors)
2.power supply(3.3 v0lts) with a bypass capacitor(33pf).
3.reset pin pulled up with 10Kohm to vdd(3.3V)
4.MISO,SIMO,CS,SCK(1Mhz)**
i am able to read and write the registers, when i try to change the mode of mcp2515 with CANCTRL register ,the CANSTAT register should be updated with that mode but  CANSTAT register is read as default value(0x80).
please guid me how to make it to change the mode.

A: i have changed crystal with 4 MHz.now mcp2515 is working fine.if i try to change its modes, it is changing to configure  modes  and normal mode only but not to any other modes.
very rarely, mode is changing to desired but not consistently. ** there is no issue with mode changing to configure  modes  and normal mode**.

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We have laid out simple DIY office upgrades that will surely brighten your workspace.
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I didn't mean he should go for a four week training camp in the alps but maybe do some hill repeats at least once a week. Or if he wants to focus on sprinting go to the velodrome once a week.
As I said, at the moment I'm just looking at what seems to suit me and what interests me and doing that because at this stage I'm just looking to get more saddle time and build some base fitness before the real training starts in term time. Naturally as the season progresses I can look at my weaker points and tailor my training to improve them but right now I think it's too early to worry about having weaker areas when I'm going to make big improvements in all areas simply by putting the miles in.
On that note, I'm off for a ride now. I'll probably just make it 40-50 minutes since I'm supposed to be running later aswell.
As I Naturally as the season progresses I can look at my weaker points and tailor my training to improve them but right now I think it's too early to worry about having weaker areas when I'm going to make big improvements in all areas simply by putting the miles in.
You are planning on just going to be doing some LSD work until January/February.
You need to include some efforts or you will only get good at riding steady and get - crudely out - absolutely raped when you go out for your first interval session with the other members. You then have the insane task of (a) Doing work by yourself to get to their level (b) Still trying to impress the members even though you can't ride with them.
The two tasks go hand in hand (you are hardly going to be picked if nobody knows how you can ride).
A bbig advantage of efforts als is that you will ride in groups. It is easy to ride behind someone; but when you are riding behind someone, and there are people to your left, right and rear and you have never done anything like that before it could can be both scary and dangerous to others if you cannot hold your line.
Until January? Hell no. Until term starts in a couple of weeks, yes. After a focus on rowing and then strength training prior to wanting to take up cycling more seriously, I know I can trust myself when it comes to shorter bursts, so it makes sense to me to put in as much base fitness work as I can before I've got the opportunity to train with others. If the club rides are too difficult to keep up with right from the start of October, then I would never have had a chance to get up to that standard no matter what I did over the summer and as someone who is certainly fitter than most with a solid enough bike I'd be disappointed that the club doesn't cater for people who haven't cycled seriously for years before coming to university.
You do know that the rdes you will do with the other guys will focus on base fitness? You will be doing these rides until january / february no matter what you say (or you will if you don't want to risk being a winter wonder). The only difference is that they might do or go harder on efforts and then when they do start interval trainig in feb/april things will not be good for you.
My advice is not made up - no need to go "hell no".
I'm confused about what you're trying to tell me. First I'm criticised for the idea that I won't be doing the same kind of training as the other riders, and then when I tell you I'm going to be training with the club as soon as I can I'm criticised for that.
Same for us - base training starts now and will go on until late Jan. You can't keep up with hard training all year around.
Base training makes a massive difference anyway.
I am confused by what you are telling me. You should be training with the club - who will be doing LSD until Jan/Feb. But when I tell you this you say you will not be doing it until January - so I can only presume that you are going to do your own training.
You criticise the idea that I will be doing nothing but LSD until January, telling me that I need to do higher effort stuff and assuming that I won't be training with the club, saying that if I do this I will struggle when the pace is picked up. I then tell you I will be training with the club - who I realise will be focusing on steady distance work for the winter - and then I'm told that I can't be intending to train with the club.
I think you might have misunderstood when I said I was doing purely LSD work until the start or term - that doesn't mean I'm starting to look at sharpening up for races after that, it means I'm going to train with the team from then so what I do is mostly down to what the club training consists of.
Club training LSD is different to solo LSD. There will always be occasional sprints and competitons for signs and hils. You are hardly going to do this by yourself every time you go out. (I did not say you couldn't train with the club either - just that in feb/april when they pick things up and you haven't got a solid foundation things are going to be bad [I would be surprised if you could manage all the training rides and efforts as the other guys simply by virtue of the fact that they will have done many 4 hour + rides [you might have - I don't do know, but frorm what you keep posting here it seems like you only ride for about 50 minutes [or 90] - so when they do do a long ride they will know how to cope, what to expect and what effort to put in without absolutely bonking).
So you may not be able to do rides like that. There will also undoubtedly be Turbo Training sessions, etc where you go at your own with nobody telling you what to do - they may go harder.
What I am trying to say is; ride with the clube when you can but when they do, say a mega long ride which (after tryng one you can tell if you can cope), don't go out and do some gentle riding - do some hill training hard. When there is a turbo session because of crap whether go out and do some hill training.
The best way you can hope to keep up with the other riders in terms of racing next year is if you build your leg strength up by seated hills and get used to pain from the hills.
No such thing as poor weather - just poor clothing.
In all seriousness I do detest going outside when it is already raining - I don't mind if it starts when I am already riding though.
I presume he's talking about hill climbing ability rather than actual leg strength. In terms of leg strength, I doubt most cylists are going to be able to match me given that I should be squatting 150-160kg by March.
I think you will find it does.
To an extent, but not to anywhere near the extent that strength training would. But as I said, it's about the ability to climb hills, for which hill climbing is the obvious way to train. Squatting is great but isn't necessarily going to translate as well into speed on the bike.
Yeah I wasn't implying you can start picking the rear end of mini coopers up on weekends and was going for cycling specific strength.
Personal Opinion - choose to ignore if you wish; You really aren't getting the big picture here and it is important you do as this is your first year racing and next year you will have learned how to race and train. Which means you can shift your goals from racing to winning (or attempting to get higher finishes). Considering 2011 will be your last year at Cambridge you should either commit to cycling now or you may regret it.
I'm really not sure why exactly you're objecting to just about everything I say. I'm a guy who is reasonably fit already but by no means competetive at a university level who wants to improve his cycling by joining a club and learning from them. I work hard and I'm always ready to take on new ideas about training if I'm given good reasons for them. I've always been interested in a number of sports and although cycling is my priority this year, I also want to compete in an event for which I will only be changing my training very slightly (and in a way which helps all of the other things I like to do during the holidays).
It only seemed like I was objecting to everything you said before because there was confusion as to whether you were going to be training with CUCC or not. I told you to train with them because you would get seriously less fit if you did not and then I told you that you would still be realtively a small amount not as fit anyway because you probably can't keep up with the hours and pace at certain training rides of the winter.
You seem to think I am not keen on you racing. If I had an objection to you racing that I thought was valid I would have to personally see you and the President of the CUCC. I would not be trying to offer you realistic advice and ways to help manage the deficit you will (most likely) expereince in spring [I assume you are aiming for Cambridge 1 st team].
Light gym work is great. Getting some mass on is not desirable.
So I'm going to suffer relative to hardened cylists. I would have thought this was fairly obvious. There's not a lot I can do to avoid that given that these guys have years of experience on me and I don't have any sort of natural advantage.
The likelihood is that I will lose weight, yes, and though I think it would be useful to shed a little bit of fat I know how to eat big when I'm training heavily. Training for strength and training for size are not the same thing even though my strength gains will be worse than if I was gaining size. Since I would be doing one decent weights session for purely cycling training each week, I don't think a second one is too much of an ask if I take something smaller out of the rest of the training schedule (there are only long club rides on Saturday and Sunday). If I was doing the gym work only lightly, that would be a much bigger waste of time because I would see little benefit from it.
Is cycling to work safe?
Would you still cycle if you had to follow the all the rules?


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Early breakthrough in Bheri Babai tunnel sets a milestone--and a lesson for other lagging national projects
The tunnel, which was dug using a boring machine, has been completed a year ahead of the original deadline
- Prahlad Rijal, Kathmandu
Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli (right) is seen with the ambassadors from the United States and China during the breakthrough event in Surkhet on Tuesday. RSS
The Rs33.18 billion Bheri Babai Diversion Multipurpose Project in Surkhet has crossed a major milestone with the completion of a tunnelled connection, allowing diversion of water from Bheri River to Babai River for irrigation and power generation.
Four years after the national pride project was inaugurated by the late Sushil Koirala in April 2015, the Bheri Babai project marked the tunnel breakthrough one year before the original deadline--thanks to a number of factors, including the use of technology, topography and well-coordinated efforts.
Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli turned on the switch on Tuesday to mark the final breakthrough of the tunnel.
In a first, the 12-km tunnel was dug using a tunnel boring machine built and installed by a US-based manufacturer. The civil contractor for the project is China Overseas Engineering Group.
Oli described the project as a great example of global partnership in development, saying the achievement was a result of the synergy between a Chinese construction company, American technology and Nepali manpower.
With this, the major Rs10.57 billion tunnel component of one of the major strategic projects of the country, which is expected to ease the food crisis in the mid-western region by increasing agricultural yield, has been completed. The second component--hydroelectricity and other structures worth Rs12.10 billion--is expected to begin a few months from now.
The tunnel with a capacity to divert 40 cubic metres of water per second will be used to irrigate 51,000 hectares of land throughout the year in Banke and Bardia districts and generate 46 megawatt electricity.
Although the government had invited bids in July 2012, lack of resources and delay in contractor appointment had pushed the project inauguration to April 2015.
"But a number of factors contributed to early completion of the tunnel," Sanjeeb Baral, chief of the project, told the Post. "Certainly the use of tunnel boring machine played a crucial role, as the conventional method--drill and blast--would have taken much longer to achieve the tunnel breakthrough. The contractor and the crew also worked in their full capacity to deal with the geological challenges."
The construction site is located in the Siwalik Range, part of the Southern Himalayan mountains. Geology in this area consists mainly of sandstone, mudstone and conglomerate rocks.
Ram Prasad Ghimire, deputy director general at the Department of Mines and Geology, termed the tunnel progress a major feat given the geography of the area.
"Siwalik rocks are loose and they are of sedimentary origin. These rocks are easily breakable, but during tunnel excavation, this very nature of the rocks can pose a challenge as they can fall unexpectedly hindering the process," Ghimire told the Post.
The Bheri Babai Diversion Multipurpose Project, a government undertaking, in the next phase aims to generate electricity by the fiscal year 2022-23.
According to Baral, the project invited bids for the construction of a powerhouse, headwork structure of the hydroelectricity scheme and other project components in January. Works on the scheme with a cost of Rs2.84 billion are expected to begin from July.
The hydro-mechanical component of the project is expected to get off the ground from August at an estimated cost of Rs3.51 billion.
Due to the delay in contractor appointment and lack of resources, the estimated cost of the project ballooned to Rs33 billion, double the original estimate of Rs16 billion.
The project is expected to make an indirect financial contribution of Rs3.1 billion annually to the state through irrigation and a direct revenue contribution of Rs2.1 billion through electricity sales.
As it is a government-owned project, it does not have to acquire electricity generation licence from the Department of Electricity Development, and it can begin constructing the hydroelectricity scheme immediately after appointing a contractor.
Project officials are planning to complete the procurement process and appoint the contractor for the second component by the end of this fiscal year.
An early breakthrough in the tunnel has been hailed by many, saying it can be a good lesson for the country while carrying out development projects in the future.
"The lesson that other projects need to learn is the selection of proper technology and contract design in accordance with the technology matters the most for the execution of any project," Anup Kumar Upadhyay, a former secretary at the Ministry of Energy, told the Post.
"Technology definitely played a crucial role, but that aside, the contract was not divided into many portions and contractors were selected accordingly," said Upadhyay. "More importantly, the project was free from bureaucratic hassles and issues that cropped up at the construction site were resolved then and there."
Kalendra Sejuwal contributed reporting from Surkhet.
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Better Believe: A Story of Hope, the self-published book of first-time author Ruby Lee Tuesday, speaks of her journey of overcoming the darkness of abuse and being thrust into the light of healing where eventually finds herself for the first time. Take a look at this video feature where Tuesday talks about her book and even gives readers a peek of what's inside when she reads a few lines from it. The book was also recently reviewed by the St. Augustine Record where it is described as a "valuable contribution as a first-hand evidence of what a critical period childhood is in determining a person's future."
Self-published author LaVera Edick was given high praise for sharing stories of several lifetimes in her memoir Four Score and More. Born in 1925 on a Nebraska farm, Edick has seen plenty and sought to share it in this heartwarming memoir, which also includes colorful illustrations peppered throughout the book that served to celebrate the success her family has had in overcoming numerous obstacles placed in front of them. Find out what mariasspace.com thought of the Edick's work in this post.
In the tradition of excellence that has defined Trafford Publishing in its 20 years of existence, several of its esteemed published authors were named winners in the prestigious Eric Hoffer Award for Short Prose and Independent Books.
Anne Short's book, Choices 7 Steps: Life Lessons 101, was named winner of the Self-Published category. The book talks about the seven stages of a "moral reasoning conflict resolution therapeutic program" and garnered praise from the US Review of Books, which complimented it for its "enthusiastic and sincere intention to convey succinct, worthwhile material."
In addition, Short's work also made it to the Grand Prize Short List—an honored distinction on its own—alongside Mary C. Dye's Assumptions Can Mislead and Thomas Arner's Through the Valley of the Deep Darkness.
Short's victory was only the tip of the iceberg as Assumptions Can Mislead won first runner-up honors in the Health category while Gordon L. Ewell's A Lifetime at War also took the first runner-up award in the Self-Help genre. Through the Valley of the Deep Darkness also won the same honor in the Legacy Nonfiction class.
Several books also won Honorable Mentions in different categories led by A Legacy of Words by Jamarica S. Jones in the Legacy Fiction, while A Blue Bellied Yankee was feted in the Legacy Nonfiction class.
Other Trafford titles were named category finalists. These were Nemo Tee Noon's Does Everyone Get a Turn to Be God?, Mary Mudd's I, Livia, Ken Thompson's Memoirs of a WWII Fighter Pilot, Alexandra Jacopetti Hart's Native Funk & Flash, Jeffrey A. Richards' The Principles of Synergism, David S. Bell MD's The Sermon on the Mount, and Jenny La Sala and Jim Markson's Vietnam & Beyond.
The Eric Hoffer Award for books and short prose honors the memory of the great American philosopher Eric Hoffer by highlighting salient writing as well as the independent spirit of small publishers. Since its inception, the Eric Hoffer Book Award has become one of the largest international awards for small, academic, and independent presses.
Trafford self-published author Gurutej Singh Khalsa, the man behind the moving epic Rajni, discusses the multiple benefits of meditation, most especially to that of mental health in this feature in the website of the Magic City Morning Star.
A Guide to Pennsylvanian (Carboniferous) Age Plant Fossils of Southwest Virginia, Thomas F. McLoughlin's interesting picture guide to fossil plants and a few fossil marine organisms found in close association with the coal measures in southwestern Virginia, was recently mentioned in the Richmond Times-Dispatch Virginia Book Notes section, which can you view here.
Carol Welty Roper, the co-author of the Trafford book Good Knights for California Football—a book about teamwork on and off the field—recently wrote about how she manages long-distance grandparenting in this feature on the Senior Times.
TV Interview
Trafford author Barbara Anne Syassen was a guest on the show America's Forum where she discussed her book The Tree That Talks and its profound message of encouraging kids to go outside to "live in the moment." You can watch the clip here.


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Q: Css link keeps changing when trying to create automated tests I am very new to test automation and I've been sitting here googling for a while but I still can't find an answer to this.
Just a few days ago I decided that I would try to learn test automation through robot framework.
I created a very easy script, in Pycharm, that searches for a product on amazon.com and then adds it to the customers basket and everything worked fine. Then I ran the script a second time and it didn't work. After some research I found out that the Css tag on the product had changed. I copied the tag and pasted it instead of my old one and ran the test again and it worked.
My problem is that the tag seems to be changing even though my code stays the same (except for changing the Css tag).
The code looks like this:
PS: The second "#click link" is a comment and it's either this comment or the link before this that I have to use.
Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong and why the Css is changing whenever I run the code?
Begin web test
    open browser  about:blank  chrome
    maximize browser window

Search for products
    go to  http://www.amazon.com
    wait until page contains  Your Amazon.com
    input text  id=twotabsearchtextbox  Ferrari 458
    click button  css=#nav-search > form > div.nav-right > div > input
    click link  css=#result_0 > div > div:nth-child(3) > div:nth-child(1) > a
    #click link  css=#result_0 > div > div > div > div.a-fixed-left-grid-col.a-col-right > div.a-row.a-spacing-small > a

Add product to shopping cart
    click button  xpath=//*[@id="add-to-cart-button"]
    click link  css=#hlb-ptc-btn-native

End web test
    sleep  10s
    close browser


Boston Cooks & Foodies (Dedham, MA) | Meetup), this is only one avenue for meetups. Members are highly encouraged to propose other events that center on food and wine.
This group is for everybody in town willing to discover, prepare, learn, teach and eat authentic food prepared at home or in restaurants, who enjoy cooking and eating authentic, delicious meals together with new people. We welcome all races, religions, gender.
Let's make and break bread together!


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OpenFlow is a Haskell library that implements OpenFlow protocols 1.0 and 1.3. It defines data types that model the logical content of the various OpenFlow protocol messages and provides serialization and deserialization methods using the [binary package](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/binary). It also provides basic functions to start servers that use these representations.

# Installation

To build a controller using this library, you need to install GHC and install this library. For information on how to install Haskell, head over to https://www.haskell.org. To install this library, clone this repository, enter the cloned directory, and then run `cabal install`.

# Getting Started

To write an OpenFlow 1.3 controller, start with the following template, and then fill in the `messageHandler` function:
```haskell
import Network.Data.OF13.Message
import Network.Data.OF13.Server

main :: IO ()
main = runServerOne 6633 factory
  where factory sw = handshake sw >> return (messageHandler sw)

handshake :: Switch -> IO ()
handshake sw = sendMessage sw [Hello { xid = 0, len = 8 }]

messageHandler :: Switch -> Maybe Message -> IO ()
messageHandler _ Nothing = putStrLn "Disconnecting"
messageHandler sw (Just msg) = print msg >> sendMessage sw [FeatureRequest 1]
```

Place the above source into a file, for example, `Main.hs`. Assuming you have installed `ghc` and this library, you can then run `ghc --make Main.hs` to build an executable from `Main.hs`. You can then run it as `Main`.

The above `main` program calls `runServerOne` which will wait for a single OpenFlow 1.3 server to connect on port 6633 and then will run the given `factory` function. The `factory` function performs an initial `handshake`, which, in this bare bones example, consists of sending a `Hello` message to the switch, and then returns a message handler function `messageHandler` that will be used to interact with that switch until the connection is terminated. When the server receives an OpenFlow 1.3 message `m`, it will run `messageHandler (Just m)` and when the connection is terminated, the server runs `messageHandler Nothing`. The message handler can do anything, but typically it sends messages to the switch. To do this, use the `sendMessage` function.

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Based in Chicago, Michael Wurster serves as Founder and Managing Partner of the firm. His primary specialty is providing leadership advisory services within the hospitality, media, entertainment and sport markets. With over a decade of experience in senior leadership assessment and selection, Michael has executed assignments for Fortune 500 companies to mid-size entities, to entrepreneurial start-ups. He also brings international experience, and knowledge of both developed and emerging markets. He has worked throughout North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, and the Asia Pacific region on behalf of established and early-stage organizations.
Previously, Michael was a senior member of the CEO / board, consumer and diversity practices for two other leading executive search firms, Heidrick & Struggles and Spencer Stuart. In these roles, he specialized in the recruitment of Board of Directors, Chief Executive Officers, Presidents, Chief Operating Officers, Chief Financial Officers, Chief Marketing Officers, Chief Digital Officers, Chief Information Officers, and other senior executive management positions.
Prior to entering the leadership advisory business, Michael served in the public sector where he directed and managed federal funding for juvenile programs for the State of Indiana.
Michael holds a bachelor's degree from Indiana University Bloomington. He is a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors, The CMO Club and the American Film Institute. Michael is also active in several non-profit organizations including UNICEF, Sandy Hook Promise, the African Wildlife Foundation, and the Jewish Community Center of Chicago. He and his wife, Laurie, reside in Highland Park, Illinois with their three children.


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UFOP Recommended Links
Utah Geological Survey (UGS)
Dinosaurs & Fossils Page
UGS page with an abundance of information and free pdf publications about paleontology in Utah. Highly recommended.
UGS Dinosaurs & Fossils Page
Visitor Information Guide to Fossils in Utah (UGS)
UGS web page page with information about museums, quarries and tracksites around Utah. Includes a page with interactive maps.
UGS Visitor Information Guide to Fossils In Utah
Utah Office of Tourism, Utah Dino-Sites
Tourist information on places to see dinosaur exhibits in Utah.
Utah Dinosaur Sites
Bureau of Land Management,
BLM Utah Paleontology Page
Information about paleontology on Utah's BLM lands. Links to other BLM paleontology information resources.
BLM page on Utah paleontology
Natural History Museum of Utah
In its new home at the Rio Tinto Center at the University of Utah, the Natural History Museum of Utah's collections number 1.2 million objects and rank among the largest and most comprehensive in the western United States. The collections form the basis for all of the Museum's educational functions, from public exhibits and programming to scholarly research and publication.
While emphasizing the Great Basin, Colorado Plateau and Middle Rocky Mountains, the collections also include material from throughout the world.
NHMU
301 Wakara Way,
nhmu.utah.edu
NHMU offers periodic training classes for individuals who would like to become volunteer fossil preparators. Contact the volunteer coordinator for more information: nhmu.utah.edu/volunteers
Utah State University Eastern
Prehistoric Museum
The Prehistoric Museum creates understanding and appreciation of natural and cultural processes that formed the geologic, fossil and prehistoric human records found in eastern Utah. We do this through educational and interpretive programs based upon our academic research, preservation programs, authentic exhibits, and the creative efforts of our staff and community.
Nestled in the heart of a resource rich archaeological, paleontological and geological play land, our museum has much to offer in diverse prehistoric subjects. One thing that makes our museum so unique is that our items on display were actually discovered within a stone's throw of the actual museum location! Dinosaurs and other finds from this region are world-famous, but only here can you see them surrounded by their original context.
Dinosaurs, Ice Age and Archaeology! Another unique aspect of our museum is that we are not simply a dinosaur museum. We encompass so much more. This rich region spews forth paleontology, archaeology and geology in abundance, and it is with this advantage, we strive to bring the cutting-edge world of discovery directly to you. The Utah State University – College of Eastern Utah Prehistoric Museum is one of only five accredited museums in the state of Utah, and the only accredited museum located off the Wasatch Front, as well as a state and federal repository.
USU Eastern Prehistoric Museum
Price, Utah
usueastern.edu/museum/
Utah Field House of Natural History State Park Museum
Located in Vernal Utah near Dinosaur National Monument, and administered by Utah State Parks, the Utah Field House of Natural History's mission is to preserve and reveal the wealth of prehistory found within the Uinta Basin.
Outside the museum is the Dinosaur Garden, a prehistoric zoo of full-size replicas ranging in age from Pennsylvanian through Pleistocene.
Utah Field House of Natural History
496 East Main St
Vernal, Utah
stateparks.utah.gov link
DinosaurAh!Torium Foundation
The Foundation, which operates the Discovery Site in St. George, Utah, has put up a new web page that focuses on promoting the Site and three fundraising activities: Memberships, Adoption of a Track, and the Gift Shop.
St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm
The St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm (SGDS) is home to exceptionally well-preserved dinosaur tracks, some displaying skin impressions. These tracks, along with hundreds of fossil fish, plants, rare dinosaur remains, invertebrates traces and important sedimentary structures, show evidence that this site was produced along the western edge of a large, Early Jurassic (age between 195-198 million years ago) freshwater lake named Lake Dixie.
Other discoveries that make the SGDS unique include the largest and best preserved collection of dinosaur swim tracks, a rare sitting impression of a large meat-eating dinosaur, and the unusual association of tracks, traces and actual bones found in close proximity to each other
2180 E. Riverside Dr.
dinosite.org
Ogden Eccles Dinosaur Park
Dinosaur Park in Ogden, Utah features an outdoor collection of more than 100 dinosaur sculptures. The realistic full size sculptures are bases on actual fossil interpretations and are enhanced with robotics and a high tech sound system.
Dinosaur Park also features an Education Center and the Elizabeth Dee Shaw Stewart Museum. The museum's laboratory provides an opportunity for volunteer fossil preparators who work on new dinosaur finds and other fossils.
1544 Park Blvd
Ogden, UT 84401-0803
dinosaurpark.org
Museum of Ancient Life
Located at Thanksgiving Point in Lehi, Utah, the Museum of Ancient Life's exhibit halls are designed to immerse guests in the subject matter, using expansive murals, soundtracks, plants and gurgling streams.
With 60 complete skeletal displays, the Museum of Ancient Life is the world's largest dinosaur exhibit and is home of the most extensive display of original fossils in the state of Utah.
A working paleontology lab operated by Western Paleontology is located within the museum and can be observed by guests as they tour the exhibit halls.
Thanksgiving Point
2929 Thanksgiving Way
Lehi, UT 84043-3740
thanksgivingpoint.org
Museum of Moab
Paleontologists have found a rich trove of dinosaur remains in the rock formations of the Moab area. Long before the land was dry and arid in its present state, dinosaurs roamed the region, which was then covered, in turn, by forests and lakes, then sand dunes and oases, then rivers and floodplains, and then swamps, shallow seas, and giant lakes.
On display in the Museum of Moab is an exciting collection of items: a full cast skeleton of Gastonia, one of the armored dinosaurs that lived in this area during the Early Cretaceous; the real pelvis and tail of a Camarasaurus, a 40-foot-long plant eater that lived in what is now the Moab area during the Late Jurassic; track imprints of dinosaurs, petrified sections of confier trees and cycads from the Late Triassic and Late Jurassic; the cast hind leg of a Utahraptor, a carnivorous dinosaur first found near Arches National Park in the Cedar Mountain Formation.
The museum also features exhibits on the history and archeology of the Moab area.
118 E. Center Street Moab, UT 84532
435) 259–7985
www.moabmuseum.org/
Nevada Friends of Paleontology
Department of Geoscience
4505 Maryland Parkway
President: Aubrey Shirk
Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
An international organization for paleontology; SVP sponsors one of the world's largest paleontology conferences every year. UFOP's chapter advisers are heavily involved in this organization.
vertpaleo.org


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Home | Science | New maps of Jupiter shows slowed shrinkage of Great Red Spot
New maps of Jupiter shows slowed shrinkage of Great Red Spot
Andy Trant Science
Like the rings or Saturn, or the hypnotizing blue quality of Neptune, the Great Red Spot of Jupiter is, arguably, the planets most iconic feature. Easily distinguishable amongst the swirls and atmospheric striations that freckle the gas giant, the Great Red Spot is almost synonymous with its host, but this won't be the case forever. The trademark phenomenon is shrinking, but fortunately for star gazers, its putting up a fight.
Recently, in a series of annual portrait of the outer planets, NASA has used the Hubble Space Telescope to create new maps of the planet, which have revealed a plethora of new information regarding Jupiter. The maps have shown astronomers that the Great Red Spot, which in fact is a storm about twice the diameter of Earth that has been raging on Jupiter since at least 400 years ago (when it was first observed by humans), is shrinking at a speed which is slowly diminishing.
This is on contrast to the previous trend in which the rate of decrease in size was raising exponentially. Although the shrinking trend has not completely reversed, comparisons in images of the planet have shown that the rate at which it has shrunk is moving at a smaller pace, with new images placing the size at 240 kilometers (150 miles) smaller than in 2014.
Size, however, isn't the only thing NASA observed from the images of the Hubble Space Telescope. An uncommon delicate filament that spans the length of the spot can be seen, bending under the will of 540 kilometer (335 mile) an hour winds. Rare wave structures, the likes of which haven't been seen by the scientific community in 40 years have also been identified. Due to a massive map compiled of images of Jupiter taken over a span of 10 hours, scientists have been able to closely study the atmosphere of the gas giant, with observations including wind speed, atmospheric events, and changes in the planets outer layer.
This has turned researchers' attention to an area just north of Jupiter's equator, where a structure of waves has been identified that was only ever been seen once before in the history of planetary study. During the 1977 Voyager 2 mission, similar wave structures were observed, albeit barley, and the structure's nearly 40 year absence had led to the now obsolete opinion that they were merely a fluke.
Currently, the area in which this rare feature exists is inhabited with cyclones and anticyclones. These conditions can be likened to areas on Earth where cyclones are just starting to form, and similar structure known as baroclinic waves form. These features must form beneath the clouds that we observe on the outer atmosphere Jupiter, closer to the surface researchers' say. They then become visible once they move up and into the cloud deck.
The new maps that aided in these observations and subsequent studies can be attributed to the outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy (OPAL), which uses the Hubble Space Telescope to study the outer planets every year. Neptune and Uranus have already been looked at, with Saturn up next. Every image of these planets will be compiled into maps similar to the ones used with Jupiter, which will be filed into public archive in the near future. Scientists' hope to use these maps to not only gain an understanding of the atmospheres of these planets, but also to aid in the understanding of that of Earth, and planets beyond our solar system.
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About Andy Trant
Andy is a writer who loves to learn, and enjoys having his interest peaked. When not exploring that world around him, he can be found exploring his love of music with his band. If he's not there, he's probably off reading the latest from DC Comics.


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import React, { Component } from 'react';
import './App.css';
import {hashHistory} from 'react-router';
import {Form, Container, Segment} from 'semantic-ui-react';

class App extends Component {

  constructor(props) {
    super(props)
    this.state = {username: "", serverName: ""};
  }

  joinGame() {
    hashHistory.push('/game/' + this.state.serverName.trim() + '?username=' + this.state.username);
  }

  render() {
    return (

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        <Container text className="App-content">
          <Segment>

Enter a username and server name to join

            <Form>
              <Form.Input icon="user" value={this.state.username} onChange={(event, data) => {this.setState({username: data.value})}} iconPosition="left" placeholder="Username" required/>
              <Form.Input icon="server" value={this.state.serverName} onChange={(event, data) => {this.setState({serverName: data.value})}} iconPosition="left" placeholder="Server name" required/>
              <Form.Button type="submit" onClick={this.joinGame.bind(this)} positive>Join Game</Form.Button>
            </Form>
          </Segment>
        </Container>

    );
  }
}

export default App;


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Do you speak Netspeak? Here's a quick guide
?4U. 1DR if it's gonna be ADP 2D. WYWH. TTYL.
What would you think if you got this text message from your Internet-savvy friend? Did she have her fingers on the wrong keys?
Actually, your friend is using abbreviations that have developed over time to make it easier and faster to communicate with your BFF—that's Best Friend Forever. Her message to you says:
"I have a question for you. I wonder if it's gonna be another day in Paradise today. Wish you were here. Talk to you later."
You'll run into this new language of chatting not just in phone text messages but on Facebook and Twitter, in instant messages, email, chat rooms and discussion boards. Let's call it Netspeak, a term coined by philologists. Your grandchildren probably are quite fluent in slinging Netspeak slang across the Net. Their parents might know the most common abbreviations, but kids are expanding the vocabulary of Netspeak rapidly so they can chat privately with each other.
Every generation has its own special lingo. Did you ever use expressions like "groovy," "That's a gas" and "See you later, alligator"? Many of the expressions kids coined when they were growing up in the 1960s have become a permanent part of the language, but back then, they were a smoke screen between kids and their parents. So when you told a friend that you went to the submarine races last night, you were concealing from your folks what you really did.
Netspeak grew out of the era when phones weren't as smart as they are now and didn't have complete keyboards. Instead they were set up with three letters below each number. To text, you had to press the number key several times to input a letter. Using acronyms instead of whole words was a way to make communication easier and more efficient. Then, too, abbreviations like ASAP, DYI and FYI have been common in written communications for decades.
Netspeak generally is made up of acronyms like BRB (Be Right Back) that are pretty easy to figure out from the context. IRL (In Real LIFE), they're usually not used as predominantly as in our original example, but instead woven here and there into messages and posts. Numbers sometimes substitute for words, as in B4N (Bye For Now) and L8R (later).
If you doubt that Netspeak is a genuine language, consider that it's been the subject of academic studies and that there are online dictionaries—one of which, Webopedia, defines more than 1,400 abbreviations.
Common Netspeak Abbreviations
FWIW (For What It's Worth), here's a list of some of the most commonly used expressions in the Netspeak vocabulary:
BFF: Best friend forever
BRB: Be right back
BTW: By the way
IMHO: In my humble opinion
LOL: Laughing out loud or Lots of Love
SWAK: Sealed/Sent with a kiss
F2F: Face to face
ISO: In search of
IKR: I know, right?
RBTL: Read between the lines
TMI: Too much information
VBG: Very big grin
XOXOXO: Hugs and kisses
ZUP: What's up?
EM or PM me: Email or Private Message me
143: I love you.
ZZZ: Tired or bored.
If you run into a Netspeak expression you can't ??? (understand), check out Transl8it.com (Translate It), where you can enter a term and find out what it means.
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RETURN TO GAZA
Awards & Festivals
The Assange Agenda
Return to Gaza-Synopsis
'Return To Gaza' is a personal insight into the Middle East Conflict through the eyes of a Palestinian Australian, born on a refugee camp in Jordan, who wants to return to Gaza with his family.
This 53 minute documentary covers the difficult journey of Fetah Sabawi, a successful musician whose dreams of peace take him from Australia to Gaza through Egypt, Israel & the West Bank. With his wife, Ola and their two children, Sabawi plans to move to Gaza to head-up a project, funded by UN, to teach music to children.
A new life for a rock star going into a war zone. Sabawi's amazing journey starts before the Palestinian elections in 2006 and the subsequent election of Hamas and takes us through the Israeli invasion of Gaza upto the ill-fated flotilla with aid for Gaza in 2010. Sabawi's journey and fate are punctuated by the dramatic events of the Middle East and the involvement of world's leaders as we see statements from Palestinian President Abbas, US Vice President Biden and US Secretary of State Clinton.
In this film, we discover a grass roots perspective of a major conflict.
Including interviews with the former Ambassador to Egypt, Monzer Eldajani, the elected Hamas member Dr Yusuf al-Shrafi, the acclaimed Australian author Antony Loewenstein and Israeli Peace activists, the film provides a revealing insight into the political minefield of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and it's effect on their daily lives amongst the huge walls, check-points and constant military presence.
'Return to Gaza' is a poignant story and personal discovery, of a determined westerner and artist facing unbearable issues and losing hope to live one day in Peace in his ancestral home in Gaza.


At this point, most businesses are keenly aware that it is imperative to their survival, in a competitive business world, to actively pursue innovation and cultivating an innovation mindset within their organization. The real challenge becomes how to create a culture of innovation where individuals, and the team as a whole, are motivated and inspired to drive the company forward. Some companies make the mistake of assuming innovation comes from the top-down, and that leadership can simply dictate that innovation is a priority and then expect results.
In truth, cultivating an innovation mindset begins with the individual and happens over time. With each new idea that is encouraged and nurtured, or with each unlikely collaboration that yields positive results, the capacity for innovation grows within the individual and the company organically creates more space for innovation to happen. You cannot grow a culture of innovation without the initial spark from that first innovator who is willing to go out on a limb. If you want to cultivate an innovation mindset, you have to start with yourself and focus on the individual.
Make no mistake about it: innovation happens from the inside out. As a leader within the company, all you can do is provide individuals with the tools necessary to be successful and allow them to be their best. With that being said, the idea of creating a culture of innovation can still feel abstract and intangible. Individuals are left wondering how they can tap into their own creativity and foster innovation. Ultimately, while innovation comes down to the individual, some of the burden does fall on the organization.
Leadership must look around and examine whether they have created a safe environment where employees feel empowered to innovate. If they feel stifled by a hierarchy, they won't go beyond the bare minimum of what is listed on their job description for fear of stepping out of bounds. Essentially, employees need permission to innovate. They need to know that not every idea has to be a homerun and that it is okay to strike out — sometimes in the pursuit of something bigger and better. Failure should be an acknowledged and welcomed part of the process. When people are given the freedom to fail, they are more likely to aim for the fences.
Whether you are an athlete, an entrepreneur or an inventor, the most powerful force that propels people towards success is self-motivation. As you probably know firsthand, when you set goals based on your understanding of other people's expectations, you tend to lose motivation and fall short. External motivation tends to lose steam quickly.
In a company setting, traditional goal-setting might not be enough to motivate individuals for an innovation mindset. Instead, you need to rethink KPIs and your reward system. While offering incentives might provide employees with temporary motivation, it won't help foster a culture of innovation that has staying power. The best way to go from a one-time incentive to actually changing the way your company operates is to use gamification and ideation software to transform projects. Gamification inherently involves built-in rewards so that employees receive encouragement as they move through the project or innovation process. This positive feedback spurs internal motivation and keeps them pushing forward even when a failed attempt might put them back at square one.
How am I being a leader right now?
How am I using my genius?
How am I tapping into my multiple intelligences?
How am I collaborating right now?
How am I striving for wisdom?
How am I creating progress?
When you create an environment where employees are encouraged to ask these questions and free to adapt their behavior according to their answers, then you will begin to reap the rewards of an innovative culture.
Here are some concrete steps you can take to create a successful culture of innovation that continues to nurture your team and encourages them to ask the important questions and engage in self-reflection.
Tap into your innovator's genius and your team's collective mind by using ideation software. By using a common platform to facilitate innovation challenges and the gamification of problem-solving, you will be able to more effectively engage employees at all levels and tap into wells of creativity among your existing team.
Aim for about 8 to 10 innovation challenges per year. This will reinforce the fact that innovation is a top priority and help encourage on-going engagement without causing ideation fatigue. A steady stream of projects also encourages employees to keep questioning their own performance and what they are contributing to the company.
Facilitate check-ins. Whether employees need to take time out of their daily tasks to check-in on an innovation challenge or they need to engage in some meaningful self-reflection, create time and space for these things to occur.
Show and report collaboration. The more you track collaboration and look at who is working together, the better you will be able to understand where innovation is coming from within your company. You will find that innovation software allows team members from different departments to engage in productive collaborations that wouldn't have otherwise taken place within the confines of their usual tasks. Use this information to your advantage moving forward.
Report on successes while also highlighting and promoting wins. When your innovation program is able to successfully develop and implement new ideas, be sure to share and celebrate these occasions. It is an easy way to recognize and reward those involved while also showing others the power of innovation and collaboration and encouraging them to set lofty goals.
Report bottom line figures and show how each individual is contributing. Again, tracking performance and generating a clear picture of how your efforts to create an innovative culture are paying off; will reinforce the importance of a collective innovation mindset. Understanding how each individual is contributing will also reveal important information about where and how employees operate best. This can help you get the most out of your team for an even bigger ROI.
Not only is a creating a culture of innovation at your company important, it is completely possible, especially if you realize that it is a process. There isn't a switch you can flip that will change the way your employees think and act, but there are things you can do to help them shift to an innovation mindset and discover self-motivation. It all starts with creating a space where occasional failure is not only an option, but an expectation. From there, work to provide the tools and resources they need to foster a different mindset and tap into their own potential. If you are patient with the process, you will begin to see results and your company will benefit from unique ideas and unexpected collaborations.
Armed with this information, you can begin taking meaningful steps to changing the culture at your company and creating a space where innovation is just a part of the job.


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Considering that in Croatia there is no quality review of PSU, I started testing with the PSU that is available in our market, mostly cheap one. I still have a lot of things missing (equipment), there are plenty of room for improvement but it will be... In the last test I compared the LC Power vs EVGA. Critiques, recommendations and advice are welcome.
Ripple & Noise (PARD) - If I'm not mistaken ripple is mainly tested the ms range. I do not understand why, since the frequency of switch is substantially higher, suits us range?!
Last edited by ITelektro; 10-18-2015 at 06:59 PM.
The 20 MHz bandwith is defined in the Intel psu design guidelines. Also the measurement procedure including the two small capacitors is described there.
Yes, bendwith limit must be set to 20Mhz but it has nothing to do with ripple freq.
SMPS generally work in the kHz range (About 100kHZ), which corresponds to us(microsec) range, not ms(milisec.) range. ms range is freq from main power.
PARD will be the frequency of the SMPS circuit, not Hz(ms) range.
If the ripple is measured at the output capacitor there is no need to add up capacitors. And it is best way to measure ripple.
Last edited by ITelektro; 10-02-2015 at 04:53 AM.
The voltage on the bulk capacitor has ripple at ~100Hz (2x the line freq). Since the DC/DC stage has a limited ripple suppression ratio at this frequency, part of that ripple may go through the entire DC/DC stage and remain in the DC output.
Thanks for your reply. Your answer is correct, my question is perhaps a little imprecise.
Do you think that the measurement ripple of SMPS in Hz range is more relevant than in kHz range?
In the frequency range of the mains(50-60Hz) can not see a lot, it's boring line that goes down and up . But in the frequency range SMPS we can see a lot more. My question is, why Jonny selected first.
One more thing, there is some PSU review that in CL test load at 3v&5v rails was 1A and some of them with 0A. Such a change in the test methodology will result in a a large difference in the results, especially when it comes to group-regulated power supply.
That. While you may be focused on the details, you may lack the bigger image, here the low-frequency ripple. Which is often caused by switchers themselves, because the PFC usually mostly smooths rectified wall ripple (100/120 Hz). Usually.
Also there may be a spike from time to time, if you choose too small window it will just fly by and you won't notice anything. Most today real O-scopes (not those pocket toys which may be handy for electricians, but not for PSU testing) can than zoom in and display details of an image you stopped at, but you won't zoom out if you work in us/ns range. As always, unlike in holywood movies (zooming 640×480 image so you see what somebody eye reflects) - when the information is not there, you just won't get it (from pure air).
Also there may be a spike from time to time, if you choose too small window it will just fly by and you won't notice anything.
In other words, if I focus on the detail might miss an the detail?
Is there one example of these periodic spikes? Please link.
On the other hand, these periodic spikes are common in SMPS power supply and we call it noise. Measurements ripple in the ms(Hz) range fail to see that, as well as other information that we can see the ripple measurements in the frequency in which the SMPS actually works.
Most today real O-scopes (not those pocket toys which may be handy for electricians, but not for PSU testing) can than zoom in and display details of an image you stopped at, but you won't zoom out if you work in us/ns range. As always, unlike in holywood movies (zooming 640×480 image so you see what somebody eye reflects) - when the information is not there, you just won't get it (from pure air).
This is where the problem is. Can you zoom in on the waveform at jonny review page and see a lot of information missing by measure ripple in the Hz range?
Last edited by ITelektro; 10-25-2015 at 04:16 PM.
You may not see that optically but the O-scope calculates it from the whole window. If you choose too small window it just won't. You think anybody calculates it manually? Where do you live? It's 2015, everybody uses peak-to-peak calculation function built in the O-scope.
You think anybody calculates it manually? Where do you live? It's 2015, everybody uses peak-to-peak calculation function built in the O-scope.
Its little bit funny, how did you calculate the frequency from this image? Manually! So where do you live?
Have you even looked at the links?
As you can see, my scope calculate ripple of switch power supply just fine. Freq PWM is 75kHz, ripple is 206.26mV and we can se noise of swich element when its turn on/off.
This noise is at higher freq then ripple of SMPS.
This information we cant get from measuring ripple of SMPS at ms range.
Last edited by ITelektro; 10-26-2015 at 04:34 PM.
need to test UPS, any safe electronic inside house for load test?


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The inside of the Museum Cafe on Street 124. Notice the motorised bicycle on the wall. GT2/Taing Rinith
CALL him "crazy" and Lee Peng Heng loves it. He collects very old things, from seasonal articles to vintage cars. Those items are worth no more than scrap to many Cambodians, who have been through years of civil wars and a genocidal regime. But, Peng Heng is far from discomfort with the label as he believes life could only be spiced up with uniqueness. In fact, onlookers are likely to be shocked at the real value of his collection, which could be hundreds of thousands or pushing seven figures. Yet, the 53-year-old collector says he is not doing it for profit but for the public good. Story by Taing Rinith.
Lee Peng Heng with his Edison Standard Phonograph. GT2/Taing Rinith
From outside, the Museum Café, located in the middle of Street 124 and opened in 2017, looks no different from thousands of other coffee shops in Phnom Penh. Yet, the first few steps into the modest-sized room gives visitors the same feeling of entering a historical museum and for the elders, a nostalgic trip back to their childhood.
The first thing that will catch the eye are two vintage motorised bicycles with gasoline motors, mounted on a wall. They were manufactured by Japanese companies, probably a decade before the breakout of World War II. Next to them are old paintings and pictures, including one showing the late King Norodom Sihanouk riding a bicycle in his prime, as well as cuckoo clocks from European countries.
There are glass cabinets of all sizes, in the hole-in-wall café in which many more vintage items are on display, from rows and rows of vintage cameras and oil lamps to instruments and toys from around the world, grandfather clocks and typewriters. Some visible rare articles include a Leica III (1936) DRP Ernst Leitz Wetzlar Camera, several ship telescopes or spy-glasses used by Norwegian and British captains in the 1700s and 1800s and an Edison Standard Phonograph with all accessories.
Still crazy after all these years, Peng Heng tells his story on life passion. GT2/Taing Rinith
"There are hundreds of articles here, but they only make up five percent of my entire collection," says Lee Peng Heng, a businessman and owner of Museum Café, at a table fashioned from a garment factory sewing machine, among tens of vintage coffee grinders, teapots and telephones.
Another five percent of the massive collection, which Peng Heng spent nearly two decades to acquire, is stored on the top of the café while the rest are at his house in Siem Reap. While buying most of his collectables online, Peng Heng also travelled the world to pick them – even if it meant running out of money for food and accommodation on some of his trips.
"I feel depressed if I cannot add more things to my collection," Peng Heng confesses. "Maybe I am addicted to it."
"No! Don't ask me which one I love best. Each and every one of them is important to me."
A 1934 Leica D.R.P, one of the prized possessions. GT2/Taing Rinith
Peng Heng has always been interested in vintage items since he was a boy, but he did not start collecting them until 1998, when a prolonged civil war in Cambodia came to the end. The collector says it was a visit to a historical museum in Vietnam that first inspired him on the trek to collectables.
"That museum displayed so many vintage items," he says. "Then I found out that there were museums like these around the world, except Cambodia. And then I asked myself, 'why shouldn't I start the first one here?' "
Peng Heng first started collecting vintage cars, such as Volkswagen and Citroen, and after a while sold some of his cars and used the money to buy classic bikes, including Mobylette and Vespa, which had been popular in Cambodia during its post-protectorate period. Before long, he already found himself the owner of countless vintage pieces.
Sokha, Peng Heng's wife, making a cup of coffee for her customers. GT2/Taing Rinith
"It was very difficult at first because I did not know anything about old items," he says. "Sometimes, I fall for a fake article, but as time goes by, I learn more and more about them so that no one can deceive me now."
Peng Heng counts himself lucky because his wife Meng Sokha supported him although she knows little about antiques – not to mention the occasional financial problem they face.
"To be honest, we never have any money in our savings because he always uses it to buy these items," Sokha says while brewing a cup of Americano behind an Astoria coffee-making machine on the counter. "But, he is following his heart. As long as he is happy doing it, I support him."
"And it is never boring listening to him talking about the new items he purchased."
As his business improved and collection expanded, Peng Heng opened Vimean Sokha Historical Museum in Phnom Penh's Sen Sok district to exhibit his collections, but it failed after a few years.
"Having been through decades of civil wars and almost four years of Khmer Rouge regime, characterised by mass killing, starvation and slave labour, Cambodian people seem to focus most on their survival at the present time," Peng Heng notes.
"During the difficult years, antiques and vintage items, which could be collectables and thus very valuable, were worth no more than scrap."
Despite being downhearted, Peng Heng still wanted Cambodians to enjoy browsing and collecting things from the past like he does because he sees it as a worthy contribution to the country's tourism and cultural scene. Then his wife, Meng Sokha, understanding the expanding "coffee culture". She suggested turning the museum into a café, and it was not long before their Museum Café was opened.
"The café is unique, in a very good way," says Sok Narith, an office worker and a regular customer. "The vintage items give a relaxing, classic atmosphere while you can spend hours looking at these collectables without getting bored."
A customer looking at vintage cameras collected by Peng Heng. GT2/Taing Rinith
Next to Peng Heng's café is his trustee garage, which also functions as his workshop. It houses several vintage bikes and bicycle needing restoration, including a Volkswagen, a 1938 V1010 model.
Peng Heng claims that the car, which was bought from Steung Treng, used to belong to Sin Sisamut, the most beloved Khmer singer of all time whose velvet voice and lyrics earned him the nickname "Golden-Voiced Emperor".
Other remarkable items in his inventory are a reproduced Benjamin Franklin's Clock produced by Thwaites and Reed Ltd., with a limited edition of 1000, and a camera used to take the pictures of the prisoners at S-21 Security Centre, currently known as Toul Sleng Museum.
Peng Heng says many foreigners have made him offers, amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars, but he always refused to part with them. A true collector, he adds, is tied to his collection like an 'invisible umbilical cord' where things can go bump in the night.
"I believe in spiritualism, and I have felt that I have been connected to the spirits of the owners of things I bought," he says, adding he always gets goose bumps whenever he talks about the spirits.
"Occasionally, I hear their voices and I sometimes am witness to the paranormal, such as the phonograph playing by itself and a broken clock working for a while."
The couple is set-up to open a new museum in Siem Reap, "where people want to visit museums, unlike in Phnom Penh". He hopes to promote the local market for the collectibles and would like to ask the government, especially the Ministry of Tourism, to "give me a hand".
"Without old things, there are no new things, and while older people are wise, old items could be priceless," Peng Heng concludes. "We have to bear in mind that all of them have at least one story behind their existence, yet their value is eventually to be decided by humans."
Museum Cafe is located on Street 124, near Russian Federation Blvd. It is open from 7am-9pm. Tel: 085 711 979.
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