This perspective reflects an optional mentality toward wanting a system upgrade. In our imperfect world, the want-to upgrade will eventually become a need-to upgrade. However, with the right collaboration during project planning, the plant personnel will not only experience the value that specification documents bring to the upgrade process, but they will also have a better understanding of how a successful upgrade replaces obsolete systems with new functionality that benefits all stakeholders in the process.
For clarification, specification documents can be used on migrating systems, upgrading systems, or creating new systems. As we focus on reducing the risk of obsolete systems through the specification process, we will refer to two possible paths--migrating to a different system or performing a version upgrade within the same platform.
Since that strategic choice needs to be thoroughly evaluated during the specification stage, both terms are used as examples in this blog. Version upgrades usually occur when staying with the same platform. Updating hardware and programs within an Allen Bradley ControlLogix system or a Siemens PCS7 system would be a version upgrade. Migrations occur when changing from Vendor A's system to a Vendor B's system. An alternative scenario sometimes happens when a vendor no longer supports a platform and a full migration is required, even if staying with the same vendor.
Change is inevitable due to the obsolescence of hardware and software, as well as the availability programmers with experience on those process control platforms. Once hardware parts are discontinued their price rises exponentially and depending on the system can cost tens of thousands of dollars. In some cases, they may only be available online through unofficial distribution channels. The unofficial online option for control hardware is also temporary and greatly increases the plant's exposure to risk since these are not supported by the manufacturer or distributor.
If obsolete hardware costs aren't prohibitive enough, programming changes may be more cumbersome based on the system architecture and industry standards available at the time the system was installed. Since older PLCs had limited capacity, they often required some functionality to be located in the human machine interface (HMI) processor or alternate locations. Programming issues occurring in a combined control system often requires troubleshooting both the PLC and HMI programs and carries the assumption that the plant owns the configuration software for both programs.
Additionally, smaller PLC systems tend to have an HMI database and a PLC database which requires extensive engineering time to maintain, whereas the newer systems typically combine a centralized database for both PLC and HMI. This reduces the overall engineering effort to produce a solution. It also provides an easier system to maintain as well. To connect the financial dots, the increased functionality of newer systems can reduce the number of overall control systems. As a result, less human and financial resources are needed for programming and troubleshooting the system.
Automated reporting functions have also greatly improved over time and can either be a standard feature or an optional feature for the new systems on the market. If the collaboration process identifies the key data points used in the plant's mandatory reports, then a process historian can be added to the system architecture. The historian stores that key information in a long-term database. When the report-viewing software is customized to meet the requirements, it can publish the historian data in the proper format with the click of a button compared to the hours required for the manual reporting process. This not only reduces labor cost but also improves the quality of the reporting by reducing the chance of human error. There are many additional benefits of a historian that will be addressed in a future blog topic.
System failure is the third strike of an obsolete system. When an obsolete system crashes, extracting the programming may no longer be possible. In older system architectures, perfect storms can occur where the main program and backup programs, if there are any, are lost. Since older control systems typically run in conjunction with an obsolete computer's operating systems (OS), a migration not only includes changing PLC hardware but also engineering servers and workstations. Finding an operational computer for a discontinued platform can be just as challenging and risky as replacing the other system components.
A broken-down car can be a real-world equivalent to unexpected downtime in plants. One question to ask is whether it's preferable to replace a car when the current one is still operational or to wait until the active car breaks down on the highway en route to a critical meeting. The prior situation is handled in a controlled manner, allowing more time to prepare for the best replacement, and the latter is acquired under duress caused by the expense of towing, the opportunity cost of missing the meeting, the emotional response to stress, and the greater risk of not receiving a car that meets a majority of your requirements. So if there are warning signs on a system indicating eventual failure, why wait until it shuts down permanently the midst of a critical production run? Loss of that production will cost much more in the short-term and could jeopardize long-term business with affected customers.
In Case of Emergency, Plan!
In unexpected downtime situations, scheduling also plays a major factor in increased project cost and prolonged outage. Integrators often assign their resources to work on multiple projects. Since workload varies at different stages of a project, integration engineers are typically moved during holding patterns in a project. Conversely, there are certain times when resources are not available for reallocation because of the critical stage of their projects. For this reason, engineering resources on major projects are scheduled weeks or months in advance. If a plant suddenly needs a significant amount of onsite time, project costs will most likely increase due to adjusted travel plans, altered schedules, increased project management needs, and required overtime/weekend hours, along with other potential costs for plant personnel and production loss.
Instead of collaboratively planning the pending migration over several weeks or months during standard workday hours, the project executed on emergency conditions condenses engineering efforts into 24/7 urgency. As a result, hourly rates for overtime and weekends will make this option extremely more costly. Even with round-the-clock efforts, it still could take several weeks to get a new system running from a complete failure. In those situations, specifications for the system may be compromised in the name of expediency.
Once the specifications are complete, the design must be approved before the new hardware parts can be ordered, the new panels assembled, and the new programming tested, installed, and commissioned. Each of those steps can be very time intensive and are best completed in a controlled timeline compared to an expedited schedule. If it is necessary that the programming or specification engineers need to have familiarity with the obsolete system, then most likely a smaller pool of resources are available and the need to plan further in advance becomes all the more critical.
The traditional bidding method for industry includes an internal expert or team drafting up bid specifications and having multiple parties bid the project. This approach leaves the goals and strategy of the project open to interpretation. The plant's project team will think they clearly communicated their requirements based on their process experience, but the bidders will have different interpretations based on their engineering philosophies and experience. How does the specification process solve this dilemma?
If a plant was awarding the entire turnkey project, the functional and detail specification process would be handled at the start of the project. By splitting the functional and/or detail specifications out from the entire project, the bidders can quote the development of the specifications only. Once the specifications are developed, they can be used to bid the remainder of the project and help ensure bidders are quoting the same materials and overall strategy. This will identify the platform and overall input and output count along with other key pieces of information needed for accuracy in quoting.
This process is often done in other aspects of projects relating to construction and mechanical aspects, but not always applied to controls. Often, control requirements are tackled last by the project team and that can have a major impact on the project outcome. By performing the functional specification earlier in the process, there will still be some variation among competing bids but the plant should feel confident about choosing between similar solutions.
Also, by having these sections complete, prior to bidding the whole controls project some unexpected costs or issues may be discovered that could have derailed the project otherwise. If the result of the specification process is a higher cost than anticipated, it could either require phasing it in strategic ways, reducing the scope in certain areas or rebidding in a few months once the capital is available. Even if the remainder of the project was temporarily delayed and the plant system failed during that time, the plant could possibly start the project at either the design process or the ordering of hardware and be much further along in their project.
Obsolete systems and hardware are typically more costly than current platforms, harder to find from approved distribution channels, and expose the plant to risk if bought elsewhere.
The functionality of new control systems vastly surpasses obsolete systems in capacity and reporting functions. These are just two examples of improvements that can offer plant personnel time-saving efficiencies.
Programmers with experience on obsolete systems may not have on-demand availability, which could prolong downtime.
Migrating a system once it's failed is more complex, if not impossible, requiring overtime and significantly more manpower to get a new system running.
Depending on the system, it could take weeks or months of collaborative effort to implement a system that meets the plant's goals.
Even an expedited schedule is dependent on design approvals as well as the lead time for parts, assembly, testing, installation, and commissioning. By starting the specification process earlier, in a controlled setting, the project can start at a more advanced point at a later time. It could begin the design or ordering of parts depending on the level of detail in the approved specifications.
By bidding the specification process separately from the whole project, a more accurate scope can be provided to bidders, which can reduce the variance in estimated cost and help ensure similar solutions are being offered.
If the project is delayed following the specification process, the plant has useable documents that can aid project timeline when work resumes. If both the functional and detail specifications were completed, then the drawings and control narrative should already be approved. When the remainder of the project is awarded, the winning bidder should be able to order the materials and begin programming.
These are some of the many benefits in developing specification documents. In our next blog, we'll discuss the impact of code quality on the migration process. By evaluating the criteria from the plant personnel and system integrator's perspectives, a more realistic picture of the project specifications, costs, and timeline can be developed. Lessons learned about the code can become guideposts for the new system's programming requirements and help ensure a successful project outcome.


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Find your place at Central Park
Central Park is an urban village with a design ambition that hasn't been seen in Sydney since the building of its iconic Opera House; Vertical gardens growing up the side of skyscrapers, funky new lanes with bars and cafes, galleries housed in heritage buildings, advanced office accommodation and cutting-edge retail, Tokyo style. All this around a major new open space for Sydney.
Living at Central Park
Central Park is the missing piece of the puzzle that completes Sydney's colourful inner-city landscape.
Central Park is one of the best-connected addresses in Sydney, located at the hub of an expanding network of trains, buses, light rail, cycle ways and roads.
Central Park's story begins in 1835 with the building of the first Kent Brewery and now extends this heritage into a future for everyone.
To achieve such a design as ambitious as Central Park, the project relied on pure collaboration between developers, designers, engineers, artists and the community.
All great endeavours begin with asking the right questions.
Australian artist Lloyd Rees once said, "A city is the greatest work of art possible". This has never been more true than at Central Park, which enlarges our sense of what's possible – now and in the future.
Central Park provides an incredible setting for some of Sydney's most exciting public artworks.
Iconic architecture of the highest sustainable standards, with people at their heart.
Sydney's uptown CBD has long been the city's mainstream commercial zone but Central Park now offers a new Downtown. This live-work urban village provides the previously missing hub where the city's universities, creative industries and sophisticated gallery-goers and diners can meet.
With 11 buildings, around 2,000 apartments and a distinctive collection of shops, cafes, restaurants, terraces and offices, Central Park transforms the precinct into a destination for living, working, dining out and relaxing.
Central Park marks a crucial intersection for Sydney's expanding transport network and offers unrivalled connections to local cultural destinations. It links the bohemian neighbourhoods of Surry Hills, Chippendale, Glebe and Newtown and offers fast public transport routes to mountains, beach and the airport. It is Sydney's best connected address.
CREATIVE SURROUNDS
Creativity is abundant in the Chippendale area, and art has been weaved into the DNA of Central Park. Commissioned sculptures adorned the construction of Central Park, while yet-to-be-used warehouses were donated to local artists for a period of nearly 4 years. From Central Park's inception, artists have played a huge part in the collaborative process of design to bring Sydney a true cultural destination
All great endeavours begin with asking the right questions. We started by inviting a group of Sydney Visionaries to share their dreams for the future, asking them 'What do you love about living in Sydney, and what would you like to change?' From there, the vision for Central Park was shaped by the wants and needs of the local community.
Central Park, Spring 2015
Central Park is Sydney's new downtown, a vibrant and visionary neighbourhood connecting the CBD with Chippendale and Broadway. Here's a look at the endless opportunities Central Park has to offer.

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Four injured as old bomb explodes near train station in German city of Munich
Four people were injured in Munich, Germany after an explosion caused by an old aircraft bomb exploded. The aircraft bomb was located near a busy train station, according to police reports. The explosion occurred during some construction activity near the Donnersbergerbruecke station. Emergency services assisted with the rescue and medical efforts following the attack. After an initial investigation, it became clear that there was no evidence of criminal offenses. Since the incident, the area has been sectioned off and train traffic remained blocked on the main route.
German police forces assured citizens that there was no danger outside of the immediate area and that the explosion was the result of an old aircraft bomb, likely from World War II. This is not the first time similar incidents have occurred. In June of 2019, residents in Ahlbach Germany were awoken by a sudden blast that left a crater spanning 10 meters wide and 4 meters deep in its wake. Police later identified the cause of the explosion to be a WWII bomb left behind. In April of 2018, police were able to defuse an unexploded WWII bomb weighing 1,100 pounds in Berlin. The latest such incident occurred in September of 2019 when almost 60,000 Frankfurt residents were evacuated when a 3,000-pound bomb dating back to WWII was discovered.
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The Major Arcana, titled in French, are as follows: Le Fol, Le Bateleur, La Papesse, La Imperatrice, Le Empereur, Le Pape, L'amoreux, Le Chariot, La Justice, Le Ermite, Roue de Fortune, La Force, Le Pendu, La Mort, La Temperance, Le Diable, La Maison Dieu, Le Toille, La Lune, Le Sole, Le Jugement, Le Monde.
The suit names are Bastons (Wands), Coupes (Cups), Spe (Epees - Swords), Deniers (Pentacles). The court cards are: Roy (King), Reine (Queen), Cheval (Knight), Valet (Page).
The package consists of 78 Tarot cards, a title card, and nine double-sided cards carrying information on how to perform a simplified cartomancy reading, along with keywords for each of the cards (upright only). The cards (which take the place of the traditional LWB (Little White Book) are printed in English, German, Spanish, Italian, and French.
Some of the keywords are a little stilted, such as that for Le Fol (The Fool): "strangeness, infantilism, holiday, detachment from worries, madness." The Court cards indicate where the person fits into the life of the Seeker, as well as listing keywords. For example: "Queen of Chalices - woman friend, wife or faithful fiance. Romanticism, sensuality." The Pips (numbered cards) list upright keywords only.
Before I move on to the cards, I want to briefly look at the simplified cartomany method listed in the informational cards. The Minor Arcana are separated from the Major Arcana, and one suit of cards is chosen to read from, based on the question (Wands represents work, Chalices love, Swords legal questions, and Deniers business.) An interesting note here is that the cards are titled Deniers, but referred to as Pentacles in the reference material. The chosen suit is shuffled, cut, and three cards dealt. The procedure is then followed for the Major Arcana. The three positions are read as Past/Present/Future. However, the instructions neglect to say how the Major Arcana are incorporated into the reading!
The cards themselves are approximately 2 1/4" by 4 1/2". The back are an ochre color, with a brownish-red imprint. At the bottom of the cards appears the words "ALL' AQUILA", also in brownish-red. A card drawn in the reversed position would be evident. The faces of the cards carry the same ochre background color, with a thin black line approximately 1/4: from the edge creating a border. The Aces carry no suit name or number, simply the suit symbol. Cards 2-10 carry the appropriate number of suit symbols, with the number in Roman numerals in the middle of the right and left hand sides of the card. The Court cards carry the court title and the suit name at the bottom of the card. The Major Arcana carry the number in Roman Numerals at the top of t he card, and the title, in French, at the bottom of the card.
Some of the cards are a bit unusual, The Ace of Coupes (Cups) shows a hexagonal bottom, with a hexagonal top with what appear to be turrets at each corner, with what appears to be a building in the center. The 2-10 of Coupes all show the same type of cup: a hexagonal bottom and a rounded top. The Two of Coupes carries the illustrator's name (Giacomo Zoni) as a signature. Several of the hats are of the broad variety, strongly resembling the lemnescate (Cheval and Roy de Bastons, Roy de Coupes, Valet and Roy de Deniers, Valet and Roy de Spe (Espees), Le Bateleur, and La Force. In the suit of Spe (Espees, Swords) the even numbered cards show blades that are all curved, while in the odd numbered cards the central Sword is straight, with the remaining Swords curved.
The art appears to be black line drawing that has been colored in. The color scheme is a gentle melding of ochre, medium blue, light green and yellow. This deck would appeal to collectors, historians, those who read (or wish to learn to read) with a Marseilles style deck, or those who are simply looking for a very gentle deck.


Yesterday, the second half of D'banj's interview on The Truth With Olisa came out. If you think part one was hot, then the second part cane be described as fireworks.
For once someone was able to break D'banj's demeanor and hit a raw nerve. We've never seen a D'banj like this.
For large parts of the interview he was rattled thanks to Olisa's questions strategy.
Just like the first part, the second has a bunch of revelations.
Below we have listed ten things we learnt while watching the heated interview.
How he got Kanye to appear in the 'Oliver Twist' video.
Don Jazzy and D'banj can hook up again if the money is right.
He was the one who asked for the infamous interview with the President of Nigeria.
Will do the Jonathan Goodluck interview again if he has the opportunity.
D'banj revealed that Kanye West said GEJ looks like a pimp.
The superstar has two farms.
D'banj gets very touchy when you challenge the number of hits he has had since the Mo' Hits breakup.
Koko Garri was Don Jazzy's idea.
Claims that his line of mobile phones Koko Phones are sold out.
Allegedly swindled of $2m by a friend who mismanaged one of his companies.


White Rose Maths have been delivering 5 key Jigsaw twilights to primary schools up, down and around the UK.
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Hvanneyri is een nederzetting in het westen van IJsland in de regio Vesturland. Hvanneyri heeft 304 inwoners en behoort samen met Borgarnes, Bifröst, Kleppjárnsreykir en Reykholt tot de gemeente Borgarbyggð. In Hvanneyri bevindt zich een landbouwhogeschool, een dierenartsenkliniek, een wolweverij annex museum en een museum waar oude en recente landbouwmachines en werktuigen te bewonderen zijn.

Een van IJslands beste weidegronden ligt bij Hvanneyri, en er wordt beweerd dat Egill Skallagrímsson, een van de eerste kolonisten van IJsland die het gebied bij Borgarnes in bezit nam, ook een claim op dit gebied had.

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Most pediatricians say parents have refused vaccines for their kids
By Megan Thielking @meggophone
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More doctors are reporting encounters with parents refusing to vaccinate their kids than a decade ago, but parents' reasons for skipping immunizations have shifted in the past decade.
A new survey published in Pediatrics on Monday reports that 87 percent of pediatricians in the United States say they encountered parents refusing to vaccinate their children in 2013. A decade earlier, 75 percent of doctors reported they had experienced vaccine refusals.
The most common reason parents gave, according to doctors? The vaccines weren't necessary.
"Vaccines have been so good at taking diseases away that when we don't see diseases, we don't think they're important," said Dr. Kathryn Edwards, a pediatrician and director of the Vanderbilt Vaccine Research Program.
It's the paradox of vaccines — they do away with infectious diseases to the point that they no longer seem necessary. The uptick in parents feeling that vaccines aren't needed is concerning, Edwards said. Recent outbreaks of diseases such as measles have been blamed on a decline in vaccination rates.
"If you have a four-way stop and everybody stops at the stop sign, we're fine. If one person doesn't stop, we're fine," Edwards explained. "But if more people aren't stopping, we're going to have an accident."
What you need to know about vaccines, autism, and the hubbub over 'Vaxxed'
The survey also showed a shift in the number of parents who cite worries about the unfounded claim that vaccines or thimerosal — a preservative formerly used in childhood vaccines — can cause autism as the reason why they didn't want their children to be vaccinated. The proportion of doctors who had encountered autism concerns fell from 74 percent in 2006 to 64 percent in 2013. It's the first documented drop in that concern, the authors said.
"I'm not surprised by that," said Dr. Paul Offit, the director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. "I hear from pediatricians that's been happening less."
Offit, who was not involved in the Pediatrics study, said that scientific research and subsequent media coverage have helped to dispel the myth. The 2014 measles outbreak in California also served as "an education" about the importance of immunization, he said.
Many parents are concerned about giving their children too many vaccines in a short period of time, a nod to the idea of an alternate vaccine schedule that's gained steam in recent years. Nearly 73 percent of pediatricians say that parents delayed vaccines because of scheduling concerns — something public health officials discourage because delays increase the time unvaccinated children are at risk of becoming sick. It's not clear whether this concern increased or decreased — the 2006 survey didn't ask doctors about vaccine schedules.
The retrospective survey asked pediatricians to recall encounters with parents. Doctors weren't asked to keep hard numbers on those encounters, so the study could have introduced recollection bias.
Why can't we 'fire' politicians for espousing harmful myths about vaccines?
More and more, doctors don't want to put up with vaccine refusal. The rate of doctors who reported always dismissing families who refuse vaccinations from their practices nearly doubled between surveys. Their efforts to convince parents to vaccinate their kids are sometimes fruitless — pediatricians reported that they were able to persuade only about one-third of parents who had refused vaccines to change their minds.
The American Academy of Pediatrics is trying to give doctors some added ammunition in those conversations with parents. The organization released a new guide called "Countering Vaccine Hesitancy" to accompany the survey.
"Generally, doctors aren't prepared. It's hard to counter," Offit said. "We need to arm physicians with info to answer those questions."
Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly identified Dr. Paul Offit as head of infectious diseases at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
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Megan writes about health and medicine, with a focus on mental health.
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Rebekah says:
http://www.vaccinesrevealed.com
Over my dead body. What happened to human rights? This country isn't free anymore. And for drs to turn people away because they are exercising their human rights to say no? It's despicable. Absolutely shameful. I am NOT proud to be an American.
A correction for this line: "Recent outbreaks of diseases such as measles and mumps have been blamed on a decline in vaccination rates."
The article referenced for the Harvard mumps outbreak actually states the opposite. The mumps outbreak occurred in a "highly vaccinated population" attributed to the 12% failure rate, not unvaccinated populations.
Angela Coral Eisenhauer says:
Doctors who vaccinate, USA, get bonuses, for every child up to date with vaccinations, and if they have like 90% vaccination rate, they get like an added $10,000 bonus for the year from pharma. Just follow the money trial, for the truth. Just stop going to damn doctors, don't get vaccines, and you wont need the doctors anyway.
Jay Kanta says:
So many lies, so little evidence.
Some insurance subscriptions offer well-patient rewards for doctors, but that comes from the insurance companies, not pharmaceuticals or the government.
Most of the stupid anti-vax blogs lie about those "rewards" for wellness program participation.
Anyone who blindly accepts on faith the chorus of media pundits and CDC. officials and other shills that claim vaccines are necessary and relatively safe is completely uninformed. Vaccines do much more harm than good and there is an abundance of independant tests which prove this is a hundred ways. that this is news or up for debate in 2016 speaks not to the facts, (which are easily verifiable for anyone who looks past the vested interests' propaganda, where real science is suppressed and results are cherry picked and the number of outrageous outright falsehoods obscure the clear facts) but to the power of uniform propaganda, media in lockstep with criminals masquerading as experts and the fatuous credibility of the dumbed-down American people. So, look past the CDC, the FDA and the AMA. There are scores of other places to get your information, places where it isn't biased by greed. Start by looking for studies that are not bankrolled by Big Pharma. Hint: if it an American study, performed in the U.S., it is bankrolled by vaccine interests et. al. de facto. Google:independent vaccine studies and cross reference the word cover up to get well supported, scientific evidence. These studies have also been peer reviewed and published in the leading medical journals. The truth is out there.
Paul Offit was censured in 2003 by Congress for medical ethics regarding his profiteering in recommending dangerous vaccines he developed that killed and maimed thousands of children. He made millions of the pain and suffering of countless families and continues to push the dangerous and uneccessary MMR vaccine which has permanently ruined the lives of thousands of young girls in the U.S. and all over the world. Don't believe the scare tactics, think for yourself. Just a couple of hours research of your own, away from the lockstep American media shills will open your eyes for good.
Nice lies.
"Start by looking for studies that are not bankrolled by Big Pharma. Hint: if it an American study, performed in the U.S., it is bankrolled by vaccine interests et. al. de facto"
http://www.pnas.org/content/112/40/12498.full.pdf
Bankrolled entirely by anti-vax groups. Didn't turn out how they wanted.
" Google:independent vaccine studies and cross reference the word cover up to get well supported, scientific evidence. These studies have also been peer reviewed and published in the leading medical journals. The truth is out there."
See, scientists know that google doesn't present studies very well, but ignorant uneducated anti-vaxxers don't know that.
"He made millions of the pain and suffering of countless families and continues to push the dangerous and uneccessary MMR vaccine which has permanently ruined the lives of thousands of young girls in the U.S. and all over the world. "
Citations required. You're quite the liar.
CREPIN says:
Well, paper is a bit short. A vaccine is not an another. Some are really essential but for some, doubts are high and it exists real scientific debates on it. Some vaccine are not with good quality (so the army's one for exemple during '80 and '90).
Parents sees too that State is pressuring vaccine against health of individual children but for mass effect. This is then natural that parents see more about the individual health and it exists a doubt that multi-vaccine are not sometimes pushed by industry on some unnecessary vaccine.
Sometimes too, we discover that illness is less dangerous as not having it.
Topic is complicated and one major point of problem is the scientific fraud on vaccine and medical world corruption.
People are less and less in confidence with people only drivne by money and glorious.
"and one major point of problem is the scientific fraud on vaccine and medical world corruption."
Andrew Wakefield, an anti-vaxxer, is really the main point of that fraud and corruption. You're guilty of psychological projection.
Here's the real reason why doctors pressure parents into vaccinating their children. It's not about keeping your child healthy—it's all about the money!
For 2016, Blue Cross/Blue Shield will give your pediatrician $400 for each child who is up to date on vaccines by age 2. But they have to have 63% of their patients vaccinated (including flu vaccines!) or else they won't receive the payout.
That adds up. How much? Well, on the lower end of the spectrum, a primary care physician or pediatrician can care for 500 patients. Let's just say 100 of them will be turning 2 in 2016. If they can get 63% of those patients fully vaccinated, that adds up to $25,000.
When more and more parents are waking up to the dangers and ineffectiveness of vaccines, this eats away at their "incentives".
For just 63 children fully vaccinated by age 2—$25,000!
Read page 15 of the Blue Cross/Blue Shield Physicians "Performance Recognition" Manual…
http://thephysicianalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/2016-BCN-BCBSM-Incentive-Program-Booklet.pdf
https://wellnessandequality.com/2016/06/20/how-much-money-do-pediatricians-really-make-from-vaccines/
So wait, insurance companies want their subscribers to be healthier?
So they have wellness rewards?
How dare they!
Barbara Long says:
As mentioned in the article, many parents are balking about vaccinating their children because of the many vaccines being given at once. My patients have asked me 'which ones are important'? How do you answer that? They are all important!!! I think a new schedule spreading them out is one answer. Of course them you run the risk of the parents not bringing the child back for more visits. Insurance companies also balk at paying for more visits. I personally had my child vaccinated for varicella before it was mandatory. My neighbor laughed at me and insisted that her child get 'chickenpox naturally. She wasn't laughing when her daughter contracted chickenpox and she was pregnant with her second child! Fortunately the child was born healthy. Why risk a problem, when it can be prevented!!!
Brian Sullivan says:
We have nothing to worry about. The greatest impact on decreasing infectious disease was better plumbing. Whe vaccines appeared on the scene these diseases were basically non exsistant due to again "better plumbing". Do u want to prevent infectious diseases without all the dangerous side effects of vaccines? Stop mixing feces with your drinking water! What I worry about is all these childhood issues such as adhd, chrons ,autism, peanut allergies,etc…. all caused by vaccines.
Are you a Mumbai paid pharma troll? Chicken pox doesn't hurt anyone in pregnancy, you are a bit confused, I think?
Stephanie S says:
Angela – you are DEAD wrong about Chicken Pox in pregnancy. Maternal risks include varicella pneumonia and has a mortality rate of 28%. Fetal risks when the infection occurs in the first half of pregnancy include miscarriage and congenital anomalies. Newborn varicella infection is a life-threatening condition that can occur if the mother contracts varicella 2 days prior to birth or within 3 days after birth.
You're not a doctor, Barbara. And spreading vaccines out puts children at greater risk of diseases by leaving them unprotected for longer.
Delaying vaccines also increases the risk of side effects.
That you didn't know this indicates you're not a real doctor.
angela coral eisenhauer facebook. The fact that Australia now has 98.5% vaccination rate in kids, and the non stop epidemic of whooping cough because of that? USA unless to realise DTap is crap, which you got 10 years after Australia, soon your 100% vaccinated if you like, is going to provide you with 1 million vaccine failures, and whooping cough, and another 3 million PER YEAR, vaccinated DTap kids, who show no symptoms, and spread it to newborns, as is the experience in Australia, yep, the lab rat nation.
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Tortilla (wym. ) – w kuchni meksykańskiej, rodzaj płaskiego, okrągłego placka o średnicy od 6 do 30 cm, z masy lub mąki kukurydzianej albo pszennej, stosowanego jako pieczywo i baza do innych potraw.

Meksykańskie i południowoamerykańskie tortille powstają po zagnieceniu masy kukurydzianej mąki z wodą, uformowaniu cienkich placków i pieczeniu ich na specjalnych patelniach. Obecnie większość dostępnych w handlu tortilli jest wytwarzanych maszynowo. Powinno się je spożywać ciepłe, gdyż po ostygnięciu nabierają konsystencji gumy.

Tortilla stanowi bazę bardziej skomplikowanych potraw, jak np. quesadilla, tacos, enchiladas, wrap i innych. Z kawałków kukurydzianych tortilli przyrządzane są czipsy tortilla (totopos), a z nich przekąska o nazwie nachos. Na świecie istnieje wiele różnych rodzajów tortilli.

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Kobo has entered the tablet wars with their announcement of the Vox, a web-enabled device that's being positioned as a rival to the Kindle Fire.
So it has less processing power than the Fire, but it does offer access to the Android Market, and a little more flexibility for storage (the Fire is locked into 8 gigabytes and will rely on Amazon's cloud technology for storing data).
The Vox is coming out Oct. 28, a few weeks ahead of the Fire. But while the Fire was lauded as a worthy (albeit less powerful) competitor to the iPad when it was announced last month, the Vox hasn't made nearly as big a splash, despite boasting similar features. Clearly Amazon has a bigger reach for marketing, but I imagine the execs at Kobo are kicking themselves for not announcing their tablet first.
If you're in the market for a web-enabled eReader, this could be a good alternative for people who don't want to tie themselves to the proprietary systems of Apple and Amazon.
The Vox is currently available for preorder.
The reason this will not be as good as Fire is that Amazon was smart enough to fork Android and as a result, get away from all the trappings of developing an Android device.
Agreed with Kirk. Additionally, while Kobo has a decent stronghold on Canada and the UK, the North American market isn't having it.
I could be mistaken, but doesn't the Kobo have a strong market share in every English speaking country excpet the U.S.?
i think it also has to do with selection, of which the kobo has very little. i have a kobo, and i have had to convert most of the books i bought for it from amazon or google.


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Nausea is a vague, unpleasant sensation in the upper abdomen. Vomiting refers to the forceful expulsion of gastric contents through the mouth. Nausea and vomiting may be an acute and appropriate response to foreign or harmful pathogens or it may indicate a more severe underlying condition.
In order to stimulate the innate ability of the body to heal the causes of disease must be identified and addressed. The most common cause of nausea and/or vomiting is gastritis, yet there are other conditions and factors that can cause these symptoms.
Food allergies and food sensitivities can cause nausea.
Fatty foods can contribute to nausea and/or vomiting.
Nausea and/or vomiting may be a reaction to eating too much or eating too quickly.
A normal response of the body to bad or spoiled food is often vomiting. In this case the vomiting is part of the normal elimination of toxins process of the body.
Excessive alcohol ingestion commonly causes nausea and/or vomiting.
Recurrent nausea that occurs without vomiting can occur in response to emotional stress.
The most common cause of acute nausea and vomiting is gastric infection gastritis, often referred to a stomach flu or food poisoning. Nausea and/or vomiting associated with food poisoning typically resolves within 24 to 48 hours.
Many different infections, whether viral, bacterial or parasitic can result in nausea and vomiting.
Recurrent nausea that occurs without vomiting can occur in response to environmental toxins.
Many prescription medications can cause nausea and/or vomiting including codeine, digitalis, glycosides, quinidine, salicylates, theophylline, chemotherapeutic agents, antibiotics, cytotoxic drugs, antihypertensives, NSAIDs, nicotine.
Medical treatments such as radiation treatments can cause nausea and/or vomiting.
Some supplements such as iron or B vitamins can cause nausea in some individuals, especially if taken on an empty stomach.
Gastroscopy, radiograph of the abdomen, ultrasonography, esophageal radiograph endoscopy, CT scan of the pancreas, neurological examination and CT scan.
The goal of naturopathic treatment is to support and work in tandem with the healing power of the body and to address the causal factors of disease with individual treatment strategies. Once the cause of the nausea and/or vomiting and whether it is acute or chronic has been established the appropriate treatment plan can be determined. It is important not to suppress nausea or vomiting is the cause is food poisoning.
Lying down may help some causes of nausea such as motion sickness.
It is important to ensure that you drink enough water and other clear liquids. Electrolyte replacement may be required. Coconut water, chicken broth, tomato juice and the juice of boiled vegetables can provide needed electrolytes.
Avoid any foods that trigger the nausea and vomiting, which may involves avoiding fatty foods, food allergies and food sensitivities.
Exercise such as walking may help alleviate nausea and/or vomiting, whereas other exercises such as running, jogging or lifting weights may actually make it worse.
Addressing postural concerns, especially those affecting the mid-back may help in alleviating nausea.
Proper breathing may help to alleviate chronic nausea.
Fruits such as coconut, tangerine, pineapple.
Vegetables, Roots, Nuts & Gourds such as chive, button mushroom.
Legumes such as hyacinth bean, string (green) bean, sword bean.
Complex homeopathics may also be helpful, especially in the treatment of chronic nausea and/or vomiting.
Acupuncture can be very effective in the treatment of acute and chronic nausea and/or vomiting.
↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Seller Robert (2000) Differential Diagnosis of Common Complaints, 4th edition W.B. Saunders Company.
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Plus, the trends that'll stand the test of time.
Trends are a funny thing. Contagious and fleeting, they are beloved one minute and tossed the next. This might work well when dealing with sweaters or t-shirts that you can wear until the holes start creeping in, but it's not so practical when shopping for a sofa you're hoping to keep for the better part a decade (or two). And while some trends in the design world start as fads but become timeworn classics—take hand-thrown ceramics for instance—others have a shorter shelf life. We all remember chevrons, don't we?
We'd like to take a moment to focus on the latter—the trends that, despite their undeniable appeal—may not stand the test of time or incorporate well in your décor for years to come. We're not saying to avoid them altogether, but rather to proceed with caution and ask yourself questions like "Will I still like this in five years?" and "Will it work with the décor I already have?" before pulling out your credit card. Naturally, we couldn't just present a problem without a solution, so we also sourced a few trends that you might like to consider instead—ones that, in our humble opinion, may have a longer shelf life in your home.
After the exposed bulb craze came globe lamps and chandeliers often finished with a brass structure—a nod to midcentury Italian lighting by brands such as Stilnovo. And while we would never turn down a true piece from the Italian retailer, we have also seen more than enough iterations of globe lighting to last us a lifetime. Instead of jumping on the oversaturated train that has become globe lamps, may we suggest the next biggest trend in lighting design: the mushroom lamp.
These curious-looking lamps aren't new. They were popular in the 1970s thanks to designers like Vico Magistretti. Many contemporary designers like Tom Dixon and Normann Copenhagen are also jumping on board and designing their own version—even CB2 has one. And we're not mad about it. In fact, we're fully on board.
The internet seems to have wholeheartedly embraced postmodern lately. It's no surprise—the trend appeals to our nostalgic youth waking up to Nickelodeon cartoons. Pillows adorned with tiny triangles and squiggly lines all in bold primary colors can tug at our heartstrings, not to mention they're very Instagram-friendly.
Yes, postmodern prints are feeling very edgy right now, especially on larger pieces of furniture like sofas, but just try and remember your mom's 90's sofa and how poorly it actually evolved in your space over the years. To avoid adding another piece of décor to the world's landfill in a few years, consider a slightly more subtle pattern, like a block print pillow from Block Shop. While still fun and colorful, these pillows also have the potential to grow with your décor as your taste evolves.
The décor world will probably never fall out of love with Scandinavian style—the mix of edited minimalism and cozy chalet appeals to both our tidy tendencies and our yearning to feel comfortable in our homes. But may we suggest a small break from the all-white interiors filled with sheepskin throws, black and white photography, and light reclaimed wood furniture and turn to another part of the world for décor inspiration?
Japan is the home of Wabi-Sabi, an aesthetics philosophy centered on the acceptance of imperfection. While this may sound a little abstract, the results can be striking. While the Japanese are minimalists in nature, their love for patinaed objects that only get better with age help foster interiors that have a sense of history and maturity while still feeling understated. To adopt this trend, look for simple pieces that have a patina to incorporate into your décor.
While we encourage anyone color averse to wholeheartedly embrace one of the color predictions of the year, Metropolitan gray, we're also impressed by the boldness of Sherwin Williams' Cavern Clay—a rich desert-toned hue.
We've collectively spent the past five years running away from color—and this terracotta shade is the perfect way to dip our toes into colored rooms again. Besides, the hue will pair beautifully with your accumulated collection of Millennial pink pieces and your growing array of ceramics and terracotta vessels.
It seems as though every brand these days—even IKEA—is coming up with a line of saturated patterned rugs. And while we love the look of them in theory, graphic rugs are a little tricky to incorporate into everyday décor. If you're on the fence about pulling the trigger on a beautiful Court Series rug, consider a vibrant viscose or silk rug—these materials have a beautiful subtle sheen—in a bold hue like yellow mustard or pink grapefruit.
You'll still reap the benefits of a striking colorful base for your room, but you'll also gain the longevity of a rug that can evolve with your décor. And if you're still craving bold graphic prints, try incorporating them in your pillows, throws, or artwork instead.
Okay, hear us out. We know that granite hasn't even fully left the design landscape yet, and we're still cringing at the thought of another brown-hued countertop in the beloved hardy material that's graced our kitchens for the better half of our lives. Maybe we're not quite ready for granite to come back quite yet, but brands like Fort Standard and Pieces are hard at work to make this material trend again.
Staying far away from countertops—or even kitchens—this time, these brands are instead using the material in smaller objects from candleholders to coffee tables. And if we're being honest, we don't hate it. And while our love for terrazzo runs deep, we're ready to move on from the plethora of iterations on the market and jump on the next big thing.


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Capella University will lay off 65 workers
The online school is letting go of about 4 percent of its non-faculty workforce. The company says in a news release that a move away from third-party marketing has left it with excess capacity. The Business Journal reports the company has seen enrollment decline recently.
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Regis lays off 110 workers; stock rises as profits beat forecasts
Edina-based Regis laid off about 15 percent of its corporate workforce, according to the Business Journal. The hair salon operator also posted higher-than-expected profits.
Video game maker lays off Minn. workers
California-based Activision, which produces games including the blockbuster hit "Call of Duty," has announced plans to lay off 31 employers at its Eden Prairie and Bloomington offices just three days after Christmas, KSTP reports.
IBM laying off hundreds of workers nationwide
A news site that claims to have access to internal documents says the company plans to lay off 870 employees. It's unclear right now how many Rochester workers will be affected.
Hutchinson Technology to lay off 100 workers
St. John's University names first lay president
The Catholic St. John's University in Collegeville announced Michael Hemesath as the institution's first full-time lay president. Hemesath is an economics professor at Carleton College and a 1981 graduate of St. John's. The Rev. Robert Koopmann announced he will step down at the end of this academic year.
Target lays off 550 Twin Cities workers following Canada withdrawal
Supervalu to lay off 200 workers in Minnesota
The job cuts are part of 800 layoffs around the country. Most of the Minnesota job cuts will occur at the grocery giant's corporate offices in Eden Prairie, though some workers at distribution centers and Cub Foods offices will also get pink slips. Store-level employees are not included in the downsizing.
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The Puppy in the Recliner
Published October 13, 2009 by PETA. Last Updated October 14, 2013.
For those of you who receive PETA's quarterly magazine, Animal Times, you're in for a treat (as always) when the latest issue hits mailboxes this month. If you haven't gotten around to subscribing (it's free with your PETA membership), here's one of the many great articles you'd find—an exclusive sneak peek at PETA President Ingrid E. Newkirk's newest book, The PETA Practical Guide to Animal Rights. Don't say we never gave you anything:
Man's best friend isn't, in many parts of the world. In Korea, the Philippines, Vietnam, and China, among other places, dogs are kept in the burning sun in small cages behind restaurants, often with tin cans shoved over their muzzles and their broken forelegs tied behind their backs. They are "tenderized" by being beaten while alive and then strangled to death and skinned for their flesh. In Thailand, dog-hide factory trucks prowl the streets, offering to trade plastic buckets for live dogs, who will be slaughtered and made into bags, drum skins, and golf-club covers.
I grew up in India, where—although dogs are not eaten—mange-covered and starving stray animals are so common and so pathetic that they can't help but capture your attention. In the pounds, death was courtesy of a crude electrocution machine that seared the animals' skin and often set their fur on fire or via blows from men wielding billy clubs.
In Taiwan—which has a robust economy as well as a large Buddhist population—one would think that animals would fare much better. The reality is quite the opposite. In Taiwan's pounds, death for dogs can come from live burial (digging a pit and throwing the dogs into it), electrocution, poison-laced food, starvation, or drowning. In April 1998, I rescued 11 dogs from the Keelung city pound's drowning tank and extracted a promise from the minister of the environment to immediately stop drowning animals. The city administrators have been good to their word, but all these years later, animals in Sanchung, Tu Chung, and other cities continue to suffer, confined to cramped, filthy cages at severely crowded pounds. Pressure is still desperately needed to bring about reforms.
I used to harbor the illusion that all animals in Europe and North America were well-treated. But we have plenty of room for improvement too—to say the least.
A Baltimore, Maryland, rescue group called Alley Animals has seen it all, right here in America: animals with festering wounds from slingshots and bottles, cats with elastic bands embedded in their necks, kittens blinded and used as bait in pitbull fights, abandoned Easter rabbits, a rooster wearing a broken ankle leash, and even a green iguana—now the most common exotic throwaway pet, according to news reports.
Alley Animals operates simply and on a shoestring. When dusk falls on Baltimore, the group's volunteers drive into the sprawling old city's most rundown areas. Their job is to find the animal waifs and strays who creep out from their hiding places when the city grows quiet, knowing that they are less visible to juveniles armed with free time and a rock or a firecracker.
One evening, volunteer Alice Arnold and her partner for that night's trip, Eric, were just leaving an alley after putting out food when Eric said, "Did you see that puppy?"
He pointed to an overturned reclining chair amid the trash, where a tiny head was sticking out ever so slightly, the puppy's reddish-brown fur almost blending in with the color of the old chair in the alley's black shadows. The stuffing had come out of the chair, allowing the dog to claim its interior as her shelter from a world that had rejected her.
Within a week of her rescue, it was obvious that the puppy—now known as "Stuffing"— was very intelligent and lovable. After a few weeks, Stuffing had gained weight, was paper-trained, and spent every night snuggled up in bed with her new human friend. Alice says that to look at her now, no one would ever guess that this happy little girl spent the first months of her life eating from trash cans and sleeping inside an overturned chair in a dark alley.
Most people don't think that the problems of strays and chained "backyard" dogs have anything to do with them. But they do. The biggest nightmare plaguing domesticated animals in our society does not involve the wanton acts of violence directed toward them by cruel humans. Rather, it involves thoughtlessness by otherwise intelligent and caring people who simply do not understand what or who dogs and cats really are, and what they need to thrive.
Want to read the rest of Ingrid's new book? You can order your very own copy at PETACatalog.com. In the meantime, you can find out what you can do to help strays and other neglected and abused animals here.
Written by Alisa Mullins
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Q: Checking Specific Reduction Type of a Prime for a Given Elliptic Curve Given an elliptic curve $E/\mathbb Q$, it is (if I have done it correctly) easy to see that, for a prime $p$, the condition that $E$ has good reduction at $p$ can be checked on any integral Weierstrass model. Indeed, by definition, $E$ has good reduction at $p$ if it has a global minimal model which reduces mod $p$ to an elliptic curve over $\mathbb F_p$. If we have some other integral model which satisfies this same property, then $p$ does not divide the associated discriminant. Changing to a global minimal model and keeping in mind that coefficients of this minimal model must be integers, we see that either $p$ continues to not divide the (minimal) discriminant after change of variables, or it does so to a power which is a positive integer multiple of 12 (this is the part I am unsure of; the unit $u$ in the change of variables could be a fractional power of $p$, but I think this is impossible since minimal models have integer coefficients), which is impossible by well-known minimality tests for integral model, ala those in Silverman's AEC.
Assuming this argument is correct, can we also check multiplicative (or, more precisely, split/nonsplit multiplicative) reduction on any integral model? I know that, in general, we cannot test for general bad reduction on any integral model, but I wonder if we can test for (certain) specific types of bad reduction on any integral model. I suspect we cannot for additive reduction because of the content of Proposition 5.1 in Silverman's AEC, but am unsure.
The only answer I have come up with is that we can test for semistable reduction by checking if Galois acts unipotently on the Tate module by a result of Grothendieck in SGA.

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Work Yourself Way Seriously
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Impossible Control Who More
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If you've been sitting on the fence about entering before, then perhaps you should jump off and dive into the 2015 ceremony for your chance to shine.
An independent panel of judges, consisting of highly respected and experienced dentists, as well as members of the editorial board for Irish Dentistry and Dentistry magazine will select the winners.
The renowned Tony Aherne will chair the Irish Dentistry Awards judging panel for 2015.
Your full entry should be posted by the closing deadline of 19 September 2014 to FMC offices: Irish Dentistry Awards, Farm Close, Shenley, Hertfordshire, WD7 9AB.
The award ceremony is on the 30 January 2015 at the Mansion House, Dublin; this is where all winners will be announced.
Tickets for the evening are offered to finalists as a priority and shortly after, will be available for general release; this is due to the popularity of the evening.
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#OTD in Irish History – 29 July:
Stair na hÉireannIrish History29 July, Co. Kerry, Croagh Patrick, Dingle, History, History of Ireland, Ireland, Irish Civil War, Irish History, Irish War of Independence, Lea Head, Stair na hÉireann, Today in Irish History
1693 – Patrick Sarsfield is mortally wounded at the Battle of Landen. He dies of his wounds three days later at Huy in Belgium, where he is buried in the grounds of St. Martin's Church.
1752 – Death of Co Meath born, naval officer Sir Peter Warren (b. 10 March 1703). Warren signed on as an ordinary seaman in Dublin, in 1716 when he was 13 years old and rapidly rose in the ranks. His ship patrolled American colonial waters to provide protection from French forces. He commanded the naval forces in the attack on the French fortress of Louisbourg, Nova Scotia in 1745. Warren later sat as MP for Westminster. He was an adept land speculator also and garnered thousands of acres in the New York area.
1848 – An Gorta Mor: Tipperary Revolt – In Tipperary, an unsuccessful nationalist revolt against British rule is put down by police.
1883 – James Carey, member of the Invincibles, turns Queen's evidence; five of his associates are hanged for the murders of Burke and Cavendish. Carey is followed to South Africa by Patrick O'Donnell, and shot dead on the Melrose, en route from Cape Town to Natal. O'Donnell is hanged in London on 17 December.
1920 – One RIC man was killed and one wounded in an IRA ambush in Ballina, Co Mayo.
1922 – About 400 Republicans attack Golden, Tipperary, but fail to take it and two of their men are killed. Their armoured car is knocked out by artillery and the National Army takes 26 prisoners.
1945 – Article published by John F. Kennedy for Hearst Newspaper group about Ireland Seething Again Over Partition. Kennedy's comments about "the brilliant, austere de Valera" are particularly astute who is still "fighting politically the same relentless battle, that was fought in the field during the uprising of 1916, in the war of independence and later in the civil war." Kennedy is not always given credit for his writing abilities, (with most credit for speech writing given rightly to his Counselor Ted Sorenson), but some elements of this article are lyrical. Commenting on de Valera's debate elaboration, "he left the situation to many observers as misty as this island on an early winter's morning. " And on de Valera's Fianna Fáil colleagues: "All have been in both England and Ireland prisons, and many have wounds which still ache when the cold winds come in from the west."
1953 – Birth of Frank McGuinness in Buncrana, Co Donegal. He is an award-winning playwright and poet. As well as his own works, which include Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, he is recognised for a "strong record of adapting literary classics, having translated the plays of Racine, Sophocles, Ibsen and Strindberg to critical acclaim". Prof. McGuinness has been Professor of Creative Writing at University College Dublin (UCD) since 2007.
1969 – The Irish Finance Act exempts people considered by the Revenue Commissioners to have written works of cultural or artistic merit from income tax on money earned by the works.
1975 – Death of Tom Dunphy, one of the pioneers of the country music scene, and friend to many in the business, died when the car he was driving was in an accident at Drumsna, Co Leitrim. Band member Noel Ryan, who was a passenger in the car, escaped with little more than concussion. Tom Dunphy (37) was one of the original Royal Showband, those trail blazers who stormed out of Waterford to become the biggest band in the land. His great colleague Brendan Bowyer, whose recording of The Hucklebuck remains the definitive showband song of them all, clearly recalls the sad occasion.
1976 – An off-duty RUC officer was killed by a British soldier following an argument at a check point in Bessbrook, Co Armagh.
1981 – Representatives from Sinn Féin (SF) and the Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP) visited those taking part in the hunger strike. SF and the IRSP suggested that the strike be suspended for three months to allow time to monitor prison reforms. This suggestion was rejected by the hunger strikers and Republican prisoners.
1982 – British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, stated that, "no commitment exists for Her Majesty's government to consult the Irish government on matters affecting Northern Ireland".
1991 – Rhonda Paisley, a Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) councillor and daughter of Ian Paisley, said that the bomb attacks the previous day by the Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF) were "perfectly understandable" given the "betrayal" of Northern Ireland by the British government.
1994 – The IRA carried out a mortar attack on a Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) station in Newry, Co Down. Over 40 people were injured in the attack.
1998 – Rhonda Paisley daughter of Ian Paisley, leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), was awarded £24,249 by Northern Ireland's Fair Employment Tribunal. It ruled that she had been discriminated against after being turned down for the post of Arts Co-operation Officer.
1998 – The threat to Irish rail services on August Bank Holiday Monday is lifted following the intervention by the chief executive of the Labour Relations Commission, Kieran Mulvey.
1999 – Quinze coasts to an easy victory in the Guinness Galway Hurdle Handicap.
1999 – Brian Meehan is jailed for life after he is convicted of the murder of journalist, Veronica Guerin.
1999 – A man, in his mid-50s from the USA, was arrested by Garda Síochána in Clifden, Co Galway, in connection with a suspected conspiracy to smuggle arms into the State. Earlier, Gardaí discovered two handguns and a quantity of ammunition in a parcel at the SDS postal depot on the Naas Road in Dublin. In Fort Lauderdale, three Irish citizens arrested in connection with the conspiracy were refused bail by a Federal Court judge. A prosecution lawyer for one of the men, Conor Anthony Claxton, said he described himself as "a member of the IRA".
1999 – 'Channel 4 News' and 'Computer Weekly' both made claims that there was a "cover up" by the Ministry of Defence (MOD) of the true reasons for the Chinook helicopter crash on the Mull of Kintyre on 2 June 1994. The crash resulted in the deaths of 29 security force and intelligence personnel. While the MOD insisted that pilot error was to blame it emerged that the computer navigation equipment on the helicopter was at the centre of a legal dispute between the MOD and the suppliers of the equipment and software.
2001 – Thousands of people climb Mayo's holy mountain, Croagh Patrick, for the annual national pilgrimage.
2001 – Michael Flatley announces his retirement in Dallas at the last show of his Feet of Flames World Tour.
2002 – The first public-private partnership deal to fast-track the building of 170 million euro hospital scheme is launched.
2015 – Death of Racing commentator Peter O'Sullevan (born in Kenmore, Co Kerry). Peter O'Sullevan loved a bet, but most of all he loved the horses. The former commentator's campaigns against misuse of the whip were heartfelt and consistent.
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Q: Laravel merge arrays inside an array I have such result
array:2 [
  0 => array:5 [
    0 => 3
    1 => 7
    2 => 8
    3 => 9
    4 => 10
  ]
  1 => array:1 [
    0 => 216
  ]
]

And I want to have it like this:
array:6 [
    0 => 3
    1 => 7
    2 => 8
    3 => 9
    4 => 10
    5 => 216
]

How should I change my code?
$barcodes = [];
foreach($request->input('serials') as $serial)
{
    if(!empty($serial['barcode_id'])) {
        if($serial['amount'] > 1) {
            $barcodes[] = Barcode::where('sold', true)->take($serial['amount'])->pluck('id')->toArray(); // returned `0 => array:5 [`
        } else {
            $barcodes[] = Barcode::where('sold', true)->where('serial_number', $serial['barcode_id'])->orWhere('u_serial_number', $serial['barcode_id'])->pluck('id')->toArray(); // returned `1 => array:1 [`
        }
    }
}
dd($barcodes);

A: You can do it directly in the loop:
$barcodes = [];
foreach($request->input('serials') as $serial)
{
    if(!empty($serial['barcode_id'])) {
        if($serial['amount'] > 1) {
            $barcodes = array_merge($barcodes, Barcode::where('sold', true)->take($serial['amount'])->pluck('id')->toArray());
        } else {
            $barcodes = array_merge($barcodes, Barcode::where('sold', true)->where('serial_number', $serial['barcode_id'])->orWhere('u_serial_number', $serial['barcode_id'])->pluck('id')->toArray());
        }
    }
}

A: Solved
the solution was using ... operator to merge my inside arrays
array_merge(...$barcodes) and that did the job.

A: Perhaps a more laravelish way;
//Bring in Arr facade
use Illuminate\Support\Arr;
//Then
Arr::flatten($barcodes);


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The International Agreement for the suppression of the White Slave Traffic (also known as the White Slave convention) is a series of anti–human trafficking treaties, specifically aimed at the illegal trade of white humans, the first of which was first negotiated in Paris in 1904. It was one of the first multilateral treaties to address issues of slavery and human trafficking. The convention held that human trafficking was a punishable crime and that the 12 signatories should exchange information regarding human trafficking operations.

The Slavery, Servitude, Forced Labour and Similar Institutions and Practices Convention of 1926 and the International Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Women and Children of 1933 are similar documents.

Early treaties
The initial treaty was concluded in Paris on 18 May 1904 and came into force on 18 July 1905. A total of 26 states ratified the original 1904 treaty. However, five years after the treaty came into force, it was re-negotiated in Paris and concluded on 4 May 1910. The 1910 treaty came into force on 5 July 1920, and a total of 41 states ratified it.

1949 Protocol
In 1949 in Lake Success, New York, a Protocol was negotiated which amended and updated both the 1904 and the 1910 treaties. The Protocol was concluded on 4 May 1949 and came into force on the same date. The resulting amended treaties came into force on 21 June 1951 (1904 version) and 14 August 1951 (1910 version). As of 2013, 33 states have ratified the amending Protocol and the amended 1949 versions of the treaties have 54 state parties.

See also
Child grooming

References

External links
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Chief Civilian Director makes report to Crown counsel
SURREY – Chief Civilian Director Richard Rosenthal of the Independent Investigations Office (IIO) has made a report to Crown counsel with respect to an officer-involved incident that took place in Port Alberni.
On Feb. 15, 2013, RCMP officers responded to a complaint involving an adult female. The female was located walking at the corner of Maitland St. and 8th Ave. During the officers' contact with the female, they determined that she was the subject of a Court Order and believed her to be non-compliant with it. Based on that, the officers arrested her.
During the arrest, the female sustained a leg injury. She was transported to police cells where she was assessed by BC Ambulance Services. She was subsequently transported to hospital where she was admitted for treatment.
Over the following days, both RCMP and IIO investigators monitored the affected person's medical condition. Based on information received on Feb. 22, 2013, the IIO asserted jurisdiction.
The RCMP maintained responsibility for the concurrent investigation into the actions of the affected person.
Chief Civilian Director Richard Rosenthal has completed his review of the investigative file and has forwarded a report to Crown counsel, pursuant to Section 38.11 of the Police Act. This occurs when the Chief Civilian Director considers that an officer may have committed an offence under any enactment.
The Chief Civilian Director does not make a recommendation on whether charges should be approved or what charges Crown counsel should consider. Under the Crown Counsel Act, the Criminal Justice Branch has jurisdiction over the charge assessment and charge approval process. In approving charges, the Criminal Justice Branch must be satisfied not only that an offence may have been committed, but that the commission of an offence can be proven in court beyond a reasonable doubt. Criminal Justice Branch policy provides that in making this assessment Crown counsel will apply a two-part test:
1. There must be a substantial likelihood of conviction based on the evidence gathered by the investigating agency.
2. A prosecution must be required in the public interest.
Under these circumstances, no public report will be issued by the IIO and no further information will be provided.
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Contact: owen.court@iiobc.ca
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