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Lin, Chang, Huang, Lin, Chuang, Chen, Sung, and Chen: Management of Hyperacute Stroke during the Coronavirus Disease of 2019 Pandemic: The Modified Code Stroke in a Medical Center in Taiwan
Management of Hyperacute Stroke during the Coronavirus Disease of 2019 Pandemic: The Modified Code Stroke in a Medical Center in Taiwan
Po-Yu Lina, Yu-Ming Changa, Chih-Yuan Huangb, Chih-Hao Linc, Ming-Tsung Chuangd, Po-Lin Chene, Pi-Shan Sunga, Chih-Hung Chena
aDepartment of Neurology, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
bDivision of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
cDepartment of Emergency Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
dDepartment of Medical Imaging, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
eCenter for Infection Control and Department of Internal Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
Correspondence: Pi-Shan Sung Department of Neurology, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, No.138, Sheng Li Road, Tainan City 704, Taiwan Tel: +886-6-2353535-5481 Fax: +886-6-2374285 E-mail: pishansung@gmail.com
Received May 6, 2020 Revised May 6, 2020 Accepted May 8, 2020
The coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has caused significant stress to the healthcare practice. Ischemic stroke was observed in 2.3% hospitalized COVID-19 patients and 4.5% patients with severe COVID-19 infections [1]. In this letter, we report a "modified code stroke" in the management of hyperacute stroke under the COVID-19 crisis followed in a tertiary medical center in Taiwan.
The Taiwan Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) has coordinated nationwide preventive strategies to intercept the spread of COVID-19. Besides laboratory confirmed COVID-19 cases, the CECC has defined three risk levels for COVID-19 infection [2]. People having unprotected contact with confirmed COVID-19 patients or travelling from abroad within the past 14 days are either home-isolated or quarantined and tested for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), if symptoms developed. Patients with pneumonia, and high-risk social status (medical workers, pulblic transport workers, history of joining public gathering) with symptoms of fever, respiratory tract infection, anosmia, and/or dysgeusia are tested for SARS-CoV-2 as community-based surveillance. Till April 18, 2020, 52,445 SARS-CoV-2 reverse-transcription polymerase-chain reaction (RT-PCR) tests were performed in Taiwan, of which 343 were confirmed COVID-19 cases, 333 were included in the 14,151 tests of patients at airports or under home isolation/quarantine (positive rate 2.3%), and 10 were included in the 38,294 tests of community-based surveillance (positive rate 0.026%). The risk of community transmission was considered low.
The National Cheng Kung University Hospital (NCKUH) is a 1,320-bed tertiary medical center in Southern Taiwan. Figure 1 summarizes the "modified code stroke" followed in the NCKUH, and the strategies are summarized in Supplementary Table 1. Patients used to be treated using the standard code stroke (Supplementary methods [3-5]) are treated using the "modified code stroke" and transported to the negative-pressure isolation room if their clinical infection screen based on exposure history and/or symptoms result in positive or poor-quality. All medical personnel in close proximity with the patients wear personal protective equipment to prevent air, droplet, and/or contact infection [6]. The patients wear surgical masks throughout the "modified code stroke."
We use the modified National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) to evaluate the severity of stroke. To avoid the removal of patients' surgical masks, we score 1 point for facial palsy if the patient has mild dysarthria, and 2 points if the dysarthria is moderate to severe. The finger-nose-finger test is substituted with the finger-to-nose test to decrease contact exposure. Before neurological evaluation, a nasopharyngeal swab is obtained early from the patient and screened for SARS-CoV-2 by RT-PCR, to promote hemostasis of the swabbed site before potential thrombolysis treatment. While obtaining the nasopharyngeal swab, the patient's surgical mask is displaced inferiorly to expose the nostril, but it covered the patient's mouth to minimize the possibility of droplet spread.
After clinical evaluation, the patient is transported to the computed tomography (CT) room through a special corridor that ensures a distance of at least 1.5 m between the patient and other people. The air conditioning of the CT room is turned off throughout the examination and is turned on after surface decontamination and disinfection with ultraviolet light. Noncontrast chest CT is performed to evaluate the presence of pneumonia. The choice of brain scan depends on the potential need for endovascular thrombectomy (EVT), determined clinically by NIHSS, signs of large vessel occlusion, and risk of COVID-19, as discussed later.
After clinical and radiographic evaluations, we assess the risk of COVID-19. Patients with confirmed COVID-19, under home-isolation or quarantine, or with evidence of pneumonia on chest CT are considered as high risk of COVID-19. Patients with high-risk social status accompanied by fever and symptoms of respiratory tract infection are considered as intermediate risk of COVID-19. The remaining are considered as low risk of COVID-19. Patients with low risk are released from the isolation to be treated by the standard code stroke. Patients with high or intermediate risk are transferred to the negative-pressure isolation room. The eligibility and protocol of intravenous thrombolysis are same as in standard code stroke.
Taiwan Stroke Society suggested that the risk of infectious exposure in medical workers treating patients with high risk of COVID-19 should be considered [7] due to limited number of neuro-interventionists and lack of negative-pressure angiography rooms in Taiwan. In NCKUH, we excluded patients with high risk of CIVID-19 from EVT in "modified code stroke."
Patients with intermediate risk of COVID-19 can undergo "protected EVT" if eligible. These patients are intubated in the negative-pressure isolation room [8], and an endotracheal tube is connected to a portable ventilator and closed sputum-suction system. During the procedure, the angiography room is under positive pressure as usual. The patient is under conscious sedation, and ventilation is supported by the portable ventilator to avoid disconnection of the closed respiratory system. After the procedure, the same disinfection procedures as the CT room are performed.
After hyperacute treatment, the patient is admitted to a negative-pressure room or single room in the intensive care unit (ICU). All patients with intravenous thrombolysis and EVT are advised follow-up brain CT 24 hours after treatment. We conduct the SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR tests every 24 hours. Confirmed patients with COVID-19 are released from isolation only after three consecutive negative results. Home-isolated/quarantined patients are released after two consecutive negative results. Patient under community-based surveillance are released after negative initial test results. Brain MRI is performed after the patient's release.
This protocol can be further modified in the future. First, EVT in patients with high risk of COVID-19, especially in home-isolated/quarantined patients, can be re-initiated if a reliable, high-sensitivity, rapid test of SARS-CoV-2 is developed. Second, training emergency medical technicians in the pre-hospital notification of code stroke can minimize the time required for in-hospital preparation. Third, if all ICU beds are occupied by critical cases, early step-down transfer may be reasonable [9]. Finally, evidence regarding the influence of COVID-19 on stroke and hyperacute stroke treatment is limited [10]. Further studies are warranted, and new evidence will further change the "modified code stroke."
Supplementary methods
Summary of strategies in the modified code stroke
This work received a grant from the National Cheng Kung University Hospital (Grant number: NCKUH-20200062).
We thank the Stroke Center, Center for Infection Control, Department of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medical imaging, and Department of Anesthesiology at the National Cheng Kung University Hospital in helping us to design this modified protocol. We thank the National Cheng Kung University Hospital for funding this work.
Modified stroke protocol in the National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Taiwan. The box with red rim indicates negative-pressure isolation environment. The box with orange rim indicates environments with modifications in ventilation. The box with yellow rim represents medical staff wearing personal protective equipment. The goal is achieve a door-to-needle time for intravenous thrombolysis as 90 minutes, if non-contrast brain computed tomography (CT) is performed and 120 minutes, if multiphase CT angiography is performed. COVID-19, coronavirus disease of 2019; CTA, computed tomography angiography; NIHSS, National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale; SARS-CoV-2, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; rtPA, recombinant tissue plasminogen activator; ICU, intensive care unit. *90 minutes if non-contrast CT, 120 minutes if multiphase CTA.
1. Mao L, Jin H, Wang M, Hu Y, Chen S, He Q, et al. Neurologic manifestations of hospitalized patients with coronavirus disease 2019 in Wuhan, China. JAMA Neurol 2020;Apr. 10. [Epub]. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamaneurol.2020.1127.
2. Taiwan Central Epidemic Command Center. CECC measures for following up on persons at risk of infection. Taiwan Centers for Disease Control; https://www.cdc.gov.tw/En/File/Get/Bj-bAcC0SN3kVWwG1gKWxA. 2020. Accessed May 14, 2020.
3. Tang SC, Tsai LK, Chen CJ, Lee CW, Wang KC, Lai YJ, et al. 2019 Taiwan Stroke Society guideline for endovascular thrombectomy in acute ischemic stroke patients. Formos J Stroke 2019;1:77-89.
4. Chen CH, Hsieh HC, Sung SF, Hsieh CY, Chen PL, Tsai LK, et al. 2019 Taiwan Stroke Society guideline for intravenous thrombolysis in acute ischemic stroke patients. Formos J Stroke 2019;1:1-22.
5. Powers WJ, Rabinstein AA, Ackerson T, Adeoye OM, Bambakidis NC, Becker K, et al. Guidelines for the early management of patients with acute ischemic stroke: 2019 update to the 2018 guidelines for the early management of acute ischemic stroke: a guideline for healthcare professionals from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association. Stroke 2019;50:e344-e418.
6. Taiwan Centers for Disease Control. Interim guidelines for clinical management of SARS-CoV-2 Infection (5th edition) Taiwan Centers for Disease Control; https://www.cdc.gov.tw/En/File/Get/_Dv_q75ZjLcNeRvlnrPgUg. 2020. Accessed May 14, 2020.
7. Chen CH, Liu CH, Sung PS, Hsieh CY. Taiwan Stroke Society recommendations for hyperacute stroke management during the COVID-19 pandemic. Formos J Stroke 2020;2:1-4.
8. Fraser JF, Arthur AS, Chen M, Levitt M, Mocco J, Albuquerque FC, et al. Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery recommendations for the care of emergent neurointerventional patients in the setting of covid-19. J Neurointerv Surg 2020;Apr. 15. [Epub]. https://doi.org/10.1136/neurintsurg-2020-016098.
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EXCLUSIVE: Big Ang Met Her Newest Grandchild, Finished Filming 'Mob Wives' Before She Died
By Meredith B. Kile 4:45 PM PST, March 9, 2016
Mob Wives star Angela Raiola died on Feb. 18 after a long battle with cancer, but according to her daughter, Raquel Scotto, the reality star was still her infamous "Big Ang" self, even in her final days.
"She was good up until the very end," Scotto told ET on Wednesday. "She just wanted to go home. That's what she kept saying."
WATCH: Big Ang Laid to Rest Following Funeral Service Attended by 'Mob Wives' Co-Stars
Raiola's husband, Neil Murphy, said that his wife -- who finished filming her final Mob Wives reunion special just two weeks before she died -- kept her notorious sense of humor until the end, even dancing with him in her hospital room.
"I had to take her to the bathroom 'cause she couldn't really walk, and she decided to hum a song and dance. I had to hold her up, but she was dancing!" he recalled. "And the nurse said she was doing it in the elevator on the way to the tests, too. A song came on in the elevator and she was dancing."
WATCH: Big Ang Honored With Mural in Staten Island
Scotto gave birth to a daughter, Raiola's newest grandchild, just a few weeks before her mother's death and counts it as a blessing that the two had a chance to meet before the reality star died.
"Thank God. I'm just blessed for that alone." she said, revealing that the family didn't know the severity of her mother's condition at the time, and that, had her daughter not been born three weeks early, Raiola may not have had the chance to meet her. "It was nice. I didn't think what happened to my mother was going to happen, so you know, I wasn't even thinking along those lines."
Scotto said her kids are keeping her busy as she grieves the loss of her mother, and also helping keep Big Ang's memory alive for their family.
"Somebody said, you know, 'Now that your mother's gone, you're gonna end up seeing things.' Like, you're gonna end up seeing things of her in your kids," she explained. "And it's so funny, because... that's now how I remember my mother. My son imitates my mother to a T, my son, Salvatore … I see her in my kids so much."
WATCH: 'Mob Wives' Star Big Ang Worries Family Will 'Fall Apart' Without Her in First Episode Since Her Death
By Murphy's count, "60 people" gathered in the hospital during Raiola's last days, ensuring that she was surrounded by the love of her friends and family when she died.
"It was just a moment of, like, serenity at that time, when she finally took her last breath, because we had, like, were were laughing about something. It was just very peaceful," Scotto recalled. "There was, like, no crying going on. And that's when she went. Like she wanted us to be in that state, I think, of just, you know, peace and accepting this for what it was. 'Cause she was accepting of it."
"The week before, when she was in the hospital, she told the doctor, like, 'I'm OK to die. I lived my life, and my kids have their families now," she added. "[She knew] we would be OK."
EXCLUSIVE: Big Ang's Husband Neil Murphy Sets the Record Straight on Their 'Estrangement,' Shares Heartbreaking Final Moment With Her
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Patient Receives Implanted Heart
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The patient — whose name and gender are not being released — is said to be resting comfortably at Jewish Hospital in Kentucky.
Two surgeons from the University of Louisville implanted the softball-sized pump during a seven-hour operation, in the first of a five-patient clinical trial.
The device is said to be the world's first self-contained artificial heart. It is battery-powered and runs without wires, tubes or hoses sticking out of the chest.
Doctors said the patient was expected to die within a month before the implant, but may live another two months now. Over time they say they hope that the device will extend patients' lives by five years.
Doctors say that if the implant prove successful, that they hope to extend the trial to several dozen patients.
Experts say the AbioCor Implantable Replacement Heart is an improvement from past artificial hearts that attached to bulky wires and pumps outside of the body.
The most famous example was the Jarvik-7, first implanted in patient Barney Clark in 1982. The Jarvik had an external console about the size of a washing machine. No recipient lived longer than 620 days with it.
The AbioCor is designed to move blood through the lungs and to the rest of the body, simulating the rhythm of a heartbeat.


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The attention-seeking foul ball
My first softball game was a bit of a smash
ANDREW FITZGERALD
On Friday afternoon, I drove out to Dobson Field at D'Youville College to cover the Bulls softball game against Ohio. It was the first game of three that the team played this weekend.
This was the first time I had ever been to a softball game, so I was pretty excited.
The first inning and a half was pretty average. There were a few hits by each team, but everyone ended up stranded on base.
In the bottom of the second, Buffalo was back up to the plate in hopes of finding some offensive production.
Most of the at-bats were pretty long, as batters kept fouling balls off to stay alive. No one went out without a long battle with the pitcher. Most players hit foul balls high and to the left, toward the road, not the parking lot behind the plate.
I was at the game with Nathaniel Mendelson, who was taking pictures of the action. A few balls in a row were fouled off into the road and he was cringing at each one as they were flying toward his car.
I made a snide remark about how I was lucky to get the parking spot I did.
I parked my car behind the plate and to the left. It was behind the first baseline.
Since this was my first game, I thought it was a good, safe spot to park. I didn't really think anything of it.
About five minutes after I had made that remark, karma hit me.
It came in the form of a high-flying foul ball heading straight for my car. It landed directly on the back windshield and caused a mini eruption of glass.
Several people thought it was water at first, but I already knew what had actually happened. Some of the crowd went over to the car to look at the damage. Even the D'Youville field manager said he had never seen this happen before.
My car was the first injury at that field and the first of the season for the Bulls.
At first, I was worried and upset, but I called Safelite to see if they could get it fixed. Unfortunately, they can't come until Tuesday to replace the windshield, so until then, I just have to leave my car parked outside my apartment and wait it out.
The initial shock had quickly faded though. I instead found the humor in the situation and took the accident light heartedly.
I figure why should I be upset about something like this, when in reality the situation was quite humorous.
I do find the placement of the ball pretty lucky though. It had hit almost directly in the middle of the pane of glass, causing a spider shatter through the whole back windshield. If it had hit near the corners, there would certainly been a lot more damage.
After the game was over, I had managed to cover the back windshield and tape it up so it is weatherproof until Tuesday. It also allowed me to be able to drive the car back to UB.
This was not the outcome I was expecting from my first-ever softball game, but it certainly was memorable. This was definitely the most entertaining game I've ever been to.
Andrew Fitzgerald is a staff writer and can be reached at sports@ubspectrum.com.
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0000017a-3b40-d913-abfe-bf44a4f90000Howard Wilkinson joined the WVXU news team as the politics reporter and columnist in April 2012 , after 30 years of covering local, state and national politics for The Cincinnati Enquirer. On this page, you will find his weekly column, Politically Speaking; the Monday morning political chats with News Director Maryanne Zeleznik and other news coverage by Wilkinson. A native of Dayton, Ohio, Wilkinson has covered every Ohio gubernatorial race since 1974, as well as 16 presidential nominating conventions. Along with politics, Wilkinson also covered the 2001 Cincinnati race riots, the Lucasville prison riot in 1993, the Air Canada plane crash at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport in 1983, and the 1997 Ohio River flooding. And, given his passion for baseball, you might even find some stories about the Cincinnati Reds here from time to time.
Romney could make history by not winning Ohio
91.7 WVXU | By Howard Wilkinson
Ohio, you may make history on the night of Nov. 6.
You may elect a new president without giving him your 18 electoral votes.
Consider this rather remarkable truism of American political history:
No Republican presidential candidate – going all the way back to the first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln in 1860 – has won the White House without winning Ohio.
Mitt Romney could be the first.
This is not to say he will lose Ohio; he may, in fact, win the Buckeye State.
And it is not to say that Romney will necessarily win the White House. President Obama's poll numbers have been slipping lately, but the race is still a virtual dead heat.
Flip a coin. Lots of time between now and Nov. 6 for the Obama campaign to turn it around.
But Larry J. Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, and his colleagues, Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley have written an analysis of where the presidential race stands now and lays out several pathways for Romney to win the White House without winning Ohio.
The polls in Ohio are all over the map – last week, the NBC/Marist poll had Obama up by six percentage points in Ohio, while Rasmussen Reports had the president up by only one percentage point.
Real Clear Politics, a website that tracks national and key state polls, averaged out the seven most recent Ohio polls and came up with an Obama lead of 1.3 percent.
It's going to be a close race here in Ohio.
It takes 270 electoral votes to win the White House.
Sabato's electoral college map shows Obama with 277 electoral votes – a combination of solidly Democratic states and states leaning that way – and Romney with 235 electoral votes.
Three states with a total of 26 electoral votes – Colorado, New Hampshire and Virginia – are rated by Sabato as toss-ups.
Let's say Romney wins all three of those toss-ups – that brings him to 261 electoral votes.
If he does that, the GOP candidate would need to win one of two states that Sabato now lists as "leaning Democratic" – Wisconsin (10 electoral votes) or Ohio (18 electoral votes).
Bingo. President Romney.
Or he win the three toss-ups and both Iowa (six electoral votes) and Nevada (6 electoral votes).
Again, bingo for Romney.
Yes, we know, there are a lot of "ifs" there. And the electoral college map still favors Obama, based on the polling.
But two weeks ago, an analysis that showed Romney winning the White House without winning Ohio would have sounded ludicrous.
It's not so ludicrous now.
"It all goes back to President Obama's performance in the first debate,'' Sabato told WVXU. "That's when the numbers spiked up for Romney, instantly."
Romney is still running hard in Ohio, like a man with his hair on fire. Either he or his running mate or one of the Romney sons campaigned in Ohio five out of six days last week. Saturday, Paul Ryan – fresh off his debate with Vice President Joe Biden – went to Youngstown to rally the troops; and Romney himself held rallies in Portsmouth and Lebanon, on the street outside the Warren County town's historic Golden Lamb.
The frenzy of campaigning in Ohio, Sabato said, will probably lead to a round of internal polling by the Romney campaign next week to see if all the activity moved the needle.
If they come to the conclusion that Ohio is an unlikely win, Sabato said, "they might start shifting their resources elsewhere."
"Even if they decide they can't win, they'll maintain a level of presence in Ohio, just to make everybody think that it is still in play,'' Sabato said.
Scott Jennings, the Ohio state director for the Romney campaign, said talk of Romney not winning Ohio is misguided.
"I don't think there is any question – Mitt Romney will win Ohio. We have the momentum."
The early voting in Ohio portends well for the Romney campaign, Jennings said.
"You have Franklin County, where 17 percent of the voters have identified themselves as Republicans by voting in Republican primaries; and they account for 32 percent of the absentee ballots so far,'' Jennings said. "You have Hamilton County with 19 percent Republicans and 34 percent of the absentee ballots have come from Republicans.
"I could put Mitt Romney or Paul Ryan in any one of Ohio's 88 counties and draw a crowd,'' Jennings said. "The other side can't say that."
Former Ohio governor Ted Strickland told WVXU that he is convinced the early voting – both by mail and in-person at boards of elections – will heavily favor Obama.
"The Obama campaign is the most impressive grassroots organization I have ever seen,'' Strickland said. "They know how to turn people out."
The Obama administration's bail-out of the auto industry in 2009 – something Romney opposed – is, in large part, responsible for his lead in the polls.
"How can Mitt Romney come to Ohio and talk convincingly about job creation when he opposed the auto industry rescue?,'' Strickland said. "There are a lot of reasons for Ohioans to support the president, but that is at the top of the list."
Still, both sides are bracing for a close race and a long election night in Ohio.
And the possibility that Romney could become the first GOP president elected without Ohio is real, if everything else falls in place for the GOP nominee.
"We have so many elections; and every time, there is something that surprises us,'' Sabato said. "Romney winning the election without Ohio would be one of them."
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Howard Wilkinson joined the WVXU News Team after 30 years of covering local and state politics for The Cincinnati Enquirer. A native of Dayton, Ohio, Wilkinson has covered every Ohio governor's race since 1974 as well as 12 presidential nominating conventions. His streak continued by covering both the 2012 Republican and Democratic conventions for 91.7 WVXU. Along with politics, Wilkinson also covered the 2001 Cincinnati race riots; the Lucasville Prison riot in 1993; the Air Canada plane crash at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport in 1983; and the 1997 Ohio River flooding. The Cincinnati Reds are his passion. "I've been listening to WVXU and public radio for many years, and I couldn't be more pleased at the opportunity to be part of it," he says.
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More and more affluents are sharing ideas and opinions online as their use of social media and the size of their networks increase. According to Scorpio Partnership, the top social media sites for affluent consumers are Facebook (71%), YouTube (48%), Google+ (37%), LinkedIn (31%), and Twitter (29%). Equally of note is the fact that 55% of affluent consumers use social networking apps on their mobile devices.
Let's face it: right now, affluent consumers are active on digital, mobile and social platforms. They are conducting research, sharing opinions and yes, even making purchases of luxury goods and services. If your high-end brand is solidly invested in mobile and social at this moment, then you are ahead of the curve.
But how do we anticipate what's next?
Forrester's Thomas Husson has some interesting thoughts on the growing importance of messaging apps – and the need for marketers to continue evolving in order to meet consumers where they are.
Husson makes the distinction between the one-to-many broadcast communications of most social media and the private, one-to-one communications tool of a messaging app, optimized for mobile. I think that this distinction is important, as mobile's share of digital engagement continues to grow.
"Mobile allows users to seamlessly merge social offline experiences with online communications; offers more instantaneous and emotional forms of social communications; and provides users new ways to manage identities," says Husson.
It may be time for you to consider how your brand might capitalize on this growing phenomenon. Is there a way to engage with consumers in a manner relevant to your brand? If so, how might you add value to the user experience by integrating location-based services, commerce and payment systems?
It's worth some quiet time for you to reflect on these questions. A great way to start is to invest one hour this week checking out these apps: KakaoTalk, Kik, Line, Secret, Snapchat, Tango, Viber or Whisper. It's a start in the right direction.
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The object ISF-2 is designed to receive, prepare for storage and direct storage of spent fuel assemblies (SFA) and spent additional absorbers (SAA) stored at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
ISF-2 will provide acception for storage, preparation for storage and storage during 100 years more than 21,000 spent fuel assemblies RBMK-1000 at 2500 SFA performance per year.
Yatsenyuk summed up that the storage should be put into operation completely in 2017.
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Virginia Beach, Virginia (VA). –LightGrid, LLC (LightGrid) will serve as a Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) panelist during the Armed Forces Communication and Electronics Association`s (AFCEA`s) virtual TechNet Cyber convention on December 1, 2020. The Department of Defense (DoD) has mandated that its defense contractors implement unified, DoD approved, cybersecurity hygiene practices by 2025. The panel will cover the requisites of the CMMC mandate and its significant impact upon the defense industry.
The Defense Information System Agency`s (DISA`s) Major General Garret S. Yee will moderate four CMMC panelists who represent the government and both large and small business including: Sara Crabtree (LightGrid), Kemal Piskin (LinQuest Corporation), Chris Newborn (Defense Acquisition University [DAU]), and JenniLynn Bushby (DISA). The discussion will highlight the importance of cybersecurity measures throughout all supply chain management lifecycles, address industry concerns about subsequent audits, and inform the audience on how to prepare for the upcoming requirements.
"Keeping our Information Technology (IT) networks secure from our adversaries is an area which impacts the military, government and industry alike," said Sara Crabtree, LightGrid`s Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Director of Contracts. "I'm excited to be a representative of the small business community and to share what LightGrid has done to meet the requirements of NIST SP 800-171 and to prepare for our CMMC audit. It`s also a great opportunity for us to learn from the other panelists and the TechNet community."
LightGrid is a Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HubZone) Small Business headquartered in Beach, VA. They are a registered ISO 9001:2015 company with a Top-Secret facility clearance. Since 2010, they have been "Defending the Nation Thru Innovation" by supporting DISA and other DoD agencies with technologies refreshment, systems engineering, telecommunication engineering, cybersecurity, infrastructure analysis, and project management solutions. For more information about LightGrid`s services and history, please visit their website at www.lightgrid.com.
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So a while back I made some Seafood Chowder. I was planning on posting the recipe right away, but life happens. So here's the back-story. As a kid I was allergic to tomatoes, or so I thought. So instead of tomato soup, I had canned clam chowder.
Years ago, I made a clam linguine for friends after having it at a Little Italy (yes in NY) restaurant with Sukoshi Fahey and Don Graves during my first time in New York. It changed my world. I decided the world needed more clams!
Thus came to the decision that I should make a heartier Clam Chowder. Now over the years I've added things to the canned soup, herbs, more veggies, more clams. But this time, I started with the ingredients, no can. You see, since I quit smoking, I gained a bunch of weight. Who the hell could blame me? My dad died of lung cancer and I wasn't a happy camper. So, 30 lbs lost thus far since March and all I've been doing is revising my eating habits, walking, and keeping busy. It also helps to have friends encourage you! You can eat whatever you want, but with consequences. I haven't eaten a real hamburger in about 10 months. I use turkey, chicken, fish (love salmon burgers) and finally I don't crave it. Same with Salt. Have you ever looked at the sodium content in food? It's a preservative! So, why not make it yourself. Cut your sodium intake by 80%! You'll feel less bloated and have more energy!
So with those thoughts in my head, during a little cold and chilly afternoon, I was craving seafood and soup. Homemade Clam Chowder time! I knew I had mussels and shrimp in the freezer. Had veggies in the fridge, all I needed was Cream, Clams and Oysters. I got home from the store, ready to simmer!
Here's my rough recipe! Feel free to add or subtract your favorite seafood!
Prep all your items. Remove the shells and rinse seafood. Chop the onion, celery, and garlic. Make sure you reserve the liquids from the canned seafood. If you don't, you'll need at least ½ cup of clam juice.
In a 3 quart pan, Cook the shrimp, scallops, oysters, mussels and clams with some diced onion and garlic. Add a few slices of butter and a pinch of sea salt. Once pinked, make sure you chop into pieces (I use my kitchen scissors).
Remove seafood from pan and set aside.
Add 2 cups of water to pan (with seafood juices) and the remaining reserved seafood can juices. Reduce over a slow boil.
In a separate pan, cook the celery and remaining onion and garlic until slightly soft.
Cook the potatoes in the microwave, whole (the cheater method). Once done, dice. Careful, they'll be hot!
When the liquids are reduced by at least an inch, add potatoes, seafood, and celery mixture.
Now it's time to add the butter. Add the remaining butter in cubes or slices, so it's easier to melt.
Slowly work the liquids up to a boil, and before it does boil, slowly add the cream.
Stir, stir the mixture! You don't want the soup to break, so keep it to med-med/low.
Bring to a boil and reduce to low.
Simmer for at least 30 minutes, but I prefer an hour.
Serve with warmed garlic bread, grilled cheese or crackers!
Once cooled, store in freezer jars to give to friends or for lunches!
Reminder: The longer it simmers, the stronger and thicker the soup!


Chris Sale vs. Cleveland Indians – Sale went 8 innings gave up 3 runs and struck out 9 in his last outing against the Indians. Sale is one of those pitchers I will always pay for.
Movie of the day: Fruitvale Station – Such a fantastic film which Michael B. Jordan just kills it. Folks the story is insane and is just a great overall film.
Murphy went 3-6 with a 2B and a RBI against Zimmerman in their last matchup.
Butler has been on fire over the last week and has another great matchup today.
This is a gut feeling on this one.
Hyun-Jin Ryu vs. Atlanta Braves – Ryu is 9-2 with a 2.61 ERA with 59 Ks on the road this season.
Movie of the Day – Patch Adams – In honor of the passing of Robin Williams I will posting my favorite movies of his for the rest of the week.
Last night would've been so much better if Ventura would just have gotten the W.
Here a few reasons why I like these guys.


When we first started surveying our network of millennial and professional women in Chicago, we were amazed to learn that the vast majority admitted to following Luxury Garage Sale on Instagram. Many more were familiar with the company's founders Lindsay and Brielle, the brand's personality, and the extraordinary, aspirational items for sale at bargain prices. We were impressed.
Commerce has long been a passion of ours at Chicago Ventures. But as we've watched our e-commerce focused startups grow over the past three years, we've recognized an unexpected fact: that the "e" in e-commerce is a lot less relevant than it used to be. I first wrote about this in a January, 2015 VentureBeat article "Moving Beyond Spam: E-Commerce's Latest Chapter is Rebuilding Relationships and Trust." Don't get me wrong: online purchasing definitely matters. But an online retailer is no longer a novelty. The internet provides scale – but often at the expense of building authentic relationships. Enter LGS.
LGS is not the first company to attack the online consignment space, nor is it the first to focus on women's fashion. But it does it differently – and it does it better. How? Leveraging its collection of pop-up shops, brick and mortar stores, and digital communities, LGS is cultivating a centralized home for its customers to congregate, browse, discuss – all as they become brand evangelists. LGS differs by offering a high end white glove service, operating under the belief that commerce should not be merely transaction – but rather, relational.
More, LGS is leveraging their brand to approach the digital world in extraordinary ways. Case in point, over half the items posted to their Instagram feed are sold within 48 hours. By bridging the online and offline worlds, they have created inventory acquisition and product distribution channels simply unattainable in the traditional retail world.
The best part of any new investment is welcoming truly spectacular people to the Chicago Ventures family. Lindsay and Brielle have over-executed on minimal resources at every stage of their company's life, all the while building a talented team. We're excited to work closely again with Brian Spaly as he chairs the company's Board and helps them move into the next stage of their growth.
If you're in Chicago now or Dallas in March be sure to swing by their stores, if not, check out LuxuryGarageSale.com to check out their curated collection of designer merchandise.


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Tom Cruise's daughter Isabella is not joining the strict Scientology division Sea Org, it has been confirmed.
Following reports that the 19-year-old was about to follow her boyfriend into the secretive 'higher order', her father's representatives released a statement.
After it emerged that Isabella's boyfriend Eddie Frencher had joined the clergy like group it was speculated that she would follow him.
A friend told the Village Voice that after her boyfriend joined Sea Org and contact between the two was cut off, Isabella began 'considering seriously' joining him.
According to the blog Isabella told her friends on her Facebook page that Frencher had been sent to the group's Estates Project Force boot camp in Los Angeles.
The potential threat of her daughter Suri joining Sea Org was widely cited as being one of the reasons behind Katie Holmes' recent divorce from Tom Cruise.
There is also a golf course, accommodation blocks, education buildings and the $9.4million mansion which former members claim was built for the return of Hubbard, who died in 1986.


Chance McBride, an ex-Navy SEAL on the run for his life, has just lost the one person who was most important to him. Now he must reunite with his team to get her back.
When McKenzie Davis moved to a new neighborhood, she had no clue that the hot guy next door would actually take an interest in her. She also didn't know that her neighbor was also an undercover SEAL living under a false identity due to his importance in bringing down a high-profile target linked to drugs and terrorism.
Now McKenzie is held captive by the very targets that tried to kill Chance, she must stay strong if she has any hope of surviving.


Blogs are meant to be pure streams of consciousness, unsullied by the taint of commercialism - right?
When you are reading a blog you are getting personal opinion free from the undue influence of third parties is a commonly held belief.
Unfortunately this is increasingly not the case. The reality is somewhat different, with a growing legion of "professional bloggers"
Blog-vertising (a terrible term) is increasingly becoming part of the mainstream as companies scrabble for market share inthe brave new world of social media.
As Steve Green reports "As an advertising channel, the blogosphere makes total sense. Certain blogs not only boast a valuable and rich list of subscribers, but have also developed a highly evolved authority, making bloggers a sought after commodity for advertisers "
The recently launched ebuzzing matches bloggers with advertisers and bloggers only survive if their content remains relevant to the audience that they serve.
The company's stated ain is to "be a platform for bringing bloggers and advertisers together. It is based on a simple principle: Like. Recommend. Earn.
It allows bloggers to monetise their blog, earning money by creating posts about things they genuinely like and want to recommend, whilst advertisers can create buzz for themselves in the communities that are most likely to be interested in them."
The strength of blog-vertising is that it is a highly targeted channel providing a greater return on investment. Advertisers need to be where their market is and companies such as the Euro-centric ebuzzing are building "the buzz", which is so essential to build online reputation and drive sales.
The immortal words of Dr Frasier Crane have some bearing on boosting the effectiveness of your social media marketing.
Convince and Convert's Jae Baer suggests four ways of discovering if your existing customers are active in social media.
The first idea is to deploy good old fashioned espionage using modern digital tools. Simply by providing your customer's email addresses to companies such as Flotown or Rapleaf is all that is required for them to data mine the figure out which and how many of customers are on social networks, their preferences and other marketing details. Your may also be interested to track you own digital footprint with Rapleaf.
Secondly (and one of the simplest methods) simply ask them and ensure that all of your lead generation forms and opportunities ask them about their social media habits.
Thirdly if you are using email platforms make sure that you are using tools that allow the recipient to recommend to others. Embedding third party code from platforms such as AddThis is one such option if the email solution itself does not provide the required functionality. Simply run reports to discover which of your subscribers clicked your Twitter link and/or shared content on Facebook.
Finally Jae recommends "Gmail Stalking" as the two main social networks, Twitter and Facebook (and others) have "functionality that allows you to see whether your Gmail contacts are using the services and invite them to connect with you".
Create a .csv file from a list of your customers' email addresses (you only need email addresses, not names, mailing address, etc.).
Create a free account on gmail.com specifically for this purpose. Don't use an existing account.
Upload the .csv list to your Gmail account.
Next go to Twitter and create a new account using your special new Gmail email address. On Step Two "Find Your Friends" of the Twitter signup process, select Gmail.
Twitter will automatically read all of the email addresses of your customers stored in Gmail, allowing you to track the number on Twitter and/or follow them immediately.
Set up a new Facebook account using your new Gmail address.
On Step One "Find Friends" of the Facebook sign up process, indicate that you have a Gmail account, and follow the simple instructions.
All of your customers on Facebook are presented to you, and you should be able to become their "friend" with a single click.
So having discovered where they are, what should we be listening for? The answer is, anything that is said about your brand, as both the positive and the negative present opportunities for you to exploit.
- Non-industry used terms – if the general public calls it something different or abbreviates you listen for that as well.
If you are not already listening your competitors will be, so now is the time to start. Facebook alone has 500 million users, each with their own story to tell. That's a lot of potential prospects.
Ethan Zuckerman studies how the world - the whole world - uses new media to share information and moods across cultures, languages and platforms.


text:
#include "mitkPlaneProposer.h"

#include <mitkGeometryData.h>
#include <mitkPlaneFit.h>
#include <mitkPointSet.h>
#include <mitkSliceNavigationController.h>
#include <mitkUnstructuredGrid.h>
#include <mitkVector.h>

#include <vtkCenterOfMass.h>
#include <vtkDoubleArray.h>
#include <vtkMath.h>
#include <vtkPointData.h>
#include <vtkSmartPointer.h>
#include <vtkUnstructuredGrid.h>

bool compare(std::pair<double, int> i, std::pair<double, int> j)
{
  return (i.first > j.first);
}

mitk::PlaneProposer::PlaneProposer() : m_UseDistances(false), m_UseLeastSquares(false), m_NumberOfClustersToUse(3)
{
}

mitk::PlaneProposer::~PlaneProposer()
{
}

void mitk::PlaneProposer::SetUnstructuredGrids(std::vector<mitk::UnstructuredGrid::Pointer> &grids)
{
  if (grids.empty())
  {
    MITK_WARN << "Input grids are empty!";
    return;
  }
  m_Grids = grids;
}

void mitk::PlaneProposer::SetUseDistances(bool status)
{
  m_UseDistances = status;
}

void mitk::PlaneProposer::SetNumberOfClustersToUse(unsigned int num)
{
  m_NumberOfClustersToUse = num;
}

void mitk::PlaneProposer::SetSliceNavigationController(mitk::SliceNavigationController::Pointer &snc)
{
  m_SNC = snc;
}

std::array<std::array<double, 3>, 3> mitk::PlaneProposer::GetCentroids()
{
  return m_Centroids;
}

mitk::PlaneProposer::PlaneInfo mitk::PlaneProposer::GetProposedPlaneInfo()
{
  return m_ProposedPlaneInfo;
}

void mitk::PlaneProposer::CreatePlaneInfo()
{
  // find the avg distances of every cluster maybe a square mean for better looking at high values?
  std::vector<std::pair<double, int>> avgDistances;

  // get the number of points and the id of every cluster
  std::vector<std::pair<int, int>> sizeIDs;

  for (unsigned int i = 0; i < m_Grids.size(); i++)
  {
    mitk::UnstructuredGrid::Pointer cluster = m_Grids.at(i);
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkDoubleArray> data =
      dynamic_cast<vtkDoubleArray *>(cluster->GetVtkUnstructuredGrid()->GetPointData()->GetArray(0));
    double avg = 0.0;
    for (int j = 0; j < data->GetSize(); j++)
    {
      avg += data->GetValue(j);
    }
    avgDistances.push_back(std::make_pair(avg / static_cast<double>(data->GetSize()), i));
  }

  // now sort the clusters with their distances
  for (unsigned int i = 0; i < m_Grids.size(); i++)
  {
    sizeIDs.push_back(std::make_pair(m_Grids.at(i)->GetVtkUnstructuredGrid()->GetNumberOfPoints(), i));
  }

  // sort the point IDs for finding the biggest clusters and clusters with the
  // highest distance
  // sizeIDs is sorted by number of points in each cluster
  // avgDistances is sorted by avg distance to next edge
  std::sort(sizeIDs.begin(), sizeIDs.end(), compare);
  std::sort(avgDistances.begin(), avgDistances.end(), compare);

  if (m_Grids.size() < m_NumberOfClustersToUse || m_UseLeastSquares)
  {
    // We need at least three points to define a plane
    m_NumberOfClustersToUse = m_Grids.size();
    m_ProposedPlaneInfo = this->CreatePlaneByLeastSquares(sizeIDs, avgDistances);
  }
  else
  {
    m_ProposedPlaneInfo = this->CreatePlaneByCentroids(sizeIDs, avgDistances);
  }

  if (m_SNC.IsNotNull())
  {
    m_SNC->ReorientSlices(m_SNC->GetCurrentPlaneGeometry()->GetCenter(), m_ProposedPlaneInfo.x, m_ProposedPlaneInfo.y);
    m_SNC->SelectSliceByPoint(m_ProposedPlaneInfo.pointOnPlane);
  }
}

mitk::PlaneProposer::PlaneInfo mitk::PlaneProposer::CreatePlaneByCentroids(
  const std::vector<std::pair<int, int>> &sizeIDs, const std::vector<std::pair<double, int>> &avgDistances)
{
  for (unsigned int j = 0; j < m_NumberOfClustersToUse; j++) // iterate over the clusters
  {
    // Get the cluster with "id" from all clusters, "id" is saved in sizeIDs.second
    // sizeIDs.first represent the number of points which is only needed for sorting the "id"s
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkUnstructuredGrid> tmpGrid;

    if (m_UseDistances)
      tmpGrid = m_Grids.at(avgDistances.at(j).second)->GetVtkUnstructuredGrid(); // highest distance
    else
      tmpGrid = m_Grids.at(sizeIDs.at(j).second)->GetVtkUnstructuredGrid(); // biggest cluster

    double tmpCenter[3];
    vtkCenterOfMass::ComputeCenterOfMass(tmpGrid->GetPoints(), NULL, tmpCenter);
    std::array<double, 3> center;
    center[0] = tmpCenter[0];
    center[1] = tmpCenter[1];
    center[2] = tmpCenter[2];
    m_Centroids[j] = center;
  }

  double x[3];
  x[0] = m_Centroids[1][0] - m_Centroids[0][0];
  x[1] = m_Centroids[1][1] - m_Centroids[0][1];
  x[2] = m_Centroids[1][2] - m_Centroids[0][2];
  double y[3];
  y[0] = m_Centroids[2][0] - m_Centroids[0][0];
  y[1] = m_Centroids[2][1] - m_Centroids[0][1];
  y[2] = m_Centroids[2][2] - m_Centroids[0][2];
  double normal[3];
  vtkMath::Cross(x, y, normal); // TODO do it manually!
  mitk::PlaneProposer::PlaneInfo planeInfo;
  planeInfo.normal = normal;
  planeInfo.x = x;
  planeInfo.y = y;
  planeInfo.pointOnPlane[0] = m_Centroids[0][0];
  planeInfo.pointOnPlane[1] = m_Centroids[0][1];
  planeInfo.pointOnPlane[2] = m_Centroids[0][2];
  return planeInfo;
}

mitk::PlaneProposer::PlaneInfo mitk::PlaneProposer::CreatePlaneByLeastSquares(
  const std::vector<std::pair<int, int>> &sizeIDs, const std::vector<std::pair<double, int>> &avgDistances)
{
  // Generate a pointset from UnstructuredGrid for the PlaneFitFilter:
  mitk::PointSet::Pointer pointset = mitk::PointSet::New();

  int pointId = 0;

  for (unsigned int j = 0; j < m_NumberOfClustersToUse; j++) // iterate over the clusters
  {
    // Get the cluster with "id" from all clusters, "id" is saved in sizeIDs.second
    // sizeIDs.first represent the number of points which is only needed for sorting the "id"s
    vtkSmartPointer<vtkUnstructuredGrid> tmpGrid;

    if (m_UseDistances)
      tmpGrid = m_Grids.at(avgDistances.at(j).second)->GetVtkUnstructuredGrid(); // highest distance
    else
      tmpGrid = m_Grids.at(sizeIDs.at(j).second)->GetVtkUnstructuredGrid(); // biggest cluster

    for (int i = 0; i < tmpGrid->GetNumberOfPoints(); i++)
    {
      mitk::Point3D point;
      point[0] = tmpGrid->GetPoint(i)[0];
      point[1] = tmpGrid->GetPoint(i)[1];
      point[2] = tmpGrid->GetPoint(i)[2];

      pointset->InsertPoint(pointId, point);
      pointId++;
    }
  }
  mitk::PlaneFit::Pointer planeFilter = mitk::PlaneFit::New();
  planeFilter->SetInput(pointset);
  planeFilter->Update();

  mitk::GeometryData::Pointer geoData = planeFilter->GetOutput();

  if (geoData.IsNull())
  {
    mitkThrow() << "GeometryData output from PlaneFit filter is null!";
  }
  mitk::PlaneProposer::PlaneInfo planeInfo;
  mitk::PlaneGeometry::Pointer plane = dynamic_cast<mitk::PlaneGeometry *>(geoData->GetGeometry());
  planeInfo.normal = plane->GetNormal();
  planeInfo.pointOnPlane = plane->GetCenter();
  return planeInfo;
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


text:
While President Trump's executive order turning back many Obama-era climate change policies is great optics for his energy policy conservative base and fossil fuel donors, it doesn't change the facts of the new energy economy. Since we know President Trump likes short briefings, here are the hard truths about the future of energy in this country and many other parts of the world that are driven by market forces rather than politics.
No Executive Order Can Make The Clean Energy Economy Disappear — In 9 Bullets
In the USA, 2016 was the first year in which more electricity is generated from gas than from coal. Coal is seeing a tremendous decline in the US, with coal power plants shutting down by the dozens, not because of Obama-era policies, but due to the abundance of cheaper (and slightly cleaner) natural gas. The Trump order may keep a few coal plants open for a short time, but the economics of energy are against coal in the long run.
With the recent executive order, China is now the defacto leader on climate policy. The nation continues to take steps to move away from coal and has renewed calls to continue global action on reducing carbon emissions. The largest greenhouse gas producer is at the forefront of renewables, with a PV installed capacity of 43,000 MW at the end of 2015, and then 77,000 MW at the end of 2016. That's the equivalent of 38 large nuclear power plants, which typically have a capacity of 2,000 MW). This is not a Chinese hoax. It's actually "a beautiful thing," as President Trump would say. The world owes China more credit for its efforts on the clean economy front.
Natural gas is at best a "transition" fuel — a bridge between a fossil-powered world to a world where energy needs are mostly covered by renewables (excluding shipping, primarily maritime, which constitutes 5.6% of global carbon emission).
It's about fossil fuel peak demand, not peak oil. In other words, demand for fossil fuel will peak long before oil deposits run dry. There is no political agenda driving this. Instead, it is pure market forces and economics.
The most accessible oil, and therefore cheap drilling, on the planet is in politically volatile regions. Meanwhile, drilling in the arctic or the North Sea is expensive. Oil companies in the North Sea are decommissioning drilling platforms and are deploying deep water 6MW wind turbines farms. That's roughly enough power to light up 6,000 average American homes. Saudi Aramco, Shell, and Statoil are all getting in on the action, too.
Considered in some circles the "fifth fuel," energy efficiency curtails the need for building new fossil fuel (or nuclear for that matter) power stations. In 2015, ACEEE estimates that utility-sector energy efficiency programs have saved about 200 billion kWh, more than 5% of retail electric sales in the United States that year. In some leading states, the savings from these programs exceed 10% of retail electric sales already and could reach more than 20% by 2020. Utilities are working to manage their demand throughout the year, and during peak times which prevent them from turning on expensive, inefficient peaker plants. Demand Side Management (DSM) is an integral component of meeting state energy efficiency mandates and a holistic clean energy portfolio.
The wind and solar industries employ more people than workers that are employed at coal, oil, and natural gas power plants. Solar employment rose 26% in 2016, to a total of 260,077 people, reports the US Department of Energy. Meanwhile, the wind industry cracked the 100,000 mark and is expecting to add almost 400,000 in the next thirteen years. The DOE report says 187,117 workers are employed at coal, oil, and natural gas power plants compared to nearly 374,000 people in the solar industry. The future of energy jobs is in renewables. Overall, solar and wind jobs have been growing 12x faster than the overall economy. Renewables have been over 50% of new global electricity capacity for a few years too.
In recent years, new generation capacity is coming from solar and wind. In 2015, two thirds was from these new sources. of new generation capacity was made of solar and wind. Windswept red states, such as Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas are amongst the beneficiaries from the Republican-controlled Congress actions to extend the 2015 federal incentives for wind and solar. In 2016, solar and wind again accounted for over 60% of new US electricity generation capacity, with #1 solar alone accounting for 39% of capacity growth.
Methane leakage from oil and gas extraction is real and acute, even if the EPA chooses not to request data from oil and gas well operators about their equipment and its emissions of methane. Methane's heat-trapping power is 86 times greater than carbon dioxide over a 20-year period. However, since old wells are outside the greenhouse gas inventory system, little is known about the ways old wells contribute to methane emissions. In 1987, nations adopted the Montreal Protocol and societies weaned themselves off certain agents and the Ozone layer is well on its way to full recovery. It's time for the world to come together on methane leaks as well.
While "alternative facts" may distract for a short time, renewable energy (once termed "alternative energy") is cementing its foundation in the 21st century. Big Oil, Fortune 500 companies, and the public at large know this, which is why they continue to make moves that advance the clean energy economy. It's time for many of our elected officials to catch up with the times.
The President's overarching agenda is "America First" and "making America great." My recommendation to the President in pursuit of this vision is to make America energy independent from volatile petro-geopolitics. The clean energy economy is the most responsible, economic, and conservative way to get there.
Udi Merhav is the CEO of energyOrbit, the market leading cloud solution for demand-side management operations for utilities and third-party implementers in North America since 2007. A seasoned technology executive and entrepreneur, Udi has spent 21 years designing and implementing e-commerce and information technology solutions for high growth sectors.
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Woman bravely fought off car thief who attacked her with a pair of scissors
A woman has been praised for fighting off a car thief who attacked here with a pair of scissors at a petrol station in a "shocking, outrageous incident."
Pauline Garner, 58, was filling her tyres at a BP garage in Anfield, Liverpool, when drug addict Matthew Sanderson, 38, grabbed her keys and tried to drive off in her car.
While she tried to pull him out of the car, she realised that the defendant was carrying scissors which he then attacked her with, reported the Liverpool Echo.
And in an "act of commendable bravery", Ms Garner managed to yank the scissors from Sanderson's hands and kick it away while only suffering minor injuries.
Liverpool Crown Court heard this week she had been driving to work at 7am, on June 30, this year when she stopped at the petrol station.
Sanderson then followed her before saying "give me your keys". He was told to "f*** off", but he replied: "I'm not messing, give me the keys."
He grabbed the keys and it was then that the tussle began as he tried to drive off in the car.
Ben Jones, prosecuting, described how she "acted with commendable bravery" and pulled the scissors out of his hands and kicked them away.
Sanderson responded by biting her on the right arm and putting her in a headlock after Ms Garner pulled his mask off.
The struggle lasted for around five minutes as bystanders watched on, with one filming on his mobile phone, and when onlookers finally intervened, Sanderson brazenly claimed he had been the victim – saying: "She's robbed my ma's car" – before being chased away.
A statement by Ms Garner read out in court said she often wakes up at night and "relives the incident over and over in her head".
She added: "Before the incident, I was a confident person. Since the incident, I would now describe myself as a nervous person – particularly when on my own. I hope the person responsible will take time to reflect how his actions have an impact on others."
Sanderson struck again later that afternoon entering a shop and went up to two Polish members of staff and claiming to be from Trading Standards.
He asked to see the women's visas while speaking in a foreign accent and when the suspicious employees asked to see his identification, he produced a bank card which remained partially hidden behind his hand.
Sanderson then pulled out what appeared to be a black hand gun and pointed at the victims. The court heard one of the women "thought the gun looked like it was plastic and wasn't real, but didn't want to take any chances".
He ordered the pair into the back room, incorrectly believing there to be a safe, before "turning his attentions to the till" and pinching £65 in coins and bank notes. As he did so, Sanderson told them: "Get away now or I'll shoot you – I'm going to shoot you."
He then fled through the back door in the direction of the nearby Asda supermarket and changed into a pair of clothes he had brought with him in a bag. But Sanderson left behind his trainers, and was forensically linked to the robbery by DNA.
Both incidents were caught on CCTV and after his arrest, he claimed he was "out of it on a cocktail of drugs" at the time.
Sanderson has 32 previous convictions for 74 offences, including being jailed for five years for robbery and burglary in 2013.
Brendan Carville, defending, said: "Although his recollection of these matters is limited, when he was shown the two videos his reaction was to say how disgusted he was at himself and how ashamed he was."
Appearing via video link to HMP Doncaster, Sanderson admitted robbery, assault with intent to rob, possession of an imitation firearm and making threats with a bladed article. He was jailed for eight years.
Sentencing, Recorder Richard Pratt KC said: "You approached a lone, middle-aged woman at a petrol station when she was putting air into her tyres. Having approached her under the guise of offering assistance, you made a determined, prolonged attempt to steal her car – subjecting her to a physical assault, including threats to her with a pair of scissors.
"This was a very shocking, outrageous incident for her to have suffered."
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Q: C - adding base64 methods to my file I found these libraries: http://svn.opendnssec.org/trunk/OpenDNSSEC/common/ for encoding in c. I want used them but I am not sure how can I add them.
If I add #include "b64_ntop.c" I have problem with #include <config.h> in b64_ntop.c (no such file or directory). How can I add these modules?
My makefile:
CC=gcc
CFLAGS=-std=gnu99 -Wall -pedantic

all: rdtclient

rdtclient: b64_ntop.o rdtclient.o
    $(CC) $(CFLAGS) b64_ntop.o rdtclient.o -o rdtclient

Thanks for help

A: You should not #include a C file. Instead #include compat.h and specify the path to the header file in the CFLAGS using the -I option thus:
CFLAGS=-std=gnu99 -Wall -pedantic -Ipath/to/header

A: For that particular file, you can remove every header except <stdlib.h> (needed for abort()), but you would add <stdint.h> to get uint8_t.
#include <config.h>      // Remove

#include <sys/types.h>   // Remove
#include <sys/param.h>   // Remove
#include <sys/socket.h>  // Remove

#include <netinet/in.h>  // Remove
#include <arpa/inet.h>   // Remove

#include <ctype.h>       // Remove
#include <stdio.h>       // Remove
#include <stdlib.h>      // Keep
#include <string.h>      // Remove
#include <stdint.h>      // Add

There's no need for the others that I can see, and GCC agrees with me when I tested it.
I'm not sure which header introduced uint8_t; most likely, it was <sys/types.h>, but the C standard says <stdint.h> does that (or <inttypes.h> does it).
You should also have a header which declares the function, and that header should be included in this file to ensure that the function declaration and definition agree, and the header should be included in each source file that uses the function.  Obviously, that's one more #include line in the source file.

In general, if a file uses <config.h> (or, more usually, "config.h"), then you need to use the configuration tool (usually autoconf or automake) or the configure script that is generated by the tools to create the config.h header.  In this file, there was no conditional code affected by the configuration header, so it could be removed.

Once you've cleaned up the header list, you can treat the file as you would any other source file in your project.  It would be best to compile it as a separate object file (no special options needed) which is added to the build.  That's what your makefile seems to be doing perfectly well.  Occasionally, it is sensible or necessary to include a source file (as opposed to header file) in another source file.  The number of times that is sensible is strictly limited, though.

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Dunkertons Dry Organic Cider (6.9% alcohol by volume) is made from organic apples and there are no extra ingredients. It smells like spicy apples, ripe apples, apple skins, mild alcohol, a hint of bacon and faint funk. It pours copper amber with a slight haze and a few streams of rapidly rising bubbles. The frothy white head disappears by the end of the pour. The cider has good reflectance with a ring of individual bubbles around the rim. Bittersweet and bittersharp apples lead the flavors with varying degrees of ripeness and traces of apple skin that give the cider a mild rustic character. It starts sweet and tart and then the tannins kick in adding a crisp, bitter, astringent note and give the cider just the right touch of sharpness. The body is medium plus and the carbonation is medium low. This is definitely not your fermented apple juice concentrate with glucose and fructose. The blend of apples and the resulting flavors and how the different elements of this cider work together make this a joy to drink. I rate it 80.


6 decks weighed from 270kg-350kg full weight and 2 decks from 210kg-270kg full weight.
average of lead 6 decks - 300kg full weight, bottom 2 decks 250kg full weight.
Predominately Brahman Cross and Charbray with approx 45% Brahmans.
Have been on agistment for 8 months now and have turned the corner and are firing ahead now on good green pick.
these cattle have all had a 400 day HGP with approximately 100 days left before expiring.
#7's, 12-18 months in age, percentage mouthed with only 6 head cracking 2 teeth, balance milk.
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out of a highly regarded Brahman Charbray Cow herd by River Glen Charolais bulls, these steers have fantastic genetics and and are well known to perform on grass and grain.
these steers still have their work clothes on but have begun to rapidly move forward in the last month. Buffalo fly is prevalent with a number of steers showing fly bite, Vendor has sprayed with supona at time of assessment and an ongoing treatment plan is in place.
approximately 3 months ago all steers were treated for internal and external parasites which seams to have picked them up very well.
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DJ Rupert and Dunoon Community Radio are pleased to announce that they shall be joined on Sunday afternoon at the Dunoon Stadium event "Happy Dayz" by Scotland's Premier Reggae band the iFoundation.
The band led by Guitar vocalist Kyle Robinson will take to the Cottage Music Studio Live Stage around mid – afternoon.
Happy Dayz a Local Charity are working in partnership with the local Argyll Street branch of the Yorkshire Building Society for this event .


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Satellite ground monitoring for Paris Metro works 31 May 2018
TRE Altamira News Release
Over the coming years to 2030, the Grand Paris Express project in France will gradually bring into service 68 new underground stations on 200km of new metro tunnel lines to expand the current metro system of the French capital. As an unprecedented programme of urban development, the project is a fundamental rethink and redesign of the public transport network to provide greater Paris with a more integrated multimodal transport solution.
Fig 1. InSAR base line data for the Line 15 western section
From the earliest stages of the project, the Société du Grand Paris, the public agency set up by the French Government to deliver the Grand Paris Express vision, gave priority to a close surveillance of the construction works in order to minimise any potential impact. The design and the construction progress of the project is driven by risk management and the reduction of disturbances to urban neighbourhoods.
Among the monitoring methods implemented, TRE Altamira, as part of the CLS Group of Spain, was commissioned in 2015 by the Sociéte du Grand Paris to monitor from space the impact of the underground excavations operations along its route to the nearest millimeter. The satellite-based solution measures ground movement by processing satellite radar images acquired over the same area in different points in time.
The monitoring work started with a retrospective study of the ground movement over the 200km route of the Grand Paris Express network. Historical ground movement in the area was mapped and an extensive inventory of the ground surface behavior, from April 1992 to March 2015, was provided, offering complementary information for the identification of vulnerable structures before the start of any work. This mapping was generated from the processing of archived images acquired since the early 1990s to 2010 by medium-resolution satellites operated by the European Space Agency, and by high resolution images captured by the Italian and German Space Agency satellites for the more recent period of 2011 to 2015.
The outputs of this satellite historical study are data that can be combined with historical maps and conventional geotechnical surveys to detect ground movements due to the evolution of quarry operations and possible slope instability. In zones where clays are found, as is the case for different Grand Paris Express project lines, it would allow for the detection of soil movements caused by the swelling of the clays.
Application of InSAR technology in Paris explained
TRE Altimera engineers on the project in Paris are currently working in cooperation with Setec of France, the design and construction manager of the western section of Line 15, the first section of the network to be built, and with French company Gauss Monitoring, which has the responsibility for specific surveys of sensitive buildings along the Line 15 western section route (Fig 1).
The analysis of the historical and real time current data, focuses on the amplitude of the movement accumulated over time. For each measured point, it is possible to see at what period the displacements have been initiated, and whether these displacements are stabilised or still active. These observations are crossed with existing knowledge in order to understand or better manage the cause of the movement, and to qualify their potential impact on the project at the time of tunnelling.
Monitoring activities will continue during the whole project to detect and measure any ground displacements in the area with the ultimate aim of keeping the prime contractors fully informed of the impact of tunnelling and underground excavation activity on the surface and for operations to be adapt accordingly.
An overview of the importance of the satellite monitoring operation and the work achieved to date on the western section of the Line 15 project was presented during a technical session of the World Tunnel Congress (WTC) in Dubai in April this year (2018).
Paris advancing its mega metro expansion – TunnelTalk, July 2017
Paris awards last of Line 15 South contracts – TunnelTalk, July 2017
Satellite solutions for tunnelling challenges – TunnelTalk, December 2016
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namespace internal {

SourceRangeAstVisitor::SourceRangeAstVisitor(uintptr_t stack_limit,
                                             Expression* root,
                                             SourceRangeMap* source_range_map)
    : AstTraversalVisitor(stack_limit, root),
      source_range_map_(source_range_map) {}

void SourceRangeAstVisitor::VisitBlock(Block* stmt) {
  AstTraversalVisitor::VisitBlock(stmt);
  ZonePtrList<Statement>* stmts = stmt->statements();
  AstNodeSourceRanges* enclosingSourceRanges = source_range_map_->Find(stmt);
  if (enclosingSourceRanges != nullptr) {
    CHECK(enclosingSourceRanges->HasRange(SourceRangeKind::kContinuation));
    MaybeRemoveLastContinuationRange(stmts);
  }
}

void SourceRangeAstVisitor::VisitFunctionLiteral(FunctionLiteral* expr) {
  AstTraversalVisitor::VisitFunctionLiteral(expr);
  ZonePtrList<Statement>* stmts = expr->body();
  MaybeRemoveLastContinuationRange(stmts);
}

bool SourceRangeAstVisitor::VisitNode(AstNode* node) {
  AstNodeSourceRanges* range = source_range_map_->Find(node);

  if (range == nullptr) return true;
  if (!range->HasRange(SourceRangeKind::kContinuation)) return true;

  // Called in pre-order. In case of conflicting continuation ranges, only the
  // outermost range may survive.

  SourceRange continuation = range->GetRange(SourceRangeKind::kContinuation);
  if (continuation_positions_.find(continuation.start) !=
      continuation_positions_.end()) {
    range->RemoveContinuationRange();
  } else {
    continuation_positions_.emplace(continuation.start);
  }

  return true;
}

void SourceRangeAstVisitor::MaybeRemoveLastContinuationRange(
    ZonePtrList<Statement>* statements) {
  if (statements == nullptr || statements->is_empty()) return;

  Statement* last_statement = statements->last();
  AstNodeSourceRanges* last_range = source_range_map_->Find(last_statement);
  if (last_range == nullptr) return;

  if (last_range->HasRange(SourceRangeKind::kContinuation)) {
    last_range->RemoveContinuationRange();
  }
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Parish of Portslade and Mile Oak
St Nicolas Church
Church of The Good Shepherd
Children's Guide to St Nicolas' Church
Family Support Work
Fr. David Swyer
Churchwardens
PCC Secretary
Parish Safeguarding Officer
Sunday School Leader
PCC Members
PCC Documents
Dick Whittington Panto 2017
Pantomine Cinderella January 2017
Ordination of Fr. Andrew Birks
Olive's Retirement 30th October 2016
St Nicolas Fete 2016
Good Shepherd Vintage Tea 2016
Institution of The Vicar
Christingle & Crib Service
ATC Carol Service - 14-12-15
ATC Drum Head Memorial
St Nicolas Summer Fayre 2015
VJ Day 70 Commemoration Servic
St George's Night
St Patricks Night
Burns Night Supper
Diocese of Chichester
Fr Enraght - 'Prisoner of Conscience'
Portslade Village History
Parish Church Schools
Home > Clergy & Staff > Churchwardens
Our parish has 4 Churchwardens, with each church having 2 each.
The Churchwardens are:
The Good Shepherd Church
Mrs Alison Woodford
Miss Ann Beard
Mrs Gill Wilks
A churchwarden is a lay official in a parish church or congregation of the Anglican Communion, usually working as a part-time volunteer. Holders of these positions are ex officio members of the parish board, usually called a vestry, parish council, parochial church council, or in the case of a Cathedral parish the chapter.
Responsibilities of office
Churchwardens have a duty to represent the laity and co-operate with the incumbent (or, in cases of vacancy, the bishop). They are expected to lead the parishioners by setting a good example and encouraging unity and peace. They have a particular duty to maintain order and peace in the church and churchyard at all times, and especially during services, although this task tends to be devolved to sidesmen.
Churchwardens in some parts of the Anglican Communion are legally responsible for all the property and movable goods belonging to a parish church. They have a duty under ecclesiastical law to keep an up to date terrier of the property and an inventory of the valuables, and to produce these lists for inspection in case of a visitation or other inspection.
Incumbents tend to devolve day-to-day maintenance of church buildings and contents to their churchwardens. Whenever churchwardens spend money to pay tradespeople for repairs etc., the wardens have to record this in a logbook which is inspected along with the inventory.
If an incumbency is vacant, the bishop (or the Archdeacon acting on his or her behalf) will usually appoint the churchwardens as sequestrators of the parish until the bishop appoints a new incumbent. The sequestrators ensure that a minimum number of church services continues to be held in the parish, and in particular that the Eucharist continues to be celebrated every Sunday and on every Principal Feast. They tend do this by organising a regular rota of a few volunteer clergy from amongst either Non-Stipendiary Ministers from within that diocese or in some cases retired clergy living in or near the parish. The bishop will tend to consult the churchwardens before appointing a new priest to take over the parish.
Churchwardens' duties and responsibilities may vary according to the customs of the parish or congregation, the canons of the diocese to which the parish belongs, the desires of the priest, and the direction of the parish board and/or the congregation as a whole.
In England, churchwardens have specific powers to enable them to keep the peace in churchyards. The following are punishable with a £200 fine:
riotous, violent, or indecent behaviour in any cathedral church, parish, or district church or chapel of the Church of England or in any churchyard or burial ground (whether during a service or at any other time)
molesting, disturbing, vexing, or troubling, or by any other unlawful means disquieting or misusing:
any preacher duly authorised to preach therein, or
any clergyman in holy orders ministering or celebrating any sacrament, or any divine service, rite, or office, in any cathedral, church, or chapel, or in any churchyard or burial ground.
The churchwarden of the parish or place where the offence was committed may apprehend a person committing such an offence, and take them before a magistrates' court. Until 2003, the offence was punishable by two months' imprisonment.
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Абд ал-Азіз ібн Мітаб Аль Рашид (; нар. 1870 — 13 квітня 1906) — 8-й емір Джебель-Шаммара у 1897—1906 роках. Мав прізвисько «Аль-Джиназаті» (Похорон), що отримав за надзвичайну сміливість, відсутність страху, завзятість та зате, що убою був одягнутий у чорне.

Життєпис
Син еміра Мітаба. Після загибелі батька у 1869 році його мати, вагітна Абд ал-Азізом, втекла до Ер-Ріяду, де у 1870 році той народився. Згодом опинився підопікою стрийка Мухаммеда, що 1872 року захопив трон. Виявив схильність до військової справи, уславився звитяжністю. Разом з тим виявив імпульсивність та емоційність при прийнятті рішень. Проте був всиновлений еміром Мухаммедом.

У грудні 1897 року після смерті стрйика спадкував трон. Продовжив політику попередника, зберігаючи союз з Осмнаською імперією. Восени 1898 року емір відвідав Неджд, де місцева знать і улеми висловили знаки відданості новому суверену, хоча невдоволення владою шаммарів зростало. Після цього він здійснив рейд проти племен Ваді аль-Давасир (південь Неджда), де захпоив чималу здобич. 1899 року здійснив похід на Кувейт, де він розгромив місцеві сили та його союзників з племені мунтафик (контролювало південь Іраку біля Басри) і переслідував їх до самого Євфрату, зайнявши Хамісію (місто в Іраку). Мав сутички з багдадським валі Саадун-пашою, що завадив шаммарському війську захопити місто Багілі (сучасна Ель-Нуманія).

У 1901 році Мубарак ас-Сабах, емір Кувейту, виступив на Ер-ріяд, плануючи захопити Неджд, де поставити залежного від себе еміра Абдуррахмана або його сина Абд ал-Азіза з династії Саудидів. Кувейтського правителя підтримали британці, які в цей час боролися з османами за закріплення за собою права на Кувейтську затоку. Також на його бік перейшли еміри з Ель-Касиму та шейхи Неджду.

В свою чергу Абд ал-Азіз ібн Мітаб отримав необхідну зброю та набої від османів. 17 березня в битві при Сарифі 12-тисячне шаммарське військо завдало нищівної поразки 64-тисячному війську антирашидидської коаліції на чолі із Мубараком і Абд ал-Азізом ібн Саудом За цим Абд ал-Азіз ібн Мітаб покарав мешканців кількох міст Ель-Касима за підтримку вторгнення. Наприкінці 1901 року дізнався, що Абд ал-Азіз ібн Сауд збирає військо та знову йде на Ер-Ріяд. Тоді він звернувся з листом до османської влади в Багдаді і Басрі з проханням допомогти зупинити того. Дізнавшись про це військо Ібн Сауда розбіглося, але у січні 1902 року той із 40 вояками зробив спробу захопити Ер-Ріяд і несподівано досяг успіху. Дізнавшись про падіння Ер-Ріяда, Абд ал-Азіз ібн Мітаб розлютився, але на збір війська йому довелося витратити кілька місяців. Проти Ібн Сауда він виступив лише у липні-серпні, шляхом плюндруючи недружні оази. Ібн Сауд встиг зміцнити місто, і тоді Ібн Мітаб вирішив замість штурму перерізати шляхи постачання з Кувейту. Ібн Мітаб не зумів скористатися чисельною перевагою, і після кількох сутичок восени відійшов на північ. 1903 року він відновив набіги на навколишні землі, насамперед на Кувейт. Продовжувалися і дрібні сутички з Саудидами.

У 1904 році Ібн Сауд вторгся до Ель-Касиму. Емір Джебель-Шаммара вирушив до Басри з проханням про допомогу. Тим часом Ібн Сауд узяв Унайзу, а жителі Бурайди самі присягнули йому на вірність і власними силами вибили загін шаммарів із міської фортеці. Дізнавшись про це, османський уряд занепокоївся і надав Ібн Мітабу загін із 2 тис. вояків. Той став табором на півдорозі між Хаїлем та Бурайдою. У середині липня відбулася битва при Ель-Букайрії, що складалася із серії дрібних та великих сутичок. Спочатку події складалися вдало для Ібн Мітаба, але потім він захопився пограбуванням околиць, залишивши склад провізії та боєприпасів під невеликою охороною, і в результаті втратив його разом із містом Ель-Букайрія. Потім Ібн Мітаб вирушив до Ер-Рассу, сподіваючись отримати нову допомогу від османів. Через спеку активні дії противників припинилися, але тут у шаммарській армії спалахнула епідемія холери, і бедуїни з обох боків розбіглися. Наприкінці вересня того ж року поблизу Шунани відбулася битва, аде Абд ал-Азіз ібн Мітаб зазнав тяжкої поразки.

Після цього посварився зі своїми очільником османського загону, що повернувся до Багдаду. Ібн Мітаб став проводити в пустелі, серед кочівників, присягнувшись не повертатися в Хаїль, поки не помститься ворогові. Він відновив набіги на міста Ель-Касима. 13 квітня 1906 року біля Равдат-Муханна саудівське військо напали на табір шаммарів, попередньо обстрілявши його з гармат. Під час подальшого бою емір Джебель-Шамммара загинув. Йому відрубали голову, продемонстрували її мешканцям Бурайди та Унайзи, а потім викинули собакам. Влада в еміраті перейшла до його старшого сина Мітаба.

Примітки

Джерела
 Frederick Fallowfield Anscombe (1994). The Ottoman Gulf and the Creation of Kuwayt, Sa'udi Arabia and Qatar, 1871—1914 (PhD thesis). Princeton University.
 Dhaifallah Alotaibi (2017). Ibn Sa'ud and Britain: Early changing relationship and pre-state formation 1902—1914 (PhD thesis). Bangor University.

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