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Sodium 3-hydroxybutyrate; β-Hydroxybutyrate sodium salt
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Neuroprotective compound in experimental models of neurodegenerative diseases. Shown to be oxidized as an energetic substrate in the brain during starvation. May inhibit brain glucose oxidation, which may account for the suppression of hepatic glucose production observed after administration of ketone bodies in humans.
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LANSING, MI – A 20-year-old Olivet woman is being accused of child abuse in the first degree after family members became concerned about her two month old son.
On July 3rd, 2018, Detectives from the Eaton County Sheriff's Office responded along with investigators from Michigan Department of Health and Human Services to Sparrow Hospital concerning possible child on a two month of baby.
A two month old boy had been brought in to the hospital by family members. After multiple tests performed at Sparrow Hospital, it was determined the baby had multiple brain bleeds and a possible skull fracture. Medical staff at Sparrow Hospital believed the injuries on the baby were the results of two separate assaults.
During the course of the investigation, Detectives were able to locate evidence and information which led to a two count felony warrant issued on July 20th, 2018, for child abuse in the first degree.
The baby's mother and suspect, Taylor Prahl-Six of Olivet, was arrested and lodged at the Eaton County Jail shortly after the arrest warrants were issued.


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Q: Determine private resolvable Bluetooth LE address I have written an application that uses the UWP classes to offer a GATT-Server (i. e. my laptop functions as a BLE peripheral).
I can successfully advertise, connect, and use it, but there's one thing I cannot figure out: how can I find out the current private resolvable address that the central is seeing?
My bluetooth adapter appears to have the internal address 9C:B6:D0:XX:YY:ZZ. I can find and confirm that address in various ways:

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*BluetoothAdapter.GetDefaultAsync().AsTask().Result.BluetoothAddress.ToString("X12") returns "9CB6D0XXYYZZ" as result in the direct window of Visual Studio.

*If I add a breakpoint in any read request handler, then GattReadRequestedEventArgs.Session.DeviceId.Id is "BluetoothLE#BluetoothLE9c:b6:d0:xx:yy:zz-gg:hh:ii:jj:kk:ll".

*Device Manager > Bluetooth > {Device Name} > Properties > Advanced shows 9c:b6:d0:xx:yy:zz.

I'm using the "nRF Connect" app for Android to connect to my artificial peripheral and operate on its BLE services and characteristics, and it works great. However, the address that nRF Connect shows is a different one, for example "5F:69:8A:DD:C9:ED". It also changes every time I restart the GATT-Server.
I suppose this is a private resolvable address, used to hide the actual adapter's address for privacy reasons. But I cannot seem to find a way to determine that address from the code in the GATT server. All I know is that it is neither the BluetoothAdapter.BluetoothAddress, nor part of the GattReadRequestedEventArgs.Session.DeviceId.Id, because both contain only the internal address that never changes, and the gg:hh:ii:jj:kk:ll part mentioned above is yet another address (but not the one nRF Connect shows).

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Determine private resolvable Bluetooth LE address

For API Address and the Private Rotating Address. The API returns a Static Address and the advertisement contains the private Rotating Address.
There is no way in UWP to get the private rotating address and this is by design.

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For my observation, I chose to spend three hours examining the New York Public Library Digital Archive. The reason I chose this specific topic is because I have a lot of mixed feelings when it comes to digital archives. Personally, I prefer to examine an object or document first hand. The sensory aspect of coming into contact with a historic document or object is something that can't be replicated virtually. However, the availability of partial or complete collections is a new aspect of library, museum and archive culture that is something to be admired. Many people don't even realize the scope of an institution's resources until they stumble upon it.
The largest pro of the NYPL is the extent of its content. Many of their collections have been digitize. On the homepage is an interactive set of information. Scrolling over some of the stats and the viewer is able to compile comparisons. For example the total sq. footage of the archive is the equivalent of forty-four Empire State Buildings. At the same time they provide the public with a working update of how many pages have been digitized. So far the NYPL archives have digitized 180,777 pages of their collections. While that isn't much it is still Often researchers, students, or the general public have to make appointments in order to see a specific collection with supervision. With online archives patrons are able to browse collections unsupervised.
Another pro is the new beta linked data tool that creates connections between different aspects of various collections. This already is an invaluable tool not available at a physical archive. The only person able to make the connections is the archivist who has worked on the collection.
The comment section is really nice pro for the NYPL Digital Collections. Recently, I found out that the comments section was reviewed by staff members and what they found was extraordinary. One commenter stated that his grandfather was the man being lynched in a photo. The commenter wanted to donate other material of his grandfather to provide more depth about his grandfather's life. Other comments provided supplemental information about other photos such as back story to stores or children in the photos (some of them were the children or lived in the subject places). Since the digital archive is relatively new, I hope that they will take this feature useful in a different department and incorporate it into their own.
The final pro I found particularly interesting is something that is shared between all archives. Online archives allows the public to access material that might be too fragile for physical access. A lot of the documents I examined where old and/ or in terrible condition. In this instance the New York Public Library archives created a sort of balance between the patron and the fragile thing.
The largest con I have against the NYPL archives is how they formatted the way you access the content. Often times I found myself circumvented to other areas I did not want to be in, such as the catalog. The developers assume patrons will be able to understand the layout and navigate it. That is extremely bothersome because online archives are a relatively new aspect and every archive designs their website differently. To assume that the patron will automatically understand places a great strain on the patron. If the patron becomes frustrated with the system, they won't use it anymore.
Another con is the amount of control a patron has over what they see. With online archives patrons are only given access to what the archivist provides and how they provide them. With physical archives the patron has more access to different aspects of the document. Such as small marks that can not be clearly seen online because the resolution isn't the best. Physical contact with an object allows the observer to notice details that might be obscured by pixelation. For example I wanted to look closer at some written note on a document on the NYPL archives and could barely read it because the image quality limited from seeing it. This is the example that I am referring too.
The last con I have against digital archives is the difference in experience a person feels when they come into contact with a historical document or object. This is particularly personal because as someone who deeply appreciates history, that experience of working with document or object that is part of a larger historical context has deep meaning for me. To not be able to feel the kind of paper, ridges or bumps or smell the ink, paper or whatever kind of material almost makes it hard for me to fully respect the object for document.
There a lot of aspects of digital archives that I enjoy and certainly the NYPL archives is an excellent example of a digital archive. However, there are certain aspects of traditional research that can't be replicated in digital form. Throughout the entire observation, I kept in mind, Roy Rosenzweig's, "Scarcity or Abundance? Preserving the Past in a Digital Era," where he mentions the historian and their refusal to accept digital archives. While I have some reservations about digital archives and the authenticity of the archived object but I understand how important it is to make connections between works. That is one of the reason I appreciate NYPL archive's linked data feature.


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Will Your Team's Website Survive an NFL Lockout?
By Guest Author March 04, 2011
Last week, 330 fresh-from-college players, just under 1,000 coaches, executives and scouts and over 700 credentialed media members flooded Indianapolis for the NFL's annual scouting combine. It is the closest thing that professional football has to a convention; even a late-night trip to the flagship Steak 'n Shake downtown yields an autograph seeker's dream of football glitterati.
I've been to quite a few of these, and there's always palpable uncertainty at the combine. Players don't know where — or in many cases, if — they'll be drafted. Coaches, executives and scouts don't know if they'll be unemployed soon, the result of drafting the wrong players. And this year there was even more unease than ever, courtesy of the unsettled labor situation in the NFL. As of this moment, owners and players have yet to reach agreement on a collective bargaining agreement; if the two sides fail to work out a deal or an extension to negations by one week from today, a work stoppage will occur. Now, most of the fretting and hand-wringing about this impasse has centered on the players and the owners (and their money). But I'm a former website writer for the Denver Broncos and Carolina Panthers, so naturally the thing I'm wondering about is: What happens to the team websites?
As official sites required to toe the corporate party line, their coverage of negotiations between the league and players union is limited to the statements the league posts on NFLLabor.com. The mere mention of labor strife is so touchy that some teams won't even let their sites post the word "lockout." In an typical offseason, team sites would dispatch staffers to the locker room this month to catch up with players going through workouts or injury rehabilitation, and generally sketch happy tales of a promising season to keep fans excited until the games kick in again. For some teams, creating an upbeat tone is a higher priority than breaking news to build web traffic. Their sites' mission is to build and reinforce a positive image; any high page-view totals are a bonus. But in a locked-out offseason, players will be banned from team facilities — and reporters and producers from team websites will be discouraged from making contact with them. Even players-in-the-community events, normally a feel-good staple of the sites' content diet, will vanish. As Fox Sports reported earlier this week, it's possible that teams might have to pull player photos and interviews and even quotes from their sites. (The NFL Players Association might argue that teams are using player images to market teams and boost ticket sales.)
So, what should the web-addicted fan expect? Well, team sites might quickly become hollowed-out husks, offering little more than draft-day countdowns and abandoning all talk of the (thorny) present for looks at the (rosier) future. That's why staffers from many team sites spent the combine banking tasty quotes from potential draft picks — squirrel before winter-style — so that they have something to publish in the next eight weeks.
The problem is, that only gets them to late April. If a lockout persists into May and June, daily site updates will dwindle to weekly ones, and then perhaps stop altogether. For many sites, that will mean turning the focus from a team's (unsettled) future to the (rosier!) past, dredging up warm and fuzzy memories to soothe their increasingly distressed supporters.
That won't be hard for the 92-year-old Green Bay Packers, whose history merits a Tolkien-thick tome. But if you're the nine-year-old Houston Texans and you've never had a playoff game, your history fits in a leaflet; tales of glory from the David Carr era will get you through about a week.
And that's not even the worst of it. Should a lockout endures into July, August and beyond, many staffers who produce these sites might not be around; if the cash-printing regular season is threatened, expect a purge of tech folk from Seattle to South Beach, as team sites devolve into little more than brochureware.
That is the ultimate fear of most NFL team web staffers: lost jobs, lost traffic, and lost fans during what could be the longest offseason — and the first lost season — of the modern digital age.
Andrew Mason is the editor and publisher of MaxDenver.com. He is a former producer and editor for NFL.com, and spent six season as web editor for the Denver Broncos and Carolina Panthers.
More on TIME.com:
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A 8,750-es kilométerszelvényénél kiágazik belőle délkelet felé a Portelekre vezető 31 122-es út, a 14,350-es kilométerszelvénynél pedig a Jászboldogházáig tartó 3125-ös út. 15,9 kilométer után eléri a 31-es főutat, annak 77,800-as kilométerszelvénynél, és azzal egyesülve keletnek fordul.

Mintegy 300 méterrel arrébb a közös szakaszuk keresztezi a Hatvan–Szolnok-vasútvonalat, majd további 300 méter után szétválnak, a 3117-es északnak indul tovább. Jászberény központja felé. A város lakott területére érve a neve először Szelei út, majd Szentkúti tér, utána pedig a végső szakasza Attila utca. A 31 113-as útba torkollva ér véget, annak 2,900-as kilométerszelvényénél. Egyenes folytatásaként indul ki ugyanebből a csomópontból a 31 332-es út.

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A literature review published yesterday in the JAMA Psychology journal bears some good news for anyone concerned about the effect of cannabis on young brains.
Researchers at University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine reviewed 69 studies of cognitive function in adolescent and young-adult cannabis users performed between 1973 and 2017, and found "a small overall effect size for reduced cognitive functioning associated with frequent or heavy cannabis use." The participant's age and the age when they began using cannabis had no effect on this.
In other words, smoking cannabis—even when your brain is still developing—doesn't make you significantly dumber. And whatever effect it does have wears off after just three days.
It's worth noting that some studies have found an association between early cannabis use and increased incidence of psychosis. The JAMA paper did not look at psychosis, only cognitive impairment.
It's worth noting, however, that some studies have found an association between early cannabis use and increased incidence of psychosis. The JAMA Psychology paper did not look at psychosis, only cognitive impairment. That said, this is still great news for anyone worried about what effect their "extracurricular" activities in high school may have had on their brain.
As NORML's deputy director, Paul Armentano, put it, "These findings should help to assuage fears that cannabis' acute effects on behavior may persist long after drug ingestion, or that they may pose greater potential risks to the developing brain." Phew!
Could you include that this article doesn't condone the use of marijuana prior to legal age?
Lol! And all these years I thought I must have certainly squandered away my Mensa creds by getting high in HS.
Great summary, Tobias. This is encouraging news and the analysis is very sound.
One quick correction: The journal is JAMA Psychiatry not Psychology.


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The movies Earthkiller by Montserrat Mendez and Android Insurrection by David Ian Lee and Nat Cassidy — even though David and Cassidy used absurd pseudonyms for their screen credits — have North American Distribution.
Yes. They'll be coming out on DVD and VOD in the US and Canada. And relatively soon, too.


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Welcome, and a hearty thank you, to new ALN Patron Member CGI! See more about CGI at their website.
Three special programs to start 2023 kick off today Tuesday 24 January at 3 pm Eastern with Peader Duffy, ESG Exchange Technical Director. Mr. Duffy will make a presentation on "Value, ESG, and ISO Governance Standards" followed by discussion with Mary Adams and Jim Dieter. Learn how a structured approach to asset management can guide reporting on the multiple values an organization wants to track. See more below in ideas. Register at this link.
February 7th at 4 pm Eastern we will join our Australian colleagues at the Asset Management Council in presenting another edition of "Value and Benefits from Asset Management." Peter Kohler, AMC Executive Council Liaison will be our guest on this week's ALN Th@3 pm ET. See more below in People.
February 14th at 10 am Eastern, we will join our colleagues at the Institute of Asset Management for a web panel discussion on our co-published document, "Asset Management: A White Paper."
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Peter Kohler, AMC Executive Council Liaison, helped establish the Asset Management Council, and has been a great supporter of the ALN. Mr. Kohler was a strong advocate for establishing the "Value and Benefits from Asset Management" web series along with Sally Nugent. The series of asset management success stories serves as the foundation of a global data base that owners will be able to search for encouragement to initiate or expand their asset management journey. Join Mr. Kohler as he shares some of his favorite success stories and the importance of a global asset management database. Register at this link.
Local Asset Management Bonanza?
Governing magazine features two previous ALN speakers and the work they are doing with our collegial association Government Finance Officers Association. Ben McAdams, former mayor of Salt Lake City County, and former U.S. Representative has joined with Dag Detter, author of "The Public Wealth of Cities" to lead an initiative that assists local government inventory and leverage undervalued public assets. Through the Sorenson Impact Center at the University of Utah and with assistance from the GFOA the two are running an incubator to help local governments identify assets that can generate non-tax revenue in a number of ways. Read more at this link.
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Peader Duffy, Global ESG Practice Lead at Archer Integrated Risk Management, has created a "Value @ Risk Continuum" that creates a Y axis of Value Creation and Value Maintenance along the X axis of Value Sustainment. This allows an organization to see value in a multidimensional manner that allows many ways to measure value that are not currently being leveraged. Join Mr. Duffy's presentation and following discussion to understand ways to adjust decision making to reduce the risk of losing value at your organization. Register at this link.
January 24 – 3 pm ET – Value, ESG, and ISO Governance Standards – Peader Duffy will provide a governance-oriented presentation addressing Maintaining Value and Creating Value. Mary Adams, and Jim Dieter will join in a discussion after the presentation.
Jan. 26 – ALN Th@3 pm ET – Peter Kohler, AMC Executive Council Liaison.
Feb. 7 – 4 pm ET – Value and Benefits from Asset Management – The ongoing series co-host by Australia's Asset Management Council and the ALN will feature Kimon Onuma, President, ONUMA, Inc. and John Hardwick, Executive Director for Asset Management at Transport, New South Wales.
Feb. 14 – 3 pm ET – Asset Management Leadership: A White Paper will be discussed on the web by leaders of co-publishers The Institute of Asset Management and Asset Leadership Network.


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Kevin Annett: PUBLIC COMMUNIQUE AND LEGAL NOTICE FROM THE INTERNATIONAL COMMON LAW COURT OF JUSTICE
1 Kevin Annett: PUBLIC COMMUNIQUE AND LEGAL NOTICE FROM THE INTERNATIONAL COMMON LAW COURT OF JUSTICE Sat Mar 01, 2014 1:15 pm
Announcement of Case Docket No. 31032014-001:
In the Matter of The People v. Jorge Bergoglio, Adolfo Nicolas Pachon, Justin Welby and others, and their Bodies Corporate
A Pre-Trial Hearing will commence on Monday, March 31, 2014 at 9:00 am GMT in Brussels
Issued by the Office of the Presiding Magistrates
E. Cantillon, Secretary
LET IT BE KNOWN that, based on an application brought before it by the Office of the Citizen Prosecutor on February 10, 2014, the Court will in thirty days commence litigation proceedings against Jorge Bergoglio ("Pope Francis 1″), Adolfo Nicolas Pachon ("Superior General of the Jesuit Order"), Justin Welby (Archbishop of Canterbury") and others involved in Crimes against Humanity.
These defendants will be charged with organizing and abetting child rape, torture and trafficking, and criminally conspiring to commit and conceal these offences.
The Court will convene its pre-trial Examination Hearing on Monday, March 31, 2014 at 9:00 GMT in the city of Brussels.
The Court is therefore issuing today a Public Summons to the named Defendants to be present at this Hearing, either in person or through their legal representatives.
Failure by any of the Defendants to appear may be interpreted by the Court as constituting a plea of nolo contendere, or non-contested, and will be entered into the Court record as such.
A copy of the Summons will be issued immediately to the named Defendants by Sheriffs appointed by the Court.
Anyone with evidence related to this matter is invited to submit it to the Office of the Citizen Prosecutor of the Court in the form of a legally sworn deposition and affidavit. For details, please contact the Office at itccscentral@gmail.com .
The ITCCS and its affiliates are calling for a Public Day of Silence to End Church Violence against Children, on the day before the opening of the Trial: Sunday, March 30, 2014. You are asked to refrain from all normal activity that day and join in prayer, fasting and reflection.
The Tribunal asks all people of conscience to remember and act not only for the children who are presently suffering and dying at the hands of church-protected child rapists and traffickers, but for the countless children who have died at the hands of these churches – children like:
Albert Hance, age 9, starved to death at the Anglican St. George's school in Lytton, British Columbia;
Richard Thomas, age 15, beaten to death by Catholic priest Terrance MacNamara at the Kuper Island school, British Columbia;
Shirley Tatooche, age 10, raped to death by Catholic priests at the Fort Albany school in Ontario …and at least 50,000 more children in Canada alone. (www.hiddennolonger.com)
Remember the Dead – Fight for the Living – Jail the Child Killers and all those who protect them!
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Westworld Season 2, Episode 2: Flashbackstory
April 30, 2018 by chrys
I loved parts of the backstory, but when you get right down to it I love nothing when it means I get less of Maeve. Am I the only one whose interest in William's story has dwindled? I hope this doesn't present a problem given the title for the season is Door, so fingers crossed.
Westworld Season 2, Episode 2 Recap
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-Dolores is the Devil confirmed. I can't think of any storytelling shortcut more effective at communicating this than her decision to recruit the Confederados. It still seems in character, whatever that even means anymore, but it colors her movement in a certain light. Adding to this recent development, we have her backstory. She was God's first-born and most beloved, she was cast out of heaven (the main plotline), she sees free will as something she was indebted to rather than a privilege (a point me and the Devil actually agree upon). She currently wants to take over the world. It's all not very white hat of her.
-Maybe William is Adam, though he presents quite a strong case for the devil, it's an obvious one. Also, I appreciate these flashbacks showing us young William's true colors because last time it happened near the end of a season where he's kinda established himself as good and his evil /trueself was introduced as an entirely different character. His declarations to a naked and barely responsive Dolores are indicative of just how pathetic he is. As if he's the first person to consider women things, be they AI or flesh and bones.
-There was far too little Maeve in this episode. She still made quite an impact. She is sharpness to Dolores blunt force. Maeve was informed by the world around her and started her own personal revolution, Dolores started from the inside and is going global. I hope their differing philosophies get to butt heads once more. Ideally before they are all doomed.
-Given that Dolores now knows where Delos was most likely to send troops, I'm beginning to think the drowned bodies may be very much alive. A gal can hope, for Teddy's sake. The poor boy is not handling all these revelations very well.
-It was a joy to see Logan again. I feel like I was born to rewrite his dialogue. Somewhere the wires got crossed and I love him forever (would definitely hate him irl).
-I don't know what to make of Mr.Delos, but I'm tickled pink that rather than blackmail, this entire thing has been about marketing. Especially given recent hearings.
-I need to know more about the outside world vis-a-vis medical technology. That weird healing tool Maeve used on Hector was seen this week as used by William. I'm fairly sure what fixes white goop isn't what fixes human goop. Is William white goop? Is this why we're seeing more of the inner workings of the hosts?
-Giancarlooooooo!
And now, if you'll excuse me, I finally have time to watch Dirty Computer. I wonder if I'll find any parallels. From what I can make out memory plays a big part in that too.
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When reading about the case against Dr. Michael J. Reinstein in Chicago, most community members understand in general terms what was going awry. All medical decisions, whether at the hospital, nursing home, clinic, or elsewhere need to be made with the best interests of the patient in mind. When other factors influence the decision (i.e. money), then the process has broken down.
But how does this sort of conduct implicate legal issues? In Dr. Reinstein's case he is alleged to have over-prescribed a certain dangerous medications for his own personal gain–he was paid by the makers of the drug to push the product. But, it isn't as if the Doctor intentionally harmed patients, and in certain cases the patients may actually have benefited from clozapine. Most understand how incredibly inappropriate and potentially harmful this conduct is, but the legal underpinning of the lawsuit related to these issues is less well known.
Medical care is expensive. Insurance costs alone are a large part of many family and business budgets. State and federal government budgets are no exception, as virtually all budget shortfalls are connected in one way or another to extensive spending on programs like Medicare and Medicaid. Policymakers have long-been considering ways to cut those costs.
For example, in recent years there has been a crackdown on improper billing and fraudulent actions by providers of healthcare and support services. To combat the problem, lawmakers passed the False Claims Act. This law includes many different provisions aimed at minimizing Medicare and Medicaid payouts that are not necessary. According to some estimates, in the last three to four years alone, the U.S. Justice Department has been about to recover over $14 billion in funds that were paid out unnecessarily.
The vast majority of those reclaimed funds were received via one particular method allowed by the False Claims Act. The law includes qui tam provisions, which is essentially an incentive for whistleblowers to come forward and share information about fraudulent actions of which they may have personal knowledge. All told over $10 billion of the $14 billion total in recovery in recent years has stemmed from these whistleblower lawsuits by former employees of hospitals, nursing homes, and other facilities where fraudulent billing might take place.
Healthcare costs are a hot topic these days (and everyday for the past many years). At one point or another virtually everything under the sun has been blamed for rising costs-from lack of insurance to lawsuits. Unfortunately, receiving far too little attention are the incentives of medical care providers themselves to ensure that prices go up and the quantity of medical care provided is as high as possible.
With pay per service medical care, there is an incentive for medical facilities to provide more can than a patient may need in order to receive payment for that care. This is not a condemnation of medical providers but a concession to the obvious reality that when a business is paid to provide a service, the business has incentives to increase the need for the service. When it comes to medical care, that means increase the need for certain treatments, tests, procedures, or other care.
Because of that inherent situation, it is critical for observers to put systems in place to prevent abuse of those financial incentives. Taxpayers are ultimately the ones who foot the bill for much medical care (via the Medicare and Medicaid programs), and they are the ones who suffer when medical facilities violate rules and take more in payments than necessary.
With all of the headlines about mass dysfunction in federal politics and the endless deadlock, it is easy to become disillusioned about the process. Yet, for that very reason, it is important to share information about those times (perhaps too few and far between) where bipartisan effort does work to pass needed reform. That was recently evidence by the President's signature on a new piece of legislation that may affect all those who rely on Medicare support and who may be harmed by the misconduct of others.
The head of the American Association for Justice recently shared information on the passage of a bill known as the SMART Act. It stands for Strengthening Medicare and Repaying Taxpayers Act. In general, the bill changes the operation of the Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) system to make it more streamlined and efficient.
The UCLA Newsroom reported this week on a new clinical study that took a look at how the development of pressure sores at hospitals ultimately impacted the patients who developed those sores. As blog readers likely know, these pressure sores are serious skin breakdowns that often affects patients in hospitals and residents of nursing homes. Also known as pressure ulcers or bed sores, these injuries are almost always preventable with proper care. Re-positioning, grooming, hydration, and proper nutrition are also key components of keeping patients healthy in this regard.
This latest research effort suggests that there is a direct correlation between the development of pressure sores and increased hospitalizations and patient deaths. In other words, these sores are not minor problems that cause inconvenience to patients–they are serious. It is critical that all healthcare providers treat them as such.
By 2030, one of every five Americans will be over the age of 65 and nearly half of all medical care spending will go to seniors. However, the US health care market is not positioned to meet the needs of this ever expanding group. The consequences of an understaffed and under-trained geriatric health care workforce could mean a sharp increase in the number of medical malpractice lawsuits and medical injury lawsuits in the future. A recent article highlights the shortcomings of the geriatric health care system, noting that doctors who serve senior patients make less than their internist counterparts and that geriatric specialists have decreased in number by nearly 25%. To meet the new demand for geriatric health services, the US needs to add 3.5 million people to the geriatric health care workforce in the next twenty years. Without necessary staff and salary increases, seniors could face tough choices in selecting a quality health care provider and avoiding injury in the doctor's office.


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The Norton 961 Commando in America
The new Norton 961 Commando Café Racer.
Patience: That best describes the demeanor U.S. buyers for the new Norton 961 Commando have had to assume since Stuart Garner's 2008 relaunch of Norton.
Garner, who made his fortune in fireworks, originally hoped to have bikes in production by mid-2009. But reality has a nasty way of insinuating itself into even the best laid plans, and it took another year for the first finished bikes, the limited edition 961 SE (200 will be built), to start rolling off the new Norton line. Here's the official promo video for the Norton 961 SE:
Yet delays haven't stopped interest. Industry veteran Matt Capri was quick to link up with Garner, establishing South Bay Norton in August 2009 as the exclusive U.S. dealer/distributor. South Bay's John Perkey told us only three of 50 U.S. allotted 961 SEs were still available as we went to press; the U.K. allotment sold out by October 2009.
The first U.K. market SE was delivered last March, the first Sport in October and the first Café Racer in November. U.S. customers can expect to start collecting their SEs in April or May, assuming the 961 passes EPA emissions testing, ongoing as we went to print. Capri expects it to pass easily, with California certification following shortly. The wire-wheeled SE is priced at $17,999 and the carbon fiber-wheeled SE at $19,499. Perkey says those bikes are being sold at a discount to drive interest; in the U.K., the Café Racer and Sport are priced at approximately $22,000 and $19,500, respectively. The first Café Racer could arrive here as early as April, but it could be as late as mid-summer. For a taste of what you can expect, read Alan Cathcart's road test of the new Café Racer.
Garner has clearly been re-evaluating the importance of the U.S. market; in November he named one-time Ducati North America CEO Dan Van Epps as CEO of newly created subsidiary Norton Motorcycles USA. Van Epps will spearhead efforts to establish a dealer network in time to start selling bikes by April or May, with an ultimate goal of dealer presence in the top 50 U.S. population centers. Further, as we went to press, Norton announced it had hired ex-Ducati fashionista Pierre Terblanche as head of product development and design. Among his challenges is designing a new line of multi-valve, multi-cylinder engines.
TonyCarlos
They will eventually run up against the problem that everything retro hits: where do you go after you've done the original "updated" remake. So long as it looks like the old Norton twins so many of us love, it will sell (to a limited market). But is the world really eager for a multi from Norton? Do they really want to get into a serious HP war with the established brands? Are their pockets that deep?
allbikesrcool
A kick a$$ big single!!! The time is right. I can't tell you how many folks (and I don't mean just those over 40) I've had 'cool' bike discussions that involved the high-performance BIG single subject and ended with something to the effect "Less is more and I'd definitely buy one, as long as they didn't try and make it an entry level marketing exercize or 'swoop' out the styling like it's trying to be one of its multi-cylinder 600-1000cc stable mates." Imagine what Terblanche could do with a single.... The new Norton does not appear to be a watered-down version of anything. I like that. And further, a BIG performance single version wouldn't miss the mark because it's trying to appeal to the masses. Ultimately, would I buy one if price was kept to 4-digits? Oh ya.
Triumphdave2
I really hope that Norton makes it this time, the bike is good enough even at the asking price. I was alittle disturbed by the comment that they are already looking to develope muti cyl bikes. If Norton feels the need to have a second line of motorcycle they should bring back a modern version of the Manx.


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//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//
//  EXRWriter.h - Definition of a class that can write raster images
//  to an OpenEXR file.
//
//
//  Author: Aravind Krishnaswamy
//  Date of Birth: March 10, 2006
//  Tabs: 4
//  Comments:
//
//  License Information: Please see the attached LICENSE.TXT file
//
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

#ifndef EXR_WRITER_
#define EXR_WRITER_

#include "../Interfaces/IRasterImageWriter.h"
#include "../Interfaces/IWriteBuffer.h"
#include "../Utilities/Reference.h"

#ifndef NO_EXR_SUPPORT
	// OpenEXR includes
	#include <ImfRgbaFile.h>
	#include <ImfIO.h>
	#include <ImfArray.h>
#endif

namespace RISE
{
	namespace Implementation
	{
	#ifndef NO_EXR_SUPPORT
		// Wrapper around our IWriteBuffer to an EXR OStream
		class OStreamWrapper : public Imf::OStream
		{
		protected:
			IWriteBuffer& pBuffer;

		public:
			OStreamWrapper( IWriteBuffer& buffer ) : Imf::OStream( "none" ), pBuffer( buffer )
			{}

			void write( const char c[/*n*/], int n )
			{
				pBuffer.ResizeForMore(n);
				pBuffer.setBytes( c, n );
			}

			Imf::Int64 tellp()
			{
				return pBuffer.getCurPos();
			}

			void seekp( Imf::Int64 pos )
			{
				pBuffer.seek( IBuffer::START, static_cast<int>(pos) );
			}
		};
	#endif

		class EXRWriter : public virtual IRasterImageWriter, public virtual Reference
		{
		protected:

		#ifndef NO_EXR_SUPPORT
			OStreamWrapper			out;
			Imf::RgbaOutputFile*	exrout;
			Imf::Array2D<Imf::Rgba>	exrbuffer;
		#endif

			IWriteBuffer&			buffer;
			COLOR_SPACE				color_space;
			unsigned int			horzpixels;
			unsigned int			scanlines;

		#ifndef NO_EXR_SUPPORT
			template< typename T >
			void WriteColorToEXRBuffer( const T& c, const unsigned int x, const unsigned int y )
			{
				// Convert from our scalar format to the half format
				// Note that OpenEXR is defined as a premultiplied alpha for transparency
				exrbuffer[y][x].r = half( static_cast<float>( c.base.r*c.a ) );
				exrbuffer[y][x].g = half( static_cast<float>( c.base.g*c.a ) );
				exrbuffer[y][x].b = half( static_cast<float>( c.base.b*c.a ) );
				exrbuffer[y][x].a = half( static_cast<float>( c.a ) );
			}
		#endif

		public:
			EXRWriter( IWriteBuffer& buffer, const COLOR_SPACE color_space_ );

			virtual ~EXRWriter();

			void	BeginWrite( const unsigned int width, const unsigned int height );
			void	WriteColor( const RISEColor& c, const unsigned int x, const unsigned int y );
			void	EndWrite( );
		};
	}
}

#endif

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


text:
var DragManager = {};

DragManager.DragProxy = null;

DragManager.onMouseOver = function (evt,ele) {
	if(DragManager.DragFlag){
		var dragOver = ele.getAttribute("dragOver");
		if(dragOver){
			var func = eval(dragOver);
			func.apply(ele,arguments);
		}
	}
};

DragManager.onMouseOut = function (evt,ele) {
	if(DragManager.DragFlag){
		var dragOut = ele.getAttribute("dragOut");
		if(dragOut){
			var func = eval(dragOut);
			func.apply(ele,arguments);
		}
	}
};

DragManager.onMouseDown = function (evt,ele) {
	var evt = getEvent(evt);
	var dragFlag = $Z(evt.srcElement).getParentByAttr("drag","false");
	if(dragFlag){
		return;
	}
	DragManager.DragSource = ele;
	DragManager.StartFlag = true;
	if(isIE){
		//焦点丢失
		DragManager.DragSource.attachEvent("onlosecapture",DragManager.onDragExit);
		//设置鼠标捕获
		//DragManager.DragSource.setCapture();
	}else{
		//焦点丢失
		window.attachEvent("onblur",DragManager.onDragExit);
		//阻止默认动作
		evt.preventDefault();
	};
};

DragManager.onMouseMove = function (evt) {
	evt = getEvent(evt);
	if(DragManager.StartFlag){
		DragManager.DragFlag = true;
		DragManager.StartFlag = false;
		var dragStart = DragManager.DragSource.getAttribute("dragStart");
		if(dragStart){
			var func = eval(dragStart);
			func.apply(DragManager.DragSource,arguments);
		}
	}else	if(DragManager.DragFlag){
		if(DragManager.DragProxy){
			if(!evt.srcElement){
				return;
			}
			//如果是子窗口响应了父窗口发起的事件,则需要绝对定位.todo:尚未考虑多层iframe嵌套的问题
			var pos = null;
			if(window==$ZE.getTopLevelWindow()){
				pos = getEventPosition(evt);
			}else{
				pos = getEventPositionLocal(evt);
			}

			DragManager.DragProxy.style.left = (pos.x-DragManager.DragProxy.cx)+"px";
			if(DragManager.DragProxy==DragManager.DragSource){
				DragManager.DragProxy.style.top = (pos.y-DragManager.DragProxy.cy)+"px";
			}else{
				DragManager.DragProxy.style.top = (pos.y+5)+"px";
			}
		}

		//加入draging
		var draging = DragManager.DragSource.getAttribute("draging");
		if(draging){
			var func = eval(draging);
			func.apply(DragManager.DragSource,arguments);
		}

		//end draging
	}else	if(DragManager.ChildDragFlag){//有可能是iframe中发起的拖拽
		if(DragManager.DragProxy){
			var pos = getEventPosition(evt);
			DragManager.DragProxy.style.left = (pos.x-DragManager.DragProxy.cx)+"px";
			if(DragManager.DragProxy==DragManager.DragSource){
				DragManager.DragProxy.style.top = (pos.y-DragManager.DragProxy.cy)+"px";
			}else{
				DragManager.DragProxy.style.top = (pos.y+5)+"px";
			}
		}
	}else{//可能是父级窗口发起的拖动,如对话框
		var pw = $ZE.getTopLevelWindow();
		if(pw.DragManager!=null&&pw.DragManager.DragFlag){
			pw.DragManager.onMouseMove(evt);
		}
	}
};

DragManager.onMouseUp = function (evt,ele) {
	var evt = getEvent(evt);
	var dragFlag = $Z(evt.srcElement).getParentByAttr("drag","false");
	if(dragFlag){
		return;
	}

	if(DragManager.DragFlag){
		DragManager.onMouseOut.apply(ele,arguments);

		var dragEnd = ele.getAttribute("dragEnd");
		var func = eval(dragEnd);
		func.apply(ele,arguments);

		if(DragManager.DragProxy&&DragManager.DragSource!=DragManager.DragProxy){
			DragManager.DragProxy.style.display = "none";
		}
	}
	Misc.unlockSelect();
	if(isIE&&DragManager.DragSource){
		DragManager.DragSource.detachEvent("onlosecapture", DragManager.onDragExit);
		//DragManager.DragSource.releaseCapture();
	}else{
		window.detachEvent("onblur",DragManager.onDragExit);
	};
	DragManager.DragProxy = null;
	DragManager.DragFlag = false;
	DragManager.StartFlag = false;
	DragManager.DragSource = null;
};

DragManager.onDragExit = function(){
	var pw = $ZE.getTopLevelWindow();
	DragManager.DragFlag = false;
	pw.DragManager.DragFlag = false;
	if(!DragManager.DragSource){
		return;
	}
	var dragExit = DragManager.DragSource.getAttribute("dragExit");
	if(dragExit){
		var func = eval(dragExit);
		func.apply(DragManager.DragSource,arguments);
	}
	var dragOut = DragManager.DragSource.getAttribute("dragOut");
	if(dragOut){
		var func = eval(dragOut);
		func.apply(DragManager.DragSource,arguments);
	}
	if(DragManager.DragProxy&&DragManager.DragSource!=DragManager.DragProxy){
		DragManager.DragProxy.style.display = "none";
	}
	Misc.unlockSelect();
	if(isIE&&DragManager.DragSource){
		DragManager.DragSource.detachEvent("onlosecapture", DragManager.onDragExit);
		//DragManager.DragSource.releaseCapture();
	}else{
		window.detachEvent("onblur",DragManager.onDragExit);
	};
	DragManager.DragProxy = null;
	DragManager.DragFlag = false;
	DragManager.StartFlag = false;
	DragManager.DragSource = null;
};

DragManager.doDrag = function(evt,proxy){
	var dragProxy;
	var pos1 = $ZE.getPosition(DragManager.DragSource);
	var dim = $ZE.getDimensions(DragManager.DragSource);
	evt = getEvent(evt);
	var pos2 = getEventPositionLocal(evt);

	if(!proxy){
		dragProxy = DragManager.DragSource;
		if(dragProxy.style.position != "absolute"){
			dragProxy.style.width = dim.width+"px";
			dragProxy.style.top = pos1.y+"px";
			dragProxy.style.position = "absolute";
		}
	}else{
		if(typeof(proxy)=="string"){
			//必须去掉Proxy的事件,因为快速移动的过程中鼠标可能会在Proxy身上引发事件
			proxy = proxy.replace(/on\w*?=([\'\"]).*?\1/gi,"");
			proxy = proxy.replace(/drag\w*?=([\'\"]).*?\1/gi,"");
			var div = $Z("_DragProxy");
			if(!div){
				div = document.createElement('div');
				div.id = "_DragProxy";
				div.style.position = "absolute";
				div.style.zIndex = 999;
				Misc.lockSelect(div);
				document.body.appendChild(div) ;
			}
			div.innerHTML = proxy;
			div.style.display = "";
			div.style.left = (2*pos1.x-pos2.x)+"px";
			div.style.top = (2*pos1.y-pos2.y)+"px";
			dragProxy = div;
		}else{
			dragProxy = proxy;
			dragProxy.style.top = pos1.y+"px";
			dragProxy.style.position = "absolute";
			if(dragProxy!=DragManager.DragSource){
				dragProxy.style.zIndex = 999;
			}
		}
	}
	dragProxy.cx = pos2.x - pos1.x;
	dragProxy.cy = pos2.y - pos1.y;
	DragManager.DragProxy = dragProxy;
	Misc.lockSelect();
};

Page.onMouseUp(DragManager.onDragExit);
Page.onMouseMove(DragManager.onMouseMove);


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Q: A code example of serialization JSON to JSON-LD in Java? I need to convert a some mass of data represented in the form of JSON to JSON-LD. I want to do this with this JSON-LD Java implementation, but I don't understand, what should I do.
I watched several tutorials and read something about JSON-LD on the Internet, but do not understand the simplest thing: how do I convert JSON to JSON-LD?
For example, I have this code in JSON:
{
   "name" : "Andreas",
   "age" : 20,
   "profession" : "student",
   "personalWebsite" : "example.com"
}

What should I do now? Something like context.add("example.com")?
InputStream inputStream = new FileInputStream("C:\Users\Username\input.json");
Object jsonObject = JsonUtils.fromInputStream(inputStream);
Map context = new HashMap();
JsonLdOptions options = new JsonLdOptions();

A: Add a '@context' entry to your data.
{
   "name" : "Andreas",
   "age" : 20,
   "profession" : "student",
   "personalWebsite" : "example.com",
   "@context":"http://schema.org/"
}

Your JSON-LD Processor will do the rest (since version 0.9)
As test you can convert your json to rdf.
package overflow.stack2449461;

import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.StringWriter;
import java.util.Collection;

import org.eclipse.rdf4j.model.Statement;
import org.eclipse.rdf4j.rio.RDFFormat;
import org.eclipse.rdf4j.rio.RDFHandlerException;
import org.eclipse.rdf4j.rio.RDFParser;
import org.eclipse.rdf4j.rio.RDFWriter;
import org.eclipse.rdf4j.rio.Rio;
import org.eclipse.rdf4j.rio.helpers.StatementCollector;

public class Test {
    @org.junit.Test
    public void testForYourCode() {
        String data = "{\"name\" : \"Andreas\",\"age\" : 20,\"profession\" : \"student\", \"personalWebsite\" : \"example.com\",\"@context\": \"http://schema.org/\"}";
        try (InputStream in = new ByteArrayInputStream(data.getBytes("utf-8"))) {
            String dataAsRdf = readRdfToString(in, RDFFormat.JSONLD, RDFFormat.NTRIPLES, "");
            System.out.println(dataAsRdf);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            throw new RuntimeException(e);
        }
    }

    /**
     * @param in
     *            a rdf input stream
     * @param inf
     *            the rdf format of the input stream
     * @param outf
     *            the output format
     * @param baseUrl
     *            usually the url of the resource
     * @return a string representation
     */
    public static String readRdfToString(InputStream in, RDFFormat inf, RDFFormat outf, String baseUrl) {
        Collection<Statement> myGraph = null;
        myGraph = readRdfToGraph(in, inf, baseUrl);
        return graphToString(myGraph, outf);
    }

    /**
     * @param inputStream
     *            an Input stream containing rdf data
     * @param inf
     *            the rdf format
     * @param baseUrl
     *            see sesame docu
     * @return a Graph representing the rdf in the input stream
     */
    public static Collection<Statement> readRdfToGraph(final InputStream inputStream, final RDFFormat inf,
            final String baseUrl) {
        try {
            final RDFParser rdfParser = Rio.createParser(inf);
            final StatementCollector collector = new StatementCollector();
            rdfParser.setRDFHandler(collector);
            rdfParser.parse(inputStream, baseUrl);
            return collector.getStatements();
        } catch (final Exception e) {
            throw new RuntimeException(e);
        }
    }

    /**
     * Transforms a graph to a string.
     *
     * @param myGraph
     *            a sesame rdf graph
     * @param outf
     *            the expected output format
     * @return a rdf string
     */
    public static String graphToString(Collection<Statement> myGraph, RDFFormat outf) {
        StringWriter out = new StringWriter();
        RDFWriter writer = Rio.createWriter(outf, out);
        try {
            writer.startRDF();
            for (Statement st : myGraph) {
                writer.handleStatement(st);
            }
            writer.endRDF();
        } catch (RDFHandlerException e) {
            throw new RuntimeException(e);
        }
        return out.getBuffer().toString();
    }

}

With pom.xml
   <dependency>
        <groupId>org.eclipse.rdf4j</groupId>
        <artifactId>rdf4j-runtime</artifactId>
        <version>2.2</version>
        <type>pom</type>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.github.jsonld-java</groupId>
        <artifactId>jsonld-java</artifactId>
        <version>0.10.0</version>
    </dependency>

It will print your json string as rdf NTRIPLES
_:b0 <http://schema.org/age> "20"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#integer> .
_:b0 <http://schema.org/name> "Andreas" .
_:b0 <http://schema.org/personalWebsite> "example.com" .
_:b0 <http://schema.org/profession> "student" .


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Xconomy National
Local Orbit Out to Boost Food Supply Chain for Farmers, Institutions
Colorectal Cancer Data Spurs Pfizer to Pay $11.4B for Array Bio
Elizabeth Hagerman
Vice President for Corporate Engagement, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
What the Higgs Boson Owes to the World Wide Web
Wade Roush
@soonishpodcast
Quick: Name the greatest thing ever to come out of CERN, the European Center for Nuclear Research.
If your answer is the Higgs boson, the existence of which was more or less confirmed this week by two teams working on parallel experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC), I respectfully disagree. The greatest thing to come out of CERN is the World Wide Web, which was first conceived by former CERN computer scientists Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau in 1989 as a tool for creating a network of hypertext documents such as physics papers.
In fact, I'd argue that 1) Web was one of the key enabling technologies that allowed the LHC to be constructed in the first place, and 2) without the Web, average citizens would be having a much harder time understanding this week's discovery.
It's a provocative point of view, I know, so let me step through the two parts of my argument one at a time.
First, hats off to the armies of scientists at CERN. The world is rightly hailing the discovery of the Higgs boson as a keystone moment in science. The Higgs was the last particle needed to complete the "standard model" of particle physics, and if it's real, it vindicates the leading theory about why elementary particles like quarks and electrons have mass.
Let's be honest, though—it's not like this was a big surprise. Smoking out the Higgs particle was the whole reason governments spent $10 billion to build the LHC, and so far, it seems to have the exact properties that physicists have been predicting since the 1960s. Not finding it at the predicted energies, or finding a Higgs-like particle that didn't quite accord with the theory (thus forcing physicists to go back to the drawing board), would have been much more interesting news.
Data collected on May 13, 2012, by the CMS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The yellow dotted lines and green towers show two protons, the probable decay products of a Higgs boson. Source: CERN
Then there's the matter of the Higgs particle itself, which is a bit of a kludge. Physicists came up with the idea mainly so that they wouldn't have to throw out an elegant set of equations about the symmetry of quantum interactions. The problem with these equations was that they had no provisions for mass; the new theory explained mass as the resistance certain particles encounter as they move through a pervasive, molasses-like "Higgs field." (The Higgs boson is a manifestation of the Higgs field, briefly brought into being inside the LHC when protons slam into one another at nearly the speed of light.) Stephen Wolfram, the creator of Mathematica, calls the Higgs field "an unfortunate hack." Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist Sheldon Glashow has derided it as the standard model's version of the toilet. "It fulfills an important and necessary function, but one is not proud of it and doesn't want to show it off to the neighbors," mathematician Peter Woit wrote in a paraphrase of Glashow's objection.
But while the plumbing of the universe may not be pretty, we wouldn't know if it was there at all without the LHC. And I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the LHC itself couldn't have been built without the kind of international communication and collaboration that the Web enabled. My evidence is simple: The U.S. tried to build a bigger and better particle collider in Texas between 1987 and 1993—before the Web had really taken hold—and failed.
The Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) was to be constructed south of Dallas and would have boosted particles to far higher energies than those the LHC can reach. The Department of Energy spent $2 billion on the project and bored 14 miles of tunnels before Congress killed the project in 1993. If the project had gone forward on schedule, the Higgs boson would have been discovered years ago—at least, so says Harvard physicist Lisa Randall.
There are many ways to explain the cancellation: budget overruns, DOE mismanagement, and the skyrocketing cost of a competing project, the International Space Station, were all factors. But I'd argue that the physics community's inability to mount an effective public-relations campaign to save the SSC was another big cause. If scientists had had the modern Web at their disposal, they could have educated the public directly about why the project was important, and perhaps spurred a grassroots movement to rescue it.
I'm not saying that Kickstarter could have saved the SSC. But the Web has clearly been a huge boon for the LHC, which was built between 1998 and 2008. Not only has it been an important channel for generating taxpayer support for the project in Europe, but it also has been the key repository for design and planning documents and scientific reports. It's hard to see how a project spanning laboratories in Canada, France, India, Japan, Russia, Switzerland, the United States, and the U.K. could have been completed without the Web as a communications fabric. Finally, the Web has provided the model for the LHC Computing Grid, a vast network of 140 computing centers in 35 countries that collaborate to house the huge volumes of data generated by the collider's detectors.
"Particle physics always has been pushing the envelope on communication," said Sarah Eno, a University of Maryland scientist who is part of the CMS detector team at CERN, in 2006. "That's why the World Wide Web was developed by the particle physics community. We've always had a tremendous need for communication."
Speaking of communication, we've arrived at Part 2 of my argument. I've been following the coverage of the Higgs boson announcement all week, and frankly I think the broadcast media have been doing a bad job of explaining the science. It's only on the Web and in the leading newspapers that the context and significance of the discovery have been adequately conveyed.
Let's take a look at how PBS and NPR covered the July 4th announcement at CERN. I have immense respect for these two organizations and their reporters. But when it came time to explain what this $10 billion particle actually is and why we should care, both outlets fell short. Here's Richard Harris, about 3 minutes and 30 seconds into a 4-minute report for NPR's All Things Considered: "If it is indeed the Higgs boson, the discovery would provide evidence that there's a field—the Higgs field—that permeates our universe and interacts with particles to create mass. It explains why the atoms that make us who we are actually have substance."
Physicist Peter Higgs, who proposed the existence of the Higgs field in 1964, was in attendance at the July 4 CERN announcement. Source: CERN
And here's ITN reporter Tom Clarke, who supplied a report broadcast by the PBS NewsHour: "Most of the things we're familiar with in the universe have mass. But without the Higgs boson, there is no mass…. take away the Higgs, and there's nothing left to hold the entire universe together."
That's all they said about the actual science. It's not that these descriptions are wrong—they're just incredibly vague. I won't even bother you with the lame descriptions of the Higgs boson offered by the mainstream TV networks. (But Stephen Colbert's take was amusing: to understand the excitement of physicists at CERN, he said, you "had to be there…and simultaneously not be there.")
But on the Web—in which I include the websites of the major newspapers and other media organizations—writers have offered a variety of thorough and clever explanations of the Higgs boson, how it fits into the standard model, and how its associated field imparts mass. When the actual math is so inaccessible, there's no alternative but to use analogies, and I've seen a number of great ones offered this week.
Particles moving through the Higgs field are like ping-pong balls rolling across a tray of sugar, said Ian Sample, science correspondent at The Guardian. It's "not unlike a field of snow, in which trudging through impedes progress," offered the BBC. Or maybe it's more like actors moving through an ocean of paparazzi, said physicist Brian Greene for a PBS Nova segment: "Some particles, like unknown actors, pass through with ease. The paparazzi simply aren't interested in them. Other particles, like superstars, have to push and press. The more those particles struggle to get through, the more they interact with the ocean and the more mass they gain."
But my absolute favorite analogy came from Dennis Overbye at the New York Times: "Particles wading through the field gain heft the way a bill going through Congress attracts riders and amendments, becoming ever more ponderous."
YouTube and Vimeo have also been a gold mine of physics information this week. At Minute Physics, cinematographer-physicist Henry Reich offers a three-minute overview of the Higgs that's already been viewed 112,000 times. For an explanation of the Higgs boson that's both accurate and fun, meanwhile, you can't beat the cartoon version of roboticist Jorge Cham's talk with CERN physicist Daniel Whiteson, embedded below. (The video is also online here and is part of Cham's PhD Comics series.)
The medium CERN invented, in other words, turns out to be the best one for explaining the science CERN is uncovering. It doesn't matter that the Higgs is a kludge, or that the standard model, while now "complete," still offers a woefully inadequate explanation of the universe—it offers no clues about the nature of gravity, dark matter, or dark energy, for example. This just leaves more for us to chew on in coming years, as researchers create more Higgs bosons, study the different ways they decay, and debate the relationship between the standard model and more radical ideas such as string theory.
Maybe it's a good thing that the SSC went unfinished in the 1990s. Without today's Web, we might not have appreciated the results anyway.
Addendum July 10, 2012: On the flip side of the coin, Hank Campbell at Science 2.0 documents how the Web has been the scene of some unbelievably silly stories using the Higgs discovery as the jumping-off point for pseudoscientific click bait.
The Higgs Boson Explained from PHD Comics on Vimeo.
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There have been several incidents where workers have been injured while working on tarpaulin covered stockpiles of grain and silage during high winds.
Recently, a grain storage worker was fatally injured in a fall while securing a tarpaulin cover on an eight-metre high bunker.
As well as covering/removing tarpaulins, there are a variety of other tasks done on top of grain and silage bunkers/stacks including tarpaulin covering/removing, sewing, patching and taking tie-down straps from one side to the other.
Windy and wet conditions can create hazards for workers. Powerful winds may lift a tarpaulin or create a 'sail' effect.
Additionally, bunkers are often two metres or more in height and workers may be at risk of falling, particularly where the tarpaulin surface becomes slippery or the stored grain has a high angle of repose.
Use a fixed platform (ie gantry) or an elevated work platform to access grain bunkers, silage stockpiles etc, where practicable. Where possible, workers should avoid accessing the tops of bunkers/stockpiles.
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Do a risk assessment or job safety analysis which is used when developing procedures and before workers access grain bunkers/ stockpiles.
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Arroyo to face Villanueva for vacant IBF title
After the South African Zolani Tete vacated the International Boxing Federation (IBF) super flyweight title, the #1 ranked McJoe Arroyo, from Puerto Rico, will face the #3 ranked Arthur Villanueva, from Philippines, for the vacant belt, possibly on July 18 in the United States.
Tete (20-3, 17 KOs) would defend his belt against Arroyo (16-0, 8 KOs) this summer, but negotiations were unsuccessful and after an IBF purse bid held recently- won by Golden Boy Promotions- the African boxer didn't accept the terms for the fight and vacated the title.
"We are already negotiating with the promoter of Villanueva (ALA Promotions), with whom we have already worked before, and there should be no problem for the fight to take place," said Peter Rivera, vice president of PR Best Boxing Promotions (PRBBP), company representing
Arroyo, who is also ranked number seven by the WBO in the super flyweight division.
"We have a tentative date, which is July 18 in the United States, which is what we are working."
Arroyo, an Olympic representing Puerto Rico in 2008, defeated by unanimous decision last December 20, 2014, Filipino Mark Anthony Geraldo in an elimination fight for the top spot in the 115 pounds IBF rankings.
In his amateur career, Arroyo was a bronze medalist at the 2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Chicago and at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games in Colombia.
Last year, the 29-year, got two wins, one against countryman David Quijano by unanimous decision in April, and the other an 11th-round TKO over former world champion Hernan "Tyson" Marquez in June in Mexico.
Villanueva (27-0, 14 KOs) is a boxer who comes from a unanimous decision victory last February 7, 2015, over former world champion Julio Cesar Miranda. In 2014, Villanueva scored two wins by decision over Mexico's Fernando Aguilar (unanimous) in March and the Nicaraguan Henry Maldonado (split) in September.
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China atrocities at height in Hong Kong, 53 pro-democracy leaders arrested – Hong Kong arrested 53 pro-democracy activists under national security law
China's persecution in Hong Kong is setting new records of cruelty day after day. Hong Kong police on Wednesday arrested 53 former lawmakers and pro-democracy activists for violating the new national security law. The leaders are accused of violating the new national security law by participating in unofficial primary elections for the legislature last year.
Such action for the first time after the new law
The United States, the European Union and Britain have strongly criticized China for the arrest of MPs and pro-democracy activists. The United States has also demanded the immediate release of these Chinese leaders. The arrest of so many former MPs and pro-democracy activists is the biggest move against Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement after Beijing's national security law was enforced. China passed the law in June last year to suppress dissent in the semi-autonomous region.
Hong Kong puppet government clarified
Hong Kong's security minister said the operation targeted active elements suspected of being involved in the crime of seriously harming, interfering with or reversing the legal obligations of the executive government of the Hong Kong government. He said those arrested were suspected of trying to cripple the government with their plan to secure a majority in the legislature, create the conditions that would have led Hong Kong's top leader to resign and how the government works must stop.
Police forcibly arrested leaders from their homes
Former lawmaker Lam Cheuk Ting shared a video on his Facebook page and reported that the police entered his home and told him he was suspected of violating the National Security Law. The country's chief executive, Carrie Lam, has postponed Hong Kong's legislative elections for a year, citing the global Corona virus outbreak.
Police have tightened the screws on many top leaders
According to reports from the local "South China Morning Post" and the "Now News" news site, those arrested include former MPs and pro-democracy activists. Hong Kong's largest opposition party, the " Democratic Party, " posted on its Facebook page that seven of its members had been arrested. These include former party chairman Wu Chi-wai, former MPs Helena Wong, Lam Chuke-ting and James Toe.
America and EU demanded the release of leaders
Meanwhile, the European Union (EU) demanded the immediate release of arrested MPs and pro-democracy activists. EU spokesman Peter Stano told the press conference that the arrests are an indication that political pluralism will no longer be tolerated in Hong Kong. He said the security law was used to quell discontent and stifle human rights and political freedom. Stano did not rule out the possibility of sanctions against China and said EU authorities and member countries were considering steps that could be taken in this regard.
Unofficial elections were held last year
In July of last year, pro-democracy activists and MPs held informal primary elections to decide which candidate to run in the postponed parliamentary elections, which would boost their chances of winning more seats in the next election. These pro-democracy leaders describe the current government as pro-China and say winning more and more seats will increase their chances of securing votes against the government.
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Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT)
Category » The West Bank (Judea & Samaria)
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"Israel expelled peaceful Arab villagers from the West Bank."
"Israel can easily withdraw from the West Bank."
"Israel 'occupies' the West Bank."
"Israeli settlements are illegal."
"Israel's security fence is meant to create a Palestinian ghetto."
"The security fence should be built along the pre-1967 border."
"Israel is required by law to return to pre-1967 boundaries."
"Israel has curbed religious freedom in Jerusalem."
"Palestinians have lowest standard of living in the Middle East."
"Israel uses checkpoints to deny Palestinians rights and to humiliate them."
"If Israel annexes settlement blocs, Palestinian state cannot be contiguous."
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The Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) is responsible for implementing the civilian policy in Judea and Samaria and towards the Gaza Strip, in coordination and cooperation with officials from defense and government offices in various fields. The unit is subordinate to Israel's Minister of Defense and to the Major General of the unit, who is a member of the General Staff of the IDF. Major General Yoav (Poly) Mordechai currently holds this position as Coordinator since January 2014.
COGAT is responsible for coordination and liaison with the Palestinian Authority and in conjunction with the Palestinian population living in Judea and Samaria and the Gaza Strip, serving as a major information source for the Palestinian sector.
As part of the unit's activities, it promotes humanitarian projects, the economic and infrastructure field; and among others, which are in cooperation with the international community to develop and improve the standard of living for Palestinians living in these regions.
The Coordination for Government Activities in the Territories School for Coordination and Liaison teaches the units soldiers and commanders in the following fields: Islam, government, English and Arabic, culture, history, and varying fields such as economy, citizenship and humanitarian issues. The School is run in coordination with the IDF and teaches the soldiers all the necessary challenges they may face.
Civilian Coordination
This department is responsible for creating and maintaining connections with its Palestinian counterparts, as well as working directly with the Palestinian population of Judea and Samaria. Additionally, representatives from the Civil Coordination Department work with representatives of the Palestinian Civil Committee in the Gaza Strip for the welfare of the residents living there. These activities are conducted in correspondence with representatives of the Palestinian District Coordination Offices (DCO) to coordinate the following needs for Palestinian residents: medical treatment in Israel, coordination of medical equipment, commercial and economic development; conducting joint conferences on professional matters such as medicine, agriculture, veterinary medicine and more.
In addition, the licensing center for entry into Israel within the Civil Administration in Judea and Samaria and the Coordination and Liaison Administration of Gaza operate 24/7 to address humanitarian inquiries and to fulfill requests of both the Palestinian population and the international community.
Security Coordination
In Judea and Samaria, there is constant security coordination between the Israeli Security Forces (such as the IDF and the Israeli Police) and the Palestinian Security Forces. Maintaining security coordination is essential for both sides—these forces help preserve the stability of the security situation in Judea and Samaria. Both sides constantly collaborate together in meetings, seminars and joint trainings to strengthen and improve security cooperation to maintain the security security status quo.
In regards to the Gaza Strip, all security coordination was immediately halted after the 2007 takeover by Hamas terror organization. Security coordination was halted in accordance with government policy, resulting strictly in the coordination of civil matters. All coordination is conducted through the Civil Committee, which is a representative of the Palestinian Authority in the Gaza Strip.
The Department for Coordination and Liaison in association with international organizations operates in close cooperation with the international community found in the region, in order to promote and advance internationally funded projects for the welfare of the population.
Over 200 international organizations are operating in Judea and Samaria and in the Gaza Strip, which include UN agencies, government assistance agencies and NGOs, operate in Judea and Samaria and in the Gaza Strip.
The support of the international community is reflected in 3 key areas: to support the budget of the Palestinian Authority, to assist in building and strengthening the capacities of the population and promoting infrastructure projects in Judea and Samaria and the Gaza Strip.


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Spanish bank Banesto has taken control of rental company HUNE and will try to restructure its €500 million of debt.
The bank, which is one of HUNE's biggest creditors at €125 million, has acquired a 72% shareholding in the business from its senior managers and has now engaged turnaround consultants Noraction (part of the Norgestión group) to undertake restructuring.
According to Spanish financial website Cotizalia, HUNE's two senior managers, chief executive Juan Dionis and finance director Pedro Antón, have left the company. The business is now being run by Alejandro Rodríguez-Carmona, managing director of Noraction, and under the chairmanship of Emilio Cebamanos, the manager employed by previous HUNE owner, private equity firm Advent.
Cotizalia reports that Banesto's initiative will strengthen HUNE's equity by €200 million.
Many of the company's existing senior managers, including Pedro Torres, who manages the aerial platform side of the business, are still running the business.
The move by Banesto follows the decision by Advent in December last year to sell its 72% stake in HUNE to the rental company's management team for the nominal sum of €1.
HUNE, one of Spain's largest rental companies alongisde GAM, has been suffering since Spain's construction market entered a deep recession. The European Rental Association estimates that the Spanish equipment rental market fell in value by 35% in 2009 and that it will fall by a further 20% this year.
HUNE itself reported revenues of €124 million in 2009, down 40% compared to 2008.
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Collapsing floors at Boston construction site injures 3 workers
On behalf of Ellis Law Offices LLP posted in Workers' Compensation on Monday, March 24, 2014.
The construction of any new building can pose risks for workers at the construction site. Falling objects are a common source of injury at a high-rise construction site. City officials say that several floors pancaked after the highest floors under construction buckled under dead weight. Three workers suffered various levels of injury when the top floors came crashing down. One of the workers suffered serious injuries and underwent surgery at an area hospital. One of the workers checked himself into the hospital for treatment -- he was released a short time later.
City officials in Boston believe that construction materials were hoisted to the top floor, which first caved in. The mayor of Boston says that city investigators believe that a load of rebar was resting on a crossbeam and the weight of the construction materials appears to have been too great for the structure. The rebar had been placed at or near the top of the structure to prepare for a concrete pour.
The top floors of the unfinished building collapsed down to the fifth floor. A witness says that she was looking out the window when a beam fell, zipping past a worker. That worker then fell with the building as the floors began to drop.
City, state and federal authorities are looking into the Boston collapse. It could take months for any findings from the investigation to be revealed. Authorities say that roughly 120 workers were at the construction site in the Theatre District on Lagrange Street in Boston. The site is the scene of a 33-story apartment complex, which is expected to be completed sometime next year.
Worksite safety issues can be complex. Construction projects may involve a wide number of contractors, subcontractors and work projects all sharing the same space. Injured workers may understand that workers' compensation laws are in place to provide workers with important rights. But, if a third-party at a construction site is negligent in injuring a worker, the victim may not be aware that third-party claims generally are not barred by a workers' compensation claim.
Source: Boston Herald, "Authorities investigate Chinatown construction collapse that left 2 injured," Laurel J. Sweet and Richard Weir, March 20, 2014
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Dubai Museum is housed in Al Fahidi Fort. It offers visitors to enjoy sights of rich culture and heritage of this city. Entrance of this museum is decorated with great collection of old maps that display urban expansion of the city during 1960 to 1980. You will be able to uncover unique things about desert life, mosques, traditional Arabian homes, fishing, pearl diving and old trading of Arabs. This museum also possess great collection of deadly weapons like swords, bows, spears, arrows, shields, axes and pistols. In other words this place can be one of the best entertainment places in Dubai, where any tourist will have fun.
Burj Al Arab is a world's tallest and most luxurious hotel in the world. It is the only seven star hotel of the world. The name Burj Al Arab means "Tower of the Arabs". It has become an iconic symbol of this city that recognizes this city among other well developed cities across the world. The building resembles to a Dhow (Arabian Sea Vessel). This hotel was completed in five years almost and now it is open for public. It has now become the symbol of this Emirate. It is the real jewel that offers lot of attraction and sightseeing interiors for tourists visiting this place.
Wild Wadi Water Park is just an exciting and full of fun place in Dubai that offer real entertainment and fun for kids as well as adult people. This place provides so many things to tourists and visitors that they can spend a whole day here. Major fun activities include exciting rides that are based on Arabian Adventure Legends Juha and his friend Sindbad. Another interesting feature of this place is a world famous free fall ride Jumeirah Sceirah.
These are few of the famous fun and entertainment places in Dubai that offers real fun and excitement to tourists. There are number of other options and places that a tourist can enjoy according to his mood and availability of time and money.
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The spots you have mentioned above are amazing places in Dubai. If you go for tour and don't visit these places then your enjoyment is still less.