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LOVE unveils a modern video messaging app with a business model that puts users in control
A London-headquartered startup called LOVE, valued at $17 million following its pre-seed funding, aims to redefine how people stay in touch with close family and friends. The company is launching a messaging app that offers a combination of video calling as well as asynchronous video and audio messaging, in an ad-free, privacy-focused experience with a number of bells and whistles, including artistic filters and real-time transcription and translation features.
But LOVE's bigger differentiator may not be its product alone, but rather the company's mission.
LOVE aims for its product direction to be guided by its user base in a democratic fashion as opposed to having the decisions made about its future determined by an elite few at the top of some corporate hierarchy. In addition, the company's longer-term goal is ultimately to hand over ownership of the app and its governance to its users, the company says.
These concepts have emerged as part of bigger trends towards a sort of "Web 3.0," or next phase of internet development, where services are decentralized, user privacy is elevated, data is protected and transactions take place on digital ledgers, like a blockchain, in a more distributed fashion.
LOVE's founders are proponents of this new model, including serial entrepreneur Samantha Radocchia, who previously founded three companies and was an early advocate for the blockchain as the co-founder of Chronicled, an enterprise blockchain company focused on the pharmaceutical supply chain.
As someone who's been interested in emerging technology since her days of writing her anthropology thesis on currency exchanges in "Second Life's" virtual world, she's now faculty at Singularity University, where she's given talks about blockchain, AI, Internet of Things, Future of Work, and other topics. She's also authored an introductory guide to the blockchain with her book "Bitcoin Pizza."
Co-founder Christopher Schlaeffer, meanwhile, held a number of roles at Deutsche Telekom, including chief product & innovation officer, corporate development officer and chief strategy officer, where he along with Google execs introduced the first mobile phone to run Android. He was also chief digital officer at the telecommunication services company VEON.
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The two crossed paths after Schlaeffer had already begun the work of organizing a team to bring LOVE to the public, which includes co-founders Chief Technologist Jim Reeves, also previously of VEON, and Chief Designer Timm Kekeritz, previously an interaction designer at international design firm IDEO in San Francisco, design director at IXDS and founder of design consultancy Raureif in Berlin, among other roles.
Image Credits: LOVE
Explained Radocchia, what attracted her to join as CEO was the potential to create a new company that upholds more positive values than what's often seen today — in fact, the brand name "LOVE" is a reference to this aim. She was also interested in the potential to think through what she describes as "new business models that are not reliant on advertising or harvesting the data of our users," she says.
To that end, LOVE plans to monetize without any advertising. While the company isn't ready to explain its business model in full, it would involve users opting in to services through granular permissions and membership, we're told.
"We believe our users will much rather be willing to pay for services they consciously use and grant permissions to in a given context than have their data used for an advertising model which is simply not transparent," says Radocchia.
LOVE expects to share more about the model next year.
As for the LOVE app itself, it's a fairly polished mobile messenger offering an interesting combination of features. Like any other video chat app, you can video call with friends and family, either in one-on-one calls or in groups. Currently, LOVE supports up to five call participants, but expects to expand that as it scales. The app also supports video and audio messaging for asynchronous conversations. There are already tools that offer this sort of functionality on the market, of course — like WhatsApp, with its support for audio messages, or video messenger Marco Polo. But they don't offer quite the same expanded feature set.
For starters, LOVE limits its video messages to 60 seconds, for brevity's sake. (As anyone who's used Marco Polo knows, videos can become a bit rambling, which makes it harder to catch up when you're behind on group chats.) In addition, LOVE allows you to both watch the video content as well as read the real-time transcription of what's being said — the latter which comes in handy not only for accessibility's sake, but also for those times you want to hear someone's messages but aren't in a private place to listen or don't have headphones. Conversations can also be translated into 50 languages.
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"A lot of the traditional communication or messenger products are coming from a paradigm that has always been text-based," explains Radocchia. "We're approaching it completely differently. So while other platforms have a lot of the features that we do, I think that…the perspective that we've approached it has completely flipped it on its head," she continues. "As opposed to bolting video messages on to a primarily text-based interface, [LOVE is] actually doing it in the opposite way and adding text as a sort of a magically transcribed add-on — and something that you never, hopefully, need to be typing out on your keyboard again," she adds.
The app's user interface, meanwhile, has been designed to encourage eye-to-eye contact with the speaker to make conversations feel more natural. It does this by way of design elements where bubbles float around as you're speaking and the bubble with the current speaker grows to pull your focus away from looking at yourself. The company is also working with the curator of Serpentine Gallery in London, Hans Ulrich-Obrist, to create new filters that aren't about beautification or gimmicks, but are instead focused on introducing a new form of visual expression that makes people feel more comfortable on camera.
For the time being, this has resulted in a filter that slightly abstracts your appearance, almost in the style of animation or some other form of visual arts.
The app claims to use end-to-end encryption and the automatic deletion of its content after seven days — except for messages you yourself recorded, if you've chosen to save them as "memorable moments."
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"One of our commitments is to privacy and the right-to-forget," says Radocchia. "We don't want to be or need to be storing any of this information."
LOVE has been soft-launched on the App Store, where it's been used with a number of testers and is working to organically grow its user base through an onboarding invite mechanism that asks users to invite at least three people to join. This same onboarding process also carefully explains why LOVE asks for permissions — like using speech recognition to create subtitles.
LOVE says its valuation is around $17 million USD following pre-seed investments from a combination of traditional startup investors and strategic angel investors across a variety of industries, including tech, film, media, TV and financial services. The company will raise a seed round this fall.
The app is currently available on iOS, but an Android version will arrive later in the year. (Note that LOVE does not currently support the iOS 15 beta software, where it has issues with speech transcription and in other areas. That should be resolved next week, following an app update now in the works.)
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You need your application to be really effective in the overpopulated application market. Then, at that point, you will have to drive downloads to endure. So when it's all said and done, you must account for yourself. Get your application the consideration it merits.
The uplifting news, however, is that customers love to download applications – last year, we downloaded in excess of 200 billion applications around the world, and that figure is set to increment to 258 billion every year by 2022 as cell phone reception increments.
Assuming you need to be seen and have your application downloaded by however many clients as could reasonably be expected, then, at that point, you should begin by taking a gander at the application store.
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Assuming you need to amplify transparency and guarantee you're showing up when clients look for applications like yours, you ought to remember the primary keywords for your application name or title, comparable to how you'd make a title label while improving a site page.
You could begin with your application name so it tends to be plainly recognized, thus it appears on the home screen of gadgets.
Then, at that point, you can add a scramble or vertical bar prior to adding a few pertinent watchwords to your speciality, or even put your application name in quotes as we did with FORE Business Golf Networking.
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Urge Users to Leave Reviews
You could ask for reviews by clients through the means of your site, or through an in-application notice toward the finish of their meeting, yet make sure to restrict the number of pop-ups you execute with the goal that you don't disturb or disappoint your clients, as this could urge them to erase your application.
We'd support all application engineers and entrepreneurs to react to criticism on their applications, as this can further develop client relations and resolve issues in an open arena.
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Incorporate Appealings Screen Captures
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There's a little guide in empowering clients toward downloading your application if in any case, they're not going to interface with it, or download and leave a negative survey when they understand it wasn't what was promoted.
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Pay for App Store or Play Store
As we have SEO and pay-per-click, you need to work one next to the other (one is a gradual methodology with long haul benefits – the other is a speedy success yet requires an endless spending plan), application store promotions can be utilized to get the message out with regards to your new programming and assist you with positioning at the highest point of query items pages – in front of your opposition and enormous names in the application world.
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WhatsApp will finally let users encrypt their chat backups in the cloud
WhatsApp said on Friday it will give its two billion users the option to encrypt their chat backups to the cloud, taking a significant step to put a lid on one of the tricky ways private communication between individuals on the app can be compromised.
The Facebook-owned service has end-to-end encrypted chats between users for more than a decade. But users have had no option but to store their chat backup to their cloud — iCloud on iPhones and Google Drive on Android — in an unencrypted format.
Tapping these unencrypted WhatsApp chat backups on Google and Apple servers is one of the widely known ways law enforcement agencies across the globe have for years been able to access WhatsApp chats of suspect individuals.
Now WhatsApp says it is patching this weak link in the system.
"WhatsApp is the first global messaging service at this scale to offer end-to-end encrypted messaging and backups, and getting there was a really hard technical challenge that required an entirely new framework for key storage and cloud storage across operating systems," said Facebook's chief executive Mark Zuckerberg in a post announcing the new feature.
Store your own encryption keys
The company said it has devised a system to enable WhatsApp users on Android and iOS to lock their chat backups with encryption keys. WhatsApp says it will offer users two ways to encrypt their cloud backups, and the feature is optional.
In the "coming weeks," users on WhatsApp will see an option to generate a 64-digit encryption key to lock their chat backups in the cloud. Users can store the encryption key offline or in a password manager of their choice, or they can create a password that backs up their encryption key in a cloud-based "backup key vault" that WhatsApp has developed. The cloud-stored encryption key can't be used without the user's password, which isn't known by WhatsApp.
Image Credits: WhatsApp/supplied
"We know that some will prefer the 64-digit encryption key whereas others want something they can easily remember, so we will be including both options. Once a user sets their backup password, it is not known to us. They can reset it on their original device if they forget it," WhatsApp said.
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"For the 64-digit key, we will notify users multiple times when they sign up for end-to-end encrypted backups that if they lose their 64-digit key, we will not be able to restore their backup and that they should write it down. Before the setup is complete, we'll ask users to affirm that they've saved their password or 64-digit encryption key."
A WhatsApp spokesperson told TechCrunch that once an encrypted backup is created, previous copies of the backup will be deleted. "This will happen automatically and there is no action that a user will need to take," the spokesperson added.
Potential regulatory pushback?
The move to introduce this added layer of privacy is significant and one that could have far-reaching implications.
End-to-end encryption remains a thorny topic of discussion as governments continue to lobby for backdoors. Apple was reportedly pressured to not add encryption to iCloud Backups after the FBI complained, and while Google has offered users the ability to encrypt their data stored in Google Drive, the company allegedly didn't tell governments before it rolled out the feature.
When asked by TechCrunch whether WhatsApp, or its parent firm Facebook, had consulted with government bodies — or if it had received their support — during the development process of this feature, the company declined to discuss any such conversations.
"People's messages are deeply personal and as we live more of our lives online, we believe companies should enhance the security they provide their users. By releasing this feature, we are providing our users with the option to add this additional layer of security for their backups if they'd like to, and we're excited to give our users a meaningful advancement in the safety of their personal messages," the company told TechCrunch.
WhatsApp also confirmed that it will be rolling out this optional feature in every market where its app is operational. It's not uncommon for companies to withhold privacy features for legal and regulatory reasons. Apple's upcoming encrypted browsing feature, for instance, won't be made available to users in certain authoritarian regimes, such as China, Belarus, Egypt, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, Turkmenistan, Uganda and the Philippines.
At any rate, Friday's announcement comes days after ProPublica reported that private end-to-end encrypted conversations between two users can be read by human contractors when messages are reported by users.
"Making backups fully encrypted is really hard and it's particularly hard to make it reliable and simple enough for people to use. No other messaging service at this scale has done this and provided this level of security for people's messages," Uzma Barlaskar, product lead for privacy at WhatsApp, told TechCrunch.
"We've been working on this problem for many years, and to build this, we had to develop an entirely new framework for key storage and cloud storage that can be used across the world's largest operating systems and that took time."
Dispo launches a test to gauge user interest in selling their photos as NFTs
Dispo, the photo-sharing app that emulates disposable cameras, started rolling out a test yesterday that will record user interest in selling photos as NFTs. Some users will now see a sell button on their photos, and when they tap it, they can sign up to be notified when the ability to sell Dispo photos launches.
CEO and co-founder Daniel Liss told TechCrunch that Dispo is still deciding how it will incorporate NFT sales into the app, which is why the platform is piloting a test with its users. Dispo doesn't know yet what blockchain it would use, if it would partner with an NFT marketplace or what cut of sales Dispo would take.
"I think it's safe to say from the test that there will be an experience native to the Dispo app," Liss said. "There are a number of ways it could look — there could be a native experience within Dispo that then connects through an API to another platform, and in turn, they're our partner, but to the community, it would look native to the Dispo app."
Image Credits: Dispo
This marks a new direction for the social media app, which seeks to redefine the photo-sharing experience by only letting users see the photos they took at 9 AM the next morning. From Dispo's perspective, this gimmick helps users share more authentically, since you take one photo and then you're done — the app isn't conducive to taking dozens of selfies and posting the "best" image of yourself. But though it only launched in December 2019, Dispo has already faced both buzzy hype and devastating controversy.
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Until about a year ago, the app was called David's Disposables, named after co-founder and YouTuber David Dobrik. The app was downloaded over a million times in the first week after its release and hit No. 1 on the App Store charts. In March 2021, the app dropped its waitlist and relaunched with social network features, but just weeks later, Insider reported sexual assault allegations against a member of Vlog Squad, Dobrik's YouTube prank ensemble. In response, Spark Capital severed ties with the company, leading to Dobrik's departure. Other investors like Seven Seven Six and Unshackled Ventures, which contributed to the company's $20 million Series A round, announced that they would donate any profits from their investments in Dispo to organizations working with survivors of sexual assault.
Liss told TechCrunch in June, when the company confirmed its Series A, that Dobrik's role with the company was as a marketing partner — Liss has been CEO since the beginning. In light of the controversy, Liss said the app focused on improving the product itself and took a step back from promotion.
According to data from the app analytics firm SensorTower, Dispo has reached an estimated 4.7 million global installs to date since launch. Though the app saw the most downloads in January 2020, when it was installed over 1 million times, the app's next best month came in March 2021, when it removed its waitlist — that month, about 616,000 people downloaded Dispo. Between March and the end of August, the app was downloaded around 1.4 million times, which is up 118% year over year compared to the same time frame in 2020 — but it should be expected that this year's numbers would be higher, since last year, the app's membership was exclusive.
Now, with the announcement that Dispo is pursuing NFTs, Liss hopes that his company won't just change how people post photos, but what the relationship will be between platforms and the content that users create.
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"Why NFTs? The most powerful memories of our lives have value. And they have economic value, because we created them, and the past of social media fails to recognize that," Liss told TechCrunch. "As a result, the only way that a creator with a big following is compensated is by selling directly to a brand, as opposed to profiting from the content itself."
Adding NFT sales to the app offers Dispo a way to profit from a cut of user sales, but it stands to question how adding NFT sales could impact the community-focused feel of Dispo.
"I think there is tremendous curiosity and interest," Liss said. "But these problems and questions are why we need more data."
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Place the rectangles right side up on a flat work surface. Designate one long edge of each rectangle as the upper edge. Mark 2 1/4" from each rectangle upper-right corner along the right edge. Mark 5/8" below each mark (1).
Fold the large rectangle in half widthwise with right sides together. Stitch the side, beginning at the upper edge and ending the stitching at the first mark. Backstitch to secure. Stitch the remaining side and lower edge, beginning the stitching at the second mark.
Press open the side seam. Fold the opening raw edges 5/8" toward the wrong side; edgestitch the opening folded edges (2).
Fold the bag upper edge 1/4" toward the wrong side; press. Fold the edge another 1 1/2" toward the wrong side to create a casing. Edgestitch the casing lower edge. Topstitch 1/4" from the edgestitching. Topstitch 1/4" from the bag upper edge.
Clip the bag corners. Turn the bag right side out; press.
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Q: How to get rid of margins in jquery layout I am using jquery layout and I have a very hard time getting rid of the margins on the panes. There is always a margin and no amount of css will get rid of them. I am implementing the simple demo.simple demo
So basically I want the same thing but without any margins/padding on the inner panes. I'll adjust these my self. The objective is to be able to put a background image in there that stretches from border to border.
Hope I am clear enough.

A: I'm using a newer version of UI Layout than when the O.P. created this question, but, I think this pane option has been around a little while. The following worked for me, and shouldn't require hacking (rather scouring the source / reading the docs)
Try setting applyDefaultStyles to false. (or maybe now it's called applyDemoStyles)
E.g.
$("body").layout({applyDefaultStyles:false});

or
$("body").layout({applyDemoStyles:false});

UPDATE:
FWIW - I'm using the complex layout
 -- jquery.layout 1.3.0 - Release Candidate 30.79
Specifically, this worked for my "west sidebar" inner settings pane.
For me, applyDefaultStyles controls the unwanted white padding for the pane I was targeting.
There are different ways to declare settings for the different panes.
I used 'list format' which looks like this...
//'list format'
westSidebarSettings_Inner = {
  applyDefaultStyles: false  // basic styling for testing & demo purposes
  , // (other settings ommitted in this stackoverflow snippet for brevity)
}

//'sub-key format'
var layoutSettings_Outer = {
  name: "outerLayout"
  // options.defaults apply to ALL PANES - but overridden by pane-specific settings
 , defaults: {
    size: "auto"
    , minSize: 50
    , paneClass: "pane"         // default = 'ui-layout-pane'
    , resizerClass: "resizer"   // default = 'ui-layout-resizer'
    , togglerClass: "toggler"   // default = 'ui-layout-toggler'
    , buttonClass: "button" // default = 'ui-layout-button'
  }
 , north: {
    spacing_open: 21                // cosmetic spacing
    , togglerLength_open: 21        // to HIDE the toggler button, set = 0
    , togglerLength_closed: 21      // "100%" OR -1 = full width of pane
  }
}

$(document).ready(function () {
  // create the OUTER LAYOUT
  outerLayout = $("body").layout(layoutSettings_Outer);

  // create an INNER LAYOUT to split my west sidebar into 2 pieces
  // (actual settings ommitted in this stackoverflow snippet for brevity)
  innerLayout = $(outerLayout.options.west.paneSelector).layout(westSidebarSettings_Inner);
});

A: I think the following CSS rule might fix your problem:
.ui-layout-pane {
  padding: 0px !important;
}

Unfortunately it looks like the pane plugin does a lot of absolute positioning and so it's likely the sizes of the containers will now be off by 20px each. You could write some jQuery to fix that, maybe:
jQuery('.ui-layout-pane').each( function() {
  var el = jQuery(this);
  el.width( el.width() + 20 );
} );

...or somesuch, but... yea, it's not ideal. You might want to look for a different plugin or modify the source of this one to account for the 20px discrepancy in the sizes of the panes.

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I woke up on a Monday morning two weeks ago tomorrow, thinking there was no rush. It was my first day off from work, bracketed by weekends � making for a nine-day vacation.
Nine days off is a long time by my standards. It seemed like an eternity going in.
But the days ticked by and before I knew it, it was a regular Monday morning again, me shining my shoes, eating a bowl of cereal, answering emails and getting ready for work.
We didn�t do anything spectacular during my vacation. We swam at the YMCA, went to the beach, rode bicycles, ate out, napped because we could, went to a couple of movies and not much more.
I was hoping to camp but the weather didn�t cooperate.
Gracie, our ferociously beautiful German shepherd, was the biggest beneficiary. She got long walks, sometimes two a day.
I read about luxury cruises and European travels and I am sometimes envious. Those things just don�t happen when you have a large family to feed.
I remind myself of the travels I did when I was younger and lacked children. Mere excursions, they were. A day of swimming, walking, bicycling and cuddling with a wife and children are infinitely more rewarding than following a tourguide around Mayan ruins or drinking beer on a beach.
And summers are easier, too, even if I am working. I don�t have to roust children out of bed and help them get ready for school. I don�t have to help go through homework and school work and teachers� notes at the end of the day.
And I love the muggy heat of the South.
I grew up in the Southwest, where there is a dry heat so intense that sweat evaporates before you notice it.
Where I grew up, it never rained in the summer. Grass was brown in the summer and green in the winter. Even the slightest humidity put weather forecasters into panic mode.
The first time I experienced high humidity was as I got off an airplane in Washington D.C. on my way to Officer Candidate School in June of 1980. Six weeks later, upon completion of the training, I was well acclimated. Returning to Southern California on a 100-degree day in mid-July, it seemed almost cool.
I looked forward to summer�s onset this year for no other reason than steamy weather. Winter was slow to give way to spring, and spring was in no hurry, either, so I had to be patient this year.
Oddly, and perhaps of summer�s slow start, the heat and humidity haven�t been as pleasant as past years.
My cure for that is to get out midday and defy the weather, but my job usually doesn�t allow that. My master is an office chair, and my window is a computer monitor. I do so miss the days when I was a reporter, in the office only when I filed stories.
We�re thinking of making a trip to the mountains in a few weeks. I love North Carolina�s mountains almost as much as her beaches. I particularly like the break from mosquitoes. We�ll be visiting friends.
It will be a rare excursion for us, since most friends or relatives want to come here to visit. That�s the price for living in New Bern.
In coming months, we look forward to Mumfest, Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas. But right here, right now, I�m happy as things are.
Randy Foster is editor of the Sun Journal. He can be reached at randy.foster@newbernsj.com or 635-5663. Follow him on Twitter @NBSJEditor for Sun Journal-related tweets, or @rivereditor to follow other things that interest him.


When I called the number back it gave me a machine that gave me the option of taking my number off their calling list. I took it. We'll see if it actually stays off the list.
Left no message so I didn't call back.
Car Warranty service! After asking 4 times to remove me from your calling list you keep callin! thanks a lot! I DO NOT HAVE A CAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This number calls every 3 1/2 to 4 1/2 hours. It rings my home, and both our cell phones.
I did not answer or call back.
They have called me several times. I pressed 1 as if interested and asked the person that finally answered who they were and why they were calling - they hung up on me. They are out of Compton, CA. IT IS A SCAM. they same phone number is used for fake car warranties, Mortgage scams and credit card scams. alls they are after is your CC # and expiration date and/or SS #.
call was to "lower interest rates" on credit cards. The rep claimed to be with Accelerated Card Services. He refused to take me off his call list!
They called. Did not leave any message. Called back. Recorded announcement saying to press "1" if I wished to be removed from their preferred calling list. Could not do this as I was not returning the call from the number they called me on.
recording for lowering your credit cards %.
Called at 5:18 PM EST 9/23/09.
Did not pick up. Added to block list.
Caller ID was "Card Services"
I just received a call (Sept. 21, 2009 11:30 AM Mountain) from 310-599-9141 at my work phone with a recorded announcement that I am eligible to have my credit card interest rate reduced and if I were interested to press 1 to talk with the next available agent or press 9 to have the number removed. I pressed 1 and talked with a man with a difficult accent. He told me that because of my current payment history I am eligible to get the interest rate on all of my credit cards reduced. When asked how much credit card debt I had I told him about $350; he acted surprised I did not have more than $5,000 in credit card debt, when I told him I no longer had that much he simply hung up.
I was hoping to lead him on further to find out what information they specifically request, but that was unsuccessful. Regardless of the ?scenario? this caller ID represents, as it seems there are multiple ?scams? being used from this number; I am not stupid enough to provide any personal or financial information to anyone that calls me. Unfortunately they called my work number and I do not have the authority to add the number to the ?Do Not Call? list or have this number blocked out of our PBX.
I got a call from 310-599-9141 today 09/18/09. I was out of the house & heard the phone ring so I answered it without looking at the caller ID because I was expecting to hear from someone. It turned out to be a woman's voice trying to sell me some sort of credit card protection. I am on the "No Solicitations" list with my bank so I know it couldn't be from them. I recently moved and changed my phone number and I have never received so many of these unsolicited calls. In addition I'm on the "Do Not Call Registry" and my 30 days should have taken effect by now. I just called this number back and a women's voice announced "Thank you for calling back. If you do not wish to receive any more calls from the number please push 1." I did this and a man's voice confirmed I was off the list but they never ever identified who they are and I find this to be disturbing since I'm already on the "Do Not Call List." I believe it's some kind of sneaky way to get around technicalities and escape being sued.
You can't stop them. I played with them and wanted their physical address so I could come by in person. They hung up on me, I dialed back and it was already a wrong number. I get calls from all different area codes. There are no offices. They only take your money and you are hosed.
DIDN'T RECOGNIZE #, DIDN'T LEAVE A MESSAGE.
This number called my cell this afternoon. No voicemail left. When I called it back I got a recording saying if I no longer wished to receive calls about special deals and products to press "1" to be placed on their "do not call list". No company name or any type of identification was said in the recording.
I am getting these recorded calls all the time. How can we stop these calls? It is a recording stating that my car warranty is up for renewal.
They are using my cell phone minutes!
It is a scam. I get this call on both my cell phones. I tried the FTC and reported the call, although there is little I could answer in their list of questions. I could give them this number and the scam idea that was it.
After attempting to press one to be "removed from the list" and still receiving countless calls, I hit another number to be assisted by a telemarketer/con artist. He was angry when I asked how I should be truley removed from the list. He quickly disconnected me after yelling at me to, "have a nice day." He seemed in a big hurry and very angry for me wasting his time. SO... Here is my idea. We all chose the option to talk to a person who can assist us. Then we waste his time like there is no tomorrow. We talk on and on making him think he will have a sale. We give fake information to keep him on the line, then add bits and pieces about our trip to Virginia with Uncle Harry last june. Pretend that he is a great friend that you just have to share this funny story with as you slowly drive him crazy and waste his time. He deserves it. He's a piece of crap.
No idea who this was- left no message.
these people got the number to a pre-paid cell and hung up.
they called my cell and didn't say anything either, on these posts some people say that they're issuing car warranties, well my car is 17 years old, at this point a warrenty isn't needed.
didn't answer ... calls often.
Didn't recognize the number, so I didn't answer it because it was the second unrecognized call I got today - the other one hung up, I figured this would be the same. No voice mail from them.


Ideally located in the prime touristic area of Biei, Auberge Kunsthaus promises a relaxing and wonderful visit. The hotel offers guests a range of services and amenities designed to provide comfort and convenience. Luggage storage, Wi-Fi in public areas, car park, family room, restaurant are on the list of things guests can enjoy. All rooms are designed and decorated to make guests feel right at home, and some rooms come with non smoking rooms, air conditioning, heating, wake-up service, desk. Recuperate from a full day of sightseeing in the comfort of your room or take advantage of the hotel's recreational facilities, including garden. For reliable service and professional staff, Auberge Kunsthaus caters to your needs.


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Hawkins Street Bridge Remains Closed to Vehicular Traffic, Open to Pedestrian Travel Starting 10/25 at 8PM
PROVIDENCE, RI – The City of Providence announced today that the Hawkins Street Bridge crossing the West River and Rhode Island Route 146 will remain closed to all vehicular traffic but will open for pedestrian travel on October 25, 2017 beginning at 8PM.
The closure follows recommendation from the Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) which informed the City of needed structural repairs. RIDOT informed the City today (10/25) that the bridge could be opened for pedestrian and bicycle travel.
Residents are advised that they should expect delays during their commute and seek alternate routes. Suggested alternate routes are outlined in the attached document.
The Hawkins Street Bridge was included in the recently passed Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) and was scheduled for improvements in Fiscal Year 2019. The City is currently evaluating a timeline and funding opportunities to address these issues sooner than scheduled.


Home Blogging Clickadu's New Ad-Formats Will Skyrocket Your Online Earnings?
You want to increase your profit online, don't you? I am sure you are Blogger or Webmaster who always aims to maximize the online profit through multiple advertorial techniques. This is true, These days due to several scammy ad-networks and suspicious make money online technique, Bloggers always stead ahead in due-diligence towards innovative traffic monetization.
However, The saddening fact is most of the webmasters still depends on traditional banner ads that are the main reason behind ad blindness. Due to same ad impositions everywhere, Visitors better prefer to use ad blockers instead of experiencing next-gen ads. I am sure, you might be asking, What's the solution to skyrocketing your online profit without diverting visitors attention? Yes, the solution is as simple as you started your online career. Trust me! I would recommend you to always try different ad-formats with unique optimization techniques depending upon your daily traffic stats.
So, You may ask, What are the other ad-formats shall we expect apart from banner ads and Pop up ads? This question might be worrying you more if you are streaming online Videos where banner ads or Pop ads are discarded due to its format. You might have already tried multiple ad-networks in the past but let me be unbiased to introduce an innovative ad-network that you may come across too. I am talking about, Clickadu that recently launches their two unique ad-formats in order to help global publisher for better traffic monetization. Below, I am going to explore these two features in details and what Publishers can expect before giving a try.
In your online marketing career, I am sure till date you may know the importance of choosing the correct ad formats. Of course, the significance lies in the placement too. Still, you must be cautious about going with different formats because not every single one gives you the best yield.
The two new formats I am presenting here are mobile dialogue and pre-roll. The first one as the name says unleashes the hidden potential of mobile traffic. On the other hand, the latter presents highly targeted short video ads.
In pursuit of a network offering these ad formats along with the traditional ones, I have stumbled on Clickadu. Let's have a look at what these two formats from them have to offer.
Have you ever witnessed small dialogue boxes popping up over web pages on mobiles? Most of them lead you to install an application from Google Play or download an APK file. In case your digital marketing mind ignited, you might have even thought of the amount of money the site admin earns through those referrals. Clickadu gives you a chance to get your hands on with the same type of advertisement.
The functioning is simple. Once you implement mobile dialogue or push up ads on your website, the visitor gets a small dialogue box over the content of your site soon after a tap. On the bottom of the box, the audience also sees two call-to-action buttons.
You have to ensure the website follows norms of mobile responsiveness and load properly without any hindrance.
As an advertiser, you can see it's the best way to increase the number of users of your application. Creating a compelling ad copy will certainly get you tons of downloads. If your product matches the industry standard, you can retain those users.
High conversion rate:- Admit it! Achieving a high conversion rate is no cakewalk. We have to go through various experiments, A/B split testing and what not! Here, mobile dialogue ads give you a readymade chance to up your conversion rate within no time.
Mobile compatibility:- Clickadu's push up ads are compatible with every smartphone you can find in the market. The advertisements shape themselves to fit the screen in an adequate way possible. Given the major share of internet traffic comes from mobile phones, you can't just overlook such users.
Google friendly:- What would Google think? It is the most common question every website owner asks himself after making even a small change on his website. With mobile dialogue ads active on your site, you won't have to worry about any obstacle coming your way from Google. The search engine titan has no complaints in this healthy way of advertising.
High CTR:- Click Through Rate is directly proportional to Conversion Rate (CR). If CTR is high, we can surely say the same about CR too. As you read earlier, the push-up ad dialogue box has two CTA buttons. It evokes intrinsic curiosity in the psyche of people. Result?? You will witness CTR touching the sky.
Best for Promotion:- You can easily get tons of people to use your application by simply setting up a push-up ad campaign.
YouTube is the second most popular search engine in the world. Can you imagine? A platform of videos has achieved this feat. Yeah, it shows the importance of videos in the modern era. Billions prefer media content to text. Perhaps, that's what triggered Clickadu to launch pre-roll video advertising format.
The way the ad format works is pretty trivial. They show the video ad once a visitor selects/clicks a content. He/she needs to watch a promotional video of 15-30 seconds duration. Then, the audience will get what he asked for. Owing to the IAB VAST 3.0 protocol Clickadu operates with, visitors won't get any issues with any JS or HTML players.
If you are a publisher, you have to keep a few things in mind before kickstarting a pre-roll campaign. The video should have at least 15 seconds in length. It should not go beyond 30 seconds as well. The file size must not exceed 40 megabytes. You have to make sure the resolution is at least 240P and the file carries MP4, WMV, AVI, MOV or FLV extension.
Better than conventional advertising:- Ask yourself. What do you like the most; text, image, or video? The answer says it all. The analytics showed about 91% of people watch targeted video ads without skipping.
High eCPM rates:- Effective Cost Per Mile Rate should be on the higher side for you to make a handful of money. Clickadu offers $1 for tier 1 countries.
Master targeting:- In advertising, target audience plays a pivotal role. If you don't target well, you will end up exhausting all your resources in vain. Clickadu allows you to pinpoint your audience so that they won't have to skip your ad.
Support all JS and HTML players:- No matter what browsers your visitors use, they can watch the video ads like a walk in the park. The platform follows the latest IAB requirements for VAST 3.0 codes.
Promotion through creativity:- Creativity always won hearts even in commercial advertisements. If you or your team can pull off an impressive short video about your product, your backend will be showered with subscription messages.
Finally, After the above read – Do you think "Clickadu's new ad formats will get success in impressing digital marketing players either publishers or advertisers"? In my write up, I covered everything in details that I experienced during my research. Now, it's up to you, If you think these innovative ads formats are really promising then better go ahead and sign up as a Publisher.
Hope our above write up might help you to gather some compelling information for maximizing online profits in 2019.


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Canada World Youth (CWY, in French: Jeunesse Canada Monde, JCM) was an international non-profit organization dedicated to providing youth with a voluntary opportunity to learn about other communities, cultures and people while developing leadership and communications skills.

Founded in 1971 by Jacques Hébert (1923–2007) a former Canadian senator and lifelong promoter of youth and international development programs, Canada World Youth has sent over 50,000 youth volunteers in 69 countries worldwide to participate in its programs. The organization is currently in the process of winding down operations.

Save CWY/JCM
Save Canada World Youth is a grassroots movement initiated by alumni of the Canada World Youth/Jeunesse Canada Monde (CWY/JCM) program, which is a non-profit organization that focuses on providing international volunteer and exchange opportunities for Canadian youth. The movement was formed in response to the Canadian government's decision to significantly cut funding for the CWY/JCM program in 2012. The alumni believe that the CWY program has had a significant impact on the lives of Canadian youth and the communities they serve around the world and that it is an important tool for promoting cross-cultural understanding and global citizenship. The Save Canada World Youth movement aims to raise awareness about the value of the CWY program and to encourage the Canadian government to reinstate funding to ensure its continued success. The movement has organized various campaigns, including a petition on Change.org, social media campaigns, and outreach to Canadian parliamentarians and decision-makers, to draw attention to the importance of the CWY program and the need to secure its future.

Former programs
 Women's Entrepreneur & Leadership Initiative
 EQWIP Hubs in partnership with YCI International Inc.
 Global Learner Programs
 Pathways to Indigenous Youth Leadership
 Mentorship Program
 Youth Leaders in Action
 Québec sans frontières
 CWY Student Network
 Youth Exchange Program

Partner countries since 1971

Antilles and America

Asia

Africa

Central and East Europe

Oceania
 Fiji

References

External links

Youth organizations based in Canada

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Celebrating Purim in Iran
Louisa Shafia
Purim is one of the most meaningful holidays of the year for Iranian Jews, as the story of Purim took place in Iran. The heroes of the Purim story, Queen Esther and her uncle Mordechai, are burred in the northwestern city of Hamedan, and their graves are a destination for tourists and natives alike. Just as in the United States, where Hanukkah has an outsize importance because of its proximity to Christmas, Purim in Iran gets a boost from Norooz (Persian New Year), the biggest Persian holiday of the year.
Purim customs mirror those of Norooz, so like other Iranians at this time of year, Iranian Jews enjoy a feast of dishes that feature green herbs, they visit elderly relatives, and they give gifts of gold coins to the children in their families. The mishloach manot, or "Purim basket," is a gift of food that's sent on the day of Purim to friends, relatives, neighbors, and the needy. The tradition is based on a verse in the Book of Esther in the Old Testament stating that Purim in "an occasion for sending gifts to one another and presents to the poor." According to custom, the basket should contain at least two ready-to-eat food items. In the United States, the basket usually holds a piece of fresh fruit and a hamantasch, the iconic triangle-shaped cookie filled with jam, chocolate, nuts, prunes, or other sweet filling.
If you've ever tried baking hamantaschen yourself, you know just how difficult they are to make. A simpler stand-in for hamantaschen is the Persian koloocheh, a cookie stuffed with a spiced mixture of nuts and dried fruit that's made by Iranian Jews at Purim. Different variations of koloocheh are prepared all the way from the Arabian Peninsula to eastern Europe and are linked not only to Jewish celebrations but also to the Easter holiday in Christian countries and to Ramadan in Muslim countries. The streamlined koloocheh recipe that you'll find in this book is a good deal easier to make than hamantaschen, and the cookies themselves are pretty to look at, too.
Although the Jewish culture that began so optimistically in ancient Persia is declining in modern Iran, the food traditions of Iranian Jews continue to flourish and evolve in the expats' adopted countries like Israel and the United States. In Israel today, Iranian dishes like baghali polo (rice with fava and dill), ghormeh sabzi (green herb and kidney bean stew), and especially the Persian "matzah ball" soup known as gondi are all becoming familiar to the greater population via the many Iranian immigrants who have arrived there in the past thirty years. In the United States, a cultural barometer no less impressive that the New York Times has featured the Passover cooking traditions of Iranian Jews.
Green Herb and Kidney Bean Stew
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Date-and-Walnut-Filled Cookies
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Persian "Matzoh Balls" with Chickpeas and Chicken
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Reprinted with permission from by Louisa Shafia. Published by Ten Speed Press, a division of Random House, Inc.
Nine Wines for Your Purim Seudah
How To Bake The Ultimate Hamantaschen Cookies This Purim
ISRAEL21c Staff
Israeli Chefs Take Hamantaschen to a Whole New Level
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Reliability of hypertrophy of the contralateral testis in prediction of the status of impalpable testis
Shalaby, Rafika; Alshamy, Ahmada; Abd-Alrazek, Mohamada; Gouda, Samira; Mahfouz, Mohamada; Shahin, Mohamada; Moussa, Sabrib; Elhady, Sayeda; Algallad, Hassana
Annals of Pediatric Surgery: July 2017 - Volume 13 - Issue 3 - p 150–154
doi: 10.1097/01.XPS.0000516211.05591.3f
Background The hypertrophied testis can predict the status of the impalpable contralateral one. The aim of this study was to assess the accuracy of contralateral testicular hypertrophy for predicting the presence or absence of impalpable undescended testis (UDT) in Egyptian boys.
Patients and methods This study was carried out on 204 patients with unilateral impalpable UDT who presented to the Pediatric Surgery Department, Al-Azhar University Hospitals, from July 2014 to April 2016. Only 40 patients with unilateral impalpable UDT and hypertrophy of the contralateral testes were included in this study. They were subjected to routine laboratory investigations, ultrasonography measurement of the volume of the hypertrophied testis, and diagnostic laparoscopy for the impalpable intra-abdominal testis (IAT). Both ultrasonography and laparoscopic findings were reported.
Results Out of 204 patients with unilateral impalpable UDT, only 40 patients fulfilled the inclusion criteria. Their ages ranged from 1 to 5 years, with a mean of 2.3±1.18 years. Testicular volume ranged from 0.94 to 6.33 cm3, with a mean of 3.12±1.41 cm3. Diagnostic laparoscopy indicated 30 patients with vanishing testis, four patients with low IAT, and three patients with high IAT and three patients with testicular vessels and vas passing internal inguinal ring, where inguinal exploration indicated atrophic testes.
Conclusion Hypertrophied testis can predict the absence of other contralateral impalpable testis when its volume is 1.85 cm3.
Departments of aPediatric Surgery
bUrology Surgery, Al-Azhar University Hospitals, Cairo, Egypt
Correspondence to Rafik Shalaby, MD, Al-Houssain University Hospital, Darrasa, Cairo 11884, Egypt Tel: +20 100 072 2072/+20 122 397 5160; fax: +20 225 110 888; e-mail: rafikshalaby40@gmail.com
Accepted April 10, 2017
Measurement of testicular volume
Operative procedure
Contralateral compensatory testicular hypertrophy has previously been shown to correlate with the laparoscopic finding of an absent testis (monorchia) in boys with unilateral nonpalpable undescended testis (UDT) 1. Imaging studies are rarely useful in locating UDT. Clinical examination by an experienced surgeon has a higher sensitivity in locating the UDT more than ultrasonography (US), computed tomography, or MRI as documented by many reports 2. Diagnostic laparoscopy is a useful modality for the assessment of nonpalpable testicles (NPT). On the basis of findings, the course of surgical intervention is determined 3. In case of blind-ending vas and vessels, no further exploration is necessary. In case of testicular vessels and vas entering the internal inguinal ring (IIR), inguinal exploration is indicated for excision of testicular nubbin or orchiopexy. Peeping or intra-abdominal testes (IAT) will require orchiopexy 3. Testicular volumes can be assessed using different types of orchidometers or calipers. Prader's orchidometer is the most widely used orchidometer; however, US measurements of testicular volume have a high degree of accuracy and reproducibility and are considered the standard for the quantification of testicular volume 4,5. The aim of this study is to assess the accuracy of contralateral testicular hypertrophy for predicting the presence or absence of impalpable UDT in Egyptian boys.
After receiving the approval of the ethics committee at Faculty of Medicine, Alazher University, this prospective study was carried out at the Pediatric Surgery Department by examining children who attended the clinic for unilateral impalpable UDT from December 2014 to April 2016. Totally, 204 patients with unilateral impalpable UDT were examined. Totally, 40 patients fulfilled the inclusion criteria and were included in this study. A written informed parental consent was obtained. All parents were informed about the pathology and the suggested treatment according to the diagnosis of their children. Inclusion criteria were as follows: children between age 1 and 5 years of age with unilateral impalpable UDT and contralateral physiologically hypertrophied testes (no tumors, no history of hernia, or hydrocele). Children with other causes of unilateral testicular hypertrophy or receiving hormonal treatment for UDT were excluded from the study. On the basis of these exclusion criteria, 164 patients were excluded from the study as they did not fulfill the inclusion criteria.
All patients were subjected to routine laboratory investigations, US measurement of the volume of the hypertrophied testis, and diagnostic laparoscopy.
The testis was scanned in both transverse and longitudinal planes using a 7.5 MHz linear, phased-array transducer while the patient was in the supine position, and analgesia was used when required in the form of a paracetamol suppository. The volume of the contralateral testis was calculated using the technique and formula published by Goede et al. 6. The volume of the testis was measured and reported. The testis is considered hypertrophied if its volume is more than the reference values reported by Goede et al. 6.
The procedure was performed under general endotracheal tube anesthesia. A prophylactic parentral antibiotic was administered to patients just after induction of anesthesia in the form of third-generation cephalosporin at a dose of 50 mg/kg body weight. Then, the patient was examined again under general anesthesia to detect an inguinal or a canalicular testis.
The operative procedure was based on what was described by Shehata et al. 7. The concept of surgery was laparoscopic complete visualization of the abdomen and pelvis. Looking for the IAT and visualization of both IIRs, the normal side was inspected first and this provided a comparative image for reference to the opposite side. If the testis is not observed intra-abdominally, the vas and testicular vessels are looked for at IIR. If there are signs of vanishing testis, such as end-blinded vessels, the procedure is terminated and if not, single-stage orchiopexy, testicular traction, and first-stage Fowler–Stephen orchiopexy are performed for IATs. The operative findings are recorded, reported, and collected, especially the presence or absence of the testis.
SPSS Version 18 was used to analyze the data (SPSS Inc., Chicago, Illinois, USA). Qualitative data will be presented as frequency and percentage. Quantitative data with a normal distribution will be presented as mean±SD. We used a receiver operating characteristic to predict the presence or absence of impalpable UDT from the size of contralateral testis. P value less than 0.05 was considered significant.
Totally, 204 patients with unilateral impalpable UDT were examined during the period of the study from July 2014 to April 2016 at the Pediatric Surgery Department, Al-Azhar University Hospitals. Only 40 patients with unilateral impalpable UDT and hypertrophy of the contralateral testes were included in this study and the remaining 164 patients were excluded as they did not fulfill the inclusion criteria.
Diagnostic laparoscopy was performed for 40 patients during the period of the study. Their age ranged from 1 to 6 years, with a mean of 2.3±1.18 years. Testicular volume ranged from 0.94 to 6.33, with a mean of 3.12±1.41 cm3. The demographic data and laparoscopic findings of all patients are shown in Table 1. Diagnostic laparoscopy indicated 30 patients with vanishing testis (attenuated testicular vessels) (Fig. 1), four patients with low IAT and three patients with high IAT (Fig. 2), and three patients with testicular vessels and vas passing IIR, where inguinal exploration showed atrophic testes (Fig. 3). The sizes of IATs showed a mild degree of decreased size.
The success rate of laparoscopy for the diagnosis of NPT was 100%. All cases were laparoscopically without any complications or conversion. Laparoscopic findings and procedures for all cases are presented in Table 2.
The receiver operating characteristics curve was used to define the best cut-off value of volume (cm3), which was more than or equal to 1.85, with a sensitivity of 84.8%, specificity of 100%, positive predictive value of 100%, negative predictive value of 80.3%, and diagnostic accuracy of 93.9% (Fig. 4).
The contralateral testicular hypertrophy predicted the absence and the presence of the impalpable UDT with an accuracy of 93.9 and 6.1%, respectively, when the hypertrophy of the contralateral testis was more than or equal to 1.85 cm3 in boys 2–5 years of age.
In the present study, we used US for the estimation of contralateral testicular volume in children with NPT. The age range of the children in our study was 1–6 years. The contralateral testicular volume ranged from 0.94 to 6.33, with a mean of 3.12±1.41 cm3. This is larger than the volumes reported by Shibata et al.8; they reported that in Japanese boys with absent testis, the mean contralateral testicular volume was 2.20±0.75 cm3.
The testicular volume, which is estimated using different methods such as rulers, tapes, vernier callipers, orchidometer, graphic models, and US scan, is very important in the assessment of the status of impalpable testis 5,9.
US measurements of testicular volume have a high degree of accuracy and reproducibility and are the standard for the quantification of testicular volume. The volumes obtained with the clinical methods correlate with those obtained by US and are useful clinically, but overestimate US values by two to three folds mainly because of the inclusion of the scrotal skin and epididymis 5.
Our study predicted the absence of unilateral impalpable UDT with a cut-off volume of contralateral descended testis more than or equal to 1.85 cm3, a sensitivity of 84.8%, a specificity of 100%, a positive predictive value of 100%, a negative predictive value of 80.3%, and an accuracy of 93.9%. Shibata et al. 8 reported a smaller cut-off volume (1.6 cm3) with a sensitivity of 84.8%, a specificity of 86.4%, a positive predictive value of 90.3%, a negative predictive value of 80.3%, and an accuracy of 79.1%.
Other studies used the longitudinal axis of the testis to evaluate contralateral testicular hypertrophy. They reported a cut-off testicular length of 18–21 mm to predict monorchism 1,8,10.
Huff et al. 11 measured the contralateral hypertrophied testis volume using a caliper in children younger than 2 years old. They reported the association of contralateral testis hypertrophy with absent testis. They observed that the mean volume of the contralateral hypertrophied testis in boys with an absent testis was greater than that in boys with an IAT at all ages. Of 10 patients 2 years old or younger with hypertrophy of the contralateral testis greater than 2 cm3, nine (90%) had monorchia 11.
Mesrobian et al. 12 used a ruler for measurement of contralateral testicular length and defined the hypertrophy to be more than 2 SD above the normal mean length in patients 6–223 months of age. Seventy percent of the patients with monorchia had contralateral testicular hypertrophy. Of the 10 patients aged 36 months or less, nine had contralateral testicular hypertrophy 12.
Snodgrass et al. 13 reported that a contralateral testicular length more than 1.8 cm can predict monorchism in 90% of cases. However, 25% of the patients with IAT had a contralateral testicular length more than 1.8 cm in patients with a median age of 23 months (range: 6–154) with unilateral NPT 13. Hurwitz et al. 10 used a Takihara orchidometer and/or a ruler to measure the volume and/or the length for contralateral testis in patients 7 months to 11 years old. Contralateral testicular hypertrophy to 1.8 cm3 or more predicts monorchia with an accuracy of about 90% 10.
Hodhod et al. 14 measured the volume of the contralateral hypertrophied testis using a Takihara orchidometer and they reported that contralateral testicular volume more than 2 cm3 was significantly predictive for monorchism with 71.7% sensitivity and 100% specificity in prepubertal patients.
Finally, we can depend on the hypertrophy of the contralateral testis in the prediction of absence of unilateral impalpable UDT, but we cannot exclude the confirmatory role of laparoscopy as this predictive result is not conclusive. Our results provide a good idea of the status of the impalpable testis, which can provide reassurance for the family of the patient.
Diagnostic laparoscopy is the most useful modality for assessing NPT. In a child with unilateral impalpable UDT, significant hypertrophy of the other testis can predict the status of the impalpable testis with an accuracy of 93.9% when the hypertrophy of the contralateral testis is more than or equal to 1.85 cm3 in boys with a mean age of 2.3±1.18 years.
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2. Copp H, Shortliffe LD. Holcomb GWI, Murphy JP, Ostlie DJ. Undescened testes and testicular tumors. Ashcraft's pediatric surgery, 5th ed. Philadelphia, USA: Saunders, Elsevier Inc.; 2010.
3. Cisek LJ, Peters CA, Atala A, Bauer SB, Diamond DA, Retik AB, et al. Current findings in diagnostic laparoscopic evaluation of the nonpalpable testis. J Urol 1998; 160:1145.
4. Karaman MI, Kaya C, Caskurlu T, Guney S, Ergenekon E. Measurement of pediatric testicular volume with Prader orchidometer: comparison of different hands. Pediatr Surg Int 2005; 21:517.
5. Sotos JF, Tokar NJ. Testicular volumes revisited: a proposal for a simple clinical method that can closely match the volumes obtained by ultrasound and its clinical application. Int J Pediatr Endocrinol 2012; 2012:17.
6. Goede J, Hack WWM, Sijstermans K, van der Voort-Doedens LM, Van der Ploeg T, Meij-de Vries A, et al. Normative values for testicular volume measured by ultrasonography in a normal population from infancy to adolescence. Horm Res Paediatr 2011; 76:56.
7. Shehata S, Shalaby R, Ismail M, Abouheba M, Elrouby A. Staged laparoscopic traction-orchiopexy for intraabdominal testis (Shehata technique) Stretching the limits for preservation of testicular vasculature. J Pediatr Surg 2016; 51:211.
8. Shibata Y, Kojima Y, Mizuno K, Nakane A, Kato T, Kamisawa H, et al. Optimal cutoff value of contralateral testicular size for prediction of absent testis in Japanese boys with nonpalpable testis. Urology 2010; 76:78.
9. Mbaeri TU, Orakwe JC, Nwofor AM, Mesrobian HG, Chassaignac JM, Laud PW, et al. Accuracy of Prader orchidometer in measuring testicular volume. Niger J Clin Pract 2013; 16:348.
10. Hurwitz RS, Kaptein JS. How well does contralateral testis hypertrophy predict the absence of the nonpalpable testis? J Urol 2001; 165:588.
11. Huff DS, Snyder HM 3rd, Hadziselimovic F, Blyth B, Duckett JW. An absent testis is associated with contralateral testicular hypertrophy. J Urol 1992; 148:627.
12. Mesrobian HG, Chassaignac JM, Laud PW. The presence or absence of an impalpable testis can be predicted from clinical observations alone. BJU Int 2002; 90:97.
13. Snodgrass WT, Yucel S, Ziada A. Scrotal exploration for unilateral nonpalpable testis. J Urol 2007; 178:1718.
14. Hodhod A, Capolicchio JP, Jednak R, El-Sherbiny M. Testicular hypertrophy as a predictor for contralateral monorchism: retrospective review of prospectively recorded data. J Pediatr Urol 2016; 12:34e1–34e5.
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Dominic Tierney is assistant professor of political science at Swarthmore College, and has held fellowships at the Olin Institute and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. He is the author of How We Fight: Crusades, Quagmires, and the American Way of War (2010) and The Right Way To Lose A War: America in an Age of Unwinnable Conflicts (2015), and the co-author of several other texts. He lives in Philadelphia.
In his newest book, The Right Way To Lose A War: America in an Age of Unwinnable Conflicts, Tierney asks the painful, confounding, and all too timely question: Why has America stopped winning wars? For nearly a century, up until the end of World War II in 1945, America enjoyed a Golden Age of decisive military triumphs. And then suddenly, we stopped winning wars. The decades since have been a Dark Age of failures and stalemates-in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan-exposing our inability to change course after battlefield setbacks.
But there is a better way. Drawing on interviews with dozens of top generals and policymakers, Tierney shows how we can use three key steps--surge, talk, and leave--to stem the tide of losses and withdraw from unsuccessful campaigns without compromising our core values and interests.
Weaving together compelling stories of military catastrophe and heroism, this is an unprecedented, timely, and essential program for our new era of unwinnable conflicts. The Right Way to Lose a War illuminates not only how Washington can handle the toughest crisis of all--battlefield failure--but also how America can once again return to the path of victory.
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About KantCon
KantCon is a gaming convention for tabletop hobby gamers in the Kansas City area, created by tabletop hobby gamers in the Kansas City area. The only available gaming conventions and large gatherings of gamers in the Kansas City area are limited to the beginning of the year, and the end of the year, in March and November, respectively. As most gamers are increasingly busy, in school, or have children in school, there is a void of a centralized gaming convention in the summer months in Kansas City. KantCon will fill that void with three days of tabletop fun in the form of tabletop role-playing games, card games, board games, and miniatures games.
The first KantCon was held in 2009 at a home in Shawnee, Kansas. It was an invitation-only event born out of the organizer's inability to go to Gen Con, the largest gaming convention in the United States held every August in Indianapolis, Indiana.
The name KantCon was decided on because the organizer couldn't go to his yearly con. Therefore, his "Can't Con" became KantCon.
Approximately 30 people came to KantCon 2009, and over $1,500 worth of products donated by participating gaming companies Wizards of the Coast, Rio Grande Games, Pinnacle Entertainment Group, and others were given away to the 30 attendees over the course of the weekend. Several games were run for those attending, and a fun time was had by all.
Everyone asked if it would happen the next year, so plans were made to open it to the public and to get a public venue to see if there was an interest in a summertime gaming convention in the Kansas City area.
On July 9-11, KantCon 2010 was held at the Johnson County Community College Regnier Center. Over the course of the three days, 110 gamers came from as far away as Mt. Gilead, Ohio to participate in role-playing games, card games, board games, miniatures games, and the kind of camaraderie that all gamers love and enjoy.
In the years since, KantCon has continued to grow, drawing attendees from as far away as Vancouver, British Columbia (that's in Canada, in case you didn't know).
Over $3,000 worth of donated product from various game companies across the world were raffled off and awarded to players at the convention, supplemented by vendors like Gamer Ground in St. Louis, Missouri, Secret Skeleton Miniatures from Lenexa, Kansas, and Black Blade Publishing from Wichita, Kansas who came out and sold miniatures, dice, books, and other products to convention attendees.
The convention has continued to grow ever since, with more events, more board games, and more fun!


Ligandrol, LGD-4033 or VK5211 is an investigational representative of the SARM family and is very popular among hobby athletes, body builders and power lifters due to its ability to produce steroid -like results without the with steroids associated side-effects.
It was originally discovered by Ligand pharmaceuticals and is currently undergoing further development by the research company Viking Therapeutics for the medical background of treating conditions such as muscle wastage during acute and chronic diseases, natural muscle loss due to aging, osteoporosis and Cancer.
Due to its specific tissue-selective mechanism of Action, it is anticipated to yield better healing benefits of testosterone with a high safety, admissibility and patience acceptance.
Its popularity with hobby athletes, body builders and power lifters stems from the various beneficial effects such as the increase of lean muscle mass, the accompanying improvement of strength and stamina for exercises. As well as its increased fat burning capabilities.
A secondary effect of LGD-4033 is the promotion of one's mental well-being which expresses itself in a slight feeling of aggressiveness while performing physical exercises as part of the involved competitive streak.
Any side-effect associated with LGD-4033 are of a minimal nature and very easily reversible. These side-effects are easily outweighed by the benefits LGD-4033 provides.
LGD-4033 is best administered orally for optimal results.
The common dosage by user experience of LGD-4033 is 10mg per day for Males and 5 mg for Females taken in the morning for a time period of 12 weeks. The lower dosage for females results from the possibility of masculinisation when using LGD-4033.
LGD-4033 can be stacked with other nootropics or supplements of choice. It is recommended to keep the possible side-effects in mind when creating an own stack.
Frequent users recommend stacking LGD-4033 with MK677 and Andarine for a 12 week bulking cycle as it optimizes the boost of growth hormones, burning of fat and improvement of sleep.
As stated previously the side-effects of LGD-4033 are minimal and easily reversible through discontinuation with no serious or long-lasting negative effects.
Some side effects reported by users include headaches, Hair growth and shedding, Nausea, Fatigue and muscle pumps.
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Claudius II (Marcus Aurelius Claudius), d. 270, Roman emperor (268–70), called Gothicus. A successful general under Valerian, Claudius put down the revolt in which Gallienus was killed. He succeeded Gallienus and went to the East to resist the Goths who were overrunning the empire. In 269, Claudius overwhelmed the Goths at Naissus (now Niš, Serbia). He died of the plague the following year and was succeeded by Aurelian.
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The subject of ecology. Ecological factors. Ecosystems. Energy flow and supply chains.
Today in the issue … learn the basic concepts and laws of the topic; study the material of the textbook; master the methods of studying and explaining the phenomena studied in the subject; learn how to solve environmental problems; prepare for a test on the topic.
Confrontation with mystery 1 challenge. A real historical fact is known when the clover imported to Australia did not produce seeds. What do you think was the reason? 2 task. Cacti – plants of the New World, that is, come from South and North America, as well as the islands of the West Indies. There are, besides America, also in Africa, in Madagascar and Sri Lanka, they grow in places with a very arid climate. Remember and explain how cacti adapt to drought tolerance? 3 task. Today, on the Plan Earth, millions of hectares of deciduous and coniferous forests are destroyed annually due to fires. After fires, the mosses and ferns growing in them disappear. Explain why?
Ecology is the science of the interactions of living organisms with each other and with the environment, the influence of man on living organisms. The term ecology was proposed in 1866 by the German zoologist Ernst Haeckel, ecology (from the Greek. Oikos) – dwelling, house, shelter.
Interactions Environmental factors The sky is light blue, The sun shines golden, The wind leaves the leaves, The cloud floats in the sky. Flowers, trees and grass, Mountains, air and foliage, Birds, animals and forests, Thunder, fogs and dew, Man and the season – These are factors of nature.
The species structure of a community is the species composition of its organisms and the proportion of species populations. The morphological structure of a community is its spatial composition. Vertical vegetable community is divided into tiers. Horizontally, the community is also divided into separate elements – microgroups. The trophic structure is a diagram of all food interactions between species of this community. The food chain is the channel through which matter and energy are transmitted.
Autotrophs – self-powered, or producers (producers). Heterotrophs are organisms that feed on ready-made organic substances. Consumers – consumers. Reducers – destructors (decomposers).
Rule 10%: from one trophic level of the ecological pyramid passes to another, its higher level, on average, about 10% of the energy supplied to the previous level of the ecological pyramid (R. Lindeman (1942)).
Homework Paragraph 67-70. Find examples of inverted ecological pyramids. Independent work number 7. Prepare a presentation on the theme "Environmental disasters of our century"
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The presentation reveals the issues of the influence of environmental factors on the plant organism.
Summary and presentation to class 5 class cooking. Importance of vegetables, berries and fruits in human nutrition. Cooking vegetable salad and berry kissel at the end of the abstract has technological charts.
The presentations show trophic levels of biocenoses and types of food chains, grazing and detritus.
Presentation on the topic: The flow of energy and the food chain, the ecological pyramid.
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The 1955 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team represented the University of Notre Dame during the 1955 college football season.

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Radiation is a type of local therapy for breast cancer that uses high-energy x-rays to kill cancer cells. There are two general types of radiation treatment to the breast for early-stage breast cancer – whole breast radiation and partial breast radiation.
The goal of radiation therapy is to kill any cancer cells left in areas of your body at high risk for cancer return. Those areas may be in your breast or chest wall , with or without the nearby lymph nodes.
When radiation is given after surgery as part of the primary treatment , it is called adjuvant therapy . Adjuvant radiation therapy helps protect you from the breast cancer coming back in the treated areas, also called local recurrence .
Very rarely, radiation is given as neoadjuvant treatment, before surgery, to shrink the size of a tumor in people with locally advanced breast cancer or with inflammatory breast cancer . In these cases, the cancer did not respond well enough to chemotherapy to allow for surgery.
Radiation treatment is very effective against cancer in the specific area it is directed, but it can't treat cancer in areas of the body where it is not directed. It can be given to different parts of the body and depends on where the cancer is located. In early-stage breast cancer, you may receive radiation to part of your breast, your whole breast, the chest wall, the area above your collarbone or under your arm.
You will not be "radioactive " during radiation therapy. You don't need to worry about exposing family members to radiation.
How Do I Know If I Need Radiation?
At some point after your diagnosis , you may meet with a radiation oncologist , a doctor with special training in treating cancer with radiation .
Your doctor will talk with you about your medical history, your breast cancer diagnosis and any other illnesses you may have. Then your doctor will explain whether radiation therapy plays a role in your treatment plan.
Almost everyone who has a lumpectomy benefits from radiation therapy to some degree, so it's almost always recommended after that surgery .
Radiation can be given in different ways. Usually, you will receive it from outside your body by an external beam, but it can also be given from inside the body via a radioactive implant . Radiation isn't painful. You won't feel the beam going into your body.
Before you begin radiation therapy , your radiation oncologist plans your treatments. This plan ensures the radiation targets the exact area of the cancer, without causing too much harm to healthy tissues nearby.
To kill cancer cells, radiation treatment must be very precise. Your doctor will give you a CAT or CT scan to find the right places on your body to radiate. This special x-ray takes pictures of the inside of your breast from many different angles.
Your radiation oncologist then uses the pictures to choose where small tattoos, dots of permanent ink about the size of a small freckle, will be placed on your body. The tattoos help make sure the exact same spot is always radiated. Many women say that getting the tattoos feels similar to a pin prick.
Often, your radiation oncologist will ask you to complete a "dry run," a treatment dress rehearsal. On that day you'll do everything you would on a normal treatment day except receive the radiation. You may be asked to hold your breath, put your arms over your head or position your head a certain way. This rehearsal allows the radiation oncologist and radiation therapists to get familiar with the treatment plan and make adjustments, if needed. Several days to a week later, you will begin treatment.
How long radiation treatment takes depends on the kind of treatment you receive. Because there are different types of radiation for breast cancer, ask your doctors to explain why they recommend a certain kind for you.
Radiation itself is not painful but it has some side effects. Because it is a local treatment, radiation treatment may not cause as many or as severe side effects as other whole-body therapies. That's because most side effects are generally limited to the treatment area.
FatigueRadiation does not hurt, but sometimes it can make you feel more tired than usual. Radiation treatments and their effects build up in your body over time, so as your treatments go on, your fatigue may increase.
Expect to feel more tired in the last few weeks of treatment. Plan time for naps and resting. Gentle exercise such as walking, keeping a healthy diet and resting when you feel tired can help.
Skin ReactionsThe skin on or near the radiated area may become dry, red, scaly, itchy and sore. Your skin may also burn, peel or blister, like a sunburn. Remember not to pick or scratch, as this can lead to infection and delay treatment.
Your radiation oncologist can help you manage skin reactions by providing skin care tips, prescribing medicines or recommending salves, such as pure aloe. Avoid using products that have alcohol, as it can dry the skin and cause a burning feeling. If possible, wear loose cotton clothes to keep your skin from rubbing too much against your clothes.
Skin side effects often heal several weeks after you finish radiation therapy . Changes to the color of your skin may take longer to heal, but your radiation oncologist will monitor your skin for weeks after you complete treatment.
Other Side EffectsRadiation can increase the risk of lymphedema if the lymph nodes under your arm or around your collarbone are radiated. The risk is higher if lymph nodes were removed from the armpit region and if you are overweight .
Long-term side effects may include swelling of the breast (edema ), a hardening or thickening of the breast tissue (fibrosis), the treated area becoming red (telangiectasia) and restricted arm or shoulder movement.
Discuss all the benefits and possible side effects of radiation therapy, both short- and long-term, with your doctor. Be sure to also communicate any issues or concerns you have during treatment.


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Ahrida (Ohrid) Synagogue () is one of the oldest synagogues in Istanbul, Turkey. It is located in Balat, once a thriving Jewish quarter in the city.

History
It was built by Romaniotes (Macedonian Jews), dating back to the 1430s, from the city of Ohrid (called 'Ahrid' in Greek) in what was then the Ottoman Empire and is now North Macedonia.  Neve Shalom is said to have moved to Constantinople more than 550 years ago. Sephardi Jews arrived in the Ottoman Empire from the Iberian peninsula beginning in 1492, and soon were a larger group of Jews in population than the Romaniotes. The Romaniotes of Istanbul, as in many communities, including Thessaloniki became assimilated into the Sephardic culture and adopted the Sephardic liturgy as well as the language of the Sefardim, Judezmo.
The synagogue building, one of the two ancient synagogues in Istanbul's Golden Horn, was renovated in 1992 by the Quincentennial Foundation, in celebration of the 500th anniversary of Sephardic Jews' arrival in the Ottoman Empire. Ahrida Synagogue is known for its boat-shaped tevah (the reading platform, known in Ashkenazi communities as a bimah). Ahrida Synagogue is also the only synagogue in Istanbul at which Sabbatai Zevi, founder of the Jewish Sabbatean movement, prayed.

See also
 History of the Jews in Turkey
 List of synagogues in Turkey
 Romaniotes
 History of the Jews in Greece
 Sephardi Jews
 Jewish ethnic divisions#Geographic distribution

References and notes

External links
 Chief Rabbinate of Turkey
 Shalom Newspaper - The main Jewish newspaper in Turkey
 Ahrida Synagogue of Istanbul
https://synagogues-360.anumuseum.org.il/gallery/ahrida-synagogue/

Sephardi Jewish culture in Turkey
Sephardi synagogues
Synagogues in Istanbul
Synagogues in the Ottoman Empire


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At Seven Springs Mountain Resort, golfers of all abilities can enjoy the dramatic beauty of a top-rated golf course, flowing seamlessly through the mountain terrain and designed to reward players with a fun round of golf.
Measuring at just over 6,500 yards, Seven Springs' perfectly-maintained par 71 golf course takes maximum advantage of its mountain vistas and natural beauty of the Laurel Highlands. Vibrant landscaping, lush fairways and four-tee positions make play challenging for any golfer. From the highest point on the course, you can see seven counties and three states! Memberships and tee times are available.


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