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Can The Nintendo Switch Be As Successful As The Original Wii?
The original Nintendo Wii was a juggernaut becoming the company's most successful home console. Is it possible the Nintendo Switch can reach the same level of success?
During an interview with Nikkei (translation by Dr. Serkan Toto), Nintendo President Tatsumi Kimishima said he expects the Nintendo Switch to sell as well as the original Wii console.
To put this into perspective, the original Wii console sold over 101 million consoles worldwide. This is more than the near 14 million units the Wii U sold which is Nintendo's most recent home console.
Kimishima said the reason for his forecast is that the Nintendo Switch offers a unique way for people to play their games. If you get a chance to play 1-2-Switch, you may get an idea of the new ways that you can experience video games.
Not to mention the Switch allows people to play games both at home and on-the-go. Transitioning between the two modes is seamless as you can literally just pick it and up play.
The Switch could be successful as Nintendo has gone all-out to market the system. The first-look trailer is the company's most watched trailer on YouTube as it has over 26 million views right now.
Another big plus are the two big first party video games. Both Super Mario Odyssey and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild have over 11 million views on YouTube each. That's as many views as some Hollywood movies.
The company is also releasing a commercial during the Super Bowl. The Super Bowl is watched by over 100 million people in the USA so that's a huge audience. They will be able to reach the casual audience who may not have heard about the console yet.
Selling as many units as the Wii could be hard to reach, but it's not impossible. Due to the marketing of the Switch, it's safe to assume the console should sell more units than the poor old Wii U though.
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Q: Convergence of sequence of exponential matrices. If $\{A_k\}$ is a sequence of $n \times n \hspace{1mm}$  matrices so that $\sum_{i,j=1}^n|a_{k_{ij}}|^2 < \infty$  for every $k$, i.e sum of squares of all the entries is finite for each matrix of the sequence. How do we ensure or what will be the criterion for convergence of $\exp(A_k)$ to say $\exp(A)$?
We may assume the norm as $$||B||=\sum_{i,j=1}^n|b_{ij}|^2$$ where $B=(b_{ij})_{1\leq i,j \leq n}$. The definition I am using for $\exp(A)$ is
$$\exp(A)=I+A+\frac{A^2}{2!}+\cdots+\frac{A^n}{n!} +\cdots $$
The above definition of $\exp(A)$ may complicate the proof of convergence hence feel free to share any other definition of $\exp(A)$.

A: If $A_k\to A$ then $e^{A_k}\to e^A$.
Proof: (In what follows, any norm that satisfies $\|AB\|\le\|A\|\|B\|$ can be used.) $$B^n-A^n=B^{n-1}(B-A)+B^{n-2}(B-A)A+\cdots+B(B-A)A^{n-1}+(B-A)A^{n-1}$$
\begin{align}\therefore\ \|B^n-A^n\|&\le(\|B\|^{n-1}+\|B\|^{n-2}\|A\|+\cdots+\|A\|^{n-1})\|B-A\|\\
&\le {nc}^{n-1}\|B-A\|\end{align} where $c=\max(\|A\|,\|B\|)$.
Turning to the exponential,$$e^B-e^A=(B-A)+\tfrac{1}{2!}(B^2-A^2)+\cdots$$
$$\therefore\ \|e^B-e^A\|\le\|B-A\|(1+\tfrac{2c}{2!}+\tfrac{3c^2}{3!}+\cdots+\tfrac{c^k}{k!}+\cdots)=e^c\|B-A\|$$ So, given any $0<\epsilon<1$, let $k$ be large enough that $\|A_k-A\|<\epsilon$, so $\|A_k\|<\|A\|+\epsilon\le\|A\|+1$; then the above shows $\|e^{A_k}-e^A\|\le e^{\|A\|+1}\epsilon$, which can be made arbitrarily small.

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The computer will see you now | Economist.com – A nice biographical piece about Larry Weed, father of the problem oriented medical record.
EMC, Partners collaborate on hypertension program – Daily Business Update – The Boston Globe – An employer that thinks about population health and sets up a PHR in concert with a health system. Interesting…..
Subscribe to ringtones via iTunes – Easy way to get ringtones – a ringcast?
Mashable?s Guide to Upcoming Web 2.0 Conferences – A plethora of get togethers to get up to speed on the latest in Web 2.0.
leanblog.org | Lean Blog: The Waste of Handwritten Notes | Lean Manufacturing | Lean Healthcare | Toyota Production System – Yes, Leadership. From patients and their families too. The kind of leadership that brings the patient perspective into every conversation.
GHI – GHI Medical Home Pilot – I think this is very promising for supporting EHR adoption and patient access to their own clinical information. Ties in very nicely with NYC's PCIP project.
Public health system struggles to reach gay ?hidden population? – Washington Blade – Another vulnerable population that could benefit from outreach – many are underserved even when well insured.


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Kiduspe is een plaats in de Estlandse gemeente Hiiumaa, provincie Hiiumaa. De plaats heeft de status van dorp (Estisch: küla) en telt 26 inwoners (2021).

Kiduspe lag tot in oktober 2013 in de gemeente Kõrgessaare, daarna tot in oktober 2017 in de gemeente Hiiu en sindsdien in de fusiegemeente Hiiumaa.

De plaats ligt aan de zuidkust van het schiereiland Kõpu, dat deel uitmaakt van het eiland Hiiumaa.

Plaats in Estland

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The Numerical Tours of Data Sciences, by Gabriel Peyré, gather Matlab, Python, Julia and R experiments to explore modern mathematical data sciences. They cover data sciences in a broad sense, including imaging, machine learning, computer vision and computer graphics. It showcases application of numerical and mathematical methods such as convex optimization, PDEs, optimal transport, inverse problems, sparsity, etc. The tours are complemented by slides of courses detailing the theory and the algorithms.


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Jay Webber serves in the New Jersey General Assembly representing the residents of the Garden State's 26th Legislative District and has been called "the conservative conscience of the State Legislature." He serves on the Assembly's Labor and State & Local Government Committees. Assemblyman Webber and his wife Johanna live with their seven children in Morris Plains, where Assemblyman Webber is a trustee of St. Virgil's Parish and a volunteer youth basketball and baseball coach.
For his legislative service, Assemblyman Webber has earned the Taxpayer Hero Award from Americans for Prosperity-NJ; the Outstanding Legislator of the Year Award from the NJ Society for Environmental Economic Development; and the Defender of the Family Legislative Award from the NJ Family Policy Council.
From 2009 to 2011, Assemblyman Webber served as Chairman of the New Jersey Republican Party, where he led the NJGOP to its first statewide victory in 12 years. In 2011, he was Co-Chairman of the New Jersey Apportionment Commission, leading the Republican delegation through the once-a-decade state legislative redistricting process. Human Events has described him as "a solid conservative" and a "likely candidate for higher office in the Garden State." PolitickerNJ named Assemblyman Webber one of New Jersey's 50 Most Powerful Elected Officials in 2015.
Assemblyman Webber serves on the Reagan Ranch Board of Governors, which is dedicated to preserving President Reagan's former ranch in Santa Barbara, California as a historical property. Assemblyman Webber is also the founder and host of New Jersey Reagan Day, an annual tribute to the life and leadership of President Reagan that is the Garden State's greatest annual gathering of conservatives.
Before his election, Assemblyman Webber served as a Budget Staffer and District Director for former Congressman William Martini (NJ-8) from 1995-1997. After leaving Congressman Martini's office, Assemblyman Webber was a staff member at the Manhattan Institute, a free-market think tank in New York City.
Assemblyman Webber grew up in Clifton and attended St. Joseph Regional High School in Montvale. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from The Johns Hopkins University, where he was a Second Team Academic All-American in baseball. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 2000, and served as a law clerk for Justice Peter Verniero of the New Jersey Supreme Court during the 2000–2001 Term. Assemblyman Webber currently practices law with Webber McGill LLC in Whippany, New Jersey.
Assemblyman Webber is an Aspen Institute Rodel Fellow in Public Leadership, a national bipartisan program of "Rising Stars" in Governance dedicated to transcending partisanship and focusing attention on overarching questions of leadership and governance.
In the Fall of 2010, TIME Magazine named Assemblyman Webber as one of the nation's 40 Under 40 Rising Stars of U.S. Politics, described by TIME as "a new generation of civic leaders .., already at work trying to fix a broken system and restore faith in the process."
In the Spring of 2013, Gannett named Assemblyman Webber a rising star in New Jersey Politics.


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Q: How to rename a table in the sql server compact edition I'm new to SQL Server Compact edition. I'm using Compact edition 3.5. I tried renaming the table. But, I couldn't do that through the following query.

alter table tablename to newname

Plz, someone help me.........

A: Try this
sp_rename '[OldTableName]' , '[NewTableName]'

Check links below for more information
http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2008/08/26/sql-server-how-to-rename-a-column-name-or-table-name/
http://erikej.blogspot.com/2007/08/hidden-gem-rename-table.html
Good Luck!
UPDATE
Here you can find a similar question
How do I rename a table in SQL Server Compact Edition?
You can try this tool
http://www.primeworks-mobile.com/
or try this in visual studio
conn.Open();
SqlCeCommand cmd = new SqlCeCommand("sp_rename 'oldTable', 'newTable' ", conn);
cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();
conn.Close();

A: In Visual Studio:

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*Right click on database file in Database Explorer

*Select new query

*Type: sp_rename 'oldName' , 'newName'

*Press Ctrl+R key

*Finish

A: This works in Visual Studio 2010 Express:
Select Tables in the database explorer and right-click to get the contextual menu
Select New Request, this will open a new page in which you can type any sql request to your database, so you can now type something like

sp_rename 'oldname', 'newname'

Right-click again in this window and select Execute SQL in the menu, that's it!
Don't forget to refresh the database explorer view to see the new name

A: Please copy this table and data to new table and then delete old table. Same logic with rename.
insert into New_TableName
select *
from Old_TableName


Background Risperidone (RSP) has a rapid onset in vivo, low dosage and high plasma protein binding rate, therefore therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) is needed to ensure safety in clinical treatment. However, compared with blood, hair is non-invasive, safe, non-infectious and easy to transport and store.
Aims This study aims to investigate the correlations among the drug concentrations of RSP in hair and serum, which provides an experimental basis to explore hair as a novel biomaterial to meet the needs of clinical detection.
Methods 34 patients with schizophrenia treated with RSP for more than 3 months were enrolled in this study. About 1 cm section of hair near the scalp was taken from the subjects, pretreated and detected by liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry. A correlation analysis was conducted among the drug concentrations in hair, the serum concentrations and the daily dosage. The data were analysed using SPSS 20.0 software.
Results There was significant correlation between the hair concentration of RSP (two-tailed test, r=0.440, p=0.009) with the serum concentration of RSP, and the hair concentration of 9-hydroxyrisperidone (9-HR) with the serum concentration of 9-HR had no significant correlation (two-tailed test, r=−0.217, p=0.217); the total concentration of the RSP and 9-HR had no significant correlation between hair and serum (r=0.227, p=0.196). The dosage had no statistically significant correlation with the concentration of RSP in hair (r=0.207, p=0.241), 9-HR in hair (r=−0.194, p=0.271) and the total concentration of RSP and 9-HR in hair (r=0.188, p=0.288). There was no statistical correlation between the dosage and the concentration of RSP in serum (r=−0.059, p=0.741), but significant correlation between the dosage and 9-HR in serum (r=0.581 p<0.001) was found, and the correlation between the dosage and the total concentration of the two drugs RSP and 9-HR in serum was also significant (r=0.437, p=0.01).
Conclusion The correlation analysis showed that the concentration of RSP in hair was statistically significant with the serum RSP concentration. In this study, we provided some experimental basis for hair as a new biomaterial to monitor the therapeutic drug concentration.
Risperidone (RSP), a second-generation antipsychotic that antagonises the D2/5-HT2A receptor, has a good therapeutic effect on both positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia, showing fewer adverse reactions (eg, inhibition of motor function). Thus, RSP has been widely used in clinical practice.1 RSP is metabolised in vivo by 2D6, cytochrome P450 enzyme or transporter,2 or undergoes a binding reaction via two-phase metabolism. The main metabolite of RSP, 9-hydroxyrisperidone (9 hour), also has strong pharmacological activity. The therapeutic range of 20–60 ng/mL (approximately 50–140 nmol/L) for the active moiety (RSP +9-HR) is often cited.3 Although the pharmacological effect is exerted by the unbound fraction of the drug, it is customary to measure the total (bound+unbound) concentration according to the previous studies. The total blood concentration of RSP and its metabolites are related to curative effect of the drug.4 Due to the narrow therapeutic window of these drugs, most antipsychotics usually cause unpleasant side effects and severe poisoning after overdose. Suicide and suicide attempts are also frequent in populations using antipsychotics5 and several intoxications have been published.6 7 Therefore, therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) of risperidone was used to guide treatment usually. Considering that patients tend to take several drugs simultaneously during the treatment, about 2–3 or even more blood samples (5 mL) are collected for detection in clinical practice. Consequently, finding new non-invasive alternative biomaterials to replace blood has widespread application value.
As an appendage of skin, hair is composed of keratinised epidermal cells. Drugs enter hair through blood circulation. Hair is easier to store than blood and is not easily affected by the ambient temperature, serving as a good biological sample. Moreover, hair is safe, stable and non-infectious without restrictions of time and place, which could avoid physical discomfort, dizziness and infection caused by blood drawing.8 Hair analysis can also offer the possibility of revealing an individual's history of drug exposure for periods varying from weeks to months, depending on the length of the hair shaft.9 Segmental hair has been used to detect the concentrations of RSP and 9-HR in a study previously.10 There were only three cases in the study, and the correlation between the concentration of RSP in hair and in blood was also not further studied. In our preliminary work, a liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) method was established to detect the concentration of RSP and 9-HR in hair.11 Moreover, it was found that the concentration of RSP in hair at the 2 cm segment near the scalp was well correlated with the dosage. At present, however, the correlation between the concentrations of RSP and 9-HR in hair and their blood concentrations remains unclear. We conducted a preliminary study to investigate the correlation between the concentration of RSP in the hair of hospitalised patients and the historical blood concentration, providing an experimental basis for the new testing method and biological samples. The flowchart can be referred in figure 1.
The participants met the following inclusion criteria: (1) patients with schizophrenia who were treated with RSP for more than 3 months; (2) participants who were willing to participate in this study provided written informed consent before enrolment; (3) participants who have black hair; (4) not limited to gender. The participants were excluded according to the following exclusion criteria: (1) participants who had taken 9-HR before the study; (2) participants who were psychoactive substance abusers or alcohol dependent individuals; (3) participants whose hair was permed, dyed or bleached. The exit criteria were as follows: (1) participants who did not agree to continue or participate in the study (withdrawal of informed consent); (2) participants who were not considered to meet the requirements of the study (the administration time was uncertain or with no history of blood concentration data); (3) participants who were lost to follow-up. The hair was collected at 07:00 a.m., and the steady-state minimum concentration about 12 hours after the last administration was regarded as the history of blood concentration.
By reviewing their medical history, we recorded the history of blood concentration data in the corresponding month, dosage and combined medication of patients with schizophrenia who took fixed-dose RSP for more than 3 month. Total 35 patients who met the enrolment criteria were included. One patient was excluded due to the use of other drugs during the third month. Thus, 34 patients were actually included into the study.
The enrolled patients were screened according to the inclusion criteria and an area of 1 cm2 of hair (about the thickness of a small finger thickness) near the scalp area of occipital region was taken. The root position of hair was marked. The samples were enclosed in envelopes, numbered and stored in a dry environment at room temperature.
Pretreatments of hair included washing, grinding, dissolving, extracting and purifying were performed. The hair samples of each patient were numbered, washed with distilled water, acetone and distilled water again and dried in the air. The hair near the root segment was cut into 1 cm pieces and grinded. About 20 mg hair was accurately weighed and transferred into a 10 mL centrifuge tube with a lid. The internal standard working solutions, including deuterated risperidone (RSP-d4, 1.0 µg/mL) and deuterated 9-hydroxyrisperidone (9-HR-d4, 0.01 µg/mL) solutions, were prepared. Then, 100 µL RSP-d4, 50 µL 9-HR-d4 and 1 mL sodium hydroxide solution (1N) were added to the centrifuge tube. After a supersonic treatment for 2 hours, the mixed solution was neutralised by an equal volume of hydrochloric acid (1 N), 200 µL of 1 N sodium hydroxide was added to adjust the pH value. To the mixed solution, 5.0 mL methyl tert-butyl ether was added. Then, the solution was mixed by vortex-mixing for 1 min, and the supernatant was transferred to a new tube and evaporated to dryness under a stream of nitrogen at 40°C water bath. The residue was redissolved in 100 µL mobile phase, and 5 µL supernatant was injected into LC-MS/MS.
Chromatographic conditions: Chromatographic separation was achieved on an Agilent Zorbax SB C18 column (2.1×50 mm, 1.8 µm) at 30°C using isocratic elution with mobile phase. The mobile phase consisted of water (pH 4.0 was adjusted by formic acid) containing ammonium acetate (0.01 mol/L) and acetonitrile (70:30 v/v). The flow rate was set at 0.3 mL/min. A 5 µL sample solution was injected into the LC-MS/MS system for analysis. The mass spectrometer was performed on electrospray ionisation source (ESI+) by multiple reaction monitoring (MRM) mode. Nitrogen was used as nebulising and secondary gas at a pressure of 35.0 psi. The drying gas was set at a flow rate of 10.0 L/min and the temperature was set at 350°C. The following parameters were employed: capillary voltage (+) 4.0 kV, Delta EMV (+) 300 V. The MRM acquisition parameters were as follows: m/z 411.2 → 191.0 for RSP, m/z 427.2 → 207.1 for 9-HR, m/z 415.2→195.2 for RSP-d4 and m/z 431.2 → 211.1 for 9-HR-d4.
The detail of method validation has been described previously by our group,11 and for the LC-MS/MS TIC and MRM ion chromatograms in No. 3 sample of the standard and internal standard substances, see figure 2.
SPSS V.20 software was used for the analysis. For the correlations among the dosage, the concentration of RSP, 9-HR, the sum of the RSP and 9-HR in hair and the concentration of RSP, 9-HR, the sum of the RSP and 9-HR in serum of the corresponding month, respectively, Spearman's correlation was used.
The demographic data, daily dosage of the subjects, the concentrations of RSP and 9-HR in hair, and the serum concentrations of the corresponding month are shown in table 1.
A total of 34 subjects were enrolled in our study. The correlations between dosage and the concentration of RSP, 9-HR or the sum of two drugs in the hair and the respective serum concentration were analysed.
As shown in table 2, this work showed statistically significant correlations between the concentration of RSP in hair and the serum RSP concentration (two-tailed test, r=0.440, p=0.009), see figure 3; the concentration of 9-HR showed no statistically significant correlations between hair and serum samples (two-tailed test, r=−0.217, p=0.217); and the total concentration of the two drugs RSP and 9-HR had no significant correlations between hair and serum samples (two-tailed test, r=0.227, p=0.196).
The dosage showed no statistically significant correlations between the concentration of RSP in hair (two-tailed test, r=0.207, p=0.241) and 9-HR in hair (two-tailed test, r=−0.194, p=0.271), and the total concentration of the two drugs RSP and 9 -HR in hair (two-tailed test, r=0.188, p=0.288).
There were no statistically significant correlations between the dosage and the concentration of RSP (r=−0.059, p=0.741), but it showed significant correlations between the dosage and the concentration of 9-HR in hair (two-tailed test, r=0.581, p<0.001) and the dose showed significant difference with the total concentration of the two drugs (RSP and 9-HR) in serum (r=0.437, p=0.010).
Hair samples have been widely used in medicolegal analysis. Antipsychotics are being used from several milligrams to hundreds of milligrams daily. After a specific period of accumulation time, the content of the drug in hair is higher and the quantity of the original drug and its metabolites can be tested simultaneously. Shen12 and Doherty13 introduced the method of simultaneous detection of antipsychotics and their metabolites by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC/MS) and LC/MS/MS, respectively. Compared with the traditional GC-MS, LC/MS/MS method can be screening analysis of antipsychotic drugs in hair, and it can be adopted to the MRM mode which effectively reduces the influence of hair matrix and greatly improves the sensitivity. It can detect up to pictogram/milligram level targets in the hair, especially highly polar and instable drugs and their metabolites.14 15 The ESI-MS2 fragment pathway of RSP and its metabolites 9-HR is shown in figure 4. Therefore, LCMS/MS method was used to detect the RSP and 9-HR concentration of all the 34 hair samples.
Hair is a non-invasive and favourable biological marker for monitoring the long-term systemic exposures to medications. Moreover, hair grows at a rate of approximately 1 cm per month and drug analysis in hair may allow for the identification of metabolic activity throughout the period of medication taken medicine. In contrast, blood can only provide information regarding drug concentrations at the time of sampling. Therefore, it is important to analyse the correlation between the total concentration of the two drugs in hair and in blood. However, there is no domestic study on the correlations between the concentration of RSP, 9-HR or the total of the two in hair and the corresponding concentration in blood, which we have first studied to explore whether the hair could be used as a substitute biomaterial for blood.
Some studies have reported the total blood concentration of risperidone and its metabolite is associated with curative effects of the drug.2 22 In this study, we found that the concentration of RSP in hair was significantly correlated with the RSP serum concentration (r=0.440, p<0.01), and the concentration of 9-HR in hair had no correlation with the serum 9-HRconcentration (r=−0.217, p>0.01), which may be affected by the small hair value. Consequently, the total concentration of the two drugs in hair was correlated with their concentration in blood.23–25 We found that the total concentrations of the two drugs in hair were not related to the two drugs in blood, that may be related to the small 9 -HR value, which might be relevant to the fact that the metabolite 9-HR had difficulty in entering hair or be related to RSP producing 9-HRin blood by metabolism.
In this work, the dosage was not correlated with the blood concentration of RSP (r=−0.059, p=0.741), but correlated with 9-HR (r=0.581, p=0.000) and the two drugs (r=0.437, p=0.010). These findings were contradictory with Wei 200526 and Zhao 201227 who found that the plasma concentrations of 9-HR or the sum of RSP and 9-HRwere more related to the daily dose than RSP. The dosage had no statistically significant correlation with the concentration of RSP in hair (r=0.207, p=0.241), 9-HR in hair (r=−0.194, p=0.271) and the total concentration of RSP and 9-HR in hair (r=0.188, p=0.288). This may be due to the small sample size or due to the difficulty in obtaining hair samples of adequate length in male patients. It is also possible that the accumulation and metabolic mechanism in the hair is different from the mechanism in the blood. However, further research is needed.
This study has the typical limitations of naturalistic studies, which are not designed to identify variables with small effect sizes; more controlled clinical designs are needed to identify variables with small effects. Among the subjects enrolled in this study, most of the male inpatients had a haircut once a month. The lengths of their hair samples that were collected at one time were short, which could not be divided into more segments for the measurements. Hence, the correlation between the concentrations of the other segments or the total segments and the historical blood concentration remains to be further studied.
Since the quantity of the samples in this study was not enough, there might be a statistical deviation. Accordingly, further expansion of the quantity of the samples is needed in future studies. In addition, based on ethical considerations, this study only retrospectively analysed the historical blood concentrations of the patients and determined the drug concentrations in their hair. The medications and time points have not been strictly unified. In the following studies, some prospective studies are needed, relevant data should be recorded, and hair or blood samples should be collected at different times after medication for pharmacokinetic research of drugs, but these still need further plans. With regard to taking the medicine time and blood collection time, it is best to collect blood and hair samples at different times after taking the medicine, and to fit the pharmacokinetic study in the hair,28 but this still needs further planning. Next, we may also conduct correlational studies on other psychiatric drugs between hair concentrations and blood concentrations, or even correlation studies on psychiatric drugs in combination with other drugs. In the future, we will continue to expand the types of psychiatric drugs determined by hair and continuously optimise the detection methods.
TDM refers to determining the concentrations of drugs in a biological matrix via modern analytical techniques under the guidance of pharmacokinetic principles, which is used for the guidance and evaluation of medication.29 Antipsychotics or antidepressants have a narrow therapeutic window and strong side effects and become potential pathogenic6 and lethal factors.30 Consequently, TDM is needed in clinical applications of antipsychotics and antidepressants as an important monitoring parameter.31 While the collections of blood samples are invasive, they require professional operations. Blood samples should be stored and transported under special conditions, have biosafety hazards and are troublesome in waste recovery and disposal. Furthermore, plasma protein binding rate is significantly affected by individual differences.32 33 As non-invasive biological specimen, hair is easy to transport and store, is not affected by external factors and is safe, hygienic and non-infectious.34 Therefore, hair can be used as a substitute for blood, showing epoch-making significance. As a TDM sample, hair has the following advantages: the prodrugs and their metabolites in hair are stable;35 the hair samples can be repeatedly collected; the detection window of hair can be detected for several months or even years;36 hair can be used for the information tracking of drug cessation, missing dose and drug abuse;37 the results provide the basis for diagnosis, treatment, detection of drug efficacy and patient compliance.38 As a supplement to blood and urine samples, hair shows great significance in clinical practice.
Hair analysis has been applied since the 1950s, which only was used for qualitative detection of drug exposure due to the limited testing methods at the time,21 With the development of microdetection technology in recent years, the appearance of LC-MS/MS and GC-MS has improved the detection sensitivity, making the detection of drug concentration in hair into a quantitative level. In practical applications, the drug concentration in hair can be used to verify patient compliance.39 It was found that the cortisol concentration in human hair was correlated with its blood concentration, suggesting that hair could be used as a biomaterial in vivo. However, there is no study on the correlation between the concentration of RSP in hair and its blood concentration in China. This study first found that the concentration of RSP in hair had a certain correlation with its blood concentration, which served as an experimental basis for whether hair could replace blood as auxiliary diagnosis biomaterial and provided referenced value for clinical research.
. The relationships between plasma concentration of risperidone and clinical effects. Shanghai Archives of Psychiatry 1999;11:189–92.
. Determination of risperidone and its metabolite of 9-hydroxyrisperidone in hair by LC-MS/MS. Progress in Modern Biomedicine 2015;15:2221–4.
. The evaluation and determination of antidepressant and antipsychotics of drug in hairs [J]. Journal of Forensic Medicine 2000;03:148–52.
. Influential factors of serum concentration/dosage ratio for schizophrenia patients after oral administration of risperidone. Chin J Clin Pharm 2018;34:117–9.
. The relationship between dose of risperidone and the steady plasma concentrations of risperidone and 9-HYdroxyrisperidone in schizophrenic patients. Chin J Hosp Pharm 2005;25:607–8.
. The concntration of risperdone an 9-HYdroxyrisperidone in schizophrenic patients. Chin J Mod Drug App 2012;6.
. Determination of clozapine, norclozapine, and clozapine-N-oxide in serum by liquid chromatography. Clin Chem 1993;39:1656–9.
. Fundamentals and applications of hair analysis. Beijing: science press, 2010: 1–13.
. Clinical and application in forensic medicine research of hair analysis. China Foreign Medical Treatment 2010;29:178–9.
Xiujia SUN obtained a master's degree from Qiqihar University in China in 2008. She had worked in Pharmaceutical Analysis sector of Wuxi New Drug Research and Development Ltd as a researcher from 2008 to 2011. Currently, she is working as a research assistant in the biochemical laboratory of Shanghai Mental Health Center. Her research interest includes clinical detection of serum concentration.
XS and LW contributed equally.
Contributors XS drafted the manuscript. LW and FZY were responsible for patient recruitment and samplings. PJ and HML provided literature and guidance for methods. JJR and XS were responsible for the determination of samples. HL provided the guidance on ethics approval. CL designed and guided this study. CZ funded the study and was responsible for the implementation of the study. The authors are responsible for the data of the paper.
Funding This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 81471358), Shanghai Health and Family Planning Commission Youth Fund Project (No. 20144Y0080), Shanghai Health and Family Planning Commission Youth Fund Project (No. 20154Y0045) and Shanghai Health and Family Planning Commission Fund Project (No. 201740089), Shanghai Natural Science Foundation(15ZR1435300); Shanghai JiaoTong University School of Medicine Natural Science and Technology Foundation(14XJ10080), the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission—Gaofeng Clinical Medicine Grant Support (No. 20152530).


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Preface by Laurent Fortin, Université de Sherbrooke (Quebec).
This work confronts the latest research on early school leaving while questioning prejudices and collective representations according to which the phenomenon takes its roots primarily in family failure or personal deficiencies. While addressing those factors, the author also considers the problem from the angle of the school effect and school violence, themes that have been rarely addressed so far.
Beyond mere simplification, this book presents a typology of young people at risk of early school leaving in France, based on qualitative and quantitative research. Although early school leaving is more widespread in disadvantaged backgrounds, the research shows that a certain number of students from a (very) disadvantaged background, and others with average school results are in a situation of school leaving without receiving the attention they need.
This work proposes an interdisciplinary and international approach, for a more subtle vision and a better understanding of the phenomenon. It presents, from a critical point of view, concrete intervention programmes. It is addressed to education professionals, social workers, students in social science and educational research, as well as to families and everyone who feels concerned by social issues.


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ATI Radeon HD 4890 vs. Nvidia GeForce GTX 275
Page 8 : Benchmarks: Unreal Tournament 3, World in Conflict
By Steven Walton on May 11, 2009
Test System Specs & 3Dmark Vantage
Benchmarks: Call of Duty, Company of Heroes
Benchmarks: Crysis, Crysis Warhead
Benchmarks: Quake Wars, Fallout 3
Benchmarks: Far Cry 2, Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X.
Benchmarks: Left 4 Dead, Supreme Commander
Benchmarks: Unreal Tournament 3, World in Conflict
Benchmarks: Overclocking Performance
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Like Supreme Commander we found that Unreal Tournament 3 delivered very competitive results when running our custom timedemo. For example, at 1680x1050 the GeForce GTX 275 outpaced the Radeon HD 4890 by just 2fps. The margin was increased at 1920x1200 and here the GeForce GTX 275 was 9fps faster, which worked out to be a 12% performance margin. Finally at 2560x1600 the GeForce GTX 275 was 15% faster, though this worked out to only be a 6fps difference.
The GeForce GTX 275 finishes off the benchmarking phase with a win in World in Conflict Soviet Assault, with a 19% performance advantage at 1680x1050. The margin closed as the resolution was increased as just 4fps separated the two at 1920x1200. Then at 2560x1600 the margin was further reduced and the GTX 275 rendered 2fps more than the Radeon HD 4890.
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When an athlete is starting out, often she wants to focus on her craft. Put her head down and train. Not put herself out there for criticism. And then when success comes, there may be an instinct to not rock the boat. Why? We (the public) like our idols as empty vessels – so we can pour whatever feelings/ideas into them to make them into our ideal. But not only is that shallow, it's false. Every person has innate personality. Fears. Struggles. Opinions.


Obverse: Design in blue and violet. On the right, portrait of Simon Bolivar by unknown author painted in Haiti. On the left, watermarks zone. In the center, the denomination value "500". On the top, the denomination in words "QUINIENTOS BOLÍVARES" «five hundred Bolívares». On the bottom, the issuer name "BANCO CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA" «Central Bank of Venezuela» and the payment clause "PAGADEROS AL PORTADOR EN LAS OFICINAS DEL BANCO" «Payments to the Bearier in the Offices of the Bank» above. In each corner the denomination value "500".
Reverse: Design in blue and violet. In each corner Orquídea Catesetum pileatum with Coat of Arms. On the right, watermarks zone. On the top, the denomination in words "QUINIENTOS BOLÍVARES" «five hundred Bolívares». On the bottom, the issuer name "BANCO CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA" «Central Bank of Venezuela». In each corner the value "500".
Stamped on the obverse "MUESTRA SIN VALOR" (sample with no value) in red (not perfored).
Stamped "MUESTRA SIN VALOR" (sample with no value).


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You'd think because trees don't move, finding truly ancient trees should not be that difficult. It is trickier than you think. You need to go prepared.
On Saturday morning, thus equipped, Madeleine and I set off on the path behind the village towards a most impressive looking oak. From a distance it looks great, but up close you realise the giant has been vandalised. Some miscreant has lit a fire in its hollow interior, there is also some broken glass, where persons unknown have drunk their bottles of booze.
Madeleine explored the tree, and was mightily impressed by the cave. She dubbed it "Winnie-the-Pooh's cave", where the bats live. Bats may well be resident in this tree. There are some interesting looking crevices further up.
I got my chalk and measuring tape out. I measured 1.50m from the ground and made little mark. From the mark I started measuring around the oak's mighty trunk. I returned to the mark after 5.30m. This oak is veteran, but around 70cm short of being considered ancient. Nonetheless, I jotted all the details down, took a splendid photograph and returned to our house by way of the playground.
As a quick rule of thumb every 100cm equates to 100 years. Now an oak will live for many more centuries than a beech, say, or an apple. An oak can reach 700, 800 years, perhaps even more; the apple around 300; beech die after a relatively young 200. Around our village there are a number of fallen beech trees, which would have been planted in the early 1800s when the textile mill was constructed. Our rule of thumb makes our oak somewhere between 500 and 600 years old, so it is middle-aged.
Interestingly, Edenderry means ridge of the oak trees. Is this one of the last remaining oaks which gave the village its name?
Once we got home I hopped on the Internet and went to Ancient Tree Hunt, where I added the oak to the Register. Someone from the Woodland Trust will pop down and verify the find.
I know about this tree, because I live in the village and I have walked up and down the country lanes and footpaths. We can see the crown from our bedroom. But even somewhere unfamiliar you can soon pick up the tell-tale signs of an old tree: it's a bit fatter than the others, it has bits missing, a hollow trunk perhaps, or its crown is a bit threadbare.
A while back I was waiting for my return flight from Birmingham to Belfast. As I sat in the departure lounge at T2 in Birmingham I spotted a lop-sided, fat tree in the car park behind the sound barrier. Not being able to walk to it, I sent off an e-mail to the Woodland Trust and someone added it to the Register. In August I hope to have a little walk around and add a few more details and a photograph. From a distance it looks like an oak, but I'll need to get up close to make sure.
The best way to find ancient trees, is to get out of the car, and make your way on foot, or on bicycle. That way you'll have the time to take in your surroundings.
Standing beneath (or in) an ancient tree is an awe-inspiring experience. Here's a living organism that has seen centuries come and go. The oak at the edge of village was already big and imposing when the Scottish and English arrived during the Plantation in the early 1600s. The oak will, barring lightning strike and hurricane-force wind, outlive me and a couple of generations of my descendants. When you stand in the shadow of an ancient tree, you are suddenly aware how short your time on earth is, and really that it is important to do one's best with what little time we have.
As a rule of thumb: if your journey is less than 5 miles then cycle; if it is 5 to 10 miles you'll need change facilities at work; more than 10 miles, then, as Wesley found, it is only feasible for the fit or as an occasional treat.
Having experimented last week with car sharing, today I decided to experiment with commuting to work by bicycle. This is partly because, as someone who believes the motor car to be a generally good thing, that gets far too much of a bad press in Northern Ireland, I think it's important to explore the alternatives at first hand. And it is partly because I was dared to do this by a one-man-cycling-crusade-machine on Twitter (you know who you are @stripymoggie). So I hope everyone appreciates the sacrifice I have made in the name of transport research!


I have no idea, but I'd like to. Let's make a website that asks you bunch of questions about issues that are currently under debate in your area. Answer yea or nay, and the program begins grouping you with other people who answer similarly. The more questions you answer, the more you can see how many people feel the same as you do, where they differ, and so on.
If you want, you can choose to reveal your identity (name, age, race, occupation, neighbourhood, race, religious affiliation, political affiliation… as much or as little as you want to share). Then the program can match you up in even more detail. Politicians will find it in their interest to reveal their identities so that people can see the name of the person they align with, and maybe decide to vote for them.
The advantage to voters – they can see what politicians are on their side, rather than just hoping that the guy for their usual party is going to do the right things this time around.
The advantage to politicians – they can see whether people actually agree with them, or if they need to change their minds.
Issues should be user submitted but strongly curated and moderated, to stay on topic and avoid flaming.
It would be super interesting to pass around a tablet with the website on it at PTA meetings, town halls, out front of voting places for last minute sanity checks, at public debates, in grade 10 social studies classes, and so on.
Here some ways to monetize it, some better than others.
Sell it to municipalities, tailored for their location, charge for the license, then for moderation/curation.
Make it an app and p2p (I have no idea if this is possible but cool if it is).
For my capstone project at college, we're working with a local municipality on a website to help voters get informed about local issues. The idea I've just sketched out was what I originally wanted the project to be, but our sponsors and my team had a slightly different vision, so I've had to compromise a bit. What we're going to end up with is more of a reddit/wiki about local politics. It should be interesting and super useful, but I'm still sad that my original vision won't come to fruition, at least not this year.
So the idea is available for anyone who wants to take it and run with it. I hope they do, because I actually do want to know what's going on in my community, and I don't really know how to find out without actually volunteering for a local party to get into the action. There is certainly value in doing that, but I'm not ready to make that time commitment – I'd rather just be able to read about the candidates, get a name, vote for them, and know when to lean on them for action.
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I was born to be a Recreation Vehicle Service Technician. Possibly.
Funny how life changes, I took a bunch of those quizzes in high school, and it was all like "pilot", "journalist", "editor".
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I made a nice gallery full of photographs of all the books currently on my bookshelf. In the next few months I'll be getting rid of all of them, and it will be tough to let go of some. So this is for the memories.
By the way, I finally figured out the lightbox gallery that I was moaning about in a previous post, many months ago. I'm using it to display the pictures all nice and fancy. But there are almost a hundred of them, and that makes for some tedious html and xml coding. Fortunately, with all the education I've recently acquired, it was a little easier. I used a PHP script to grab the filenames of the pictures, thumbnail versions, author name and title of the books out of an xml file and spit it out in html.
The tough part was the xml file. The finished product was over a thousand lines long and I'm not typing that crap.
…from the command line to get lists of all the file names.
Then use this quick python script to add the xml tags.
xmlnode = "<pathToPic>\n\t\timages/" + firstline + "\t</pathToPic>\n"
Awesome. Add lines for the thumbnails, author and title as well.
I suppose there's a proper way to write to a text file from within the script, but I never got around to looking that up.
I use a cochlear implant to help me hear. The thing is amazing, and it's changed my life. Like, it's the difference between being a shut-in with no life and being happy, well adjusted contributing citizen. But I always like to understand the devices I use in my life, tweaking and modifying them to suit me. I'd like a phone application to control it, or use it to receive phone calls, or whatever. Make the implant itself the size of the loonie, like the magnet part currently is, and control it only remotely. In this way it could be more seamless and waterproof.
I'm almost done my diploma in Computer Systems Technology. It's a practical, hands-on course where you get tons of programming experience, like probably more than the average software engineering graduate gets. Last year we had a pretty amazing teacher for Java – a rather hard headed individual who was tough to get along with, however, he demanded more out of us than most teachers do, and got what he asked for. I think everyone who passed the course came away with an actual understanding of Java.
This year he's teaching us Android programming. You can imagine how stoked I am. After this I'll be able to build the interface for exactly the program that I want to control my CI.
The company that makes my CI is located in Brisbane, Australia. I'm going to be moving there in about 6 months. I'll have a diploma in computer programming, 6 years of being a CI user, and the ability, unlike many deaf people, to communicate clearly in English my needs and ideas for improving the equipment, and I'll be in the city looking for a job.
Am I not the exact person that Cochlear is looking for? I think so. My mission now is to let them know.
For CI company that makes my CI, which is based in Australia, in Brisbane where I'm moving to anyway, to hire me to make remote controls applications for their equipment. Everything kind of… works.
So, I'll do the online application and all that. But this is going out to the internet, in hopes of finding the engineer, now working at Cochlear in Brisbane, who might be able to make room in his budget for one more engineer who has something special to offer.


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Thoughtful husband reminds wife she needs to buy presents for his family too
A CARING family man has thoughtfully given his wife a list of his relatives to choose, purchase and wrap presents for.
Tom Logan made sure he told partner Helen to buy gifts for his parents, siblings and nieces in plenty of time, so that everyone would get the perfect item.
Logan said: "Christmas isn't just about my wife buying presents for her family. It's about her buying presents for my family too.
"The spirit of the season is for her to spend hours agonising over what relatives of mine she's met twice would really like to receive, with no input from me.
"I'd better also remind her to choose which website she wants a gift card for or she'll think I don't put any effort into our relationship."
Helen Logan said: "For our anniversary this year, Tom asked me to pick out a card for him to give me, so that he'd be sure I'd like it and definitely not because he couldn't be bothered to get his arse to a shop.
"It's this kind of effort that makes me glad I married him."
New car essential for superiority reasons, confirms school-run mum
A WOMAN has confirmed she needs a giant SUV to demonstrate that she earns more than the rest of the parents in her son's class.
Helen Archer says that having children has forced her and her husband to examine their priorities, which have turned out to be underlining their superiority over other families by getting a huge 4×4.
Muir said: "I can barely manoeuvre it down the two narrow streets between our house and the school, but how else can I make it clear that we've also got a cavernous ground floor extension and built-in wine fridge?
"I see all those poor parents walking along like peasants and I just think, is that really the only message you want to give? That you've got legs?
"A few parents have pointed out that I've nearly knocked over the occasional child. I've had to patiently explain that the SUV has a very high chassis to accommodate all the extra features that money buys you.
"They don't always get that we're separated not only by car height but also by class."


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Abidjan Department (, ) is a department of Ivory Coast. It is the sole department in Abidjan Autonomous District: the territory of the department and the district are the same.

History

Abidjan Department was created in 1969 as one of the 24 new departments that were created to take the place of the six departments that were being abolished. It was created from territory that was formerly part of Sud Department. Using current boundaries as a reference, from 1969 to 1988 the department encompassed all of the Abidjan Autonomous District; all of Grands-Ponts Region; all of Agnéby-Tiassa Region, with the exception of Agboville Department; and Alépé Department in La Mé Region.

Abidjan Department was divided into three parts in 1988 in order to create Grand-Lahou Department and Tiassalé Department.

In 1997, regions were introduced as new first-level subdivisions of Ivory Coast; as a result, all departments were converted into second-level subdivisions. Abidjan Department was included as part of Lagunes Region. Abidjan Department was divided again in 1998 in order to create Alépé, Dabou, and Jacqueville Departments.

In 2011, districts were introduced as new first-level subdivisions of Ivory Coast. At the same time, regions were reorganised and became second-level subdivisions and all departments were converted into third-level subdivisions. At this time, Abidjan Department became part of Abidjan Autonomous District, one of two districts in the country with no regions. Abidjan Department and the Abidjan Autonomous District share the same territory.

Notes

1969 establishments in Ivory Coast
States and territories established in 1969
Departments of Abidjan


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You're My Saviour *Andy Biersack Love Story*
We sat there, staring into each other's eyes when a knock on the door made us both jump. We laughed and Andy called for whoever it was to come in. The curtain was swept aside as Jake entered, carrying a plate with eggs.
"That looks fantastic, thanks!" I smiled shyly. He returned the smile and handed me the plate.
"Glad you're feeling better," he murmured before leaving Andy and I alone again. I began to spear the egg with my fork and eat while Andy watched me.
"So…" I began awkwardly.
"So," he repeated.
"When's your next show?" I asked reluctantly.
"Tomorrow night in Northern California," he said quietly.
"Thank you for letting me stay here," I say quickly. "I loved spending time with my heroes. I'll fight through this year thanks to you, and have a good time on tour," the words flooded out, I looked away, blinking back tears.
"Come with us," Andy whispered.
"What..?" I asked.
"Come with us." he repeated louder.
"I- I can't do that. I'll be in the way and I don't want to be a burden," I started.
"You're not. Please, just come with us," he begged, taking my hand.
"Are you sure?" I whispered tentatively. He nodded.
"Positive,"
"Okay," I smiled, reaching forward to hug him. His arms reached around me and he squeezed me tightly. We sat like that for a while before I pulled back, blushing.
Later that Day -
Andy, CC, Ashley and I were sitting on the couch in the tour bus talking when Jinxx and Jake came in holding a box.
"Hey guys! Guess what we got!" Jinxx breathed excitedly, shifting the large box in his arms.
"We got Rock Band for the road!" Jake shouted excitedly. We laughed at them and CC got up to help them with the boxes.
"Let's set it up!" he cried, ripping into the box. I just shook my head, watching these goofs set up the game system and turn on the TV.
"Dibs on guitar first!" Jake cried, no shock there.
"Drums!" CC called out.
"Go sing," I smiled at Andy. I loved his voice both singing and not singing, but I wanted to hear him sing really bad. He laughed at me and got up to take the microphone.
"Any requests?" he asked, looking at me. I scanned the back of the game container and decided on Two Weeks by All That Remains. The intro started and the guys all selected Expert difficulty, trying to show off. I laughed as I watched Jake get frustrated at the plastic guitar.
Andy began to sing and I was mesmerized by his voice again. He started to growl the song instead, which made me laugh as he started dropping and it said "failed" so CC had to save him. We had a good time, me watching the guys play and watching CC beat Jake on the guitar, which was really funny. Suddenly, CC looked at me.
"You haven't played yet," he said matter-of-factly.
"No, I know. I prefer just watching," I smiled.
"Too bad, you gotta play!" I sighed, giving him the pouty look. He laughed and threw me over his shoulder, I laughed and fought him, but he sat me down at the drums and pressed random song. I rolled my eyes as I placed my foot on the pedal and started to play the song.
When the song ended, the scoreboard came up with me at 100% on expert and everyone looked at me shocked. I blushed and looked away, shrugging.
"Dude, she beat you on your instrument!" Ashley cried, guffawing with laughter as CC looked at me, jaw dropped.
"Oh hell no, play this," Ashley said between laughter, handing me the guitar. I sighed and started, with the same result. Even Jake only got a 96%.
"There's one thing she hasn't tried," Ashley said, grinning evilly at me and Andy shaking his head as he laughed.
"I can't sing, don't make me!" I cried.
"Awh, come on!" Jake begged. I pouted and shook my head, then he reached over and tickled me. I shrieked and wriggled away from him, laughing.
"I give! I'll sing! Just stop!" I shrieked between laughter. He stopped right away and pressed play. I took a deep breath and began to sing.
Halfway through the song I realized the guys had all stopped playing and were just sitting there watching me, not caring that they were dropping out of the game. I stopped the game and looked at them with an eyebrow cocked and a hand on my hip.
"What?" I asked.
"Your voice, it's beautiful," Andy breathed, watching me with a sparkle in his eyes. I blushed and looked down.
"Thanks," I mumbled.
Not too long after the game stopped we were sitting around and everyone slowly drifted off to their bunks, until it was just me and Ashley left. We sat there silently until he spoke up.
"He likes you, you know?" Startled, I looked up.
"Huh?" I said brilliantly.
"Andy. You can see it by how he looks at you," Ashley said, watching me.
"I doubt it, we're just friends," I blushed, looking away.
"By the way you blush I'm guessing you feel the same way?" he asked.
I looked back at him and shrugged, "what does it matter? I'm not special, he can't like someone like me," I said sadly.
"He already does," Ashley said before standing up and walking to his bunk, leaving me to think. There's no way, right? Andy can't like me… I sighed and followed the way Ashley'd just taken, climbing into the bunk I was sharing with Andy. I placed my head on his chest and felt his arms wrap around me. I snuggled into his side and fell asleep to the sound of his breathing with the same thought running through my head; Andy might like me.
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Are you okay? Is everything okay? I'm worried about you since you haven't uploaded anything on quotev since the 12th of may and I just wanted to make sure you're okay because I feel like something's not right. I'm here if you wanna talk to me :3 please don't end your life.
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Thank you so much!! <3 If you want to read more, go to the link on Quotev : http://www.quotev.com/story/3054580/Youre-My-Saviour/1/
I have more chapters on there, this site just pisses me off and wrecks the chapters when I update it on here. Thanks for reading! <3
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awesome thankyou and you know update please and thankyou. <3
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I'm glad you feel that way! Thanks again :)


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Belarus is a presidential republic with a bicameral Parliament (Natsionalnoye Sobranie) composed of the Chamber of Representatives and the Council of the Republic.
It is a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), the Organisation for Democracy and Economic Development (GUAM) and the Organisation of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC).
Having gained independence from what was the Soviet Union in 1990, Belarus is a founder member of the Russian-led Eurasian Economic Union, which was formalised in 2015. Belarus benefits from Russian support in the form of cheap energy and other subsidies which are unofficially estimated as equivalent to 15% of Belarus's GNP.
Belarus has maintained state control over key industries, including banking, although a gradual process of privatisation is under way.
Unlike other countries in Eurasia, Belarus has shown no inclination in joining the European Union, but instead maintains a bilateral relationship, and Belarus participates in the Eastern Partnership and Baku Initiative, which are aimed at fostering discussions over trade, economic strategies and other issues of interest.
Political tensions between Belarus and neighbouring countries deepened in 2020 with the disputed 2020 presidential election, with sanctions being imposed on Belarus by the EU, Canada, the UK and the US, citing election interference and political oppression.
Although digital banking penetration remains low compared to the rest of the Eurasian region, internet penetration has risen sharply in Belarus in recent years, , while the mobile phone penetration was 123.86% as of 2021. Banks in Belarus have put digital channels at the centre of their growth strategies, while refocusing their branch networks to offload more transactions to online. In tandem with this, internationally-accepted mobile payment services like Apple Pay have been launched in Belarus.
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Recap: If you hadn't noticed yet, Nvidia's new flagship the Geforce RTX 2080 Ti is an extremely powerful GPU. As legendary overclocker Kingpin just proved, it's also the most powerful GPU ever when pushed to the max.
By using liquid nitrogen cooling and bypassing the card's voltage limits, Kingpin dialed the clock speeds of his 2080 Ti all the way up from 1545Mhz to 2415Mhz and its memory speeds from 7000Mhz to 8683Mhz. He paired it with a liquid nitrogen cooled i9-7980XE running at around 5.7Ghz, and subsequently broke every record he attempted in 3DMark.
Beating Titan V in all these tests, he took Time Spy Extreme by 5%, Time Spy Extreme Graphics by 5.5%, Time Spy by 12.5%, Time Spy Graphics by 13.5%, Firestrike Ultra by 11%, Firestrike Extreme also by 11% and standard Firestrike by 10%. That's pretty impressive on Nvidia's behalf considering that the Titan V has 17% more cores and is only 100Mhz slower at factory settings.
While Kingpin managed to increase the performance by 20%, you don't need liquid nitrogen to see serious gains by overclocking an RTX 2080 Ti as YouTuber JayzTwoCents proved when he climbed to number 15 on the Time Spy Extreme ladder at only 2175Mhz.
Even though the RTX 2080 Ti is the most powerful graphics card money can buy (quite a lot of money in fact, at $1,200 for the Founder's Edition), don't go expecting Kingpin's performance on your own card when they release on the 27th.
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Born on August 9, 1963, in Newark, New Jersey, Whitney Houston released her debut album at age 22 and scored three No. 1 singles. Whitney (1987) delivered four more No. 1s and earned Houston her first Grammy, with later albums including I'm Your Baby Tonight (1990) and My Love Is Your Love (1998) as well as soundtracks to The Bodyguard (1992) and Waiting to Exhale (1995). With her marriage to singer Bobby Brown in 1992 and ensuing drug use, Houston's career got off track. She eventually made a comeback with 2009's I Look to You and also co-starred in the the film remake Sparkle. Houston died from accidental drowning in a hotel on February 11, 2012.
Whitney Houston died at the age of 48 on February 11, 2012, in Los Angeles at a Beverly Hilton hotel where a Grammy party was being held by Clive Davis. Houston had been seen out in the days before her death, including at one of the pre-Grammy parties. According to a report released by the Los Angeles County coroner's office on March 22, 2012, the official cause of her death was accidental drowning. The effects of heart disease and cocaine found in her system were contributing factors as well. With her passing, the music world lost one of its most legendary stars. Davis once said that Houston "is in the great tradition of great, great singers, whether it's Lena Horne or Ella Fitzgerald or Sarah Vaughan or Gladys Knight."
Daughter Bobbi Kristina dealt with much tumult after the death of her mother. She was hospitalized immediately after the passing of Houston due to emotional trauma, but later spoke with Winfrey about returning to her mother's home and feeling her mother's presence. Houston left everything to her daughter, but with grandmother Cissy fearing that the fortune could become the target of predators, sister-in-law Pat Houston became the executor of the estate.
Bobbi Kristina had public conflicts with her grandmother over the publishing of the Houston biography Remembering Whitney. In early 2014 she was reported to have been married to Nick Gordon, who had been taken in by Houston during his childhood and raised with Bobbi Kristina, yet later reports stated that they weren't legally wed. In another confrontation, she made disparaging comments via Twitter about Angela Bassett after the actress/director opted to cast a trained actress in the lead role of a Houston biopic instead of Bobbi Kristina.
On January 31, 2015, nearly three years to the date of her mother's death, Bobbi Kristina was discovered face down in a bathtub in her Roswell, Georgia home by associate Max Lomas. After being admitted to North Fulton Hospital, she was eventually taken to Emory University Hospital, having been placed into a medically-induced coma.
In 1985, Whitney Houston released her debut album Whitney Houston and almost immediately became a smash pop sensation. Over the next year, her hit singles "Saving All My Love for You" and "How Will I Know" helped the album reach the top of the charts, where it stayed for 14 non-consecutive weeks. Houston won a Grammy in 1986 for "Saving All My Love for You"; the award was presented to the singer by her cousin Dionne Warwick.
Houston followed the monumental success of her first album with a second release, Whitney, in 1987. That record, too, went platinum many times over and won a Grammy for the single "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)," with a successful world tour following. During this time, the singer also appeared at a concert for Nelson Mandela's birthday and founded the Whitney Houston Foundation for Children, a nonprofit organization that funds projects to help needy children over the world.
In spite of these growing personal troubles, Houston continued to progress in her career, crossing over successfully into acting in 1992 by starring opposite Kevin Costner in the wildly popular The Bodyguard. With this project, she set a trend for her films to follow: For each movie she also released hit singles, creating sensational record sales for the soundtracks. Her smash single from The Bodyguard, a cover of Dolly Parton's 1974 "I Will Always Love You," proved to be Houston's biggest hit ever, spending a record-breaking 14 weeks atop the U.S. charts. The soundtrack album went on to win Houston three Grammys, including Album of the Year and Record of the Year. Later in the 1990s, Houston also starred in Waiting to Exhale and The Preacher's Wife, both accompanied by hit soundtracks as well.
In 1998, Houston released My Love Is Your Love, her first non-soundtrack studio album in many years, and it earned her another Grammy for the single "It's Not Right But It's Okay." But the album could not top the chart performance of her previous full-length releases. However, her collaboration with Mariah Carey in the animated film The Prince of Egypt produced a hit single, "When You Believe," which won an Academy Award.
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Houston's increasingly rocky marriage, struggles with drugs and health problems threatened to derail her career. Several concert cancellations and a notorious TV interview with Diane Sawyer in 2002 in which Houston appeared far too thin and in poor health led many to speculate that she was on the verge of a breakdown.
In 2004 Bobby Brown began filming a reality show for Bravo entitled Being Bobby Brown; Houston received substantial airtime. The show aired during the worst years of the couple's crumbling marriage; drug use, lifestyle excess and bad behavior were all caught on tape and Houston's reputation sunk to new lows. Houston tried to ignore the controversy, charging ahead with her music by releasing Just Whitney… to combat her detractors, but it did not match the success of her earlier works. In spite of her troubled relationship, Houston was still celebrated as a singer, being named the most-awarded female artist of all time by Guinness World Records in 2006.
Over the next few years, Houston attempted to repair her marriage and to break her drug habit, but after several relapses her mother Cissy had to step in. As Houston explained to Oprah Winfrey in 2009: "[My mother] walks in with the sheriff and she says: 'I have a court injunction here. You do it my way or we're not going to do this at all. You're going to go on TV, and you're going to retire. And say you're going to give this up because it's not worth it.'" Whitney took a break from her career, divorced Bobby Brown in 2007 and won sole custody of their child, Bobbi Kristina Houston Brown.
After almost a decade of struggling with her personal life, Houston seemed to be pulling herself together. She released a new album, I Look To You, in 2009. "The songs themselves will speak to you and you'll understand where I am and some of the changes I've gone through for the better," Houston told Entertainment Tonight. The recording received a warm welcome from music fans, making it to the top of album charts. Her live shows, however, garnered mixed reviews, with some complaining about the quality of her voice.
Backed by the Whitney Houston estate, the documentary Whitney was released in July 2018, with Houston's sister-in-law, Pat, serving as executive producer.
The documentary premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. In the doc, it is revealed that her cousin, Dee Dee Warwick, sister of Dionne Warwick, allegedly sexually abused the singer. Houston's brother told filmmakers he was abused by Dee Dee and believed his sister was too. The documentary also provided insight into Houston's relationship with drugs—her brother Michael admitted that he gave her marijuana and cocaine as a gift for her 16th birthday—as well as her kinship with fellow pop superstar Michael Jackson.
Born on August 9, 1963 in Newark, New Jersey, Whitney Houston almost seemed destined from birth to become a singer. Her mother Cissy Houston, cousin Dionne Warwick and godmother Aretha Franklin were all legendary figures in American gospel, soul and pop music. Cissy Houston was the choir minister at New Hope Baptist Church, and it was there that a young Whitney got her start. Even as a child, Whitney was able to wow audiences; she later told interviewer Diane Sawyer that a rapturous response from the congregation at New Hope had a powerful effect upon her: "I think I knew then that [my singing ability] was an infectious thing that God had given me."
When she was 19, Whitney Houston was discovered in a nightclub by the renowned Clive Davis of Arista Records, who signed her immediately and took the helm of her career as she navigated from gospel to pop stardom. In 1983, Houston made her debut on national television, appearing on The Merv Griffin Show to sing "Home" from the musical The Wiz. She and Davis spent the next two years working on her debut album, finding the best producers and songwriters available to showcase her amazing vocal talent.


Renishaw has been confirmed as player sponsor for Ben Morgan when he joins Gloucester Rugby this summer.
Renishaw, the Gloucestershire-based global engineering company, has been confirmed as player sponsor for Ben Morgan when he joins Gloucester Rugby from Llanelli Scarlets in the summer.
The company which has its global headquarters near Wotton-under-Edge, is already a Community partner with Gloucester Rugby where it supports the Try Centre Educational programmes. It is also this season's sponsor of Henry Trinder, and will again sponsor the Young Player of the Season award at the club's end of season dinner.
Like England international Morgan, who won numerous plaudits for his RBS Six Nations Championship performances including the Man-of-the-Match award against Ireland, Renishaw is going from strength to strength. It currently has over 100 vacancies in Gloucestershire to add to its existing 1,600 staff employed at its five sites in the County.
Chris Pockett, Renishaw's Head of Communications, said, "Ben is a very exciting young player and like many of our own successful employees, is a great example of what can be achieved through a combination of personal dedication and supportive mentoring.


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Q: Should I put main method in superclass or subclass in Java If a class has inheritance in a Java program, do I need to put main method in the superclass or subclass? Many programs put the main method in different positions. Can anybody tell me how to do that? Thanks a lot!

A: I think it might be best to have a simple class whose sole dedicated purpose is to contain the static main method.  It simple and clear.
Your main method would then get things started by creating the initial objects from your program.

A: You could create a new dedicated class, let's say Launcher, with a main method, instantiate your classes there, and manage any unexpected exceptions:
public class Luncher{

  public static void main(String args){
    //insert argument checking logic

    try{
      new MyClass.executeLogic(someArguments);
    }catch(Exception e){
      //insert exception handling logic here
    }

}

A: It's up to you where you'll put main method, but I'd just put it into new class with only one method, static Main(String[] args)

A: You would want to put a main() method in a place where you control, or drive all of the action of your program.

A: Well, it depends, But usually main method put in sub class. There is quite big difference between in inheritance and shadowing. But you can put it subclass or super class. Remember main method is static.

A: We have to put the main method inside the main class only. Then whether you make it a parent class or sub class doesn't matter, It will work fine, But the main method needs to be inside the main class else compiler will throw error.


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The Jordanian government announced on Wednesday the opening of three border crossings with Syria to hasten operations of delivering humanitarian aid to displaced Syrians from Southern Syria.
"The government decided to open the three border crossings on Wednesday in order to facilitate the transit of humanitarian aid to displaced Syrians," the Ammon news agency cited Jordanian government spokeswoman Jumana Ghunaimat as saying.
Ghunaimat did not elaborate on which border crossings will be opened, but she said that 36 trucks carrying humanitarian aid crossed in the direction of the Syrian territories.
Earlier, the Jordanian army expressed in a statement its concern that ISIS and other radical groups will take advantage of the displacement crisis in the Daraa province south of Syria.
In an interview with the al-Hadath news channel, Jordanian army general Awda al-Shudeifat said that Jordan will hold on to its decision not to open its border to let in more displaced Syrians, expressing the country's concern about the infiltration of terrorists among the refugees.
On another development, Jordanian government spokeswoman Ghunaimat revealed that negotiations between Russia and Syrian opposition have resumed with the help of Jordanian mediation.


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I was going to suggest that one of my dollars counted as 2 dollars but instead I decided to walk out and go to Taco Bell. I really hate it when companies try to screw you by doing things like claiming that some of their topping counts as two toppings. Sorry Extreme Pizza, you lost a customer today.
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Mercy One is the first Bell 429 delivered to a customer by Bell Helicopter
The Nigerian government has become the first African customer to use the Bell 429 light twin-engine utility helicopter, having received two aircraft for use by the Nigeria Police Air Wing (NPAW) and the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA).
"Our Nigerian customers are thrilled to be the first Bell 429 operators in Africa," said Robert Prentice, vice president, Aircraft Sales, of Africair, Inc., Bell Helicopter's independent representative in Africa. "The Bell 429…will serve the NPAW and NEMA well for many years to come. They (Nigerians) are particularly impressed with Bell Helicopter's reputation for exceptional product support."
He said the NPAW and NEMA chose the Bell 429 because it has a large cabin, features state-of-the-art avionics equipment and has a smooth and fast ride.
Roberts noted that the Nigeria Police Air Wing is a long-standing Bell Helicopter customer, having operated Bell 47, 206, 427 and 412 helicopters in the past. In January last year the Nigeria Police Air Wing took delivery of two new Bell 412EP helicopters. The Police Air Wing operates several helicopters, including two Bell 206s and three Bell 427s (a fourth Bell 427 was lost in a fatal crash on March 14, 2012).
The Bell 429 was developed by Bell and Korea Aerospace Industries and features a cruise speed of 172 miles per hour, a flight range of over 400 miles and a service ceiling of 20 000 feet. Its cabin has a seating capacity for up to eight passengers. According to the manufacturer, the Bell 429 has been certified to fly in more than 40 countries.
The delivery of the helicopters to Nigeria was done following validation by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority. The authority also endorsed the Bell 429 gross weight increase from 3 175 to 3 402 kg, making Nigeria the fifteenth country to approve the increased maximum gross weight for the Bell 429 based on Transport Canada's certification.
"Nigeria's validation of the 429 and its endorsement of the gross weight increase is very exciting for us as the country continues to expand its aviation services and infrastructure," said Danny Maldonado, Bell's executive vice president of commercial sales and marketing.
"As the most populous country in Africa, and its leading producer of oil, there is increasing demand for reliable rotorcraft in the oil and gas, utility/corporate, and parapublic sectors. The performance boost of the 429's increased gross weight will allow customers across all segments to fully utilise the capabilities of the aircraft to carry more fuel and equipment."
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Q: IPv6: Are There Actual Differences Between Local Addresses ::1 and ::ffff:127.0.0.1? Couldn't find a clear answer to this question here or on Google. What are the actual functional, assignability, routability etc. differences between IPv6 addresses ::1 and ::ffff:127.0.0.1, if any?
When should you use one and not the other? If they are equivalent, why two of them?

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*::1 is an IPv6 address

*::ffff:127.0.0.1 is an IPv4 address expressed in IPv6 notation.

So the two different IP addresses map to two different protocols.
I've never seen the ::ffff notation used in the wild.