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EXECS PAID 22 MILLION YEN FOR DATA
Nuclear safety official jailed for bribes
A former official of the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency was sentenced Friday to two years in prison and fined 22 million yen for taking bribes for leaking government information.
Toshiyuki Takahashi, who was a deputy division chief, was found guilty by the Tokyo District Court of taking 22 million yen in bribes from two former company executives between 1998 and last year in return for government information on nuclear plants and other data.
Presiding Judge Shogo Kawaguchi said, "The process by which he voluntarily asked for bribes was extremely vicious and created distrust of the government's nuclear policy among the people."
Takahashi, 45, had entered a guilty plea and apologized. His lawyers asked for a lenient sentence, saying he has already received stiff social sanctions by being dismissed from the agency, an affiliate of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.
He immediately appealed the ruling to the Tokyo High Court.
Prosecutors had demanded three years in prison and a fine equal to the bribes he accepted.
According to the court, Takahashi, who had large debts, asked Osamu Ishikura, 52, president of a waste-management company, and Yoshinori Okamoto, 40, a board member of a computer software company, for financial help.
He accepted the bribes in return for information on computerized designs of nuclear plant facilities, desalination projects and other industrial data, the court found.
Ishikura and Okamoto, who were charged with bribing Takahashi, were also found guilty Friday.
The court sentenced Ishikura to two years in prison suspended for four years, and Okamoto to 18 months in prison, suspended for three years.


I'm really happy with how this recent crowdfunding campaign with Iris Anson went. At the end of last year Iris was looking at ways to get funding to grow her innovative shoe manufacturer Solely Original.
Aiming for a £70k target on crowdfunding platform Crowdcube, Iris had a big challenge on her hands, not least because she was seeking investment for a quality service aimed at women. Most investors on the top crowdfunding sites in the UK are men (estimates suggest around 75%).
Key to Iris's success however was her unshakeable persistence and sense of purpose. Iris pursued all angles and ideas for drumming up the funds she needed in the face of some substantial challenges, and it was a real pleasure to work with her on the campaign.
I'm delighted that it was successful and she can now focus on growing her fantastic business further.
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There are many ways for an application to prompt the user for information. Below, in no particular order, are a set of these. The list is probably not complete, since I now and then find a new item to add, but certainly covers most of the possibilities.
Copy all the code below in a Workspace and evaluate it statement by statement. Do a 'print-it' to see the results. This gives you an idea what's happening.
Comments in Squeak are in double quotes...like this: "This is a comment.
"Shows a menu with the string as a title, and choices of 'Yes' and 'No'.
"Like the previous example but lets you change the names of the Yes/No options."
selections: #( 'Fido' 'Slinky' 'Tweetie' 'Herman' ).
"Shows a menu with a caption of 'Pick One' and menu items from label list.
Answers the item from selections that corresponds to the item.
(Click Horse and it answers Herman)."
lines: #( 2 )  "optional"
"As above but puts a line after menu item 2."
"Shows a menu with the string as a title, and choices of 'Yes', 'No', and 'Cancel''.
Answers true, false, or the result of the block."
"Popup a menu with the given labels; answer the number of the menu item.
"As above. Line breaks become menu item separators."
"As above but put a line after menu item 2."
"Puts up a menu with the string as a title and one choice: 'OK'.
"The title has more than one line; line breaks are taken from multiLineRequest:."
"EmphasizedMenu does textual emphasis on the menu items."
"Put up a one line message that persists as long as the block runs.  When the block terminates the message disappears."
"Put up a one line message that changes as a block progresses through its steps.
This example simply changes the text after each step."
'Now here''s some Real Progress' "Note the '' to show ' in here's"
ahead of time and must match the number of steps inside the block.
(There are many examples in the image.)"
self notify: 'a notify message'.
"Starts a notifier window with the message.  Allows you to proceed or start the debugger."
self inform: 'an inform message'.
"A pop up gives the message, with a button to click to proceed."


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The Diamondback-QEP deal demonstrates the urge to merge while energy prices are weak.
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Describe the physical processes influencing climate and weather, including the roles of natural and anthropogenic activity on climate.
Among the most controversial topics in physical science, global warming has received a great deal of attention during the past decade. Given its great impacts on both humans and the environment, lawmakers and scientists must weigh heavily the information that they are presented. Explore this debate in more detail by evaluating both the scientific basis of this phenomenon and the human role in global warming.
1. Compare and contrast natural versus anthropogenic climate changes. Include specific examples of each.
2. Take a position as to whether or not global warming is taking place. Provide three (3) lines of evidence to support your position.
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4. Speculate what policy changes you would propose to help stabilize global climate and which business sectors or nations would be held to more strict standards if you implement your proposed policies.
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• Apply concepts in physical sciences to evaluate current trends and issues in the modern world.
• Describe the physical processes influencing climate and weather, including the roles of natural and anthropogenic activity on climate.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in physical sciences.


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If your kids are like many in this country, they got spoiled with tons of toys this Christmas…probably more than they know what to do with. Instead of fighting crowds and waiting in line to return them just to get a gift card to buy more stuff to clutter the home, use it to teach your children a lesson in generosity and humility. Pick a charity and take them to donate some new, unopened toys they got. For example, a Children's Hospital. They'll see how other children aren't as fortunate as they are and feel good about helping other children feel better.
My daughter got one book that she already had. We plan to donate it to her kindergarten classroom.
This year I decided my 3yo was old enough to participate in the process. We had a conversation about all of the friends and relatives who had given her gifts, and the fact that some kids don't have a lot of people to give them "extra" gifts (besides the ones that Santa brings, of course). I asked her if we could pick out some of her older toys to donate to these kids and she agreed. We spent an hour or so rooting through every toybox, bookshelf, nook, and cranny and choosing toys she was willing to part with. I respected her decisions, even when she insisted on keeping toys that I know she never plays with, so that she would have a sense of control and ownership of the process and not feel like I was taking her toys away from her.
In the end we loaded 4 shopping bags into my trunk and dropped them off at a local womens shelter. It was only about half of what I would have given away on my own, but my daughter learned about compassion and generosity, my home is a bit less cluttered, and the shelter has new toys for their playroom, so it really was win-win for everyone.
Another similar idea is to celebrate half birthdays by giving gifts to those less fortunate.
Every kid likes to be 'half' (who hasn't heard "I'm 4.5, Daddy!"). Help celebrate in a different way by picking some toys they don't want or need and donate them to a worthy organization.
I just asked my children's librarian at the public library, and there is a procedure for donating new books to be added to the collection. I figure it's especially nice to give them board books since they are constantly getting destroyed.
Does any body have a trick for keeping those new toys in their boxes long enough to donate them? If you combine an excited 3 year old and some old folks who waited practically forever for their first grandchild…all you get is a pile of opened boxes and toys strewn around.
For my girls birthdays I've started including a note on the birthday party invitation asking for donations of old towels for the local cat shelter in lieu of gifts. My girls (3yo and 5yo) and I talked about this a lot before we did it and they love visiting the cat shelter and handing over the big bag of towels.
This is an especially great idea for gifts that are food-related. If you are thinking that you might be returning that tin of cookies or sausage snack set, you might want to know that a lot of this returned merchandise ends up in the trash because stores can't legally resell it.
Even if the items are opened I would still consider donating them to the Goodwill. Children enjoy toys all year around. It is nice to find a like new toy at the Goodwill.


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This gear set and FD shouldn't be used together. The final drive is really the gear on the output shaft and the ring gear on the diff and these are machined as a set and shouldn't be used with other gears. Need to replace one, replace them both as a set.
Also I don't know D series gears sets as well as I used to since I've replaced most of that info with B series stuff lately, and I'm also working with the assumption that your EX is our Si in Canada (D16z6/D16y8) and the LX is the same as ours with Non V D15/16's but wouldn't that maybe make it long gears for 1-3 and then a short 4-5 making it almost like you had 2 third gears and aren't 5th in all d series nearly the same?
Again I'm basing this of foggy memories since I switched to b series a while ago and haven't really looked back. Most of my D knowledge is still there but it's not like I did trans internals a whole lot. Really anything more then swapping out seals and bearings wasn't common for me back then.
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Louis-Ferdinand Céline o simplement Céline és el pseudònim de l'escriptor francès Louis-Ferdinand Destouches (Courbevoie, Île-de-France, 27 de maig de 1894 - Meudon, 1 de juliol de 1961).

Vida i obra
Céline lluità a la Primera Guerra Mundial, on fou ferit, i passà part de la seva convalescència a Londres. Estudià Medicina i es graduà el 1924. A la seva tesi doctoral, "Semmelweiss", ja demostrà les seves capacitats literàries. Fins a 1928 treballà per a la Societat de Nacions i visqué una llarga temporada a Alemanya.

Posteriorment tornà a París, on exercí de metge en una clínica per a obrers de Clichy. El 1932 publicà el seu primer llibre, la novel·la autobiogràfica Viatge al fons de la nit (Voyage au bout de la nuit), que obtingué un enorme repercussió i va esdevenir una obra cabdal de la literatura francesa del . Per mitjà del seu àlter ego, Ferdinand Bardamu, hi narra diferents episodis de les seves experiències com a soldat francès durant la Primera Guerra Mundial, emprant un estil narratiu molt original, a base de llargs monòlegs, plens d'eloqüència, intentant imitar la frescor de la parla quotidiana, amb un llenguatge directe, sovint ple d'interjeccions, i amb un tractament del sexe lluny de la tradició romàntica, que va fer que el llibre fos acusat d'obscè. A més, en la trajectòria de Bardamu es topa amb un seguit de personatges en què es reflecteix una visió de l'existència d'influència dostoievskiana. La seva segona novel·la, Mort à crèdit (1936), torna a estar protagonitzada per Bardamu, i situada temps abans de la primera, relata la seva etapa d'adolescència.

Posteriorment, la seva actitud nihilista i la seva posició política anarquista el van dur cap a l'extrem contrari: a un anti semitisme ferotge i a un xovinisme feixista, que quedà reflectit en els pamflets Mea culpa (1937) –escrit després d'un viatge a Rússia, de caràcter anticomunista– i Bagatelles pour un massacre (1938). Esdevingué col·laboracionista del govern de Vichy (1940), i després de l'entrada dels aliats a París (1944), fugí a Alemanya, primer, i a Dinamarca, després, on fou empresonat, mentre des de França se'l reclamava per jutjar-lo per crims de guerra. El 1951 tornà a França, i tornà a exercir de metge a Meudon, on morí. Publicà encara : Guignol's band I (1951) –escrit el 1942-44, que relata l'estada de Bardamu a Londres, a la darreria de la Primera Guerra Mundial i la seva relació amb els baixos fons londinencs–, D'un château l'autre (1957) –escrit a la presó, i on narra el seu exili–, Féerie pour une autre fois (1952), Normance (1954) i Nord (1960). Pòstumament es publicaren Rigodon (1968), Le Pont de Londres (1964) - segona part de Guignol's band–, la versió sencera de Guignol's band (1988) i Lettres de prison (2002), entre altres.

El 2011, cinquantenari de la mort de Céline, el Ministeri de Cultura francès ha decidit cancel·lar el seu nom de la llista de commemoracions oficials.

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Enllaços externs

  Complet Portal sobre Céline
  Societat d'estudis sobre Céline

Escriptors francesos en francès
Militars francesos de la Primera Guerra Mundial
Feixistes francesos
Persones de Courbevoie
Escriptors francesos del segle XX
Col·laboradors francesos amb l'Alemanya nazi
Alumnes de la Universitat de Rennes
Receptors de la Creu de Guerra (França)
Morts a l'Illa de França
Morts d'aneurisma
Escriptors de l'Illa de França
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Naixements del 1894
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Rival Sons Earns Multiple Nominations in Grammys 2020
Nashmia Adnan
The California rock band, Rival Sons received nominations for two awards at the 2020 Grammy Awards. The nominations for the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards were revealed early Wednesday morning November 20, 2019, with a handful of the major categories announced during a live stream, while the other categories were revealed moments later via the Grammy website. With several musicians getting their respective recognitions for their exceptional work, Rival Sons were also one of them. The band's sixth studio album, Feral Roots, landed them for two award nominations at the 2020 Grammy Awards, one for "Best Rock Album" and other for "Best Rock Performance" for their song "Too Bad".
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The band's album "Feral Roots" Received Positive Reviews Overall
The solid heavy rock tone for the album received positive reviews by the critics and mainstream rock lovers as well. The band has developed its own signature sound and style. They are keen on not following mainstream trends or outside influences to affect their originality. The command on their music is absolutely something to enjoy for the listeners. The band members, Jay Buchanan, Scott Holiday, Michael Miley and Dave Beste, have shown their versatility in their craft and with an impressive execution to each of the songs.
Related: Grammys 2020 Nominations Are Out And Feature Worthy Celebrities
Michael Pementel of Consequence of Sound gave the album a grade of B+ and said:
"Feral Roots is an excellent place to start".
"Feral Roots" is arguably the strongest and most cohesive album to date delivered by the band. Their introductory song "Do Your Worst" showcased powerful great music composition and songwriting.
Rival Sons Thrilled on their Multiple Grammy Nominations
The band couldn't hold back their excitement on its incredible recognition and took to Twitter to thank its loyal fans. The band wrote:
"Just arrived in Denmark and heard the news! 2 #GRAMMYs2020 nominations! So pumped!! Thank you!!"
https://twitter.com/rivalsons/status/1197162818556088320?s=20
Surely the 2020 Grammys will be a big night for the band. We wish them all good luck for their future success.
The 62nd Annual Grammy Awards will take place at the Staples Center in Los Angeles with host Alicia Keys on January 26, 2020. CBS will air the Grammy Awards broadcast, while Grammy.com will also stream the ceremony prior to the broadcast.
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using System.Collections.Generic;

namespace Semmle.Extraction.CIL.Entities
{
    /// <summary>
    /// A method implementation entity.
    /// In the database, the same method could in principle have multiple implementations.
    /// </summary>
    internal class MethodImplementation : UnlabelledEntity
    {
        private readonly Method m;

        public MethodImplementation(Method m) : base(m.Context)
        {
            this.m = m;
        }

        public override IEnumerable<IExtractionProduct> Contents
        {
            get
            {
                yield return Tuples.cil_method_implementation(this, m, Context.Assembly);
            }
        }
    }
}

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A personal appreciation of Marion "Oatsie" Charles
Oatsie at The Whim, as photographed by her grandson Nicholas Mele in 2012.
Guest Diary• BY: Mitchell Owens
Back in the fall of 2007, British actor and writer Stephen Fry arrived in Newport, Rhode Island, camera crew in tow. His destination was The Whim, a former eight-car garage and adjacent manager's cottage that Oatsie Charles had combined into a residence in the late 1960s.
At one point, the conversation, which was being recorded for the BBC television program "Stephen Fry in America," veered — as would any journalistic chat with a woman regularly described as a doyenne, a hostess, and the like — to an exploration of East Coast society.
Fry was curious: Was fashionable New York in the days of the original Mrs. Astor truly limited to 400 people, the number of guests that her Fifth Avenue ballroom reportedly could accommodate? What if you happened to be society figure Number 401?
A tumbler of iced vodka close to hand, Mrs. Charles deadpanned, "As we say in Alabama, 'tough titty.'"
The Montgomery native and Washington, D.C stalwart, Oatsie Charles died in Newport on December 5th at the age of 99. She was the last of America's grande dames. One, it happens, with an intoxicatingly bittersweet edge — irreverent, irascible, and a deliverer of comments that could be so caustic that longtime friend Charles Dana, the owner of Newport Shipyard, admonished, "If I said half the things you do, I'd have black eyes."
Oatsie, circa 1940.
Another friend, proudly showing off his newly built house, was stunned when Mrs. Charles, known to have an expert eye for architectural proportions, took one look and bluntly responded, "Oh, Taylor, how could you?" Dolly Fox, the daughter of the late Washington society figure Yolande Fox, Miss America 1951 (both were close friends of Oatsie's), recalls that all it took as a teenager to realize that she needed to change into something more appropriate was Mrs. Charles saying, in a withering tone of voice, "Oh, God."
"Most children were terrified of her," admits grandson Desmond Butler, an investigative editor with The Associated Press. "So were most adults. But she would have been a wonderful diplomat because she had a great mind for politics and contemporary events." If you witnessed Mrs. Charles being excessively nice to someone then "you knew she didn't like them," remembers her only child, Victoria Leiter Mele, noting that her mother adored people who took her sharpness in stride. "It worked like a personality test," Butler agrees. "She would immediately say something offensive, and if you gave it right back, she loved you."
Paralyzing bon mots like those, which were often accompanied by a grin, are traded among Mrs. Charles' admirers—among them, me, who met her in Washington in 1985 and soon named my Chow Chow bitch Oatsie, with her permission—like the abolitionist artifacts that she, a great-granddaughter of slave owners, had long collected.
Marion Saffold Oates in 1942, from a newspaper article announcing her engagement to Thomas Leiter.
Consider the evening she greeted Bill Clinton in a White House receiving line, reportedly on the day that the intern scandal broke, cupping his right hand between both of hers, and mischievously saying, "Mr. President, if only I were 23." She once donned a half-black, half-white sheath to attend a Kennedy White House party—the guests were asked to dress as an issue currently confronting the nation—and when asked what concern she embodied, she drawled, "Integration, honey."
Oatsie and Thomas "T" Leiter, at St. Thomas Church in New York City on the day of their wedding in 1942.
While her second husband, Robert H. Charles, a former assistant secretary of the Air Force, whom she married in 1969, was recovering from a tumble, she was heard to say, "The trouble with the men in my life is that when they fall, they get back up." She handled her own travails with aplomb, from lifelong bouts of depression to a radical mastectomy at the age 36. "In those days, you didn't say you had cancer. It was like saying you had syphilis," she wrote in an inspiring online essay, noting that after the emergency operation, "a nurse stood me in front of the mirror and said, 'No one is ever going to look at you again.' So I told her, 'Don't count on it.'"
Politicians on both sides of the aisle knew that Mrs. Charles was an unshakable Democrat when it came to the voting booth yet Republicans were welcome at her dinner table, reveling in her biting conversation and sage insights. "She was a muse to a lot of people," Desmond Butler said, after I informed him that Stephen Fry had told a friend of mine in London, "Everything that came out of her mouth was a funny or wise." Well, not all Republicans found favor in her eyes: A few weeks ago, upon hearing the news that George H.W. Bush had died, she muttered, "Wrong president."
As for making an entrance, few women in Washington commanded attention like the raven-haired Mrs. Charles, who favored the designs of Bill Blass, Geoffrey Beene, and André Laug, footwear by Hélène Arpels and Belgian Shoes, knuckleduster cocktail rings, and black nail polish. Says Charles Dana, "All that was missing was organ music."
Oatsie and husband Thomas Leiter in 1950.
Her rule for attending any party is one that should be a universal mantra: She never accepted an invitation without fully expecting to enjoy herself upon arrival. As one of her maids once observed, "You take your good times with you." Even a hair-raising trip to Vietnam in 1968, during which she sailed down the Mekong River with Frank Wisner, the C.I.A.'s head of covert operations, delighted her. (She returned home with "a piece of shrapnel that had fallen at my feet" during a Vietcong mortar attack—her sangfroid stunned even hardened veterans.) "That is really the only way to go in life," she explained to her photographer grandson, Nick Mele.
Marion Saffold Oates was born in Montgomery on September 29, 1919, making her entrance with a clubfoot that surgery would eventually correct and a moody disposition that led her to be dubbed "Black Marion" as a child.
"My mother hated my straight hair and the fact that I was lame and that I was ornery," she said in an interview with journalist Bob Colacello for Bruce Weber's "All-American" magazine. Dyslexia didn't help matters, though she became an omnivorous reader (biographies and histories were preferred). She stacked her floors in Newport and Washington with what our mutual friend Deeda Blair recently described as "the most alluring and compelling books and towering piles of Country Life." Her education was genteel, most of it spent at Montgomery's Margaret Booth School, a small institution located in its spinster-founder's house. Young Marion was something of a pet among the 30-some students, taking her lessons from the comfort of a red velvet chair in the drawing room. "People have always pampered me," Oatsie once said, adding that Miss Booth had absolved her from learning arithmetic because she found the subject too trying and so claimed that she never learned how to make change.
Oatsie with her daughter, Mary Victoria Leiter, on the day of the latter's christening, 1950. Known as Victoria, she was named for her grand-aunt Lady Curzon.
Summers were spent traversing Europe in the company of her maternal grandmother, or with Miss Booth and some schoolmates, visiting cathedrals and listening to her headmistress read aloud poems and stories about the sites. "We'd sit there bug-eyed," Mrs. Charles remembered. "But, shall we say, I was not like the rest of the girls in Montgomery, Alabama. I seem to have absorbed things that they didn't. The Rhine was another place I thought was fascinating. All those castles, wine, good eats, and knights. Teutonic knights, can you imagine anything worse? But I thought they were fascinating."
Harp lessons were taken at a finishing school in Brussels, and Oatsie was dispatched to an Ursuline convent school in Bavaria to learn the language after a German diplomat had expressed an interest in courting the 15-year-old Alabamian. ("I never liked him much, but my mother was crazy about him.") There, the classrooms were hung with large photographs of Adolf Hitler, she recalled, that were turned to the wall—landscapes were painted on the reverse—until a Nazi official dropped by for an inspection. At which time, she said, the photographs would be flipped, and "We would rise and give the Nazi salute and say, 'Heil, Hitler!'"
Home for much of Mrs. Charles' youth was Belvoir, a columned redbrick Montgomery house that her lawyer father—the namesake only child of the one-armed Civil War hero and Alabama governor William C. Oates—had built in the 1920s, before drinking himself to death in the wake of a financial scandal that evaporated his life savings. (She held onto Belvoir for years until finally selling it in 2002.) "I remember one day [in 1932], they sent for me at school to come home, and so I went," she recalled. "And when I got home, everybody, [my maternal grandmother] Mimi, my mother, all the help, were in the drawing room, and my father stood up in front of the fireplace and said, 'I am sorry to inform you all but I have been wiped out … I remember this dramatic moment sitting in this lovely room, both black and white—not the room but the people—and we were told we had absolutely no money whatsoever … Well, we must have had something because we went on living exactly the same way, which was never that lavish. We must have eaten a lot of turnip greens and fatback."
Oatsie Charles in Montgomery, Alabama, in the 1950s. Behind her is Belvoir, the house where she grew up and which her father had built in the 1920s.
Mrs. Charles' mother, Georgia, would succumb to alcohol, too, but not before divorcing the impoverished Oates Jr. and making an advantageous second marriage in 1938 to utilities king Philip Green Gossler, a New Yorker with a townhouse on East 65th Street and a Nassau getaway. (The latter was later owned by the Hon. Olive, Lady Baillie, an heiress to the Whitney fortune.) Gossler's millions ensured that his new stepdaughter, who disliked him, would have two publicized debuts in 1938.
"He insisted I come out," she once said. "Why, I don't know, but he did. And I did him quite proud." The first party, to introduce her to senior friends of the family, was a reception at Gossler's townhouse, and she was dressed in the ivory slipper-satin gown that her grandmother had worn at her husband's 1893 gubernatorial inauguration. A snappier candlelit supper dance for a younger crowd was held days later at the St. Regis Hotel's glamorous Viennese Roof ballroom. Marion—by then nicknamed Oatsie, thanks to Brenda Frazier, the era's most celebrated debutante and later godmother to Victoria Leiter Mele—donned a white tulle hoop skirt that was spangled, wittily enough, with golden decorations in the shape of oat panicles.
Four years later, Oatsie's photograph appeared in The New York Times again, when she married, in the chantry chapel of Manhattan's ultra-fashionable St. Thomas Church, Thomas Leiter, a Marshall Field & Co. heir and a nephew of Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India, and of the 19th earl of Suffolk. The bride wore an idiosyncratic sari-style dress of white chiffon that gave her the look of a maharani. Actress Tallulah Bankhead, a family friend from Montgomery, informed the bride-to-be about the facts of life the night before the ceremony, ultimately explaining that the act itself wasn't really that exciting. (That being said, Oatsie confided many years later, "I don't think I have ever been in love.") Bright, handsome, and wildly popular, Leiter also drank to excess. A divorce followed in 1955, three years before alcohol killed him at the age of 46. "They would have stayed married if it hadn't been for his drinking," their daughter says.
A newlywed in wartime Washington, where her mother-in-law occupied a 55-room mansion on Dupont Circle, Oatsie swiftly made her mark, being as darkly beautiful as she was darkly witty: Louise Dahl-Wolfe photographed her, as did Slim Aarons. "Every afternoon it was filled with officers for teatime," she said of the grim Victorian townhouse where she and Leiter, a private in the U.S. Army, lived when they weren't at a military camp in Wyoming. (In 1952, they purchased Land's End, novelist Edith Wharton's former cottage in Newport. Oatsie sold it—too big, too much upkeep—after her divorce and was pleased when her daughter and son-in-law bought it many years later.) "I had a lovely war," she told Colacello. "Fully staffed. I feel that is one of the secrets of life." So much so that when her daughter told her that Queen Elizabeth II has more than 400 servants, she responded, "Heaven!"
Oatsie golfing, circa 1950.
Great friend Ian Fleming, whose James Bond novels she introduced to John F. Kennedy, would name the character Felix Leiter after the couple, though she held out the hope that he would use her nickname in a future book. He demurred, telling her that he thought it was too distinctive, to which she tartly replied, "Anybody who can use Pussy Galore can use Oatsie." Another intimate was tobacco heiress Doris Duke, who named Oatsie to the board of trustees of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
Other Washington hostesses may have been respected but none possessed Mrs. Charles' star power—which was unusual in postwar Washington, her daughter points out, because it was achieved on the strength of her personality and developed during her years as a single woman rather than as the wife of an important man. Nancy Reagan recognized that social preeminence, cannily asking to meet Oatsie after her husband was elected president in 1981.
The first lady knew that she wouldn't thaw the cold shoulders of Georgetown's cave dwellers without a inside champion. So the former movie actress, joined by her decorator, Ted Graber, headed like to 3259 R Street, N.W., a lemon-yellow Victorian peppered with Oatsie's favorite antique japanned furniture and abolitionist relics, seemingly collected as a rebuke to her Confederate grandfather's career and beliefs. (Mrs. Reagan's visit, by the way, turned out to be a lovefest, though, Oatsie admitted, "I certainly didn't think that I would feel that way." She also gave the first lady a nickname of her own: Beauty.)
Oatsie Charles in Newport in the 1950s. Behind her is her former home, Land's End, once owned by Edith Wharton.
"She used to tell me that it was only when she was five or six that she realized that her mother was actually her mother—she had been raised in the kitchen," Desmond Butler told me, adding that his grandmother was a longtime supporter of the Southern Poverty Law Center. "If I have any nice traits—any kindliness, any awareness of anything—it's because I was raised by loving black hands," Oatsie said. "And it's true. I wouldn't think of anything in the world if I hadn't been raised by them … Black is beautiful."
Conversations about Montgomery often turned to the city's African-American community, especially Oatsie's Saturday strolls with her nursemaid. As she told Colacello, "The sidewalks on Madison Avenue were covered with tin roofs just like in old Westerns, and there were hundreds of buck horses and mules … And the women all had on their wonderful headwraps, with the bandanas. It was noisy, it was colorful, it was simply marvelous."
Growing up in the Alabama also inculcated in her expertise in the domestic arts, and Mrs. Charles' breakfasts (grits, ham, and red-eye gravy), luncheons (often soufflés), and dinner parties (gumbo followed by a coffee ice cream bombe stuffed with shaved chocolate) were considered the most effervescent in the capital.
Oatsie at The Whim with Chester Williams, her longtime driver.
"She handled her guests like kindling, setting fires among and between people, until the whole party was aflame," Dolly Fox explains. "You're trained to do that when you're young in the South, to know what people are interested in, and then pair them. It's a dying art." Victoria Leiter Mele adds that guests ran the gamut from the world-famous to the utterly unknown—as a young aspiring writer, I was definitely among the latter. "She was a snob about intelligence but not about background or social things," Mele explains. "She used to say that the most important thing in life is curiosity, because that's what keeps you alive, keeps you relevant."
Though Oatsie Charles once said she would like "Off to find an adventure" to be chiseled onto her grave marker—echoing a comment made by one of her young great-grandsons—Desmond Butler might have a better one: "She loved fried chicken, drank tons, lived well, and slept little."
Marion "Oatsie" Charles is survived by her daughter, Victoria Leiter Mele of Newport, a son-in-law, Joseph Mele, also of Newport, grandsons Tyssen Butler of Laconia, New Hampshire, Desmond (Miriam) Butler of Washington, D.C., and Nicholas (Molly) Mele of Newport, and several great-grandchildren. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be given in her name to The Newport Restoration Foundation, where she served for many years as president of the board of trustees.
Oatsie as photographed by her grandson Nicholas Mele in 2012.
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So I put down my deposit for the February spray date and finally ironed out all of the details in spec'ing this beast..
Big thanks to the guys @ Rinker's Marine here in Houston, they have been awesome to work with!! Top not crew over there!
I will post any info I get as well as pictures and that fun stuff here for those that care to follow along. If you have any questions feel free to ask!
Continuing from the other thread, I'm running 20% ceramic. It looks awesome on the outside and visibility is great from inside. I'm normally on the bolster looking over the windshield but I can see perfectly with shades on when seated. I don't really boat at night so I could have gone 5% but if night boating is a regular thing for you go with 20%.
The next level lighter is 35% but that's not really worth the LOE for the amount of reflectance/refraction you get.
Love that Raspberry Flake over Black!! It's gonna look sick once that sunlight hits the flake!
Good to know on the 20% it looks awesome!!!
Thanks!! Ya Rinker's has a Craz that has the Raspberry metal flake and the Raspberry interior accent so I was able to see it on a boat before I spec'd it and even just under the lights on the showroom floor it looked awesome! I can't wait to see it in the sun!
Ya we can definitely find a day this summer and get out on the water! Extra lead is always welcome! Where do you typically run your boat?
Lake Houston from Duessen Park or Somerville Lake from Rocky Creek or Yegua Park.
I grew up going to Somerville so I am familiar there but I hadn't been to Lake Houston until the other weekend when I demoed the boat. It seems like a nice lake. Does it get busy?
It depends on the weekend, most of the time it's not too bad and if you get out on the water in the morning, you can usually get several sets on glass. It's nice and deep in the cove by the dam across from Duessen.
Gonna be a beautiful boat, Congrats! Here's some great pics from Southtown Watersports of a similar Makai. Doesn't have your red accents on the interior (which looks awesome) but everything else is pretty close.
Good to know. The day we demoed the boat was after all the rain so the water was muddied and it was blowing 12 mph so no one was out there lol.
Thanks my family and I are really excited about it!! That boat looks soo good! I can't wait to see how the Raspberry interior accents are going to look. I think it is all going to come together really well!


There is a real and growing problem in American business today. It is a near-epidemic issue that creates the worst work environments possible, alienates employees and discards ethics. Common among a subset of self-made men, particularly entrepreneurs who are forging their own way, this group has one characteristic in common.
There is a great focus in America to be a winner, no matter what the circumstances, Lipton says. Leaders are often ruthless in achieving their goals, regardless of the carnage they leave behind. Too often, these leaders are simply out for themselves.
Incapable of taking responsibility when they fail, they have a willingness to step on others to get ahead and an inability to feel remorse or empathy for anyone else.
Mean men are found in every organization and at every level. Recent revelations have identified examples in sports, Silicon Valley, Hollywood and, of course, politics. There are mean women as well, but their numbers are miniscule compared to men, Lipton says.
But why? Lipton suggests that meanness has a long history in business. Henry Ford, for example, was known for his controlling, abusive personality. He undermined his company just as many contemporary CEOs have done. They do so despite the reality that an abusive leadership style doesn't just put off employees, it often blocks innovation and alienates customers.
With this type of environment, it would seem easy to see that mean men are bad for the bottom line. Yet in the United States, we too often cheer for the individualistic leader—the competitive, aggressive one who pursues his individual goals above all else. In America, this individual is applauded—and rewarded financially—while subordinates or team members receive little for their work.
According to a study by Cornell University and the University of Notre Dame, agreeable men earn roughly 18 percent less than men who are more aggressive and arrogant.
Mean men often fail to see such behavior as risky. Mean men are destructive not only to their business, but to society, Lipton suggests.
What's wrong with ambition and drive? Aren't these essential qualities for an entrepreneur? Lipton's answer is simple: Nothing is wrong with these behaviors, as long as they are in moderation.
"The trouble comes when an individual is all about the need to achieve, and when ambition eclipses empathy," he writes.
The bottom line: mean individuals, especially in leadership roles, drive away customers, alienate employees and hurt the brand.
Lipton identifies 10 traits commonly found in entrepreneurial personalities that, if left unchecked, can contribute to being perceived as mean. He also offers numerous examples of coping strategies, self-defense and positive behaviors that can be developed after recognizing and accepting some or all of these tendencies in yourself or in someone else.
Need for achievement. A strong desire for success and its realization through difficult situations. This can become negative when individuals feel they are above the rules.
Drive. Rooted in proactivity, ambition and energy, drive is tied heavily to energy—the person who works long hours and stays focused with little sleep or food. Determined to make things happen, he often ignores the feelings of others and pushes them away.
Autonomy. Individuals with this trait are drawn to work where they don't have to work with or for others.
Need for control. These individuals have a strong desire for power. They are often drawn to visions of grandiosity and authority.
Internal locus of control. This sense of self-control is crucial for entrepreneurs. They believe in their own success and use that to create a domineering style.
Impulsivity. Making quick decisions can be crucial in this fast-paced world, but they can also be hazardous. Acting on too many hunches can result in major mistakes.
Suspicion of others. Entrepreneurs often have a tendency to distrust others. Suspicion is related not only to impulsivity, but also the tendency for autonomy.
Self-confidence. Many entrepreneurs are self-confident, and at times, trust no one's suggestions except their own.
Need for approval. While it may appear that entrepreneurs are self-sufficient, they also have a great need for applause.


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Плазмові осциляції, вони ж "ленгмюрівські хвилі" — поздовжні коливання плазми із плазмовою частотою
(e — заряд електрона, m — маса електрона, n — концентрація електронів).

Вивчались Ленгмюром та Л. Тонксом (L. Tonks) в 1929. Поздовжні коливання плазми на частоті Ленгмюра не можуть випромінювати поперечні електромагнітні хвилі. В той же час в обмеженій незамагніченій плазмі може існувати поперечний плазмовий резонанс на тій же частоті, що і ленгмюровські коливання. Поперечний плазмовий резонанс може бути використаний для створення фільтрів, діагностики та розігріву плазми, а також застосовуватися для створення фільтрів, діагностики й розігріву плазми, створення лазерів.

Для плазми характерно дальнодійність кулонівських сил, завдяки чому вона може розглядатися як пружне середовище. Якщо групу електронів в плазмі зсунути від їх положення рівноваги,(важкі іони вважаємо нерухомими), то на них буде діяти електростатична повертальна сила, що створює осциляції. В нерухомій холодній плазмі (температури електронів Тe→ 0) можуть існувати коливання без розповсюдження (стоячі хвилі) з плазмовою частотою ωp; в гарячій плазмі ці коливання розповсюджуються з малою груповою швидкістю.

Див. також
 Плазмон

Література
 Longair, Malcolm S., "Galaxy Formation", 1998.

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Пружні хвилі

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Review: Deltarune is Just as Charming as Undertale
by Naseem Jamnia | Nov 5, 2018 | Reviews, Video Games | 0 comments
Spend five minutes talking to me about video games, and I'll inevitably start talking about Undertale. Though I was late to the Undertale party, only playing it last year, something about it… changed me. Maybe it's because the novel I wrote during NaNo last year, right after playing and heavily inspired by it, was how I got my agent; or maybe it's because Papyrus and Sans speak to me on a spiritual level. Regardless, when Sidequest writer Elvie shared Undertale's Halloween tweet, linking over to the new Deltarune website, I immediately downloaded the game.
Please note: this review contains spoilers for Deltarune and Undertale.
Deltarune: Chapter 1
Toby Fox
In typical Toby Fox fashion, Deltarune constantly thwarts your expectations, even from the beginning of the game. When you first load up the game, it seems that you have more autonomy, but that illusion is quickly shattered. I'll let the specifics remain a mystery, but after the jig was up, I was highly amused—and also reassured that Toby Fox hasn't changed.
You play as Kris, the human son of Toriel and sibling to Asriel. (In Undertale, Asriel's human brother was called Chara; in Deltarune, Kris is only referred to by name or as "you," and never by pronouns.) As Toriel takes you to school, you learn that Asriel (called "Azzy") is in college, and piece together that something has happened to your family in recent history.
You arrive to class late, where Alphys is the teacher. A bunch of monsters, some of whom you'd recognize as Undertale enemies, are your classmates, including… Susie. Cue sad electric guitar solo, because Susie is a big purple bully that everyone is afraid of. Alphys, responsible teacher she is, sends Susie to get chalk from the supply room—and asks you to follow her. But the room is actually Narnia, stretching further and further… until you fall into a new world.
Eventually, you and Susie meet up again, and you meet Rasiel, a prince of the dark, who tells you that you, as Lightners, have come to bring balance to the Force and restore his kingdom!… or something. And the way to do that is to traverse through the realm and close the foundation of darkness, which will return you home. Thus your mission is to do just that, while Lancer, the son of the king whose tyranny rules their land, tries to thwart you.
Determination has been replaced, of course.
The battle style has changed, now resembling a JPRG, with all three characters on the screen at the same time, each with different abilities. As in Undertale, the player is encouraged not to fight the monsters; Rasiel insists on kindness, which causes some ~story events~ to happen. And the three-person team is especially effective with the game's playful additions to the "act" function. Of course, the system isn't perfect, but the battles are super easy and not at all frustrating (despite the difficult bullet hell patterns that are also in this game).
The story took about three hours to play, as it's only the first chapter in an eventual full game. Unsurprisingly, I loved every moment of it. There is the same loving attention to detail in this game as there was in Fox's first, from character design to background art, and the music is just as rich and dynamic. The characters are charming and exhibit a lot of growth in this first chapter alone. One of my favorite parts was exploring the town, where you see some more familiar faces and learn more about your family.
At first, when I saw characters like Toriel, I assumed this was going to be an Undertale prequel—and although the similarities are unquestionable (it doesn't take much to realize that Deltarune and Ralsei are both anagrams), the differences set the game apart. They're meant to be separate games in different worlds, and while the fanservice is great, new players can come to Deltarune without particularly missing anything. On the other hand, the Deltarune website says the game is meant for people who've finished Undertale, so take that as you will.
FUCK YOU, SANS.
It was sprung onto us as a surprise, but Toby Fox gave us a hint that Deltarune was coming. Fans who've dug really deep into the differences between the versions of Undertale—and I happen to know this because I'm writing a conference paper on the game, and had to look up the differences between versions—might realize that Clam Girl's dialogue has pointed to Deltarune for almost two months, with reference to her neighbor "Suzy."
I don't want to spoil the ending for anyone, but I do need to say that this first chapter felt more like complete game rather than a demo until it happened. I'm not sure what to make of the end, and I'm sure the internet will lead me down lots of rabbit holes. Toby Fox has said that it might take him years to finish Deltarune, so let's hope he manages to hire a team so we don't have to wait that long.
For anyone who loved Undertale, Deltarune is a must. For those who haven't, I think it's absolutely accessible and understandable—and since it's free, there's no reason not to try it. And for everyone who's played it, please tell me your interpretation of the ending!
Naseem Jamnia
By day, Sidequest's Managing Editor Naseem Jamnia used to do sciencey things, but they now slam their keyboard and call it art. By night, they play a lot of video games. And regardless of the time, they spend way too much of it on Twitter, @jamsternazzy.


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Best way to backup Password protected DB w encrypted field?
I have a password protected database with lots of records and one or two fields are encrypted.
What is the best way to back it up?
sasanders wrote: I have a password protected database with lots of records and one or two fields are encrypted.
My personal favorite way to backup any HanDBase database is to sync with the HanDBase Desktop. Every time you sync, it creates another backup up to the number of backups in the preferences have been reached, then it deletes the oldest backup. The only drawback on this method, is that you need to be at the computer to sync over WiFi because you cannot start the sync from the device.
You can email the database to yourself as an attachment. The drawback is that you have to send an email for each of your databases you want to back up, you can chew up some of your data plan, and you might run into an issue with your email provider if the databases are huge.
No matter which way you choose, remember to backup often and keep mulitple backups.
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For me, the bummer is that I apparently can't access the password/encrypted fields on the laptop. Unless there's something missing? Ideally, I could also open these databases on my laptop, type in the password and be able to view the encrypted fields as well. Any suggestions?
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Missed chances haunt Nationals in loss to Rox
Harper homers early, but team unable to capitalize on 10 walks issued
By Oliver Macklin
WASHINGTON -- Jackie Robinson Day began on a high note for the Nationals, as they welcomed Civil Rights icon and Congressman John Lewis to Nationals Park to throw out the first pitch in honor of the baseball holiday observed league-wide. It ended on a sour one, with the Nats squandering
WASHINGTON -- Jackie Robinson Day began on a high note for the Nationals, as they welcomed Civil Rights icon and Congressman John Lewis to Nationals Park to throw out the first pitch in honor of the baseball holiday observed league-wide. It ended on a sour one, with the Nats squandering a handful of opportunities and falling, 6-5, to the Rockies. Washington finished a disappointing 3-7 on its homestand.
The Nationals offense stranded eight runners -- and went 0-for-8 with runners in scoring position -- and the bullpen allowed solo home runs in each of the final two innings of a game in which the Nationals led multiple times.
"I don't feel like we've played as bad as our record is," catcher Matt Wieters said. "At the same time, I don't feel like we've played great, so our goal should be to get to where we're playing great, knowing that's what we're striving for. Granted, it would have been nicer to win a few more games than we did this homestand, but we can't change that now. It's about moving forward."
Michael A. Taylor, who doubled twice in the contest, scored on a passed ball by Chris Iannetta in the fifth. After Iannetta retrieved the ball behind the plate, he attempted to throw back to pitcher Antonio Senzatela covering home, but the throw sailed high. Trea Turner, racing all the way around from second, crossed the plate to put the Nats up, 3-1. But the lead wouldn't last for long.
Nationals starter Stephen Strasburg cruised through five innings -- with the exception of a Charlie Blackmon solo homer in the fourth -- prior to falling into trouble in the sixth. Blackmon got to the Nats' right-hander again, this time squeezing a ground ball past Ryan Zimmerman at first to drive in a pair. Carlos Gonzalez then singled him in with an opposite-field grounder to beat the shift.
"We've just got to keep pushing," Nationals manager Dave Martinez said. "We're going to win games, I know that. We've just got to play. We've got to capitalize in big moments. We haven't done that. And we've got to be able to put teams away early when it counts, not wait til late. We had opportunities to put this team away early today and we couldn't do it."
Wieters homered for the second straight game for Washington before DJ LeMahieu went deep to right-center to give Colorado a one-run lead in the eighth. Taylor, dancing off third shortly after stealing the base, caused reliever Adam Ottavino to throw a wild pitch. Taylor scored to tie it once again, but lefty Sean Doolittle served up a solo blast to former National Ian Desmond in the ninth.
HARPER REGAINS HR LEAD
Sluggers Bryce Harper and Michael Trout are having quite the early battle for Major League Baseball's home run lead. But it took just one pitch for Harper to regain the top spot. Both players entered Sunday with six homers each before Harper crushed a first-pitch fastball from Rockies starter Tyler Anderson into the center-field bleachers.
The homer put the Nats up, 1-0, and was Harper's 40th career long ball in April, by far the most he's had in any month of his career. Statcast™ tracked the homer at 109.1 mph and an estimated 418 feet. The 25-year-old finished the game 1-for-2 with three walks. He leads all hitters with 20 base-on-balls and a 1.219 OPS.
HE SAID IT
"What I'm most frustrated by is that I was ahead in the count 0-2, I had three chances to put him away, and I threw him three pitches that weren't even close. I think I was trying to do a little too much. I got away from myself and wasn't focusing on just executing. I kind of got caught up in the energy there and left three that were way too high. They didn't even serve a purpose. And I let him back in the at-bat and he made me pay for it." -- Doolittle, on giving up homer to Desmond
Jeremy Hellickson will get his first start with the Nationals as he takes on Jacob deGrom and the Mets at Citi Field. The right-hander went 8-11 with a 5.43 ERA in 30 starts last season split between the Orioles and Phillies. First pitch is at 7:10 p.m. ET.
Oliver Macklin is a reporter for MLB.com based in Washington, D.C. Follow him on Twitter at @basebollie.


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October 14, 2018 Market Economics
Healthcare Insurance in India: A Few Concerns
ACRA Article No. 3, Oct. 2018
By Dripto Mukhopadhyay
The Union Government's budget speech of 2018-19 announced two major initiatives as part of ''Ayushman Bharat'' programme. Government's aim was to create interventions to address health issues holistically, covering both prevention and health promotion. The National Health Policy, 2017 envisioned 1.5 lakh health and wellbeing centres to bring health care system closer to locations where people live. A budget of 1200 crore was allocated for this flagship programme. Admitting that lakhs of families in India borrow or sell assets to receive indoor treatments at hospitals, the finance minister stated that the "Government is seriously concerned about such impoverishment of poor and vulnerable families. Present Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY) provide annual coverage of only `30,000 poor families. Several State Governments have also implemented/supplemented health protection schemes providing varying coverage. My Government has now decided to take health protection to more aspirational level. We will launch a flagship National Health Protection Scheme to cover over 10 crore poor and vulnerable families (approximately 50 crore beneficiaries) providing coverage upto 5 lakh rupees per family per year for secondary and tertiary care hospitalization."[1] Apparently, if implemented, this will be the world's largest government funded health care programme. with this background, this article attempts to provide an assessment of current situation regarding Indian health insurance market and likely implications of externalities that are required to make intensions of the government, as expressed during budget speech, a success.
[1] https://www.indiabudget.gov.in/ub2018-19/bs/bs.pdf
Above figures suggest one key aspect clearly. Though the Governments, both Central and State, always claim health to be a critical component of planning, reality is far from it. As Figure 1 suggests, public health expenditure as percentage of GDP was far below many other countries of the world. More importantly, even with scanty fund available for healthcare sector development, total funds remained unspent were significantly high. Except last couple of years, % of funds unspent was nearly 20% of the total fund. This puts a question on the authorities about their true intention of developing healthcare in the country, which is perhaps the most important development parameter. It is obvious that while the basic healthcare facilities are given less important compared to many other sectors, health insurance would hardly figure in governments' agenda, at least in reality. Let's look at the current health insurance sector.
Health insurance sector in India
To understand the current scenario and possibilities in of health insurance sector in India it is pertinent to understand types of health expense coverage Indian population do avail at present. In India 28.7% households do have privilege to avail any kind of health coverage. If we look at the same from rural and urban status of residence, these are 28.9% and 28.2% respectively. As evident from Fig 3, among the households covered under any health scheme, about 93% in rural areas and 80% in urban areas are covered by Government schemes. State health insurance scheme and Rashtriya Swastha Bima Yojana (RSBY) are the two government schemes that provide maximum coverage to both urban and rural areas. Health insurances purchased from private companies (by households) are as low as 8.5% and 1.8% in urban and rural areas respectively of the households covered under any health scheme.
Equally skewed distribution is observed in relation to wealth index. The NFHS latest survey shows that except the topmost quartile of wealth group, for rest of the quartiles state health insurance scheme and RSBY are the most important ones and cover about 95% of the households have any kind of health coverage. As expected, households covered under health insurance by private service providers is significantly high for topmost wealth quartile.
Apart from rural urban and wealth distribution, financial coverage of households for healthcare is extremely skewed across states in India. While the per cent of households with at least one member covered under any health scheme or insurance is as high as 75% in Andhra Pradesh, the same is as low as about 4% in Manipur. Significant regional disparity can be noticed. Even more importantly, intra region disparity is also quite sharp. All Southern states are much ahead of the other regions of the country. However, in Karnataka this percentage is marginally lower than India average. While most of the North-Eastern states record a coverage above national average, in Assam, Nagaland and Manipur this percentage is less than 10. All the Western states are below India average. The same is true for Northern region also. Surprise inclusion among the top states is Chhattisgarh which is ranked 2nd with a high 68.5%.
Source: Survey (NFHS-4) National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4), 2015-16, International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, Dec 2017.
It is heartening to see that in some of the state at least one member of significantly high proportion of households is covered under any sort of healthcare coverage. However, for healthcare its critical to understand whether the covered people are delivered quality services. Healthcare coverage without quality services is as good as no health cover. As shown in Fig 3 and Fig 4, out of 28.7% households where at least one member is covered by any type of health scheme or insurance, more than 95% are covered by either state government or central government schemes. Therefore, the financial assistance for treatment will be available in government facilities only. Therefore, it is important that people do have access and confidence on government facilities to avail financial assistance in case of health problem. To understand the same, the following table is presented. The table shows that in most of the states more than 50% of the people do not use government facilities because of different reasons. Two major reasons are long waiting time and poor quality of treatment. It is well understood that in case of any serious illness, immediate treatment and quality treatment are must. Therefore, it is quite unlikely that people will be able to avail current government facilities so that they are eligible to avail the financial assistance for healthcare coverage. The latest NSSO report (2014) suggests that 68% of the urban population and 58% of rural population go to private hospitals for their treatment.[1]
Table 1: Usage of Government Facilities
Reasons for not using government facilities
% of households that do not generally use government facilities
No nearby facility
Facility timing not convenient
Health personnel often absent
Waiting time too long
Poor quality of care
The NSSO report also shows that on an average the treatment cost in case of hospitalization is Rs. 18268. In case of rural and urban these are Rs. 14935 and Rs. 24436 respectively. The following chart (Fig 6) presents the expense scenario of treatment in Public and Private hospitals. In both rural and urban areas, the average costs in private hospitals are more than 4 times than that of government hospitals. Since the large number of households cannot avail treatment in public hospitals due to various reasons, they need to opt for private hospitals under compulsions. Therefore, not only a large number of people need to incur 4 times higher treatment cost, but also devoid of any financial assistance as that can be available in case of the treatment done in government hospitals. As obvious, the expense is met either from their savings or through borrowings. With more than 60% households below income group Rs. 1.5 lakhs per annum, the average expenditure itself is about 20% of annual income. However, in many of the cases this may go beyond annual income of these poor households, especially if the treatment is done in private hospitals.
[1] Health in India, NSSO Report No. 574, 71st Round, January to June 2014.
Source: Health in India, NSSO Report No. 574, 71st Round, January to June 2014.
Key points emerge from the analysis
A few emerge from this analysis are:
Even with extremely low public expenditure on healthcare facilities, significant amount of fund available goes unspent
Only 28.7% of the households are covered under any scheme of health scheme or insurances, where at least one member of the household is covered (according to NFHS report). However, according to NSSO report this is even lower.
In both rural and urban areas majority of these households are covered by either state government or by central government schemes.
According to wealth index, except the top quartile, for the rest government schemes are the only major source of any healthcare coverage.
Significant discrepancies are noted across states in terms of healthcare financial coverage. Southern states are much ahead when the coverage is compared.
However, across states large number majority of the households do not opt for government hospitals due to poor treatment quality and waiting as major reasons.
The average expenditures in private hospitals is about 4 times than that of the government hospitals in both rural as well as urban areas. People do spend such exorbitant costs under compulsion.
A few concerns for future
With the finance minister's announcement of Ayushman Bharat and bringing 10 crore poor households in the net of health insurance, a few questions arises:
Whatever small fund is available for health and family welfare, larger chunk is allocated for family wellbeing than creating healthcare infrastructure. According India Health Statistics 2017, as of March 2017 in many of the states there is not even a single district hospital in every district.
It is also well known that existence of healthcare facilities is disproportionately biased towards urban areas. The rural areas are majorly devoid of any good healthcare facilities.
Though every year a large number of students passing out from government and private medical colleges, most of them are unwilling to serve the rural areas. The prime reason is lack of basic facilities in these areas that doctor require.
With this situation, and already more than 95% of the covered households are covered under government schemes only, an addition of 10 crore household to this base will make it more or less 100% under government schemes. Where will they be treated?
Unless the public healthcare facilities are increased in number and improve in their quality of treatment and other relevant facilities, the situation will remain the same
National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4), 2015-16, International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, Dec 2017.
Health in India, NSSO Report No. 574, 71st Round, January to June 2014.
https://www.indiabudget.gov.in/ub2018-19/bs/bs.pdf
https://www.livemint.com/Opinion/6S9Hvo31dR3aA8h7snIWKL/What-ails-Indias-public-healthcare.html
https://www.livemint.com/Politics/drnszDrkbt418WpuQEHfZI/Budget-2018-Indias-health-sector-needs-more-funds-and-bett.html
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Fast trains from Stockport to Grimsby take around 2 hours and 9 minutes, covering a distance of approximately 139 kilometres. There are frequent services on the rail route between Stockport and Grimsby.
1. Are there direct trains from Stockport to Grimsby?
Direct trains from Stockport to Grimsby have been found.
We usually find around 19 direct trains on the route from Stockport to Grimsby every weekday.
2. How long is the train journey from Stockport to Grimsby?
The Stockport to Grimsby train travel time is normally about 2 hours and 9 minutes, whatever time you make the journey.
3. What are the Stockport to Grimsby train times and schedule?
On weekdays the earliest direct train to Grimsby is usually scheduled to depart Stockport around 06:21 and the last train is around 21:28. At weekends the first train of the day leaves Stockport around 07:28, and the last at 21:28.
When to book Stockport to Grimsby train tickets?
Trains in the UK usually open for booking around 3 months in advance. If booking is not yet open for your dates then you can set a booking alert to receive an email on the day that the cheapest tickets are released for your journey from Stockport to Grimsby by train.
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Prizmmy & Prism Mates – Music Goes On
Prizmmy☆ and Prism Mates will release the album Music Goes On on June 25.
The album contains 11 songs including the latest singles from Prizmmy☆ and Prism Mates.
Prizmmy – Butterfly Effect
Prizmmy☆'s new single Butterfly Effect will be released on February 5.
This is the 10th single from Prizmmy☆.
Butterfly Effect is the 4th opening theme song for the anime Pretty Rhythm: Rainbow Live (プリティーリズム・レインボーライブ) airing on TX Network (TV Tokyo…).
The MV has been released. It includes videos of fans from all over the world dancing the choreography.
Prism Box – Happy Star Restaurant
Prism☆Box will release their new single Happy Star Restaurant (ハッピースター☆レストラン) on February 26.
Prism☆Box is a special idol unit consisting of 11 members from Prizmmy☆ and Prism Mates (プリズム☆メイツ). The result is a mix between the charisma of Prizmmy☆ and the energy of Prism Mates.
The MV has been released.
Prizmmy – Crazy Gonna Crazy
Prizmmy☆ will release their new single Crazy Gonna Crazy on October 30.
It is the 9th single from Prizmmy☆ and their 3rd cover of a song from TRF.
The CD contains 3 versions of the title song. It comes with a DVD featuring the music video and bonus footage. It also includes a 4-page booklet detailing the choreography.
The track is the 3rd opening theme song for the anime series Pretty Rhythm Rainbow Live (プリティーリズム・レインボーライブ).
Check out the music video.
i☆Ris – Rainbow
i☆Ris' new single Rainbow will be released on August 21.
This is the 3rd single from i☆Ris. The title is pronounced "section rainbow".
It is the ending theme song for the anime series Pretty Rhythm Rainbow Live (プリティーリズム・レインボーライブ).
Check out the MV.
Prizmmy – Ez Do Dance
Prizmmy☆ will release their new single Ez Do Dance on July 24.
The limited edition includes a DVD featuring the music video, its dance master version, and bonus footage.
It is the 2nd opening theme song for the anime series Pretty Rhythm Rainbow Live (プリティーリズム・レインボーライブ).
Ez Do Dance is a cover of TRF's song.
Prizmmy – Take Off
Prizmmy☆ will release their 1st album Take Off on July 24.
The album contains 11 tracks, including the latest singles of Prizmmy☆ and 2 new songs untitled for now.
The limited edition comes with a bonus DVD featuring footage of "Pretty Rhythm Dream Festival" Prizmmy☆ Special Dream Live.
Prizmmy – Boy Meets Girl
Prizmmy☆'s new single Boy Meets Girl will be released on May 22.
The single includes a DVD featuring the music video, its "dance master" version, and bonus footage.
The title song is the opening theme for the anime series Pretty Rhythm: Rainbow Live (プリティーリズム・レインボーライブ).
Prizmmy☆ also perform the ending theme song for the anime, RainBow × RainBow, as Prism☆Box in collaboration with Prism☆Mates.
Watch out the music video.
Prism Box – RainBow × RainBow
Prism☆Box's new single RainBow × RainBow will be released on April 24.
The single includes a DVD featuring various versions of the music video.
The title song is the ending theme for the anime series Pretty Rhythm: Rainbow Live (プリティーリズム・レインボーライブ) which will start airing on April 6.
Prism☆Box is a new unit consisting of 11 members from Prizmmy☆ and Prism☆Mates (プリズム☆メイツ).
The opening theme song for the anime, Boy Meets Girl, is also performed by Prizmmy☆. The single will go on sale on May 22.


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You may eat up to 12 a.m. (midnight) the day of your surgery.
Eat light meals such as oatmeal or toast.
Do not eat foods that are heavy or high in fat such as meat or fried foods.
Do not use chewing tobacco six hours before your surgery.
You may have only water up to two hours before your surgery.
Follow any instructions your surgeon gives you. Your surgery may be delayed or rescheduled if you do not follow your instructions.


Here are five things we can do to boost cycling performance.
Recovery is a lot more than just putting your feet up and taking the weight off your aching legs. That's just as well really, seeing as most of us do not have the luxury of sprawling in front of whatever race is on TV after every ride. You can give your recovery a boost by taking on post-ride recovery shakes, like those from Torq, Science In Sport or High5 (below), which rehydrate the body, replenish any electrolytes lost during exercise and accelerate the process of rebuilding muscle mass.
You probably don't need to be told (again) that eating a balanced diet will improve your cycling, but it's true. Not only that, choosing what you eat and when can also make a difference. That is, front-loading your day with carbohydrates which will be converted to energy and gobbled up by your body during your ride, and eating the bulk of the day's protein late in the day to accelerate recovery. Quite simple really, and you will notice the results almost instantly.
At the most basic level, yoga is a practice for the body and mind which improves strength, flexibility and focus. It's great for cycling not least for the core and flexibility element, but also to focus the mind, a vital skill for our sport. The physical aspect is also considered valuable in injury prevention, and yoga has become a standard feature of training programmes across the cycling community.
How hard can breathing be, right? WorldTour team Trek-Segafredo have brought an ex-free diver on board to help the riders work specifically on their breathing to improve performance. Combining world record breaking technique with medical research and studies in yoga and physiotherapy, Dr Mike Maric has developed advanced coaching practices that have benefitted world class athletes across the whole sporting world. At the team's early season training camp, Maric took the riders through breathing exercises that included belly breathing, also referred to as diaphragmatic or abdominal breathing, which has shown to dramatically improve a rider's performance.
Whether you measure your output in watts or positive vibes, the smallest act of kindness towards your bike, your most reliable training partner, is sure to give you an extra boost. Your bike will thank you for giving it even a cursory clean, but there's even more you can do to give it a new breath of life without breaking the bank. Why not prep for classics season with a new lick of bar tape. After all, if you look good, you'll feel good, and if you feel good, you'll go faster.
Now that you're furnished with some great ways to keep your training going, even when you're not riding, you're ready to attack your 2018 goals with renewed vigour. Here's to a successful season!


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You can find many IPTV providers online to watch your favourite shows online. You can watch the television programs over internet with the help of internet protocol television. You can use the dynamic features for the improvement of the user experience. People are shifting to the IPTV due to the dynamic features of IPTV. You can click on https://upmaker.org/iptv/ to know more.
Traditional ways use the radio frequency broadcast, satellite dish and cable television for the transmission of programs to the end users. You can enjoy the channels using IPTV and for that you only need to have an internet connection. Internet is the medium of transmission of high quality videos from the servers. You can visit our website to know more. IPTV is proved to be more efficient medium of transmission than the traditional broadcasting techniques. IPTV includes hardware, software and the infrastructure. You will be connected the channel or video stream requested by you. Below we are going to mention the main features of the IPTV.
Video on demand: VOD also known as the video on demand is the feature using which you can use the desired videos. You can watch the videos as many times as you want. This feature uses the unicast transmission for the transmission of video channels. VOD uses real time streaming protocols for video transmission.
Digital video recording: You can watch the previously recorded the videos with the help of DVR. If you are using IPTV services then you can watch the recorded programs without using DVR device. You can connect to the live DVR system located at the provider's end. This feature make the DVR more efficient and cost effective. Users can watch a program over from an interactive program menu.
Live Television: You can watch the live TV programs with minima latency. Unlike traditional TV broadcasts it provides you the live television broadcasts either with or without interactivity. Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) version 2 is used for live television.
A certain amount of consisted bandwidth for data to be streamed in order to deliver the right number of moving picture frames is required for IPTV broadcast which is the biggest limitation.


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Q: Applying an event based on whether a button is pressed or not via touch input I am planning to develop an Android application for blind people. The application will interact with the user only after they touch any part of screen. The application will start with a voice (I am going to use Text to Speech) and will wait for touch input; if the user don't touch the screen, the next option will be vocalized instructions for touching the screen.
To clarify: "Please tap to screen to do X" - if user touches the screen after this sound, X will be done, else they will hear "Please tap the screen to do Y".
For example the button will be disabled at the beginning, after vocalizing information, button will be activated for 3-4 seconds, if there is no input, button will be deactivated again. However how can I give different jobs to one button? Is that possible? Should I use a timer?
I'm also planning to create a screen size button, but I could not find a proper way to do this. Any tips?

A: You shuld create a LinearLayout, put the button inside it, and use something like layout_width="match_parent" and layout_height="match_parent" in your XML to make the button occupy the full screen.
Then disable / enable the button from your code as needed.

A: Of course you can introduce different jobs for your button. In your case you simply can have an int variable that you can increment it each time it enables so you know how many times button has pressed and with a switch you can test that variable and run different operations.

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After breakfast we piled into the car with the intent to backtrack to Sinaia in order to visit Peles Castle, built as a summer retreat for King Carol the 1st. Driving through the winding roads was no less beautiful because we'd seen this section before, it was a little less hair raising though primarily because there wasn't as much traffic to contend with.
We walked up the cobbled street, having parked our car at a hotel down the road and walked up and around a bend and saw Peles Castle for the first time and looks just like its jumped out of the pages of a children's fairy tail book.
Its just as impressive as it looks up close, with statues surrounding the courtyard and paintings high on the walls.
Rather than just look at the outside we paid the small entrance fee to get a tour of the ground floor, the first floor was closed unfortunately otherwise we would have done that as well. None withstanding the fact that I hate the 'group tour' feel I'd rather put up with that for the chance to see inside and it was worth it.
Mostly the pair of us trailed along a rather large group with descriptions of the rooms we were visiting being given in multiple languages. Unfortunately generally speaking since there were that many in the group I couldn't get in the room half the time to see what was being talked about until after or hear most of it anyway.
Still its an incredible castle to see, even if I did have to resist the urge to smack a few people who couldn't seem to help themselves reaching out to touch the exhibits.
We had thought, earlier that perhaps we could go to both Peles then head to Bran Castle before returning to Brasov however since we had an afternoon pickup for the Bear Hide we decided that it would be cutting things too fine to attempt to do both so after exploring Peles Castle we hit the road and headed back to Brasov.
Lunch was a simple affair nothing to really write home about, not bad but not all that spectacular either.
Looking at the time when we finished our late lunch we just had time to squeeze in a visit to the Black Church since it had been closed yesterday. Unfortunately they do not allow photo's inside the church so we can not give you an visual of what its like.
At 8 lei for the entrance however its still worth ducking inside if you happen to be in Brasov and given how it dominates the old town it kind of had me intrigued to see inside. One handy thing is spotted around the church are stands with flip cards with descriptions of what you are seeing in different languages, a nice touch I thought. The 4000-pipe organ built by Buchholz of Berlin in 1839 is certainly impressive and the sound ringing out in the church is incredible even if we did only hear someone tinkering with it while we were there.
Then it was time. I was a little excited I admit. It was time to go off and find some bears, real live brown bears! We were picked up by the company doing the tour, Carpathian Nature Tours along with 5 other people. It was a short drive out of town to where we would spend the next few hours in the hope of seeing a brown bear.
We were given a set of instructions first, like no flash, turn off phones, turn off anything that makes a noise etc etc. Of course there is always that person who can not work out how to turn off their flash and ends up taking multiple flash photos before working out how to turn it off.
It was perhaps a 10 minute walk into the bush to where the bear hide was located. Despite what my imagination led me to believe a bear hide would look like it was actually a little wooden hut with windows and seats.
We were lucky enough when we first rocked up that one of the younger bears was already there having a feed so we quickly snapped some photo's. Then we settled in to wait.
Hours. I was beginning to think I really wasn't cut out for this wild life photography thing and perhaps I should have brought a book with me….
Then as the day got latter the bears started coming in, in twos and threes. All you could hear was the clicking of shutters as we all snapped photos. Lots of photos. I must admit I was wishing I had a better lens than what I did and can finally appreciate why people pay horrible amounts of money for them.
Ok so the reason the bears come to the clearing is because the tour operators put out some food for them. I must admit I'd rather pay money to help preserve the bears and see them in the safety of the bear hide than meet a hungry brown bear out side the protection of the bear hide.
As bored as I'd been earlier it seemed that time had flown by and it was time to pack up and leave to get back to the car before it got fully dark. Something about it probably not being a good idea to meet a bear in the dark…..
All up I really recommend it, make sure you have a good camera and lens though!!!
That it was we both had a great day, the castle was amazing to see and the bears, particularly the baby ones were just too cute!!


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Is You Medical Practice Ready for Telemedicine Expansion?
If the new proposals in the latest fee schedule coming from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services get finalized, then telemedicine may be expanding even more in the future with more payment for these services in store for health providers. The proposed physician fee schedule for 2019 was announced on July 12, 2018 by CMS, and this proposal would significantly expand the services that quality for telemedicine payments. This is great news for both medical practices and patients since telemedicine offers many patient benefits and offers practices with the foundation for increased growth. And while telemedicine does come with some potential billing challenges, there are ways these challenges can be overcome as practices step into the future of telemedicine.


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Senses Fail Announce Initial 2013 Dates
. Senses Fail have announced the dates for UK leg of their 2013 tour plans, with North American dates still to be announced.
The UK dates kick off on May 18th in Kingston and will feature support from Handguns (another special guest will be added to the lineup in the near future).
Singer Buddy Nielsen said, "We are very excited to head back to the UK, it's been two years and we are itching to return. There is no better place to be than the UK in the spring."
Senses Fail are currently recording their fifth full-length album in Los Angeles.
Senses Fail Uk Tour:
5/18 Kingston – The Peel
5/19 Southampton – Talking Heads
5/20 Bristol – Thekla
5/21 Cardiff – Clwb Ifor Bach
5/22 Nottingham – Rescue Room
5/23 Glasgow – King Tuts
5/24 Newcastle – Academy 2
5/28 Manchester – NQ Live
5/29 Norwich – Waterfront Studio
5/30 London – Underworld
5/31 Exeter – Cavern
6/1 Oxford – 02 Academy 2
Senses Fail CDs, DVDs and MP3s
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Archive for November 1st, 2009
The Situation of the "Curveball"
Posted by The Situationist Staff on November 1, 2009
From U.S. News:
"Physically, there is no such thing as a breaking curveball," said Zhong-Lin Lu, who holds the William M. Keck Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Southern California, in Los Angeles. "It's mostly in the hitter's mind."
According to Lu, who helped to design a popular Web animation that illustrates the science behind what he calls the curveball illusion, the ball travels relatively straight toward the batter, curving somewhat but not nearly as much as claimed. What causes the perception of the break is a complex interplay between the fast spin of the ball, the contrast between the ball's red seams and white background, and the batter's flawed visual perception as the ball nears the plate.
Here's how the curveball phenomenon seems to work, said Lu, a visual motion and perception specialist:
The ball leaves the pitcher's arm at approximately 75 mph, slower than an average fastball. While it hurtles toward the batter, the ball spins obliquely at around 1,500 rpm (or 25 rotations per second). The ball reaches the plate in about 0.6 seconds.
Because of its unique spin, the ball appears to be moving faster than it really is, causing the batter to overestimate the speed. A slight curving trajectory forces the ball to move somewhat away from the hitter's frontal view toward his side — or peripheral — vision just before he swings.
It's during this final shifting of perception from frontal (also known as foveal) to peripheral view that causes the batter to perceive that the ball is dramatically dropping or moving abruptly to the left or right. In fact, the curveball is moving relatively straight, Lu said.
"The greater your eyes move away from the ball, the greater the curve," he said.
From EurekaAlert:
Zhong-Lin Lu, a professor of cognitive neuroscience at USC, along with USC alumni Emily Knight and Robert Ennis and Arthur Shapiro, associate professor of psychology at American University, developed a simple visual demo that suggests a curveball's break is, at least in part, a trick of the eye.
Their demo, viewable at outstanding Illusion Sciences blog (here), won the Best Visual Illusion of the Year prize at the Vision Sciences meeting earlier this year.
To read a sample of related Situationist posts, see "Jim Rice and the Situation of Baseball Hall of Fame Voting," "Big Papi Magic," "The Situation of a Baseball Pitch," "The Batting Situation," and "The Unconscious Genius of Baseball Players." To review other Situationist posts containing of discussing illusions, click here. Finally, to review a collection of similarly fascinating illusions by Arthur Shapiro, go to Illusion Sciences Blog.
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