(Imai) Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology.
(Takahashi, Fukura) Research Fellow, Department of Anesthesiology.
(Morishita) Professor, Second Department of Surgery.
Received from the Department of Anesthesiology and the Second Department of Surgery, Gunma University School of Medicine, Maebashi, Japan. Submitted for publication January 21, 1997. Accepted for publication June 3, 1997.
Address reprint requests to Dr. Imai: Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Gunma University, School of Medicine, Showacho 3–39–22, Maebashi 371, Japan. Address electronic mail to: taka@news.sb.gunma-u.ac.jp.
Although relatively noninvasive techniques for measuring cardiac output have been described, techniques such as impedance, echocardiography, and Fick's method have not gained widespread clinical acceptance because of their unreliability or the cumbersome procedures involved. Thus, the thermodilution method for measuring cardiac output remains a clinical standard.
Pulse oximetry, which can detect arterial oxygen saturation noninvasively, continuously, and without calibration, has widened the scope of clinical monitoring. The principle of pulse oximetry is based on the theory that the pulsatile components of the absorbances of red and infrared light transmitted through tissue are related to arterial hemoglobin oxygen saturation. [1 ] As the calculation is based on the ratio of the pulse absorbance signals obtained at two wave lengths, the signal can be amplified and arterial hemoglobin oxygen saturation can be estimated even during a small pulse amplitude. If the same principle was applied to some substance in the blood other than hemoglobin and its alteration due to arterial blood pulsation was determined, its concentration in the arterial blood could be estimated regardless of the strength of the incident light, composition of the tissues, or the site of detection. Based on these qualifications, Aoyagi et al. [2–5 ] developed a new method to measure cardiac output by analyzing the pulsatile change in indocyanine green concentration in the peripheral arterial blood without direct blood sampling.
The aim of this study was to compare this new technique with the standard thermodilution technique.
Twenty-two patients having major surgery under general anesthesia and requiring monitoring of pulmonary artery pressure during surgery in Gunma University Hospital from February 1, 1996 until May 31, 1996, and from November 15 until December 20, 1996 were selected for inclusion in this study whenever the equipment and investigators were available. Institutional approval and written informed consent from each patient were obtained.
After induction of anesthesia, a pulmonary artery catheter (744H-7.5 French; Baxter Healthcare Corp., Irvine, CA) was floated into the pulmonary artery via the right internal jugular vein. After the pulmonary arterial catheter had been inserted, cardiac output was measured before skin incisions were made. A 10-ml solution of ice-cold indocyanine green dissolved in a 5% dextrose solution (0.5 mg/ml) was injected into the right atrium through a CO-SET (closed injectate delivery system for cold injectate model 93–600, Baxter Healthcare) in which the temperature of the injectate was measured at the injectate port. The thermal dilution curve was recorded at the pulmonary artery (Vigilance; Baxter Healthcare) and the dye dilution curve of indocyanine green was simultaneously recorded at the nasal wing (alae nasi) by a specially designed optical sensor that sandwiched the nasal wing between the light-emitting diodes and a photodiode measuring the intensity of the light transmitted through the nasal wing. The optical sensor was connected to the pulse dye densitometer (R470; Nihon-Kohden, Tokyo, Japan). The injections were repeated three to six times at an interval of 2 min for each injection for each patient during the preoperative period. Injections of indicator were done regardless of the respiratory cycle. In 12 patients, the procedure was repeated on the surgical table at the completion of the surgery before they were transferred to the intensive care unit.
Injections of 5 mg indocyanine green (tricarbocyanine dye) were repeated three to six times for a measurement lasting about 10 min. Indocyanine green injected into the central vein mixed with blood in the right atrium and right ventricle and most of the dye associated with the alpha1-lipoproteins and remained in the intravascular space. [6 ] After passage through the pulmonary circulation, the time-concentration curve of the first pass through the nasal wing was detected by pulse dye densitometry and used to calculate cardiac output. The dye is nontoxic, except for rare cases of anaphylaxis. It is cleared from the blood exclusively by the liver without undergoing either intrahepatic conjugation or enterohepatic recirculation, [7 ] and its transport into hepatocytes is considered to be irreversible due to extensive binding within the cell. [8 ] Thus, after complete mixing with the circulating blood, the blood concentration of the dye is in exponential decay. The algorithm of pulse dye densitometry was constructed to work through 30 pulses after the peak height of the dye curve to complete calculation of cardiac output, and thus a period of about 90 s after the dye injection was required for the device to be readied for the next dye injection. The blood dye concentration 90 s after the injection of 5 mg dye was sufficiently low to measure cardiac output with a new injection of 5 mg dye, although some trace concentration of the dye remained in the circulating blood. The peak gain in the blood dye concentration after the dye injection of 5 mg was 5–10 mg/l. In successive injections, the device determines the basal level of blood dye concentration when the injection of the dye starts, and the dye concentration-time area above this basal level is calculated when the next injection is performed. Repeated injections of 5 mg dye did not affect cardiac output measurements to any degree, although the maximum amount tolerable in a 24-h period has not been established.
Because a detailed description of pulse dye densitometry has been reported previously, [2–4 ] only an outline is given here. The principle of pulse oximetry can be used to measure the relative concentration of substances in the blood stream that absorb a certain wave length. Pulse oximetry is used to calculate the ratio of oxyhemoglobin concentration to reduced hemoglobin concentration by measuring the difference in absorbance between wave lengths of 660 nm and 890 nm. In pulse dye densitometry, two wave lengths (805 and 890 nm) are used to measure the ratio of indocyanine green concentration to hemoglobin concentration. This is because the extinction coefficient of indocyanine green in blood is at its maximum at 805 nm and is nearly zero at 890 nm; therefore, we can obtain a large change in optical density that correlates with the change in indocyanine green concentration. In addition to this, the difference in the oxyhemoglobin and reduced hemoglobin extinction coefficients at these wave lengths is small enough to be negligible. Accordingly, the indocyanine green concentration can be photometrically calculated from the ratio of its concentration to the hemoglobin concentration for each pulse, using the hemoglobin value measured by other means. Then blood concentrations of indocyanine green and the cardiac output were assessed using a custom-made device (R740, Nihon-Kohden, Tokyo, Japan). For thermodilution, calculation of the cardiac output was performed using a standard cardiac output computer (Vigilance). Both methods were based on the same principle originally described by Stewart-Hamilton, [9 ] and the specific calculation of dye dilution cardiac output (R740, Nihon-Kohden, Tokyo, Japan) used the algorithm described by Lilienfied and Kovach. [10 ] In the thermal dilution calculation formula, the computation constant of the catheter that we used was 0.574, and thus the numerator of the computation formula for cardiac output was calculated to be 57.4% of its theoretical value (a typical dye dilution curve by pulse dye densitometry and a thermodilution curve obtained simultaneously are shown in Figure 1).
Figure 1. Thermo- and dye-dilution curves were measured simultaneously in a patient by injecting 10 ml ice-cold 5% dextrose solution containing 5 mg indocyanine green into the right atrium at time 0. Abscissa, time (s); left ordinate, decrease in blood temperature ([degree sign] Celsius); and right ordinate, blood concentration of indocyanine green (mg/l).
The analysis of agreement is based on the method proposed by Bland and Altman [11 ] for comparing two methods of evaluation of the same parameter. The differences between the dye and thermodilution methods were plotted against the average of the two methods. Bias and precision were evaluated using the mean and standard deviation of the differences between the dye and thermodilution methods. Bias measures systematic error between the methods, and precision quantifies the random error or variability. The limits of agreement were defined as the mean difference +/- 2 SD. To determine whether the differences between the methods depend on cardiac output in absolute terms, the percentage difference [100 x (difference in cardiac output between the methods)/(mean of cardiac output by the two methods)] was calculated and plotted against the average of the two methods. Percentage and absolute differences were compared for three levels of mean cardiac output of dye and thermodilution; that is, low (<or= to 3.5 l/min), medium (>or= to 3.5 l/min and < 6 l/min), and high (> 6 l/min) by one-way analysis of variance. When a significant difference (P < 0.05) was obtained, post hoc tests were performed using Fisher's protected least-significant difference.
The demographic data of the patients are summarized in Table 1. One hundred ninety-one paired data were obtained from 22 patients. In 10 patients, measurement of cardiac output was performed only before surgery, one patient was also included in this group when measurement after surgery failed to detect a pulsatile signal, whereas in the other patients measurements were performed before and after surgery. In the latter patients, the circulatory conditions were different before and after surgery, and thus it is unlikely that they unequally weighted the results (Table 1). Each measurement had a small variation around each mean value, as indicated by the 0.32 +/- 0.16 variation of the mean SD of the SD of the mean difference in each measurement, although the mean differences between the two methods ranged from 1.85 to -1.11 l/min (Table 1). The errors and percentage errors of the paired dye and thermal dilution cardiac outputs were plotted against their mean values (the mean of the difference and its SD were 0.157 +/- 0.798 l/min and 4.5 +/- 19.6% in the absolute and percentage errors, respectively;Figure 2and Figure 3). The percentage differences were significantly great for determining low cardiac output, although the absolute values of the differences were identical for the three levels of cardiac output (Table 2).
Figure 2. Difference in cardiac output measured by pulse dye densitometry and the thermodilution method (dye-thermodilution) plotted against their respective means. Each patient is represented by a different symbol. The horizontal lines indicate the mean and the mean +/- 2 SD. Bias = 0.16 +/- 0.80 l/min (mean +/- SD).
Figure 3. Percentage difference in cardiac output measured by pulse dye densitometry and the thermodilution method against their respective means. Percentage difference =(dye-thermodilution)[center dot] 100/(dye + thermodilution)[center dot] 0.5. Each patient is represented by a different symbol, which is identical to that used in Figure 1. The horizontal lines express the mean and the mean +/- 2 SD. Bias = 4.5 +/- 19.6%(mean +/- SD).
More than three decades ago, the accuracy of the thermodilution method for measuring cardiac output was compared with the dye dilution method. At that time, some researchers found an excellent correlation over a wide range of cardiac output values, whereas others observed that the thermodilution method systematically overestimated the dye dilution cardiac output values. [12 ] Engineering and technical improvements have made the thermodilution method a standard in the clinical measurement of cardiac output because it can be performed repeatedly with a nontoxic, nonaccumulating, nonrecirculating thermal indicator, although it requires a delicate procedure to insert the pulmonary arterial catheter. Recently, a new method for measuring cardiac output by determining the pulse dye concentration in the peripheral arterial blood has been developed, [2–4 ] and it is time for this new system to be compared with the thermodilution method. Neither the thermodilution method nor the pulse dye densitometry method provides an unequivocally correct measurement, so we assessed the precision and accuracy of pulse dye densitometry using the degree of agreement. [11 ] Pulse dye densitometry overestimated 0.16 l/min of thermodilution or 4.5% of the estimated cardiac output (Figure 2and Figure 3), which proved that it had no clinically significant systematic bias. In the bias graph, points were randomly dispersed above and below the mean of the error line over a wide range of cardiac outputs (Figure 2). Thus we could see no obvious relation between the difference and mean. The values (mean difference +/- 2 SD) are known to be the limits of agreement (upper and lower lines in Figure 2and Figure 3), which indicated that 95% of the dye or thermal dilution cardiac output might be 1.6 l/min or 39.2% above or below the estimated cardiac output. Although the errors were not influenced by the level of cardiac output in absolute terms, the percentage errors depended on the level of cardiac output (significantly great for low cardiac output of <or= to 3.5 l/min;Figure 3and Table 2). This might be due to the nature of the indicator dilution method, the error of which has been reported for patients with low cardiac outputs. [13 ] Each method measured cardiac output accurately according to its own parameters because the mean of the SD of the mean difference of cardiac output in each measurement was small (0.32 +/- 0.16;Table 1). However, a considerable difference in the two methods was observed in some patients. Because each patient is indicated by a different symbol (Figure 2and Figure 3), the small scattering for three to six indicator injections obtained for any one patient and the considerable deviation in values obtained by the different methods in some patients are clearly shown. This might be due to an intrinsic error in either method or both.
The validity of pulse dye densitometry depends on whether this method could measure blood dye concentration as accurately as is theoretically possible. [3 ] Although Aoyagi et al. [2 ] have presumed that tissue factors affect the validity of pulse oximetry and pulse dye densitometry contained a constant compensating for tissue factors in its formula, [3 ] the blood dye concentration measured by pulse dye densitometry had a correlation with blood dye concentration measured ex vivo as follows:(blood dye concentration measured by pulse dye densitometry)= 1.011 [center dot](blood dye concentration measured ex vivo)- 0.029, and correlation coefficient of 0.993. [3,14 ] These preliminary investigations have proved that this instrument can measure the dye concentration in blood accurately; however, in some patients a considerable difference in cardiac outputs determined by the two methods was apparent. As for factors that may effect the validity of the thermodilution method, it contains a constant in its calculation formula that given in Methods. We believe that the problems inherent to each method are the cause of the present results.
Because pulse dye densitometry is based on the theory of pulse oximetry, it cannot work when a pulse absorbance signal is not detected. Although technical developments have improved the ability of pulse oximetry to detect and amplify small pulse signals, [1 ] in one of the 22 patients (1 of 13 measurements after surgery) included in this investigation, pulse dye densitometry did not detect the pulsatile flow after a cardiopulmonary bypass. A diminished pulse wave amplitude leading to failure of signal detection was caused by vasoconstriction but not by hypotension. [1 ] It was suggested that the microcirculation, which could not be detected by conventional hemodynamic assessment, was disturbed due to vasoconstriction, although the cardiac output and arterial blood pressure were well maintained with the support of catecholamines and vasodilators. At the low level of cardiac output observed in this investigation (the lowest cardiac output: 2.16 l/min (1.66 l [center dot] min sup -1 [center dot] m sup -2) in dye dilution and 2.1 l/min (1.49 l [center dot] min sup -1 [center dot] m sup -2) in thermodilution under general anesthesia, this system was able to work. However, the extremely low cardiac output accompanying vasoconstriction may be an important obstacle for pulse detection. One of the characteristics of pulse dye densitometry is the ability to detect the blood dye concentration regardless of the detection site as long as a suitable probe is available. If any site that is relatively unaffected by peripheral vasoconstriction were found for pulse detection, it might widen the clinical utility of this system. We used a nasal probe to measure the dye concentration because the nasal wing provided a more rapid and clearer pulsatile change in dye concentration than that obtained from a finger.
The bias between pulse dye densitometry and the thermodilution methods is clinically negligible; however, the error during low cardiac output was significantly great. This method for measuring cardiac output has great promise in the clinical field and the error noted previously may be considered acceptable depending on the clinical situation. Pulse dye densitometry can measure cardiac output repeatedly in patients having major surgery with the same degree of accuracy as the thermodilution method. However, a difference in values obtained with this method and the thermodilution method was observed in some patients, the cause of which has yet to be determined.
The authors thank Naoki Kobayashi, B.Sc., Kouhei Ohno, B.Sc., Hidehiro Hosaka, Ph.D., and Takuo Aoyagi, Ph.D., of the Research and Development Center, Nihon Kohden Corporation, Ltd., for giving us the opportunity to use pulse dye densitometry and for providing technical assistance.
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Recently, over the past 1-2 years, God has really been doing unique things in our church. When I say unique I mean special in a truly good way. But I want to tell you that this "uniqueness" came right after I left church one night, came home, and cried like a baby telling my wife I was finished pastoring. Yes, I truly gave up, and I mean I gave up; something I KNEW I would never do when I first started pastoring in 2002. Repeated discouragement, personal struggles we all have, betrayals, misunderstandings, and to top it all off, it seemed our church was growing very slowly, if at all. I was truly trying to be honorable to God in every way, but it seemed all I was receiving for years was primarily negative results. I was determined that if I could not pastor the correct way, I would not pastor at all. Many, many, many times I would ask myself (and God), "Am I being cursed? What am I doing wrong?" As it was at that time, it seemed that the "right/biblical way" was just not going to work in this culture. Trying to teach what I felt led to, trying to do church discipline when needed, and trying to focus on Jesus, not catering to people's "wants." Thank God I have a truly godly wife that gave me the right counsel when I was in utter despair. She basically told me, "Honey, God is mostly weeding out hypocrites and fakes, and He has blessed us with real, solid believers. We are blessed to have our church." I was like, "Yep, she's right, and I will fight to the death...no matter what it looks like to me." I decided, that if our church should dwindle etc, and I had to be the last one standing, I would. I basically told myself, "I don't care if everyone thinks I am a failure, I don't care if everyone leaves our church, I don't care what happens, I WILL HONOR GOD NO MATTER WHAT THE CONSEQUENCES...even to death." Well, I think that was something God wanted etched deep in my soul...even though I thought it had been before. The reason I say that is because of what has happened since. From that day, our church has seen many new conversions, a new nationwide radio ministry start, and we are growing. Most importantly, I don't know how God did this, but He has engraved in my heart the main thing He's looking for in our lives and churches. It's not doctrinal correctness (although we must be, especially in the major areas), it's not adhering to a denominational loyalty, it's not promoting "our church", it's not our "distinctives", it's not our traditions, and it's not our mole hills that we make into mountains. What God really wants from us is true godliness from true love. What is true godliness/holiness? To love God more than anything, and your neighbor as yourself (Mark 12:29-31). As I have received more light on this truth, I have come to feel greater compassion for backsliders and hypocrites. So what is the moral of this? Love. Love is the most important thing. To love God is to serve and honor Him...to have His love is to love people...and until we truly have the fullness of His love, we cannot truly see people with real compassion. Yes, people are going to go to an eternal hell for hypocrisies etc, if they do not repent, but we must pray for them because they usually do not truly know what they are doing. The more I have come to realize this, the more I feel God's love when I preach and pray. I don't see people as being so much of a source of pain as I used to. I now see them more as sheep needing a shepherd...many of which cannot see nor do they know their right hand from their left. I believe God was waiting for me to truly learn this...even though I thought I knew it. The result? He now is bringing people to our church that want to help, and give, and love God. They truly love one another...and I think God was waiting to work something into me all the while...more of HIS GREAT LOVE. I have not arrived, and won't until heaven, but I am so thankful that God has consistently lifted me up when I was discouraged. That's the message to you, KEEP PERSEVERING...ALL THINGS WORK TOGETHER FOR GOOD TO THOSE WHO LOVE GOD (Romans 8:28). No matter if you are a pastor or what you do, go to Jesus for strength and trust Him to work what is perfect for you.


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Abia State was created from Imo State in the year 1991. The name Abia was derived from an acronym which represents the four most populated regions in the State namely Aba, Bende, Isiukwuato and Afikpo. Chief Orji Uzor Kalu was elected in 1999 as the first democratically elected Governor of the State and he superintended over the State's affairs from 1999 to 2007.
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By Alan Riquelmy | Editor
I don't remember applying to the job.
I'd been laid off for weeks, sending emails like mad, applying to anything that paid, well, money.
Then one of those emails hit — an interview at the Japanese consulate in Atlanta. Go overseas and teach your native language. Get paid seven figures.
In yen, of course.
I thought, well, why not? It's an interview. No commitment, just a few handshakes and a suit coat with tie.
Things got serious when they offered the job that day.
About two months later — Jan. 18, 2001 — I stepped aboard a plane that flew me to Osaka. Almost 20 years to the date of this writing, I closed a long chapter and started a new one.
Like stepping through a tesseract.
One of the interview questions had been, essentially, how I'd handle the fact that squid is sold in stores, sitting alongside some food that I'd consider normal.
A better question might have been how I'd handle living in a country whose language I can't speak while sticking out like a sore thumb wherever I went.
You'd catch people staring at you on the train. We'd have conversations about whether you should nod to another foreigner when seeing them in public. Should we acknowledge one another for no other reason than we're both from another country?
Gomen nasai, shirimasen.
It was a slow transformation, but it happened to all of us. You'd gawk at the world around you for the first few weeks, then you became a part of the world around you. You'd park your bicycle illegally, like everyone else, and race for the train. You had a favorite train car, because it stopped near the exit you wanted.
During cherry blossom season, you'd share beers with friends and coworkers by the Shukugawa River. The air is thick with a thousand different directions your life could go.
At first, I'd have dreams of being in America, knowing I had to reach a classroom in Japan for my job, realizing it'd be impossible to make it in time.
The unconscious mind thinking I was supposed to be in the states, I suppose. Those dreams faded after some weeks, my brain determining it was in the right place after all.
America faded as well. You could see it on a map, point out where someone used to live, tell stories about the people that might have been there. But it was on the other side of the planet. Who could tell if those stories were true, or those people real?
It had to end, though. That spot on the map called, and its song grew louder as the months passed.
I could have stayed, I suppose, content with teaching conversational English and an extended college lifestyle that paid better than actual college life. A string of nights laid out by the river, the cherry blossoms in bloom, lush and drunk, living someone else's life.
I'd wonder about my decision, sometimes, when it rained. A sad, gravel parking lot just outside my window in a small Alabama town and the endless crush of newspaper life always descending.
I'd tread through wet pavement and get into an old car, on the way to another assignment, not quite sure what happened.
Glancing at the rear-view mirror, asking —
Where did that other person go?
Alan Riquelmy is the editor of The Union. He can be reached at 530-477-4239.
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Video | Apni Party demands rollback of changes in J&K land use policy
In view of assurances given by the Centre from time to time, and in light of directions of the Supreme Court and the High Court of Jammu and Kashmir, no permission should be granted for conversion of agricultural land to non-agricultural purposes especially for non-domiciles of Jammu & Kashmir.
Jammu: Taking strong exception to recent changes in the land use laws announced by the Jammu and Kashmir administration, Apni Party president Syed Mohammad Altaf Bukhari on Saturday demanded immediate rollback of the decision, saying it is loaded with far-reaching consequences .
The agricultural land in Jammu and Kashmir is supposed to be safeguarded by the government against any kind of fiddling with its land use status, he said, alleging that arbitrary decisions like the recent one would result in increased alienation of people.
"Such policy decisions are the prerogative of an elected government, and the present dispensation should desist from taking such unilateral moves that put a question mark on its mandate," Bukhari said.
"The High Court of Jammu and Kashmir has also barred the conversion of agricultural land in Jammu & Kashmir in view of the fast shrinking agricultural land mass and its repercussions on overall crop production that has witnessed a drastic fall over the years," he said.
The former minister said the latest decision on land use policy would open floodgates for non-agricultural activities and will further increase the dependency of the people of Jammu and Kashmir on import of foodgrains.
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Q: How can I programatically render Google Charts API images into a PDF file? I'm rendering charts on my website using the Google Charts API and I want to export these into a report for the users, most likely a PDF file. What methods are available to do this programmatically into a PDF file?

A: Consider using iTextSharp. It's a free, open-source tool for programmatically generating PDFs from .NET applications.
I recently wrote an article on how to use iTextSharp to export charts generated by the Microsoft Chart Controls to a PDF: Using Microsoft's Chart Controls In An ASP.NET Application: Exporting Charts.


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package org.trustedanalytics.servicecatalog.service;

import org.trustedanalytics.cloud.cc.api.CcApp;
import org.trustedanalytics.cloud.cc.api.CcAppStatus;
import org.trustedanalytics.cloud.cc.api.CcAppSummary;
import org.trustedanalytics.cloud.cc.api.CcOperations;
import org.trustedanalytics.cloud.cc.api.CcServiceInstance;
import org.trustedanalytics.cloud.cc.api.CcSummary;

import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Service;

import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Objects;
import java.util.Set;
import java.util.UUID;
import java.util.function.Predicate;
import java.util.stream.Collectors;

/**
 * Service for performing application related operations.
 */
@Service
public class ApplicationsService {
    private static final Logger LOGGER = LoggerFactory.getLogger(ApplicationsService.class);
    private final CcOperations ccOperations;
    private final Predicate<CcServiceInstance> orphanServices = service -> service.getBoundAppCount() == 1;

    @Autowired
    public ApplicationsService(CcOperations ccClient) {
        this.ccOperations = Objects.requireNonNull(ccClient);
    }

    /**
     * @param space unique space identifier
     * @return applications within space
     */
    public Collection<CcApp> getSpaceApps(UUID space) {
        Collection<CcApp> apps = ccOperations.getSpaceSummary(space).getApps();
        apps.forEach(this::fixAppInfo);
        return apps;
    }

    /**
     * @param space unique space identifier
     * @param serviceFilter service filter
     * @return applications within space matching given space filter
     */
    public Collection<CcApp> getSpaceAppsByService(UUID space,
        Predicate<CcServiceInstance> serviceFilter) {
        final CcSummary summary = ccOperations.getSpaceSummary(space);

        final Set<String> services = summary.getServiceInstances().stream()
                .filter(serviceFilter)
            .map(CcServiceInstance::getName)
            .collect(Collectors.toSet());

        return summary.getApps().stream()
            .filter(app -> app.getServiceNames().stream().anyMatch(services::contains))
            .collect(Collectors.toList());
    }

    /**
     * @param app unique application identifier
     * @return application summary
     */
    public CcAppSummary getAppSummary(UUID app) {
        CcAppSummary summary = ccOperations.getAppSummary(app);
        fixAppInfo(summary);
        return summary;
    }

    /**
     * @param app unique application identifier
     */
    public void restageApp(UUID app) {
        ccOperations.restageApp(app);
    }

    /**
     * @param app unique application identifier
     */
    public void deleteApp(UUID app) {
        LOGGER.info("DeleteApp");
        ccOperations.deleteApp(app);
    }

    /**
     * @param app unique application identifier
     */
    public void switchApp(UUID app, CcAppStatus appStatus) {
        LOGGER.info("SwitchApp");
        ccOperations.switchApp(app, appStatus);
    }

    /**
     * Delete application along with services that are not bound to any other application.
     * @param app unique application identifier
     */
    public void deleteAppCascade(UUID app) {
        LOGGER.info("DeleteAppCascade");

        final Collection<CcServiceInstance> orphans = getAppServices(app, orphanServices);
        deleteApp(app);
        orphans.forEach(service -> ccOperations.deleteServiceInstance(service.getGuid()));
    }

    /**
     * Fix info from cloud foundry to be more useful in the console
     */
    private void fixAppInfo(CcAppSummary summary) {
        if(summary.getRunningInstances() != null) {
            //Cloud foundry sometimes returns running_instances=-1 when the app is staging
            summary.setRunningInstances(Math.max(0, summary.getRunningInstances()));
        }
    }

    /**
     * Fix info from cloud foundry to be more useful in the console
     */
    private void fixAppInfo(CcApp app) {
        //Cloud foundry sometimes returns running_instances=-1 when the app is staging
        app.setRunningInstances(Math.max(0, app.getRunningInstances()));
    }

    /**
     * @param app unique application identifier
     * @param serviceFilter predicate that allow you to filter desired services
     * @return service instance collection
     */
    public Collection<CcServiceInstance> getAppServices(UUID app, Predicate<CcServiceInstance> serviceFilter) {
        return ccOperations.getAppSummary(app).getServices().stream()
                .filter(serviceFilter)
                .collect(Collectors.toList());
    }
}


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Q: VO to Entity Conversion In our application we have multiple layers.

*

*UI -> This can be JSP/ JSON result of the API

*Controllers -> as in MVC

*Services  -> perform single business operation per service

*DAOs  -> Data Access Layer (including connection/and DB layer)

And two types of ValueObjects

*

*FormValueObjects --> More close to View

*Entities  --> replica of a row in DB

Since, Entities are DB related, they should not be exposed to other layers.
Since FormValueObjects are not related to DB, they should not be exposed to DAO layer.
I need to populate FormValueObjects from Entities and vice versa. In which layer should this be done? DAO layer/ Services layer or should I create an Adapter layer in between the two?
Please suggest me a good design.

A: That's the responsibility of your controller as that is the class that is responsible for receiving data from the view and translating it onto methods for the model, as well as receiving data from the model and handing it up to the view.
This does not mean the controller has to do this directly however. Your model can use ViewBuilders for example to build view-objects from Entities and these builders would probably belong to the view-layer. For changes to the model, the controller could just as well package data from the view into a command and hand that off to a command-handler type object. This might be part of the domain layer.


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When we are struggling, when things are hard, when we have a crisis? What is the first thing we do? How do we try to fix it? So often we try to take care of it on our own. In my experience, this can often lead to disaster. Sometimes they work out for a while, but most of the time we find out that we need help. Why don't we start there? We trust God. Do we show it? Is God our priority? Do we turn to Him fist for everything? As I was reading Daniel this week, I realized there is a lot we can learn from him: In the beginning of Daniel, God allowed Israel to be overtaken by the great empire of Babylon when Nebuchadnezzar was king. Israel had turned their back on God, disobeyed him and broke their covenant. So, the people were exiled to Babylon. The king had chosen the best, wisest, best looking men from Israel to become his personal slaves, including Daniel. One day Nebuchadnezzar had a dream that disturbed him. It was a message from God, though the king did not recognize or acknowledge God but practiced all kinds of evil and turned to many gods. So he asked all his advisors, including magicians, soothsayers and the like to tell him what his dream was and the interpretation. None of them could so he was furious and was intent to kill all his "wise men," advisors and servants near to him. This included those from Israel, including Daniel. So, what did Daniel do? How did he respond to this crisis?
Then with counsel and wisdom Daniel answered Arioch, the captain of the king's guard, who had gone out to kill the wise men of Babylon; he answered and said to Arioch the king's captain, "Why is the decree from the king so urgent?" Then Arioch made the decision known to Daniel.
So Daniel went in and asked the king to give him time, that he might tell the king the interpretation. Then Daniel went to his house, and made the decision known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions, that they might seek mercies from the God of heaven concerning this secret, so that Daniel and his companions might not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon. Then the secret was revealed to Daniel in a night vision. So Daniel blessed the God of heaven.
Daniel sought godly counsel from other believers, and asked them all to pray and he prayed to God. It was kind of like an early prayer chain! Afterwards he acknowledged God's goodness and praised Him for answering his prayer.
What is going on in your life today? Who do you seek through your crisis? Big or small, God will listen. Sometimes He speaks through other godly people. Sometimes the answer may be in His Word. Sometimes we need to wait on the Lord. Sometimes His answer may not be what we want, but it is always the better way. He will be with us, He will get us through it. And, we will be better and stronger in the end. So, trust God. Start with Him. Make God your priority in everything you do.
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Mini management consultancies: marketing's next hot startups?
However, the expected rash of similar 'big four' ad group takeovers never really happened. The reasons for this are complex and we've written about them before, so I won't go into depth on those here.
But suffice to say that there are few big entities left to acquire. Accenture's big rival, Deloitte Digital, acquired no fewer than nine marketing services agencies last year, but the likes of Market Gravity and Acne can hardly be said to be McCann or O&M-size operations, whatever other qualities they may have. And there is undoubted resistance among creative types to being gobbled up by a management consultancy.
I don't think the consultancies' interest in advertising is over, or that a big move or takeover won't happen, I just don't think the world is quite ready just yet, but there is an increasing number of brand owners showing a greater interest in the consultants' approaches.
Instead of going over that old ground, I'd like to put a different spin on things. What if the next generation of hot shops to be circled by the M&A world were not traditional funky London, Amsterdam or Portland startups, but mini management consultancies?
It's not as outlandish an idea as it might first seem.
Just recently my Green Square colleagues and I have been working with an impressive disruptor operation called ORCA, and the way in which they work got me thinking about what the hotter than hot, eminently M&A'able startup of the near future might look like.
ORCA describes itself not as a marketing services agency… but a "brand growth agency". It doesn't fixate on making old-fashioned ads, but instead begins with a set of fundamental and challenging questions around brand and business, operating to five key ORCA principles, all designed to deliver clients growth and help them manage change in a fast-changing world.
It specialises in a number of areas, not all of which one would associate with the more old-school advertising agency: identifying growth areas and potential; business planning; brand strategy; "course correction" (helping a brand or client change its direction or strategy, if necessary); branded content, activation and "brand guardianship"; identifying future opportunities; tracking performance and planning/executing responses as necessary.
The ORCA founders – Craig Wills (an agency strategy leader and startup entrepreneur) and Simon Pont (a former agency group chief strategy officer and best-selling author) – say they don't focus on creative output as such, but on "brand growth and competitive advantage" – which sounds like the sort of thing a consultancy would say it does.
ORCA takes a very "scientific" approach, using all the technological goodies – AI, predictive mapping, data science – at its disposal.
So, in a four-step process, the agency gathers intelligence and analysis on the brand, its customers and the wide landscape; it then uses the intel to identify opportunities (or threats); creates a programme to deliver the opportunity; and monitors its progress, adapting if appropriate. Of course, many of the skills it brings to the table – such as copywriting or design – would be part of any traditional agency's remit; but others (road-mapping, packaging, trendspotting, cultural change programmes) wouldn't necessarily be.
As Pont candidly challenges: "It's 2018, meaning clients want an evolved set of agency skillsets – and they want partnership on a different set of terms. As opposed to paying punchy monthly retainers, agency resources are something a client should be able to dial-up and down, based on commercial targets, budget and funding rounds. A true partner business needs to be smart, strategic and simpatico."
Interestingly it can offer both a "consultancy model" (a fixed-term contract) or the more familiar "agency retainer", with a licensing model for the tools. How this is put together depends on the client, its needs, the task and the budget. It's a flexible approach that will win you friends in an era of huge disruption.
The Orca approach seems to be working as it is experiencing positive traction with new clients operating in a broad range of categories from financial services to B2B, tech to education and global luxury consumer brands.
Why is this? I think it's for a number of reasons. It will use – or seek out – everything (not just creative or strategy but market data, business intelligence, legal requirements) to shape the vision of all the stakeholders – and then put it into action.
The big management consultancies have been doing something like this for decades. They attempt to solve problems and manage change or transition. Where they don't possess the internal skills to manage this, they'll bring in external contractors or partners.
Some forward-thinking agencies do this as well. In some quarters this approach is known as the 'Hollywood model'. The 'agency' acts as a kind of movie producer or director, assembling the right team of talents to bring the project to fruition – it's the way Hollywood has largely worked since the collapse of the old studio system in the 1960s, when most of the big stars started to sign up for individual projects rather than being tied into long-term projects with a particular studio. Movie makers realised it was much more profitable to draw on a vast pool of freelance talent than rely on a large in-house workshop.
And so it is with smaller agencies, especially startups. Marcomms outfits like Orca are morphing into miniature consultancies. They will be more (relatively) profitable than a big shop with fat payrolls and infrastructures, and they can be much more nimble, which, in a fast-moving digital world, clients like. The clients also like the greater transparency offered by the "consultancy" model – they can see who's being paid how much and for what.
But Orca and shops like them also bring something to the table that the big consultancies usually don't – an understanding of consumer or customer behaviour. There was an interesting piece in the FT recently about the long and largely ignoble history of rebranding and corporate makeovers (Post Office to Consignia, Dunkin' Donuts to Dunkin' et al). These expensive makeovers are usually well-intentioned and often done at the urging of consultants; what one ends up with is usually something meaningless, and or long-winded (it actually takes longer to say "WW" than the pre-makeover "Weight Watchers") and unpopular with the most important of a brand's stakeholders – its customers.
A decent ad shop would look at the strength of a brand, understand the customer's feelings about it, and act accordingly. Consultancies tend to look at other metrics and stakeholders, such as investors – a rebrand might lead to a short-term stock price hike, but overall, it has little effect; for consumers, the effect is often negative and usually results in much mockery from the media.
Earlier this month, researcher Forrester shared its CMO predictions for 2019. One of the interesting things Forrester found was that 2019 "will be the year CMOs prioritise strategies that harness their customers' energy and then use that collective vivacity to reinvigorate their brand".
The other thing Forrester predicts is that CMOs will be looking at "old school" marcomms – in other words, after years of focussing on tech and data, the way to cut through clutter is to concentrate on brands and their promises and essences again. Customer experience, not piles of data or split-second programmatic ad placement, will be what counts.
This is something the very best "old school" agencies do very well, and it's something consultancies couldn't. To do it, they are having to learn, or buy in. Buying in (or up) is easier.
There was another move in this direction last month (31 October) when PA Consulting acquired Essential Design for an undisclosed sum.
PA Consulting describes itself as a "global innovation and transformation consultancy" (with offices in the UK, Europe and the Americas) specialising in strategy, innovation, product design and engineering and manufacturing process improvement. PA's clients include Virgin Hyperloop One (transport) Skipping Rocks Lab (sustainability) and Monica Healthcare (pregnancy monitoring).
As such, Essential is a perfect fit. Based in Boston, USA and formed in 2001, Essential has clients in the consumer (Shure, Altec Lansing, Dell), life science (Robot Futures) and healthcare (Philips) sectors. Its team of researchers, designers and engineers "inform and translate innovation strategy, to create breakthrough physical and digital products". Essential's work has won international recognition and received numerous industry awards for excellence in design research, design strategy and design development.
As a visit to its website will confirm, Essential does much more than just "design" products. It offers research, strategic consulting, quality and project management, engineering and, of course, industrial and service design. Pretty much a consultancy-style "end-to-end" solution. But with a healthy focus on customer experience and brand promise.
How, you might ask, are outfits like Orca and Essential marcomms agencies? The answer at its heart is simple. Advertising and marketing isn't that complicated – it aims to do two things: solve problems (for the client and end user) and change behaviour.
For the end user, this might, for example, manifest itself as providing information or entertainment (or some other 'reward') so that they buy Product A, or buy more of Product B; or getting them to recycle more, or stop smoking or eating too much fatty food. For the client, this might mean changing internal or cultural practices so that identified problems can be solved, or that end users can be better engaged.
This is essentially what the consulting firms do (if they're doing things right, of course), but there are crucial bits of the jigsaw missing, which is where the convergence we've been exploring comes in.
This morphing of startups into consultancies is an interesting development – but it's just one of many mutations happening right now.


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Q: Mapping priority of a fortify issue to severity in sonar I am currently using sonar 4.5.7 and was able to install "sonar-fortify-plugin-2.0" on it.Thereafter I generated an fpr file for a corresponding git repo through Fortify (16.11) and uploaded it in on my sonar test instance.
I understand there are some rules hidden in workbench by default based on below condition
if impact is not in range ![inclusive, inclusive] 2.5, 5.0
if likelihood is not in range !(exclusive, inclusive] 1.0, 5.0

However, for the remaining one's whether there will be correct to say that a 1-1 mapping will prevail or no ? For example :
All critical in workbench will get mapped as blocker in sonar dashboard.
All high in workbench will get mapped as critical in sonar dashboard.
Please guide.
Related links which I could find :
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http://sonarqube-archive.15.x6.nabble.com/Fortify-Plugin-Is-it-possible-to-have-a-feature-to-configure-the-mapping-between-the-priority-of-For-td5012530.html


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Agricultural or farmland is a term for a variety of land uses, that are worth investigating before buying in Kingston upon Hull. Uses like pasture and grazing land are common in Kingston upon Hull, as well as arable and permanent cropland. So, once your sure of the farmland type you need most in Kingston upon Hull, why not start buying.
Before buying farmland in Kingston upon Hull, it's beneficial to understand its potential uses. Zoning is normally used to conclude what the farmland can be used for following buying. Agricultural land covers quite the selection of farming land, from grazing to arable cropland. Whatever class of farmland you would like to buy in Kingston upon Hull, you'll find it at MOVEHUT.
Start your search in Kingston upon Hull for a piece of permanent cropland to buy here. Permanent cropland is not typically as popular in the UK due to the climate but it can be found. If this is the type of land you're looking to buy in Kingston upon Hull, why not let MOVEHUT surprise you with our listings.


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This device, which is considered to be the latest technology in the world, and actually works with the "Natural Plasma" energy, is a true European technology and Czech production.
The principle of operation - ionizing the gases in the air (by turning into 4th case of substance) creates a plasma flow to the problematic area of skin, and ultimately sublimates the top layer of the skin. It is a non-operative, bloodless, seamless, traceless treatment.
It creates an opportunity to achieve remarkable results in terms of Aesthetic and Cosmetics.
Face wrinkles as turkey neck,ear front,upper lip and etc.
Striya from pregnancy (skin tightening), etc.
Who can not apply these procedures?
Is this device any danger to the skin?
As the plasma energy ,emitted by passing of atmospheric gases to the ionized case, are simply located in the millimeter area seen by the device,and it cannot penetrate to the substrate of skin, so there is no risk to the skin.
How long is the skin's recovery period after Jett Plasma Lift Medical?
Depending on the organism, a certain swelling may occur in the procedure area within maximum 5 days, in general, within 7 to 10 days the evaporated skin is poured by peeling. After this period, it is extremely important to protect newly formed skin from the sun for at least 1 month.
What is the difference between botox when applying this treatment method to Wrinkles?
Botox is applied to mimic wrinkles.That is, for instance: if you want the absence of wrinkles caused by the movement of the muscles while laughing, botox is then applied. If there are wrinkles when you do not act mimic movements, then it is an exact time of treatment with Jett Plasm.
If you have any aesthetic problems mentioned above, you can apply Jett Plasm Lift Medical treatment at any age.
Does the blepharoplastic procedure have any damage to the eye?
Jett plasma Lift medical device is used in the removal of small intravenous vessels by ophthalmologists in developed countries. This is evident proof that Plasm energy has no negative effect on the eye.
How many sessions do you need to get the full result?
From the aesthetic problems mentioned above, 23 sessions may be required for only striya (skin tightening). Elimination of other problems requires only 1 session in 95% cases and the full result is achieved in one session.
How much is the duration of blepharoplastic procedure and eradication of Wrinkles?
The duration of these two procedures, depending on the organism, is at least 3-5 years.
Can Ksantelasm (fat crystals) be formed for the second time after removal?
First of all, it is necessary to pay attention to the amount of cholesterol in the blood to prevent the recurrence of the fat crystals in the eyelids.
Will there be pain during the procedure?
Approximately 30-40 minutes before the procedure, anesthetic cream is applied, resulting in no pain during the procedure. However, the likelihood of a mild discomfort during the procedure is not an exception for very sensitive people.
What makes Jett Plasm different from other devices?
As we have noted, plasm energy (lightning energy) is the most effective method and the latest technology in solving many skin problems. To do so, the device should really work with natural plasm energy. Therefore, the results we have achieved in the traceless, spotless manner are incredible, and the rehabilitation process ends faster. The possibility of selecting a temperature of 8 degrees on the appliance creates an individual approach to each problem.
Can these procedures be done in the summer?
Problems in areas where sunshine are not present can be treated in the summer, but the applying of the eyelid tuck, face wrinkles,sun spots, acne\post acne, and suche procedures in summer is not recommended in those areas for having high sun visibility.
Is doctor's reception and consultation paid?
The Lalisa Aesthetic Center is in service with medical staff and most up-to-date aesthetic equipment with years of experience since 2016.


The "CTC Double" is a two- person version of the CTC line of "off the ground" products. The " CTC Double" includes the "3 in 1" features of the "CTC Standard", sets up easily and quickly and eliminates sleeping on damp or rocky ground while providing protection from insects and other annoying outdoor pests. The two zippered polyester and mesh entry doors allow easy access on either side of the fully enclosed 55"W x85"L x 41"H sleeping area. The sturdy collapsible frame supports 500 lbs yet folds down to a compact 12" x 12" x 45" size. Each "CTC Double" comes complete with a Rain Fly and a convenient Roller Wheeled Carry Bag.
• Weight Rating Recommendation of 500 lbs.
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Frankfurt - Japanese trio Hiroshi Kiyotake, Takashi Inui and Mu Kanazaki assembled at the Commerzbank-Arena, where Eintracht Frankfurt and 1. FC Nuremberg played out a tightly-contested goalless draw.
Try as they might, neither Inui nor Kiyotake could find the key to unlock the respective defences.
Eintracht had won five of the six games in which coach Armin Veh named an unchanged starting XI following victory a week earlier. So it was no surprise to see the Eagles line up as they were after the Matchday 20 win in Hamburg. Stefan Aigner was his usual sprightly self in the engine room, but the snowy conditions got the better of the midfielder as well as several of his team-mates.
The visitors carried a more obvious threat, with Kiyotake pulling the strings and very nearly serving up an opener. The Japanese international displayed great composure to slot the ball through his marker's legs, before teeing up Tomas Pekhart, whose sizzling drive was well saved by Eagles goalkeeper Kevin Trapp. Pekhart was on the receiving end of another fine Kiyotake pass later in the half, but was unable to direct his header on target.
Everything for the visitors was going through the lively Kiyotake, but not to be outdone by his Japanese compatriot, Eintracht's Inui took the bull by the horns at the start of the second half, firing an effort straight down Rafael Schäfer's throat. Frustrations were beginning to creep in on both sides, though, with clear-cut chances proving unbelievably hard to come by as the game wore on.
Not even the prolific Alexander Meier could turn the tide in his side's favour, with Schäfer again equal to the task to deny the towering forward a 13th Bundesliga goal of the season. Nuremberg's Kanazaki missed out on the opportunity to join his far eastern representatives on the field of play, but it was nevertheless a pleasing performance from the Franconian side in their bid to avoid the drop.


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Q: Is it possible to deep link for the android fragment How do apply deep linking of a fragment page while app invitation. It is easy to handle deep linking for the activity class, How can I manage for the android fragment deep linking ?

A: it is impossible for you to put the deep link to the fragment but, You can sent the deep link into your main activity then, your can filter that string from the deep link belongs to fragment and you can trigger the fragment from that string.


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Honda Clarity Plug-In Hybrid And Clarity Electric To Make Worldwide Debut At 2017 New York Auto Show
The all-new Honda Clarity Plug-in Hybrid and Honda Clarity Electric will make their worldwide debut at the 2017 New York Auto Show.
The two all-new, electrified Honda vehicles will make Clarity the first vehicle series to offer customers an expanded array of electrified vehicle choices with fuel cell, battery electric and plug-in hybrid powertrains wrapped in a sporty, spacious and comprehensively equipped five-passenger midsize sedan.
The Clarity series is at the vanguard of Honda's commitment to address society's energy and environmental concerns as the company expects significant growth in sales of electrified vehicles. Honda has announced its intention to make two-thirds of its global auto sales from electrified vehicles by 2030.
The official teaser sketch of the Clarity series released today includes the never-before-seen Clarity Plug-in Hybrid and Clarity Electric flanking the currently available Clarity Fuel Cell.
As the next progression of Honda's dynamic styling for electrified products, each Clarity variant has a low, wide aerodynamic body with unique design elements. Combined with elegant and advanced exterior styling, the Clarity series boasts spacious interiors outfitted with premium, environmentally-responsible materials. The Clarity series also features advanced technologies, including Display Audio with Android Auto and Apple CarPlay, and standard Honda Sensing safety and driver-assistive technologies.
Honda says that the Clarity Electric will be the first affordable, midsize, five-passenger battery electric vehicle. The third vehicle in the Clarity series, the Clarity Plug-in Hybrid, will launch in all 50 states and will be the volume leader in the series, combining an all-electric driving range rating in excess of 40 miles with a hyper-efficient gasoline-hybrid extended range mode.
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Honda U3-X Comes to the U.S.
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"We installed Otis - the virtual patient into our lab computers for use by students in the Doctor of Audiology program at Nova Southeastern University. It is an excellent tool to assist students to learn hearing evaluation techniques. The Otis - the virtual patient assists students who are learning the concepts of masking, increasing their evaluation speed, and integrating diagnostic information for patient management. With Otis, students are able to practice what they are learning in the classroom and apply these techniques to the clinic. I highly recommend this system for student training."
"Otis can offer the student/trainee hands-on computer-based training in air conduction, bone conduction, and masking test exercises. Otis would be an excellent compliment to the student experience that includes appropriate testing of live clients. Exercises can be submitted online for evaluation by a mentor for evaluations of time and accuracy. Additional modules ask for short answer test reports. This training program is well designed and would be beneficial for most any beginning-level student in the hearing healthcare field."
"Audiometry is a matter of practice. Correct results can only be achieved with a great deal of practice and a feeling for the activity – and so beginners need a lot of training. That is what Otis – the virtual patient provides and a book doesn't. "
"Our students commented how much they like to work with Otis, and appreciate in particular the instantaneous feedback. This follows best practice for learning by doing, and is of immense benefit.
... This has resulted in good student engagement and a much higher learning outcome with better grades for the skills lab modules both for our first and second year students."
"I am impressed by the technical perfection of Otis, and its authentic case examples are in line with the trend towards problem-based teaching in the study of medicine."
Dr. Thomas Spillmann from the University Hospital Zurich, audiologist, initiator and Medical Project Director for Otis – the virtual patient.
"I think the theory manual is excellent. For me it all fits together. I think a beginner like myself can really tell whether a theory manual is any good or not. And I think I've really understood it."
"The obvious benefits are that we can now make use of slack time to practise with Otis, and that staff can manage their own training whenever it is convenient or an opportunity presents itself. "
"The new edition of the book Praxis der Audiometrie (Audiometric practice) has been enhanced with an on-line collection of case studies. It was a pleasure for me to set up this web-site together with Christoph Wille from innoForce. His sound knowledge of audiometry and his constructive input helped us overcome many a difficulty."
Medcare Eritrea, an association of ENT clinicians in Germany supporting the development of ENT services in Eritrea.
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So what can you do when you discover that your worst nightmare just came true? The feds are on your doorstep arresting you on a federal indictment. You are facing a lengthy prison sentence and you feel paralyzed. What do you do?
Be proactive. The first step is to find an experienced federal defense attorney to help you from the start. Even if you have not had time to reach out, do not speak to the federal authorities without your attorney being present. What you say will be used against you in court. There are measures that can be put in place to protect you in this situation, but do not fall victim such statements as, "Don't you want to help yourself?" or "You need to get on board early, this could be your only chance." Ask to speak to your attorney immediately and make certain your attorney is an experienced federal attorney who regularly practices in federal court.
Listen to your attorney. You will likely be held in custody, even if only for a brief period of time. Do not speak to the other inmates. Every inmate in custody is trying to earn a reduced sentence and they all know that cooperating against another inmate is the quickest path to a shorter sentence.
Your phone calls are being recorded. The case agents do listen to your phone calls. Although it is an isolating experience to be held in custody without your family and friends, talking freely on the phone is not a wise decision. The only time you should discuss your case is in the presence of your attorney.
You are no longer in state court. The sentencing structure is entirely different, as is the negotiation process. Your attorney will need to get specific information from you and from the government's reports in order to be able to give you a projected sentencing range. Be patient, as this process will take time.
What can you do to help yourself if you are arrested by federal authorities? You can help yourself by seeking out an experienced federal trial attorney.
*Jacquelyn Rokusek is a former Kansas state and federal prosecutor who has been devoted to federal criminal defense work since 2005. Jacquelyn's office, Rokusek Stein Law, LLCis located in Shawnee, Kansas. She practices with John E. Cowles who is a former federal prosecutor from the Western District of Missouri and Jessica Sokoloff who has over ten years of experience as a public defender.


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Q: Increasing the pitch of audio using a varied value Okay, this a bit of maths and DSP question.
Let us say I have 20,000 samples which I want to resample at a different pitch. Twice the normal rate for example. Using an Interpolate cubic method found here I would set my new array index values by multiplying the i variable in an iteration by the new pitch (in this case 2.0). This would also set my new array of samples to total 10,000. As the interpolation is going double the speed it only needs half the amount of time to finish.
But what if I want my pitch to vary throughout the recording? Basically I would like it to slowly increase from a normal rate to 8 times faster (at the 10,000 sample mark) and then back to 1.0. It would be an arc. My questions are this:
How do I calculate how many samples would the final audio track be?
How to create an array of pitch values that would represent this increase from 1.0 to 8.0 back to 1.0
Mind you this is not for live audio output, but for transforming recorded sound. I mainly work in C, but I don't know if that is relevant.
I know this probably is complicated, so please feel free to ask for clarifications.

A: To represent an increase from 1.0 to 8.0 and back, you could use a function of this form:
f(x) = 1 + 7/2*(1 - cos(2*pi*x/y))

Where y is the number of samples in the resulting track.
It will start at 1 for x=0, increase to 8 for x=y/2, then decrease back to 1 for x=y.
Here's what it looks like for y=10:

Now we need to find the value of y depending on z, the original number of samples (20,000 in this case but let's be general). For this we solve integral 1+7/2 (1-cos(2 pi x/y)) dx from 0 to y = z. The solution is y = 2*z/9 = z/4.5, nice and simple :)
Therefore, for an input with 20,000 samples, you'll get 4,444 samples in the output.
Finally, instead of multiplying the output index by the pitch value, you can access the original samples like this: output[i] = input[g(i)], where g is the integral of the above function f:
g(x) = (9*x)/2-(7*y*sin((2*pi*x)/y))/(4*pi)

For y=4444, it looks like this:

A: In order not to end up with aliasing in the result, you will also need to low pass filter before or during interpolation using either a filter with a variable transition frequency lower than half the local sample rate, or with a fixed cutoff frequency more than 16X lower than the current sample rate (for an 8X peak pitch increase).  This will require a more sophisticated interpolator than a cubic spline.  For best results, you might want to try a variable width windowed sinc kernel interpolator.


As you will remember from your time as a Member there is always a wealth of activity going on at the College.
Below you can find listed some of the upcoming events that are also open to Alumni, giving you the perfect reason to come and spend an evening at the College. Don't forget that you also benefit from an exclusive discount on catering in the Great Hall and Freddie's so why not enjoy a meal at the College before going along to an event? You can find full details of how to access your discounts and other benefits here.
Champagne Gala - 2nd March, 20:00, William Goodenough House, Large Common Room.
Special Lecture by Nobel Laureate Sir Paul Nurse FRS - Science as Revolution - 6th March, 18:30 to 20:30, London House, Great Hall.
Nobel prizewinner Sir Paul Nurse FRS gives a special lecture to the College. Sir Paul is currently the Director of the world-renowned Francis Crick Institute in London. He was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine along with Leland Hartwell and Tim Hunt for their discoveries of protein molecules that control the division (duplication) of cells in the cell cycle. This lecture should not be missed.
The lecture is prefaced with a drinks reception hosted by the Dean at 18:30 in the Great Hall.
Latin American Cultural Party 2019 - 9th March, 18:30 - 23:00, London House, Great Hall.
Port Talk by Henrietta Hill QC: Mind the (Gender Pay) Gap - What more can be done to promote equality for women in the workplace? 12th March, 20:00, London House, Churchill Room.
Henrietta Hill QC is a leading equality, discrimination and human rights lawyer, who specialises in inquests and public inquiries, claims against the police, related public law cases and discrimination law. She regularly writes and lectures in her specialist areas.
Ms Hill has a wide international experience including work with the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York and teaching/research in Colombia, Montenegro and Hong Kong. She is a former recipient of the Liberty/JUSTICE Peter Duffy Award (previously the Young Human Rights Lawyer of the Year Award). Please join us for what will no doubt be a fascinating talk.
Law Faculty Lecture by Professor Conor Gearty: Can Human Rights Survive? 13th March, 19:30 - 20:30, London House, Large Common Room.
Professor Conor Gearty is Professor of human rights law in the LSE's Law Department. He was Director of the Centre for the Study of Human Rights from 2002-2009 and has published widely on terrorism, civil liberties and human rights. He is also a barrister and was a founder member of Matrix chambers from where he continues to practise.
Professor Gearty has been a frequent adviser to judges, practitioners and public authorities on the implications of the UK Human Rights Act, and has frequently lectured at home and abroad on the topic of human rights. He has appeared in human rights cases in the House of Lords, the Court of Appeal and the High Court.
A drinks reception is taking place before the lecture at 19:00, which all are welcome to join.
Political & Social Sciences Faculty Lecture by Matt Anderson - 18th March, 19:30 - 20:30, London House, Large Common Room. The title of the lecture is to be confirmed.
Mr Anderson is a senior career officer of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and currently serves as Australia's Deputy High Commissioner to the UK. Mr Anderson has previously served as Ambassador to Afghanistan (2015-16), High Commissioner to Solomon Islands (2011-13) and High Commissioner to Samoa (2007-2011). He has also been posted to Papua New Guinea and South Africa.
Mr Anderson was Chief Negotiator of the Australian-led Peace Monitoring Group on Bougainville and undertook a Short Term Mission to Cambodia. He was awarded the Public Service Medal for his role leading the humanitarian and consular response to the 2009 Pacific tsunami.
Please join us beforehand for a drinks reception, which starts at 19:00.