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'A momentous moment for Virginians' after General Assembly unanimously passes legislation to end surprise medical bills
By: Kate Masters - March 6, 2020 12:12 am
It took weeks of negotiations to settle on an end to balance billing, a much-loathed feature of Virginia's medical system that's been locked in a legislative deadlock for years.
Lawmakers were jubilant on Thursday as both the House and Senate unanimously passed identical legislation to remove the risk of surprise hospital bills for some Virginians. The often-expensive fees often come when patients seek emergency care at an out-of-network hospital, or receive treatment from out-of-network doctors at a facility that's otherwise covered by their insurance.
In many cases, patients don't know they're receiving treatment from an out-of-network provider. In one case, a Northern Virginia teenager was billed $34,000 after an out-of-network plastic surgeon treated his broken nose at a hospital included on his family's insurance plan.
Doctors and hospitals have been pitted against insurance companies on the issue for years. Neither side thinks patients should receive surprise medical bills, but they've been unable to reach a resolution on how — and how much — doctors should be paid for treating an out-of-network patient.
Frustrated, a team of legislators pushed a bill that leaves the decision to a third party if providers and insurers can't reach an agreement.
"When an individual needs medical care, that person needs to feel confident they can access that care without going bankrupt," said Sen. Barbara Favola, D-Arlington, who carried the legislation in the Senate. "This has been a long time coming."
The final version of the legislation borrows a model that was first adopted in Washington state. Under the new law, patients who receive out-of-network emergency care — or treatment from an out-of-network doctor at a hospital covered by their plan — can only be charged the in-network rate required by their plan, including their usual copay or deductible.
Importantly, the law only applies to patients with state-regulated health care plans. ERISA plans (coverage provided and paid for by a single employer) have to opt into the law, potentially leaving up to 3 million Virginians still vulnerable to balance billing, according to data from the state's Bureau of Insurance.
Insurers are responsible for compensating an out-of-network provider at a "commercially reasonable" rate, based on payments for similar services in the same geographic area. Insurance companies have 30 days to pay the bill, and doctors have 30 days to dispute the initial offer or the payment.
If providers and insurers disagree on the amount, the bill gives them 30 days to negotiate an agreement. If that fails, either party can notify the State Corporation Commission, which is responsible for providing a list of approved arbitrators to settle the dispute.
"Patients will never be part of the arbitration process," said Del. Mark Sickles, D-Alexandria, who helped negotiate the final version of the legislation. "The goal of arbitration is to serve as a powerful backstop and provide an incentive for the health plans and providers to be honest brokers from the start."
Lawmakers hope the month-long negotiation process will discourage providers and insurers from seeking further action. The final legislation also mandates a "baseball-style" arbitration process, with both parties submitting their final offers without going through multiple series of offers and counter-offers.
Both Favola and Sickles described the final bill as a "compromise" between doctors, hospitals and insurers on behalf of Virginia patients. But Doug Gray, executive director of the Virginia Association of Health Plans, disagreed with any characterization of an agreement between the opposing groups.
"We were forced to accept this legislation," he said. "I don't mean to sound like a sore loser. But what we did was try to make this best version it could be. That doesn't mean we like it."
Virginia's insurance companies have long preferred legislation that would set fixed rates for out-of-network providers — usually capped at the rate of Medicaid reimbursement or slightly higher — while doctors and hospitals have argued that the proposed rates are unfairly low. Negotiators on the bill said that neither said was particularly happy with legislation that opened the process to third-party arbitration.
What matters to lawmakers, though, is that patients will no longer be caught in the middle.
"This is a momentous moment for Virginians," Favola said.
by Kate Masters, Virginia Mercury
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Kate grew up in Northern Virginia before moving to the Midwest, earning her degree in journalism from the University of Missouri. She spent a year covering gun violence and public health for The Trace in Boston before joining The Frederick News-Post in Frederick County, Md. Before joining the Mercury in 2020, she covered state and county politics for the Bethesda Beat in Montgomery County, Md. She was named Virginia's outstanding young journalist for 2021 by the Virginia Press Association.
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The Seshan Effect has got diluted over time
Lalit Shastri
Former chief election commissioner TN Seshan died in Chennai on Sunday following a cardiac arrest.
Honoured with the Ramon Magsaysay Award for government service in 1996 and former Cabinet Secretary of India, Seshan will always be remembered for reforming the elections, taking strict and pro-active steps to end electoral malpractices and redefining the visibility of the Election Commission. He was the Chief Election Commissioner from 12 December 1990 to 11 December 1996.
I was covering for The Hindu the 1993 Madhya Pradesh Assembly election that were being held after one year of President's Rule that had been imposed in Madhya Pradesh following the dismissal of the Sunderlal Patwa led State BJP Government in the wake of the post Ayodhya riots. Election Coverage took me to Rewa, where the then Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao had come to address an election rally.
Rewa Circuit House
Reaching Rewa after a tiring road journey in the afternoon, one drove straight to the Circuit House to avail the room facility to freshen up and be on the job. The PM's rally was scheduled later that afternoon. On landing there one was told by the person in-charge that the PM would be staying at the Police officers Mess but as standby two rooms had been specially upgraded and kept reserved for him. Another room was reserved for senior Congress leader Shyama Charan Shukla and hence there was no question of allowing me entry into any of the rooms.
Flustered by the treatment, one straightaway drove to the Collectorate, where one got the chance to meet the additional Collector. When he was asked for a room at the Circuit House, he dismissed the request saying it was not possible. On being told that the district administration was supposed to cooperate with media-persons covering the general election to the State Assembly and there were firm instructions from the Chief Election Commissioner TN Seshan in this regard, the officer shrugged his shoulder and dismissed me in a hurry saying allotting a room was out of question. I was prompt in telling him that I would be sending a fax to the Chief Election Commissioner and reporting that he was not cooperating with the national press. The officer, in a brazen manner, said that I was free to do whatever…. At this I took a you-turn and left his room. Before I got into my car, an attendant came running towards me. He told me that he had been asked to convey by the officer that I could return to the Circuit House where instructions were being passed to open a room for me.
This was the Seshan Effect that many of his unworthy successors have allowed to dilute over the years.
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You may or may not have heard about a new "trend" that is quickly starting to become a manic craze in the digital world. It's called cryptocurrency and the most prominent version of cryptocurrency is called 'Bitcoin'.
Before we dive into Bitcoin itself, let's clear up what the heck a cryptocurrency even is.
If that doesn't make any sense don't worry, it's a little bit confusing at first, but I'll see if I can simplify it a bit into something more bite-sized.
U.S. Dollars ($) are a paper-based currency that is given a certain value based on a finite amount of gold. The gold standard. Bitcoin, the largest and most prominent crypto, isn't based on a finite physical commodity, such as gold. Instead, its value is derived on a finite amount of Bitcoins. 21 million to be precise. So, there in lies the "value" of a single bitcoin coin. Anything with a finite supply eventually has a value that society puts on it. Gold, silver, titanium, etc are all examples of a physical good with a value that fluctuates depending on market demand and total amount that is in existence.
Imagine if I had only 1 nickel then gave you that 1 nickel. You now have 1 nickel and I have 0 nickels. You own that 1 nickel and can do anything you want with it, since it's yours after all. I can't tell you what to do with it and I can't give you any more since I only had 1. You are free to give it to your mother as a horrible Mother's Day gift, or you can give it to a kid on a playground and make their day, it's all yours. It is pretty easy to understand this transaction because it happens every time we spend money, or give money in exchange for a service.
But, what if instead of giving you an actual, physical nickel, I gave you a digital nickel. The problem is you have no idea if that nickel is worth anything or if it even truly exists.
What if I don't even have a nickel! This conundrum is called the double-spending problem and it exists with almost every digital currency in existence. Until, Cryptocurrencies.
We need some sort of ledger that allows me and you to see that the digital nickel I gave you was actually mine, and now is actually yours. So, we make a spreadsheet together and write down our transaction and the deal is done. The nickel is yours, right? Well, yes unless I am the one to keep that ledger and then alter it maliciously by adding more nickels to my account even if I don't actually own them. The whole system gets screwed up and no one can be trusted anymore.
This problem was solved with the creation of Bitcoin and the blockchain. Blockchain = Ledger. Essentially, it's just a endless transactional ledger comprised of 'blocks' that track all of the transactions that occur within it.
Bitcoin uses the same type of ledger system we used when we traded our nickels. The key difference though, is that instead of only me or only you having access to the ledger, everyone who participates in Bitcoin transactions gets a copy of it and can transparently see how many "nickels" are in supply at any given time. No more cheating and saying you have more "nickels" or Bitcoin than is actually there.
Things start to get even more interesting when you realize you can send more than just digital money with the blockchain ledger. You can attach little notes, contracts, etc and there is no way to modify or cheat the system because any participant can see the transaction and verify its existence.
There are over 2100 different crypto currencies out there today, almost all of them will never gain traction, but a few have. Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin & Ripple are all examples of the top 4 crypto currencies being used today. And they all have wildly different values at the moment. Bitcoin just today reached an all time high over over $6,000 per coin, while Ripple is worth only $0.20 per coin. Quite the spread. But each coin has something unique about them that differentiates them from the rest. I won't go into the differences because it gets quite technical and I don't really fully grasp it all either. So.. Yeah.
Hopefully this all helped to clear up some of the mystery behind Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies or oped your eyes to the possibilities of it and the blockchain technology itself.
I am invested in Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin and Ripple. I strongly believe in the underlying technology and I am spreading out my eggs across the different coins to diversify as much as possible.
Thanks for the link back. What led you to choose those particular 4 to invest in?
For Bitcoin: It's the user base, hype, and being essentially the first to market. Most alt-coin transactions first go through bitcoin, then BTC is spent to purchase the alt-coin.
For Ethereum: If I remember correctly, it has the largest # of enterprises already on board to support the tech via the EEA (Enterprise Ethereum Alliance). Maybe the companies won't stay on board, but the momentum seems to be there already. I'm not sure Ether will ever be used as a payment system, as much as an enterprise solution for maintaining contracts, ledgers, etc.
For Litecoin: I am thinking its value will always be less than that of Bitcoin, so I think it could become the coins to bitcoins dollars. It also is the 3rd largest by market capitalization, not counting the Alt-coin or non-mineable coins.
For Ripple: Simply, it's the 3rd largest by market cap. and costs only a mere 0.20¢ / coin. This is pure speculative and hoping it goes up to even a dollar. This "feels" like the most risky play, but I have no idea. Also, it can't be mined, which I find interesting compared to the others.
Finger's crossed one of these comes through, although I have highest hopes for Bitcoin, Ether and Litecoin.


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A report recently released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) revealed that Medicare paid $5.1 billion in 2009 to skilled nursing facilities providing inexcusably poor-quality of care to the elderly and other vulnerable populations.
By law, each resident who is covered by Medicare is entitled to a care plan. The care plan should define the resident's health goals, the type of care services required, who administers the care, and any special needs they may have, such as medical equipment and supplies, or dietary restrictions. An estimated twenty percent of residents investigated had poorly written care plans that did not properly address all of their health problems.
The report found that 37 percent of Medicare patients were admitted to facilities that failed to develop a care plan consistent with the federal minimum standards or failed to execute care according to the plan, putting their residents at risk.
Specific areas of substandard care included wound care, medication management, and therapy.
Despite these deficiencies, these facilities still collected taxpayer dollars for the inferior care they provided.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is the agency responsible for administering the insurance that covers nursing home payments. The OIG recommended the CMS strengthen regulations on care plans, increase the monitoring of facilities, and hold them accountable for deficiencies by linking Medicare payments to proven quality care. It also recommended continued follow up with facilities found to be providing substandard care.


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Shark Tank Cast Mark Cuban Net Worth is $2.7 Billion.
Mark Cuban net worth as per 2018 is $ 2.7 billion. He is an investor, film producer, television producer, actor and an entrepreneur. Born July 31, 1958, in Pittsburgh, he attended the University of Pittsburgh, Indian University, Bloomington, and Kelley School of Business in 1981 graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration.
Mark built his empire from a humble beginning. At 12, he was selling garbage bags door to door, working as a bartender, disco dancing instructor, party promoter and now he is a successful businessman. He is one of the panelists on Shark Tank show and a husband to Tiffany Stewart.
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She was born in Edgewater, New Jersey in 1949 and graduated from St. Thomas Aquinas College in 1971 with a degree in education. By the age of 23, she had been employed twenty times before taking a $ 1000 loan to start her real estate business in New York City.
The real estate business is now worth $ 5 billion, the most significant and best-known brand in the market. She is married to Bill Higgins and together has two children.
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She worked for Chicago Tribune while in College and also sold her jewels to supplement her income. Lori has invented slightly more than 400 products and various household items which contribute to her net worth.
She hosts 'Clever and Unique Creations by Lori Greiner', a very famous and popular series that airs on QVC. Besides, Lori serves as a judge on Shark Tank, a reality television series where small-scale inventors compete for financial support for their future businesses. She is married to Dan Greiner.
He is a businessman, investor and an actor with a net worth of approximately $ 200 million mostly from his businesses over the last twenty years. His date of birth is on 14 September 1962, in Varazdin, Croatia.
The 'Shark Tank' panelist's family moved to Nova Scotia when he was just 7, Canada eventually settling in Toronto. Robert joined the University of Toronto where he graduated with a double degree in political science and English literature.
His breakthrough came about when the 'Shark Tank' star set up a technology company called The Herjavec Group in 2003. Apart from taking a role in a Canadian reality series, 'Dragon's Den,' Robert has also appeared in a similar show, the Shark Tank, which is famous where entrepreneurs have the task of impressing potential investors with new ideas. In his first marriage to Diane Plese, they were blessed with two daughters and currently, he is married to Kym Johnson.
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Philae lander results reveal Comet 67P surface is hard ice
Data from the Philae lander shows that the comet it landed on has an extremely hard surface that is covered in dust.
MUPUS probe only able to hammer a few millimetres into surface
CBC News · Posted: Nov 18, 2014 10:47 AM ET | Last Updated: November 18, 2014
Data sent back to Earth by Philae, seen in an artist's impression, suggests that the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is covered in a layer of dust 10 to 20 centimetres thick. Underneath that is a hard surface of ice or ice and dust mixed together. (ESA/ATG medialab)
The Philae lander, the first spacecraft ever to land on a comet, used its MUPUS probe to hammer into the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko "but was unable to make more than a few millimetres of progress even at the highest power level of the hammer motor," the European Space Agency (ESA) reported Tuesday on its blog for the Rosetta mission, of which Philae is a part.
Data from Philae suggest the comet's surface is covered in a layer of dust 10 to 20 centimetres thick, on top of strong ice, or ice and dust mixtures, the Rosetta team says.
First impressions from @philae_MUPUS instrument suggest @philae2014 landed on dust-covered ice: http://t.co/ZcN73IlI09 #CometLanding
—@ESA_Rosetta
"If we compare the data with laboratory measurements, we think that the probe encountered a hard surface with strength comparable to that of solid ice," said Tilman Spohn, principal investigator for MUPUS, on the blog.
In addition to MUPUS, Rosetta also has a drill called SD2 that was activated. It can theoretically drill more than 20 centimetres into the surface and take samples that can be analyzed using ovens, microscopes and other instruments inside Philae.
Organic molecules sniffed
On Monday, the German Aerospace Center DLR, where scientists are monitoring and controlling Philae, reported that all the steps to transport a sample from the drill to the oven were activated. The sample analyzer, called COSAC "worked as planned," but scientists didn't know whether a surface sample from the comet had actually been analyzed.
They did report that COSAC "was able to 'sniff' the atmosphere and detect the first organic molecules after landing." Organic molecules, which are based on carbon, include many of the building blocks of life. However, scientists had not yet identified which organic molecules had been detected.
ESA said data from the Rosetta spacecraft that is orbiting the comet shows that overall the solid part of the comet – its nucleus – has a low density. That suggests the inside of the comet is more porous than its hard exterior.
Rosetta's MUPUS instrument couldn't hammer more than a few millimetres into the surface even at its highest power, the European Space Agency says.
The MUPUS probe also contains instruments designed to measure temperature and acceleration. Some of the data could not be gathered because it was in Philae's harpoons, which didn't fire properly. But the probe did measure temperatures of -153 and -163 C after landing.
Philae made its historic landing on the comet on Nov. 12, and managed to send a couple of loads of data 500 million kilometres back to Earth before running out of battery power and shutting down for now. The lander is expected to wake up again in the spring of 2015, as the comet orbits closer to the sun, allowing more sunlight to hit Philae's solar panels. At that point, its instruments, including MUPUS, may be able to collect more data.
In the meantime, the Rosetta spacecraft, which deployed Philae, continues to orbit the comet and collect data.
A previous version of this story said the MUPUS instrument was used to drill into the surface. In fact, MUPUS hammers into the surface, and the SD2 instrument is used for drilling.
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How Does the Vienna Convention Apply in an Arrest?
When Americans travel overseas, we enjoy some comfort in knowing there are international treaties in effect that protect our rights, for example, if we are arrested in France, Cambodia or some third-world country.
Americans are often quite aware that the United States has taken measures to ensure our citizens are protected with certain rights, even outside the United States. For example, during the Gulf War, U.S. Servicemen were assured that the Hague Convention governed their treatment and gave them some protection of their rights if they became prisoners of war by Iraqi agents.
One of such laws is the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, also known as the Vienna Convention. It was enacted on April 24, 1963 and can be read at 21 U.S.T. 77, T.I.A.S. No. 6820.
The Vienna Convention requires that law enforcement officers advise arrested foreign nationals "without delay" that they have the right to have their consulate notified of their arrest. Vienna Convention, supra, art. 36, par. 1(b), at p. 101 (Article 36); see § 834c, subd. (b).
Should the arrestee request consular notification, the law enforcement officer must promptly inform the consulate of the arrest (Article 36, at p. 101). These requirements of the Vienna Convention were enacted as state statutory law in 2000, but the California Legislature did not specify a remedy for their violation (§ 834, see Comment, A Proposal for U.S. Implementation of the Vienna Convention's Consular Notification Requirement (2013) 60 UCLA L. Rev. 1324, 1366).
Section 834c provides that any "known or suspected foreign national " must be informed of the right to consular notification within two hours of his or her arrest, booking and detention. People v. Leon (2020) 8 Cal.5th 831, 845 (quoting § 834c, subd. (a)(1)).
How this applies in California when a person is arrested in California was put to the test in the recent Supreme Court case of People v. Eduardo David Vargas, a case that arose out of Orange County Superior Court. The ruling was recently (July 13, 2020) published at 2020 DJDAR 7218.
Vargas, who was not a U.S. citizen, was convicted of one count of first-degree murder (Penal Code § 187(a)), six counts of robbery (Penal Code §§ 211, 212.5(c)), one count of attempted robbery (Penal Code §§ 664, 211), two counts of active participation in a criminal street gang (Penal Code § 186.22(a) (defined at the time as "street terrorism"), and one count of possessing a firearm while on probation (former Penal Code § 12021(d)). The jury also found true a robbery-murder-special circumstance allegation (Penal Code § 190.2(a)(17)(A)).
The People alleged as well, and the jury found true, allegations that defendant personally discharged a firearm causing death during the robbery murder (Penal Code § 12022.53(d)), and that the crimes were committed with the intent to promote a criminal street gang.
After a penalty trial, the jury returned a verdict of death. There was an automatic application to modify the verdict under Penal Code § 190.4(e), which was denied by the trial court. The appeal was automatic to the California Supreme Court, which affirmed the verdict.
Mr. Vargas appealed the underlying conviction on many grounds. One of the grounds was the judge erred by denying his motion for new trial.
This motion argued that because he was not a U.S. citizen, he was a Mexican national and therefore, Orange County Sheriffs were obligated to notify Mexican consulate officials following his arrest.
Mexican consular officials, however, did not become aware of defendant's case until after defendant was convicted and the jury recommended a death sentence.
However, about twelve hours after he was arrested, an Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) official came to the jail and determined he was a lawful, permanent resident. The INS official advised him of his rights to counsel and consular services in connection with his immigration proceedings.
Mr. Vargas, nonetheless, argued in his motion for new trial and on appeal to the California Supreme Court that had the Mexican consulate been notified of his arrest, a consular official would have advised him, consistent with Miranda v. Arizona (1966) 384 U.S. 436, to exercise his Fifth Amendment right to silence. Instead, Vargas spoke with police.
Although he did not incriminate himself, he claims to have made statements he alleges were factually inconsistent with evidence introduced at trial. Had he remained silent, he argued, he was have felt more free to testify at trial. But because his statements to police contained factual inconsistencies, any testimony he might have given would be subject to impeachment.
The trial court ruled that the INS official visit to Mr. Vargas did not satisfy the Vienna Convention requirements, but "there was a technical violation of the Vienna Convention," but there is no remedy for such a violation and Mr. Vargas did not demonstrate specific prejudice by being denied consular legal advice.
The California Supreme Court agreed that the link between Mr. Vargas' statements to police and the lack on consular notice is very tenuous, so his "Article 36" claim fails.
We bring this article to the reader's attention to show how such an argument was denied, so that if our client were to bring a similar claim, he or she should bring a stronger claim to avoid the problems with Mr. Vargas' claim.
For more information about Miranda issues, please click on the following articles:
What Is Required for Police Custody so That Miranda Applies?
The Exceptions to Advising Someone of Miranda Rights
If Police Do Not Read Me My Miranda Rights, Dismissal?
How Does the Vienna Convention Apply in an Arrest? :: Los Angeles County Crime Defense Lawyers Greg Hill & Associates


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Clearly, you want to keep your garden appearing as well as possible, so you have to take action, but it's nigh impossible to get rid of all the pests. A difficulty is that insects tend to be only found by looking for them in rotting vegetation or under the surface of the soil. One of the earliest things you need to accomplish is get rid of the places where the insects live. Get rid of the weeds, the old foliage, and any decaying matter that the insects like to live in. Routinely, you need to be turning the soil over, and breaking up the clumps. This tends to get rid of the places where insects might be hiding underground.
Pests should be taken out without delay if you want to keep up with the good health and look of your garden. They will grow to be entrenched when not destroyed immediately. A well-kept garden can be a satisfying thing that contributes value to a home.
To help keep the diseases and harmful insects in check, you should also use dormant spray. You want to do this in February or March, as soon as your vegetation are dormant. You have to stick to the correct directions, or the dormant spray won't do any good. Should you do it wrong, you're liable to get rid of your entire garden. A number of insects are beneficial to your garden, and you should not get rid of them. You can also find those winged irritants, the birds. Since they're so mobile it's very challenging to chase them away, so it's better to try to distract them from your plants by means of a bird feeder. Rather than to let them go after your garden produce, give them bird food in your feeder. Birds busy around a feeder will look and sound attractive, and ultimately this will likely also cost less than other solutions.
Despite the fact that having a dog might possibly be helpful, it certainly is not going to fix the situation entirely. Quite a few gardens are tormented by moles. When you have dying plants and discover small heaps of pushed-up soil then you can be sure they're around. These kinds of little critters certainly understand how to make a nuisance of themselves. Most of these small-tailed fellows can be white, but in most cases brown or black, and vary in length from 5 to 14 inches. One way of doing away with them is via trapping. To do this successfully you need to find their tunnels and choose the right position for the traps You may also try detonating a smoke bomb in the entrance to a tunnel, which could force a mole to the surface or suffocate it.


A TEENAGE boy climbed out of a car that had plunged 50 metres down the Range yesterday to flag down help for his injured female driver.
Suffering only minor injuries, the teenager scrambled up the steep ?incline off Prince Henry Drive in drizzling rain while the woman remained in the overturned vehicle.
Emergency services received calls to the scene on the down-lane of Prince Henry Drive about 30 metres from the intersection at the start of Prince Henry Heights.
Early indications suggest a problem with tyres and the wet road ?? surface leading to the accident.
The silver Kia Rio Hatch is believed to have left the road, run over a guide post and crashed through the tree canopy, coming to rest on its driver's side against a tall gum tree.
However, the only evidence to suggest an accident was skid marks across the site of a broken guide post.
The woman had been taking her passenger to school when the accident happened.
Police were still investigating the incident and could not confirm tyre problems had been a contributing factor.
It is understood the driver's mother had the car booked in for a service today.
Queensland Ambulance treated the young woman for lower back pain and both of the vehicle's occupants were taken to St Vincent's Hospital with minor injuries.
Queensland Fire and Rescue Toowoomba Station Officer Cameron Ashmore said it was fortunate the occupants had escaped without serious injury.
"It was a difficult job due to the terrain and the position the car was in," he said.
"Crews had to lower a battery-operated cutting and spreading tool down the escarpment.
"The female was standing up in the car and she had back injuries, so she couldn't climb out; so we took off the roof enabling her to get out safely.
"We are the vertical rescue specialists now, combined with our road accident skills, so we are first-response for these types of incidents.
"It was lucky there was a walking track five metres below where the car came to rest, so we were able to walk the stretcher out of there," Mr Ashmore said.


Ipswitch released the latest version of the MOVEit product suite for beta testing last month. If you have not had the chance to download and check out what's new, here are the highlights.
Transfer has three new toys to play with, two of which have been on people's wish lists for some time now. The first of these is Secure Folder Sharing.
The external user (the 'sharee') then receives an invite to log in to the system in much the same way as a package user (and indeed, a user can be both). To avoid confusion, you may want to update the default temp user display profile so that it no longer takes the new user straight into their mailbox.
Next up, we have the new MOVEit Client.
This gets installed on client machines and doesn't require any special rights to install. Users can upload and download files freely using the client, which makes desktop integration smoother. Both 'drag and drop' and the browse for folders methods work.
While the new client might not sound that exciting, it's worth mentioning that it's available on Windows, Mac AND Linux.
The final big change for Transfer is the introduction of a RESTful API. This offers an alternative method to the old COM object approach. Ipswitch have provided a number of example powershell and curl scripts to work from, which should be enough to get most people started. Pointing a browser to https://localhost/api/v1/swagger shows a plethora of commands ready for use (all described in the documentation).
You should in fact still do this if your system generates a high volume of emails.
There are three important changes for MOVEit Automation too; the first of these is the introduction of Amazon S3 buckets as a host type.
I spent some time over the last few months writing S3 connector scripts, but being able to simply add an S3 host works much better.
The setup is straightforward, but it does come with the glimpse into the future; you can only manage the host via the web console, although it is still visible from the old VB client.
I found uploads and downloads was as simple as any other host type.
… You no longer have to call powershell from the command line app in order to get to your script of choice.
Again though, you can only create powershell scripts from the webadmin interface. Unlike the VB scripts, there are no pre-loaded templates available for powershell. You need to create the script outside of MOVEit, then import the saved ps1 file. However, after import, you can edit the script in the browser. Both the display and editor functions colour code the script, simplifying its management, which is a nice feature.
The final major change for MOVEit Automation is the introduction of RESTful API. In the same way as for Transfer, you can interact with Automation via the REST API. And it isn't just restricted to task manipulation; you can use the REST API to stop the scheduler, check for any running tasks and stop them if necessary before finally stopping the service. This makes it possible to perform controlled shutdowns for Windows patching.
And the fun doesn't stop there – the REST API is available for use in powershell scripts executed in tasks, allowing you to reach any host publishing a REST interface.
So, in summary, this is the most significant set of changes to the MOVEit suite for some time. Everyone should benefit in some way or another from these updates and I look forward to its official release next month.
Please note that Secure Folders will be chargeable for existing customers unless they have MOVEit Premium and will only work on the latest version of the software. Please contact your account manager to find out more.


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Friedrich Eberhard Rambach (* 24. August 1708 in Pfullendorf; † 16. August 1775 in Breslau) war ein deutscher evangelischer Theologe.

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Friedrich Eberhard Rambach war ein Sohn des Pastors Georg Heinrich Rambach (1670–1731). 1721 ging er an das Gymnasium in Gotha und 1727 an die Universität Halle zum Studium der Theologie. 1730 wurde er Lehrer am Pädagogium, 1734 Adjunkt des Diakons von Könnern. 1736 hielt er eine Probepredigt vor dem preußischen König Friedrich Wilhelm I. und bekam von diesem daraufhin eine Anstellung in Teupitz. 1740 wurde Rambach als Diakon an die Marktkirche in Halle und 1745 an die Heiliggeistkirche in Magdeburg. Hier wurde er 1750 Pastor, ein Jahr später Oberdomprediger und Konsistorialrat. 1756 ging er zurück nach Halle als Pastor an der Marktkirche und Superintendent im ersten Saalekreis. Im November 1766 wurde er in Breslau Nachfolger von Johann Friedrich Burg (1689–1766) als Oberpfarrer an der Elisabethkirche, Oberkonsistorialrat und Inspektor der lutherischen Kirchen im Fürstentum Breslau. Im Februar 1772 traf Rambach auf der Kanzel ein Schlaganfall, von dem er sich jedoch noch einmal erholte. Nachdem ihn Ende 1773 ein weiterer Schlaganfall traf, wartete er täglich auf sein Ende.

Rambach war vielfach als Übersetzer bzw. Leiter von Übersetzungskollektiven tätig, vor allem aus dem Englischen. Er übertrug Werke der Theologen Thomas Stackhouse und Philip Doddridge sowie des Religionshistorikers Archibald Bower ins Deutsche.

Der Theologe Johann Jakob Rambach war sein Sohn. Dessen Sohn Friedrich Eberhard war Philologe.

Literatur

 Acta historico-ecclesiastica nostri temporis oder gesammlete Nachrichten und Urkunden zu der Kirchengeschichte unserer Zeit. Bd. 2, S. 981 (Digitalisat)

Weblinks

 Eintrag in der Datenbank der Franckeschen Stiftungen

Lutherischer Theologe (18. Jahrhundert)
Lutherischer Geistlicher (18. Jahrhundert)
Domprediger am Magdeburger Dom
Pfarrer an der Marktkirche Unser Lieben Frauen in Halle
Person des Christentums (Breslau)
Deutscher
Geboren 1708
Gestorben 1775
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Tecfire has been awarded of one of the most important construction projects in Downtown Dubai at the moment: "Address Residence – Sky View". ACC (Arabian Construction Company) is a leading construction contractor in the MENA region with a portfolio that includes some of the Middle East and India's most iconic and sophisticated construction masterpieces.
Designed by the architects of Burj Khalifa, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Tecfire will design, manufacture and supply Bespoke Steel Folding Sliding Doors and Stacking Sliding Doors.


Hanken Centre for Corporate Governance welcomes you to an exciting guest lecture held by Professor Rüdiger Fahlenbrach from the Swiss Finance Institute. The event is open to all interested parties.
Passive Investing: Friend or Foe?
Passively managed index funds are on the rise. But do institutional investors actually have the capacity and interest to monitor the corporations they are invested in? And what is the impact of passive institutional ownership for shareholders?
To find out, Professor Fahlenbrach will concentrate on two corporate governance areas that executives may rapidly influence after a change in the firm's ownership structure: the accumulation of titles on the board of directors and new director appointments, measures of directors' power within the organization.
How do shareholders react to such announcements and are the observed changes in governance to their benefit? Or, do corporate executives use the shift toward a more passive shareholder base to advance their personal interests? These questions—and many others—will be answered during the presentation.


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Q: mysql docker container does not start on windows. erro: mysql exited with code 1. Can somone help me? this is my docker-compose code

A: Could you provide more information about the error?
Just going off of what you provided, I would try using something like this:
version: '3.3'
services:
  db:
    image: mysql:5.7
    restart: always
    environment:
      MYSQL_DATABASE: 'manage_car'
      MYSQL_USER: 'manage_car'
      MYSQL_PASSWORD: 'manage_car'
      MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: 'manage_car'
    ports:
      - '3306:3306'
    expose:
      - '3306'
    volumes:
      - my-db:/var/lib/mysql
volumes:
  my-db:

There's also a good tutorial for running mysql with Docker Compose here


The number of gold mining companies Ghana amounts to more than 23. . This post highlights the celebrations held in the different regions in Ghana.
View of the Tarkwa gold mining area, ca. 1910. Tarkwa Mine, Tarkwa, Ashanti gold belt, Western Region, Ghana. View of the Obuasi gold mining area, ca. 1910.
Aug 16, 2016 Ghana rejected an Australian gold mining operation and kicked that the border with Burkina Faso in the Upper Western region of Ghana.
Jul 31, 2015 Keywords: small-scale gold mining; Ghana integrated assessment; mercury; metals; water; other regions were drawn in as appropriate.
Nov 25, 2013 My main purpose is look how gold mining industry works. mining city in Ghana and African. obuasi is located in Ashanti Region in Ghana.
Apr 8, 2018 The accident happened in the Brong Ahafo region, some 430 kilometres from the capital, Accra.
Apr 8, 2018 Six killed in Ghana gold mining site collapse: company by US-based Newmont in Ghanas southern region, the company said on Sunday.
The emergence of the gold mining industry and the influx of artisanal and small-scale mining communities in the Upper West Region of Ghana. The findings.
small-scale gold mining activities in Ghana produce opportunities and challenges for Upper East region is one of the ten administrative regions in Ghana.
J. Phys. IV France 107 2003 107. DOI: 10.1051jp4:20030255. Mercury and arsenic in the gold mining regions of the Ankobra River basin in Ghana.
Oct 24, 2009 The Human Rights Clinic documented the effects of gold mining on Ghanaians living in the Tarkwa area in the Western Region of Ghana.
After South Africa, Ghana is the largest gold producer in Africa and in the first quarter of 2012, the country Gold Mining and Environmental Issues in Ghana. More than 90 percent of the countries gold output occurs from the Ashanti region.
The Ahafo mine, currently operated by Newmont Ghana Gold Limited mostly in the tropical regions, still practise artisanal and small scale gold mining ASGM.
Feb 15, 2017 Solidaridad Regional Director Gyamfi launches Going for Gold in artisanal and small-scale gold mining communities in Ghana and Tanzania.
Legalizing small scale gold mining in Gbane in the Upper. East Region, Ghana. HENRY AWINIBOD AYAMBA*, AMINU DRAMANI# AND OLIVIA AGBENYEGA+.


Since his inauguration, President Trump has ordered raids in Yemen and air assaults on Mosul and a mosque near Aleppo that have killed scores of civilians. These crimes are compounded by his administration's anti-Muslim immigration proposals and deportations, especially targeting Syrians fleeing their country's civil war.
Please sign our petition and tell President Trump and Congress that military solutions won't bring peace and stability to Syria or any other country.
So if you oppose U.S. militarism and illegal attacks by the U.S. you have been influenced by Russia trolls?
Protest in Yemen today against US-led genocidal starvation/bombing campaign.
Protest in Yemen today against US-led genocidal starvation/bombing campaign. They are literally marching for their lives. Yet almost complete media silence, no hashtag for them. Complicity.
Then there's the media problem. The Democratic Party-promoting MSNBC was silent, while NPR told its listeners that poor innocent Saudi Arabia was surrounded and under attack by the demonic Iran. The New York Timeseditorial board did better than its reporters. But if any coverage of the U.S. role in Yemen had made it onto television, then I would be able to find people when I travel around the United States who are aware that there is a war in Yemen. As it is, I can find few who can name any current U.S. wars. If Senator Sanders had opposed this war when he was running for president, instead of urging Saudi Arabia to spend more and get its blood-soaked hands dirty, progressives would have heard that — and I would have backed Sanders for president.
Trump's support for Israel's claim to Jerusalem makes it clear that US elites don't want peace in the Middle East. No, they're firing up yet another endless war to be paid in blood and treasure by the poor and disempowered at home and abroad.
This provocation – backed by top Democrats – not only endangers Middle Eastern lives in another outbreak of violence, but also puts the safety of Americans at risk. It makes a mockery of his campaign pledge to "put America first".
The truth about Israel-Palestine is: there is no "peace process". The cycle of violence and oppression will continue until the occupation ends.
This is a wake-up call to all who want justice for Palestine. More than ever we must build the boycott-divest-sanction movement to stop the slow-motion genocide of the Palestinian people.


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Official Website: www.chelseafc.com
Chelsea Football Club have worked in partnership with AccessAble, to produce detailed pan-disability guides for Stamford Bridge.
The accessibility information in these guide aims to assist fans with disabilities and provide an additional resource to help home and away supporters plan their visit.
You can view the guide via accessable.co.uk/organisations/chelsea-football-club
Arriving at Stamford Bridge from City Centre
Stamford Bridge is located in West London, and the easiest way to reach the ground from Central London is by tube or rail. See the public transport section for more details.
Arriving at Stamford Bridge by Public Transport
London Underground/Overground
The nearest London Underground/Overground station is:
Fulham Broadway - Zone 2, District Line. If changing at Earls Court Station take a Wimbledon-bound tube. The ground is a 10-minute walk from the station.
West Brompton [WBP]
The station is located at Old Brompton Road, London SW5 9JX; 20 mins' walk from the ground.
It is served by :
District Line on Underground and the West London Line on Overground.
Directions to ground: from the station walk past Brompton Cemetery, until the ground is on your right.
Imperial Wharf [EUS]
The station is located at Townmead Road, London SW6; 15 mins' walk from the ground.
It is served by:
West London Line on Overground and Southern Rail services, which go to to Milton Keynes and Croydon.
Directions to ground: come out of station with Chelsea Harbour on your right; follow until you can turn left onto Lots Road; turn left again onto King's Road, right onto Holmead Road, and left onto Fulham Road. The ground will be in front of you.
There are two bus stops outside Stamford Bridge on the Fulham Road. You can get to the stadium using bus routes 14, 211 and 414.
Arriving at Stamford Bridge by Car
Stamford Bridge is on Google Maps: click here
The M25 circles London and the stadium, and will connect to many of the following roads based on location:
From North: M1, A3220, A41; passing Edgware and Watford
From South: A3, M3; passing Richmond and Wimbledon
From East: A12, A13, A4; passing through Central London
From West: M4, A4, A40; passing Brentford, Slough and Windsor
From City Centre
Stamford Bridge is located southwest of Central London, outside of the Congestion Charge zone. Depending on where you're coming from, you may approach the stadium from the M4, which then becomes the A4 running through Hammersmith.
Stadium Area
Stamford Bridge lies just north of the River Thames and Battersea Bridge, and just south of Hyde Park. The A4 passes near to the stadium, providing links to Central London to the east, and the M4 and M25 to the West.
Stamford Bridge is located in a busy residential area; parking is limited and often reserved. Paid parking facilities are located roughly 15 minutes from the stadium and can be used on a first-come, first-served basis.
Please note full road closures are in place outside the stadium 90 minutes before kick-off and 60 minutes after full-time.
Record PL attendance: 42,332 v Newcastle United (4 December 2004)
Pitch size: 103m x 67.5m
Stadium address: Stamford Bridge, Fulham Road, London, SW6 1HS
International Phone: 0044 207 386 9373
Having officially opened in 1887, Stamford Bridge is the oldest stadium in the Premier League and it has undergone a huge transformation since its humble beginnings as the home of London Athletic Club in the 19th Century.
The venue was originally offered to Fulham FC but after they turned it down, Chelsea moved into the stadium a few months after forming in March 1905.
Stamford Bridge has four, state-of-the-art, all-seater sections that are close to the pitch and can create an electric atmosphere.
Stamford Bridge Stadium Map


In life, people say that you can't help who you love. Often, it's a parent or concerned friend who is telling you this because you love someone who may not be in everyone's good graces. The person you love may not be everybody's favorite. Your love might frustrate, confuse, irritate, annoy or depress your family and friends. Sometimes people in your life won't understand your love.
I'm here to tell you that even if not genuinely accepted by all, it's all okay. You can't help who you love and that's alright.
The same is true for baseball.
I write this as we head into another Adam Wainwright start.
Adam is my favorite player of all time. I know this, you know this, everyone who knows me knows this. I don't hide it. I'm not ashamed. I've definitely shouted it from "rooftops." I quote that because I would never be on a rooftop. Not ever. But I've shouted nonetheless.
My second favorite player, although not near all time favorite yet, is Randal Grichuk.
I've written at length about both of my favorites. If you like them too, "Love Letter of Sorts" is about Adam and "Force To Be Reckoned With" is about Grich.
I'm not here to write anymore about them. I am here to write about how it is okay to choose whoever you want to be your favorite player. Your fandom of anyone is fine. You don't need me to tell you that though.
I wanted to say this because fans of Kolten Wong have been through the wringer this season and I assume some of last although I wasn't around much back then. I know how it feels because of both Adam and Grich. Being on social media is less than ideal when your favorite player has a lackluster night on the mound, out in the field, at the plate or all of it combined.
All I'm saying is love who you love. Your favorites are your favorites and sometimes things won't go their way. I'm emotionally invested in baseball, so my emotions are always present, every game. And sure, they're present all the other times of the day too. I'm slowly learning to shrug off the negative and not feel the need to get entangled into lengthy arguments. Different opinions are part of life. Social media isn't a place to go if you want to live in a sheltered, protected existence.
Even through their worst moments, love who you love anyways. No judgements here. No apologies necessary for loving who you love or defending them.
You can't help who you love.


The Ultimate in sashes for your unique wedding gown, or any special occasion. One of a kind, artisan made satin sash over 5 yards long. Beautiful bow measures 8x8 and is made of rare black striped satin. In the black organza flower center rests a fantastic cameo center. This is a rich and unique item.


Recently I was talking to "Marcia," someone who fits the 3M profile: mid-life, mid-career and motivated to move.
Marcia wasn't sure of what steps to take. She wanted to move fast.
Well, forty year ago, when the Parachute book was first published, this approach was hailed as new, revolutionary and fool-proof. No research had been conducted. Richard Bolles drew on his experience, which made sense back then.
Today's career consultants can draw on published research about career change. They know that the parachute metaphor refers to making a smooth landing after you've been a passenger.
Today you don't look fora parachute. You might have several landings in a lifetime or even a few years. Rather than think of yourself as a passenger in someone else's plane, think of hang gliding. You are active, not passive. And you're going to do this again and again.
We know today that most career change involves an element of serendipity. The shortest distance between you and your next career probably will not be a straight line.
Job titles, for instance, are extremely misleading. Talk to five companies with "systems analyst" jobs and you could find five different job descriptions.
Your strengths can be hard to pin down. It's important to identify your skills but even more important to recognize the culture and unwritten rules of potential new careers and new employers. Forget those navel-gazing "what do you love" exercises (and don't even ask me about tests). Focus instead on telling your career story.
Yet Harry demonstrated motivation, attitude and people skills. He presented his background to show that he had met the requirements in a different environment. And he came across as a super-nice guy, which he is.
By the time the interviews were over, everybody was rooting for Harry to get the job.
Resumes have become more fluid. You will need to post your profile on social media – and you can change your profile easily if you don't get responses you need.
You don't need to wait till you've identified your ideal job to put the finishing touches on your resume. While working on your resume, you will become more aware of your strengths. If you're partnering with a friend or consultant, don't be surprised if you get suggestions about new directions for your career.
Information is key to your career change. What information will you need? How will you get it? How will you modify your plan based on this information?
Career coaching shouldn't provide you with cookie cutter solutions. What you need is a plan that is unique to you.
Most important, remember that career change is messy. Career achievement often will be linear. In fact, corporate careers often resemble NFL football: you get rewarded for being in the right place and the right time and doing your officially assigned job. Career change is more like playground basketball: you get rewarded for figuring out the unwritten rules and being open to whatever opportunities are presented.


Something I have been wanting to re-visit for quite a while, is some reflections on one of the projects I did during my time at the Game Development course, in this case with some of the creative work done in relation to the project "KNighttime Adventures: A Tale of Toys", in which shaped most of the story, setting and level design. However, the most fun thing to talk a bit more about in detail, is the latter of those things: The level design.
Before getting too much into the various levels and such, it is rather important to quickly go over the setting in which the game was meant to be set. The player takes the role of a boy, Jacob, that wakes in the middle of the night and finds out his beloved teddy bear, Theodor, has been torn apart, only leaving his head. Obviously, Jacob wants to find and repair his beloved companion, and is guided into the basement of his house by Theodor's head to find the remaining parts.
The game idea then built upon the notion that Jacob has a rather wild imagination, and imagines that the different areas of his house are different themes, based upon the surroundings. These different areas would contain different levels, that would be warped based on the thematic setting, by using and drawing inspiration from various different objects and the like, found near the given section of the general area. For the basement, we made a connection based on medieval dungeons. An overview, along with a screenshot to show a look from around the center of the room, facing the paint buckets in the north. I will get back to those, specifically, a bit later.
As the game was meant to be a vertical slice, we decided to focus on one of the different sub-levels of the basement, which revolved around the workbench area seen at the lower right part of the overview. The idea here was to emphasize on the gradual imagination of Jacob, by both using different work-bench tools as monsters, as well as having a set of caves formed under the workbench. A very early version of the level was meant to be focusing purely on the work benches, but these turned out to be a good foundation for the gradual imagination. The idea for that was based on the notion that kids – or, at least I did myself – often hid under tables, benches or likewise, and imagined them as caves.
The main purpose of the start of the level was to enhance the player's defensive abilities, by either blocking the dragon lamp's attacks from afar or hiding behind objects to avoid them. In the exterior part, the player is forced to kill the only dragon lamp in the room, atop the workbench. The location is shown on the below pictures and, upon death, flings a fireball to the wall under one of the benches to create the entry to the actual cave-system.
The insides of the caves had two stages. The implemented part – which had two rooms and a boss – focused on making the player move smart to get to the dragon lamps in order to kill them, and stay moving so that the dragon lamps' fireballs did not hit Jacob, as well as training a bit of jumping, as can be seen from the images below. This was a rather early stage of my level design attempts, and the drawing on the left image was thus what I whipped up based on the general idea of the level with some information on height mapping, to get around the notion of drawing 3D on a 2D plane. Amazingly enough, the group liked the design of the level, and it was made into the game, as seen in the image to the right, where Jacob is seen overlooking the jumping section, from the top left part of the room.
The second part of the caves was planned and described, but sadly did not make it into the game, because of increased workload and limited time. These two levels, focused more on the player taking choices between a "faster and harder" route and a "slower and easier" one, while still having to avoid the dragon lamps. The images below also contain some good supplementary comments, which helps elaborating on the different ways they went about this difficulty-mentality. In the end, the idea was that the lava lamp boss should be the 4th room, and the two new ones inserted in between, to gradually ramp up the difficulty.
However, as the amount of content in the game already seemed to be okay – and there were much other work to be done for the Unity-programmers – the 2nd and 3rd room was left out. I do, however, still like the way I got to use the height-differences in some other ways, other than varying the path. Again, this can also be read from the comments on the pictures. It is also something I really want to revisit, when looking to properly learn to build and shape terrain using 3D graphics, so expect me to link back to this at some point.
An entirely other idea was derived from a monster that was created as an idea for the game and the medieval basement setting; the paint bucket knight. What better place to have knights, than in a barracks? Small square-rooms and long narrow corridors – much different from the large open caves from earlier. When bringing the idea up to the group regarding this approach, it was also suggested to add various hazards to the level to spice it up. From there, the ideas started rolling, and I started shaping a level, which incorporated these elements.
The exterior part was kept pretty simple, but the idea was that the shelves in which the outside portal was located at, should act as a drawbridge-entry into the barracks, with actual paint buckets on the shelves to further show the gradual change. This also gave a loose idea of what to expect in the level, without saying too much. Surprise is always good. The images show how I had originally planned this exterior part of the level to look, alongside the actual entryway, complete with a portal.
In the interior parts of the level, the paint bucket knights were made to patrol back and forth through the corridors, but that did not seem to be quite enough. Like with the dragon lamps, the player should have different options to get through a level. As such, the player should be able to sneak past the knights, without being detected. As seen in the picture below, on the right, the patrolling paths – and the knights – are shown by orange. The blocks are the knights themselves, and the long flat patches are their paths. Furthermore, the level was spiced up a bit by adding some flavor in the form of doors and closed-off hall-ways to add more "life" and realism, and so that it did not seem as linear as it was in reality.
However, the level still needed some diversity and use of the mentioned hazards. As thus, "the big room" – as seen in the center of the image to the right – was made to contain some traps and a large amount of paint bucket knights practicing their fighting skills, by fencing with each other. Here, there were also a second option for the player. Either he could – as before – simply fight the knights normally, or try to trick them into stepping into hazards to defeat them.
Rather than an end-boss like for the dragon lamps, I thought a good classic gauntlet type of event was appropriate. The idea was that, when you had gotten past the last patrolling knight which the player had to fight properly, the player would face a solid amount of knights slowly coming from different points in the last big room, seen in the right side of the overview picture. Again, the hazards could be used as an advantage. Sadly, this last part did not make it fully into the final version of the game, because the whole level was above the intended scope-size of the game. Still, the idea was fun to play around with.
From the work done, I got around some different approaches to simple level design, and – as mentioned – is certainly something I want to revisit when learning to model levels in both Unity and adding 3D models to help with the shaping of the levels. This, however, mostly applies to the dragon lamp caves, as the barracks are much more simple in that regard, with the straight corridors and all. The caves would open for getting into playing around with planes, terrain and those sorts of things. But, that is for another time.


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Going bananas: The threat of radiation
Article By : Stanley Pitman
Category : Blog
The real hazard that we need to watch out for is the possibility that nuclear materials may be smuggled under the guise of banana shipments.
I worked at National Nuclear Corp. in the 1980s. I was designing electronic systems for nuclear contamination instruments, including walk-through portals and monitors for bagged waste and vehicles. The radiation detectors were large slabs of special fluorescent plastic, which give off flashes of visible light when struck by energetic photons from radioactive materials. The slabs were optically coupled to a photo-multiplier tube (PMT) to detect the flashes and amplify the resulting electronic pulses via high voltage avalanche multiplication. Pulses were tallied and the system calibrated to measure radioactive source levels.
Many of our vehicle monitors were sold to scrap steel recycling plants, because radioactive scrap getting melted into their mix could be a financial disaster costing over $800,000 and a week's shutdown for cleanup. A major pollution headache was scrapped medical equipment with its original radiation sources crushed before shipment. Another was imported scrap, including one customer who found 2,200lbs of table legs from Mexico contaminated with uranium.
One of our monitors, installed on a mill's incoming train track spur about 100ft off of a main line in South Africa, was giving random false alarms even when the spur track was empty. We suspected some kind of arcing or high voltage leakage, especially since the assembly was mounted outdoors in an area prone to dampness. Heating the enclosure was no help, so the factory shipped me a new electronics assembly and PMT, which didn't alleviate the problem.
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Bananas blamed
After much head scratching, I suspected that maybe our detector was too sensitive and might be picking up radiation from the main track 100ft away. We had always tested our instruments for required minimum sensitivity to detect small radiation sources in a car full of typical scrap, but had no specification limit for highest sensitivity. After some legal wrangling, we finally had to resort to threat of subpoena to secure the shipping manifests of all main line shippers at the target times on "false alarm days." Lo and behold, we discovered the cause in all five identifiable cases was freight boxcars full of bananas. The detector couldn't be easily relocated, so the customer had to end up building a special concrete block wall to better shield the monitor from the main line track.
The real culprit was radiation from the isotope potassium-40, or 40K, which comprises about .012% of naturally occurring potassium, including that in our bodies. The remainder is stable 39K or 41K. 40K decays by various methods, emitting combinations of electrons, positrons, gamma rays and X-rays at about 1.3 to 1.5MeV energy levels. 40K decays very slowly, with a half-life of over a billion years, but the portion in our bodies is still active enough to produce about 4,400 decay events per second in a 70kg man (without bananas). Those who might freak out hearing that their bodies are radioactive can relax. They would have to eat more than 50,000,000 in a day to show any signs of radiation poisoning.
I was later to learn that there were sometimes similar problems with our walk-through portal monitors used by workers in nuclear power plants. They often had a banana with their lunches and could set off alarms when they exited at end of shift. At some plants, workers milked the system for overtime pay for the delays caused by frisking with other instruments to determine if the radiation indeed was from potassium 40K rather than from real contamination.
There have also been problems with truckloads of bananas trying to cross at international borders. A very real hazard, of course, is that nuclear materials might be smuggled under a banana shipment. More sophisticated instruments can differentiate potential hazards by displaying and analysing an energy spectrum of ionising radiation. Some other foods have comparable radiation levels, including lima beans (from 40K) and Brazil nuts (from radium).
Stanley Pitman operates his own engineering design services lab.
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Kane Brown Could Have a Thomas Rhett Duet Coming
First Lauren Alaina, next up Thomas Rhett? Kane Brown says his sophomore album could feature a collaboration between two of the biggest stars in modern country music.
"We've got a couple [collaborations] that we've talked about," Brown told Taste of Country backstage at the 2018 Taste of Country Music Festival in Hunter, N.Y. "They haven't happened yet, so we'll see ..."
That collaboration with Rhett is still in the very early stages, admittedly. Brown says they "were texting" about the idea, but "we don't know for a fact."
"It'd be cool though," he admits.
Brown's sophomore album is due out on Nov. 9. He says the yet-to-be-named project is "a better album" than his self-titled debut album, which was released in 2016; he calls that project an "autobiography," whereas this next record will be "more fun."
"We're trying to get my show a little more energy," Brown says, "so we're just trying to do a bunch of different things."
The album's first single, "Lose It," came out Thursday (June 7). Brown says the tune came out of trying to write another song that just wasn't working. "Any dude can relate to it, hopefully," he says, "and they can claim the song if they want to."
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In June 2004, some of the greatest living guitar players and their bands gathered at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas, for a three-day festival to benefit the Crossroads Centre in Antigua. It was the ultimate concert for any music lover, featuring one legend after the other: Eric Clapton, BB King, Buddy Guy, Eric Johnson, James Taylor, Jimmie Vaughan, Joe Walsh, John Mayer, Robert Cray, Robert Randolph, Santana, ZZ Top, and many more.
This 2-DVD set beautifully documents the event and contains over 4 hours of content. Planned extras include in-depth artist interviews, a mini-documentary, photo gallery, alternate angle, and more. Royalties from the DVD sales will benefit the Crossroads Center.
"Cocaine," Eric Clapton
"Love in Vain Blues," Robert Lockwood Jr.
"Killing Floor," Clapton, Robert Cray, Hubert Sumlin and Jimmie Vaughan
"Sweet Home Chicago," Clapton, Cray, Buddy Guy, Sumlin and Vaughan
"Six Strings Down," Clapton, Cray, Robert Randolph and Vaughan
"Rock Me Baby," Clapton, Guy, B.B. King and Vaughan
"I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow," Dan Tyminski and Ron Block
"Road to Nash Vegas," Tyminski and Block
"Copperline," James Taylor with Jerry Douglas
"Steamroller," Taylor and Joe Walsh
"Oklahoma Borderline," Vince Gill and Douglas
"What the Cowgirls Do," Gill and Douglas
"After Midnight," J.J. Cale with Clapton
"Call Me the Breeze," Cale with Clapton
"March," Robert Randolph & the Family Band
"Green Light Girl," Doyle Bramhall II
"Incident at Neshabur," Carlos Santana
"Jingo," Santana with Clapton
"City Love," John Mayer
"Your Body Is a Wonderland," Mayer
"Rag Bihag," Vishwa Mohan Bhatt
"Tones for Elvin Jones," John McLaughlin
"Josie," Larry Carlton
"Question and Answer," Pat Metheny
"Going Down Slow," Honeyboy Edwards
"Time Makes Two," Robert Cray
"Give Me Up Again," Jonny Lang
"Neighborhood," David Hildago
"Whispering a Prayer," Steve Vai
"Desert Rose," Eric Johnson
"Funk 49," Joe Walsh
"Rocky Mountain Way," Walsh
"I Shot the Sheriff," Clapton
"Blues in C," Clapton
"Cause We've Ended as Lovers," Clapton and Jeff Beck
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"Tush," ZZ Top
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Being Contrarian about Property Gives Income Fund the Edge
[First published in Personal Finance, January 2014]
HARVARD HOUSE BCI FLEXIBLE INCOME FUND
Raging Bull Award for the Best South African Interest-bearing Fund – the top-performing fund on straight performance in the South African interest-bearing short-term and variable-term sub-categories, as well as the South African multi-asset income sub-category over three years to December 31, 2014
A relatively high exposure to listed property probably gave a multi-asset income fund the edge over its competitors in the bond, income and multi-asset income sub-categories.
The Harvard House BCI Flexible Income Fund earned a return of 9.83 percent a year over the three-year period to the end of December 2014 (according to ProfileData), the highest return among the funds in the three different sub-categories that invest predominantly in interest-earning assets. This result earned it the Raging Bull Award for the best South African Interest-bearing Fund at this year's awards ceremony.
The Harvard House Group is a financial services group based in Howick in KwaZulu-Natal. Its flexible income fund, managed by Willie Pelser, can move between bonds, money market instruments and listed property, in line with the manager's views on which of these asset classes will deliver the best returns.
Pelser says he has maintained an exposure of about 20 percent of the fund to listed property since the fund's inception in October 2006.
The FTSE/JSE Listed Property Index returned 23.1 percent a year over three years and 16.25 percent a year over seven years to the end of December last year. Funds in the multi-asset income sub-category are permitted to have property exposure of up to 25 percent and equity exposure of up to 10 percent.
Although the Harvard House Flexible Fund does not invest in listed equities, it invests in preference shares, with, at times, low exposure to these shares and, at other times, the full exposure of 10 percent.
Pelser says there have been times when Harvard House's research, as well as that of others, has indicated that the prices of listed property shares have had a good run, which is unlikely to continue.
"But I have been contrarian at various times of the property cycle – the income you earn from listed property is a growing one and assists the income distribution growth to the underlying investor," he says.
Pelser says that he tries to maintain a good income from listed property by making subtle shifts between companies that have retail, office or industrial property.
The aim of the Harvard House Flexible Income Fund is to earn an income that is better than you could earn from investing in cash or a money market fund.
Pelser says that the fund has consistently achieved a return of about one percentage point higher than cash.
A money market fund will currently earn about 5.3 percent, while the Flexible Income Fund is earning about 6.5 percent in income, he says. The fund pays out quarterly, rather than twice a year, making it the choice of investors who want a regular flow of cash in their pockets.
Holding preference shares, listed property and bonds does create the risk for investors of losing capital in the fund, but the fund is much less risky than higher equity multi-asset funds or equity funds.
Besides preference shares and listed property, the fund also has a large exposure to bonds, including corporate bonds and inflation-linked bonds. It had an exposure of more than 30 percent in 2012 and throughout 2014, which has helped the fund's overall performance.
Looking ahead, Pelser says he will maintain the fund's 20-percent exposure to property. He is finding opportunities in property companies that are exposed to the residential market and, in particular, local companies with exposure to student accommodation.
With inflation heading downward on the back of the lower oil price, Pelser expects he will earn good returns from government bonds with longer dates to maturity. He says he does not think there will be any change in interest rates, although we may have an interest rate cut, which will result in a downward shift of the yield curve (the curve showing bond yields – the income relative to the price – against their maturity dates).
Pelser has increased the fund's bond exposure marginally to about 65 percent, but he is avoiding corporate bonds following the writing down of African Bank's bonds.
He says he will not invest any more of the fund in inflation-linked bonds because of the expected decline in inflation, but he also does not expect to be able to sell the fund's current inflation-linked bond holdings, which make up less than 10 percent of the fund.
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{-# OPTIONS_GHC -fno-warn-type-defaults #-}
{-# LANGUAGE RecordWildCards #-}

import Data.Foldable     (for_)
import Test.Hspec        (Spec, describe, it, shouldBe)
import Test.Hspec.Runner (configFastFail, defaultConfig, hspecWith)

import CollatzConjecture (collatz)

main :: IO ()
main = hspecWith defaultConfig {configFastFail = True} specs

specs :: Spec
specs = describe "collatz" $ for_ cases test
  where

    test Case{..} = it description assertion
      where
        assertion = collatz number `shouldBe` expected

data Case = Case { description :: String
                 , number      :: Integer
                 , expected    :: Maybe Integer
                 }

cases :: [Case]
cases = [ Case { description = "zero steps for one"
               , number      = 1
               , expected    = Just 0
               }
        , Case { description = "divide if even"
               , number      = 16
               , expected    = Just 4
               }
        , Case { description = "even and odd steps"
               , number      = 12
               , expected    = Just 9
               }
        , Case { description = "Large number of even and odd steps"
               , number      = 1000000
               , expected    = Just 152
               }
        , Case { description = "zero is an error"
               , number      = 0
               , expected    = Nothing
               }
        , Case { description = "negative value is an error"
               , number      = -15
               , expected    = Nothing
               }
        ]

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