We start with a VAR model using undifferenced data, including 8 lagged terms, and iteratively delete insignificant lags using the Bayesian Information Criteria (BIC).
Integer ambiguity resolution on undifferenced GPS phase measurements and its application to PPP.
we do not include any regressors in the undifferenced regression model (11)).
Variables specified as additional instruments (lagged saving) are included, undifferenced, in the instruments matrix.
We also estimated differenced models, but the undifferenced models produced more parsimonious results.
The lag length of the Johansen procedure was determined by the Schwarz Information Criterion (SIC) on the undifferenced VAR (See Schwarz, 1978) while ensuring all residual series from the VAR were uncorrelated.
All these studies find that the variables in their models must be differenced to become stationary, a property that undermines the validity of traditional estimation procedures and statistical inferences in regressions involving undifferenced series.
We begin by partitioning our sample into thirds, based on the value of undifferenced rather than differenced prior forecast error (i.
For comparison, the conventional regression analysis is employed first to test for the relationship between fertility, female labor participation, and education using undifferenced data.
The null hypothesis of a unit root was not rejected for the undifferenced series, but it was rejected for the differenced series.
So do we strive to differentiate the divine attributes, according as these attributes are undifferenced [sic] or differentiated.


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namespace Com\Tecnick\Barcode\Type\Linear;

use \Com\Tecnick\Barcode\Exception as BarcodeException;

/**
 * Com\Tecnick\Barcode\Type\Linear\Msi;
 *
 * Msi Barcode type class
 * MSI (Variation of Plessey code)
 *
 * @since       2015-02-21
 * @category    Library
 * @package     Barcode
 * @author      Nicola Asuni <info@tecnick.com>
 * @copyright   2010-2016 Nicola Asuni - Tecnick.com LTD
 * @license     http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html GNU-LGPL v3 (see LICENSE.TXT)
 * @link        https://github.com/tecnickcom/tc-lib-barcode
 */
class Msi extends \Com\Tecnick\Barcode\Type\Linear\MsiCheck
{
    /**
     * Barcode format
     *
     * @var string
     */
    protected $format = 'MSI';

    /**
     * Format code
     */
    protected function formatCode()
    {
        $this->extcode = $this->code;
    }
}

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the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be."
Happy Birthday today to the ever glorious Mike Jeffers ('61) of VA!
Happy Birthday tomorrow to Patsy Blackard Hallett ('65) of VA AND My Grandson, Thomas Harty of OR!
Angie Ray Smith ('64) of VA AND Steve Pullen ('65) of VA!
Could you post this in each newsletter until Monday, 10 November?
At the first meeting of your 45th Reunion Committee, it was decided that October 2009 was the best month in which to schedule our 45th reunion. We initially selected the weekend of 10 and 11 October, which is a holiday weekend (Columbus Day). Our thinking was that you would prefer to travel and attend over a 3-day holiday. If a suitable venue is not available for that date, our alternate date is the following weekend, 17 and 18 October.
Thanks to the internet and e-mail, we have the opportunity to poll all of you about your date preference.
We are asking you to reply by e-mail with your preference for one of these two possible dates. If you have already replied to an e-mail which you received, then your preference has been recorded.
Once the responses are tallied, we will arrange a venue for your preferred date.
Attached is the information re: our Winter/Christmas concert series coming up in December. Please note that the Trinity concerts (2) have limited seating and if you are interested in attending one of those concerts I need to know which night and how many as soon as possible. I can place tickets at will call for you and you will be able to pay the advance ticket price. You can give me a call or email me. I feel this concert is MUCH better than last year. We are looking forward to it! I hope you will attend one of the concerts.
DECEMBER 2008 - "A Family Festival of Carols"
Bring a Stuffed Toy for "Toys for Joy"
Thanks, Sarah Sugah; it sounds fabulous!
Brownie here..... let's see if we can find a 1962 year book. One of my classmates has lost her copy and is willing to buy one if we can locate one for sale. Perhaps someone out there in Typhoon land has one for sale.
That's a real possibility, Brownie! How about it, Sweetie-Pies?
Thank you for being so thoughtful, Brownie!
You might tell Brownie to get in touch with Joe Frank ('60 - of VA). He got me a 1960 yearbook that I did not have; maybe he has some contact on finding her one.
GREAT IDEA! Thanks so much, Glenn!
I knew it, I knew it!! It's not my fault, it's my brain's!! Man, as you get older they really sock it to ya!! BUT, there is a possible "Silver Lining".
Wal, tha' 'splains it, Luzie! Thanks, Wayne Honey!
1. Have Self-Respect: If I don't love and respect myself, who will? It all starts right here with ME. If I think that I'm a pretty good person, it doesn't much matter what anyone else thinks. And the irony is that once I like myself, most everyone else will like me too. People enjoy being around people who speak well of themselves - not in an arrogant boastful way, but with honest self-appreciation.
4. Choose Happiness: Everything in life is a choice. There is never anything we ever "need" to do. Every action and thought is a choice and has consequences - pleasant or unpleasant. Whether you go to work today, change jobs, smile at the bank teller, order fried fish, yell at your kids, complain about life, hold a daily celebration of gratitude for life - they are all choices. Happiness is a choice. Stay alert and make conscious choices for happiness.
7. Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair": Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be. Demanding that life meet our expectations is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence. Life is a game with no rules. Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions. Our only path to happiness lies in being open to receiving whatever life throws at us - with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
Jonathan Lockwood Huie has been dubbed "The Philosopher of Happiness" by those closest to him, in recognition of his on-going commitment to seeing Joy in all of life. Jonathan's intention is to share his insights for Joyful Living with the widest possible audience.
Jonathan is an author of self-awareness books and free inspirational email publications. Visit www.DanceLightly.com to sign up for Jonathan's daily happy living email.


A bug that was briefly affecting Filtering by Category in Baldwin's Bubbling Brew has been fixed.
It is now possible to search for dragons that are eternally youthful in the Auction House.
Dragon Share Theme Week: Hazel's Haunted Hollow!
Dragon Share Theme Week: Sweater Weather!
A bug that was resulting in the feed dragons dialog box sometimes reporting an inaccurate dragon count has been fixed.
Players with IDs from 270000 - 279999 have been given the well-fed rewards that they should have received during rollover.
We've made several updates to our Knowledge Base FAQ about volunteer moderators and how to apply. Players who have already submitted an application and would like to update it can do so by responding to your original ticket.
Dragon Share Theme Week: Basic Dragons!
Dragon Share Theme Week: Autumn Dragons!
Dragon Share Theme Week: Starfall Celebration!
Fall is upon us! Summer Swelter and Vista: Summer have cycled out of the Marketplace. Autumn Breeze and Vista: Autumn are now available.
REMINDER: Seaspray apparel (pirate-themed apparel) cycles out TONIGHT, September 21st at 22:00 server time!
A fix has been implemented that allows for the usage of "<3" in Clan Information and Dragon Biographies.
Y'aaarrrrrrrr! Pirate-themed apparel sets and their corresponding bundles are now available in the Gem Marketplace, where they will stay until Friday, September 21st, 22:00 Server Time.
Familiar previews are now available in many more places, including the Marketplace, hoards, clan profiles, dragon descriptions, and Swipp's Swap Stand.
You can now search Baldwin Recipes by name and category. You can also preview familiars before you create them.
Yarrr! Dragon Share Theme Week be Pirates & Merdragons!


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Mapped: This is where the Swiss live abroad
news@thelocal.ch
@thelocalswitzer
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Lyon, the most popular city for Swiss nationals abroad. Photo: Dimitry B
France is the most popular destination of Swiss living abroad, according to new figures.
In 2016 more than 200,000 Swiss lived in neighbouring France, the Swiss foreign office said on Wednesday, up 2.5 percent on the previous year and more than ever before.
The most popular destination in France was Lyon, where 106,699 Swiss were living. That was followed by Paris (46,000), Marseille (24,000) and Strasbourg (23,500).
Swiss in France made up 26 percent of the total 774,923 Swiss living abroad in 2016. That's an increase of 2.9 percent last year, higher than the 2 percent average growth in previous years.
While 63 percent of Swiss people state German or Swiss-German as their first language against only 22 percent stating French, it is perhaps surprising that more than double the number of Swiss live in France than in Germany.
Just under 90,000 Swiss nationals were living in Germany in 2016, the most popular cities being Stuttgart (29,000), Frankfurt (23,600), Berlin (20,600) and Munich (15,800).
Some 82 percent of Swiss in France were dual citizens, against 63 percent in Germany.
If only single Swiss citizens were included in the ranking, the difference between the top two countries, France and Germany, would be "negligible", said the foreign office.
Some 52,000 Swiss lived in Italy, 25,000 in Spain and just under 35,000 in the UK, which saw one of the biggest rises last year, up 4.6 percent.
Outside Europe, Asia saw an above average growth in Swiss expats, up 4.3 percent, with Bangkok, Hong Kong, Manila and Singapore being popular destinations.
Some 80,000 have made the US their home while 40,000 lived in Canada in 2016, including 26,000 in French-speaking Montreal.
Of those Swiss nationals abroad, nearly three-quarters had dual nationality, said the foreign office.
"The increased growth in the number of Swiss citizens living abroad indicates that more Swiss nationals moved abroad than returned to Switzerland," it added.
More detailed statistics on the movement of Swiss citizens will be published later this year.
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Dems launch effort to topple Trump's travel ban
by: Raquel Martin, 24 Hour News 8 web staff
WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — Democrats on Wednesday announced a plan to reverse the Trump administration's travel ban, which they say is an attack on civil rights.
"We will not stay silent and we will not stop fighting," Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., said in a press conference outside the U.S. Capitol.
After a long court battle, the U.S. Supreme Court in June upheld the policy blocking travel from seven countries, five of which are predominantly Muslim.
Saying it unfairly targets Muslims, Democrats and advocates are preparing to go toe-to-toe with President Donald Trump to reverse the ban.
"We cannot simply stand by and let this very disgraceful policy continue," Rep. Andre Carson, D-Ind., said.
"It's meant that mothers can't be assured that they can be at the bedside of their dying children," Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., added.
Lawmakers want to not only reverse the ban, but also create new rules to prevent future orders by future presidents.
"All of us who share commitment to religious freedom and human rights must come together to get this bill passed," Carson said.
He and Omar are among three Muslims in the House fighting the ban. The third is Michigan Democrat Rashida Tlaib.
Republicans who support the ban say Democrats are risking the safety of Americans.
"I think the courts are making sure that it's done in a way that is targeted toward states that encourage terrorism and has nothing to do with ethnicity," Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., said.
Still, Democrats say they're confident their bill will pass the House, with a vote possible this summer. They're not as optimistic about approval by the Senate, but are hoping to gain support from Republicans in the upper chamber.


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     ObservableIterator::isValid(): \Generator

Checks if the current position in the iterator is valid. Calling `current()` will throw an exception if the observable has completed. If an error occurs with the observable, this coroutine will be rejected with the exception used to fail the observable.

!!! note
    [**Coroutine**](../../manual/coroutines.md): Calls to this function must be preceded with `yield` within another coroutine or wrapped with `new Coroutine()` to create an awaitable.

### Resolution value
Resolves with `true` if a new value is available by calling [`getCurrent()`](#getcurrent) or `false` if the observable has completed.

### Throws
`Exception`
:   Exception used to fail the observable.

## getCurrent()

    ObservableIterator::getCurrent(): mixed

Gets the last emitted value or throws an exception if the observable has completed.

### Return value
Value emitted from observable.

### Throws
`Icicle\Observable\Exception\CompletedError`
:   If the observable has successfully completed.

`Icicle\Observable\Exception\UninitializedError`
:   If `isValid()` was not called before calling this method.

`Exception`
:   The exception used to fail the observable.

## getReturn()

    ObservableIterator::getReturn(): mixed

Gets the return value of the observable or throws the failure reason. Also throws an exception if the observable has not completed.

### Return value
Final return value of the observable.

### Throws
`Icicle\Observable\Exception\IncompleteError`
:   If the observable has not completed.

`Exception`
:   Exception used to fail the observable.


Web Development is highly popular career choice among tech savvy people like us. As web developer, you will come across many different issues that will require critical thinking and data analysis to resolve.
This video talks about some of the most common interview questions with answers, that you may experience during your job hunting adventures.


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A Brotherhood of Spies
Written By: Monte Reel
Read By: Paul Michael
The U-2 and the CIA's Secret War
14 Hours and 13 Minutes	Imprint: Random House Audio Genre: Political Science - Intelligence & Espionage Release Date: May 08, 2018
A thrilling dramatic narrative of the top-secret Cold War-era spy plane operation that transformed the CIA and brought the U.S. and the Soviet Union to the brink of disaster
On May 1, 1960, an American U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union just weeks before a peace summit between the two nations. The CIA concocted a cover story for President Eisenhower to deliver, assuring him that no one could have survived a fall from that altitude. And even if pilot Francis Gary Powers had survived, he had been supplied with a poison pin with which to commit suicide.
But against all odds, Powers emerged from the wreckage and was seized by the KGB. He confessed to espionage charges, revealing to the world that Eisenhower had just lied to the American people--and to the Soviet Premier. Infuriated, Nikita Khrushchev slammed the door on a rare opening in Cold War relations.
In A Brotherhood of Spies, award-winning journalist Monte Reel reveals how the U-2 spy program, principally devised by four men working in secret, upended the Cold War and carved a new mission for the CIA. This secret fraternity, made up of Edwin Land, best known as the inventor of instant photography and the head of Polaroid Corporation; Kelly Johnson, a hard-charging taskmaster from Lockheed; Richard Bissell, the secretive and ambitious spymaster; and ace Air Force flyer Powers, set out to replace yesterday's fallible human spies with tomorrow's undetectable eye in the sky. Their clandestine successes and all-too-public failures make this brilliantly reported account a true-life thriller with the highest stakes and tragic repercussions.
"A Brotherhood of Spies is an old-fashioned tale of the American ingenuity, resourcefulness and grit that remade intelligence gathering . . . Casts intriguing light on this familiar history. The rock-steady, nuanced leadership of Ike and JFK in these crises, supported by deeply experienced advisers desperately seeking to avert nuclear war, is a sobering contrast to today's White House melodramas."
—Edward Kosner, Wall Street Journal
"[A] fresh and fascinating life to an oft-told story by concentrating on the four men who were instrumental in the U-2 story."
"A brilliant investigation into one of the most important—and least examined—milestones of the Cold War. With a novelist's eye for the telling detail, Monte Reel gets into the minds of the remarkably small group of men who masterminded the top-secret U-2 spy plane program, and their coldblooded calculation that, in the event of a mishap, no pilot should survive to tell of it. At the book's core is the deeply poignant story of Francis Gary Powers, the man who against all odds did survive, and how he and his wife, Barbara, became pawns in an international political chess game. A wonderful read."
—Scott Anderson, New York Times bestselling author of Lawrence in Arabia
"The story of an amazing bird, the U-2 spy plane, soaring to the heavens, and the men who built and flew her, a triumph of ingenuity and daring on the frontier of the Cold War. Monte Reel brings power and verve to an unforgettable drama."
—David E. Hoffman, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of the New York Times bestseller The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal
"A classic Cold War tale of human bravery, technological bravado, and political skullduggery. Monte Reel tells the story with brio and empathy, marshaling a colorful cast of characters as brilliant—and flawed—as the extraordinary spy plane that changed their lives, for both better and worse. He guides the reader expertly through a once-top-secret labyrinth where noble ends were invoked to justify ignoble means and daring and deceit became inextricably intertwined. Highly recommended!"
—Michael Dobbs, author of One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
"High above the grey clouds of the Cold War, Monte Reel has discovered a vivid tale of inventors, scientists, spymasters, and the eternal tension between truth and secrecy at the highest levels of American power. Paced like a thriller, A Brotherhood of Spies throws new light on famous moments of nuclear brinkmanship and raises troubling questions about the world we live in right now."
—Jason Fagone, author of the national bestseller The Woman Who Smashed Codes
"The most riveting tales of history are those where the fate of millions hangs on the actions of a few. The U-2 crisis of 1960 is one such story, and it has never been told with greater verve or closer attention to critical detail."
—H.W. Brands, New York Times bestselling author of The General vs. the President
"A gripping work of narrative nonfiction . . . This exemplary work provides a wholly satisfying take on a central chapter of the Cold War—a dramatic story of zeal and adventure."
—Publishers Weekly, starred review
"Captivating . . . A richly detailed, well-researched, and engagingly written book that takes us behind the scenesof one of the twentieth-century's most nail-bitingly tense episodes."
Political Science - Intelligence & EspionageHistory - Russia & The Former Soviet UnionPolitical Science - International Relations - Diplomacy
MR Monte Reel
PM Paul Michael


Simple and effective generation of transition metal chalcogenides (TMCs) in a single-layer form has been a challenging task. Here we present a tandem molecular intercalation (TMI) as a new exfoliation concept for producing single-layer TMCs from multi-layer colloidal TMC nanostructures in solution phase. TMI requires tandem Lewis base intercalates, where short 'initiator' molecules first intercalate into TMCs to open up the interlayer gap, and the long 'primary' molecules then bring the gap to full width so that a random mixture of intercalates overcomes the interlayer force. Spontaneous exfoliation then yields single-layer TMCs. The TMI process is uniquely advantageous because it works in a simple one-step process under safe and mild conditions (that is, room temperature without sonication or H2 generation). With the appropriate intercalates, we have successfully generated single-layer nanostructures of group IV (TiS2, ZrS2), group V (NbS2) and VI (WSe2, MoS2) TMCs.


Data Analyst to support our new program in Arlington, VA.
Monitor and support updates to the legacy systems interface agreements, requirements, and designs until systems are retired.
Support the engineering analysis and requirements refinement of additional legacy system interfaces.
Profile data quality; provide feedback to Army component representatives and system owners.
Facilitate interaction between interface representatives and other systems to ensure System Interface Agreements address the appropriate data for interfaces.
Perform analysis of data services in a prototype/sandbox environment that can be used to validate concepts with external systems.
Review the data architecture to ensure it supports the requirements for reporting/analytics and internal and external data exchange.
Support of publishing and maintaining the Metadata in compliance with DoDI 8320.02.
Review of designs, ESB, ETL, interfaces, and web services that will be used for data exchange.
4 year degree in computer field.
5 year or more years relevant experience with Oracle 12c experience, PL/SQL, or Database Architecture and Design.
Active, fully adjudicated Secret security clearance.
Previous experience with PeopleSoft data structures, Army legacy systems data structures, DISA Data/Database STIGs, Army and DoD Regulations is preferred.
Knowledge of Army Human Resources systems and data.


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namespace impala {

bool ColumnStatsBase::ReadFromThrift(const parquet::Statistics& thrift_stats,
    const ColumnType& col_type, const StatsField& stats_field, void* slot) {
  switch (col_type.type) {
    case TYPE_BOOLEAN:
      return ColumnStats<bool>::ReadFromThrift(thrift_stats, stats_field, slot);
    case TYPE_TINYINT: {
        // parquet::Statistics encodes INT_8 values using 4 bytes.
        int32_t col_stats;
        bool ret = ColumnStats<int32_t>::ReadFromThrift(thrift_stats, stats_field,
            &col_stats);
        if (!ret || col_stats < std::numeric_limits<int8_t>::min() ||
            col_stats > std::numeric_limits<int8_t>::max()) {
          return false;
        }
        *static_cast<int8_t*>(slot) = col_stats;
        return true;
      }
    case TYPE_SMALLINT: {
        // parquet::Statistics encodes INT_16 values using 4 bytes.
        int32_t col_stats;
        bool ret = ColumnStats<int32_t>::ReadFromThrift(thrift_stats, stats_field,
            &col_stats);
        if (!ret || col_stats < std::numeric_limits<int16_t>::min() ||
            col_stats > std::numeric_limits<int16_t>::max()) {
          return false;
        }
        *static_cast<int16_t*>(slot) = col_stats;
        return true;
      }
    case TYPE_INT:
      return ColumnStats<int32_t>::ReadFromThrift(thrift_stats, stats_field, slot);
    case TYPE_BIGINT:
      return ColumnStats<int64_t>::ReadFromThrift(thrift_stats, stats_field, slot);
    case TYPE_FLOAT:
      return ColumnStats<float>::ReadFromThrift(thrift_stats, stats_field, slot);
    case TYPE_DOUBLE:
      return ColumnStats<double>::ReadFromThrift(thrift_stats, stats_field, slot);
    case TYPE_TIMESTAMP:
      /// TODO add support for TimestampValue (IMPALA-4819)
      break;
    case TYPE_STRING:
    case TYPE_VARCHAR:
    case TYPE_CHAR:
      /// TODO add support for StringValue (IMPALA-4817)
      break;
    case TYPE_DECIMAL:
      /// TODO add support for DecimalValue (IMPALA-4815)
      switch (col_type.GetByteSize()) {
        case 4:
          break;
        case 8:
          break;
        case 16:
          break;
      }
      break;
    default:
      DCHECK(false) << col_type.DebugString();
  }
  return false;
}

}  // end ns impala


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Georgia's Fall 2021 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades Announced
HomePress ReleasesGeorgia's Fall 2021 Leapfrog Hospital Safety...
November 10, 2021 by Georgia Watch 1 0 0
Atlanta, Georgia — November 10, 2021 – The Leapfrog Group, a national nonprofit representing hundreds of the nation's most influential employers and purchasers of health care, announced today the fall 2021 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades.
The independent grading system assigns an "A," "B," "C," "D," or "F" grade to general hospitals across the country based on over thirty national measures of preventable errors, injuries, accidents, and infections. The fall 2021 Hospital Safety Grade represents the largest set of hospitals ever graded with grades assigned to 2,901 facilities across the country.
In Georgia, 87 hospitals were graded, and 17 earned an "A," 33 earned a "B," 32 earned a "C," 5 earned a "D," and none earned an "F."
The following hospitals in the Metro Atlanta area received an "A": Emory St. Joseph's Hospital, Emory John's Creek, Piedmont Mountainside Hospital, Piedmont Newnan Hospital, and Wellstar Douglas Hospital.
"The Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade supports patients and their families in Georgia when they need hospital care," said Liz Coyle, executive director, Georgia Watch. "Hospitals' commitment to fundamental safety practices can save lives."
The Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade is the only hospital ratings program based exclusively on hospital prevention of medical errors and harms to patients. The grading system is peer-reviewed, fully transparent and free to the public. Grades are updated twice annually, in the fall and spring.
"The Leapfrog Group thanks the health care workers in Georgia and nationwide who work so hard for their communities. It's important we recognize excellence, especially in times like these. But it's also important to know when hospitals fall short because lives are at stake," said Leah Binder, president and CEO of The Leapfrog Group. "We see every day how hospitals can and will improve their safety when patients make clear it's important to them."
For more information about the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade, as well as individual hospital grades and state rankings, please visit HospitalSafetyGrade.org and follow The Leapfrog Group on Facebook and Twitter.
About Georgia Watch
Founded in 2002, Georgia Watch is a statewide consumer advocacy organization working to educate and protect Georgia consumers on matters that impact their quality of life, particularly the effects of predatory business practices, the high cost of utilities and healthcare, and restricted access to the civil justice system.
About The Leapfrog Group
Founded in 2000 by large employers and other purchasers, The Leapfrog Group is a national nonprofit organization driving a movement for giant leaps forward in the quality and safety of American health care. The flagship Leapfrog Hospital Survey and new Leapfrog Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC) Survey collect and transparently report hospital and ASC performance, empowering purchasers to find the highest-value care and giving consumers the lifesaving information they need to make informed decisions. The Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade, Leapfrog's other main initiative, assigns letter grades to hospitals based on their record of patient safety, helping consumers protect themselves and their families from errors, injuries, accidents, and infections.


Losing your hair is something that lots of people fear. If this indication of aging is something that's creeping up to you or if you wish to prevent in the future, you're not alone. Keep reading for some basic guidance on the best ways to slow or reverse the hair loss procedure.
The first tip to handling hair loss is learning as much about approval as possible. Hair loss happens to a lot of individuals and by finding out how to deal with it with confidence, you will be able to look excellent no matter just how much hair you have on your head.
If you are worried about hair loss, try lime seeds and black pepper. First, get the same amounts of both lime seeds and black pepper then grind them up. After that, shake them with water. Then you can apply this mixture to your scalp. This should give you results you can see straightaway.
You require to boost the flow in your scalp every early morning if you're wishing to re-grow hair. This does not need to be a full-on massage. You only need to run your fingertips across your scalp in a circular motion for a minimum of 3 minutes. This will get the blood flowing and stimulate hair growth.
Keep your hair cut. By doing this you are taking dead ends off of your hair and it can grow longer and healthier. Dead ends can avoid your hair from growing any more and can make your hair weak and breakable. This can cause hair loss in the future.
If you want to avoid hair loss, attempt to avoid wearing tight hats. A hat is constantly pulling on your hair which can cause roots to grow too near to the surface area of the skin on your scalp. In turn, this is exactly what can cause your hair to fall out.
If you start losing your hair, stop any chemical treatments on your hair. This includes coloring and perms. The chemicals used in these treatments will dry out your hair, which results in your hair falling out quicker. While coloring will give you a short-lived result of thicker hair, it is an impression that will not last.
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The Queens(land) gambit: a brief history of chess in Australia
The new Netflix miniseries The Queen's Gambit has received rave reviews around the world. Surprisingly for a chess-themed show, it received a warm reception by the global chess community, which is usually highly critical of portrayals of tournament chess in film.
The experiences of star character Beth Harmon loosely correlate to those of Bobby Fischer, a US chess prodigy and arguably the most talented player in history. Fischer rose to fame in the 1950s, becoming the youngest ever US Champion at age 14 and breaking the record for the youngest international grandmaster one year later.
His meteoric rise ignited an explosion of popularity in the Western world for the historically Soviet-dominated game. Fischer's victory in the World Chess Championship in 1972 against the Russian-born Boris Spassky came in the midst of the Cold War and captured the attention of the general population around the world.
This famous match is emulated in the final episode of The Queen's Gambit, in which the American Harmon plays her own Soviet nemesis in Russia.
But chess in Australia during the 1960s, the period of The Queen's Gambit, was a far cry from the popularity of the game in the US.
Read more: Checkmate: top chess players live longer
Chess in Australia in the 1950s and '60s
Australia had no recognised chess grandmasters at the time. Its geographic isolation presented logistical and financial obstacles to chess improvement.
It proved almost prohibitively difficult for Australian players to acquire chess learning materials and travel abroad to tournaments.
The chess scene was largely dominated by two men, Gary Koshnitsky and Cecil Purdy. Koshnitsky was born in Kishinev, in what's now Moldova but was then part of the Russian Empire. He emigrated to Australia as a child, where he went on to become Australian champion.
Purdy was born in Egypt but his family eventually moved to Australia, and he taught himself chess as a teen. He won the inaugural World Correspondence Chess Championship, in which individual moves were sent and received by post in the early 1950s, and earned titles of international chess master and international grandmaster of correspondence play during the same decade. (He collapsed while playing a chess tournament in 1979 and died that day. Reportedly, his last words were about his final game: "I have a win, but it will take some time.")
Purdy and Koshnitsky wrote a book titled Chess Made Easy. It was hugely popular worldwide, selling 600,000 copies in Australia alone.
Australia's first grandmasters
Things started to pick up in the 1970s and '80s, primarily in Melbourne, where the third-largest chess library in the world, the MV Anderson Collection at the State Library of Victoria, was hosted. It was, and still is, enormously helpful as a place for chess players to acquire knowledge and meet other players.
The Melbourne chess scene helped develop Australia's first two chess grandmasters, Ian Rogers and Darryl Johansen.
The title of grandmaster is awarded by the world chess federation (also known as Federation Internationale des Echecs or FIDE). To earn it, a player must achieve three grandmaster "norms" (based on an outstanding performance in an international chess tournament), each of which typically requires beating several players of master level in a single event.
For Rogers and Johansen, this meant living out of suitcases in Europe for periods of the 1980s and giving up the option of a regular job and steady income to pursue their chess careers.
Their sacrifices blazed a trail for other Australian chess players to follow. There was substantial growth in the chess community and particularly in the development of the junior ranks during the 1990s.
Another significant factor was the introduction of "chess in schools" businesses in the late 1990s. Coupled with the formation of a national competition for schools, this led to a dramatic increase in the number of Australian children learning chess, a trend that continues today.
A tipping point for Australian chess
Despite these developments, it was still some time before an Australian player was again able to break into the grandmaster ranks.
When one of us (David Smerdon) achieved a grandmaster norm in 2006, it ended a drought of 25 years.
This coincided with a tipping point for Australian chess. By 2009, the number of Australian grandmasters had doubled from two to four, and by 2020 it had risen to ten.
In recent years, a number of individual and team achievements paint a promising picture for the future. At the 2016 chess Olympiad in Azerbaijan, an Australian earned a draw against the reigning World Champion for the first time.
And in October this year, the Australian team sensationally won the Asian Nations Cup, beating top seed India (ranked fourth in the world) in the final.
The championship was held online due to COVID restrictions; chess has been one of the few sports largely unscathed by the pandemic, and in fact has significantly increased its membership during 2020.
Queens and Kings
The steep increase in popularity of internet chess has helped level the playing field for traditionally less prominent chess nations in Australia, Asia and Africa.
This is personified in another success of chess on the screen: the 2016 film Queen of Katwe. It tells the true story of a 10 year old Ugandan girl, Phiona Mutesi, who learned chess in the slums of Kampala. Mutesi would eventually go on to represent her country at the 2010 chess Olympiad in Siberia, and has proved an inspiration for chess-playing girls in Uganda and other African nations.
Not all the elements in The Queen's Gambit reflect reality. No female player worldwide has ever contested the chess World Championship, and only one (Judit Polgar) has been ranked in the world's top ten.
Men dominate participation rates as well: only 15% of the players with international chess ratings are female.
Many hope the unexpected success of the Netflix series may spark a boom for women's chess not unlike Fischer's impact on chess in the West.
Though women's chess in Australia is still waiting for its own tipping point, there are promising signs. In 2017, a Queensland woman, Heather Richards, achieved the first victory by an Australian female over a grandmaster since the turn of the century (unfortunately, the victim was one of us - David Smerdon).
Hopefully, it is only a matter of time before we see the emergence of our own Australian Beth Harmon or our own Queen of Queensland.
Read more: Most people think playing chess makes you 'smarter', but the evidence isn't clear on that
Authors: David Smerdon - Assistant Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland | Graeme Gardiner - PhD Student, University of Southern Queensland
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Recall: Mushrooms
Company Announcement Date:
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Reason for Announcement:
Potential Listeria monocytogenes contamination
California Terra Garden Inc.
Guan's
Seafood mushrooms
California Terra Garden Inc. of Commerce, CA is recalling all cases of its 150g/5.3-ounce packages of Seafood Mushroom (Product of China) because it has the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Although healthy individuals may suffer only short-term symptoms such as high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea, Listeria infection can cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women.
The recalled products were distributed from California through produce distributors or wholesalers to retail stores nationwide.
The Seafood mushroom comes in a clear plastic package with the description "Seafood Mushroom" in English and French, and Guan's logo in the front. At the back, there is UPC code, 859267007501. Product code is 3460 at the back top right.
No illnesses have been reported to date in connection with this problem.
The potential for contamination was noted after routine testing by California Health Department revealed the presence of Listeria monocytogenes in one 150g package of Seafood mushroom.
The distribution of the product has been suspended.
Consumers who have purchased any package of Seafood mushroom are urged to return them to the place of purchase for a full refund. Consumers with question may contact the company at 323.597.0346, Monday to Friday 9 am to 4 pm.


Angie Lynn Leeman passed away on Friday, June 22, 2018. She was 43 years old.
Born on August 18, 1974 in Berlin she was the daughter of Joanne and the late Clayton Roy. She was a graduate of Berlin High School, class of 1993. She participated in many sports in high school. She was employed as a Department Manager at Wal-Mart Supercenter and made friends wherever she went. Prior to that she worked many years at Mother Goose Day Care. She had a love for children.
Angie was a loving and devoted mother to David and Andrew, her unconditional love and support was unwavering. She always attended the sporting events and followed the boys in all of their endeavors. She loved taking family vacations and enjoyed going shopping. She always found a way to keep the family together and found ways to have fun. She had a love for dragonflies.
She is predeceased by her dad, Clayton "Boo" Roy; grandmother Theresa Roy; grandfather George Harrington; an uncle Ronnie Roy.
She leaves behind her loving sons, David Coulombe of Berlin, Andrew Coulombe of Berlin and Curtis Perry of Berlin; mother Joanne Roy of Berlin; sister Jennifer Lagace and Jessica Leeman; a brother Eugene Leeman of Berlin; a grandfather Maurice Roy; a grandmother Lucienne Harrington; a niece Ava Grace Lynn DiRoma who she treated as a daughter; niece Tiana Lagace, Vanessa Leeman and Emma Leeman; nephews Damyan DiRoma, Dmitri DiRoma, Jadyne DiRoma, Joseph Wallace Jr. and Blake Leeman; great-nephew Kayden Landry; several cousins and her beloved dog Precious.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at St. Anne Church of Good Shepherd Parish on Friday, June 29th at 2:00pm. Interment will be held on St Kieran Cemetery.
Following the service there will be a Celebration of Life at the Eagles' Club Upstairs.


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Q: SharedPreferences в Android Я получаю с сервера id пользователя и сохраняю через SharedPreference.
Возможно ли использовать это id в условии if else ?
Мне это нужно для загрузочного экрана.
if ( id == cуществует в памяти устройства) {
   загружаем activity A
}
else { activity B }

update.
код SharedPreferences создаваемый в activity A
//Записываем user_data в файл настроек
public void onPutSettings(){
    final String SAVED_USER = "saved_user";
    SharedPreferences sPref = getSharedPreferences(SAVED_USER, 0);
    SharedPreferences.Editor ed = sPref.edit();
    ed.putString(SAVED_USER, key.getText().toString());
    ed.putString(SAVED_USER, id_user.getText().toString());
    ed.commit();
    Toast.makeText(this, "User saved", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
}

A: SharedPreference создается при первом вызове getSharedPreferences() и не важно в каком Activity этот код вызывается.
Так же методы get...() у объекта SharedPreference могут принимать дефолтные значения, которые будут возвращаться в случае если в SharedPreference не найдена запись с переданным ключом. Таким образом можно передать в метод какое то дефолтное значение и сравнивать с ним то, что вернул метод. Ниже код, реализующий это:
SharedPreferences sPref = getSharedPreferences(SAVED_USER, Context.MODE_PRIVATE);
String id = sPref.getString(SAVED_USER, "default value");

if("default value".equals(id)){
    // activity B
} else {
    // загружаем activity A
}

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P-Laser develops and produces the world's most advanced industrial laser equipment for manual and automated use. Our laser cleaning systems range from 20 to 1000 watt of extremely precise laser light that effortlessly removes rust, dust, oxides, oil and other contaminations from metal, plastic, ceramics, glass, stone or concrete. And as this cleaning technique leaves the surface beneath untouched, our laser systems offer unexpected possibilities for a constantly growing number of industrial applications, ranging from marking or labeling to surface preparation for non destructive testing.
P-Laser's Low Power systems range from 20W to 100W, delivering high density laser pulses at high pulse rates. Some of the typical Low Power laser applications are mold cleaning, spot repair and preparation of base materials.
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Lot Detail - (15) 1971 Topps Baseball Cards straight from VENDING. Beautiful. Send to PSA?
(15) 1971 Topps Baseball Cards straight from VENDING. Beautiful. Send to PSA?
What we have here are fifteen different 1971 Topps Baseball cards straight from vending! They are # 506, 507, 508, 511, 512, 514, 516-518, 533, 534, 591, 601, 602, 619 (checklist).


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From the very start, photography has been used as a form of art as well as a form of documentation. Consequently, it plays a prominent role in the preservation of works of art and cultural heritage.
This course written in German will teach the essentials of professional photo-documentation. Elucidating the principles of photography, it explains camera techniques, lighting and accessories in a simple manner accompanied by numerous illustrations. It is a unique compilation of all the information required for analog as well as digital photography and image processing.
After an introduction, the general principles of applied photography will be explained, including aperture, shutter speed, focus and exposure. Even if this compilation may sound simple, the safe handling of these parameters is fundamental for satisfactory results.
The third module of the course explains (after a brief introduction to "light") the advantages and disadvantages of commonly used lamps and photo flash.
In the next module you will learn about objectives, their characteristics and their range of use.
The fifth module informs about analog photography, including the characteristics of film material, different formats and advice about their successful use.
Another module will give you an understanding of digital photography. Besides the idea of camera technology, you will find information about digital image files and instructions for electronic image processing.
The course is complemented by two other modules in which useful accessories and information about print images captured on film or data storage media are presented.
Christine Fiedler MA has been working on the field of digitally supported methods for documentation since her studies as a restorer. She is the successor of Clemens Kappen, who taught photography until 2015 at the HAWK University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Hildesheim. Restorer Barbara Hentschel MA is a graduate of the HAWK and works at the Hornemann Institute in the field of multimedia.


Interview is the most significant step of SQL database administrator recruitment. During the interview, a technical person or interviewer asks questions about the technical experience of a candidate. The purpose of these questions is to understand candidate's experience about SQL Server. The answers to the questions will measure your knowledge and experience. If you cannot prove your experience in this interview, most probably the decision on your employment will be negative. First of all, you should be calm during the interview. This advice is the most significant key to success. The first question of an interview is about your past experience and skills. Being relevant to this question, you should describe your old and current job responsibilities and skills. You must be sure that you demonstrate all of your knowledge and experience to the interviewer. Because this introduction makes the first impact on your potential employer.
Apart from this, it will be useful to recheck some technical details about SQL Server. Because interviewer may ask questions about some headings which you use many times but do not care about the technical detail of this heading. Such as "What is the difference between varchar and nvarchar?" Another advice about the technical interview is to google "SQL server dba interview questions" and study these questions. After this practice, analyze your strong and weak points. If you want, you can support this analysis with the SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses Opportunities, and Threats) approach. SWOT Analysis is very useful to understand your strengths and weaknesses. (According to Wikipedia: SWOT Analysis is a tool to find out the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats that are to be expected in a project or in a business venture or in something similar. It means that the marketing environment (internal and external to the organization or individual) is looked at).
Communication is the common problem during the interview. Try to communicate well with the interviewer. Because this feeling affects the interviewer decision. I want to notice that, this person may be your colleague or team manager if you are hired. Also, you have to be sincere but don't be disrespectful. So you can communicate better with the interviewer. As a result, your interview process will be more relaxed and stress-free. If your interview process will be in a video conference, be sure the environment lighting is enough for a camera. So your gestures and mimics will make the right effect.
Study and analyze your skills.
Try to find an answer which you don't know.
After this section, I will share some interview questions which can be asked in SQL Server Interviews. This questions will help you to understand a type of SQL Server DBA technical interview questions.
Could you describe a difference between NOLOCK and READPAST query hints?
The Nolock hint reads all dirty pages in SQL Server. The Nolock hint is also known as Readuncommited. The Readpast hint skips uncommitted pages and does not read dirty pages.
Now we will make a proof this answer. First of all, we will create a test table and populate some synthetic data.
In this step we will create an open transaction and observe Nolock and Readpast behaviors. The below query will create an open transaction in Apple row.
In this step, we will execute two query with different hints.
This demonstration showed us what is the difference between the ReadPast and Nolock hints. As a result, these two hints have pros and cons. For this reason, consider carefully and make some test before using this query hints in your production environment queries.
What is a contained database?
A contained database is a database that is isolated from other databases and from the instance of SQL Server/ SQL Database (and the master database) that hosts the database. SQL Server supports contained database users for both, Windows and SQL Server authentication.
Now we will create a contained database.
In this first step, we will check the contained database authentication option. If this option value is 0 we need to change this setting.
Or you can change this setting under the SQL Server advanced options tab.
Now we will create a contained database. We will set the Containment type option as Partial.
In this step, we will create a user which has no dependency on the SQL Server. This type of users called as a contained user. Imagine that, we take a backup of the contained database and restore another SQL Server instance. We can connect this database with the contained user.
Tip: If you get the error during the restore operation of the contained database you can dip into this post.
The following query will return a list of contained users.
What is a difference between CHECKPOINT and LAZY WRITER?
The checkpoint process writes dirty pages which exist on Buffer Cache to disk. At the same time CHECKPOINT command can be executed manually.
When you set a value to the checkpoint duration parameter, SQL Server attempts to perform the checkpoint within the requested duration.
Lazy writer's purpose is to release the buffer pool memory under the memory pressure. Lazy writer mechanism managed by SQL Server Engine. When SQL Server needs much memory, Lazy writer releases the unused pages.
What is the difference between Readable Secondary setting Yes and Read Intent only?
Only read-only connections are allowed to secondary databases of this replica. The secondary database(s) are all available for the read access.
You can find these Readable Secondary options under the Availability Group properties.
When you change your Readable Secondary settings to Read-intent only, we need to make some changes on the connection settings of SQL Server Management Studio. We have to add the ApplicationIntent=ReadOnly parameter to the Additional Connection Parameters setting of Management Studio.
This option helps us to canalize the read-only connections to the secondary replica.
All connections are allowed to secondary databases of this replica, but only for the read access. The secondary database(s) are all available for the read access.
No user connections are allowed to secondary databases of this replica. They are not available for the read access. This is the default setting.
SQL Agent is the job scheduling mechanism in SQL Server. Jobs can run in specified date and time. This mechanism especially helps us to schedule backup and other database maintenance operations. You can find a lot of options under the SQL Server Agent node.
Can you name some of the new features of SQL Server 2017?
In this post, my aim is to give some interview advice for database administrators. You can google various interview questions but you have to be careful with some points other than questions. Because these points lead us to success.


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Q: Show/hide password icon in ionic deletes already written password My issue: I write half of the password, click the button to show me the passwod and when I get back to the field and continue writing,  it deletes the digits I have already written. (I am using it in a ion-list.)
HTML:

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<ion-item>
        <ion-input [type]="passwordType" [(ngModel)]="password"
         id="password"></ion-input>
         <ion-icon name="eye" [color]="passwordShown === true ? 'black' :
      'white'" item-end (click)="passwordToggle()"></ion-icon>
  </ion-item>

TS:
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   if(this.passwordShown){
    this.passwordShown=false;
    this.passwordType = 'password';
   }else{
    this.passwordShown=true;
    this.passwordType = "";
}

}

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A: I found the answer. In the ion-input I added clearOnEdit="false", this prevents the deletion of the password. Thanks to the youtube channel Technbuzz!


Countless studies have demonstrated that children whose families eat dinner together are less stressed, healthier, happier, get better grades, and have better mental and emotional health.
However, 59% of Americans report that their family today shares fewer family dinners than when they were growing up. As families get busier, evening activities encroach on family dinnertime.
Not only that, the amount of stuff Americans have these days, coupled with these busy schedules, leaves the dinner table itself crowded and inhospitable.
Here is where organizing comes in: organizing clears the way for healthy households by creating space for what is important to you.
Organizing your time involves creating meal plans and shopping ahead of time, leading to balanced nutrition, food variety, and a positive mealtime experience.
Organizing your space results in a clean-surface kitchen in which you can prepare healthy meals and a clear dinner table around which to gather.
As you can see, organizing is your access to reclaiming the family dinner table.
Reclaiming your family dinner time doesn't have to be difficult or expensive; It all starts with a clear table.
When the table is piled high, families tend to eat out more often. This takes a toll on both family budgets and family health. As an outcome of an unusable dinner table, too often meals are served in front of the TV or in shifts in the kitchen.
This fosters a grab-and-dash approach to mealtime, resulting in food being shoveled in rather than enjoyed and everyone fending for themselves. Lacking a central place to convene face-to-face, the connection of the family dinner table is lost.
In fact, the splintered dinner table is a microcosm of what's happening in society. Fractured intake and independent mentality has superseded the communal experience.
When we take back the family dinner table, we begin to reclaim our households.
One study of 5000 children showed that kids who have family dinner together are emotionally stronger and have better mental health. Another report by CASA found that teens who have between 5-7 family dinners per week were twice as likely to get As & Bs. With statistics like these, you can see the value of investing in organizing your family dinner table.
When you declutter the table, don't just shuffle the stuff and clutter up the rest of your home!
A sound organizing process will ensure that your dinner table STAYS organized. If you simply clear the table without addressing the nomadic items landing there, you'll quickly see the table fill back up with the same type of stuff.
First, remove items by type into boxes or baskets.
Performing this "sort" of the stuff landing on the dinner table will give you clues about the organizing systems needed elsewhere in your home.
Paper – Piles of paper are the most common dining table abuser! If your table is piled high with paper, you need a household hub for processing incoming paper (active paper) and a permanent file storage system (completed paper).
Incoming bags and briefcases – A landing spot in an entry or inside a garage can be designated for these bags. I created a mudroom for this purpose in our home that is filled with dozens of hooks for backpacks, purses, and totes as well as for coats.
Projects + hobbies – If your craft supplies or remodeling supplies are landing on the table, you'll want to select a dedicated spot for storing these items based on where you will be using them. If they will actually be worked on at the dining table, they need a storage space adjacent to the table so they can be cleaned up by dinnertime! Hutches and sideboards are often a good nearby solution.
When you declutter the dinner table, enroll your family in the significance of family meals together. Work together to create new habits of putting items where they belong.
Make the dinner table a sacred space and involve the family in clearing clutter from the table when it accumulates. Gaining buy-in from the family will help keep the table cleared long-term.
Stake your claim on the surface real estate with a centerpiece, fresh flowers, or – even better – a family fun caddy (more on that later).
By organizing your table, you are ordering more than your space. You are organizing family experiences that will last a lifetime.
By organizing your dinner table, you are ordering more than your space. You are organizing family experiences that will last a lifetime.
Maybe you've tried family dinners and ended up spending your time correcting poor manners and squelching arguments. Creating these special times takes intentionality, lest dinnertime devolve into airing the day's frustrations or taking out our feelings from the day on our loved ones.
Take heart – the key to overriding distractions is an engaging plan. Creating memories as a family around the table is enhanced when we have a plan and some resources at our fingertips.
Create a family fun caddy to focus your family on positive, uplifting themes during dinnertime to maximize connectedness.
In our home, we've repurposed this handsome bottle crate into a family fun caddy. We keep this caddy close-at-hand on our sideboard and pull it out each night. I rotate the items now and then to keep it fresh.
What to do in emergency situations – this is a great time to go over family emergency planning!
Learn to be curious about your family members. Go around the table taking turns "being curious". Each family member has an opportunity to ask another family member about something in order to learn more about that person.
Pre-printed conversation cards. You can find countless sets online!
We also include dice, Uno, and playing cards in our caddy for after-dinner fun!
Make the family table a time to pray for others: our families, friends, leaders, and military. Praying for others builds an other-centered attitude in each of us, and reminds us all we are all part of the human family.
There are endless ways to make family dinner time fun and memorable. The next time the bickering begins, try redirecting the family to one of these fun activities to foster connectedness.
One of our favorite things to do at the family dinner table is to create unique experiences.
As you get more intentional with family dinner time, let your creativity take off!
This is a feast in our playroom (the only long room that would seat 20 people!) that we put together with friends to celebrate a Jewish holiday.
We made traditional food, dressed up, and discussed the cultural significance of the meal. We each took part in a play, reading our character's part, and immersed ourselves in the story-line. It was a time to remember!
Don't wait for a special occasion to have a special dinner – create experiences!
Trust me, the small extra effort is worth it!
Reclaiming the family dinner table will help you reconnect as a family.
However, family relationships are not the only ones that benefit from sharing dinner together. We find that hospitality suffers when homes and lives are disorganized.
Connection, not only among the family but with others, is lost as people struggle to keep their heads above water. It's ironic that in a world where everyone has a thousand friends online, most folks don't know their neighbors up the street. Reclaiming the family dinner table is the beginning of reclaiming hospitality.
It's ironic that in a world where everyone has a thousand friends online, most folks don't know their neighbors up the street. Reclaiming the family dinner table is the beginning of reclaiming hospitality.
Now that you have your table cleared for dining and you've started thinking creatively about dinnertime, open your table to others.
Below is pictured a garden party I designed and hosted for my Restoring Order team of professional organizers. It was a magical time!
When you make room for hospitality at your table you can "pay forward" all the benefits of the family table.
The act of "breaking bread" together has been known for generations as an intimate act of connectedness. Build bridges, repair relationships, show love, and offer respite just by opening up your home and your table to others.
Organizing your mealtime table gives you more than a cleared surface; it provides a platform for extending hospitality and getting back to what's most important in life: people.
Please share in the comments your own experiences and idea about creating rich family experiences! Together, we're a community of Life Reclaimists taking back our tables and taking back our lives!


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Development as Freedom? The Bhopal case
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Citizens Rights
By: Valeria Venturini
Nowadays seems to be fair enough that words such as freedom, democracy, development, have become bare containers full of rhetoric with no meaning. Too often we hear examples of good or bad governance based more on economical concepts instead of human rights. Amartya Sen, Nobel Price for Economy 1998, in his book Development as Freedom underlined:
"Development means a process of expansion both in private and social sphere. Consequently, the fight of the development is to eliminate all the "unliberties", such as fame, poverty, tyranny, intolerance, repression, illiteracy, lack of healthcare system and environment protection, freedom of speech and expressions, for both men and women, who have the opportunity to act and built the life they want"
His words seems to be a vade-mecum of the perfect democracy , which unfortunately has been put on a second level, compared with economical principles. Reading about the economical growth of the Asian Tigers, we should ask ourselves if we really can talk about virtuous examples, or perhaps we should push our governments to guarantee at least about fundamental rights of their population, to really talk about concrete development. In the case of India, the differences between wages or rights are always strong, despite the high development of the last 20 years. Is that fair to define Tiger a country where the Caste System is still alive, even if with no legal value? Or a country where large parts of the population do not have the chance of the healthcare system? Around this topic, in June 2010, for a few days, some Medias reported a news around Bhopal, where in 1984 happened the largest industrial catastrophe of the history.
The tragedy took place in the night between 2/3 December 1984: from the multinational Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL), spread out around 40ton of MIC(Methyl isocyanate), causing a sort of toxic geyser on the area. This happened because the managers decided to cut the security system to save money. The explosion provoked 754victims, but Amnesty International calculated nowadays more than 25000 deaths; in addiction to this, the still-alive contamination and the deformations of the entire population, and particularly of Bhopal new generations. On June 7 2010, eight Indian managers of the UCIL have been condemned for the responsibility, together with the then-president Warren Anderson, 81, now in hiding.
There are in the areas severe diseases, such as eyes, lung, liver, back, gastrointestinal and genital, and nervous and immune system. In addiction to this, there are plenty of cases of exhaustion and depression which can degenerate in coma or death. Moreover, the problem of the environment is still huge: BBC Radio in 2004 asserted that the area is still full of toxic materials: just swimming in one of the several lakes for more than 10 minutes could provoke faintness. USA defended the UCIL, saying that the factory did its very best to help the families of the victims: effectively, UCIL gave around 450 millions of Dollars to indemnify the victims, but actually none of them has been spent for the needs of the population, creating the worst case of corruption in the history of the country.
Just 50 million Dollars have been spent to built an hospital around 22 km far from the most affected area, but just few families have the opportunity to spend 300 Rupee to get there with a rickshaw. Can we actually talk about freedom and development? Perhaps we should create new words, because clearly our words are neither sufficient, nor least of all faithful anymore.


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Statement by Research!America President and CEO Mary Woolley on FY17 Omnibus Bill
The $2 billion increase for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the FY17 omnibus, along with additional resources to combat public health threats, will help us achieve better health, a stronger economy and maintain our competitive edge in science and innovation. The bill re-energizes our nation's research ecosystem to address antibiotic resistance, Alzheimer's disease and advance bold studies like the Cancer Moonshot, Precision Medicine, and the BRAIN Initiative which reflect the sentiment of a majority of Americans (63%) who agree that basic scientific research should be supported by the federal government.
The bill provides significant funding for the 21st Century Cures Act, public health initiatives including opioid abuse and mental health programs, and modest increases for the National Science Foundation and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The slight increase for FDA is not enough to ensure the agency is well-staffed to implement provisions in 21st Century Cures and speed medical progress. We are also disappointed that the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality budget continues to erode, placing further strain on the agency's ability to optimize the quality and delivery of new treatments and therapies to patients. Further, the bill continues to inhibit federal funding for gun control research despite support from a majority of Americans (58%) who say research into the causes and prevention of gun violence is critical. We are grateful for the leadership of Chairmen Roy Blunt and Tom Cole, and Ranking Members Patty Murray and Rosa DeLauro in building on the momentum of bipartisan congressional support for medical and health research. We urge Congress to move swiftly in passing this bill and channeling resources to these agencies.
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Нико́льский (Нико́льская) — русская фамилия церковного происхождения, связанная с храмами в честь Николая (Николы) Чудотворца. Также топоним.

Носители фамилии

А

 Никольский, Алексей Иванович (1877—1938) — протоиерей Русской православной церкви, священномученик, расстрелян.
 Никольский, Алексей Николаевич (в монашестве Николай; 1879—1928) — епископ Русской православной церкви, епископ Вязниковский, викарий Владимирской епархии.
 Никольский, Альберт (род. 1986) — латвийский футболист, вратарь.
 Никольский, Анатолий Николаевич (1933—2018) — советский и российский художник.

 Никольский, Антон Иванович (1857—1914) — русский учёный архивист, писатель, историк.

Б

В
 Никольский, Вадим Дмитриевич (1886—1941) — советский инженер и писатель-фантаст.
 Никольский, Валентин Иванович (1885—1937) — священник Русской православной церкви, священномученик.

 Никольский, Виталий Александрович (1910—2002) — советский деятель военной разведки, генерал-майор.

 Никольский, Всеволод Дмитриевич (1896—1969) — советский радиохимик, лауреат Ленинской премии.

Г
 Никольский, Гавриил Петрович (в монашестве Филарет; 1858—1921/1922) — епископ Русской православной церкви, архиепископ Самарский и Ставропольский.
 Никольский, Геннадий Михайлович (1929—1982) — советский астроном.

 Никольский, Глеб Александрович (род. 1952) — советский, российский оперный певец (бас).

Д
 Никольский, Дмитрий Петрович (1855—1918) — русский медик, гигиенист и общественный деятель; доктор медицины.

Е

И

 Никольский, Иннокентий Михайлович (1906—1971) — советский государственный деятель, председатель Молотовского (Пермского) облисполкома (1953—1962).

К

Л
 Никольский, Лев Лазаревич (настоящее имя Лейб Лазаревич Фельдбин; 1895—1973) — советский разведчик, майор госбезопасности, нелегальный резидент во Франции, Австрии и Италии.

М

Н

О
 Никольский, Олег Константинович (род. 1937) — советский и российский учёный.

П

С
 Никольский, Семён Яковлевич (в монашестве Симеон; ум. 1922) — епископ РПЦ, миссионер, проповедник.

Т
 Никольский, Тимофей Ферапонтович (1788—1848) — русский священнослужитель, протоиерей; цензор.

Ф

Ю
 Никольский, Юрий Сергеевич (1895—1962) — советский композитор и дирижёр.

Составные фамилии
 Денисов-Никольский, Юрий Иванович (1932—2018) — советский и российский учёный, специалист в области экспериментальной морфологии, академик РАМН (2000—2013), академик РАН (2013).

Топоним
 Никольский — до 1990 года название города Сатпаев в Карагандинской области.
 Никольский — посёлок в Залесовском районе Алтайского края.
 Никольский — деревня в Бирском районе Башкортостана.
 Никольский — посёлок в городском округе Уфа Башкортостана.
 Никольский — хутор в Борисовском районе Белгородской области.
 Никольский — хутор в Корочанском районе Белгородской области.
 Никольский — посёлок в Красногвардейском районе Белгородской области.
 Никольский — хутор в Ракитянском районе Белгородской области.
 Никольский — посёлок в Выгоничском районе Брянской области.
 Никольский — хутор в Жирятинском районе Брянской области.
 Никольский — посёлок в Севском районе Брянской области.
 Никольский — посёлок в Суражском районе Брянской области.
 Никольский — хутор в Лискинском районе Воронежской области.
 Никольский — хутор в Подгоренском районе Воронежской области.
 Никольский — посёлок в Эртильском районе Воронежской области.
 Никольский — хутор в Дзержинском районе Калужской области.
 Никольский — посёлок в Куйбышевском районе Калужской области.
 Никольский — починок в Нолинском районе Кировской области.
 Никольский — посёлок в Железногорском районе Курской области.
 Никольский — хутор в Касторенском районе Курской области.
 Никольский — посёлок в Курчатовском районе Курской области.
 Никольский — хутор в Суджанском районе Курской области.
 Никольский — посёлок в Щигровском районе Курской области.
 Никольский — посёлок городского типа в Подпорожском районе Ленинградской области.
 Никольский — посёлок в Лебедянском районе Липецкой области, упразднён в 2001 г.
 Никольский — починок в Моркинском районе Республики Марий Эл.
 Никольский — посёлок в Первомайском районе Нижегородской области.
 Никольский — посёлок в Тогучинском районе Новосибирской области.
 Никольский — посёлок в Болховском районе Орловской области.
 Никольский — посёлок в Верховском районе Орловской области.
 Никольский — посёлок в Дмитровском районе Орловской области.
 Никольский — посёлок в Залегощенском районе Орловской области.
 Никольский — хутор в Заветинском районе Ростовской области.
 Никольский — посёлок в Сараевском районе Рязанской области.
 Никольский — посёлок в Богатовском районе Самарской области.
 Никольский — посёлок в Исаклинском районе Самарской области.
 Никольский — железнодорожный разъезд в Татищевском районе Саратовской области.
 Никольский — посёлок в составе города Красноуральск Свердловской области.
 Никольский — посёлок в Сампурском районе Тамбовской области.
 Никольский — посёлок в Староюрьевском районе Тамбовской области, в 1998 г. включен в состав села Мезинец.
 Никольский — посёлок в Верхнеуслонском районе Татарстана.
 Никольский — посёлок в Ефремовском районе Тульской области.
 Никольский — посёлок в Ишимском районе Тюменской области.
 Никольский — починок в Воткинском районе Удмуртии.
 Никольский — посёлок в Кусинском районе Челябинской области.
 Никольский — село в Намском улусе Якутии.
 Никольский — статистически обособленная местность на острове Умнак, штат Аляска, США.
 Никольский — аэропорт в населённом пункте Никольский, Аляска.
 Никольский — бывший посёлок городского типа (с 1938 года), располагавшийся до 1960 года на территории Московской области.
 Никольский — железнодорожная станция Приволжской железной дороги на линии Ртищево—Саратов.
 Никольский — остров в Ладожском озере.
 Никольский — остров в Онежском озере.

Другое
 «Николай Никольский» — поезд 83/84 Красноярск—Новосибирск.

См. также

 Никольский проезд

 Никольский тупик

Примечания

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Four deans reappointed after five-year reviews
March 1, 2018 By Käri Knutson
Every five years of their tenure, deans of the university's schools and colleges undergo a comprehensive review to assess their academic and administrative leadership and performance. The reviews include interviews with faculty, staff and students, and with external stakeholders. The provost appoints the members of the review committee.
Four dean reviews began last fall and have been completed: School of Veterinary Medicine Dean Mark Markel, College of Engineering Dean Ian Robertson, College of Letters & Science Dean Karl Scholz and College of Agricultural and Life Sciences Dean Kathryn VandenBosch. All four deans have received feedback on the results of their reviews and all have agreed to accept reappointment to their positions.
Chancellor Rebecca Blank and Provost Sarah Mangelsdorf wish to express their appreciation to the chairs and members of the four dean review teams and to all who contributed their input to the reviews.
Tags: campus administration, provost, Provost's Office


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Q: jquery dialog changes it's dom location upon being shown I have the following structure of my web-page

It consists of several iframe elements. Top iframe has a button, when user presses it I want to show modal dialog upon the whole entire page (not inside the top iframe).
So, I'm using the following code to create and append dialog element dynamically:
var context = findMainWindow();//returns the main page window, out of scope
var modalDialog = $('body', context.document).append('<div id="' + dialogName + '" />').find('#' + dialogName);

This code works and  I see the element gets injected into dom of main page:

Then I call .dialog method to show it:
  $modalDialog.dialog({
            autoOpen: true,
            modal: true,
            height: h,
            width: w,
            resizable: false,
            close: function () {
                $modalDialog.dialog('destroy');
                $modalDialog.remove();
            }
        });

, but instead of showing it upon the entire page it moves the element into the dom of the iframe, where the initial button resides. Here is the illustration:

How to make it show upon the body of the whole page, where element belonged after injection?

A: For anyone who encounters same behavior - it was just a bug in jquery-ui. Upgrade to latest version solved the issue.


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Miohippus (etimológicamente, "caballo pequeño") es un género extinto de équidos de la subfamilia Anchitheriinae.
Los fósiles se encuentran en Norteamérica; parece haber evolucionado del género Mesohippus, con el que coexistió durante cuatro a ocho millones de años.

Descripción
Los ejemplares pesarían entre 40 y 55 kg, siendo más grandes que la mayoría de los primeros équidos del Eoceno, pero menores que los caballos actuales. Era algo más grande que Mesohippus, y con el cráneo ligeramente más largo. También tenía una cresta adicional en sus molares superiores, lo que le permitía masticar hierba con mayor efectividad. Algunas especies estaban adaptadas a la vida en los bosques, y otras a la vida en las praderas.

Taxonomía

Miohippus fue nombrado por Marsh en 1874 y su especie tipo es Miohippus annectens. Fue asignado a la familia Equidae por Marsh en 1874. Fue sinonimizado subjetivamente con Mesohippus por Matthew en 1899. Su estatus como género independiente fue corroborado por Hay (1902), H. F. Osborn en 1918, Hay (1930), Stirton (1940) y Carroll (1988); y fue asignado a la subfamilia Anchitheriinae por MacFadden en 1998.

 Miohippus Marsh, 1874 (sinónimos - Altippus Douglass, 1908, Pediohippus Schlaikjer, 1935)
 M. acutidens (Sinclair, 1905)
 M. anceps (Marsh, 1874)
 M. annectens Marsh, 1874 Especie tipo (sinónimos - M. crassicuspis Osborn, 1904) M. assiniboiensis (Lambe, 1905)
 M. condoni (Leidy, 1870)
 M. equiceps (Cope, 1879) (sinónimos - Anchitherium brachylophus Cope, 1879)
 M. equinanus Osborn, 1918
 M. gemmarosae Osborn, 1918
 M. gidleyi (Osborn, 1904) (sinónimos - Mesohippus grallipes Sinclair, 1925, Me. validus Osborn, 1894)
 M. grandis (Clark & Beerbower, 1967)
 M. intermedius (Osborn & Wortman, 1895)
 M. longicristis (Cope, 1878)
 M. obliquidens (Osborn, 1904) (sinónimos - Me. barbouri Schlaikjer, 1931, Me. brachystylus Osborn, 1904, Me. eulophus Osborn, 1904, Mi. meteulophus Osborn, 1904, Pediohippus antiquus Schlaikjer, 1935)
 M. primus Osborn, 1918
 M. quartus'' Osborn, 1918

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 The Paleobiology Database
 Evolution of the Horse
 Horse Evolution,  Kathleen Hunt
 Evolution of Horses

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Fósiles del Eoceno en América
Especies extintas en la prehistoria
Mamíferos del Eoceno
Mamíferos del Oligoceno


That land can remain open for future development if trustees approve building on the Bull Street property, which abuts Harden Street near the hospital, Floyd said.
Earlier this year, USC unsuccessfully lobbied S.C. lawmakers for $50 million to jump-start construction of the new campus.
Plans for the new campus include a new medical school, a life-science facility, a private medical-research office and a parking garage.
USC plans to move the school from its aging site, next to the Dorn Veterans Affairs Medical Center. The USC School of Medicine's lease with the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs for the Garners Ferry Road site ends in 2030.
USC officials have said the Garners Ferry building needs $75 million in improvements and that rent — now $1 a year — is expected to increase to $7.5 million a year under a new lease.
USC president Harris Pastides hinted Wednesday that a "major announcement" about a new medical school location would come soon. But USC officials would not say which location had been chosen.
City leaders originally sold the public on redeveloping the Bull Street campus in part on the idea of putting the state-owned property on the city's tax rolls.
Columbia has committed nearly $100 million in public money to the Bull Street property, including $30 million to build the Columbia Fireflies' baseball stadium.
But if USC's medical school builds on the site, 16 of its 181 acres would remain tax exempt.
City Councilman Howard Duvall said Thursday he hopes the city and USC can reach a financial agreement soon that covers the cost of services that the city provides around the school's sprawling downtown campus.
"We have talked to them and hope to have something firm soon," Duvall said.
Efforts to reach Hughes Thursday were unsuccessful.


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Q: New column specifying if time interval falls into a particular grouping in Pandas I have Zoom data of when people checked in and checked out, and I would like to match those time intervals by the session that was going on and create a new column with a list of sessions the participant attended.
If the time spent in a session is less than 10 minutes, I don't want to include it.
Example:
Sessions

Session
Time

Apples
8:00-8:30

Oranges
8:30-9:00

Pineapples
9:00-9:30

Participants

Participant
Join Time
Leave Time

001
8:03
8:40

001
9:04
9:31

002
8:45
9:00

003
8:00
8:30

003
8:55
9:00

003
9:02
9:25

Desired output:

participant
Engaged Sessions

001
Apples,Oranges,Pineapples

002
Oranges

003
Apples, Pineapples

Would anyone know how to tackle this problem?
Thank you kindly for the help

A: Before presenting a possible solution allow me to point out some points that would be more favorable to handle differently than described in the problem statement.

*

*Time and sessions: Where possible use session with dates.

*Use time aware timestamps. Especially with sessions over different time zones it becomes really messy when only using hours and minutes. Before starting to evaluate, bring all timestamps to the same time zone.

*String concatenations are rarely used and make further processing difficult. If the problem really requires this make sure it is one of the final steps and you don't need to manipulate further.

Now to the solution proposed.
Data
import pandas as pd
import io

pd.read_csv(io.StringIO("""
         Participant    Join Time    Leave Time
 0   001      8:03      8:40
 1   001      9:04      9:31
 2   002      8:45      9:00
 3   003      8:00      8:30
 4   003      8:55      9:00
 5   003      9:02      9:25
"""), sep="\s\s+", engine="python", dtype=object)
df['Join Time'] = pd.to_timedelta(df['Join Time']+':00')    # make it a timedelta
df['Leave Time'] = pd.to_timedelta(df['Leave Time']+':00')  # make it a timedelta
df['Time spent'] = df['Leave Time']-df['Join Time']    # for side condition

sess_df = pd.read_csv(io.StringIO("""
         Session    Time
 0   Apples      8:00-8:30
 1   Oranges      8:30-9:00
 2   Pineapples      9:00-9:30
"""), sep="\s\s+", engine="python", dtype=object)
sess_df['Start'] = sess_df.Time.str.split(pat="-",expand=True)[0]
sess_df['Start'] = pd.to_timedelta(sess_df['Start']+':00')
sess_df['End'] = sess_df.Time.str.split(pat="-",expand=True)[1]
sess_df['End'] = pd.to_timedelta(sess_df['End']+':00')

Expand the df with the sessions from the sess_df
df = df.reindex(columns=list(df.columns) + list(sess_df.Session.unique()),fill_value=False)

Logic for participation:
for sess in list(sess_df.Session.unique()):
    df.loc[df[(df['Time spent'].dt.total_seconds()>(10 * 60)) &  # at least 10 min in session?
      (((df['Join Time'].dt.total_seconds() >= list(sess_df[sess_df.Session==sess].Start)[0].total_seconds()) &
      (df['Join Time'].dt.total_seconds() <= list(sess_df[sess_df.Session==sess].End)[0].total_seconds()))|
      ((df['Leave Time'].dt.total_seconds() > list(sess_df[sess_df.Session==sess].Start)[0].total_seconds()+0.1) &
      (df['Leave Time'].dt.total_seconds() <= list(sess_df[sess_df.Session==sess].End)[0].total_seconds()+0.1)))
      ].index, sess] =True

Output processing
df = df[df[list(sess_df.Session.unique())].any(1)].groupby('Participant').sum()
df = df.T
participant = []
sess_string = []
for p in list(df.columns):
    participant.append(p)
    tmp = ''
    for sess in list(df[df[p]==True].index):
        if tmp == '':
            tmp = sess
        else:
            tmp = tmp +','+ sess
    sess_string.append(tmp)

desired_output=pd.DataFrame(data={'participant':participant, 'Engaged Sessions':sess_string}).set_index('participant')

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Note that before the output processing you have a df with the sessions and a boolean map whether or not a participant was in the session.
Also to the points in the introduction. Here timedeltas are used wo be able to work with HH:MM. There is a great example why you should used timestamps with dates rather than timedeltas. In the logic for the session participation on the leave Time +0.1 are added. Taking the Orange session.
list(sess_df[sess_df.Session=='Oranges'].Start)[0].total_seconds()

this returns 30600.0 what is 08:30
df['Leave Time'].dt.total_seconds()>list(sess_df[sess_df.Session=='Oranges'].Start)[0].total_seconds()

This would return to you that all Leave Time are greater than 08:30 what is not correct. One is exactly 08:30. Numerically 30600.0 > 30600.0 would return False. This being said be carefull when not using full timestamps and calculating with time in general.