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Life support: can technology defuse the demographic timebomb?
Society is ageing fast. Can better, smarter buildings and cities help us to survive the demographic timebomb?
Digital cities | Healthier places | Issue 01 | Spaces
Words by Stephen McGrath
"The good news is that for the first time in history, most people alive now can expect to be around well into their sixties. The challenge is that increasing longevity coupled with lower birth rates means a smaller global workforce will have to support a much larger elderly population"
You are old. You wake up, in your own bed, and look up at the camera on the ceiling, which has been looking down at you all night. You find its presence reassuring. Another day begins. While your smartphone takes your blood pressure, a companion robot brings in breakfast, together with your various meds. You know you should get up. You have physiotherapy exercises to do on your games console. And you know the clinic will be analyzing your every move …
A scene from 2050? Perhaps, but it could also be much sooner. Care for older people is evolving rapidly, in response to an impending crisis in demand. The good news is that for the first time in history, most people alive now can expect to be around well into their sixties. The challenge is that increasing longevity coupled with lower birth rates means a smaller global workforce will have to support a much larger elderly population. Health and social care will be on the frontline. As the World Health Organization (WHO) has pointed out, older people have complex health needs, often with multiple chronic conditions and geriatric syndromes, and most health services are ill-prepared to cope.
This poses tough questions for governments and healthcare providers across the globe, especially as rising expectations coincide with pressure on funding and fewer resources to go round. The answers promise to challenge not only established models of healthcare provision but the way in which cities are planned and, perhaps most fundamentally, the distinction between care environments and our own homes.
Forever young: the rise of the over-60s
In 2016, the post-war babyboomer generation began to turn 70. In the longer term, the WHO estimates that the number of over-60s will more than double between 2015 and 2050, to 22% of the global population. In all major areas, apart from Africa, at least a quarter of the population will be in this age group. Advanced economies such as Japan and Germany are worst affected — by 2060, one-third of Germans will be over 65, while Japan's population is set to drop from 127 million to 87 million, of whom almost 40% will be 65 or older. China too is on the edge of a demographic cliff, with its working-age population set to peak in 2020.
The WHO points out that this collective ageing is also happening much faster than in the past: France had almost 150 years to adapt as its proportion of over-60s rose from 10% to 20%, but countries such as Brazil, China and India will have little more than 20. And there is little evidence that older people today are any healthier than their parents: over the last 30 years, there has been a slight decline in the proportion of older people in high-income countries who need help with basic activities, but little change in the prevalence of less severe limitations in functioning.
Intelligent hospitals
An obvious first step is to improve the efficiency of hospital operations, so that a smaller workforce can look after a larger number of patients, while lowering costs. Minimizing walking distances, maximizing patient visibility and reducing energy use are already important considerations for the designers of healthcare buildings. But advances in information technology could remove the need for staff to walk between departments at all, while enabling much more detailed patient monitoring and cutting energy bills dramatically.
One of the most exciting developments in hospital design is all but invisible to patients, but it is set to revolutionise care over the coming decades. Healthcare buildings contain many systems, spanning everything from light control and fire alarms to hospital administration, nurse call and heart monitoring, but they are typically separate and unable to communicate with each other. So, what if there was a single communications platform that united all of these systems? Medical staff and facilities managers would be able to extract the information they needed far more quickly, while other tasks could be automated completely. The data harvested from such a system could also be used to improve everything from user experience to waiting times to buildings' energy efficiency.
"You'd go to the hospital but you wouldn't have to go to the admin desk — your smartphone would tell them you're in the building"
Rick Rome, WSP
"You'd go to the hospital but you wouldn't have to go to the admin desk because your smartphone would tell them that you're in the building," says Rick Rome, mechanical engineer and executive vice president at WSP's specialist healthcare division in Dallas. "They would send you a message to tell you that you're going to be in room 502 on the fifth floor. So you go straight to your room and the nurse meets you. On a screen in your room, it will list all of your caregivers and all of your procedures for the next three days. They'll already know your blood pressure because it's been on your Fitbit prior to your arrival. So you've just eliminated two or three steps in the process." Meanwhile, the thermostat in room 502 has been automatically adjusted when you entered the building so that it's a comfortable temperature: "That's improving the energy efficiency of the hospital too because you're not air-conditioning rooms that aren't occupied yet."
Integrating systems such as patient check-in, energy management and lighting will revolutionize healthcare for patients and staff. This is already a reality at Dell Children's Medical Center in Dallas. Photo: Thomas McConnell
This might sound futuristic but Rome's team has already implemented limited versions of it on projects including Dell Children's Medical Center in Dallas, the first LEED Platinum hospital in the world. "We tied the patient check-in system with the energy management and the lighting control systems, and it works really well." They are now developing the concept further, at the cutting-edge University of Texas hospital in Austin, and a new 150,000m2 hospital in China.
"The ultimate goal is to improve the efficiency of the hospital and improve the efficiency of the caregiver, so they don't have to spend as much time on administration," Rome says. "It all comes through one system and it's at their fingertips. So if a caregiver is currently, say, 65% efficient, the goal would be to improve that efficiency to 85%."
Hollwich Kushner's masterplan for BOOM Costa del Sol in Spain combines health, sport and entertainment facilities with high-design housing for people "who aren't content to give up living life to the fullest". Visualization: Hollwich Kushner
Decentralized care
But the future of senior healthcare is not limited to hospitals: large, consolidated facilities will be unable to fulfill the care needs of ageing societies on their own. Instead, the focus is shifting towards a decentralized model, in which a much greater proportion of care is provided from smaller, primary care facilities such as walk-in clinics or freestanding emergency departments — the latter will have the facilities to treat more acute illnesses and injuries than a conventional clinic, but without large wards or radiology departments.
This will mean a community-planning approach, where care and wellbeing are integrated throughout a wider urban area. It's a radical break with the past, says Marco Buccini, a healthcare planner and architect with over 28 years of experience in Canadian healthcare. "It means not thinking of hospitals as these isolated institutions that are there when you're sick. Instead of just building a hospital, now there's a real focus on integrated campuses, where you may have wellness clinics and medical clinics on a site, as well as residential senior care. Often a lot of those people get stuck in hospitals — it's not the proper design response and it's costing more and more." Buccini's vision is to build a "medical ecosystem" comprising many elements, including care homes, doctors' clinics, regular housing, a hospital and an outpatient facility. These campuses would be designed in such a way that you couldn't differentiate a hospital or a research facility from any of the other buildings: "These buildings used to be designed around the doctors and administrators, but now they're being designed around what the patient needs."
Then there are what Doug Lacy, vice president at WSP in Dallas, describes as "progressional age of life facilities" — a model that resembles a leisure resort as much as a medical centre. "In the US, nursing homes were for a long time just for the last stage of life," he says. "But now we're seeing that the ageing population want a nicer place, so they're much more hospitality-oriented." Such facilities offer general life activities — office space, restaurants, shops, hotels, apartments — but with healthcare services added on.
The Skyler tower concept by Hollwich Kushner is designed to be a section through society, with nurseries, office space, a business hub for retirees, healthcare and a spiritual centre. Visualization: Hollwich Kushner
The changing age profile of society is driving architects and developers to consider new ways of living that work better for people not only when they are dependent on medical care, but for the lengthening window when they may be retired but still relatively healthy. When he turned 40, architect Matthias Hollwich started exploring how society and architecture could make the later part of life fulfilling and happy. He has just published the results in New Aging: Live Smarter Now to Live Better Forever. Some 90% of Americans want to age at home, but only a fraction are able to do so, he points out. "This is why we have to start a revolution, and redesign our cities and buildings to allow all of us to live the life we want, all life long.
"We have to start a revolution, and redesign our cities and buildings to allow all of us to live the life we want, all life long"
Matthias Hollwich, Hollwich Kusher
We have to facilitate social interaction, because 50% of nursing home inhabitants are there because of social deficits. We have to provide opportunities for informal exercise — running upstairs extends your life expectancy by six minutes — and empower post-retirement work. We need 'stealth care': healthcare without the stigma. Longevity is one of today's megatrends. It is time to address it from all angles." His practice, Hollwich Kushner, first explored these ideas in 2011 with the BOOM masterplan concept, designed for the gay community, and combining high-design health, sports and entertainment facilities with lofts, apartments and houses set in a pedestrian-friendly landscape. Its latest prototype is Skyler, a tower that embodies the New Aging principles. It offers multigenerational living for 1,000 people, and includes not only homes but healthcare, shared workspaces and places for socializing.
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Multigenerational living and social interaction was also at the heart of the winner of the Future Experimental Project award at the 2015 World Architecture Festival. Homefarm Cyberjaya is a collaboration between Singapore-based SPARK Architects and healthcare provider HSC, to be developed on a 6.5ha site in Cyberjaya, Malaysia. As well as a medical centre, the 200,000m2 project includes six residential towers that double as vertical farms, around a productive garden and farm. Residents will be able to participate in growing food, while cloud-based technology embedded in the residential units will monitor their vital signs.
"The world's ageing population is changing and so must the way we think about the architecture that supports this section of our community," says SPARK director Stephen Pimbley. "Those entering retirement age are generally mentally and physically healthy. This is a new typology for residential living that seeks to retain the older generation with a supportive cross-sectional community rather than isolating them from it."
With its vertical farm, Homefarm achieves something that many higher-density models struggle to offer: proximity to nature. A growing body of evidence shows that this is the basis of better physical and mental health. "Green spaces and immersion in nature have positive effects on a wide range of parameters, such as cognitive abilities, stress and cardiovascular health," says Simon Secher, a consulting psychologist based in Denmark who advises architects on this subject. More than 2,000 studies have shown a correlation between physical surroundings, such as the inflow of natural light and green views from hospital beds, and patient recovery, he adds. For example, in a 2008 study, patients recovering from abdominal surgery were randomly assigned to rooms with or without plants. The group with plants experienced less pain, fatigue and anxiety, and had lower blood pressure and heart rates.
A rendering of the view from HSC's medical centre over the vertical farms and gardens of Homefarm Cyberjaya, a mixed-use development in Malaysia by SPARK Architects. Visualization: SPARK Architects
Giving patients access to greenery is hardest in places where space is at a premium. Hong Kong is an acute case — its 65-plus demographic is expected to double to 31% of the population within the next 20 years. But as one of the most densely occupied places on Earth, the only way to meet demand for healthcare facilities is to build tall.
"We read articles about new hospitals elsewhere in the world, where there is a lot of interaction with external spaces and greenery," says Vivien Mak, a specialist in healthcare architecture at Hong Kong-based consultant P&T. "We try to create better spaces that relieve stress for patients and staff, and where they can get more daylight, more access to outdoor areas, more gallery space and communal spaces. But here we are very packed, so that limits what we can do."
One answer is to create a kind of vertical campus, containing many of the same spaces you would find in a horizontal one. Earlier this year, P&T completed Gleneagles Hospital, where landscaped flat roofs connect treatment zones and patient ward towers.
Softbank Robotics' humanoid robot Romeo can open doors, climb stairs and help with daily tasks. Photo: Softbank Robotics
"We expect there to be an app for everything, so why wouldn't healthcare use the same technology to become part of our daily lives?"
Simon Kydd, WSP
Introducing telecare
The logical end point of decentralization is to provide as much care as possible in the home. In many developed countries, telehealth services that provide a virtual link between patients and doctors are already making tentative steps into the mainstream. These hold the promise of supporting people to stay at home, rather than going into hospital or residential care. According to UK telehealth provider Appello, postponing entry into care for one year saves £26,000 (US$32,000) in non-care costs.
Such solutions do rely on a good-quality broadband infrastructure being in place to start with. Sweden is one of the world's best connected countries, currently working towards giving 90% of its citizens a 100MB internet connection by 2020. Municipalities are now looking to capitalize on this, with digital homecare solutions that include assistive robots, smart cameras and Facetime-like video capabilities. "If you look at the cost of homecare, it's expected to increase by 20-25% in Sweden from now to 2020," says Christian Wictorin, manager of smart city solutions at WSP. "They are asking, how can we make this work for society?" The economic case is persuasive: ITC firm Acreo estimates that countrywide adoption would cut 53 billion kronor (US$8.2 million) from the country's care bill by 2020. Understandably, this initially met with strong resistance from caregivers and families, suspicious that homecare is being replaced with digital services and perhaps unsettled by the idea of "Big Brother" style surveillance. But users themselves quickly adapt, says Wictorin: "It's a big barrier before they have tested it. They say, 'Ah, we don't want a camera looking at us.' But when we do evaluation afterwards, we discover that the patients find it much less intrusive than having someone that comes to them at night-time, with a key that can open their door. They actually think cameras are better."
Another example of pioneering telecare is being trialled at the University of Manchester in the UK. Mira Rehab is a remote physiotherapy software that uses a Microsoft Kinect motion-sensor camera to transform exercises into interactive video games. By gamifying the exercises, the patient is kept motivated throughout the therapy and the clinical staff can monitor their progress remotely. "This is not intended to replace physiotherapists or practitioners, it's to supplement them," says Emma Stanmore, a lecturer in nursing who is leading the NHS-backed project. "Traditionally, people come to a clinic to see a physiotherapist, or the physiotherapist goes to their home, but they can't go that often and it's time-limited. With Mira, the physiotherapist assesses the person and decides what they need, but they are then able to remotely monitor how they're doing, in comparison to, say, giving them a leaflet."
Older people can be fearful of the technology, but Stanmore has found that they respond positively if they're provided with training and given enough time to get to grips with it. Although it's early days, feedback from patients indicates that it is already promoting independence: "One lady gave up driving two years ago and she's now starting again. That's life-changing for her."
There are many digital solutions that attempt to engage patients in their own health, from wearable fitness trackers to myriad smartphone apps that monitor heart rates, blood sugar or sleep cycles, remind people when to take their medication, or simply encourage them to follow healthy eating plans or to drink enough water. "We're becoming a culture that expects there to be an app for everything, so why wouldn't healthcare use the same sort of technology to become part of our daily lives?" points out Simon Kydd, global lead for healthcare for WSP. Mobile technology should also improve diagnoses: "It enables long-term measurements of the body's activity, rather than relying only on measurements taken in an anxious state at the hospital."
From The Possible, issue 01
For now, the majority of telehealth services make it easier for patients and their human doctors to communicate. But in the future, it's likely that artificial intelligence will be involved at some point in the process. There are many start-ups now seeking to harness the mighty data-processing power of computers to develop new drugs or identify patterns in diagnoses. The French division of SoftBank Robotics has even developed a 140cm-tall humanoid robot called Romeo, intended to be "a genuine personal assistant and companion", who will help with daily tasks, and learn users' behaviour so that they can identify unusual patterns.
All of this will comprise a major transformation in healthcare, which will inevitably meet resistance and raise questions of data protection, privacy and the appropriate role of robot carers. But society has already demonstrated great capacity to adapt to technological change. And given the scale of the demographic challenge facing societies around the world, we can't afford to dismiss possible solutions in any field, from more connected buildings to new social models and technologies. "There's no magic bullet but we're going to have to leverage technology to ensure that our ageing population can receive the care that they need," as Michael Witecki, a senior healthcare engineer based at WSP's innovation centre in Boulder, Colorado, puts it. "We can't build fast enough, we can't afford to keep building, and we don't have enough doctors."
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University of Toronto Humanist Chaplaincy: HAT MONTHLY MEETING: Sat. Nov 9, 1:30pm "Natural Burial"
HAT MONTHLY MEETING: Sat. Nov 9, 1:30pm "Natural Burial"
Natural Burial is a "new" old concept of burial. In 2008, Victoria BC was the first city in Canada to offer it as a choice and interest has been growing since.
Natural burial methods are designed to return the body to the earth without inhibiting the natural process of decomposition, leading to a sustainable burial process with little environmental impact. Different from conventional cemeteries, a natural burial site (also known as a woodland cemetery) is managed for the benefit of wildlife and is planted to encourage a diverse range of flora and fauna. In this way, natural burial grounds actively contribute to the protection and creation of forests and parklands.
Bob Hope is an Owen Sound, Ontario resident and member of the Natural Burial Association, a Canadian non-profit organization. Bob has studied the issues of conventional burial and cremation as well as the benefits of natural burial when compared to other forms of interment or cremation. This presentation concludes that it is time for Natural Burial to become an important alternative choice for environmentally conscious citizens.


"Have been a subscriber to Fullermoney for a few years. As a very inexperienced investor I have found you very helpful although the jargon is sometimes difficult.
" I have a modest sum to invest in Dividend Aristocrats. Can you tell me where I can find Eoin's latest reviews of those available on the London Market, please?"
Eoin Treacy's view Thank you for your support and this email which others may also have an interest in. I pointed out the commonality of UK companies in the service sector on September 26th and most are S&P Europe 350 dividend aristocrats. UK listed companies represent more than half of the constituents of the S&P Europe 350 Dividend Aristocrats Index and a considerable number offer highly competitive yields.
Aggreko (1.07%) has been trending relatively consistently since early 2009 and was among the companies to benefit most from the Japanese tsunami as a result of its focus on industrial sized portable generators. The share has returned to test the region of the 200-day MA and will need to continue to find support in this area if the medium-term uptrend is to continue to be given the benefit of the doubt.
In the food sector, Associated British Foods (2.07%) continues to hit new highs and is becoming somewhat overbought in the very short-term. A clear downward dynamic would be required to check momentum while a sustained move below the 200-day MA, currently near 1240p would be needed to question medium-term uptrend consistency.
In the tobacco sector British American Tobacco (4.49%) has found support in the region of the 200-day MA on successive occasions since early 2009 and would need to sustain a move below it to begin to question medium-term potential for additional upside. British American Tobacco's performance contrasts sharply with Imperial Tobacco (4.76%) which is also a dividend aristocrat. The latter dropped below its MA and has held the decline for more than a month. While its competitive yield may offer a cushion, a sustained move above 2400p will be required to offset current scope for a further test of underlying trading.
In the catering sector, Compass Group (3.25%) has almost closed the overextension relative to the 200-day MA and appears to be in the process of building support. A sustained move below the trend mean would be required to question medium-term scope for continued upside.
In the pharmaceuticals sector, Astra Zeneca (6.9% continues to hold in the region of the 200-day MA. A sustained move above 3100p would confirm a return to medium-term demand dominance. GlaxoSmithKline (5.98%) broke out of a three-year base in September 2011 and has been consolidating mostly above 1400p since January. A sustained move below that level would be required to question medium-term recovery potential.
In the resources sector BHP Billiton continues to hold a progression of higher reaction lows since retesting the 1650p area in June. The sector is currently exhibiting a high degree of commonality and a sustained move below 1900p would be required to begin to question medium-term scope for additional upside. Johnson Matthey just paid an impressive special dividend, flattering its yield which would otherwise by 2.61%. The share has returned to the region of the 200-day MA and the upside can continue to be given the benefit of the doubt provided it continues to hold in this region.
In the defence sector BAE Systems (5.94%) has rallied to break the 5-year progression of lower rally highs and a sustained move below the 200-day MA, currently near 310p, would be required to question medium-term recovery potential.
In the technology sector, Sage Group (3.81%) broke upwards to new all-time highs six weeks ago and has since pulled back to test the psychological 300p area. The upside can be given the benefit of the doubt provided it finds support in the current area. ARM Holdings (0.91%) dropped out of the Index in the last year but is worthy of mention, not least because of its impressive bounce from the lower side of its 18-month range.
In the beverages sector Diageo (2.73%) is becoming increasingly overbought relative to the 200-day MA but continues to hold a progression of higher reaction lows which would need to be broken in order to question uptrend potential.
In the distribution and outsourcing sector Bunzl (2.66%) has been ranging in a steady reversion towards the mean since early August. A sustained move below the 200-day MA, currently near 1025p, would be required to question the consistency of the medium-term uptrend.
In the media sector, Pearson (3.91%) continues to hold a progression of higher reaction lows and a sustained move below 1150p would be required to question potential for continued higher to lateral ranging.
In the utilities sector Scottish & Southern Energy (6.24%) broke out of a 15-month range this week and a clear downward dynamic would be required to check potential for additional upside. Centrica (5.21%) retested the 2011 peak over the last month and a sustained move below 330p would be required to question potential for a successful upward break.
In the insurance sector, RSA (8.88%) broke back above the 200-day MA in July and found support near it earlier this month. A sustained move below 110p would be required to question recovery potential.
While no longer a dividend aristocrat Reckitt Benckiser (3.52%) is worthy of mention because it appears to be in the process of completing a 30-month range and hit a new closing high yesterday. A clear downward dynamic would be required to delay medium-term potential for additional upside.
Other former members of the Index which exhibit medium-term patterns of demand dominance include Tate & Lyle, Unilever, WPP Group, Reed Elsevier, Next Plc and Severn Trent.
A casual perusal of the charts of the above shares demonstrates that while the media representation of the financial environment remains grim, there is significant evidence of demand for competitive yields with the opportunity for capital appreciation.


If you are like most people, your workload is going to occasionally feel overwhelming. In a work stress survey conducted by Harris Interactive through Everest College, 77% of adults were stressed by their work. Maybe you are taking on a new project, adding responsibilities to your workload or your organization is going through a difficult transitional period. Whatever the reasons for your added stress at work, there are a few tips that will help you cope and move forward in a positive way.
The first step is to realize that not all stress is unhealthy. It is healthy to feel concern over something about which you care deeply including, hopefully, your job. Positive stress is that anxious feeling that makes us want to get up and do something as best we can. You know that your stress is no longer positive if it has the opposite effect – making you feel paralyzed by the work that lies ahead of you.
It is easier said than done, but proper nutrition and restful sleep are what fortify us with the mental capacity to handle stressful work days. Sometimes the cure to overwhelming stress at work is meeting your simple physiological needs at home.
Don't forget that your colleagues can be a resource for help. Reach out to them. Maybe someone doesn't have as much on their plate this week and can help you in some way – just be prepared to return the favor when the situation is reversed. This kind of cooperation in the workplace can not only help reduce your stress levels but increase your organization's productivity, too.
If you are starting to feel stress at work, try these steps. Instead of seeing the down side of a situation, think positively, take the work one step at a time – and be sure to acknowledge even small accomplishments.


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Q: How to dual boot Kubuntu without booting into GRUB when I turn on my computer? What I want to happen is when I turn on my computer it boots into Windows 10 by default, and if I want to go into Kubuntu, I go into BIOS and choose to boot it. Is this possible without having Linux on a separate drive?

A: go into terminal and  run command
sudo gedit /etc/default/grub

and change GRUB_TIMEOUT value lesser by default it wait for 10 sec so you can reduce it   if you don't want to see grub menu then do
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=3
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true

then run
sudo update-grub

and restart system
it will not show grub menu if you want to start Kubuntu then you have to press key within 3 second otherwise default OS will start
if you want to know how to change default OS then refer this link

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Romania approves procurement of 5 more F-16A/B fighters
09:01 (GMT+0000) July 7, 2019
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Photo by Bogdan Pop
The Romanian parliament reportedly greenlit the acquisition of 5 more F-16A/B fighter jets.
According to media reports in recent weeks, the Romanian parliament has approved the procurement of additional F-16A/B combat aircraft from Portugal on 2 July.
"Defense Minister Gabriel Leş announced that another five F-16 planes will be bought, which have the same configuration as the 12 already purchased," the BURSA reported.
Also reported that the Romanian parliament approved the procurement of a package of equipment and services for its F-16s from the U.S. government.
In the longer term, Romania hopes to procure a fifth-generation fighter, which would then serve as a replacement for the F-16s.
To date, Romania bought a total of secondhand 12 F-16 Block 15 Mid-Life Upgrade (MLU) fighter jets (nine F-16AMs and three F-16BMs) from Portugal.
According to the current information, the Block 15 change feature larger horizontal stabilizers, the addition of two hardpoints to the chin inlet, an improved AN/APG-66(V)2 radar, and increased capacity for the underwing hardpoints.
The Block 15 also gained the Have Quick II secure UHF radio. To counter the additional weight of the new hardpoints, the horizontal stabilizers were enlarged by 30%. Block 15 is the most numerous variant of the F-16, with 983 produced.
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Set : Nycor sets are availabe from 1st to 4th octave.
Gauges: Nycor E- and D-strings 5th octave have a ball-end, all other strings have a knot.
Tailpiece Options : Nycor strings are available in medium.
The sheep gut of the Chorda strings is hand-manufactured in the traditional way.
Polished with absolute precision, the strings have the same, precise diameter throughout their entire length. This gives the musician the potential for perfect intonation.
Chorda harp strings come either slightly oiled or lacquered for protection.
The strings are lacquered in order to prevent them from fraying.
The sound of the lacquered strings is slightly brighter.
All F-strings are colored black, all C-strings red.
The sets 1st to 4th octave are available in medium gauge.
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Netflix's Travelers Trailer Sends The Future Back to Save the Past
In the cult hit '80s series, one lone time traveler leaped from one body to the next, one time to the next, striving to set right what once went wrong. In Netflix's upcoming series Travelers…it's gonna take more than one guy to fix this mess.
Travelers is a Canadian time travel series that originally debuted on the Showcase network up north this past October. (Showcase previously aired the excellent and underrated Continuum, also available on Netflix.) Travelers stars Will and Grace's Eric McCormack as an FBI agent whose body is essentially hijacked by an intelligence from a distant and doomed future. He's not alone, and they have a plan to save the world and prevent their inhospitable timeline from ever having existed. Check out the trailer for Travelers.
In addition to McCormack, Travelers stars Mackenzie Porter, Patrick Gilmore, Jared Paul Abrahamson, Nesta Marlee Cooper, and Reilly Dolman. The series is the brainchild of Brad Wright, co-creator of the Stargate TV franchise and a veteran of shows such as The Outer Limits and Highlander. He's got nerd cred that goes way back, is what we're saying, so we're looking forward to checking out Travelers. Here's the official synopsis from Netflix.
Hundreds of years from now, the last surviving humans discover the means of sending consciousness back through time, directly into people in the 21st century. These "travelers" assume the lives of seemingly random people, while secretly working as teams to perform missions in order to save humanity from a terrible future. These travelers are: FBI Special Agent Grant MacLaren (Eric McCormack), the team's leader; Marcy (Mackenzie Porter), a young, intellectually disabled woman in the care of her social worker, David (Patrick Gilmore); Trevor (Jared Paul Abrahamson), a high school quarterback; Carly (Nesta Marlee Cooper), a single mom in an abusive relationship; and Philip (Reilly Dolman), a heroin-addicted college student. Armed only with their knowledge of history and an archive of social media profiles, the travelers discover that 21st century lives and relationships are as much a challenge as their high-stakes missions.
Travelers is just the latest intriguing genre offering from Netflix in a year that's already included Luke Cage, Stranger Things, The OA, and the impending return of Sense8 (with a Christmas special, no less!). When you add in-development projects like Lost in Space and Altered Carbon, Netflix's future looks very bright indeed for fans of sci-fi-tinged entertainment.
Travelers will premiere on Netflix on December 23.


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Arthur Miller's gagged drama, The Hook, set for Royal & Derngate
Anne Cox | May 26, 2015 | Reviews | No Comments
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Arthur Miller's gagged story of corruption and gang rule in New York's dockland finally gets an audience with a world premiere at Northampton's Royal & Derngate Theatre next month.
The Hook, originally written for the screen, was mothballed after Miller refused to kowtow to studio bosses who wanted to change the politics of the story.
Marking the centenary of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Arthur Miller's birth, the R & D, and Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse will co-produce The Hook, adapted for the stage by Emmy Award-winning writer Ron Hutchinson.
The play takes to Northampton's Royal stage from June 5-27 before its run at Liverpool Everyman.
Amid the political tensions of 1950s America, The Hook was suppressed by the FBI for fear that it could cause unrest in New York's dockyards.
Sixty years on, Brooklyn's epic waterfront will come alive on stage for the extraordinary story of Marty Ferrara, a longshoreman who challenges the mobsters and gangs of '50s New York and takes a stand against the corruption he witnesses from the authorities who control the docks.
The story of a close-knit community grappling with a world of crime and punishment, of changing industry and immigration from abroad, The Hook is a study in integrity and betrayal, charting one man's struggle for meaningful change.
It is a story for our own age of growing unemployment, zero-hour contracts, immigration, industrial change and social tensions.
The drama is directed by R & D artistic director James Dacre, whose recent work has included King John, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and A Tale of Two Cities.
Said Dacre: "Over several years, our team has created a full transcript of Arthur Miller's "play for the screen" by collating copies of his typewritten versions of the script and accompanying handwritten notes, working with a number of Miller's collaborators and scholars in trying to make sense of it all.
"Drawing upon all these sources – and using only Arthur Miller's language – Ron Hutchinson has adapted a play envisioned for the screen into an epic stage production that will be performed by a large ensemble cast."
The Hook has been adapted for the stage by playwright and prolific screenwriter Ron Hutchinson, whose award-winning plays include include Moonlight and Magnolias and Rat in the Skull.
His Emmy Award-winning screen credits include Traffic and Murderers Among Us.
The central role of Marty Ferrera is taken by Jamie Sives (Game of Thrones, Secret State), whose recent credits include The James Plays, as James III, for National Theatre and National Theatre of Scotland (directed by Laurie Sansom), with Susie Trayling (The Crucible, West Yorkshire Playhouse, King John, RSC) as his wife Therese.
The cast also includes Tom Canton, Joseph Alessi, Séan Aydon, Tim Chipping, Sean Jackson, Sean Murray, Paul Rattray, Jem Wall and Ewart James Walters.
The company will perform alongside a large ensemble chorus drawn from Northampton and Liverpool's local communities to play the dockside community of 1950s Brooklyn.
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HOUSTON, TEXAS, SEPTEMBER 13, 1997 BETWEEN HALVES OF A FOOTBALL GAME, CARL LEWIS'S STORIED CAREER CAME TO A CLOSE
When Carl Lewis was an eight-year-old living in Willingboro,
N.J., he drifted over to a football field to watch his cousin's
Pop Warner team. One of the players got plastered and lay
crumpled on the ground, inert. "Be tough!" yelled the boy's
coach. "Get up! Be a man!" Lewis was repelled. "Right then," he
says, "I knew the sport wasn't for me." And so he drifted off.
He returned to the gridiron last Saturday during halftime of the
University of Houston's home game against Pitt. Rather than take
the field, the 36-year-old Lewis circled it on a track he had
donated to his alma mater. Billed as the nine-time Olympic gold
medalist's "final race," the exhibition 4x100-meter relay was
more of a final trot. Before an applauding crowd of 17,000,
Lewis ran the anchor leg unopposed, in sneakers, bringing the
baton across the finish line in a decidedly uncompetitive 47.66.
"I wanted to run fast enough to look good and slow enough so it
didn't end so fast," Lewis explained, his dreadlocks swishing
like tassels on a mortarboard. "I was more nervous today than I
was at big races. If I had dropped the baton, that would have
been it. There's no tomorrow tomorrow."
As valedictories go, this wasn't up there with Lou Gehrig's
farewell at Yankee Stadium or Larry Bird's at Boston Garden. It
was closer to Dynamite Lady's blowing herself up between halves
of an Edmonton Eskimos game: sad but somehow fitting. Sad
because, to ensure a turnout, the send-off had to be held at a
football game. Fitting, because Lewis's relationship with fans
in the U.S. has always been slightly uneasy. Beloved in Europe
and Asia, Lewis has never been fully embraced by the American
public. Part of the coolness toward Lewis is attributable to a
Stateside ignorance of track and field, part to Lewis's knack
for undercutting his success with a kind of vain smugness. While
winning the long jump at the 1984 Olympics, he got booed for
bagging his final four attempts--and any chance at a world
record--in an effort to save his legs for other events. Despite
winning the 100 in world-record time at the '91 World
Championships, Lewis snubbed Mike Powell, who had beaten him in
the long jump by breaking Bob Beamon's 23-year-old standard.
Lewis even sullied his dramatic ninth gold medal, which he won
last year in the long jump at Atlanta, with crass politicking:
He maneuvered to anchor the 4x100 relay though he had skipped
training camp.
At the midfield ceremony after the run, Lewis thanked his
family, his coach and his teammates. Then he quoted Frank
Sinatra. "I did it my way," he said, "and it felt pretty damn
good."
After a victory lap, Ol' Brown Eyes held forth in a tent near
the south end zone. He sat for about half an hour and talked. He
answered questions, he explained, he expounded, he conversed
with the sportswriters assembled before him. Sometimes he
argued. Sometimes somebody argued back. "Physically, I feel I
could still jump well and run well," he said. "Mentally, I feel
it's time to move on. The desire to compete isn't there
anymore." Asked if he would change anything in his career, Lewis
stared straight at the questioner with an eye that caught his
inquisitor like a fishhook. "No regrets," he said. "Nothing
different. You go out and do what you think is right."
Retirement plans? "I've got lots," Lewis said. "Conducting track
clinics for kids, acting, writing fitness books, promoting an
indoor-outdoor mountain bike and my own line of dress clothes...."
Slowly, the light began to leach out of the blue Houston skies,
and a BBC reporter asked Lewis to say goodbye to his fans in
England. A faraway look came over Lewis as he grabbed a U.S. and
a University of Houston flag and waved them at the camera. "U of
H, USA, U of H, USA," he chanted. "See you later, world. Cheers."
And then he drifted off.
--FRANZ LIDZ
COLOR PHOTO: PHIL HUBER [Carl Lewis on podium at University Of Houston]


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Borneo is described as tropical! Paradise! Adventure! Life changing!
Our 7th group of gap year adventurers' from UK-based Camps International would agree with each of these words that depict Sabah, Borneo!
After spending time camping overnight at our Gaya Island beach house and experiencing the awesome activities we offer, the young adventurers' learnt so much about the natural biodiversity found in Sabah.
Some qualified as PADI Open Water Divers, already certified divers joined our dive boat to explore the reefs of Tunku Abdul Rahman Park, and non-divers enjoyed snorkeling, kayaking and jungle trekking around Gaya Island!
One of our full time and dedicated PADI Instructors deliver a presentation to the groups on the benefits of coral conservation as well! This inspired our gap year adventurers' to selflessly volunteer their efforts to get involved in cleaning marine debris from the beach.
We thank the group for helping us to make a positive difference in our local environment! Contact any of our experienced and helpful members of staff at our Head Office to arrange a suitable program. We offer years of experience in adventure training with team building activities, for both small and large groups, and always prioritize our clients' safety.
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We put our soul in everything we do!
Every child is special in his own way, and each project in which we are involved is designed to contribute to the well-being of the society we live in. It is up to each of us to make this world a better place.
The HorsEmotion Association together with Smithfield Romania offers once a year an unforgettable holiday to institutionalized children from the Bocsig's family-type houses. In addition to visiting the farm, psychomotricity games, knowledge of fodder and horse acrobatics, the children enjoyed the sensory garden, the water balloon battle, the soap bubbles, the pizza, the cake and all the other surprises.
Christmas party for all the kids!
The HorsEmotion Association organized a Christmas party on 09.12.2017. The event, which took place at the HorsEmotion hipotherapy center in Ianova, was dedicated to all children: healthy or with disabilities, from placement centers or families, thus becoming an event of social inclusion for both children and adults. The children in the Bocsig placement center have prepared for the over 150 participants Christmas carols and poems and the volunteers of the center have in the meantime offered warm tea and cupcakes. Carmen Gradinaru, appointed volunteer of the year by Dr. Erika Weisz - vice president of HorsEmotion, thanked the carols singing to the whistle. All children had a ride in the living carousel, made up of the therapy horses of the association. In the end, Santa came on a horse-drawn carriage and offered over 90 children gifts, caresses and encouragement.


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Q: NodeJS Json Data not fully inserting into database Been 2 days trying to find a solution to my problem.
I request data(json) from a website.
They return fine and json is valid but when i try to insert them to database almost 10% do not get inserted.
I dont know what to do, i even tried php with same results.
Any help world be appreciated thank you.
This is json ouptut after selecting the data attribute var result = obj.data; pastebin

var request = require("request");
var fs = require('fs');
var sleep = require('system-sleep');

var mysql = require('mysql');
var connection = mysql.createConnection({
    host: 'localhost',
    user: 'root',
    password: '',
    database: 'feeds',
    timezone: 'Z'
});

request.post({
    url: "xxx",
    headers: {
        "Content-Type": "application/json"
    },
    body: '{"xx": "true", "xxx": "true"}'
}, function(error, response, body) {

    var obj = JSON.parse(body);
    var result = obj.data;
    console.log(result);
    for (var i = 0; i < result.length; i++) {
        var object = result[i];
        for (property in object) {
            var value = object[property];
            var pid, pname;
            if (property == "id") {
                pid = value;
            }
            if (property == "name") {
                pname = value;
            }
            if (property == "xxxxx") {}
            if (property == "xxxxxxxx") {
                connection.query('INSERT INTO tournaments(id, name) VALUES (' + pid + ', "' + pname + '")');
            }

        }
    }

});

A: Welcome to SO.
There is probably an error that you are missing.  You request the insertion but then let it go.  connection.query allows a function as its second parameter, and that is a callback.  Check out the following line
connection.query( 'SELECT * FROM some_table', ( err, rows ) => {
  // do something with the results here
} );

For you it would look something like:
connection.query('INSERT INTO tournaments(id, name) VALUES (' + pid + ', "' + pname + '")', function(err, rows){
   console.log('Successful write', rows);
   console.error('Error! This did not write because: ', err);
})

You should console.log both err and rows, for each time this is called.  Odds are you will now see why some of the results are not getting written into the DB, and they will show up as errors.


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The Bay Area Improv Scene is a commonly used name for a loose association of musicians and composers centered in the San Francisco Bay Area who create a style of music that evolved largely from avant-garde jazz and modern classical music, with influences from other areas such as Electronic art music, Free improvisation, and Musique concrète. Other names of this scene tend to use phrases such as "Creative Music" to try to incorporate a wider focus than just the improvisational approach.

This scene is comparable to the New York Downtown Scene (which is most often associated with John Zorn) and historically both scenes date back to the same time period in the early 1960s.  A listing of some people who have been associated with the scene can provide a sense of the range of the music: List of Bay Area Improv Scene bands and artists

Nature of the music

While most practitioners of this music are consciously avoiding the restrictions of any one particular genre, some generalizations can be made:

This is a very instrumental music, showing its primary influences from the jazz and modern classical worlds: the most common instruments are horns, woodwinds, and strings. Guitars and percussion are also often used, though not usually in the rock n' roll style, and the use of electronics is very common.
Vocals are somewhat rare, and recognizable lyrics are still rarer.

Many of the practitioners are formally trained musicians, capable of playing conventional music with relative ease.  If they choose to play rougher, noisier sounds, it is almost always a matter of choice, not necessity.

Central to the scene's conception of itself is the freedom to break rules: it does not shun the conventional virtues such as melody and rhythm, but it also accepts the atonal and the arrhythmic.

This is a relatively unpredictable music, it varies tremendously from moment to moment, and from performance to performance.  It is not reliably loud or soft, energetic or contemplative. If it "gets into a groove" it does not often stay there.

This is a music that often (though not always) has a very intellectual quality which can run contrary to the usual presumption that music is primarily about the expression of emotion.

Character of the Bay Area scene

This is not often a popular music, and it survives with very little in the way of commercial support.  Performance spaces are organized and run by a spirit of volunteerism, with occasional arts grants.  The musicians often support themselves by "day jobs" (though sometimes these "day jobs" consist of performing other types of music).  The lack of commercial opportunities is sometimes seen as a positive feature of the scene:

As Gino Robair puts it in an interview with "The Wire":

Overall, the Bay Area scene seems to encourage people to cross over the boundaries of musical styles and collaborate. Part of the reason, I believe, is that there is very little "careerism" here: because there are so few sustainable well- paying gigs, people aren't so concerned with having to keep some kind of performance style "pure" by not mingling with other kinds of music. And the talent pool is massive, despite there being no real music industry, compared to, say, New York City or LA. Musicians who settle here are in it for the right reasons: to explore sound, even if it takes them into unknown territory. Cage, Partch, Lou Harrison, Henry Cowell, Steve Reich, Pauline Oliveros, Terry Riley ... all spent formative years here doing unique and highly creative work.

Vijay Iyer concurs with Gino Robair's assessment: "'The Bay Area was a really nurturing environment, where I gained my creative footing and figured out what I wanted to do as an artist,' Iyers explains. 'It was nice to have the time and space to stretch out among creative people without really having the pressure of New York, where you can't really screw around.'".

Tim Perkis, in an interview with Derk Richardson about the "Noisy People" documentary also agrees:

"It really is a social unit," Perkis said of the improv scene. "At one point in the film, Gino [Robair] talks about it being like a family. It really is a cohesive scene, and it's almost like being in one large band over the course of years. And when other improvisers come into town from elsewhere to play, it's often revealed how there is sort of a shared Bay Area aesthetic and idiom -- a different dialect than what people coming in might be doing.

Derk Richardson regards the history of the scene as composed of two intertwining threads: an irascible individuality, tempered by periods of pulling together into collective efforts.

Name of the scene

The name "Bay Area Improv Scene" is frequently contentious because while many of the performances on the scene embrace improvisational techniques, no one is opposed to composition, and many of the people associated with the scene favor it.  There are also some logical problems with it as a classification, because there are other musical scenes that use improvisation (e.g. freestyle hip-hop) which aren't usually included in the "improv scene". Also, the term "Improv" has been increasingly associated with a form of comedy theater that's completely unrelated to this style of music.

Many attempts have been made to invent a more general term, such as "New Music " or "Creative Music" but these have the converse problem of being too non-specific, and no alternative name has achieved common use.

Notably, the New York analog of the scene simply uses a geographical reference ("Downtown") as a label.  One suggestion  is that it might be best to adopt the name of the long-running events calendar, and simply call it "The Transbay Scene".

Venues

Despite the phrase "Bay Area" in the name, the scene doesn't really span the entire Bay Area region: the performance venues have largely only been located in either San Francisco or in the East Bay.  Very few performances take place in the South Bay or North Bay regions, though there are occasional related events in locations such as Santa Cruz, Big Sur, or Sacramento.

Many performances have taken place in small one-off venues, or as part of relatively short-lived weekly series, but at any point in time, there are typically a few larger, longer-lived performance venues that define the character of the scene, for example Beanbenders, Luggage Store Gallery or 21 Grand.  In addition, there are annual festivals that happen at special venues (or sometimes, among multiple scattered venues).

The locations of performances are usually promoted in the on-line bayimproviser.com listing, as well as through occasional write-ups in the popular press.

History

One might trace the beginnings of the scene back to the formation of the San Francisco Tape Music Center founded in 1962 (Tape Music was one of the original names for what we now think of as Electronic Music). Pauline Oliveros, later a member of the San Francisco Tape Music Center, began playing free improvisations with Terry Riley and Loren Rush in 1958. Some of these sessions were recorded at KPFA.

The Tape Music Center ultimately merged with the Mills Center for Contemporary Music, and the Mills College graduate program remains one of the common points of reference for members of the scene.

The Rova Saxophone Quartet (formed in the late 70s) is an early, well-known group, featuring a more avant-jazz approach. At the same time, Henry Kaiser and Greg Goodman gained prominence with their European-inspired improvisational musics. Each founded record labels, Metalanguage Records (Kaiser, with Larry Ochs) and The Beak Doctor (Goodman), and organized concerts featuring performers such as Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, Charles K. Noyes, and Toshinori Kondo. Also active from the 1970s on were Henry Kuntz, John Gruntfest, and Ron Heglin.

In the late-80s there was an "improvcore scene" centering on "Olive Oil's", located on the waterfront in what was then an industrial neighborhood of San Francisco.
This featured performers such as the Splatter Trio, the Rova Saxophone Quartet and the Molecules.
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In the early 90s, Radio Valencia in San Francisco's Mission district began its well-regarded Sunday night jazz series, curated by Don Alan, one of the proprietors of the cafe. The founding of Amoeba Records by scene stalwart Marc Weinstein provided a significant boost to local artists, and its racks bristling with avant-garde musics of all kinds became a magnet for drawing musicians from all over the world.

1991 saw the founding of the Improvised Music Association which organized concerts, put out a compilation cassette of music, and published a newsletter eventually named FREEWAY. Active members included Dan Plonsey, Mantra, Randy Porter, Myles Boisen, and Tom Djll. The Berkeley Store Gallery hosted numerous IMA-associated concerts, a series that circuitously led to the Beanbenders series.

In the mid-90s, the Beanbenders venue emerged in Berkeley, which for a few years was the center of the scene in the East Bay.  It is most often associated with Dan Plonsey, the most prominent member of a collective including other members such as Bill Hsu.
Another characteristic venue of the mid-90s was "The Dark Circle Lounge" weekly series, run by Gino Robair at the Hotel Utah.

The Luggage Store Gallery hosts the longest running weekly series in the area, having been founded in the mid-90s.  Originally it was largely directed by Damon Smith, though currently it is curated by Rent Romus and Matt Davignon, who are also active with the 509 Cultural Gallery.

Another long-lived weekly series is also located in a San Francisco art gallery: The Meridian Gallery, in the Union Square area. This series was founded by Philip Gelb.

A leading venue in the east bay has been 21 Grand in Uptown Oakland. 21 Grand was awarded Best Multidisciplinary Art Gallery: Broadest definition of taste by The East Bay Express in 2007:

Even in the ultracosmopolitan East Bay, it's difficult to find venues that are willing to book the kind of wacky, experimental-music shows that wouldn't go over in a place like the Stork Club — shows in which you'd expect to see Tom Djll blowing into the wrong end of a trumpet, Phillip Greenlief bobbling a triplet figure over and over, or the Moe!kestra! reading from a graphically notated score. It's even harder to find venues with a desire to make such music accessible for all ages. Enter 21 Grand, a beloved gallery and performance space that showcases some of the best avant-garde poets, authors, playwrights, experimental filmmakers, photographers, conceptual artists, and musicians from local and national underground scenes.

Some of the more significant Bay Area ensembles that have come and sometimes gone in this time period include the Rova Saxophone Quartet, Splatter Trio, Negativland, MX-80, New Klezmer Trio, Eskimo, The Molecules, Pluto, Rotodoti, Daniel Popsicle, Jettison Slinky, Caroliner Rainbow, Vacuum Tree Head, The Manufacturing of Humidifiers, Natto Quartet, Room, Adam Lane's Full Throttle Orchestra, Rubber City, Zen Widow, Trance Mission, Opeye, Glenn Spearman's groups, the Clubfoot Orchestra, The Hub, TJ Kirk, Blectum From Blechdom, Pinkmountain, Grosse Abfahrt, Graham Connah's various groups, The Lost Trio, Spezza Rotto, Moe!kestra, What We Live, Positive Knowledge, sfSound, Oakland Active Orchestra, Brassiosaurus, Good For Cows and Ghost In The House.

Labels

While artists on the scene often record on small, individual labels (and some occasionally have releases on larger labels, or ones centered in a different location, such as Tzadik), Nottwo, Kadima, Innova,  New World, Black Saint, Victo. Nuscope, FMP, Etc. There are a number of locally based independent labels that have traditionally featured recordings from the scene:

 Edgetone Records
 Evander Music
 Limited Sedition
 Rastascan Records
 Balance Point Acoustics

References

External links
 Bay Improviser
 Transbay Music Calendar
 Noisy People – Tim Perkis produced a documentary about Bay Area musicians
 SFBay Guardian – John Shiurba writing about Beanbenders
 Reviews of Beanbender shows
 The Bay Area New Music mailing lists (archives)
 Interviews with Beth Custer on Outight Radio Hours

Culture of San Francisco
Music of the San Francisco Bay Area

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European Judicial Network (in civil and commercial matters)
1 Under what circumstances may a parent lawfully remove the child to another state without the other parent's consent?
2 Under what circumstances is the other parent's consent necessary for the child's removal to another state?
3 If the other parent does not consent to the child's removal to another state, though it is necessary, how can the child be removed lawfully to another state?
4 Do the same rules apply to temporary removal (e.g. holiday, healthcare etc.) and permanent removal? If applicable, please provide relevant consent forms.
A parent may legally relocate a child to another country without the consent of the other parent when that other parent has had their parental right or contractual capacity removed. When one parent has had their parental right or contractual capacity removed, the parental right is thereby held exclusively by the other parent (Article 115 of the Marriage and Family Relations Act/Zakon o zakonski zvezi in družinskih razmerjih).
The consent of the other parent to the relocation of a child to another country is always required, except in cases where the parental right is held exclusively by the other parent.
Under the Marriage and Family Relations Act, the parental right is held jointly by the father and mother (third paragraph of Article 4).
Parents exercise their parental right by common consent in accordance with the interests of the child (first paragraph of Article 113 of the Marriage and Family Relations Act). The exercise of the parental right includes a decision on which country a child resides in.
When parents do not live together and are not both in charge of the child's care and upbringing, they both decide by common consent, in accordance with the interests of the child (second paragraph of Article 113 of the Marriage and Family Relations Act), on issues which have a significant influence on the child's development; these issues include the relocation of a child to another country.
If the parents fail to reach agreement on the exercise of the parental right, a Social Work Centre assists them in reaching an agreement. A Social Work Centre also assists the parents in reaching an agreement when they are unable to reach agreement on issues which have a significant influence on the child's development, and when they do not live together and are not both in charge of the child's care and upbringing.
If, even with the assistance of a Social Work Centre, the parents fail to agree on issues which have a significant influence on the child's development, the court decide on the matter in a non-litigious procedure at the request of one or both parents. The proposal must be accompanied by proof from a competent Social Work Centre stating that the parents attempted to reach agreement on the exercise of the parental right with its assistance. Before the court gives its ruling, it is obliged to seek the opinion of a Social Work Centre on the child's interests. The court also considers the child's opinion if it is expressed by the child him/herself, or by a person the child trusts and who has been chosen by the child him/herself, and provided the child is capable of understanding its significance and consequences.
The above is taken from Article 113 of the Marriage and Family Relations Act.
Where the issue of a significant influence on a child's development arises in relation to the temporary relocation of a child, the same rules apply to the temporary relocation as to relocation for a longer period.
The national language version of this page is maintained by the respective EJN contact point. The translations have been done by the European Commission service. Possible changes introduced in the original by the competent national authority may not be yet reflected in the translations. Neither the EJN nor the European Commission accept responsibility or liability whatsoever with regard to any information or data contained or referred to in this document. Please refer to the legal notice to see copyright rules for the Member State responsible for this page.


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Q: Why do three non collinears points define a plane? I've just started looking at the axioms of 3D Geometry. The first one that I encountered is this one:
"Three non collinear points define a plane" or " Given three non collinear points, only one plane goes through them"
I know that it is an axiom and it is taken to be true but I don't understand the intuition behind it. I understand that if I take one point or any number of collinear points, then I can draw infinite planes just by rotating around the line that connects these points, but why do we need  3 non collinear points to define a plane, why not more? And why, given three non collinear points, does only one plane go through them? Why not two or three?

A: Two points determine a line (shown in the center).  There are infinitely many infinite planes that contain that line.  Only one plane passes through a point not collinear with the original two points:

A: Two points determine a line $l$. Thus, as you say, you can draw infinitely many planes containing these points just by rotating the line containing the two points. So you find a set of infinitely many planes containing a common line. For any third point not on $l$ then there is only one of these planes containing it.
An analogy is the same problem is lower dimension. Take a point in a plane. There are infinitely many lines through it. Now take a second point different from the first. Then there is a unique line among the infinitely many given that contains the two points.

A: A plane is a vectorial space whose  dimension is $ 2$.
its base contains exactly two independent vectors.
If your three points $ A,B,C $ do not lie in the same line, you can take as a base, the couple $ (\vec{AB},\vec{AC}) $.


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Pharsalia gibbifera is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville in 1844.

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Home » cheese bites » Pule Party: The World's Most Expensive Cheese
Pule Party: The World's Most Expensive Cheese
Emily Dangler | December 5, 2014
Sometimes, cheese can get a little pricey. Although there are plenty of good ways to get your cheese-fix on a tight budget, many of us would go to great lengths to eat cheese at all costs. But what if the cost was several hundred dollars?
You'd be hard-pressed to find a cheese more beautiful and luxurious than Clawson Stilton Gold, a limited production British cheese that is shot through with gold leaf flakes and gold liqueur. The pure white Stilton and glittering veins make this cheese look like a jeweler's masterpiece. Surprisingly, this cheesy treasure is not the most expensive cheese in the world, despite its appearance. In fact, at roughly $400 a pound, Stilton Gold is still considerably cheaper than the world's most expensive and rare fromage: donkey's milk cheese.
Photo Credit: Image courtesy of foodchannel.com
That's right, the humble donkey is the source of the single most coveted cheese on the market. Formally known as "pule," a pound of donkey's milk cheese costs anywhere from $600–$1,000. However, even if you were willing to pay above and beyond the already exorbitant price, it's unlikely that you could get your hands on pule in the first place – it's just that rare.
Made from the milk of Balkan donkeys, pule is only produced in one location worldwide, the Zasavica Special Nature Reserve in Serbia. The milking process is slow because it must be done manually, and jennies produce a very miniscule amount of milk on any given day. And with a small herd of only 130 pule-producing donkeys, the odds are not in your favor for there being enough cheese to go around, regardless of the price.
Cheese enthusiasts and foodies from all over the world are clamoring for a taste of pule because of its renowned flavor. Described as crumbly and soft, it is said to have a similar taste to that of Spanish manchego, but with a deeper and richer flavor. The superior qualities of donkey's milk have been revered for thousands of years, and legend has it that the Egyptian queen Cleopatra bathed in donkey's milk in an attempt to preserve her beauty. Containing only 1% fat and sixty times more Vitamin C than cow's milk, donkey's milk has a long history as an ingredient in health and beauty regiments; the Zasavica Reserve also sells donkey's milk soap, for those who believe in its restorative powers.
Of course, if you're looking for a novelty cheese-eating experience and aren't specifically craving pule, there are many types of cheeses that are made with "exotic" alternative milks. Camels, reindeer, and yak are just a few of the unexpected animals whose milk is used in cheese production, all of which are less expensive and more easily accessible than the ever-elusive pule.
Photo Credit: Featured image courtesy of dailymail.co.uk
Emily Dangler
Culture Intern Emily Dangler is a creative writer and travel enthusiast, who is always looking for a good story to tell. Originally a West Coast girl, Emily has spent several years migrating across the country and is currently an adopted resident of Boston, where she is enjoying the city's delicious food and rich history.


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I will have a Ikea order being delivered next Friday 18th, so I would need someone to help put things together on Saturday 19th. I presume this to take half a day max. Items include: a sofa, bed frame, small chest of draws and a small wardrobe.
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As you can tell if you were an active reader of our blog, we have been quiet for just over three years. We did so first as a courtesy in September 2015 to try and conclude a series of commercial discussions with HP, then HPE and later Micro Focus about making use of some of our content on a broad scale. Timing couldn't have been worse it seems and we never quite worked something out. We also didn't know where things were heading with customers or with the vendor and we just weren't sure what to say. It seems at long last, that we finally do.
Effectual is still a Micro Focus-only partner company. When we started our business in 2011, we signed up as partner number 205. Now we're one of 16 and quite possibly the only company solely doing business with Micro Focus customers. As a result, our fortunes are tied directly to the ITOM suite of products and the last three years have been perilous and confusing as our vendor of choice reduced its staff, sold, spun and merged. Things are finally emerging from the dust and clamor of the past few years and the road ahead is becoming clearer.
Effectual's focus until summer of 2017 was on making the ITOM suite work as a single-platform using a Configuration Management System approach. As the developer of the single-platform solutions (and not a services consultancy with contract staff) we found we could only actually run a couple of giant simultaneous projects and this was another reason why we weren't chatty on the forums or the blog – we were too busy running giant CMS projects. Until we weren't.
By mid-2017 due to a variety of factors all of Effectual's CMS based IT Service Manager customers switched vendor relationships entirely for Service Now. Sometimes this was because of pricing, sometimes competitive advantages, sometimes burned bridges or commitments that couldn't be kept by the new organization, as several of our customers were locked into huge strategic deals Micro Focus couldn't single-source any longer.
We didn't go with them because we had made a significant investment making ITOM solutions and we can still solve the same problems with the same software. We didn't offer a migration service to Service Now (even though we could easily have one), because we're loyal to the ITOM suite and to Micro Focus' technologies.
As a solutions and integration services company we have tried to be ahead of the curve for customers, predict the next need and get out in front of it with a smart, practical offerings that make economic sense to customers. This means that we adopted Docker containers and the concepts for the ITOM Marketplace with the intent of offering customers with microservices early. Despite making an early and complete investment in adopting these technologies, we're still waiting for production capable Container Deployment Foundation and we're a year behind schedule for the contracts allowing anyone to be able to sell on the ITOM Marketplace.
Moving ahead, we're offering everything we do as small micro-services as we have been hearing for over a year that gaining approval on larger spending on these technologies is in a wait-and-see mode. We're flexible and fine with that and we can easily switch to monthly, unit-based consumption services as needed because we've already done the planning for offering this on the Marketplace.
Micro Focus has announced End of Support is coming for Universal CMDB 10.3X, so we are offering a UCMDB upgrade package to move your UCMDB 10.X environment with our solutions to a version of UCMDB 11 Docker, Windows or Linux. This process can also clean your old data and remove any duplicates and stale data without losing your related business objects.
Effectual's Impact Analysis Webinar and basic demo package is our most downloaded content ever from any source. As a result, we're offering a 3 or 5-day service package to tune up and custom build your organization high performing, impact analysis rules and perspective-based impact views and reports.
We have a managed service offering to migrate customers from Micro Focus IT Service Manager to Micro Focus Service Management Anywhere-X. This service uses our hybrid cloud approach, uses no additional footprint at the customer and migrates all ITSM critical operating and CI data into SMAX. Our trials have taken about 2 weeks from start to finish and we're eager to help customers look at their current ITSM capabilities in the new solution provided by SMAX.
We are offering a fully managed Universal Discovery Service based on our superior UCMDB and Universal Discovery PIE products and best practices, offered as a hybrid cloud or on-premise service. We're offering this as a black box managed service and are so confident in our ability to improve your discovery that we won't charge you until we get your first complete global discovery run completed.
Our business is singularly focused on success with Universal CMDB, Universal Discovery and invested in the Micro Focus ITOM suite. This has been our choice and we hope you'll see the value and merit in rewarding these decisions and doing business with Effectual.
We look forward to writing more in the days ahead.
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Delphi's GT 280 Connection System has a small package size suited to fit the shrinking space requirements of today's vehicles. GT 280 Terminals are available in male and female in both 22-20 gauge, 18-16 gauge, and 16-12 gauge. The 12 gauge is only available in a female terminal. Designed to mate with most headlamps, including daytime running lamps, high beam and dual filament bulbs. For a complete connection, a female housing, male housing, male and female terminals, cable seals, cavity plugs and TPAs are required, sold separately.
Female Housing, Male Housing, and Cable Seals/Cavity Plug needed to complete the connection are sold separately.


Please help us spread the word about Dylann Pelletier out of Montreal, Quebec by sharing this report.
MONTREAL — The Montreal Police Deptartment is asking for the local public's assistance in locating missing 15 year old Dylann Pelletier out of the Montreal, Quebec area.
Dylann left his place of residence located in the borough of Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve on February 26, 2017 and has not returned since. Dylann does not look 15 years old and could be considered a young adult. At the time of his disappearance, he was wearing black trousers.
If you have any information in regards to Dylann's whereabouts, you are being asked to contact the Montreal Police Deptartment at 514-280-2222, 911 or your local police immediately.
If you wish to remain anonymous with your information, you are welcome to call Info-Crime Montréal at 514 393-1133 or submit your tip online at this website.
Thank you for all of your efforts in helping us spread the word about missing people like Dylann across Quebec. We ask that you please take a moment to share these reports on all social media platforms in order to reach the broadest local audience as possible.


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Q: Incremental file copy on Windows Is there an effecient way to mirror text log files between two Windows servers?
I'd like to ship the logs off a production server to another server for near real-time analysis.
The log files are 1 file per day, 100MB per file, append only.

A: DFS-R is reasonably close to real-time, and does incremental shipping.
We use it to ship text-based log files to a remote site for analysis and processing. The files are typically only 2-3 minutes behind.
It will replicate anything, and if you access the data via its DFS Namespace rather than its local path, it has the advantage of routing to your lowest-cost server whilst maintaining the same directory path.

A: For a simplistic solution you could also use robocopy /MIR for this and set it to run when you need it via scheduled tasks.  Not as robust as DFS-R, but not as complicated.


The process of connecting two alternators or an alternator and an infinite bus bar system in parallel is known as synchronizing. Generally, alternators are used in a power system where they are parallel with many other alternators.
When there is maintenance or an inspection, one machine can be taken out from service and the other alternators can keep up for the continuity of supply.
Load supply can be increased.
During light loads, more than one alternator can be shut down while the other will operate in nearly full load.
The operating cost is reduced.
Ensures the protection of supply and enables cost-effective generation.
The generation cost is reduced.
Breaking down of a generator does not cause any interruption in the supply.
Reliability of the whole power system increases.


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Research on Policies and Programs to Address Opioid Epidemic Contributes to Policy Change
October 8, 2019 by Reed, Breanna L
On addressing the opioid epidemic with targeted programs and policy change. Carri Casteel, Director of the Occupational Injury Prevention Program, with colleagues from the UI Injury Prevention Research Center gathered a multidisciplinary group of stakeholders across Iowa to identify policy and program priorities to address prescription opioid concerns in Iowa. The priorities were presented to a legislative interim study committee tasked with evaluating Iowa's response to the opioid epidemic (October 2017) and presented at a Congressional briefing in Washington D.C. (February 2018). Dr. Casteel, with Mr. Kevin Techau of the Office of the U.S. District Attorney of Iowa (formerly), wrote an op-ed describing the priorities for Iowa and were interviewed by media including the Associated Press and Iowa Public Radio. Efforts in Iowa, including ours, contributed to the passage of HF2377 in 2018, which set regulations for prescribing practices, use of the Prescription Monitoring Program and included a Good Samaritan Law.
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Home»Landlord News»UK Landlords official statistics show that the demand for tenants is following an upward curve
UK Landlords official statistics show that the demand for tenants is following an upward curve
By Coast to Country Lettings August 9, 2014 Updated: September 3, 2021 No Comments3 Mins Read
A recent report has confirmed that virtually all Eastbourne landlords have agreed that tenant demand has never been stronger – in fact it's growing. The figures show that landlords have announced a 6.2% yield on their portfolio which is a slight increase during this second quarter of the year from the previous quarter where the average yield was around 6.1%. What's significant for landlords is this figure has remained steadily consistent over the last 12 months showing that the demand for tenants has remained consistent – something all landlords should be pleased with.
In this same quarter of the year 38% reported they were feeling increasingly optimistic about the future of growth for the properties in their portfolios. Encouraging figures show that from the remainder 56% of landlords reported feeling no change in their views (this could have been much lower) and only 4% reported a negative slant and worries about growth in the future.
An even more optimistic figure is that 16% of landlords reported looking forward to adding to their portfolio of property over the next quarter. As industry figures go these all point towards a hopeful final quarter to the year.
According to the survey there has been zero change in the sorts of property that people are choosing to invest. As previous reports showed, terraced houses are by far the most popular with 55% of buyers looking forward to continuing to invest in this type of housing.
What was remarkable was that there has been a marginal increase in the popularity of detached houses. 15% of the landlords surveyed reported looking forward to owning this type of property compared to only 12% in the previous quarter.
So how do Eastbourne landlords perceive the future? Well 72% agreed that the levels of rental arrears would remain stable over the next four quarters, and only 11% believed they would increase. This is great feedback as it shows that a majority have faith in the next year of landlord / tenant rentals.
One Eastbourne landlord was quoted as saying "It is interesting that we can see an improvement in landlords' confidence in rentals in the private sector as well as the buy to let market. This is due to the continuing strong demand for rentals as well as the investments made by landlords."
He went on to add, "We can all see that demand for Eastbourne tenants is remaining healthy and as the figures show this trend should continue over the next few quarters, particularly due to the fact we are not seeing the level of house building in the wider market that is so desperately needed."
All in all this survey is a great indicator for our industry and shows that the majority of landlords are looking forward to a good forthcoming year. However you may have your own story to tell. Let's revisit this topic in 12 months to see if these predictions are borne out.
Landlords Want Tax Changes Reversed and a More Stable Market


The zero-emission Climate Vulnerable Forum Virtual Summit, convened by the Marshall Islands, will inject new urgency to stay below 1.5˚C ahead of the UN climate talks.
The Climate Vulnerable Forum Virtual Summit (CVF) on November 22, 2018 is the first of its kind. It's an opportunity for national leaders to stand with those most vulnerable to the growing impacts of climate change, and to reinforce efforts to limit global warming to 1.5 °C. And it's all happening entirely online.
Heads of government will join the nearly zero-emissions summit with live-streams or pre-recorded video messages. Participants will include governments, global companies, cities, states, civil society, and media, interacting using online tools. The event will include plenary statements and thematic discussions on key topics each convened by leading organizations.
The summit is being convened by the Marshall Islands, a country where climate change is not some distant danger but happening right now. The islands are already threatened by rising sea levels, flooding, and contamination of freshwater supplies.
Right now at almost 1˚C of warming, all of the 48 Countries that make up the CVF already deal with grave climate impacts, from sea-level rise that causes deadly flooding and ravages property and homes, to devastating heat waves, droughts, monster hurricanes and other forms of extreme weather. In India, Bangladesh, and Nepal, torrential rains have triggered landslides and flooding killing more than 1,000 people and affecting 41 million more. The secondary impacts of these devastating events include forced displacement, disease, and economic devastation.
The 2018 CVF Summit has been organized as part of the Talanoa Dialogue, an agreed mechanism to promote enhanced national action from all nations that took part in the 2015 Paris Climate summit. Talanoa is a traditional word used in Fiji and across parts of the Pacific to reflect a process of collaborative, inclusive, participatory and transparent dialogues. The purpose of Talanoa is to share stories, build empathy and to make wise decisions for the collective good. The CVF 2108 summit is building on this.
350.org along with its local and global partners are campaigning fiercely to keep fossil fuels in the ground to make staying at 1.5˚C possible and to avoid irreversible and catastrophic climate change. From Bangladesh to Kenya, the US to Italy, campaigners across the globe are stopping millions of tonnes of carbon emissions from going into the atmosphere and contributing to rising temperatures.
#ThriveSurvive and #1o5c are the hashtags we are using to show our solidarity. Make your own post on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter. Stand with the Marshall Islands and call on our nations' leaders to stand up and take bolder action on climate change now.


Explores how the suffering of African American women has been minimized and obscured in U.S. culture.
Why do some stories of lost white girls garner national media headlines, while others missing remain unknown to the general public? What makes a suffering person legible as a legitimate victim in U.S. culture? In The Suffering Will Not Be Televised, Rebecca Wanzo uses African American women as a case study to explore the conventions of sentimental political storytelling—the cultural practices that make the suffering of some legible while obscuring other kinds of suffering. Through an examination of memoirs, news media, film, and television, Wanzo's analysis reveals historical and contemporary tendencies to conflate differences between different kinds of suffering, to construct suffering hierarchies, and to treat wounds inflicted by the state as best healed through therapeutic, interpersonal interaction. Wanzo's focus on situations as varied as disparities in child abduction coverage, pain experienced in medical settings, sexual violence, and treatment of prisoners of war illuminates how widely and deeply these conventions function within U.S. culture.
Rebecca Wanzo is Associate Professor of Women's Studies and English at the Ohio State University.


The City of Napa, which doubles as the county seat, often gets second billing to Yountville, a smaller city that's ground zero for The Thomas Keller Restaurant Group, along with talented chefs like Richard Reddington and Michael Chiarello. However, restaurants like Torc are helping to make south county even more formidable. Chef Sean O'Toole, a Massachusetts native who previously cooked at high-profile restaurants like Cotogna and Quince in San Francisco, and Cafe Boulud and Tabla in New York, has his own culinary showcase. I squeezed in two meals at Torc during my visit to Napa for the wine-focused Bud Break Boot Camp, and every dish hit the mark, but none so squarely as the Milk Chocolate Caramel Bar ($9).
When I spoke with O'Toole after brunch, he preached layered textures and ingredients, and they were certainly in effect for this standout dessert. The bar consisted of four layers: crispy feuilletine, fluffy sunflower mousse, milk chocolate mousse, and chocolate caramel ganache. Coconut foam, chocolate snow and candied sunflower seeds capped the bar. Decorative chocolate sauce graced the plate, along with creamy quenelle of toasted sunflower ice cream.


The Vatican announced on Thursday, November 8, that Pope Francis approved a decree recognizing that Brother James Miller died as a martyr Feb. 13, 1982, in Huehuetenango, Guatemala. The process for declaring him a martyr began in 2009 and received this important 'green light' from the theological commission, which means we will soon be able to celebrate his beatification. Br. James will be the first De La Salle Christian Brothers from the United States to be beatified. The cause of beatification was undertaken by the Diocese of Huehuetenango, Guatemala and received the Decree of Validity in Rome in 2010 when Brother James was designated a Servant of God and a martyr for the faith. As a martyr, Br. James must have one miracle posthumously attributed to him to reach the next level toward official sainthood, which is canonization.
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Pacific Payback
The Carrier Aviators Who Avenged Pearl Harbor at the Battle of Midway
Stephen L Moore
Description - Pacific Payback by Stephen L Moore
Sunday, December 7, 1941, dawned clear and bright over the Pacific . . .
But for the Dauntless dive-bomber crews of the USS Enterprise returning to their home base on Oahu, it was a morning from hell. Flying directly into the Japanese ambush at Pearl Harbor, they lost a third of their squadron and witnessed the heart of America's Navy broken and smoldering on the oil-slicked waters below.
Over the next six months - as the Japanese scored victory after victory - many of this small band of aviators were killed by enemy Zero fighters, antiaircraft fire, or deadly crash landings in the Pacific, while others were captured and spent years in POW camps. Yet the Enterprise's Dauntless crews would be the first to strike an offensive blow against Japanese installations in the Marshall Islands, would be the first to sink a Japanese warship, and would shepherd the Doolittle Raiders' bombing of Tokyo.
Not until Midway, though, would Dauntless crews get the chance to settle the score...and change the course of World War II.
Drawing on dozens of new interviews and oral histories, author Stephen L. Moore brings to life inspiring stories of individual sacrifice and bravery-and the sweeping saga of one of America's greatest triumphs.
' A heartfelt tribute to the SBD pilots and radiomen . . . a valuable contribution to the history of the Pacific War.' John B. Lundstrom, author of The First Team
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Stephen L. Moore, a sixth-generation Texan, graduated from Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas, where he studied advertising, marketing, and journalism. He is the author of multiple books on World War II and Texas history, including Taming Texas, a biography of his great-great-great grandfather William T. Sadler, who was one of the first Texas Ranger captains in the 1830s. Steve lives north of Dallas in Lantana, Texas, with his wife, Cindy, and their three children.
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