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Anti-vaccine group has charity status pulled by Australian government
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DarkSkyForever
Ars Tribunus Militum
Tribus: Minneapolis, MN
Abresh wrote:
As in the case of my one friend who had one of her twins vaccinated by their grandmother when she was going to wait until after 6 to vaccinate. Guess which one turned up autistic and now, they have had both tested and found that they have a genetic disorder that contravenes vaccination?
Personal anecdotes are not valid evidence to the contrary.
nbm
Ars Centurion
Tribus: US
Registered: Apr 8, 2011
EldestMalk wrote:
nbm wrote:
Kydaria wrote:
Theala Sildorian wrote:
If only the same thing could happen to all the charities and "concerned citizens" astroturfing groups that have intentionally misleading names in the States.
Unfortunately, trying that would raise First Amendment issues. There is no requirement that free speech be truthful speech.
See, I would normally agree with this. But I also believe that the right the free speech ends as soon as you butt up against another's rights, or endanger the rest of the population with your lies. Its one thing for Fox News to say slanderous things about the opposing party, its another for them to outright lie about things that can get people killed.
Anti-vaccine groups spread misinformation that is causing actual health problems.. We are seeing a resurgence of diseases that were before effectively eradicated because of this misinformation.
This shit needs to end, full stop.
I fully agree with you, but I want to ensure that the authority used to stop it is one backed by science and reality, not politics and money.
As to the speech thing, revoking tax exemption does have an effect on speech.
What effect would revoking tax status have on speech? I ask in curiosity, not quarrelsomeness.
When I'm making a decision about which thing to give money, I consider whether or not it's a 501c(3) non-profit. Money and speech are very tightly intertwined, at least in US law. I'm not a lawyer, but there are enough links there that I think a good case could be made.
I would be interested in counterevidence or, even better, a credentialed opinion on the subject.
grizzlyaddams
Ars Scholae Palatinae
Registered: Dec 3, 2013
DSF1942 wrote:
Its tagline? "The AVN—because every issue has two sides."
Sure, every issue has two sides - but it doesn't mean your side is correct or valid.
9/11 truthers
Moon landing hoaxers
Climate change denialists
Yeah, but the only reason any of these topics are "issues" is because the horse blinders crowd has made them issues. The truth is, NONE of the topics: vaccination, 9/11, the moon landing, or climate change are issues. They're either well settled science or well settled history.
Denial of the truth does not transform a subject into an issue that requires discussion and debate.
I'm not arguing any topic in any direction here, but don't you think the ones with the blinders on can also be those who believe whatever they're told?
Dr. Jay
Ars Tribunus Angusticlavius
et Subscriptor
joshv wrote:
I am pointing out that there are differences in vaccine schedules between countries, sometimes significant. So obviously not all doctors agree on which vaccines are appropriate.
To begin with, not all doctors are going to agree on ANYTHING. You never have uniformity of opinion.
Second, your conclusion does not necessarily follow from your facts. It could easily be that most doctors agree that a specific subset of vaccines is appropriate for different countries, based on past prevalence of diseases, etc. It could also be that some vaccines are still bogged down in approval processes in some countries, but will be used once they're approved.
Without more information, you don't have an argument here.
"There is a strong consensus among medical and public health authorities that vaccines are generally safe and are clearly effective at preventing disease. "
I think that clearly a case can be made for quite a few vaccines, but there is not a general consensus that all vaccines are safe and effective. Just look at the difference between the typically European vaccine schedule and the schedule recommended in the US. I don't think European doctors are anti-science anti-vaxxers.
What vaccines are you referring to? The consensus among the American medical community (specifically the American Academy of Pediatrics) is all the vaccines on the US schedule are safe and effective.
If you think there is a case that some vaccine is not safe and effective, you should make it and not indulge in vague generalities.
At the risk of getting downvoted for posting facts, significant differences between the CDCs recommend vaccine schedule and the typical European vaccine schedule include: Hep A, Hep B, Chicken Pox, Rotavirus and seasonal flu shots for children.
I am not sure why the notion of universal consensus must be so vociferously enforced. Doctors have different opinions. Our pediatrician disagrees with some of the CDCs recommendations for very well researched reasons. He is not anti-vax, I am not anti-vax. My kids have all of their required shots, and we make educated judgement calls on the rest.
Dravond wrote:
I'm definitely for vaccination but there's always a risk, some people are for example allergic to parts of some vaccines (I've been told anyway) but if everyone else that isn't allergic are vaccinated then the chance for the allergic people diminish...
(locally they stopped recommending to vaccinate for "I must sound stupid no being able to back up even what its called due to shitty memory" I think for about 10years because "doesn't really exits anymore" and what happened... They started vaccinate against it again ~10 years ago....)
And there's always these quickly developed not long-term tested (like swine flu vaccine) that we don't fully understand the risks with yet. (A few people got sleeping "can't remember what it called just because I need to write it..." )
However vaccinate your kids for everyone else safety!
The big risk, and what makes anti-vaxers really insidious, is to those people who have the very rare conditions that prevent them from being vaccinated. They rely on herd immunity and this movement of idiots who tell people not to get vaccinated threatens that herd immunity.
Last edited by nbm on Tue Mar 18, 2014 12:04 pm
grizzlyaddams wrote:
There is a huge difference between "believing what you're told" and "here's my hypothesis, experimental data, supporting evidence, and conclusion."
Anadromous
Ars Praetorian
This is so thorny. I wish I could just be happy but it scares me when governments decide to chill speech because someone is wrong. Sure, it's great when it's like this and they actually are wrong but is there oil on that slope? It was stripped of its tax free status because of "the potential harmful impact of the information it promotes." According to whom? Was it according to whatever Australia's version of the NIH is? Because I would be fine with that. Was it according to a politician's whim? I would not be fine with that.
Something that is not immediately apparent from the reporting here is that this seems to be a state-level story, the people rescinding the charitable status and forcing the name changes are from the New South Wales state government/regulatory agencies. Jillian Skinner is the New South Wales health minister, not the federal health minister (that would be Peter Dutton), similarly the name change was imposed by the New South Wales Fair Trading Minister. In US terms, this would be like California forcing a charity to give up charitable status, not the Federal Government (meaning DC, not Canberra). Given that NSW is the most populous state in Australia this likely has impacts beyond that state (much like CA's emissions regulations or TX's stance on textbooks), but the impression that this change has an impact on the whole of Australia is not necessarily accurate. I'd be interested to hear from Arsians who are in Aust, rather than long term expats like myself.
Regarding the source of the advice, the Fair Trade Commission sought expert input from pediatricians. The A V-s N of course claim that these experts are in the pocket of big pharma and have axes to grind... no surprise there. The Australian "equivalent of the NIH" is the NHMRC, which has a well articulated stance favoring vaccination.
Wheels Of Confusion wrote:
They've been wanting to not be classified as a charity "for many years"? Why not just remove themselves from the classification?
They claim that they've been trying to, but unable to do so successfully.
Boskone
Tribus: College Station, TX
Registered: Mar 29, 2001
Disregarding the vaccination issue, I'm curious about the charity status.
Is "public information" a charitable activity, or did they operate some charitable activity beyond that? Or is it just a classification equivalent in Australia to "nonprofit" in the US?
OrangeCream
Ars Legatus Legionis
Tolstoy wrote:
I completely disagree with the goals of this group, but does no one else see a potentially slippery slope here?
Yup. If they start getting entrenched, they will start getting support for more anti-scientific dogma, which will cause more support for things such as flat-earthers, young-earthers, and moon landing skeptics.
Better to make sure they actually earn/qualify for their non-profit status, and that they don't go around misrepresenting their names.
WherestheRabbit
Wise, Aged Ars Veteran
Registered: Dec 23, 2013
Stone wrote:
If you want to be a contrarian, be specific about which vaccines you believe aren't safe. Don't be vague.
more like a contrarian by proxy .. since there is no real proof can only cite anothers' research or simple conjecture
Tribus: Thinking of moving to Neptune
If its a slippery slope, put on your skis cause I like the way its sliding. Cutting funding for knuckle draggers is something I think should be encouraged. These asses have been feeding at the public trough too long I am willing to bet. Buh Bye, enjoy your 'victory'
Solidstate89
Frankly, vaccinations are a good thing... for MOST people. However, there are some people with some genetic disorders who should not be getting vaccinations, they have been linked in concert with those genetic disorders to severe side effects and even death.
That has nothing to do with the Anti-Vaxxer movement. In fact, these idiots are HURTING those individuals that are medically incapable of receiving vaccines. Those people rely on herd immunity to protect themselves, and the more idiots who refuse to get vaccines, the lower the herd immunity rates get, and the higher the possibility of infection for those that are incapable of receiving vaccines becomes.
Last edited by Solidstate89 on Tue Mar 18, 2014 11:09 am
psuedonymous
Registered: Sep 8, 2011
pointing out that before vaccines, autism was almost unheard of'
You appear to be forgetting that the first Vaccine was invented in 1798, and the first well-documented case of autism in 1747, though not formalised as a diagnosis until the early 1900s.
Abresh
Tribus: United States
flunk wrote:
I think you might be under the impression that your opinion carries more weight than peer-reviewed scientific papers. Unless you've got some of those under your arm you're not being very convincing.
Those 'peer-reviewed scientific papers' are by and large paid for by the MEDICAL INDUSTRY and therefore are not really reliable in the real world. Now, if they were mainly paid for by the federal government instead of by the medical industry, then I would believe them more than I do.
However, as long as they are funded by the medical industry, there is that impetus on the part of the scientists and doctors involved to "Say what the medical industry wants us to say!" out of a fear of not being paid for their work.
We need to get the medical industry dollars out of the medical studies before we can believe them totally.
There have been numerous times in recent years where people have pointed out the medical industry intervening in studies and telling doctors to not release studies. Then, when the studies are leaked by someone with morality, we find out that side effects of drugs were hidden or the percentage of people with those side effects were understated.
Solidstate89 wrote:
That has nothing to do with the Anti-Vaxxer movement. In fact, these idiots are HURTING those individuals that are medically incapable of receiving vaccines. Those people rely on herd immunity to protect themselves, and the more idiots who refuse to get vaccines, the lower the herd immunity rates and the higher possibility of infection for those are incapable of receiving vaccines.
Herd immunity has been being challenged by various doctors who are finding out now that vaccinations only give total immunity for less than one year. After that year, immunity drops to less than 25% of the people being totally immune to the disease in question, though the latent partial immunity in the other 75% does lessen the severity of the illness should the people be exposed to the disease in question.
That lessening in severity can be to the point where the people have the disease in question but no outward symptoms other than a slightly increased temperature.
Herd immunity is on the edge of being debunked by the doctors and scientists, because we have had people from Mexico and other third-world nations come to America and spread diseases that the theory of 'herd immunity' since nearly everyone is vaccinated should be immune to.
Yet we still have some people who were vaccinated getting those diseases and some doctors are even saying a lot more are getting them but just have the degree lessened to the point where they think it is just a cold or the flu.
Last edited by Abresh on Tue Mar 18, 2014 11:13 am
Fossegrimen
Smack-Fu Master, in training
Registered: Apr 17, 2013
Asvarduil wrote:
As far as the capability of speaking, well, that can never be fully taken away.
As far as your organization is concerned, having a tax burden changes how you do business fundamentally. If your whole setup is based on donations, taxes could mean being unable to pay your organization's leadership, being unable to do the things your organization needs to do (outside of make political statements locally). As for making political statements on a larger scale, taxes cut into travel budgets a bit too.
Actually, the more I think about it, the more that taxing religious institutions seems like a great idea. I haven't yet found one that isn't making swipes at major political statements...
Oh, it's worse than that. Because these frauds don't pay taxes, you have to pay more. The crackpots of the world are essentially using your money to spread their plague of misinformation. I think tax exception for charities is a fundamentally flawed principle.
SpecTP wrote:
Science is true whether or not you believe in it - Neil deGrasse Tyson
"Follow the evidence wherever it leads, and question everything."
-- Neil Degrasse Tyson
English Common Law nominally says the charitable group has to, you know, help society.
Causing plagues and epidemics actually don't qualify.
Imagine forming a charitable group called, "Neo-Nazi Daycare". Yeah, I don't think that would nominally fly in Australia.
EldestMalk
Tribus: In tenebris et caligine
So in Oz the tax status of groups is controlled by the states they are in?
Thordane
Donte wrote:
It seems vaccine safety and efficacy isn't the only form of denial they engage in.
In conspiracy logic, any action or argument against them somehow proves their point, no matter how scientific or indisputable the counter argument is against them, they spin the mere existence of a counter argument or counter push as proof of the conspiracy.
So in the conspiracy world, this can be considered a big win, conspiracy theorists dream of being recognized or "oppressed" by the government somehow, but even all that extra conspiracy theorist cred cant offset all the damage they just took in the big picture.
For example, my father is a conspiracy theorist, and he took this news as 100% confirmation that the vaccine "coverup" is real.
I have an uncle in the same boat as your dad. It's pretty good doublethink, to be honest.
They appealed their name change and they appealed their status change. Clearly they didn't want either to happen. But now that they lost, and a camera is on them... They've already changed their train of thought and feel like their ideals have been solidified because The Man knocked them down.
nilp
First, I want to say that I agree vaccines have probably provided the biggest improvement to public health of any health related medication apart from antibiotics. I had no hesitation in getting my own two kids fully vaccinated and apart from a slight fever after one shot neither have had any ill effects. The appeals to emotion of the anti-vaxer crowd are incredibly annoying and frustrating.
However, it's actually quite a rational decision to not get your kids vaccinated when vaccination rates are high. When rates are high enough (depending the vaccine) herd immunity comes into play, and the chances of unvaccinated people becoming infected are very low. At some point the probability of a dangerous reaction is higher than the chances of catching the disease. If you look at it this way, it's selfish but rational.
You also need to look at the psychology of the issue - if your child has a bad reaction to a vaccine you made him or her get, you would feel terribly guilty, whereas catching the disease is more of a random occurrence. The first is caused by a specific action on your part whereas the second is an omission - doing something has a higher psychological reaction. When children are diagnosed with autism, it's devastating to the parents, and they look for answers. Since it's inevitable that some diagnoses will be made within a short time of a vaccination, some people will not see it as a coincidence.
I'm not sure how understanding how the anti-vaxers think will help to persuade them to change (I personally don't think anything will persuade them) but it doesn't hurt.
Last edited by nilp on Tue Mar 18, 2014 11:15 am
Quiet Desperation
Ars Praefectus
But in this case, the anti-vaccine (more like 'concerned that vaccines are causing autism and pointing out that before vaccines, autism was almost unheard of') people have some good points.
Or vaccines and the study of what came to be called autism developed in parallel? The same false link happened with miscarriages and computer monitors in the 1970s. Earlier pregnancy detection combined with computer monitors becoming more common was the correlation without causation.
No one died of car accidents before vaccines, either.
People only link the two because autism is generally diagnosed during the time a child is being vaccinated.
Yes, some small number of people have certain physical issues with some vaccines, but that's not what the debate is about.
nilp wrote:
However, it's actually quite a rational decision to not get your kids vaccinated when vaccination rates are high. When rates are high enough (depending the vaccine) herd immunity comes into play, and the chances of unvaccinated people becoming infected are very low. At some point the probability of a dangerous reaction is higher than the chances of catching the disease. It's selfish but rational.
Except if everyone acted this way, there would be no herd immunity.
"Well everyone else is vaccinated, so that means my kids don't need to be." - Everyone
If you take that train of though to its logical conclusion, no one would get their kids inoculated because everyone is already inoculated.
kray28
Tribus: Pittsburgh, PA USA
Australia is a notable source of climate denialists and creationists. The case could be made, assuming that a particular branch of Christianity is correct, that promoting evolution leads to very harmful impacts (see Pat Robertson) and that scares the crap out of me. Are there safeguards in place to prevent that particular argument from winning, or do we have to rely on the intelligence of the electorate?
I'm really hoping someone can answer my questions here. They are not rhetorical.
I wouldn't be opposed to them silencing Christians (or any religion for that matter). In all honesty, there really no greater underminer of public safety than religious myth
Last edited by kray28 on Tue Mar 18, 2014 11:16 am
WherestheRabbit wrote:
And then do scientific studies. Oh, look, none of them show any link between vaccines and autism.
Wheels Of Confusion
Registered: Jan 18, 2009
Good point. I was thinking about the government forcing the group to change its name to something that actually reflects their position.
Then again, you might have a hard time getting your organization recognized and classified if it's called "The Non-Profit Education Promoters Organization" and it turns out that you're neither non-profit nor promoting education, but instead a for-profit venture advertising NASCAR races. Part of the work that goes into receiving a special classification is determining if things really are what they say on the tin, or just false advertising.
However, the NFL shows us that there can be exceptions.
If this were really the issue, then nobody would be able to GET tax-exempt status in the first place for fear of First Amendment implications.
In the US (and I imagine everywhere else in the world), mandatory vaccination policies always have medical exceptions.
Correlation does not equal causation. If vaccination really had a causative effect via interaction with a genetic disorder, it should have shown up in the numerous, large studies of vaccination that have sought out such a link. Guess what doesn't happen?
Read up on the Hannah Pollock case to see how vaccinations can cause severe issues and even death in children.
I think you mean Hannah POLING, and according to the information I've found there really doesn't seem to be any link between her mitochondrial disorder and vaccination. Post hoc ergo proptor hoc seems to be the main argument (one you've used repeatedly yourself), despite all the other things going on that don't involve vaccination.
Last edited by Wheels Of Confusion on Tue Mar 18, 2014 12:40 pm
Of course, but the problem is that we are crossing the threshold where it isn't high enough.
Now it is more likely you will catch measles than reacting to the vaccine.
You also need to look at the psychology of the issue - if your child has a bad reaction to a vaccine you made him or her get, you would feel terribly guilty, whereas catching the disease is more of a random occurrence. The first is caused by a specific action on your part whereas the second is an omission - doing something has a higher psychological reaction.
Nope, that's dumb.
If you get a reaction to a vaccine, that's a random occurrence. Getting the disease is no less, or more, random.
If you catch a disease, it's because you took a specific action; to not get vaccinated while taking your child to your doctor's for their regular appointments.
Kydaria
I don't think peer-reviewed papers means what you think it means.
Dravond
The big risk, and what makes anti-vaxers really insidious, is to those people who have the very rare conditions that prevent them from being vaccinated. They rely on herd immunity and this movement of idiots who tell people not to get vaccinated threaten that herd immunity.
That's what I meant with
"but if everyone else that isn't allergic are vaccinated then the chance for the allergic people diminish..."
except I'm really bad at writing what I mean, so thanks for clarifying my rambling thoughts...
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Registered: Aug 5, 2010
No. They are being denied their "right" to government-subsidized free speech, but not to free speech itself.
Bunk. Give me peer reviewed work or GTFO. These "dead" disease that are infecting pockets of the U.S. population are specifically because of herd immunity rates dropping. Like that community from Texas, whose local church encouraged all of its parishioners to not get vaccinated. What happened? Someone went overseas and brought back a "dead" infection. What happened? Everyone at the church got sick because none of them were vaccinated.
Go on and show some proof that herd immunity is "debunked." That's a load of horse shit.
TheColinous
Tribus: Sweden
This is why I despair sometimes for the future of science, because different things show that the left and the right join forces in being anti-science.
While a leftist would scoff at a rightist who disclaim global warming often with a "science is against you, get over it!", the same leftist would embrace "science is perverted on GMO/Vaccines because of evil corporations and capitalism"
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Yeah right.... just happened to 'develop in parallel' when for 500 years, we had NO instances of autism. Bullplop!
There HAS to be a connection since numerous parents have been doing their own 'study' and vaccinating one of a set of twins and not the other and the vaccinated one turns up autistic.
When that is the case, there HAS to be some sort of connection.
Maybe not "Vaccine + Child = autistic!" but "Vaccine + Child + genetic disorder in child = autistic!"
Too many doctors today are unwilling to even consider the possibility that a genetic condition might cause autism in concert with vaccinations until parents get their children tested for genetic disorders that they should have been tested for from birth and find out "Yep, my child has X genetic disorder that is known to cause problems with vaccinations, to the point of creating brain inflammation which CAN lead to autism!"
I'm not for getting rid of all vaccinations, I am for getting those genetic tests done so that we can be sure that the children in question do not have those (by some accounts quite common) genetic disorders.
Aren't our children WORTH doing those genetic screenings, especially if they would cut down or eliminate the instances of autism?
Why is this such a 'sacred cow' that the doctors will not even CONSIDER the vaccine + genetic disorder + child = autistic possibility? Yes, they will not even consider that possibility today.
TheColinous wrote:
With all due respect, I am skeptical of the global warming arguments as well. There are too many 'holes' and too much manipulation of data (I.E. Climategate, which was wrongfully dismissed by many) in the studies to believe them.
There is also the whole "Not funded by public dollars but by private dollars" for a lot of them that makes them worthy of a leery eye.
We know from past experience that studies HAVE been tampered with, it is about once a damned week now that we have a study exposed as having been 'punked' by the medical industry by hiding evidence about side effects for drugs.
How would you even go about implementing this? What evidence is there for these links you claim? Proof!
Bengie25
Tribus: Midwest USA
Registered: Jan 4, 2010
"There is nothing to fear from vaccines" That's not entirely true, just true for most people who don't get potentially fatal side effects. Still much safer than not getting it.
tkioz
Tribus: Australia
Speaking as an Australia, not at all.
No-one is stopping them from speaking their minds, they just can't pretend to be something they are not anymore (the name change) or duck out of paying tax.
And unlike what these idiots claim, vaccination is *not* a 'personal choice for each parent', it's something that effects an entire community. There *are* people who should not be vaccinated (people with weak immune systems for example) and that rely on 'herd immunity' to protect them, nor is that *any* vaccine that is 100% effective, which again is another point where herd immunity comes into it.
For every parent that refrains from vaccinating their child the risk to those that legitimately *can't* vaccinate increases.
Oh and for those people who say "I don't want to take the risk", I suggest you go look up how many children died or were crippled before vaccines became widespread, it was a hell of a lot higher than the risk of getting a side-effect from a modern vaccine.
Or better yet, go talk to someone who remembers the 40s/50s, ask *them* what they think about it... My grandmother tells horror stories about dead children, I'm sure you can find someone in your area.
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Which is why my comment was about when rates are high. I never seriously considered not getting my kids vaccinated, but when it did cross my mind, I swiftly weighed up the situation and understood the probabilities. I know that not all vaccinated people gain immunity, but the herd immunity of the general population protects these as well as unvaccinated people. It infuriates me when I consider my own children might get e.g. measles because of these misguided people.
That's the logical conclusion, but people are a hot mess of rationality and emotion. On the one hand you actively give a substance to your child that you think might have caused a serious problem - and if your child is susceptible the chances are very high of something happening (and I have to add, I don't actually know of any genetic susceptibility - I'm talking about people's conceptions), but you don't know if your child is susceptible until something happens. On the other hand, people don't know anyone who's had measles or whooping cough and don't understand that the reason for that is widespread vaccination.
You can't argue with these people by calling them dumb. Some are motivated by self-interest, some are casting around for reasons for their own situations, some are actually logical and rational but selfish and misguided, some are emotional ("think of the children!") and just don't understand.
No, there doesn't have to be a connection. There could simply be selection bias, a small population size, etc. We have this amazing thing called "science" that helps us avoid these issues. You should look into it sometime.
By what accounts are those common? I'm not aware of any, and i follow the autism literature pretty closely.
That's not to say i am unaware of genetic links to autism; there are many, many of these because it is being studied intensively (and using government funding, not pharma). But the fact is that the vast majority of them affect genes involved in neural development and function; few to none are involved exclusively in immune function. This is one of the many pieces of evidence that suggests there is no connection to vaccinations.
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There's just a week on Tuesday to my PEG change procedure at Newcastle, I'm still not sure what to expect on the day. All i know is that on the morning I'm going to see the PEG doc and discuss some things such as which type of PEG I want, what's going to happen and the doc to have a look at my PEG and PEG site. In the afternoon, I will have the change done which takes about half an hour or something like that. Hopefully it will all go smoothly with no problems because I have to go home to Huddersfield after it's done. Any problems I may have, I would have to go all the back to Newcastle because they did the procedure and the Huddersfield and Bradford NHS don't work with the PEG that I intend to choose which is the press- stud type of PEG.
The PEG nurse will keep an eye on it though so its no worries! I hope!
As far as i know, I get the procedure done by a local which I'm not looking forward to having after the experience with my muscle biopsy. Hopefully I will cope better with this one! No shivering and crying!
Good luck.. dont worry too much!! I only email away if need someone to talk to!


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to get the context and then, by mean of the Server object, to use MapPath... however, MS_HttpContext is of type System.Web.HttpContextWrapper and when I cast to HttpContext, null is assigned to the variable.
Any hint about how to do this?
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A: Finally I have used System.Web.Hosting.HostingEnvironment.MapPath method call.

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I start a print and all seems ok (I have noticed the occasional knocking sound in the movement but not all the time). After the first layer, there is a loud noise (stepper/belt skipping?) and the print head tries to move beyond the edge. Then that makes everything go out of line and I have to abort.
Now the confession - I got my finger caught in it when trying to remove some stringing for a 'work in progress' picture. This made the belt slip and the print head go out of line. But, after aborting the print and restarting, it printed ok (and then another part after it).
Have you tightened all the pulleys? Like this?
I'll give that a go, thanks!!
I had that problem. Ticking sound when moving. The pulleys/belt might be misaligned causing 'click-clack'. Check that the belts/pulleys/shaft are aligned so the belt pass aligned to the belt. Aligning that will remove the sound. You need to calibrate at the end of all that ofc.
BtwI think I think misunderstood your problem. Indeed you might have a pulley lossing grip or a belt with oil making it slip. Also check the belt tension just in case.
It wasn't loose pulleys, but misaligned rods. Labern, that link was super helpful thanks!!
That's great. The misalignment was going to be my next guess so glad you found it.


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Swiss No.1 Nicolas Mueller is expecting 'goosebumps' when he lines up in front of a partizan home crowd at Halle 622 for the 2019 Grasshopper Cup, PSA World Tour Gold tournament, which takes place between March 26-31 in Zurich.
Mueller, 29, resides in Zurich and has appeared at every edition of the Grasshopper Cup since 2012. The World No.17 has come within a whisker of claiming major scalps against the likes of previous winners Ramy Ashour and Mohamed ElShorbagy, and also close friend and current World No.5 Simon Rösner in that time.
Mueller faces Hong Kong's Tsz Fung Yip in round one next week and says the Grasshopper Cup – which is the biggest PSA Tour event in Continental Europe – is a real highlight for him on the calendar.
"I'm very privileged to be able to play in front of a sold out home crowd, who are swinging Swiss flags," Mueller said.
"It's definitely goosebump material. I love playing in front of a big crowd, even more so when the majority are cheering for you. I've played some of my best matches here, so it must give me a big boost.
A combination of injury and illness meant Mueller had a slow start to the 2018/19 season and he struggled to get out of the starting blocks, falling in the early rounds in each of his first eight tournaments.
Mueller followed that up by reaching the semi-finals of the Pittsburgh Open last month though, and the 'Swiss Rocket' feels he is back to full fitness as he aims to peak on home soil.
He said: "My season hasn't really been the best. My summer preparation was non-existent due to illness and injuries, and that definitely didn't help the process. At least now I feel like I'm back to 100 per cent finally, just in time for the main event.
The Grasshopper Cup offers a $110,000 prize fund and round one begins on Tuesday March 26 at the Squash Arena Uster. The second round onwards will be staged at Halle 622.
Eight of the world's top 10 players – including World No.1 Ali Farag, top seed Mohamed ElShorbagy, and his younger brother, 2016 champion Marwan, will appear alongside Mueller in the draw.
Live matches will be shown on SQUASHTV (rest of world) and Eurosport Player (Europe only).
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Artemis Launch
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Perfectly successful round trip, next one will be with astronauts.
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Artemis Launch 19 Nov 2022 13:27 #123524
One of the amazing side notes about the Saturn V is that at liftoff, it was burning fifteen tons of fuel per second. Think about that. What does fifteen tons of liquid oxygen and hydrogen look like? A room full of 55-gallon drums? And then imagine pumping that much fuel every second for the next minute or so...
Which reminds me of another tangent (sorry to hijack the thread, but please bear with me) During the Second World War, when the 8th Air Force would launch several hundred B-17s and B-24s on a mission, along with squadrons of fighter escort, imagine the effort it took to supply enough gasoline for all those planes. And then do it again a day or two later, for months on end. That was a LOT of gasoline that had to be trucked in!
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Oh that's right..Another location of the leaks. Here we are approaching Dec..Anyone check the solid Booster O rings ? Most aerodynamic craft transfer fuel internally.. Not this afterthought. I know,,,,the Saturn used it. And the Falcon 9. Just picking on the swamp.
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I wanna know what the Un-Aerodynamic Downspout is for ? Toilet overflow ? Not half the cool factor as a Saturn.
Fuel transfer pipe from the upper tank down to the bells.
Wow, that's awesome! The incredible level of engineering, planning and execution ought to be humbling for any human being to consider. Much like the Saturn V launches so many years ago. One of my great regrets is that I never got to see a Saturn V launch, but I intend to go go see one of these!
On the way to the moon!
T-10 minutes is at the 3 hour mark in this NASA live report.
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SCRUBBED. ! The aforementioned Downspout is leaking..They have their Red Ball team on it . They should wrap the the 4 billion static display with Tyvek ...
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Artemis 1 mission to the moon is due to launch at 8:30 - 10:30 AM tomorrow, a bunch of ways to watch, here's one;
Shooting for the moon at 2:00 PM today.
By the age of 10 I had every detail of the Saturn memorized. Our greatest moment in history. Aeronca Champ was the first aircraft I ever flew. The instructor took it over on Base leg and brought her in..Stiff crosswind that day and I had never heard of crabbing..Scared the H#ll out of me until he kicked her over. You are blessed to have stood by that bird as it prepared for it's mission. I have never seen it. Have stood beside the F1 motor..1.75 million lbs of thrust each.
When I was a kid our family visited Kennedy Space Center. It was early summer of 1969. Armed with my trusty Kodak Instamatic camera, I took black & white photographs of Apollo 11 standing on the pad at Launch Complex 39!
My dad worked for Aeronca, which built airplanes through the 1930's and 40's, and by the 60's was one of the subcontractors to North American Aviation, which was building the command modules. Aeronca had developed the technique of manufacturing honeycomb sandwich panels out of titanium, which were used on the B-58 and XB-70, and was by that time using the same method to build the external skin panels for the command module.
That was the first time I saw a Saturn V, and I've seen the static displays since then (still breathtaking to see) but one of the great regrets of my life is that I never got to experience the launch of a Saturn V. An engineer who had witnessed it told me it sounded like thousands of cannons all firing in rapid succession. It's hard to imagine what it must've been like to ride on top of that!
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Plano property taxes: they've skyrocketed, taxing some Plano families out of their homes. Why are they so high? And where is the money going? We talk to three elected officials in Plano to find out. Plus, we introduce you to this episode's Character – a real sweetheart who's helping vulnerable animals in Plano. And finally, we take on a burning question about Plano's proper demonym.


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It's time to unleash America's airpower in Afghanistan
A member of the Afghan security forces stands guard during an operation against Taliban fighters in Helmand province, Afghanistan, on Dec. 25, 2015. (Watan Yar/European Pressphoto Agency)
By David Petraeus and
Michael O'Hanlon
President Obama's desire to avoid large new ground commitments in the Middle East is, in many respects, understandable, given the experiences of some 15 years of war. At present, however, the modest number of U.S. and coalition troops in Afghanistan operate with one hand tied behind their backs — at a time when Afghan forces, though fighting hard, are struggling. That should be changed. We should unleash our airpower in support of our Afghan partners in the same way that we support our Iraqi and Syrian partners against extremists.
At present, U.S. and NATO airpower in Afghanistan is used only to attack validated al-Qaeda targets, to counter specific individuals or groups who have attacked coalition forces previously and to respond directly to attacks on coalition forces. According to leaders on the ground, U.S. and NATO forces are otherwise not allowed to attack Taliban targets. The situation appears to be in flux in regard to Islamic State elements, but through 2015, they too could be targeted only under narrow circumstances.
The origins of this contorted policy are, once again, somewhat understandable, even if the policy itself should be changed. When he was Afghanistan's president, Hamid Karzai frequently objected to NATO's use of firepower, especially when tragic accidents took the lives of Afghan civilians. Though this war has probably involved the most carefully controlled airpower in the history of warfare, with NATO troops taking extraordinary measures to protect innocents, mistakes inevitably occurred. Karzai's accumulated frustration led him to increasingly react to such tragedies not just with private outrage but also public excoriation. At times, the mission's future hung in the balance. To minimize such friction, while also prodding Afghans to view the fight against the Taliban more as their own and less as ours, Obama decided to end NATO targeting of the Taliban in most situations.
Also, some administration lawyers harbor concerns that the authorization for the use of military force approved soon after 9/11 does not extend to justify the continued use of force against the Taliban. That is logic we believe unfounded; after all, it was the Taliban that allowed al-Qaeda the sanctuary it used to plan the fateful attacks 15 years ago. In addition, the Taliban, in cahoots with the Haqqani network and other extremist elements, is trying to overthrow the very Afghan government that is now committed to keeping al-Qaeda and the Islamic State at bay.
We have the tools in place to step up our game considerably. When combined with a motivated and competent ground force, airpower can be quite effective. This was witnessed in 2001, when U.S. airpower and special operatives worked with the Northern Alliance to oust the Taliban from power. It was seen on a vast scale while supporting coalition and host- nation forces in Iraq and Afghanistan — increasing in effectiveness, in fact, as the fleet of drones and other precision-strike assets expanded dramatically over the course of the "surges" in each war. It has also been seen of late in Iraq and Syria, where U.S. airpower collaborated with Kurdish forces and other partners in both countries to prevent further inroads by the Islamic State in 2014 and then to liberate places such as Sinjar and Ramadi in Iraq and a number of villages near Kobani in Syria last year.
In Syria and Iraq, U.S. and coalition airpower has been used increasingly vigorously. In 2014, coalition aircraft dropped ordnance during about 2,000 aircraft sorties; that number grew above 9,000 last year.
But we have moved in the opposite direction in Afghanistan. Even though our military footprint there is more firmly established, with nearly 10,000 U.S. troops and 6,000 other foreign troops , and with several major airfields accessible to NATO forces in country, ordnance was dropped during only about 400 sorties last year. The corresponding tally for 2014 was about 1,100; in 2010, it was about 2,500.
The Taliban is not winning decisively in Afghanistan by any means, but it has learned that it can mass for attack in many places without fear of NATO airstrikes. Partly as a result, it temporarily took control of the provincial capital of Kunduz in the fall; more recently it has taken large swaths of Helmand province, as well as a number of places in the country's mountainous east.
We do not need a big U.S. troop buildup in Afghanistan, but we should take the gloves off of those who are there. Afghan forces are doing perhaps 99 percent of the fighting on the ground, and that is as it should be — though as the tragic recent casualties in Helmand and near Bagram Airfield reminded us, Americans are certainly still in the fight.
The development of the Afghan air force will take a least a few more years. In the meantime, we can and should do more to ensure that the Taliban does not win the war, which could lead to new sanctuaries for al-Qaeda and the Islamic State on the eastern flank of their broader area of operations. Vigorous use of the airpower we already have in the region is the most logical and straightforward next step for doing so.
David Petraeus and Michael O'Hanlon: The U.S. needs to keep troops in Afghanistan
Vanda Felbab-Brown, Ronald Neumann and David Sedney: Don't abandon Afghanistan too soon
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Benjamin S. Lambeth: The U.S. is squandering its airpower
Fred Hiatt: The price of American inaction
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Château Vaumont lies at the southern extremity of the Graves appellation. This tiny 3-hectare estate was bought in 1992 by the Bord family as a complement to Château de la Prioulette. In doing so, François Bord seized the opportunity to expand his range of wines by adding a neighbouring appellation with a very different terroir. Today, Valerie and Yves Jallon are pursuing his work with conviction and passion, conserving the same spirit of tradition and family signature to offer you typical Graves wine.
Beautifully deep, concentrated, young-hued wine. Crisp, fruity nose reminiscent of blackcurrant, blackberry and sloe. Well-structured palate, nicely balanced between extract, suppleness and tannin. A Graves in which fruit takes pride of place, with a pleasant, lingering finish. An excellent wine in an already exceptional vintage.
A wine to be drunk young and which can be cellared for 5 to 7 years.
A brilliant ruby red, this wine will enchant your nose with its delicate bouquet of red berried fruit and hints of fragrant violet. On the palate, it unveils subtle mineral and vegetal aromas, together with light tannins which impart pleasant freshness and great vivacity. A harmonious, well-crafted wine for this vintage.


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ONO 4817 is a broad spectrum MMP inhibitor; Ki values are 0.45, 0.73, 1.1, 1.1, 2.1, 42 and 2500 nM for MMP-12, MMP-2, MMP-8, MMP-13, MMP-9, MMP-3 and MMP-7 respectively and IC50 = 1600 nM for MMP-1). It exhibits antiangiogenic and anti-invasive properties on lung metastasis of murine renal cell carcinoma. Learn More
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CP 471474 is a broad spectrum MMP inhibitor (IC50 values are 0.7, 0.9, 13, 16 and 1170 nM for MMP-2, MMP-13, MMP-9, MMP-3 and MMP-1 respectively). Learn More
PD 166793 is a broad spectrum MMP inhibitor. Displays high affinity for MMP-2, -3 and -13 (IC50 values are 4, 7 and 8 nM respectively) and exhibits > 750-fold selectivity over MMP-1, -7 and -9. Attenuates left ventricular remodelling and dysfunction in rat model of heart failure. Learn More
Ro 32-3555 is a potent, collagenase-selective MMP inhibitor (Ki values are 3.0, 3.4, 4.4, 59, 154 and 527 nM for MMP-1, MMP-13, MMP-8, MMP-9, MMP-2 and MMP-3 respectively) which inhibits cartilage breakdown in vitro and in vivo and displays antiarthritic activity. Learn More
HA 1100 hydrochloride
HA 1100 hydrochlorid is a cell-permeable active metabolite of Fasudil, which also inhibits neutrophil migration and produces potent vasodilatory effects in vivo. Learn More
Y-27632 dihydrochloride
Y-27632 dihydrochloride is a selective inhibitor of the Rho-associated protein kinase p160ROCK. Ki values are 0.14, 26, 25 and > 250 μM for p160ROCK, PKC, cAMP-dependent protein kinase and myosin light-chain kinase respectively. Learn More
H 1152 dihydrochloride
H 1152 dihydrochloride is a rho-kinase (ROCK) inhibitor that displays high selectivity over other protein kinases (IC50 values are 0.012, 0.180, 0.360, 0.745, 3.03, 5.68 and 28.3 μM for ROCKII, CAMKII, PKG, Aurora A, PKA, PKC and MLCK respectively). Learn More
SB 772077B dihydrochloride
SB 772077B dihydrochloride is a potent Rho-kinase (ROCK) inhibitor with a IC50 value of approximately 5.6 nM at recombinant human ROCK1 and 2. Learn More
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package java.io;

import java.nio.channels.FileChannel;
import sun.nio.ch.FileChannelImpl;

/**
 * A FileInputStream obtains input bytes
 * from a file in a file system. What files
 * are  available depends on the host environment.
 *
 *
FileInputStream is meant for reading streams of raw bytes
 * such as image data. For reading streams of characters, consider using
 * FileReader.
 *
 * @author  Arthur van Hoff
 * @see     java.io.File
 * @see     java.io.FileDescriptor
 * @see     java.io.FileOutputStream
 * @see     java.nio.file.Files#newInputStream
 * @since   JDK1.0
 */
public
class FileInputStream extends InputStream
{
    /* File Descriptor - handle to the open file */
    private final FileDescriptor fd;

    private FileChannel channel = null;

    private final Object closeLock = new Object();
    private volatile boolean closed = false;

    private static final ThreadLocal<Boolean> runningFinalize =
        new ThreadLocal<>();

    private static boolean isRunningFinalize() {
        Boolean val;
        if ((val = runningFinalize.get()) != null)
            return val.booleanValue();
        return false;
    }

    /**
     * Creates a FileInputStream by
     * opening a connection to an actual file,
     * the file named by the path name name
     * in the file system.  A new FileDescriptor
     * object is created to represent this file
     * connection.
     *

     * First, if there is a security
     * manager, its checkRead method
     * is called with the name argument
     * as its argument.
     *

     * If the named file does not exist, is a directory rather than a regular
     * file, or for some other reason cannot be opened for reading then a
     * FileNotFoundException is thrown.
     *
     * @param      name   the system-dependent file name.
     * @exception  FileNotFoundException  if the file does not exist,
     *                   is a directory rather than a regular file,
     *                   or for some other reason cannot be opened for
     *                   reading.
     * @exception  SecurityException      if a security manager exists and its
     *               checkRead method denies read access
     *               to the file.
     * @see        java.lang.SecurityManager#checkRead(java.lang.String)
     */
    public FileInputStream(String name) throws FileNotFoundException {
        this(name != null ? new File(name) : null);
    }

    /**
     * Creates a FileInputStream by
     * opening a connection to an actual file,
     * the file named by the File
     * object file in the file system.
     * A new FileDescriptor object
     * is created to represent this file connection.
     *

     * First, if there is a security manager,
     * its checkRead method  is called
     * with the path represented by the file
     * argument as its argument.
     *

     * If the named file does not exist, is a directory rather than a regular
     * file, or for some other reason cannot be opened for reading then a
     * FileNotFoundException is thrown.
     *
     * @param      file   the file to be opened for reading.
     * @exception  FileNotFoundException  if the file does not exist,
     *                   is a directory rather than a regular file,
     *                   or for some other reason cannot be opened for
     *                   reading.
     * @exception  SecurityException      if a security manager exists and its
     *               checkRead method denies read access to the file.
     * @see        java.io.File#getPath()
     * @see        java.lang.SecurityManager#checkRead(java.lang.String)
     */
    public FileInputStream(File file) throws FileNotFoundException {
        String name = (file != null ? file.getPath() : null);
        SecurityManager security = System.getSecurityManager();
        if (security != null) {
            security.checkRead(name);
        }
        if (name == null) {
            throw new NullPointerException();
        }
        fd = new FileDescriptor();
        fd.incrementAndGetUseCount();
        open(name);
    }

    /**
     * Creates a FileInputStream by using the file descriptor
     * fdObj, which represents an existing connection to an
     * actual file in the file system.
     *

     * If there is a security manager, its checkRead method is
     * called with the file descriptor fdObj as its argument to
     * see if it's ok to read the file descriptor. If read access is denied
     * to the file descriptor a SecurityException is thrown.
     *

     * If fdObj is null then a NullPointerException
     * is thrown.
     *

     * This constructor does not throw an exception if fdObj
     * is {@link java.io.FileDescriptor#valid() invalid}.
     * However, if the methods are invoked on the resulting stream to attempt
     * I/O on the stream, an IOException is thrown.
     *
     * @param      fdObj   the file descriptor to be opened for reading.
     * @throws     SecurityException      if a security manager exists and its
     *                 checkRead method denies read access to the
     *                 file descriptor.
     * @see        SecurityManager#checkRead(java.io.FileDescriptor)
     */
    public FileInputStream(FileDescriptor fdObj) {
        SecurityManager security = System.getSecurityManager();
        if (fdObj == null) {
            throw new NullPointerException();
        }
        if (security != null) {
            security.checkRead(fdObj);
        }
        fd = fdObj;

        /*
         * FileDescriptor is being shared by streams.
         * Ensure that it's GC'ed only when all the streams/channels are done
         * using it.
         */
        fd.incrementAndGetUseCount();
    }

    /**
     * Opens the specified file for reading.
     * @param name the name of the file
     */
    private native void open(String name) throws FileNotFoundException;

    /**
     * Reads a byte of data from this input stream. This method blocks
     * if no input is yet available.
     *
     * @return     the next byte of data, or -1 if the end of the
     *             file is reached.
     * @exception  IOException  if an I/O error occurs.
     */
    public native int read() throws IOException;

    /**
     * Reads a subarray as a sequence of bytes.
     * @param b the data to be written
     * @param off the start offset in the data
     * @param len the number of bytes that are written
     * @exception IOException If an I/O error has occurred.
     */
    private native int readBytes(byte b[], int off, int len) throws IOException;

    /**
     * Reads up to b.length bytes of data from this input
     * stream into an array of bytes. This method blocks until some input
     * is available.
     *
     * @param      b   the buffer into which the data is read.
     * @return     the total number of bytes read into the buffer, or
     *             -1 if there is no more data because the end of
     *             the file has been reached.
     * @exception  IOException  if an I/O error occurs.
     */
    public int read(byte b[]) throws IOException {
        return readBytes(b, 0, b.length);
    }

    /**
     * Reads up to len bytes of data from this input stream
     * into an array of bytes. If len is not zero, the method
     * blocks until some input is available; otherwise, no
     * bytes are read and 0 is returned.
     *
     * @param      b     the buffer into which the data is read.
     * @param      off   the start offset in the destination array b
     * @param      len   the maximum number of bytes read.
     * @return     the total number of bytes read into the buffer, or
     *             -1 if there is no more data because the end of
     *             the file has been reached.
     * @exception  NullPointerException If b is null.
     * @exception  IndexOutOfBoundsException If off is negative,
     * len is negative, or len is greater than
     * b.length - off
     * @exception  IOException  if an I/O error occurs.
     */
    public int read(byte b[], int off, int len) throws IOException {
        return readBytes(b, off, len);
    }

    /**
     * Skips over and discards n bytes of data from the
     * input stream.
     *
     *
The skip method may, for a variety of
     * reasons, end up skipping over some smaller number of bytes,
     * possibly 0. If n is negative, an
     * IOException is thrown, even though the skip
     * method of the {@link InputStream} superclass does nothing in this case.
     * The actual number of bytes skipped is returned.
     *
     *
This method may skip more bytes than are remaining in the backing
     * file. This produces no exception and the number of bytes skipped
     * may include some number of bytes that were beyond the EOF of the
     * backing file. Attempting to read from the stream after skipping past
     * the end will result in -1 indicating the end of the file.
     *
     * @param      n   the number of bytes to be skipped.
     * @return     the actual number of bytes skipped.
     * @exception  IOException  if n is negative, if the stream does not
     *             support seek, or if an I/O error occurs.
     */
    public native long skip(long n) throws IOException;

    /**
     * Returns an estimate of the number of remaining bytes that can be read (or
     * skipped over) from this input stream without blocking by the next
     * invocation of a method for this input stream. The next invocation might be
     * the same thread or another thread.  A single read or skip of this
     * many bytes will not block, but may read or skip fewer bytes.
     *
     *
 In some cases, a non-blocking read (or skip) may appear to be
     * blocked when it is merely slow, for example when reading large
     * files over slow networks.
     *
     * @return     an estimate of the number of remaining bytes that can be read
     *             (or skipped over) from this input stream without blocking.
     * @exception  IOException  if this file input stream has been closed by calling
     *             {@code close} or an I/O error occurs.
     */
    public native int available() throws IOException;

    /**
     * Closes this file input stream and releases any system resources
     * associated with the stream.
     *
     *
 If this stream has an associated channel then the channel is closed
     * as well.
     *
     * @exception  IOException  if an I/O error occurs.
     *
     * @revised 1.4
     * @spec JSR-51
     */
    public void close() throws IOException {
        synchronized (closeLock) {
            if (closed) {
                return;
            }
            closed = true;
        }
        if (channel != null) {
            /*
             * Decrement the FD use count associated with the channel
             * The use count is incremented whenever a new channel
             * is obtained from this stream.
             */
           fd.decrementAndGetUseCount();
           channel.close();
        }

        /*
         * Decrement the FD use count associated with this stream
         */
        int useCount = fd.decrementAndGetUseCount();

        /*
         * If FileDescriptor is still in use by another stream, the finalizer
         * will not close it.
         */
        if ((useCount <= 0) || !isRunningFinalize()) {
            close0();
        }
    }

    /**
     * Returns the FileDescriptor
     * object  that represents the connection to
     * the actual file in the file system being
     * used by this FileInputStream.
     *
     * @return     the file descriptor object associated with this stream.
     * @exception  IOException  if an I/O error occurs.
     * @see        java.io.FileDescriptor
     */
    public final FileDescriptor getFD() throws IOException {
        if (fd != null) return fd;
        throw new IOException();
    }

    /**
     * Returns the unique {@link java.nio.channels.FileChannel FileChannel}
     * object associated with this file input stream.
     *
     *
 The initial {@link java.nio.channels.FileChannel#position()
     * position} of the returned channel will be equal to the
     * number of bytes read from the file so far.  Reading bytes from this
     * stream will increment the channel's position.  Changing the channel's
     * position, either explicitly or by reading, will change this stream's
     * file position.
     *
     * @return  the file channel associated with this file input stream
     *
     * @since 1.4
     * @spec JSR-51
     */
    public FileChannel getChannel() {
        synchronized (this) {
            if (channel == null) {
                channel = FileChannelImpl.open(fd, true, false, this);

                /*
                 * Increment fd's use count. Invoking the channel's close()
                 * method will result in decrementing the use count set for
                 * the channel.
                 */
                fd.incrementAndGetUseCount();
            }
            return channel;
        }
    }

    private static native void initIDs();

    private native void close0() throws IOException;

    static {
        initIDs();
    }

    /**
     * Ensures that the close method of this file input stream is
     * called when there are no more references to it.
     *
     * @exception  IOException  if an I/O error occurs.
     * @see        java.io.FileInputStream#close()
     */
    protected void finalize() throws IOException {
        if ((fd != null) &&  (fd != FileDescriptor.in)) {

            /*
             * Finalizer should not release the FileDescriptor if another
             * stream is still using it. If the user directly invokes
             * close() then the FileDescriptor is also released.
             */
            runningFinalize.set(Boolean.TRUE);
            try {
                close();
            } finally {
                runningFinalize.set(Boolean.FALSE);
            }
        }
    }
}


Our CEO, Mr. Chen Voon Hann paid a visit to Shanghai Huzhong Certified Public Accountant Co., Ltd at Shanghai, China recently. During the visit, he met Madam Crisy, Managing Partner of the firm and Mr. Xu Wei Gang; partner of the audit and assurance department. They have exchange some views and experience sharing on the practice development and management.
At the end of the meeting, all parties agree to explore further collaboration in technical and practice development.


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MONISMS and Audinate, Inc. announced a licensing agreement for Audinate's Dante™ digital audio networking technology in 2017.
MONISMS and Audinate, Inc. announced a licensing agreement for Audinate's Dante™ digital audio networking technology in 2017. Dante networking enables multiple channels of audio to be distributed to a variety of devices over a single Ethernet cable. Dante networking provides reliable, low latency audio transport and can coexist safely on the same network as IT and control data. Founded in 2003, Audinate and over 300+ companies had signed license agreements by the end of 2018, and the number of Dante-enabled products had surpassed 800+.


These pancakes must be amazing! I have recently made a buckwheat gnocchi recipe, completely gluten-free and I didn't expect the gnocchi to taste so good….So I am going to try different recipes using this delicious flour….Crepe-making and tea sound very good to me!!
Thanks for your comment, Serena! The crepes were delicious, and I actually hardly tasted the buckwheat flour. Your buckwheat gnocchi sound really good!
I have not tried them with only buckwheat flour, but I have a feeling it might not work because buckwheat flour alone creates quite a gummy batter. I think a combination of plain flour and buckwheat flour works the best, but feel free to try different ratios!


The Master Electrician usually owns his or her own contracting company and has a very high set of skills. This type of work usually requires a bachelor�s degree in electrical engineering and a state license.
If you are contemplating a career in electrician, you can find a number of electrician schools in Michigan which will help you achieve your goals. Regardless of the unique kind of electrician you're interested in, there are programs in your area offering the right training.


We note all the problems and give you a cost estimate for the repairs. This can be used as a negotiation tactic with the seller or you may reconsider the purchase all together if the damages found exceed your expectation.
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If you follow ABC 7 meteorologist Drew Tuma on Facebook, you may have seen that he posted a black-and-white photo of an ugly gash on his forehead on Monday. As he has since explained on air, it came from collapsing on a Muni platform due to heat exhaustion on Saturday, during this past weekend's historic heatwave.
"Like many people in San Francisco, I don't have AC in my apartment," Tuma explains. "You know Friday was UNBEARABLY hot and there was no relief overnight into Saturday. During the heatwave Saturday morning, I was feeling a little lethargic in my house from all of the warmth. I had finally had it and thought I'll go into work early and be more comfortable in the AC."
He continues, "I hop on Muni to take it downtown. On the ride there, the car was warm and I could feel myself getting short of breath so I decide next stop I'll get off, get some fresh air and catch my breath. It was a little too late. I step off the train onto the platform and next thing I know I see stars and blackout."
He says that people on the platform rushed to help him, and the gash on his forehead came because he "fell like a tree in the woods" and hit his head on the ground. He was rushed to the emergency room, given "seven to nine stitches" and is making a full recovery, and he assures fans "Thankfully my brain will be just fine and my scar will heal nicely in due time." But some of the doctors who treated him joked that the lightning-bolt shape of the gash is "perfect for a weatherman."
"PLEASE let my experience with Heat Exhaustion remind you to ALWAYS listen to your body. Even a very healthy 20-something is not immune to the effects of extreme heat," Tuma writes.
The Department of Public Health reports that 60 people were admitted to the hospital for heat-related ailments during Friday's record-setting 106-degree heat and Saturday's 102-degree heat.
Via the Examiner we learn that not everyone got the medical attention they needed as quickly as Tuma did. Reportedly there were 28 life-threatening calls over the weekend in which fire engine crews waited 20 minutes or more for an ambulance to arrive, because EMTs were in short supply.
Our warm-weather weekend brought some marine life close to sure, including a couple of dolphins who, for whatever reason, decided to put on a free show for beachgoers at Stinson Beach on Sunday.


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Child and Brain: The Stages of Development
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The Apparent Race You're a proud new parent and you've spent innumerable hours—months, probably, if not years—poring over parenting books. You're practically an expert on the subject now, even though your child is only a month old. You wanted to get it all just right, so you've read up on "the Mozart Effect" and Attention…
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Recently there was a clever series of commercials that featured celebrities like Larry Bird and Aretha Franklin showing off their respective talents, and the announcer urged us to do the same. "Are you a prodigy?" he wanted to know. Sadly, for most of us the answer is no. Our abilities are too ordinary. The term…
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In 1983, Howard Gardner rocked the education and social science communities with publication of a theory of multiple intelligences in his book, Frames of Mind. Gardner argued that in addition to defining intelligence in terms of a child or adult's ability to solve problems and use language, other capacities and abilities such as musical, spatial,…
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Early mythologies express a deep reverence for the mystery of birth. The stars, the mountains, and the oceans are all described as having been issued from some wonderful and hidden generative force. Human birth is in many ways equally mysterious. Modern science enables doctors to detect conception shortly after it has occurred and to visualize…
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Link to Education Connection Gifted students are not necessarily those who bring home the best report cards, but may well be the students at the back of the classroom whose abilities go unnoticed. Find out more about the task of identifying gifted students and the development of special programs to address their needs. Identifying the…
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In the Beginning All human beings begin life as a fertilized egg, called a zygote, which is a single cell about one-fifth the size of the period at the end of this sentence. By adulthood, the human body has grown to more than a hundred trillion cells, most of which are highly specialized for particular…


I've been a lover of Apple Computers for close to 15 years, but I've always been a little miffed by what is often called the 'Apple Trap'. The Apple Trap is pretty much non-existant on the newer standards based Intel Based Macs – but is still in force for the last generation of G4 and G5 based Macs.
These older systems are still Leopard compatible, and perform very well for their age, but they often require expensive single purpose upgrades. Want a Raid Card? You will spend 100$ more than the same part on Intel. Want a video card? You will spend 200$ more than the same part on Intel. Want Sata? 150$ more than the same part on Intel.
With the 'Apple Trap' in mind, I was pleasantly surprised that HighPoint (makers of commodity hardware raid controllers for Intel based PC's), have created OSX drivers (G4 compatible even) for many of their controllers. For 110$ CDN I was able to add 4 hardware RAID SATA ports to my 9+ year old Apple G4 Mac. Incredible, a machine that doesn't support hard drives larger than 128GB now has 2+ Terrabytes of SATA hard drive goodness – and its FAST.
So for those of you with an old G4/G5 Mac – take a look at the Highpoint Raid controller. My old girl is running Leopard Server and acting as a very large (and fast) NAS server – and I didn't have to pay the tax commonly called the 'Apple Trap'.


Al-Qaeda is a fundamentalist movement advocating use of violence in the world. But we must understand that dictatorships, which foment fundamentalism or patronize such movements in the Muslim world were created by American Islamism itself.
With this as HP, I admit it's enough as a beautiful ghost. And if we do not believe enough, a short interview to Voice of America radio Islamist as everyone knows, would improve the image of the most famous ghost of the planet.
An interview in which he paid himself royally GW Bush's head " who says he can find us wherever we hid on this earth … we'll see who is right, "he assures: such defiance against the military, the most powerful of the earth, admit that there was this specter of another stature than Casper!
A Mullah quietly recalling how ending the latest U.S. disputes, namely the defeat of Vietnam after the intensive bombing of entire regions where the Viet Cong were buried 15 m deep, sometimes admit that it is enough to tickle the U.S. military chiefs, always willing to use the method on May Curtis; i.e. carpet bombing aimed at both civilian and Defence, "to" break "in the first all support the idea of resistance. Omar, would he preach in the desert? Certainly not, read the report which concludes that the opposite effect produced by carpet bombing: that whole generations of young Taliban outrage at the massacres of civilians and the deliberate abuse … about how one of the most wanted men on the planet has managed to be interviewed in the studios of radio U.S. propaganda.
It should have been thinking to ask the father of Michael Headley, perhaps sadly died today (I could not check it) because he worked long … in Pakistan.
I had also written: "visits Headley had also lead directly to the movement of Indian Mujahideen, from the" Group Azamgarh, "the bombers with his leader Riyaz Bhatkal ( Roshan Khan) qu'Headleyaurait met: the formation of the second-team killer of Karkare explained through this contact.
On February 13, 2010, when the bakery jump Pune, tourist mecca, the attack will be awarded to Bhatkal, but the sightings were conducted by Headley ". derrrière And the banking system Azamgarh Group, Indian Times tells us, there was … ISI, as had been the network of politician Shahabuddin, nicknamed Shahabu AK-47, a few years ago, in Rampur. The man was sentenced to life in 2007 for 302 attempted murders and 364 kidnappings: in him they had found an arsenal of dozens of AK-47, all numbered as having been manufactured in Pakistan. In April 2004, when he was already detained, were found in his cell for mobile phones, with which he continued to communicate with the outside.
So we made puppets, and he simply says that today is … a French judge, Marc Trévidic, who said recently in the Express: "Al-Qaeda is a convenient word. It actually refers to a fundamentalist movement advocating the use of violence in the world. And in the land of Islam, its propaganda button and a poor population that rarely lives under a democratic polity. We must understand that the dictatorship was created under American Islamism. Once this movement develops in a semi-underground, the western democracies would be ready to pay any price to keep the dictators in power. This is not the only paradox of our diplomacy.
Saudi Arabia is a vector of propagation of Wahhabism, which advocates a radical Islam, but it is also our ally. We sell them weapons. We buy their oil. The West, for mercantile reasons, supports its dangerous allies (*). And we are paying the price. It is we who have made this Islam.
"One cannot be clearer on the question of who did what, and who created that … and whence come the puppets!
"Since Dubai has collapsed like a house of cards, we realized (finally) that it really depended on sand, and also a lot of lies. In Saudi Arabia, idem: the company has two sides radically different: one a youth eager to live in the XXI century, the other powers trying to control it with laws of another age.
The implosion is near, as the disparity between new and reaction becomes obvious. The cauldron of social breakdowns in these countries are coming, and it is sad to note today that the reactionary turn of the screw is recent in the 90s, everyone expected a weakening of this kind of government, based on a total deafness to meet individual aspirations.
It is a last gasp, no doubt. Place in the future breakup of the feudal societies out of time".


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Impatiens is a plant which belongs to the Impatiens genus. Very pretty annual that makes an excellent houseplant. It is also used as a bedding plant.... Botanical Information Taxonomy. Impatiens wallerana. History Physical Description. Long-blooming annual; glossy foliage, available in a variety of flower colors.
Distribution and habitat: Impatiens walleriana is native to eastern Africa. It was widely naturalized in other parts of the world such as North America, Australia and several Pacific islands.