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Season Ends Early for Tigers' TV Talkers; Tanaka's 4–0 Statement Win Puts Humble Pie on my Breakfast Menu
By Don Wardlow Saturday, September 8, 2018 0 Permalink 0
Hi all. Here's how I see baseball on this Saturday, Sept. 8. Before the games began last night, it was announced that two Tigers' TV announcers had broadcast their last game of 2018 for an extraordinary reason. Later, the Yankees' Masahiro Tanaka, who I haven't written kindly about in this forum made a loud statement, winning masterfully in a game the Yankees had to have.
Detroit has been known for generations for the great fighters to come from there. Joe Louis lived there starting at age 10. Sugar Ray Robinson, born Walker Smith JR. learned to box on the streets of late Depression-era Detroit. Fast forward a few decades to the early 1980's when ESPN showed boxing first from Cobo Hall, then from the 20 Grand Nightclub, a truly horrific place with no air conditioning. An August night in there must have given announcers a vision of where sinners go who don't repent. Thomas Hearns and Hilmer Kenty were just two great fighters from that era in the Motor City.
Fighting however needs to be kept in a boxing arena. Two TV broadcasters for the Detroit Tigers, Rod Allen and Mario Impemba saw their season come to a grinding halt after they got into what became a physical struggle that could have been over a chair in Chicago. Yes, a chair in the booth at the second Comiskey Park, not a girl in a bar on Rush Street. Squabbling over a woman could at least be understood, if not condoned considering the advanced ages of the pugilists. I can't imagine them working as a team going forward.
Neither of these men are still young enough to be feeling their oats. I know Mario Impemba of old, as a minor league baseball radio broadcaster of high repute when I was a rookie shrieker at the microphone. That was in 1991. The man is 55, my age. Since Allen has restricted his work to TV in the Detroit area in recent years, I can't speak about his broadcasting skills. The one substantive fact I know is, he'll be 59 next month. I'm aghast at the idea of two men who are close to 60 years of age being at each other's throats for any reason. At this age their lives are what they are and they shouldn't have any kick coming. Their life decisions have been made and nothing can be done if said decisions didn't work out quite as planned.
Just maybe, if they were 20 years younger I could see them feeling trapped in career hell broadcasting a garbage team like the Tigers, a team that could lose 100 games this season. I can imagine two men of roughly 40 summers slugging out as one or both has a midlife crisis. I could certainly see it happening in the minors, the land of brutally low pay and bus rides that seem to go on forever. Being trapped on a bus for as much as 15 hours with guys watching movies whose twin plots are sex and violence, staying in rotten motels and grabbing iffy food particularly in the lower minors could make announcers snap. Among major league broadcasters There's no excuse for what happened Tuesday night in Chicago. Besides their ages, these broadcasters go first class all the way-travel, hotels with an H, single rooms, and on it goes. In spite of this luxurious life style, the situation in the Tigers' booth on the south side of Chicago became so toxic that Allen and Impemba had to be shuttled to Detroit on separate airplanes after Tuesday night's debacle.
This needs to be an episode of Judge Judy.
Over the years since the Yankees picked up Masahiro Tanaka, all too often I have written that he wasn't a good investment. Just for starters, the Japanese league wouldn't let him go until he had pitched for 7 long seasons over there. When the Yankees finally got him I thought it was throwing good money after bad. He had only been a Yankee for 3 months before doctors found a torn UCL in his elbow which normally means Tommy John surgery. He didn't have it, and I wasn't the only pundit who said he was walking around with a time bomb in his elbow. As the years have passed I noticed and wrote about certain "must win" games where he got the ball and the Yankees didn't win. Last night he pitched the kind of game an ace should pitch at a time when the Yankees desperately needed an ace to step up and be recognized. If this were an old western I would say "I guess I have to eat crow." The British call it "eating humble pie." I don't know if the Japanese have a term for it. In any language, sometimes you have to say "I booted that one."
Last night's game in Seattle was important for many reasons. For one thing, the Yankees have always had trouble winning there, even when the Mariners were truly dreadful. When the Mariners improved, the Yankees had even more trouble winning, first in the Kingdome, then at Safeco Field which replaced it. The Yankees in general have had trouble winning going back to the calamity in Boston from August 2–5. The truly dreadful teams-the Orioles, Tigers and White Sox have taken series from the Yankees. The Rays, who are nothing special, beat the Yankees like so many rented mules. Earlier this week the Bronx Bombers lost 2 out of 3 against Oakland, who they may well face next month in a winner-take-all wild card game. The key starting last night and going forward is for them to win enough not to just play in the wild card game but to host it at Yankee Stadium JR. While it will never give them the home field advantage they had at the House that Ruth Built, it's still better than playing a game for all the marbles at Oakland, or worse yet Seattle.
Tanaka took the ball to start game 1 of the series in Seattle late last night. Given the struggles of Luis Severino and CC Sabathia, last night figured to be the first of open auditions for a starter for the wild card game. Tanaka made a strong case against a good offensive team. Meantime the Yankees were up against the Mariners' best, James Paxton, AKA The Big Maple for his stature and the fact that he hails from Canada. Tanaka struck out 10 Mariners in 8 innings giving up just 3 hits. The Big Maple gave up a couple of the home runs for which the Yankees are known. After a two-out hit by Luke Voit, Gleyber Torres hit the 23rd home run of his rookie season. Andrew McCutchen hit the Yankees' other big fly, his first since joining his new team.
Besides giving up only 3 hits, Tanaka didn't walk a single Mariner. The closest thing he had to trouble was in the 6th inning. Mike Zunino doubled with nobody out. After Tanaka retired two men, Jean Segura beat out an infield hit sending Zunino to third. Tanaka struck out Robinson Cano to end the threat.

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Alright, so here's the deal: last week we made mention that there currently is a sweet, sweet deal going on at humblebundle.com where you could get seven games for basically whatever price you wanted. Well now, because they are the best, they have added five additional games, bringing the total to twelve. TWELVE GAMES!
A couple of these have been featured quite a bit in the last year in differing indie games sales, but it's nice to have them added to this overall great deal. Why don't you guys just stop reading this and get with the buying? For $5.15 (the current average donation), you could get so many games! SO MANY GAMES! And if you still aren't convinced, they give you the soundtracks to all of them as well. The Jamestown soundtrack is pretty great, I am just throwing that out there. So go on, do the right thing.


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I have tons of iron crosses packed away that I am not using to decorate so.... let's try that!
I used Gorilla Glue Epoxy to attach the wooden cross to the board and the iron cross to the wooden cross.
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Fun Wall Art & The Sale!
I want to share a fun wall art project with you guys! I made these for the older girls' room but I think I may be making some more for mine as well... I love them.
I have 2 blank spaces next to their window that were begging for some love. I found the branches and birds and that became my inspiration for this project.
I started with some scrap 1x12 I had from some of my latest projects. These were about 24" long.
I'm kind of into stain at the moment so that's just what I did... Dark Mahogany.
While those were drying I started working on the cute stuff.
I used my Silhouette to cut shapes out. I found the birds and branches on the Silhouette software and cut it out using the machine. There is nothing better than shopping from the comfort of my computer chair.
I used Silhouette's Premium Vinyl for these birdies and branches.
Once the machine cut it, I peeled the extras off first.
Then, I used the transfer paper to attach it to my wood. This is my first time to use the transfer paper and I LOVE it. I usually try the old peel and stick method but I knew that wouldn't work with all the details.
You just peel the transfer paper off.... So easy!
I had originally planned on being done at this point but I thought it needed a little extra something. I remembered some cream flowers I had from making the baby some headbands.
I had to cover up my holes so I used some extra pearly buttons and hot glued them too.
I found these great hooks in the garden section at Hobby Lobby for 1/2 off... Whoop!
I drilled a couple holes in each one, added some twine, and hung them up.... Well, actually I only got one up.
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How can I hide a page title on any theme within a multisite with Custompress & custom fields?
I'm not quite sure I follow what you're asking for here.
You cannot use CustomPress to directly hide any portion of a theme.
Since I run a multisite I want to give my users the ability (easy way) to hide a page title especially when they use a static page as the homepage instead of the standard blog page. Let's say the static page is called "Home" surely one doesn't want the word "Home" appearing above a classy slider on the homepage of a site.
I am pretty sure you must have come across this request before.
I have Googled around but there just doesn't seem to be a simple solution for this, yet the request seems quite common.
I am looking for a solution that will work for any theme since it's a multisite. Something like a tick box that says: "Disable Title on this page". I have seen this in some themes.


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Hamish Downie's News Sushi #120: Morsels of News From Japan and Beyond
October 29, 2021 Hamish Downie
Hamish keeps serving the best News Sushi!
Hooray! More News Sushi for you to enjoy!
Editor Note:It is Friday and that means it is time for the World Famous, soon to be Intergalactic Famous, News Sushi from our very own, Hamish Downie. Hamish brings us a decidedly different slant on Pop Culture as viewed through the lens of a non-native living in Japan.
Thank you (ありがとうございました) Hamish, for your insights.
こんにちは!Which means "Hello"!
How's your Halloween shaping up? I made a playlist of films for the month to celebrate the season. It wasn't that many, but it sure was fun. First up was "Resident Evil" or as we call it in Japan "Biohazard". It was poorly reviewed when it first came out, but gee it was fun and it's so re-watchable. Unfortunately the CGI hasn't held up at all, but all the practical effects look great. I still find it funny that in order to make Milla Jovovich look like an "ordinary girl" they had to populate the film with the most beautiful people in the world.
Next up was "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde", the version with Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman and Lana Turner from 1946. The interesting thing about this version is that Spencer played Mr Hyde as a man, not as a half-man, half animal creature. And Lana and Ingrid play against type in the roles of the good and bad girl respectively. No gifs for this one.
After that, I chose "Mildred Pierce" from 1945, the Joan Crawford classic. I've never actually watched a Joan Crawford film, but this one lives up to its reputation and had me on the edge of my seat. Both a well made and entertaining film. A masterpiece. I haven't watched the recent mini-series, but I'm curious now.
Next up was Black Narcissus from 1947, the film that made Deborah Kerr a star. It's been described as The Shining with Nuns. It's basically about a group of Nuns that go up to the Himalayas to set up a school, and while there, their pasts start to haunt them. It's slow to begin with, but once it gets going it also had me on the edge of my seat. I never thought watching a woman put on lipstick would be so frightening, but you have to watch it to believe it. It won two oscars for cinematography and set design. It was filmed all on a sound stage in London, but the matt painting and sets are so beautiful, you'd think you were there. This one also got remade into a mini series recently. A masterpiece.
Finally, I watched "The Thing from Another World", the original Howard Hawks production from 1951. I wasn't prepared for how good it was going to be. The dialogue was fast and snappy. The handsome leads had great chemistry. There was even a bit of chemistry between the Captain and one of the male officers. And the music was great, and the effects were also great. By today's standards, it's not really scary, but it has great suspense, and is just enormous fun over all. I can see why it spawned a whole genre, and started the trend of using the theremin in movies of the 1950s. This was famously remade by John Carpenter in the 80s.
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Mysterious radio signals detected near centre of the Milky Way galaxy
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Using incense to write letters.
These little
washi (和紙) are filled with a type of incense meant to send with
letters. I don't write letters as often as before, but responses to
formal tea invitations require them handwritten. In order to bring a
smile to the recipient's face, today I add a little happy scent. pic.twitter.com/TY5WXNqqTA
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New music from Andy Van Soyoc… I want to watch the movie this has me picturing.
"The Linda Files"
Recently, Bec and I of the "FizzPopcast Radio Hour" did an improvised mystery called "The Linda Files", which I hope you enjoy. It's part cooking show, part real estate, part murder mystery story – all told through answering machine messages.
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It will be released on October 18th in all Italian cinema Piccoli Brividi 2 (Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween) Wonder Woman 1984 and, to remind us, Sony Pictures has released online a new Italian movie of the film.
Directed by Ari Sandel, the film will be screened in cinemas with stars and stripes starting from 12 October, while, on the 18th of the same month, it will debut in Italy.
The film tells the story of two boys and a girl who, carelessly intrigued by The Lion King a mysterious decrepit and abandoned house, come across a book called Haunted Halloween.
The cast will consist of Ken Jeong (A Night of the Lions), Wendi Mclendon-Covey (The Bride's Friend), Chris Parnell (Hot Rod), Jeremy Ray Taylor (IT), Madison Iseman, Caleel Harris and Ben O'Brien, with Jack Black who, this time, will come back indirectly because he will double Slappy in the original version.
Participation is also foreseen by other protagonists of the first chapter such as Justice League Dylan Minnette and Odeya Rush.


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Die Wohnhausgruppe Hohenlohestraße befindet sich in Bremen, Stadtteil Schwachhausen, Ortsteil Barkhof, Hohenlohestraße 20 und 22. Die Häuser entstanden 1908 nach Plänen von Hugo Wagner und Friedrich Wachhausen.

Die Gebäude stehen seit 1995 unter Bremer Denkmalschutz.

Geschichte

Die dreigeschossigen verputzten Mietwohnhäuser wurden von 1907 bis 1908  in der Epoche der Jahrhundertwende im Reformstil gebaut.
 Haus Nr. 20 mit Satteldach, Souterraingeschoss und dem Erker über dem Eingang.
 Haus Nr. 22 mit einem großen, fünfgeschossigen prägenden Giebel mit Mansarddach und den Loggien; großer, viergeschossiger rückwärtiger Anbau von nach 1945

Die Häuser fügen sich ein in eine zwei- bis dreigeschossige, geschlossene Wohnbebauung, zumeist aus derselben Zeit, in der nach Reichskanzler Fürst Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst benannten Straße.

Von Wagner stammen in Schwachhausen noch das Haus Bücking und das Landhaus Tack.

Heute (2018) werden die Häuser für Wohnungen genutzt.

Literatur
 Holger Maraun: Hugo Wagner (1873–1944). Ein Architekt der Reformbewegung. Simmering, Bremen 1995, ISBN 3-927723-27-4.

Einzelnachweise

Hohenlohestraße
Hohenlohestraße
Hohenlohestraße
Erbaut in den 1900er Jahren
Schwachhausen

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An adversarial process is one that supports conflicting one-sided positions held by individuals, groups or entire societies, as inputs into the conflict resolution situation, typically with rewards for prevailing in the outcome. Often the form of the process assumes a game-like appearance.
The use of a voting system to choose candidates to hold political and military power is often necessarily adversarial. This process requires each candidate to convince voters that they are more trustworthy in the expected future circumstances, than their opponent.
Adversarial politics takes place when one party (usually not in government) takes the opposite (or at least a different) opinion to that of the other (usually the government) even when they may personally agree with what the government is trying to do.
Those opposed to adversarial politics believe that politicians should state what they actually think rather than following the 'party line'. They consider adversarial politics to be cynical and intolerant, with 'winning' the driving principle versus attempting to establish the truth. Politicians captivated by the 'struggle for victory' corrupt the ideals that brought them into politics in the first place.
Adversarial politics is often blamed for turning the electorate away from politics and their right to participate in the democratic process of their country through voting at elections.
In the US, huge fundraising for presidential elections increasingly results in campaigns focused on personalities versus honest debate, and trading insults versus addressing substantive issues.
In the UK the most obvious example is Prime Minister's Questions, a weekly session where the two main parties loudly confront each other.
The use of an adversarial process by the criminal or civil court to decide the social attitude to an alleged wrongdoing of a defendant, penalties to be imposed, and restitution to be awarded to their deemed victim often depends on the adversarial witness questioning. This is adversarial as the opposing attorneys are competing to convince the judge to include or exclude evidence or witnesses, and competing to convince the judge or jury of the guilt or innocence of the defendant, and severity of the impact of the actions (if guilty) on the plaintiff or victim. Lawyers must be held to rather specific ethical codes, e.g. rules of civil procedure, to ensure that their tactics do not cause an undue burden on larger society, e.g. freeing defendants who have admitted that they are not only guilty but intend to offend again. Lawyers differ on whether the process should be seen as strictly adversarial, in order to ensure they retain the trust of clients and the overall process retains the trust of society, or whether the ethics of the larger society should play a role in their behavior.
A third example of an adversarial process is the operation of market systems, e.g. commodity markets. In these, bid and ask prices are constantly compared, with sellers representing goods as being valuable and buyers haggling and claiming they are less valuable. Product markets tend to focus on the comparison of sellers' products with other sellers' products—the adversarial process itself making trustworthy information, e.g. as published in Consumer Reports or the Better Business Bureau, hard to compile and to obtain. Health advocates[who?] often claim that market systems are very difficult to reconcile with food, nutrition, agriculture or medicine's need to work well with living systems—a key complaint of the anti-globalization movement.
The alternatives, including consensus decision making and deliberative democracy (which tend to alternate adversary, discussion, and voting over a longer period of time allocated to make the decision and explore implications), are ancient. However, they are less well studied in political science and economics. Most commentators[who?] are suspicious of the utopian goals of the advocates of such non-adversarial processes, viewing competition as essential to a good result.
Other activists argue that adversarial process works well and should probably be expanded to areas that are presently less adversarial. For instance they advocate "science courts" and "prediction markets" that would force the scientist, economist and technologist to put reputations and money on the line, rather than trusting them based on reputation without a disciplined follow-up to see if they were right or wrong. These ideas are increasingly popular in part because such alternative courts and markets can be easily started up on the Internet.
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Martin Scorsese Has Taken Shots At Rotten Tomatoes Again
May. 1. 2018 9:03 PM
Martin Scorsese is a director with very definite opinions, both when it comes to the movies he makes himself, as well as the larger changes in the overall moviemaking business. Recently, one company that has come under the ire of the longtime director has been Rotten Tomatoes, as the director has iterated the service is like Consumer Reports in the way it feeds potential audiences information, also noting he doesn't believe it is good for the arts. This week, Scorsese spoke out about the movie review aggregator again while accepting the Robert Osborne Award at the Turner Classic Movies film festival. He said:
The horrible idea they reinforce [is] that every picture, every image is there to be instantly judged and dismissed without giving audiences time to see it. Time to see it, maybe ruminate and maybe make a decision for themselves. So the great 20th-century art form, the American art form, is reduced to content.
He also spoke out about Rotten Tomatoes allowing for "the devaluation of cinema itself," also noting people use the service to see a slew of reviews in one fell swoop in order to form an opinion rather than just getting out and seeing the movie in theaters. Separately, he also said that part of the problem these days is that all content seems to be considered "the same" thanks to the Internet, noting in his speech (via EW) that there's "no sense of value" tied to the movies these days when there are so many platforms to turn on and off and browse around on. All in all, the full speech was more of a love letter to Turner Classic Movies than it was an anti-Rotten Tomatoes rant, but Martin Scorsese is clearly not a fan of the online platform, even if he's cool with film criticism as a whole.
Presumably, Martin Scorsese isn't a man who is opposed to new ways of doing things. A few months ago, we learned that he has signed on with Netflix -- a company that has eschewed the traditional theatrical model and does allow content to easily be consumed on a platform via home TV's and other portable devices. The Irishman is expected to have a big cast and an even bigger budget, so sometimes it is good to try new things... although clearly for Scorsese that doesn't include becoming an active user of Rotten Tomatoes.
Rotten Tomatoes has built a brand around its rankings, and plenty of people flock there when they want to get a sense of how people are feeling about a movie---and that includes both critics and regular audiences alike. Martin Scorsese is not the only person to vent about the Tomatometer, although the bigger criticism has been about the way it tallies scores than the fact that it exists, and some people in the industry are just fine with the way the system works now. The company's prowess is unlikely to change in the future, but that doesn't mean Martin Scorsese will stop being aggravated about what reviews have turned into in the modern day. And we'll be here the next time he vents about it.
For now, you can take a look at CinemaBlend's own This Rotten Week to see how we guess this weekend's movies will fare.
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Q: WEXITSTATUS command I'm trying to figure out what the following code does:
int main()
    {
    int value = 3;
    if (fork() != 0)
    {
        wait(&value);
    }
    else
    {
        exit(value);
    }
    value = WEXITSTATUS(value);
    value++;
    printf("%d", value);
    return value;
}

I know it creates one son proccess, it also tells the father proccess to wait for the son proccess. and orders the son proccess to exit with exit(3).
when I debugged my answer I saw that the command: wait(&value) on line 6 returns 3*256, but I read that its suppose to return the low-order 8 bits of the exit status value from the child process, meaning it can't be above 255. it does not change my output of 4, that is the exit status plus 1, but I'm still interested where and why do I get this 256.
Can someone please explain what am I missing, or not understanding completely?
Thanks a lot!

A: The source of your confusion is that that you are dealing with operating system services that were poorly designed.,
You need to look at the documentation for the wait () function:
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/wait.html
What happened is that this function designed-by-accident crams a lot of things into a single return parameter. There are a number of macros that will unpack this return value into its separate components by expanding the bit fields.
The reason you are getting 3*256 rather than 3 is that the function has to make room for the process exit status, which apparently is 0. You're getting the binary value:
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0011 0000 0000
|UNUSED           |
                    |Process
                     Return
                     Value  | | Other Stuff |

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International Aid Forum Says Maternal Health Issues Alarming
The slow progress of maternal health in developing countries is alarming the leaders of Australian aid organisations, according to a forum in Melbourne last night.
Lina Caneva | 1 December 2011 at 11:56 am
At a panel event hosted by Australian Lawyers for Human Rights, Rev Tim Costello (CEO of World Vision Australia), Andrew Hewett (Executive Director of Oxfam) and Dr Susan Harris Rimmer (Manager of Advocacy and Development Practice at ACFID) discussed the current issues in international aid and development.
Dr Rimmer said along with governance issues and setting up the scaffolding of democracy in developing countries, health care was still a major issue.
She said early deaths in childbirth, polio, TB, and water and sanitation were the main health issues facing the developing world.
"More people will die of diarrhea than anything else."
She said maternal health goals "were the worst in terms of being met."
"Achieving those maternal health goals is so important because it speaks to women's worth in society.
"So many women in Timor are dying in childbirth, and its only 900 kilometres away."
She said "women don't die in childbirth from a lack of a machine – there is a range of structural issues that mean they do not get proper care."
Aid organisations were also seeing a range of health issues that were once confined to the developed world – such as diabetes and smoking related illnesses as countries such as Indonesia and India were becoming more affluent.
The panel also addressed how the media can be harnessed to help respond to the aid crisis', with Rev Tim Costello saying he was disappointed with the media's response to the Horn of Africa disaster.
He said if an issue isn't easily 'filmable', then the media won't cover it as fully as something more dramatic.
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Senate Passes One-Week Stopgap To Avert Shutdown
Fri, 12/11/2020 – 13:53
Congress has passed a stopgap government funding measure via voice vote, which will fund operations for another week as Congress works to reach spending and COVID-19 relief deals. The measure will head next to President Trump's desk, which he will need to sign into law before Saturday to avoid a government shutdown.
The bill will extend funding through Dec. 18 as lawmakers hash out what's shaping up to be a $1.4 trillion package to keep the government running through the end of Sept. 2021 – though they've failed to agree exactly how the funds will be used, according to CNBC.
Despite the most frantic efforts in months to craft a coronavirus rescue package, Congress has several major disputes to resolve to reach a deal. Millions of Americans await help as an uncontrolled outbreak ravages communities across the country and leads to food insecurity unseen in years.
If lawmakers cannot pass relief legislation in the coming days, about 12 million people will lose unemployment benefits on the day after Christmas. An eviction moratorium and family leave provisions put in place earlier this year will also expire at the end of December. –CNBC
At present the largest stumbling blocks remain over Democratic demands regarding state and local municipalities receiving pandemic relief, vs. liability protections which would shield employers from COVID-19 related lawsuits.
Democrats, meanwhile, have criticized the White House's most recent $916 billion aid offer endorsed by GOP leadership, which doesn't include additional federal unemployment insurance funding, yet does include a $600 direct payment – half of what Democrats are seeking. Instead, the left has placed their support behind a $908 billion package crafted by a bipartisan group which would include a $300 weekly federal jobless benefit but not direct payments.
According to Axios, drama ensued after Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Josh Hawley (R-MO) objected to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's initial attempt to pass the resolution via unanimous consent.
Sanders said he would withdraw his objection this week, but would not do so when funding expires before Christmas.
Hawley did the same, pleading: "If the Senate of the United States can find hundreds of billions of dollars to give to big government and big business, surely it can find some relief for working families and working individuals."
The big picture: Despite the momentum in stimulus talks, McConnell (R-Ky.) has refused to budge on his red line of including liability protections for businesses in the next relief bill. –Axios
According to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, lawmakers "cannot go home" until a deal is reached – implying that Congress may remain in session until Dec. 26, when various emergency aid programs will otherwise expire.
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Halo Custom Edition Halo CE says "Manual Update Required"
The one and only update to the Halo CE game was released on May 25 2005 as a manual update that brought the game engine up to version 1.07. It was a security update that corrected deficiencies in the GameSpy protocol implementation. Since the Halo CE game is unsupported the Hot-Fix was released as a manual update to be distributed via the Fan websites. Being the largest and most stable, Gearbox requested that Halo Maps distribute the patch. At that time Bungie updated the message of the day ticker to indicate that a manual update was required. (See picture).
After some discussion Gearbox persuaded Bungie to make the update mandatory by utilizing the automatic update mechanism built into the game. Each time you connect to the Internet to play the Game will "Check for Updates". An Un-patched game will then force a download and not let you play on the internet until the update is completed.
If you have already updated your Halo CE game and installed the 1.07 Hot-fix then you can ignore the scrolling ticker message (see picture) that displays in the internet Lobby. It is left over from before the update was made mandatory.


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FDA Restricts Use of Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Over Blood-clot Fears
May 6, 2022 | Health | 0 |
By James Murphy
On Thursday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) strictly limited the use of the one-shot Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine to individuals 18 years and older and to those 18 years or older who otherwise will not take one of the two-shot vaccines. A statement from the FDA referenced the risk of what they call "thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome (TTS), a syndrome of rare and potentially life-threatening blood clots."
The J&J vaccine, also referred to as the Janssen vaccine (Janssen is a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson), was first issued an emergency use authorization in February of last year. As early as April 13 of 2021, the FDA issued a pause on the use of the J&J vaccine to investigate reports of the same type of blood clots. Two weeks later, the FDA rescinded that pause after determining that the potential benefits of the vaccine outweighed the potential risks of blood clots.
"We recognize that the Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine still has a role in the current pandemic response in the United States and across the global community. Our action reflects our updated analysis of the risk of TTS following administration of this vaccine and limits the use of the vaccine to certain individuals," said Dr. Peter Marks, director of the FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research.
Marks went on to explain that the new restrictions were actually a win for the FDA's monitoring and safety systems.
"Today's action demonstrates the robustness of our safety surveillance systems and our commitment to ensuring that science and data guide our decisions," Marks said.
Among those still approved to receive the J&J vaccine are "individuals who experienced an anaphylactic reaction after receipt of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine, individuals who have personal concerns with receiving mRNA vaccines and would otherwise not receive a COVID-19 vaccine and individuals who would remain unvaccinated for COVID-19 due to limited access to mRNA COVID-19 vaccines."
The J&J vaccine has been beset by safety concerns since its initial authorization. Originally hailed as an important tool in the war against coronavirus because it only required one shot as opposed to the two shots needed with the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, health officials eventually found that the multi-dose vaccines reportedly worked better than the one-shot J & J vaccine.
To date, more than 200 million Americans have received the multi-dose mRNA vaccines, while less than 17 million have received the J&J shot.
In December of 2021, a panel for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) concluded that the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines were "preferred" over the Johnson & Johnson offering due to those same blood-clotting concerns.
"I just cannot recommend a vaccine that is associated with a condition that may lead to death. I think we have other vaccines," said Dr. Pablo Sanchez, one of the CDC's panel members at the time.
Currently, both the FDA and the CDC are continuing to analyze the data on the J&J vaccine on TTS associated with vaccination.
"In an updated analysis of TTS cases following administration of the Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine that were reported to VAERS through March 18, 2022, the FDA and CDC have identified 60 confirmed cases, including nine fatal cases," the FDA statement notes.
The FDA's fact sheet on the J&J vaccine has been updated to include a warning that the use of the drug could prove fatal.
The updated fact sheet also includes warnings for "blood clots with low levels of platelets," as well as a caution about Guillain Barré syndrome, which is described as a "a neurological disorder in which the body's immune system damages nerve cells, causing muscle weakness and sometimes paralysis." The fact sheet reports that some who received the vaccine experienced Guillain Barré syndrome within 42 days of getting the shot, although it said incidents of this were considered "very low."
"The Janssen COVID19 Vaccine can cause blood clots with low levels of platelets (blood cells that help your body stop bleeding), which may be fatal," the updated fact sheet reads.
A J&J spokesperson said in a statement, "Data continue to support a favorable benefit-risk profile for the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine in adults, when compared with no vaccine."
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> Genre: Fantasy > What's Your Flavor of Ice Cream?
What's Your Flavor of Ice Cream?
Bones of the Past by Drew Hayes
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Villain's Code 1 may have been the first thing by Drew Hayes that I read. Now that it was finally time for a sequel, I was kind of excited to see that world again. Villain's Code 2 is titled Bones of the Past and that's pretty much an accurate description on a couple of levels.
First, the main focus of book 1, Tori, who is now a new villain starting to find her place in the world, is not as much the focus; but she's here and she starts making progress figuring out what she wants to do now that she's graduated from villain training. In fact, a lot of her generation both villain and hero aren't really the focus with a handful of notable exceptions. The main thing this novel seems to be really about is Ivan and Fornax, and by association Helen and Loadstar. The backstories are dark and pretty bleak, but because you know how Ivan and Helen end up, it's almost not as bad or maybe it's worse. There's also more time spent with Ivan and his family and how things are changing there too, and it's both mundane and kind of sad but also just real.
The actual plot has to do with the introduction of a set of new characters; Professor Quantum (first meta-human and hero leader along with Loadstar and Quorum) has revived the Science Sentries team with new members and there's some insinuated darkness with how he chose and trained his new group. The newbie team is supposed to be the best ever as a legacy team, and yet they have problems when then start working out in the world. This is where Tori gets involved, and so is Donald, her friend who obviously likes her maybe more than that, who becomes a new hero in the previous novel. He doesn't know Tori is a villain, but she knows his secret hero identity. You can guess the tension there. Donald as Cyber Geek is one of the few characters of Tori's set who does get some actual character development.
We also learn more about Chloe and even a bit more about Beverly's family (Beverly is a fellow new villain, and Chloe is their roommate). Nexus also seems to pop back in to drop hints and make manipulative suggestions, although I have to admit some of the hints are intriguing.
Besides the general complexity of the world (much building happens) and characters, there is also just moments of cleverness that stand out. Some of the plot references are cliché, like the fight tournament to save the Earth from the aliens invaders (there are a lot of aliens in this book, and there weren't in the last one, but then again if you think of any standard long running comic hero series, this does tend to be at least one plot arc). My favorite bit takes place during some downtime in Tori, Beverly, and Chloe's apartment building. They are socializing a little with the Science Sentries who have no idea who Tori and Beverly really are, and Chloe says something about another character not being "my flavor of ice cream", which leads to the question "What is?" I have to paraphrase here because the novel is just over 850 pages, and I'm not going hunting for one or two lines of dialog in that; Chloe's answer just stuck with me as smart and entertaining; it's "What flavor would pansexual be? Maybe sherbet?" First it's a light-hearted way to consider that question, and in a way, a flavor that's often done as a combination off 3-4 others would kind of fit Chloe's identification.
I mentioned earlier two reasons the title was fitting; the second has to do with the reveal of who the main villain of the story is which of course you don't find out until nearly the end. You'll just to read the story to find out the details; before you do though, make sure you read book 1 (Forging Hephaestus). You'd miss a lot without the context.
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The New England Patriots have enjoyed an unprecedented run of success over the last decade and a half.
The Pats have missed the NFL playoffs just twice since winning their first Super Bowl during the 2001 season, and have won 10 or more regular season games in 11 consecutive seasons.
With that success comes a great deal of benefits, one of the most important being a passionate and dedicated fan base that's willing to support its favorite franchise in a variety of ways.
Researchers at Emory University have devised a formula to put a number on that dedication in their 2014 NFL fan base rankings, breaking down which team's supporters top the list in "Fan Equity" and "Social Media Equity" metrics.
Not surprisingly, Patriots fans are near the top of both lists.
New England fans finished second behind only the Dallas Cowboys in Fan Equity, which, in short, measures a fan base's willingness to financially support its NFL squad while taking into account factors such as team winning percentage and population size.
In Social Media equity, which measures the strength of each NFL team's social media following, Patriots fans finished third behind the Pittsburgh Steelers and Cowboys.
The Patriots' Twitter account currently leads all official NFL team accounts with more than 880,000 followers, so as long as the team keeps winning, its massive support base shows no signs of dwindling.


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BCCI formally seeks Govt. nod to relocate IPL to UAE
It is understood that the BCCI in consultation with the broadcaster will finalise either the September 26 to November 7 or the September 26 to November 14 window.
Amol Karhadkar
MUMBAI 21 July, 2020 19:14 IST
The Indian Premier League had been indefinitely postponed due to the COVID-19 crisis. - K. V. S. Giri
Hours after the Twenty20 World Cup's deferment, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has sought the central government's approval for the Indian Premier League (IPL) to be moved to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) later this year.
"We have formally sought the Government of India's approval this morning to relocate the IPL to the UAE later in the year. Depending on the government's response, the governing council will finalise the dates, hopefully by next week," Brijesh Patel, the IPL governing council chairman, told Sportstar on Tuesday.
On Monday evening, the International Cricket Council (ICC) announced that the T20 World Cup, earlier scheduled to be held from October 18 to November 15, has been postponed to 2022. Once the deferment was stamped, the BCCI swung into action in no time.
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While Patel was non-committal about the proposed dates, it is understood that the BCCI in consultation with the broadcaster will finalise either the September 26 to November 7 or the September 26 to November 14 window. It would result in the national team having enough time to serve the mandatory quarantine in Australia before the scheduled start of the Test series Down Under from December 3.
The rapid spread of COVID-19 across India means the BCCI is left with no option but to relocate the IPL overseas. While the UAE hosted one-third of the IPL in 2014 to avoid a clash with India's Lok Sabha election, the Emirates Cricket Board officials had offered to stage the tournament more than two years earlier. Creating a bio-secure environment in the UAE is possible to an extent despite the IPL set to be held in three major venues, Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah.
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While some franchises have started asking their players to be prepared for a pre-departure training camp in India, the franchise executives are hoping to hear something formally from the BCCI before the weekend.


Maraalika is an archipelago stretching across more than two thousand miles of tropical and subtropical ocean. The islands range in size from tiny coral atolls a stone's throw across to three larger islands each about five hundred miles at its longest. The coral reefs provide a perfect habitat for the rich diversity of sea life found here. Several species of sea drake spawn in the warm waters, and the juveniles hunt the reefs until they are large enough to survive the open ocean.
Life on the islands is as diverse as life in the surrounding sea, and many of the species that live here are found nowhere else. They are prized for their unique qualities in taste, texture, color, and medicinal and magical properties. The brightest of cloth dyes are made here, or with materials from the islands, including royal purple, bright yellow, and cerulean blue. Consequently, the islanders are the most colorfully dressed people in the hemisphere.
The port cities of Maraalika are like riotous flowers growing on the coasts of the islands, full of color, sound, and vibrant life. The islanders are a raucous bunch, even the scarce dwarves and gnomes. The people as a whole are quick to anger, but just as quick to calm down. They live hard, and play harder, and will take any excuse for a party.
Maraalika is ruled, loosely speaking, by a trio of sisters who are constantly squabbling over who has dominion over a given bit of rock poking up from the water. They frequently change residencies as one sister will decide she prefers that island to this. Their scuffles sometimes spill over into the lives of their people, damaging ships, docks, buildings, even whole towns. The islanders react to this with the same aplomb they show after hurricanes and other tropical storms. To them, the Sisters are just another force of nature. You pick up, fix what's broken, bury your dead, and go on with life.


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Delicate yet striking, this necklace is strung with black spinel, pyrite, and 18k gold vermeil beads in a design that can be worn doubled or as a single strand. The elegant style tapers into a beaded tassel that hangs from a hammered 18k vermeil hoop. Pendant is approx. 3.25"L.


The Mexican-American War was driven by the idea of "Manifest Destiny" (Which is the belief that America had a God-given right to expand the country's borders from sea to sea) This belief would eventually cause a great deal of suffering for many Mexicans, Native Americans and United States citizens. Following the earlier Texas War of Independence from Mexico, tensions between the two largest independent nations on the North American continent grew as Texas eventually became a U.S. state. Disputes over the border lines sparked military confrontation, helped by the fact that President Polk eagerly sought a war in order to seize large tracts of land from Mexico.
The war between the United States and Mexico had two basic causes. First, the desire of the U.S. to expand across the North American continent to the Pacific Ocean caused conflict with all of its neighbors; from the British in Canada and Oregon to the Mexicans in the southwest and, of course, with the Native Americans. Ever since President Jefferson's acquisition of the Louisiana Territory in 1803, Americans migrated westward in ever increasing numbers, often into lands not belonging to the United States. By the time President Polk came to office in 1845, an idea called "Manifest Destiny" had taken root among the American people, and the new occupant of the White House was a firm believer in the idea of expansion. The belief that the U.S. basically had a God-given right to occupy and "civilize" the whole continent gained favor as more and more Americans settled the western lands. The fact that most of those areas already had people living upon them was usually ignored, with the attitude that democratic English-speaking America, with its high ideals and Protestant Christian ethics, would do a better job of running things than the Native Americans or Spanish-speaking Catholic Mexicans. Manifest Destiny did not necessarily call for violent expansion. In both 1835 and 1845, the United States offered to purchase California from Mexico, for $5 million and $25 million, respectively. The Mexican government refused the opportunity to sell half of its country to Mexico's most dangerous neighbor.


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Anime Expo reports a record breaking 61,000 attendees at their 2013 event that was held between July 4th through 7th in Los Angeles, CA. With a draw that increases year after year, anime fandom has never been so big. Congrats to AX, let's take a look at some of the cosplayers that help make the expo such a success.
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Q: Group by NAME and YEAR, categorize NAME I have a FINANCE_SOURCE table (I think it might be called a vertical table):
+-----------+------------+-------------+--------+------+
| SOURCE_ID | PROJECT_ID | SOURCE_NAME | AMOUNT | YEAR |
+-----------+------------+-------------+--------+------+
|       101 |          1 | A           |  10.00 | 2017 |
|       102 |          1 | B           |   5.00 | 2017 |
|       103 |          1 | B           |  15.00 | 2017 |
|       104 |          1 | B           |  70.00 | 2016 |
|       105 |          1 | C           |  30.00 | 2017 |
|       106 |          1 | D           |   1.00 | 2016 |
|       107 |          1 | D           |  20.00 | 2017 |
+-----------+------------+-------------+--------+------+

I want to GROUP BY the SOURCE_NAME, with a separate group for each YEAR.
And I want any record where the SOURCE is not A or B to be categorized as OTHER:
+------------+-------------+--------+------+
| PROJECT_ID | SOURCE_NAME | AMOUNT | YEAR |
+------------+-------------+--------+------+
|          1 | A           |  10.00 | 2017 |
|          1 | B           |  20.00 | 2017 |
|          1 | B           |  70.00 | 2016 |
|          1 | OTHER       |  50.00 | 2017 |
|          1 | OTHER       |   1.00 | 2016 |
+------------+-------------+--------+------+

How can I do this? Performance is important.

A: Add the CASE expression to the GROUP BY clause.
SELECT   PROJECT_ID,
         CASE WHEN SOURCE_NAME = 'A' THEN 'A'
              WHEN SOURCE_NAME = 'B' THEN 'B'
              ELSE 'OTHER'
         END SOURCE_NAME,
         SUM(AMOUNT) AMOUNT,
         YEAR
FROM     FINANCE_SOURCE
GROUP BY PROJECT_ID,
         CASE WHEN SOURCE_NAME = 'A' THEN 'A'
              WHEN SOURCE_NAME = 'B' THEN 'B'
              ELSE 'OTHER'
         END,
         YEAR


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Ljubljana: A Smart, Green, and Sustainable City
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Ljubljana, Slovenia's capital and largest city, is a vibrant centre of economic, cultural, and innovative activity. This year, Ljubljana is celebrating the 150th anniversary of the birth of Jože Plečnik, an imaginative urban designer and architect whose work had a lasting impact on the built environment - such as the unique Triple Bridge which connects the city's well-preserved medieval section with its commercial hub.
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Bologna, the seventh-largest city in Italy and capital of the Emilia-Romagna region, was recently named as one of the top three smart cities in the country. The city was praised for its decisions and actions to "bring together the quality of the environment, welfare policies and territorial innovation in an overall balance." This smart city portrait provides a summary of Bologna's strategy and vision of a citizen-centric collaborative future.
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Prague, the capital city of the Czech Republic, has been known during its renowned history as a magnet of commercial, cultural, scientific and political activity. This thriving city, also known as the City of a Hundred Spires, is home to more than 1.2 million people and generates an estimated 25 per cent of the Czech Republic's GDP. With its enchanting architecture, visual charms and historic landmarks, Prague is listed as a Unesco World Heritage Site.
If we could travel back in time to visit Prague in the 14th century, we would see builders constructing the Charles Bridge across the Vltava River to connect the city's Staré Město (Old Town) with Malá Strana (Lesser Town). Fast forward to the 21st century and we observe Prague striving to build a new type of bridge. As this article reveals, it is a bridge of urban transformation connecting today's city to a smart city future.
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Fifteen years ago, Zaragoza - the historic Spanish city situated between Madrid and Barcelona - pioneered a vision of a future digital district and knowledge-based society. Since then, the city has developed an impressive portfolio of smart city projects and new urban services. According to Daniel Sarasa, Urban Innovation Planner in Zaragoza and internationally recognized smart city innovator, one of Zaragoza's unique strengths is its culture of citizen involvement and participation. This culture has its roots in the reawakening of democracy. In the late 1970s, the city of Zaragoza (like other cities in Spain) looked back on thirty five years of dictatorship – and looked ahead to an uncertain future. During the years of dictatorship, Zaragoza had grown in population from approximately 235,000 to more than 500,000, but the civic infrastructure and public services needed to support this urban growth were inhibited by an autocratic national government which maintained severe austerity measures.
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ERAS+ is designed by medical professionals and uses cutting edge technology to support you through your preparation for, and recovery from major surgery.
We attended the Phase 2 launch event on Monday 3rd September to look at how the project has been developing.
In the first session of the day: ERAS+ GM Perspective, Dr Richard Preece gave us an insight into how ERAS+ is working across Greater Manchester.
Dr Preece discussed his own experiences of being a patient and how when looking at our own recovery, we place a huge amount of focus on getting better. This should be the same for all patients across Greater Manchester.
We have to bring that back to our own clinical practice and understand what our patients need. This is the start of a journey; a broad set of multiple interventions.
The next session was an ERAS+ Programme Overview led by Dr John Moore.
Dr Moore explained how ERAS+ was focusing on how we get patients better. There are over 4,000 patients across the UK using the ERAS+ programme to help minimise complications after surgery.
With surgery there is a chance to intervene before the actual event, so we should be preparing patients for treatment and support them in their recovery. This could mean back to work sooner, and less readmissions.
Dr Moore identified that we should be getting people out of bed, to understand that pain after surgery is normal, patients should 'own' their recovery. We should be empowering patients.
Al Lowe was our next speaker, telling the story of his wife, Sarah Lowe's, battle with Cancer. Giving a patients perspective really showed the impact ERAS+ can have on patients and their families.
As part of the ERAS+ programme Sarah had access to a full team (physio, dietician, clinical nurse specialist). What made this even more special, was that Sarah felt like part of the team- she was enabled to contribute to her treatment.
That team approach continued throughout treatment. Sarah was able to call up any member of the team to ask for help and advice. That level of interest from the team kept Sarah going; they had an interest in who she is.
Al also talked about the opportunity Sarah was given to talk to other patients who were going through a similar thing; having a supportive atmosphere made Sarah's journey more positive.
Al concluded by offering suggestions of improvements to the ERAS+ programme. He noted how useful it would be to have spiritual and emotional support considered, clearer boundaries around patient support, and how this programme could be rolled out to other medical interventions.
Dr Gemma Faulkner was up next offering ERAS+ from a surgical perspective. As a surgeon, her main aim is to get the patient through their experience without complications.
Dr Faulkner discussed how over the years we have drifted away from the principles of ERAS, which is why ERAS+ is so vitally important. Missing elements can increase recovery time.
The treatment is not just the operation it is the entire process.
We followed this with six fantastic site updates to hear about how ERAS+ is being implemented. There were updates from MFT Wythenshawe, The Christie, Stepping Hill Hospital, Royal Bolton Hospital, Royal Oldham Hospital and Salford Royal Hospital.
MFT Wythenshawe have had over 300 patients through Surgery School.
Stepping Hill Hospital have aligned their patients goals and nurses goals to ensure everyone is working towards the same thing.
Royal Bolton Hospital have introduced ERAS+ branded wristbands for patients so they can be easily identified on the ward.
Royal Oldham Hospital are going to be rolling out Surgery School across their two sites from October (rotating every 8 weeks).
Salford Royal Hospital have been collecting data over time, and now have detailed and robust data to use.
Simon Wickham, Royal Bolton Hospital, and Tom Osbourne, MFT Wythenshawe, led our next session looking at collecting data throughout ERAS+.
They identified recruitment challenges when collecting data: short lead times for cancer patients meaning they miss Surgery School, often a large number of surgical patients, and different pathways across different specialities meaning patients follow different paths.
However, despite these challenges, both sites have been able to implement changes informed by data collection.
Royal Bolton implemented Surgery School, ERAS+ wristbands, ICOUGH prescription stickers and an online system care plan.
MFT Wythenshawe have also implemented ICOUGH prescription stickers, a review of thoracic patient pathway and have just started to use run charts to show the compliance in wards and their improvement.
Next up was our own Kurt Bramfitt, talking about systems and processes.
Kurt explained the system of profound knowledge; and how we can use this to improve our own systems. He explained how we can't work in silos, as any changes implemented may not work in wider parts of the system- we need to bring it all together.
We started to look at the various processes that all have to work together, to give us a system perfectly designed to give us the ERAS+ 6 must-dos.
Michelle Childs from GM Active explained next about the partnership between ERAS+ and GM Active.
GM Active have 87 leisure and sport facilities across Great Manchester that can work with patients to find the most appropriate pathway. Patricia, who is featured in the video below, explains how the partnership helped her recovery.
Kirsty Rowlinson-Groves then continued this session by explaining the CAN-Move programme: a free 12 week physical activity/exercise programme which is patient led and tailored to their needs.
Our penultimate session was led by Dr Matthew Evison, Respiratory Consultant, GM Lead for Lung Cancer, and Cure programme lead.
Dr Evison tested our knowledge of smoking, and then went on to explain how tobacco addiction is a disease, and should be treated as one. Treating tobacco addition is the single most cost effective life saving intervention provided by the NHS.
Dr Evison then brought this back to ERAS+ to consider whether the information provided to patients through the programme is the most effective. It is important to look at the intervention points and diagnostic pathway.
The final session of the day was a quick overview of the ERAS+ app by Roger Kadama from Desap. A great platform to engage further with ERAS+ patients.
MFT Wythenshawe, The Christie, Stepping Hill Hospital, Royal Bolton Hospital, Royal Oldham Hospital, Salford Royal Hospital.


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CONFIRMED: CoVid-19 coronavirus found to contain unique "gain-of-function" property "for efficient spreading in the human population"–exact quote from science paper just published in Antiviral Research
February 25, 2020 James Fetzerblog
(Natural News) We now have bombshell, smoking gun evidence that the CoVid-19 "Wuhan" coronavirus was specifically engineered as an offensive biological warfare weapon, designed to target to exterminate human beings.
A new study published in the peer-reviewed journal Antiviral Research (Vol. 16, April 2020) is entitled, "The spike glycoprotein of the new coronavirus 2019-nCoV contains a furin-like cleavage site absent in CoV of the same clade."
It reveals that the CoVid-19 coronavirus contains unique features that allow it to function as a more efficient weapon system for human-to-human transmission, which helps explain why the virus has been impossible to contain (even under "quarantine" conditions, which have universally failed in China, Japan, Korea and elsewhere).
As the science authors of the paper explain in the full text, "This furin-like cleavage site… may provide a gain-of-function to the 2019-nCoV for efficient spreading in the human population." (Emphasis added)
Further, the science paper finds that there is no known viral ancestry to the CoVid-19 coronavirus, meaning it did not evolve from nature. It was engineered, and the science paper authors also state that the virus contains elements from MERS, stating, "Before the emergence of the 2019-nCoV, this important feature was not observed in the lineage b of betacoronaviruses."
The abstract and full PDF (paid) of the study are available through this link at ScienceDirect.com:
The "smoking gun" aspects of this research were brought to light earlier today by Prof. Frances Boyle who appeared on the Alex Jones Show (2nd broadcast hour, Feb. 19th, 2020, InfoWars.com) to reveal his findings that confirm the Wuhan coronavirus was an engineered biological weapon.
Tomorrow we will publish the full transcript from that interview, containing stunning new details about the origin of the viral weapon. You can watch the full 47-minute segment here, via Brighteon.com. The full interview is also available on Banned.video.
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The following graphic from the published study shows some of the S-protein sequences found in the CoVid-19 "Wuhan" coronavirus which share a nearly identical pattern with MERS-CoV, but not with any previous ancestry of "lineage b" type coronavirus:
The new feature engineered into the Wuhan coronavirus has, "the potential to cleave specifically viral envelope glycoproteins, thereby enhancing viral fusion with host cell membranes," conclude study authors.
This feature results in, "higher pathogenicity, pronounced neural symptoms and neurotropism in infected chickens," according to the paper. That means, essentially, it kills more easily and causes nervous system damage while infecting nerve cells. Note that many of the human victims in China appear to suffer seizures and a total, almost instantaneous nervous system shutdown, literally collapsing in seconds.
Furthermore, this enhanced property of the virus results in, "a widening of the cell tropism of the virus," meaning it allows the virus to live and thrive in a much wider variety of human cells, including respiratory system cells. This means the virus lives in both respiratory cells and nerve cells.
Interestingly, the study further confirms that "ACE2" receptors are the vector of opportunity for the virus to infect human beings, stating, "ACE2 is also the receptor of the newly emerged nCoV."
Additionally, the study finds that another element of the CoVid-19 virus appears to have been assembled from the SARS coronavirus, further confirming Frances Boyle's claim that the engineered weapon is a "chimera" of multiple strains of biological weapons, including SARS, MERS and HIV. From the study: "Notably, the IFPs of the 2019-nCoV and SARS-CoV are identical, displaying characteristics of viral fusion peptides (Fig. 2)."
Engineered to attack the human respiratory system, but there may be a defense… (you won't like it)
The CoVid-19 coronavirus is specifically engineered to exploit the biology of the human respiratory system. Again, from the paper text:
Since furin is highly expressed in lungs, an enveloped virus that infects the respiratory tract may successfully exploit this convertase to activate its surface glycoprotein (Bassi et al., 2017; Mbikay et al., 1997). Before the emergence of the 2019-nCoV, this important feature was not observed in the lineage b of betacoronaviruses.
Finally, study authors explain that people who have already been exposed to other viral infections may have enhanced immunity against the coronavirus. From the study:
…it was recently shown that in an effort to limit viral infections, host cells that are infected by a number of viruses provoke an interferon response to inhibit the enzymatic activity of furin-like enzymes.
Although we caution that this supposition is just theory (so far), it may turn out that one way to boost defenses against the coronavirus could be to get infected with a weaker respiratory virus first. Stated another way, people who routinely interact with the public and are exposed to a wide variety of in-the-wild circulating viruses may be automatically building improved defenses by overcoming other viral infections first.
This finding has huge implications for individuals who take vaccines, given that vaccines expose the human body to weakened viral strains that often fail to provoke the full response of "in-the-wild" viruses such as seasonal influenza. Although the research did not focus on this point, it might also turn out that people who routinely take seasonal flu shots could theoretically demonstrate a weakened immune response against the coronavirus, while those who avoid flu shots and allow their own bodies to naturally fight the flu each year will show enhanced immunity against CoVid-19 coronavirus.
Or, arguably, it might work the other way around, where people who routinely take more vaccines and are exposed to a wider variety of weaker strains therefore have more capacity to produce an "interferon response." It's too early to tell, but it certainly seems to be the case that people who are rarely or never exposed to other viral pathogens may be far more vulnerable to this one.
Refer to the "Hygiene Hypothesis" for more ideas on the ramifications of this research.
There's more research yet to come, and tomorrow we post the full transcript of the interview with Frances Boyle on the Alex Jones Show.
We are about to launch Pandemic.news as a hub for podcasts, videos, science article links and news links, so be sure to check out that site over the next couple of days as we ramp it up.
And yes, if you're wondering how we managed to acquire Pandemic.news, we saw this coming years ago. None of what we're seeing here today surprises us in the least. In fact, it's going to get much, much worse, which is why we also publish Collapse.news … because that's where this ends up sooner or later.
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Winfield J. Abbe says:
TONS OF VITAMIN C TO WUHAN
China Using Vitamin C Against COVID
by Andrew W. Saul, Editor-in-Chief
Orthomolecular Medicine News Service
"(OMNS February 23, 2020) We can all agree that 50 tons of vitamin C pretty much qualifies as a megadose. We can also likely agree that trucking 50 tons of vitamin C, straight into Wuhan, full in the face of the COVID-19 epidemic, qualifies as news.
The news media are not reporting this, or any other, significantly positive megavitamin news.
Here is more verified but still unreported news of high-dose intravenous vitamin C against COVID-19 in China:
February 21, 2020	Three Intravenous Vitamin C Research Studies Approved for Treating COVID-19
February 16, 2020	Early Large Dose Intravenous Vitamin C is the Treatment of Choice for 2019-nCov Pneumonia
February 13, 2020	Coronavirus Patients in China to be Treated with High-Dose Vitamin C
February 10, 2020	VITAMIN C AND ITS APPLICATION TO THE TREATMENT OF nCoV CORONAVIRUS: How Vitamin C Reduces Severity and Deaths from Serious Viral Respiratory Diseases
February 2, 2020	Hospital-based Intravenous Vitamin C Treatment for Coronavirus and Related Illnesses
January 30, 2020	Nutritional Treatment of Coronavirus
January 26, 2020	Vitamin C Protects Against Coronavirus
1) Three repeatedly confirmed vitamin C for COVID-19 research studies are going on in China now. http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v16n12.shtml
2) Confirmation has also been obtained that 50 tons (yes, tons) of vitamin C has been donated by a major C manufacturer and trucked to Wuhan.
3) The concerned public is receiving only "be-scared-until-we-vaccinate-you" news.
4) Sharing information on COVID-19 vitamin therapy research has now been systematically blocked by Facebook and other social media giants.
5) The news media are not reporting on any of this. Therefore, I ask that you take it upon yourselves to do so and share all this with everyone you can.
Nutritional Medicine is Orthomolecular Medicine
Orthomolecular medicine uses safe, effective nutritional therapy to fight illness. For more information: http://www.orthomolecular.org
To locate an orthomolecular physician near you: http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v06n09.shtml
The peer-reviewed Orthomolecular Medicine News Service is a non-profit and non-commercial informational resource."
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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/could-deadly-infections-be-cured-vitamin-c-180963843/
"Could Vitamin C Be the Cure for Deadly Infections?
A new protocol that includes this common nutrient could save millions of lives—and has already sparked a raging debate among doctors
dave Kraft says:
Dear Jim: I am super happy with new content all the time. And the ability to participate without weird shit happening to my comments. HUGE improvement. If your web guy had everything to do with it I salute him!
1. Often as soon I posted a comment, it seemed to be obliterated by that action alone.
2. Hitting the attachment button assured my comment was toast
3. I stopped trusting typing in the comment section altogether, cut and paste or otherwise you are wasting your time
4. My number one tip on commenting was always copy the comment before you hit post comment button. About 10 times my comment was lost forever.
I think it was
James Fetzer says:
Dave, I don't know what may have happened to past comments. I am doing my best to keep up with moderating them as them come in, but I am not always at my computer and sometimes they can be a delay in the approval and publication.
makk says:
please check out John Rappoport for a further opinion on this virus issue.
on twitter and nomorefakenews.com
I would like to expand on the idea of science for sale fakery in more general terms. Once you see that the (PTB) are willing to fake anything and everything… Health Ranger Mike Adams can rescue us from paranoia verses reality. That's why I think Mike is so important to getting at the truth. Chemistry is far more trustworthy than any other science in my experience; especially since mass spectrum analysis became a thing… non-science people could get a grip on.
Mass Spec Analysis was in the stone age when I was in college. Now it just shows up on a screen. At the flip of a button. You could find out what was there and even more important what's not there.
Dear Jim: I love the Health Ranger. He's an amazing human being on too many fronts to even try to mention them all. Chemist with tremendous guts to expose health food fakery and fraud for the lie that it is. Gold Star to Mike Adams on exposing the Olive Oil and fish oil Scams. I don't always agree with Mike but he's a blessing to man kind and force of nature most people can't even comprehend.
Organic chemistry is the one subject in Engineering School that I felt naturally skilled in. That's why admire the Health Ranger so much. Once i got past that first hurtle of understanding… it made far more sense to me than physics for engineers. I remember one time I aced this physics test and everyone thought I was a genius. Not because I told anyone, I didn't get a chance to brag. I got a 94% and second place got 87% and then the scores dropped off a cliff from there. Doc Warner was especially impressed. I used this equation something like the square root of 2gh or some such horse shit. And I was the only one that got it right and Doc Warner never saw it solved that way. I had no clue I was right applying that equation to solve this particular problem. I looked at it and didn't analyze it. It just looked pretty so I used it. And it turned out to be correct. That would never happen in chemistry.
Chemistry has stuck me as more exemplary of empirical science than physics, because physics depends so much on idealization (technically, counterfactual reasoning). It took me a long time to figure it out. My first book explains these things in formal detail.
From the essay above. "…those who avoid flu shots and allow their own bodies to naturally fight the flu each year will show enhanced immunity against CoVid-19 coronavirus".
Wow, I feel much better now, I never get a "flu shot". Such a blessing in disguise. I guess I can eat that bat soup today.
Here's an interesting clip from Know More News….
https://youtu.be/Ac3m4dqqf-U?t=3091
"The Coronavirus will not go away until the third temple is built".
Here comes the mandatory vaccine.
Get in line.
I don't think I would be stepping over the line to state that many, if not most here, see Jones as controlled opposition. So, how do we take this interview? Is it his job to ramp up the fear mongering or are his efforts and indignation sincere?
One damn thing is for sure…he'll be selling a load of his survival products.
And here comes that vaccine…..right on time! (just a little more testing and we'll be clamoring to get stuck)
https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/experimental-coronavirus-vaccine-completed-by-moderna-biotech-researchers
Well worth ten minutes….pandemics make $$$$$$!!!
https://153news.net/watch_video.php?v=3DWMOXXYUA4A


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Q: Creating a HashMap in Velocity Template I just cant find an example of how to create a HashMap in velocity. I want to create an empty HashMap and put values in it for later retrieval. Any help on this would be grateful.

A: That's pretty easy:
#set($myMap = {})
#set($map.foo = 'bar')
#set($map[1234] = 3456)
Map is: $map

This displays:
Map is: {foo=foo, 1234=1234}

The map is actually a java.util.LinkedHashMap.


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Share this Story: China struggles to fill Trump's 'America First' leadership void
China struggles to fill Trump's 'America First' leadership void
Tony Munroe
BEIJING — As Donald Trump has pulled the United States inward under his "America First" presidency, China has had only halting success at capitalizing on a global leadership vacuum, presenting openings for a more internationalist Joe Biden administration if he wins next month's election.
Under Trump, Washington abandoned the Paris climate pact, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the UN Human Rights Council and UNESCO, and ditched the Iran nuclear deal. It has announced that it will withdraw from the World Health Organization (WHO) next July and has crippled the World Trade Organization by blocking appointments to its appeals panel.
China struggles to fill Trump's 'America First' leadership void Back to video
Beijing, which accuses Washington of being "addicted to quitting," has struck a more globalist posture under President Xi Jinping: Chinese officials head four of the 15 UN agencies, and Beijing has boosted its WHO commitment by $2 billion.
As it has sought a seat at the table more befitting its status as the world's number-two economy, China has also formed its own multilateral institutions, including the Belt and Road Initiative and Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB).
"China has been trying its best to take advantage of the U.S. retreat to advance its own goals," said Paul Haenle, director of the Carnegie–Tsinghua Center for Global Policy in Beijing. "Nevertheless, China has had difficulty translating its growing influence into foreign policy success," he said.
While China has all-but-quashed the spread of coronavirus and is a leader in vaccine efforts, its early mishandling of the outbreak that began in Wuhan has triggered a global backlash.
Beijing's clampdown on Hong Kong, its mass detention of Uighur Muslims, its island-building in the South China Sea and saber-rattling towards Taiwan as well as more aggressive "wolf warrior" diplomacy, have also eroded sentiment towards China – even as Trump's policies have undermined U.S. standing.
China has struggled to leverage the exasperation of some U.S. allies towards Washington under Trump, with State Councillor Wang Yi, the government's top diplomat, facing pushback over Hong Kong and other issues during a recent five-country visit to Europe.
"Many see the U.S. retreat from global institutions under Trump as ceding fertile ground to China in this area, but what is striking is how much China's so-called 'wolf-warrior' diplomacy has undercut their ability to take advantage," said Susan Thornton, the top U.S. diplomat for Asia early in the Trump administration.
A survey by the U.S.-based Pew Research Center found that unfavorable views towards China in advanced economies including the United States had soared over the past year.
In April, an internal Chinese report warned that Beijing faced a rising wave of hostility in the aftermath of the coronavirus, with global anti-China sentiment at its highest since the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, Reuters reported in May, citing people familiar with the matter.
If Biden wins, he is expected to maintain a tough stance on China but also to engage with allies and international bodies in a more traditional way. He has said he would keep the United States in the WHO and rejoin the Paris climate accord.
"On many issues of global governance, there is still much room for cooperation between the two countries," such as climate and COVID-19, said Jia Qingguo, a professor at Peking University School of International Studies who has advised China's government.
MIXED SUCCESS
Despite its growing economic and military might, China has been a sometimes-awkward multilateral leader, insisting that it is still a developing country and does not want to replace the United States.
Its diplomatic ties tend to be transactional, with a policy of non-interference in the domestic affairs of other countries and a demand that it gets the same treatment, blasting what it calls Washington's "long-arm jurisdiction."
Its Belt & Road initiative has been criticized for a lack of transparency, environmental concerns, and the financial sustainability of projects, although the AIIB has been credited with adhering to global standards.
China's success at putting one of its own as head of France-based police coordination agency Interpol ended disastrously when the chief, Meng Hongwei, resigned after going missing in China, where he was sentenced to jail this year for graft.
"China's explicit ambitions to 'lead the reform of the global governance system' have not been clearly defined," said Julian Gewirtz, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. "These statements are often swaddled in gauzy platitudes — and that means the rest of the world should judge China by its track record rather than its promises." (Reporting by Tony Munroe; additional reporting by Gao Liangping; editing by Richard Pullin)