ES: What brought you to Point Reyes?
RJ: Nature. I was coming up to help as a volunteer with a salmon and steelhead monitoring project. I would drive up from Menlo Park, sometimes two or three times a week depending on the workload, and do fish work throughout the year. My first volunteer day was spent installing wattles above Horseshoe Pond. I helped with water quality, then all manner of salmonid monitoring. Then I got into plovers, elephant seals, harbor seals, invasive plant surveys, intertidal surveys . . . I made maps for other litter projects, and then started my own major litter removal operations.
But it was crazy. It's a long distance, there's bridge tolls, all that driving. And my rent kept getting raised, and I had an epiphany: Jeez, why don't I move? So the fish brought me, initially, and once I got here I just started exploring the park.
ES: You left behind a past as a Silicon Valley tech worker, right?
RJ: Yeah, I had worked for different tech companies but at the time I was self-employed as a computer consultant in Silicon Valley. I just got burned out. I used to go to Macworld all the time. And then the last Macworld I went to I watched this guy give a demo on one of those first-person shooter games, and he was so excited that the latest model had the graphics processors that could very very realistically simulate blood. Look at that blood!
So I thought, instead of spending all this money to make Grand Theft Auto and all this crap that just pollutes children's minds, why don't you make a fully cyber zoo? Instead of having guys wear goggles where they control drones that kill people, develop that technology to let children have immersive experiences with animals so you don't have to trap animals. People seem to be glued to their screens — well, let them look at their screens, and let those animals live, and protect them in the wild!
ES: How did you first notice the trash on the beach and think of this as a call to action?
RJ: I've picked up trash my whole life. In the city trash doesn't stand out as much, because the city's all human-contrived stuff. But out here, in contrast to sand and waves and birds and kelp, it really jumps out at you. I can't really walk by. I just feel compelled to pick it up. Because if I don't, who will?
I go to remote beaches and I pick up litter that no one gets to. I can easily find 100 to 200 pounds of litter on one beach. I grab what I can. You ask why the litter — why not? It's horrible, all the damage that gets done. I've got a picture of a murre tangled up in a salmon rig, and I'm sure it drowned because of that. All the birds that eat this stuff, the turtles that eat balloons and plastic bags thinking they're jellyfish, those whales with 300 to 400 pounds of fishing net in their gut that killed them, that's just wrong.
ES: Do you remember at all the first time you came out to the beach out here and thought, I'm going to collect some of this stuff and bring it back with me?
RJ: I can't remember the first time, but in the beginning I didn't bring a backpack. I just had a jacket, and I would pick up bits and pieces and shove it in my pocket. Well, you can imagine, it doesn't scale very well. Your 501 jeans only hold so much. So then I'd find a bait bag, or a plastic bag. But then I'd have bags full of stuff, and the bags would tear. So I'd have to find another bag, and then I thought, oh, maybe I should bring my own bags. For a while I would bring plastic bags, but that was just adding to the mess.
ES: You took some of this trash you collected and turned it into art: human-size bottles made from plastic bottles you found on the beach. Tell me about the origin of the exhibit.
RJ: All 2010, I'd been picking up bottles. I decided to store a year's worth of bottles and make something of them. I hadn't figured out what that was, but I had to do something, so I decided I'm going to make these giant meta-bottles. I made the chicken-wire frames, I had buckets to make the caps. I wanted to keep the aspect ratio of a real water bottle, just scaled up so it looked like a bottle. I made five of them. I got permission to drag them out onto Drakes Beach one morning, where I photographed them. I knew I wanted those iconic white cliffs of Point Reyes in the background.
ES: You've been out here enough to see the park in a lot of different ways. Can you talk about how that's changed you and what you see out here?
RJ: It's often a multi-mission: I come out here to photograph, I come out here to be here, I come out here to pick up trash. I'm always ready to pick up trash because it's always here. Sometimes I play games where I'll only pick up red things, or blue things. I'll kind of tune my visual radar. And I've noticed that when I'm focusing on something, whether it's a red thing, whether it's a water bottle, whether it's Styrofoam, whether it's a float, it's very easy to miss everything else. We're destroying our planet because we get distracted by meaningless things. Being out here has taught me to look at things differently. I'll be out here and I'll be so focused on picking up trash — looking at the ground — that I have to thump myself upside the head, like, look at the waves! Because there will be huge waves, and it's crazy! I think of all the people in skyscrapers in downtown anywhere, USA, that would die to be where I'm at, and I'm just mindlessly walking through this gorgeous scene picking up trash! So I'll say, dude, look at the seagulls. Or 40 pelicans will fly by six inches off the deck and I'll catch sight of them and it's like, OK, stop what you're doing, and revel. Revel in that beauty.
ES: You've seen a lot of remarkable natural moments. Like, you once saw two gray whales practically in the surf next to you.
RJ: Oh, yeah. That was up at Kehoe Beach. I actually went out there to gather some mussels to cook 'em for a friend. I go out there, and oh my god, that was incredible. Those whales were closer than from here to that kelp right there. A big one and a little one. And then there were bigger ones farther out. I've seen bull elephant seals, two-ton beasts duking it out, beating the tar out of each other. And I like pelicans; I call walking on the beach pelican therapy. A couple years ago, I probably took 10,000 photos of pelicans because I was so into pelicans. I got some good shots. I got a lot of not good shots.
ES: How'd you find out about the dead orca?
RJ: Well, I was in the midst of an art exhibit where I was exhibiting some of my work when I got a phone message from Moe Flannery at Cal Academy of Sciences, and she's like, "Richard, there's an orca, can you help?" Because there's nothing like a cetacean to get a museum curator excited; I've learned that. I went, "Aw, man, I am sooo busy right now, um, OK, I'll see what I can do." I couldn't do anything that day because of the show, but the next day, I got up at 5 in the morning, grabbed my camera gear, and hiked out there and went down to that beach, and here's this orca in the surf. I took shots from the cliff right above it; then as I approached it I took some more shots, and took some video. But I didn't have a lot of time, the surf was coming in, the whale was in the surf, and I had to get back to the show, so that was it for that first day. But then Moe and her crew came and took some tissue samples off the whale, and took pictures. Then they sent their pictures out to the orca network, if you will, and someone who knows orcas saw what's called the saddle patch, which is kind of like the license plate for orcas, and they went, ohmygod, that's o319, we know that whale — he was last seen off Vancouver. It was an Offshore orca, meaning it belongs to this orca ecotype that we don't know much about. So Moe went holy crap, we need to get the whole whale. I got climbing gear, I got my backpack, and I went down there and helped with the slicing and the dicing. I photographed mostly, but since I was the guy with clean hands, I would give Moe water, I would give people tools. Then I helped them pack out the parts, doing four trips. I carried out both flippers, one [that was] kind of de-tissued but still very heavy, with two vertebrae, and then the next one, no-body de-tissued it, it was full-on flesh. Those flippers weigh 50, 60 pounds apiece. Plus two vertebrae again. I just got what I could get. I did a lot of trips for that whale.
ES: Was it a nice reward to see it so well articulated in the museum?
RJ: Yeah, that was cool. It's gorgeous. Seeing that flipper, just the bones, it's basically a big hand.
ES: Was that the only beached whale you've found out here?
RJ: No, in January 2008, just before I moved up here, a sperm whale washed ashore on that same beach where the orca washed ashore. I smelled it first, then I saw the bones, then I saw the net. So I documented it, I gps'd it, I took photographs. I thought, wow, this is incredible. A few months later, I came across five vertebrae on McClures Beach in the surf, intact. I called the park dispatch, because I didn't know the park's whale people yet, I only knew the fish people. And they said, "Oh, Sarah Allen's going to want to know about this." So I told them right exactly where it was, and they came down and got it. That was the first time I met Sarah. She subsequently learned how nutty I was and how much trash I was packing off the beach, so she said, "Well, you know, that sperm whale, all that net that was in its gut"— because that's probably what killed it, that was one of three sperm whales that washed ashore on the Pacific coast that year, all males, all with big chunks of net in their gut —"would you pack that net off the beach?" So she loans me her little itty-bitty Kelty backpack and says, "Here, you can borrow my backpack because it's going to stink." Well, that thing wasn't going to fit in that tiny pack! There was a lot of net! But Gregory Packs had learned what I was doing, and they gave me a backpack. It was a return, it was already destroyed. So I packed about 350 pounds of really stinky net off that beach in that pack. It took me five trips over two days. Later Moe and some other volunteers came out and we packed all the bones of that whale off the beach.
ES: Where does your love of the outdoors and nature come from?
RJ: I don't know. My grandparents had a homestead, 160 acres in the foothills of California with cows and an apple orchard. So as a youth I picked apples and I dealt with steers. And I dealt with fixing fences. And then we would go deer hunting, dove hunting, quail hunting up there on the property. Fishing too; I was exposed to trout fishing as a child. But then in college that's when I first started going backpacking. My friend took me on my first 10-day trip. We were in Kings Canyon, Sequoia. That's my favorite home, up there in the Sierra. That's when I really got the bug. I got to immerse my-self, get away from cars, get away from everything. And that's when it all really blossomed.
ES: What are you working on now, with your art?
RJ: I'm working on a project about heat sinks. I don't know if you've ever looked inside a big desktop computer but the little chip, just the size of your pinky fingernail, that little thing generates so much heat, they've actually got a very intricate aluminum or copper device inside the computer to bleed the heat off these chips. I've read about the Google and Apple and Amazon server farms that are literally built next to rivers or the ocean because they generate so much heat and consume so much electricity. So I'm trying to figure out a way to poignantly point out that we are wasting the resources of the planet just so Google can make money selling ads, so you can look up the best restaurant or who's got the best Yelp rating. And we're mining the planet for metals and rare-earth metals to generate all this technology and destroying the natural world in the process.
ES: It has to be frustrating to keep coming out here and keep finding trash — what do you do to remind yourself this is why we have to do this and maybe we can make it better?
RJ: Sometimes it's very depressing. Sometimes I don't come out. Sometimes coming out without a single bag, I'm not going to pick any trash up, which is really hard; I'm just going to focus on the beauty. Just let the sounds, the sights, the beauty nourish my soul. Sometimes I'll get an email or a comment on the blog, someone will say, man, thanks. Thanks for what you do. That helps. Someone recognizing the effort. Because it's a lot of work. I've destroyed my knees. Walking on loose sand with an 80-pound bag is not advised. I wouldn't recommend it. Take smaller bags. Take smaller bites — even though there's so much to bite out here. There's so much trash. One thing I've learned, there could be a thousand Richards, or anybody else who's out here doing it. The picking up isn't the issue, it's the putting in. We need to change. We are killing the ocean. The pendulum swings back and forth. I sometimes get very distraught at what we're doing to the planet. To the sharks, to the turtles, to the whales, to everything. I frankly am not very hopeful. Because the bulk of society is too obsessed with gadgets and iPods and iPhones and things that don't really matter. But I don't stop. The human spirit is strong I guess. I don't stop. I still come out.


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Q: MongoDBCompass not opening on Windows Server 2019 I have installed MongoDB on one windows server 2019 and am able to access it using shell commands but when I try to launch MongoDB Compass software, it doesn't even launch. It shows up in the task manager but UI never comes up
Windows Server is 64 bit
OS - Windows Server 2019 Standard
MongoDB version - 5.0.5 (Community Edition)
Install msi file used - mongodb-windows-x86_64-5.0.5-signed.msi

A: same problem here
I had no issues before but right now I have two different windows server 2019 servers and both has the same problem
I think it's due to windows update
UPDATE
I switched to Robo 3T and it works just fine

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Hund's rule of maximum multiplicity is a rule based on observation of atomic spectra, which is used to predict the ground state of an atom or molecule with one or more open electronic shells. The rule states that for a given electron configuration, the lowest energy term is the one with the greatest value of spin multiplicity. This implies that if two or more orbitals of equal energy are available, electrons will occupy them singly before filling them in pairs. The rule, discovered by Friedrich Hund in 1925, is of important use in atomic chemistry, spectroscopy, and quantum chemistry, and is often abbreviated to Hund's rule, ignoring Hund's other two rules.
The multiplicity of a state is defined as 2S + 1, where S is the total electronic spin. A high multiplicity state is therefore the same as a high-spin state. The lowest-energy state with maximum multiplicity usually has unpaired electrons all with parallel spin. Since the spin of each electron is 1/2, the total spin is one-half the number of unpaired electrons, and the multiplicity is the number of unpaired electrons + 1. For example, the nitrogen atom ground state has three unpaired electrons of parallel spin, so that the total spin is 3/2 and the multiplicity is 4.
The lower energy and increased stability of the atom arise because the high-spin state has unpaired electrons of parallel spin, which must reside in different spatial orbitals according to the Pauli exclusion principle. An early but incorrect explanation of the lower energy of high multiplicity states was that the different occupied spatial orbitals create a larger average distance between electrons, reducing electron-electron repulsion energy. However, quantum-mechanical calculations with accurate wave functions since the 1970s have shown that the actual physical reason for the increased stability is a decrease in the screening of electron-nuclear attractions, so that the unpaired electrons can approach the nucleus more closely and the electron-nuclear attraction is increased.
As a result of Hund's rule, constraints are placed on the way atomic orbitals are filled in the ground state using the Aufbau principle. Before any two electrons occupy an orbital in a subshell, other orbitals in the same subshell must first each contain one electron. Also, the electrons filling a subshell will have parallel spin before the shell starts filling up with the opposite spin electrons (after the first orbital gains a second electron). As a result, when filling up atomic orbitals, the maximum number of unpaired electrons (and hence maximum total spin state) is assured.
The valence orbitals of the oxygen atom (sides of diagram) and the dioxygen molecule (middle) in the ground state. In both atom and molecule, the electrons in singly occupied orbitals have their spins parallel.
For example, in the oxygen atom, the 2p4 subshell arranges its electrons as [↑↓] [↑] [↑] rather than [↑↓] [↑] [↓] or [↑↓] [↑↓][ ]. The manganese (Mn) atom has a 3d5 electron configuration with five unpaired electrons all of parallel spin, corresponding to a 6S ground state. The superscript 6 is the value of the multiplicity, corresponding to five unpaired electrons with parallel spin in accordance with Hund's rule.
An atom can have a ground state with two incompletely filled subshells which are close in energy. The lightest example is the chromium (Cr) atom with a 3d54s electron configuration. Here there are six unpaired electrons all of parallel spin for a 7S ground state.
Although most stable molecules have closed electron shells, a few have unpaired electrons for which Hund's rule is applicable. The most important example is the dioxygen molecule, O2, which has two degenerate pi bond pi antibonding molecular orbitals (π*) occupied by only two electrons. In accordance with Hund's rule, the ground state is triplet oxygen with two unpaired electrons in singly occupied orbitals. The singlet oxygen state with one doubly occupied and one empty π* is an excited state with different chemical properties and greater reactivity than the ground state.
In 2004, researchers reported the synthesis of 5-dehydro-m-xylylene (DMX), the first organic molecule known to violate Hund's rule.
1 2 Levine, I. N. (1991). Quantum Chemistry (4th ed.). Prentice-Hall. pp. 303–304. ISBN 0205127703.
↑ NIST Atomic Spectrum Database To read the manganese atom levels, type "Mn I" in the Spectrum box and click on Retrieve data.
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↑ Slipchenko, L.; Munsch, T.; Wenthold, P.; Krylov, A. (2004). "5-Dehydro-1,3-quinodimethane: a hydrocarbon with an open-shell doublet ground state". Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English. 43 (6): 742–745. doi:10.1002/anie.200352990. PMID 14755709.


Researchers from the Gurdon Institute, academics, students and graduates from the Cambridge School of Art and filmmakers from local creative agency brandAnonymous were joined by the public to discuss how film can create public engagement to promote scientific research. Our panellists introduced short excerpts from films they were involved in and shared what they learned during the production process. Responding to questions from the audience, they explained their respective standpoints and provided insights into scientific filmmaking. The screening and presentation was followed by an informal gathering of scientists, filmmakers, academics and students that offered time and opportunity to further discuss the engagement potential of film to the widest possible community.
Prof. Topun Austin, Consultant Neonatologist, Cambridge Neuroscience, lead at the Evelyn Perinatal Imaging Centre (EPIC), based at the Rosie Hospital, Cambridge and Honorary Professor of Neurophotonics at University College London.


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Mark Grenside has long dreamed of penning a thriller bursting with insight from his global career in entertainment – and now he's done it. Here, Jo Caruana chats to the Malta-based author, and quickly discovers that his newly-launched book Fall Out is already turning heads among some of the world's toughest critics.
This may be Mark Grenside's first book but it is not his first rodeo. His varied career has spanned everything from working on The Muppet Show on TV alongside Jim Henson to running his own film production company, and now he's turned his hand to writing novels.
But not just any novels: thrillers. And, in particular, a thriller set in the dazzling Hollywood Hills that has already caught the eye of book critics across the world.
"What can I say? I like a challenge," Grenside smiles, as he talks to me from his home in Madliena. "Plus I'm not afraid to fail. I like to extend myself and never get too comfortable doing one job, as that's when the risk of the 'lazy switch' kicks in."
The upside to that, of course, is that he has never stopped learning. Grenside began his career working in kids' TV and was responsible for the distribution and co-production versions of Fraggle Rock (the co-production of the award-winning series Jim Henson Presents) as well as the distribution of Muppet Babies, The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth and Storyteller. Since then, he has worked in film, TV movie, music management, and was even the co-owner of a TV channel. "It's kept me young," he quips. "A book was the next challenge."
That book – and Grenside's debut – turned into a fast-paced novel that features an LA screenwriter who is killed shortly after completing his latest script, Fall Out – a thriller destined to be a blockbuster but written with a secret double purpose.
"Echoing events from the past, the screenplay is sent to a very specific group of people and will change their lives forever," the author divulges. "All are connected to a movie that had abruptly stopped shooting in the jungles of the Philippines years before. Fall Out exposes the truth about a conspiracy and murder that led to a half-a-billion-dollar fortune for a select few."
Fall Out exposes the truth about a conspiracy and murder that led to a half-a-billion-dollar fortune for a select few
Grenside clearly brings his extensive background in the real-life world of film to the book, but I am curious to learn that the novel's underlining premise is actually based on a shocking true story.
"That is true but I cannot reveal the details here or it would spoil the book!" Grenside smiles again. "But I will say that I uncovered the nugget I used in Fall Out on my travels to one country out of the 116 countries I have visited. In addition, I found I knew plenty about the darker side of human nature from my time working in kidnap, ransom and product extortion liability insurance."
Once again, it is Grenside's incredible career that is visible in this page-turner. He says he wanted to wrap all that knowledge up into a neat story, which is exactly what he has achieved with Fall Out. However, it is the fascinating world of film that undoubtedly takes centre stage in the final result.
"If you have ever been to a dinner party attended by a lawyer, doctor, dentist, broker, banker, designer and film producer, you'll know it's the producer who gets peppered with questions," the author continues. "People find the film world captivating!
"So, based on my history, Hollywood seemed the logical place to set a franchise of thrillers. Then the idea of a true (but almost unbelievable) historical fact with a very accurate (but fictional) insider's view of movie making seemed a good fun blend."
Pleasingly, for both Grenside and his readers, it seems to be a formula that has worked. Critics have showered accolades such as "this is a tautly written, entertaining thriller that will keep the reader turning the pages right till the very end" and "it sits somewhere between The Da Vinci Code and Indiana Jones"; no mean feat for a first-time author. Meanwhile, it has even been optioned by a Hollywood producer, so a film version may already be in the works.
"I can't say more about that now but I am excited by the response," Grenside continues, adding that he is also working on a sequel, called The Bastion.
But the author is focusing on that new project while still keeping his eye firmly on the prize when it comes to response for his debut.
"I hope readers enjoy it and are excited by it. I hope they are struck by the memorable characters, whip-smart dialogue, and very visual writing style. It is a plot with twists and turns that keeps you guessing, as well as a lot of fun facts about history and the movies, which ties it all together.
"I hope they find it is a fun, fresh and different read, and I am truly thrilled that it is now directly available here in Malta," he added.
Fall Out by M. N. Grenside is published in paperback by Urbane Publications Ltd and will be distributed by Miller Distributors Ltd in Malta. It will be available from Agenda Bookshops as from tomorrow.

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MapPoint Web Service 4.0 Fact Sheet
The MapPoint Web Service is a programmable XML Web service that integrates mapping capabilities into business or consumer applications. It is a location and mapping platform that allows developers to easily build location-based services into their applications.
Solutions that integrate the MapPoint Web Service can be developed with Microsoft Visual Studio� .NET, which provides a powerful and optimized environment for developers.
Powerful Mapping Capabilities
MapPoint Web Service offers enterprises and developers a rich set of tools they can use to incorporate location-based services into their applications and business processes. The single application programming interface (API) provides developers with the following:
Highly accurate address-finding and geocoding capabilities for 38 countries and regions in North America, South America, Europe and Asia
Finely tuned driving-direction algorithms using blended information from best-in-class data sources
An extensive point-of-interest (POI) and business listings database with more than 20 million records
Small and Midsize Business and Enterprise Benefits
MapPoint Web Service can help businesses improve efficiency, increase customer discoverability and offer new services by applying mapping and location intelligence to business and operational data. Businesses can do the following:
Incorporate powerful mapping capabilities such as address-finding and geocoding into everyday business processes.
Improve customer satisfaction by seamlessly integrating the location of business assets into Web presence.
Increase sales by improving the online purchase process experience.
Systems Integrator and ISV Benefits
MapPoint Web Service allows customers to avoid the burden of hosting location information, and gain a familiar development environment to create a broad range of business applications. They can do the following:
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Enhance reliable interoperability of solutions built with the MapPoint platform with MapPoint Web Service support for common standards such as SOAP and XML.
Developer Benefits
MapPoint Web Service can help developers realize new revenue streams by integrating MapPoint location intelligence into business applications and services for their customers. Developers can do the following:
Service-Level Agreement
As part of the MapPoint Web Service commercial agreements, Microsoft Corp. provides a service-level agreement (SLA) with 99.9 percent availability and API performance response of less than one second per map, as measured inside Microsoft's datacenters.
Microsoft .NET Connection
Microsoft .NET is software technology across the Microsoft product line that helps customers easily and consistently connect disparate information, systems and devices to meet their people and business needs (regardless of underlying platform or programming language). .NET is built on industry Web service standards for interoperability.
Integration With Other Web Services
As a Web service, MapPoint Web Service can be easily combined and integrated with other XML-based Web services, making it easier for enterprises to gain the full business value of incorporating location data into their applications and processes.
Common MapPoint Web Service Applications
MapPoint Web Service is designed to enable a broad range of consumer and enterprise applications. The following all use the same core technology, so customers can easily deploy these applications throughout an organization.
Web Site Locators
One of the most widely used applications of MapPoint Web Service is to enable store or facility locators for Web sites. In addition to comprehensive mapping capabilities, MapPoint Web Service provides powerful search capabilities that include storing search criteria, such as hours and types of services, that help customers find what they are looking for.
Fleet and Asset Tracking
MapPoint Web Service is used to integrate high-quality routing and mapping functionality into fleet-tracking applications, such as monitoring delivery trucks or installers. Enterprises also use MapPoint Web Service to help route vehicles to as many as 50 destinations.
Mobile Location Services
Application developers can help consumers with a mobile device and an Internet connection find movie theaters, stores and other locations while consumers are mobile. For business applications, MapPoint Web Service can be integrated into mobile customer relationship management (CRM) or field service applications that can be used by mobile sales force or field service employees.
Speech-Enabled Locators
With the same technology that powers Web site locators, enterprises can draw on one of several speech companies that use MapPoint Web Service so customers can find the nearest location using voice prompts.
Travel Portals
To provide trip-planning capabilities as part of their Web sites, enterprises can combine mapping capabilities with extensive POI data sets, such as those for restaurants and hotels.
Call-Center Applications
MapPoint Web Service can be integrated with call-routing mechanisms so incoming requests can be routed using location, such as sales territories. Further, service representatives can provide location-specific information — for example, about customers reporting dropped calls — to service groups that can analyze problems.
MapPoint Web Service can be used to validate addresses as part of e-commerce solutions, helping prevent downstream problems associated with incorrect addresses. MapPoint Web Service also has been used in fraud-detection applications, in which the location of two transactions can be compared using distance calculations such as drive times. MapPoint Web Service also can be used to apply proper taxes in transactions, such as to match a customer's address against a county-based tax scheme.
The new polygon data source allows MapPoint Web Service customers to define and render a region on a map. Customers can then use this region to find relations to other polygons, point data sources, addresses and specific geographic locations. Common uses of polygons include defining neighborhoods, delivery areas, cell-phone coverage and territories. The MapPoint Web Service will offer a polygon-creation tool and several command-line tools for converting existing ESRI, MapInfo, Autodesk, Intergraph and GML files to the MWS polygon file format. Microsoft is also offering a COM Add-in for MapPoint 2004 that allows customers to draw their own polygons and save them to the MWS polygon XML file format.
Real-Time Traffic Incidents
MapPoint Web Service 4.0 provides customers with information about real-time traffic incidents (accidents, congestion or construction) for over 70 major metropolitan areas in the U.S. Data about the traffic incidents includes the severity, traffic flow diversion, the expected duration and the expected delay.
New Map Styles for Consumers
MapPoint Web Service 4.0 supports new map styles to make working with maps even easier:
 Line Drive Maps. Modeled after hand-drawn directions, Line Drive Maps help customers easily see where they are going on a map printout by simplifying the map route and removing untraveled roads.
Night Time Maps. The black background and bright green roads in this style aid in viewing maps at night on mobile devices. The black background keeps your eyes from having to readjust between the screen and the dark.
Urban Inset Maps. These are static maps identifying significant roads and points of interest in major urban areas. They are often used to aid travelers.
Finding Addresses
Addresses are geocoded in areas in 26 countries. The street name can be combined with any of the following information to produce a result: city, state, postal code or name of intersecting street. Results are returned to the user along with a confidence score, which enables customers to fine-tune their results. Disambiguation technology automatically helps makes sense of common misspellings or nonstandard formats.
Finding Nonaddressable Places
In addition to finding addresses, users can search for geographic entities such as cities, postal codes, states, counties, rivers, lakes, landmarks, airports and other structures that do not generally have street addresses. Similar to the way addresses are found, the latitude and longitude for a geographic entity are returned along with a score indicating the accuracy of a match.
Reversing Geocoding
Users can access a list of geographic entities associated with a particular coordinate, such as county or designated marketing area. This is useful, for example, to help determine which state or county tax applies to a sales transaction when the customer hasn't entered the tax information.
Address Parsing
Address fields can be parsed from a single string. Addresses can be parsed according to country-specific address formats. For example, an address such as One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA, 98052 will be recognized as an address, and the elements of the address can be identified as street, city, state and postal code. This is useful for cleaning up and standardizing address databases and for enabling users to find one-line addresses.
Finding Nearby Places
A list of points of interest can be returned based on the points' proximity to a selected point (e.g., "Find all ATMs around a hotel"). Searches can be performed for POIs along a specified route. MapPoint Web Service includes a database of more than 20 million listings, and customers can upload their own custom datasets as well. For instance, a database that includes all of a customer's retail outlets and customer service centers could be uploaded to be used with the Find Nearby and Find Near Route functionality.
Customizing Locations
Customers can geocode and store their own location database to be used with MapPoint Web Service applications. Customers can include up to 300 searchable attributes for each record — such as types of services and hours of operation — that can be used as part of customer searches. Custom icons (such as company logos) also can be uploaded to the MapPoint server and shown on maps. These locations and associated data are stored on a password-protected server.
Optimized driving directions can be returned for up to 50 places and/or addresses. Routes can be displayed on a map and as step-by-step instructions with an associated map for each step. MapPoint Web Service provides access to more than 5.5 million miles of roads in the U.S. and 4.6 million kilometers of roads in Europe.
Map Rendering
Maps can feature any of 29 highly readable map styles and font sizes, optimized for a wide variety of devices and applications. MapPoint Web Service provides more than 200 icons that can be used to highlight different types of points on a map.
POI Database
Customers can take advantage of a database of more than 200,000 destinations in North America and Europe, including airports, parks and common landmarks such as the U.S. Capitol or the Washington Monument. In addition, customers can access a database of more than 20 million business listings in the U.S., covering categories such as restaurants, banks, gas stations and hotels.
MapPoint Web Service Customer Services Site
MapPoint Web Service customers are provided with access to a secured extranet site, the Customer Services Site (CSS), for accessing and managing most aspects of their accounts:
From the home page of the CSS, customers can get quick access to common tasks performed on the CSS site, in addition to job status reports for tasks such as the automatic uploading of customer POI data.
An enhanced, easy-to-use interface lets customers upload and geocode their POI data through a single process. They also can automate uploads through a SOAP API.
Storage of customer POI data across multiple data sources has been increased; up to 2.5 million cells are now allowed based on the following formula for an Excel-type file sheet: rows multiplied by columns less than or equal to 2.5 million cells where columns are less than or equal to 300. (Rows can be entities or locations and columns can be properties.)
With the Location Manager tool, customers can manage their POI data interactively, viewing POI data sets, adding or deleting records, editing properties, and performing other tasks. Location Manager also includes a query user interface that enables users to search by proximity, entity ID, modified date or match type to find a specific record.
Usage and trend-tracking reports are provided for use in business intelligence analysis (e.g., with Microsoft MapPoint 2004).
International Map Coverage
MapPoint Web Service provides street-level coverage in 26 countries and regions:
North America. U.S. and Canada
South America. Brazil
Europe. Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Guernsey, Ireland, Isle of Man, Italy, Jersey, Liechtenstein, Luxemburg, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, San Marino, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and Vatican City
Asia/Pacific. Australia, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Singapore and Taiwan
Rest of the world. Coverage of major cities and roads
MapPoint Web Service supports input (find) and results (maps and driving directions) in Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian (Bokmål), Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, U.K. English and U.S. English.
In addition, MapPoint Web Service has an integrated SOAP API that works the same way for all supported geographies and functionalities. There is no need to rewrite an application to migrate between North America, South America and Europe. For example, finding a nearby hotel is programmatically identical for locations in the U.S. or Germany.
MapPoint Web Service SDK
The MapPoint Web Service software development kit (SDK) includes detailed documentation and describes the basic services, requirements, development guidelines, object model and comprehensive reference information for MapPoint Web Service. It also includes sample code demonstrating common uses of MapPoint Web Service.
The MapPoint Web Service licensing model includes the following elements:
An annual platform access fee starts at $8,000, including 500,000 transactions.
Additional transactions will be priced according to volume discounts for high-volume purchases.
For applications with "known" users, such as a fleet management application or a CRM application, a per-user fee (subscriber access license) is charged at $2 per user per month.
Microsoft also offers various developer support packages.
MapPoint Web Service has the following system requirements:
A deployment computer with an Internet connection
The ability to send requests using SOAP 1.1 and HTTP 1.1, and the ability to parse XML
For the administration of the service, Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 or later installed on a computer with an Internet connection to access the Microsoft extranet portal and the MapPoint Web Service Customer Services Site
Evaluation accounts can be requested at http://www.microsoft.com/mappoint/enterprise/webservice/eval.aspx.
Additional information, including information on pricing and licensing, is available at http://www.microsoft.com/mappoint.
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A beautiful reflection on our eventual sons- and daughters-in-law, by Denise McGonigal.
Who might be the lucky men who would marry our four daughters? My wonderings were endless. What did they look like? Who were their families? Where were they growing up? And what choices were they making that would lead them, ultimately, to meet Erin, Caitlin, Meghan and Molly?
Omartian's advice struck a chord in me: Begin praying for the future spouse of your child very early in his or her life. Although we did not and could not yet know his identity, each of these four young men was already, in some eternal, cosmic way, becoming woven into the fabric of our family.
Do you pray for the yet-to-be revealed future spouse of your child? At this very moment he or she is establishing patterns, forming values, developing opinions and making choices that will matter to a future life shared with your child. And there's also the real possibility that no one else is praying for him or her right now.


While Samsung continues to dominate by market share and ship more smartphones than other top smartphone companies by a huge margin, it still can't seem to come anywhere close to catching up with Apple where it matters most.
Everyone talks about profits when discussing Apple's edge over Samsung in the smartphone market, and it's true that Apple maintains a huge lead over its South Korean rival in this key area. According to Canaccord Genuity analyst Michael Walkley, Apple pulls in more than 90% of the smartphone industry's profits each quarter, while Samsung is responsible for under 10%.
But Apple's advantage reaches far beyond profits. As reiterated by results from a new survey released by RBC Capital Markets on Monday morning, Apple continues to hold a huge lead over Samsung two other important areas.
RBC polled more than 6,000 consumers and found that Apple maintains a big lead where both brand loyalty and smartphone purchase intent are concerned. Apple's iPhone always seems to come out on top in these two key areas.
In terms of brand loyalty, RBC found that more than 83% of current iPhone owners polled planned to continue to patronize Apple when it comes time to buy a new smartphone. Meanwhile, about 64% of current Samsung smartphone owners planned to buy another Samsung phone.
Also of note, nearly 10% of Samsung phone owners planned to switch to an iPhone while only 4% of current iPhone owners said they were planning a switch to Samsung.
These brand loyalty findings mirror several other studies that have been carried out over the years, and they make sense considering how well the iPhone always performs in customer satisfaction surveys. With the odd exception here and there, every notable study seems to place Apple at the top of the pile.
In fact, Apple even tops Samsung in smartphone customer satisfaction in Samsung's own home of South Korea, where the iPhone has outranked Samsung phones in Seoul-based market research firm Consumer Insight's studies since it first debuted. The results of the firm's most recent study show Apple ranking in the No. 1 position while Samsung is tied with Pantech in the No. 3 spot.
Apple also has the edge when it comes to overall purchase intent. RBC found that about 43% of respondents planned to buy an iPhone as their next smartphone, while about 23% of those polled said a Samsung phone would be their next smartphone purchase.


Ahrar Al-Sham Militants Will Return To Northwestern Hama Under New Agreement With Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham 5 out of 5 based on 3 ratings. 3 user reviews.
The Turkish-backed Ahrar al-Sham Movement will redeploy hundreds of its fighters in the opposition-held part of the northwestern Hama countryside under a new agreement with Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the Nedaa Syria news outlet reported on January 19.
"The two sides signed an agreement that will allow the Ahrar al-Sham Movement to return to the al-Ghab Plains and rearrange its positions along the frontlines with the areas held by the Syrian regime," the outlet's report reads.
Earlier this month, HTS launched a surprise attack on the positions of the Ahrar al-Sham Movement in the northwestern Hama countryside. The battle ended within 24 hours and the Turkish-backed group accepted a humiliating surrender agreement that allowed HTS to impose control of the enter region.
Following the agreement, more than 2,700 fighters of the Ahrar al-Sham Movement and other groups of the Turkish-backed National Front for Liberation (NFL) coalition withdraw to the occupied area of Afrin.
Local observers believe that HTS is allowing these fighters to return because it fears that the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and its allies will soon launch a military operation in northwestern Hama. Earlier, commander of pro-government Tiger Forces, visited the region, which supports this possibility.
More like the fighters from Ahrar al-Sham who didn't want to join Erdogan's side were allowed to return to stay the area and join HTS instead.


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News Operinter shows its most supportive side with various contributions
Operinter shows its most supportive side with various contributions
Operinter continues to show its most supportive face for the benefit of the most fragile or disadvantaged groups in society. Proof of this has been its recent collaboration with two NGOs: the Fundación Aladina and the Association of Relatives of Alzheimer's Disease in Valencia (AFAV). These were two far-reaching campaigns, one of national scope and the other more local in nature.
These actions are part of the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) area of the Alonso Group's freight forwarder and show how, in addition to being a reference logistics operator at national and international level, it has strong convictions that make it close to those who need it most.
Fundación Aladina
Operinter Madrid has collaborated with this organization that is dedicated to the comprehensive support of children, adolescents and families with cancer. They offer psychological, emotional and material assistance thanks to a team of professionals, in addition to the volunteers themselves. In addition, Aladina carries out major works and improvements in public hospitals. In fact, in December 2016, the foundation inaugurated the new children's ICU at the Niño Jesús Hospital in Madrid.
This is not the first time that Operinter Madrid has collaborated with this organization, which was founded in 2005 by Paco Arango. At the end of this year, coinciding with the Christmas period, the company plans to collaborate with the foundation again.
AFAV Association
Moreover, from Operinter Valencia, they have made an economic contribution to the AFAV association (Association of Relatives of Alzheimer's Disease in Valencia) which is made up of patients, relatives, professionals, volunteers and collaborators who fight to improve the quality of life of those affected by this degenerative disease. It brings together more than 8,000 people and also works to raise social awareness of Alzheimer's.
Thanks to the generosity and effort of all Operinter Valencia's workers, the organization has planned two cultural outings for patients and their families. One of them will be a visit to the Carmen's Museum in Valencia for patients in the very early stages of the disease, and the other will be a more leisurely excursion.
The rest of the contribution will be used to renovate and purchase handicraft and stationery materials for educational workshops during the first months of this year.
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Banal Humanity
Marius Olteanu's Monsters. (Monștri., 2019)
Vol. 93 (March 2019) by Zoe Aiano
Spanning the course of a day and a night in Bucharest, Monsters depicts a crisis point in a relationship between a young, seemingly well-to-do couple. Using a three-part structure, the narrative first follows Dana (Judith State) on her return home for a business trip, then rewinds to reveal what Arthur (Cristian Popa) got up to during her absence, before continuing with the two of them together as they reflect on the future of their conjugal life together.
Skipping over its triteness, the first issue with this approach is the inherent imbalance in the dramaturgy of the different sections. Dana's narrative essentially serves as an extensive, drawn-out set up. After she arrives at the train station at night, she proceeds to cry in the bathroom before getting in a taxi. She is clearly hesitant, however, and changes her mind about which address to go to. Her phone keeps ringing but she refuses to answer. Finally, she bribes the taxi driver (Alexandru Potocean) to let her stay in the car until morning, although this plan is also foiled when her pregnant neighbor turns up and desperately needs to get to the hospital. There are also numerous red herrings thrown in for good measure, such as an ominous fight between a drunk girl and the taxi driver, and allusions to a mysterious smell of fried meat emanating from her bathroom.
In essence, the segment is dedicated to building up suspense. Dana refuses to answer any questions that would account for her behavior ("If I tell you now, what will we talk about later?"). Indeed, she talks very little in general, conforming to the current trend of trying to turn the trope of the silent woman into some kind of an archetype of stoic suffering and repression. The result of this, however, is that she comes off as having basically no character at all, which makes it very difficult to be invested in the great revelation of her relationship issues. Adding to this, the anonymous taxi driver appears much more intriguing by sheer juxtaposition, even though his own character offers little beyond a glimpse of yet another contemporary cliché – the gruff taxi driver with hidden depths forced into a second job by the poor state of society.
This makes the second section the pay-off. Jumping back in time, we are finally introduced to Dana's husband Arthur as he furtively plans a date over text message. Just as it seems the film has gone in the most obvious direction – Dana is being troubled by straightforward infidelity – the big reveal comes. Arthur's tryst is with a man, namely Alex (Șerban Pavlu), a blind date he met over Grindr. The scene of the encounter between them plays out in real time and is by far the best of the film. While the dialogue is too clunky and the exposition laid out too neatly, it nevertheless manages to capture the awkwardness and humor of nervous anticipation transformed into disappointing sex.
Although the discussion of homosexuality and the continued taboo surrounding it that takes place between the two men is fairly refreshing and sensitively handled, it nonetheless feels inherently problematic to use bisexuality as the punchline to the question of "what could possibly be so shocking?" The decision to treat the matter so superficially seems like a hugely wasted opportunity, especially given that it is easily the most interesting aspect of a film that otherwise simply rehashes tired themes.
Again, returning to the question of narrative weighting, it feels incredibly disproportionate to spend 45 minutes watching Dana drifting around the city being indecisive while Arthur gets all the action (even if he then also goes on to drift around the city for the rest of his story arc). Skipping ahead to the final part – signaled by a completely unnecessary shift in aspect ratio from 4:3 to 16:9 – we learn that Dana has apparently also been unfaithful to Arthur, but we are given no insight into her motivations, desires or conflicts. Her sexual transgression is confined to a throwaway line that comes across as a last-ditch attempt at restoring symmetry to the two protagonists that has little significance in and of itself.
As such, Monsters fails both as suspense-driven drama and as a meaningful exploration of morality and complexity in contemporary relationships. It also seems confused about the conclusion it wants to draw with this allegory. After the couple are reunited and decide to stay together despite their inability to conform to the societal conventions of monogamy, the film changes direction once again and launches into a debate about whether or not they should have children, which again ends in more sulking around the city. In choosing such a condemning name for the film, the expectations of scandal and provocation are set very high, while in reality what it delivers is a fuzzy portrait of two people struggling to reconcile romantic domesticity with sexual impulse. If this is what it takes to earn the label of monster, according to this film it seems like there is very little hope for humanity.
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Inca art was practical. The Incas were an artistic people who used materials available to them in nature and blended them creating many artistic forms in utilitarian ways. Much of their artistic expression was used in everyday life and had a religious meaning. Because they did not know science they had to attach powers to natural phenomena worshiping natural resources such as water streams or rocks, animals and almost anything related to nature and the best way to worship was to incorporate their best artistic creations in their offerings to the gods. A good example of art in a tradition that has endured the passing of the years is the Inti Raymi or celebration of the Sun. In this celebration Inca descendants produce the most elaborate costumes in rich cotton textile and offer gifts to the Sun such as food and jewelry.
The Sun or Inti was the most important god in the Inca empire and since gold shone like the sun it was the metal that was used the most in religious ceremonies. Therefore they made vases and plates to serve food to the gods, jewelry for the nobility, knifes known as Tumis for sacrificing animals and performing surgery, they decorated their temples with sheets of gold and made altars of solid gold.
Inca art was inherited from cultures that predated the Inca Empire by thousands of years. They took what they thought was important and useful from them and perfected it adapting forms of art to their own needs and likes. The Inca people were skillful craftsmen who worked in ayllus producing work for the empire. There were ayllus that specialized in certain type of art such as pottery making or weaving. Their production would be taken to all parts of the empire and distributed, like a centralized economy. There were well specialized artisans working on art pieces such as jewelry and clothing for the nobility and the Sapa Inca. Such workers or artists were the acllas who were the Chosen Women, picked among the most beautiful young females in the empire.
Inca art gives us an understanding of how the Incas lived as they did not leave written records of their history. Everything we know about their lives have been passed on in oral form from generation to generation and from the interpretations of artifacts discovered by archeologist. Andean countries such as Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador have inherited these forms of art which is imbedded in their culture and can be seen in their current arts and crafts usually sold in craft markets.
It is commonly questioned as to how the Incas were able to develop such an exquisite architecture without the use of the wheel and modern tools. Their buildings have withstood five centuries in an earthquake prone zone and provided the foundations of many current buildings.
Ancient Andean weaving developed by pre-Inca civilizations and inherited and perfected by the Incas is considered as one of the greatest textile in the world and is compared to finest textile developed by the ancient Egyptians.The Incas used cotton, the wool of alpacas, llamas and the superior and rare wool of vicuñas and guanacos. Clothing made of the wool of vicuñas and guanacos was exclusively for the Inca and the nobility.
The best example of pottery produced before the days of the Inca Empire is found in the ceramic produced by the Moche or Mochica culture that thrived from 100 to 700 AD in the northern Peruvian coast.
During the Inca Empire the production of pottery in the Andes was an art already developed in the region for thousands of years. One characteristic of Inca pottery is that it did not portray the human form, unlike other cultures that thrived before them, instead they used geometric patterns and shapes and heads of animals. The production and the use of pottery during the Inca Civilization had two purposes, utilitarian and ceremonial.
Most of the Inca gold jewelry and artifacts was looted by the Spanish conquerors, melted and taken away to Spain. The largest part of the pieces shown in museums have been found by archeologist in burial grounds. They show us to a great extent the meaning and use of jewelry in the Inca civilization.
Antara, siku or zampolla is an Andean instrument associated with music around Lake Titicaca.
The Incas had two types of musical instruments, wind and percussion. String musical instruments were introduced by the Spanish and adapted to their music repertoire. Music reached all corners of the empire and all social classes. The Incas used one word "taqui" to describe dance, music and singing, though this word in Quechua means "song". Their music was pentatonic; they based their music in the combination of five notes re, fa, sol, la and do.


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BOOK REVIEW #14: BACK TO THE FUTURE: THE ULTIMATE VISUAL HISTORY
This is the official making of book which fans of the beloved movie series of all time has been waiting for 30 years!
Written by production publicist Michael Klastorin and BTTF uberfan Randal Atamaniuk, this 224 pages hardcover, coffee table size book is as what the book title proclaimed – The Ultimate Visual History.
It's packed with generous anecdotes mostly from the key filmmakers themselves including director Robert Zemeckis, writer Bob Gale, producers Steven Spielberg and Frank Marshall. The process of how and why Michael J. Fox replaces original star and method actor Eric Stoltz is the main juicy news of the first Back to the Future besides the long, tiring time it took Zemeckis and Gale to bring their script to screen. It's not just Stoltz who is giving problems though but Crispin Glover who plays George McFly as well.
The main cast members Fox, Christopher Lloyd and Lea Thompson also has their fair share of stories to tell as well as some of the crew who had worked on the movie series liked costume designer Joanna Johnston which obviously adds more credibility to the book.
The book is so informative that it also delves into the various incarnations of the script before it became the final version you seen on screen. But you are probably distracted by the inclusion of largely unseen concept art, storyboards and behind-the-scenes photos since it's a movie produced long before the Internet and social media came readily available. Who doesn't love the concept drawings by artist Drew Struzan.
I personally love Back to the Future Part II for the wild crazy depiction of the future. It's 2015 right? Though in actual fact we have yet perfected any flying cars, hoverboards, self-lacing Nikes, it's always fun to revisit how production designer Rick Carter and special effects supervisor Michael Lantieri dressed up and recreate the old Universal Lot as the 2015 courthouse square for Zemeckis' vision. Whereas movies are made on the computers nowadays, it's always good to see how movies are made in the old days. Actual sets, physical effects and yes the amazing iconic DeLorean, not entirely realized in CGI.
Furthermore, it's packed with multiple prop replicas liked Sepia photograph of Marty and Doc from Part III, Jaws 19 movie poster, Doc's note to Marty from 1885, Blast from the Past receipt from Part II and many more. My only gripe is the replicas are clumsily stick on to the pages which make them vulnerable to losing over time.
Back to the Future: The Ultimate Visual History not only looks good but it's also packed to the brim with so much detail and secrets that it will make Doc Brown blush. If you have only enough budget to get one book this year, make it this one!
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Buckingham (2015) shared four ways to build productive and engaging teams for the upcoming years for HRM. What are they and how can you apply them to your current or future organization of your choice?


Liposuction is the procedure which gets rid of unwanted fat. Unfortunately, some patients are often left with lumpy results, uneven results and end up going in search of corrective solutions.
If you're considering Liposuction to the your love handles, saddlebags, or abdomen, familiarize yourself with the procedure and the options available to your surgeon. Know exactly how your procedure will be handled before you schedule it.
The instrument that a Plastic Surgeon uses to remove the fat from your body is called a cannula. Cannulas come in a variety of sizes and are classified by the width of the long slender tube. After over 25 years of performing Liposuction, I have found that the cannula which works best is a small, thin, 3 millimeter diameter cannula. The small diameter cannula ensures that you don't leave defects in the fatty tissue where fluids or blood can accumulate. Larger liposuction cannulas allow fluids to accumulate and have a higher likelihood of uneven scarring and surgery results. Uneven scarring is what causes skin contour irregularities.
All Liposuction cannulas have holes at the tip where the fat enters the cannula tube to get sucked out. Although large holes allow the surgeon to remove the fat faster, small holes are best for the smoothest result. It defeats the purpose when you have a small 3mm diameter cannula (described above), but then the cannula has large oval holes! The larger oval holes can result in fluid accumulations and subsequently uneven scarring.
Immediately following surgery, topifoam pads should be placed inside your compression garment, next to your skin. The topifoam pads act like a splint on the skin holding it nice and smooth in place. Think of it like putting a lid on jello as it sets to let it set absolutely flat, even if the body is moving.
Following surgery, you should be wearing a compression garment for the first two weeks. You want a compression garment that is tight enough but not too tight. It should also have shoulder straps so the garment does not kink or move when you move around or sit down. It should not be removed for even 5 minutes during the first 5 days! After that, it should be worn continuously for 2 weeks, only removing it for a few minutes for a shower.
I follow this routine religiously, and it works great for me – always the smoothest results! Look at these before and after Liposuction photos to see my patients' smooth, even results.
To learn more, watch my video about Liposuction cannulas or read about the importance of Liposuction post op compression garments. In addition, it is always a good idea to read the Liposuction information page at the ASPS website.
It depends on the area that was liposuctioned. Every area that was touched by a liposuction cannula gets covered by a pad.
I feel hesitant to make recommendations, because I don't know what technique your surgeon uses and that can impact a lot what kind of garment you can use.
But ask your surgeon about what kind of garment an why he likes it.
I need liposuction but I live in China. Oh no! What should I do?


Homelessness is, by definition, a housing problem, but America's Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Dr Ben Carson says it's not his problem, "not a Federal problem, but everybody's problem." Which usually means, it's nobody's problem, except the millions of people in America who go homeless every night. Alastair Gee runs The Guardians' investigative project on homelessness, Outside in America. He reports a lot of cities are solving their homelessness problem by handing out one-way bus tickets out of town. Some solution!


When Google and the capital of Kansas changed names - InternetNews:The Blog - Kenneth Corbin - InternetNews.
In the annals of Google's April Fool's jokes, this is a pretty good one.
Google has a proud tradition of greeting April with bogus blog postings (announcements of plans to colonize Mars with Virgin's Richard Branson, the launch of Google Romance, Pigeon Rank, etc.), and, true to form, the company has come out with a new round of gags.
Of these, the centerpiece is the startling announcement that Google is no longer Google at all. No, from this day forward, the shingle hanging in front of 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway will read "Topeka."
"Early last month the mayor of Topeka, Kansas stunned the world by announcing that his city was changing its name to Google. We've been wondering ever since how best to honor that moving gesture."


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Q: OpenCV cmake error I am new to OpenCV with CMake and I am using it on Windows for the first time and facing some problem which I have mentioned below.
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:10 (find_package):
  By not providing "FindOpenCV.cmake" in CMAKE_MODULE_PATH this project has
  asked CMake to find a package configuration file provided by "OpenCV", but
  CMake did not find one.

  Could not find a package configuration file provided by "OpenCV" (requested
  version 3.1.0) with any of the following names:

    OpenCVConfig.cmake
    opencv-config.cmake

  Add the installation prefix of "OpenCV" to CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH or set
  "OpenCV_DIR" to a directory containing one of the above files.  If "OpenCV"
  provides a separate development package or SDK, be sure it has been
  installed.

Can anyone suggest me a step-by-step solution for this.

A: Use vcpkg.exe to build open-source windows projects , including OpenCV, on the fly. Download vcpkg from github and build the vcpkg.exe. CMake download and cross-compiling( if any) will be perform automatically. Open Powershell window in administrative mode and type .\vcpkg install opencv . After successful install type .\vcpkg integrate install on the Powershell command prompt. Your project is ready and the libraries will be automatically inserted in your project. You can choose x86 or x84 or static/dynamic built.


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Is Russia Paying The Taliban Bounties To Kill U.S. troops?: Until Verified, Can The United States Negotiate Counterterrorism With Putin, A Cold-Blooded KGB Killer?
Washington Times columnist Daniel N. Hoffman, a retired CIA officer, offers a column on the reports that Russia is paying a bounty on American troops in Afghanistan.
In 2018, Gen. John Nicholson, then the commander of all U.S. forces in Afghanistan, issued a stark warning about Russia's "destabilizing activity" in Afghanistan.
Russian forces, the general charged, were conducting training exercises on the Afghan border with Tajikistan and purposely leaving some of their equipment, including night-vision goggles and small arms, behind for Taliban forces battling U.S. and coalition troops and the U.S.-backed government in Kabul.
For years, Russia has provided training and financial assistance to Taliban fighters, and in September 2019 hosted members of the Taliban for peace talks in Moscow. And now we have learned — based on tactical intelligence obtained from captured Taliban militants — that KGB operative-in-the-Kremlin Vladimir Putin may have authorized the Russian military intelligence service, known as the GRU, to pay "bounties" to Taliban fighters who kill U.S. troops.
If there is one thing I learned during the three years serving in war zones, it's that captured fighters can be a valuable source of intelligence, but often that they seek as much to influence as to inform their captors.
The threshold for sharing so-called duty to warn intelligence, however, is understandably very low, and the U.S. intelligence community immediately disseminated the finding to U.S. and coalition forces in harm's way — even before confirming its veracity.
But the threshold for President Trump and top policymakers is much higher, particularly when it comes to such actions as confronting Mr. Putin, expelling Russian officials or piling more sanctions on the Kremlin. U.S. analysts would need to collect far more additional intelligence to issue a judgment with a high enough level of confidence to justify action. The leak of the intelligence, which the White House and Pentagon have rightly deplored, will likely impede the effort to make a considered, proportionate response.
During this delicate trust-but-verify stage, the intelligence community might have wanted to give the president a heads-up about the findings, if only so he would not be blindsided if a coalition ally such as British Prime Minister Boris Johnson called to express appreciation for the warning.
Intelligence is like putting together a jigsaw puzzle where some of the pieces are missing, and others come from entirely different puzzles. Presidential briefers and their bosses must decide when the contours of the jigsaw puzzle are sufficiently clear so that the president can begin considering policy options.
Russia, remember, has invaded and occupied Georgia; was a co-conspirator in Syria's and Iran's attacks on civilians in Syria; poisoned former Russian military intelligence officer Sergey Skripal with a chemical nerve agent; invaded Ukraine and annexed Crimea; and interfered in U.S. and European elections.
A Taliban bounty plot, then, would be completely consistent with Mr. Putin's cloak-and-dagger approach to tactics and strategy.
But however odious, a bounty plan would not have the throw-weight to turn the tide of the war in the Taliban's favor.
You can read the rest of the column via the below link:
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jul/16/is-russia-paying-the-taliban-bounties-to-kill-us-t/
Posted by Paul Davis at 4:09 AM
Labels: Afghanistan, CIA, Daniel N. Hoffman, KGB, Russian bounties on American soldiers, The Washington Times, Vladimir Putin
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Tax credit changes are set to come into force next April and if you currently rely on this money from the Government, you might need to rethink your budgeting. There will be new cuts to tax credits and it's expected that families could lose out on an average of £1,000 a year.
The changes to tax credits will affect an estimated three million families and if you're one of them, it's likely that you'll be concerned about how the changes will affect you. We'll keep you up to date with how the cuts are going to work, who will be affected, and we'll give you some tips about how you could cope once they've been introduced.
Currently, the amount you can earn before tax credits start to reduce is £6,420 a year. After this limit, tax credits payments decrease the more you earn. From April 2016, the threshold is due to drop to £3,850 so for many people, it will mean less tax credits. Some working age benefits are also due to be frozen until 2020. This includes some tax credits and Local Housing Allowance but not maternity or disability benefits. While this isn't a cut in terms of how much you'll be given, it means that the benefits won't increase with inflation so your payments won't be worth as much.
While three million families are set to miss out on around £1,000 a year in tax credits, it's also estimated that some could lose out by as much as £2,000 a year. These families are likely to be in work, have two or more children and could also be struggling with council tax bills and rent.
If you rely on tax credits to help pay your bills at the moment, you'll probably have to make some changes before next April. Take a look at your current household budget – if you don't have one, it might be a good time to make one. See if there are any areas where you could cut back in what you're spending.
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December 1, 2017 News of the Day: GM's Autonomous Bolt Shows its Prowess in San Francisco, Apple Rumored to Be Testing Self-Driving Cars in Arizona
【Summary】December 1, 2017 News of the Day
Eric Walz Dec 01, 2017 3:19 PM PT
SAN FRANCISCO — GM released a self-driving General Motors Bolt on the streets of San Francisco at a media event this week where the car easily maneuvered around pedestrians, traffic cones, other cars, and even a food truck.
On Tuesday, GM's self-driving unit, Cruise Automation, conducted its first field testing of a Cruise-enhanced Bolt with a 15-minute, 2.2-mile (3.5-km) ride through San Francisco's crowded hilly terrain. During the drive, the Bolt passed 117 pedestrians, 4 cyclists, and 129 vehicles crossed the Bolt's path without incident.
Throughout the trip, a host of obstacles was met, such as crossing pedestrians, double-parked vehicles, and construction areas. No obstacles were hit.
As for potential troubling spots, the Bolt failed to react more assertively to certain driving situations and obstacles. During the trip, the Cruise's sensors sought to look for a clear path, stopping completely when approaching traffic cones and double-parked cars with several restarts. However, a food truck presented a more formidable challenge, stopping the car for a full minute before a safety driver took control of the vehicle to pass to stopped taco truck.
This effort makes the first time General Motors allowed public test rides for non-employees. Last August, GM rolled out Cruise Anywhere, an Uber style ride hailing app accessible to 10 percent of General Motors' Cruise employees.
These employees were offered Bolt rides anywhere in San Francisco between the hours of 7 am and 11 pm. It was also an opportunity for General Motors to show off the technology to investment analysts covering the automaker's progress.
In 2016, General Motors purchased San Francisco based Cruise Automation, a self-driving software firm, for roughly $1 billion to accelerate its autonomous vehicle development. Currently, Cruise works as an independent unit within GM's Autonomous Vehicle Development division.
Founded in 2013 in San Francisco, Cruise Automation is an early developer of autonomous vehicle technology, specifically an aftermarket kit that outfits regular cars with autonomous driving capability.
Other acquisitions and partnerships by GM, including a $500 million investment in Lyft and the purchase of Strobe, a LiDAR developer, signal a commitment towards a 2021 goal of launching a range of self-driving electric vehicles.
Apple Rumored to Be Testing Self-Driving Cars in Arizona
PHOENIX — Phoenix, Arizona is a great place to test self-driving cars. With strong support from Arizona Governor Doug Ducey, combined wide streets and warm weather, it's not surprising that Phoenix has become a hotbed for autonomous driving development.
Waymo, Uber, GM, Intel and others companies have set up shop and are working on autonomous driving technology in the area. Waymo just launched a driverless chauffeur service there in the world's first public trial using no back-up drivers. Now Apple is reportedly working in the region.
Several sources close to the company believe Apple is leasing the former Chrysler Fiat proving grounds in nearby Yucca to work on its autonomous technology.
Apple has been recruiting test engineers and technicians from various other proving grounds in the state, and indicated that its goal is testing self-driving systems, Jalopnik reported this week, citing a source "familiar with the matter."
The Chrysler grounds were sold to a housing developer in 2005, and later annexed by the City of Surprise, but went undeveloped for years. In September of 2016, the city signed a development agreement with the site's owner, SFI Grand Vista LLC, which said it intended to lease the grounds to a firm called Route 14 Investment Partners LLC.
Route 14 was given the green light for "all prior and current experimental and proving ground uses," Jalopnik noted, and turns out to have been incorporated in Delaware in 2015, registered under the Corporation Trust Company. Apple has a dropbox at the CTC's main office.
The grounds are said to provide a variety of driving conditions, such as a speed oval and different grades and surfaces, including places where wet weather could be simulated. Some parts simulate crosswalks and intersections — essential in preparing for real-world driving.
Apple has already started limited road tests of modified Lexus SUVs in California. The Arizona facility may be offering a chance to test technology both in controlled conditions and away from the public eye.
EPA Rates the Tesla Model 3 With a 310 Mile Range
The Tesla Model 3 at the Los Angeles Auto Show This Week
Tesla's Model 3 has a confirmed range of 310 miles, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. That figure applies to the optional long-range version of the Model 3, and is close to what Tesla claimed for the car in July. The newly released EPA rating makes the Model 3 one of the most efficient passenger electric vehicles on the market.
The EPA's range is used as the advertised figure for electric vehicles that are sold in the US. The 310-mile range is an estimate of the number of miles the vehicle should be able to travel in combined city and highway driving from a full charge. That's 131 miles per gallon gasoline equivalent (MPGe) for city driving, 120 MPGe on the highway, and 126 MPGe combined.
Achieving this range comes with one caveat, is cost more than the Models 3's $35,000 base price. The standard version of the Model 3 comes with 220 miles of range.The long-range version will cost $44,000, the automaker says. Production on the standard version is not expected to begin until sometime in 2018.
Fisker and Hakim Unique Group Team up to Create an Autonomous Shuttle
Automotive design icon and electric vehicle industry revolutionary, Henrik Fisker and Fisker Inc., will team with prominent entrepreneur, Wang Qicheng and the Hakim Unique Group on a vision for more integrated smart city systems – starting with electric, autonomous shuttles from Fisker Inc.
Created as part of an alliance with China's Hakim Unique Group, the Orbit has been designed to become the "world's most appealing autonomous shuttle for smart cities."
The companies confirmed the Orbit is a fully autonomous electric vehicle and the first deliveries are slated to occur by the end of 2018. As part of the agreement between the two companies, Fisker Inc. will be responsible for designing and developing the vehicle while the Hakim Unique Group will handle its marketing and operations in Asia.
In a statement, Henrik Fisker said "The combination of our breakthrough automotive technology, design prowess and unique vantage point as industry revolutionaries – and Jack's [Hakim Unique Group chairman Jack Wong] truly integrated vision of smart cities – is powerful. I am very excited about making the impossible, possible with intelligent urban ecosystems – starting with the development of one of the world's most forward-thinking and uniquely designed electric, autonomous shuttles: The Fisker Orbit."
The development comes on the heels of Fisker Inc. news on the launch of its EMotion luxury electric sedan, Fisker scientists filing patents on solid-state battery technology and more electric vehicle technology breakthroughs.
Digital Mapping Company HERE Acquires Advanced Telematic Systems
LONDON — Digital mapping company Here plans to acquire Advanced Telematic Systems (ATS), a Germany-based company that provides "over the air" software updates for connected and autonomous vehicles.
The deal, whose terms were not disclosed and which should close in early 2018, would strengthen Here's position as a provider of location and cloud services for self-driving cars that could hit the road in large numbers within a few years.
"The acquisition of ATS is a hugely important strategic investment for us to complement our portfolio as a premium automotive cloud provider," said Ralf Herrtwich, senior vice president of automotive at Here Technologies.
Here was sold by Nokia to automakers Audi, BMW and Daimler in 2015 for more than $2 billion and functions as a research lab for the carmakers as they seek to counter competitive threats from other automakers and technology firms. Last December, China's Tencent purchased a 10 percent stake in HERE as well.
HERE's mapping technology competes with Alphabet's Google Maps and Dutch rival TomTom. The company makes 3D digital road maps to centimetre-scale precision which many technologists say is necessary to realize fully autonomous cars.
HERE is the largest provider of digital maps for the automotive industry. The company spent $760 million on R&D in 2016, or around 55 percent of its sales of about $1.4 billion, according to documents reviewed by Reuters.
Over-the-air technology, or OTA, is in increasing demand as companies developing cars as digital devices and autonomous vehicles seek to keep their technology updated and user experience fresh.
Tesla's Share of the U.S. Plug-in Market Increases to 68% in June
Self-driving Truck Startup TuSimple Launching 'Autonomous Vehicle Operations Specialist Program' with Local College
Kitty Hawk and Boeing Form Partnership to Make Flying Cars Safer
U.S. Reject Tesla's Request for Tariff Exemption for the Model 3's 'Autopilot' Computer
Startup Alaka'i Unveils Hydrogen-powered Flying Car
Uber Launches Electric Bike Service in London with JUMP
Highways England Tests Autonomous Trucks for Road Construction
Florida Governor Signs Bill Allowing Self-driving Vehicles to Operate Without a Safety Driver
Tesla CEO Elon Musk Says the Automaker is On Track for the Biggest Sales Quarter in its History


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