Charlie Sotich from Chicago is internationally famous for his small kites. Some of Charlie's kites measure fractions of an inch. Postage stamps are usually bigger. His entire kite collection usually fits into a cigar box.
When I attended Charlie's annual Black Swamp Air Force small kite class on November 28th in Perrysburg, Ohio I was in for a BIG shock. The kite Charlie taught was an 18″ tall Rokkaku kite, huge by Charlie's standards. This Rokkaku had a different twist, or should I say Flip!
The Rokkaku design is pretty straightforward and follows the traditional dimensions and structure. The difference comes in the unique bridle arrangement that Charlie has perfected. This sliding bridle setup allows the kite to turn over or "flip-flop" in flight. This trick would not be much of a big deal if it were not for the truly amazing designs for the kite sails that Charlie supplies to the workshop attendees. The designs are optical illusions that look different when viewed right side up or upside down.
Twenty-five Black Swamp Air Force members attended Charlie's workshop. This is an annual event hosted by the Black Swamp Air Force Kite Club in conjunction with their annual Christmas party. Although Charlie has taught tens of thousands of kids how to make kites in workshops back in Chicago, this class was only attended by adults. Charlie says that this design is much too difficult for the average little kid to make. Although this is not a difficult construction project some of the big kids had problems.
One of the most enjoyable things about Charlie's kite workshops is the method he uses to instruct. Charlie has a knack for making the difficult parts seem easy. He can also become very technical when the situation requires it. Charlie says that the method he has perfected over the years works for anyone who makes a kite. The object is to convince the kitemaker that they can make the kite on their own. Charlie says that most problems with kitemaking classes come from poor instructions. If the kitemaker can understand what to do they can usually accomplish the most difficult techniques.
The "Flip-Flop" Rokkaku is a very easy design and everyone in the workshop was outside flying their creation in about an hour. Charlie says that the actual construction should only take about one half hour, but for this kite the decoration is as important as the construction, and you do need to color the sail before you construct the sliding bridle arrangement. But just like kid's kite classes you have to curtail the "coloring" part of the class or the workshop could take hours to complete.
Another interesting part of attending one of Charlie's workshops is the trivia about kite construction that Charlie passes along. – Did you know that you can remove the static electricity from tape by rubbing the non-sticky side of it in your hair before you use it? – Or wooden dowel rods bend best when soaked in water for two hours? – Just a few tidbits you will learn when you attend a workshop given by a "dyed in the wool" kitemaker who has helped kids.
– Reinforce the edges of the sail with 1/2″ scotch tape. This will give the kite more strength and durability.
– Insert the curved (horizontal) spars into the soda straws in the tips and centers of the sail.
– Punch holes in the 1/2″ plastic tubing to accommodate the center spar and the sliding bridle spar.
– Place the center straight spar into the soda straw and the 3/16″ plastic tubing. Place that tubing through the precut holes in the center of the sail.
– Tape the center (alignment) soda straw on the sail and tape down.
– Slide the 1/2″ plastic ring onto the bamboo skewer.
– Insert the 9″ Bamboo skewer (sliding bridle spar) into the 3/16″ plastic tubing in the center (front) of the kite.
– Attach your flying line to the 1/2″ plastic ring.
– The "Flip-Flop" Rokkaku flies very much like a fighter kite. Constant line attention is necessary.
– To "Flip" the kite simply release tension on the flying line and the plastic ring will slide to the bottom of the bamboo skewer.
– When the ring hits the bottom a slight pull on the line will flip the kite.
– This "Inversion" can happen very quickly and the technique takes a bit of practice.
– Some kitemakers at the workshop experimented with tails to stabilize the kite and emphasize the top and bottom of the Rokkaku.
Charlie has been making kites since before recorded time. Most of his designs are very simple and fly perfectly. The cost of his kites is usually much less than a computer mouse pad. For more information about Charlie Sotich, and his many kite designs contact the author at tangents@kitelife.com.
Some ideas for "flip flop" graphics, stand on your head to see upside-down view.


Thought the Starwood-Marriott merger was a done deal? Not so. A week after Marriott one-upped the Chinese investment company Anbang with a counter-offer to buy Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Anbang has returned with yet a higher bid. According to the Wall Street Journal, Marriott's latest offer valued Starwood shares at $79.53 apiece; Anbang's counter came in at $81, and was subsequently raised to $82.75 per share.
As we reported a few weeks ago when Anbang's first offer broke, an acquisition by the Chinese company would likely preserve the status quo of operations at Starwood—where both its brands and loyalty program are concerned. A merger with Marriott, on the other hand, raises questions about how Starwood might (not) be able to preserve its indie spirit or its beloved SPG program. The upside of a potential Marriott acquisition: the creation of the world's largest hotel company, and the potential for the world's most powerful loyalty program.


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Big Ag Urges Obama to Allow Chinese-Processed Poultry
by: Bettina Elias Siegel
TheLunchTray.com
How is it economically feasible to ship chicken all the way to China and back, just to cook it?
Many readers were baffled by the economics of an arrangement in which U.S. poultry is sent to China and back for processing. While a spokesperson for the National Chicken Council has said that few American poultry suppliers will take advantage of the opportunity, Toby Moore, a spokesman for the USA Poultry & Egg Export Council, has been quoted as saying that, due to lower labor costs in China, "[t]here will probably be some company that can see some niche market" in the arrangement. Tony Corbo of Food & Water Watch also noted that a Chinese processor could possibly sell locally parts of the chicken that are more desirable in China than in the United States, such as the feet and dark meat, and this could play into the economic feasibility of the arrangement.
Is USDA going to also lift the export ban on raw, Chinese-raised and -slaughtered poultry?
Allowing China to process our poultry is widely seen as the first step toward ultimately allowing China to export into the United States its own raw poultry.
There are questions, however, regarding the timing of such a development. On September 9, Politico reported that Al Almanza, administrator of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service, informed Politico that USDA inspectors have already started inspecting Chinese slaughtering facilities, "a key prerequisite for China to begin selling its own, homegrown chicken to the U.S."
If there are any safety concerns at all, why are we opening our markets to Chinese poultry?
As noted in my first post on this issue, the opening up of our markets to Chinese-processed (and later, Chinese-raised) poultry is a calculated effort to induce China to open its lucrative beef market to U.S. beef, which is presently banned in China due to a mad cow scare in 2003.
But the beef industry is not alone in pushing for the importation of Chinese chicken into the United States. With an eye toward a general (and profitable) liberalization of trade relations with China, the corporations and trade groups in support of this action constitute a veritable Who's Who of American agriculture and food manufacturing: Monsanto, the Grocery Manufacturers' Association, Cargill, Kraft, Tyson and many others, as well as representatives of the beef industry such as the American Meat Institute and the National Cattlemen's Beef Association. (Take a look at the list of signatories on these 2009 industry-drafted letters on Chinese poultry importation, written to President Obama and Agriculture Secretary Vilsack.) It's perhaps also worth noting that Cargill has recently opened a $250 million poultry processing plant in China.
What can I do to express my concerns about Chinese-processed poultry and/or the importation of Chinese poultry?
There are two avenues for readers to express their concern about Chinese-processed and Chinese-raised poultry in the United States.
With respect to school food,USDA has informed me that school districts have, at the present time, the option to purchase food products that are 100% domestically grown and processed. This is probably the most direct means of keeping Chinese chicken out of school food, though of course it requires action in every school district. A more efficient approach would have each state's school food authority ("SFA," i.e., the state agency charged with administering the National School Lunch Program, usually the state department of education) expressly require that its districts purchase only domestically raised and processed meats. I don't know at the present time if this is possible, but if any Lunch Tray readers take the initiative and contact their state's SFA to discuss this, I'd love to know what response you receive. I'll do the same with the Texas Department of Agriculture, which is my state's SFA.
As for the importation of Chinese-raised poultry, before this can happen, USDA will need to submit a proposed rule for public comment. This will obviously be a critical time to let USDA know how consumers feel about this proposal, as a needed counterweight to the lobbying of powerful industries evidenced in the two letters cited above. I will certainly let you know when and if USDA issues this proposed rule.
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Ebola outbreak: race to notify 131 other passengers on flight that carried second infected nurse
By Lisa Maria Garza and Terry Wade
October 16, 2014 — 4.15am
Dallas: Authorities in the United States are working to notify the 131 other passengers on the flight that carried a second Texas nurse who has come down with Ebola in Dallas.
The second Dallas health-care worker diagnosed with Ebola travelled on Monday on a Frontier Airlines flight. The federal Centres for Disease Control and Prevention is asking all passengers from Frontier flight 1143, which landed on Monday evening after a flight from Cleveland to Dallas-Fort Worth, to call the CDC.
System failure ... The Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas where two nurses contracted Ebola after treating Thomas Eric Duncan before he died. Credit:Getty Images/AFP
Public health officials are interviewing passengers and answering their questions. Anyone determined to be at risk will be monitored.
Amber Vinson of Dallas exhibited no symptoms on the flight, but developed a fever the next day and tested positive for Ebola late on Tuesday. Ms Vinson had cared for Thomas Duncan, a Liberian who died October 8 from Ebola.
Infected: Nina Pham was the first nurse to contract Ebola. Credit:AP
Ms Vinson was isolated immediately after reporting a fever on Tuesday, Texas Department of State Health Services officials said.
The circumstances under which Ms Vinson travelled were not immediately known. But the latest revelation raised fresh questions about the handling of Duncan's case and its aftermath by both the hospital and the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
CDC Director Dr Thomas Frieden told CNN that the second Ebola patient should not have travelled on the plane as protocol outlined that any healthcare workers who treat Ebola patients are not allowed to take public transport.
At least 4447 people have died in West Africa in the worst Ebola outbreak since the disease was identified in 1976, but cases in the United States and Europe have been limited. The virus can cause fever, bleeding, vomiting and diarrhea, and spreads through contact with bodily fluids.
In September, Thomas Eric Duncan became the first patient in the US diagnosed with Ebola. He died in Dallas last week. Credit:AP
"Health officials have interviewed the latest patient to quickly identify any contacts or potential exposures, and those people will be monitored," the health department said in a statement.
During the weekend, 26-year-old nurse Nina Pham became the first person to be infected with Ebola in the United States. She had cared for Duncan during much of his 11 days in the hospital. He died in an isolation ward on October 8.
Police tape and a 'No Trespassing' notice are posted in Dallas, at the apartment of a healthcare worker who treated Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan and tested positive for the disease. Credit:AP
The hospital said on Tuesday that Ms Pham was "in good condition."
News of the second nurse's diagnosis follows criticism of the hospital's nurses of its initial handling of the diseases, in a statement on Tuesday by National Nurses United, which is both a union and a professional association for US nurses.
The nurses said the hospital lacked protocols to deal with an Ebola patient, offered no advance training and provided them with insufficient gear, including non-impermeable gowns, gloves with no taping around wrists and suits that left their necks exposed.
'Piled to the ceiling'
Basic principles of infection control were violated by both the hospital's Infectious Disease Department and CDC officials, the nurses said, with no one picking up hazardous waste "as it piled to the ceiling."
"The nurses strongly feel unsupported, unprepared, lied to, and deserted to handle the situation on their own," the statement said.
The hospital said in a statement it had instituted measures to create a safe working environment and it was reviewing and responding to the nurses' criticisms.
Speaking early on Wednesday on CBS This Morning, US Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell declined to comment on the nurses' allegations.
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings said at a news conference on Wednesday that the second infected nurse lived alone and had no pets.
He said local health officials moved quickly to clean affected areas and to alert her neighbours and friends. A decontamination could be seen taking place at her residence.
Early wake-up
Residents at The Bend East in the Village apartment complex were awoken early on Wednesday by text messages from property managers saying a neighbour had tested positive for Ebola, and pamphlets had been stuffed beneath doors and left under doormats, said a resident, who asked not to be named.
Other residents were concerned enough that they were limiting time spent outdoors.
"Everybody thinks this won't happen because we are in the United States. But it is happening," said Esmeralda Lazalde, who lives about 1.5 kilometres from where the first nurse who contracted Ebola resides.
Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital is doing everything it can to contain the virus, said Dr Daniel Varga of Texas Health Resources, which owns the hospital. "I don't think we have a systematic institutional problem," he said at a news conference on Wednesday.
At the same briefing, Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins, the county's chief political officer, said authorities were anticipating additional possible Ebola cases.
"We are preparing contingencies for more, and that is a very real possibility," Jenkins said.
The CDC said in a statement that it was performing confirmation testing of Texas' preliminary tests on the new patient.
CDC Director Dr Thomas Frieden said on Tuesday the agency was establishing a rapid-response team to help hospitals "hands on, within hours" whenever there is a confirmed case of Ebola.
Frieden has come under pressure over the response and preparedness for Ebola, but White House spokesman Josh Earnest said US President Barack Obama was confident of Frieden's ability to lead the public health effort.
Burwell, in a series of television interviews on Wednesday, said officials were adding staff to ensure the hospital in Dallas followed procedures to prevent transmission of the virus.
She said there would be round-the-clock site managers to oversee how healthcare workers put on and remove the protective gear used when treating Ebola patients.
In addition to extra CDC staff on site, two nurses from Emory University, in Atlanta, which has a specialised hospital that has treated other Ebola patients flown in from West Africa, were in Dallas to train staff.
Obama was due to hold a video conference on Wednesday with British, French, German and Italian leaders to discuss Ebola and other international issues, the White House said.
Prospects for a quick end to the contagion diminished as the World Health Organisation predicted that Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, the three worst-hit countries, could produce as many as 10,000 new cases a week by early December.
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Q: Maketrans not working for petl with python3.4 I am using petl package which i have installed using pip  in virtulaenv with python 3.4. when i tried to test that whether the petl package is installed properly or not in the python shell
I have done this to check
$ python
Python 3.4.0 (default, Apr 11 2014, 13:05:11)
[GCC 4.8.2] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from petl import *
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/home/user/.env/lib/python3.4/site-packages/petl/__init__.py", line 10, in <module>
    from petl.util import header, fieldnames, data, records, rowcount, look, see, \
  File "/home/user/.env/lib/python3.4/site-packages/petl/util.py", line 14, in <module>
    from string import maketrans
ImportError: cannot import name 'maketrans'
>>>

I tried to check whether  maketrans is present in  string package i run this
>>> from string import maketrans
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: cannot import name 'maketrans'
>>>

Found that the default python string package does not have this . I am not sure that why petl package have used this without mentioning it in its dependency and if its the default python package then why its giving import error.
Not sure what is happening can any one please help

A: use str to invoke maketrans
LETTERS = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
NUMBERS = '22233344455566677778889999'
## translate a-z char to phone digits
TRANS = str.maketrans(LETTERS, NUMBERS)

A: In Python2, maketrans is a function belongs to the string module. However in Python3, maketrans is a static method of the str type.

A: Update: petl >= 1.0 supports Python 3.4.

Clearly petl does not work on Python 3.x.
This specific error is because the Python 2.x string.maketrans function doesn't exist in 3.x.* But if you got past that, you'd find lots of other errors.
While the PyPI entry doesn't list supported versions (which it really should), a quick google turned up Issue #240, to add Python 3 support, which has been on the backlog since 26 Aug 2014. And a 2to3 pass over the source shows hundreds of issues.**
So, how do you fix this?

*

*Use something other than petl.

*Use Python 2.7 for your petl work.

*Help port it.

* Actually, in 3.0, it still existed, but only worked on bytes objects. In 3.1, maketrans and translate methods were added to bytes and bytearray, equivalent to the ones on str, and the string functions were deprecated, and then in 3.2 or 3.3 they were removed.
** Some of these issues are using things that were already deprecated in 2.6 or 2.7, which is odd given that petl originally worked only in 2.7, and was later ported to also work in 2.6.

A: Because I was looking for a clear example of how it works in python 3.4, I post what I've found:
#in py2 you need to "from string import maketrans"
table = "".maketrans('cs', 'kz')
#py2 table = maketrans('cs', 'kz')
len(table)
#in py2 you will get **len(table) = 256 in py3.4 len(table) = 2**
sentence = "cause koala is causing trouble"
sentence.translate(table)

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15,000 internet-connected devices could be hacked to mine $1,000 of cryptocurrency in 4 days
Published Thu, Mar 1 20182:26 AM EST Updated Thu, Mar 1 20183:27 AM EST
Arjun Kharpal@ArjunKharpal
Vulnerable internet-connected devices from security cameras to smartphones can be hijacked by hackers and turned into tools to mine cryptocurrencies, cybersecurity firm Avast demonstrated.
So-called internet of things devices can be attacked and the computing power of all the gadgets can be used to mine the digital coin monero.
Avast said that 15,000 hacked internet-connected gadgets would be needed to mine $1,000 of cryptocurrency in four days.
Digital cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin, Ripple, Ethernum, Dash, Monero and Litecoin.
Vulnerable internet-connected devices from security cameras to smartphones can be hijacked by hackers and turned into tools to mine cryptocurrencies, a cybersecurity company has demonstrated.
Avast, which is based in the Czech Republic, ran a demonstration on Wednesday at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, which had a number of devices running on a network powering a cryptocurrency mining software.
Mining is the process of verifying transactions on a cryptocurrency network by solving complex mathematical problems with high-powered computers. Bitcoin is very difficult to mine without having a super computer, but another cryptocurrency called monero can be done with a network of internet-connected devices.
Avast couldn't get 15,000 devices onto its hacked network, but based on the tests it did run, it said that it would need that number of internet-connected gadgets to mine $1,000 of cryptocurrency in four days.
Should you invest in a cryptocurrency?
CNBC Explains
A theoretical real-world attack would begin with hackers taking over a network of devices. They would use the combined computing power of those devices to then mine some monero.
While the $1,000 might not sound like a lot of profit, the potential is huge because in 2020, there will be over 20 billion internet-connected devices, according to a forecast by research firm Gartner, meaning the number of devices that could be attacked would be much higher. The was an estimated 8.4 billion of these devices in 2017.
"This ubiquity of devices combined with the fact they are so easy to attack makes them an attractive target," Ondrej Vlcek, the chief technology officer at Avast, told CNBC Wednesday.
Both crypto-mining and hacking of so-called internet of things devices are two rising trends. In 2016, an attack on a connected device was behind a hack that wiped out large swathes of internet access for many Americans. And North Korean government-backed hackers have been running campaigns aimed at hacking devices to mine monero.
Monero has become a favorite cryptocurrency for bad actors as it claims to be one of the most anonymous digital coins available.
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Vodafone CEO says banning Huawei could set Europe's 5G rollout back another two years
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I Edited this video from a list of films in the public domain.
I downloaded 227 films, mostly found on archive.org, and I used extracts from 38 of them for the final cut.


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namespace Oculus\Library;
use Oculus\Engine\Container;
use Oculus\Service\LibraryService;

class Validation extends LibraryService {
	/**
	 * Route to check permissions for.
	 * Admin only.
	 * @var string
	 */
	private $permission;

	/**
	 * Form fields that need to be validated.
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	/**
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Linguistics Students Help Revitalize Critically Endangered Language in Mexico
May 27th, 2014 Ryan Dougherty
"So much of the work in revitalizing languages is spreading the message that these languages are important and worth caring about," says Carolyn Anderson '14 (right), with Haverford's Anneke Heher '14 and May Plumb '16.
A professor and three Tri-Co students recently visited the leaders of a city in Oaxaca, Mexico, to present their Zapotec Talking Dictionary, designed to help revitalize a native language on the verge of disappearing.
Carolyn Anderson '14 was nervous about that early-May visit to Tlacolula de Matamoros. She and the rest of the Tri-Co team were proud of their work on the dictionary but unsure of how it would be received. But those nerves vanished as soon as Assistant Professor of Linguistics Brook Lillehaugen displayed the dictionary on her phone.
"[The Tlacolula leaders] started smiling," says Anderson, a linguistics major from Tacoma, Wash. "These are important, busy men, but they all took the time to squint at the small screen and try it out. You could see their faces light up as the phone was passed around the room."
The Zapotec language family is comprised of approximately 40 languages, all endangered, says Lillehaugen. The variety spoken in Tlacolula de Matamoros is critically endangered, with only about 100 elderly speakers remaining. Key causes include economic and ideological factors that push native-language speakers to adopt Spanish.
Assistant Professor of Linguistics Brook Lillehaugen presents the Zapotec Taking Dictionary via smartphone.
On the front line of the movement to revitalize native languages is K. David Harrison, associate professor of linguistics and co-leader of the National Geographic project Enduring Voices. He views languages as "the primary conduit for human culture."
"Each of the Mexican indigenous languages contains millennia of human experience, wisdom, and practical knowledge about the natural environment," Harrison tells National Geographic News.
Sponsored by National Geographic, Harrison determined the need for a talking dictionary for the Zapotec language. He enlisted Lillehaugen, already set to teach a course on Zapotec language last fall, to produce it.
"I hoped it would be a way to bring Zapotec voices into my classroom," she says, "but it became so much more."
Eight students from Haverford, Bryn Mawr, and Swarthmore (including Caroline Batten '14, an Honors English literature major from West Newton, Mass.) helped build the dictionary from the ground up, says Lillehaugen - conducting the research to expand it and collaborating with members of the Zapotec community to enhance it.
The town council of Tlacolula de Matamoros invited the Tri-Co team to come present its work on the dictionary and discuss further collaboration, which will include a Tri-Co student returning this summer to offer a Talking Dictionary workshop to the community. The highlight, however, was the Tlacolulans - including the mayor - marveling at the sight of their heritage on big screens and phones.
"The Tlacolula Zapotec are a rural, agrarian community, but they are quickly crossing the digital divide and eager to create digital tools and resources for their language," says Harrison. "It's a great example of how endangered language communities are leveraging new technologies to maintain their heritage languages."
As important as technology is to the revitalization effort, another of Anderson's highlights was decidedly retro. She relished the opportunity to go into the Colonial Zapotec archives to see and touch centuries-old texts.
"It was incredible to hold them in my hands and see the little details that don't stand out in the PDFs that I've been working from: the decorations on the letters, the differences in ink and handwriting, the bindings," she says. "I feel a strong connection to these texts, to the thoughts and emotions and relationships of real people that they reveal."
So much of the work in revitalizing languages is "spreading the message that these languages are important and worth caring about," she adds. "Putting something in a dictionary, and putting something online, that's something that people can point to as proof that the language matters."
Listen: Linguist David Harrison Talks Language Warriors
Harrison travels to some of the most remote places in the world, documenting endangered languages.
Linguist Aaron Dinkin Discusses Country's Dramatic Shift in English Pronunciation
First observed as an urban phenomenon in cities that surround the Great Lakes, Dinkin's research suggests the area's diverging dialects now extend to smaller communities as well.
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Redskins safety Taylor shot
Palmetto Bay, Fla. — Washington Redskins star safety Sean Taylor was in critical condition yesterday after he was shot during what police are investigating as a possible armed robbery at his home.
The 24-year-old player was in the intensive care unit following several hours of surgery at Jackson Memorial Hospital, although doctors were encouraged late in the day when Taylor responded to simple commands.
"He was responsive to the doctor's request to squeeze his hand and show facial expression, and so the doctors were very happy about that," said Redskins vice president of football operations Vinny Cerrato.
Taylor lost a "significant" amount of blood because the bullet damaged his femoral artery, and doctors were worried about blood flow to the brain, according to family friend Richard Sharpstein, his former lawyer.
Taylor has had problems on and off the field, and two years ago was accused of brandishing a gun. The shooting came eight days after another invasion was reported at his home. According to police records, someone pried open a front window, rifled through drawers and left a kitchen knife on a bed.
Taylor had missed the last two games because of a knee injury and was at home recuperating.
Taylor is in his fourth season with the Redskins after playing at the University of Miami, where he was an All-American in 2003. Despite his injury, he is tied for the NFC lead with five interceptions.


my Questin is what happens if a hard Brexit comes?
Is WireX only in GB, or do you have a Office in EU? And what about your EU-License?
A lot of GB Incurences will lose their EU - Licenses and cant work in the EU again. If your EU costumers have Money on the WireX account what will happen whit this? Is the Card working agian after a hard Brexit?
Will WireX stay in GB, or move to the EU?
I think a fast, clear an Simple answer to this Topic is important.
I also asked the same question in this forum.
I do not think we will get an answer from wirex because if they would post something, that could be used against them when they get suefor taking the proper steps to protect the funds of their customers.
I think we can assume that all the visa cards in Euro or of EU/EEA citizens will be blocked by visa as the issuer does not have the license to operate in the EU/EEA.
A small company like wirex does probably not have the funds to set up a seperate operational center in the EU and is betting (our money) that there will not be a brexit without transition periode for retail financial services.
I have emptied by visa card to 4 euro and am waiting tot see what happen. I do not want to have a big amount to be stick in a potential legal limbo.
I would advice everybody to do the same thing.
I emptied my Visa also and will do the same. It sad tha wo dont get an answere from WireX, but maybe WireX has no answere to this Question. I hope Cotsumers form EU will save the amount before the Brexit.
I have been wondering if I empting my visa card is enough or if I would also need to move my crypto to another account.
After all, brexit will probably have a bit effect on a lot of companies, including a company like wirex that just lost access to a market of over 400 million people. All access to our crypto currency happens via one application that access one server managed by that one company.
In engineering that's called 'a single point of failure', which is the worse thing you can have in any system.


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Fifteen-minute consultation: Initial management of suspected acute leukaemia by non-specialists
Best practice and Fifteen-minute consultations
Sam Behjati1,2,
Amy Ruffle2,3,
Anne Kelly2,
Emmy Dickens2
1Department of Paediatrics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
2Department of Paediatric Oncology and Haematology, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK
3Department of Haematology and Oncology, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
Correspondence to Dr Sam Behjati, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1TN, UK; sam.behjati{at}gmail.com
Leukaemia is the most common cancer of childhood. Most children with a new diagnosis of leukaemia are clinically stable at initial presentation. However, there are a number of life-threatening complications that have to be considered and monitored for. These complications include sepsis, tumour lysis syndrome, mediastinal masses, bleeding and pain. The aim of this article is to equip the general paediatrician with a framework for managing children with suspected leukaemia, prior to transfer to the primary treatment centre. The presentation, diagnosis and definitive treatment of acute leukaemia is not in the remit of this article.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2017-314043
SB and AR were joint first authors.
SB and AR contributed equally.
Contributors SB conceived of the paper. AR and SB were both co-authors on this paper. AR did the literature search. ED and AK contributed expert views. All authors have contributed to editing successive drafts and agreed the content of the final article.
Funding This study was funded by Wellcome Trust (Grant 110104/Z/15/Z).
Provenance and peer review Commissioned; externally peer reviewed.
Patient consent for publication Not required.


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Why the sky is the limit for Jose 2.0
Date: 3rd February 2014 at 7:43 pm
I very much doubt a Jose Mourinho side has been referred to as an underdog since his time at Porto – and we all know what happened there.
His Chelsea 2.0 however have been at times this season. Not in a David Moyes parroting the small club mentality at Everton way, but in the sense that we all know they have some superstars in their side – but without at least one forward, a box to box midfielder and probably a centre back, they are just that little bit short.
Manchester City are everyone's favourites for the Premier League title and there is little wonder. The Citizens look sensational – and have three of the best forwards around to help with that.
Mathematical issues or no, Manuel Pellegrini is odds on to lead his side to the Premier League title, and Jose Mourinho is not exactly talking his side's chances up. In fact, he is playing them down. From the eggs needing to hatch to his forwards not being anywhere near the level of Luis Suarez, the Special One is painting his team as being quite average at the minute.
Does he really think that? The only way the answer to that question would be yes is if we lived in a world where the two finalists for citizen of the year were Luis Suarez and John Terry.
Mourinho's men are looking more and more clinical, organised and unbeatable as the season goes on. Yes, there is no point pretending they will have the spark that City do until they buy another forward, but to say the title is on its way to the Etihad for the second time in three years is fairly wide of the mark.
Throughout the season, I have handed out harsher criticism than the pig's head the Camp Nou faithful threw at Luis Figo centred around Chelsea's strikers.
I totally stand by that. Eto'o may have bagged three – and is a big game player, make no mistake – but a league is not won by beating Manchester United every week. Games like Stoke away (which was lost after multiple sloppy errors and misses) and West Brom at home (where only a dubious Eden Hazard last gaps penalty saved a point) are the ones that have to be won as well.
With our current strike force that will not be the case. But, credit where it is due. Eto'o may get the flukiest goals around, but they are still goals.
Whilst hattrick king Cristiano need not worry just quite yet, the fact of the matter remains, three goals against Manchester United is pretty damn good. Even if Moyes and his men are at sixes and sevens – not league wise of course, they will probably be at eights and nines soon if they carry on in that context.
Coincidentally, it is the first hattrick Eto'o has scored since his time at Inter Milan – under you guessed it, Jose Mourinho.
Forwards aside, Chelsea are looking more drilled at the back – with Gary Cahill growing into his role as John Terry's partner and eventual successor, and Cesar Azpilicueta has shone brighter than the tan Cristiano Ronaldo loves to sport.
The shield of Ramires in the middle of the park is ever present. Even Jon Obi Mikel, who has been much criticised at times by Chelsea fans, has been impressive. Words cannot describe the talent of Oscar and Hazard when they are on song, and Willian has shown he was bought for a far greater reason than to annoy the lasagne paranoid neighbours over in North London.
Yes, players are needed – Chelsea are not the finished article. Mourinho has sent 24 players out on loan – a massive total, and that includes the beast that is Romelu Lukaku.
They are however the side who have beaten Manchester United, City, Liverpool and knocked Arsenal out of the league cup to boot.
If they can do that after six months under Mourinho, what on earth will they be like if he stays six years?
Can Chelsea build a dynasty? Let us know your thoughts below or tweet us @LaFootyettes.
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How Medicaid fits into Maryland's opioid crisis
By Rachel Baye • Jun 16, 2017
At Bon Secours' three substance abuse treatment programs, an estimated 70 percent of patients receive medical assistance.
Credit Rachel Baye
Sixty-four-year old Johnnie Davis has been treating his heroin addiction at the Bon Secours New Hope Treatment Center in West Baltimore for nearly 20 years.
"When I came here, I didn't have no insurance," he said. "And if I wasn't here, I could imagine where my life would have turned because I was known for drugs — selling drugs."
With no insurance and no job, Davis paid $8 a week for the Methadone program. The clinic later helped him get health coverage through Medicaid. For the last 18 years or so, his treatment has been covered in full.
Maryland is in the midst of an epidemic. More than 1,800 people died last year from overdosing on opioids, a 70-percent increase from the year before, according to data released last week by the state Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
Medicaid covers roughly 20 percent of Maryland residents, but Medicaid patients make up a larger portion of the Marylanders grappling with addiction.
One in three people receiving treatment for addiction are on Medicaid, according to Baltimore City Health Commissioner Leana Wen.
State data show that of the nearly 1,100 people who died from opioid overdoses in 2015, about 65 percent were on Medicaid at some point since the beginning of 2011. The state doesn't yet know how many Medicaid recipients were among last year's overdose victims.
Heather Young, a nurse practitioner at Bon Secours' three substance abuse treatment programs in Baltimore, estimated that about 70 percent of her roughly 700 patients receive medical assistance.
"Those are the easy patients," Young said. "Once they're on, we know we're not going to every month have an issue with billing, or this month the insurance company allows it, next month they don't."
Medicaid also covers the cost of Naloxone, the drug used to reverse an overdose. In April, 12 of Young's patients used their Naloxone kits to help someone who overdosed, she said.
"All 12 of those luckily, thank goodness, have medical assistance," she said. "All that requires me is to send a refill to the pharmacy that they use, and I know that they can go get that kit, hassle-free, not having to pay some astronomical co-pay."
It's not entirely surprising that opioid addiction affects the state's Medicaid population at such a high rate, said Colleen Barry, director of the Johns Hopkins University Center for Mental Health and Addiction Policy Research.
"It's always been the case that substance use disorder rates are higher among lower income individuals," Barry said. "All of the factors that make life harder for folks on the lowest rungs are predisposing factors for addiction."
The recent rise in opioid addiction rates is unique because it's been driven in large part by an increase in prescriptions, Barry said. People at lower income levels are not alone in getting hooked on the drugs.
But income affects how people consume the drug and whether someone is likely to die from an overdose. Heroin is cheaper and more dangerous than prescription pills.
"Some of the most deadly forms of opiates use that are most likely, especially in the state of Maryland, to result in overdose death, like illicit Fentanyl-based opioids, you come into contact in a street context," she said.
Two thirds of last year's opioid-related deaths involved heroin, state data shows.
But most heroin users didn't start out that way, said Maryland Medicaid Director Shannon McMahon. Three out of four started with prescription opioids.
The state's Medicaid program is taking steps to reduce the number of patients who get prescriptions for opioids, with the hope that it will cut down on the number of heroin users.
"In lieu of pain medication, making sure that folks are getting physical therapy for their back pain, their neck pain, etc," said McMahon.
She said the state is encouraging doctors to recommend opioid-alternatives such as Advil, and teaching patients to refuse opioids if they don't think they need them.
Medicaid is also using the influence of its purse strings to improve treatment for those who are addicted. For example, last month the state began unbundling counseling and medication-assisted treatment — in which patients take regular doses of drugs like Methadone or Buprenorphine — so that providers could bill Medicaid separately for both.
"It creates an incentive for their provider to get them meaningfully connected to that behavioral health, that cognitive therapy, along with the medication," McMahon said. "All of the research suggests that those two things together are the secret sauce, and the more that that happens, the less relapses we'll see."
This also tells Medicaid which providers are offering which services. The next step is creating a system that rewards addiction treatment providers for positive results, she said.
"We're in the middle of this opioid crisis. We know people are really and truly seeking this care," she said. "We've created the environment from a financial perspective, from a service perspective, how can we get providers to do more and do more for people so that they're not having those relapses."
But that evidence-based approach is still a ways off.
In the meantime, any cuts to Maryland's Medicaid funding from the federal government would affect how the state covers addiction treatment.
The per-capita approach to Medicaid funding that Congress is considering would be devastating to the state's ability to combat the opioid epidemic, said Barry.
"The establishment of addiction treatment as an essential health benefit through the Medicaid program is a critical way that we are combating the epidemic," she said. "If people don't have access to insurance, how can we get them into effective treatment?"
The Affordable Care Act also established what Barry called "creative approaches" to Medicaid funding. One example allows Medicaid, in a small number of circumstances, to cover services that wouldn't normally be covered — things like peer counseling and case management, which have been shown to help with addiction treatment.
"That's a model that has existed for years in the health care sector, and it's being financed now for the first time under the Affordable Care Act," she said.
She said the program, called Health Homes, is in a sort of pilot status in Maryland, but she advocated for expanding it. It would be cut under the proposal currently before the Senate.
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At Baltimore town hall, defending Medicaid
By Rachel Baye • May 16, 2017
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Several dozen people defended Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act Monday night at a town hall at the Greater Baltimore Urban League. Maryland congressmen Elijah Cummings and John Sarbanes, both Democrats, listened as person after person shared personal health stories.
Opioid epidemic target of new state legislation
By Rachel Baye • Mar 24, 2017
Democrats in the General Assembly announced Friday a package of bills aimed at curbing Maryland's opioid addiction crisis.
The legislation focuses on expanding access to treatment and educating students about the hazards of the drugs beginning in the third grade. It increases funding for health providers, expands substance-abuse treatment programs in prisons and establishes crisis treatment centers across the state.


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Andersen confirms as sport director for Trek in 2014
By Cycling News published 4 October 13
Dane to continue work with Fränk and Andy Schleck
Stuart O'Grady, Fabian Cancellara and Kim Andersen discuss where Leopard Trek will ride. (Image credit: Stephen Farrand)
Leopard Trek financial backer Flavio Becca talks to directeur sportif Kim Andersen (Image credit: Stephen Farrand)
Team manager Brian Nygaard and sports director Kim Andersen present the riders (Image credit: AFP)
Kim Andersen will once again try to lead to Andy and Fränk Schleck to glory in 2014. The Dane confirmed that he has signed on to be a sport director for Team Trek in the coming year.
Andy Schleck to ride for Trek in 2014
Schleck brothers to reunite on Trek team in 2014
Schleck out of Milano-Torino with sinus infection
"We have agreed on a one-year contract and then we will see what happens," he told bt.dk. "I think it is a very exciting project that has been started and it is a project that should last for many years."
The Schlecks are not the only big names on the team, and not necessarily the biggest. "When we have a rider like Fabian Cancellara on the team, there will be much focus on him and he will try to follow up on the results he has shown in recent years. And so we hope that Andy and Frank come back to the top in the big races."
Andersen has long had a close relationship with the Schleck brothers, and even lives close to them. The Danish newspaper said that Trek wanted him with the new team from the start, but that he waited to make sure that the Schlecks would be signed. Without them, he would not have joined the team.
"Right now I could not imagine being on a different team than them."
He said he was "convinced that they could come back at the top level. I know that Frank is at a good level, and I hope that Andy can be brought back to the top level."
Andersen worked with the Schlecks at Saxo Bank and Leopard/RadioShack until Johan Bruyneel came to the latter team. When the Belgian left after one year, Andersen returned to the Schlecks' side as a sport director.


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Puris LLC to develop new alloy for NASA
Puris partnered with NASA to develop an alloy used to produce bearings for the International Space Station's wastewater.
Titanium powder specialist Puris LLC has signed an agreement with NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, USA, to produce a hafnium/titanium alloy.
Marketed under the brand name SM-103, the 60NiTi(Hf) alloy reportedly demonstrates a lower residual stress than other 60NiTi alloys, resulting in improved response to heat treatment and easier processing.
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Puris previously partnered with the center to develop a wear-resistant and corrosion-resistant 60NiTiNOL alloy, SM-100, that is being used to produce bearings for the International Space Station's wastewater.
This story uses material from Puris, with editorial changes made by Materials Today. The views expressed in this article do not necessarily represent those of Elsevier.
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The foyer area of South Main Baptist Church in Houston, Texas, buzzed with excitement Aug. 21. Church members and attendees have grown accustomed to this special frenzy every year. For over 20 years, South Main has collected shoes to support Buckner Shoes for Orphan Souls®.
"It started 22 years ago by Henry and Maggie Hill after they had visited an orphanage in Russia, shared Damon Ankenman, volunteer who now organizes the shoe drive each year. "Henry was on the board with Buckner and when he came back from that trip, he organized the very first shoe drive at South Main Baptist Church."
Ever since that trip to Russia, the entire church supports the shoe drive through financial donations to processing and packing the shoes. Beginning in July, Ankenman purchases shoes with the church's donations. Once they receive the shoes, volunteers organize the shoes weekly – unpacking them, tying the laces together, matching pairs together and more.
"For unpacking days, we have about 30 people volunteer over the course of five weeks," Ankenman said. "And for Sunday's big event, there were about 70 kids helping at various times and nearly 50 adults at differing times."
The packing event is a family affair every year. Children are excitedly grabbing shoes and passing bins to tables for adults and other children to package and box up the shoes. Next, a group loads the boxes into the truck. At first glance, it's chaos. But it's controlled chaos. Every person knows what their next task is and most importantly, why they are doing what they are doing.
In August, South Main collected nearly 7,000 shoes
This year, Buckner Shoes and South Main faced a new challenge – transportation of those shoes. Nearly 48 hours before the packing event on Sunday, Texas Baptist Men (TBM) had an available 18-wheeler. The logistics to get the truck to Houston was no easy feat.
"Kenneth Landers, who drove the truck for TBM, drove from Tyler, Texas, to Mesquite to pick up the truck and then headed south to Houston," shared Shawn Spurrier, director of Buckner Shoes. "After all that driving, he didn't hesitate to jump in and help process the shoes. Even more, he dropped the trailer full of shoes in Mesquite Sunday afternoon and then drove back to Mesquite two days later to help with the unload. We are so thankful for his dedication and generosity."
Landers drove over 600 miles in one weekend and didn't let that stop him from working alongside the volunteers on Sunday morning at South Main and helping to unpack the truck at the Buckner Center for Humanitarian Aid on Tuesday, Aug. 23.
"Great things happen when God's people work together for his purpose," shared John Hall, director of communications at TBM. "Each of us has a role to play and we're honored to work alongside tremendous organizations like South Main Baptist Church and Buckner International to transform the lives of children around the world."
Instilling generosity for generations to come
While the church continues to collect record numbers of shoes, they see it as a much bigger mission.
Creating an opportunity for all generations to participate in a hands-on shoe drive creates opportunity to teach generosity from a young age in a fun, tangible way.
"Seeing people get engaged in the work of the church so willingly and with so much energy is one of my favorite things to see with mission work like this," shared J Hill, South Main minister for missions. "And to see the impact of new shoes and what that is to someone's dignity just impacts you."
As generations continue to participate in the Buckner Shoes shoe drive at South Main Baptist Church, children around the world are impacted by their generosity.
Interested in impacting vulnerable children through a shoe drive in your community? Find out more.
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Houston has a huge number of churches, and we can plainly see how much God loves us! Every church and organization that spreads the Good News of Salvation is blessed by God! As a follower of Jesus Christ in Houston, Texas, I pray for peace among everyone who acknowledges him as their Lord and Savior.


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The magnitude of the achievement is noteworthy since cold cases are particularly difficult to investigate; memories fade, witnesses and suspects move away or die, and leads have typically been exhausted. Until recently, even DNA evidence was of little value if it failed to produce a match. However, genetic genealogy can breath new life into a cold case investigation by using DNA as a "genetic witness" to generate leads. Even if a suspect in a particular crime had no known connection to the victim, DNA can still connect him or her to the crime scene and genetic genealogy is providing a powerful new approach to tying such unknown DNA to an identity.
CeCe Moore, who leads Parabon's team of five genetic genealogists, anticipated such a closure rate early on when she forecasted that Parabon would assist with "50-100 solves in the first year." She is also quick to point out that this level of success is possible only because of the hardworking and forward-thinking detectives who take on these tough investigations. "It's not a cliché; the detectives we work with never give up. We see evidence of their passion on a daily basis."
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March 21, 2019 By Alyssa Fisher
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The young woman who accused her co-worker of making anti-Semitic comments at the New York health food store where they worked put out a statement detailing the incident — in which the produce cooler was compared to a gas chamber — and revealing the management's lack of response.
Sarah Shabanowitz, an 18-year-old college student, put out a statement after hearing her co-worker, Will Sullivan, was fired from Mother Earth's Storehouse in Kingston. Shabanowitz wrote that she was getting items from the produce cooler on March 11 when Sullivan, who was standing nearby, said, "Now we're going to put you in the gas chamber," and turned off the light. In response to her shocked expression, he called her a "f—king Jew."
Shabanowitz said she told a manager and Sullivan apologized, but they were still expected to continue working together. She was told to stay quiet. A Jewish manager told her that his friends have "called me worse." But she complained again when Sullivan yelled at her for "making him look bad." That's when a manager allegedly got angry with Shabanowitz for telling others that Sullivan was an anti-Semite and gave her the option to stay or quit. After bursting into tears at the register, she left.
Shabanowitz said that Sullivan was fired after her mom wrote a Facebook post about the situation.
Her lawyer, Ilann Maazel of Emery Celli Brinckerhoff & Abady, said the counsel will "pursue every available remedy in response to Mother Earth's appalling conduct."
"I will not be quiet. No one should be subjected to anti-Semitism or racism or sexism at work," Shabanowitz concluded in her statement. "To this day, Mother Earth has not apologized to me for what happened."
Alyssa Fisher is a writer at the Forward. Email her at fisher@forward.com, or follow her on Twitter at @alyssalfisher
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Der Afrikanische Vielstachler (Polycentropsis abbreviata) ist einer von drei bekannten Vertretern der Vielstachler in Afrika, deren systematische Stellung verschieden betrachtet wird.

Merkmale
Das Erscheinungsbild entspricht dem eines typischen Naderbarschs. Afrikanische Vielstachler sind hochrückig, besitzen einen großen Kopf und ein großes Maul mit einer tief eingeschnittenen, sehr dehnbaren Maulspalte. Geschlechtsreife Exemplare erreichen Gesamtlängen zwischen sechs und acht Zentimeter. Wie alle Nanderbarsche verfügt auch diese Art über ein ausgeprägtes Farbwechselvermögen. Die meistens gescheckte Körperfärbung variiert Mischungen von einem dunklen Ockergelb über ein rötliches Braun bis fast zu reinem Schwarz. Innerhalb weniger Augenblicke können sich Farben und Zeichnungsmuster beliebig verändern, wodurch der Fisch auf rasch wechselnde Lichtverhältnisse blitzschnell reagieren und seine Tarnung aufrechterhalten kann. Lediglich drei dunkle Bänder, die vom Auge aus in Richtung Schnauzenspitze, zum Ansatz der Rückenflosse und zum unteren Kiemendeckelrand verlaufen, sind immer sichtbar. Die hartstrahligen Teile von Rücken- und Afterflosse sind deutlich gezackt. Mit Ausnahme der Brustflossen und dem weichstrahligen Teil der Rückenflosse, die jeweils transparent sind, setzt sich die Körperfärbung in den Flossen fort. Mit Ausnahme der beim Laichen deutlich sichtbaren Legeröhre der Weibchen ist kein weiteres äußeres Geschlechtsmerkmal bekannt.

Ökologie
Die Kenntnisse über diesen tropischen Süßwasserfisch, seine Herkunft und Lebensweise sind spärlich. W. J. Ansorge brachte die ersten konservierten Exemplare von seiner Niger-Expedition nach England. Boulenger nannte in der Erstbeschreibung dieser Belege als Typuslokalität "Junction of Ethiop River and Jamieson River, Niger Delta". Alle weiteren in Museen hinterlegten Afrikanischen Vielstachler stammen aus Nigeria, Gabun, Kamerun und Benin. Aber 1974 gab die Republik Burundi eine Briefmarkenserie mit einheimischen Fischarten heraus, von denen eine auch Polycentropsis abbreviata zeigt und 2004 erscheint die Art in einer Liste über Fische aus dem tropischen Regenwald Guineas. Das in der Literatur mit Westafrika umrissene Verbreitungsgebiet gibt den derzeit unvollkommenen Kenntnisstand wieder. Offenbar bewohnt die Art Ufer- und Überschwemmungszonen langsam fließender und stehender Gewässer in beschatteten Regenwaldbereichen. Dort lebt sie in der Vegetationszone und verbirgt sich zwischen Wasserpflanzen, Wurzeln oder Totholz. Als lauernde und plötzlich zustoßende Beutegreifer stehen durch ihre Körperfarbe gut getarnte Afrikanische Vielstachler in ihrer Deckung und bewegen sich nur sehr langsam mit kaum erkennbaren Flossenbewegungen. Wie ihr englischer Populärname "African Leaf-Fish" (Afrikanischer Blattfisch) ausdrückt, ahmen die Fische ein senkrecht treibendes Blatt nach (Mimese). Ihre Nahrung, von der ein Bewegungsreiz ausgehen muss, besteht aus größeren Insektenlarven, Kleinkrebsen, Kaulquappen und anderen Fischen. Der Beuteerwerb erfolgt durch plötzliches Aufreißen des großen Maules, wodurch ein Unterdruck entsteht, der das Beutetier in das kräftig bezahnte Maul zieht.

Fortpflanzung
Kenntnisse über das Fortpflanzungsverhalten beruhen ausschließlich auf wenigen Aquarienbeobachtungen. Männliche Afrikanische Vielstachler werben um fortpflanzungsbereite Weibchen, indem sie an der Unterseite von Wasserpflanzenblättern ein oder mehrere Schaumnester errichten. Hierzu verwenden sie ausschließlich an der Wasseroberfläche aufgenommene Luft, die sie unter den Blättern als feine Bläschen über die Kiemendeckel ausstoßen. Diese Luftbläschen werden nicht, wie es bei Labyrinthfischen der Fall ist, mit im Maul gebildetem Sekret ummantelt. Darum sind diese Nester nur kurz beständig und müssen laufend erneuert werden. Gelaicht wird nicht in diese ersten Schaumnester, sondern an die Unterseite eines nahe gelegenen anderen Blatts. Hierzu dreht sich das Weibchen nach kurzer Balz in Rückenlage und befestigt die Eier mit dem haftenden Pol an das Substrat. Nun stellt sich das Männchen in normaler Schwimmlage zitternd neben das Weibchen, wobei es Spermien ausstößt und zu den Eiern fächelt. Danach begibt sich auch das Weibchen wieder in seine normale Körperlage. Dieser Vorgang wiederholt sich verschieden oft, bis das Gelege aus zwischen 100 und 200 Eiern besteht und vollständig ist. Nun bettet das Männchen den Laich in Schaumblasen und bewacht und befächelt das Gelege allein. Die Larven schlüpfen nach etwa fünf Tagen und heften sich an Blätter im unmittelbaren Nestbereich. Nach weiteren 24 Stunden schwimmen sie frei. Haben sie das Nest verlassen, erlischt der Brutpflegetrieb des Männchens.

Systematik
Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts brachte W. J. Ansorge von Expeditionen durch West- und Zentralafrika tausende botanische und zoologische Belege nach Europa. Aus der 1899 dem Britischen Museum für Naturgeschichte übergebenen Fischsammlung beschrieb Boulenger 1901 Polycentropsis abbreviata als Vertreter der Familie der Nanderbarsche (Nandidae). Synonymbeschreibungen erfolgten nicht. Ursprünglich umfassten die Nandidae sieben Gattungen barschartiger Süßwasserfische. 1967 gliederte Barlow die Blaubarsche in eine eigene Familie Badidae aus. Liem separierte 1970 die Sägeschuppenbarsche, für die Roberts 1989 die Familie Pristolepididae erstellte. Bei den Nandidae blieben die Gattungen Nandus, Afronandus, Polycentropsis, Polycentrus und Monocirrhus. Aufgrund einer 1997 von Britz veröffentlichten Arbeit über die Morphologie der Eier von Nanderbarschen, stellten sich ganz erhebliche Unterschiede heraus. Die 0,7 bis 0,8 mm kleinen Eier der nichtbrutpflegenden Nandus-Arten tragen das Haftorgan am animalen Eipol. Bei allen anderen Gattungen befinden sich die Haftorgane am vegetativen Pol der zwischen 1,1 und 1,8 mm großen Eier, wobei Monocirrhus insofern eine Sonderstellung einnimmt, als seine Eier an kurzen Stielen am Substrat kleben. Die Untersuchungen von Britz führten zu weiteren Erkenntnissen über die Polyphylie und zu einer erneuten Aufgliederung der Nandidae, die nun nur noch die süd- und südostasiatischen Nandus-Arten umfasst. Afronandus, Polycentropsis, Polycentrus und Monocirrhus bilden jetzt die Familie der afrikanischen und amerikanischen Vielstachler, die Polycentridae.

Bedeutung für den Menschen
In Westafrika gehören Afrikanische Vielstachler mit einem geringen Anteil zur Ausbeute der dort üblichen Reusenfischerei. In der Süßwasseraquaristik spielt der 1906 von Hans Stüve erstmals lebend nach Europa eingeführte Fisch eine kleine Außenseiterrolle. Nur sehr wenige Spezialisten pflegen die unregelmäßig importierte Art, die darum auch nur sehr selten nachgezüchtet wurde.

Quellen
 T. R. Roberts: Geographical distribution of African freshwater fishes. In: Zoological Journal of the Linnaean Society. Band 57, 1975, S. 249–319.
 D. F. E. Thys van den Audenaerde, J. Breine: Nandidae. In: J. Daget, J.-P. Gosse, D. F. E. Thys van den Audenaerde (Hrsg.): Check-list of the freshwater fishes of Africa (CLOFFA). Vol. 2, Brussels; MRAC, Tervuren; and ORSTOM, Paris, 1986, S. 342–343.
 P. H. Skelton: The distribution of African freshwater fishes. In: C. Lévêque, M. N. Bruton, G. W. Ssentongo (Hrsg.): Biology and ecology of African freshwater fishes. ORSTOM, Paris 1988, S. 65–91.
 C. Lévêque, D. Paugy, G.G. Teugels: Annotated check-list of the freshwater fishes of the Nilo-sudan river basins, in Africa. In: Rev. Hydrobiol. Trop. Band 24, Nr. 2, 1991, S. 131–154.
 A. Kamdem-Toham,. G. G. Teugels: Patterns of microhabitat use among fourteen abundant fishes of the lower Ntem River Basin Cameroon. In: Aquatic Living Resources. Band 10, 1997, S. 289–298.
 M. Mdaihli, T. du Feu, J. S. O. Ayeni: Fisheries in the southern border zone of Takamanda Forest Reserve, Cameroon. In: Takamanda: the Biodiversity of an African forest. SI/MAB Ser. 8 2003, S. 141–154.

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 Afrikanischer Vielstachler im CAS Catalog of Fishes

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In the language of Yoga, benefit is translated into beauty. And this beauty comes in various packages. These packages are often meant to amaze you. "Yoga for weightlifters"- this topic itself is enough to put an exclamation mark on the face of many, since most of you might have seen or heard Yoga as a spiritual practice. But this is an astonishing facet of this ancient discipline that it has no boundaries. It can go beyond the limits, and also upskill the practitioners in doing so.
Over the years, it has been proved that the practice of Yoga has a positive impact on the body. Many Yoga experts around the globe believe that the yogic science can benefit weightlifters in a number of ways. Have a look at the five most amazing advantages of Yoga if you are a weightlifter and aiming to succeed in the field.
Weightlifting is one of the most powerful sports played on this planet. It requires one to be highly strong and muscular. The roles of muscles in the game of weightlifting are limitless. The strength of a weightlifter is determined by the robustness of his/her muscles. There are numerous forms of training exercises weightlifters go through to make their muscles strong. Since muscles are also the parts of the body, they need rest which can be provided by Yoga. Yoga poses such as Matsyasana, Savasana, Balasana, etc. are some of the best exercises to make the muscles relaxed.
Although Yoga is considered mainly a relaxing exercise, a number of weightlifters have argued that Yoga has helped them in building their muscles as well. Yoga's philosophy considers the body weight as the best form of weight training machine. There are a number of advanced Yoga asanas that are extremely useful in elongating the muscles including Kapotasana and Chakrasana.
Every exercise is quite incredibly related to breathing. It is breathing that produces energy in the body while doing an intensive physical workout. Yoga sees breathing from a different angle. Breaths are the basis of a healthy life, according to the spiritual science. Pranayama is a practice of constant inhaling and exhaling. This exercise not only provides pure oxygen to the body but also purifies the blood in an awesome way. This also enhances the endurance power of the body, since oxyhaemoglobin can be manufactured in the body easily while working out.
The breathing beauty of Yoga is highly influential in nurturing all the internal organ systems in the body. Almost all metabolic activities get a major boost with the practice of Pranayama on a regular basis. A major impact of Pranayama can be seen on the nervous and immune systems.
There is no doubt in the fact that weightlifting is a highly dynamic form of sport. Nobody can master this art without having a spirited set of mind. Many times, the intensive flow of energy in the body turns into aggression and the weightlifter loses his control over the game. Yoga prepares one in a number of ways. Mentally, Yoga pacifies the brain and instills a sense of restfulness. Physically, the more than 5000 years old science prevents the body from falling prey to injuries while training. Since Yoga is a great way to stretch the muscles out, it becomes easier for the body to be flexible according to the need of the weightlifting game.
Meditation is one of the finest exercises to learn the art of being peaceful. When one feels the delight of meditating in the morning, he/she enters the zone of immense stillness. There is no point of being unnecessarily combative in Yoga. With regular practice of the ancient science, one learns how to concentrate on the goals and remain calm even during the scarcest of moments.
One of the greatest impacts of Yoga on the body of the practitioners is postural correction. Having a good body structure is of immense importance in the life and career of a weightlifter. The practice of weightlifting is closely associated with the idea of correct posture. Lifting a barbell of more than 150 kg requires weightlifters and powerlifters to proceed in the right position. Since Yoga asanas are all about the body, they help in building a great posture and structure.
Anatomical study is an integral part of Yoga education during which students learn a number of important aspects of the human body. Correction of the body posture is also significant for reducing the impact of injuries. Modify yourself into a perfect weightlifter by Yoga poses such as Uttanasana, Vriksasana, Phalakasana, etc.
Isn't weightlifting all about being confident? It is probably the greatest test of one's belief in his or her abilities. Potential exists in the life of a person in three different forms – physical, mental, and psychological. Confidence is more of the psychological well-being than the physical and mental one.
Yoga makes sure that a weightlifter succeeds in performing the task with ease and audacity. The two aspects of one's merit – awareness and self-belief combine together to present better results to the weightlifter. Clarity of thought is what Yoga offers. The India-born science allows one to measure the level of strength an individual possesses at the point. People's willingness, power, and flexibility are not stable. They keep on changing. Yoga teaches a weight trainee to accept defeats (down days) and come all guns blazing the next day. Yoga asanas and Pranayama are the most amazing ways to boost blood flow in the body which is an indication of inner confidence.
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