Every night she dreamed she was in an insane asylum surrounded by hundreds of ravens, cackling wildly. But it was the grounds that were most terrifying. There were people hiding behind trees everywhere.
"Don't drink the pumpkin spice lattes," they screamed.
Something weird happened when the pumpkins developed a skin, not unlike his own.
He had nightmares, where he was in a forest and hands, and arms appeared around the trees, he felt threatened, scared and somewhat confused more so by the flock of crows circling their old house.
My little one can sure apply common sense to fairy tales. Reading out a story is not fun anymore.
Any leads on the missing men?
Easy for my boss to ask. I was the one who spent the entire night searching for the three VIPs who had all gone missing yesterday.
Now, the rain has stopped. The sunlight reveals the crows having a feast.
I suspect they have found the bodies.
Many years ago, the government had decided to clear the forest. All trees were to be cut down. In response, a group of naturalists had started a tree hugging movement. Since they loved the trees, the trees absorbed their bodies.
Only their hands remain visible, to this day..
"I knew we never should've moved from Idaho to Oregon," Clyde said.
She rested in the ruin, the constant sound of the crows lulled her to sleep.
Keeping up the public façade was exhausting and her title no longer bestowed the power that used to enchant her so.
She accepted her time was over.
Satan ruled openly now, money was the way he kept score.
There's no peace since the ravens arrived, crawing and whirling around the roof.
Surly it couldn't get any worse?
Then the grumbling pumpkin turned up in a box of gourds. I've not slept in months.
"Don't go play too far George!" yells mom.
Panicked she runs to the pumpkin patch.
Pumpkins' are carving their own Halloween structures.
George is there, light coming out his eyes, nose and mouth.
A big pumpkin grabs mom.
She joins George up on the fence.
Amy decided to take the spookiness level of her Halloween party a notch higher. The haunted house in the woods with ravens clucking around, the crinkled pumpkins added to the eeriness. But, the hands creeping around the trees was not a part of the theme….now fear gripped her!
For the lack of trees, flock of birds started seeking shelter in mental asylum.
Patients from the asylum, cared the for nature and started tree hugging movement to save forests.
And nature' s harvest was pumpkins with boils all over for the people who didn't cared!!
Well appointed mansion in exclusive area of town.
With grand staircase in hallway.
Spacious crypts resplendent with cobwebs and creaky doors.
Nullifying, soul destroying atmosphere lends exclusivity to property.
There are bars at the windows to stop us flying away, but the sisters are waiting. It's coming, they say, and when the sky is black with crow wings and the sun and moon are eggs cracked open and eaten, their light devoured, no bars will hold us back.
The birds were flocking around the house like they had done every morning now. I stopped my delivery bike, newspaper still in hand and wondered what was going on. Walking into the back garden, clouds of birds wheeling, I saw why. There was a dead body on the lawn.
She had ignored the changes initial but there came a time when enough was enough and while they didn't care, the word neighborhood still bore meaning to her.
Dorothy glanced at Toto, ravens as pets? It was the final straw – that wicked witch was going to hear from her lawyer.
"Uncle," the Princess petulantly cried out, "that pumpkin dish was horrible.
I needed to find a new Cook fast, or find a better way to poison my niece.
1-Peter, the pumpkin, was feeling really glum. You could see by the look on his face.
He'd been in this pile of pumpkins for 2 weeks now and, despite having worked his way up to the top and front of the pile, no-one had chosen him to be their Jack-o'-lantern for Halloween. Sad face!
The crows all knew that it was only a matter of time!
The boarding school was absolutely chock-a-block with small, tasty, children.
The birds were salivating with the sweet smell of young flesh, rising up on the thermals.
They had to come out soon.
The naturist tree huggers club had chosen their site really badly for this year's convention.
The forest was mostly made up of young oak trees and the bark was really rough.
The opening "get to know your tree" dance resulted in multiple injuries and most members had to retire hurt!
Trick or tweet" said the little boy in the monster mask.
This week, a photo by graehawk@pixabay.com. There are quite a few stories waiting to be told in this one. Have fun with it, in 280 Characters or less…140 if you're up for a challenge. And I'll see you at the roundup!


Nothing quite makes the mouth water like a warm donut that melts upon the first bite. Although donuts are traditionally thought of as a breakfast food, American culture has transformed this delicious treat into a dessert in and of itself. The following article details a quick and easy way to make this wonderful treat in your own home. To learn how to make other delicious pastries, I highly recommend the wildly popular pastryfriends.com.
Heat the milk mixture. Start off by scalding the milk and then adding the butter, sugar, and salt. Stir these ingredients together and then let them cool for awhile until they are about room temperature.
Combine the next batch of ingredients. After the milk mixture has cooled, stir in the yeast, baking soda, baking powder, egg yolks, mashed potatoes, and only 2 cups of the flour. Beat these ingredients together for a few minutes until they are a smooth texture.
Add the remaining flour. From here, you will want to add the rest of the flour to the mixture, and continue to beat the ingredients until they form a soft, doughy mass.
Let the dough rise. Place the soft dough in a greased or buttered bowl and spread a little extra butter over the top of the dough. Set the bowl aside, and let it rise for about 2 to 2 1/2 hours.
Shape the donuts. Once the dough has risen for about two hours, roll it out, cut it, and shape it into appropriate donut-sized pieces. A doughnut cutter makes this job easy, but it isn't necessary to get the job done. After you have made all the dough into donuts, set the donuts aside and let them rise for another hour.
Fry the donuts. Place each donut in a pot of hot oil or a deep fryer. Leave them in the oil until they are a golden-brown color, and then pull them out to cool off a bit.
Top the donut. If you just want to eat the donut plain, then this step is not necessary. However, a nice glaze, frosting, or even a few sprinkles help to finish the donut off and turn it into a sweet treat that won't easily be forgotten.
From sweet and sugary to crispy and chocolaty, a homemade batch of donuts is sure to please everyone. Give this simple recipe a try, and impress everyone with your cooking prowess and knack for satisfying a sweet tooth.
Err, who doesn't love doughnuts, but they are definitely NOT for those trying to lose weight! They ARE, after all, deep-fried blobs of flour, butter and sugar! Thanks for the detailed recipe though.
Good looking recipe -- I'll try it on my familly.
I will certainly keep this recipe. Thanks.


The two-dimensional phantom dose verification (2D-PDV) using hybrid plan and planar dose measurement has been widely used for IMRT treatment QA. Due to the lack of information about the correlations between the verification results and the anatomical structure of patients, it is inadequate in clinical evaluation. A three-dimensional anatomical dose verification (3D-ADV) method was used in this study to evaluate the IMRT/VMAT treatment delivery for nasopharyngeal carcinoma and comparison with 2D-PDV was analyzed.
Twenty nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) patients treated with IMRT/VMAT were recruited in the study. A 2D ion-chamber array was used for the 2D-PDV in both single-gantry-angle composite (SGAC) and multi-gantry-angle composite (MGAC) verifications. Differences in the gamma pass rate between the 2 verification methods were assessed. Based on measurement of irradiation dose fluence, the 3D dose distribution was reconstructed for 3D-ADV in the above cases. The reconstructed dose homogeneity index (HI), conformity index (CI) of the planning target volume (PTV) were calculated. Gamma pass rate and deviations in the dose-volume histogram (DVH) of each PTV and organ at risk (OAR) were analyzed.
In 2D-PDV, the gamma pass rate (3%, 3 mm) of SGAC (99.55% ± 0.83%) was significantly higher than that of MGAC (92.41% ± 7.19%). In 3D-ADV, the gamma pass rates (3%, 3 mm) were 99.75% ± 0.21% in global, 83.82% ± 16.98% to 93.71% ± 6.22% in the PTVs and 45.12% ± 32.78% to 98.08% ± 2.29% in the OARs. The maximum HI increment in PTVnx was 19.34%, while the maximum CI decrement in PTV1 and PTV2 were -32.45% and -6.93%, respectively. Deviations in dose volume of PTVs were all within ±5%. D2% of the brainstem, spinal cord, left/right optic nerves, and the mean doses to the left/right parotid glands maximally increased by 3.5%, 6.03%, 31.13%/26.90% and 4.78%/4.54%, respectively.
The 2D-PDV and global gamma pass rate might be insufficient to provide an accurate assessment for the complex NPC IMRT operation. In contrast, the 3D-ADV is superior in clinic-related quality assurance offering evaluation of organ specific pass rate and dose-volume deviations.
Intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) and volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) techniques are able to provide very high dose conformity for cancer radiotherapy; thus, the surrounding normal tissue and organs can be well protected when high-dose radiation is delivered to the target volume. However, many uncertainties exist in the treatment planning and operation process that can lead to deviations of the IMRT or VMAT dose distribution. Therefore, it is necessary to verify the irradiation dose distribution that is delivered by the accelerator before such kinds of treatments . Until recently, a hybrid plan has been adopted most often in 2-dimensional (2D) planar dose measurement verifications. The precision of irradiating doses is evaluated and verified by comparing the planned dose distribution, calculated by the treatment planning system (TPS), to the measured results . However, due to the lack of information about the correlations between the verification measurement results and the anatomical structure of patients, as well as the resulting lack of information about the actual irradiation doses to different target volumes and organs at risk (OARs), it is difficult to identify the geometric locations where dose errors occur during plan implementation, thus leading to inadequate clinical evaluation information . Recently, some 3-dimensional (3D) dose verification tools that provide patient anatomical structure information were applied clinically. These tools can provide important information such as the dose deviations, the pass rates and the locations of the dose deviations in the patients' target volumes and organs, as well as identification of the error origins [4, 5]. In this study, we adopted a 3D anatomical dose verification (3D-ADV) based on measurements of delivered dose fluence and patients' anatomical images. Meanwhile, the traditional 2D phantom verification (2D-PDV) using an ionization chamber array with angular response correction applied an in-house software, were used to compare the efficacies of dose verification for IMRT and VMAT of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). As a result, the differences between the two verification methods and their clinical significances in evaluations of irradiating dose deviations were analyzed and clarified.
A commercialized 3D dose verification system  (COMPASS, IBA Dosimetry, Schwarzenbruck, Germany) was used. The system included an online 2-dimensional ion-chamber array (2D-IC array) and dose reconstruction software based on a beam model describing the characteristics of the accelerator (e.g., energy spectrum, lateral beam quality variations) and the collapsed-cone convolution/superposition (CC) algorithm, which computed the radiation dose distribution on to the patient CT image set. A strict commissioning of the whole system, including the validation of accuracy for 2D-IC array measurement, beam modeling and dose reconstruction, was performed in advance according to the same standards as the clinic used TPS. In this previously commissioning job, which had been published , phantom plans of regular, irregular fields and IMRT were selected tested. All test plans were implemented and the dose distributions were measured using thimble ion-chamber and the 2D-IC array, the accuracy of the 3D-ADV system were then evaluated by comparing the corresponding measurement results. The average deviation of the 3D-ADV system was less then 1% with the largest difference of 2.12% comparing to the thimble ion-chamber measurements. In the comparison of IMRT planning calculation and the 3D-ADV system computation, the global and PTV gamma pass rates were better than 99% and 98%, respectively.
In the clinic IMRT dose verification practice, the actual radiation fluence delivered by accelerator was measured with the online 2D-IC array, and applied to correct the original beam model for establishing the reconstructed dose distribution (RDD) on the patient's anatomical image, which was then compared with the therapy plan to obtain the verification results (Figure 1).
Workflow chart of the 3D-ADV system.
The 2D-IC array (MatriXX, IBA Dosimetry) used in this study comprised 1020 plane-parallel ion-chambers arranged with a distance of 0.762 cm between the chamber centers. A build-up of 3.3-mm equivalent water thickness was placed on top of the chambers, and a 22-mm-thick RW3 backscattering phantom (composition: 98% Polystyrol, 2% TiO2 and density: 1.045 g/cm3) was placed on the back. The array was inserted into an additional phantom with exterior dimensions of 31.4 cm × 34 cm × 22 cm (MULTICube Lite, IBA Dosimetry) for multi-gantry-angle composite 2D dose verification, equipped with an angular position sensor for angular response corrections.
The IMRT and VMAT plans measured in this study were designed by a 3D inverse treatment planning system (Monaco 3.0, Elekta, Stockholm, Sweden). The planned dose distribution was calculated using a fast Monte Carlo algorithm (XVMC) with the variance rate of 3% and grid size of 3 mm, as same as the reported study of Boggula et al. . A 6MV X-ray irradiation was delivered via a linear accelerator (Synergy VMAT, Elekta) that supported step-and-shoot IMRT and VMAT therapies.
The above-mentioned MatriXX 2D-IC array with the MULTICube phantom was used to perform the 2D-PDV for 20 NPC treatment cases, 10 cases treated with IMRT and 10 cases with VMAT. The tests were performed in single-gantry-angle composite (0°, SGAC) and multi-gantry-angle composite (MGAC) methods, respectively . Different from the published method of angle dependence correction for MatriXX , an in-house correction software program was used to compute the angular correction for each independent ion-chamber of the 2D-IC array in the MGAC measurements. A comparison was performed to identify the differences in the gamma pass rates (3%, 3 mm)  at the isocenter plane from the 2 composite dose verifications.
Within a gantry angle range from 0° to 360° with a step size of 5° (a step size of 1° within the range of 90° ± 5° and 270° ± 5°), the dose at the point of central detector was calculated by TPS and measured when the gantry was maintained at the same position. The correction factor of the central detector at each angle was then obtained by comparing the difference between the measurement and TPS calculation, and was normalized to the one at zero degree gantry angle. These correction factors can be applied to all the other ion-chambers in the array assuming the angular response coincidence is high among all of them. Due to the differences in the incident angles of the central and the other ion-chambers, the incident angle of each chamber was calculated with the following formula. For an angle other then the above tested ones, a linear interpolation method was adopted to get the corresponding angular correction factor. Visual C++ language was used to program this angle correction for the measurement results.
The formula for calculating the incident angle of the ion-chamber is as following.
As shown in Figure 2, φ is the incident angle of each ion-chamber, θ is the incident angle of the center of the ion-chamber array, SAD is the source axis distance and d is the distance from each ion-chamber to the center of the ion-chamber array in each row.
The incident angle of every detector in the ion-chamber array used for angular correction, Pi is the position of detector i in a raw while P 0 is the center of the raw.
3D-ADV test was done for the same 20 NPC IMRT/VMAT plans as well, with the 3D dose verification system that passed the commissioning test in advance as briefly described above, similar with that reported by Boggula et al. . During the plan delivery, the irradiated fluence of every radiation beam was measured by the 2D-IC array mounted on a holder attached to the radiation head, perpendicular to the radiation beam. According to the measured results, the dose distribution calculation was corrected and the final dose reconstruction (RDD) was obtained for each plan case; subsequently, the RDD results were compared to the original treatment plan. Parameters such as the homogeneity index (HI) and the conformity index (CI) of the planning target volumes for primary nasopharynx tumor (PTVnx), high-risk subclinical region (PTV1), and the preventive irradiation region (PTV2), the dose volume parameters of every PTV and OAR and the gamma pass rate (3%, 3 mm) for global and for each organ were analyzed.
PTV95% is the target volume that received 95% of the prescribed dose, PTV is the planning target volume and V95% is the volume that received 95% of the prescribed dose .
D2%, D50% and D98% indicate the doses that covered 2% (near-maximum dose), 50%, and 98% (near-minimum dose) of the PTV, respectively .
SPSS 18.0 software (Chicago, IL, USA) was used for 1 sample T-tests of the dose verification data from the 20 cases of IMRT/VMAT test plans. A value of P < 0.05 was considered statistically significant.
The 2D-PDV gamma pass rate of the 0° SGAC was significantly higher than that of MGAC. The average gamma pass rate (3%, 3 mm) was 99.55% ± 0.83% (96.82%-100%) in SGAC measurement; 92.41% ± 7.19% (72.3%-99.40%) and 89.22% ± 10.61% (59.74%-99.00%) in MGAC verification with the in-house and Matrixx build-in angular response correction, respectively (Table 1).
The 3D-ADV system is able to calculate the global gamma pass rates and the pass rates in each organ of interest, respectively. In this study, the global gamma pass rate counted the area covered all the voxel in the plan CT image that the planned doses were higher than 20 cGy; while the gamma pass rate of a particular organ counted all the voxel included in the organ contour. The criterion of 3% absolute dose and 3 mm distance to agreement (DTA) was adopted in this study. The mean global gamma pass rate was 99.75% ± 0.21%. The mean gamma pass rates of the PTVnx, PTV1 and PTV2 were 83.82% ± 16.98%, 90.68% ± 9.34% and 93.71% ± 6.22%, respectively. For the OARs of brainstem, spinal cord, left and right parotid gland, the mean gamma pass rates were 96.93% ± 4.58%, 65.69% ± 20.54%, 97.33% ± 3.72% and 98.08% ± 2.29%, respectively. All the organ specific pass rates analyzed were lower than the global one (Table 2).
Mean pass rate ± Std.
Comparing the measured RDD and the corresponding treatment plan, there were deviations at various levels in both the HI of PTVnx and the CI of the PTV1 and PTV2. The maximum deviation of the PTVnx HI from the planned value was 19.34%, and the mean deviation was -0.94% ± 9.24% (P > 0.05). The mean deviations on CI were -3.21% ± 10.53% (P > 0.05) in PTV1 with a maximum decrement of -32.45%, and -1.92% ± 3.00% (P < 0.05) with a maximum decrement of -6.93% in PTV2. Although only the CI difference in PTV2 was statistically significant, the deviations of HI in PTVnx and CI in PTV1 indicated an obvious individual difference (Table 3).
Note: The relative deviation between the RDD and the Plan is expressed as Δ = RDD - Plan Plan × 100 % (RDD and Plan are the computed values from the reconstructed dose distribution and the therapy plan, respectively; Δ represents the interval range of the relative deviation). δ - represents the mean value and standard deviation of the relative deviation between the RDD and Plan.
All the relative deviations in Dv (The absorbed dose that covers a specified fractional volume V), and Vd (the volume that received at least the absorbed dose d) of each target volume, between the RDD and the planned value, were within ±5%. The mean deviations in the near-minimum dose (D98%), the near-maximum dose (D2%) and the dose covering 95% of the PTV (D95%) were all less than 2%. The mean deviation in the volumes covered by 100% and 95% of prescription dose were all less than 0.5%. The results also shown that the maximum positive D2% deviations in the brainstem and spinal cord were 3.50% and 6.03% higher, respectively; the maximum positive deviations of D2% in the optic chiasm, left and right optic nerves were 26.99%, 31.13% and 26.90% higher, respectively. The maximum deviations of the mean doses (Dmean) to the left and right parotid glands were both less than 5%. Except for the near-maximum dose (D2%) in spinal cord, there were no statistically significant discrepancies in the reconstructed dose in OARs (Table 4).
Note: Δ and δ - refer to Table 3.
An effective evaluation of the treatment operation in clinical practice should be able to reflect the true delivery condition of the treatment and any errors occurred in the planned parameters. The traditional 2D-PDV QA, especially the SGAC measurement which used only a single fixed incident angle to avoid the existence of angular response errors, can result in inconsistencies between the QA and clinical therapy conditions , and not able to provide information regarding the relationship between the dose error and the anatomical structures. This leads to decreasing of QA abilities in clinical evaluations . In our study of 2D-PDV of 20 NPC IMRT/VMAT plans, the gamma pass rates obtained from the SGAC verification were significantly higher than the results from the MGAC measurements done with the same gantry angle of therapy. This might be explained by the fact that the SGAC verification cannot reflect the effects on the radiation dose caused by gravity-induced changes in the multi-leaf collimator (MLC) position, or the output dose angle dependence from the accelerator under different gantry angles. The results indicated that the pass rates corrected by MGAC verification with the MatriXX build-in angle correction factor were lower than those corrected by our in-house correction software. The reason could be that the correction factor of the former was determined according to the correction angle of the central detector and then used to correct all of the other chambers without considering the differences in the incident angles of each detector. The angle correction from the in-house software considered the influence of different incident angles of each detector in the 2D-IC array; therefore, the pass rates in the verification were significantly superior to the results without the independent incident angle correction.
3D-ADV can provide us with information such as the pass rates (the global, each target and OAR volumes in the measured area), the statistical results of deviations in the dose-volume histogram (DVH) parameters (including the dose volume and the volume dose) of each organ and the anatomical positions that correspond to the dose deviations. The 3D-ADV results from the 20 nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients, who received IMRT/VMAT irradiation, revealed that the mean global gamma pass rate was 99.75% ± 0.21%. Lee et al.  reported that the mean gamma pass rates (3%, 3 mm) of 2D-PDV were 98.2% ± 1.3% and 98.5% ± 1.3% in nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients treated with IMRT and VMAT, respectively. Our results from the 2D-PDV with SGAC and MGAC on a similar group of patients were 99.55% ± 0.83% and 92.41% ± 7.19%, respectively. The global gamma pass rate from the 3D dose verification was similar with that from the 2D-PDV of the SGAC method but was higher than that from the 2D-PDV of MGAC measurement. The reason for the higher global pass rate in the 3D dose verification could be that, compared to 2D dose verification, the dose pixels evaluated in the 3D dose verification included all points within the CT scanning area, thus resulting in a relatively lower ratio of pixel numbers at which dose deviations occurred to the overall pixel number. Additionally, during the implementation of MGAC 2D-PDV, the pass rates might decrease due to the non-uniform phantom density that can result from the detector arrangement when the incident angles are parallel to the detector plane . The gamma pass rates of each PTV and OAR decreased at different levels in all cases when compared to the global pass rate, indicating that higher gamma pass rates might be caused by improper evaluation strategies in which some errors in the delivered dose distribution were disguised and ignored due to the use of the global pass rate in the evaluation.
In this study of 3D-ADV, no statistically significant difference was found in the HI of the PTVnx between the measurement based dose reconstruction and the planned value of the TPS. However, there were obvious alterations in the verification results for each patient that the HI deviation ranged from -15.62% to 19.34%, indicating that there were significant individual differences in the irradiation results. Some patients had greater HI values in the PTVnx with irradiated doses than the planned values, indicating decreased homogeneity of the dose distribution to the target volumes. Even greater deviations from the planned value were observed in the CI of the PTV1, which were the high-risk lymph nodular target volume, ranged from -32.45% to 13.97%, indicating that the dose conformity of PTV1 in some individual cases decreased a lot after the plan delivery, which might have led to inadequate dose coverage in this target volume or to elevated doses in the surrounding normal tissues. The CI of the PTV2 decreased by an average of approximately 2% (P < 0.05), thus showing a total reduction of the PTV2 dose conformity during the implementation of the plan.
Elmpt et al.  reported a work of similar 3D-ADV, using the planning CT image to reconstruct the dose distribution in combination with a Monte Carlo calculation and the energy fluence of the actual treatment beams measured pre-treatment with the electronic portal image device (EPID). In their study on head and neck cancers IMRT cases, most deviations between the reconstructed delivered dose and the planned value in the PTV, including D5%, Dmean and D95%, were less than 3%, while the mean dose in the parotid gland decreased by 3.2% ± 1.2% and the maximum spinal cord dose increased by 3.1% ± 1.9%. Our 3D verification data showed that the deviations in the D2%, D98% and D95% of the PTVs and the deviations in the V100% and V95% were all within ±5%, which were similar to the previous report. In contrast, the maximum deviations of D2% in the optic nerves and the optic chiasm were 31% and 27%, respectively, suggesting that extra attention should be given to future plan verifications with regard to whether the delivered dose to these organs will exceed the clinical limits. In the reported study of Stasi  and Carrasco , a weak correlations or even no correlation has been found between the gamma index and the clinical impact of a delivery dose discrepancy, like the deviation on DVH for PTV and OAR volumes. The acceptance criteria for which we had the highest frequency of correlations were (3%, 3 mm), however, this criterion hid relevant clinical dose metric differences which is not clinically acceptable. Our study also shown that there might be clinically unacceptable dose discrepancy in some cases even the (3%, 3 mm) gamma pass rate was very high.
Traditional 2D-PDV is relatively simple and easy to perform. However, this method cannot provide information regarding anatomical positions and the dose volumes that correspond to the dose deviations; thus, it can only serve as a basic quality assurance tool for IMRT. using online measured results, 3D-ADV is able to reconstruct the dose distributions from patients' anatomical images and provide us with more clinical relative information, verify the delivery deviation in both dosimetric and geometric parameters in the same way of plan evaluation. In the other hand, unlike 2D-PDV devices, the 3D-ADV utilized an independent calculation algorithm in the dose reconstruction, which differed from that used in the planning system. Therefore, it might lead to additional discrepancy in the verification results, if the dose reconstruction computation of the 3D-ADV was not accurate enough. It is important that a very strict pre-commissioning and proper evaluation has been performed when the 3D-ADV system is used for the clinic treatment plan QA.
In this study of 20 nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients who were treated with IMRT or VMAT, comparing the results of the delivered dose distributions from traditional 2D-PDV and the 3D-ADV, it was confirmed that a relatively large local dose deviation might exist in the delivered dose distributions, even when the global gamma pass rate is very high in both verification. A 3D-ADV, providing structure by structure volumetric dose evaluation is suggested to be used as further clinical quality assurances for IMRT/VMAT therapy of complex cases like nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
HL performed this study as part of his Master thesis. SH assisted with the treatment planning and dosimetry measurements. XD conceived of the study, participated in its design and coordination and helped to draft the manuscript. JZ assisted with the computation program of angular correction for ion-chamber array. LC helped to perform the measurements and data analysis. All authors reviewed and approved the final manuscript.


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Here you'll find my Rack noodlings, occasionally even qualifying as music.
Do leave feedback, I appreciate that. Thanks, and enjoy!
I'm continuing my Audible Instruments challenge, and this is a kind of polyrhythmic piece I call "Laid Back Xylophone Elves".
The Segment generators are providing clocks, sequences, LFO's, attenuators and slew limiter.
The Texture Synthesizer is providing pure reverb and nothing else. Its reverb actually sounds rather good.
The first Resonator is providing the voice with the xylophone like percussion.
The second Resonator provides the cymbals like sequence.
The Macro Osciallator 2 provides the bass percussion.
The Macro Osciallator provides the saw lead, and gets its notes from the Random Sampler.
Thanks Stephan! I'm happy you liked it.
Hey! Very interesting. Especially the number of different uses of Stages.
oh yeah, i like this sound combination a lot, very nice Lars!
Thanks Adi, happy you like it!
Ambient jazz anyone? Another mostly Audible Instruments patch, with Marbles, excuse me - Random Sampler in the lead role. Laid back tunes for a chill Friday… enjoy!
Another good one! I've been using random sampler recently. I like it better than turing machine sometimes.
Yeah, they're both wonderful, just different. I love'm both!
Thanks Adi, you're very kind!
I finally got around to playing with the Audible Instruments:Keyframer/mixer (aka. MI Frames) in a patch. Thanks to Greg Broulette aka. Modular Curiosity for the orginal tutorial!
The Keyframer is morphing between the 3 VCO's of Squinky Labs:EV3, and I quite like what it does.
The two sequential switches are respectively 3 and 4 steps, which makes the EV3 rotate between some nice chords.
NYSTHI:Squonk drives the bassline, with a bit of ratcheting on a couple of steps.
The Texture Synthesizer (aka. MI Clouds) is used for pure reverb, which it does quite nicely.
The Segment Generator (aka. MI Stages) is pulling mixed duty, providing AD envelope, LFO, attenuator and a fixed voltage.
Played live, one take, self-generative, no post processing.
Last patch of my self imposed "Audible Instruments Challenge". I've made an effort to get to know all the modules in this wonderful plugin, and to have an initial play with them. But it's also quite clear, that it'll take years to learn how to use all the features of these sometimes quite complex modules.
I finally got around to play with the two never used (by me anyway) modules in this plugin: The Meta Modulator (aka. Warps) and the Tidal Modulator (aka. Tides).
Random Sampler is driving the rhythm and the generated notes.
Meta Modulator is played as an FM VCO and is playing the bass saxophone-like voice in front.
Macro Oscillator 2 is playing the plucked bass.
The Wavetable Oscillator, which is Tidal Modulator in "sheep mode" (right-click), is playing the piano like voice.
The Macro Oscillator is doing the swells of saw, with the Tidal Modulator providing the envelope, and sequenced by the Segment Generator.
I'm fairly pleased with this one, hope you'll enjoy it.
Good one Lars. I need to try some of that.
I like these sounds and arrangement a lot Lars, all quite beautiful together actually! This sax voice is really interesting that you made with Warps. I love that module, it takes some experimenting, but definitely worth it!
I'm on a self-imposed "Valley challenge", to try and get to know and use this wonderful plugin better, and this is a rhythmic tune using Topograph, Interzone and Plateau. It's even got a kick drum - oh my!
The intro is a short sample of a single hit on the Interzone played backwards, using the Canard from Bidoo.
The bass and lead voice is played by each their Interzone module.
The rhythm is provided by Topograph in euclidian mode.
The kick drum is provided by the CornrowsX from Southpole.
All notes are provided by the Phrase-seq-32 from Impromptu, playing 6 different sequences in song mode.
The orchestration of the different parts of the tune is done using gate2 on the Phrase-seq plus the Bidoo switch/latches.


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package org.precompiler.scala101.ch01

import scala.io.Source

/**
  *
  * @author Richard Li
  */
object TopStock extends App {
  val symbols = List("AMD", "AAPL", "AMZN", "IBM", "ORCL", "MSFT")
  val year = 2014
  val (topStock, topPrice) =
    symbols.map(ticker => (ticker, getYearEndClosingPrice(ticker, year))).maxBy(stockPrice => stockPrice._2)
  printf(s"Top stock of ${year} is ${topStock} closing at price $$${topPrice}")

  def getYearEndClosingPrice(symbol: String, year: Int): Double = {
    // from date: a=month b=day c=year  to date: d=month e=day f=year
    val url = s"https://ichart.finance.yahoo.com/table.csv?s=${symbol}&a=11&b=01&c=${year}&d=11&e=31&f=${year}&g=m"
    val data = Source.fromURL(url).mkString
    println(data)
    val price = data.split("\n")(1).split(",")(4).toDouble
    price
  }
}

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The individual dressage at the 1956 Summer Olympics took place between 15 and 16 June, at the Stockholm Olympic Stadium. The event was open to men and women. The team and individual dressage competitions used the same results. Five judges gave scores, with the result being the sum of the scores.

Results

36 riders competed.

References

Equestrian at the 1956 Summer Olympics

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Home Academic Analysis Patients have rights. Here's how to use yours
Academic Analysis
Patients have rights. Here's how to use yours
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Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lisa Eckstein, Senior Lecturer in Law and Medicine, University of Tasmania
Working your way around the health-care system can be overwhelming. This is especially hard when care takes place in health systems under stress.
However as a patient, you have rights about how you're treated. This includes not just your actual therapy, but how you're spoken to, how your records are handled and even whether you wish to be treated at all.
Now, the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care has updated its charter of patient rights.
The idea is to promote a more active role in health care for patients (and their carers) by reminding them of their seven rights: access to health care, safety, respect, partnership, information, privacy and giving feedback.
But what do these rights really mean when it comes to day-to-day issues you or your family might face with your GP, in hospital or in a nursing home?
Read more: Why an Australian charter of rights is a matter of national urgency
Example 1: leaving hospital early
Imagine an elderly patient who has been hospitalised with an infection. After a couple of days of treatment, she wants to go home to live alone. The patient's doctors are worried she won't be able to take care of herself and try to convince her to move into a rehabilitation facility. She refuses.
Respect means the patient has the right to make her own choices, even if they could result in harm. But this doesn't mean just abandoning the patient to her rights. A first step is the right to information, to ensure she understands the risks of going home. Partnership requires communication with the patient herself as well as other people she chooses, like family members and friends. This helps support the patient.
Read more: Hospital discharges to 'no fixed address' – here's a much better way
Example 2: dementia restraints
More than half of all people in permanent residential aged care have dementia.
Sometimes patients become physically aggressive, becoming a danger to themselves and others. Physical and chemical restraints for these people has been widespread, and is being considered by the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety.
Restraints won't be the right thing in all cases. Whether it's right for a particular person requires balancing respect for the patient's own views and dignity, with other people's rights to safety. Respect can be facilitated by working in partnership with the patient and their family to identify safe options other than restraint.
Read more: Physical restraint doesn't protect patients – there are better alternatives
Example 3: health information disclosure
Trips to the emergency department are often scary and sensitive. The visit can be even worse if you feel others can overhear your conversations with doctors or nurses.
More than one in ten people who went to the emergency department of a major Melbourne hospital reported this experience. These people felt the loss of their privacy. It also might fail to show respect, dignity and consideration, as required in the right to respect.
But not every unwanted disclosure of health information will be wrong. Some might even be necessary to meet other health-care rights.
For instance, an emergency department with curtains instead of walled rooms to help people or equipment move more freely might meet the safety right even though it risks a patient's right to privacy. But the charter at least means hospitals and treating teams have to justify any unwanted disclosure of health information. It also means patients who feel uncomfortable can give feedback, another of their rights.
Read more: Paper tsunami: how the move to digital medical records is leaving us drowning in old paper files
How does Australia stack up?
Other countries have created similar lists of patients' rights, including New Zealand and Scotland.
The most valuable part of the Australian charter is improving patient and carer understanding of existing health-care rights. This makes it easier to know when to complain to a state or territory complaints commission, or the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency.
Although the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care is releasing more resources for patients, its charter may not go far enough in protecting groups who experience systemic bias in their health-care interactions. This includes many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Read more: Ms Dhu coronial findings show importance of teaching doctors and nurses about unconscious bias
Another pitfall of the charter is its non-binding nature. It describes the rights patients should expect but it does little to enforce them. This can leave the charter as something of a toothless tiger, an issue also discussed internationally.
The charter also doesn't deal with potential patient responsibilities. These are the obligations consumers have for their own health, like treating staff considerately and keeping medical appointments.
It's hard to see how one can exist without the other.
– ref. Patients have rights. Here's how to use yours – http://theconversation.com/patients-have-rights-heres-how-to-use-yours-121637
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According to Matthew 28:19 believers are to be baptized in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. But in Acts it says new believers were baptized in the name of Jesus. Is there a contradiction here?
There are several ways to answer your question. The easiest would be to conclude that different baptismal formulas were used in the apostolic church and therefore there is no reason to try to harmonize the two. That is possible, but very unlikely if Jesus, as Matthew indicates, gave explicit guidance on the subject. Besides, it appears that the phrase used in Acts is not a baptismal formula. If it is a formula, it would be an abridged version that does not deny the existence and use of the full formula. Here are a few more comments.
1. The Trinitarian Formula: In Matthew 28:19 Jesus gave to His disciples very specific instructions concerning the need and the way to make disciples. The use of the trinitarian formula is part of that instruction. The person being baptized is fully united to the Godhead through Christ (cf. John 17:21).
Why is the trinitarian formula used? Why is it not enough to say, "In the name of Jesus"? The most probable answer is found in the baptismal experience of Jesus Himself. During His baptism the three persons of the Godhead were present. The Father's voice was heard, the Spirit's presence appeared through the symbol of a dove, and the Son, God in human flesh, came out of the water. Jesus' baptism became a model for Christian believers. He represented the experience that those who will become His disciples will experience. At His baptism He revealed that only through Him can we enjoy fellowship with the Godhead, full union with the heavenly Trio. For Jesus, being baptized into the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit was a public recognition of the saving power of His life and ministry through which we are united to the heavenly family. We shouldn't be surprised to discover that the trinitarian formula became the baptismal formula in the Christian church. This is biblicalIy sound; it was done—and continues to be done—in obedience to our risen Lord.
2. The Christologjcal Formula: In the book of Acts we find the expressions "be baptized...in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins" (2:38*); "he ordered that they be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ" (10:48); "they were baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus" (19:5).
Several things can be said about these passages. First, all of them relate to the work of evangelism; people were invited to be baptized in Jesus' name. This is theologically important because it indicates that they were being asked to place their trust in Jesus as Savior. In Acts the name of Jesus is the only name by which we can be saved (chap. 4:12). Since the emphasis is on Jesus as Savior there was no need to refer to the full trinitarian formula.
Second, and closely related to the previous point, the purpose of the phrase "be baptized in the name of Jesus" is not to indicate that people were being baptized using the formula, "I baptize you in the name of Jesus." In fact, during baptism the new convert actually confessed Jesus' name in a personal commitment to Him. We read "Be baptized and wash your sins away, calling on his name" (Acts 22:16). The phrase "calling on his name" goes back to the Old Testament, where calling on the name of the Lord meant trusting Him, worshipping Him, and confessing that one belonged to Him (cf. Gen. 4:26). When people were invited to be baptized in the name of Jesus, they were not only asked to acknowledge Him as Savior but also as worthy of worship, trust, and as their Lord.
Third, the passages in Acts in which baptism in the name of Jesus is mentioned were not intended to describe the formula used in the act of baptism. The passages were not describing how baptism took place, but, what was expected from the new convert. The statement "be baptized in the name of Jesus" was not, properly speaking, a baptismal formula.
*Bible texts in this column are quoted from the New lnternational Version.


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Louisiana's John Bel Edwards wins reelection to remain Deep South's only Democratic governor
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards will remain the only Democratic governor in the Deep South despite an all-out effort by President Donald Trump.
Louisiana's John Bel Edwards wins reelection to remain Deep South's only Democratic governor Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards will remain the only Democratic governor in the Deep South despite an all-out effort by President Donald Trump. Check out this story on ElPasoTimes.com: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2019/11/16/democratic-gov-john-bel-edwards-overcomes-trump-louisisana/4220282002/
Greg Hilburn, Monroe News Star Published 9:10 p.m. MT Nov. 16, 2019 | Updated 12:07 p.m. MT Nov. 17, 2019
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards prepares to speak at his election night watch party in Baton Rouge, La., Saturday, Oct. 12, 2019. (Photo: Brett Duke, AP)
BATON ROUGE, La. – Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards won a second term Saturday to remain the only Democratic governor in the Deep South despite an all-out effort by President Donald Trump to flip the seat to the Republican column.
Edwards narrowly beat wealthy Republican businessman Eddie Rispone, who invested more than $14 million of his own money to finance his campaign and tied himself to Trump from start to finish.
While many Republicans bemoaned the lack of star power in their candidates – powerhouse Republican U.S. Sen. John Kennedy and popular GOP state Attorney General Jeff Landry passed on the race – Edwards had to fend off Trump and Vice President Mike Pence during the monthslong campaign.
Trump headlined three Louisiana rallies to oust Edwards, first in Lake Charles on the eve of the Oct. 12 primary election and then in Monroe and Bossier City during the runoff campaign.
Trump in Louisiana: Trump rallies for Louisiana governor race, mocks diplomats in impeachment hearings
The president told Louisiana voters the race was a symbolic referendum on his presidency, which he said is under attack by Democrats who've started impeachment hearings in the House.
"I need you to send a message to the corrupt Democrats in Washington," Trump said Thursday during a rally in Bossier City.
And that could be done, Trump said, by electing Rispone.
"You've got to give me a big win, OK?" Trump told the crowd.
The president continued the onslaught on Twitter during Election Day Saturday: "Good morning Louisiana! … Get out and VOTE for @EddieRisone to be your next Gov!"
But in the end, Trump's coattails weren't long enough to carry Rispone across the finish line.
Edwards predicted as much during his own rally in Shreveport Thursday, expressing confidence voters wouldn't allow the president to nationalize the election.
"The voters of Louisiana are going to decide this election on Louisiana issues," Edwards said. "They don't need the president or anybody else to tell them how to vote."
Edwards' victory won't bring with it a mandate for him to push through priorities like equal pay legislation and a Louisiana minimum wage higher than the national mandate of $7.25 per hour.
As a Democrat, he's still an anomaly both in the South and in Louisiana, where Edwards is the only Democrat to hold statewide office.
And he'll face possible Republican supermajorities in both chambers of the Louisiana Legislature during his second term.
Still, Edwards expressed optimism he and lawmakers can find common ground.
"Practically every major thing I 've done as governor was done on a bipartisan basis," he said.
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An acolyte pets a dog before blessing outside St. Anton Church during the traditional animal blessing in Madrid, Spain. Every year, pets are blessed to be healthy during the year to mark St. Anton or St. Antonio Abad Day, the animals patron saint. ZIPI, EPA-EFE
Firefighters take part in a demonstration to protest against the attacks against them during interventions, on January 17, 2020 in Strasbourg, France. During the New Year's Eve night in Strasbourg, two firefighters were injured by a projectile thrown onto the window of their truck. Last weekend, three firefighters were victims of a stabbing by a person they came to rescue near Strasbourg. Patrick Hertzog, AFP via Getty Images
A participant tries to control a bull during the Jallikattu Festival in Allanganallur, India. Arun Sankar, AFP via Getty Images
Candles are lit in remembrance of the 1995 earthquake in Kobe, Japan, The 6.9 magnitude earthquake killed more than six thousand people and destroyed much of the city. Nobuki Ito, AP
Brothers Joe, left, and Sam Lane, took each other on in a game of hockey during the snowy downpour at the Marie Park ice arena, Friday, Jan. 17, 2020, in Mendota Heights, Minnesota. Elizabeth Flores, Star Tribune via AP
A relative mourns next the coffin of a victim killed on the Ukrainian Airlines flight at Islam Qala on the outskirts of Herat near the border between Afghanistan and Iran. Hoshang Hashimi, AFP via Getty Images
People play volleyball during sunset in Naypyidaw, Myanmar. Ye Aung Thu, AFP via Getty Images
Xlimate activist Greta Thunberg stands behind a microphone as she delivers a speech after an environmental 'Fridays for Future' climate protest in Lausanne, Switzerland. Jean-Christophe Bott, AP
A mogul skier practices at Calabogie Peaks in Calabogie, Ontario, pior Canada Cup Moguls event this weekend. Sean Kilpatrick, The Canadian Press via AP
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High school hockey: Playing for state titles
The South Bend Saint Joseph and Adams/Marian club hockey teams look to cap off their seasons with state championships Saturday at the 3A and 2A levels, respectively.
Action gets under way at the Ice Box in South Bend, with Adams/Marian meeting Fort Wayne Bishop Dwenger at 1:30 p.m., while puck drop for Saint Joe and Central Indiana follows at 4 p.m.
Indians head coach Chris Kleva said the best term to describe his team this year has been "consistent."
"We haven't gone on any major winning streaks, but there haven't been any big slumps either," Kleva said.
Saint Joe (17-23-4) and Central Indiana, composed of players from high schools around Indianapolis, met once earlier this season, with the teams skating to a 4-4 tie on Dec. 9. Central Indiana scored with 32 seconds remaining to tie the game.
Kleva said that with a full bench and the ability to roll all four offensive lines, the Indians are happy to play a more wide-open, transition game or grind out offense by dumping the puck deep and forechecking. The latter approach worked well for Saint Joe last weekend, Kleva said, as the Indians finished pool play with a 2-1 record to earn a berth in the championship game.
"Last weekend we were really successful dumping the puck in and putting pressure on defenses," Kleva said.
Sophomore Dolan Gilbert will get the nod in net for the Indians, Kleva said. Gilbert has started 35 games in net for Saint Joe on the year, posting a 3.14 goals against average and a .896 save percentage.
Senior Tyler Kleva (19 goals and 37 assists for 56 points) and sophomores Nick Christensen (23G-23A-46P) and John Harding (14G-22A-36P) lead the way on the Indians' top line.
Adams/Marian
While Saint Joseph fields both a varsity and junior varsity team filled completely by students from the school, "hodgepodge" best describes Adams/Marian (24-19-2): according to head coach Mike Jamieson, the team is composed of players from 10 different area high schools.
"Any freshman who goes to a high school that doesn't sponsor a team, they go into a draft," Jamieson said. "Teams that need players go into the draft and pick up some incoming freshmen that don't have anywhere to play."
So far this year, Jamieson said his team has surpassed his expectations.
"We have a better record than we had last season by quite a few games," Jamieson said. "My goal was to be over .500, and we are a few games over that mark right now.
"The other goal was to be in a state championship game."
Senior Sean Bird (40G-27A-67P) and sophomore Riley Jamieson (31G-29A-60P) power the team offensively, while sophomore Vince Shah will be between the pipes Saturday to backstop an undersized team that relies on its speed to create opportunities.
"I don't think we've ever had a game where we were the bigger of the two teams out there this season," Jamieson said. "So we rely on making smart plays, up-and-down, spread it out."
The team finished an unblemished 3-0 in pool play last weekend to earn a spot in the championship game. Adams/Marian and Bishop Dwenger met twice earlier this season, with Adams/Marian taking the first game, 6-3, back in October before Bishop Dwenger exacted revenge in a November tournament.
"It's a team we know is going to give us a good game, but it's a team we know we can beat," Jamieson said. "Can't ask for more than that."


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KANSAS CITY, KAN. ---- Eastbound and westbound K-10 over Lexington Avenue and Kill Creek bridges and eastbound K-10 over Mill Creek bridge will be reduced to ONE OPEN LANE , 24/7 round the clock, for bridge repair work beginning as follows: 6:00 a.m. on Monday, October 6 (delayed closing due to weather), westbound K-10 lane over the Lexington Avenue and Kill Creek bridges will be CLOSED; 6:00 a.m. on Tuesday, October 7 (delayed closing due to weather), eastbound K-10 lane over the Lexington Avenue bridge lane will be CLOSED; and at 6:00 a.m. on Wednesday, October 8 (delayed closing due to weather), eastbound K-10 lane over the Kill Creek and Mill Creek bridges will be CLOSED.
In addition, the westbound K-10 to Lexington Avenue exit ramp will be closed beginning at 6:00 a.m. on Monday, October 6, and the Lexington Avenue to eastbound K-10 entrance ramp will be closed beginning at 3:00 p.m. on Tuesday, October 7 (delayed closing due to weather).
Both ramps will remain closed, 24/7 round the clock, through early to mid-November 2014. A marked detour will be provided as follows: Westbound K-10 traffic will take the Edgerton Road exit to loop around and head back on eastbound K-10 to the Lexington Avenue exit. Lexington Avenue traffic will head westbound on K-10 to the Edgerton Road exit and then loop around to head back on eastbound K-10.
Traffic will be directed through the project work zone via concrete safety barrier, cones and signage. Drivers should expect major delays during peak commute times and may wish to use alternate routes throughout the project duration.
Updated daily traffic information for this project and for the entire Kansas City Metro Area any time at: www.ksdot.org/kcmetro/laneclose.asp.
The scheduled completion date for the entire project is early December 2014, weather permitting. (KDOT Project KDOT Project #10-46 KA-3971-01).


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Register Log In ECN Forum Forums General Discussion Area Main service circuit breaker or 6 feeder circuits?
A service with a main distribution panelboard with a main circuit breaker and 6 or less feeder circuit breakers. Is the main circuit breaker redundant, a potential weak point, or a good idea?
I have encountered this situation twice recently.
One was a strip mall where the owner wanted to divid his largest space. This project became untenable, simply because of the work that would be required to separate / upgrade the electric for the new spaces. In building the strip mall, every trick had been used to keep the required meters / disconnects to a maximum of six - and adding the main disconnect that additional meters would have required in turn meant the wholesale replacement of the entire switchgear.
In hindsight, it would have been far better had the main disconnect been included at the start. That's what happens when you use the NEC as a design manual!
The other job was the opposite situation; I added a 'main' before just one service. Why? Because there are plans to add two more, and having the disconnectwill make the future work much easier to do.
IMO, a good design allows for future uses, and makes provisions for future maintenance work. While a good design is almost certain to meet code, a 'code minimum' design may be poor design.
I will echo what reno said, do a good design that is practical for now and plan for future.
In my case it is a single owner building with the meter before the MDP. Right now 5 feeders out of the MDP. There is space for for a feeder circuit breaker large enough for any conceivable addtion. (that would bring it up to 6 if it ever happened). Is there any good reason to have a main circuit breaker in the MDP.
First of all, that main disconnect is another place you can add a fuse - one way to keep track of problems. There's no way that feeder can supply everything to maximum load.
Secondly, the main disco gives you a way to work on the system without having to cut the PoCo wires at the weatherhead.
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What about the advantage of knowing what your overcurrent protection is by the size of your main breaker or fusing?
Depends upon WHERE the main disco is located. If it's on the PoCo side of the meters, you won't have access to the fuses.
230.90 (A) Exception # 3.
Allows the six disconnects to total more then the service conductors ampacity.(see calculated load requirements).


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Students will analyze the work of other columnists.
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Four medical practitioners from the United States and a local doctor have been in police custody for three days in Zimbabwe for allegedly distributing Aids medication illegally, officials and lawyers said.
The Americans-a doctor, two nurses and a community volunteer-are affiliated with a US Baptist church in Oakland, California.
To appear in court
They are due to appear in court, according to their lawyer, Jonathan Samkange.
A US embassy statement said they were arrested on suspicion of distributing anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs without a license. Consular officials have been in regular contact with the group. It is receiving adequate treatment from police, the embassy said.
The Zimbabwean doctor is a senior physician based at a hospital 80 kilometres east of Harare.
About 13% of Zimbabweans are infected with the HIV virus, which kills 1,030 people a week, according to official figures.
Relying on foreign non-governmental organisations
The state health service, still struggling to recover from the 2008 economic collapse, can supply ARVs to only a small portion of those infected with Aids, thus relying on local and foreign non- governmental organisations to meet the bulk of demand.
The group was arrested at the Harare offices of the Zimbabwe Aids Network, an umbrella organisation of groups working to contain the HIV-Aids epidemic. They were not only involved in the distribution of ARVs, but also worked with Aids orphans, the embassy statement said.
Zimbabwe law requires that foreign-registered medical personnel obtain a certificate to practice medicine in Zimbabwe from the local medical association. Samkange said all four Americans were in possession of the certificates.
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Competitive gains drive Bank of Canada's caution on loonie
For the first time since 2006, Canadian wages are solidly more competitive than they are in the U.S. It explains why policy-makers may be sensitive to any strengthening of the dollar.
By Theophilos ArgitisBloomberg
Tue., Feb. 28, 2017timer3 min. read
OTTAWA—Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz has been keen to point out how much weaker his country's economy is relative to the U.S., ostensibly in a bid to ensure investors don't get too far ahead of themselves pricing in interest rate hikes.
The central bank, whose next announcement is Wednesday, has referenced the divergence between the two economies in its last two statements — in January and December — and has provided even stronger language outside of rate decisions.
"We would not expect to see Canada following the U.S. at this stage in terms of monetary policy," Poloz, who began his term as central bank governor in 2013 by downplaying forward guidance, said earlier this month after a speech in Edmonton, in a clear nudge to the markets.
So what's with all the steadfast caution? Eric Lascelles, chief economist at RBC Global Asset Management in Toronto, has collated productivity data that may explain some of the central bank's circumspection.
Using inflation-adjusted unit-labour-cost data, Lascelles estimates that for the first time since 2006, Canada is solidly more competitive than the U.S. — but barely.
Canadian wages, by Lascelles' calculations, are about 6-per-cent more competitive than they are in the U.S., after being as much as 25-per-cent less competitive as recently as 2011. While accelerating U.S. labour costs explain part of the shift, the almost 30-per-cent decline in the Canadian dollar from 2011 highs has been the main determinant.
Which explains why policy-makers — having just gained a bit of an edge — may be sensitive to any strengthening of the dollar.
"Canadian competitiveness is really just on the cusp of viability right now," said Lascelles, who helps oversee about $290 billion in assets at RBC Global Asset Management. "Long experience suggests you either need to be in that position for years until people gain confidence it will endure to justify capex, or you need to shift into an extraordinarily compelling position."
The loonie has gained about 2.3 per cent against the U.S. dollar this year, as higher oil prices and a recovering American economy outweigh concerns about the potential hit to Canada's competitiveness.
Rising oil prices have indeed improved the country's export picture. Canada posted a trade surplus for the second month in December. But overall it was a tough year, as the country's cumulative trade deficit reached a record in 2016. And the situation remains weak. Nonenergy exports were down 2.1 per cent in December from a year earlier.
Canadian policy-makers will never stop worrying about trade. That's borne out by the heightened importance Poloz is placing on the risks associated with U.S. protectionism — which featured prominently in the last interest-rate statement, and speculation U.S. President Donald Trump may impose a border adjustment tax to help pay for some of his policies.
"The magnitude of tariffs being discussed is very much within the wheelhouse of shifting Canada from this slight advantage to a disadvantage," Lascelles said.
Here are some things to watch for in the rate statement: investors are pricing in practically no chance of a rate change over the next three rate decisions, with odds for a hike growing in the second half of the year. Swaps trading shows a 36-per-cent chance of a rate hike by December.
Bets on a cut are negligible. The last statement began by flagging uncertainties to the global outlook, "particularly with respect to policies in the United States." There doesn't seem to be any clarity on these core issues since then so these concerns could be reiterated. Will the Bank of Canada continue to point to underlying slack in the economy, even as recent reports show momentum is gathering?


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My tests pass locally on Windows with both cmd.exe and PowerShell. npm install always passes and npm test always fails. The error is always vague. I tried updating npm to latest with no change in result.
Command executed with exception: npm ERR! Test failed.  See above for more details.
But if I comment out that line and let the next line run, it also fails. What is causing stderr? I don't see any stderr locally.
Is there any way to enable "diagnostics" mode in npm to see what's going?
Have you tried running mocha without npm?
Don't think npm has a diagnostics/debug mode.
Running mocha this way has worked in the past https://ci.appveyor.com/project/stevenvachon/nopter/build/17 though sometimes it would magically fail like now, only to pass on an unchanged rebuild. Only difference is that now it never ceases to fail.
Could the issue be in how Appveyor's VM installs Node?
Try that method again to see if that helps.
Yeah, it was failing with that method as well which led me to discovering the new method which, while performing faster, did not fix the current situation.
I just ran another test which uses mocha's CLI in npm, but I only run the help command: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/stevenvachon/nopter/build/37/job/qo... It passes. So the issue must be in the tests somewhere or in mocha's code.
Running a simple test of mocha's API passes: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/stevenvachon/nopter/build/38/job/18... So the issue must not be mocha.
That's strange because it collects both StdOut and StdErr. Haven't had such issues with other tools. Is it mocha specific?
Seems to be a Node issue that many projects including Grunt have had monkey patched for years but Mocha has not.
I'm able to get stdout when no tests fail (which call process.exit()).
This solves the issue. Thank you for your efforts!
Oh, cool. So, what was a fix - updating mocha?
Actually, wait, I'd forgotten that I'd ran my last test without Mocha. Even with all tests passing in Mocha, it isn't logging anything. The really confusing part is that my other projects log everything. It's probably something stupid.
Currently there is no fix. I'll have to keep plugging at it.
Ok, I think that I have it sorted out now. What I'd said before was true -- process.exit() is the culprit. I was having further issues by using a special mocha function (only()) which was calling process.exit() even when the test(s) passed.
It does not appear that mocha has addressed this issue directly. However, using its --no-exit CLI option avoids the issue and displays the log as expected for both passed and failed test suites.
Great, thanks for the update! This is definitely helpful for others setting up mocha tests.
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Stacey Abrams to Americans: Don't expect presidential winner on election night
'My admonition is that we have to approach Nov. 3 with patience'
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Aug 04, 2020 • August 4, 2020 • 4 minute read • 45 Comments
FILE PHOTO: Stacey Abrams speaks to the crowd of supporters announcing they will wait till the morning for results of the mid-terms election at the Hyatt Regency in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. November 7, 2018. Photo by Lawrence Bryant /Reuters
Voting rights advocate Stacey Abrams warned Americans on Tuesday not to expect to learn the winner of the White House on Election Night Nov. 3, as problems delivering and counting an expected flood of mail-in ballots prompted by the coronavirus pandemic could delay the result and draw a flurry of legal challenges.
"The sheer volume of people who will be voting by mail is going to preclude the ability to count those ballots and adjudicate the outcome of the election by 11 p.m. on Election Night," Abrams, a Democrat and former leader in Georgia's state legislature, said in a virtual Reuters Newsmaker event.
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The public health crisis has drawn litigation in dozens of states from both major parties. Democrats and voting rights groups have pushed voting by mail as a safer option to cast ballots during the pandemic, while President Donald Trump and his allies have proclaimed without evidence that expanded voting by mail will lead to widespread fraud.
Abrams, once considered a possible running mate for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, said cuts in Postal Service overtime imposed by Louis DeJoy, a new Trump-appointed postmaster general, may cause delays in service as voting by mail ramps up.
"And so my admonition is that we have to approach Nov. 3 with patience," Abrams said.
A Postal Service spokesman said last week the agency was taking steps to increase operational efficiency and ensure prompt and reliable service.
Voter fraud is not the issue. Voter suppression is the issue
Several primaries this year experienced long delays in counting and naming winners because of the mail-in ballots. Ballots from New York's June 23 primary are still being counted in some undecided races, including a congressional contest.
Abrams said states hurt by the economic collapse lack the resources to handle a deluge of mail-in ballots, and are going to need to determine whose ballot should be questioned and who needs to provide additional information.
"But we also can't ignore that the president has put in place a postmaster general who is slowing down the essential delivery of mail… We know that's going to lead to a number of legal challenges," Abrams said.
Abrams, 46, gained national prominence after narrowly losing her 2018 bid in Georgia to become the country's first Black female governor. She accused Republican opponent Brian Kemp of voter suppression after he refused to resign as the state's top elections officer while campaigning for governor.
Abrams, who later formed a voting rights group, Fair Fight, called on Trump and other Republicans to fund more than $3 billion in assistance to state election officials in the coronavirus relief bill being negotiated in the U.S. Senate.
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Election experts say voter fraud of any kind, including incidents related to mail-in ballots, is extremely rare.
"Voter fraud is not the issue. Voter suppression is the issue," Abrams said.
She said the election funding would help state officials deal with an expected crush of mail-in ballots, as well as provide adequate polling sites for in-person Election Day voting to resolve some of the problems seen in recent primaries in Wisconsin, Georgia and elsewhere.
"The United States knows how to run elections, we just have to agree to do it properly," she said. "Our bottom line is we have to have a full toolbox of methods of voting."
Asked whether she had been interviewed by the Biden campaign as a potential running mate, Abrams declined to comment, referring questions on the process to the campaign. But she said she feels qualified for the job and would serve if Biden asked.
Her chances at the spot have faded in recent months as other candidates emerged as more likely selections, according to conversations with Democratic officials and Biden allies. Biden is expected to announce his running mate next week, ahead of the Democratic National Convention.
Abrams said Black voters were motivated to defeat Trump in November. They became a focus in the campaign after the racial and social justice protests in American streets sparked by the death of George Floyd, a Black man, under the knee of a white police officer.
The first dip in Black voter turnout in 20 years contributed to Democrat Hillary Clinton's upset loss to Trump four years ago.
"Even if people don't necessarily feel enthusiastic about the person that is Joe Biden, they are enthusiastic about the policies that are Joe Biden, and that's what I think is going to matter in November," Abrams said.