Premedical studies, medical school, marriage, motherhood, and now residency have taught me about my ability to persevere, to thrive, to love and be loved. More so than the extreme highs and lows that come with providing care for a broad range of children from the critically ill to the chronically affected, you realize it is the day-to-day provision of care that is the most long-lasting. What you do on the average day at work, if your colleagues feel supported or unsupported, if your work leaves patients feeling cared for, if you managed whatever major things they were seeing you for, that's what matters the most.
I think at the end of my shift tomorrow I'll do a little happy dance to mark the end of an era. I am a lover of daytime work, of seeing the sunshine in the morning, of being at home when my family wakes up. I gladly mark the end of leaving home in the dark and trying not to wake up our toddler as I hustle to find my shoes. I gladly mark the end of back-to-back consult calls from the Emergency Department or outside hospitals for admissions. I sadly mark the end of seeing my favorite overnight nurses and of running efficient rounds. I sadly mark the end of being the "Senior Resident on call" answering questions for outside providers.
The end of residency overnight inpatient call and the beginning of Attending at-home call. Sounds nice to me.
How Much Do You Share With Your Patients?
In my practice, there are two kinds of doctors. There are those who don't display even one personal photo in their exam rooms, and then, there are those that do. Me? I proudly display a collage of recent kids' photos. Occasionally, a photo will include me and/or Hubby, or our cats.
I've found that the photos can "break the ice", meaning serve as benign fodder for a softer, friendlier discussion in an otherwise sterile, somewhat scary environment.
Let's face it: a bleachy-smelling standard-hospital-grade exam room, where the cold speculum and bristly Pap brushes are laid right out on the chux, is not a fun place to be sitting twiddling your thumbs. No People magazine can change that.
How do I know this? Hey, I have a doctor, too.
What I've personally experienced is that decorations or photos can help to create a warmer, more inviting environment. I'll immediately feel like this provider is confident enough to share of themselves; that they're open to connect with me as a fellow human being.
The exam rooms that don't feature any kind of personal touch may as well be alien spaceship exam rooms: What part of me is going to get probed?
The worst exam rooms I've encountered are at my GYN's office: almost completely tiled without any objects left out in view whatsoever. I feel like a lobster in a pound. They may get high marks from OSHA and The Joint Commission, but I sit there increasingly uneasy, freezing in my flimsy paper gown. Even our dentist does better job with environmental emotional regulation.
Our pediatrician wins the prize for personal adornments. He's got family photos, his kids' artwork, obviously his choice of decorations (all sports-themed), and entertaining items like books and toys strewn all about. Not only am I made to feel more at ease, but my kids are, as well.
Of course, items and photos invite questions and conversation. I think this is good, and I tend to be very open and honest with my patients. Hey, I'm querying them deeply about their relationships, jobs, bad habits, fertility plans, and private parts. These are all topics that are socially prohibited in usual, out-of-the-doctor's-office conversation. I can at least share that my kids are in preschool and my husband works for the Patriots.
In seven years of practicing in this style, I haven't had anyone complain that I waste their time or overshare. My colleagues can tell you that I run on time, more or less. (More than most.) At this point, my regular patients excitedly ask for updates as soon as I walk in the door. How are the kids, how old are they now? Still have those huge cats? What does your husband thank about Deflategate?
Obviously, I'm all for sharing. heck, I blog.
What do other docs think?
I am so excited to contribute to a community that has been my lifeline during residency and motherhood. I figured my introduction should include how I got to know MiM.
Rewind to approximately 3 years and 1 month ago, I was at the end of my surgical intern year. (I know. I'm a radiology resident. Why did I do a surgical intern year? Long story short. My husband, big C, was already an orthopedic resident at the institution of my medical school before I matched. I was pretty set on staying on for internship and residency at the same institution. There is only 1 transitional program in a 2 hour radius of where we are from and that particularly 1 was heavily medicine and ICU. I don't like long rounds. So surgery it was!) At that point in my life, I was pretty darn happy to be at the end of my surgical intern year and ready to start my radiology training.
My husband and I just returned from vacation and I was feeling unusually tired. More tired than I usually do. Hard to figure out what my baseline was given that I was a surgical intern! I joked around with him that maybe I was pregnant. I had forgotten my birth control pills during our 2 week vacation but thought nothing of it at the time. I remember distinctly finishing rounds on a Saturday morning and settling into my day of call. I remember texting my poor husband who was post call that I hope he didn't "knock me up." It was a particularly slow morning. I was bored. I walked over to the nursing station and asked for some pregnancy tests. I took 5! I peed on one and I saw 2 stripes. I freaked out! I got some gatorade from the hospital cafeteria and peed on the remaining 4! 2 negative pregnancy tests followed by 2 more positive pregnancy tests! I remember as a medical student on OB thinking how could people NOT know how to read a pregnancy test. Now I knew why.
After my call ended and thoroughly freaked out, I remember going to the pharmacy and purchasing digital pregnancy tests. The kind that said "pregnant" or "not pregnant." Same thing happened! 2 "pregnant" and 2 "not pregnant." At that point, I was still in denial. I wanted a blood test. Except I don't have a primary care physician. Who has time to go to primary care physician as a medical student or a surgical intern?
I found the family medicine department on our institution's website. It was already Sunday at this point and I was desperate. I e-mailed one of family medicine physicians, Dr. B. I never met her. But she e-mailed me back immediately. She said it was no problem and she would put in the lab order for a blood b-HCG. I got my lab drawn the following morning. After rounds that Monday, I got an email saying that new lab values were posted on my online medical chart. There it was. b-HCG 79. Reference Value: >10 pregnant.
I remember taking a screen shot of my labs and texting it to my husband. First and only time he would actually excuse himself out of rounds to call me. We were both in shock. I was an intern! He was a PGY 3 but basically a PGY 2 as his orthopedic program requires a research year as a PGY 2. We were babies in the world of medicine and somehow now we were going to be responsible for a real baby in less than 9 months?
I remember Dr. B calling me with the results herself. She said "Your intuition was right! You are definitely pregnant and very early pregnant, which explains the equivocal urine pregnancy tests." I sat there and tried to calculate my due date. I was going to be mom half way through my first year of radiology training. Once baby comes, I will still have another 3.5 years of residency and 1 year of fellowship. How am I going to do this? I will forever be grateful to Dr. B. I wasn't her patient. I was just some resident that found her e-mail and she was just nice enough to respond. It was then she asked, "Have you ever heard of the website Mothers in Medicine? I think it will be good for you."
I've been hooked ever since! So here I am today. 3 weeks away from taking radiology boards. My little love bug, little C, is now almost 2.5 years old. I'll be starting my last year of radiology residency come July. (We take part 1 of our boards a year before we graduate. Part 2 comes 15 months after graduation.) Big C will be graduating from his orthopedic residency this June and leaving to the east coast for his spine fellowship.
Just for fun, thought I would post the 10 MiM posts that have had the most pageviews to date. Mind you, our posts go back for 7 years and number of views is determined by many factors including what shows up on search engines and links from other sites. But, thought it would be fun to take a walk down MiM memory lane.
1. A day in the life of a neurosurgeon - seriously? by GCS15. This was part of our Day in the Life Topic Week from 2009.
2. When breastmilk isn't best by Fizzy, 2012. The title alone attracted many views and commenters, including some non-MiM breastfeeding activists who clearly did not read/get the post. Check out the great discussion on "gunk" (on pump parts) in the comments.
3. Guest post: Why it's all worthwhile (or what keeps me going) by GCS15 in 2010. A personal favorite. So inspiring.
4. Why you absolutely need to have a baby during residency by Fizzy, 2012. Another great and provocative title. Again we see Fizzy's signature use of humor to make her points and win over the audience!
5. MiM Mail: (Un)happy match day - It doesn't matter what YOU want, 2015. Our community came together in support of this MiM - we felt her struggle and all wanted to help. Any updates?
6. The opiate endemic and us by Genmedmom, 2013. Thoughtful commentary about a difficult, serious issue in patient care.
7. Why is residency so harmful? (And what can we do about it?) by Genmedmom, 2014. Another thoughtful commentary about medical training and sometimes toxic culture that comes along with it.
8. Maternalism by JC (a cardiologist), 2010. A wonderful post trying to reconcile comfort, evidence-based medicine and the post-paternalistic era of medicine.
9. Guest post: The two kinds of mothers in medicine, by Jess, 2014. Generated great discussion about balance and working mothers' guilt (or lack thereof). We're lucky to have Jess as a regular contributor now.
10.MiM Mail: Anesthesiology or psychiatry? 2014. Apparently, a much-researched question!
Do you have favorites not represented here? Feel free to add in the comments.
Another long day in the life of a resident, and I find myself at home wondering what to feed myself and my family for the next week. Hubs is willing to help, but lacks creative energy in the kitchen most days and doesn't like to spend much time prepping a meal. Munchkin is young enough to be happy with basic staples pulled out night after night, though she does express boredom at times and I prefer to introduce a variety of foods.
I found an app with associated website this weekend that will let me plan a menu with recipes and create a shopping list. I'm hoping with less call in the upcoming year that we will be able to eat more intentionally.
How do you keep your family fed? Do you plan ahead and shop for your weekly menu? How often do you sit down to a freshly cooked meal, and how do you get it done?
Update 05.04.15: Thanks so much for those of you who responded to this call. We are going to have an amazing cohort of MiMs joining us over the next year, from all stages of training and representing some new specialties we haven't had in recent times. For everyone else, we always welcome your guest posts and MiM Mail. Next open call: May 2016. Thanks for reading!
It's hard to believe, but Mothers in Medicine is celebrating its 7th birthday this month. We recently passed our 3 millionth pageview. Some of our contributors have written here since the beginning, and others we have welcomed along the way. Your guest posts and MiM Mail and all of the posts (over 1200 to date) have made this a community where we can reflect, share, support, and grow.
In honor of May, the home of Mother's Day and MiM's birthday, we wanted to try something new to add to the voices that have been on this site: an annual, open call for new contributors to join as writers for a (renewable) one year term. The only requirement is the willingness to share a part of your journey as a mother in medicine with this community over the next year. No blogging experience necessary.
If you are interested, please send a note to mothersinmedicine@gmail.com with why you would like to write for MiM and a little bit about yourself. We would love to welcome some new MiMs to the roster!


Can they make xerneas learn the moves stomp,jump kick and bounce instead of night slash in the Pokemon game?
No, you can't make Xerneas legitimately learn Stomp, Jump Kick, nor Bounce. Although it would make sense, the movesets are GameFreak's say so.
Why was high jump kick formatted as "Hi Jump Kick" instead of "HighJumpKick"?
Can my level 30 Hitmonlee learn Hi Jump Kick?


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The two leading candidates in the federal by-election in Toronto Centre faced off about pipelines, income inequality and affordable housing in a debate at Jarvis Collegiate Nov 20.
The NDP's Linda McQuaig and Liberal candidate Chrystia Freeland, both journalists and authors of books on inequality, dominated the debate in front of a packed room.
But debate moderator John Tory, the former leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party, asked all four candidates a number of questions from local community groups, social service organizations and students on a range of issues.
The discussion became heated when the candidates were asked about affordable housing. McQuaig blasted the Liberals for killing the national housing strategy under Paul Martin.
Freeland said she supports developing a new national housing strategy but rejected the idea that she should have to answer for decisions made by the Liberals almost two decades ago. "On Paul Martin, look, none of us are voting about what happened in 1995," she said.
Freeland said she is focused on the economy and how the middle class is being "squeezed." She said Canada needs to grow the economy from the middle out.
At several points, the audience booed in response to Conservative Geoff Pollock's statements, especially when he expressed support for Prime Minister Stephen Harper's "tough on crime" agenda.
The Green Party's John Deverell pointed out that Canada's crime rate is actually decreasing, yet the Harper government is building more prisons. Pollock responded, "I beg to differ."
On harm reduction, Freeland, McQuaig and Deverell all agreed that addiction is a health issue and should not be criminalized. Pollock didn't appear to have a clear understanding of harm-reduction methods and said he'd need to consult with the community on the issue.
The candidates also battled on the topic of climate change and the Keystone XL pipeline.
When McQuaig pointed out that Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau backs the pipeline, Freeland responded by saying that NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair has also supported Alberta's oil sands.
"The NDP wants to have it both ways. Mulcair travels to Alberta to be a partner of the oil sands, then he turns around and opposes it," she said.
Meanwhile, Deverell declared his support for carbon taxes on fossil fuels and said none of the major parties have done enough to fight climate change. He said they've instead wasted time bickering about which party supports pipelines.
Even though the debate was held on Trans Day of Remembrance, the candidates failed to mention the plight of trans Canadians. There were also no questions about Bill C-279, which would amend the Human Rights Act to include gender identity as a prohibited ground of discrimination and is yet to pass.
Debate organizer Arthur Sinclair says he wasn't aware that the debate was scheduled for the exact same time as the annual ceremony and candlelight vigil at the 519 Church Street Community Centre.
The by-election is to replace former Liberal MP Bob Rae. Toronto Centre goes to the polls Nov 25. Read Xtra's interviews with McQuaig, Freeland and Deverell.
Watch Xtra's interview with Justin Trudeau.


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Net Neutrality Victory
Craig Aaron
This morning the FCC voted to protect real Net Neutrality — marking the biggest victory for the public interest in the agency's history.
That's right. We won.
Even a few months ago this victory didn't seem possible. Last May, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler ignored the public call for real Net Neutrality — and instead released a proposal that would have allowed pay-to-play fast lanes online.
Comcast and its pals thought they'd won the fight. But Free Press members and millions of people across the country proved them wrong. After a year of relentless activism, Wheeler reversed course — moving to give Internet users the strongest protections possible under Title II of the Communications Act.
It's an incredible turnaround that wouldn't have happened without every single phone call, email, rally, Facebook post, tweet, meeting with Congress and everything else activists have been part of in the fight to save the Internet.
This moment was more than 10 years in the making. The fight to protect the open Internet has united everyone — grassroots activists, technologists, new civil rights leaders, parents, teachers, students, musicians, artists and millions and millions of Internet users. We've proven that we're a force to be reckoned with in Washington.
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U.S. To Send Ukraine $5.5 Billion In New Fiscal, Military Aid
by Reuters Staff on August 8, 2022
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Aug 8 (Reuters) – The United States will send an additional $5.5 billion in aid to Ukraine, made up of $4.5 billion in budgetary support and $1 billion in military assistance, to help it come to grips with the turmoil of this year's Russian invasion.
The $4.5 billion budgetary grant will fund urgent government needs including payments for pensions, social welfare and healthcare costs, bringing total U.S. fiscal aid for Ukraine to $8.5 billion since Russia's February invasion, the U.S. Agency for International Development said.
The funding, coordinated with the U.S. Treasury Department through the World Bank, will go to the Ukraine government in tranches, beginning with a $3 billion disbursement in August, USAID said.
It follows previous transfers of $1.7 billion in July and $1.3 billion in June, USAID said. Washington has also provided billions of dollars in military and security support.
The $1 billion arms package announced by the Pentagon is the largest single military package under President Joe Biden's drawdown authority, including long-range rocket munitions and armored medical transport vehicles
It includes as many as 50 M113 armored medical transports and munitions for the U.S.-supplied HIMARS long range rocket launchers and for the NASAMS surface-to-air missile system.Read full storyRead full story
The fiscal and military aid packages – both first reported by Reuters on Monday – are drawn from a $40 billion aid package for Ukraine approved by Congress in May. Read full story
Overall, the United States has contributed more than $18 billion to Ukraine this year.
UKRAINE POVERTY GROWS
The new budgetary funds are to help the Ukrainian government maintain essential functions, including social and financial assistance for the growing poor population, children with disabilities, and millions of internally displaced persons, as the war drags on.
Ukrainian officials estimate the country faces a $5 billion-a-month fiscal shortfall – or 2.5% of pre-war gross domestic product – due to the cost of the war and declining tax revenues. Economists say that will swell Ukraine's annual deficit to 25% of GDP, compared with 3.5% before the conflict.
The World Bank estimates that 55% of Ukrainians will be living in poverty by the end of 2023 as a result of the war and the large numbers of displaced persons, compared with 2.5% before the start of the war.
USAID said U.S. budget support has enabled the Ukrainian government to keep gas and electricity flowing to hospitals, schools and other critical infrastructure and deliver urgently needed humanitarian supplies to citizens.
The funds have also paid for healthcare workers, teachers and other civil servants.
USAID said robust safeguards had been put in place by the World Bank, along with USAID-funded, third-party watchdogs embedded within the Ukrainian government to make sure the funds are directed where they are meant to go.
"This economic assistance is critical in supporting the Ukrainian people as they defend their democracy against Russia's unprovoked war of aggression," U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in a statement.
The injection of fresh cash for Ukraine comes as the war, which Russia calls "a special military operation," stretches into a sixth month, with millions of Ukrainians displaced and authorities warning of likely gas shortages in winter.
US readies new $1 billion Ukraine weapons package https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/exclusive-us-readies-new-1-billion-ukraine-weapons-package-2022-08-05/
(Reporting by Andrea Shalal, Idrees Ali and Mike Stone; Additional reporting by David Lawder Editing by Heather Timmons and Howard Goller)
Reuters Staff


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Frances Hardinge spent her childhood in a huge old house that inspired her to write strange stories from an early age. She read English at Oxford University, then got a job at a software company. However, by this time a persistent friend ha . .


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Building the Northern Powerhouse
By Paul Swinney | 1 June 2016
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Figure 1: The benefits of agglomeration
Box 1: The Randstad and Rhine-Ruhr as inspiration
Definitions of the Northern Powerhouse, Randstad and Rhine-Ruhr
Figure 2: Size of the Northern Powerhouse, Randstad and Rhine-Ruhr
Five facts about the Randstad and Rhine-Ruhr, with comparison to the Northern Powerhouse
Fact 1: The Randstad and Rhine-Ruhr are more productive than the Northern Powerhouse, but economic activity is concentrated in specific places.
Figure 3: Productivity relative to the national average, 2013
Figure 4: The geography of jobs in the Northern Powerhouse, Randstad and Rhine-Ruhr areas
Fact 2: Commuting links show city regions to be distinct, rather than operating as part of a larger, single economy
Figure 6: Containment in city regions
Figure 7: Commuting patterns of all and high-skill occupations into Greater Manchester
Fact 3: Public transport usage is similar across the three areas, but the modes used are different
Figure 8: Residents commuting via public transport in city regions
Figure 9: Resident commuting by mode of public transport in city regions
Fact 4: It is frequency, rather than speed, that separates the rail networks
Figure 10: Frequency and speed of services between cities
Fact 5: Neither the Randstad or Rhine-Ruhr have institutions that plan or manage activity or investment at this scale
To be successful, the Northern Powerhouse initiative must focus primarily on its cities and city regions
Increasing knowledge spillovers
Figure 11: Industrial structure of the North and Greater South East of England, 2014
Expanding the pool of workers
Figure 12: Residents by qualification, 2014
Box 3: The trade-off of housing costs and commuting time in and around London and Manchester
As a whole, the Randstad and Rhine-Ruhr areas lead their respective national economies, being more productive (measured using GVA per worker) than their countries as a whole. This is not the case in the Northern Powerhouse (see Figure 3), where productivity is 14 per cent lower than the national average. And at £45,000 in 2013, productivity in the North was below both the Randstad (£62,000) and Rhine-Ruhr (£56,000) areas.
So the stronger performance of the Randstad and Rhine-Ruhr suggests that there are lessons to be learned from the two areas that would benefit the Northern Powerhouse, as suggested in the various strategy documents and speeches on this policy initiative to date.
Source: Eurostat, ONS. Note: Figures are in purchasing power standard (PPS) converted into £ to account for differences in the cost of living across the countries.
But this economic activity is not spread out throughout the two areas. As Figure 4 shows, in line with the theory of agglomeration, the economy is concentrated in specific places.
In the Randstad, the economy is concentrated in the two largest cities of Amsterdam and Rotterdam. Despite accounting for just 10 per cent of land, these cities accounted for 34 per cent of all jobs in the area in 2014.13 They were also the two most productive parts of the Randstad in 2013.14
In the Rhine-Ruhr area, Cologne and Düsseldorf are by far the two largest cities. Accounting for just 6.8 per cent of land, they were home to 22 per cent of all of the Rhine-Ruhr's jobs in 2015. They were also two of the three most productive municipalities in the Rhine-Ruhr in 2013.
Source: Census 2011; Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek; Statistik der Bundesagentur für Arbeit. Note: Data for the Randstad and Rhine-Ruhr is on a municipality basis, whereas data for the North of England is on a medium super output area (MSOA). Where the MSOA was not large enough to cover the entirety of a city centre, they have been merged with neighbouring MSOAs.
This is particularly the case for knowledge-based jobs. In the Rhine-Ruhr, Cologne and Düsseldorf accounted for 35 per cent of all private sector knowledge intensive business services (KIBS) jobs,15 and 45 per cent of all financial services jobs (a subset of KIBS jobs). While data is not available to look at KIBS jobs at the local level in the Randstad, it does show that financial services are similarly concentrated – in 2014 the two largest cities accounted for 48 per cent of the Randstad's jobs in this sector.
This is important for a number of reasons. Firstly, these jobs tend to be higher skilled and better paid. Secondly, advanced economies are likely to continue to specialise in these types of activities, and so will be an important source of jobs growth. And finally, research suggests that jobs created in these sectors create jobs in other sectors such as retail and leisure.16
Similar patterns are seen across the Northern Powerhouse. The two largest cities of Manchester and Leeds, despite accounting for 4.3 per cent of land in the North, account for 24 per cent of all jobs and 35 per cent of all private KIBS jobs. In total, the North's 21 cities account for only 20 per cent of land, but 70 per cent of jobs.
As Figure 4 shows, jobs are especially clustered in city centres. In 2015, 7.5 per cent of the North's private sector jobs were located in its five largest city centres,17 despite them accounting for just 0.07 per cent of all land. And 17.3 per cent of all private sector KIBS jobs were located there.
But whereas the largest cities of the Randstad and Rhine-Ruhr are the most productive parts of their wider areas, the cities of the North are not. As Figure 5 shows, not one northern city has productivity above the UK average.
Source: Eurostat, ONS, Centre for Cities calculations. Note: Dutch and German cities are defined using Eurostat's urban audit definition. English cities are Primary Urban Areas.
An argument often put forward about both the Randstad and Rhine-Ruhr area is that their transport links allow people to live in one city but work in another, suggesting that there would be benefits for the North of England in strengthening transport links between cities. But the data suggests that people don't use the transport links in this way.
The share of people who both live and work within a particular city region is very similar across the three areas. As Figure 6 shows, 10 of the 13 city regions in the three areas have containment rates between 82 and 89 per cent. At 76 per cent, Utrecht is the only exception, mainly because of the large levels of commuting to the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area.18
Source: Census 2011; Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek; Landesdatenbank NRW. Data for England is 2011, data for Germany and the Netherlands is 2014.
This means that commuting links between city regions tend to be quite low:
In the Rhine-Ruhr, Düsseldorf, located between the two other city regions in the area, has the largest share of residents commuting to other city regions. But this equates to no more than 6 per cent of total working residents to each of the other two, and is not dissimilar to the 4 per cent of working residents in Liverpool City Region that commute to Greater Manchester each day, or the 5 per cent of Sheffield City Region's working residents that travel to the wider Leeds area19 to work.
Similar patterns are seen in the Randstad too. While 12 per cent of Utrecht's working residents travel to Amsterdam, this is very much the exception – the next highest flow is the 5 per cent of Amsterdam residents that work in Utrecht.
Highly skilled workers do tend to commute further.20 But they tend to commute from the rural hinterlands of the cities they work in, rather than from other cities. Most city regions have stronger links between the central city and surrounding hinterland than with other city regions within the Northern Powerhouse. Figure 7 shows where Greater Manchester's workers live. The spread of those working in high-skill occupations stretches further into Lancashire to the north and Cheshire and the Peak District to the south than for all workers. But even given this greater spread, 78 per cent of these highly skilled workers still choose to live in Greater Manchester.
These patterns, evident across all three areas, appear to suggest that if a worker wants to live in a city, they will mostly choose to live in the city that they work within. Otherwise they will choose to live in the countryside surrounding the city they work in, rather than another city.
Source: Census 2011
Public transport usage by commuters tends to be similar across the city regions too (see Figure 8). With the exception of the Tees Valley and Hull and Humber, a range of between 11 and 19 per cent of commuters across the city regions use public transport to work. The striking thing about these figures is not only that they are very similar, but they are also quite low. By comparison, 45 per cent of Londoners use public transport to get to work.
Source: Census 2011; Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek; Landesdatenbank NRW. Data is resident based. Data for England is 2011, data for Germany and the Netherlands is 2014. Dutch data was provided by Ate Poorthuis, Assistant Professor at the Singapore University of Technology and Design.
What is different is the mix of public transport used. Figure 9 shows that the share of commuters using the bus to commute in northern English city regions is much higher than in the Rhine-Ruhr area, where the use of metro and train services is more popular. A split between bus and tram usage is not given in the Dutch data, but trains alone account for over 40 per cent of all commutes by public transport in the Randstad.21
Source: Census 2011, Landesdatenbank NRW. English data is 2011, German data is 2012
The speeds achieved by intercity rail connections between the cities of the Randstad and Rhine-Ruhr are not a great deal quicker than between cities in the Northern Powerhouse.
With the exception of the Cologne-Düsseldorf-Duisburg link, speeds are not much quicker than connections across northern cities. And even the Cologne-Duisburg link is not as quick as connections into London from Reading and Milton Keynes.22
Speeds in the Randstad also outperform links between northern English cities, but again not significantly. And the link between Rotterdam and the Hague is slower than any connection between the principal cities of city regions in the North of England.
Where there is a big difference is in frequency. As Figure 10 shows, there is a much higher number of services between the cities of the Randstad and Rhine-Ruhr than in the Northern Powerhouse. Despite this, commuting data above shows that this has not resulted in a larger share of commutes made by public transport, although it may help explain why trains are more popular than bus journeys.
Source: Google; Network Rail. Data is for March 2016. The main city only in each city region has been included in the Northern Powerhouse data, while cities with populations over 300,000 have been used in the Randstad and Rhine-Ruhr. Trains that left before a later service but arrived later were discarded.
Although both the Randstad and Rhine-Ruhr are frequently presented as 'mega cities' in Europe, there is no regional body in place that looks at economic development or inward investment across the two areas.
In the Randstad, responsibilities are split between provinces (of which there are four) and municipalities (of which there are 135); the former, for example, look after regional transport, while the latter look after economic development and education. Meanwhile local transport is the responsibility of separate local transport bodies.23
In the Rhine-Ruhr, sub-national governance falls between the federal State of North Rhine Westphalia (which is larger than the Rhine-Ruhr area), 30 districts and 110 municipalities.24 The State has a wide number of responsibilities including education, while the districts have powers over planning, local transport and tax raising.25
These five findings reveal two main characteristics about agglomeration in the Randstad and Rhine-Ruhr. Firstly, jobs are very concentrated in a few places rather than spread out across both areas. This appears to be particularly the case for more knowledge-based jobs that benefit from greater density and proximity. This suggests that knowledge spillovers play out over small areas in the cities of the Randstad and Rhine-Ruhr, as they do in other cities.
Secondly, both the Randstad and Rhine-Ruhr areas do not act as one labour market but as a number of them. This means that transport systems within city regions are more important for enabling businesses to access workers and workers to access jobs than transport links between cities.
The most significant implication of these findings is that the underperformance of northern cities is not chiefly down to poor transport links between them. The cities of the Randstad and Rhine-Ruhr happen to be close together, rather than operating as one economy, so do not provide a model for creating a unified economy across the North of England by improving transport links between them. Instead, the model of the Randstad and Rhine-Ruhr suggests that if the Northern Powerhouse is to be successful, then it must primarily focus on making its cities more attractive to business investment.
13 These jobs were concentrated in the core city authorities of Rotterdam and Amsterdam, which accounted for 7 per cent of land but 28 per cent of jobs.
14 Defined as the NUTS 3 areas of Greater Amsterdam and Greater Rotterdam.
15 Defined using 2 digit SIC codes, making the definition slightly broader than the standard one used by Centre for Cities.
16 Moretti E (2012), The New Geography of Jobs, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
17 The city centres of Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, Newcastle and Sheffield.
18 This echoes the findings in OCED (2007) OECD Territorial Reviews Randstad Holland, Netherlands, Paris: OECD
19 The West Yorkshire combined authority area.
20 Green A & Owen D (2006) The geography of poor skills and access to work, York: Joseph Rowntree Foundation; Groot S, Groot, H and Veneri P (2012) The Educational Bias in Commuting Patterns: Micro-Evidence for the Netherlands, Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper
21 Defined as the provinces of North Holland, South Holland and Flevoland.
22 The fastest average speed on the Milton Keynes-London line between 8am and 9am is 1.66, and on the Reading-London line it is 1.5. Source: Network Rail; National Rail Inquiries
23 OCED (2007) OECD Territorial Reviews Randstad Holland, Netherlands, Paris: OECD
24 Districts that are Kreisefrei Stadts, of which there are 20, have no municipalities beneath them.
25 Source: http://germanlawarchive.iuscomp.org/?p=380#fn0, accessed 29th April 2016


Of course, you do. What a silly question to ask. Unfortunately, video games starring the Dear Leader have been pretty hard to come by. But now, a new game will now take you to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, and put you in the shoes of Kim Jong-un as he battles against an invasion by capitalist swine. Read on for the glorious details.
As you might have guessed by the image above, the game is called Glorious Leader, and while details on the game are scarce, what we do know is both awesome and horrifying. Developed by Moneyhorse Games, and styled to evoke memories of classic 8 bit side scrollers like Contra, Glorious Leader stars Kim Jong-un as the greatest warrior currently walking the face of the Earth. In other words, it's a simulation of his real life. As in real life, the DPRK in the game is under constant threat of invasion from American capitalist dogs. But unlike real life, in the game, the invasion actually happens. Fear not, freedom loving citizens of the world. Kim Jong-un is a one man army, albeit a slightly overweight one man army who is constantly short of breath. Nonetheless, he is up to the challenge of repelling the invaders, thanks to unlimited ammo and his trusty flaming unicorn. Check out the trailer below to see what I mean.
While the merits of mocking one of the largest human rights disasters in modern history are debatable, there's no denying that from a gameplay perspective, Glorious Leader looks like a lot of fun. It looks like it will scratch that retro itch many of us NES fans suffer from. It'll be out for PC and mobile platforms later this year.
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 Pilzarten aus der aufgelösten Gattung Pseudocraterellus, deren Arten inzwischen den Kraterellen zugeordnet werden.

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organized in 1867. The first preacher was Rev. Myron Clendenning. The original members were : Jacob Chase and wife, A. D. Chase and wife, Moses Sanderson and wife ( Mr. Sander¬ son was a local preacher) ; Peter Waldron, Bridane Sanderson and wife. These are all that are remembered.
De Soto, Retreat and Central societies have comprised one circuit, hence this is called the Central Church. The Rev. Newton Lane assist¬ ed Rev. Clendenning, who was the first on the circuit. The circuit at that time, comprised a large area of territory. Rev. Clendenning is now a member of the Rock River Conference. The Rev. Lane died in the service during the Rebellion. Rev. Clendenning was succeeded by Rev. Smith.. He by the Rev. Bassenger ; then came the Rev. J. E. Irish ; other pastors were W. P. Hill, Christopher Bushby, Thomas Manuel, H. J. Walker, D. L. Hubbard, D. Clingman, H. D. Jenks and the Rev. W. W. Hurd. The present pastor is the Rev. I. F. Nuzum. Th^ Central church building was erected in 1877. It is a frame structur-e, one and a half stories, and cost about $900. A Sunday school has been supported since the class was organized ; it now numbers seventy- five members.
Rev. George W. Nuzum, formerly pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Viroqua, was born in Perry Co., Ohio, Aug. 26, 1832. He there grew to manhood. He was a student for some time at the college at Athens, Ohio. When twenty-three years of age, he entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church of the Ohio Conference. He was married in Ohio to Miss M. F. Groves, and in 1856 came to Ver¬ non Co., Wis., joining the Bad Ax circuit and preaching at various points according to the customs of his Church. Mr. Nuzum first settled on forty acres of land in Viroqua town, where he lived for a number of years. Subsequently he resided for about eight years in Liberty town.    He then settled on. his present farm in
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The first meeting of the Congregational society in this locality was held Feb. 15, 1856. The society was organized at this meeting. The minister present was the Rev. L. L. Radcliffe, of La Crosse district convention. Among the number who joined the society at this time were : Charles Houghton and wife, Fannie Houghton, Mrs. Mary E. Roach, Mrs. Abbie W. Tobey (the last two were daughters of Mr. Houghton), Daniel D. Fuller and wife, Mercy P. Fuller, Alexander Young and wife, Wilton E. Roach and J. F. Tobey. The first pastor was Rev. L. L. Radcliffe; the first officers were Charles Houghton, deacon ; and Daniel Fuller, clerk. Rev. L. L. Radcliffe was succeeded by Rev. Alexander Parker, in 1863, and he by Rev. Peter Valentine, in 1865. The next pastor in charge was Rev. L. Bridgeman, who came in 1868 and remained till his suc¬ cessor. Rev. James Mitchell came in 1871 ; the Rev. S. H. Thompson came in 1874 and was succeeded by Rev. William Houghton, in 1879; Rev. Charles Vaile was pastor in 1881 ; then came Rev. William Houghton to his second pastorate.
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Q: Darken current background-color dynamically with AngularJS Situation: I have a table with different background colors for every row.
Issue: When I sort the rows by a column I would like to darken a little every  from that column, based on the background-color of the row. Until now I have something like this:

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A: I think it would be cleaner to simply apply a class sorted and then do the styling with CSS.
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Easier to maintain if all styling is managed through your CSS.
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Another exhibition game ended with a shocking upset as Division II program Augustana (S.D.) defeated Iowa on Friday night.
Daniel Jansen made an incredible contested shot at the buzzer to give his team the 76-74 win.
It's fitting that Jansen made the game-winning shot for Augustana. The senior forward grew up in Orange City, Iowa and played AAU basketball with a few Hawkeye players.
The win for the Vikings, who were named the preseason No. 1 in the DII coaches poll, is the second time in this week alone that a DII program has stunned a DI program. St. Thomas Aquinas cruised past St. John's on Wednesday night.
No doubt the wins for both programs will give the players a boost of confidence before the regular season starts on Nov. 13.


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Katla Margrét Þorgeirsdóttir (born 1970) is an Icelandic actress, voice actress and writer. She is known for her role as Laufey in Trapped.

Career
Katla graduated from the Icelandic Drama School (now a department under the Iceland Academy of the Arts) in 1997. She has been involved in multiple productions on stage such as Jungle Book (based on the book by Rudyard Kipling), Sound of Music, the Wizard of Oz, Pippi Longstocking and Fanny and Alexander.

Selected filmography
 Maður eins og ég (2002) as Magga
 Kaldaljós (2004) as Lára
 The Incredibles (2004) (Icelandic voice of Mirage)
 Fangavaktin (2009) (TV-series) as Emilía
 Bjarnfreðarson (2009) as Prison guard Emilía
 Órói (2010) as Gréta's mother
 Hetjur Valhallar - Þór (2011) (Icelandic voice)
 Wreck it Ralph (2012) (Icelandic voice of Calhoun)
 Þrestir (2015) as Ösp
 Trapped (2015-2016) (TV-series) as Laufey

References

External links

Living people
1970 births
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Para la transmisión de energía eléctrica, una torre de suspensión es una estructura donde los conductores están suspendidos de la torre, teniendo la misma tensión mecánica a cada lado.

En este caso, se supone que la torre tiene una fuerza vertical y una fuerza lateral. Sin embargo, estas no poseen fuerza longitudinal.

Estas estructuras tienen por lo general una cadena de aisladores suspendidas desde la torre, o dos cadenas de aisladores en forma de "V". En cualquiera de los casos, algunas veces se usan cadenas de aisladores en paralelo para mejorar la resistencia mecánica. Estas estructuras son usadas donde una línea de transmisión continua en línea recta, o gira con un pequeño ángulo. En otros casos, se usa una torre de retención.

Véase también
Torre de transposición
Torre de retención

Referencias


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3 nights of celebrations in London, to be organised in 3 weeks. The first night; reception and private film screening with friends, second night; A Grand Orient Hotel styled evening for 95 guests at Annabel's following a faded old world glamour concept. Final night; formal and intimate dining experience for family and close friends.
Here Marble showcased and utilised every one of the 6 core services that it offers within a tight turnaround time. The result- a beautifully crafted weekend.
The three evenings took the guests to some of London's most stylish and exclusive locations in London. Harking back to the days of timeless glamour and weekend long partying. Grace, flair and sophistication brought to life within the chosen spaces by the lighting design, entertainment, music and food curation playing together in one fine tune throughout the weekend.


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I was surprised to see the comic festival from the street. Happy patrons with bags with blue and white that read Free Comic Book Day walked down Lankershim as I reached Blastoff Comicfest. The one day event created a festival of free comics, food and signings for comic fans.
The fest came from Jud Meyers, the owner of the not too distant Blastoff Comics in North Hollywood and creator of Blastoff Comicfest, who decided to hold the festival in a lot near The Federal on Free Comic Book Day, last Saturday, May 2nd. A day when comic shops hand out free comics to customers and some hold special events. "It's exceeded all expectations, " Jud told me himself as he helped hand out free comics to those attending. He told me about the event as free balloons he was giving out made funny noises in the air as younger comic fans played with them. "Skeee," you could hear a balloon deflate as he told me, "Everybody wants to take pictures with cosplayers...we have a designated super hero photo area, where you can step in and get a picture with you favorite super hero." I asked Jud, "Why go all out and have a full on festival?" Jud almost got misty eyed as he told me "After fifteen years of doing this I realized you either have your store or convention...and yet there's so many other things to do. Right now, in this place, I have the city, I don't have my community, I've got people coming from Downtown LA, passed Culver City, from Torrance. I've got people coming from Simi Valley and they're coming from everywhere. Because it's a festival." He's not big on conventions.
Jud pointed me out to many of the writers and artist in attendance who were signing, proud of how many came out to connect with fans. Jim Krueger, a celebrated writer told me "It's not just a chance to meet fans, but to meet kids, Free Comic Book Day is a day kids go into comic book stores and begin reading as a hobby." He was showing off one book that wasn't for little kids "The High Cost of Happily Ever After", a dark fairy tale that won't hit the market for a few months. Jim mentioned how much he enjoyed Blastoff as why he participated in the event.
He sentiments were joined by Joe Casey, another celebrated writer for comics. Joe said, It's been great, I love it when people come out to look at comics." This Marvel/DC/Image writer has been in comics for twenty years, with his latest being "Sex" for Image. "I've known Jud for many years and shop at his store...so, he asked, so I was happy to be here."
Don't be too sad if you missed it, Jud said it was the 1st Annual Comicfest, so they'll be one next year.


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by September 7, 2010 February 9, 2021
Middle school students at St. Bernardine Catholic School in Forest Park debate the merits of building a mosque near Ground Zero.
'Not all Muslims are terrorists'
Even though the proposed mosque is being built two blocks away from where 9/11 happened, I think that it's still OK to build it. I get that 9/11 was a tragic day, but if we don't let Muslims build the mosque, we're breaking the First Amendment. The U.S. is a free country and not all Muslims are terrorists.
Erin, St. Bernardine , 7th grade
A diverse nation
I personally think that building a mosque is fine because we wrote in the amendments that freedom of religion is a right. Some people disagree with me simply because Muslims are going to build it by Ground Zero. We are a very diverse nation with different religions. I think a diverse nation stands out more than other countries and makes us a special nation.
Ada, St. Bernardine, 7th grade
'Put away the past'
I think the people should build the mosque because it's freedom of religion, so they have a right. Also, it will be a community center that gives everybody a chance to learn about Muslim culture. Building something new that is also educational is a way for people to understand a different culture. 9/11 was not all Muslims' fault. We have to put the past away and start fresh.
Giana, St. Bernardine, 7th grade
Peace offer
My original opinion was that the mosque should be left unbuilt. But when I read more about it, I realized that not allowing the Cordoba Center to be built is an outright violation of the First Amendment. It's like saying religious freedom for all except for you, because we still blame your whole religion for something a few people did. Following the constitution only when it suits you is never going to bring anything good to America. If the Cordoba Center is being erected as a sign and offer of peace, I have no idea why people shouldn't let them.
Helen, St. Bernardine, 8th grade
Helping the community
I think Muslims have the right to build their mosque by Ground Zero because it wasn't their fault for the 9/11 attack. It was only a few individuals who crashed the planes into the towers. Plus, the constitution says there is freedom of religion, which means they should have the right to build there. Other religions get to build churches, temples or other religious structures without having to go through what the Muslim mosque has to go through. Also, the mosque will have a community center which will help the community. That's why I think Muslims have the right to build near Ground Zero.
Grant, St. Bernardine, 7th grade
'I don't think Americans are ready yet'
Muslims have the constitutional right to build a place where they can pray and have peace. However, does it have to be near Ground Zero? I don't think Americans are ready yet. Somewhere else in NYC would be more respectful.
Shawna, St. Bernardine, 8th grade
Not appropriate
I believe this is not the appropriate place for a mosque due to the conflict it has and will continue to produce. Using this subject as a point to support our freedoms is not appropriate. I don't think freedom of religion would be abused if the mosque was built elsewhere. I believe the mosque should be built at a location where it would be supported and respected by all. If people are unhappy with the building, it would not be a thriving addition to the community, but a bitter reminder of the 9/11 disaster.
Lauren, St. Bernardine, 8th grade
I am against the mosque being built at Ground Zero because I believe nothing should be built in the place of the Twin Towers. There are other places to build a mosque and I don't understand why Muslims want to build there. I feel building on that land would be disrespectful to the memories of all the people who died that day. I wonder if they are trying to remind us of their success in attacking our country.
Trae, St. Bernardine, 8th grade
Peace, forgiveness and tolerance
I think Muslims want to build a cultural center to try to promote peace, not rub our faces about what some did on 9/11. I don't think we should punish all Muslims. People find building a mosque rude and insensitive, but I don't see how it's more offensive than a bar or off track betting parlor a few blocks away from Ground Zero. People keep saying move it down a couple of blocks, but then it wouldn't be making the same point – the cultural center is trying to promote peace, forgiveness and tolerance!
Natalie, St. Bernardine, 8th grade
Shock and revulsion
When I heard of the plans to build a mosque at the site of the horrific terrorist attack on our country, I was shocked and felt revulsion. It seemed to me that this was blatant disrespect. I believe that the Muslim community does have a constitutional right, but that doesn't make it right. If the message most Muslims are trying to send is "we are not like the extremists," would it not be better to move the building to a different site?
Maddy, St. Bernardine, 8th grade


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Q: How to tell if code cannot be optimized any further I have written a function to calculate a formula in C# that uses nested for loops. It runs slower than I would like and I have been trying to speed it up. Is there a good way to determine if my code can optimized further in C# or if I need to move to a language that is machine compiled such as C++?
I know each case will be different but is there a general process/checklist that could be used to determine if more optimization is possible?

A: No, there is no general rule that works for any algorithm saying "This algorithm cannot be optimized further". If such a tool existed, it would be applied to, well, any existing program.
However a profiler can show you hot spots in your code that should be optimized : it is usually a good idea to run a profiler on time-sensitive parts of the program showing inefficiencies.
Compiling with .NET native could give you results closer to what one would expect to the equivalent C++ program.


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package net.x52im.mobileimsdk.server.qos;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.Map.Entry;
import java.util.Timer;
import java.util.TimerTask;
import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap;
import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentMap;
import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentSkipListMap;

import net.x52im.mobileimsdk.server.ServerLauncher;
import net.x52im.mobileimsdk.server.network.MBObserver;
import net.x52im.mobileimsdk.server.protocal.Protocal;
import net.x52im.mobileimsdk.server.utils.LocalSendHelper;

import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

public class QoS4SendDaemonRoot
{
	private static Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(QoS4SendDaemonRoot.class);

	private boolean DEBUG = false;
	private ServerLauncher serverLauncher = null;
	private ConcurrentSkipListMap<String, Protocal> sentMessages = new ConcurrentSkipListMap<String, Protocal>();
	private ConcurrentMap<String, Long> sendMessagesTimestamp = new ConcurrentHashMap<String, Long>();
	private int CHECH_INTERVAL = 5000;
	private int MESSAGES_JUST$NOW_TIME = 2 * 1000;
	private int QOS_TRY_COUNT = 1;
	private boolean _excuting = false;
	private Timer timer = null;
	private String debugTag = "";

	public QoS4SendDaemonRoot(int CHECH_INTERVAL
			, int MESSAGES_JUST$NOW_TIME
			, int QOS_TRY_COUNT
			, boolean DEBUG, String debugTag)
	{
		if(CHECH_INTERVAL > 0)
			this.CHECH_INTERVAL = CHECH_INTERVAL;
		if(MESSAGES_JUST$NOW_TIME > 0)
			this.MESSAGES_JUST$NOW_TIME = MESSAGES_JUST$NOW_TIME;
		if(QOS_TRY_COUNT >= 0)
			this.QOS_TRY_COUNT = QOS_TRY_COUNT;
		this.DEBUG = DEBUG;
		this.debugTag = debugTag;
	}

	private void doTaskOnece()
	{
		if(!_excuting)
		{
			ArrayList<Protocal> lostMessages = new ArrayList<Protocal>();
			_excuting = true;
			try
			{
				if(DEBUG && sentMessages.size() > 0)
					logger.debug("【IMCORE"+this.debugTag+"】【QoS发送方】====== 消息发送质量保证线程运行中, 当前需要处理的列表长度为"+sentMessages.size()+"...");

				//** 遍历HashMap方法二(在大数据量情况下,方法二的性能要5倍优于方法一)
				Iterator<Entry<String, Protocal>> entryIt = sentMessages.entrySet().iterator();
			    while(entryIt.hasNext())
			    {
			        Entry<String, Protocal> entry = entryIt.next();
			        String key = entry.getKey();
			        final Protocal p = entry.getValue();

					if(p != null && p.isQoS())
					{
						if(p.getRetryCount() >= QOS_TRY_COUNT)
						{
							if(DEBUG)
								logger.debug("【IMCORE"+this.debugTag+"】【QoS发送方】指纹为"+p.getFp()
										+"的消息包重传次数已达"+p.getRetryCount()+"(最多"+QOS_TRY_COUNT+"次)上限,将判定为丢包!");

							lostMessages.add((Protocal)p.clone());
							remove(p.getFp());
						}
						else
						{
							//### 2015104 Bug Fix: 解决了无线网络延较大时,刚刚发出的消息在其应答包还在途中时被错误地进行重传
							Long sendMessageTimestamp = sendMessagesTimestamp.get(key);
							long delta = System.currentTimeMillis() - (sendMessageTimestamp == null?0 : sendMessageTimestamp);
							if(delta <= MESSAGES_JUST$NOW_TIME)
							{
								if(DEBUG)
									logger.warn("【IMCORE"+this.debugTag+"】【QoS发送方】指纹为"+key+"的包距\"刚刚\"发出才"+delta
										+"ms(<="+MESSAGES_JUST$NOW_TIME+"ms将被认定是\"刚刚\"), 本次不需要重传哦.");
							}
							//### 2015103 Bug Fix END
							else
							{
								MBObserver sendResultObserver = new MBObserver(){
									@Override
									public void update(boolean sendOK, Object extraObj)
									{
										if(sendOK)
										{
											if(DEBUG)
											{
												logger.debug("【IMCORE"+debugTag+"】【QoS发送方】指纹为"+p.getFp()
														+"的消息包已成功进行重传,此次之后重传次数已达"
														+p.getRetryCount()+"(最多"+QOS_TRY_COUNT+"次).");
											}
										}
										else
										{
											if(DEBUG)
											{
												logger.warn("【IMCORE"+debugTag+"】【QoS发送方】指纹为"+p.getFp()
														+"的消息包重传失败,它的重传次数之前已累计为"
														+p.getRetryCount()+"(最多"+QOS_TRY_COUNT+"次).");
											}
										}
									}
								};

								LocalSendHelper.sendData(p, sendResultObserver);
								p.increaseRetryCount();
							}
						}
					}
					else
					{
						remove(key);
					}
				}
			}
			catch (Exception eee)
			{
				if(DEBUG)
					logger.warn("【IMCORE"+this.debugTag+"】【QoS发送方】消息发送质量保证线程运行时发生异常,"+eee.getMessage(), eee);
			}

			if(lostMessages != null && lostMessages.size() > 0)
				notifyMessageLost(lostMessages);

			_excuting = false;
		}
	}

	protected void notifyMessageLost(ArrayList<Protocal> lostMessages)
	{
		if(serverLauncher != null && serverLauncher.getServerMessageQoSEventListener() != null)
			serverLauncher.getServerMessageQoSEventListener().messagesLost(lostMessages);
	}

	public QoS4SendDaemonRoot startup(boolean immediately)
	{
		stop();

		timer = new Timer();
		timer.scheduleAtFixedRate(new TimerTask()
		{
			@Override
			public void run()
			{
				doTaskOnece();
			}
		}
		, immediately ? 0 : CHECH_INTERVAL
		, CHECH_INTERVAL);

		logger.debug("【IMCORE"+this.debugTag+"】【QoS发送方】====== 消息发送质量保证线程已成功启动");

		return this;
	}

	public void stop()
	{
		if(timer != null)
		{
			try{
				timer.cancel();
			}
			finally{
				timer = null;
			}
		}
	}

	public boolean isRunning()
	{
		return timer != null;
	}

	public boolean exist(String fingerPrint)
	{
		return sentMessages.get(fingerPrint) != null;
	}

	public void put(Protocal p)
	{
		if(p == null)
		{
			if(DEBUG)
				logger.warn(this.debugTag+"Invalid arg p==null.");
			return;
		}
		if(p.getFp() == null)
		{
			if(DEBUG)
				logger.warn(this.debugTag+"Invalid arg p.getFp() == null.");
			return;
		}

		if(!p.isQoS())
		{
			if(DEBUG)
				logger.warn(this.debugTag+"This protocal is not QoS pkg, ignore it!");
			return;
		}

		if(sentMessages.get(p.getFp()) != null)
		{
			if(DEBUG)
				logger.warn("【IMCORE"+this.debugTag+"】【QoS发送方】指纹为"+p.getFp()+"的消息已经放入了发送质量保证队列,该消息为何会重复?(生成的指纹码重复?还是重复put?)");
		}

		sentMessages.put(p.getFp(), p);
		sendMessagesTimestamp.put(p.getFp(), System.currentTimeMillis());
	}

	public void remove(final String fingerPrint)
	{
		try
		{
			// remove it
			sendMessagesTimestamp.remove(fingerPrint);
			Object result = sentMessages.remove(fingerPrint);
			if(DEBUG)
				logger.warn("【IMCORE"+this.debugTag+"】【QoS发送方】指纹为"+fingerPrint+"的消息已成功从发送质量保证队列中移除(可能是收到接收方的应答也可能是达到了重传的次数上限),重试次数="
						+(result != null?((Protocal)result).getRetryCount():"none呵呵."));
		}
		catch (Exception e)
		{
			if(DEBUG)
				logger.warn("【IMCORE"+this.debugTag+"】【QoS发送方】remove(fingerPrint)时出错了:", e);
		}
	}

	public int size()
	{
		return sentMessages.size();
	}

	public void setServerLauncher(ServerLauncher serverLauncher)
	{
		this.serverLauncher = serverLauncher;
	}

	public QoS4SendDaemonRoot setDebugable(boolean debugable)
	{
		this.DEBUG = debugable;
		return this;
	}

	public boolean isDebugable()
	{
		return this.DEBUG;
	}
}

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package edu.turtlekit2.warbot;

import java.util.List;

import edu.turtlekit2.warbot.agents.WarBase;
import edu.turtlekit2.warbot.agents.WarRocketLauncher;
import edu.turtlekit2.warbot.message.WarMessage;
import edu.turtlekit2.warbot.percepts.Percept;

/**
 * Classe abstraite servant au developpement des differents brains. Elle contient
 * les differentes methodes utilisables dans les brains.
 *
 * @author Bonnotte Jessy, Burc Pierre, Duplouy Olivier, Polizzi Mathieu
 *
 */
public abstract class WarBrain {

	private WarDynamicAgentsAbstract 			_agent = null;

	/**
	 * Methode permettant d'indiquer l'agent correspondant au Brain.
	 * Cette action ne peut s'effectuer qu'une seule fois afin d'eviter toute tricherie des utilisateurs.
	 *
	 * @param agent l'agent devant etre relie au brain
	 */
	public void setAgent(WarDynamicAgentsAbstract agent){
		if(_agent == null)
			_agent = agent;
	}

	/**
	 * Methode a definir. Elle est utilisee par les agents pour savoir les actions a faire.
	 *
	 * @return {@code String} - l'action que doit effectuer l'agent
	 */
    public abstract String action();

    /*********************************************************************
	 * 																	 *
	 * 						   Gestion des messages						 *
	 * 																	 *
	 *********************************************************************/

    /**
     * Methode permettant d'envoyer un message a un agent precis.
     *
     * @param agent l'id de l'agent de destination
     * @param message le message principal
     * @param content un tableau de string pour des donnees additionnels
     */
    public void sendMessage(int agent, String message, String[] content){
    	_agent.sendMessage(agent, message, content);
    }

    /**
     * Methode permettant de broadcaster un message a tous les agent.
     * Mettre <b>null</b> a unite pour envoyer a tous les agent.
     * Mettre le type d'agent voulu a unite pour envoyer a un type precis d'unite.
     *
     * @param unite le type d'unite devant recevoir le message sinon null pour tous les types
     * @param message le message principal
     * @param content un tableau de string pour des donnees additionnels
     */
    public void broadcastMessage(String unite, String message, String[] content){
    	_agent.broadcastMessage(unite, message, content);
    }

    /**
     * Methode permettant de faire une reponse rapide a un message.
     *
     * @param wm le message auquel on repond
     * @param message le message principal
     * @param content un tableau de string pour des donnees additionnels
     */
    public void reply(WarMessage wm, String message, String[] content){
		_agent.reply(wm, message, content);
	}

    /**
     * Methode permettant de recuperer les messages d'un agent sous forme de liste.
     *
     * @return {@code List<WarMessage>} - la liste des messages d'un agent
     */
    public List<WarMessage> getMessage(){
    	return _agent.getMessage();
    }

    /*********************************************************************
	 * 																	 *
	 * 						  Fonctions utilitaires					 	 *
	 * 																	 *
	 *********************************************************************/

    /**
     * Methode permettant d'indiquer le prochain agent auquel on donnera une ressource.
     *
     * @param agentID l'id de l'agent auquel on desire donner une ressource
     */
	public void setAgentToGive(int agentID){
		_agent._nextAgentToGiveFood = agentID;
	}

	/**
	 * Methode permettant de savoir si le sac de ressource est vide.
	 *
	 * @return {@code boolean} - true si le sac est vide sinon false
	 */
	public boolean emptyBag(){
		return _agent.emptyBag();
	}

	/**
	 * Methode permettant de connaitre le nombre d'Žlements dans le sac
	 *
	 * @return {@code boolean} - true si le sac est vide sinon false
	 */
	public int sizeBag(){
		return _agent.sizeBag();
	}

	/**
	 * Methode permettant de savoir si le sac de ressource est plein.
	 *
	 * @return {@code boolean} - true si le sac est plein sinon false
	 */
	public boolean fullBag(){
		return _agent.fullBag();
	}

	/**
	 * Methode permettant de recuperer l'orientation de l'agent.
	 *
	 * @return {@code int} - la valeur de l'angle de l'agent
	 */
	public int getHeading(){
		return (int) _agent.getHeading();
	}

	/**
	 * Methode permettant de savoir le nom de l'equipe de l'agent.
	 *
	 * @return {@code String} - le nom de l'equipe de l'agent
	 */
	public String getTeam(){
		return _agent.getTeam();
	}

	/**
	 * Methode permettant de recuperer l'ID de l'agent.
	 *
	 * @return {@code int} - l'id de l'agent
	 */
	public int getID(){
		return _agent.mySelf();
	}

	/**
	 * Methode permettant de recuperer l'energie de l'agent.
	 *
	 * @return {@code int} - l'energie de l'agent
	 */
	public int getEnergy(){
		return _agent.getEnergy();
	}

	/**
	 * Methode permettant de recuperer les percept d'un agent. La fonction retourne une liste avec les differents percepts.
	 *
	 * @return {@code List<Percept>} - la liste des percepts visible par l'agent
	 */
	public List<Percept> getPercepts() {
		return _agent.getPercept();
	}

	/*********************************************************************
	 * 																	 *
	 * 						  Fonctions deplacements				 	 *
	 * 																	 *
	 *********************************************************************/

	/**
	 * Methode permettant d'orienter l'agent dans une direction aleatoire.
	 */
	public void setRandomHeading(){
		_agent.randomHeading();
	}

	/**
	 * Methode permettant d'orienter l'agent dans une certaine direction.
	 *
	 * @param angle l'angle dans lequel l'agent doit s'orienter
	 */
	public void setHeading(double angle){
		_agent.setHeading(angle);
	}

	/**
	 * Methode permettant de savoir si une unite est bloque dans un mur.
	 *
	 * @return {@code boolean} - true si l'agent est bloque sinon false
	 */
	public boolean isBlocked(){
		return _agent.isBlocked();
	}

	/*********************************************************************
	 * 																	 *
	 * 						  Fonctions des missiles				 	 *
	 * 																	 *
	 *********************************************************************/

	/**
	 * Methode permettant de definir l'angle de la tourelle du rocket launcher
	 *
	 * @param angle la direction que doit prendre la tourelle
	 */
	public void setAngleTurret(int angle){
		if(_agent instanceof WarRocketLauncher)
			((WarRocketLauncher) _agent).setAngleTurret(angle);
	}

	/**
	 * Methode permettant de savoir si un missile est charge.
	 *
	 * @return {@code boolean} - true si un missile est charge sinon false
	 */
	public boolean isReloaded(){
		if(_agent instanceof WarRocketLauncher)
			return ((WarRocketLauncher) _agent).isReloaded();
		else
			return false;
	}

	/**
	 * Methode permettant de savoir si un missile est en cours de chargement.
	 *
	 * @return {@code boolean} - true si un missile est en cour de chargement sinon false
	 */
	public boolean isReloading(){
		if(_agent instanceof WarRocketLauncher)
			return ((WarRocketLauncher) _agent).isReloading();
		else
			return false;
	}

	/*********************************************************************
	 * 																	 *
	 * 						  Fonctions de la base					 	 *
	 * 																	 *
	 *********************************************************************/

	/**
	 * Methode permettant d'indiquer le prochain type d'unit� a creer.
	 *
	 * @param agent le type d'unite a creer
	 */
	public void setNextAgentCreate(String agent){
		if(_agent instanceof WarBase)
			((WarBase) _agent).setNextAgent(agent);
	}
}