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Q: Store input radio selections when submit is clicked I need to store in my js file which radio option for each radio name was selected as well as store the Username that was entered. Here is my form
<form id="newPlayer">
                    Username:

                     <input type="text" name="user"/>

                    Please Choose a Class:

                    <input type="radio" name="class"/>Archer
                    <input type="radio" name="class"/>Mage
                    <input type="radio" name="class"/>Warrior

                    Please Choose a Race:

                    <input type="radio" name="race"/>Orc
                    <input type="radio" name="race"/>Elf
                    <input type="radio" name="race"/>Human
                    <input type="radio" name="race"/>Worg

                    <input type="submit" value="Submit">
                </form>

EDIT:
When I try to target the submit button for a click function it causes my page to reload instead of making the form fadeOut
var userInput;
var classInput;
var raceInput;

$('input[type=submit]').click(function(){
    $('#newPlayer').fadeOut(500);
    userInput = $('input[name="user"]').val();
    classInput = $('input[name="class"]:checked').val();
    raceInput = $('input[name="race"]:checked').val();
});

A: Maybe this helps. First, you will have to put values on those inputs
<form id="newPlayer">
    Username:

    <input type="text" name="user"/>

    Please Choose a Class:

    <input value="archer" type="radio" name="class"/>Archer
    <input value="mage" type="radio" name="class"/>Mage
    <input value="warrior" type="radio" name="class"/>Warrior

    Please Choose a Race:

    <input value="orc" type="radio" name="race"/>Orc
    <input value="elf" type="radio" name="race"/>Elf
    <input value="human" type="radio" name="race"/>Human
    <input value="worg" type="radio" name="race"/>Worg

    <input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>

Then, using jQuery, a simple .val() will do the job:
var class_val = $('input[name="class"]:checked').val();
var race = $('input[name="race"]:checked').val();
var user = $('input[name="user"]').val();

After that, you just need to put in localStorage
localStorage.setItem('class', class_val);
localStorage.setItem('race', race);
localStorage.setItem('user', user);

To access those values in the future, you do that
var stored_class = localStorage.getItem('class');
var stored_race = localStorage.getItem('race');
var stored_user = localStorage.getItem('user');

To make things happens on submit, you add an submit event to the form, like that:
$('form').on('submit', function() {
    // Get values
    var class_val = $('input[name="class"]:checked').val();
    ...

    // Store values
    localStorage.setItem('class', class_val);
    ...

    // Avoid form submit
    return false;
});

Hope it helps :)

A: I think I would use localStorage.
For example:

//Make sure to set the selection variable to a object that contains the selections made by the user.
function save() {

    //This will save the current settings as an object to the localStorage.
    localStorage.selections = JSON.stringify(selections) ;

}

function load() {

    if (!localStorage.selections) {

        alart("No saves found.") ;
        return false ;

    }

    selections = JSON.parse(localStorage.selections) ;

}

Read more about localStorage here.

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Q: How to show all Elements in a Textview     data class Fruit(val name: String, val price: Int)

    val fruits = arrayOf(Fruit(name = "Apple", price = 2), Fruit(name = "Grape", price = 3), Fruit(name = "Bananna", price = 4))

    for (index in fruits.indices)
        textView.text = fruits[index].name

    Output = Bananna

I cant seem to get all elements of "Name" to reflect in the Textview
Eg.
Apple, Grape, Pear

A: I manage to figure it out !
        val fruitNamesonly: MutableList<String> = ArrayList()

        for (item in fruits) {
            val token = item.name
            FruitNamesonly.add(token)
        }

val fruitNamesonly will be the vaulable you use for what ever


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Aspinity's Awesome Analog Artificial Neural Networks (AANNs)
by Max Maxfield
I'm a digital logic designer by trade. In an ever-changing and increasingly unreliable world, I find the certainty of Boolean equations to be extremely reassuring. You know where you are with a Karnaugh map, you can trust a De Morgan transformation, and you can gratify your desire for single-bit transitions with a Gray code. By comparison, I find the wibbly-wobbly nature of analog electronics to be somewhat disconcerting, which is unfortunate because there's so much of it about these days.
One of the funny things is that "analog" was supposed to be the stuff of yesteryear. When I was coming up in electronics, digital functions were expensive in terms of transistors, and transistors were expensive in terms of cold, hard cash. That's one of the reasons why analog computers hung on for decades after their digital counterparts first arrived on the scene. It was possible to implement analog signal processing (ASP) functions using a handful of transistors (or vacuum tubes) that would have required hundreds or even thousands of transistors to be realized as digital signal processing (DSP) equivalents. Even more demeaning (to a digital engineer) was the fact that many analog operations functioned faster and consumed lower power than did their digital counterparts.
Over time, of course, the art of creating integrated circuits flourished, and transistors became astoundingly smaller, cheaper, and faster, thereby promoting the evolution of DSP in the 1960s and 1970s, driving the growth of DSP in the 1980s and 1990s, and feeding the explosion of DSP in the 2000s and beyond. Once real-world signals have been transported, transformed, and transmogrified from the analog realm into the digital domain, it is possible to do anything you want with them. This caused pompous industry pundits in the 1980s and 1990s to proclaim the imminent death of analog engineering, with the result that many students entering universities spurned analog and succumbed to the siren song of digital.
Not surprisingly, this resulted in a dearth of analog engineers, which was unfortunate because analog refused to die. In reality, of course, analog is all over the place, especially in the case of things like high-speed interconnects and interfaces and PHYs. It's also a sad fact of life that analog engineers can rarely restrain themselves from smugly informing anyone who will listen to them that digital is a subset of analog, but no one likes people who are smug, so we will instead pity them as being digitally disadvantaged and move on with our lives.
Actually, I was just looking at The Decadal Plan for Semiconductors. This is a 150-page report that was published in January 2021 by the Semiconductor Research Corporation, which is a leading non-profit industry-government-academia microelectronics research consortium funding academic research tasks selected and directed by industry and government members. This report details "Five Seismic Shifts" that they believe will define the future of semiconductors and information and communication technologies.
Sitting on the top of the pile, the first of these seismic shifts is "The Analog Data Deluge," which is summarized as follows: "Fundamental breakthroughs in analog hardware are required to generate smarter world-machine interfaces that can sense, perceive, and reason…"
Where things start to become extremely interesting as far as I'm concerned is the current resurgence of analog in the context of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) applications. As you may recall, deep in the mists of time we used to call September 2020, I penned a column — A Brave New World of Analog Artificial Neural Networks (AANNs) — about the activities of a company called Aspinity.
I don't want to rehash that column in its entirety (you can read it at your leisure), so let's briefly summarize things as follows:
Today's edge processing is inefficient. There are expected to be ~40+ billion connected IoT devices by 2025. Many of these devices will be always-on, and a large proportion of these always-on devices will be battery-operated. Somewhere around ~80 zettabytes (ZB) of data will be generated and digitized, and ~80 to 90% of this digitized data will be irrelevant to the task at hand.
In the case of wake-word detection, for example, only 10 to 20% of an audio signal is voice, while 80 to 90% is ambient noise. Constantly monitoring 100% of the signal using digital techniques consumes far too much power. The solution is to use an inherently low-power analog-based AI to constantly monitor the audio stream, only activating higher-level digital systems when a human voice is detected.
All of which leads us to Aspinity's AnalogML Core, which is a teeny-tiny device that's based on Aspinity's Reconfigurable Analog Modular Processor (RAMP) technology platform. By combining the sophisticated functionality of a tinyML chip with low-power analog neuromorphic computing concepts, the AnalogML Core can be used to constantly monitor the signals from audio (microphone) or vibration (accelerometer) sensors and perform AI/ML-based feature extraction and classification (inferencing), all in the analog domain while consuming only 25 microamps (µA) of power.
The teeny-tiny AnalogML Core (Image source: Aspinity)
The AnalogML Core can be used for a wide variety of tasks, including voice activity detection, acoustic event detection, and vibration monitoring. Next, we have the EM1 breakout board (BOB), which makes it easier to access the functionality of the AnalogML Core for prototyping purposes.
The EM1 breakout board (Image source: Aspinity)
Now, this is where things can get a little confusing unless you pay careful attention (observe that at no time do my hands leave the ends of my arms). In January 2020, the folks at Aspinity announced their Voice Activity Detection Evaluation Kit in the form of the EVK2. This little rascal provides a front-to-back solution for analog voice activity detection and system wake up using the analogML core via the EM1 BOB.
The EVK2 voice activity detection evaluation kit (Image source: Aspinity)
But wait, there's more, because just a couple of weeks ago as I pen these words, the folks at Aspinity announced the introduction of their Acoustic Event Detection Evaluation Kit in the form of the EVK1. This little scamp provides a complete evaluation platform for battery-operated, smart home devices that are always listening for acoustic triggers such as window glass breaks, voice, or other acoustic events.
The EVK1 acoustic event detection evaluation kit (Image source: Aspinity)
"Hang on," I hear you cry. "Why did they release the EVK2 a year before the EVK1?" That's a good question. I'm glad you asked (it shows you are paying attention) but I don't know the answer. I felt it would be impolite of me to inquire. I was going to say that the one thing of which I feel we can be reasonably confident is that — since the folks at Aspinity work in the rarified realms of analog AI/ML — they aren't numerically challenged. On the other hand, now that I come to think about it (and returning to our discussions at the beginning of this column), it might be that spending their lives swimming in the wobbly-wobbly analog waters means they no longer care to acknowledge digital foibles like the fact that the number 1 traditionally precedes the number 2.
Moving on, as the folks from Aspinity say: "Traditional acoustic event detection devices are notoriously power-inefficient because they continuously monitor the environment and immediately digitize all microphone data for analysis — even though most of that data are simply noise. A window glass break, for example, may happen only once a decade, but the typical glass break sensor uses high-power digital analysis of 100% of the ambient sound data to detect a trigger that rarely (or never) occurs. Aspinity's EVK1, on the other hand, demonstrates a power-saving alternative. By using an analogML core to detect acoustic events at the start of the signal chain while the microphone data are still analog, the downstream digital system can remain in an ultra-low-power sleep mode until an event is detected. This architectural approach allows designers to build acoustic event detection devices with batteries that last years, instead of months, on a single charge."
All I can say is that I'm currently seeing a surge in the use of analog for AI/ML applications. For example, in addition to the chaps and chapesses at Aspinity, who are focusing on sound and vibration, we have the guys and gals at AIStorm, who are integrating analog AI/ML directly into vision sensors (see also An AI Storm is Coming as Analog AI Surfaces in Sensors by yours truly and AIStorm Makes AI Sensors Cheap & Easy by Jim Turley). To be honest, and I hate to hear myself saying this, if I were poised to commence my career today — perusing and pondering university courses to pursue — I would seriously think about including analog signal processing in my curriculum. What say you?
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born in Shanghai, China in 1929, died on 20th April, 2007 after a lengthy battle with cancer. Derek and his family returned to England in 1938, then was sent with his brother Peter to spend the war years in Victoria, B.C., where they both attended University School; Derek transferred to St. Andrew's College in Aurora for his final year, 1945. Derek and Peter enlisted in the RCAF in 1948; Derek spent 28 years in the RCAF, serving in Ontario, Germany, Alberta and British Columbia. Derek will be mourned by his partner of 55 years, Helen, his children Jeff and Sheila and their partners Pam and Ben, and his grandchildren Kristina, Heather, Leanne and Wesley. Derek will also be mourned by his brother Peter, sister-in-law Margaret and nephew Michael, of Victoria, B.C., and in England by his sister Sara Lankester and her husband George, and by Sara's two daughters, Caroline and Anna. Those who knew Derek will remember his natural athletic ability which enabled him over the years to enjoy cricket, rugby, football, soccer, track, and, most recently, tennis with "the guys" at the Fenelon Falls Tennis Club, and for his sense of fair play. Cremation has taken place. Friends who would like to remember Derek are invited to join his family at 4 Heritage Way in Lindsay on 29th April from 2:00 - 4:00 pm. The family is profoundly appreciative of the compassionate and tender care given to Derek and to his family at the close of his life by the entire staff at the Palliative Care Unit in Ross Memorial Hospital, and by doctors Peter Petrosoniak and Martin Young. Thanks also to the Canadian Cancer Society, Don Scollick and his team of volunteer drivers. Final arrangements are being made by Wise Choice Funeral Home and Cremation Services, Lindsay, 705-324-1988.
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While researching issues on a pending medical negligence action, I came across a study by THE DOCTORS COMPANY, describing the top four reasons (as described by patients) for claims made against emergency physicians.
The first and by far most common allegation is failure to diagnose, delay in diagnosis or mis-diagnosis of the underlying condition. The most common conditions leading to the medical emergency(s) were acute cerebral vascular accidents and myocardial infarctions (MI).
The second most common allegation of emergency medical negligence was improper management of treatment, such as failure to stabilize a fracture resulting in further damage. This is just one example.
The third allegation involved improper performance of the proposed treatment or procedure. This included issues involving intubation of the respiratory tract and poor suturing of a wound (just to name a few), causing additional harm.
Finally, the last category described giving rise to emergency medical claims is failure to order medication. It is difficult to imagine how this could occur, however, it appears to be a common claim.
Whether the emergency room is overcrowded, understaffed, subject to long wait periods, or non-communication, patients are entitled to the best medical care available, especially in emergency situations. The key seems to be communication with the physicians and staff and understanding the diagnosis, treatment and referrals. Patients know their condition(s) better than the physician, but should also listen carefully and follow the advice given. Don't be afraid to speak up!
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What is the meaning of Carlo Scarpa's work in 2020? Was he an architect, a designer, or an artist? The reinvention of a post-pandemic world will demand all of Scarpa's skills. As an architect, he was capable of creating spaces at a human scale integrated to both nature and a built context. As a designer, he invented solutions to multiple details, from hinges to handrails. As an artist, he had a feeling for multi-layered nuances, whether the material was concrete, plaster, or stone.
Carlo Scarpa -© Archivio Scarpa
Carlo Scarpa at his studio
Carlo Scarpa (1906-1978) was born in Venice, spent his early childhood in Vicenza, and when he was thirteen, he moved back to Venice, where he spent the rest of his life. He studied architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts. Although he graduated, he refused to take the Italian Government's licensing exam.
His working method was quite peculiar. When he started a project, he set up a sheet of heavy paper on his drafting table and would not move it until he completed the project. In it, he drew with color pencils schemes, scaled drawings, and wrote ideas and math calculations. He consulted with craftspeople face-to-face on building or manufacturing methods in steel, concrete, stone, brick, wood, and bronze.
The De Stijl movement had an early influence in his career, but he acknowledged the power that came from Frank Lloyd Wright's ideas of Organic Architecture.
Brion Cemetery – Drawing page by Carlo Scarpa
We were lucky to become aware of Scarpa early in our lives (see Having Lunch with Carlo Scarpa below.) Our first encounter with his work was by visiting the Olivetti Showroom and the Querini-Stampalia Foundation while we were students. Twenty years later, in 1996, we made a unique circuit to see and photograph some of his works in Venice, the Castelvecchio Museum and the Banca Popolare in Verona, and the Canova Museum and the Brion Cemetery in the Treviso region.
Venice, Olivetti Showroom, 1957-58
Venice – Olivetti Showroom – © R&R Meghiddo, 1996. All Rights Reserved.
Venice, Querini-Stampalia Foundation, 1961-63
Venice – Querini Stampalia Foundation – © R&R Meghiddo, 1996. All Rights Reserved.
Venice, Biennale Gardens, Venezuelan Pavilion, 1954-56
Venice – Biennale Gardens – © R&R Meghiddo, 1996. All Rights Reserved.
Venice – Biennale Gardens, Venezuelan Pavilion – © R&R Meghiddo, 1996. All Rights Reserved.
Venice, School of Architecture Entry Gate, 1985
Venice – School of Architecture, Entrance Gate – © R&R Meghiddo, 1996. All Rights Reserved.
Venice, Masieri Foundation, 1983
Venice – Masieri Foundation – © R&R Meghiddo, 1996. All Rights Reserved.
Verona, Castelvecchio Museum, 1959-73
Castelvecchio Museum,drawing by Carlo Scarpa
Castelvecchio Museum, Plans
Verona – Castelvecchio Museum – © R&R Meghiddo, 1996. All Rights Reserved.
Verona, Banca Popolare, 1973-78
Verona – Banca Popolare – © R&R Meghiddo, 1996. All Rights Reserved.
Treviso, Canova Museum, 1955-57
Treviso – Canova Museum – © R&R Meghiddo, 1996. All Rights Reserved.
Treviso, Brion Cemetery, 1969-77
Treviso – Brion Cemetery – © R&R Meghiddo, 1996. All Rights Reserved.
Drawing of tombs by Carlo Scarpa
Drawing by Carlo Scarpa
Treviso – Brion Cemetery, Carlo Scarpa's Tomb – © R&R Meghiddo, 1996. All Rights Reserved.
Having Lunch with Carlo Scarpa
We were third-year students of architecture when Professor Bruno Zevi invited us for lunch for the first time. At 1:00 PM, we pressed the button of L'Architettura's doorbell. After a minute, the gate opened. Zevi himself came to greet us.
"Buon giorno, avanti," he said. He kissed Ruth on both cheeks and shook my hand. "I have a surprise for you. Do you know who's coming to have lunch with us?" Without waiting for our answer, he said "Carlo Scarpa."
Ruth and I looked at each other. Zevi noticed that.
"Sorry, but who is Carlo Scarpa?" I said.
"What? Don't you know who Carlo Scarpa is? It's not possible," he said. "He is the greatest living European architect."
We didn't know if he was exaggerating, or he meant it. Was he greater than Le Corbusier or Aalto?
"Sorry for our ignorance," I said.
After a short while, Zevi's wife, Tullia, greeted us. Ten minutes later, the doorbell rang. "Must be the Scarpas," Tullia said. "Excuse me."
Carlo Scarpa kissed Tullia on both cheeks and then shook Zevi's hand. Scapa's wife kissed both of them. We were standing in the middle of the living room.
"Let me introduce you two young promising future architects from Israel," Zevi said. "Ruth grew up in Romania, and Ricky grew up in Argentina."
Scarpa seemed aloof. We shook hands with the Scarpa couple. He avoided eye contact, and I couldn't tell if he was shy or arrogant. He was impeccably well dressed in a beige suit and a matching tie. His most distinguishable facial feature was his hook nose, over which sat a pair of thick-framed eyeglasses. His hair was tightly combed backward. He had a mustache and thin goatee beard that climbed along his jaw.
"How was your trip?" asked Zevi.
"Wright was a genius. No doubt about it," he said.
"Why don't you tell us while we sit at the table?" Tullia said.
The Zevis sat each at one end of the table. To Prof. Zevi's right sat Mrs. Scarpa and Carlo Scarpa. To Zevi's left sat Ruth and me. A servant wearing a white jacket offered a plate with antipasto, and then he poured red wine and mineral water into our glasses.
"So, you were going to tell us about your trip," said Zevi.
"I have been working four years on the reconstruction of the Carlo Felice Theater in Genoa," said Scarpa. "The design had to undergo many changes due to bureaucratic, technical and financial constraints. I needed a break. Louis Kahn invited me to visit him, and I accepted. Traveling to Philadelphia gave me an excuse to extend my journey and fly to Chicago. I wanted to see some of Wright's works there."
"How did the meeting with Kahn go?" asked Zevi.
"Kahn is a poet and a craftsman. Those are rare combined qualities. He's a thinker and an architect, but his work is ultimately a mix of poetry and craftsmanship. When I was at his studio, he was working at the Kimbell Art Museum project, the one to be built in Fort Worth, Texas. He showed me the plans and explained to me its main concepts. Then he showed me some sections. I looked at them together with the plans and pointing at one portion of the plan. I said to him: "you don't have enough light here." He looked at it in silence. He picked up a pencil, drew some changes over the copy, and wrote on it a couple of side notes."
Scarpa talked to Zevi as if no one else around the table existed. We all listened.
"In Chicago, I visited the Unity Temple and the Robbie House. At the Robbie House, I asked to see a portion of the attic, not visible to the public. I looked at a small cube within the attic. It was at the exact same module as the rest of the house. Wright was perfectly consistent throughout."
"What are you working on now?" asked Zevi.
"I'm still designing a few things for Castelvecchio; I'm doing a layout for a cemetery in Treviso; and I'm doing schematics for next year's Venice Biennale: an installation and a monument to the Woman of the Resistance," Scarpa said.
I jumped into the conversation: "How did you start as an architect?" I asked. "What were your goals in your early twenties?"
He finally looked at me in the eyes: "I was born in Venice, but I actually came to live in Venice when I was thirteen. I was surrounded by great art and great artisans. They were my teachers. I had a quest for quality because there are no compromises about quality in great art. I was then penniless, but I said to myself, 'I've got to have the best pair of shoes in Venice.' So, I cut from food and cigarettes and bought the best pair of shoes in Venice. The rest is history. I started by doing glasswork, I worked for other architects, and I started to do remodeling and exhibitions. The scale of the project didn't matter to me. Art is art, it is, or it isn't."
Carlo Scarpa with Frank Lloyd Wright – © Archivio Scarpa
Carlo Scarpa with Louis Kahn
In the work of Carlo Scarpa
the first sense
Then Wonder
Then the inner realization of "Form"
the sense of the wholeness of inseparable elements.
Design consults Nature
to give presence to the elements.
A work of art makes manifest the wholeness of "Form"
the symphony of the selected shapes of the elements.
the joint inspires ornament, its celebration.
The detail is the adoration of Nature.
Louis I. Kahn
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Distance from Raipur to Bāsudebpur is 529 kilometers. This air travel distance is equal to 329 miles.
The air travel (bird fly) shortest distance between Raipur and Bāsudebpur is 529 km= 329 miles.
If you travel with an airplane (which has average speed of 560 miles) from Raipur to Basudebpur, It takes 0.59 hours to arrive.
Basudebpur is located in India.


In a blog entry a couple of years ago, I reported about a number of Concentration Camps in Mallorca. Perhaps that term was a bit harsh. Perhaps one should call them Internment Camps or Prisoners of War Camps. There were five or six of those prison camps on the island, with two of them in Palma. All of the camps were for male prisoners with one exception, Can Sales in Palma, where female detainees were kept.
In the Parc Natural de la Península de Llevant, at the foot of the Puig des Porrassar mountain, one can find the Campament des Soldats, a military camp now in ruins where the Republican soldiers were kept as prisoners between 1939 and 1943. By then the Nationalist and Fascist Falange movement of Francisco Franco had won the Guerra Civil, taking lots of prisoners who were kept in approximately 400 prison camps situated all over Spain. The soldiers at the prison camp near Artà were held captive and had to work on the construction of the Cami dels Presos. Four barrack-type buildings surrounded a large central courtyard. The beauty of the landscape nowadays belies its barren conditions then. There must have been some tremendous suffering. All of the prisoners had come from the Spanish mainland. In turn, Republican prisoners taken in Mallorca were sent off to prison camps on the Peninsula.
Not far from here, there is a watchtower known as Sa Talaia Moreia, not immediately related to the prisoners camp.
The Cami dels Presos was a road built to allow large canons to be transported up to the mountain top of Sa Talaia Moreia to install a fort with heavy defense artillery overlooking the coast. At that time, Franco feared an imminent attack by the Allied troops of Britain, France, Canada, Belgium and USA. That's why we find the bunkers built along the coast between Alcúdia and Can Picafort, as well as the towers for submarine target practice along the same coastline. The attack never materialized and the road was in the end unfinished; the fort was never constructed and the canons were never mounted. Germany was on the way to its defeat by the Allies and Spain was by then safe from an Allied attack.
History is right under our noses, even to this day.
The photos were taken near Artà, Mallorca, Baleares, Spain. The date: February 18th, 2012. The time was 12:13:37 and 12:17:36, respectively.
This was very informative. When I was in Mallorca a few months ago I was unaware of such a historical site.
My dad was a war prisoner during the Civil war and he was sent to a Mallorca concentration camp (as he called) where he lived for a while. He has siblings that were sent to different places in the country and later were reunited in Ponferrada. I wish I qould know more about my father's past and why his family was separated. I believe my grandfather belonged to one of the 'partidos de izquierda'. They were an affluent family of iron workers in Ponferrada and they owned a iron atelier. Does the Spanish government have lists of war prisoners sent to camps? How can I know how long did my father live there and why he was sent? What were the circumstances of his arrest? His name was Andrés Quiles Fernandez. Later he immigrated to Brazil where I was born. He came back to Spain after retiring and died in Galicia where he chose to spend the rest of his days. My mom is also a civil war child with roots in Galicia. Her father was a war prisoner as well and was executed (fusillade) when she was 10. She has shared many memories from that time including barring books and hiding her last name. Crazy to think my parents went through this hell at such young age. I hope I can visit Mallorca one day.


Sandstones containing pedogenic limestone and dolomite nodules ('cornstones'), fine-grained carbonate as beds, nodules and pebbles, and grey and brown mudstones containing thin beds of limestone and dolomite ('cementstones'); subordinate siltstone and mudstone.
At base of Kinnesswood Formation - at incoming of common pedogenic carbonate above a red-bed sequence, the Stratheden Group. Normally conformable, locally unconformable in west.
At top of Clyde Sandstone Formation (in west) or of Tyninghame Formation (Lothian) or of Balcomie Beds (Fife); at incoming of coal, blackshale, seatearth or volcanic rocks of the Strathclyde Group; conformable or unconformable.
Type Area Greenock, Inverclyde, Scotland. (Ref Sections: See Type Sections of component units: Kinnesswood, Ballagan, Clyde Sandstone and Tyminghame formations and Balcomie Beds).
Chisholm, J I, MacAdam, A D, Brand, P J. 1989. Lithostratigraphical classification of Upper Devonian and Lower Carboniferous rocks in the Lothians. British Geological Survey Technical Report, WA/89/26.
MacGregor, A G, 1960. Division of the Carboniferous on Geological Survey Scottish Maps. Bulletin of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, No.16, 127-130.
Chisholm, J I and Dean, J M, 1974. The Upper Old Red Sandstone of Fife and Kinross: A fluviatile sequence with evidence of marine incursion. Scottish Journal of Geology, Vol. 10, 1-30.
Browne, M A E, 1980. The Upper Devonian and Lower Carboniferous (Dinantian) of the Firth of Tay, Scotland. Report of the Institute of Geological Sciences, No. 80/9.
Forsyth, I H and Chisholm, J I, 1977. The geology of east Fife. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain.
Paterson, I B and Hall, I H S, 1986. Lithostratigraphy of the late Devonian and early Carboniferous rocks in the Midland Valley of Scotland. British Geological Survey Report, 18/3.
Francis, E H, Forsyth, I H, Read, W A and Armstrong, M. 1970. The geology of the Stirling district. Memoir of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, Sheet 39 (Scotland).


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Hind, 23, Moroccan/Italian, currently working in Cremona (Italy) – Live: From The Pandemic
Hind lives in Mantova but works at the hospital in Cremona.
When it all started, I was preparing my last exam before the graduation: it was the most important exam in three years because it would have enabled us to work as nurses, so I was really really focused on it, spending all the time studying and staying at home. I knew about this virus in China, but I never thought that it would also arrive in Italy. When it took over, it was a real shock for everyone: the entire world started to struggle against it. Hospitals were the strong point because only there people can get rid of this virus and be treated, but at the same time, they were also very fragile because of the need for healthcare personnel.
Our final exam would have been at the end of March and the graduation at the end of April: our university decided to anticipate it and do it all in one single day. It was Friday the 13th of March (so lucky!): I was really anxious and really sad because I always dreamt of my graduation as the best day of my life and to be able to celebrate with all my friends and family but, because of this, I had to settle for an online degree without any celebration or party. At the same time, I was also happy to do my exam and go and help the other nurses that were really struggling.
On the 18th March, I put on my uniform, my mask, my gloves, my gown and I started working and trying to help, even if the situation was really emotionally heavy: I had to cure people that were alone in their bed, without a familiar face near them holding their hand. We had to also be as close as possible to the patients and to their concerned families, which always called to have news. The first days I found it really difficult to feel like a part of the entire system: I felt useless, I had crying crisis, I also wanted to throw in the towel but fortunately, I had a fantastic team that gave and still gives me the strength to go on and do my best, supporting me. Because it's normal to feel like this, they also feel like this: powerless in front of a big monster. Only with our strength and power, we can ally against COVID-19 and we hope to win soon.
I wish that we will be able to hug each other again, go to the beach, be happy and feel free. I hope that, even if it wouldn't be the same, we will soon come back to normality, people will come back to work, go out for ice cream, listen to children screaming in the park, smell the scent of coffee in the cafe… I hope these simple things come back because in this period these little things are the ones I miss the most.
I would like to have a magical cure for everyone, a magic wand to fix everything… I would like to wake up from this terrible nightmare but unfortunately, is not the case… We have to fight this, rely on destiny and medicine and hope this will end soon.
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Playoff baseball is glorious, but MLB must continue to change
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By Dan Bickley | October 3, 2019 at 6:01 pm
UPDATED: October 4, 2019 at 11:30 am
Members of the Washington Nationals practice for Game 1 of the NLDS baseball game against the Los Angeles Dodgers, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2019, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Baseball gets cold in October. It rarely gets boring. It's the only time I don't scream at pitchers to throw the dad-gum ball.
It's a glorious time when all the dawdling actually fuels the drama, allowing important moments to breathe and expand, when television cameras capture fans in various states of torment.
Playoff baseball is also dangerous. Rabid fan engagement can easily fool the sport's hierarchy into believing nothing is wrong with their business model. Same with all the money still pouring into MLB at record rates from media rights fees.
That's why Commissioner Rob Manfred must resist the status quo and remain resolute about radical change. Because MLB's problems aren't going away by themselves. To wit:
Analytics have spawned demoralizing, disorienting defensive shifts. Has your favorite team ever been victimized by a perfectly-positioned infielder, like a shortstop standing in the outfield grass behind second base, turning a sure hit into an easy out?
It's the worst. It's proof that too much information can be a very bad thing.
D-backs GM Mike Hazen talks extension, being in Arizona
These defensive shifts have also spawned the launch-angle theory, an upper-cut approach where most everyone is swinging for the fences. Groundballs are no longer desirable, and putting the ball in play is no longer considered winning strategy.
The home runs records set in 2019 are ridiculous. The all-time single-season record fell by 671 home runs. That's 11 more than Willie Mays hit in his career. Teams hit six or more home runs in a single game 34 times. And you know what else? It's all good.
The record book has already been desecrated by PED users. Fans love prodigious displays of power. A primary attraction of sports is watching feats that ordinary people are incapable of performing. Tape-measure home runs certainly qualify.
It's the flipside that is killing the game.
Today's hitters are also whiffing at alarming rates. Do you remember when striking out 100 times was the third rail for professional hitters, worthy of a scarlet letter?
In 2019, a whopping 157 players struck out at least 100 times. As a result, the growing pockets of inactivity during a regular-season game keeps growing more and more insufferable. It's why baseball can be so rich and so vulnerable at the same time, so appealing in October after flirting with extinction in the previous six months.
Nobody knows where it's all going because today's baseballs are obviously full of moon juice. They're spinning hard, flying fast and traveling extremely far. What if this is just a manufacturing glitch? What if they're dead and dull next season and all the home runs start turning into long outs? Nobody will tolerate all the strikeouts in that scenario.
There are all sorts of tweaks on the road to reform: a strict pitch clock that keeps the game moving; limiting the deployment of relief pitchers, the ones contributing to the strikeout problem; smaller boutique stadiums that offer greater ambiance and intimacy, attacking the ongoing attendance problem; better marketing for young American stars like Cody Bellinger and Aaron Judge and greater appreciation for players with brazen swagger, those unafraid to show real emotion on a baseball field; and a new generation of players who learn how to bunt with accuracy, the best weapon for all defensive shifts.
My preferred solution is considered sacrilege by most. I strongly believe in the the advent of seven-inning games, which will shorten the length of games while hastening the sense of urgency. And while diehards will scream blasphemy, diehards are not the problem. Their baseball worship will never wane, no matter how much the game changes. The solution is making young people love baseball. On their terms. As awful as that might sound.
For now, baseball has become what the NHL once was, the sport that benefits most when the postseason arrives.
Unfortunately, that's not a compliment. It's a death wish.
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Dan Bickley bio
Dan Bickley is the most influential sports media member in Arizona sports history, having spent over 20 years as the award-winning lead sports columnist for The Arizona Republic and AZCentral.com and almost two decades as a Valley sports radio talk show host. In spring 2018, Bickley made the decision to leave the newspaper to join the Arizona Sports team as host of the entertaining and informative midday show Bickley and Marotta, as well as bring his opinionated and provocative column exclusively to ArizonaSports.com.
Bickley's journalism career began in his hometown of Chicago, where he was part of a star-studded staff at the Chicago Sun-Times. He chronicled Michael Jordan's six NBA championships; covered the Olympics in eight different countries and attended 14 Super Bowls; spent three weeks in an Indianapolis courthouse writing about Mike Tyson's rape trial; and once left his laptop in an Edmonton bar after the Blackhawks reached the Stanley Cup Finals.
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Thinking of bringing myself back from the dead for this one. I've moved into my end-of-illness but still-not-quite-well cranky phase that can only be cured with exercise.
It really is 10 x 40 meters, but that doesn't mean it's easy (especially after all the leg work).
Did KB DLs to save my tricky back and skipped the pollen sprints. My quads are toast.


Dr. Isabelle Nuttall, the World Health Organization's director of global capacity, alert and response, said that while the Ebola cases in the United States and Spain are a concern, they are less of a concern because they have high-quality health care systems and "good infection control."
Of more concern, she said, are Mali, Ivory Coast, Senegal and Guinea-Bissau, countries that border the three African nations with widespread transmission -- Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone -- because of the trade and travel among those countries.
"They really need to be better prepared," she said, adding that WHO has been working with African nations for years to control outbreaks -- any outbreaks -- and handling Ebola involves the same steps: "Be ready, detect, inform, assess, respond."
Nuttall also said it could take months before the Ebola outbreak can be stopped, blaming the increasing number of Ebola cases and deaths on the "persistent transmission" of the virus. There has been an increase of new cases in Guinea, difficulties in gathering data in Liberia and an "intense transmission is still taking place" in Sierra Leone, Nuttall told reporters in Geneva.
Dr. Isabelle Nuttall, the World Health Organization's director of global capacity, alert and response, told reporters in Geneva that while the countries bordering Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia are of particular concern, the larger preparedness plan involves a total of 15 African nations.
They are: Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gambia, Ghana, Mauritania, Nigeria, South Sudan, Togo, Ivory Coast, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Senegal, Benin, Burkina Faso and Cameroon.
CNNPresident Barack Obama said his administration will respond to new Ebola cases "in a much more aggressive way."
Ashoka Mukpo, the freelance cameraman for NBC News who tested positive for Ebola in Monrovia, Liberia, and is now being treated in Nebraska, is "doing well, getting better every day and continues to trend in the right direction," said Taylor Wilson, spokesman for Nebraska Medicine.
who died this week from Ebola. He was the second person from the U.N. Mission in Liberia to succumb to this unforgiving disease.
Dr. Daniel Varga, chief clinical officer for Texas Health Resources, will issue an apology regarding the handling of Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person in the United States to be diagnosed with Ebola, during his remarks to a congressional committee today.
"Unfortunately, in our initial treatment of Mr. Duncan, despite our best intentions and a highly skilled medical team, we made mistakes. We did not correctly diagnose his symptoms as those of Ebola. We are deeply sorry," his prepared remarks say.
"Also, in our effort to communicate to the public quickly and transparently, we inadvertently provided some information that was inaccurate and had to be corrected. No doubt that was unsettling to a community that was already concerned and confused, and we have learned from that experience as well."
The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing on Ebola has begun. Witnesses will include CDC Director Thomas Frieden and Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
If you'd like to read the background memo issued prior to the hearing, you can access it here.
Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told the subcommittee that Nina Pham, one of the Dallas nurses who contracted Ebola, is headed to an National Institutes of Health facility where she will receive "state-of-the-art care in our high-level containment facilities."
Two sources tell me Ebola patient Nina Pham is leaving @texashealth today to go to NIH.
In northeast Ohio, one person has been quarantined and six others have quarantined and are monitoring themselves for Ebola after coming into contact or being in the vicinity of Ebola-stricken Texas nurse Amber Vinson, said Ohio Department of Health spokesman Jay Carey.
Luciana Borio, assistant commissioner for counterterrorism policy at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, tells the subcommittee that the desire for safe and effective Ebola vaccines is "overwhelming" and stresses the importance of testing the efficacy of all products.
"A male nurse who had worked for Red Cross on Sierra Leone has been admitted in La Candelaria Hospital in Tenerife after showing symptoms of having been infected with Ebola. He had a soar throat and fever. He was in direct contact with the virus in Sierra Leone so we are following the protocols," said a spokeswoman for the Spanish Red Cross in the Canary Islands.
Amid questions about CDC guidelines concerning Ebola stateside, Maj. Gen. Darryl Williams, commander of U.S. Army Africa, who is on the ground in Liberia, tells CNN he has "great confidence in the CDC guidelines. I meet with the current team here daily and I have great confidence and don't plan on adjusting any of the current guidelines."
There are so far no safety concerns with human trials of an Ebola vaccine currently being tested at Oxford University, Roy Anderson, professor of infectious disease epidemiology at Imperial College, tells CNN.
Human volunteers in Oxford were given a trial vaccine September 17. Anderson, a former chief scientist for the British Ministry of Defense, is privy to information about the trials.
Briana Aguirre is a nurse who says she helped take care of Nina Pham at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas. One of her main concerns: the protective care nurses were given to wear while handling Ebola patients. "My entire body is covered in at least two layers of plastic and my neck is hanging out," she told CNN's "AC360."
Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas has just released this video of nurse Nina Pham before she left the hospital for Maryland.
Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital nurse Amber Vinson said she felt fatigue, muscle ache, and malaise while she was in Cleveland and on the flight home Monday, a federal official with direct knowledge of the case tells CNN's Elizabeth Cohen. Vinson did not have diarrhea or vomiting while in Cleveland or on the flight home, the official said.
The Centers of Disease Control and Prevention says it now wants to interview passengers who flew on the flight nurse Amber Vinson took from Dallas to Cleveland last Friday.
"CDC is now asking passengers on Frontier Airlines flight 1142 Dallas/Fort Worth to Cleveland on Oct. 10 and passengers on Frontier Airlines flight 1143 from Cleveland to Dallas/Fort Worth on Oct. 13 to call 1 800-CDC INFO (1 800 232-4636)," the CDC said in a statement. "Public health professionals will interview passengers about the flight, answer their questions, and arrange follow up if warranted. Individuals who are determined to be at any potential risk will be actively monitored."
Each person at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital who came in contact with Thomas Eric Duncan is being given this document to sign, CNN's "AC360" reports. It is an order from the state of Texas and it includes measures to not go into large public places.
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings told Anderson Cooper that officials are currently getting the document signed by about 50 people. It will put them on a do-not board list that won't allow them to fly, he said.
"They can't take public transportation. They must have personal monitoring twice a day. Furthermore, they cannot go to public places,' Rawlings said.
Our family has been overwhelmed with support and love for Amber and our extended family over the last 72 hours, and we thank you for those prayers and well wishes. Amber is stable, and we are continuing to work with her doctors as her treatment progresses. Amber is a respected professional and has always had a strong passion for nursing. She followed all of the protocols necessary when treating a patient in Dallas, and right now, she's trusting in her doctors and nurses as she is now the patient. To that end, we ask that the media respect Amber's privacy and that of our family during this overwhelming experience. The time will come down the road for more further public involvement, but for now, your continued love and prayers helps greatly.
Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas released a new statement Thursday night, firing back at critics who've taken the hospital to task for its handling of Ebola patients.
Texas Health Dallas employees have two mechanisms available to anonymously raise issues about safety concerns or related matters. It is important to note that no Texas Health Dallas employee did so concerning their care of Mr. Duncan or our two co-workers.
Third parties who don't know our hospital, our employees and who were not present when the events occurred are seeking to exploit a national crisis by inserting themselves into an already challenging situation. Based on our strong track record of having excellent relationships with our employees, we do not believe it is necessary or helpful for outside parties to intervene in this relationship. Everyone should be focused on supporting each other in our pursuit of learning and continuous improvement that can be applied to hospitals throughout the nation. We are dedicated to providing a wide range of opportunities for employees to give input and influence decision making. From Magnet® designation to multiple Employer of Choice awards, this has long been a recognized strength of our organization.
To read the hospital's responses to specific criticisms, click here.


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India-bound next-gen 2020 Hyundai Tucson - IAB Rendering
06/09/2019 - 15:17 | Hyundai Tucson, Hyundai | Prashant Singh
Soon after the next-gen Hyundai Tucson was spied recently for the very first time in South Korea, several more test mule sightings have occurred, revealing new details. Using all the details revealed by the spy shots, IAB's rendering expert Shoeb Kalania has produced a rendering to show the expected design of the 2020 Hyundai Tucson.
The next-gen Hyundai Tucson is expected to be revealed in the second-half of 2020.
The rendered fourth-gen Hyundai Tucson (codename: Hyundai NX4) has a strikingly different front-end. While the current-gen Tucson is a very sedate looking model, the new-gen Tucson will be styled very aggressively. Like all the new SUVs, upcoming Tucson will have high-set bonnet mounted LED DRLs which will flank the wide blacked-out front grille. Its headlamp units have been set on the middle section of the front bumper. Lighting is obviously going to be all-LED at either ends. Also, the lower bumper has been restyled which goes along well with the new design language of the next-gen Tucson. Overall, from the looks of it, the new Tucson looks reminiscent of the Nexo FCV.
On the sides, it will sport squarish wheel arches which will lend a great amount of ruggedness to its overall profile. Though its rear-end isn't visible, we hope it doesn't get connected tail lamps as seen on the latest Hyundai models including the 2020 ix25.
The fourth-gen Hyundai Tucson may sit on an upgraded platform of the current model. It will also be available in a three-row variant and the same has been officially confirmed in the past.
The current Hyundai Tucson is available with 1.6L turbocharged petrol, 2.0-litre naturally aspirated petrol, 2.4-litre naturally aspirated, 1.6-litre turbocharged diesel and 2.0-litre turbocharged diesel (featuring mild-hybrid tech) engines in the international market. What Hyundai has planned for the next-gen Tucson is yet to be known, but what's certain is that there will be more electrification, possibly including a full-hybrid variant and/or a plug-in hybrid variant.
The fourth-gen Hyundai Tucson will make use of an upgraded platform of the current model.
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The fourth-gen Hyundai Tucson is expected to be revealed in the second half of 2020, and its Indian arrival is expected to happen in 2021. Unlike the current model, it will be manufactured in India and be priced more competitively.
Hyundai Tucson - Image Gallery


not to free themselves from Syria and to limit disruptions to chemical weapons targets.
"Ten days ago, President Trump said the United States would unload from Syria. We convinced him that it was necessary to stay," Macron said in a television interview. "Secondly, we convinced [Mr. Trump] that the strike should be limited to chemical weapons."
The regime conducted the April 7 chemical attack that Saturday's strikes were a response.
Mr. Macron said the strikes took place within a strict international framework without declaring war on Assad and without causing any security damage to Russian forces.
"We have full international legitimacy to intervene," Mr Macron.
The French military played an important role in the strikes, deployed aircraft from bases around France and launched missiles from frigates in the Mediterranean. Mr Macron said the operation was a success.
"We have succeeded in the military operation because all the missiles that hit were hit their targets and the capacity to produce chemical weapons has been destroyed," said Macron.