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package io.appium.java_client.drivers.options;

import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableList;
import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableMap;
import io.appium.java_client.android.options.EspressoOptions;
import io.appium.java_client.android.options.UiAutomator2Options;
import io.appium.java_client.android.options.localization.AppLocale;
import io.appium.java_client.android.options.server.EspressoBuildConfig;
import io.appium.java_client.android.options.signing.KeystoreConfig;
import io.appium.java_client.gecko.options.GeckoOptions;
import io.appium.java_client.gecko.options.Verbosity;
import io.appium.java_client.ios.options.XCUITestOptions;
import io.appium.java_client.ios.options.other.CommandTimeouts;
import io.appium.java_client.ios.options.simulator.Permissions;
import io.appium.java_client.mac.options.AppleScriptData;
import io.appium.java_client.mac.options.Mac2Options;
import io.appium.java_client.remote.AutomationName;
import io.appium.java_client.safari.options.SafariOptions;
import io.appium.java_client.safari.options.WebrtcData;
import io.appium.java_client.windows.options.PowerShellData;
import io.appium.java_client.windows.options.WindowsOptions;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
import org.openqa.selenium.Platform;

import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.time.Duration;

import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertFalse;
import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertNotNull;
import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertTrue;

@SuppressWarnings("ConstantConditions")
public class OptionsBuildingTest {
    @Test
    public void canBuildXcuiTestOptions() throws MalformedURLException {
        XCUITestOptions options = new XCUITestOptions();
        assertEquals(Platform.IOS, options.getPlatformName());
        assertEquals(AutomationName.IOS_XCUI_TEST, options.getAutomationName().orElse(null));
        options.setNewCommandTimeout(Duration.ofSeconds(10))
                .noReset()
                .setWdaBaseUrl("http://localhost:8000")
                .setPermissions(new Permissions()
                        .withAppPermissions("com.apple.MobileSafari",
                                ImmutableMap.of("calendar", "YES")))
                .setSafariSocketChunkSize(10)
                .setCommandTimeouts(new CommandTimeouts()
                        .withCommandTimeout("yolo", Duration.ofSeconds(1)));
        assertEquals(Duration.ofSeconds(10), options.getNewCommandTimeout().orElse(null));
        assertEquals(new URL("http://localhost:8000"), options.getWdaBaseUrl().orElse(null));
        assertNotNull(options.getPermissions()
                .map((v) -> v.getAppPermissions("com.apple.MobileSafari"))
                .orElse(null));
        assertEquals(10L, (long) options.getSafariSocketChunkSize().orElse(0));
        assertEquals(1L, options.getCommandTimeouts().orElse(null).left()
                .getCommandTimeout("yolo").orElse(null).getSeconds());
    }

    @Test
    public void canBuildUiAutomator2Options() throws MalformedURLException {
        UiAutomator2Options options = new UiAutomator2Options();
        assertEquals(Platform.ANDROID, options.getPlatformName());
        assertEquals(AutomationName.ANDROID_UIAUTOMATOR2, options.getAutomationName().orElse(null));
        options.setNewCommandTimeout(Duration.ofSeconds(10))
                .noReset()
                .setAdbExecTimeout(Duration.ofSeconds(3))
                .suppressKillServer()
                .setMjpegScreenshotUrl(new URL("http://yolo.com"))
                .setKeystoreConfig(new KeystoreConfig("path", "password", "keyAlias", "keyPassword"));
        assertEquals(Duration.ofSeconds(10), options.getNewCommandTimeout().orElse(null));
        assertEquals(Duration.ofSeconds(3), options.getAdbExecTimeout().orElse(null));
        assertEquals(new URL("http://yolo.com"), options.getMjpegScreenshotUrl().orElse(null));
        assertEquals("path", options.getKeystoreConfig().orElse(null).getPath());
        assertEquals("keyAlias", options.getKeystoreConfig().orElse(null).getKeyAlias());
        assertTrue(options.doesSuppressKillServer().orElse(false));
    }

    @Test
    public void canBuildEspressoOptions() {
        EspressoOptions options = new EspressoOptions();
        assertEquals(Platform.ANDROID, options.getPlatformName());
        assertEquals(AutomationName.ESPRESSO, options.getAutomationName().orElse(null));
        options.setNewCommandTimeout(Duration.ofSeconds(10))
                .forceEspressoRebuild()
                .setAppLocale(new AppLocale()
                        .withCountry("CN")
                        .withLanguage("zh")
                        .withVariant("hans"))
                .setEspressoBuildConfig(new EspressoBuildConfig()
                        .withAdditionalAppDependencies(ImmutableList.of(
                                "com.dep1:1.2.3",
                                "com.dep2:1.2.3"
                        ))
                );
        assertEquals(Duration.ofSeconds(10), options.getNewCommandTimeout().orElse(null));
        assertEquals("CN", options.getAppLocale().orElse(null).getCountry().orElse(null));
        assertEquals(2, options.getEspressoBuildConfig().orElse(null)
                        .left().getAdditionalAppDependencies().orElse(null).size());
        assertTrue(options.doesForceEspressoRebuild().orElse(false));
    }

    @Test
    public void canBuildWindowsOptions() {
        WindowsOptions options = new WindowsOptions();
        assertEquals(Platform.WINDOWS, options.getPlatformName());
        assertEquals(AutomationName.WINDOWS, options.getAutomationName().orElse(null));
        options.setNewCommandTimeout(Duration.ofSeconds(10))
                .setPrerun(new PowerShellData().withScript("yolo prescript"))
                .setPostrun(new PowerShellData().withCommand("yolo command"));
        assertEquals(Duration.ofSeconds(10), options.getNewCommandTimeout().orElse(null));
        assertEquals("yolo prescript", options.getPrerun().orElse(null).getScript().orElse(null));
        assertEquals("yolo command", options.getPostrun().orElse(null).getCommand().orElse(null));
    }

    @Test
    public void canBuildMac2Options() {
        Mac2Options options = new Mac2Options();
        assertEquals(Platform.MAC, options.getPlatformName());
        assertEquals(AutomationName.MAC2, options.getAutomationName().orElse(null));
        options.setNewCommandTimeout(Duration.ofSeconds(10))
                .skipAppKill()
                .setPrerun(new AppleScriptData().withScript("yolo prescript"))
                .setPostrun(new AppleScriptData().withCommand("yolo command"));
        assertEquals(Duration.ofSeconds(10), options.getNewCommandTimeout().orElse(null));
        assertEquals("yolo prescript", options.getPrerun().orElse(null).getScript().orElse(null));
        assertEquals("yolo command", options.getPostrun().orElse(null).getCommand().orElse(null));
        assertTrue(options.doesSkipAppKill().orElse(false));
        assertFalse(options.doesEventTimings().isPresent());
    }

    @Test
    public void canBuildGeckoOptions() {
        GeckoOptions options = new GeckoOptions();
        options.setPlatformName(Platform.MAC.toString());
        assertEquals(Platform.MAC, options.getPlatformName());
        assertEquals(AutomationName.GECKO, options.getAutomationName().orElse(null));
        options.setNewCommandTimeout(Duration.ofSeconds(10))
                .setVerbosity(Verbosity.TRACE)
                .setMozFirefoxOptions(ImmutableMap.of(
                    "profile", "yolo"
                ));
        assertEquals(Duration.ofSeconds(10), options.getNewCommandTimeout().orElse(null));
        assertEquals(Verbosity.TRACE, options.getVerbosity().orElse(null));
        assertEquals("yolo", options.getMozFirefoxOptions().orElse(null)
                .get("profile"));
    }

    @Test
    public void canBuildSafariOptions() {
        SafariOptions options = new SafariOptions();
        assertEquals(Platform.IOS, options.getPlatformName());
        assertEquals(AutomationName.SAFARI, options.getAutomationName().orElse(null));
        options.setNewCommandTimeout(Duration.ofSeconds(10))
                .safariUseSimulator()
                .setWebkitWebrtc(new WebrtcData()
                        .withDisableIceCandidateFiltering(true)
                        .withDisableInsecureMediaCapture(true)
                );
        assertEquals(Duration.ofSeconds(10), options.getNewCommandTimeout().orElse(null));
        assertTrue(options.doesSafariUseSimulator().orElse(false));
        assertTrue(options.getWebkitWebrtc().orElse(null)
                .doesDisableIceCandidateFiltering().orElse(false));
        assertTrue(options.getWebkitWebrtc().orElse(null)
                .doesDisableInsecureMediaCapture().orElse(false));
    }
}

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A cottage remodel in Mill Valley, California. Casually elegant with open plan living, a kitchen to die for and an entrance that welcomes and impresses. Colour brings the spaces to life. A wonderful transformation of a humble house into a welcoming family home. Residential Design by Heydt Designs, Interior Design by Benjamin Dhong and Matthew MacCaul Turner. Photography by David Duncan Livingston.
Oh, my God: what a beautiful house!
Is it weird that I am most impressed with the mature trees in the yard?
Beautiful house – elegant, classic, and with an almost rustic feel at times.
Lovely house! I love all of the rooms and the exterior looks charming and welcoming. I am a bit weirded out by the bench thing with the legs and hooves.
I love this house! And the room with the pink and orange wallpaper makes me wish that I had a girl!
Sheer perfection, not too small, lots of trees, nice yard, not hoity toity, and it's in California. Did I say lots of trees? I can't live without trees.
This home is beautiful! Does anyone know the square footage? I would LOVE to see a house plan!!


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Here's how COVID vaccine distribution will look like 2020 flu clinics in Natick
Drive-through clinics are likely. The Moderna vaccine, when approved by the FDA, is a candidate for local distribution, according to the town's top public health official.
Henry Schwan
NATICK – Hours after the state released plans on Wednesday for distribution of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, Natick Public Health Director Jim White said his department is preparing for eventual arrival and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines.
Natick will likely manage public vaccine distribution by using drive-through clinics that require preregistration, White said. It would be a process much like the drive-through clinics the town held in the fall at the Department of Public Works garage to administer flu shots.
"People will be in their cars, they will be safe, and our people will be safe," White said.
More:The COVID vaccine is coming to Massachusetts. What you need to know
Natick's plan could include separate clinics at the town's Community-Senior Center for residents over the age of 55. That was the set up for the fall flu clinics, held by appointment in the center's gym and cafeteria.
"They ran like clockwork," White said.
Last week, the department applied to the state Department of Public Health to administer vaccines, when they become available.
White doesn't believe all of the town's roughly 36,000 residents will need to use the local clinics, because some will have access to vaccines through other sources, including those who work in health-care settings where immunization are also occurring.
Natick will probably distribute the Moderna vaccine
It's highly unlikely the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine will be distributed by the Natick public health department because it doesn't have ultra-cold storage capacity. The vaccine must be stored at -94 degrees Fahrenheit or below, and arrives in shipments of 975 doses, packed in dry ice.
White said a better candidate for distribution in Natick is the vaccine developed by Cambridge-based Moderna, which hasn't received FDA emergency authorization. The vaccine can be stored at standard freezer temperature for up to 30 days. Natick has a couple small freezers and one large refrigerator that White thinks can handle storage. The refrigerator is registered with the state and inspected annually.
Local health departments, volunteers have critical role in vaccine distribution
"Local public health departments are essential if we want to get this done properly," said Kevin Cranston, assistant commissioner at the state Department of Public Health, during Thursday's meeting of the DPH Public Health Council.
Local public health department employees that administer vaccines will be among the first to get immunized because they fall in the category of clinical and non-clinical healthcare workers who deal directly with COVID-19 patients. The category received top priority for immunization in the state's vaccination plan.
VISUAL STORY:It may not have started here, but the novel coronavirus became a US tragedy
Resident volunteers and those from the Medical Reserve Corps will play a major role in Natick's vaccination effort, White said. Leila Mercer, the town's former public health nurse who retired in June, could return to help out. Paramedics in the Natick Fire Department are available to administer vaccines.
A $30,000 grant from the MetroWest Health Foundation, which kicks-in in January, will help Natick cover the cost of vaccination.
The state DPH has been working on a vaccination plan since August, and includes vaccination of 80% of the state's population, initially over the age of 14.
More:Getting a vaccine has been a huge undertaking. How all 50 states scramble to dole them out is the next massive challenge.
Officials attending Thursday's council meeting stressed that the eventual arrival of vaccines doesn't mean the public can stop adhering to public health guidelines to limit the spread of COVID-19, including wearing a mask, practicing social distancing, and avoiding large groups.
Until herd immunity is achieved to reduce transmission of COVID-19, Cranston urged residents to follow the protective measures.
Henry Schwan is the health reporter for the Daily News. Follow Henry on Twitter @henrymetrowest. He can be reached at hschwan@wickedlocal.com or 508-626-3964.
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George and Amal Clooney welcome a girl and a boy
George and Amal Clooney are proud parents of twins, a girl and boy - Photo: Wikimedia Common Use
Amal and George Clooney became first-time parents after birth of Ella and Alexander Clooney.
by Margaret Minnicks
June 6, 2017 at 6:34 PM June 6, 2017 at 6:34 PM
George and Amal and Clooney are now proud parents of twins. Ella and Alexander Clooney were born on Tuesday morning, June 6, 2017, ahead of Beyoncé and Jay Z's twins that are due any day now.
A rep for the Clooneys said in a statement that mother and twins are all healthy, happy and doing find. The rep jokingly said George is sedated and should recover in a few days.
First-time parents
For many years, Clooney described himself as Hollywood's most eligible bachelor. He met his wife in 2013, and they were married a year later in September 2014 in Venice, Italy.
Not only is George married, but he is now a first-time father at 56. His 39-year-old international and human rights lawyer wife is also a first-time parent.
The Oscar-winning actor has often joked about becoming a dad in his 50s. He has said that many of his friends already have adult children and he is just starting out. However, he is looking forward to the challenge of having babies late in life.
The couple wanted their twins to be born in the United Kingdom, and that's where the family of four will stay for now. They have agreed to live and raise the children in their London home for the first few years.
The fraternal twins' names
Perhaps the parents will reveal why they gave their twins such classic names.
According to the Baby Center, Ella is a shortened form of Eleanor and Ellen. The name means "light." Ella is the twelfth most popular name for girls this year. After 2017, it will probably shoot up to the top of the list of girls' names. Ben Stiller, John Travolta, and Alex Rodriguez's daughters are also named Ella.
The name Alexander is a Greek name that means "defender of men." The Baby Center reports that Alexander is the sixteenth most popular name for boys in 2017.
Social media reactions
Since the birth of the twins, there have been many comments on social media. There are congratulatory messages and many comments about the normal names of the babies. One person posted on Twitter that the parents are classy and gave their kids classy names. Another asked if the Clooneys violated any celebrity rules by naming their daughter Ella and their son Alexander.
The person was referring to the unique names that celebrities are giving their kids these days.
It is interesting that one day the Clooneys were a family of two and today they are a family of four. Comedian Ellen DeGeneres said she is calling the family Ocean's Four. She was alluding to Clooney's 2001 film "Ocean's Eleven" that was so successful that there are two sequels, "Ocean's Twelve" released in 2004 and "Ocean's Thirteen" in 2007.
Margaret Minnicks
Margaret Minnicks has been an online writer for many years. She is an ordained minister and Bible teacher. Other than preaching, teaching, and writing, she facilitates workshops.
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The University Clinic of Infectious Diseases of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon works together with the Infectious Diseases Department of the Northern Lisbon Hospital Centre. This academic unit is led by Professor Francisco Antunes.
In undergraduate education, the practical component of the subject Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine takes place at the Inpatient, Intensive Care and Ambulatory Units. In postgraduate education, students of the Master Degree in Emerging Infectious Diseases benefit from the cooperation protocols established between FMUL and Agostinho Neto (Cape Verde), Américo Boavida (Angola) and São Tomé Central (São Tomé and Principe) hospitals. These agreements make it easier for health technicians and medical education staff from the institutions involved to undertake training projects and research.
Clinical internships have been created for students and recent graduates of the Faculty of Medicine of Lisbon/Northern Lisbon Hospital Centre. The Infectious Diseases Department has hosted students from the European Community, through the Erasmus programme, for training in Infectious Diseases.
In terms of clinical research, the performance of the University Clinic of Infectious Diseases with regard to clinical trials of new treatments for HIV-AIDS has amply justified its reputation as a national reference centre.
The Professor informed us about the Clinic and corresponding teaching, research and care activities.


Hypertensive, larynx is painful the improvement that waits for disease symptom, sanitarian effect is very apparent. Nevertheless, plant besides this " fragile persimmon " , gutty still " fragile persimmon " it may not be a bad idea eats. This " fragile persimmon " cry again " lazy persimmon " , someone says is " dawdler can be fed also " . Make " fragile persimmon " method, it is persimmon takes off a kind of acerbity method actually, easier. Should prepare above all crudely green persimmon (must hard) , liquor (average white spirit can) and bloat the container of dish. persimmon abluent air, put into container, put to asperse a few liquor, put to asperse a few liquor again again. The altar on the lid is built, and infuse clear water seals good altar mouth, park is shady and cool place. After 5-7 day, can open a lid, take persimmon wash wash can eat. Such " fragile persimmon " , sweet fragile bright, have different mouthfeel with soft persimmon absolutely.
) and one bloats the container of dish. persimmon abluent air, put into container, put to asperse a few liquor, put to asperse a few liquor again again. The altar on the lid is built, and infuse clear water seals good altar mouth, park is shady and cool place. After 5-7 day, can open a lid, take persimmon wash wash can eat. Such " fragile persimmon " , sweet fragile bright, have different mouthfeel with soft persimmon absolutely.


Trying to make English come alive in class using real life examples? Then look at English Current. It's got free materials based on current events and the news. It's organised by topic as well as date the lesson plans were made, so you'll be sure to find something that will help you out in class.
While the news lesson plans make up the majority of the site, they also have warm up material, job interview tips, lesson plans for private classes, insurance vocabulary and worksheets, and well as 20 common mistakes made by Czech speakers. New lesson plans are created about twice a week, so check back often for new ideas.


This evening Pastor Doug preached at Grace Baptist Church in Franklin, the Audio from his message is available now via our Messages Page.
We have attempted to clean up the audio as best as we can, we will be using an alternate method next week to capture the audio.
This entry was posted in SBC on July 13, 2014 by sbc_admin.


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Q: QLabel with pixmap: prevent pixmap's color change in disabled state How can I control the color of its pixmap in disabled label state?
For some bizarre reasons I need to have exactly the same look of the pixmap in active and disabled state (displayed logo).
The pixmap I put on a QLabel with label->setPixmap(pm) is always shown in a different color than the active state when the label is in disabled state.
I struggled with the stylesheet and tried QFrame:disabled{background-color: rgba(..., ..., ..., 255);} but the part of the label which is covered with the pixmap is always a mix with another color, which seems to come from Qt's controlling for the disabled state.

EDIT: It seems, Qt always mixes the pixmap color and the background color in disabled state. But Qt does not mix the colors in active state; then the pixmap color stays opaque. I need to switch off this mixing behavior of the disabled state.

A: A (not so complicated) way to achieve that, is to draw the pixmap by yourself. Instead of subclassing QLabel and override paintEvent, you can install an event filter in your label and listen for QPaintEvent's only.
Have the filter:
class Filter : public QObject
{
    Q_OBJECT
public:
    Filter(): QObject(nullptr) {}
    bool eventFilter(QObject *watched, QEvent *event);
};

In its eventFilter method, always return false, but when you draw the pixmap:
#include <QPaintEvent>
#include <QPainter>
#include <QStyle>
bool Filter::eventFilter(QObject *watched, QEvent *event)
{
    if(event->type() == QEvent::Paint)
    {
        QLabel * label = dynamic_cast<QLabel*>(watched);
        QPainter painter(label);

        QPixmap pixmap = label->pixmap()->scaled(label->size());
        label->style()->drawItemPixmap(&painter, label->rect(), Qt::AlignHCenter | Qt::AlignVCenter, pixmap);
        return true;
    }
    return false;
}

Instantiate and install the filter, something like:
ui->setupUi(this);
Filter * filter = new Filter();
ui->label->installEventFilter(filter);

/* don't forget to call:

    delete filter;

  somewhere later */

In my example code, I scaled the pixmap to fit the label size and centered it both horizontally and vertically, but you can adjust all this, according to your needs.
Moreover, the same filter can be installed to more than one label, since the logic works fine for them all. More on event filtering here.

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British universities have passed through three stages, of which, however, the second is not yet wholly displaced by the third.
There were several displaced persons in the customs office.
He displaced a bone in his knee while playing football.


This large forest near Aberystwyth has a series of good mountain bike trails and miles of good footpaths for walkers.
The forest has a good sized car park and visitor centre just off the A44 between Goginan and Ponterwyd. From here you can pick up the mtb trails heading north into the forest. There's two red grade and two black grade trails of varying lengths. These include technical singletrack descents and long climbs with more details on the open street map link and more information link below.
If you're on foot then there's nice paths around the two ponds located just to the east of the car park. There's also miles of bridleways and footpaths to the north of the car park. Some of the trails are quite challenging with a climb to Mynydd March in the northern section. From the high points there are stunning views to the Welsh Mountains. There's also a number of large ponds which are in really lovely remote spots.
The forest has a number of bird hides and is well known as a great place to watch red kites. There's also a nice cafe where you can refresh yourself after your exercise.
To extend your walking in the area you could head to the nearby Devil's Bridge Falls. The spectacular falls include the imposing Jacob's Ladder stone steps and some wonderful scenery.


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Remission of nephrotic syndrome due to AA amyloidosis and initiation of glomerular repair after surgical resection of localized Castleman's disease
Marcora Mandreoli, Silvia Casanova, Nicola Vianelli, Sonia Pasquali, Pietro Zucchelli
Arcispedale Santa Maria Nuova
To shed further light on the eventual destiny of amyloid kidney deposits after interruption of amylogenic stimulus, we report a case of a 47-year-old woman with nephrotic syndrome due to renal amyloidosis, complicating abdominal Castleman's disease. After 5 courses of therapy with melphalan and prednisolone which failed to improve the nephrotic syndrome or her general clinical condition, and 1 year after the diagnosis of renal amyloidosis, surgical excision of the abdominal mass was performed. Whereas her clinical symptoms and other laboratory findings rapidly improved, the proteinuria took 18 months to disappear. A second renal biopsy, performed 30 months after surgical resection, showed persistence of the amyloid deposits in the same extent. However, electron microscopy revealed subtle reparative phenomena at the epithelial site of the basement membrane. We conclude that proteinuria associated with amyloidosis does not only depend on structural damage and that the new synthesized segment of basement membrane observed by us probably represents a mechanism of repair and the start of a long healing process.
Nephron
Castleman's disease
Dive into the research topics of 'Remission of nephrotic syndrome due to AA amyloidosis and initiation of glomerular repair after surgical resection of localized Castleman's disease'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
Castleman Disease Medicine & Life Sciences 100%
Nephrotic Syndrome Medicine & Life Sciences 79%
Amyloidosis Medicine & Life Sciences 78%
Amyloid Plaques Medicine & Life Sciences 38%
Basement Membrane Medicine & Life Sciences 34%
Melphalan Medicine & Life Sciences 21%
Mandreoli, M., Casanova, S., Vianelli, N., Pasquali, S., & Zucchelli, P. (2002). Remission of nephrotic syndrome due to AA amyloidosis and initiation of glomerular repair after surgical resection of localized Castleman's disease. Nephron, 90(3), 336-340. https://doi.org/10.1159/000049070
Remission of nephrotic syndrome due to AA amyloidosis and initiation of glomerular repair after surgical resection of localized Castleman's disease. / Mandreoli, Marcora; Casanova, Silvia; Vianelli, Nicola et al.
In: Nephron, Vol. 90, No. 3, 2002, p. 336-340.
Mandreoli, M, Casanova, S, Vianelli, N, Pasquali, S & Zucchelli, P 2002, 'Remission of nephrotic syndrome due to AA amyloidosis and initiation of glomerular repair after surgical resection of localized Castleman's disease', Nephron, vol. 90, no. 3, pp. 336-340. https://doi.org/10.1159/000049070
Mandreoli M, Casanova S, Vianelli N, Pasquali S, Zucchelli P. Remission of nephrotic syndrome due to AA amyloidosis and initiation of glomerular repair after surgical resection of localized Castleman's disease. Nephron. 2002;90(3):336-340. doi: 10.1159/000049070
Mandreoli, Marcora ; Casanova, Silvia ; Vianelli, Nicola et al. / Remission of nephrotic syndrome due to AA amyloidosis and initiation of glomerular repair after surgical resection of localized Castleman's disease. In: Nephron. 2002 ; Vol. 90, No. 3. pp. 336-340.
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AU - Zucchelli, Pietro
N2 - To shed further light on the eventual destiny of amyloid kidney deposits after interruption of amylogenic stimulus, we report a case of a 47-year-old woman with nephrotic syndrome due to renal amyloidosis, complicating abdominal Castleman's disease. After 5 courses of therapy with melphalan and prednisolone which failed to improve the nephrotic syndrome or her general clinical condition, and 1 year after the diagnosis of renal amyloidosis, surgical excision of the abdominal mass was performed. Whereas her clinical symptoms and other laboratory findings rapidly improved, the proteinuria took 18 months to disappear. A second renal biopsy, performed 30 months after surgical resection, showed persistence of the amyloid deposits in the same extent. However, electron microscopy revealed subtle reparative phenomena at the epithelial site of the basement membrane. We conclude that proteinuria associated with amyloidosis does not only depend on structural damage and that the new synthesized segment of basement membrane observed by us probably represents a mechanism of repair and the start of a long healing process.
AB - To shed further light on the eventual destiny of amyloid kidney deposits after interruption of amylogenic stimulus, we report a case of a 47-year-old woman with nephrotic syndrome due to renal amyloidosis, complicating abdominal Castleman's disease. After 5 courses of therapy with melphalan and prednisolone which failed to improve the nephrotic syndrome or her general clinical condition, and 1 year after the diagnosis of renal amyloidosis, surgical excision of the abdominal mass was performed. Whereas her clinical symptoms and other laboratory findings rapidly improved, the proteinuria took 18 months to disappear. A second renal biopsy, performed 30 months after surgical resection, showed persistence of the amyloid deposits in the same extent. However, electron microscopy revealed subtle reparative phenomena at the epithelial site of the basement membrane. We conclude that proteinuria associated with amyloidosis does not only depend on structural damage and that the new synthesized segment of basement membrane observed by us probably represents a mechanism of repair and the start of a long healing process.
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Abstract Prion protein modulates many cellular functions including the secretion of trophic factors by astrocytes. Some of these factors are found in exosomes, which are formed within multivesicular bodies (MVBs) and secreted into the extracellular space to modulate cell-cell communication. The mechanisms underlying exosome biogenesis were not completely deciphered. Here, we demonstrate that primary cultures of astrocytes and fibroblasts from prnp-null mice secreted lower levels of exosomes than wild-type cells. Furthermore, prnp-null astrocytes exhibited reduced MVB formation and increased autophagosome formation. The reconstitution of PRNP expression at the cell membrane restored exosome secretion in PRNP-deficient astrocytes, whereas macroautophagy/autophagy inhibition via BECN1 depletion reestablished exosome release in these cells. Moreover, the PRNP octapeptide repeat domain was necessary to promote exosome secretion and to impair the formation of the CAV1-dependent ATG12-ATG5 cytoplasmic complex that drives autophagosome formation. Accordingly, higher levels of CAV1 were found in lipid raft domains instead of in the cytoplasm in prnp-null cells. Collectively, these findings demonstrate that PRNP supports CAV1-suppressed autophagy to protect MVBs from sequestration into phagophores, thus facilitating exosome secretion.
Published in Autophagy. Philadelphia, v. 12, n. 11, p. 2113-2128, 2016.


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Red Book Connect's e-learning Platform, Schoox, Reaches Milestone: Delivers More Than 500,000 Video
Atlanta and Austin – September 9, 2013 – Red Book Connect's Schoox, an innovative social e-learning platform for the service industry, announced today that it has delivered more than 500,000 video lectures to restaurant employees, passing an impressive milestone. "In just seven months since Schoox became part of Red Book Connect, an incredible number of […]
Atlanta and Austin – September 9, 2013 – Red Book Connect's Schoox, an innovative social e-learning platform for the service industry, announced today that it has delivered more than 500,000 video lectures to restaurant employees, passing an impressive milestone.
"In just seven months since Schoox became part of Red Book Connect, an incredible number of restaurant employees have been trained through our state-of-the-art e-learning platform," said Larry Abramson, CEO of Red Book Connect. "We are thrilled that the industry is embracing our technology and believe that this is just the beginning. As more restaurateurs realize that social learning will improve content selection, delivery and effectiveness, all while saving money, we believe our platform will become the industry standard for delivering the world's best content."
Restaurant operators are increasingly turning to social learning to better engage employees as compared to traditional manuals or in-person classroom training. Cloud-based training is ideal for training restaurant employees who are sometimes spread across multiple locations and have very little time to attend traditional training.
Schoox allows companies to create their own corporate academy – a feature-rich learning environment tailored to their brand – which can be populated with their own proprietary coursework, or classes developed by leading experts and content providers. Companies can keep their training environment completely private and secure, while at the same time having access to public courses and other content on Schoox. One of the unique characteristics of Schoox is the design of the platform to easily be viewed on mobile devices, allowing employees to complete training from their smartphones and tablets, providing far greater flexibility than other tools in the marketplace.
New Partnerships with Three Leading Restaurant Content Providers
Red Book Connect also announced today that it has signed partnerships with three leading content providers focused on the restaurant industry: Asterleaf, Innovalearn and Teaching Wine Online.
"We are excited about the addition of these latest content providers, which helps expand the breadth and depth of our restaurant education catalog," said Lefteris Ntouanoglou, Founder and CEO of Schoox, "Through our technology, independent and multi-unit restaurants now have easy and cost-effective access to best-in-class training. Our video and interactive courses are designed to engage 'Generation Y' employees, the largest segment of restaurant hourly workers, who prefer on-demand training via the cloud."
A global leader in restaurant education, Asterleaf was founded in 2001 by executives who sought to radically improve the quality of guest service in restaurants worldwide by providing the best education and training solutions. Asterleaf's restaurant-specific training courses and Guest Advocate Certification Program have shown to reduce individual training costs by as much as 80 percent while ensuring industry-wide compliance, minimizing liability exposure and reliably reducing training cycle times.
"We chose to work with Schoox because the platform is very intuitive and user-friendly," said Asterleaf's co-founder and CEO Glenn Owens, a 20-year restaurant industry veteran. "When restaurateurs realize the time and money savings that can be achieved through this technology, particularly when combined with Asterleaf content, I think the transition to technology-based learning will accelerate."
Innovalearn helps companies reach the next-generation workforce, using cutting-edge web development tools to build dynamic, fresh, and interactive lessons based upon content-rich curricula. Focused on mobile device management (MDM) through content delivery networks (CDN), Innovalearn offers interactive training, online assessments, immediate assessment feedback, and discussion boards.
"The restaurant industry has one of the highest turnover rates of any industry, which translates into an enormous cost for training and retraining workers," said Tim Dunnigan, CEO at Innovalearn, who is now focused on producing more content for the restaurant industry due to high demand and the success it has already achieved in this space. "The courses we offer on Schoox allow restaurants to keep costs low, while also engaging people in a new and enticing format. A five minute video is much more engaging than a five page document, and our video and interactive formats especially appeal to younger workers."
Founded by certified Sommelier David Newton, Teaching Wine Online brings Newton's award-winning wine education and wine coaching programs to a new audience via the Schoox platform.
"With Schoox, restaurant and hospitality managers across the country can now access premier wine education courses in a cost-effective way," said Teaching Wine Online founder Newton. "Using simple selling techniques such as food pairing principles, servers are practically guaranteed to take home more than $100 a week because of higher wine sales. In turn, the restaurant owner sees a major spike in overall wine sales as well, so everyone is more profitable."
About Red Book Connect
Red Book Connect is a global cloud-based software solutions company supporting the restaurant, retail and hospitality industries' comprehensive operational needs in a fast, efficient and affordable way. The company offers solutions and products from industry leaders Red Book Solutions, HotSchedules, Macromatix, GoHire and Schoox. Currently serving more than 1.2 million users in over 128,000 locations across 26 countries, Red Book Connect has offices in Atlanta, Austin, Denver, San Francisco, Thessaloniki, Greece, Sydney, Australia and Shanghai, China. Red Book Connect is backed by TPG Growth, the middle market and growth equity platform of TPG, a global private investment firm, and Instawares Holding, a company focused on best-in-class technology serving the restaurant marketplace. For more information visit: www.redbookconnect.com.
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Becoming Strategy-Driven: The Policy Charter
Summary: When your company launches a project, does management always feel comfortable the effort will produce a winning business solution? Can they see the big picture? Most project management and IT methodologies talk about building business cases and provide guidelines for project planning and estimating. Why aren't they working better for the big-picture question? Why can't we figure out beforehand whether some operational business solution we want to build will actually work once we roll it out? To ensure success, business leads must be properly engaged at the start in sketching out the key elements of a winning business solution. In this month's column, Ron Ross explains what form that should take.
One day in the mid-1990s, Gladys Lam and I were called into a senior manager's office for a hastily arranged meeting. We were consulting to the company and the manager needed help deciding whether to proceed on a very large reengineering initiative. When we entered the manager's office, we noticed piles of documents all over her desk. Gladys knew this manager fairly well from previous assignments — the manager was capable, highly respected, and normally calm, confident, and collected. But on that particular day she was obviously perturbed.
We began to talk about the proposed business initiative and the related software development it would entail. The manager grew more and more agitated as the minutes went by. Eventually she came out with this:
"You know, I have really great people working for me. They've all worked really hard on this. They've produced a ton of documentation and I've looked through all of it very carefully. I've talked with them in depth. Yet for the life of me I still don't know if we should take it on. Do we really have a winning business solution? I'm at a loss to know. The project will require major resources and I know we need to do something. But I'm still not seeing the big picture."
Do we really have a winning business solution? Still not seeing the big picture. We had heard similar complaints from senior managers confronting large projects many times before. And so many projects ultimately end in failure and are simply written off. You know that story.
What's the problem?! Why is this so hard? Why can't we figure out beforehand whether some operational business solution we want to build will actually work once we roll it out? Why can't we be more confident upfront about launching into business solutions? Most project management and software development methodologies talk about building business cases and provide guidelines for project planning and estimating. Why aren't they working for the big-picture question?
In a nutshell, the real problem is that the business leads are not being properly engaged at the start in sketching out the key elements of a winning business solution. What form should that take? Business leads are notoriously busy. They are also understandably hesitant about participating in requirements sessions inevitably slanted toward IT. They are always asked questions with implications they have no real means to understand.
You need to engage them in the right kind of dialog and ask exactly the right kinds of question. You need fast-paced, pinpoint discussions that feel natural for them. The effort has to take a minimal amount of their time, and produce compact documentation that can easily be reviewed by busy sponsors to find any holes. It absolutely must uncover any showstoppers. Lastly, it obviously needs to be something that embodies a major step forward in terms of upfront IT requirements. What kind of deliverable can make all that work?
In response, Gladys came up with an innovative and powerful solution, the Policy Charter. That was back in 1997. The Policy Charter ended up having significant influence, not the least of which was on the Business Motivation Model, the standard for structured strategy.[1] But let me stick to how Policy Charters came about in the first place.
Gladys tells me that when she was still a little girl, her grandfather taught her to always think through risks. When you want to take on something big, he said, think of every risk you can and how you would handle it. Only when you have decided you can live with any remaining risks should you actually do whatever it is. All remaining risks you can think of must be acceptable ones. Her grandfather was very proud of his Chinese heritage. Much later she would connect his thinking about risks with a book he once mentioned — Sun Tzu's The Art of War.
So Gladys knew right off that risk would be at the heart of any solution. But there are risks everywhere you look. There are business risks, project risks, IT risks … the list goes on. Which kinds of risks should we be considering? What else do you need?
Our focus on business rules naturally got us thinking about business policies. We also had been using the Zachman Framework to organize our new methodology. The Framework helped in at least two specific ways:
The Framework starts off with scope in row 1. As a project manager, scope is another of Gladys's hot buttons, right up there with time management.
Column 6 of the Framework talks about motivation and strategy — why you do what you do. The generic model John gives for column 6 is: ends-means-ends. That suggested inherent structure for strategy — barebones, pinpointed structure.
Where Zachman helped the most, however, was in distinguishing architectural requirements from project justification and project management concerns. He focuses squarely on architectural requirements for the complex thing you want to build. So it's not about project risks or IT risks, it's about business risks. In other words, what operational business risks will you face in running the to-be business? How will you address those risks each and every day? What ends will you constantly be trying to achieve? What means will you employ to achieve them?
Now we had all the pieces — risks, business policies, means and ends. They simply needed to be structured. The result was the Policy Charter,[2] a central piece of Proteus, our methodology for business analysis and business rules.
Finally a Better Way
Gladys immediately proposed a Policy Charter for the manager's business initiative. She convinced the manager to commit the business leads to several days of facilitated sessions to develop the business strategy.
The effort was a huge success. At the end, the participants said this discussion was exactly the kind they had been wanting all along. It yielded key elements of the business solution in just under ten pages. For higher-level executives we created a three-page summary. The manager got great feedback, not to mention broad buy-in. As events later proved, they had indeed sketched out a winning business solution.
I have to make a confession here. It fell to me to develop some training material for the effort, a half-day upfront workshop on business goals, risks, tactics, and business policies, and how to structure them in coherent fashion. I wouldn't admit it at the time, but I was nervous about giving the training. I just wasn't sure I could get the ideas across.
Think about that. I was worried that highly-experienced business leads wouldn't 'get' thinking about business goals, risks, tactics, and business policies, free and clear of IT and project concerns! It turns out it was some of the easiest 'training' I've ever done. After about half an hour, they were telling me how it all fit together.
Since that first experience, we've helped create Policy Charters to front-end scores of projects of all sizes and in many different industries. It always works great. What business people need is simply some structure to organize their thinking about the elements of strategy. Once they've got that, they're off and running.
Gob-Smacked
Let me share another experience we had a year or two later in the U.K. A large pharmaceutical company wanted to integrate four lines of business that had previously been stove-pipe. At the same time they wanted to open a new channel for their offerings via the web. Very complicated stuff, with delicate business trade-offs to consider. They called us in to conduct some facilitated Policy Charter sessions.
On Monday morning, the room filled quickly with more and more people — about triple the number we had expected. As the morning progressed we found out why. The various business managers from the four lines of business had brought their operational staff because they had become accustomed to IT requirements sessions asking questions only the operational staff could answer.
Here's what happened. At the end of the first day's session, the managers told their operational staff not to come back the next day. The managers caught on very quickly what the discussion was about and that they themselves needed to participate.
Still, there were one or two tense moments. The worst was when we came in the next morning and saw the walls bleeding red. Let me explain.
During Policy Charter sessions, we like to use different colored Post-It notes on the walls for each component of strategy — that is, for each goal, tactic, risk, and business policy. (Sometimes we wallpaper just about the whole room!) We use red or pink for the risks so they will really stand out. But when you come into the room and see nothing but a sea of red, it can startle you.
Gladys quickly went to the project manager to assess the damage. To her surprise he said not to worry. The feedback from the managers was very positive. He said this was the first time they'd actually talked through the risks face-to-face. He could already see they were saying many of the same things, just using different words. Sure enough he was right. By the middle of the second day, the sea of red had shrunk considerably.
The group went on to do some outstanding thinking. Originally the sessions had been planned for three days. They were so pleased with the progress, however, that at the end of the third day they asked us to return the next day for more. Whenever did you hear of business managers asking for more time to spend in requirements sessions?!
We were not involved in the effort after the Policy Charter sessions, but we learned that two years later the manager received a world-wide award for the project. They determined that the project had saved the company some £80 million.
About a month after the sessions, Gladys received an e-mail from one of their managers. In the very first line she came across the words 'gob-smacked'. Gob-smacked?! What's that?! Had something horrible happened? What were we to blame for? In a panic she called me to find out what it meant. I didn't know either. After a flurry of e-mails another Brit finally assured us it was highly complementary. Loosely I think you could translate it as having been blown away by the sessions. Very good stuff!
[1] In the late 1990s, the Business Rules Group (BRG) initiated a multi-year effort to create a standard for structured strategy, which came to be called "The Business Motivation Model: Business Governance in a Volatile World." The standard was first released in 2000. See www.BusinessRulesGroup.org for a readable (free) copy. The standard was released in UML through the Object Management Group (OMG) in 2007. For the OMG version, see: http://www.omg.org/technology/documents/br_pm_spec_catalog.htm
[2] Gladys S.W. Lam, "Business Knowledge — Packaged in a Policy Charter," Business Rules Journal, Vol. 1, No. 5 (May 1998), URL: http://www.BRCommunity.com/a1998/a385.html
Ronald G. Ross	, "Becoming Strategy-Driven: The Policy Charter" Business Rules Journal Vol. 10, No. 6, (Jun. 2009)
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One in 4 people in health care settings across Canada has a pressure ulcer at any given time, yet around 70% of pressure ulcers are preventable. The Canadian Association of Wound Care (CAWC), a non-profit organization of health care professionals, industry participants, patients, and caregivers, has developed a series of on-line resources to improve prevention and treatment of pressure ulcers. These resources include recommendations on prevention and treatment of pressure ulcers in diabetes, venous insufficiency, and palliative care, as well as a look at the latest research. See www.cawc.net to access the wound-care resources.
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It is well known that exercise is beneficial for health. As physicians, we encourage our patients to engage in regular physical activity. But how active are they? A recent survey by The Alberta Centre for Active Living (www.centre4activeliving.ca) found that more than 60% of all Albertans were physically active enough to achieve health benefits; this percentage was slightly higher than in the previous survey in 2005. The survey revealed changes in the percentage of sufficiently active people.
It decreases with age.
It is higher among people with more education.
It is higher among people with the highest annual household incomes.
It is higher among people who have never married or who are separated.
How should we encourage the other 40% to exercise? For tips, see Health Canada's Healthy Living Unit at www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/pau-uap/fitness/.
More than 820 000 Canadians use one of the 650 food banks in Canada each month. About 40% of food bank users are children. The unpredictable nature of donations to food banks makes it challenging to meet recipients' nutritional needs. A recent study compared the contents of 30 food hampers with food recommended in Canadian guidelines at a large urban food bank in southwestern Ontario. Although the hampers were intended to supply 3 days' worth of food per person, 99% of hampers did not. They contained 1.6 days' worth of energy per person. Most food groups (fruit and vegetables, meats and alternatives, and dairy products) were below recommended levels in the hampers, as were numerous vitamins and minerals. Grains and cereals met the lower range of Canada's Food Guide recommendations. Energy from fat and protein scarcely met the minimums recommended.
Many Canadians are under the impression that food banks are able to provide sufficiently for people in need. There is a growing body of evidence that this perception is erroneous. The authors recommend encouraging more perishable food donations and improved storage facilities at food banks; however, this recommendation does not address the larger issue of poverty in Canada.
Source: Irwin JD, Ng VK, Rush TJ, Nguyen C, He M. Can food banks sustain nutrient requirements? A case study in southwestern Ontario. Can J Public Health 2007;98(1):17-20.
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When a Web service receives a request, it executes a SQL statement (SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, etc.). To do this, it behaves as any other Virtual DataPort client: it connects to Virtual DataPort with certain credentials and executes a query equivalent to the request received. This query may fail if the user associated to these credentials is not granted the appropriate privileges.
getXXX: when invoked, the service executes a SELECT statement.
insertXXX: when invoked, the service executes an INSERT statement.
updateXXX: when invoked, the service executes an UPDATE statement.
deleteXXX: when invoked, the service executes a DELETE statement.
You can delete any of these operations if you do not want any client to perform them.
SELECT statements: when the service receives GET requests.
UPDATE statements: when the service receives PUT requests.
DELETE statements: when the service receives DELETE requests.
"Uses the credentials of the Web service": during the deployment of the Web service, the administrator selects a user, whose credentials will be used by the Web service to execute all the queries. In order for these queries to succeed, the selected user needs to have the right privileges to perform these queries.
The section Web Service Container Status Table will explain how the administrator selects a user for the service.
"Uses the Credentials of the Web Service's Clients": in order for these queries to succeed, the users that invoke the Web service need to have the right privileges to perform the queries that the service will execute on their behalf.
For example, if the user bruce invokes an operation of the service, the service connects to Virtual DataPort with the credentials provided by bruce in his request. The query may or may not be executed depending on the privileges assigned to bruce. If later, the user scott invokes the same operation of the service, the service will connect to Virtual DataPort with the credentials provided by scott.
A Web service is a JEE web application, which contains a web.xml file. When you deploy a Web service or generate its WAR, and the service uses one of the authentication methods of the column "Uses the credentials of the Web service", the user name and the encrypted password of the user selected during the deployment of the Web service are stored in the web.xml file. At runtime, the service uses these credentials to connect to Virtual DataPort and execute queries.
For the services that use one of these types of authentication, if you change the password of the user selected to deploy the Web service, you have to redeploy the Web service. Otherwise, all the invocations to this service will fail because the password send by the service will not be correct.


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Weirdo Noir: Gothic and Dark Lowbrow Art
Like a corpse in a zombie movie, the Goth movement has been resuscitated stronger, more powerful, and more contagious than ever before. From fashion to music, Goth influences have crept into every area of pop culture, and nowhere is that influence creepier, more fascinating, and more playful than in the art world. Weirdo Noir is the follow-up volume to Weirdo Deluxe, the book that brought the once underground Low Brow art scene to prominence in the public eye. In these pages you'll find the latest and greatest work from 30 Low Brow artists who have embraced the dark side, employing Gothic themes in their art. Spooky and witty, Weirdo Noir is destined to become a classic of the millennial Goth aesthetic.
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Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween
Every year, children and adults alike take to the streets dressed as witches, demons, animals, celebrities, and more. They carve pumpkins and play pranks, and the braver ones watch scary movies and go on ghost tours. There are parades, fireworks displays, cornfield mazes, and haunted houses—and, most important, copious amounts of bite-sized candy. The popularity of Halloween has spread around the globe to places as diverse as Russia, China, and Japan, but its association with death and the supernatural and its inevitable commercialization has made it one of our most misunderstood holidays. How did it become what it is today?
In Trick or Treat, Halloween aficionado Lisa Morton provides a thorough history of this spooky day. She begins by looking at how holidays like the Celtic Samhain, a Gaelic harvest festival, have blended with the British Guy Fawkes Day and the Catholic All Souls' Day to produce the modern Halloween, and she explains how the holiday was reborn in America, where costumes and trick-or-treat rituals have become new customs. Morton takes into account the influence of related but independent holidays, especially the Mexican Day of the Dead, as well as the explosion in popularity of haunted attractions and the impact of such events as 9/11 and the economic recession on the celebration today. Trick or Treat also examines the effect Halloween has had on popular culture through the literary works of Washington Irving and Ray Bradbury, films like Halloween and The Nightmare Before Christmas, and television shows such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and The Simpsons.
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The story style does not matter. It can be anything from a slasher type story (although we have to admit right up front, those are not our favorites) to a humorous tale or anything in between. But most importantly, it must be an entertaining horror short story. We must want to turn that page to see what happens next and how things end. Oh, and don't forget scary. That is, perhaps, the most important consideration. Scary, gruesome, macabre, gory, frightening, shocking dark and suspenseful--well, you get the idea.
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Since the company's founding in 2003, Baby Tattoo has published an eclectic collection of visual books by renowned contemporary artists including Coop, Gris Grimly, Seonna Hong, Michael Hussar, Travis Louie, Brian McCarty, Brandi Milne, Ragnar, Jeffery Scott (1019), Shag, and the artists of Sketch Theatre.
In 2007, Baby Tattoo founded Baby Tattooville, a secret society of artists and art collectors that convenes every October in Riverside, California.
From 2008 through present day, Baby Tattoo has curated a yearly, open-to-the-public exhibition in partnership with the Riverside Art Museum to coincide with the mysterious Baby Tattooville event.
Baby Tattoo is a worldwide sponsor of Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School, and hosts the Los Angeles branch of the alternative figure drawing phenomenon.
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One of the most devastating pandemics in human history, the Spanish flu was first observed at Fort Riley, Kansas, which was home to some of the tens of thousands of soldiers waiting to be deployed to Europe for combat in World War I. It came to be known as the Spanish flu after spreading to Spain, but its reach was global. Estimates vary, but at least 20 million people died from the pandemic. What was the only sizable, inhabited place in the world that had no documented outbreak?
Surrounded by barren plateaus and vast deserts on all sides, the towering Aïr Mountains of northern Niger are an ecological, geographical, and cultural island in the Sahara. The numerous oases in the mountains are home to the traditionally nomadic Tuareg people, while other areas consist entirely of volcanic protrusions. The region is known for the ancient rock art left there by early inhabitants and is rich in uranium deposits. What unusual natural phenomenon struck the Aïr Mountains in 2004?
Best known as the creator of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which began as a BBC radio series in 1978 and was thereafter adapted for a series of bestselling novels, a TV series, a record album, a computer game, and several stage productions, Douglas Adams was a talented writer and musician. Though his career was cut short by a fatal heart attack, he left behind a creative legacy that includes the "answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything." What is it?


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Q: How to have line numbering inside of page frame? When using lineno for linenumbering, the following code
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\usepackage[columnwise]{lineno}
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adds line numbers outside of the page frame, as shown below:

I need the line numbers to appear within the frame, to the left of the column (no switch option).
I've tried internallinenumbers, but since I'm using columns with content that will occupy both columns, an environment like parbox won't work.
I've also tried the adjmulticol package to resize the columns, but it moves the entire columns' contents over, not just the content with line numbering.
Any thoughts on a viable solution?

A: You need to do two things:

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*Adjust the margins of the numbered text. There are a number of ways to do this, but an easy one is the addmargin environment in KOMA-Script. (See the answers to this question for other possibilities.)

*Adjust the \linenumbersep length to pull the numbers over to where you want.
This answer uses a KOMA-Script class, but you can also get the same function from scrextend if you need a different document class.
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This exhibition features botanical artist Nancy Adam's exquisite watercolours and drawings, created over a 50-year period. Despite never having been exhibited, Nancy's watercolours and drawings are widely known due to the many botanical books that she has written and illustrated.
Yet, for the most part, the printed illustrations have never done justice to the vivid coloration of her watercolours, nor the exquisite delicacy and subtlety of her drawing. This exhibition is an opportunity to view Nancy's work in its original freshness.
Nancy became the first botanical artist for the Botany Division of the Department of Scientific Research in 1943. Since then, her contribution to botany in New Zealand has been frequently acknowledged during her career. She was awarded the Queen's Service Order in 1989 and a 1990 Commemorative Medal for services to New Zealand botany. Since her retirement in 1987, Nancy he has been an honorary research associate of the Museum of New Zealand.
The Botanical Drawings of Nancy Adams was curated by Fiona Hall.


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#ICYMI: Kids in cages and drowning in the Med, life's tough for the modern refugee
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Life on the road for your average refugee is just not all it's cracked up to be in today's globalized world. From children taken from their families, to being left to drown in the Mediterranean, the 'not welcome' signs are up.
Many of those fleeing warzones and poverty might argue that quite a lot of the trouble they're leaving behind is caused by the richer nations of the world dropping bombs and pillaging resources. Strangely, it's not an argument that wealthy countries are keen to accept when the poor and downtrodden reach their borders.
This week, ICYMI looks at the plight of the modern immigrant seeking refuge.
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Q: Get List of network SQL servers back I'm trying to figure out how to get back the list of SQL servers in my Visual Studios (2012, 2015) and even in MS SQL Server management studio... I've been searching for a solution but I'm lost. Is there any way to get these servers back? Everything is working properly, I can write server manually but I'm to lazy to ask my colleagues.
The SQL Server Browser service is running. There are no Windows updates to install and the computer has been rebooted many times.
Thank you for any advice.

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The SQL Server Browser service is running

Do you mean on your computer? You'll need it running on the machines you are trying to get to appear in the list.
It's a pretty standard dialog - assuming that it uses the same technology as SSMS, according to MSDN:

This dialog is populated by the SQL Server Browser service on the
  server computers. There are several reasons why the name of an
  instance might not appear in the list:

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*The SQL Server Browser service might not be running on the computer running SQL Server.

*UDP port 1434 might be blocked by a firewall.

*The HideInstance flag might be set.


At the Los Angeles Auto Show, Maserati took center stage presenting its complete MY 2015 range including the sportingly redefined Quattroporte GTS and sensational Alfieri 2+2 concept, which made its Los Angeles, California premiere and impressed audiences around the world. The highly praised Ghibli performance sedan and Centennial Edition GranTurismo MC coupe and convertible, also on show, continues for MY2015 after launching to tremendous success.
Now on sale, the 2015 Quattroporte range includes enhancements and added standard equipment for both S Q4 and GTS. The top range Quattroporte GTS, with 530 HP from its potent twin-turbo V8 powering the rear wheels – benefits from a sportier and aggressive appearance, heightening its dominance on the road while further differentiating its position at the very top of the range.
The 2015 Quattroporte S Q4 – with 410 HP, state-of-the-art twin-turbo V6 engine and standard all-wheel drive- the selection of options has been expanded to include three new paint finishes. Grigio(medium grey), Grigio Maratea (Dark Grey) and Bianco Alpi, a pearlescent white finish.
A wider selection of interior features is available including contrast stitching, red leather upholstery and Black Piano Lacquered trim. Wi-fi in vehicle hotspot also becomes standard on the Quattroporte range.
The GranTurismo MC Centennial Edition is powered by the 460 HP 4.7 liter naturally aspirated V8 engine that first appeared in the GranTurismo MC. Combined with a 6-speed automatic transmission, performance and balance is superb with a top speed of 185 mph, together with the assured stopping power of Brembo Dual-Cast brakes. In keeping with Maserati's philosophy, the new GranTurismo MC also capitalizes on the progress made by the previous model in terms of reduced fuel consumption and emissions.
Maserati is celebrating its 100th Anniversary all over the world in 2014 with special programs for clients and fans including the recently activated "Cento Anni di Maserati", a series of epic driving events in Washington, DC (November 1,2); Miami, FL (November 7); and Los Angeles, CA (November 22) to honor the occasion. Over 100 Maseratis will gather this coming Saturday, November 22nd on Santa Monica's famous pier for a commemorative parade to the Los Angeles auto show, providing clients special access to the Maserati stand.


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Christmas Choir Tour to the Netherlands 2018
The Choristers embarked on a festive tour to the Netherlands with the St John's College Choir before Christmas. At the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam the Choir performed an afternoon concert of Christmas favourites in one of the world's finest concert halls. The St John's Choir was accompanied by Herbert Howells Organ Scholar Glen Dempsey and two other Johnian musicians: cellist Laura van der Heijden and baritone Gareth John (a former choral scholar). The Choir also performed at TivoliVredenburg in Utrecht, Kathedraal St Bavo in Haarlem (along with the St Bavo Choir), Maria van Jesse Kerk in Delft and St Stevenskerk in Nijmegen.
The Choir's first stop was Amsterdam with a flurry of snow, ready for their inaugural concert at the Royal Concertgebouw on Museumplein square. The Royal Concertgebouw boasts unique acoustics and is the home base of the Dutch Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Mrs Jan Fletcher, a member of the Boarding House staff, commented, "The concert was a great success and the boys enjoyed performing in such a magnificent concert hall. We had a tram ride through Amsterdam with a stop off at a cafe for hot chocolate before heading off to perform live at the national TV studios."
In between rehearsals, the Choristers visited a cheese factory and a clog factory and watched how these iconic national shoes used to be handmade. They also discovered how Gouda and Edam cheeses are produced and had the chance to sample a few too. The enjoyed football in the snow, a boat trip and a visit to the 'Life in the Universe' exhibition at the NEMO Science Museum in Amsterdam. One Chorister enthused, "The tour was the best thing that had happened to me the whole time I have been in the Choir. We got to sing at so many different concert halls and, as well as the singing, we saw parts of the Netherlands too."
All Royal Concertgebouw photos courtesy of Ronald Knapp.
For more information about St John's College Choir visit their website, twitter or facebook page.


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Rebranding helps USCJ envision its future in a rapidly changing Jewish world
By Rabbi Steven Wernick
Click photo to download. Caption: Rabbi Steven Wernick, CEO of The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism (USCJ), speaks at USCJ's November 2015 convention in Chicago. Credit: USCJ.
(February 22, 2016 / JNS)
By Rabbi Steven Wernick/JNS.org
Rabbis Menken and Lerner, thank you. You're right. Conservative Jews do deserve more than PR. And more is exactly the point of The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism's (USCJ) current branding initiative. Unfortunately, as your op-ed published Sunday ("Conservative Jews deserve more than PR") demonstrates, you seem to understand little about branding or Conservative Judaism.
Branding is the way a person experiences the service or product of an organization or company. Public relations is the practice of spreading information between an individual and an organization. Our partner in the branding initiative is Good Omen—not a PR firm, but a brand consultancy firm. Rather than helping us orchestrate a "marketing blitz," Good Omen is assisting USCJ in understanding its position in a world that changes with every generation. The essence of Conservative Judaism is not at issue; the issue is envisioning USCJ's future in a rapidly changing generation of Jews.
I hope we can agree that Judaism is our people's tried and tested means to refine the human condition, to provide our diverse Jewish people with a framework for living a life of meaning and purpose, and to connect us to the Divine, to our world, and to each other.
Or as my friend and colleague Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson recently wrote in the Times of Israel, "We will win Jewish (and universal) allegiance if Judaism is robust, if Judaism augments human life, if people can thrive better because of the wisdom Judaism brings to our lives and our communities."
Like all streams of Judaism, we seek to foster that wisdom as well as the Jewish connections and communities that support it. In this rapidly changing world, we have been challenged to maintain our numbers, but quantitative measures are only one (and I would argue a weak) way to measure success.
The very same Pew Research Center study you quote also shows that those impacted by Conservative Jewish communities are more likely to be Jewishly educated; more likely to be committed to creating Jewish homes and raising their children Jewish by religion, to send them to Jewish camps and youth groups; more likely to give to Jewish causes; more likely to support Israel and to have visited it; and more likely to participate in Jewish rituals. With Pew's 1.26 million estimated Conservative Jews in the U.S. and another 750,000 around the world, that's 2 million highly engaged Jews!
Where we differ is that Conservative Judaism celebrates and finds its strength precisely in the diversity of Jewish wisdom and practice you denigrate. We believe that the Jewish people have thrived throughout history precisely because of their ability to welcome a wide range of ideas and the people who hold them—all of them—no matter their denomination or lack thereof.
This is, of course, not a new idea. The Talmud provides a parable lauding God's creative prowess: "To express the grandeur of the Holy One (Blessed be God): for a person strikes many coins from a single dye and all the coins are alike. But the Sovereign of Sovereigns…strikes every person from the dye of the First Person (HaAdam Genesis 1:26) and yet no one person is quite like another." (Mishnah Sanhedrin 4:5)
And this is just one example of the fundamental Jewish idea that pluralism is a positive value. Each human being, each Jewish person, each kehilla (community) is a piece of a larger picture that when held together makes us complete. Holding diverse opinions together is exactly what God demands of us.
The goal of our branding initiative is to help USCJ assure the alignment of its shared Jewish vision, strategy, people, and program. We provide guidance, information, and tools to enhance Jewish community and support meaningful Jewish connections, not just for Conservative Jews, but for all whose Jewish journey can be nurtured by our vision. The important work we are doing, and will shortly bring to the greater Jewish world, is a thoughtful, intelligent, and appropriate adaptation to the world in which we live.
Rabbi Steven Wernick is the CEO of The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism.


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7 Most Underrated Games of 2019
Chris Jecks
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So many games release in a year that it's pretty impossible to keep up with every single one. Knowing which ones are worth your cash can certainly help, but sometimes games just don't get the credit they deserve. Well, here are our picks for the most underrated games of 2019.
Tetris 99
Underrated Games of 2019
Before you all start screaming at us in the comments, at least hear us out on this one. Tetris is the puzzle game. The grandmaster flash of 'one more go' gameplay, and Tetris 99 basically gave it a big ol' fresh lick of paint to bring it into the current generation.
To do so, developer Arika basically turned the classic block-rotating puzzler into a battle royale title. Players face off against 98 others, with rows you clear being pushed over to other players. Last player standing is the winner.
On top of that, Tetris 99 also has a number of additional modes. There's an Endless mode for those just wanting to play Solo, and there's also Big Block DLC and plenty of Statistics you can track, too.
Tetris 99 is a perfect game for the Switch. Being able to play the classic puzzler on-the-go whenever you want is a god-send, and the added twist of the battle royale mode means you've always got a means of testing your skills against others.
Sadly, Tetris 99 won't get the love it deserves. Having only been available for Nintendo Online Membership owners to begin with, those not bothered about online play would have missed it altogether.
While it did get a physical, standalone release a few months back, it wasn't enough to reinvigorate attention in it. At least not the amount that a battle royale Tetris game deserves dammit!
Metro Exodus released all the way back in Feb, and since its initial positive reception, all the talk and love for it quickly dissipated as other massive announcements and AAA titles vowed for players' attention.
And so we find ourselves now, sadly having to put it on this list of underrated 2019 games. Metro Exodus is actually exceptional. It continues the story of Artyom and the rest of the survivors living in the ruins of the Moscow Metro, who must now flee them and travel across post-apocalyptic Russia.
Where the previous two games lacked any real world building, Metro Exodus blows the doors off it as we explore the surface. Open world areas allow for exploration and help to make the experience more immersive, but the combat and action is at its best when you're in dark, claustrophobic hallways filled with enemies.
That being said it's not perfect, with some average voice acting and the gunplay with automatic weapons feeling more finicky than fun. Take some time to get used to this, and endure the occasional cringey delivery of a line and there's plenty to enjoy here.
The fact that Metro Exodus has hardly got a mention in 2019 Game of the Year discussions is what leads to it making it onto this list.
We'd probably also give this a "Most Likely to be in the Bargain Bin" award, so if you do spot it on sale, grab it!
Yakuza developer Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio decided to take a slight side excursion before moving immediately onto the next title in its headline series.
The end result was Judgment, and if you speak to my co-worker, Yakuza superfan and Twinfinite Senior Editor Hayes Madsen, he'll tell you it was certainly worth it.
Adopting much of the same gameplay as the Yakuza series, Judgment tells a new story with a fresh cast of characters. It makes it the perfect game for newcomers to the Yakuza series to jump into, as there's no knowledge required to enjoy Detective Takayuki's story.
The city of Kamurocho is jam-packed with mini-games to complete, shops to restock your supplies, restaurants to eat at, and NPCs to chat with. Add on top its engaging third-person combat system that requires players to change between Crane and Tiger attacking styles, which continue to develop as you progress.
With a plethora of zany side content to act as the cherry on top of this generously-iced cake, Judgment is well worth experiencing for yourself. Just let this opening section from Hayes' review do the rest of the convincing:
"One minute in Judgment I'm investigating the scene of a grisly murder where a Yakuza has had his eyes gouged out, the next I'm pretending to be an actor who's pretending to be a vampire."
If that's not enough to convince you, I don't know what is. Go play this criminally underrated and underplayed game… now.
Void Bastards
Void Bastards is straight-up hilarious. Players take control of a Misfit Prisoner, tasked with acquiring a bunch of different items to escape the galaxy and be free once and for all.
To do so, you must board various ships, shoot lots of enemies, upgrade your gear, shoot some more enemies, get the item, and escape.
What makes Void Bastards' gameplay so darn good is the way in which it blends tight FPS gunplay with tactical strategic thinking. Each ship has different enemy types, layouts, and potential faults that will make navigating it and escaping alive more difficult.
Toss in hilarious writing and voice acting and Void Bastards quickly becomes one of the most enjoyable, short games you can play in 2019.
But that's not enough. Most players already knew Void Bastards was a great combination of FPS and strategy. It's the way in which upping the difficulty makes this far more tactical. You need to be strategic about your movement, conserve ammo, use the right weapons for certain enemy types, switch out character abilities for others, and so on.
Void Bastards is on Game Pass for Xbox One and PC. If you haven't already, just download it and give it a whirl.
SteamWorld Quest
The SteamWorld series has long been offering various takes on the RPG series. With SteamWorld Quest, players this time are thrown into a world where card-based battles are the order of the day.
It's down to you to build your deck, find powerful cards, beat enemies, and reign supreme in this beautiful steampunk-inspired world.
Boss battles are multi-layered and require thought-out strategies, but some of these do require the use of crafted cards that can take some of the fun away of developing your own strategy. Simply put, it won't always work.
The often overlooked and, frankly, underrated element of SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamesh has to be the vast deck-building potential it gives you. At the beginning of the game things start off simply enough, but as you expand your party, you'll unlock even more cards with even wilder abilities that allows you to tackle enemies in different ways.
What makes it all the better is that SteamWorld Quest can be wrapped up in about 15-20 hours, making it considerably shorter than most other RPGs. That's not a bad thing at all, though, as it never gets to the point of outstaying its welcome, and it's highly replayable thanks to the ton of cards and card combos you can utilise in your strategy.
Developer Spiders — the team behind titles like Bound by Flame and The Technomancer returned to our screens this year with GreedFall. This was a classic, old-school RPG that really honed in on world building and fully-realizing its characters.
While GreedFall certainly feels budget in some ways and its combat leaves a lot to be desired, it makes up for this with its excellent writing and quest design.
The story is great, following our protagonist as they explore a remote island teeming with magic, creatures, and of course, quests.
Quest design is something Spiders has clearly taken a lot of time with in GreedFall. Each one is long and complex and often dives into the characters they follow or involve under a microscope.
It gives you more of an insight into the world and that character's connection to their surroundings and the narrative. This makes quests feel like so much more than just doing a fetch quest for some random, inconsequential character you'll never see again.
What makes GreedFall stand out from the rest of the pack is the way in which it forces you to think about what your saying to NPCs. Each faction in the game has its own relationship with you and what you say to them will affect this.
Faction relationships change the story and ending, and companions can just leave you if you don't complete their quests and rub them the wrong way.
Ultimately, GreedFall takes a basic RPG foundation and then tries to fashion something new in its complex quests and relationships systems. If you're an RPG fan and missed out on GreedFall, go and right that wrong before the year ends.
On the surface, Outward doesn't look all that special. It's an open-world fantasy RPG in terms of gameplay, with the occasional survival mechanic tossed in for good measure. 'Neat,' you say, thinking of the 200 other games that are also open-world fantasy RPGs.
But what makes Outward truly stand out from the crowd is the ability to play its story mode in co-op. The entire thing can be played both online and split-screen, and that's something that few (if any) other open-world RPGs can offer.
Sure its survival mechanics can be incredibly brutal and take some time to get to grips with, but with delightful visuals, compelling Souls-like combat, and a spell-casting system that'll make you feel like some powerful mage, there's plenty of pros to balance out the con.
Outward will be overlooked by many this year as some average indie title. But if you're looking for a meaty co-op RPG to experience with a friend or loved one, this might be the best 2019 has to offer.
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Planning/
Derelict sites, Vacant sites and Zoned land tax
Legislation introduced under both the Planning & Development Acts, 2000 as amended and the Planning & Development Regulations, 2001 as amended, has put a greater onus on Planning Authorities while also giving them greater powers to take action against developments of an unauthorised nature.
Carrying out unauthorised development is an offence and anyone who has undertaken unauthorised development may be subject to enforcement proceedings. Enforcement is therefore the means by which the Planning Authority ensures that unauthorised development becomes compliant with planning law.
Enforcement proceedings can be taken where developments are not or have not been developed in accordance with the terms of the Planning Permission granted. Action can also be taken in respect of exempted development if such development does not comply with all the conditions and limitations attached to the mentioned class of exempted development.
One of the consequences of having unauthorised or non-compliant development is the costs of remedying such development from a planning viewpoint. Retention fees and Development Charges are due to Kilkenny County Council as a result of action taken under Enforcement. Problems also arise during the sale or transfer of property on which Enforcement action has been taken.
In certain circumstances the Planning Authority may decide that a complaint is frivolous or without substance. Upon receipt of a valid complaint the Planning Authority will investigate the matter which may include site inspection/s and follow-up enquiries together with issuing statutory notices.
If you wish to make a valid complaint regarding unauthorised development in your area, please complete the complaint form (see link below) in full and return either via email to planningenforcement@kilkennycoco.ie or via post to Planning Section, Kilkenny County Council, John Street, Kilkenny.
Please note that it is not the policy of Kilkenny County Council to investigate anonymous complaints.
Planning Enforcement Complaint Form .docx (size 41 KB)
For information on the Enforcement Procedure, please see the links below.
A Guide to Planning Enforcement in Ireland - DoECLG November 2012
Enforcement Frequently Asked Questions
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