Paris — France sold 6.58 billion euros ($9.5 billion) of arms into the world market last year, a 13 percent rise over the previous year, as orders for the A330 air tanker and helicopters fueled a boost in exports, a report to parliament showed Sept. 28.
The orders placed France fourth with a 7.7 percent share of the 2008 world arms market valued at 55 billion euros, Defense Ministry spokesman Laurent Teisseire told a news conference here.
The United States led with 52.3 percent of the world market, followed by Britain with 13.7 percent, and Russia 8.2 percent. Israel is the fifth-largest arms exporter with a 5 percent share.
"A year ago, the question was whether France would hold its position or slip to fifth," Teisseire said. The latest figures showed Paris was consolidating its rank as the fourth-largest arms exporter and stabilizing. "We're starting to climb back," he said.
Britain's position was mainly due to the sale of 72 Eurofighter Typhoon fighters to Saudi Arabia, while France has slid back as Paris has failed to clinch a large fighter deal since the late 1990s when the United Arab Emirates bought 32 Mirage 2000-9 aircraft.
Current export efforts to the gulf region include discussions with Saudi Arabia for three FREMM multimission frigates, a defense executive said.
Among them, West European countries accounted for 19.1 percent of world arms sales, highlighting the importance of harmonizing arms control procedures and the movement of defense goods within the European Union, Teisseire said.
The value of French arms 2008 deliveries totaled 3.17 billion euros so far, compared with 4.6 billion euros in the previous year.
France's medium-term objective is to reach annual sales of 10 billion euros and to equal Britain's record of exports.
Some 57 percent of French exports, worth 3.5 billion euros, came from the aeronautics sector, notably contracts for the A330 MultiRole tanker and transport aircraft to Australia, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, as well as orders for the EC725, NH90 and Tiger helicopters.
A breakdown of the sales figures showed France has reduced reliance on Middle East sales and was selling into South America and Asia, regions from which it has been largely absent for the last decade or so. Modernization and renovation also helped boost the figures, including avionics upgrade for Ukrainian helicopters, work on Kuwaiti patrol boats and Colombian frigates.
Reforms aimed at streamlining the administrative process helped the rise in exports, and some 3 percent of the exports came directly from small companies.
France, in the closing days of its European Union presidency last year, succeeded in transforming a code of conduct into a legally binding common position on arms sales. The eight criteria governing weapon exports included consideration of respect for international treaties, record of human rights in the prospective purchasing nation, its internal security situation, regional stability and the country's economic and technological capacity.
The annual report is intended to provide transparency on France's foreign arms sales.


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Sophy Drechsler was the daughter of John and Carolyn Sievert, one of the first families to settle in what is now River Forest. As she was growing up, the area was so sparsely settled that she was the only one in her graduating class at Harlem School. In 1895 she married Charles Drechsler, a young man determined to succeed in business.
At an early age, Drechsler had left his family's farm in Leyden Township and trained with J. W. Senne, an early undertaker in Forest Park and Oak Park. When he was only twenty-two years old, Drechsler bought out Senne and continued to operate the under taking and ambulance services. In addition, he managed a wide range of business ventures that included repairing and upholstering furniture, renting fireproof storage space, moving furniture, and eventually, selling Franklin automobiles.
In 1898, Drechsler commissioned the noted architect E. E. Roberts to design a four-story brick building, which still stands in Oak Park at 1116 Lake Street, just west of Marion Street. The building housed and advertised all his various business ventures, as shown in the drawing here After his death, Sophy Drechsler kept the funeral home operating and served as its bookkeeper until her son Earl completed school. She remained active in the family business until her own death.


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"A fantastic read for foodies and a luscious culinary reference."
From the same team that created Let's Eat France! comes this celebration of Italian food in the form of an oversized, obsessively complete, visual feast of a book. With a mix of gastronomy, food science, history, cultural references, legend, lore, charts, graphs, photos, and illustrations, every one of the 400 pages in Let's Eat Italy! is an alluring and amusing journey into Italian food.
Readers will find recipes for classic Italian dishes spanning all regions, like pappa al pomodoro, Bolognese, risi e bisi, risotto, focaccia, frittata, and so much more—all accompanied by photos and delightfully entertaining information on the origins and modern uses of the foods. There's an ode to the panettone, the traditional Christmas sweet delight. A dedication to the magic of basil, Italy's "royal" herb. A love story between pasta and potatoes that examines the many dishes that marry these two starches in delicious harmony. And, of course, pasta information aplenty; it's featured in guides like that on the ultimate noodle, spaghetti, which includes all the different forms, the top spaghetti artisans in Italy, and the semolina flour mills and farmers. True Italians speak espresso, so readers will delight in the poster-like graphic that depicts 27 different types of espresso drinks. Tips for the kitchen include cooking beans in a chianti bottle—a trick Tuscan nonnas have been using for ages in the dish known as fagioli al fiasco. Learn how contemporary food trends (like the oh-so-hip orange wine, which Italians have been drinking for nearly 8,000 years) trace their roots to Italy. But the influence of Italian food doesn't stop at the table—an entire spread looks at the Italian Mafia's favorite dishes as seen in Hollywood, through the lenses of Scorsese, Leone, and Coppola. Let's Eat Italy! is a splendid exploration of this beloved cuisine, from pizza to gelato, Milan to Sicily, and from the many kitchens of Italy to your own.
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This is a practical guide to programmable logic devices. It covers all devices related to PLD: PALs, PGAs, state machines, and microcontrollers. Usefulness is evaluated; support needed in order to effectively use the devices is discussed. All examples are based on real-world circuits.


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Q: How to make curl request hit server at exactly 12:00:00:000 I want to send a curl request that reaches the server exactly between 12:00:00:000 and 12:00:00:070 milliseconds.
I tried sending requests from 11:58:00 to 11:59:59 and measuring the TTFB (Time To First Byte).  Then running a linear regression on the TTFB array (I used milliseconds since Unix epoch as X-axis).
And then predicting when a request, if sent now, would hit the server and I would send it as soon as the prediction said so.
But I have a lot of errors using this method. I'm off by 200 milliseconds on average each time, It just looks quite random. Here's my log:
TTFB : 429.696  ERROR: 14.833935636827
TTFB : 402.189  ERROR: 42.721613882814
TTFB : 708.965  ERROR: -263.71603087697
TTFB : 885.601  ERROR: -439.85133800703
TTFB : 576.66  ERROR: -130.14028522262
TTFB : 3959.547  ERROR: -3512.2112723293
TTFB : 1804.399  ERROR: -1353.7299144077
TTFB : 1499.568  ERROR: -1044.7412000829
TTFB : 884.19  ERROR: -424.52168290527
TTFB : 577.796  ERROR: -113.20088165977
TTFB : 577.608  ERROR: -108.24005577003
Error is: prediction - actual TTFB
Does anyone a suggestions how I could achieve something like this?
Thanks in advance.
Edit:
forgot to mention this, It's a server with a lot of traffic coming in at exactly 12:00 every day, so I figured the traffic would be rising every second and TTFB would go up, that's why I'm using linear regression. I'm not sure if that's the best tool to use here though.

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A latrotoxin is a high-molecular mass neurotoxin found in the venom of spiders of the genus Latrodectus (widow spiders).
Geren Department of Chemistry C Biochemistry. alpha-Latrotoxin, the systemic neurotoxin isolated from the.
The effect of each different toxin is subtractive of AA reserves.
The neurotoxic spiders belong to the genus Latrodectus (button.
While the brown recluse has predominately skin necrosis effects, the black widow possesses a neurotoxin.
Black Widow Bites: Symptoms And Treatment. Black widow venom contains a number of neurotoxin proteins that have effects on insects.
Receptor propably implicated in the regulation of exocytosis.
A vertebrate neurotoxin, alpha-latrotoxin, from black widow spider venom causes synaptic vesicle exocytosis and neurotransmitter release from presynaptic nerve terminals.
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Presynaptic neurotoxin that induces exhaustive neurotransmitter release from vertebrate (but not invertebrate) nerve terminals and endocrine cells.Latrotoxins are the main active components of the venom and are responsible for the symptoms of latrodectism.
The best-studied latrotoxin is alpha-latrotoxin, which acts presynaptically to release neurotransmitters from sensory and motor neurons, as well as on endocrine cells.The effect of alpha-latrotoxin on identified monosynaptic peptidergic contacts between identified neurons from the brain of the snail Helix pomatia L. was studied. It.Alpha latrotoxin is a poisonous protein that targets the central nervous system by changing the structure and function of the nerve terminals.


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So, after some guilt feelings, I thought I will make chicken casserole with broccoli. And this dish did highlight the good side of broccoli for myself specially since my son eat it anyway. As you might guess by now, I am not a big fan of broccoli. So, I diced it so small and covered it with my happy flavors of chicken, bechamel sauce and cheese. It was YUMMY but It is heavy so going forward I will stick to steaming the broccoli for my son. Hope you enjoy this delicious recipe. It is nice to have a comforting heavy dish once in a while.
In the food processor, chop the onion to be very thin.
Mix the onion with salt, pepper, mustard, paprika, oregano, all spices, yogurt and lime juice. If you like spicy, add red chili pepper flakes to the mix.
Pour this mix on the chicken. Place in the fridge for at least 30 mins to marinate.
Bring a large pan to heat.
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This interview with Albert Fox Cahn, the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project's [S.T.O.P.] founder and executive director, fellow at the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy at N.Y.U. School of Law, was conducted and condensed by franknews.
frank | Tell us a bit about your work.
Albert Fox Cahn | I'm a lawyer, a technologist, and an activist. I founded S.T.O.P. in January of last year and launched it in March. It came out of the work I had been doing as the legal director of the Muslim civil rights group here in New York. I saw that while we had had many of these same privacy debates at the federal level for more than a decade without much movement, there were huge changes happening at the state and local level. The transformation of the surveillance capacity of local and state governments had been met without much local pushback, especially here in New York. So S.T.O.P. came together with an intersectional model to use litigation, education, advocacy, media engagement, and legislative work to turn New York from one of the most invasive surveillance states in the country to one of the most privacy protected.
We've only been around for a short time, but we've started to make a real impact by drafting legislation, class action lawsuits, research papers, open records requests and a variety of other matters. We are constantly highlighting the unique and the disproportionate impact of surveillance on historically over-policed communities, communities of color, and immigrant communities. This is not simply a problem that impacts us all equally. While surveillance may touch all of our lives, the impact it has on those historically marginalized communities is quite different.
How have we seen that play out historically?
We have repeatedly seen government agencies requesting deeply invasive information about the public in order to deal with the threat of the day.
In the eighties and nineties, surveillance was expanded mostly through undercover officers and human informants, to deal with the rise in crime. In the 2000s after 9/11, we had the shift to surveillance overwhelmingly targeting terrorism threats. And now, we see the focus shift to health data, as fighting the pandemic becomes the primary claim for necessity.
One of the lessons we have learned throughout history is that though only the high profile risks are cited when agencies ask for this data, it ends up being used in all sorts of other ways. A classic example is that a lot of the data collection that came from the reaction to 9/11 is now being weaponized to target undocumented communities and to help ICE deport Americans.
It definitely feels like the conversation around data privacy has shifted focus to health data. Do you feel like there's ever a necessary trade off between public health and the public's privacy?
Well, I think part of the question is whose health and whose privacy. I am quite worried that we are going to see dramatically expanded surveillance of communities of color or low income communities in order to promote, disproportionately, the health of more privileged communities.
Much of the surveillance that's being described, such as cell site location information, GPS data aggregation, other forms of location-based tracking, has not been proved to reduce the spread of COVID-19, or help promote social distancing. What we do know is that these same technologies have been used successfully for years as part of law enforcement and immigration enforcement.
The benefits are ambiguous, but the harms are quite concrete.
Of course, the risks and benefits vary based off of the specifics of the surveillance technology that we are talking about.
You mentioned a lack of evidence in New York about the benefits of expanded surveillance. But South Korea has a more proven concept. South Korea is sending out really granular alerts that include individuals name, sex, age, and records of movement. What do you take away from that?
I am really disturbed by the amount of information that gets shared in South Korea. In addition to the things you mentioned, they will also share the nationality and ethnicity of the individual. They will say it was a Polish individual. If you are in a community with only one Polish person or only two Polish people, then suddenly you have taken that data and made it quite identifiable. Location data in general is very difficult to anonymize, but in South Korea they have made it quite easy to go and use this to basically recreate someone's movement over an extended period of time.
What has made the South Korean model so effective, is something that we haven't been able to replicate here in the U.S., and that is access to quick, reliable testing. Unless people who are alerted to potential coronavirus exposure can get a test, the information is largely useless for fighting the disease. The data is not going to actually help reduce the spread of COVID-19 when people are getting information that they might have been exposed, but never have the ability to follow up on and get a test. That is the current reality for countless of us here in New York where we actively have to presume that we have been exposed to COVID-19 simply because of the number of people who have it and the inability to get tested.
Governor Cuomo has become very popular and has new legislative power to issue directives and make quick decisions to fight COVID. A lot of the people we're speaking to return to this thought about how deprived of competent leadership we are. How quick we are to label action as heroic. If people are already excited about Cuomo, already praising him, does his newfound public acceptance make this law more powerful?
Oh, it makes it incredibly dangerous. It makes it harder to stop the governor if he seeks to extend the emergency powers after the initial expiration date. I think because of the infuriating incompetence we have seen from the Whitehouse throughout this crisis, the bar for adequacy has been set quite low for state and local officials. Governor Cuomo can be better than the president in responding to this crisis, while still, by many measures, falling short of what we need at this moment.
The Governor and Mayor of New York continue to have lengthy political squabbles that only distract and detract from our response to COVID-19. We continue to see the Governor use these powers to promote issues outside the scope of the emergency response. We see the Governor strong-arm legislators to get through the budget and extend executive authority even further. We see the President claiming his power is absolute and claiming constitutional mandates outside of any reading of the U.S. Constitution.
As someone who has spent a good portion of my life studying the history of civil rights movements and governmental misconduct, I have to say that it's troubling that we are using such an anti-democratic response to this crisis.
Why do you think our response is anti-democratic?
I think in a crisis there is always a rally around the flag effect that gives broader support to executive leadership. The practical difficulties of meeting as a legislative body in a time of social distancing has given executives even more ground to frame the need to make these decisions as unilateral.
I also think it reflects in many ways the personalities of the leaders in charge. There are many governors across the country who have done an exemplary job responding to this crisis by working hand in hand with the legislature, not seeking additional emergency powers, using the tools they already had and using a decision making model that's inclusive of dissenting voices. Right now we see Governor Cuomo going down this path of really shutting out dissent, and I don't think that history shows there's a good track record for leaders who pursue unilateral decision making without contrasting views.
What role should technology play in the response to COVID?
I think there are a variety of technologies that have been indispensable in responding to this crisis. The same technologies that allow millions of us to work remotely, allow remote healthcare appointments for non COVID patients and those with mild symptoms. Those sorts of tele-health technologies have been hugely helpful.
I think there is potentially a space for computerized triage tools that use patient data to determine if someone should be prioritized for testing. But there have been a lot of privacy issues with the existing models. We should make clear that the companies offering these services and partnering with government agencies shouldn't be allowed to profit from a public service at times of crisis. If they want to provide triage tools to the public, then they shouldn't be able to sell that data to advertisers or sell it to third parties to monetize our data in all the other ways that our information is monetized.
"Americans should be wary of geeks bearing gifts", as you say.
Oh yeah. I was way too happy with myself over that one.
Apple and Google have a new app which allows for voluntary embedding of the app for contact tracing. France is calling for Apple and Google to actually ease their restrictions to allow them to make a sovereign app with the technology. How do you feel about it?
I am deeply alarmed by the proposed Apple Google partnership on a bluetooth API for contact tracing. I think this has the capacity to be a highly invasive system and I think that while the cryptographic approach they had outlined would have some privacy preserving features, it will be quite easy for institutional actors to effectively de-anonymize the Bluetooth beacon data so that when someone identifies a positive COVID-19 result, it will be easy to identify who that is.
I also think that there are huge issues with digital equity in such a system, given the fact that you simply don't have smartphone adoption rates among the highest risk communities, older adults in lower income brackets, that would allow the apps to actually be effective and to reach enough market share. I'm also really worried about these so-called "opt-in" features becoming compulsory if employers or schools or churches or other public spaces make use of these systems as a prerequisite to taking part in public life. I don't want a situation where you lose your job potentially as a janitor at a hospital or as a teacher because you refuse to run this on your phone.
You can see the prerequisite argument playing out. Is it inevitable for us to reopen?
I think it's a structural weakness for the system that's been described by Apple and Google. It is far from inevitable that their system will be deployed, but I think it is a real danger and I don't think there's anything in most states that would prevent companies from doing just that. With the idea of an antibody passport, I'm quite concerned as well because a lot of the antibody testing that's on the market doesn't have a high level of accuracy. Many of them have not been FDA approved.
Even if antibody testing were shown to be accurate and reliable, there's a lot of dangers about creating a system where we are incentivising low income Americans to get sick so they can get antibodies and they can get back to work.
I am quite concerned that we will roll out some sort of antibody passport tracking technology at the expense of continuing to provide the emergency relief that so many families need to get by.
You wrote we face the risk of surveillance turning state borders into "21st century iron curtains". Is that what you think will happen?
We have been down this road before to a degree in the 1930s. During the height of the great depression, states tried to block people from entering from neighboring states. The Supreme Court struck down that sort of barrier, and said the several states must sink or swim together, and that, in the long run, prosperity and salvation are in union, and not division. We cannot create internal borders against interstate movement. It's a right that they traced the original Constitution itself before even the Bill of Rights.
There is a lot of expertise in this field already. How do you put it to work?
I think part of it is passing these state laws to prevent abuse of this crisis. We were proud to partner with assembly member Dan Quart to introduce a new ban on geolocation data tracking for law enforcement purposes here in New York. The law makes sure that if New York goes down the path of getting public health officials via geolocation data, that it can't be used to put people in jail for unrelated criminal cases.
We need more state laws. We need more restrictions.
We need to fight back against the expansion of emergency powers and we need to come up with threats of litigation against anyone who exploits this moment towards their own act.
I think that may take the form of cease and desist notices against companies that are marketing COVID-19 detection apps that are really just ways to suck in and monetize our data.


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Date Aired: October 15, 2015
Time: 1 PM Eastern Time
Presenters: Pete Slease , Sarah E. McElwee , Justin Robbins , Madelyn Gengelbach , Erica Marois
Watch the webinar video below.
Newly released ICMI research uncovers a disconnect between customer expectations and contact center priorities. Is your contact center focused on what matters most? Join us as we share five facts your contact center doesn't know about customers.
Leading a contact center is more complex than it's ever been. Traditional methodologies, metrics, and mindsets are under scrutiny as business leaders examine their relevance to the modern customer. New channels have emerged, technology has evolved, and customer expectations have shifted. Most customer service professionals realize this, but how should the contact center react to the changing landscape?
The dynamics of this "new normal" present an incredible opportunity for contact centers to provide stellar customer experiences. The true challenge lies in understanding what customers really want and expect from service interactions.
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The contrast between what customers find important and what contact center leaders perceive as important to customers
Key customer expectations to consider when determining contact center priorities
The technology necessary for delivering seamless service
How contact centers today can excel at providing omnichannel service
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Pete Slease
Senior Director, CEB
Pete is a Senior Director with the Customer Contact Leadership Council of the Corporate Executive Board. In his role, Pete provides support to member executives identifying and applying insight to address their most critical customer-facing challenges. Pete provides advice for executives across a number of critical decision areas, including: strategy, planning, talent management, issue resolution, loyalty and channel management.
Pete joined the CEB in 2007 after spending nine years in a financial services contact center, ultimately leading the commercial & retail centers.
Pete received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Notre Dame and a Masters in Teaching from the University of Portland. Pete lives in Wilmington, Delaware.
Sarah E. McElwee
Vice President – Client Operations, KBM Group
Sarah joined KBM Group in February of 2011 and has 25 years of experience in call center operations including 4 years in data fulfillment and strategic sourcing. She is responsible for the strategic leadership of the BPO call center, data entry and fulfillment center as well as account leadership for two key KBMG clients. Prior to KBMG, she started her career as a credit management trainee with Sears and helped to launch one of the first consolidated national credit call centers in Dayton, Ohio. With the launch of the Discover Card in 1988, Sarah moved to the Merchant Services division, leading the call center teams supporting the business owners that accepted the Discover Card in their place of business. She continued with Discover Card, relocating to Salt Lake City and then Chicago, where she serviced Discover customers in both customer service needs as well as in the outbound Collections division. In 1999, she joined America Online as the General Manager for their 700 seat call center in Ogden, Utah supporting AOL members in sales, retention and technical support. Just prior to joining KBM Group, Sarah was the Vice President of Customer Service and Call Centers with H&R Block out of Kansas City where she was instrumental in establishing operational improvements and key performance metrics, driving improved customer service and satisfaction. From 2007 to 2010, she led the Northwest Division, supporting 1200 company and franchise owned retail outlets in eleven western states, driving innovative hiring strategies, talent management and revenue growth while improving margins through operational improvements.
Justin Robbins
Founder, JM Robbins & Associates
Today, Justin works with organizations to improve the impact of their performance management programs, drive more meaningful outcomes from their data, and align their customer service teams from the executive office to the front line. He is a frequent author of industry research, articles, and best practice content, and featured expert for media outlets including the New York Times, NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt, and Fox News. Learn more at www.jmrobbinsassociates.com
Madelyn Gengelbach
Vice President, Strategic Marketing, inContact
In her role as VP of Strategic Marketing at inContact, Madelyn is responsible for market intelligence, demand generation, channel development, product positioning and messaging. Prior to joining inContact, Madelyn worked for Fortune 50 firms to small startups, including Sprint, Hallmark Cards, and H&R Block. During that time she's worked in Marketing, Product, Sales, and Operations. Madelyn has worked in and managed teams in blended call centers at Hallmark and Sprint.
Erica Marois
Content Marketing Specialist, 8x8
A passionate connector of people, Erica Marois is a customer and employee experience enthusiast who loves helping others find unique solutions to their biggest challenges. She has 12+ years of experience in content creation and community building and volunteers as a facilitator for CX Accelerator. A content marketing specialist with 8x8, Erica works from home in Richmond, VA, where she lives with her husband and their lab-mix, Quinn. Outside of work, she loves cooking, traveling, and reading.
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Anyone know what CSG is?
Hope Kayo's having fun where ever she is.
CSG can be several things, Serena.
Oops, took Vici's number , well that one was for you, Vici!!!
Now on to my fav number!
And now for a CP! Going for a run so see you later!
Whoa! Looks like Shosho just blasted in and out!
I find it amusing that shosho stops by here before going for her morning runs. She definitely has her priorities worked out.
I just noticed that all the posts so far are by 'S' names. I definitely need to get out more.
CSG = Coal Stream Gas, ie fracking. Causing a bit of an uproar here for obvious reasons.
Maybe CSG is the coal seam gas industry with similar controversies surrounding our oil fracking industry?
I googled CSG but by the time I got back the problem had been solved. That's called crowdsourcing and it works wonderfully for solving all the world's problems.
Our town refused to sell water to the companies for that purpose.
It is a beautiful morning in this part of Texas!
How true, DotCom - this is a pretty knowledgeable group on MANY subjects.
Waiting on a young lady to show up to make up a test.
Why would I think she would get here early on Monday morning?
What could be better than math first thing Monday morning? No sarcasm implied.
Thanks for the CSG answers. I could of googled it myself or went to the website in the picture, but I figured asking here would work just as well.
I totally agree, Serena - but it is sort of early to remember you have to make a test up. I told her I would be here IF she got in - she will probably stay after school.
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Thank you Gath or whoever just did that but the ad suddenly disappeared and the word 'problems' went back to normal. WOW that was quick.
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Rita Houston with Joni Mitchell (photo courtesy of Rita Houston, taken at "CBS This Morning" in January 1996)
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Writing about Joni Mitchell involves having to think about this world without her in it. Sure, she hasn't written a new song or played a show in years, and certainly hasn't had a positive thing to say about her life in the music industry. But still, she set the bar. She is the bar.
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The Themes Addon will see two new themes come out in the next update that will continue to enhance and make your sliders look better than the competition.
The Captions Addon is on its way!
Finally, I have begun working on the Captions Addon. In the Captions Addon, you will be given the ability to animate elements in your caption. I am working on the API for it so that it will be easy to use. I know lots of folks will be excited about this one!
I will be making some much needed documentation updates. The first of which will be the CSS styling guide and then some other needed documentation pieces, including a few video tutorials. This will be beneficial to everyone, so keep on the lookout for those updates.
As always, I wish you the best in your web endeavors and am grateful that you would choose Soliloquy as your WordPress slider plugin of choice. Enjoy the sale, look out for the updates and tell all your friends too!
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The aorta carries blood from the heart to the vessels that supply the body with blood. If part of the aorta is narrowed, it is hard for blood to pass through the artery. This is called coarctation of the aorta. It is a type of birth defect.
The exact cause of coarctation of the aorta is unknown. It results from abnormalities in development of the aorta prior to birth.
Aortic coarctation is more common in people with certain genetic disorders, such as Turner syndrome.
Turner syndrome is a rare genetic condition in which a female does not have the usual pair of X chromosomes.
Aortic coarctation is one of the more common heart conditions that are present at birth (congenital heart defects). This abnormality accounts for about 5% of all congenital heart defects. It is most often diagnosed in children or adults under age 40.
People who have this problem with their aorta may also have a weak area in the wall of blood vessels in their brain. This weakness causes the blood vessel to bulge or balloon out. This is known as a berry aneurysm. It can increase the risk for stroke.
Symptoms depend on how much blood can flow through the artery. Other heart defects may also play a role.
About half of newborns with this problem will have symptoms in the first few days of life. These can include breathing fast, problems eating, increased irritability, and increased sleepiness or becoming poorly responsive. In severe cases, the infant may develop heart failure and shock.
A nosebleed is loss of blood from the tissue lining the nose. Bleeding most often occurs in one nostril only.
There may also be no symptoms.
The health care provider will perform a physical exam and check the blood pressure and pulse in the arms and legs.
The pulse in the groin (femoral) area or feet will be weaker than the pulse in the arms or neck (carotid). Sometimes, the femoral pulse may not be felt at all.
The blood pressure in the legs is usually weaker than in the arms. Blood pressure is usually higher in the arms after infancy.
The provider will use a stethoscope to listen to the heart and check for murmurs. People with aortic coarctation often have a harsh-sounding murmur that can be heard underneath the left collar bone or from the back. Other types of murmurs may also be present.
Coarctation is often discovered during a newborn's first exam or a well-baby exam. Taking the pulse in an infant is an important part of the exam, because there may not be any other symptoms until the child is older.
Both Doppler ultrasound and cardiac catheterization can be used to see if there are any differences in blood pressure in different areas of the aorta.
Most newborns with symptoms will have surgery either right after birth or soon afterward. They will first receive medicines to stabilize them.
Children who are diagnosed when they are older will also need surgery. In most cases, the symptoms are not as severe, so more time can be taken to plan for surgery.
During surgery, the narrowed part of the aorta will be removed or opened.
If the problem area is small, the two free ends of the aorta may be reconnected. This is called an end-to-end anastomosis.
If a large part of the aorta is removed, a graft or one of the patient's own arteries may be used to fill the gap. The graft may be man-made or from a cadaver.
Sometimes, doctors will try to stretch open the narrowed part of the aorta by using a balloon that is widened inside the blood vessel. This type of procedure is called a balloon angioplasty. It may be done instead of surgery, but it has a higher rate of failure.
Older children usually need medicines to treat high blood pressure after surgery. Some will need lifelong treatment for this problem.
Coarctation of the aorta can be cured with surgery. Symptoms quickly get better after surgery.
However, there is an increased risk for death due to heart problems among those who have had their aorta repaired. Lifelong follow-up with a cardiologist is encouraged.
Without treatment, most people die before age 40. For this reason, doctors most often recommend that the person has surgery before age 10. Most of the time, surgery to fix the coarctation is done during infancy.
Narrowing or coarctation of the artery can return after surgery. This is more likely in people who had surgery as a newborn.
There is no known way to prevent this disorder. However, being aware of your risk may lead to early diagnosis and treatment.
Coarctation of the aorta is a birth defect in which the aorta, the major artery from the heart, is narrowed. The narrowing results in high blood pressure before the point of coarctation and low blood pressure beyond the point of coarctation. Most commonly, coarctation is located so that there is high blood pressure in the upper body and arms and low blood pressure in the lower body and legs. Symptoms can include localized hypertension, cold feet or legs, decreased exercise performance, and heart failure.


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Dragon Ladies and Girls Next Door
Written by: Heather Stur
Images of Women in the Vietnam War
Heathur Stur discusses the ways women were portrayed and understood during the Vietnam War.
Early on in my research for Beyond Combat: Women and Gender in the Vietnam War Era, I stumbled upon a photograph in the October 26, 1962 issue of Life that both stopped me in my tracks and started the thought process that would eventually formulate the core argument of the book. It was a picture of Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu, the sister-in-law of Ngo Dinh Diem, who at that time was the president of South Vietnam and America's ally. The photo captured the ways in which U.S. policymakers talked about Vietnam—the dragon lady, a dangerous yet alluring feminized nation that needed the United States to keep it in check and guide it to democracy. Madame Nhu thus became my starting point. If she, cast as a dragon lady, symbolized Vietnam in the minds of American political and military leaders, what images represented other aspects of the U.S. relationship with Vietnam? How did Americans view themselves and the U.S. mission in the world? As American diplomatic endeavors gave way to war, what images informed the opinions of U.S. troops about the conflict? What could these images tell us about the Vietnam War, an event which in many ways remains unresolved in American culture?
I soon discovered that the dragon lady image was pervasive, showing up not only in policymakers' conversations but in soldier folklore as well. I found images such as this image in comic books and collections of humor aimed at and produced by servicemen. The hypersexualized Vietnamese woman symbolized both the political danger of U.S. intervention and the personal hazards individual GIs potentially faced when buying the services of a prostitute. GI myths about dangerous prostitutes warned of numerous risks, from venereal diseases to broken glass strategically placed in a woman's vagina in order to maim an unsuspecting customer. In extreme cases, these images and legends had the unfortunate consequence of justifying violence against Vietnamese women by American troops.
If, in the culture of the Vietnam War, Vietnamese women represented all that was both tempting and risky about Vietnam, American women symbolized what the U.S. was fighting for. Embodied in the image of the "girl next door"—white, middle class, and pure—was the way of life the United States had committed itself to defending against communism and a host of associated fears, including homosexuality, racial strife, the collapse of the nuclear family, and the disintegration of capitalist prosperity. The women who most directly fit the girl next door persona were members of the Red Cross Supplemental Recreational Activities Overseas (SRAO) program, which sent young, single college graduates to Vietnam for one-year tours as morale boosters for U.S. combat troops. Training materials instructed SRAO volunteers to present themselves as reminders of girlfriends, wives, and sisters waiting back home. As one SRAO member put it, they were to be "nonsexual symbols of purity and goodness." In reality, however, SRAO women often found the war zone thick with sexual tension, and some GIs viewed them as teases rather than morale boosters. Taken together, the images of the dragon lady and the girl next door illustrate the centrality of ideas about women and gender to the culture of the Vietnam War.
About the Author: Heather Stur
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Miha Zarabec (Novo Mesto, 12 de octubre de 1991) es un jugador de balonmano esloveno que juega como central en el THW Kiel de la Bundesliga. Debutó con la Selección de balonmano de Eslovenia en 2015.

Con la selección ha ganado la medalla de bronce en el Campeonato Mundial de Balonmano Masculino de 2017.

Es un central caracterizado por su baja estatura (1,77) y por la calidad que desplega en su forma de jugar.

Palmarés

Celje

 Liga de balonmano de Eslovenia (3): 2015, 2016, 2017
 Copa de Eslovenia de balonmano (3): 2015, 2016, 2017

Kiel

 Copa de Alemania de balonmano (2): 2019, 2022
 Copa EHF (1): 2019
 Liga de Alemania de balonmano (2): 2020, 2021
 Liga de Campeones de la EHF (1): 2020

Clubes

  RK Trimo Trebnje (2008-2012)
  RK Maribor Branik (2012-2014)
  RK Celje (2014-2017)
  THW Kiel (2017- )

Referencias

Nacidos en Novo Mesto
Balonmanistas de Eslovenia
Balonmanistas del RK Celje

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Written by Kyle Weaver in the Editor's Letter category and the Fall 2020 issue	Topics in this article: advertising, boxing, chicken and waffles, Community Initiative Awards, Fighter's Heaven, food and foodways, George M. Hart, Hershey, Hershey Company, historic preservation, Milton S. Hershey, Muhammad Ali, Pennsylvania Heritage, Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office, Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania, railroads, Schuylkill County
In 2016 the Pennsylvania State Historic Preservation Office (PA SHPO) presented its first Community Initiative Awards to recognize organizations, agencies, municipalities and individuals throughout the commonwealth for their historic preservation successes. The program has become a key component of PA SHPO's statewide historic preservation plan, #PreservationHappensHere, encouraging Pennsylvanians to discover, share and celebrate historic places in their communities. The past year's four recipients were Lazaretto, the site of the first quarantine hospital in the Western Hemisphere, repurposed for municipal use, in Tinicum Township, Delaware County; the Mahoning Drive-In Theater, restored for classic screenings, in Lehighton, Carbon County; Roxian Theatre, rehabilitated as a public entertainment venue, in McKees Rocks, Allegheny County; and Fighter's Heaven, the training camp of heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali, recently restored as a historic site, near Orwigsburg, Schuylkill County.
The latter awardee is the subject of this edition's cover story ("Fighter's Heaven"). The world-renowned Ali lived at the rustic complex of log cabins he had built in the Pennsylvania wilderness, training there between 1972 and 1981 to escape the distractions of the professional boxing world. Regular Pennsylvania Heritage contributor Todd M. Mealy takes us into the camp — with the accompaniment of both historic and present-day photographs by Jeff Julian — recounting Ali's intense preparation in the log gym and surrounding forest for his most phenomenal matches — including Rumble in the Jungle, the 1974 World Heavyweight Championship bout in Zaire with George Foreman, and the 1975 Thrilla in Manilla with Joe Frazier — as well as activities at the site as Ali hosted celebrities and media figures and invited young, up-and-coming fighters to spar with him at his boxer's dreamland. A sidebar in the feature covers the restoration and preservation of Fighter's Heaven as a historic site and destination.
The preservation impulse is also at the heart of "Gallantly Saving Railroad History," focusing on the individual who was the catalyst for the development of the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania, the world-class PHMC Trails of History site in Strasburg that showcases and interprets the commonwealth's leading role in the railroad industry through exhibits of preserved rolling stock and railroad artifacts, a restoration shop, and education and research centers. Archivist Kurt R. Bell narrates the story of free-spirited founding director George M. Hart and his lifelong pursuit of documenting, preserving and sharing railroad history — through statewide photography jaunts and tourist railroad rambles in classic engines — leading to his work in assembling the amazing collection of the Railroad Museum in the 1970s.
History is also preserved in the foods we eat, and Pennsylvania has a rich and diverse culinary heritage, emerging from its many ethnic traditions and its abundance of agricultural resources. William Woys Weaver has been tracing the commonwealth's food history for more than 40 years in books and articles and occasionally in the pages of this magazine. In "Chicken and Waffles," he explores the Pennsylvania origins of the combo dish through menus and other ephemera, following its evolution from a Dutch Country farmhouse staple to hotel-and-tavern tourist fare, through its eventual rise to national popularity in the mid-20th century.
Hershey's Chocolate is a confectionary brand that has become synonymous with Pennsylvania. Seventy-five years ago, on October 13, 1945, company founder Milton S. Hershey died, leaving an "empire" that remains one of the leading producers of chocolate in the world. But it was more than just a quality product that led to Hershey's rapid success. In "Sure to Attract Much Attention," historian James D. McMahon Jr. examines the marketing acumen of the founder, showing his ability to follow popular trends as a way of captivating consumers, through early exotic packaging, slogans that touted nutritional values, collectible postcard candy-bar inserts, promotional films, and product placement in motion pictures.
We are pleased to be able to continue our work in preserving history with another edition of Pennsylvania Heritage produced through the miracle of teleworking as we navigate the challenges of another quarter of the COVID-19 pandemic. After reading this issue, be sure to visit our online archive of past editions at paheritagemagazine.com to supplement your armchair explorations of the commonwealth's rich and diverse history.
Kyle R. Weaver


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How Will You Create Your Wedding Invitations?
There are so many ways for you to create your wedding invitations or other wedding papers such as Save the Dates or ceremony programs.
You can order them online and design your items there.
You can also go to one of the many retail locations for invitations and wedding papers and have an in-house designer help you create your invitations or other items.
If you have the DIY talent and desire, you can create these yourself from scratch.
How you go about this depends on a few variables.
If you are crafty and have the motivation and the time to make your own, this can be very satisfying and rewarding. This direction has personalization and customization written all over it. However if you run screaming when some one mentions crafting and you have nightmares about using a glue gun or a decorative paper punch, this might not be the best way for you.
Designing and ordering online has its benefits and its pitfalls. Where you go matters. Customer service, ability to customize and the number of options vary from company to company. You may have to proofread your invitation online and not get to see, touch or feel the quality of the paper in person until your full order arrives. Some online companies will send you samples or proofs via snail mail. However this method is very convenient and usually less expensive than going to a printer who specializes in wedding invitations and wedding papers. There are some really great companies online if you chose this method.
You can go to a craft store (i.e., Michael's, Joann's, Hobby Lobby) and buy the boxes of pre-made invitations and, using their templates, print your own invitations. This might be for you if you are not looking for something very unique or customized. One drawback here: your at home printer may or may not be able to "process" the paper if it has a raised border or design on it. You may want to buy one box first to be sure your printer can handle the invitation first. Otherwise this seemingly cost effective method might get expensive fast and also it is labor intensive for you to print your own.
Going to a wedding invitation designer is frequently more expensive than all of the above methods. But if you are a person who wants to actually touch the different types and thicknesses of the papers, this way might be for you. The designers I know will show you all different types of qualities of papers as well as embellishments and a huge variety of fonts and font colors. The designer will walk you through every step by your side in person. If you appreciative this in person experience, this is the best way for you.
So think about what best fits you and stay tuned for a few related posts to come.
Let me know what you think about this post in the comment area below.


Goodbye Victoria's Secret Catalog. Hello ESPN Magazine Body Issue.
When you think of any magazine's "body" issue, a variety of things likely come to mind.
Perhaps it's Kate Upton's 2012 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition cover, with her teeny-tiny brown and red string bikini bottom, which appeared to be two pieces of double-sided tape away from exposing her unmentionables.
Or the (formerly) reliable Victoria's Secret catalog that showed up in your mailbox 22 times per year; every issue a lesson in the 'perfection' and mascot-sexiness of female anatomy.
Or maybe it's Cristiano Ronaldo's supposedly-body-of-God GQ Body Issue cover, a showcase of six pack standards and soccer figure ideal.
Whatever first comes to mind for you is likely similar to the examples above, and one of many body-perfect media examples—over the course of your lifetime—engrained in your psyche. Countless magazine spreads, issues and programming represent relatively homogenous body types while most advertising has empowered small-framed slim females with gorgeous hair and tall muscle-set men with untouchable confidence to remain the exemplary human form.
Take a look at the images presented in this Body Issue against those in most other media platforms. What you may find is that these images—these bodies—are diverse and a testament to the fact that healthy and athletic does not always mean skinny / six-pack. The pictures not only represent a larger group of people but they also show those reading that the bodies of success and perfection are all different and all…equally amazing.
What's equally incredible is the fact that almost every Athlete appearing in this year's issue voices their own insecurities and apprehensions, a true feat of strength and step toward much-desired relatability that is so often neglected throughout media and advertising.
Who could have guessed that Dwayne Wade, former Miami Heat star, was self-conscious about certain parts of his body? Enough so that he refused to walk around without a shirt, even in his own house and around his wife, until about four years ago. He's real.
And who would have ever known that Claressa Shields, 165 pound Olympic-bound boxer, would have time to even worry about whether her nose was "pretty big" or not? "For a long time, I thought my nose was pretty big," Shields told ESPN. "But now I think I'm very beautiful, even though my lips are big too, but whatever, I don't care." Wow. She's real.
It's a movement toward vulnerability, a celebration of differences and look at the real human experience that makes ESPN the game-changer here. They're shifting body norms and causing a stir in the typical 'model' body pot we have all grown so accustomed to seeing. Perhaps that's why the popularity of this Issue continues to grow so far past the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition, or why Victoria's Secret is on the verge of some major brand and image changes. Consumer behavior shows a strong shift in the need for realness and anti-photoshop, #nomakeup movements are on the rise. With no signs of stopping.
Wherever you stand on this issue, it's worth a little thought. Whether it's for you personally or you and your business. Advertising and media will change in the coming years to showcase the real, the authentic and the TRUE human experience (we're already seeing a strong call for Authenticity) and it's a smart idea to get ahead of the game. Take a cue from ESPN and go bold, be unafraid to go against the norm in your ad imagery and toss out the dated standards of perfection. Because it's all about perfect imperfection now.


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Q: Why does automatic scaling behave as it does in Plot? The following command
Plot[Exp[-(x^2)], {x, -5, 5}]

draws

while the following command
Plot[Exp[-2 (x^2)], {x, -5, 5}]

draws

I.e. the scale is changing which seems unexpected.

A: Your problem arises from having chosen such a broad x range in your second case. If want to focus on the peak, plot a narrower range around it. For example
Plot[Exp[-2 (x^2)], {x, -3, 3}]