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Grafana is the leading open source software for time series analytics. Their promise is that no matter where your data is, or what kind of database it lives in, you can bring it together with Grafana. Beautifully.
Grafana's commitment to the community shows in everything it does.
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The Business of Democratizing Metrics
Some startup companies toil away invisibly for years. Though their products often have mission-critical value for users, they may be so far behind the scenes that they never get the glory.
That's not the case for Grafana, an open source software project for visualizing and analyzing metrics. And given what the platform does and how it looks, it's easy to see why it has taken the spotlight in this data-driven world.
"It's such a visual and appealing way to present data, and you can get at-a-glance insight from it," says Torkel Ödegaard, the creator and lead developer of Grafana, and co-founder of Grafana Labs. "Once a couple of people within a company start using it, they put the dashboards up on a TV or big screen, and people who walk by become intrigued by it."
The Grafana dashboards have become so recognizable, in fact, that during the first Falcon 9 rocket launch last year, they were easy to spot, displayed on a screen at Space X's control center. "I couldn't believe it at first," says Ödegaard. "But zoom in and you can see it." And then a few weeks later, he adds, "There was a promotional video from Microsoft showing off their underwater data centers. And there were a couple of people standing around pointing at a Grafana dashboard."
Solving a Basic Need
That's the beauty of open source projects like Grafana, which anyone—from the hobbyist and hacker to the Microsofts of the world—can pick up and experiment with. Grafana now boasts 100,000 active installations, but the project started in 2013 as Ödegaard's attempt to scratch his own itch. "As a consultant in Sweden, I felt a lack of insight into the applications that we were writing, the behavior in production, where the bottlenecks were, and what sort of usage we were doing," he says.
He started using a popular open source database, Graphite, but found its user interface lacking. Then, he discovered Kibana, which visualizes Elasticsearch logs, and was inspired by its user interface. "I started Grafana to do something similar as Kibana, but focused on time series metrics. My goal was to make time series data accessible for a wider audience, to make it easier to build dashboards, to make graphs and dashboards more interactive," he says.
And, importantly, more beautiful. "In the open-source world in particular, it's unfortunate that few projects get to spend enough effort on design or user experience," says Grafana Labs co-founder and CEO Raj Dutt. "From the first version, Torkel has put a lot of effort and care into the user experience, and how it looks and flows"
That combination led to Grafana going viral within the monitoring and metrics community. And with its system of plugins, which allows users to hook just about any kind of data source into Grafana, the project has become the 'de facto' standard for visualizing metrics.
Building an Open Source Business
Meanwhile, Dutt and Anthony Woods were looking to build a business together in the monitoring space. They both loved the Grafana Project, and in 2014 reached out to Ödegaard and asked him to come to New York City for a weeklong consulting gig. After that quick visit, the three decided to co-found a new business, Grafana Labs (originally raintank), dedicated to accelerating the Grafana Project.
"We just got along so well," says Woods, who is a co-founder and CTO of Grafana Labs. Plus, Ödegaard had just left a consulting gig in order to work on the Grafana project full-time, and was thinking about how to make the project sustainable; Woods remarked: "It was definitely good timing."
For Dutt and Woods, the fact that Grafana was open source was critical. "A lot of times, open source projects are acquired or strategically merged and basically the acquiring company closes it off or makes it a more proprietary thing," says Dutt. "One of the fundamental tenets of Grafana Labs is we believe open source is a better way." Adds Woods: "We want to provide quality open source software for the community to leverage and use; that's part of our core strategy."
Grafana v.2.0 was released by the newly-formed Grafana Labs in the summer of 2015. "There's just been ever-increasing popularity," says Ödegaard. "New startups and established enterprise companies alike depend on Grafana, and we're always impressed by the huge variety of use cases people find for it."
This variety is made possible because the platform is essentially agnostic about what data is displayed. Aside from the typical application metrics and infrastructure monitoring, Grafana is used for scientific purposes, for industrial and agricultural sensors, and energy management. One user even created a dashboard to show the wait times at hospital emergency rooms in Japan.
We run a mission critical service, and it's really important for us to have a really reliable and consistent platform with great performance, that can scale with our customers growth
Raj Dutt | Co-founder and CEO of Grafana Labs
And increasingly, and importantly for Grafana Labs, it's being used by big enterprises. "We often first hear from large users after they've deployed and started using Grafana. They already have an internal advocate. There's very little sales process at that stage, says Dutt. "They've checked it out, they like the fact that it's open, that it's powerful yet easy to use and looks great, and that it works with all their different data sources. And then it becomes a question of, 'Now we're depending on this software we downloaded, and we want to get the most out of it. We want it to fit better, we want to de-risk it, and we want support for it.' And so open source model gives us the ultimate distribution channel"
'Open SaaS'
To that end, Grafana now sells two products: subscriptions for users who want to run Grafana themselves, and GrafanaCloud, an enterprise-level, SaaS version.
"When you look at the monitoring landscape, you've got all the open source players, and on the commercial side you've got all these new SaaS players," says Dutt. "We think there's a third choice, which offers the convenience of SaaS—you sign up, and if you pay your bill, it just works for however much data you send it—with the flexibility of open source. All our software is open source so there's no lock-in. You own your own data. You can combine other data sources with the platform. It's the best of both open source and SaaS. We call it Open SaaS."
Specifically, GrafanaCloud solves a challenge that many users have with storing all their metrics: volume.
"Five years ago, people would measure every 5 minutes; now people want it every 10 seconds," says Woods. "People used to measure maybe a handful of metrics per server; now people are collecting hundreds of different metrics per server. Also, with cloud computing there's a lot of dynamic infrastructure—virtual machines come and go all the time. We provide a hosted metrics platform, and people can send us the metrics and we handle the rest. It integrates directly with Grafana, which people are familiar with and has a great user experience. So we solve the complexity of scaling the infrastructure."
Operating this back end for customers made their infrastructure choices crucial. "Since launching Grafana Cloud, we've grown to thousands of hosted Grafana instances running on thousands of containers," says Dutt. "We run a mission critical service, and it's really important for us to have a really reliable and consistent platform with great performance, that can scale with our customers growth"
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GrafanaCloud operates across different clouds, between Google, Amazon and Packet, depending on users' needs. It can deploy its service across multiple vendors for maximum reliability. "Our preference is to expand across Packet because of the quality and performance of their platform" says Dutt.
"It's about having the performance and the consistency of bare metal, and knowing exactly what we're getting down to the exact CPU in the machine. We're building really large Cassandra and Kubernetes clusters so the Type 2s just give tremendous storage and memory capabilities." Adds Woods: "The heavier the workload, the more Packet shines."
Packet's geographic expansion has been beneficial, too. "Our customers are all around the world and the location of their cloud setup is important," says Dutt. "We started with Packet in New York and recently launched GrafanaCloud with Packet in San Jose. As Packet expands its footprint in Europe, we anticipate expanding as well."
Democratizing Metrics
Grafana 5.0 will be coming out later this year, with several major new features. The project is seeing most new features and fixes come from external power users in the community. The Grafana Labs team recently collaborated with WalMart Labs to develop a dashboard versioning history feature, released this month. "These companies are so aligned with the Grafana Project that they assign resources to help us make the open source project better, far faster than we could do it alone."
There are also more plugins coming for Grafana. "We have an ever-expanding catalog on Grafana.com of integrations and dashboards that, whatever you're doing—whether you're monitoring MySQL or MongoDB or a Linux server or your home thermometer—there are easy ways to get started and get data into our platform," says Dutt. "There's a tremendous opportunity just going wide with that in terms of plugging into the ecosystem."
It's all part of one of the company's main tenets: Democratize metrics. "It means making software easy to use, but it also means owning your data, and bringing data from wherever you need to," says Dutt. "We really think that this stuff shouldn't be left to the data scientists or the developers. If you're in the marketing department and you understand what your metrics are, and how they're related, you should be able to create an awesome visualization for your team. When Grafana becomes easier to use, it empowers people to leverage their data to innovate more quickly."
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Q: Save() multiple records in 1 PUT request I have a model favorite. In the UI it is possible to drag and reorder these favortes.
When updating the order, i want to save this to the API. Is it possible to save multiple favorites by sending 1 request to the API? By default 1 request per favorite is send on favorite.save().
What I want is 1 PUT request formated something like this:
// PUT /api/users/1/favorites
// or
// PUT /api/favorites

{
  "favorites": [
    {
      "id": 2,
      "order": 1
    }, {
      "id": 5,
      "order": 2
    }, {
      "id": 12,
      "order": 3
    }
  ]
}

A: Hi i dont know which technology you are using. if you are using java then you can do something like below.
take a ArrayList which holds the map.
Map itemMap= new HashMap();
ArrayList orderList= new ArrayList();
now add the item to the itemMa, and add the map to the orderList.
now convert the orderList to json.
hope it will help.

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US hip hop artists Homeboy Sandman & Edan stop at the Bongo on their UK tour, 5th Feb '19
19 December 2018 - Andy
Brooklyn hip hop duo* signed to Stones Throw. *Also two solo artists in their own right (with Edan originally from Baltimore via Boston).
Support: Solenoid, FBC, DJ Freehardy plus SKOOP Takeover.
Tags: Brooklyn, DJ Freehardy, Edan, FBC, hip hop, Homeboy Sandman, live, MC, New York, Rap, Skoop, Solenoid, US
Queen of UK performance poetry Francesca Beard plays Rally & Broad, Fri 23rd Jan
15 January 2015 - Andy
Ah – dear January. You are so often a month of long, dreary Sundays, broken resolve and rapidly-dwindling New Year hopes…
But not at R&B HQ! This month, we'd like to start as we mean to go on in 2015: by unapologetically apologising, with oor tongues firmly in oor cheeks. A celebration of the apology in its many varieties (I'm Sorry I Ate All Your Cheese; I'm Sorry I Broke Your Favourite Tea-cup/ Heart/ Mind; I'm Sorry I Voted That Way; I'm Sorry it's the National Bard's Birthday and We're Totally Ignoring It, etc). Come hear the confessional, the reverential, the spittingly-caustic and the wittily marvellous in oor January line-up.
Welcome to The Apology Shop…
FRANCESCA BEARD!
The indisputable Queen of UK performance poetry in a rare Scottish date! She's sorry she is not up more often. To make up for it – check out her masterclass the next day at the Counting House! Read her full biog here.
HECTOR BIZERK!
The unapologetically experimental hip-hop duo!
EMILY DODD!
You won't be sorry to miss this wonderful woman with her unique interactive spoken word stories!
CHRIS WILLATS!
Up and coming Edinburgh-based singer-songwriter. Apologies, Henry's Cellar Bar; we're nicking one of yer music programmers for the nicht.
JESS SMITH!
We recently judged the UK University Slam Championships and Jess Smith was on the winning team! That would be the Edinburgh Uni team. We're sorry if ye may think that means we were biased. Come see her and ye'll see we were not…
Tickets: £5 (on the door)
Tags: Chris Willats, Emily Dodd, Francesca Beard, Hector Bizerk, hip hop, Jess Smith, live, Performance Poetry, Rally & Broad, Rap, Spoken Word
Kate Tempest returns with her full band, Tues 24th Feb '15
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Following October's sold out solo show for her book tour (of which the Edinburgh performance drew five star appraisals from both The Scotsman and The Independent), we are buzzing about welcoming one of Britain's most exciting new talents back to The Bongo Club, this time performing songs from her Mercury Music Prize-nominated album, Everybody Down, with her full live band. If you caught Kate Tempest last time, you'll know she's nothing less than a sensational live performer. If you've not seen her yet, this may be your last chance to do so in a small venue…
"One of the brightest British talents around" (The Guardian)
"As Tempest's gorgeous steams of words flow out, they conjure a story so vivid its as if you had a state-of-the-art Blu-Ray player stuffed in your brain, projecting image after image that sears itself into your consciousness" (New York Times)
"Wow" (Chuck D – Public Enemy)
"Her works are truly of upliftment and betterment" (Roots Manuva)
Kate Tempest started out when she was 16, rapping at strangers on night busses and pestering mc's to let her on the mic at raves. Ten years later she is a published playwright, novelist, poet and respected recording artist. Her work includes Balance, her first album with band Sound of Rum; Everything Speaks in its Own Way her first collection of poems, the critically acclaimed plays Wasted, Glasshouse and Hopelessly Devoted. Brand New Ancients, her self-performed epic poem to a live score, won the Ted Hughes prize 2013 and the Herald Angel at Edinburgh Fringe. It has sold out tours in the UK and New York and is published by Picador. Her second collection of poetry, Hold Your Own, will be published by Picador on October 2014. Her debut novel, The Bricks That Built The Houses, sold in a highly competitive auction to Bloomsbury and will be published in territories including the UK, US, France, Holland and Brazil in Spring 2015. Excitingly, each track on the record correlates with a chapter in the novel, in a groundbreaking cross-genre experience.
Her single Our Town, with producers letthemusicplay was recently released on Greco-Roman records. Kate has featured on songs with Sinead O Connor, Bastille, the King Blues, Damien Dempsey and Landslide. She has toured extensively, supporting Billy Bragg on his UK tour, as well as supporting Scroobius Pip, Femi Kuti, Saul Williams and John Cooper Clarke. She is 2 x slam winner at the prestigious Nu-Yorican poetry cafe in New York and has played all the major UK and European music festivals either solo or with Sound of Rum. She's headlined Latitude festival and has been featured on the BBC's Glastonbury highlights, Channel 4, BBC Radio 1,4 and 6, as well as XFM and the Charlie Rose Show (Bloomberg) in the US.
Kate's new album Everybody Down was released in May 2014 on Big Dada records. It was produced by Dan Carey aka Mr Dan who is one of the UK's best known and most highly-rated producers. When the two met, Carey invited Tempest to come through to his South London studio to muck about on a track or two. In a burst of intense creativity, they put down the whole twelve track album in a fortnight having spent almost a year developing the characters and story. Kate is currently working on a new collection of poems, (to be published by Picador in 2014).
Support from Tempest collaborator and rising star of UK hip hop Loyle Carner.
Hosted by Rally & Broad.
Tickets: £12.50 (adv) / £15 (door)
Tags: hip hop, Kate Tempest, live, Loyle Carner, Rap
Kate Tempest (2014 Mercury Award Nominee) to play The Bongo Club (Sat 25th Oct)
23 September 2014 - Andy
We're all tremendously excited about this one! Rally & Broad with The Scottish Poetry Library present 2014 Mercury Music Prize nominee Kate Tempest with an introduction by Don Paterson and support from Sam Small.
Kate's new album Everybody Down is released in May 2014 on Big Dada records. It was produced by Dan Carey aka Mr Dan who is one of the UK's best known and most highly-rated producers. When the two met, Carey invited Tempest to come through to his South London studio to muck about on a track or two. In a burst of intense creativity, they put down the whole twelve track album in a fortnight having spent almost a year developing the characters and story. Kate is currently working on a new collection of poems, (to be published by Picador in 2014).
Watch the video for recent single The Beigeness
Listen to follow-up single Marshall Law
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Two of our Year 5 pupils came to ask Miss Clark if we could organise a Bring and Buy Sale to raise money during Lent. We thought that this was a wonderful idea. Mrs Clancy-Taylor and Miss Gray are going to help our Year 5 pupils and the Mini Vinnies to prepare this on Friday 15th March.
We would therefore ask that the children bring into school any toys in good condition that they no longer want by Wednesday 13th March. It's a great opportunity for an early Spring clean!
On Friday the children from all classes will have the opportunity to come into the hall to buy any toys that they would like from the stalls and in the process help to raise money for our worthy charities.
Mrs Clancy-Taylor and Miss Gray have said that all items brought into school will be priced between 20p and £2.00.
Any items left will be donated to St. Gemma's Hospice, which is the charity that the parish is supporting this year.
Thank you to all of the children and parents who supported our Bring and Buy Sale. The money has been counted and we are delighted to announce that the children have all helped to raise over £90 ,which will go to CAFOD and the Good Shepherd Appeal.
We are creating a reverse Advent Calendar. This involves bringing in (non perishable) items of food on each day of Advent. At the end of December the food collected will be donated to the St Vincent Centre for distribution to the less fortunate in our community.
This year Fr. Doody celebrated our annual Harvest Festival Mass with us. The Mini Vinnies created a display with all the food which was donated. The food was later collected by Mr John Battle, a member of our parish SVP group and national Vice President of the Saint Vincent De Paul Society, who took it to the St Vincent Centre for distribution to members of our community who are struggling to make ends meet.
The Mini Vinnies very much enjoyed helping out at our Macmillan Coffee Morning and they did a wonderful job. There were still some cakes left over at the end of the morning and so the St. Vincent De Paul parishioner group very kindly said that they would continue to sell the cakes and coffee after Mass on Sunday morning to raise even more money for this charity event.
On 14th September our Mini Vinnie's were invited by Bishop Marcus to a very special celebration mass at the Cathedral. They were able to meet fellow Mini Vinnie's from across the diocese and they all seem to have a renewed energy for their role in school.
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Der Lars-Onsager-Preis () ist ein jährlich von der American Physical Society vergebener Preis in theoretischer statistischer Physik (einschließlich Quantenflüssigkeiten). Er ist nach Lars Onsager benannt und mit 10.000 Dollar dotiert.

Es gibt auch die Lars Onsager Lecture and Professorship.

Preisträger
 1995 Michael E. Fisher
 1997 Robert Kraichnan
 1998 Leo Kadanoff
 1999 Chen Ning Yang
 2000 David J. Thouless, J. Michael Kosterlitz
 2001 Bertrand Halperin
 2002 Anatoly Larkin
 2003 Pierre Hohenberg
 2004 John Cardy
 2005 Waleri Pokrowski
 2006 Rodney Baxter
 2007 A. Brooks Harris
 2008 Christopher Pethick, Gordon Baym, Tin-Lun Ho
 2009 B. Sriram Shastry
 2010 Stephen Shenker, Daniel Friedan
 2011 Alexander Belawin, Alexander Samolodtschikow, Alexander Poljakow
 2012 Ian Affleck
 2013 Daniel Fisher
 2014 Vladimir P. Mineev, Grigory E. Volovik
 2015 Franz Wegner
 2016 Riccardo Zecchina, Marc Mézard, Giorgio Parisi
 2017 Natan Andrei, Paul B. Wiegmann
 2018 Subir Sachdev
 2019 Christopher Jarzynski
 2020 John Toner, Tamás Vicsek, Yuhai Tu
 2021 Lew Pitajewski
 2022 Boris Altshuler, David A. Huse, Igor L. Aleiner
 2023 Peter Hänggi

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Everyone needs to believe that things will be ok in the end. Whether that be tomorrow, next week, or in a year. And we need to work for an organisation – and ultimately, a leader – who makes it possible for us to believe that, one that makes it possible for us to keep going. We need resilient leaders to see us through uncertainty and worrying times.
US resilience trainer, Michael Ballard, has looked closely into why some people encounter a setback and go on to thrive, whilst others falter and fail to progress. His experience is an exercise in choice: we can choose to progress, or through fear or uncertainty become stuck. We can all benefit from a set of coping skills and these tips should help you become a more resilient leader and build your team's resilience.
As Harold Kushner wrote, Sometimes bad things happen to good people. Worrying about why bad things happen is a fast way to becoming stuck – trust me, I know! Resilient people, and organisations, know how to adapt to bad things by reframing negative experiencesand building postitive resilience. Remember you are not responsible for everything that happens in an organisation. Know which errors are yours and correct them, but don't project them onto other people, and don't hold yourself responsible for every bad thing in your life or work.
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We can all be trapped in bad things at work, but if we choose to learn from them and bounce back it empowers us to move forward and through the bad situation and back into something good. It may seem a difficult choice at the time, being a victim of circumstance can be a trap. People – and organisations – who are resilient take action and own their problems. Choose to learn and be resilient and you'll bounce back – and you'll lead your team along with you.
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His research interests focus on Roman Stoicism, ancient science, and silver Latin literature.
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In 2010 he published an introduction, translation, and commentary of Seneca's De Brevitate Vitae, and in 2014 a new edition of two of Plautus' late comedies (Poenulus and Truculentus). His new monograph on the theory and practice of metaphors in Seneca's prose is forthcoming with De Gruyter. He is a 2017-18 recipient of a Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellowship from Harvard University.
His course offerings include Roman law, a history of ancient sexuality and gender, and engineering in the ancient world.
Academic credentials
B.A., Università degli Studi di Pisa; M.A., Johns Hopkins University; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University


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Australia Day commemorates the day in 1788 when Captain Arthur Phillip landed in Sydney Cove and claimed Australia's eastern side for Britain through the symbolic act of planting the British flag (known as the 'Union Jack'). Australia Day has become bigger and bigger in Australia in recent years. It is now a public holiday all around Australia.
Many people both born in Australia and those who have come from abroad love the Australia Day celebrations and have a great time. Some Aboriginal people question the idea of celebrating the day that the country that they had lived in for over 40,000 years was occupied and, as well as that, was claimed to have been uninhabited by anyone. Some Aboriginal and other Australians therefore prefer to call the day Invasion Day and others suggest we chose a different date to celebrate.
Australia day is a chance to get together with friends and family. Lots of people have a barbeque at home or down at the beach or river or park. Many places hold Australia Day concerts in the evening with fireworks displays to finish off the evening. Many citizenship ceremonies are also held on Australia Day.
Australian identity and our flag
There are many questions and much debate in Australia about the Australian flag
should it still contain the union jack which is the flag of Great Britain when many think it is time we became an independent republic?
why do people want a new flag; our old one is perfect and shows respect to our queen (Queen Elizabeth the II of Britain) and founders? We want to remain a constitutional monarchy.
is flying the flag on cars, wrapping it around your body, putting it on T-shirts and swimmers and anywhere else disrespectful to those who have fought to defend Australia under this flag ?
has the Australian flag become a symbol of right-wing nationalism?
has the Australian flag become a symbol of racism implying that if you aren't 'white', you don't belong here?
why doesn't the flag reference the original Aboriginal and Islander inhabitants of Australia but have a reference to Great Britain?
Could Australia Get a New Flag? (newsfeed.time.com)
Aboriginal flag raised on Harbour Bridge (smh.com.au)
Barbara Miller Now Brings to Life the Contributions of an Aboriginal Hero (prweb.com)
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Jane Belotti
I have always agreed with Indigenous Australians and considered that January 26th is not the best day to celebrate Australia Day. I would hope that when Australia becomes a Republic and design a new flag that we also take the opportunity to talk about another day which will be a day that all Australians feel proud of.
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This web site presents the interventions of MICHAEL ROBERTS in the public realm with reference to Sri Lankan political affairs. It will embrace the politics of cricket as well. ROBERTS was educated at St. Aloysius College in Galle and the universities of Peradeniya and Oxford. He taught History at Peradeniya University and Anthropology at Adelaide university. He is now retired and lives in Adelaide.


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Q: How to get local clipboard in jupyter running on remote server? I have a jupyter running on a remote server and the notebook want to get data from local browser clipboard.
Here is my code with problem.
from IPython import get_ipython
from base64 import b64decode
import sys

def from_clipboard():
    '''
    '''
    ipy = get_ipython()
    r = ipy.run_cell_magic( "javascript", "",
        '''
        navigator.clipboard.readText().then(clipText =>{
            console.log(clipText);
            var enc = btoa(clipText);
            IPython.notebook.kernel.execute('temp_var="' + enc + '"');
            console.log(enc);
        });
        ''')
    return b64decode(sys.modules['__main__'].temp_var).decode()
print(from_clipboard())

When I trigger from_clipboard by press enter.  IPython.notebook.kernel.execute('temp_var="' + enc + '"'); is padding and will be execute after from_clipboard finished.
So sys.modules['__main__'].temp_var is undefined at this time.
Any idea to fix that?


"On the train with a ticket." Starting today in Liguria, 50 agents will be assigned to regional trains, the aim being to counter the phenomenon of ticket evasion, which reduces the resources available to the regional rail service.
This new action, which began successfully in recent weeks in Veneto and Tuscany, will become the system, not just a campaign spot. It requires the involvement of a national pool of Trenitalia agents that will work in a different regional context every week, supporting a local pool that will always be active in their own area. Altogether there will be about 220 agents engaged in all of Italy, between controllers and managers of the Passenger Division and Regional staff of Trenitalia Corporate Protection.
Checks will be conducted by teams consisting of at least five special officers who will move together in the station and on the train, to verify the ownership and the validity of the ticket or season ticket. The presence of more agents make for faster and more effective checks and will serve as a deterrent against possible aggressive reactions.
This new approach also relies on customer education, with the launch of positive messages inviting passengers to respect the rules, to the benefit of the vast majority of travellers who pay for their tickets, and of the Regions who are responsible for funding the service; more resources allows more investment to improve the service.
This is an edited translation of an original article in Sanremo News on Monday November 30 2015.
It requires the involvement of a national pool of Trenitalia agents that will work in a different regional context every week, supporting a local pool that will always be active in their own area. Where is this information?
If my translation is inaccurate, a better version would be welcome.


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Sherrod Brown "has stood side by side" with President Barack Obama, presiding "over the most rapid increase in the debt over the last 2.5 years" and hurtling toward " the worst jobs record in the modern era."
By Stephen Koff on Thursday, September 8th, 2011 at 6:00 a.m.
If the state of the nation is determined in any way by the president, those who stand with the president are destined to share credit or blame. Fair or not, that's how political messages are being framed for the 2012 elections.
"However, as Senator Brown has stood side-by-side with President Obama on virtually every major issue, including all of his major spending proposals, he and his fellow Democrats in Washington have presided over the most rapid increase in the debt over the last 2.5 years and they are on track to have the worst jobs record in the modern era."
That's a mouthful. Yet broken down into components, each part of the claim can be checked. And because this rap against Brown will be heard again and again over the next 14 months, PolitiFact Ohio thought it was worthwhile to do the checking now.
Brown "has stood side by side with President Obama on virtually every major issue, including all of his major spending proposals."
Jahan Wilcox, a spokesman for the NRSC (an arm of the Republican Party), cited as major issues the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, better known as the economic stimulus bill; the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, passed in 2010; and the debt-hike bill of August 2011, which lifted the $14.3 trillion ceiling on government borrowing.
Those certainly are big. Obama pushed for passage and Brown voted yes on each one, as did Senate and House majorities.
Brown's communications director, Meghan Dubyak, notes that the senator and president have disagreed on some big issues, too, such as carbon dioxide emission limits on factories and coal-burning power plants, a speedier withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, and foreign trade.
Our dictionary (Webster's Ninth New Collegiate) defines major as greater in importance, or notable or conspicuous in effort and scope. The carbon caps were a significant issue in House of Representatives races last year in Ohio. But the stimulus and health care bill's were Obama's masterpieces, even if their final versions represented compromise. These, and the economy, have defined the Obama presidency.
Brown "and his fellow Democrats have presided over the most rapid increase in the debt over the last 2.5 years."
The debt has shot up from $10.626 trillion when Obama entered office to $14.622 trillion on Aug. 30, according to the Treasury Department's "Debt to the Penny" database. In raw dollars, that $4 trillion increase is the most rapid rise in debt under any president, according to CBS News, which was one of the NRSC's sources for the claim. Note the word "rapid," because it's important here. Total debt during President George W. Bush's presidency rose by $4.9 trillion, according to the Treasury Department, but that was over the course of eight years. Obama has been in office less than three years.
But a dollar today is not worth what it was in, say, 1940, so we wondered about the rate of increase. We turned to the Office of Management and Budget's historical debt tables and took out a calculator for additional perspective. Measured by rate of change, the gross federal debt has grown by 38 percent during the 2.5 years of Obama's presidency.
That is not a historical record Consider a one-year change during World War II, from the end of 1942 to the end of 1943: The gross debt rose 80 percent from $79.2 billion to $142.6 billion. It went up by another 43 percent the next year.
That was debt from a world war, of course, an extraordinary time.
Before moving on, it's important to note one more piece of context. The NRSC did not say specifically that all the current debt was Obama's and Brown's fault. The statement was simply that Brown and fellow Democrats have "presided" over the rise, which the NRSC says means that Democrats voted to let the debt rise that high, approving debt-ceiling hikes like the controversial one that passed in August.
Brown's spokeswoman says she reads that to mean the NRSC is blaming Brown for the underlying policies and programs that drove up the debt, and we agree that the NRSC makes that implication. PolitiFact has noted a number of times that the Obama administration inherited debt from Bush, the result of major tax cuts, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, a costly Medicare prescription drug benefit, and a recession. The debt then grew under Obama with the stimulus, the continuation of the wars and tax cuts, and an economy that still threatens to flat-line. Both parties say if only their policies were followed, the nation would ease out of this mess. We don't claim universal wisdom but, as we have observed before, there's blame and credit all around.
Brown and Obama "are on track to have the worst jobs record in the modern era."
There are several ways to weigh this claim. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics figures, which the NRSC used, show job losses of 2.37 million from January 2009, the month Obama entered office, through July 2011, the most recently recorded month. But since Bush was still president for the first 19 days of January 2009, and the nation was already losing 600,000 to 800,000 jobs a month at that point, some claim it is fairer to start the measurement in February 2009, Obama's first full month in office. That puts the job losses during Obama's presidency so far at 1.64 million.
Is this the worst in the modern era?
The NRSC points to the Washington Post's "Fact Checker" column for backup here. The Post weighed similar claims made by former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Texas Gov. Rick Perry about Obama, and wrote, "When Romney made his statement, both Ronald Reagan and Obama were tied for the first two years of their presidency — a decline of about 2.3 percent in the number of people employed. The economy, however, really started to pick up in Reagan's third year, while it has flagged under Obama, so for the first 2 ½ years, Obama's record is now worse: a decline of about 1.4 percent under Obama, versus 0.5 percent under Reagan."
The comparison can change with each successive month. But the NRSC allowed for some wiggle room by saying Obama and Brown are "on track" for a horrible jobs record.
So is the NRSC right?
As the Post noted, it is foolish to blame Obama for every one of those job losses, since the nation was already bleeding jobs when he got elected. We'll go a step further: A single senator represents one vote out 100, and hardly has power to control job losses. He can, however, support policies, and sometimes his single vote matters.
Brown cast a crucial final vote that allowed the stimulus bill to pass, returning to Washington on a White House-provided plane on Feb. 13, 2009, from visitation in advance of his mother's next-day funeral. A number of economists say that as bad as the economy got, more jobs would have been lost had it not been for the stimulus. That is not to say all economists agree, nor is it to argue that Obama and Congress have or haven't handled the economy effectively. It is merely noting a single senator's role, since the NRSC assigns Brown blame.
Going back to each part of the claim, then, the NRSC is correct on the highlights when it says Brown has stood side by side with Obama on virtually every major issue. But it overlooks energy -- a major issue in Ohio in 2010, though potentially less so in 2012, and one on which Brown took a different position than the president.
It is correct in a narrow way when it says that Brown and Obama "presided" over the most rapid rise in debt in 2 ½ years, but that claim ignores much greater rises in the rate of growth during the 1940s, as well as the reason for some of the debt.
As for being on track for the wost jobs record in the modern era, Obama may be headed for that ignominious distinction, but a single legislator generally lacks that kind of power.
Put together, this compound claim leaves out important details and context. On the Truth-O-Meter, it merits a rating of Half True.
Published: Thursday, September 8th, 2011 at 6:00 a.m.


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Advantage Appoints Group Communications Manager
Wednesday, 5 July 2000, 5:30 pm
Press Release: Unknown
Advantage Appoints Group Marketing Communications Manager
Auckland – 5 July 2000 – Advantage Group Limited (NZSE: ADV) has announced that it has strengthened its corporate team with the appointment of Jeanette Paine as Group Marketing Communications Manager. The new role will see Ms Paine assume responsibility for Marketing Communications within Advantage Group, reporting to COO Andy Wilkinson.
Prior to joining Advantage Group, Ms Paine held a variety of positions in the marketing communications team at Compaq Computer New Zealand, most recently as Customer Relationship Marketing Manager. She has over 10 years communications experience, ranging from direct marketing, brand management, advertising, public relations, and journalism. Additionally, she has a strong background in the IT industry.
Commenting on the appointment, COO Andy Wilkinson noted that "As Advantage grows, it's imperative that we communicate more effectively across the Group and in our external marketing programmes. Jeanette's appointment, and her considerable experience in a range of marketing disciplines, will help us integrate internal and external marketing communication functions more effectively. Jeanette is tasked with ensuring that we present Advantage vigorously and consistently within the company, on the web, in direct marketing, at events, through media relations and in brand advertising."
Ms Paine holds a B.A from Victoria University and a PG Dip (journalism) for Canterbury University. She received a Silver and two Bronze RSVP Awards in the New Zealand Direct Marketing Awards in 1999 and a Recognition Award in the Kiwi Quills for Internal Communications in 1997.
About Advantage Group
Advantage Group Limited, an NZSE listed company, is a leading supplier of e-commerce and transaction processing solutions in New Zealand, Australia and throughout the southern hemisphere. The company has three business units: point-of-sale equipment, retail solutions and business-to-business e-commerce. Advantage provides hardware, software, transaction processing and funds transfer capabilities to enable complete e-commerce solutions.
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Stranded Assets - Lloyd's - The world's specialist insurance market. Also known as Lloyd's of London; is a market where members join together as syndicates to insure risks.
Stranded assets are defined as assets that have suffered from unanticipated or premature write-downs, devaluation or conversion to liabilities. In recent years, the issue of stranded assets caused by environmental factors, such as climate change and society's attitudes towards it, has become increasingly high profile.
Changes to the physical environment driven by climate change, and society's response to these changes, could potentially strand entire regions and global industries within a short timeframe, leading to direct and indirect impacts on investment strategies and liabilities.
The report, part of Lloyd's emerging risk report series, looks at actual and potential examples of how stranded assets caused by societal and technological responses to climate change could affect assets and liabilities in the insurance and reinsurance sector. The study aims to increase the understanding and awareness of these issues in the industry.


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Steve Guengerich
steveg@utdallas.edu
VDC (ROC)
Tags: Office of Research Innovation & Entrepreneurship Blackstone LaunchPad Venture Development Center Commercialization
Please type your desired tags, e.g. GRO-seq, American and British Women's Literature, Surveillance Studies, galaxy clusters including bullet clusters, weak and strong gravitational lensing, Cultural Memory and Spectatorship, Media Theory, U.S. South, asymptomatic dynamics of large ensembles of particles, integratable dynamical systems with applications to classical and statistical mechanics, mechanical deformation modeling, modeling, analysis, Design Automation, impacts of geologic materials and processes on animal and human health, and etc.
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Masters of Business Administration - Business Computing Science
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Entrepreneur Joins Management School as Institute's New Director
One of the leaders of Austin's robust tech startup scene has moved to North Texas to join the faculty of UT Dallas as executive director of the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship(IIE).
Steve Guengerich brings a wealth of knowledge, connections and expertise from his more than three decades as an entrepreneur, investor, mentor, author and educator. He has been a director and remains a mentor at Capital Factory, an Austin-based technology incubator and working space. As principal at Powershift Group, a venture development group, he helped launch companies such as Appconomy, Moxie and Nano Global. He has written or published 12 books and dozens of articles about business innovation and information technology.
Austin Entrepreneur Now Leads Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
One of the leaders of Austin's robust tech startup scene has relocated from the Silicon Hills to the Silicon Prairieto join the faculty of UT Dallas as executive director of the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
Steve Guengerich brings a wealth of knowledge, connections and expertise from his more than three decades of experience as an entrepreneur, investor, mentor, author and educator. He has been a director and remains a mentor at Capital Factory, an Austin-based technology incubator and working space. As principal at Powershift Group, a venture development group, he helped launch companies such as Appconomy, Moxie and Nano Global. He has authored or published 12 books and dozens of articles about business innovation and information technology.
Entrepreneur Looks to Redefine Industry While Giving Back
Entrepreneur and Naveen Jindal School of Management alumnus Oscar Yactayo knows the life of an entrepreneur includes long hours, evolving business plans and surrounding yourself with talent.
He has found the support for all of these areas through his relationship with UT Dallas, working on his new business at the Blackstone LaunchPad with 15 Jindal School and Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science students on his team.
Seeking to transform the transportation and logistics industry through digitalization, his business, ClicknShip USA Inc., introduces an online platform to connect the shipper and the trucking company and streamline a process that has historically been laborious and designed to benefit only the shipper.


You can now comment on add-ins on the MMDevX add-in site. The site has entries for MindReader, Mark Task Complete, MyMapMacros, Map2Excel, and Outlinker. New users might be encouraged if they see comments from other users on how these are working for other users.
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We can't say enough about how much fun we've had at UBC! It's been an absolute pleasure having the 5 Veemo velomobiles riding around campus. From beta testing to publicly launching, we've certainly come a long way. The Veemo UBC Pilot was a great success and we'd like to share some fun details with you.
With the launch of the public Veemo fleet at UBC, our small team of mostly engineers had to work as "member service experts" for an active member base of over 1,000 people. We've gone from R&D mode to fleet operation mode in a hurry, which has required agility and teamwork. We hope that we provided top notch support to our members via phone, email, and social media over our extended operating hours, thanks to some novel systems we developed to remotely manage the fleet and member accounts.
The success of the UBC Pilot was made possible by all of your support!
Thank you to everyone for an amazing UBC Pilot.
Our Veemo velomobiles will leave UBC on Friday April 13, 2018. The service will be available until 12pm (noon) that day.
WHAT'S NEXT AFTER THE UBC PILOT?
Veemo's team will now be working on our first commercial fleet production for a launch in Vancouver. We have aggressive growth plans to provide our novel velomobile-sharing service throughout the Pacific Northwest, North America, and ultimately cities around the world.
To stay updated on our future Vancouver launch, join our newsletter or follow us on social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram).
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We're fully focused on launching our sharing service into Vancouver first. There's no timeline for individual sales at the moment, but do stay posted for new updates!
I have a Giant Revive semi- recumbent bike. Giant, I believe, is the world's largest bicycle company. They know something about bicycle ergonomics. I can adjust my Revive's handlebars to a low point where it's very comfortable. No strain holding my arms up to handlebars too far away. From what I've gathered from the photos I've seen your handlebars look to high and far from the rider.
Only offering constructive criticism because I'd love to buy one.
When possblie buy this car in France..
Please contact my dealer ([email protected]) for delivering a testmodel in Holland. Of do we have come to your testdrivelocation? Please sent technical details.
Please contact my dealer ([email protected]) for delivering a testmodel in Holland. Of do we have come to your testdrivelocation? Please sent technical details. Is the Veemo in Holland also a Bike?
Hi Paulus, we're focused on launching into Vancouver first, but Holland would be a great place to expand to in the future!
how about selling this abroad, in EU? I live in Cyprus, Nicosia.
Also do we have a cost estimate yet?


Stop and Smell the Chocolates: Woo Hoo - Another Paperspring Giveaway!
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What could be better than that? Why, a giveaway of course! Paperspring.com has very generously offered to give one of my U.S. readers $60 credit to use on Paperspring products!! Wow - thanks Paperspring!
To enter, click on over to Paperspring.com and look around. Come back here and leave a comment telling me what you would use the $60 for or what your favorite holiday photo card is. To earn one additional entry, follow paperspring on twitter and/or facebook (or tell me if you already do) and leave me a separate comment about it. The giveaway is open through 10PM PST Sunday night, November 15th. One random winner will be chosen from the comments and announced on Monday.
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Bowdoin Green Athletics, a group of student-athletes who aim to make Bowdoin's sports culture more sustainable, has laid out its goals for the year.
The student group, which collaborates with administrators, faculty and staff, has representatives on each team who have pledged to make small changes among their team members. The men's cross-country team, for example, will start taking shorter showers, recycling old training shoes and turning off the locker room lights. The women's squash team has promised to turn off court and locker room lights, carpool to practice, donate old court shoes, recycle on the bus, and stop using trays in dining hall to cut down on dish washing.
In addition, Bowdoin Green Athletics is planning to be the first NESCAC School to win the EPA Game Day Challenge, which measures how much waste can be recycled and composted at a football game.
Read the complete list of athletic pledges.


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namespace Apprenda.Addons.MongoDB.Test
{
    using System.Collections.Generic;
    using System.Configuration;
    using Apprenda.AddOns.MongoDB;
    using Apprenda.SaaSGrid.Addons;
    using NUnit.Framework;

    [TestFixture]
    public class MongoTest
    {
        private AddonProvisionRequest ProvisionRequest { get; set; }
        private AddonDeprovisionRequest DeprovisionRequest { get; set; }
        private AddonTestRequest TestRequest { get; set; }

        [SetUp]
        public void SetupManifest()
        {
            this.ProvisionRequest = new AddonProvisionRequest
                                        {
                                            Manifest = SetupPropertiesAndParameters(),
                                            DeveloperParameters = SetUpParameters()
                                        };
            this.DeprovisionRequest = new AddonDeprovisionRequest { Manifest = SetupPropertiesAndParameters() };
            this.TestRequest = new AddonTestRequest { Manifest = SetupPropertiesAndParameters() };
        }

        private static List<AddonParameter> SetUpParameters()
        {
            var paramConstructor = new List<AddonParameter>
            {
                new AddonParameter
                {
                    Key = "username",
                    Value = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["username"]
                },
                new AddonParameter
                {
                    Key = "password",
                    Value = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["password"]
                },
                new AddonParameter
                {
                    Key = "database",
                    Value = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["database"]
                }
            };
            return paramConstructor;
        }

        private static AddonManifest SetupPropertiesAndParameters()
        {
            var plist = new List<DevParameter>();
            plist.Add(new DevParameter()
                          {
                              Key = "username",
                              DisplayName = "Username"
                          });
            plist.Add(new DevParameter()
                          {
                              Key = "password",
                              DisplayName = "Password",
                              IsEncrypted = true
                          });
            plist.Add(new DevParameter()
                          {
                              Key = "database",
                              DisplayName = "Database"
                          });
            var port = new AddonProperty
                            {
                                Key = "port",
                                Value = "32770"
                            };
            var manifest = new AddonManifest
            {
                AllowUserDefinedParameters = true,
                Author = "Chris Dutra",
                DeploymentNotes = "",
                Description = "",
                DeveloperHelp = "",
                IsEnabled = true,
                ManifestVersionString = "2.0",
                Name = "MongoDB",

                // we'll handle parameters below.
                Parameters = new ParameterList
                {
                    AllowUserDefinedParameters = "true",
                    Items = plist.ToArray()
                },
                Properties = new List<AddonProperty>(),
                ProvisioningLocation = "54.167.117.101",
                ProvisioningPassword = "admin",
                ProvisioningPasswordHasValue = false,
                ProvisioningUsername = "admin",
                Vendor = "Apprenda",
                Version = "3.1"
            };
            manifest.Properties.Add(port);

            return manifest;
        }

        [Test]
        public void ClientTest()
        {

        }

        [Test]
        public void ParseDeveloperParametersTest()
        {
            // covers the provision method
            var provisionDevParameters = DeveloperParameters.Parse(this.ProvisionRequest.DeveloperParameters,
                this.ProvisionRequest.Manifest.GetProperties());
            Assert.IsNotNull(provisionDevParameters);
            Assert.That(provisionDevParameters, Is.TypeOf(typeof(DeveloperParameters)));
            // coverts the deprovision method
            var deprovisionDevParameters = DeveloperParameters.Parse(this.DeprovisionRequest.DeveloperParameters,
                this.ProvisionRequest.Manifest.GetProperties());
            Assert.IsNotNull(deprovisionDevParameters);
            Assert.That(deprovisionDevParameters, Is.TypeOf(typeof(DeveloperParameters)));
            // covers the test method
            var testDevParameters = DeveloperParameters.Parse(this.TestRequest.DeveloperParameters,
                this.ProvisionRequest.Manifest.GetProperties());
            Assert.IsNotNull(testDevParameters);
            Assert.That(testDevParameters, Is.TypeOf(typeof(DeveloperParameters)));
        }

        [Test]
        public void ProvisioningTest()
        {
            this.ProvisionRequest = new AddonProvisionRequest { Manifest = SetupPropertiesAndParameters(), DeveloperParameters = SetUpParameters()};
            var output = new MongoDbAddOn().Provision(this.ProvisionRequest);
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November Summit on Gluten Sensitivity – No Charge!
Could it Change your LIFE?
What's eating you just might be what you're eating!
Dr. Charles Parker (The New ADHD Medication Rules) just sent me an email with a link — to make sure I didn't miss the chance to learn what experts working in the field have to say about gluten sensitivity.
online, thanks to the wonders of the internet!
I decided to post the registration information here on ADDandSoMuchMore.com so that you have a chance to find out what all the shoutin's about concerning gluten sensitivity right along with me.
Gluten, for those of you who are unclear, is a protein found in wheat, barley and rye.
WHAT? Give up grains! Are you NUTS?!!
I know – it sounds crazy, right? Isn't bread supposed to be the staff of life?
Yet I've heard a lot about the increasing number of problems doctors in-the-know are finding that have been traced back to gluten sensitivities. Some of these include life-long health issues that cleared right up when gluten was eliminated from the diet of those who were suffering.
Still . . . give up grains?
No toast – cereal, cakes, cookies? Can one even live without pasta?!!
What WILL we eat, then? How will we shop? Cook?
Maybe this idea is a bit extreme – perhaps another wonder-diet of the moment?
Isn't it worth a look-see?
WHAT IF IT WERE TRUE that gluten sensitivity was even a part of any of our ongoing health concerns — from migraine headaches, auto-immune issues and allergies of many types, to struggles with anemia, weight, digestion problems — trouble conceiving, even?
The claims of linkage are pretty remarkable, actually.
Wouldn't it be worth our time to at least listen to the experts talk about the research they say they have conducted and know about that won't even be published for years yet?
THOSE OF US who are citizens of Alphabet City have an even greater reason to take a look – because gluten sensitivity has been shown to exacerbate our symptoms: like mood swings, brain-fuzz, lack of drive and energy for completion, to name just a few.
Going gluten-free, SOME of us might even find our symptoms settle down to a point where we don't need to take medication to manage. Think of the time and money we'd save in medication hassles alone!
Apparently gluten sensitivity is not all that rare.
DID YOU KNOW that non-Celiac gluten sensitivity is up to 30 times more prevalent than its more severe cousin, full-blown Celiac disease (which affects an estimated 1% of the population, depending on whose statistics you read and believe, and is the ONLY "relative" that can be picked up in the ubiquitous blood test most doctors believe tests for all forms of gluten intolerance)?
Documented, apparently – now that we finally have other tests to diagnose the other cousins (using saliva or a stool sample to test for elevated antibody levels, essentially). Some experts assert that an estimated 60% of irritable bowel syndrome [IBS] diagnoses are actually misdiagnoses — that they are actually gluten-sensitives!
"If you suffer with fatigue, depression, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, psoriasis, eczema and other skin rashes, constant muscle and joint pain, lupus, scleroderma, Sjogren's syndrome, multiple sclerosis, migraine headaches, osteopenia and osteoporosis, diabetes, thyroid disease, cardiomyopathy, chronic anemia, coordination problems and asthma, gluten sensitivity may be at the root of your symptoms!
TO BE CLEAR: this is not the same as saying that gluten is the cause of these disorders — there are bona fide cases found in individuals with no gluten sensitivity. However, gluten sensitivity could be the factor that kicks you over the diagnostic line. In that case, avoiding gluten will ameliorate your symptoms.
Did you realize, however, that most doctors haven't a clue about the findings of gluten research that's been done in the last TEN years?
I'll admit I'm not exactly sure what the numbers mean in terms of of their effect on the entire population – or even a significant slice of it – but it does peak my interest enough to go find out about it. You can too.
Depending on the strength of the information presented, who knows?
Even if I don't go gluten-free myself, I may well decide to pop for a set of the recordings. The free part lasts for 24 hours after each presentation only — each day from Monday, November 11 through Sunday, November 17, 4 or 5 interviews will be available to watch for a 24-hour period.
Dr. Tom O'Bryan of TheDr.com has been studying the effects of gluten for 32 years now himself – he has interviewed 29 of the world's opinion leaders on the topic – EXPERTS on gluten-related disorders, diet and nutrition and healthy living throughout the lifetime – for a series of online sessions taking place at NO CHARGE from November 11-17, 2013.
FOR EXAMPLE: The Summit begins with a rare public interview of Dr. Michael Marsh – the physician/researcher whose Marsh Criteria have long been the gold-standard for Celiac Sprue diagnoses.
For the most part, we're not talking about expert marketers here – these are real EXPERTS, some of whom are languishing in relative obscurity when it comes to sharing their expertise with those of us who don't work in their fields.
Dr. O'Bryan asks them the questions we wish we could ask them ourselves.
WHO ARE THE GLUTEN SUMMIT SPEAKERS?
View the complete list of Speakers HERE – by scrolling DOWN the registration landing page.
lists the speakers – and I believe the MP3's are still available for purchase.
before you space it out!
Full Disclosure (and request): I have registered for an affiliate link — which means a percentage of sales of recordings from anyone who registers after clicking the links to the Summit from ADDandSoMuchMore.com will come my way. I'm hoping to make enough to pay for my own set of recordings, and to offset some of my recent blog/internet expenditures.
IN ANY CASE, stay tuned.
DO NOT MISS the many amazing articles linked to words in the article above!
14 Responses to November Summit on Gluten Sensitivity – No Charge!
Hi, I do think this is a great blog. I stumbledupon it 😉 I may revisit once again since I bookmarked it.
THANKS! (and from your lips to God's ears!) Back at'cha.
Have you checked out the BMJ article about it? I'm listening to the podcast (well, I will be soon).
I always find it very funny to read that 'most doctors have no clue about this' as a doctor… whilst screening for the strong scientific evidence around the claims… of COURSE I've heard about it.
I've also heard about a lot of quacks prescribing gluten free diets to patients with unrelated stuff, costing them a lot of money in the end. I don't think any of this is clear yet.
Of course, if something seems to work, it works, but even if cutting out gluten means the symptoms attenuate, it doesn't mean they were caused by gluten. There are so many factors.
I don't eat much gluten anyway. My body does best with lower carb loads.
Listening to it now, and there's more to this. Interesting.
Nice to "see" you again. Thanks for the link – I'll check it out.
2- Correlation does NOT prove causation!!!! That can't be said too many times in too many different ways.
I've never done well with gluten carbs myself (weight gain, primarily, not strictly calorie-related) – but as I age and ADD seems to be more of a struggle, I'm exploring *anything* touted to help and willing to give it a one-rat study.
I try NOT to "drink the kool-aid" myself – and recommend that approach generally.
Thanks for ringing in on this.
Oh, definitely, if something works keep on doing it.
The thing is, people claim it works if I can obviously see it doesn't.
I'm lactose intolerant, btw. Like most adults world wide, actually. Yet, everybody is going on about gluten, and Paleo… but we all keep on using and drinking milk. Weird, isn't it?
Too much milk makes me NUTS – and I was never much of a milk fan growing up. Making sure I got my 3 glasses daily back when "don't set yourself up for osteoporosis" was the hot topic on the airwaves was what eventually led to my own ADD dx — kicked me RIGHT over the incontrovertible diagnostic line.
I have worked with ADDers who swear by things that are CLEARLY not working, too. I have no supportable theories to cite there – but their faith in their "this works better for me" approach seems to be unshakable to the point where one or two were not even will to try something different for ONE WEEK!
So, we had to move right along to work on something else. THEIR lives, right? Not mine to judge.
There is at least one "Paleo" speaker in this summit – I have read as many cons and pros, and it seems that most of the science crowd hates it — so I look forward to hearing this particular speaker's interview.
I'm off to get ready to take on the outside world, taking advantage of a rare time I am awake during the daylight hours.
Gotta' hassle car-stuff, including buying 4 new tires (dry-rot, apparently, can't handle winter). Then there's the REST of a long "todo in the outside world during business hours" list.
Ah good luck with all of that!
Thanks So sorry your reaction to lactose is so dramatic – mine is more sublte, but a real ife-stopper none-the-less. If I can possibly manage it, I planned a car-trip to a friend's Woodstock-like b'day weekend celebration. Trying to get there before it ends.
I'm also about out of Meds (that MAYBE the pharmacy has in stock for immediate pick-up), they are threatening to sell my stuff in storage unless I can get there before they close with a credit or debit card (no, they can't take it over the phone for some bizarre reason) – yada, yada yada!
My KINGDOM for 24/7 services!!!
You have a lovely weekend. Even thinking about mine makes me want to go back to BED!
I went vegan for a year, and that was the healthiest year for my digestive system. A lot of vegetables. There's a lot to learn about what's in our diets.
I'm eager to find out more about this gluten/health connection. I think part of the reason gluten sensitivities are still pooh-poohed by so many is that science doesn't really understand the link between the gut, the brain and the body — Dr. Parker's crusade.
I'd LOVE to hear more about your year as a vegan – why did you do it, why did you stop, what changed during and after? Any interest in a guest-post for my Self-Health Series?
I went vegan for a variety of reason,but mostly because I have IBS. It did help. Cleared it up unless I ate outside of my range. Sugars and butter being the worst. Yes, I would love to do a guest piece. I'll get with you on that in private.
woo-hoo! excited to see what you come up with.


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package com.cadasta.murad.backend.clients;

import com.cadasta.murad.backend.constants.BaseUrl;
import com.cadasta.murad.backend.services.AuthService;
import com.google.gson.Gson;
import com.google.gson.GsonBuilder;

import retrofit2.Retrofit;
import retrofit2.converter.gson.GsonConverterFactory;

/**
 * Created by m-murad on 30/08/17.
 */

public final class AnonymousRestClient {

    public static AuthService authService;

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Spider-Man 2.1 extended DVD.
Thread starter the watcher
The extended dvd will hit stores april 17th.
Source: http://www.davisdvd.com/news/dvd.html
can't find if it is coming out here oh well i have 3 region free dvd players I'll import
Regionalized DVDs are IMO, a form of fascism. They should be abolished.
the watcher said:
why? $$$$......... oh yeah
Bass Version 2.0 said:
Also the dvd is 2.1 so does that mean there is less extras and differences than there was in xmen 1.5 to xmen 1. As it is 2.1 not 2.5
Didn't **** any of those *****es
This is stupid. Its not like Lord of the Rings where there is two hours of footage that the director actually wanted in or a movie that was crappy because of idiotic producers.
Gideon Stargrave
I didn't like Spider-man 2 the first time, so I probably won't like this one. Not to say that I won't buy it.
Lil Brother
Tch, I hate these things. You spend so much money on a DVD (well, a fair amount of it) and then two or so years later they put out another one with more stuff.
But, hey, that's what YouTube's for. I got a Collector's Box Set with tons of artwork, concept designs, and a re-print of ASM #50 packaged with it I bet this won't have. The 2.1 DVD will probably be half-assed anyway. And ever if it's not, I will refuse to acknowledge it.
Pretty cool cover, though. Much better than the one with MJ rubbing up again the way-too-muscular-armed Spider-Man on the widescreen DVD.
Lil Brother said:
it'll probably come with a rebate for your ticket for Spider-Man 3, i hate rebate's to much hastle
Gemini said:
You do? but I thought you were a master Rebater :lol:
(sorry I had to)
Masturebator? Why, that makes no sense.
it does if you think about it. Like Master Debater ect.... all work.
Masturdebator? That makes no sense either!
Your mastery on the English language and unique use of puns simply confounds me!
Edit: To clarify! I'm joking, not flaming.
2.1? Why 2.1? Why not 2.5 like they did with X-Men 1 (X-Men 1.5)?
ERROR! ERROR!
DANGER WILL ROBINSON! DANGER!
Ice said:
You know I got a smilie of almost everthing but that... and that would be sooo cool to have. I hate you Ice for making me wish I had something I don't have. :x :cry:
*Dances for hapiness*
Ok, thats it... Come here you little...
I.. don't... see... you.. laughing... now.. you... little.... peice... of.. *******!!!!
YOU... think... your... so... much... better... don't you..... take this.... and that.....
and... this....
Because there will be four more new releases. Avi Arad and his gang are taking a page from the business plan of George Lucas.
The sad thing is, I suspect that the producers of DVD movies consider it a pleasant surprise that people will go out of their way to buy multiple versions of the same movie just to get to certain region-exclusive content, just as music aficionados have purchased Japanese and European releases of albums they already own in the past.
I mean, it's not a premeditated thing this regionalized nefariousness, but it's not likely that they'll have any reason to take it back either.
Willverine
Expert Fishermen are master baiters!
That makes sense!


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La prima stagione della serie animata Titan Maximum, composta da 9 episodi, è stata trasmessa negli Stati Uniti, da Adult Swim, dal 27 settembre al 22 novembre 2009.

In Italia la stagione è inedita.

Pilot

 Diretto da: Chris McKay
 Scritto da: Tom Root

Trama
Dopo che i Titan Maximum si sono sciolti per mancanza di fondi, uno dei membri diventa un ladro e attacca la capitale di Titano, una luna di Saturno, con un mostro di lava robotico. I Titan Force Five, rielaborati dalla scimmia bidello Leon e Willie, il fratellino di Palmer, combattono il mostro, sconfiggendolo con successo a spese del loro robot.

Titan Maximum