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Updating County Community Development Plans
By FBN on June 20, 2019 in Columnists
Coconino County Community Development has been working to update the county subdivision ordinance, the county zoning ordinance and community area plans.
Community development staff, with the assistance of a consultant, completed a draft update to the county subdivision ordinance, which was approved by the Board of Supervisors on May 21. This two-year project had significant input from a citizen advisory group, including local design and development professionals and planning and zoning commissioners. The subdivision ordinance update was initiated to address the goals of the comprehensive plan with the concept of integrated conservation design, which encourages conservation areas and protects environmentally sensitive features.
The subdivision ordinance update also incentivizes planned subdivisions to avoid wildcat parcel splitting and includes increased flexibility and clarifications for plat amendments, adjustments, phased development and vested rights. It requires fire-wise design and weed mitigation and includes clarifications on development agreements and financial assurances, including warranties.
The Board of Supervisors directed community development staff to rewrite the zoning ordinance, as it has not been updated since 1984. This update, managed internally by county planning and zoning staff, was crafted by a Community Development Advisory Group (CDAG), a technical advisory group and during study sessions by the planning and zoning commission and work sessions by the Board of Supervisors.
The update is guided by the goals and policies of the county's comprehensive plan and the implementation plan. These plans direct community development to modernize the zoning ordinance to further implement the goals and policies of the comprehensive plan.
The process is nearing completion, with a public open house tentatively scheduled for July 18. Public hearings with the Planning and Zoning Commission and the county Board of Supervisors will be scheduled in the late summer/early fall 2019.
An update to the Bellemont Area Plan will also be wrapping up this summer and fall with public hearings scheduled by both the Planning and Zoning Commission and the Board of Supervisors.
With leadership from District 3 Supervisor Matt Ryan, the content of the plan was developed by staff, the committee and with public input, which was an essential component to creating and updating the plan.
The plan includes a vision as well as goals and policies that establish direction for the future development and conservation of the area. Staff led the committees in a series of exercises about place-making and visioning for the community's future, as well as inviting experts to speak to the group on a variety of topics. The Bellemont area plan update coincides with the Joint Land Use Study, a strategic planning process partnering Camp Navajo with the Naval Observatory, City of Flagstaff, Coconino County, the Forest Service and others to develop a plan that will ensure continued community and military compatibility.
The processes for the update of the zoning ordinance, the subdivision ordinance and the community area plans are crucial to vibrancy and strength of Coconino County communities. They guide future growth and set clear expectations for developers, the business community and residents. Coconino County and community development greatly appreciate the input and collaboration that went into these plans. FBN
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The costume is very familiar and was fashioned from $12 worth of golden fabric and fitted with its iconic belt. Meet C-3PO, the life-sized droid hero, noted for his perfect etiquette and protocol, who has been featured in almost every Star Wars film since the franchise first screened in May 1977. It took Geri Hongeva, a Navajo woman from Flagstaff, two days to sew the costume in 2018, with the help of her son, who is more experienced in cosplay, the practice of dressing up as a character from a movie, a book or video game. It is a character she knows well, having been chosen in July 2013 by Deluxe Studios to be the voice of C-3PO in "Star Wars: Episode IV, A New Hope," which was dubbed into the Navajo language and has gained international attention for the Navajo tribe's efforts to preserve its language. She is the only woman to voice the droid in the history of Star Wars, which has been translated into 50 different languages. Hongeva first wore the C-3PO costume at the Indigenous Comic Con in Albuquerque in November 2018, where cast members gathered for the five-year anniversary of Navajo Stars Wars. "It was challenging because I am a Navajo female trying to depict a male droid," Hongeva explained. "Firstly, I wanted to show the feminine parts of C-3PO, like the corset. Secondly, the iconic Threepio belt had to be distinct and display robotic features.
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First Lesson: Exodus 33: 12-23
Responsive Reading: Psalm 99
Second Lesson: 1 Thessalonians 1: 1-10
I want to tell you the story this morning of a church. It's the story of one of the first churches. The reason I want to tell you about this church is because it had a lot of members that were asking similar questions to people in our church. The church was located in a town called Thessalonica.
I suppose I should begin by telling you a bit about Thessalonica. Thessalonica was and is one of the most important cities in the country of Greece. Thessalonica was the primary port city in all of Northern Greece. Thessalonica was a vitally important city because it was the city where the great road of its day connected Rome with all the people north of the Aegean Sea. Thessalonica was the city at the crossroads of east and west, north and south.
Because of this a man named Paul wanted to start a church in Thessalonica. Paul had been traveling around planting churches left and right (Rome, Athens, Corinth, Ephesus, Galatia, and Thessalonica).
What Paul along with his right-hand men Silas and Timothy were going around Thessalonica claiming was that a man named Jesus had risen from the dead nearly twenty years before. Jesus would then promise salvation and eternal life to all his followers. Paul had spent about three weeks in Thessalonica converting both reaching both the previously religious and non-religious alike[1].
One of the interesting things that happened during Paul's preaching is women were especially drawn to this new Christian church. Paul had looked at women's role quite a bit differently. A woman named Dorcas was one of the earliest Christian disciples[2]. Priscilla and Aquilla were missionaries in converting a man named Apollos[3]. Chloe was the owner of a house in Corinth where the church met[4]. Paul would later say "There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus[5].". Women, in fact, made up the majority of Paul's congregations. Another interesting thing about the early Christians is that they insisted on their marriages being one wife to one husband. The early Christians were no longer going to treat women as property or possessions, but rather as complimentary parts of the family unit.
Paul had made quite a few enemies during his brief stay in Thessalonica. Members of the local synagogue were especially upset as they had been losing members to this new Christian church. Paul had felt such strong heat for his actions that he needed to sneak out of the city in the middle of the night for his safety. Paul would then journey a little over three-hundred miles to Athens to work with another church down there[6].
With none of the church's first leaders in Paul, Silas, or Timothy around a leadership vacuum emerged within the Thessalonian church. A man by the name of Jason took the reins[7]. Jason was a relatively new Christian himself, so he had to try his best to lead the Thessalonian community. While the Thessalonians were eager to embrace the faith, they had a lot of unanswered questions. Jason did not know how to answer their questions. The Thessalonians had recently experienced a rash of funerals amongst their initial members. The problem with all these funerals though is the members didn't know how to interpret them. Many within the Thessalonian church believed that Christians would not undergo death. They believed that Jesus would return within their lifetime to establish his kingdom on earth. Many of the Thessalonians believed that the afterlife would only be available to those who lived to see Christ's return. Jason not knowing where to turn to try to alleviate the Thessalonians fears got word back to Paul of the problems. Paul decides to write a letter to the Thessalonian church to be read by Jason in response to their questions. Paul had never written a letter like this to a church before. Within a few hundred years, thirteen of Paul's letters to either various churches or individuals such as Timothy, Titus or Philemon would make up a good portion of the Christian's holiest book[8].
Over a thousand years later, Paul's letter would be broken up into five separate chapters[9]. Paul begins by establishing the personal warmth and affinity that he feels for the people of Thessalonica. Towards the end of the letter, Paul begins to get into the meat of the issues. Paul's letter said to the following.
"But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord,[d] that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep[10]."
Paul wanted the Thessalonians to think of death as a form of sleep. Referring to death as a form of sleep was a very biblical idea[11]. Death was referred to as sleep over fifty times in the Old Testament. A short while before this at the time of one of Jesus' greatest miracles in the raising of Lazarus, Jesus describes Lazarus as not being dead but rather asleep[12]. Paul didn't say these words to give the Thessalonians any definitive answers about what their loved ones' existence would look like between their death and their resurrection. Paul rather uses the word "sleep" to remind the Thessalonians that upon Christ's return that the body of their loved ones would rise as casually as one awakens within the morning. Paul uses the term "sleep" to remind the Thessalonians that even as they lay their loved ones in the ground, this will not be the last that they see of them.
For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord[13].
Paul wanted to remind the Thessalonians how Christ's return would exactly look. The dead will rise from the grave first. At this point, those that are living will get caught up or "raptured" to meet The Lord within the air. The key words that Paul speaks has to do with assuring the Thessalonians that they have no reason whatsoever to mourn the death of their fellow Christians.
Paul's words about the rapture would get misinterpreted in later years. All sorts of ideas started spreading such as Christ would return secretly to whisk away the true believers before great hardship came upon the Earth for seven years. I think the key thing to know about Paul's letter is that he wished to let the Thessalonians know nothing that wasn't clearly told elsewhere within the scriptures. Instead, the Greek verb for rapture literally means "meet". What rapture literally means is believers will meet Jesus in the clouds then journey with him all the way to the earth. Paul never meant to describe an event where Christians just randomly vanish off the face of the earth[14]. Paul had heard about some words that Jesus had spoken during his ministry regarding the end of the world. Jesus would talk about the last days comparing it to the time of Noah. Jesus promises that it is at the end that all evil be swept away, whereas God's chosen ones just like Noah's family would be left behind to be with the Lord[15].
When Paul was talking about the Rapture, he was describing an event that took place on the last day rather than before the last day. When Paul mentions the Rapture, he wished to let the Thessalonians know about the promises of God's grace. Paul wanted them to look towards the last days of not only their loved ones' lives but time itself guided by a fear of God. Paul wished instead to give them an assurance of God's promise given to them on the cross. Jesus Christ was indeed coming soon, and his Kingdom would have no end.
The Thessalonian church was not out of the woods yet though after receiving Paul's letter. Within a few months, a popular rumor would emerge that Jesus had already returned in secret. The rumor was so widespread that Paul had to write another letter in response to it. Paul assured the people of Thessalonica once again that Christ's return would not occur in secret. Paul then reminds the Thessalonians not to focus so much on the actual date of Christ's return or the day of their loved one's eventual resurrection. Paul believed that this day will come down the pike as unpredictably as the Thief arrives during the night[16]. Paul knew the Thessalonians were probably going to endure some tough days coming up. Paul didn't want them though to obsess about any specific details regarding the end. Paul instead wished for them to go forth guided by a promise that Christ promises salvation unto them even as the world around them may crumble down.
The story you heard today is the story of Paul's First and Second Letter to the Thessalonians. Amen
[1] Acts 17:1-9
[2] Acts 9:36-43
[3] Acts 18:18-28
[4] 1st Corinthians 1:11
[5] Galatians 3:28
[6] Paul's journeys after Thessolonica to both Berea and Athens are detailed in Acts 17:10-21
[7] Jason is mentioned as influential in the Thessolonian church in Acts 17:1-9
[8] My mentor Dr. Joe Burgess recommended to me a book by Canadian scholar Lee Micheal McDonald entitled The Biblical Canon: Its Origin, Transmission, and Authority published by Baker in 2007
[9] Chapters were added into the Bible with the Wycliffe Translation of 1382. Verses were added by the Geneva translation in 1560 then confirmed within the pages of the King James Bible.
[10] 1 Thessolonians 4:13-15
[11] Intresting commentary by Dr. Richard P. Bucher at the website for Our Redeemer Lutheran Church in Lexington, Kentucky (LCMS). Dr. Bucher's article is entitled "Where Does the Soul Go After Death? (Paradise or Soul Sleep?)
[12] John 11:11
[14] Great comment on this issue by Rick Mason made on May, 31, 2011 for an article written by The Lutheran entitled "The Rapture: Does it Square with Lutheran Theology?"
[15] Matthew 24:36-44
[16] 1 Thessolonians 5:2

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Control protocols are used within audio networks to manage both audio streams and networked audio devices. A number of control protocols for audio devices have been recently developed, including the AES standards AES64-2012 and AES70-2015. Despite these developments, an ontology of control protocol design and implementation does not exist. This paper proposes design and implementation heuristics for control protocols. Different categories of control protocol design and implementation heuristics are presented and the implications of individual heuristics are discussed. These heuristics allow the features provided by different control protocols to be compared and evaluated and provide guidelines for future control protocol development.
It is well known that the placement of absorbent material has an effect on the behavior of ported (reflex) enclosures, even if the acoustic solution of the field inside the enclosure would predict that the pressure field is quite homogeneous and that the flow velocities in the acoustic field are small. A CFD model is used to study this phenomenon, and the results indicate that there is strong vortex formation inside an unlined enclosure even at small volume velocities, and that the presence and the distribution of porous material has a strong effect on these vortices.


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Die Gmina Goniądz ist eine Stadt-und-Land-Gemeinde im Powiat Moniecki der Woiwodschaft Podlachien in Polen. Ihr Sitz ist die gleichnamige Stadt ( Gonionds) mit etwa 1800 Einwohnern.

Gliederung
Die Stadt-und-Land-Gemeinde Goniądz hat eine Fläche von 376,68 km² auf der im Jahr 2016 etwa 5000 Menschen wohnten.

Zur Gemeinde gehören mit der namensgebenden Stadt 28 Schulzenämter: Białosuknia, Budne, Budne-Żarnowo, Dawidowizna, Doły, Downary, Goniądz, Klewianka, Kramkówka Duża, Kramkówka Mała, Krzecze, Łazy, Mierkienniki, Olszowa Droga, Osowiec, Osowiec-Twierdza, Owieczki, Piwowary, Płochowo, Smogorówka Dolistowska, Smogorówka Goniądzka, Szafranki, Uścianek, Wojtówstwo, Wólka Piaseczna und Wroceń.

Verkehr
Die Stadt liegt an der Woiwodschaftsstraße 670 (DW 670), die fünf Kilometer westlich von Goniądz von der Landesstraße 65 (DK 65) abzweigt. Etwa 25 Kilometer östlich von Goniądz kreuzt die DW 670 bei Suchowola die Europastraße 67 (DK 8).

Südlich der Stadt liegt der Haltepunkt Goniądz an der Bahnstrecke Głomno–Białystok, der Bahnhof Osowiec liegt im Gemeindeteil Osowiec-Twierdza. Der nächste internationale Flughafen ist der Frédéric-Chopin-Flughafen Warschau in 190 Kilometer Entfernung.

Persönlichkeiten
 Szymon Budny (1530–1593), Humanist, Bibelübersetzer und Vertreter des Unitarismus; geboren in Budne.

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Live updates: Warriors vs. Lakers, Thursday at…
Live updates: Warriors vs. Lakers, Thursday at 7:30 p.m.
Magic number to clinch Western Conference's top seed sits at 3 for Golden State
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – APRIL 04: Stephen Curry #30 of the Golden State Warriors makes a pass behind his back against Kentavious Caldwell-Pope #1 and JaVale McGee #7 of the Los Angeles Lakers during the first half at Staples Center on April 04, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Yong Teck Lim/Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – APRIL 04: Klay Thompson #11 of the Golden State Warriors shoots the ball against Alex Caruso #4 of the Los Angeles Lakers during the first half at Staples Center on April 04, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Yong Teck Lim/Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – APRIL 04: DeMarcus Cousins #0 of the Golden State Warriors drives to the basket against Rajon Rondo #9 of the Los Angeles Lakers during the first half at Staples Center on April 04, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Yong Teck Lim/Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – APRIL 04: DeMarcus Cousins #0 of the Golden State Warriors shoots the ball against JaVale McGee #7 of the Los Angeles Lakers during the first half at Staples Center on April 04, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Yong Teck Lim/Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – APRIL 04: Quinn Cook #4 of the Golden State Warriors shoots the ball against Mike Muscala #31 of the Los Angeles Lakers during the first half at Staples Center on April 04, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Yong Teck Lim/Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – APRIL 04: Kevin Durant #35 of the Golden State Warriors drives against Kentavious Caldwell-Pope #1 of the Los Angeles Lakers during the first half at Staples Center on April 04, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Yong Teck Lim/Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – APRIL 04: Stephen Curry #30 of the Golden State Warriors celebrates from the bench after a basket against the Los Angeles Lakers by Quinn Cook #4 during the first half at Staples Center on April 04, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Yong Teck Lim/Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – APRIL 04: Kevin Durant #35 of the Golden State Warriors shoots the ball against Johnathan Williams #19 of the Los Angeles Lakers during the first half at Staples Center on April 04, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Yong Teck Lim/Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – APRIL 04: Stephen Curry #30 of the Golden State Warriors drives against Jemerrio Jones #10 of the Los Angeles Lakers during the first half at Staples Center on April 04, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Yong Teck Lim/Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – APRIL 04: LeBron James #23 of the Los Angeles Lakers speaks to Kevin Durant #35 of the Golden State Warriors during a timeout in the first half at Staples Center on April 04, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Yong Teck Lim/Getty Images)
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PUBLISHED: April 4, 2019 at 4:33 p.m. | UPDATED: April 5, 2019 at 4:01 a.m.
Join us Thursday at 7:30 p.m. for live news and analysis when the Warriors face the Lakers in Los Angeles as LeBron James remains sidelined.
The Warriors (53-24) take a Magic Number of 3 into the game and need a combination of three Warriors wins or Denver losses to clinch the top seed in the Western Conference. Golden State has just five games remaining in the regular season.
The Lakers (35-43) have long been eliminated from the playoff hunt and will finish their highly disappointing season with no LeBron James as the L.A. star will miss the final six games while nursing a groin injury.
Still, the Lakers come into the game having won three straight at Staples Center and four of six overall. Oklahoma City, however, handed the Lakers a 119-103 loss on Tuesday when Russell Westbrook notched a double triple-double with 20 points, 20 rebounds and 21 assists.
Golden State, which will rest backup center Andrew Bogut and reserve guard Shaun Livingston, has won two of three meetings with L.A., including a 115-101 victory on Feb. 2 when Klay Thompson scored 28 points.
The Warriors will fly home and take on the Cavaliers in a back-to-back game on Friday night.
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Goannas overpower Japan to set up classification match with Chinese Taipei
The Australian Goannas have powered past Japan in a 93-67 victory at the World Deaf Basketball Championships, setting up a playoff for ninth position against Chinese Taipei tonight.
Utilising a significant height advantage, Australia jumped out of the blocks with Lachlan Jackson owning the boards. After nailing a three-pointer, Mark Bilyj was fouled on consecutive made baskets, hitting the free throws as well to convert nine points in just a few minutes. His spree helped the Goannas to an 11-point margin by quarter-time.
Australia then firmly planted their foot on the accelerator, racing to a 28-point lead at the main break on the back of a 28-5 second term. Alongside Bilyj and Jackson, Patrick Lane and Halil Durnaoglu also asserted their influence on the contest.
Out of half-time, Japan were able to respond with three straight three-pointers. Jordan Woolmer stemmed the flow though, rattling off eight points in the quarter including an impressive tip-in before the Goannas regained their speed and domination on the rebounds to start the fourth period on a 9-0 run.
Ben Morrison, Harry Maggs and even the injured Shane Crick received court-time in the final quarter while Durnaoglu showcased his lockdown defence with three steals as the Goannas strolled to victory.
In another superb performance, Jackson finished with 31 points and 18 rebounds while Bilyj completed the front court pairing with 25 and 10. Williams (12 points), Durnaoglu (11 on perfect 4-4 field goal shooting) and Woolmer (10) also reached double-figures in scoring.
For their final match of the tournament, Australia will face Chinese Taipei with the winner finishing ninth for the tournament. The match will be played at 1900 AEST Friday night.


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Connecting Complaint Filing Processes to Online Resolution Systems
Commercial Law Practitioner, Vol. 10, p. 307, 2003
8 Pages Posted: 3 May 2006
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Thomas Schultz
King's College London; University of Geneva
The use of information technology modifies several aspects of complaints handling systems and dispute resolution mechanisms. The present article reviews some of these modifications by focusing on two specific aspects: complaint filing processes and online dispute resolution systems. The arguments are as follows. Consumer complaint filing processes can play the role of a first step in the resolution of consumer disputes. But when it is unsuccessful and the dispute escalates, then it should connect as smoothly as possible to alternative/online dispute resolution bodies (ADRs and ODRs). This article concerns the various ways in which a complaint filing process can be designed and which methods of ODR it could connect to. It reviews a series of filing forms for ODRs and ADRs and on this basis discusses the pros and cons of various complaint filing processes. Then it reviews the major forms of ODR, to show the variety of dispute resolution procedures a complaint filing process could steer the parties towards. It finally reaches a twofold recommendation as to how a filing process should connect to ODRs; this recommendation is drawn from, on the one hand, the typology of existing filing processes and, on the other hand, the large diversity of existing ODR forms. First, the filing process should make use of a series of interactive filing forms that adapt to the type of dispute that the complaint is about, and these forms should be accompanied by as many automated negotiation tools as possible (generic reminders, standard settlement forms, recurring questions that make the claimant see his dispute in a different light, and so on). Second, a filing process should let the claimant benefit from the whole range of ODR systems, it should be open to (and thus interface with) all forms of ODR, including litigation in small claims cybercourts and court-based ODR.
Keywords: Online dispute resolution, complaints management, consumers, case filing, filing forms
JEL Classification: K4, K40
Schultz, Thomas, Connecting Complaint Filing Processes to Online Resolution Systems. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=898609
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We spent April 2017 – April 2018 traveling North America fulltime in our RV. We'll talk about all of this and share with you where we went in our 12 months on the road, the specifics of our journey, our expenses en-route etc. and it'll all be accompanied by tons of great photos (US, Canada & Mexico).
We then had an awesome bicycle adventure, followed by a thru-hike of the Colorado Trail.
Currently, we reside in the US Southwest and post lots from here and we're readying for a thru-hike of the 800 mile Arizona Trail this Fall.
This website will also act as a great resource for anyone looking for Florida travel information, as this was our home base for the past few years. We spend tons of time on & in the water – salt & fresh – and friends are always asking, how we know about all the great spots they see us enjoying in our photos.
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From December 29th to 31st you can enjoy a variety of music at the Snowglobe Music Festival at Lake Tahoe. Music lovers come from far and wide to listen to the various artists taking part in this unique festival, which is now an annual event.
Held at the South Lake Tahoe Community College, the festival covers music styles from indie to jazz. In the past this event has attracted performers such as Beats Antique, Laidback Luke and Wiz Khalifa; however, the event is also a chance for you to find out more about up-and-coming artists and pick out your own stars of the future.
The bad news is that tickets for the Snowglobe Music Festival move quickly and you will have to do the same if you do not want to miss out. The cost of a three-day pass to the festival starts at around $155, with other ticket options available. Book as far in advance as you can to avoid disappointment.
As the event is family-friendly, you can even take the kids along. You are sure to meet people of all ages here. If you want to treat yourself to an upgrade, there is a VIP pass that costs around $450. This includes extras such as an open bar – heated, no less! – a shuttle pass, access to the festival's VIP area, and champagne on New Year's Eve so that you can toast the arrival of 2015.


According to the study, developed by Yahoo, Mindshare, and Added Value, marketers must understand the nuances between the two generations of Hispanics, and how acculturation affects their preferences. The findings stress the notion of how the majority of the Latino population is second generation, American born, and bilingual/English speaking.
Latinos do nurture ethnicity more than other segments. This is manifested through a series of behaviors like exposing their children to their Latino background, trying to get in touch with their Hispanic identity, feeling very comfortable as it relates to their ethnicity, and being part of activities/traditions that celebrate their heritage.
When it comes to generation breakdown, there are some differences that marketers need to consider. Let's take identity and values, for example.
First-generation Latino behavior is much more influenced by ethnicity. Their Latino background plays a major role when it comes to feelings about their individuality, religion, and values. It also affects how they socialize (neighborhoods, close circle of friends, etc.) and other behaviors (eating habits, celebrations, vacations, etc.). For second-generation Latinos, ethnicity is more about outward expression and bicultural in nature.
Content plays an important yet different role. First-generation Hispanics seek content that is in Spanish language and speaks to their ethnicity for topics like news, entertainment, and food. Second-generation Hispanics are more sensitive to how their ethnicity is portrayed in the media.
Second-generation Latinos have a stronger civic commitment. They care about the role Latinos are playing in today's American society. They are very involved in discussions about Latinos' role in the elections, immigration debates, etc. They want to play a major (influential) role and want to make sure that they are taken into consideration.
Overall, it seems that marketers have a long way to go in order to better impact Latino audiences. For different reasons, both first- and second-generations feel they aren't being represented or spoken to in the right way.
This reminds me of a controversy that happened a couple of weeks ago around a proposal to recreate a mural on the walls of the Mission Drive-In Theater in San Antonio, Texas. The images, one of a Mexican sitting asleep against the wall with his sombrero covering his face and another with a stereotypical Mexican posing with a burro, backfired. Sometimes marketers, in trying to connect with Latinos, get hooked with their own stereotypes and generate negative reactions rather than relevance.
A successful Latino marketing strategy should be built on a common thread: what are the attitudes and behaviors – related to your product category – that bring Latinos together?
A sense of pride, identity, and authenticity (the world I live in) are important for all Latinos.
Authenticity is key. Choosing an authentic Hispanic spokesperson, rather than a well-known spokesperson, is relevant to all Latinos.
Latinos crave ethnic-specific marketing messages, yet portraying an appropriate level of diversity in advertising is critical.
If done right, Hispanics will talk about advertising positively, but they will also be quick to call out negative portrayals.
For first-generation Hispanics: speak in their language and make sure to authentically represent their ethnicity.
For second-generation Hispanics, you need to portray them as part of a bigger whole: represent diversity in general messaging and show how Latinos are influencing the mainstream. Don't address them simply as Latinos: talk to their whole bicultural identity.
First-generations want Latino content, second-generations want mainstream content but with a Latino flavor.
Ask second-generation Latinos. See if they find this kind of behavior to be authentic.


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There are many different type of connector were used on old CNC CRT monitor. With limited equipments and technical skills, the easiest way to identify the pin out would be going by color coded wire as show on above photo. We can also help you to identify them if you email us few images about your old CRT wire harness(techsupport@lcdparts.net).
All our universal kits come with one color coded DB9-male with wires, one DB9 female and one DB9 male connectors.
Press - or + to select such as H-Position, V-Position, Width, and height adjustment.
Step 4: Save and Exit: Save all the parameters and exit the menu.
Note 1: If the screen shows elongated, and the overflow to the bottom of the screen, change scanning to Progressive Scan; if the adjustment of the vertical position to a maximum, the image display is still only half of the display, then change scanning mode to: interlaced scan (Interlaced).
Note 2 input impedance; select the input source impedance than with select 750 in Europe, relatively light, if you choose all 750 European white side, you should choose for the 75 euro.
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by Evan Powell
Notes on Infocomm 2008
The projection industry came together again last week at the tandem events of Insight Media's Projection Summit, and the Infocomm 2008 trade show in Las Vegas. I've compiled a few notes on the most memorable developments from those events ...
• As always, many new commercial and education products were released. As we are able to get enough specifications to report, they are being entered into the database. You can find many of them in the NewsWatch section, and in the projector database.
• Extreme short throw projectors have been a rarity until now, but at this show they were hot items. New short throw models were released by BenQ, Hitachi, 3M, Mitsubishi, and Sanyo to name a few. These are being targeted primarily toward the education market.
• Though Infocomm is not a home theater show, Mitsubishi released two new home theater projectors, the HC5500 and the HC1600. Reviews on both models will be forthcoming as soon as we can get production units.
• Samsung and Joe Kane were showing their latest home theater projector, the SP-A800B. This model was announced at last year's CEDIA show, but just started shipping this spring.
• Canon released the world's first WUXGA (1920x1200) projector using its LCOS technology, the WUX10. The company also introduced a new SXGA+ model, the SX80. We will be reviewing the SX80 shortly.
• There were several new widescreen business projectors in 1280x800 format. To find all the projectors currently available in this resolution, go to Find Projectors and selection WXGA (1280x800) in the resolution drop down list. There are actually two very similar WXGA formats, the other being 1280x768.
• Sanyo announced 4LCD technology, a proprietary spin on conventional 3LCD that includes a fourth panel. Information as to how this actually works was a bit fuzzy as patents are pending and the company was not anxious to be too specific. But the demonstration showed a conventional XGA resolution LCD projector side by side with the same model upgraded with the 4LCD light engine, and the results were impressive-much richer color, with more vibrant reds and warm hues. It will be interesting to see how this new implementation of LCD rolls out in Sanyo's upcoming product releases. We are anxious to see more of it.
• Texas Instruments demo'd a prototype DLP projector with a long life LED light source. The picture looked great and very high in contrast and color saturation, but it was a bit dim. But after all, it was a prototype, and the demo showed significant promise of LED as a future light source. Certainly we will be hearing much more of this over the coming year.
• Texas Instruments also set up a demo to illustrate what they called the "burn in" problems on LCD projectors. While LCD projectors do not really burn in and cause permanent damage as can happen on CRT and plasma displays, they do have what is called image persistence. This is a tendency to retain the ghost of a static image that has been maintained for a long period of time on an LCD display. Unlike traditional burn in on CRT and plasma products, image persistence is temporary and can be reversed if it occurs. We are replicating the demo staged by TI to see what sort of results we get, and we will report to you once we have tested several LCD products under a variety of potential conditions that could cause the effect. TI is certainly correct to draw attention to the potential for image persistence on LCD projectors since it is a phenomenon that does not occur on DLP products. We hope with some further testing here we can describe the circumstances that it can occur, and the steps one can take to alleviate the problem if it does.
• At the Projection Summit, Tim Anderson from 3LCD called for the adoption of a new industry standard brightness specification that would measure Color Brightness. This specification would, according to Anderson, be a more informative metric for consumers than the current industry convention of measuring a projector's maximum white light in terms of ANSI lumens. The proposal is to include a Color Brightness spec along with the traditional ANSI lumen measurement.
The rationale for this is that 3-channel projection systems, whether 3-panel LCD or 3-chip LCOS or 3-chip DLP, rely upon the sum total of red, green, and blue light to create white. On the other hand, most (but not all) single-chip DLP projectors add a white segment in the color wheel, thereby overlaying additional white light onto the red, green, and blue information. The result is a brighter projector, but one in which the color gamut is compromised. 3LCD's argument is that the consumer is unable to discern from the traditional ANSI lumen specifications on DLP projectors that color dynamics have often been compromised in order to achieve higher brightness specs. Their proposed Color Brightness metric would allegedly help bring the issue to the attention of the consumer, as well as level the playing field in lumen specs.
Texas Instrument's representative speaking in response stated that 3LCD's proposal to measure the actual sum of red, green, and blue components of light was itself not an accurate way to measure DLP-based products, and that a new lumen metric would likely create more confusion than clarity on the issue. TI's position was that the conventional ANSI lumen standard was sufficient, and that no new metric was needed.
In our opinion, both 3LCD and Texas Instruments have valid points that need to be taken into account. While the Color Brightness specification proposed by 3LCD has its own limitations and may not be a universal solution, it would certainly not be any less informative or misleading than the current ANSI lumen standard which is unable to represent competing technologies on an equal footing. Ultimately, some sort of Color Brightness specification would raise the consumer's awareness of this important issue.
Certainly, there will be more to come on this topic, as it represents a clash between the DLP and LCD titans over a vital issue in projector systems performance and specs.


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Bernier's new party draws first public backers
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OTTAWA — A dragon, a marijuana activist and a former Tory MP who backed maverick MP Maxime Bernier's leadership campaign are now throwing their weight behind his fledgling new political party.
Bernier, who spent much of the last year butting heads with Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer over party policy on supply management, announced last month he was leaving the Conservatives to start his own party. While he has touted having several prominent people behind him, nobody has come forward publicly until now.
Former Dragon's Den personality and merchant banker Michael Wekerle, well-known pot activist Marc Emery and former British Columbia Conservative MP Gurmant Grewal all tell The Canadian Press they are backing Bernier's adventure.
Wekerle says he's impressed by Bernier because he's "very true to his word."
"What he says is what he does is what he believes in. He's a politician yet he doesn't wade outside his core principles and for me, I thought that was very impressive," said Wekerle. Wekerle said he believes Bernier has "Canadian interests at heart" and also called Bernier "very Canadian."
The pair met about five years ago at a social event and Wekerle said he has praise for Bernier for putting himself out there.
"I think that really takes a lot of strength, a lot of valour," he said, adding that he will donate to Bernier's campaign and encourage others to support him.
Bernier says he raised more than $90,000 in less than two weeks to support his new party and intends to announce the new name and logo later this week. He hopes to have the signatures and other paperwork required to register the new party with Elections Canada later this fall, with a view to being prepared for the 2019 federal election.
Wekerle reiterated that Bernier is "consistent" and suggested that's unusual in politics.
"His policies don't change. He doesn't go with the wind. He says what he feels and I might not agree with all his policies but at least he's been consistent," he said, adding that he respects leaders who lead by example and lead by consistency.
Grewal, a Conservative MP between 1997 and 2006, said while he played a key role in merging the Reform Party and the Progressive Conservative Party, the new party has "lost touch" with grassroots members and is run by "inexperienced kids."
"They became arrogant, the leadership became arrogant," he said.
Bernier, said Grewal, is a grassroots member with good leadership qualities and vision.
He said if Bernier asks him to run as a candidate, he will.
"That will be a decision made later on," he said, adding that for now his energy is focused on rallying members to support Bernier.
Grewal said he would also help Bernier with ethnic outreach, saying he had some success in that in the past.
"I have been very helpful in the past. I was one of the first minority candidates of the Reform Party way back in 1996, I played a significant role in the outreach with minority communities, ethnic communities not only in British Columbia but also across the country," he said.
Emery, another supporter of Bernier's leadership bid, said that he donated $1000 to Bernier's campaign and that he "totally" endorses everything Bernier says and does.
"I've never seen anything I disagree with," he said.
Emery acknowledged that creating a new party is a "herculean task" but he said Bernier has a massive database of people who supported his leadership bid and he wants to help his campaign.
"I don't even know if it has a name yet but I'm excited about it."
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A: the below code will return you 2 works as you wished for.
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console.log("You will get two objects returned here" + filteredArrayOfObjects)

and here it is filtering array of objects based on condition, not array of array.

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I Thought Capitalism was Dead!
What bothers me about education in North America is how it's designed to make people think in a given way: Africans were slaves but Europeans we "indentured servants"; Malcolm X was bad but Martin Luther King was good; Middle Easterners are not 'white' but Jesus, who was born there is bizarrely 'white'…
Children and the less-informed public are indoctrinated in a painfully sinister manner so much so that those who take great initiatives to be autodidactic cringe in horror. I feel sorry for a crowd of young people being indoctrinated in the name of 'education.' Admittedly, there are professions where strict protocols are undeniably imperative. However, in professions where critical thinking is important, being indoctrinated becomes a philosophical and epistemic disaster.
A day after Iowa primaries, David Deming, a professor at the University of Oklahoma (in a somewhat McCathysmic tone and style), wrote a bizarre, polemical Op-Ed criticizing youth attraction to Bernie Sanders' socialist ideas. In a very close-minded, uncritical manner, the good professor wrote:
"Socialism is a dead end. For hundreds of years, it has failed everywhere it's been adopted. The enthusiasm of our youth for the candidacy of Bernie Sanders is a symptom of our failure to educate them, not only in history, government and economics, but also basic morality."
This is an overly simplistic way in which some North American educators rationalize capitalism above socialism and communism. Such a naïve rationale contends that capitalism won in 1989 against socialism and communism. Really? Why are people this credulous? Educational agendas like these make me scared of some western scholars, who allow political emotions to take over their critical faculties. Even my seven-year-old would see that what's giving the so-called capitalism life are socialist and communist ideas. What I call "keeping the lit on the revolution container!"
Besides, how can a university professor fail to see a difference between human weakness and the practice of an ideology? This example might help! Many African countries have what they call 'democracy'; however, we know very well that such fake democracies are complete sham because the tribal majority always wins or the leadership rigs elections to stay in power. This is by no means, as Mr. Deming would agree, a failure of democracy as it's a failure of human weakness in a democratic practice. These leaders win with 90% (even 100% in Ethiopia) and call it 'democracy!' Admittedly, Socialism and Communism have their weaknesses just like capitalism; however, why's the above mentioned rationale not applied to capitalism? "Because we say so!"
But seriously! That killers like Stalin, Pol Pot and other communist leaders, who twisted socialist and communist ideas for personal gratification, are counted as the embodiment of socialism and communism failure is more political than factual. How is it that we don't attribute the ills committed by capitalists against the poor, who work for them, as a failure or immorality of capitalism? To say that only ideas we don't like are the ones that are bad and we have to look away from the ills attributable to ideas we like is a bizarre way to claim a moral upper hand.
Marlcolm X, Martin Luther King, Bob and John Kennedy, were not killed in a socialist society! Slavery and Jim Crow were not products of a socialist society! Saying that young people are not taught history and that's why they embrace socialist ideas of Sanders when we are selective in terms of the history we teach, is bizarre.
Noam Klein has demonstrated in her book, Shock Therapy: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, how Milton Friedman ideologues of the 'Chicago School' stock benefited from the suffering of the poor. This is moral, right?
What's moral about what capitalists did in Chile with the 'Chicago Boys?' In South America and Central America, democratically elected leaders were removed because they refused to let capitalist 'moralists' exploit the poor.
Any sane human being with a mind and a heart that functionally cares, and who has watched The Corporation (documentary) would think twice about a blanket declaration of morality of capitalism. Mr. Deming should talk to people whose lives have been turned upside down by capitalism. The collapse of the factory building in Bangladesh is a good example. Apartheid in South Africa was supported by capitalist west. The Nazis had an amazing help from American and European corporations. Yet someone has the shameless nerves to talk of the morality of capitalism! Just because you don't experience the ills of capitalism, it doesn't mean they don't exist.
But that's not the most bizarre and worrying thing about fanatical evangelists of capitalism. They keep on claiming that socialism and capitalism ended in 1989. Really? Any educated man and woman with rational capacity can easily see the fallacy in this kind of purposed way of thinking.
Karl Marx warned against the collapse of capitalism. What do you think capitalists did with Marx's warning? Did they ignore it? It's really funny that people ignore socialist and communist ideas that make the supposed capitalist economies survive. To say that what we have now in North America is capitalism is to bury one's head in the mud. It's to be ignorantce-intixocated!
Are trade unions capitalist ideas? No! They are ways to keep workers from rebelling! Trade unions are socialism-inspired capitalist tools to keep workers in check. In addition, in America, we have food stamp, Medicare, Medicaid, interest rate control, stimulus packages (2008), the infamous 'New Deal' and "Corporate Welfare"! In Canada we have employment insurance, universal health care, social assistance, among other things.
These socialist ideas are the things keeping the so-called capitalism from collapsing entirely. They are the lifeline of this socio-capitalist economy being christened as capitalist. Basically, capitalism collapsed in 1920s and 1930s and that collapse was authenticated in 2008 with the stock market crash. What we have is nominal capitalism, a fact that act as a consolation for fanatics of capitalism. The 'invisible hand' of Adam Smith is actually visible! We are in a blended economy: Socialism and Capitalism.
Now, this bizarre idea, that making young people embrace socialist ideas is morally challenged is a thinking of a Martian. Some Americans think as if they came from Mars. How does the passion and care Sander exudes qualify as 'moral failing' if some Americans weren't from another planet?
"Socialism isn't so much a legitimate economic system as it is a moral failing. It will always exist because ignorant people will always want something for nothing," wrote Mr. Deming.
So Canadians, Australians and the European countries with free health care are ignorant! So Germans with free university are ignorant! Thio! So corporations that benefit from government money are ignorant? And this thinking is from a university professor!
First, Sanders cites viable examples that have nothing to do with any moral failings. Why is Mr. Deming stuck in the past with the political failures of people like Stalin? How about the Scandinavian countries, Australia and other Europeans countries? Germany has now declared free university for all! Is this a moral failing? Are they ignorant!
Why are Americans, learned or not, fond of discriminatory imagination? Sanders is only calling for fair treatment of American citizens not hand-outs! When will Americans grow up and remove their heads from the cold war propaganda? It's actually ignorant to stick to the past as the world is moving ahead. It's 2016 not 1900s! The likes of Deming will continue to stress themselves given the fact that they're stuck in the past! The anger inherent in the Op-Ed leaves a lot to be desired.
And what's immoral about helping kids get public education free of charge or at a minimal cost? What's the "moral failing" in saying that all Americans need free health care? It's really bizarre that Americans see caring for others as a 'moral failing.' What happened to America?
To say that young people are embracing Sanders' socialist ideas because of failure of education is right in a way. These youngsters may have seen the way they've been indoctrinated so they've started to fish out the lie. They've seen through the lie which they've been taught for generations. And no wonder these kids are taught by the likes of David Deming!
ON CULTURAL IDENTITY & BELONGING
Dear Melbournians, the South Sudanese people to be precise. Do you think we have seen it all? Do you think we have seen that: I mean in the aftermath of yesteryears, in regard to our culture and the notions around identity and belonging? Do you think we have seen the true reaping of what we sowed years ago? Do you really think so? After all, did we really sow anything like seeds and that there's something to be reaped? Did we really live it out well to be seen today?
I am sorry to have bothered you, my potential readers, with questions regarding our social, economic, and political location in our host society: Australia. I think we have not seen it all and as a whole: The idea that people are bound by certain values and beliefs of significance to them. This requires cooperation and role-specific obligations on the roles of every man and woman across a given people and their society.
TOLERANCE & INCLUSION
While it is possible for us to racially discriminate or judge people we know, the chances of judging people we know diminish significantly the more we know them. An easy example of the importance of understanding others is the attitude people develop when they want to harm others or when they want to deny them something valuable. Essentially, before you fight someone, you insult them. Insults are attempts at diminishing the value of people, an attempt at estranging them, as Toni Morrison argued in The Origin of Others. It is easy to discriminate against strangers or make others strangers or dehumanized in order to discriminate against them.
Transformational Leadership, Inclusive Institutions and Service Provision
Leadership, given what is happening now in South Sudan, and generally in Africa, fascinates me. And it fascinates me not in a good way but because of the sociopolitical and socioeconomic ills facing the African continent and most of the so-called 'Third World.' To me, South Sudan, now, is a classic case.
Rebellion by disaffected politico-military leaders and repression by the government of South Sudan in Juba have stunted institutional development and leadership growth. This has made service provision almost irrelevant as political survival has taken primacy and supremacy. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE
'Black' as an Identity Oversimplification and Mockery
Black as a universalized cultural identity of the African Person (AP)* is a residual effect of slave and colonial mentality; a racial/race paradigm. It is a malady I call, conservatively speaking, stuck-in-the-past syndrome of color constraints. Black could be an on-the-street 'social identifier' of race figures not a meaningful phenomenon of deep cultural identification on a universal scale.
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May 27, 2018 - Race permeates our society and it affects almost all aspects of our lives, private or public. Whether we embrace it or dismiss it, it continues to rare its ugly head any time issues of interest come up. It's controversial and some people prefer that we don't talk about it not for what it means but for what it does. But nothing can get solved if not discussed. It's the way of the world.
THE INTERNAL ROADS IN JUBA ARE DEPLORABLE
May 27, 2018 - Juba town is the seat of the National Government. The host is Jubek state Government. With the decentralized system of governance adopted, we have a municipality administrative unit running the affairs of Juba. Simply put, if there is anything that does not go well in Juba town and its surroundings, it is the Municipality that bears the blame for what may be a dereliction of duty. Now, if you see the internal roads, they are deplorable and impassable.
TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP, INCLUSIVE INSTITUTIONS ANS SERVICE PROVISION
April 11, 2018 - Leadership, given what is happening now in South Sudan, and generally in Africa, fascinates me. And it fascinates me not in a good way but because of the sociopolitical and socioeconomic ills facing the African continent and most of the so-called 'Third World.' To me, South Sudan, now, is a classic case.
Rebellion by disaffected politico-military leaders and repression by the government of South Sudan in Juba have stunted institutional development and leadership growth.
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Advance Research on Endocrinology and Metabolism (ISSN: 2689-8209)
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Why Do Scientists Call for an Action against Vitamin D Deficiency and What is Behind the Scene?
Aiman Ahmad Al-Farwi*
Corresponding Author: Dr. Aiman Ahmad Al-Farwi, MD, Ma Lab-Med, MSc Immunopharmacology, Spec. MCB, PhD Clinical Biochemistry, Department of Clinical Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Andalus University for Medical Sciences, Tartus, Syria
Received: February 22, 2019; Revised: September 13, 2019; Accepted: October 12, 2019
Citation: Al-Farwi AA. (2019) Why Do Scientists Call for an Action against Vitamin D Deficiency and What is Behind the Scene? Adv Res Endocrinol Metab, 1(1): 30-32.
Copyrights: ©2019 Al-Farwi AA. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Vitamin D deficiency is a worldwide epidemic and 40-75% of the world's population is vitamin D deficient. Vitamin D is a hormone not just a vitamin where its intracellular receptors found in almost all body cells, bone, muscle, stomach, intestine, central nerve system, endocrine system, kidney, liver, lungs, heat, blood vessels soft tissues, skin and the root of a hair.
Vitamin D deficiency is a worldwide epidemic and 40-75% of the world's population is vitamin D deficient. Vitamin D is a hormone not just a vitamin where its intracellular receptors found in almost all body cells, bone, muscle, stomach, intestine, central nerve system, endocrine system, kidney, liver, lungs, heat, blood vessels soft tissues, skin and the root of a hair. Vitamin D is called "the sunshine vitamin"; it is synthesized by our body through exposing our skin to sunshine during the midday. The UVB (ultra-violet B-light) converts cholesterol (7-dehydrocholstero) in our skin to the inactive cholecalciferol (Vitamin D3), which will then be activated by the liver and kidney.
Through our whole body cells, vitamin D plays a pivotal role in our metabolic pathways by regulating hundreds of our genes in a cell-specific pattern. The function of vitamin D is totally dependent on our body cells types and it plays different roles all over our body organs and tissues:
· Increases Calcium, Phosphate and Magnesium intestinal absorption. The direct action of vitamin D is approved on increasing our bone strength and density to protect against rickets in children as well as osteomalacia in adults. Having said that, however, the relationship between vitamin D deficiency and osteoporosis and fall in the elderlies, is well documented with the evidence-based medical studies.
· Inhibits cell growth, angiogenesis and cell differentiation and protects against cancer (breast, colon, prostrate).
· Plays anti-oxidative and neuroprotective role and prevents schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, dementia, autism and depression.
· Modulates immune system and reduces inflammation and protects from multiple sclerosis, lupus and arthritis.
· Affects smooth muscle tone, endothelium and cardiomyocytes and protects from cardiovascular disease, hypertension and stroke.
· Controls glucose metabolism and prevents diabetes mellitus type 1 and 2 by protecting and increasing pancreatic β-cell function and insulin sensitivity.
· Increases neuromuscular stability and prevents musculoskeletal pain, myofascial pain and myopathy.
· Stimulates the immune system to fight against TB, bacterial, fungal and viral infections.
WHY DO SCIENTISTS CALL FOR AN ACTION AGAINST VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY?
Vitamin D scientists and experts call for an urgent action against vitamin D deficiency and consider it as a public health issue. They urge to raise public awareness of harnessing the sun's power for our health. Sun provides 90-95% of our vitamin D daily requirement in comparison with 5-10 % obtained by food. Some scientists see the possibility of reducing the incidence of many diseases by 20-50%, if the deficiency of vitamin D is overcome.
In USA, many healthcare societies and committees call for an action to alert the public about the importance of keeping vitamin D serum levels between 40 to 60 ng/ml (100-150 nmol/l). They supported their action by accumulating evidence-based published articles assuring that, vitamin D level of 40-60 ng/ml has preventive role, not just from bone diseases, but also against cancer, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, Alzheimer, multiple sclerosis, autism, psoriasis, preeclampsia, gestational depression, etc. In 2012, Luxolda showed that our ancestors had an average of 46 ng/ml of vitamin D in their blood.
WHAT IS BEHIND THE SCENE?
These days there is still a big debate about what is vitamin D sufficiency versus deficiency among healthcare entities, on the national and international levels. In USA, there are different policies by many heath organizations and bodies regarding vitamin D deficiency versus sufficiency and recommended daily intake. After the testing of vitamin D (25-hydroxy cholecalciferol), we must understand the value of its blood level to have an action. Vitamin D blood level tell us how much vitamin D supplements we need daily or how much time we should expose to sunlight daily to reach the desired blood level. Different American health organizations and bodies use different reference ranges to illustrate the meaning of vitamin D deficiency, insufficiency or sufficiency.
The following table represents deficient, insufficient, or sufficient vitamin D blood level in nanogram/milliliter (ng/ml) among different US healthcare entities such as IOM (Institute of Medicine), American Endocrine Society, Vitamin D Council. The Table 1 illustrates the contradictions between these societies in terms of sufficient versus deficient. Also, it explains why the recommended daily allowance is different among them.
IU (INTERNATIONAL UNIT)
Scientists and experts illustrated that, the IOM report concerning the Recommended Dietary Intakes of 600 IU/day of vitamin D is below their expectations. They commented that this dietary intake will just protect 99% of children of having rickets and will satisfy their sufficient vitamin D level of 20 ng/ml. Others said that the IOM got it wrong in term of vitamin D and they have to increase their dietary allowance by 2-5 times. Also, in his review to IOM statistics, Dr. Veuglers showed that the IOM estimate was wrong in terms of their recommended dietary intakes (RDI). He found that, 600 IU/day of Vitamin D did not give 97.5% of the population the 20 ng/ml level in their blood and just 50% of them satisfied this level.
The American Endocrine Society recommended for 30-100 ng/ml to be sufficient and less than 20 ng/ml to be insufficient. This society urges to have 2000 IU/day of vitamin D supplements aiming to keep the vitamin D blood level 30 ng/ml or above. However, Vitamin D Council suggests that 50 ng/ml is the ideal level for everyone. For this reason, they recommend that the adults should take 5000 IU/day of vitamin D supplements to reach and maintain their targeted level (40-80 ng/ml).
In the end, although there are still gaps between different healthcare bodies, taking an action against vitamin D deficiency by having higher doses than the recommended daily intake is better than not. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) reported in 2010 that taking 4000 IU/day of vitamin D can be considered a safe upper intake level for adults aged 19 and older. Moreover, American Endocrine Society and Vitamin D Council indicate 10,000 IU/day is considered safe and with no observed adverse effect.
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#include <condition_variable>
#include <iostream>
#include <mutex>
#include <signal.h>
#include <memory>

#ifdef _WIN32
#include <Winsock2.h>
#endif /* _WIN32 */
#include "tcp_server.h"
/**/

std::condition_variable cv;

void
signint_handler(int) {
	cv.notify_all();
}

void
on_new_message(const std::shared_ptr<tcp_client>& client, const tcp_client::read_result& res) {
	if (res.success) {
		std::cout << "Client recv data" << std::endl;
		client->async_write({ res.buffer, nullptr });
		client->async_read({ 1024, std::bind(&on_new_message, client, std::placeholders::_1) });
	}
	else {
		std::cout << "Client disconnected" << std::endl;
		client->disconnect();
	}
}

int
main(void) {
#ifdef _WIN32
	//! Windows netword DLL init
	WORD version = MAKEWORD(2, 2);
	WSADATA data;

	if (WSAStartup(version, &data) != 0) {
		std::cerr << "WSAStartup() failure" << std::endl;
		return -1;
	}
#endif // _WIN32

	tcp_server s;
	s.start("127.0.0.1", 3001, [](const std::shared_ptr<tcp_client>& client) -> bool {
		std::cout << "New client" << std::endl;
		client->async_read({ 1024, std::bind(&on_new_message, client, std::placeholders::_1) });
		return true;
	});

	signal(SIGINT, &signint_handler);

	std::mutex mtx;
	std::unique_lock<std::mutex> lock(mtx);
	cv.wait(lock);

#ifdef _WIN32
	WSACleanup();
#endif // _WIN32

	return 0;
}
/**/