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Ireland can capitalise on the momentum of ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 with planned preparation for the longer format
Ireland can capitalise on the momentum of ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 with planned preparation for the long
Ireland has not played any First-Class game since December 2013.
Updated : March 17, 2015 11:57 AM IST
"In the soft grey silence he could hear the bump of the balls: and from here and from there through the quiet air the sound of the cricket bats: pick, pack, pock, puck; like drops of water in a fountain falling softly in the brimming bowl."— A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce © Getty Images
The Ireland side has dazzled one and all through their impressive showing in ICC Cricket World Cup 2015. Arunabha Sengupta charts the long history of the game in the land and discusses if the time is ripe for them to move to the next level.
In the early 1970s, Alec Reid, a former drama critic of the Irish Times, was less than sanguine about his country and its prospects in the noble game.
"With cricket the Irishman finds himself in a peculiar position," he wrote. "Speaking the native tongue of Grace and Graveney, of Cardus and Arlott, he takes the terms like 'silly point' or 'backward short leg' in his stride; sharing the same climatic context he can appreciate the problems of a green wicket on the first morning, or a crumbling pitch on the last afternoon; yet the mystique of the game remains a closed book to him."
With cricket the Irishman finds himself in a peculiar position — Alec Reid
It is curious to note his pessimism, because not many seasons ago the Irish cricketers had trapped a less-than-full-strength yet intimidating West Indian side on a damp wicket and had humiliated them. Reid's bleak view of cricket in Ireland was ostensibly due to the Irish apathy for the sport — a trait that he linked to Wordsworth's Peter Bell, "A primrose by a river brim/ A yellow primrose was to him/ And it was nothing more." As far as cricket was concerned, to the Irish it was just a silly game. London in spirit, it seemed, was far closer to Sydney than Dublin.
It was sad, really, to note the lack of enthusiasm. There is evidence enough that the game was extremely popular in the land in the 17th century. Indeed, in 1656 Oliver Cromwell ordered the destruction of all bats and balls in Dublin, and a large number of such equipment was burnt by the Common Hangman.
Cricket did make a comeback in the land in 1792. The first recorded match was played at the Phoenix Park, Dublin in the month of August. The contest was for a wager of 500 guineas a side, and had been born out of 'an expression thrown out a few nights previously at a convivial party by Lieutenant Colonel Lennox of the 35th and immediately taken up by the Right Honourable Robert Hobart, Secretary at War.' The Dublin Garrison defeated All Ireland by an innings. Freeman's Journal reported that it was more of a social occasion than sport, that the Viceroy's lady lost 10 guineas by betting on All Ireland, and that the game of cricket is, in England, what hurling is in Ireland.
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Those were interesting times for globalisation of the game. A year later in 1793, Mr Hope, a Dutch merchant based out of Amsterdam, was witnessed playing cricket in Rome.
However, to return to Ireland, the game developed for the next century or so. Spreading first to garrison towns Kilkenny to Ballinasloe, it made its way to the houses of the gentry, especially around Dublin.
Of course, it never became widely popular. Even before the potato famine, there were no village greens to speak of. Unlike their English counterparts, the landed gentry of Ireland faced off against the peasants in confrontations way more serious and lacking in fellow-feeling than cricket matches. However, the sport did flourish to a great extent, and there was also a decent cricket annual — John Lawrence's Handbook of Cricket in Ireland — which ran from 1865-6 to 1880-1.
However, after this, the stage was left to Charles Stewart Parnell and his land agitation. Although Parnell was himself a cricket lover, his movement brought about the curious thought process that cricket was an alien game, a sport for the English or the Anglo-Irish but not for the true Irishman.
An Irish side toured USA and Canada in 1879. Around the same time, WG Grace himself spoke as President in a conference of the Filed Sports Section of the British Association held in Dublin, and paid handsome compliments to the standards attained by the Gentlemen of Ireland. However, due to the nationalist movement, the growth of the game was killed in the 1880s.
Samuel Beckett remains the only Nobel Laureate to play First-Class cricket © Getty Images
Cricket, however, did find a way into the culture of the land. "In the soft grey silence he could hear the bump of the balls: and from here and from there through the quiet air the sound of the cricket bats: pick, pack, pock, puck; like drops of water in a fountain falling softly in the brimming bowl," wrote James Joyce in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. In Finnegan's Wake, he went further, conjuring up spectacular puns on the names of several cricketers. And the other great Irish writer, Samuel Beckett, remains the only Nobel Prize winner to have played First-Class cricket.
But the growth of the game itself remained stunted.
Yes, some persevering Irishmen did keep the flame burning. Tours took place once in a while, and annual matches were held against the Scots. Grace's London County was thrashed by 238 runs. The All Ireland League was kicked off in 1966, under the sponsorship of spirit itself in the form of Guinness. The West Indians were crushed after being bowled out for 25 at Sion Mills in 1969. But, as Reid maintained, cricket seldom rose above the status of just a silly game.
The resurgence
The Associate Membership was obtained in 1993. Hansie Cronje played in the land in 1997, and Pakistan was defeated in the 2007 World Cup, England in the 2011 edition, and Bangladesh and Zimbabwe were outplayed in the interim.
Come the championship in 2015, West Indies were beaten at Nelson and Zimbabwe at Hobart. The green brigade could not get to the next round, but came close. The two victories over Test playing nations were two more than the number achieved by their illustrious neighbours England. They would have perhaps done better, and England worse, if men like the England captain Eoin Morgan had not crossed the border in order to play international cricket.
In 2012, Cricket Ireland chief executive Warren Deutrom declared that Ireland intended to play Test cricket by 2020. Men like Jason Gillespie thought it more than possible. And when the side defeated the West Indians in the World Cup, Michael Holding voiced that one need not wait that long.
By now, it does seem the nation is throbbing with potential and not a little desire. There are more than 50,000 registered cricketers in the land, a number that has doubled in the last four years. Alec Reid's apprehension about the apathy towards the game may be a thing of the past. Ireland has shown that they can stand shoulder to shoulder with and even taller than some of the more accomplished Test sides. There have, after all, been stalwarts like the O'Brien brothers — Kevin and Niall, Ed Joyce, and William Porterfield, and of course, the man who had started it all in the modern era — Trent Johnston.
Perhaps results in the shorter version of the game can be misleading. After all, Ireland has not played any First-Class game since December 2013, and even before that every season has seen them turn out in just a paltry handful of matches. We have also seen how dangerous it can be to grant Test status based on one or two high-profile victories against Test playing nations — especially if there is no structured domestic First-Class framework in the land.
It will probably be the best for the new cricketing nation to leverage this momentum and enthusiasm and make their wait for the Test status worthwhile by planning a proper First-Class calendar and playing as many full games in the longer version as possible.
If the signs and symptoms displayed in the World Cup are anything to go by, with a well designed plan the team will soon develop into a finely tuned weapon even in the longest format. The fans around the cricket world are more than eager to welcome them into the fold.
(Arunabha Sengupta is a cricket historian and Chief Cricket Writer at CricketCountry. He writes about the history and the romance of the game, punctuated often by opinions about modern day cricket, while his post-graduate degree in statistics peeps through in occasional analytical pieces. The author of three novels, he can be followed on Twitter at http://twitter.com/senantix)
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require "spec_helper"

describe TwentyfourSevenOffice::Services::Invoice do
  include Savon::SpecHelper

  before(:all) { savon.mock! }
  after(:all) { savon.unmock! }

  let(:save_invoices_response) { xml_fixture :save_invoices_response }
  let(:save_invoices_error_response) { xml_fixture :save_invoices_error_response }
  let(:session_id) { TwentyfourSevenOffice::DataTypes::SessionId.new(session_id: "abcdefgh") }

  describe "#save" do
    it "saves/creates a single InvoiceOrder" do
      savon.expects(:save_invoices).with(message: {
        invoices: {
          InvoiceOrder: [{ CustomerId: 119566, InvoiceRows: [] }]
        }
      }).returns(save_invoices_response)

      invoice = TwentyfourSevenOffice::DataTypes::InvoiceOrder.new(customer_id: 119566)

      i = TwentyfourSevenOffice::Services::Invoice.new(session_id)
      id = i.save(invoice)

      expect(id).to eq(698)
    end

    it "raises exception if the result contains an APIException" do
      savon.expects(:save_invoices).with(message: {
        invoices: {
          InvoiceOrder: [{ CustomerId: 119566, InvoiceRows: [] }]
        }
      }).returns(save_invoices_error_response)

      invoice = TwentyfourSevenOffice::DataTypes::InvoiceOrder.new(customer_id: 119566)

      i = TwentyfourSevenOffice::Services::Invoice.new(session_id)

      expect { i.save(invoice) }.to raise_error(TwentyfourSevenOffice::Errors::APIError)
    end
  end
end

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Do It Yourself consists of 100 episodes about creative things made by your own hands, which can be used both as fillers and as a self-contained series.
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A pair of improvised tools can perform miracles even at home. Exciting and simple educational videos with vigorous musical accompaniment cannot leave cold both adults and children. The show is perfect for family viewing.
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Fired FBI chief James Comey's book gets lift from Trump's attacks
James Comey's book is to be released on April 17, and he has scheduled a number of interviews on it after nearly a year of silence about his firing.PHOTO: REUTERS
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WASHINGTON (AFP) - Former FBI director James Comey's forthcoming book has shot to the top of Amazon's rankings, helped by President Donald Trump's repeated attacks.
One month before its release, A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies And Leadership hit number one for all books on Amazon's current bestsellers list over the weekend, before slipping back to number two on Monday, still the leading non-fiction book.
That came after Mr Trump labelled him "lying James Comey" on Twitter on Saturday, sparking a rebuttal.
"Mr President, the American people will hear my story very soon. And they can judge for themselves who is honourable and who is not," Comey said on Twitter.
His pointedly titled book is to be released on April 17, and he has scheduled a number of interviews on it after nearly a year of silence about his firing.
Mr Trump sacked Comey last May in frustration over the Federal Bureau of Investigation's probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Comey later released memos he wrote that suggested Mr Trump had pressured him to halt the probe.
Book pre-sales appeared to get a boost when the Justice Department sacked FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe on Friday.
Mr McCabe, who was Comey's deputy and defended him after Mr Trump fired him, was accused by the Justice Department of lying in an internal investigation, and of an unauthorised leak to the media.

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The controversies between mother-in-laws and daughter-in-laws are nothing new; these saas bahu problems are in every Indian house.
"Kyonki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi." The most watched Indian TV Opera and the secret behind its success was – clever depiction of saas- bahu politics. The funniest but the strangest part is, from this point onward, the relationship between saas bahu (mother-in-law and daughter-in-law) determine the fate of the son. These never ending saas bahu problems are one among other relationship problem. If saas bahu are sharing a healthy relationship, the guy is a good son and good husband, otherwise, the hero becomes an extra. So, if you are a mother-in-law and serious about improving things, here is how to improve saas bahu relationship.
The episode starts with the smallest possible thing like preparing food and after sometime, it becomes a reason for son's separation from his parents. The egoistic clash of saas and bhau (D.I.L and M.I.L) finally ends when either the son is decorated with "a thankless son award" or daughter-in-law is adorned with,"clever fox award," by the relatives acting as special jury members.
Before writing this article, I went through at least hundred discussion threads about saas bahu problems. To my wonder, there is so much of emotional depth and a strong resistance to change. There has to be a solution for all these and I found a few. I am not sure, right or wrong and I let my readers be the judge.
1Mommy, why do you feel insecure if I am talking to my wife so much?
For most of the mothers, it is hard to give away their only son; the son whom they have grown up from a thumb-sucking kid to a man. Dear mommies, if you seriously want to improve the saas bahu relationship, you need to set your son free.
As a mother-in-law, you should learn to accept our true place in the relationship. Instead of expecting your son to do what he used to do earlier, you should ask him to consult his wife before he comes to you.
Do not cry or do emotional dramas for grabbing your son's attention. You must learn how you can encourage your son about his participation in the marriage.
If you willfully enters into a competition with your bahu (daughter-in-law), then being an opponent you would be praying for her defeat. If you see things are not working out between your son and his wife or even between you and his wife, try to pray for her.
Do not always criticize rather seek God's help, pray that may God show her the way and also ask God to show you how to love her as if your own daughter.
Mommy, try to praise your daughter-in-law, a little compliment from you at the right time will surely make a huge difference. A few words of praise for your bahu especially when you see your son around means a lot to her.
ALSO READ – Why is the Relationship With Your Mother-in-Law So Strained?
Mistakes are very easy to find. Try to learn how not to make a mountain out of a molehill. Taunting and remarking needs no special training, but, applauding, praising and complimenting surely does. To end saas bahu problems, you need to take this initiative.
Without any shadow of a doubt, do not be an advice volunteer. You need to offer your piece of advice only when it is asked. Your free advice could be a taken as an order or threat.
How hard is it to accept your bahu (daughter-in-law) as she is? Why do you need modifications so soon? She might be from a family where they eat curd with sugar or where they cook in a different way. What is the big deal?
Trust me, half of the saas bahu problems start when you try to change the things that she might be doing from last 25 years. It will only plant bitterness in the relationship. Even if you want to change a few thing, first try to learn her mindset and function accordingly.
This is another reason behind many saas bahu problems. Instead of talking about each other, better talk to each other. Stop assuming why your bahu did something. Probabilities and assumptions are two main culprits behind every ruined relationship.
If you are serious about saas bahu problems, there are a lot more things you can do to improve saas bahu relationship like taking initiative, thinking positive about your daughter-in-law, not being biased to your son's mistakes, respect their (son and his wife) decisions even if you know they are wrong.


In the first match we played really well against Yateley Manor School. Our communication was great and so where our passes. But we needed to win a bit more. The score was 3-0 to them. The player of the match was Darcy.
Our second match was against Beaudesert Park School. We defended well but they got five goals past us. Unfortunately, we didn't get any goals again. The player of the match was Grace.
Then our third match was against Port Regis. We defended so well that the score was 0-0. Our defending was great and so was our spacing for passes. The player of the match was Amelie.
The forth match was against Chafyn Grove School. This was the same as before good passing and good communication. But what we did much better was running up the pitch when somebody hit the ball. The player of the match was Millie.
Our fifth match was against Perrot Hill School. This game was just after lunch so we were raring to go. But it somehow took us longer to figure them out. The player of the match was Ella.
Then our sixth match was against Salisbury Cathedral School. In this match our spacing was great. Millie and I took turns in the 16-yard hits. I was the player of the match this time.
Our final match was against Richard Pate School. In this match for fifteen minutes it was 0-0. So, we went into a golden goal which means we have five minutes to score a goal the first team that does score wins. But it was still 0-0. So, we went into a penalty shoot. The three people that got volunteered to do that was me, Millie and Amelie. It was a tense moment, I tried to chip in the first goal but missed. Then Richard Pate School scored. Up next was Millie, her hit was straight to the gaolie who kicked it back, she then ran out of time score again. Richard Pate School manged to score their second goal which made them the winners. The player of the match was Ava.
The overall player of the whole day was Amelie.
This was a fantastic day, where we learnt loads of new hockey skills and tips and had so much fun.
Thank you to Mrs Bell and Mr Evans for taking us.


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Early enrollees getting right to work
Published 11:30 am Saturday, February 4, 2017
By Corey M. Keenan
Christian Matau gets ready to snap the ball during ECU's spring game last year. With signing day behind them, the Pirates and their 10 early enrollees will now set their sights on the spring.
GREENVILLE — With National Signing Day in the rearview mirror for head coach Scottie Montgomery and the East Carolina football team, the time has come to start preparations for the 2017 season.
The work can start early for 10 of ECU's 22 signees as they have already enrolled in classes for the Spring 2017 semester and are currently on campus.
Perhaps most notable of the group is quarterback Kingsley Ifedi, who was named the North Carolina Player-of-the-Year in 2016. He led Vance to a deep playoff run. As a true freshman, he will have a chance to compete with the likes of Gardner Minshew and Reid Herring for a spot on the depth chart behind center.
Montgomery and his staff locked down the most players from North Carolina at the Football Bowl Subdivision level, beating out the likes of North Carolina, N.C. State and Duke.
The second-year head coach made a point to look at size in this class, bringing in lineman over 6-foot-4 and finding longer players, especially in the trenches. He made it a point to say there was only one player in the class under six feet. It came in the form of wide receiver Jayden Borders, who is already enrolled. Borders won four state titles in his four years at Shelby. Montgomery said he has never coached a player with his type of winning pedigree.
Borders will be pushed early and often in his ECU career by a fellow early enrollee receiver in the form of Leroy Henley. His reported offer sheet included the likes of Auburn, Michigan, Michigan State and Florida. Montgomery raved about the 6-foot-1 pass catcher.
"He's versatile, he's a threat outside, he can catch the ball quick, he can convert on the chains," Montgomery said. "Really like what we've seen from him so far."
Last season, ECU struggled to reach the quarterback on pass rushes. Montgomery addressed the issue in this class and has a few new pieces already on campus.
Taijh Alston will likely play defensive end for ECU and may have a shot to see early playing time off the edge. His size is one of his best assets, standing at 6-foot-4 and weighing in at 215 pounds.
"He's going to provide immediate help for us in the pass rush," Montgomery said Monday. "We brought eight kids on the front and we think that five have immediate pass rush help. He is one of them."
With 10 players already enrolled from the 2017 class, having players already in line to come to campus helped take the pressure off Montgomery late in recruiting. Not only did it help calm things down on signing day, but he said it helps his group get an early jump on the future.
"The stress is removed in the second part of the recruiting process, the contact period," he said. "I'm able to stay in a room with a coach or a player on a home visit for two, three hours. I can stay there for a long time because I don't need to make three home visits per day. When other teams are coming in and seeing 22, 23 people (in a short time period), they're not building the relationships that we're building."
With spring workouts picking up and spring practice days closing in, the members of the 2017 class will hope to have a leg up on the college experience headed into their true first year at the Division I level.
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Clinical Outcomes for Patients With Gleason Score 10 Prostate Adenocarcinoma: Results From a Multi-institutional Consortium Study.
Gleason score (GS) 10 disease is the most aggressive form of clinically localized prostate adenocarcinoma (PCa). The long-term clinical outcomes and overall prognosis of patients presenting with GS 10 PCa are largely unknown because of its rarity.
METHODS AND MATERIALS:
The study included 112 patients with biopsy-determined GS 10 PCa who received treatment with radical prostatectomy (RP, n = 26), external beam radiation therapy (EBRT, n = 48), or EBRT with a brachytherapy boost (EBRT-BT, n = 38) between 2000 and 2013. Propensity scores were included as covariates for comparative analysis. Overall survival, prostate cancer-specific survival, and distant metastasis-free survival (DMFS) were estimated by the Kaplan-Meier method with inverse probability of treatment weighting to control for confounding.
The median follow-up period was 4.9 years overall (3.9 years for RP, 4.8 years for EBRT, and 5.7 years for EBRT-BT). Significantly more EBRT patients than EBRT-BT patients received upfront androgen deprivation therapy (98% vs 79%, P < .01 by ?2test), though the durations were similar (median, 24 months vs 22.5 months). Of the RP patients, 34% received postoperative EBRT, and 35% received neoadjuvant systemic therapy. The propensity score-adjusted 5-year overall survival rate was 80% for the RP group, 73% for the EBRT group, and 83% for the EBRT-BT group. The corresponding adjusted 5-year prostate cancer-specific survival rates were 87%, 75%, and 94%, respectively. The EBRT-BT group trended toward superior DMFS when compared with the RP group (hazard ratio, 0.3; 95% confidence interval 0.1-1.06; P = .06) and had superior DMFS when compared with the EBRT group (hazard ratio, 0.4; 95% confidence interval 0.1-0.99; P = .048).
To our knowledge, this is the largest series ever reported on the clinical outcomes of patients with biopsy-determined GS 10 PCa. These data provide useful prognostic benchmark information for physicians and patients. Aggressive therapy with curative intent is warranted, as >50% of patients remain free of systemic disease 5 years after treatment.
Curtiland Deville, Jr, M.D.
Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation
Theodore Leslie DeWeese, M.D.
Professor of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences
Stephen C Greco, M.D.
Clinical Director, The Kimmel Cancer Center Radiation Oncology at Suburban Hospital
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Interview with Nick Kemp about Provocative Therapy and Provocative Change Work by Ulf Sandström for the International Hypnotists Guild.
Nick Kemp is a greatly experienced British practitioner who is passionate about the concept of provocative therapy (PT), and provocative change work (PCW). He has trained with Richard Bandler for five years, and assisted him on countless events which makes him very familiar with NLP and hypnosis. In addition to this he has a long experience working together with Frank Farelly who initated the concept of Provocative Therapy 1963, years before the concept of NLP emerged. As happens, both Bandler and Grinder were strongly impressed by Franks early work and referenced him in "Frogs into Princes".
U: Nick, having heard of your work I am curious about the core of the provocative aspect – which seems to be adopting the stance of being the devils advocate. Is this correct?
N: Yes a practitioner working with PT or PCWwill always adopt the stance of being devil's advocate in a client session. This can be done in a lot of different ways. When I first met Frank and read his original book "Provocative Therapy" I was really taken by the many facets to his work and how the practitioner always presents the benefits for the client in maintaining the problem rather than changing it. Having worked with thousands of clients I keep finding that provocation greatly accelerates client change.
U: The element of humor seems to be vital in provocative therapy, what are your reflections around this?
N: My experience is that with a few exceptions NLP trainers don't often use humour with great effect and instead tend to reply far too much on techniques.
U: Thats a pity, humor is a powerful tool, would it be correct to say that PCW and PT seem to focus on the actual "how" of applying the tools of hypnosis and NLP in an efficient way, using gentle, friendly, dark humor siding with the negative view of the clients current process?
The practitioner deliberately provokes (calls forth responses from) the client by adopting different discrete stances, which stimulate the client into new ways of thinking and feeling. The practitioner seeks out resistances in the client and then approaches most what the client seeks to avoid in the discussion, and identifies the client's "blind spots", using a great deal of humour and by working in an improvised manner. This means "running suggestions up the flagpole" and seeing if the client responds. The practitioner creates the movement in the session and can be talking for large sections of the interaction.
Great use is made of "sensory rich language", and the full expression of this, to engage the client, and thus take them on a journey outside their existing beliefs and experience, to a new sense of freedom. The key attitude is of interacting as if chatting to an old friend means that the practitioner quickly creates real rapport with the client and the client often discusses the issue as it is rather than how they believe "they should respond".
Many witnessing this style of working can be initially quite surprised at the amount of energy, fun and honesty that results from this approach. This makes a client session very much seem like interaction between old friends where each person may interrupt the other, tease the other, wander off the point and behave in other ways which typify such encounters. This apparent freedom is of course underpinned by all the ethical and professional principles of good practice. The benefit of this is that one can have warm caring and human interactions, which enables the client to find their own solutions from a new and useful state.
My experience is that one of the best ways to help a client is to take what the client is saying literally. When you ask a client "As you think about the problem now, what's the whole thing like?" the answers from this question reveal how the client thinks about this issue at "this point in time". Most clients respond by saying 'It's like X or Y" and the metaphors the client uses are crucial for being able to change the client's stuck state to a state of greater freedom. The reason for using the term "the whole thing" is to request an overview of the problem, rather than specific details.
Changing the volume of how you speak, can be hugely impactful in client sessions. In Speaking hushed tones and speaking louder produce all manner of responses that provoke new ways of thinking and feeling.
"How many times did you think that?
NICK: So what's the problem?
NICK: Alright. There's nothing with anger. Anger's a good, motivating, powerful force that if more people had it, the world would get things done. It's full of … you know … you got people all over the planet who just can't be bothered. Really they don't care enough to generate enough emotion to be able to express what it is that's actually going on. So you are like a beacon for others. So that the apathetic, time-wasting, slothful, no-energy, slacker types can start to take some note and realise that those who have more energy and have more passion have something to contribute.
HARRY: The only problem with that is that it does work to a certain extent but it spills into anger.
NICK: There's nothing wrong with anger. Anger's a good thing. If more people were angry, more stuff would get done.
HARRY: Sometimes in the world more people would get hurt.
NICK: Well it's a by-product. It's like collateral damage. It's like Buddha said "All change is pain". Yeah. And are we saying he's an idiot? Are you saying like Buddha's not the smartest kid in the class?
NICK: So Mighty Greg, what's the problem.
NICK: Ok. So they're intermittently smart. On a good day they might make some good decisions and on a bad day they're like the village idiots.
NICK: Then you had the guy who's in charge of doing the work. Then you have the workers and then you have people who assist.
NICK: They're not going to be the Pharaoh anytime soon.
In this exchange I am presenting the image of a hierarchy and then proceed to place Greg in the lower parts of the hierarchy to provoke a response.
Thanks for taking your time to explain Provocative Therapy and Provocative Change Works Nick, if we arrange a workshop in the future in Sweden with you to learn the core of provocative therapy, what advice would you give those who consider taking it?
N: Bring a sense of humour, a desire to learn, an open mind and a willingness to work in new ways!


Conversations about trust and leadership have never been more relevant. We know the world is changing at an ever increasing pace - there is disruption and the inevitable spike in insecurity.
We hear endless stories of who, what and why things are so broken; feeding on our negativity bias and fuelling our desire to blame a lack of trust and find those to blame.
The world is changing at an ever-increasing rate and yet management structures are often more or less unchanged. Old industrial age hierarchal ways are based on self-interest, competition and an era when long term strategies, jobs for life and a leader who was perceived to know all the answers made a lot more sense.
To rebuild trust and restore faith in the current system, institutions must step outside of their traditional roles and work toward a new, more integrated operating model that puts people — and the addressing of their fears — at the centre of everything they do. Edelman says, 'Capitalism depends on public trust for its legitimacy and its very survival'. Successful companies need to explain with great clarity how the fulfilment of their purpose benefits society — this purpose has to be authentic, meaningful and at the core of the business and the people who run the business. Paul Polman, a leading light on this, says the right to produce products long into the future is given to firms who contribute to human progress.
This transformational leadership requires a willingness to show vulnerability, distributed authority, collaboration in place of competition and engage radically with all stakeholders. Leaders need to be honest about the uncertainty of the future and create spaces for employers to allow the business to dynamically evolve. We cannot underestimate the discomfort this causes and the clear risk to leaders in being able to change their minds, admit mistakes and bring attention to future risks. Many leaders will have risen to the top of their organisations under a very different set of behaviours with humanity actively discouraged in the workplace.
Purpose has to be authentic, meaningful and at the core of the business and the leaders who run the business. It cannot be bolted on to the side - perhaps as a knee jerk reaction to try win over customers or to attract the best talent. (Having realised late in the day that millennials and in fact most employees regardless of age, industry, or nationality are searching for meaning beyond just pay and an employer that they can be proud of).
Robert Phillips, co–founder of Jericho Chambers, is very clear that 'trust is not a message, it is an outcome.' And 'trust is a behavioural change not a communications one.' Clever communication is often used to prop up bad leadership. Phillips outlines a new model not based on public relations or spin but public leadership and public value. There is no magic wand to restore trust. Reputation is built over time and through actions. Building a fairer more inclusive society is a much better use of time than spending time on blame or using trust as a proxy. He challenges people in their workplace to give up the pretense of control and embrace the chaos.
Sacha Romanovitch (CEO of Grant Thornton £500m accountancy business) has a strong interest in the role of leadership in dynamic organisations and how a strong coaching culture releases potential and generates growth. Her goal is to shape a vibrant economy where all can flourish – through who they work with, the work they do and especially what they speak out on. She has a firm belief that clarity of purpose liberates people to deliver sustainable partnerships that build trust and unlock the potential to create environments where business and people thrive. Sacha is passionate about sharing her experience of systemic change from self-interest, competition and hierarchy to shared purpose, collaboration and connected communities in service of a new vibrant economy working for all. Introducing shared enterprise has opened the opportunity for all Grant Thornton's employees to share in profits and she made waves capping her own reward. Championing social mobility, including chairing Access Accountancy, in 2017 the firm was recognised as number 1 in the Social Mobility Employer Index.
Otto Scharmer (Senior Lecturer at MIT and author of Theory U and Leading from an Emerging Future: From Ego-System to Eco-System Economies) explains that the quality of results in any system comes from the quality of awareness from which people in the system operate. He addresses what he calls the 'blind spot' in global discourse and how responding to disruptive change requires leadership that connects to an emerging future rather than reacting to and perpetuating patterns of the past. It requires a shift in the inner place from which we operate; a suspension of judgment, redirection of attention and letting go of the past. The mindset of decision makers needs to be open, attentive and adaptive. Going from ego to eco requires observing the system from all perspectives particularly those who are most marginalised. The goal is to co-sense, co-inspire and co-create.
Robert Phillips says corporations of the future should look less like a traditional hierarchy and more like a social movement within which the CEO (be it of large corporation or start up social enterprise) needs to think and behave as a social activist. Robert's vision of public leadership has four pillars — activist, co–produced, citizen–centric and society–first. Sacha Romanovitch describes workplaces not as machines but as living and breathing eco-systems. Her wish is that the future of work is work in service of benefiting the whole of humanity and where creativity is focused on things that matter. Robert, Sacha and others will discuss these topics at a town hall meeting on 22 March 18:45 at Impact Hub Islington.


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Lylie Vitral, the Miracle Baby who survived a plane crash in 1980
Mark Vitral, her older brother who does not believe she is really his sister
Mathilde de Carville, the matron of a wealthy family whose grand daughter was also on the plane
Malvina de Carville, the older sister of the baby killed in the crash
Credule Grand Duc, a detective hired by Mathilde to find out the truth about the crash.
This is a remarkable story about the aftermath of a plane crash which occurred just before Christmas, 1980. Everyone on board was killed when the plane travelling from Istanbul to Paris crashed into Mont Terri, except for one baby girl. Miraculously, this baby was thrown far enough away from the crash to avoid the fire but was near enough to be warmed by it until rescuers reached the crash site. However, there were two baby girls on that flight, born within two days of each other. Since both sets of parents were dead no one knew for sure whose child she was. The two families involved, one extremely wealthy and the other of modest means, both claimed that the grandchild was theirs. A judge made the final decision, giving the child, Lylie, to the Vitral family based on the clothes she was wearing and the absence of a gold bracelet which should've been on the wrist of the wealthy family's granddaughter. When we arrive on the scene Lylie has just turned eighteen and has come into a sizable amount of money put aside in a bank account by Mathilde de Carville, just in case the judge had been wrong and the girl really was her grand daughter. Mathilde had also hired a detective, Credule Grand Duc, who has been investigating the case for eighteen years, following every lead, looking into every possible clue to prove once and for all whose child Lylie really is. But he has not been able to discover the truth until the night before Lylie's eighteenth birthday. He calls Mathilde to tell her he has found the answer but needs a couple of days to make sure, and then disappears. He has given Lylie a notebook with all of the information he has dug up through the years, and after reading it herself she gives the notebook to her brother, Marc to read. Then she too disappears. Marc is worried about Lylie and in trying to track her down goes first to Credule's house and then to the de Carville's mansion, reading the detective's notebook while riding the train to his destinations. Malvina, who is now almost certifiably crazy, keeps a Mauzer in her purse and isn't afraid to use it, tries to get the notebook from Marc, pretending to aid him in his quest to find Lylie. Marc is afraid that his sister is about to do something drastic, even commit suicide. He feels he is racing against time, reading the notebook for any clues it can give, travelling across France to find her.
A very intriguing book, After the Crash keeps the pieces of the puzzle quietly snapping into place with each chapter. I won't spoil the ending!
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WOW its been way over 6 months since my last post!
Sorry about that but its been a bit of a mad 6 months!
All mannor of ups and downs over the past 6 months thats for sure. Not really going to share them as such, as the downs, well I wish to just put behind me and focus on 2013. The lows of 2012 were just that, lows, mega lows and well the highs were good, but somehow they were over shadowed by the lows so they are not as much of a highlight as I would have liked them to be.
I guess I can sum up 2012 as being a year of mixed emotions with new people coming into my life and people who were never really in my life being evicted from my life ones and for all. Strange how that happens but I guess its the balance of life.
So its onwards and upwards for 2013!
I have already made a start on the new me for 2013.
I have started to weed out the people in my life that do not add any substance to my life. We just do not need these sort of people in our life that drag us under and use and abuse our friendships. It takes too much effort to support those that cant take the time of day to reciprocate the love, attention and dedication to the friendship that you may put into it. My biggest problem is I am way too soft hearted and it has taken my heart being crushed in 2012 to relise this. Its taken too long for me to relise this and as a result I had a lot of weeding to do! More weeding to be done I am sure as time progresses and I realise who are the true people that matter in my life. The people that both need me and I need them. True friends.
Another big change in my life is my weight! 6 months ago I weighed 111 kg's ( 245 lb's / 17 ½ st ) and as I type this I am now down to 98 kg's ( 216 lb's / 15.4 st ) I don't know about you but as I type them weights they don't look a lot on their own. But it is a 13 kg's (28.66 lb's / 2 st) drop in weight and it sounds loads more impressive if you describe it as that !
So why the weight loss ? Well for a number of reasons.
The above are just a few of the main reasons. I guess the other one and this is a bit vain to say the least is I am enjoying the feedback from people about how good I am looking! But it only motivates me to keep at it. The irony is I dont really see the change in me. Ok I have dropped 4 inches off my waist and had to get a new belt and new trousers but I still see my self as a bloke with a belly. OK OK OK I still have like another 13 kg's to go till I reach what is deemed to be my ideal weight. Give me 5 more months !
Motivation is a powerful thing. You just have to find the reason to be motivated and the rest will come easy. People keep telling me that what I am doing is amazing and must take a lot of effort. MMM does it ? I think the only real effort I have towards this weight loss game is getting up at 6am 3 times a week to go swimming at 7 am. Yeah thats hard work when its cold and dark outside. Diet is not that difficult when your not focusing too much on diet. I still have KFC / Nando's / McDonalds etc when I feel like it. But I do try and keep off the bread and eat more veg and fruit. The other night I was shocked to see how many calories are in one of my favorit dishes. I do a fab pasta tuna dish with a cremfresh cheese sause. 1023 cal's ! I thought it was healthy ! Its not because of the cheese and the gluten free pasta but I will still eat it and not feel guilty about it !! Just eat little and often. Portion control is paramount here. My mom has been telling me this for years and never listend. Breakfast is also mega important so is lots of water. And a routine ! Get the balance right and it all fall's into place.
Tell the world about it all too seems to help me. Not only do the comments and feedback from my family and friends motivate me to keep on going but it also motivates others in trying to emulate me. They know the type of person I use to be and I guess they feel if I can do it with relative ease they too can. To me that has to be the biggest buzz knowing that though my changes I am inspiring others to change too.
I am a massive fan of swimming and go 3 to 4 times a week and try to do between 60 – 70 lengths of the local 25m pool in the morning before work and sometimes after work. And I love my tech as much as I love swimming ( maybe love the tech more than swimming ) I have a great bit of kit by Garmin called the Garmin Swim it lets me track my length's automatically and then posts them to the web so I can then share them on Facebook and or Twitter so people can see how well I am doing and comment on how mad I am. Haha! But its great motivator and I love it.
So if you need some motivation just have a look at me. I am no fitness guru or freak. Just someone who is being sensible in what I eat and do as much exercise as my body and time will permit and it seems to be working for me.


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Пекінський ботанічний сад (, піньїнь: Běijīng Zhíwùyuán) — ботанічний сад у Пекіні (Китай).

Графік роботи
 Ботанічний сад: 7:00 — 17:00
 Оранжерея: 8:30 — 16:30
 Меморіал Цао Сюеціня: 8:30 — 16:30
 Храм Вофо: 8:30 — 16:30

Опис ботанічного саду
Ботанічний сад був заснований у 1955 році. Площа ботанічного саду — 56,4 га.
В саду росте 6000 видів рослин, включаючи 2000 видів дерев і чагарників, 1620 різновидів тропічних і субтропічних рослин, 500 видів квітів і 1900 видів фруктових дерев і водні водних рослин, традиційних для Китаю.

В ботанічному саду десятки тематичних садів і експозицій, у тому числі:
 сад деревних півоній, був відкритий для публіки у 1983 році, займає площу 6,3 га, понад 6000 півонії більш ніж 630 сортів;
 осінній сад, містить прозорі озера, барвистий ліс і мальовничі газони, осінній сад має гарну колекцію дерев, чагарників і багаторічних рослин, які мають чудовий осінній колір;
 Меморіал Цао Сюеціня, відкритий 22 квітня 1984 року;
 Пекінський сад, займає площу 2 га, найбільш відомим у саду є 1300-річне гінкго дволопатеве;
 сад бузку, відкритий у 1958 році, реконструйований і розширений на початку 1980-х років, займає площу 3,7 га і має понад 20 таксонів бузку, завдяки чому період цвітіння може тривати два місяці;
 сад троянд, відкритий у травні 1993 року, має площу 7 га, де росте 100000 троянд більш ніж 1000 сортів;
 сад магнолій, відкритий у 1959 році, має регулярне планування і займає площу 0,84 га, на якої росте 118 магнолій 14 таксонів, серед яких Magnolia biondii, Magnolia denudata, Magnolia × soulangeana і Magnolia liliiflora;
 дендрарій,
 тропічна оранжерея, відкрита для публіки 1 січня 2000 року, має площу 9800 м² (найбільша виставкова оранжерея в Азії), де росте 3100 таксонів тропічних і субтропічних рослин, а також кактуси і сукуленти, орхідні і бромелієві;
 долина вишень,
 Храм Вофо, є одним з найстаріших у Пекіні, побудований понад 1300 років тому;
 сад багаторічних рослин, відкритий у 1980 році, займає площу 4,2 га, де, в першу чергу, ростуть багаторічні рослини (більше 100 видів) з родин айстрових, лілійних, півникових і жовтецевих, які цвітуть з весни до осені;
 сад трав'янистих півоній, на площі 1,5 га росте понад 13000 трав'янистих півоній 213 сортів;
 сад декоративних персиків, відкритий у 1983 році, займає площу 4,2 га, росте понад 60 сортів декоративних персик, це найбільша колекції декоративних персиків у світі;
 сад японської сливи, займає площу 6,1 га, росте 137 сортів японської сливи, зараз сад у стадії будівництва;
 сад бамбука, відкритий у 1986 році, займає площу 2,6 га, росте понад 50 таксонів бамбука більш ніж 10 родів;
 сад хости, відкритий у 2006 році, займає площу 0,3 га, росте більш ніж 3000 рослин хости 79 сортів;
 миртовий сад, відкритий у 2006 році, займає площу 1 га;
 сад лікарських рослин, відкритий у 2006 році, займає площу 0,06 га, росте 90 видів лікарських трав і рослин.

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Ботанічні сади Китаю
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Author: Dwimordene
Nominator: Gandalfs apprentice
2007 Award Category: Genres: Alternate Universe - First Place
Story Type: Story ✧ Length: Short Story
Rating: General ✧ Reason for Rating: N/A
Summary: Sometimes foresight is false. After Pelennor, the new lease on life is but the beginning. Halbarad, Aragorn, and the journey towards healing. AU.(N/A)
Reviewed by: Gandalfs apprentice ✧ Score: 10
I can't praise this story enough--and it's not just pure self-indulgence for this dedicated Dunedain lover! The self-indulgence part of my enthusiasm is that this story depicts my main AU fantasy--Halbarad lives past the battle of the Pelennor fields, to stand by the side of his king into the Fourth Age. (Another AU fantasy--Gilraen lives into the Fourth Age. What reason did Tolkien have to kill her off? Just couldn't help wiping out all the women characters?) And it's not PURE self-indulgence because the story is so good. From the fever-pain of the beginning, through to the warm friendship of the two battle-scarred warriors at the end, neither of whom will ever be the same, written in Dwim's poetic angsty style, wandering in some dream state. Halbarad is a favorite character of many of us pervy Aragorn fanciers--a sort of Aragorn stand-in, as it were, but one whom we can make more of our own character, there being so little canon to stamp him in a mold. We don't even know how he was related to Aragorn (I have my own canon on that, and Dwimordene has, what, three versions, is it? I've lost count). But the one piece of canon we can't escape is his death in the War of the Ring. And I don't know if I'll ever forgive Tolkien for that. But Dwimordene has lessened the sting to a very great extent. Now if she'll only make it into a novel....
Reviewed by: dkpalaska ✧ Score: 10
I've lost count of the number of times that I've read this now, but it still brings misty tears to my eyes with the wondrous mixture of uncertainty and sadness and pure, light joy it contains. It's certainly become one of my favorite stories, AU or not, for its moving themes of death and life and the steadying call of duty and friendship. For one, the portrayal of Halbarad's near-death experience is just... exquisite. Somehow the perfect blend of word choice and sentence structure and length, and it feels as though I am sharing this horrific experience with Halbarad, understanding at least something of the terrible hold that it has on him - alive, and yet not really belonging to life. The symbolism of the [One All In Grey] (Mandos) is used very well here to represent Halbarad's closeness to death, as is the references to the transparency, filminess, insubstantialness of himself and the world around to show his semi-living state. I was hoping for Aragorn's return as much as Halbarad and the people were, though not for his kingship, of course - but for what he means to Halbarad. The deep and easy relationship is so well done, even though shown only sparingly, exactly as I'd see two such longtime friends and comrades sharing. And Aragorn, of course, knows just what Halbarad needs to anchor him to reality and living - the call to duty, to friendship and those who *need* him. The dream at the end was particularly beautiful, and left me with the strangest and most wonderful mix of joy and bittersweet sympathy. The Return of Halbarad will probably be no more easy than the Return of the King, but I greet it just as happily.
Reviewed by: Marta ✧ Score: 10
"Resurrection" does what the alternate unierse genre really does best. It takes a departure from canon and looks at how what changes (and what remains the same) has to say about the events that actually did happen. In this case Dwimordene takes Halbarad's death at Pelennor as her departure. What does this tell us about the actual canonical story? Halbarad's death is never actually told in the book, and his character is never even mentioned in the movies, so one might wonder whether this is a big enough departure. But I have always loved Halbarad, and in a way he represents the Northern Dúnedain to me. He is in my mind Aragorn''s past, and when he dies it feels like Aragorn's unglamorous years as a Ranger are being crucified, so that Aragorn-the-king can be resurrected from them. Dwimordene gives us a different view of how events could have unfolded. If Halbarad had survived, there would have been a much less king break between Strider and Elessar. Not to say that Aragorn's *memories* of his past don't affect him even in canon, but I think this portrayal of Halbarad's resurrection from Pelennor would require a much different integration between Strider and Elessar, and by extension Eriador and Gondor. In a way a Halbarad-lives AU is similar to a Denethor-lives AU, but with much more emotional pull simply because there are less obvious political consequences. In any event, this story's a beautiful read told mythically and brimming with spiritual language and imagery that makes you cry. Even without thinkin about how Halbarad's survival would have affected the canon. I highly recommend it.
Reviewed by: Imhiriel ✧ Score: 7
The language and structure of the story illustrates very well its mood and content. Halbarad's fever dreams and nearly slipping away to death, and his slow road to recovery, are conveyed by appropriately vague and dream-like descriptions, as the readers see the story unfold through his point of view. I find it a very intriguing detail that on one level, Halbarad *knows* he shouldn't have survived, that this is an alternative reality. It makes the tension of the piece between canon and AU that much tangible and I find it very creative to address this aspect in the story itself. In addition, comparing, or "paralleling" Death with Aragorn somehow gives the impression that it was only his friend's and king's need for him that made him turn back from dying. I find this aspect very telling and poignant, all the more so when their friendship is here rather implied; so self-evident and strong that it doesn't have to be explained or dwelled on much.
Reviewed by: Raksha the Demon ✧ Score: 6
A beautifully told Alternate Universe story of the injured Halbarad's physical and emotional recovery. Badly wounded and close to death, he survived, and grappled with the strangeness of renewed life in a new world he had not expected to see. I like the way that Halbarad, whose strength and courage have never been in question, does not easily accept his own survival; he has been marked by battle, pain, and suffering, and the acceptance of the death that was nearly his. But he does not give up; there is no death-wish here, merely curiosity as well as the will to endure. Aragorn's appearance is perfectly written; Dwim writes the two old comrades and warriors very well, their relationship one of understated friendship and love.
Reviewed by: Isabeau of Greenlea ✧ Score: 5
One of my very favorite Dwimordene stories. Halbarad, severely wounded on the Pelennor, hovers between life and death. Even after he is healed enough to leave his bed, he still hovers. Only Aragorn can truly bring him all the way back to life. Halbarad's odd, in-between state is well-described, his physical pain and mental detachment conveyed precisely using very few words. His long friendship with Aragorn is also conveyed in simple gestures and brief dialogue. This story depicts the hopeful rebirth of both Halbarad and Middle-earth.
Reviewed by: obsidianj ✧ Score: 4
[spoilers] In this AU Halbarad survives the battle of Pelennor, but it seems to be a near thing. Until near the end of the story Halbarad seems to be neither here nor there, balancing on the brink of death until Aragorn's need for him decides his fate. I like the description of his fever dreams, or are they dreams? Sometimes he is awake, but still removed from reality, from outside life. That is an apt description of the way to recovery after a serious illness.
Reviewed by: Larner ✧ Score: 3
How many of us have wished something like this might have happened, that we see Halbarad and Aragorn side by side, Halbarad not dead upon the Pelennor but serving both lands.... A marvelous, very realistic look at how it Might Have Been.
Reviewed by: Bodkin ✧ Score: 2
How delightful to have Halbarad edge back from the borders of death - to stand by a different grey-cloaked figure, and see, at last, the dreams of the Dunedain become reality.
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Tessa Johung, Jonathan Oakley, Daniel Russakoff, Sonny Sabhlok, Felix Li, Robert Chang; The Prevalence of Cirrus SD-OCT Ganglion Cell Segmentation Errors in High Myopes. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2013;54(15):4845.
To investigate the prevalence of sectoral value differences due to segmentation errors in macular Ganglion cell-inner plexiform layer (GCIPL) scans using SD-OCT in glaucomatous and highly myopic eyes.
174 Cirrus HD-OCT macula scans were obtained from 77 patients. 96 eyes had high myopia (> -5D acuity) and were glaucoma suspects. 78 were defined as glaucomatous, having progressive visual field defects in more than one examination. GCIPL analysis was performed using the Cirrus 6.0 software and custom Septem retinal segmentation software. All thickness measurements were compared and sectors differing by more than 10 microns were manually reviewed by an expert observer. Cirrus review was performed on the instrument; Septem review using a Matlab GUI. A sector error was counted whenever either an error of more than 10 microns was seen.
For Cirrus, 27 eyes (15.5%) reported at least one sector error. The Septem algorithm had only 6 such instances (3.4%). The chi-square test reports a significant difference in the prevalence of errors between the algorithms (p<0.001). Figure 1 shows example GCIP maps. Figure 2 shows their underlying segmentations.
The prevalence of errors in GCIP Cirrus thickness maps in the study is high (15.5%). Algorithms are improving, as is evidenced by the low error rate using Septem (3.4%). For current commercial devices, the emphasis on clinical judgment when assessing glaucomatous damage in such populations remains.
Figure 1: On the left is the GCIPL thickness map from the Cirrus 6.0 software. On the right that generated by Septem. Each colorbar reports thicknesses in microns. Note that the Cirrus map shows two apparent arcuate defects, but each should be turning toward the optic nerve, on the right of the image, to be real (this eye is OD). The Septem map shows no such defects.
Figure 2: The top image shows a vertical B-scan from the OCT and Cirrus segmentations. It is positioned to pass through an apparent arcuate defect (Figure 1). The left side is inferior; the right side superior. Below, is the result from Septem, here showing all seven segmented layers. Each has the posterior of the RNFL and IPL reported in magenta and yellow, respectively. The error in the Cirrus result appears to stem from the posterior of the IPL boundary identifying instead the posterior of the RNFL. Arrows show show where the RNFL (magenta arrows) and IPL (yellow arrows) should be.


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If You Like Fashion, Culture & History, Check Out Traditional Caspian Clothing
By Vusala Abbasova December 30, 2018
Traditional attire by the peoples inhabiting the Caspian region has historically been a blend of colors, textures and culture, representing predominantly Muslim societies with ethnic Turkic roots that stretch back centuries, if not longer.
Azerbaijani traditional wear is all about richness and originality that absorbed its style and artistic taste from the traditions and customs coming from centuries. National costumes are decorated with traditional folk symbolism and specification that reflect the history of Azerbaijanis.
A traditional women's suit is graceful in silhouette and cut, emphasizing supple waistlines. A typical women's dress consists of a shirt decorated with silver or gold coins; chapkan, a caftan worn over the shirt; arkhalig, a long tight-waist jacket made of various kinds of fabric like silk, satin, cloth, cashmere and velvet; lebbade, dressing gowns tied at the waist; guleje, upper women's top with goffered hem; kurdu, a quilted sleeveless shirt with an open collar and slits on both sides; and ashmek, quilted outer clothing trimmed with fur.
An essential part of traditional holiday garments for women is a gold or gilded silver belt that can be worn with arkhalig or chapkan. Unmarried girls once covered their heads with skull-caps and silk kerchiefs that were decorated with beads or silk, while married women tied several headscarves on their heads.
Men's clothes, for their part, consist of fewer patterns. Shirts are typically made from materials such as sateen, while a man's arkhalig is usually made of cashmere, satin and sateen and decorated with a belt or a girdle. Wide trousers, made of a woolen fabric, are also worn.
For centuries, traditional Kazakh costumes were made from well-sourced materials and fashioned to suit the conditions of nomadic life, such as ever-fluctuating weather conditions. Animal skins, felt and fur were traditional materials used to design garments, accented with fur trim, embroidery and jewelry.
An ethnically Kazakh woman traditionally wears a dress with a waistcoat, giving a look that is very similar to what men wear: jackets and waistcoats over gowns, with wide leather belts. Decorative details and colors, however, are what help differentiate women's from men's clothing.
A koylek is a shirt-like garment for girls and young women, made of light and fluffy material densely gathered at the waist. A traditional dress in Kazakhstan known for its beauty and elegance is the camisole, which is easy swinging with expanding bottoms.
Headwear is similar to that found in the surrounding regions of the Caspian, and largely depended upon marital status. Girls wear a skullcap called takiya and a warm hat known as borik, decorated with otter, fox or beaver fur.
Bridal headwear called saukele is of particular importance. Standing 70 centimeters tall, this conical hat was historically considered a mandatory part of girl's dowry. Saukele was worn during the wedding ceremony and later on holidays.
An ethnically Kazakh woman traditionally wears a dress with a waistcoat, giving a look that is very similar to what men wear: jackets and waistcoats over gowns, with wide leather belts.
Traditional Russian clothing dates back more than a thousand years. Many elements are from early Russian history, with meanings long forgotten but patterns and colors appreciated nevertheless. The basic element of any traditional Russian wardrobe is the rubakha, which could be worn by both men and women. Depending on one's financial status, different materials were used for rubakha manufacturing and tailoring, from cheap linen or cotton to expensive, imported silk.
Women's clothing consists of sarafan, a long dress decorated with intricate embroidery, often worn on top of a rubakha, which was worn for both everyday wear and special occasions. Colors are plentiful for sarafans, such as red, light or deep blue, wine and white. The outfit is not complete without kokoshnik, a headdress with various decorations that indicate one's social status. Young women would traditionally show off their hair arranged in a single braid, decorated with flowers and other articles. Married women were traditionally forbidden from showing their hair, so instead they covered it with their kokoshnik. Nowadays, traditional Russian dress is worn for holidays and carnivals.
The basic element of any traditional Russian wardrobe is the rubakha, which could be worn by both men and women.
Turkmen national clothing is typically very bright and traditional patterns and colors are still widely worn by Turkmenistanis. Meeting people in urban centers wearing traditional dress is not uncommon. Some clothing is designed for everyday wear and some are used as holiday garments.
A traditional outfit for teenage girls is a gown made from a dark-colored fabric that is decorated with bright colored flowers. The dress is meant to symbolize an awakened land that promises beauty, health and fertility. With age, however, a woman has more choices: another kind of gown is yellow, symbolizing the sun, embroidered with oak leaves, meant to symbolize strength and longevity. A woman that has passed "Prophet Muhammad's age," or age 63, would wear a white gown with embroidery evocative of desert plants that can be found throughout the Caspian region.
Typical men's clothing is embroidered with images of beautiful animals and birds that often carry meaning. An image of flying cranes, for example, signaled freedom, confidence and independence.
A traditional outfit for teenage girls is a gown made from a dark-colored fabric that is decorated with bright colored flowers. The dress is meant to symbolize an awakened land that promises beauty, health and fertility.
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29Aug '22
Double taxation treaty cancelled between the US and Hungary
By Helpers Financein Accountancy, Taxes
Last updated: 23 December 2022.
Early July, the U.S. canceled the double taxation treaty between Hungary and the U.S. Unless a new treaty is signed over the next year or so, natural persons and entities that have income from both the U.S. and Hungary will face a significant tax increase starting from January 2024.
Double taxation treaty with the U.S.
Double taxation treaties in general aim at discouraging tax avoidance by making international taxation fairer and more straightforward for taxpayers. The treaty between Hungary and the U.S. has been in force since 1979, and it regulated the definition of tax residency – this way the taxes to be paid on various types of income generated both in Hungary and the U.S.
The treaty has been more beneficial to Hungary than to the U.S., since the U.S. imposes significant withholding taxes on most income generated there when it leaves the country, and the treaty removed this requirement. Without the double taxation treaty, serious tax increases are expected starting from 2024.
Benefits and prospects for natural persons
The most obvious winners of the 1979 double taxation treaty are Hungarian natural persons who have income from the U.S., since they are not required to pay the 15-30% withholding tax when their income leaves the country. At the same time, U.S. natural persons currently pay taxes only in the U.S. after Hungarian income other than salaries, while from 2024 they will also be required to pay an income tax in Hungary.
Type of taxpayer Type of income Current regulation From 2024
Hungarian natural person Dividend after U.S. shares or interest from U.S. bonds 15% withholding tax in the U.S. 30% withholding tax paid in the U.S. + 5% personal income tax in Hungary
Hungarian natural person Salary while working in the U.S., either in normal employment or in secondment; Rent from real estate located in the U.S. Taxed in the U.S. only Taxed in the U.S. + 15% income tax in Hungary (90% of the U.S. tax can be deducted)*
U.S. natural person Short term gainful activity in Hungary (less than 183 days within the fiscal year spent in Hungary) Taxed in the U.S. only Taxed in the U.S. + 15% income tax in Hungary (90% of the U.S. tax can be deducted)*
U.S. natural person Interest from Hungarian bonds Taxed in the U.S. only Taxed in the U.S. + 15% income tax in Hungary
Source: portfolio.hu; Gábor Fajcsák, analyst of RSM Hungary.
*The deductible amount is either 90% of the U.S. tax or the 15% of the taxable income if at least that amount is paid as tax in the U.S., the smaller amount of the two is deductible from the tax payable in Hungary.
Moreover, currently if someone has income from the U.S., they are required to pay taxes in Hungary only if their sole citizenship is Hungarian or if they are double citizens with a Hungarian permanent address. Without the double taxation treaty, double citizens will be required to pay taxes in Hungary after their U.S. income only if they have a permanent address in Hungary.
Benefits and prospects for companies
Hungary does not normally impose withholding taxes, and it will probably not start doing so in the near future, because that would risk losing other foreign investment. At the same time, corporate tax is only 9%, which makes Hungary a very attractive destination for starting a business, whether it is a standalone startup or a subsidiary of a foreign corporation. This way U.S. investors active in Hungary remain quite safe.
In the meanwhile, Hungarian income from U.S. capital and service provision will be subject to a 30% withholding tax starting from 2024. This is a significant change, because currently the U.S. tax on such income is between 5-15%, depending on ownership shares, while neither royalties nor interests are taxed at all.
The only positive effect is that part of the taxes paid in the U.S. will be deductible from the Hungarian corporate tax. However, since the deductible amount cannot be greater than the average tax in Hungary, in fact only 9% of the tax paid in the U.S. can be deducted in Hungary.
U.S. companies with property and other premises in Hungary
If a U.S. company or its Hungarian subsidiary has real estate assets in Hungary, no separate tax is to be paid when those assets are sold. Without the double taxation treaty, the U.S. company may become subject to Hungarian corporate tax.
If a U.S. company has active premises in Hungary, they become Hungarian tax residents after 24 months. Without the treaty, this will happen already after 3 months. At the same time, if a U.S. company provides services in Hungary (e.g. they send an employee to Hungary to work on a local project), it does not necessarily constitute a permanent establishment (so they do not have to pay taxes after the income from providing services). Without the treaty, 183 days of presence in Hungary can make them tax residents.
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January 17, 2023 by Helpers Financein Accountancy, Taxes
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Q: Trying Highstock to convert very old graph application but no display I am in the process of moving from a built in graph library to HighStock.
I have to comply to crasy implementations. So at the end I got this configuration :
$(function() {
chart = new Highcharts.StockChart({
        chart : {
            renderTo : 'div_#divid#'
        },
        rangeSelector : {
            selected : 0,
            buttons: [{
                type: 'day',
                count: 7,
                text: '7j'
            }, {
                type: 'day',
                count: 15,
                text: '15j'
            }, {
                type: 'day',
                count: 30,
                text: '30j'
            }, {
                type: 'all',
                text: 'Tous'
            }]
        },
        series : [{
            type : 'column',
            name : 'valeur',
            data : data,
            tooltip: {
                valueDecimals: 2
            }
        }]
    });
});

Here is the fiddled version.
I don't get whats wrong with my data. (but I think I did correctly the conversion for the dates.)
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Thanks for your help.

A: I'm not sure, the problem is that you can't see the chart? That's cause your data contains '
Check the jsFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/SqZY2/1/
You have this:
data = '[[1362355200000,672],[1362441600000,9764],[1367103600000,0],[1367190000000,0],[1367276400000,0],[1367362800000,0],[1367449200000,5490]]';

Must be this:
data = [[1362355200000,672],[1362441600000,9764],[1362528000000,9839],[1362614400000,9906],[1367103600000,0],[1367190000000,0],[1367276400000,0],[1367362800000,0],[1367449200000,5490]];

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Use Of Electronic Preprints By Scientists Poses Challenges To Publishers
A growing number of researchers contend that the traditional scientific journal--with its peer-review gatekeeping and relatively high printing and mailing costs--is seeing its last days. From now on, they predict, researchers will use the Internet to directly disseminate their papers to each other as part of a more flexible system that will progressively replace print journals--and, perhaps, their publishers. But publishers, while acknowledging the power of Internet distribution, insist they wi
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A growing number of researchers contend that the traditional scientific journal--with its peer-review gatekeeping and relatively high printing and mailing costs--is seeing its last days. From now on, they predict, researchers will use the Internet to directly disseminate their papers to each other as part of a more flexible system that will progressively replace print journals--and, perhaps, their publishers. But publishers, while acknowledging the power of Internet distribution, insist they will continue to play an important role in the future of scientific communications.
INTERNET COMMUNICATIONS: Paul Ginsparg's home page links to his e-Print archive, a recent usage graph-showing a sharp drop at year-end holidays and an image of Ginsparg.
Perhaps the most prominent proponent of all-electronic, publisher-free scientific communications is theoretical physicist Paul Ginsparg at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Ginsparg maintains an archive of more than 40,000 electronic preprints and articles in several areas of physics, as well as...


Sticking with our Friday the 13th tradition, we went out for dinner at a fancy restaurant. Last Friday we picked A Pig In A Fur Coat. (It's apparently named for a dish from Kazakhstan, in case you're wondering.) We've been there once before and liked it a lot. It's got the kind of frou-frou foods that appeal to us: small plates of food so we can order a whole bunch of different things and share them. Last night we nibbled our way through a plate of olives with our cocktails, then ordered a charcuterie platter of three thinly-shaved meats, two cheeses (one hard, one soft), a dollop of foie gras, another dollop of mustard, and some jam, all with four slices of toasted baguette slices (I thought they could've added at least two more slices). After that, we split a raviolo, which is the singular of ravioli, which blew my mind because it never occurred to me before that there's a singular form, but of course there is. Why just one? It was a big raviolo, about the size of a tea saucer. We sliced it in half and shared. And we finished off with a serving of duck-fat french fries, which we didn't have enough room left in ourselves to finish eating even though they were astonishingly yummy.


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Gibbons & Nicholas
Janet Mullarney & Sean Molloy
London Art Fair (projects), Booth P5, 16-20 January 2019, Business Design Centre, Islington, N1
Sean Molloy, Per CS, oil Sgraffito & ink on panel, 25 x 35m
My Minds i by Janet Mullarney is a group of small sculptures presented on a plinth made of glowing lightboxes. Casting no shadows, the small figures exist in a suspended state, not unrelated to the display of precious commodities like jewels or iPhones. They seem neither wholly material nor wholly ethereal, and they also move between aesthetic archness-grounded in Mullarney's vast erudition in art, both Western and non, related to her inveterate love of travel, both armchair and in real life-and psychological truth. A carved wooden horse's head with multiple whitewashed faces (Mother in Me) simultaneously conjures a chess knight, a marble from the Parthenon pediment, Eadweard Muybridge's motion studies, Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, and the gesture of a disapproving parent. A pair of crumbling legs rising from a blue-and-gold striped skirt (Uprooted) conflates The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer by Degas with a Topsy-Turvy doll and a particularly female sense of dislocation. Each of Mullarney's diminutive sculptures stands on its own as a thought made corporeal-the artist regards them as akin to drawings-but they also form a theatrical tableau that suggests an entire universe seen from a god's eye view. A world in a grain of sand.
In contrast to Mullarney's thorough internalization of art history, Sean Molloy wears his love of the old masters on his sleeve in recent works, painting quite literal reproductions of what look like seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth-century Dutch and French landscapes. Yet for all their period specificity, these images remain next to unidentifiable. They might be details of more iconic works, generic stand-ins for pastorals of the past, but Molloy considers the past as not entirely retrievable, and various formal devices inflect his bucolic vistas. Horizontal, vertical, and diagonal stripes, bars, and blocks; overall grids; more localized phenomena that evoke areas of pixilation; and, in one instance, a reversal of tone that recalls solarization disrupt the pictorial field. The forms often recall those of modernist abstraction, but equally the glitches of digital imaging. They bar us from entering into these landscapes, ambling among these Classical and staffage figures, and remind us of our distance, cultural and technological, from the solace of the natural world of our ancestors. Paradise lost.
Joe Wolin
Image: Janet Mullarney,My Minds i (detail)
Photography: Ros Kavanagh
Sean Molloy
Janet Mullarney
Copyright © 2020 Gibbons & Nicholas


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More Maryland tax-filers move out than move in
By Natalie Sherman
Maryland had more tax-filers move out than move in last year, as families headed south to states such as Virginia and Florida.
The state saw a net loss of nearly 8,000 households, as 68,384 families opted to go abroad or to another state but just 60,429 moved in, according to new Internal Revenue Service data. About 63,356 households relocated within the state, said the IRS, which tracked the number of filers using a different address in 2015 than in 2014.
Much of the movement in and out was between Virginia and Washington, D.C. As in prior years, Florida saw the biggest net increase of Maryland families.
Nearly 60 percent of the households moving out and in were aged 35 or younger.
The numbers pointed to a significant decline in relocations compared to 2013-2014, when the IRS reported that more than 80,000 families moved in or out.
nsherman@baltsun.com
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Q: "She had assigned" vs "She has assigned" Our teacher assigned topics for a class project several weeks ago. Which is the correct sentence to use to convey this to a classmate? Why?

She has assigned topics for everyone

Or

She had assigned topics for everyone

Which of the above two sentences is correct? Or is it better to just drop the has/had and say

She assigned topics for everyone

A: Both are grammatical and both make sense but the verb 'assigned' is in a different tense in each case so the time frame is different.
In the first case 'assigned' is in the present perfect tense because the auxiliary verb is 'has' so the speaker is talking about an assignment which is still in force and the sentence is actually about the assignment. For example a longer version of the sentence might be:

"She has assigned topics for everyone and given me Macbeth."

In the second case 'assigned' is in the past perfect tense because the auxiliary verb is 'had'. This means that the action of assignment took place before something else happened. In this case (A) there either has to be more to the sentence to tell us what else happened or (B) there has to be some context in the conversation. Examples are:

(A) "She had assigned topics for everyone and given me Macbeth but I said 'I haven't read or seen Macbeth, can't I have The Tempest?"

or

(B) Someone else might say "What happened to cause the argument with your teacher?" and you might reply "She had assigned topics for everyone and given me Macbeth but I've never seen nor read Macbeth so I asked for The Tempest and she said I had to work on the topic she'd given me"

In both of case A and case B the assignment topics was completed before some other action took place.


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Q: Does the new asp:chart control need to be installed on the server or can it be used from the bin folder
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*I have installed the new asp:chart control on my machine and have built an app that uses it.

*All is working well so far.  Now I want to deploy my app in a hosted environment.

*If my hosting provider doesn't have the asp:chart control installed can I get my app to work by putting the .dll in the bin folder?
(I guess I am asking if it has to be found in the Gac)

A: Apart from deploying the assembly to the bin folder, you also need to configure a folder with write permission to temporarily store the chart images.
In web.config under
<appSettings>
    <add key="ChartImageHandler" value="storage=file;timeout=20;dir=D:\TEMPDUMP\;"/>
    ...

A: It does not have to be in the GAC.  Applications will look in the GAC if it can't find it in the bin folder.

A: Just put the .dll in the bin folder and it will work.

A: You can also take a look at OpenFlashChart, the charts look prettier

A: There's one more step: Before you deploy it to your server, you must create a directory to use as a temporary directory for the chart images on the server and you must write it in  in web.config, like this:
<add key="ChartImageHandler" value="storage=file; timeout=20; dir=c:\tmpimg;" />

You can use any directory that you want. Don't forget to set the right permissions in this directory. Keep security aways in mind.