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High-action, high-adventure and high-humour – the League of Llamas series is perfect for fans of Diary of a Minecraft Zombie and The Bad Guys.
A train speeding out of control, a bold bank robbery and a dazzling diamond heist – trouble is afoot in New Llama City! Luckily, the League of Llamas' top agents, Phillipe and Lloyd, are on the case. And luckily for them, Mama Llama and agent Elloise Llamaresky are on their cases to make sure the job actually gets done.
Is the odious badger General Bottomburp to blame? Or could there be a new kingpin in town? After all, every secret agent should know that appearances can be deceiving!
Pub date: 3 March 2020
Aleesah Darlison is an internationally published, award-winning author. She has written over fifty books for children including picture books, chapter books, novels and series. Aleesah has won or been shortlisted for numerous awards including the Environment Award for Children's Literature, the CBCA Eve Pownall Award and the Speech Pathology Book of the Year Awards. Many of Aleesah's books champion the cause of animals, the environment, and child self-empowerment. Her titles include the League of Llamas series, the Unicorn Riders series, the Netball Gems series, the Little Witch series, Ash Rover: Keeper of the Phoenix, Awesome Animal Stories for Kids, Warambi, Puggle's Problem, Our Class Tiger, Stripes in the Forest: The Story of the Last Wild Thylacine and Emerald: The Green Turtle's Tale.
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The Getaway: Diary of a Wimpy Kid (BK12)
Boy Overboard
Morris Gleitzman
Brotherband 8: Return of the Temujai
Kensy and Max 1: Breaking News
Friday Barnes 1: Girl Detective
R.A. Spratt
The Alchemyst
The Tyrant's Tomb (The Trials of Apollo Book 4)
Running with the Horses
Alison Lester
Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy
The Very Hungry Caterpillar: Easter Colours
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Vietnam's overseas investment soars 125 percent in seven months
Vietnamese investments overseas soared 125.4 percent year-on-year to 570 million USD in the first seven months of 2021, the General Statistics Office (GSO) announced on July 29.
Inside the Vinfast factory (Source: VNA)
The sharp increase was largely attributed to extra investment from Vietnam injected into overseas projects, the GSO explained. For example, the Indochina Rubber Investment and Development Co., Ltd. added 76 million USD worth of investment to its project in Cambodia; and automaker Vinfast expanded investment in its Germany-based project by 32 million USD.
A total of 424.8 million USD was pumped into 11 existing projects, surging 9.1-fold year on year.
In addition, there were 28 projects receiving licences overseas with total registered capital of 145.3 million USD, plunging 29.6 percent from the same period last year.
The US was the top destination for Vietnamese capital in the period with 302.8 million USD, holding a lion's share of 53.1 percent.
Cambodia came second with 89.2 million USD, followed by Laos, Canada, France, Germany and the Netherlands.
As of July 20, FDI flows into Vietnam fell by 11.1 percent year on year to 16.72 billion USD, according to the GSO. Some 10.5 billion USD worth of FDI has been disbursed during the period, up 3.8 percent year on year./.
Southern key economic region receives large inflow of foreign investment in 2021 (13/01/2022-15:52:00 PM)
Vietnam's economic growth forecast to rebound strongly in 2022 (13/01/2022-15:46:00 PM)
First extraordinary session of 15th NA wraps up (12/01/2022-15:42:00 PM)
NA's extraordinary session fulfills entire agenda: official (12/01/2022-15:37:00 PM)
Vietnam has 683,600 operational firms: economic census (12/01/2022-15:28:00 PM)
Consumer price index, gold and USD price indexes in July of 2021 (29/07/2021-09:16:00 AM)
Deputy Minister Tran Duy Dong works with Vietnamese Ambassador in South Korea (27/07/2021-16:19:00 PM)
Report on foreign direct investment in the first 7 months of 2021 (26/07/2021-18:10:00 PM)
Domestic trade to make up 15 percent of GDP by 2030 (26/07/2021-15:12:00 PM)
Trade development programme in remote, mountainous areas approved (25/07/2021-15:10:00 PM)
Over 425 million tonnes of cargo handled at seaports in seven months (25/07/2021-15:09:00 PM)
Vietnamese dragon fruit gains favour in Australia (24/07/2021-16:28:00 PM)

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What does LAAS stand for?
LAAS stands for Low Altitude Alerting System
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Labor as a Service
Laboratoire d'Analyse et d'Architecture des Systemes (Toulouse, France)
Large Area Aerial Spraying
Local Area Augmentation System
Los Angeles Animal Services
Los Angeles Astronomical Society (Los Angeles, CA)
Los Angeles Atherosclerosis Study
Los Angeles Auto Show (California)
Latin American Art Song Alliance
Limited Army Aviation Support Facility
Light Aviation Airports Study Group (UK)
Left Atrial Active Stroke Index
Los Angeles Adventist Student Network
Low Altitude Airborne Science Program (Wallops Flight Facility Office; Virginia; NASA)
Low-Altitude Airborne Sensor System (US DoD)
Laser Augmented Airborne TOW Missile
Leukocyte Adhesiveness/Aggregation Test (internal medicine)
Lingual Ascorbic Acid Test


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Home » General News » Dr Terrance Drew begins first working day as Prime Minister
Dr Terrance Drew begins first working day as Prime Minister
Posted on August 9, 2022 in General News
BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, AUGUST 9TH, 2022 – Prime Minister of St Kitts and Nevis Hon Dr Terrance Drew began his first working day in office Tuesday morning when he led his team of cabinet ministers-designate to the Office of the Prime Minister at Government Headquarters on Church Street, Basseterre.
Dr Drew and his Team were greeted by scores of SKNLP supporters and well-wishers outside Masses House, before going to Government Headquarters where he was met on arrival by Cabinet Secretary, Mrs. Josephine Huggins.
Mrs. Huggins then took Dr Drew to the Office of the Prime Minister, the Prime Minister's Meeting Room and the Cabinet Room. He was accompanied by the successful SKNLP ministers-designate and Ambassador, His Excellency Kenneth Douglas, raising speculation that Kenneth could become the next Cabinet Secretary.
Dr. Drew was declared the winner in Constituency #8 taking 2,950 votes gathering 60.2 % of the votes cast; Dr. Denzil Douglas won in Constituency #6 with 1926 votes compiling 82.2 % of votes cast; Konris Maynard was announced the winner in Constituency #3 with 1, 747 votes, amassing 64.8 % of the votes cast; Marsha Henderson won in Constituency #2 with 1841 votes picking-up 57.3 % of votes cast; Dr. Geoffrey Hanley emerged victorious in Constituency #1 with 1997 votes, totalling 60 % of votes cast and Samal Duggins triumphed in Constituency #4 with 1269 votes accumulating 54.1% of votes cast.
Dr. Terrance Michael Drew was officially sworn in on Saturday, August 6, 2022, as the fourth Prime Minister of the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis by His Excellency Sir S.W. Tapley Seaton, Governor-General, during a ceremony at Government House.


Jerry has been practicing civil engineering for over 31 years. Throughout his career, he has worked on a wide variety of public works projects covering all aspects of a Capital Improvement Program. Beginning as a plan check engineer, his outstanding skills lead him to project design, and eventually managing a $63 million five-year Capital Improvement Program covering transportation, parks and recreation, and municipal facilities. He is highly experienced in administering a project from creation to project close out, including budgeting, environmental constraints, right-of-way conflicts or acquisition, design and construction. He is well versed in federal, state and regional grant funded projects (TEA, ARRA, HBRR, STP, TLC, NMTPP, FEMA, TE, STIP, SR2S, TDA3,TFCA, TSM, STSM,P-TAP, CEC), having designed and administered many over his career with the City of Novato.
Through his experience, he has become proficient in Caltrans construction standards (plans, specifications, design manuals, traffic manuals and Local Assistance Procedure Manual). He is well versed in the procedures for managing Capital Improvement Projects including the procurement and administration of grant funding. He has extensive knowledge about California Public Contract Code, the Subdivision Map Act, and State and Federal laws.


"Our baby got his second chance at life!"
David was diagnosed with reflux after turning a year old – he was tested due to periods of vomiting. He'd also had a few episodes of dehydration that were treated at our local ER. One afternoon in June of 2003 (he was 2yrs old), he woke up from a nap vomiting, lethargic and pale. I took him to our local ER where he was again treated for dehydration, but this time would be admitted to a unit after spending several hours in the ER. Not long after we got up on the unit our pediatrician came in and said he needed to be transferred to either Riley or St. Vincent Children's Hospital for higher level of care. His heart rate was 202 and his blood sugar was over 300. In the ambulance during transport, his heart rate was 212. When we arrived to St. Vincent Children's Hospital, we were met by an entire team of doctors and nurses, starting IV lines in many places. He was taken to the OR where they found that all of his small bowel was twisted, full of gangrene and dead. This was just 12 hours from him waking up from his nap. The surgeon, Dr. Josh Caresky, came to tell us this news and that there was nothing they could do, that David may only live another 48 hours. I asked if he could receive a transplant, I can only say that God must have told me to ask that question because I remember being very calm when I asked. He said he would see what he could find out, and we went to share the news with our family who were gathered in a waiting room.
Once David was settled in the ICU, we were allowed to be with him. We met again with Dr. Caresky who informed us that David would be a good candidate for transplant due to his good health and his weight. In the very late hours of the night, I was told that Dr. Joe Tector was at the hospital and wanted to meet with us. Dr. Tector told us how the intestinal transplant program at Riley had just been approved two weeks before and while he would do everything in his power to get us to whatever transplant hospital we wanted to go to in the country, he would love to help our son. Staying here meant having the support of our family and friends, so we made the decision to have the transplant at Riley. With this decision made, David went back to the OR where they removed all of his small bowel and a third of his large bowel. A central line was placed and he would receive TPN (nutrition) that way, he had a drain tube from his stomach and wouldn't be able to eat normally at this time. He was in the ICU for one week before going to a regular unit for another week.
The day he was discharged we met with Dr. Tector, Dr. Fridell and other members of the transplant team. When we asked what could have caused this to happen, Dr. Tector said David's intestines never adhered to the abdominal wall, but it wasn't caught during the testing he underwent before this all happened. His diagnosis was mid-gut volvulus or short gut syndrome. David went through many tests over the next four weeks in order to be approved for transplant. During this time, we learned that a donor would have to be of similar age and size. As you can imagine, this was difficult to take in. We met with our pastor and asked for guidance. I mean how do you pray for transplant knowing another family would lose their child? Our pastor told me that's not what we are praying for, but pray for God's will to be done. His transplant coordinator at that time called me on a Friday afternoon in July - she said he's been placed on the transplant list!! I had so many questions over the weekend that I called her on Monday morning, mainly wanting to know that if we get the call how long do we have to get to the hospital since we live almost an hour away. She said that she typically tells families to leave their house within 30 minutes of the call. Later that evening, in the usual dinner craziness, the transplant coordinator called and asked me if we could leave our house in 30 minutes. I couldn't believe it!!!
When we got to Riley ER, we were placed in a room so David could be checked out and make sure he didn't have any symptoms of infection. Then we waited for what seemed like forever with the boys playing in the atrium, running up and down the ramps around the water pools where they threw in coins. When it was finally time to take David to the OR, they allowed us all to walk him up to the main doors before entering a sterile area. David was very calm, had no problem being handed off to the RN. He snuggled right in on her shoulder holding his ni-night (any receiving blanket would do, but this was his Mickey Mouse one). I remember her last name was Applegate. We then went to the waiting room to wait, after about 7 hours, Dr. Tector came in and told us his surgery was a success!! Once David was in recovery we got to see him, it was truly miraculous!! Our baby got his second chance at life!!
After two days in the ICU at Riley he was transported over to the Organ Transplant Unit at University Hospital where we stayed for two months. For the first few weeks, he had one-on-one care by an RN and he had many, many scopes to check on his new bowel. With the bowel, you can't just do lab work, you have to actually look at the alveoli to make sure they are long and fingerlike, if they are short and blunted that usually means rejection. David continued to improve and quickly got back to being an active toddler, we celebrated his third birthday while in the hospital. The nurses brought in balloons, pizza and cake for his big day! He was allowed to eat this food because they would know the cause of his increased output from his ostomy (ileostomy was placed for easier access for the scopes and to measure his output watching for rejection). Two signs of rejection are increased output and fever. While we were still inpatient, I was talking with Dr. Tector and he introduced me to Andy Ellenwood who was with IOPO (now Indiana Donor Network) at that time.
When they were finally able to get him off the TPN and he was eating food again, we were discharged home. Yay!! We had multiple appointments a month, including lab work and colonoscopies. This began to lessen over time as he continued to improve. David and I did whatever we could to help other families facing the same transplant. Since David's was the first in the state of Indiana, I didn't have another parent to talk to, so I made it a point to be available for other parents. I would talk to them at the hospital or over the phone whenever Dr. Tector called and asked me to. After about 9 months, he had surgery to take down the ostomy so he no longer had any appliances or lines. Even with these things he was still a very active 3 year old. If his ostomy bag needed replaced from all the running, he would just come to me and say "I ripped my bag," and we'd put a new one on. Nothing slowed him down - no matter how much I wanted to wrap him up in bubble wrap and protect him - he was too busy chasing after his two older brothers to let me do that.
David and I then became advocates - speaking at whatever event they asked us to share his story to promote donation. We also met Brenda at one of our first events. We were interviewed many times for TV, newspapers, IU Health publications, IOPO publications - David was even in a commercial!
He took a lot of medication in the beginning, but now we are down to five plus a multivitamin that he takes every day. They keep his immunosuppression level where he's suppressed enough to keep his organ, but not so suppressed that he can't fight off the common cold. Now, 13 years later, he still has labs drawn once a month and a colonoscopy done annually. He's been allowed to be a normal child in so many ways, playing sports we'd never thought he'd play. He's a healthy and happy teenager!


Amália Rodrigues (1920-1999) is the greatest Portuguese 'Fadista-Interpreter of Fados' of all time.
This article originally appeared on Transcend Media Service (TMS) on 19 Jan 2015.
Anticopyright: Editorials and articles originated on TMS may be freely reprinted, disseminated, translated and used as background material, provided an acknowledgement and link to the source, TMS: Lisboa Antiga – Old Lisbon (MUSIC VIDEO OF THE WEEK), is included. Thank you.


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California May Abandon Key Primary Role
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – California, the big prize in presidential politics, may be about to give up its eight-year quest for more clout in picking presidential nominees.
A bill moving through the Legislature would shift the state's primary election from early March back to June, the month it held the vote for 50 years, and put California at the back of the pack when states select presidential convention delegates.
The measure's author, Republican state Sen. Ross Johnson, says the March election has made the campaign season unreasonably long, increased campaign costs and reduced voter turnout (search) without boosting the state's role in determining who goes to the White House.
"I would think that anyone would look at this and say this has been a failure," he said. "This has not been good for democracy, not been good for elections in California, and let's own up to it and say it's a mistake."
The Senate unanimously passed his bill in May and the Assembly elections committee approved it last month. It's awaiting a hearing Wednesday in the Assembly Appropriations Committee, the last stop before the full Assembly.
It would move the primary to the first Tuesday after the first Monday in June, the date the state used for the election from 1946 until 1996, when it was moved to the fourth Tuesday in March.
Supporters of the earlier primary said California hadn't had a real impact in picking presidential nominees since 1972, even though the state sends the biggest blocs of delegates to the national conventions. The June primary, they complained, allowed presidential candidates to ignore California issues while using the state as a place to raise money.
After Bill Clinton and Bob Dole locked up the Democratic and Republican nominations in 1996 before Californians voted, the state moved its primary even earlier -- to the first Tuesday in March.
But other states had the same idea and by the time California held its primary this year 20 other states had already awarded delegates, and nine states scheduled primaries or caucuses on the same day as California. John Kerry (search) had a virtual lock on the Democratic nomination going into the election and George Bush (search) had no significant opposition.
Johnson says he would prefer to keep an early presidential primary and hold a second primary later in the year to pick nominees for state and congressional posts, but his several attempts to do that have failed, mainly because of cost concerns.
Former Sen. Jim Costa, the Democrat who was the author of the March primary legislation, said he would prefer to see Johnson stick to his efforts to split the primary in two and perhaps even move up the date of the presidential primary.
Costa said the state could boost voter turnout by holding the election on a weekend instead of on a Tuesday, looking for ways to expand voting by mail or allowing people to both register and vote on Election Day (search).
"But to move it back to June as it relates to the presidential sweepstakes every four years is acknowledging that California will never have a say and therefore we're throwing in the towel," he added.
Other states also are finding themselves with primaries that have little impact, said Meredith Imwalle, a spokeswoman for the National Association of Secretaries of State (search). Ten canceled their primaries this year because of dwindling voter interest and budget cuts, she said.
The association would like states to adopt a rotating primary system under which four regions of the country -- East, South, Midwest and West -- would take turns holding their primaries in March, April, May and June, after the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary.
"We've seen a lot of support from state election officials because their primaries are quickly becoming expensive formalities," she said. "It's a lot of money to spend if you feel you're not having any impact and voters are not showing up."


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Cambridges krabspin (Xysticus luctator) is een spinnensoort uit de familie van de krabspinnen (Thomisidae).

De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort werd in 1870 als Thomisus luctator gepubliceerd door Ludwig Carl Christian Koch.

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How do I change the username on my Optus Sport account. I have multiple eligible mobiles linked to my account and want to be able to watch Optus Sport on each but my billing account email defaults to each account.
You can have multiple devices on one username.
That's not my problem. I know that I can have multiple devices per username. What I'm trying to rectify is the fact that I have multiple eligible mobile phones (multiple employees) on my account but each one has defaulted to the email address linked to my account when I activated the Optus Sport service. I need to change the Optus Sport username for each mobile so that each employee has an individual login to Optus Sport. I am paying for 5 users to each have independent access to Optus Sport.
The account settings page on the Optus Sport web page doesn't seem to allow you to change any account details other than your password.


Some years ago I had to "pull rank" on someone who was working in a physician's billing office. Someone kept calling my mother and telling her that she had to contact an insurance carrier on the physician's behalf because the insurance carrier was incorrectly paying on my mother's account. The major problem was that Mom had told them not to bill this particular insurance but they did it anyway. Her account was being overpaid; the issue wasn't Mom's, but theirs.
Mom got frustrated after the second call and called me. I was irritated because Mom had difficulties with the same office regarding a previous bill and I'd had to contact them to resolve the issue… more than once. So I wasn't feeling a lot of love for any of them. I got the phone number from Mom and gave these people a call.
The woman on the phone started to tell me the same thing she was telling my mother, but at one point she slipped and said something I knew was incorrect. I stopped her immediately, told her what I did, told her how long I'd been doing it, and proceeded to tell her that she was incorrect in her information and process.
She was wrong on a lot of things, and I knew she was parroting what she'd heard. I wasn't mad, but I was forceful. I told her my mother wasn't calling anyone because it wasn't her issue. If her account was being underpaid, that's one thing, but they'd have just sent her a bill for the balance. Mom had told her office what not to do, they were doing it anyway, and it was their problem to correct.
I asked if she understood where I was coming from. She said yes, but that Mom's accounts would continue being messed up. I reiterated that their accounts being messed up was their issue, not my mother's, and no one had better call her again on this matter; they never did.
Once I was talking to a friend of mine in another state. She had to do something similar for her mother, only it was for a medical procedure. Her mother had received a phone call saying she had to go to the hospital for some kind of scan. They didn't tell her mother what kind of scan, or what the scan was for. My friend called the physician's office multiple times and left a message, but no one ever called her back.
A day before the scan, my friend finally got through to someone and pretty much lambasted them. She asked why her mother was going for a scan, and the person basically started reading words from the medical record. My friend was a medical biller but didn't have a grasp on medical jargon, so she asked the woman to break down the technical jargon and tell her what it meant in layman's terms. When the woman told her my friend asked why no one had told her mother this; the woman said she didn't know.
The next day, my friend and her mother showed up at the hospital for the scan. When the woman came out to do the scan, my friend asked her if anyone from the hospital had tried to call her mother about the scan. The woman said yes, to schedule the scan. She asked if anyone had told her mother what the scan was for; the woman said she didn't know.
It turns out that no one at either place had ever told my friend's mother why she was having the scan. My friend told the woman to tell her mother what the scan was for, and she proceeded to read from the medical record; seems to be a pattern here. My friend stopped her and told her to break it down into terms most people would know, which she did. When she was finished, my friend asked her mother if she had ever been told she had a particular problem; her mother said no.
She then asked the woman why no one had ever told her mother about this issue, and why they hadn't sent her to a cardiologist. The woman said the doctor wanted to monitor things instead; the doctor wasn't a heart specialist. My friend basically told people off and asked about lab tests and other things in the medical record. She said no one had ever informed her or her mother of any results from any tests, and how dare they play with her mother's life like that. Then she sent her mother for the test, which was pretty crucial based on the new information.
This sounds like something that only happened in previous years, but it's not. Today I went to see my own doctor, who's part of a large physician practice. While I was sitting in the waiting area, I listened while one patient was asking the registration clerk why she was having a certain procedure, and having another patient being asked if her arm was broken or fractured. I thought both of these were strange until I thought about the reason I was there in the first place. I was having a follow up visit after a physical, but I'd never thought to ask what was being followed up on and I was never told either (turns out it was something I didn't even have a complaint about but mentioned in passing that the doctor had taken more seriously than it needed to be).
Medical people have different thoughts on what customer service is all about. Most of them feel if they're nice to their patients and can get to them relatively close to when they're supposed to see them, based on the time of the appointment, that they're giving great customer service. This pretty much means there's a lot of customer service failure going on all the time. So many people gripe about transparency when it comes to pricing that they forget about the lack of transparency when it comes to medical condition here and there.
If medical condition isn't an issue then revenue cycle issues are still fairly problematic. I've had to tell the administrative services of my mother's podiatrist multiple times that when they bill Tricare they need to submit explanations of benefits for her bills to get paid; why is this such a hard concept, especially since she's not the only former military spouse they treat?
I'll give credit where it's due; these days customer service people are nicer than they used to be. Either that or maybe they're just nice to me. 🙂 Nice can only get you so far when patients have needs that aren't being addressed.
I implore more medical facilities to evaluate their customer service policies and procedures to make sure they're not only friendly but that their patients are getting the best information about their medical issues. Don't assume all is okay; make sure it is.


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Trox fascicularis is een keversoort uit de familie beenderknagers (Trogidae). De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1821 door Wiedemann.

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All physicians and nutritional experts agree that drinking water is good for you.
And the amount of mineral water drunk by people around the world in a year forecast to grow to 391 billion litres per annum in 2017 (source – Statista) seems to be a ringing endorsement of the fact that mineral water is growing in popularity because of its taste and its health enhancing mineral content.
The scientific community has been studying the effects that drinking natural spring mineral water has on the human body for centuries. In recent times, there have been various studies which provide factual validation of these claims.
Here are a few of them:
The information provided on this page has been curated for information purposes only and is not to be construed as medical advice or instruction – see disclaimer here.
You Could Get Better Calcium Provision From Mineral Water
Wynckel concluded in 1997, that natural mineral waters could be recommended to achieve optimal calcium requirements, especially in older people with lactose intolerance.
Natural spring waters with a high calcium content can provide significant amounts of calcium to the body (Heaney, 2006).
And in 2000, Bohmer conducted a combined analysis of the most relevant studies current at that time which showed that significantly higher levels of calcium could be absorbed by our bodies from natural mineral water than from dairy products.
Mineral Water Can Help Protect Against Osteoporosis
Various studies have shown that calcium, bicarbonate, and potassium enriched water could help prevent osteoporosis, particularly in women after menopause.
In 1999, Aptel found that overall calcium intake can be directly linked with bone density.
Again in the same year, Costi determined that water rich in bicarbonates improves the biological availability of calcium, calcium-phosphate hormonal regulating balance, bone breakdown and bone density.
Meunier in 2005, found that consumption of natural mineral water high in calcium was shown to reduce the rate of bone decay in women who had gone through the menopause.
Finally in 2004, in short and medium term studies, Burckhardt discovered that bicarbonate and potassium are able to reduce calcium loss by urinal waste and bone destruction.
Mineral Water Can Help Prevent Kidney Stones
In 1998, Caudarella found that mineral waters with a high calcium content prevent kidney stones.
Subsequent studies by Kessler & Hesse in 2000 and Siener in 2004 concluded that spring waters rich in bicarbonate and magnesium can also help reduce the growth of kidney stones.
Mineral Water Has Anti-Oxidant Properties
Studies have proven that water with sulphur has antioxidant properties (Benedetti, 2007).
Mineral Water Helps Lower Cholesterol
Research conducted by Schoppen in 2004 concluded that drinking sodium-rich carbonated mineral water, significantly lowered total cholesterol and "bad" LD cholesterol levels by almost 7% and 15% and at the same time led to a rise in "good" HDL cholesterol by 9%.
Water rich in bicarbonates can restrict the rise of fats in the blood after meals (Schoppen, 2005) and improves insulin sensitivity vital in controlling blood sugar levels(Schoppen, 2006).
Mineral Water Helps Reduce High Blood Pressure & The Risk of Cardiovascular Disease
Studies by Bucher in 1996, Whelton in 1997 and by Jee in 2002 confirmed the blood pressure-lowering effects of calcium, potassium and which had been established previously by researchers.
Blood pressure and inflammation markers also reduced decreased indicating reducing overall cardiovascular risk (Schoppen, 2004).
In 2004, Rylander & Arnaud found that the blood pressure levels of people with calcium or a magnesium deficiency reduced after drinking natural spring water.
And an investigation by Rubenowitz in 2000 found that drinking of calcium and magnesium rich water led to decreased death from acute myocardial infarction (heart attacks).
Mineral Water Has No Microbial Contamination
When it comes to microbial contamination risks, natural spring water is also safer than tap water.
In 1993, around 403,000 from an estimated 1.61 million residents the northern US city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin became ill with dehydration, fever, diarrhoea and stomach cramps with 104 deaths among the elderly and people with immune deficiency illnesses.
In 2000, Bohmer & Resch conducted a systematic analysis of medical reports from several Western countries and found 423,000 cases of disease outbreaks (mainly diarrhoea) arising from contaminated tap water, some of which had a "lethal outcome".
There were no such cases documented in relation to bottled natural spring water.
Minerals With No Calories Or Artificial Additives
Drinking natural spring mineral water is a great way to get nutritious minerals without consuming calories.
Sparkling natural spring water may provide just the right flavour difference to encourage more water intake.
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By: SL Green Realty Corp. via Business Wire News Releases
April 19, 2021 at 07:30 AM EDT
SL Green Realty Corp. (NYSE:SLG), Manhattan's largest office landlord, today announced that it has received a 2021 ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year Sustained Excellence Award for the fourth consecutive year. This award honors organizations across the United States that have implemented distinguished corporate energy management programs. Less than one percent of 16,000 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) partners achieve the Sustained Excellence distinction.
The U.S. Department of Energy and EPA awarded SL Green this award, the highest level of EPA recognition, for its extensive tenant outreach on energy efficiency, educational programs and widespread promotion of ENERGY STAR tools and best practices. As a continued leader in this space, SL Green achieved ENERGY STAR labels for over 14 buildings covering 10.6 million square feet across its industry-leading portfolio in 2020.
"SL Green is dedicated to implementing the highest efficiency standards across our portfolio, not only for the benefit of our tenants but for the future sustainability of New York City. The ENERGY STAR Sustained Excellence Award is a testament to our conscious effort to reduce our carbon footprint and the unwavering commitment of SL Green's ESG team to surpass our sustainability goals each year," said Edward V. Piccinich, Chief Operating Officer, SL Green Realty Corp.
"ENERGY STAR award-winning partners are showing the world that delivering real climate solutions makes good business sense and promotes job growth," said EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan. "Many of them have been doing it for years, inspiring all of us who are committed to tackling the climate crisis and leading the way to a clean energy economy."
The EPA presents the Sustained Excellence Award to organizations that have already received ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year recognition for a minimum of two consecutive years and have gone above and beyond the criteria needed to qualify for recognition.
SL Green prioritizes an unrelenting focus on environmental stewardship to manage resource consumption while delivering best-in-class spaces for 150,000 tenant employees and will continue to ensure its portfolio has a significant influence on the low carbon future of New York City. The company's robust sustainability and ESG initiatives include the use of recycled water, materials and overall sustainable development, building operations meeting or exceeding LEED, ENERGY STAR and BOMA standards, reducing building emissions through green lease efforts with tenants and more. To read SL Green's 2020 ESG report and learn more, visit SL Green's website at sustainability.slgreen.com.
About SL Green Realty Corp.
SL Green Realty Corp., Manhattan's largest office landlord, is a fully integrated real estate investment trust, or REIT, that is focused primarily on acquiring, managing and maximizing value of Manhattan commercial properties. As of December 31, 2020, SL Green held interests in 88 buildings totaling 38.2 million square feet. This included ownership interests in 28.6 million square feet of Manhattan buildings and 8.7 million square feet securing debt and preferred equity investments.
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At breakfast they brought us coffee and bowls of white granules. Without checking, John mixed a spoonful in his coffee. It was salt.
We walked to the main docks from our hotel (about 1 km) and down a side trail to Concha de Perla. Just ahead of us a grunting sea lion hoisted himself up onto the boardwalk and across our path. We were both a little concerned to step over him but alas he only gave a few grunts and nobody was bitten.
By 9:30am we were snorkelling in waters of this small cove encircled by volcanic rocks except for a small opening to the sea. There is no beach here, just a platform from which you get into the water. Reviews said that you could often swim with sea lions, penguins and sea turtles there. Today none of the above made an appearance. There were a lot of fish and we even saw a star fish. We spent over an hour and a half snorkelling around before heading to a nearby beach.
The beach had many benches all filled with sea lions. A few sea lions were also in the water. We hung with the sea lions and Marine iguanas before heading back to our hostel for a quick change of clothes.
We ate lunch at a restaurant near our place that a lot of locals frequent. I am not sure what we ordered but we got some kind of soup with a ball of something in it, then grilled chicken, rice, salad and a glass of juice; all for $9 for both of us. It was really good.
We rented bikes again and this time rode along a trail by the shoreline stopping to check out the beaches and trails along the way. We finally decided to share one beach that actually had sea lion free shaded benches with a pack of basking marine iguanas nearby. We relaxed on our benches and read our books to the hypnotizing sound of the crashing surf. Every now and and then one of the iguanas would projectile snort the salt from their lungs. They only moved to follow the sun a few feet. Overhead bright yellow warblers flitted through the trees and the odd shore bird passed through our line of vision. Pure bliss.
After returning the bikes, we picked up a couple of beer and went to our favourite spot on the beach to watch the sunset.


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Last Fall, two ferns spoke to me.
Have you had that happen?
I know right? It's awesome! Isn't it?
I was at the garden center and found them on clearance for $3.24 each.
They were gorgeous. I mean, not a blemish.
They looked ready for Joanna Gaines , from Fixer Upper, to come scoop them off their precious little feet and position them with distinct flair beside a glass bottle on a gray marble countertop in some darling homeowner's dream kitchen.
But I digress…these ferns were talking to ME!
but these were like none I'd ever seen before.
I snatched them up so fast their little fronds quivered.
They were absolutely begging me to take them home.
I didn't even have to ask them why they wanted to go.
and I knew they'd be glorious in a specific spot I had chosen for them.
don't you have a sound track that plays along with your story?
When I got home, I set them down and arranged them just so-so and fluffed their fronds and watered them and loved them.
And they turned brown and shed their little button petals in a manner that would make even the strongest and most confident housewife, weep.
And their fronds got all crispy.
Because y'all, she and plants, they just have this thing. They listen to her and do what she says and it all turns out really pretty.
And she loved them and coached them to green up and shine.
One day she told me the garden center had gotten some little ferns like the big ones she was trying to revive for me.
So next chance I had, I dropped by the garden center and sure enough there was one tiny precious little Lemon Button Fern all left over and lonesome by itself. It did look a little bedraggled and worse for the wear but I didn't care.
I snatched it up so fast its little fronds quivered.
I'm pretty sure it was also begging me to go.
One morning, recently, when it was cold and snowy and dreary and my heart felt heavy, I looked through the window where I had the little fern on the window sill.
I'm sure it spoke to me.
and its tiny green voice speaking cheer.
I felt my eyes sparkle as I looked at it.
around your home and work space.
or the sky grow overcast and snow.
But just go look for a talking fern instead!
Pick up a small plant, succulent or African violet from the garden center to set in a window sill or on your bedside table.
Look on Pinterest for ideas and then design a container garden. As soon as the weather permits, set it by your front door.
Make a slushy in your blender using ice, lemonade and fresh strawberries. As you sip the yummy slushiness, dream about a hot summer day road trip.
So inspiring Rachel! Now I need to go to the garden center?
I'm so glad for your tiny peek at Spring! It will be nice when you experience it for real! Love you.
No kiddin' Esther! The calendar is tricking us this year. It was fairly warm in February and flowers started to poke their brave heads up. But March has frozen them.
Oh Rachael! You've done it again! I smiled while reading every inspiring word! The Lord always uses you, your words and beautiful pics to lift me up and make me smile! ?
I love ferns and I too fairly recently had a little button fern and a larger birds nest fern speak to me and came to live with me. They are not yet in a delicate spot as yours but are being patient with me as they wait excitedly for me to crest a special place. But right now they smile at me and make me smile back as I pass by them everyday in the sunlight in my dining room. I sometimes gentle hug them with a gentle touch to tell them they are beautiful and loved❣ They are so green and happy…I just pray I can keep them that way! ?
Beautifully stated ! I to love ferns any and all kind.
There's nothing like bringing a bit of Spring into your home 🙂 I love ferns too and have some by the front door.
Next trip to Walmart, I will pay closer attention to the leftover plants on clearance. I hope I hear some talking to me.
Beautifully written, Rachel. I love your posts.
If you're looking for encouragement to find EXTRA in an ordinary life, then come sit by me.
I'm absolutely thrilled you stopped by.
Woven among the general psychobabble and ordinary stories that I share here, my goal is for you to find inspiration to pursue an EXTRA~ordinary life one minute at a time.
After all, why be ordinary when it takes so little effort to be EXTRA!?
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German SaaS Provider Quantilope Raises $8M in Series A Funding
- jonathan chadwick Reporter
Interest from Europe and the US means the Hamburg tech startup will open its first international office in the first quarter of 2019.
German Software-as-a-Service startup Quantilope has raised $8 million in a Series A funding round led by Dawn Capital, bringing its total funding amount to more than $12 million.
The latest round will be used to develop the Hamburg-based startup's software, increase its usage across organisations, and expand its platform to outside of Germany.
Existing investors Senovo and Surplus also participated in the Quantilope funding round.
Quantilope CEO Peter Aschmoneit: "We are now empowering users across organisations to make insight-driven decisions in areas such as demand planning for ecommerce stores, car design for automotive manufacturers or marketing at consumer products firms."
"Quantilope makes sure the voice of the consumer is heard when directional decisions are made", added Norman Fiore at Dawn Capital. "In our conversations with consumer goods executives, it became clear that they are looking to dramatically reduce the time to market for new products.
"From new product choice to packaging to marketing strategy, Quantilope is allowing rapid market research iterations to ensure market success," Fiore added.
Aschmoneit told WirtschaftsWoche that following the Quantilope funding round the company is looking to open offices in a new but unspecified international location in the first quarter of next year.
"So far, the focus was on business in the German-speaking area," he said. "However, we get great interest from potential customers in much of Europe and the US."
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Quantilope's "Agile Insights" software provides real-time insights for its clients — who include Wacom, Ernst & Young, and GfK — to learn about and respond faster to customer behaviours.
Their end-to-end SaaS tool uses AI and machine learning to support decision-making across marketing, product management, demand planning, HR, business development, and consulting.
Across the single Agile Insights platform, clients can manage tasks such as questioning, panel management, data collection, visualisation, and communications.
Its tools range from brand tracking, to measure the perception of a client's brand over time; TV pretest, to measure the effectiveness of TV advertising; and demand score, to "recognise tomorrow's product tops and flops".
The company says that the research analytics market is now worth $44 billion.
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No, Lane Murdock is not a Twitter bot cooked up by the anti-gun lobby. She is a 15-year-old sophomore at Ridgefield High School and the architect of a nationwide walkout, scheduled for April 20, to protest gun violence in schools.
Murdock's ambitious plan for students in every school in the country to leave class on April 20 — the 19th anniversary of the Columbine High School massacre — and stand in silence for 17 minutes to honor the 17 lives lost in last week's shooting rampage in Florida, could only have been proposed by a student who grew up beneath the specter of the school shooter.
Murdock is part of a generation for whom school shootings are not a far-fetched nightmare but a reality, one hammered home with active shooter drills, shatterproof classroom windows and new shootings cropping up at an alarming rate.
"They feel like a natural occurrence, because sadly they are," Murdock said.
Last Wednesday, when Murdock's school announced over the intercom that a shooter had opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., some students didn't even pause.
After the shooting, she wrote and uploaded to change.org a petition that has since garnered more than 89,000 signatures, vowing to combat the complacency that follows school shootings with a national walkout. Students are to wear orange on April 20, according to Murdock's plan.
"Orange is the color hunters wear on their vests, and it means, 'Don't shoot,' " she explained. Murdock, with a team of three other Ridgefield High students and a graphic designer in Los Angeles, are rolling out a grass-roots campaign to empty American classrooms and bring the country to a standstill for 17 minutes on April 20. A twitter account dedicated to the walkout has amassed 100,000 followers in five days. Murdock has uploaded flyers to the walkout's Facebook page, urging students to print them out and put them up at their schools. The team is also designing merchandise, the proceeds of which Murdock says will go to the families of those killed in last week's shooting.
In a country riven by the bitterly partisan issue of gun control, convincing every student in the country — regardless of political designation or Second Amendment views — to walk out in protest is "one of our major challenges," Murdock said.
Murdock, a self-professed history buff, said she was inspired by civil rights demonstrations in the 1960s and the protests of Mahatma Gandhi — acts of civil disobedience that cost nothing and harnessed only the presence or the absence of people's bodies to call attention to an issue.
"We knew we didn't have the power or the money to use buses to bring people to Washington," she said.
The living room of Murdock's Ridgefield home has become an impromptu command center. She wakes up early to respond to emails and Twitter messages before going to school. She handles about five press calls a day, and checks in with the Los Angeles-based graphic designer. Though they are burying their classmates this week, Murdock hopes to connect with the survivors of the Florida high school shooting once they've had time to mourn.
Connecticut and Florida share a rare comprehension of each other's horror, one that can only come from suffering the worst and second-worst school shootings in the country's history.
Ana Kowalczyk, Murdock's friend and a member of her team, was a fifth grader when Adam Lanza killed 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary School. "The thing I remember is the look of relief on my parents' faces when I came home from school that day," she said.
On Twitter, some have taken to questioning whether Murdock is really who she says she is — a 15-year-old trying to break the cycle of shooting, mourning, business as usual.
"Some people think I'm actually an adult or I was hired by some cooperation," she said. One Twitter user questioned her use of the word "lovely" in a tweet, which he said sounded oddly stiff, a dead giveaway the walkout was not, in fact, being organized by a 15-year-old.
"I am a teen, sophomore specifically, you can find my face and details in pinned interviews. I like vocabulary," Murdock tweeted back.
"That was me saying, I'm a real person with a real personality," she explained to The Courant later.
Murdock is real, not confined to the reaches of Twitter and Facebook. Come April 20, she hopes the walkout will be, too.


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NCAA Boldly Tried to Take on Rich Paul and LeBron James and it Was a Brutal Whiff
By Aaron Halford | Aug 12 2019
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After instating a rule last week where agents must have a Bachelor's degree to represent NBA draft-eligible players, the NCAA announced today that it will backtrack and scrap the rule completely.
The initial rule was instantly dubbed the "Rich Paul rule," as he is one of the most prominent NBA agents, notoriously without a college degree. Many — including LeBron James and Paul himself — dubbed the rule as a racist.
At @TheAthletic and unlocked for everyone today, an op-ed written by Rich Paul, CEO and founder of Klutch Sports Group, in response to being asked for his thoughts on the so-called 'Rich Paul Rule' passed down by the NCAA last week.
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— The Athletic NBA (@TheAthleticNBA) August 12, 2019
Rich Paul wrote an open-access op-ed for the Athletic this morning, stating, "Requiring a four-year degree only accomplishes one thing — systemically excluding those who come from a world where college is unrealistic."
Paul, a childhood friend of LeBron James, is widely regarded as one of the NBA's finest agents. This offseason, Paul has gotten Sixers point guard Ben Simmons and Warriors forward Draymond Green massive extensions, in addition to his role in the blockbuster Anthony Davis trade.
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— LeBron James (@KingJames) August 6, 2019
Paul acknowledged that while the "Rich Paul rule" didn't directly affect him, it would have a negative impact on those who do not have the means to attend college, yet aspire to follow in similar footsteps. He is absolutely spot-on in his assessment.
The NCAA demonstrated an abundance of privilege after declaring the rule originally — who is to say a college education is what best prepares a professional sports agent? If Paul is so successful, why didn't he need a degree?
Most importantly, it's good that the NCAA finally came to its senses. Better late than never I suppose.


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Late in 1992, in the wake of Bill Clinton's winning the Presidency, I noticed an interesting phenomenon. Jeanne and I were living in Memphis at the time, working at a small Catholic university that was my first teaching position after graduate school. Over the weeks following the election, more and more vehicles on the road were sporting a new bumper sticker: He's Not My President. Apparently, some Tennesseans were not happy with the election result. Eight years later, now happily working and living in southern New England, similar bumper stickers started popping up in the wake of George W. Bush's contested victory over Al Gore: He's Not My President. In 2008 and 2012 similar bumper stickers broke out like a rash: He's Not My President.
I've had the opportunity over the years to raise this phenomenon to my students' attention in various classroom contexts. "If you had a chance to talk with the person with that bumper sticker on her or his car, what would you say?" I ask. Invariably my students answer, correctly, that the person who won the election is your President, whether you like it or not. That's one of the problems with democracy—often the person or policy that, in your estimation, makes the most sense doesn't win. But as long as the election was run according to lawful procedures, everyone is supposed to deal with the results and move on.
And then last Tuesday happened. In the aftermath of the most stunning and shocking Presidential election result in my lifetime, and one of the most unexpected in American history, protests are not waiting for bumper stickers to get printed. Protest rallies in cities nationwide have broken out with chants of "We don't accept the President-elect!" and "Not my President." #NotMyPresident is trending on Twitter. My youngest son, in Denver with a couple of friends last Thursday evening, called me while I was watching a soccer game on campus. "DAD!" he yelled excitedly so I could hear him over soccer fan noise. "My friends and I are eating dinner and heard a bunch of noise in the street outside! It's an anti-Trump rally! We're going to finish dinner and head out to join in!" Later that evening he posted a video on his Facebook page of he and his friends doing just that.
And yet during the day on Thursday the President-elect and the sitting President sat together in the Oval Office after meeting for the first time and having what they both described as a constructive conversation, looking normal, calm and collected, and laying the groundwork for a peaceful and efficient period of transfer of power. Never mind that this President has been arguing over the past few weeks that the President-elect is thoroughly unqualified to occupy the Oval Office or handle the nuclear codes. Never mind that the President-elect rose to political attention eight years ago by questioning loudly and publicly whether the President was even born in this country. On Wednesday, the person who everyone thought would be the President-elect, the person who won more votes on Tuesday than the President-elect, in the aftermath of the nastiest and most brutal election contest in anyone's memory, said that everyone owed the victor their support as he attempts to figure out how to do a job that millions of people consider him to be grossly unqualified for. As philosophers like to say, we are living in a time of cognitive dissonance—on steroids.
The brutal fact for many of us, for those of us who fear that what the President-elect said and did during the campaign might be a more accurate indicator of who he really is than the remarkably human-sounding person who sat with the President on Thursday and delivered his acceptance speech in the wee hours of Wednesday, is that Donald Trump is the President-elect and will be my President—our President—starting on Inauguration Day in January. As I discussed the election with a room full of stunned students on Thursday, young adults trying to come to grips with how the first Presidential election they voted in turned out, I was reminded of something a colleague of mine in the history department once said.
My colleague is a professor-emeritus and a specialist in American Presidential history. I taught with him in an interdisciplinary program a couple of times early in my career, and I'll never forget when he told our students during a lecture that the American Revolution did not come to a successful conclusion until the Presidential election of 1800. Bitter rivals John Adams (the incumbent President) and Thomas Jefferson were pitted against each other, both believing that the future of the fledgling United States of America depended on his rival being defeated. The electoral college was tied, sending the contest to the House of Representatives where Jefferson was elected on the 36th ballot. For the first time, the provisions in the Constitution for the transfer of power from an outgoing to an incoming administration were put to the test. Would Adams actually turn the reins of power over to his bitter rival? According to my colleague, the American Revolution came to a successful conclusion only when the peaceful transition of power from Adams to Jefferson did indeed take place, the very transition process that both President Obama and Hillary Clinton referred to as "enshrined" in our national history and political processes.
After telling this story in class the other day, I reminded my students that at one point in the summer a document was made public, signed by dozens of former generals and foreign policy experts, warning that Donald Trump must not be elected President, due to his shocking lack of knowledge about even the most basic details of foreign and military policy. And yet he was elected last Tuesday. My students quickly noted that what happened last week, in another country or in another part of the world, would have opened the door to a military coup. In the interest of national security, the argument would go, this man must not be in charge of the military, foreign policy, or the nuclear code. But such a coup will not take place— respect for the rule of law and due process remains strong, even though millions of people are convinced that what happened last Tuesday was one of the worst decisions the American electorate has ever made.
Based on what he has said and done over the past many months, I find little in the President-elect to support or endorse—he does not represent me or any of my deepest interests or commitments. But he will be President for the next four years, barring unforeseen events. Already there is evidence of misogyny, xenophobia, and racism rearing their ugly heads as certain Americans feel empowered and are emboldened by the election of a man who they have taken at his word. The anti-Trump rallies are at least partially fueled by persons like myself who fear that the country we love and its most important values will be under serious attack over the next few years. And then there's my faith—what direction might it provide for how to frame my thoughts and attitudes going forward? In a Facebook post a few days ago, my wife Jeanne provided a beautiful and promising answer.
I am a Christian. My Jesus was marginalized. He did not favor those who marginalized others. He spoke the truth AND confronted those who used their position to justify their lies, self-righteousness, vitriol and hate. As a Christian, I am called to do the same.
So am I. So are we all.
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We often get inspired to create new features based on feedback from our customers. Earlier this month, our friends at Basecamp made their Employee Handbook public We were impressed to see they had a whole section about using 1Password, which included instructions for keeping work information off their devices when travelling internationally. So, there you have it. All the current ways I save for travel and find all those extra dollars in my budget when I think I'm practically broke. You can do this, and when you think you can't, think of my friend who has a family of 8 on one income and still finds the time and money to go on at least one fantastic vacation a year, plus fits several weekend getaways in as well. You got this! I hope my tips help. They have changed the way I save, and I have a very part-time side job that isn't guaranteed week-to-week (but is exactly what I wanted) and that allows me time to do all my other things, like writing this blog and planning all the trips I want to take.


I recently had the opportunity to partake in a Google Design Sprint with fellow colleagues from Automattic in collaboration with the Material Design team including Rachel Been, the Creative Director for Material Design. We're looking into a design system of sorts, because that's the cool thing these days, and relying on Material Design's learnings to guide us forward. I was honored to join the design sprint remotely each day and contribute through, what appeared to them as, a talking head.
With introductions and a few flash talks out of the way, we jumped into work head on. For the remainder of the sprint, I participated with a group exploring a Material Design foundation around the concept of elevation. Elevation is MD's ways of talking about the z-index in CSS, but it does so in a way that brings clarity, beauty, and cohesion to the product.
Just look at the beauty behind that elevation diagram! I never really thought about z-index that way. I always just threw some shading on the element, z-indexed it up, and voila — I'm done. But look at the effort with shading that comes from MD.
Shadows were the thing that separated Material Design from the popular flat UI way back when. For me, it was that moment I realized I didn't have to follow the trends. I could just do what worked. Shadows had gotten a bad wrap, and were dropped during the flat UI craze, but Material Design showed that they can be used purposefully with success. MD has continued from that point to become something quite extraordinary. I've learned quite a bit from the thought and detail within the documentation. Elements don't just overlap, but they might just collide with one another if they're on the same plain. UIs aren't stagnant anymore, they move. When elements move within a screen, they need to move in context to other elements. To prevent unexpected collisions, it's important to think about elevation. It's amazing that when we think about elevation, elements take on a more material feeling. Items become closer while other items reside in the back. Lighting has an affect causing shadows to diffuse across the screen.
Elevation has been a way for me to unify my design. It forces me to think in tangible ways that doesn't regularly happen in the digital world. Long live the z-index!


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Rashid Hospital doctors have succeeded in saving the life of a three-year-old after a water cooler faucet penetrated his skull and injured his brain.
Pakistani expat Asad Ullah was admitted to Rashid Hospital's ER on 4th April with severe bleeding from his head.
Dr. Mohammad Abdul Aziz Sultan Al Olama, Consultant Neurosurgeon at Rashid Hospital said the young patient came to the hospital in a critical condition after a water cooler at home fell on his head.
"The water cooler's faucet went inside his brain after crossing his skull from the front of his head. After conducting a CT brain scan, we found a big piece of bone, which was around 6x7cm., inside his brain."
Dr. Al Olama said the young boy's situation was unstable because of the large amount of blood he lost.
"We had to immediately conduct an urgent operation to stop the bleeding. Along with the anesthesia team, we were able to manage the bleeding but due to the child's critical state, we left the bone in his brain and transferred him directly to the intensive care unit," he said.
Dr. Al Olama said that the following day, the child was stable and so another surgery was conducted to remove the piece of bone. The doctors also removed more bone to make space for the swollen brain to relax.
After the surgery, the child slipped into a two week coma and when he work up again, he underwent more surgeries at the hospital.
"The child went through many operations within 4 weeks. We conducted a cranioplasty, which is a procedure where the bone defect is reconstructed and an artificial bone is added to fill the defects after the fracture. A shunt insertion, which is a medical procedure that relieves pressure on the brain caused by fluid accumulation, was also conducted," he said.
Today the young child can laugh, see and move his move his limbs. Dr. Al Olama said that the child is recovering well and he is moving all his limbs but has some weakness, especially on the right side which is normal after such brain injuries.
"This child will require extensive rehabilitation to be able to stand and walk and the prognosis is good," he concluded.
Usad Ullah's family have said they are thankful for Rashid Hospital doctors and the lifesaving procedures they conducted to save the young child's life.
The three year old was discharged on May 31st.


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"Yashwant Singh is one of the finest actors on stage", said Subhash Ghai after witnessing a new stage play 'Less Than Zero' at Whistling Woods Auditorium
~ The latest rocking stage play directed by filmmaker, Kaizad Gustad got standing ovation by 300 students of Filmmaking and Actors' Studio at Whistling Woods International yesterday ~
Is there always a silver lining at the end of the tunnel? Twice the half of two and a half is still two and a half, or is it? "LESS THAN ZERO in its simplest form is not less than any big stage play performed anywhere in India", said Ravi Gupta, Dean, Whistling Woods International (WWI). It's entertaining yet thought-provoking take on religion, government, corruption, politics, and love helped the audience see daily struggles with a different perspective.
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Post the play was staged and the lead cast including Yashwant Singh, Salone Mehta and Nandita Dubey performed brilliantly, an interactive session between the students of Whistling Woods International and the entire team of Less Than Zero followed, where the director and actors shared their experience of making the play.
While interacting with the students, Kaizad Gustad, shared his experience of directing a play for the first time. He said, "Theatre is the most liberating and creative form of art. It is an actor's medium and helps them come alive on the stage. A play can be staged anywhere and the best part about it is that there is an immediate feedback received from the viewers."
Actor Yashwant Singh who got a standing ovation post his 75-minutes long performance without a break said, "I felt liberated as an actor during the entire process of this play. It is the way I could relate to the script, is what still keeps me involved in playing my character Zero." While answering one of the questions from the intrigued WWI students, he emphasized on how it is an actor's take on things and real-life experiences that makes an actor sharpen their acting abilities. He further shared, "You have to be in love with the script in order to do justice to the character."
Actor Nandita Dubey who played the part of Ziza shared, "In order to understand the subtext of any play, you have to keep reading the script." Her advice to the students, "You should be able to see your flaws and create your own reality. Be brave and let it all go."
Salone Mehta played the part of Zoe and highlighted, "The tiny details in the script were said in a big and relatable way, which made me fall in love with the script. She further added, "An actor should live their lives to the fullest."
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Ezequiel Martínez Estrada, (San José de la Esquina, província de Santa Fe, Argentina, 14 de setembro de 1895 - Bahía Blanca, 4 de novembro de 1964) foi um escritor, poeta, ensaísta, crítico literário e biógrafo argentino. Recebeu duas vezes o Prêmio Nacional de Literatura, em 1933 por sua obra poética e em 1937 pelo ensaio "Radiografia do Pampa". Foi presidente da Sociedade Argentina de Escritores (SADE) de 1933 a 1934 e de 1942 a 1946.

Biografia

Santafesino de nascimento, sua família se mudou à localidade de Goyena, no sudeste da província de Buenos Aires, onde seu pai abriu um armazém. Depois da separação de seus pais em 1907, viajou à cidade de Buenos Aires, onde viveu com sua tia Elisa e estudou no Colegio Avellaneda. Por razões econômicas necessitou interromper seus estudos e começou a trabalhar no Correio Central de Buenos Aires.

Ligações externas
 Vida, bibliografia primária e secundária
 Carta autobiográfica a Victoria Ocampo
 Ensaio sobre Nietzsche

Escritores da Argentina


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Q: Get Integer From Bits Inside `std::vector` I have a vector<char> and I want to be able to get an unsigned integer from a range of bits within the vector. E.g.

And I can't seem to be able to write the correct operations to get the desired output. My intended algorithm goes like this:

*

*& the first byte with (0xff >> unused bits in byte on the left)

*<< the result left the number of output bytes * number of bits in a byte

*| this with the final output

*For each subsequent byte:

*

*<< left by the (byte width - index) * bits per byte

*| this byte with the final output

*| the final byte (not shifted) with the final output

*>> the final output by the number of unused bits in the byte on the right

And here is my attempt at coding it, which does not give the correct result:
#include <vector>
#include <iostream>
#include <cstdint>
#include <bitset>

template<class byte_type = char>
class BitValues {
    private:
    std::vector<byte_type> bytes;
    public:
        static const auto bits_per_byte = 8;
        BitValues(std::vector<byte_type> bytes) : bytes(bytes) {
        }
        template<class return_type>
        return_type get_bits(int start, int end) {
            auto byte_start = (start - (start % bits_per_byte)) / bits_per_byte;
            auto byte_end = (end - (end % bits_per_byte)) / bits_per_byte;
            auto byte_width = byte_end - byte_start;
            return_type value = 0;

            unsigned char first = bytes[byte_start];
            first &= (0xff >> start % 8);
            return_type first_wide = first;
            first_wide <<= byte_width;
            value |= first_wide;

            for(auto byte_i = byte_start + 1; byte_i <= byte_end; byte_i++) {
                auto byte_offset = (byte_width - byte_i) * bits_per_byte;
                unsigned char next_thin = bytes[byte_i];
                return_type next_byte = next_thin;
                next_byte <<= byte_offset;
                value |= next_byte;
            }
            value >>= (((byte_end + 1) * bits_per_byte) - end) % bits_per_byte;

            return value;
        }
};

int main() {
    BitValues<char> bits(std::vector<char>({'\x78', '\xDA', '\x05', '\x5F', '\x8A', '\xF1', '\x0F', '\xA0'}));
    std::cout << bits.get_bits<unsigned>(15, 29) << "\n";
    return 0;
}

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I just can't seem to wrap my head around these bit manipulations, and I find debugging very difficult! If anyone can correct the above code, or help me in any way, it would be much appreciated!
Edit:

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*My bytes are 8 bits long

*The integer to return could be 8,16,32 or 64 bits wside

*The integer is stored in big endian

A: You made two primary mistakes. The first is here:
first_wide <<= byte_width;

You should be shifting by a bit count, not a byte count. Corrected code is:
first_wide <<= byte_width * bits_per_byte;

The second mistake is here:
auto byte_offset = (byte_width - byte_i) * bits_per_byte;

It should be
auto byte_offset = (byte_end - byte_i) * bits_per_byte;

The value in parenthesis needs to be the number of bytes to shift right by, which is also the number of bytes byte_i is away from the end. The value byte_width - byte_i has no semantic meaning (one is a delta, the other is an index)
The rest of the code is fine. Though, this algorithm has two issues with it.
First, when using your result type to accumulate bits, you assume you have room on the left to spare. This isn't the case if there are set bits near the right boundry and the choice of range causes the bits to be shifted out. For example, try running
bits.get_bits<uint16_t>(11, 27);

You'll get the result 42 which corresponds to the bit string 00000000 00101010 The correct result is 53290 with the bit string 11010000 00101010. Notice how the rightmost 4 bits got zeroed out. This is because you start off by overshifting your value variable, causing those four bits to be shifted out of the variable. When shifting back at the end, this results in the bits being zeroed out.
The second problem has to do with the right shift at the end. If the rightmost bit of the value variable happens to be a 1 before the right shift at the end, and the template parameter is a signed type, then the right shift that is done is an 'arithmetic' right shift, which causes bits on the right to be 1-filled, leaving you with an incorrect negative value.
Example, try running:
bits.get_bits<int16_t>(5, 21);

The expected result should be 6976 with the bit string 00011011 01000000, but the current implementation returns -1216 with the bit string 11111011 01000000.
I've put my implementation of this below which builds the bit string from the right to the left, placing bits in their correct positions to start with so that the above two problems are avoided:
template<class ReturnType>
ReturnType get_bits(int start, int end) {
  int max_bits = kBitsPerByte * sizeof(ReturnType);
  if (end - start > max_bits) {
    start = end - max_bits;
  }

  int inclusive_end = end - 1;
  int byte_start = start / kBitsPerByte;
  int byte_end = inclusive_end / kBitsPerByte;

  // Put in the partial-byte on the right
  uint8_t first = bytes_[byte_end];
  int bit_offset = (inclusive_end % kBitsPerByte);
  first >>= 7 - bit_offset;
  bit_offset += 1;
  ReturnType ret = 0 | first;

  // Add the rest of the bytes
  for (int i = byte_end - 1; i >= byte_start; i--) {
    ReturnType tmp = (uint8_t) bytes_[i];
    tmp <<= bit_offset;
    ret |= tmp;
    bit_offset += kBitsPerByte;
  }

  // Mask out the partial byte on the left
  int shift_amt = (end - start);
  if (shift_amt < max_bits) {
    ReturnType mask = (1 << shift_amt) - 1;
    ret &= mask;
  }
}

A: Interesting problem.  I've done similar, for some systems work.

*

*Your char is 8 bits wide?  Or 16?  How big is your integer?  32 or 64?

*Ignore the vector complexity for a minute.

*Think about it as just an array of bits.

*How many bits do you have? You have 8*number of chars

*You need to calculate a starting char, number of bits to extract, ending char, number of bits there, and number of chars in the middle.

*You will need bitwise-and & for the first partial char

*you will need bitwise-and & for the last partial char

*you will need left-shift << (or right-shift >>), depending upon which order you start from

*what is the endian-ness of your Integer?

At some point you will calculate an index into your array that is bitindex/char_bit_width, you gave the value 171 as your bitindex, and 8 as your char_bit_width, so you will end up with these useful values calculated:

*

*171/8 = 23 //location of first byte

*171%8 = 3 //bits in first char/byte

*8 - 171%8 = 5 //bits in last char/byte

*sizeof(integer) = 4

*sizeof(integer) + ( (171%8)>0?1:0 ) // how many array positions to examine

Some assembly required...

A: There is one thing you certainly missed I think: the way you index the bits in the vector is different from what you have been given in the problem. I.e. with algorithm you outlined, the order of the bits will be like 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 | 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 | 23 22 21 .... Frankly, I didn't read through your whole algorithm, but this one was missed in the very first step.

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