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Kelly Osbourne Weight Loss 2022 Celebrates 85-Pound Weight Loss – Before and After Result
Kelly Osbourne looks almost unrecognisable as she showcases her incredible six stone weight loss transformation in new snap
She previously admitted that gastric sleeve surgery was 'the best thing' she'd ever done.
Click Here to See How Kelly Osbourne Weight Loss
And Kelly Osbourne looked almost recognisable when she showcased her incredible six stone weight loss transformation on Instagram on Saturday.
'Suns out buns out,' wrote the reality TV star, 36, alongside the stunning portrait where her lilac tresses were styled into two cute plaited buns.
Kelly Osbourne recently revealed she's down 85 pounds and how she lost the weight.
The reality show star opened up about going to therapy to "fix my head" and having gastric sleeve surgery.
Kelly says the surgery "is the best thing I have ever done."
· Kelly Osbourne just rang in her 36thbirthday (HBD, Kelly!), and she showed off her recent 85-pound weight loss while celebrating.
· Kelly kicked off her special day with a HollyGold Productions-sponsored birthday party at the Yamashiro Hollywood restaurant. There was a red carpet set up for the event (because why not?), and she wore a black cloth face mask that said "VOTE" on it in several colors. Kelly also rocked a form-fitting black cut-out dress, and she generally looked amazing.
Kelly Osbourne Opens Up About Her 90-Pound Weight Loss
Kelly Osbourne has undergone a major weight loss transformation over the past year following her gastric sleeve procedure, shedding a staggering 90 pounds along the way. However, getting to this point hasn't been without its hiccups. In a new interview, Osbourne opens up about losing the weight, her sobriety, and why she's happier than ever.
And for more celebrity transformations, check out Jessica Simpson Says This Is Why She Threw Out Her Scale.
She says her weight loss made her feel "amazing."
In a new interview with Extra, Osbourne reveals that she has nothing but positive things to say about her slimdown.
"I was so f***ing happy and I felt amazing," she explained. However, it wasn't media scrutiny or pressure from others that spurred her transformation. "I did it for me," she said.
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While Osbourne had her own reasons for wanting to transform her body, she said that many people assume they know what prompted her journey. "Everyone was so, like, caught up in how, how I look. They never asked me how I felt," said the star.
However, Osbourne said she's eager to see what the next chapter of her life holds. "I'm excited about what I don't know. I'm excited about what I do know… the world is scary right now, but… it's an honor to be a part of the world."
For more insight into how stars really get fit, check out Kristin Cavallari Reveals Toned Abs in New Selfie—Here's Her Workout Routine.
Kelly Osbourne's Weight Loss and Fitness Journey In Her Own Words
Kelly Osbourne revealed that she's lost 85 pounds in a recent Instagram post.
On a new podcast, she also revealed that she underwent gastric sleeve surgery two years ago.
Her weight loss revelations comes after a decade of dieting on what's thought to be a mostly plant-based diet.
On how weight played a role in her mental health struggles:
Kelly began to open up about her struggles with diet and nutrition, and how it parlayed into her battle with addiction, around five years after the finale of The Osbournes. In an emotional interview with Shape magazine in 2010, Kelly admitted that harsh criticism from viewers and the press catapulted her into a dangerous emotional state.
Kelly Osbourne's Ups and Downs Through the Years: Weight Loss, Sobriety and More
Overcoming the odds. Over the years, Kelly Osbourne has shared her struggles and successes surrounding her sobriety, weight loss and other personal moments.
"I got sober," the former Fashion Police host exclusively told Us Weekly in May 2021. "I replaced drugs and alcohol with food, my body metabolized differently. Once I got sober and I gained weight uncontrollably, it was insane. [People] kept telling me, 'You should do the [gastric sleeve] surgery.' I was so against it. … I thought the surgery was a cop-out and that it was like cheating. That couldn't be further from the truth. What the surgery did was give me a fighting chance."
The Masked Singer alum previously revealed in August 2020 that she had lost 85 pounds after having the procedure two years earlier.
"I lost, like, I want to say 35 pounds, 40 pounds, and then I stopped losing weight," she told Us. "I just stopped because I didn't listen to what they said. I just thought it was going to be a quick fix. I'd be done. I'd be skinny. [I thought I] didn't have to work out or do anything. I could not have been more wrong. You have to do every single thing that they tell you to do when you do the surgery, or it doesn't work."
Kelly Osbourne weight loss – how did the TV star lose weight?
KELLY Osbourne is a well-known face on TV thanks to her famous family and her long career in television.
How much weight has Kelly Osbourne lost and how did she lose the weight?
Kelly has lost a whopping 80 pounds.
She has been very honest about her dramatic weight loss.
In August 2020 Kelly revealed she'd had gastric sleeve surgery to help her lose weight.
Her mum Sharon Osbourne had a gastric bypass procedure in 1999.
What has Kelly Osbourne said about her weight loss?
Kelly spoke on the Hollywood Raw with Dax Holt and Adam Glyn podcast and said she didn't care what people think.
She admitted: "I had surgery; I don't give a f*** what anyone has to say.
"I did it, I'm proud of it, they can suck s**t. I did the gastric sleeve.
"All it does is change the shape of your stomach. I got that almost 2 years ago.
"I will never ever ever lie about it ever. It is the best thing I have ever done."
The Fashion Police alum further explained: "I want to be very clear about this kind of surgery I had. I didn't have a gastric bypass.
Kelly Osbourne looks unrecognisable as she shows off incredible weight loss
KELLY Osbourne looked almost unrecognisable as she showed off her incredible weight loss in a new picture.
The 36-year-old, who has been very open about shedding six stone, posed up with her purple hair in two buns – leaving her followers gobsmacked.
She looked a far cry from the teenager fans grew to love when she appeared on her family's hit reality TV show.
Taking to Instagram to discuss her look, some fans accused her of having enhancements or surgery.
One person wrote: "Did you also get lips done? Or make up done all around them? Look way different."


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CHOVANEC: We Can't Really Talk About A US-China Trade War, At Least Not Yet
Patrick Chovanec
I was on BBC Monday, talking about the latest trade spats developing between the U.S. and China. Over the past few weeks, the U.S. imposed two distinct sets of retaliatory tariffs on Chinese-made solar panels (and just today, followed up with similar sanctions on Chinese-made wind-turbine towers). Last Friday, China struck back by asking the World Trade organisation (WTO) to look into whether U.S. "green energy" subsidies and other initiatives violate international trade rules. These moves come on top of a series of disputes over the past few years involving products ranging from tires to raw earth to steel tubes to chickens. You can watch my short interview on BBC here.
The first point I made on BBC is that, so far, the areas of dispute — and there have been many — only cover a small portion of US-China trade. In fact, that trade has been growing, not shrinking, in both directions. So we can't really talk about a "trade war" breaking out, at least not yet. (If that U.S. Congress passed, and the President agreed to, across-the-board trade sanctions against Chinese goods to retaliate for China's currency policy, THAT would be a trade war.)
What these moves do signify is high-level (and high-stakes) signalling taking place between China and its major trade partners — not just the US, but Europe and Japan as well. China wants to develop what it sees as key industries by giving Chinese companies a leg up in both the Chinese and global market. Its trading partners don't want to see their firms placed at a disadvantage, and in several cases have challenged Chinese policies. China is challenging them right back, arguing that those countries do the same thing, and that people who live in protectionist glass houses shouldn't throw stones. If they do, China can match them "tit for tat." (A similar battle involving cross-accusations and threats between the EU and China began unfolding this week — you can read about it here).
There's a critical difference, though, between China and its trade partners. They all may both have policies that can be called protectionist, but they come from different starting points. In the U.S., trade restrictions and subsidies tend to be the exception to the rule, and when they do occur, are usually transparent. There's a public approval process and an overt policy that can be challenged at WTO. In China, restrictions and subsidies are pervasive, due to the large state role in the economy, and often hard to pin down.
When Chinese supplies of rare earth minerals to Japan were disrupted, apparently due to a diplomatic flair-up over contested islands, it wasn't clear who gave the order or how. In fact, China's Commerce Minister explicitly denied that any "embargo" was even taking place. When Hu Jintao promised President Obama, during his January state visit, that China would scrap its "indigenous innovation" catalogues intended to push government offices and state-run companies to buy domestic Chinese products, it wasn't clear (and still isn't) whether China had truly abandoned the animating principle behind the policy or had merely shifted to using other, less obvious approaches to achieving the same goal.
As a result, there's growing discussion among U.S. officials and trade experts about whether the WTO framework is at all suited to tackling the issues that really matter when it comes to trade with China. WTO is a rule-based system that does a reasonably good job at striking down overt actions or practices that violate trade agreements. If the real problem is that a nation's court system is rigged in favour of state-owned or state-championed companies; that laws that are on the books aren't enforced, or are enforced unevenly; that business executives are rewarded for pursuing the government's policy goals, even at the cost of profits; that licensing, investment approval, and other procedures are used to extract commercial concessions such as the transfer of critical technologies — all of these deeply entrenched issues, and more, are beyond WTO's scope. Yet they determine the "terms of trade" between the U.S. and China far more than the explicit trade policies WTO is designed to adjudicate.
I'm not saying that U.S. negotiators have any clear alternatives in mind. There's no obvious approach that would work "better" than WTO, which is why the WTO framework remains the focus point of recent trade disputes. But the real dispute — about what constitutes an "even playing field" — goes far deeper, and will continue to be a source of conflict.
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Book reviews, Historical posts
Bernard Cornwell, The Winter King. A great combination of myth and history.
Bernard Cornwell has always been a great favourite of mine, managing to combine exciting action with historical events – informing the reader, whilst keeping them on the edge of their seat. So I was intrigued when he decided to write a series of novels based on the legend of King Arthur. The Winter King is the first of the Warlord chronicles and is set in ancient Britain just after the Romans left its shores and the Saxons started to make incursions into the British Isles. King Arthur comes to hold back the impending storm, and by so doing spawns the legend that has inspired the myth that has lasted through the millennia.
The difficulty with any Arthurian novel is striking the balance between historical accuracy and the myth that has grown over the past fifteen hundred years. Most people realise that Sir Thomas Mallory's concept of knights in shining armour is completely inaccurate, but do you throw out all the elements of the legend you think untrue or exaggerated? If so you may come up with a tale nobody recognises. This is an issue with Arthurian novels, because readers will come to it with their own pre-conceptions and if you leave out characters like Lancelot, or elements like Arthur's sword Excalibur or the round table, the reader might be so disappointed that they are completely turned off by the book.
Luckily Cornwell, as ever, strikes a great balance. He retains the ideas and concepts of the great legend, whilst combing it into a believable tale set in Britain's past. It would be impossible for him to please everyone of course, but I think most who love tales of Arthur will really enjoy his take on the myth. We have all the characters we know so well, Lancelot, Guinevere and Merlin, but all sown into a story where the warriors wear leather or chain-mail suited to the period, and fight in a tight shield wall rather than with horse and lance, donning full plate armour.
Merlin is done especially well, where he is depicted as a Druid and performs the rights and rituals of the ancient pagan priests that had held sway in the land before the Romans appeared and put an end to their power, hundreds of years before. Any magic in the novel therefore comes in the form of curses and prophecy, being a realistic way of portraying ancient mysticism and retains a sense of realism. The character Merlin appears completely believable and fits in with the period of history. The power he holds over others comes from their belief in his words and rituals, and is a clever way of writing this essential ingredient into the story, without it branching into the realms of fantasy.
I've always loved the legend of King Arthur and I really enjoyed Bernard Cornwell's interpretation of the myth. I had a few gripes of course, normally with the behaviour of the odd character, but that's to be expected – we bring our own ideas with us when it comes to stories on Arthur, it's what makes him such a fascinating subject to write about and I can't recommend these novels enough.
You can purchase the first of these novels, The Winter King on Amazon here.
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Tagged with: Bernard Cornwell, Historical era, Historical Novel, King Arthur, Merlin
I've always wondered if I'd like Bernard Cornwell's books, but have never read any. I'm fascinated by the King Arthur story so, thanks to your review, I'll give this book a try.
Great! I hope you like it. Let me know what you think, it'll be interesting to get another viewpoint.
Alan R Lancaster says
Hello again Thomas,
Arthur was a 'wish' figure, like Robin Hood six hundred or so years later. They were both raised as emblems of opposition against an incoming occupying power, in the case of Arthur it was the Saxons; in Robin Hood's case it was the Normans. Funny thing though, Robin, being the diminutive of Robert must have had Norman origins. Robert of Lockesley was a dispossessed Norman – 'dog eat dog'. Are there any stories of Saxons being pushed out by their own kind at the time of Cerdic (the founder of the Wessex dynasty, of which Eadweard – Edward – was the last)?
Just a thought. I'll get to part 2 of 'The Coming' shortly. TTFN,
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Gleeful graduate student workers at Yale University wasted no time in filing petitions with the NLRB for union certification following the long awaited decision to restore collective bargaining rights.
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Q: Optimizing a Function that Returns "ON" Every Second I'm very new to python, and I'm trying to make a sort of idle game. I'm having a little bit of trouble optimizing a function I wrote that flashes "ON" and then "OFF" every time a second passes.
While it works fine, it checks to see if a second has passed so many times that it peaks my CPU. The code is below:
import time
def timer():
  oldtime = int(time.time())
  #grabs the time on initiation
  while True:
    if oldtime < int(time.time()):
      return 'ON'
      #flashes on
      return 'OFF'
      #makes everything that checks if it's on only proc once
      oldtime += int(time.time()) - oldtime
      #makes oldtime advance one second ahead of time.time(),
      #even if more than one second passes at a time

timer()
while timer() == "ON":
  print('lorem ipsum')
#output: lorem ipsum every second and a peaking CPU

How would one go about optimizing something like this?

A: Here I have written a while loop that calls a function that will check the previous state of a variable and depending on whether it was ON or OFF it will sleep for 1 second and change to the other state.
import time
def repeat():
    isOn = True
    if(isOn):
       time.sleep(1)
       isOn = False
       return 'OFF'
    if(isOn != True):
       time.sleep(1)
       isOn = True
       return 'ON'
 while True:
 #You could always take the return value of repeat() to do something else
 #in your code
     repeat()

A: I'm not sure if this is actually what you want as I feel like you are likely looking to do "something else" in the pause.
However, looking at your code, I think this will give you the result you are currently working towards. The key to not using up resources is to sleep()
import time

def timer():
    time.sleep(1)
    return ["On ", "Off"][int(time.time() % 2)]

while True:
    print(timer(), end="\r", flush=True)

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This is a 240v Crompton 40w decorative antique Squirrel Cage with a bayonet screw (BC) cap. It has an average life of 3000 hours, a lumen output of 140 lumens and is dimmable. They are 140mm in length and 64mm in diameter. These lamps are often found in pubs and restaurants to offer a decorative, antique style illumination.


1. sushi mania!! 2. circus themed cake pops 3. if you ignore the chocolate, this is healthy, right?
When do I not eat excessive amounts? - never would be the answer to that.
So, time to announce the Oasap giveaway winners! Two winners were chosen using a random number generator online, and the first prize winner is Issy! The second goes to Nicol! Congratulations girls, I'll be passing your details onto Oasap and they should be contacting you very soon!
That sushi looks pretty good!!
So many images of yummy food!
and grats to Issy and Nicol :D!
ah you are always eating so good!
All that food looks pretty great !
Wow, all of that food looks so good! I'm really craving sushi now, haha.
omg. sushi is what I need right now!!
Wa.....love sushi!!!! would you like to follow each other?


Today is the first working day of the New Year, that time of the year when we try to come up with resolutions to improve our careers, relationships or attitudes. I find it an opportune occasion to recommend a New Year's resolution for the business community – that in 2012, we all step up our personal efforts to help reduce poverty in our country!
In last week's column, I discussed how investing in education can make a profound difference in the progress of the nation. Another area that needs attention is the cost of credit to the poor. Along with education and public health, this is another advocacy that I ardently espouse.
My father, Albino Z. SyCip, co-founded China Bank and had a reputation for extending loans to young and penniless entrepreneurs. He must have been a good judge of character as he would sometimes just rely on the borrower's word of honor. John Gokongwei and Jobo Fernandez were both recipients of my father's good will. However, bankers in general would not risk lending to the poor who have no collateral whatsoever; it just does not make business sense. Or does it?
In the last few years, microfinance has been gaining ground in the Philippines as a viable source of credit for the poor. The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) defines microfinance to include "financial services such as deposits, loans, payment services, money transfers and insurance products to the poor and low-income households and their microenterprises." It should be emphasized that microfinance is not engaged in charity, subsidized credit or dole outs nor is it the only remedy for poverty.
In the past dozen years, microfinance activities in the Philippines have greatly increased. In 2010, total loans amounted to USD632.1 million with 3 million active borrowers. Deposits in 2010 totaled USD454.4 million with 3.7 million borrowers. What do these numbers tell us?
Generally, they speak positively about the capacity of the poor to save and repay their debts when they are given access to credit. The figures also suggest that microfinance institutions (MFIs) – rural and thrift banks, non-government organizations or NGOs, and cooperatives – can be profitable institutions.
The key to microfinance is in small, unsecured loans (as low as Php5,000) with very frequent amortizations also in small amounts. The risk of an unsecured loan is built into the price. Most MFIs would charge from 2.5% to 3.5% interest per month which, to some may be considered high, but this is so much lower than the outrageous 20% interest rate charged by the informal "5-6" lenders.
However, I believe that the real secret behind the success of MFIs is the credit discipline instilled in their clients. MFIs normally meet their clients (mostly women) every week when they pay their loans, report on their business, and bond with their fellow borrowers. The typical collection rate for good MFIs is about 98% while the industry standard is at 94%. This clearly demonstrates – against conventional wisdom – that the poor have integrity. That given the opportunity, they can rise above their misfortune. Most of them do not need charity; what they need is our confidence in them.
Besides the soundness of the MFI business model, the more essential dimension of microfinance is its tremendous impact on the poor. A Php5,000 loan may seem small, but to a family of five (the average Filipino family), it means a potential daily income of Php200-300 per day that the mother earns from her sari-sari store. This can spell the difference between having three square meals a day instead of the typical one or two.
I will continue to incessantly promote microfinance in the Philippines as a means of alleviating poverty. The late President Cory Aquino was a leading advocate of MFIs through her involvement with the PinoyMe Foundation. I have also been working closely with Dr. Aris Alip, founder and president of the Center for Agriculture and Rural Development (CARD) Inc. (CARD NGO).
CARD NGO started in 1986 as an NGO and has evolved into an outstanding MFI. Several organizations were set up subsequently to support CARD NGO. These organizations, together with CARD NGO, are collectively called CARD Mutually Reinforcing Institutions (CARD MRI). CARD MRI's major organizations are CARD NGO, CARD Bank, Inc., CARD Mutual Benefit Association, Inc., CARD SME Bank and CARD MRI Development Institute (CMDI).
CARD MRI's microfinance program comprises credit programs (providing loans to small businesses), Flexible Capital Build Up (a savings mobilization program), micro insurance, Credit with Education (training modules on business, insurance, etc.) and a Microfinance and Health Protection Program.
As of November 2011, CARD MRI already had over 1,300 offices all over the Philippines, 1.4 million active clients and 7.1 million insured persons. As of same date, MRI boasts a total loan portfolio of Php5.9 billion and a remarkable repayment rate of 99.43% while total deposits/capital build up amounted to Php4.1 billion. Its total assets are at Php11.7 billion and total equity/fund balance is at Php2.6 billion.
On my 90th birthday last June, an American investor and philanthropist, Paul Kazarian, generously donated a fund to expand services in basic education and microfinance. The Kazarian Foundation also set aside a second fund for research, education, and training on microfinance to see how their studies can benefit our microfinance industry and to assess how CARD MRI can also help other microfinance organizations abroad.
This is good news indeed, but the real challenge for all of us is how – as a society – we can increase the number of those who are able to expand their microenterprises and become integrated into the mainstream economy. Let us not belittle the financial power of the poor. Their absolute number could make a significant improvement in our economy. To my mind, the real value of microfinance is that it gives hope to many in the midst of despair.
Lending a hand to the poor and encouraging entrepreneurship though microfinance are not just a good deeds; they have an enduring effect on their lives. Perhaps, this can be your New Year's resolution in 2012.
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    # context = {'latest_question_list': latest_question_list}
    # activate('pt-br')
    # print(request.LANGUAGE_CODE)
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    return render(request, 'index.html', context)

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O Convento das Mónicas, situa-se Travessa das Mónicas, 2-4, na freguesia de São Vicente, anteriormente na freguesia da Graça, em Lisboa. Foi habitado desde 1586 até ao terramoto de 1755, pelas religiosas de Santo Agostinho.

Com a extinção das ordens religiosas, o convento passou a albergar em 1871 uma casa de correcção para rapazes. Mais tarde passou a servir de casa de correcção para mulheres e posteriormente, em 1917, passou a ser uma cadeia civil.  Este foi o primeiro estabelecimento em Portugal destinado à delinquência infantil.

Actualmente o edifício é utilizado para fins culturais.

Monicas
Prisões de Portugal
Graça (Lisboa)
São Vicente (Lisboa)
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Q: Best practices/strategies for a library project with activities, routing back to host activities? I'm working on a library project that includes a few activities. These activities would need to redirect back to activities in the host application based on input.
for example:
[host activity#1] -> [library activity] -> [host activity#1]
                                        -> [host activity#2]
                                        -> [host activity#3]

The issue I'm facing is providing a simple api for host applications to define which activity to route to in each scenario. I considered just allowing them to handle it in onActivtyResult, but some scenarios in the library may look like this:
[host activity#1] -> [lib activity#1] -> [lib activity#2] -> [host activity#1]
                                                          -> [host activity#2]

Is it normal/correct to create a static class in my library where the host application can define which activities are mean to handle each scenario?
Would it be appropriate to have them extend an interface in some static class that defines what to do in each scenario (the interface forcing them to define what happens in each possible case)?
I'm not quite sure how to phrase this question, and my assumption is that there is better terminology for this problem that would have assisted me in finding what I am looking for by searching.

A:
The issue I'm facing is providing a simple api for host applications to define which activity to route to in each scenario. I considered just allowing them to handle it in onActivtyResult, but some scenarios in the library may look like this...

I don't see any issue with the onActivityResult approach, you can simply chain those calls and still return in to [host activity#1] which will decide where to navigate next.
If you are afraid about writing too much code (which I think you shouldn't), you can consider this workaround: create a base activity class which overrides onActivityResult(). It will have all navigation logic in one place, so all other activities will automatically get it by extending the base activity. Yes, you will have to  write a bit ugly code like this:
if (this instanceof Activity1) {
    ...
} else if (this instanceof Activity2) {
    ...
}

Indeed, it does look a bit ugly, but it also solves the problem of having the code spread out across multiple activities. Having this code enclosed in one method looks totally fine for me from the maintainability point of view.

Is it normal/correct to create a static class in my library where the host application can define which activities are mean to handle each scenario?

No, I think this is not okay. The library shouldn't know anything about the host application, this is just a poor design. It also will require the host app to set activities to the library before using it, which will make the library less convenient to use.

Would it be appropriate to have them extend an interface in some static class that defines what to do in each scenario (the interface forcing them to define what happens in each possible case)?

Yes, that is perfectly fine and actually is the best way, I think. In this case the library only works through its own interface, it doesn't know anything about the host app. The interface doesn't have to be defined in a class though, I'd prefer defining it in a separate file. This way clients don't necessarily need to see the enclosing class.
I hope this helps. If I didn't answer the question, please provide more details and what you have tried so far.. Thanks, and good luck!


The news in Chicago in January 1923 was about vampires. No, not that kind.
The problem was "vampire autos."
Cars were just beginning to crowd the city then. Traffic laws were primitive, and drivers were usually careless. At the same time, pedestrians were still pretty casual about wandering into the street whenever they felt like it.
A person would be walking along, minding his own business. Suddenly, out of nowhere, an auto would appear, run him down, and speed away while the victim lay bleeding on the pavement. The auto was like a vampire--attacking without warning and sucking the blood out of innocent people.
Vampire autos killed four people on January 17. The next day they snuffed out three more lives. Hundreds of Chicagoans were being injured. The city council and concerned citizens were looking for ways to combat the growing menace. Would our streets ever again be safe?
Then there was the "auto vamp." The phrase derived from actress Theda Bara, known as The Vamp. In her films, Bara's character operated like Dracula. She seduced male admirers through her evil charms, making them slaves to her every whim.
Chicago's auto vamp was an attractive young woman who'd hitchhike along the city's boulevards. If a prosperous-looking man picked her up, she'd accept the ride, then threaten to inform his wife that he had made "advances." More than one man paid the blackmail.
Last August, the police had arrested 21-year-old Jeane Miller as the alleged auto vamp. She had jumped bail. Now, on this evening in January, an insurance adjuster recognized Miller on Oak Street. Deciding to make a citizen's arrest, he grabbed Miller's arm and told her to get into his car.
Meanwhile, a second man happened along. This man thought Miller was being kidnapped. He wrestled the woman away from the adjuster, and together they escaped in the rescuer's car. They headed east on Oak at better than 50 mph.
The adjuster jumped into his car and drove off after them. A motorcycle cop saw the speeding cars and joined the pursuit. Pedestrians and small animals scattered.
The chase ended at Lake Shore Drive. The two men emerged from their cars and began arguing about Miller. A crowd gathered. There was much shouting.
The cop forced his way through the mob. He told everyone that matters would be sorted out back at the police station. There Miller was placed under arrest for bond forfeiture. The two men swore out complaints against each other.
The lessons to be learned here are two. (1) Look both ways when you cross the street. (2) Don't pick up hitchhikers. Especially if they look like Theda Bara.


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Pattern and experience with cancers treated with the chinese GWCP80 cobalt unit at Mulago Hospital, Kampala
JBK Mugambe
P Wegoye
Objectives: To review the pattern of cancers treated at Mulago hospital with the new Chinese GWGP80 Cobalt - 60 unit and to analyse its breakdowns, downtime and attempts at repairs during its first two years of operation and to assess its reliability and safety.
Design: A retrospective cross - sectional study.
Data source: This involved analysing data from the radiotherapy records book, the patient's case notes and a "fault's Log book" which was opened on the day the machine was commissioned. All causes of non - performance were documented in this book and an assessment of the severity of breakdowns, period of downtime and repairs carried out was done. Faults requiring only a few minutes maintenance work or non-performance due to general power failure were however excluded. All patients who had been treated earlier on the orthovoltage machine and were re-treated on the cobalt unit were also excluded from the analysis.
Setting: Department of Radiotherapy, Mulago Hospital, Kampala, Uganda.
Results: One thousand and forty eight new patients were treated during this period. Three hundred and fifty nine were males and 689 were females. Cancer of the cervix was by far the commonest cancer seen (37.2%) followed by head and neck cancers (16.0%), breast cancers
(13.8%) and Kaposi's sarcoma (10.5%). There were 47 machine faults. Most of these were relatively minor requiring only a few hours of maintenance work. Two of these faults were however major with downtime of more than a week. These were due to a failure of the "force
back system" of the radioactive source necessitating it to be hammered back into the safe position.
Conclusion: The Chinese GWGP80 Cobalt unit has effectively treated a large number of cancer patients but the failures of the "force back system" of its radioactive source compromise its radiation safety and ideally would require a change in the engineering design to decrease on the associated radiation hazards.


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Choreographer Alejandro Cerrudo Premieres 'One Thousand Pieces'
PRIME NUMBER: Finally, the Chicago-groomed choreographer isn't sharing the stage with anyone
By Cassie Walker Burke
On the scale of out-and-out frenzy, many contemporary choreographers like to aim for 10. The Chicago-nurtured Alejandro Cerrudo has a more melodious style. His syrupy movements and harmonious couplings are constructions of beauty: challenging to execute, but effortless in appearance. Of the ten dances he has created since joining Hubbard Street in 2005 as a dancer, there's not a bombastic one in the bunch.
On October 18, the Madrid native, 32, will premiere One Thousand Pieces, the first evening-length work of his career. For a guy with a skeptical view of the literal, he was handed a doozy by his bosses: the job of kicking off Hubbard Street's 35th-anniversary season by paying homage to those familiar panels given to the Art Institute 35 years ago by the artist Marc Chagall. The choreographer is emphatic that the windows will not appear onstage. "The piece is abstract," he explains. Set to the music of Philip Glass, the dance will play with the properties of stained glass: the way it filters and colors light despite its opacity. "A stained glass window is not a window. It becomes something else," Cerrudo says cryptically.
What is clear: Hubbard Street's bold decision to devote an entire evening to his piece. "Alejandro has come out of our ranks. I want him to represent us," says Glenn Edgerton, the artistic director. The young choreographer is certainly making his name beyond the Midwest. Aspen Santa Fe Ballet will stage his work in New York the same week that Pieces debuts, and Pacific Northwest Ballet and Ballet Arizona have each commissioned new dances for 2013.
Photograph: Todd Rosenberg


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Churchill always had a special affection Blenheim Palace. Many of his formative years were spent at Blenheim under the no nonsense direction of his Grandmother, Frances, 7th Duchess of Marlborough. Along with Nanny Everest, Frances was one of the few people who could exert some control over the young Winston. She was very fond of her grandson but this did not blind her to his need for discipline and was particularly keen to instil in him the importance of punctuality. Frances gave Churchill his first pony and one of his favorite pastimes was to go riding in the Park. When not riding he spent time fishing in the Lake. He also like to make "encampments" in the Park, using an upturned umbrella as a tent.


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Jan Marian Gliński (ur. 4 kwietnia 1933 w Pińsku, zm. 9 stycznia 2020 w Lublinie) – polski agrofizyk i gleboznawca, profesor nauk rolniczych, członek rzeczywisty Polskiej Akademii Nauk, były dyrektor Instytutu Agrofizyki im. Bohdana Dobrzańskiego PAN i były prezes Oddziału PAN w Lublinie.

Życiorys
W 1951 roku podjął studia w Wyższej Szkole Rolniczej w Lublinie. Ukończył je w 1956 roku i podjął pracę w kierowanej przez Bohdana Dobrzańskiego Katedrze Gleboznawstwa WSR. W 1964 roku uzyskał stopień doktora, a w 1968 doktora habilitowanego. W 1972 r. dołączył do Zakładu Agrofizyki PAN w Lublinie (w 1986 roku przekształconego w Instytut Agrofizyki im. Bohdana Dobrzańskiego PAN). W 1974 roku uzyskał tytuł profesora nadzwyczajnego nauk rolniczych, a w 1980 profesora zwyczajnego. Od 1982 był kierownikiem Zakładu Agrofizyki PAN, a w latach 1987–2003 dyrektorem Instytutu Agrofizyki PAN.

Od 1991 był członkiem korespondentem, a od 1997 członkiem rzeczywistym PAN W latach 2001–2010 pełnił funkcję prezesa Oddziału PAN w Lublinie, a od 2010 był jednym z wiceprezesów. Członek Międzynarodowego Towarzystwa Gleboznawczego (od 1969).

Wielokrotnie nagradzany i odznaczany. Był laureatem nagród resortowych (1969, 1972), Nagrody Wydziału Nauk Rolnych i Leśnych PAN (1972), Nagrody Sekretarza Naukowego PAN (1982, 1985). Odznaczony między innymi Krzyżem Komandorskim, Oficerskim i Kawalerskim Orderu Odrodzenia Polski, Złotym i Brązowym Krzyżem Zasługi oraz Medalem 30-lecia Polski Ludowej i Medalem 40-lecia Polski Ludowej.

Publikacje
 Agrofizyka, nawożenie, biogeny torfopochodne (1982, współautorstwo, )
 Procesy transportu gazów w glebie i skład powietrza glebowego (1984, wspólnie z Witoldem Stępniewskim, )
 Metody pomiaru aeracji gleb (1985, wspólnie z Witoldem Stępniewskim, )
 Reakcja roślin na stan aeracji gleby (1985, wspólnie z Witoldem Stępniewskim, )
 Słownik agrofizyczny polsko-angielski i angielsko-polski, Polish-English and English-Polish dictionary of agrophysics (1986, wspólnie z Ryszardem Dębickim, )
 Metody i aparatura do badań agrofizycznych. 1 Gleba (1991, wspólnie z Krystyną Konstankiewicz, )
 Metody i aparatura do badań agrofizycznych. 2 Materiał roślinny (1991, wspólnie z Krystyną Konstankiewicz, )
 Agroekologiczne aspekty warunków tlenowych gleb ornych: monografia (2000, współautorstwo, )

Bibliografia
 Kto jest kim w Polsce. Informator biograficzny. Edycja 2, Wydawnictwo Interpress, Warszawa 1989, s. 329

Przypisy

Linki zewnętrzne

Absolwenci Uniwersytetu Przyrodniczego w Lublinie
Członkowie rzeczywiści PAN
Polscy przedstawiciele nauk rolniczych
Polscy gleboznawcy
Odznaczeni Krzyżem Komandorskim Orderu Odrodzenia Polski
Odznaczeni Krzyżem Oficerskim Orderu Odrodzenia Polski
Odznaczeni Krzyżem Kawalerskim Orderu Odrodzenia Polski
Odznaczeni Medalem 30-lecia Polski Ludowej
Odznaczeni Medalem 40-lecia Polski Ludowej
Odznaczeni Złotym Krzyżem Zasługi (Polska Ludowa)
Odznaczeni Brązowym Krzyżem Zasługi (Polska Ludowa)
Ludzie urodzeni w Pińsku
Urodzeni w 1933
Zmarli w 2020
Pochowani na cmentarzu przy ulicy Lipowej w Lublinie


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Q: Determine if two strings are similar in Javascript? Let's say I have two strings, is there any way to check if they are at least 90% similar?
var string1 = "theBoardmeetstoday,tomorrow51";
var string2 = "Board meets today, tomorrow";

Thanks,
Tegan

A: Also consider Dice's Coefficient which is considered "mostly better" than the Levenshtein distance by the creator of the string-similarity github repo and its corresponding npm module.
Usage from its docs:
var stringSimilarity = require('string-similarity');

var similarity = stringSimilarity.compareTwoStrings('healed', 'sealed');

var matches = stringSimilarity.findBestMatch('healed', ['edward', 'sealed', 'theatre']);

A: String.levenshtein (a plugin MooTools)
check it out: http://mootools.net/forge/p/string_levenshtein
GitHub: https://github.com/thinkphp/String.levenshtein
This method calculates Levenshtein distance between two strings. In information theory and computer science, the Levenshtein distance is a metric for measuring the amount of difference between two sequences (called edit distance). The Levenshtein distance between two strings is given by minimum number of operations needed to transform one string into another given string, where possible operations are insertion, deletion, or substitution of a single character.
The Levenshtein distance algorithm has been used in:

*

*Spell checking

*Speech recognition

*DNA analysis

*plagiarism detection

A: The wikipedia entry for Levenshtein distance includes a sample implementation.

A: jsdifflib is a JavaScript port of Python's excellent difflib library.
It has a function ratio() which "return[s] a measure of the sequences' similarity as a float in the range [0, 1]."

A: piggybacking on other people's answers, I wrote a simple js function stringsAreSimilar to do this:
// https://github.com/thinkphp/String.levenshtein/blob/master/Source/String.levenshtein.js

function getStringDifference(stringA, stringB) {
  var cost = [],
    str1 = stringA,
    str2 = stringB,
    n = str1.length,
    m = str2.length,
    i, j;

  var minimum = function (a, b, c) {
    var min = a;
    if (b < min) {
      min = b;
    }
    if (c < min) {
      min = c;
    }
    return min;
  };

  if (n == 0) {
    return;
  }
  if (m == 0) {
    return;
  }

  for (var i = 0; i <= n; i++) {
    cost[i] = [];
  }

  for (i = 0; i <= n; i++) {
    cost[i][0] = i;
  }

  for (j = 0; j <= m; j++) {
    cost[0][j] = j;
  }

  for (i = 1; i <= n; i++) {

    var x = str1.charAt(i - 1);

    for (j = 1; j <= m; j++) {

      var y = str2.charAt(j - 1);

      if (x == y) {

        cost[i][j] = cost[i - 1][j - 1];

      } else {

        cost[i][j] = 1 + minimum(cost[i - 1][j - 1], cost[i][j - 1], cost[i - 1][j]);
      }

    } //endfor

  } //endfor

  return cost[n][m];
}

function stringsAreSimilar(stringA, stringB) {
  var difference = getStringDifference(stringA, stringB);
  debugConsoleLog("stringA" + stringA);
  debugConsoleLog("stringB" + stringB);
  debugConsoleLog("difference" + difference);

  return difference < 10;
}

var string1 = "theBoardmeetstoday,tomorrow51";
var string2 = "Board meets today, tomorrow";

if(similar) {
    console.log("they are similar");
} else {
    console.log("they are not similar");
}

A: So I was trying to do this last year.  I read that Levenshtein distance  is the solution for this purpose the OP asked here.
I saw a code from a thread and was not given much upvotes.  Maybe because of its time complexity (having a forloop inside a forloop). I tried and it seem to work for me.  The function returns a score wherein 0 is a great match on the other hand a higher score means deviating from a close match.  Ill share and maybe someone can extend it or explain it better:

function editDistance(s1, s2) {
    s1 = s1.toLowerCase();
    s2 = s2.toLowerCase();

    var costs = new Array();
    for (var i = 0; i <= s1.length; i++) {
        var lastValue = i;
        for (var j = 0; j <= s2.length; j++) {
            if (i == 0) costs[j] = j;
            else {
                if (j > 0) {
                    var newValue = costs[j - 1];
                    if (s1.charAt(i - 1) != s2.charAt(j - 1))
                        newValue =
                            Math.min(Math.min(newValue, lastValue), costs[j]) +
                            1;
                    costs[j - 1] = lastValue;
                    lastValue = newValue;
                }
            }
        }
        if (i > 0) costs[s2.length] = lastValue;
    }
    return costs[s2.length];
}

Good luck and share your thoughts on this - would be awesome! Cheers!


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Q: C Memory allocation issue with integer and printing I have a datatype called 'data' which is a void pointer. It's used as an argument for another function, this allowing the programmer to send any datatype as an argument to that specific function.
How do I combine my allocations so I don't have to use 4 different variables and instead only use like 2? I'm talking about d, d2, dd and dd2
(OBS! q & q2 are the stack names. Ignore them. The only issue I'm having is with d, d2, dd and dd2.
data d = (int*) malloc(sizeof(int));
*(int *)d = 7;

data d2 = (int*) malloc(sizeof(int));
*(int *)d2 = 7;

data dd = (int*) malloc(sizeof(int));
*(int *)dd = 8;

data dd2 = (int*) malloc(sizeof(int));
*(int *)dd2 = 8;

stack_add(q, d); /* Adds an item so the stack is not empty.*/
stack_add(q2, d2); /* Adds an item so the stack is not empty.*/

if (!stack_isEmpty(q)) {

    /* Removes an item and then adds an item from the first stack*/
    stack_remove(q);
    stack_add(q, dd);

    /* Adds an item and then removes one from the second stack*/
    stack_add(q2, dd2);
    stack_remove(q2);

How do I combine the allocations so it looks better?

A: *

*Your allocation is bad because,

*

*It violates the DRY principle

*You don't check for NULL

*The size parameter is bad, it should be sizeof(*d). It's probably ok but since you did not post what data is.

*It appears that you have typedefed a pointer which is bad practice.

*You should post the code for stack_firstvalue() because it might be there where the problem is.
In simple terms, you have very obvious mistakes in your posted code, and you didn't post the interesting code for stack_firstvalue(), it's natural to assume that it will contain bugs of course.


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with the Henan Peritoneal Dialysis Registry (HPDR) between 2007 and 2014 were included. Multivariable logistic regression modelling was applied to derive the risk score. All accessible clinical measurements were screened as potential predictors. Internal validation through bootstrapping was applied to test the model performance.
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therapies reducing the incidence of CeVD related events.


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With some games, the overlay can cause issues - which is understandable!
It would be nice, though, for situations where the overlay can't be used, to have the overlay's info available in a second place (I use it to keep track of filesizes) - either the main dxtory window somewhere, or an additional popup window to display recording statistics.
It might not be very useful to many, but as someone who records openGL games with overlay problems, and has a second monitor, it'd be super handy.
Thanks for the rad software, and your time!


In the autumn of 2002 I wintered 130 bee colonies. The Varroa mite had just hit the area where I live. The winterlosses were big that winter, a little less than 50%. The winter was long and hard. In March about 20% had died. Those that died later mostly had started egglaying and were too small in bee strenght to cover also stores beside the brood when it became cold again in April.
15 colonies, all Buckfasts, had been treated with Apistan. The rest, all of Elgon stock, were untreated. Only 2 of the Apistantreated colonies survived. these two were not "pure" Buckfasts (from Denmark), but daughters mated in the home apiary with probably also Elgon drones. One of the surviving Buckfasts had some Monticola heritage in the motherline.
Many apiaries in Österbotten in Finland were totally wiped out that winter. With others just a few colonies were left.
One beekeeper was an exception. He lived 35 km south of me and wintered 13 colonies in the autumn of 2002, crossings between Elgon, Italians and Buckfasts. This beekeeper uses large cell size. The bees got no additional sugar for winter beside the honey they had gathered. Actually they were allowed to keep all their honey. They also got no treatment against varroa. All colonies survived well. He sold 8 colonies in 2003 and wintered the remaining 5 the same way as the previous year, though he harvested some honey. All 5 wintered excellent and were in good shape in spring 2004. He sold some of these 2004, but made some splits and had once again 5 colonies going into winter in autumn 2004. Once again he took very little honey from them and didn't give them any sugar as winter feed. You can wonder if sugar contribute bad wintering, the sugar itself or contamination of some chemical, or both. Also you can wonder if too much of interference with the bees causes stress and less good defense behaviour against the mites.
A strong survivor colony amongst many dead outs in spring 2003. This colony, 439, showed hygienic behaviour against mites in the brood. So called bald brood is a characteristics for this, Bald brood is premature uncapping of pupae and sometimes cleaning out of the content. This colony was of the same motherline as the best colonies Poul Erik Karlsen used on Bornholm, that of Sahariensis that had been mated several times with drones with a lot of Monticola heritage.
Marianne takes as big a part in the beekeeping business as I do and works the bees at least as good as I do.
This is a YouTube clip showing Elgon bees aggressive against mites, grooming and biting it. It was filmed in 2002. Click on the picture.
An Elgon bee wants help to get rid of the mite sitting between thorax and the abdomen. But that's a too difficult place. After 20 minutes I got tired of filming.
In May 2003 I bought 15 Carniolan queens from Slovenia and made splits from them, which I placed several tens of kilometers from my Elgon bees. Such early queens give a crop which pays off already the first year. That's why I bought them, to compensate for the winter losses. I didn't replace the Carniolan queens and these colonies got no varroa treatment in autumn 2003. They had 3-4 combs of 5.1 mm cellsize in the middle of the box (one box full depth Langstroth), the rest with 5.5 mm cellsize.
The autumn of 2003 – 80 colonies were wintered, of which 15 were these Carniolans mentioned above, the rest were Elgons (and two Buckfast daughters). Then we (my wife Marianne and I, she takes as big part in the bees as I) tested some of the Elgon colonies concerning varroa.
We used 5 formic acid gel bags and 10 thymol pads with 15 grams of thymol each. They were kept in the hives just overnight. The number of mites dropped was not big in any of the tested colonies, 10-15 mites, except for one colony which dropped several hundreds, also an Elgon. That colony became quite small and the queen was replaced.
We used Apistan for three weeks in a little less than 20 colonies for comparison. Only slightly more mites dropped from them.
The wintering was normal the winter of 2003-04. Only one of the old colonies died and 7 splits of Elgons. The winters are pretty hard on this latitude (above degree 60), the losses from the nucs most probably are due to that. Winter losses among Elgons were 12%.
There was a difference also concerning mite populations in autumn 2002 and in autumn of 2003. It was definitely lower in autumn 2003, by the bees' own power. All "pure" Buckfasts were gone 2003 (no longer any colonies produced high amounts of mites, which could spread to the others through silent robbers from them). Most colonies had at least a couple of combs with 4.9 mm cell size in the middle of the box in autumn 2003, some had several. The rest were 5.1 mm in the Elgons.
Colony strenght was very good in April 2004. The strongest covering 1 and a half 10-frame boxes full depth Langstroth.
Of the 15 Carniolan colonies 9 died, 60%. Those left looked healthy on their 6-7 frames of bees.
During 2004 I couldn't see any sign in any of the Elgon colonies that they had mites. I did no drone comb cuttings or used any drugs to measure the amount of mites or treat against the mites. I have though looked carefully to see if I could observe any sign of a growing population of mites or of secondary infections from viruses, or if something negative development should take place. But the colonies behaved normally all season.
I wintered 97 colonies 2004, of which 17 were in the Carniolan apiary. I had bought some new Carniolan queens from Slovenia and also bred some queens from the best of the old queens. In some of the Carniolan colonies I judged the mite population to be a little too high and treated them with thymol in the autumn.
Why the Carniolan apiary looked so good I think was due to the use of 4.9 mm cell size foundation. Those colonies that had a little too big mite population were those that hadn't drawn that foundation so well the previous year.
In 2004 also in this Carniolan apiary the 4.9 foundation was drawn well, which I think is due to the use of a closer spacing of the frames, with 32 mm from midwall to midwall, instead of 35 or 38 mm. Bees apparently don't want only smaller cell size in the brood area, but also a closer spacing of brood combs.
In March 2005 no colonies had died and they were healthy and fine. The season of 2005 was good with a lot of honey. The bees developed normally and behaved as expected. No problem with mites or any other disease. No treatements were made except what I'm going to describe a little further down.
I watched for signs of unnormal development or behavior, but couldn't see any in any of the bee colonies.
My conviction is that treatments should be used as little as possible, with the norm being nothing. I think drugs of any kind have bad influence not only on the target bug but also on the bees. Alien chemicals can easily make them weaker in different respects. But most of all it's a waste of time and money, when there are other strategies available.
Selection of resistant bees is the first priority and management methods helping the bees stay healthy is another important tool in helping the bees. If you use a lot of drugs it's impossible to select resistant bees. In the beginning of a selection and management strategy you may probably loose some more bees then wanted. But such losses is clearly becoming something you can expect coming in intervals when drugs are used so I find that a worse longterm solution. 30 years with drugs further south in Europe than where I live tells me that.
Wintering the bees in the autumn of 2005 went almost as smooth as in the old days when the varroa mite wasn't present.
As I have a curious mind I have tested also some other types of bees than Elgons. But Elgons have contributed well in breeding resistance to the varroa mite. In Finland we can buy mated queens in May from the south of Europe. So I have tried some Slovenian Carniolans and Italians from Italy. Nucs that are made in May with such queens give a crop the same year they are made, even in our short season. I though must say I don't like these other bees as much as I do my own (that's always the case with us beekeepers isn't it?:-), so I'm going to quit using them.
The Italian Italians (not Italians bred in Finland I want to point out) are unfortunately very aggressive, at least those I have tried. The Carniolans I've tried are too uneven in different respects. But some of the Slovenian queens are very good. I even think that it would be possible to breed a good varroa resistant strain out of them if you have many enough to make selection from. I would say if you keep them on smaller cell size, at least on 5.1 mm, preferably on 4.9 mm. Some of these Slovenian Carniolans could draw small cell foundation well.
As I have a mold for wax foundation with 5.1 mm cell size, I havn't been so keen in going down to 4.9 mm. But most of my bee colonies have at least a couple of 4.9 cell sized combs in the middle of the broodnest when I winter them.
The abnormal large cell size that has been used for quite some years in Finland is 5.4-5.5 mm. You can even find foundation molds giving cell size 5.7 mm. But more and more of us beekeepers are realizing that history has played a trick with us, as the first commercial wax foundations made had 5 cells per inch (in America), which is just below 5.1 mm cell size.
The combs with 5.45 mm cellsize I still have I use above the queen excluder in the honey supers and not for brood.
I wintered 129 colonies in autumn 2005. Of those 6 were ded in spring 2006 due to starvation. My fault. No signs of any varroa or virus infections.
When I harvest the crop I make a note of those colonies that haven't developed as expected, if they are weaker than the others. I also check how clean they keep the bottom boards. I think I've seen a connection between varroa resistance and clean bottom boards. Maybe hygienic behavior affects mite resistance too.
Those hives that don't seem good enough I give a thymol pad. Pieces of 2.5 cm x 10 cm drenched with thymol solution can be bought here in Finland. Ten pieces in a plastic bag. The recommendation is one piece on the top bars during four weeks just after the main harvest. At my place that's in the beginning of August. I did this in my inferior hives and checked the downfall of mites after three days. Those that dropped 200-300 mites (which was on the higher side) were allowed to keep their pads for three weeks. Those that dropped 10-20 or so had the pads removed.
The colonies that were tested in this way with a thymol pad were all the Italians, 5 in number, all the Carniolans, 13 in number, and about 32 Elgons and Elgon crosses. Totally about 50 colonies were tested this way of my 129 colonies. Many Elgon apiaries hadn't got any treatment for quite some years by then and many Elgon colonies had never got any treatemnt of any kind.
30 of these 50 colonies were allowed to keep their thymol pad for three weeks due to the number of mites that dropped during the first three days. It was the 5 Italians and 10 of the 13 Carniolans. The other 15 were mainly Elgons crossed with Buckfast drones.
Actually I don't know if this treatment was needed for the colonies to survive. You see I can easily have missed other colonies which I didn't test, that might have had quite some mites. And there were no colonies with wintering problems.
But survivability is in a way not always due to the amount of mites. Colonies can sometimes have quite high amounts of mites and still survive well. It's said it's viruses killing the colonies, maybe in cooperation with nosema and pesticides. But at least I think I this way described picked the most probable colonies of being affected by mites and viruses. And I brought down the mite pressure, making it easier for neighboring colonies to deal with their own mite population without getting extra mites through reinvasion.
Elgons are on the mother side going back to Monticola in East African mountains or Sahariensis from a Marockoan oasis. I have though some colonies which have Buckfast on the mother side (Macedonian line) which have been crossed with Elgon drones three times. Colonies of that constitution I didn't give any thymol treatment either.
I should also mention that I havn't done any drone brood removal in many years to fight the mite. Instead I let the colonies keep some drone comb. They need drones, for the mating of the virgin queens for example.
The overwintering till spring 2006 went well. Development were normal in spring, in fact the colonies looked so healthy and strong they hadn't done in years. In 2006 beekeeping was back to normal as it was before the arrival of the mite, at least almost.
I appreciate that more beekeepers are trying Elgon bees in Finland. I just name a few that work with Elgon bees today. Pauli Nevala who won gold medal in javelin-throwing in the Olympic games in Japan 1964 is one. Pauli mentioned that his Elgon colonies smelled strongly like of cat pee one autumn. That smell I could sense myself several years ago when I also had Buckfast colonies with a lot of mites in my apiaries. Also others have mentioned they have smelled similar kind of smells from Elgon colonies, especially in autumns. Some of them even called the bee inspector to have the bees checked for American foulbrood, which it wasn't. Of course it's difficult to know if this smell have anything to do with the bees fighting the mite, but it seems anyway the bees might smell like this when they are fighting a mite population that is a little bigger than just small.
Another beekeeper that worked with Elgon was the bee scientist Seppo Korpela. He was counting mites a lot more than I did and was involved in trying to select a resistant strain. He was not using small cell size.
Many of my Elgon colonies can be tracked back to a colony I called 439. The motherline is Sahariensis, but it had a lot of Monticola heritage, at least theoretically.
I can mention too that my honey was tested 2005-06 for spores of American foulbrood and none were found. I don't see chalkbrood anymore. I don't know if I should thank the selection that's been taking place in my bee stock or small cell size. Maybe both. Nothing of this is at least harmful for the bees. Well, if you don't use too much inbreeding of course. I'm convinced inbreeding can do a lot of harm weakening the bees. Mating stations and insemination can be of advantage, but to keep the genetic variation big enough I think it's important that virgin queens can mate in an area with a big amount of colonies that are not closely related, but still of the same origin. As I have it here in Munsala where I live.
The years have passed by since 2006 and today more than ten years later beekeeping is continuing the same way as then, back to normal as before the mites arrived. I have had 200 colonies, but I'm getting older and am cutting down the number of hives somewhat.


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2016 Tour de France: Sagan Snags Second Stage Win on Stage 11
July 13th, 2016 Zach Bigalke
On a windy day in southern France the sprinters were once again foiled, missing out on yet another of a waning number of opportunities for a stage win. Instead it was Chris Froome and Peter Sagan who worked together in the closing kilometers, as the yellow and green jerseys stamped out any potential challenges from their respective rivals and opened a gap during the run to the finish line in Montpellier. In the process Froome gained a few more seconds on the other GC contenders, Sagan prevented any of the more traditional sprinters from narrowing the point gap, and we learned that no terrain will go uncontested in the 2016 Tour de France.
Arthur Vichot, wearing the tricolore of the French national champion, broke away and was quickly joined by Leigh Howard in the early kilometers of the race. The two stayed away over the first categorized climb, their lead up to two and a half minutes by the time Vichot and Howard crested the Cote de Minerve. They stayed away as well over the Cote de Villespassans, with Vichot taking the maximum points at both climbs, but the gap started dropping after that point and it seemed merely a matter of time until the duo off the front would be reeled back into the fold of the peloton. The winds were taking their toll not just on the breakaway but also the peloton itself, which began to fracture into echelons on the road to try to buffer some of the wind's impact.
All the while, crashes and crosswinds continued to take their toll throughout the field. After several fits and starts, with the gap shrinking and expanding with each turn into or out of the wind, Vichot and Howard were finally caught a few kilometers before the intermediate sprint in Pezenas. Marcel Kittel fended off Sagan and Mark Cavendish at the sprint, while Sagan extended his lead at the top thanks to his second-place finish. A tailwind allowed for a large group of 81 riders that had fallen off the back from the peloton to reintegrate with the main field, and yet the attacks continued on the front.
About a dozen kilometers from the finish, Sagan made his decisive move. Recognizing the impact the wind would have on a potential sprint finish, the green jersey jumped out of the peloton with teammate Maciej Bodnar and opened up a small gap. Froome bridged up to the leaders, and soon a quartet had formed off the front once Froome's teammate Geraint Thomas linked up with the trio. They never gained more than 20 seconds on the main field, but as the four leaders charged into Montpellier they managed to maintain their lead all the way to the finish.
As they passed within 500 meters to go, Bodnar ramped up the speed to lead out the sprint. Sagan stayed on his teammates wheel until the final 200 meters or so, pulling out of Bodnar's slipstream to the rider's left and turning on the extra gear. Froome held on to the Slovak's wheel but could find no more power to make a move around him, and Sagan emerged with his second stage win of the 2016 Tour after several years of winning the green jersey but never taking a stage.
(Roberto Bettini/Cyclingnews)
Even had he not won the stage, though, Sagan has followed the same formula that has allowed him to finish with green in Paris each of the past three years. Targeting opportunities where other sprinters are either not as strong (such as in the medium mountains and on rolling stages) or are not as tactically savvy (such as when the winds start swirling and make it difficult to keep together long lead-out trains), Sagan consistently gets himself into position to secure points that other sprinters simply cannot snag.
Likewise, Froome has shown a propensity for chipping away at the rest of the GC contenders. His attacks are more varied in nature than someone like a Lance Armstrong, who basically turned the screws in the mountains and dared other riders to keep up. No, Froome is far more demoralizing to his rivals, as his style prevents any stage from being an "easy" stage for the GC riders. Through his willingness to contest even a few seconds' time, Froome has positioned himself once again as the biggest threat for the overall in 2016.
For the sprinters such as Cavendish and Kittel, though, it was another opportunity lost. These cyclists are now forced to wait until Saturday and Stage 14, with Thursday's ride finishing at the summit of Mont Ventoux and Friday featuring an individual time trial. Stage 14 between Montelimar and Villars-les-Dombes is the last relatively flat mass-start stage before the Alps, and after that only two potential opportunities remain for the speedsters in the bunch.
Stage Results and Standings after Stage 11
Stage Results
1 Peter Sagan (Svk) Tinkoff Team 3:26:23
2 Christopher Froome (GBr) Team Sky
3 Maciej Bodnar (Pol) Tinkoff Team
4 Alexander Kristoff (Nor) Team Katusha +0:00:06
5 Christophe Laporte (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits
6 Jasper Stuyven (Bel) Trek-Segafredo
7 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Dimension Data
8 André Greipel (Ger) Lotto Soudal
9 Sondre Holst Enger (Nor) IAM Cycling
10 Oliver Naesen (Bel) IAM Cycling
General Classification (yellow jersey)
1 Christopher Froome (GBr) Team Sky 52:34:37
2 Adam Yates (GBr) Orica-BikeExchange +0:00:28
3 Daniel Martin (Irl) Etixx – Quick-Step +0:00:31
4 Nairo Quintana (Col) Movistar Team +0:00:35
5 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Trek-Segafredo +0:00:56
7 Sergio Henao (Col) Team Sky
8 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Movistar Team +0:01:13
9 Tejay Van Garderen (USA) BMC Racing Team
10 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Tinkoff Team +0:01:28
Points Classification (green jersey)
1 Peter Sagan (Svk) Tinkoff Team 309
2 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Dimension Data 219
3 Marcel Kittel (Ger) Etixx – Quick-Step 202
4 Michael Matthews (Aus) Orica-BikeExchange 124
5 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) BMC Racing Team 112
6 Bryan Coquard (Fra) Direct Energie 112
7 André Greipel (Ger) Lotto Soudal 99
8 Alexander Kristoff (Nor) Team Katusha 92
9 Christopher Froome (GBr) Team Sky 77
10 Thomas De Gendt (Bel) Lotto Soudal 65
King of the Mountains (polka-dot jersey)
1 Thibaut Pinot (Fra) FDJ 80
2 Rafal Majka (Pol) Tinkoff Team 77
3 Tom Dumoulin (Ned) Team Giant-Alpecin 58
4 Rui Costa (Por) Lampre – Merida 50
5 Thomas De Gendt (Bel) Lotto Soudal 36
6 Daniel Navarro (Spa) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 36
7 Diego Rosa (Ita) Astana Pro Team 27
8 Winner Anacona (Col) Movistar Team 26
9 George Bennett (NZl) Team LottoNl-Jumbo 23
10 Christopher Froome (GBr) Team Sky 22
Best Young Rider (white jersey)
1 Adam Yates (GBr) Orica-BikeExchange 52:35:05
2 Louis Meintjes (RSA) Lampre – Merida +0:01:42
3 Warren Barguil (Fra) Team Giant-Alpecin +0:02:35
4 Wilco Kelderman (Ned) Team LottoNl-Jumbo +0:05:26
5 Emanuel Buchmann (Ger) Bora-Argon 18 +0:09:35
6 Eduardo Sepulveda (Arg) Fortuneo – Vital Concept +0:17:44
7 Julian Alaphilippe (Fra) Etixx – Quick-Step +0:42:45
8 Patrick Konrad (Aut) Bora-Argon 18 +0:58:20
9 Jan Polanc (Slo) Lampre – Merida +1:11:09
10 Lawson Craddock (USA) Cannondale-Drapac +1:19:15
Arthur Vichot
Leigh Howard
maillot jaune
maillot vert
yellow jersey
Zach Bigalke
Zach is a historian and author who has been covering sports near and far for various publications since 2006. Formerly the managing editor of Informative Sports and Global Turnstile, he has also been featured at Helium, FanSided, the Portland State Vanguard and other online publications and is the author of three books, including "Dispatches from Vancouver: A Non-Traditional Sports Fan in America's View of the XXI Winter Olympiad". He currently lives in Eugene, Oregon. Follow him at Twitter @zbigalke; for more info on his books, visit Amazon.
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Frontloaded Monetary Policy Actions To Bring Inflation Further Under Control RBI Report
India's retail inflation has moderated after remaining above the upper tolerance level since January, and frontloaded monetary policy actions are expected to bring it further under control, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said in a report on Thursday.
The RBI's Financial Stability Report (FSR) also said the persistence and broadening of core inflation may continue to exert pressure going forward.
"Frontloaded monetary policy actions are expected to bring inflation into the tolerance band and closer to the target while anchoring inflation expectations," the FSR noted.
The Indian economy is confronting strong global headwinds but the sound macroeconomic fundamentals and healthy financial and non-financial sector balance sheets are providing strength and resilience and engendering financial system stability, it added.
"Inflation, though elevated, is retreating in response to frontloaded monetary policy actions and supply side intervention," the report noted.
The RBI said the increase in the value of the US dollar also tends to raise inflation by driving up import prices, mainly of commodities which are invoiced in the greenback.
Currency depreciations have kept commodity prices in local currency at still elevated levels and much above their averages over the last five years in many economies, said the report.
For poorer economies, this is a "double blow" as commodity-driven inflation is likely to precipitate a "humanitarian crisis".
On the domestic financial situation, RBI said the conditions have tightened in response to the focus of the monetary policy stance on withdrawal of accommodation to ensure that inflation remains within the target going forward, while supporting growth.
The RBI has been mandated by the government to keep inflation in a band of 2-6 per cent. RBI takes into account the retail inflation to review its monetary policy every two months.
After remaining above the upper tolerance level since January this year, retail inflation slipped to 5.88 per cent in November 2022 on softening food prices.
(This story is published as part of the auto-generated syndicate wire feed. No editing has been done in the headline or the body by ABP Live.)
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Blogger users prefer to choose posts for the majority of their site's content. Posts are like content entries that display your site's content on the basis of publishing timing. Older posts are archived on the basis of months and years. When the posts get older, users have to dig the site to reach them. Nonetheless, there is an option called "Labels" that enables you to categorize your posts in a systematic manner.
Posts encourage discussion. By default, they have commenting feature that allows users to engage, and comment on a certain topic. However, you can disable this feature by turning OFF the commenting option through settings.
Pages do not support Social buttons, nor any additional gadgets like comments because you probably don't want to see your users commenting on either pricy policy or etc. Unlike WordPress, blogger pages are not supported hierarchical so, this is a significant lack in the platform.
In pages, we can easily change their order. It allows us to customize the order of pages by drag and drop. The only draw-back we have is that blogger supports only 20 pages. It means on one blog you can create only 20 pages.
Following are the list of few differences that we found in the both content entries. The differences are not that significant in terms of numbers, but yet they surely need some attention.
Posts are unlimited vs. Pages are NOT.
Posts are timely vs. Pages has no expiry.
Posts are Social friendly vs. Pages are NOT.
Posts has categorize vs. Pages do not have them.
Posts are acceptable in RSS vs. Pages are NOT.
One Post cannot act as homepage vs. One Page can become a homepage.
Which one of two is Good For SEO?
People frequently ask, are there any SEO advantage while using one or the other? Search engines always love content. However, it always prefers timely the content, one which is recent and has all the accurate information about the topic. In short, there is no need to worry about it because as a newbie try focusing on your content.
What is the purpose of Posts & Pages?
Pages are meant for marketing and promoting your stuff, like selling different kinds of products through affiliate marketing, etc. It holds that information which mainly concern regarding a particular story about a business, news, personal updates, etc. On the other hand, Posts are the key to attract attention of others. This is usually used for daily article writing.
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Cool Post ..... The info graphic like pictures made my day ..
Thanks for such an informative post. Is it possible to convert a page into post by retaining its url as it is.
Both have different structures. So they cannot have same URLs. Hope that answers your question.
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I understand the difference, but the only option is to create a blog first, not a page.
Go to Blogger >> Setting >> Post and Comments >> Post on Homepage >> Set it to 0 >> Save.
Ditto... always wondered what the difference was. Now I have a couple of posts to convert to pages!
How do you convert a page to a post?
I am afraid , you are mistaken here. Actually there is not limit of number of pages per blog.
Thank you for explaining the difference very well.


These are interesting days we live in. We have never had more ways to express ourselves – more ways to inform the world about what we think. It seems the plethora of ways to communicate has only increased the amount of noise but hasn't necessarily increased the wisdom of the hearers.
We go to social media to express our most recent outrage being completely convinced that everyone deserves our opinion. Have you noticed how often we make the wrong assumption? Twitter may be giving us more characters these days, but we don't seem to have any more sense about what to do with them. In our focused efforts to be heard, we seem to be missing a vital step.
We need to have something to say.
I can really identify with Moses in Exodus 3 – "If I go to the Israelites, what should I say?" God faithfully replies, "This is what you should say." (Exodus 3) And, from there God equips His leader to not only know where he should go and to whom he should speak – He told him what to say.
I realized years ago that the energy I spent trying to get my songs heard would be much better utilized working to make the songs worth hearing. The time I spend developing the message to be shared is much more important than the time I spend building the platform on which to share it.
Have you ever had thoughts like these?
And then we desperately spin and spin on what we can do to be heard.
How about deciding to be desperate about something else? What would happen if we were much more concerned with having something to say? It seems to me if we were focused on knowing Christ and discerning what he would place in our hearts to share in a song or on a platform, the places and people to share it with would take care of themselves.
God, give us such a desire to know You that we can trust You will always give us something to say – and some way to say it.


Summer ends, the chess season starts. Hanham are not the strongest team in the division so it felt like a reasonable place to shake off the dust and try to remember some of the things we used to know about chess. We took a team that out-graded Hanham across the boards so I was reasonably confident of a positive result.
First to finish were Mike and Doreen on board 4. After trading minor pieces from a Grand Prix attack a draw was agreed in 24 moves with less than an hour gone. Looking across the boards at this point we had the better of the match. Cy making his debut (and playing his first ever competitive match) was much the better against Anthony Carver; Anthony's double fianchetto versus the London seemed odd and so it was looking. On board two Howard and Barry, two gentlemen of the game, were deep into pawn chains and manoeuvring. On three James was positionally well placed owning the centre of the board out of a classical French with Kevin. My game was low octane as Allen gifted me a piece after four moves and I was gently strangling the game. The only game causing concern was Graham on board six which looked a struggle.
But you win no points for being ahead half way through a game.
Next to finish was James who missed a two move mate. Sigh. Hanham one up. I evened up the score as the extra piece became an extra piece and a pawn, then two pawns, then three pawns and Allen had had enough. All square after three.
As time began to run down somehow Graham had managed to turn round an end game where he had a rook vs Richard's bishop pair and ground out a splendid result forcing through a passed pawn with about four minutes left on his clock. Horfield one up.
Two games left. Howard and Barry had battled in what looked like, on occasion, a sharp game requiring accurate calculation however they agreed a draw. A fair result.
So just the top board. Cy, two pawns up and ahead on time, sadly blundered his queen and Anthony quickly polished the game off. A shame as up to that point Cy's debut had been highly impressive as he controlled the game admirably.
A drawn match. Hanham will be pleased with that.