Kristy was born under a new Sagittarian moon in Moncton NB, with a gypsy soul and a radiant open heart. Kristy loves nature and thrives on new adventure and exploration. Kristy's love of travel and passion for yoga led her to Tulum, Mexico where she began to explore herself on a deeper level. Over the years she explored many styles of yoga including Bikram, Vinyasa, Ashtanga, Bhakti, Kundalini, and Yin yoga. Kristy fell in love with Vinyasa yoga. "The rhythmic connection between breath and movement is a beautiful thing" she says.
Soon after, her journey led her to Baja California, Mexico where she studied Vinyasa and Hatha Yoga at Yandara Yoga Institute. There she completed her 200hr YTT and is Yoga Alliance Certified. Her background in Bikram Yoga and her passion for health and fitness has enabled her to cultivate creative and dynamic sequencing suitable for all levels. "My goal is to hold a safe and inviting space where my students feel encouraged to move freely. I invite all my students to explore their authentic selves and to creatively express themselves through the connection of breath and movement, making every practice their very own. By teaching yoga I hope to inspire others to cultivate a healthy body, let go of the should and shouldn'ts, quiet the mind, open the heart, and let the radiance shine from within."
Kristy recently completed Post & Pre Natal training at Therapudic Approach Yoga Studio in Halifax, NS. She also attended Wanderlust Festival in Whistler, BC where she practiced extensively with Shiva Rae and Eoin Finn, both who she admires deeply. She also hopes to dive deeper into Yin yoga within the coming months.


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Q: Load Script only once in Next.js using React hooks? I want to use Utterances for my blog. It should only load when someone scrolled to the bottom of the post so I use react-intersection-observer for that. I have made the following hook.
useUtterances.ts
import React from 'react'
import { useTheme } from 'next-themes'

import { siteMetadata } from '@/_data/index'

export const useUtterances = (commentNodeId: string) => {
    const config = siteMetadata.comment.utterancesConfig
    // username/repo format
    const REPO_NAME = config.repo as string

    const { theme, resolvedTheme } = useTheme()
    const utterancesTheme =
        theme === 'light' || resolvedTheme === 'light' ? config.theme : config.darkTheme

    React.useEffect(() => {
        const scriptParentNode = document.getElementById(commentNodeId)
        if (!scriptParentNode) return

        // docs - https://utteranc.es/
        const script = document.createElement('script')
        script.src = 'https://utteranc.es/client.js'
        script.async = true
        script.setAttribute('repo', REPO_NAME)
        script.setAttribute('issue-term', 'pathname')
        script.setAttribute('label', 'comment :speech_balloon:')
        script.setAttribute('theme', utterancesTheme)
        script.setAttribute('crossorigin', 'anonymous')

        scriptParentNode.appendChild(script)

        return () => {
            // cleanup - remove the older script with previous theme
            scriptParentNode.removeChild(scriptParentNode.firstChild as Node)
        }
    }, [REPO_NAME, commentNodeId, utterancesTheme])
}

Utterances.tsx
import React from 'react'
import { useInView } from 'react-intersection-observer'

import { useUtterances } from '@/hooks/useUtterances'

export const Utterances = () => {
    const COMMENTS_NODE_ID = 'comments'
    const { ref, inView } = useInView({ threshold: 0, triggerOnce: true })

    useUtterances(inView ? COMMENTS_NODE_ID : '')

    return (

            {inView ?
 : null}

    )
}

I use next-themes to toggle DarkMode. I also send a request to utterances iframe so it doesn't load script twice but it still loads it twice by unmounting & mounting the component.
DarkMode.tsx
import React from 'react'
import { useTheme } from 'next-themes'
import { MoonIcon, SunIcon } from '@heroicons/react/solid'

import { useHasMounted } from '@/hooks/index'
import { siteMetadata } from '@/_data/index'

export const DarkMode = () => {
    const { resolvedTheme, setTheme } = useTheme()
    const hasMounted = useHasMounted()

    const label = resolvedTheme === 'dark' ? 'Activate light mode' : 'Activate dark mode'

    if (!hasMounted) return null

    const toggleTheme = () => {
        const newTheme = resolvedTheme === 'light' ? 'dark' : 'light'
        setTheme(newTheme)

        // for utterances
        const frame = document.getElementsByClassName('utterances-frame')[0] as HTMLIFrameElement
        if (frame?.contentWindow) {
            const utterancesTheme =
                resolvedTheme === 'light'
                    ? siteMetadata.comment.utterancesConfig.darkTheme
                    : siteMetadata.comment.utterancesConfig.theme
            frame.contentWindow.postMessage({ type: 'set-theme', theme: utterancesTheme }, '*')
        }
    }

    return (
        <>
            <button
                className="focus:outline-none"
                type="button"
                title={label}
                aria-label={label}
                onClick={toggleTheme}
            >
                {resolvedTheme === 'light' ? (
                    <MoonIcon className="w-8 h-8" />
                ) : (
                    <SunIcon className="w-8 h-8" />
                )}
            </button>
        </>
    )
}

How do I make sure it only requests script once? It now calls it everytime I toggle. It mounts and unmounts the component as I see nothing for a while when the script is loading.
GitHub repo -> https://github.com/deadcoder0904/next-utterances-script-loads-twice/tree/master
Stackblitz demo -> https://stackblitz.com/edit/github-6frqvs?file=pages%2Findex.tsx
Open in New Window to see the Dark Mode as Stackblitz currently doesn't support Tailwind Dark Mode. Check the Network Tab to see it sends request everytime even though you can also see the Comments component mounting & unmounting.
How do I only load script once?

A: Try something like this:
React.useEffect(() => {
    const scriptParentNode = document.getElementById(commentNodeId)
    const utterancesFrame = document.getElementsByClassName('utterances-frame')[0]
    if (!scriptParentNode || utterancesFrame) return

    // docs - https://utteranc.es/
    const script = document.createElement('script')
    script.src = 'https://utteranc.es/client.js'
    script.async = true
    script.setAttribute('repo', REPO_NAME)
    script.setAttribute('issue-term', 'pathname')
    script.setAttribute('label', 'comment :speech_balloon:')
    script.setAttribute('theme', utterancesTheme)
    script.setAttribute('crossorigin', 'anonymous')

    scriptParentNode.appendChild(script)
}, [REPO_NAME, commentNodeId, utterancesTheme])

So what basically is happen here. It is looks like when we append the utterances script after loading it replaces himself with:

To avoid unnecessary append we check if there are some <iframe class="utterances-frame" already in the page and only if not append the script.

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Le massacre de Borodianka est une série de crimes de guerre commis à Borodianka pendant l'invasion de l'Ukraine par la Russie de 2022 et dont l'armée russe est accusée.

Il est annoncé par Volodymyr Zelensky le . A cette date, 27 corps sont retrouvés, mais le bilan suspecté par les autorités ukrainiennes est beaucoup plus élevé.

Ce massacre est découvert une semaine après celui de Boutcha.

Contexte
Avant l'offensive de Kiev, Borodianka, ville située au nord de la capitale ukrainienne Kiev, compte treize mille habitants environ.

Les habitants de la ville subissent d'abord des frappes aériennes et se réfugient dans les caves, où ils resteront pendant 38 jours. Le 26 mars 2022, la Russie, qui n'a pas pu entrer dans Kiev, annonce qu'elle retire ses forces de ce front pour se concentrer sur la région du Donbass, dans l'est et le sud du pays. Les forces russes quittent alors progressivement la région de Kiev. À Borodianka, il ne reste que quelques centaines d'habitants. Certains ont fui. D'autres sont morts sous les décombres.

Déroulement
Iryna Venediktova, , affirme que les troupes russes ont utilisé des bombes à sous-munitions et des lance-roquettes Tornade et Uragan afin de détruire des bâtiments, et qu'elles ont tiré . Par ailleurs, elle accuse les soldats russes de s'être livrés à  de civils.

De rares habitants de la ville ont survécu, cachés dans des caves. D'autres y ont été enterrés vivants, selon Oleksiy Reznikov, ministre de la Défense, qui précise que plusieurs personnes ayant tenté de porter secours à ces derniers ont été prises pour cibles par les troupes russes.

Selon le maire de la ville, Borodianka a été « énormément bombardée », et, lorsque les chars russes traversaient la ville, les « soldats positionnés au-dessus tiraient à gauche et à droite sur tout ce qui bougeait ». Le maire estime ainsi le nombre de victimes à 200.

Bilan humain
Le , Volodymyr Zelensky annonce que le bilan humain des massacres à Borodianka est  qu'à Boutcha, avec .

Enquêtes
Le 5 avril, la presse annonce que l'AFP s'est rendue à Borodianka. L'AFP n'a vu aucun cadavre, mais rapporte des destructions « à perte de vue ». Le bilan humain n'est pas encore défini, des habitants témoignent que leurs voisins ont été tués, mais que d'autres sont sous les décombres et que l'on ne peut savoir combien sont abandonnés dans les sous-sols.

Le sept avril, Iryna Venediktova annonce que vingt-six premiers corps sont découverts dans les décombres de deux bâtiments détruits. Elle souligne par ailleurs que Borodianka  et que dans cette localité .

Le 9 avril, la radio Europe 1 publie un reportage qu'elle a réalisé sur place. Les pompiers tentent toujours, dix jours après le départ des russes, d'extraire les cadavres des décombres afin de les enterrer dignement. Mais la tâche est complexe, car ce qui reste des bâtiments peut s'écrouler pendant l'opération. Tous les jours, des corps sont découverts. Les morgues de la région étant pleines, les cadavres sont évacués à une centaine de kilomètres.

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Liens externes

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
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 Crimes de guerre lors de l'invasion russe de l'Ukraine en 2022
 Offensive de Kiev
 Massacre de Boutcha

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16-bit computing
(Redirected from 16-bit)
This article is about 16-bit computer architecture. For the color encoding, see Highcolor. For the video gaming era, see History of video game consoles (fourth generation). For other uses, see 16-bit (disambiguation).
Computer architecture bit widths
bit slicing
Binary floating-point precision
16 (×½)
32 (×1)
128 (×4)
Decimal floating point precision
In computer architecture, 16-bit integers, memory addresses, or other data units are those that are 16 bits (2 octets) wide. Also, 16-bit CPU and ALU architectures are those that are based on registers, address buses, or data buses of that size. 16-bit microcomputers are computers in which 16-bit microprocessors were the norm.
A 16-bit register can store 216 different values. The signed range of integer values that can be stored in 16 bits is −32,768 (−1 × 215) through 32,767 (215 − 1); the unsigned range is 0 through 65,535 (216 − 1). Since 216 is 65,536, a processor with 16-bit memory addresses can directly access 64 KB (65,536 bytes) of byte-addressable memory. If a system uses segmentation with 16-bit segment offsets, more can be accessed.
1 16-bit architecture
1.1 16/32-bit Motorola 68000 and Intel 386SX
2 16-bit application
3 List of 16-bit CPUs
16-bit architecture[edit]
The MIT Whirlwind (c. 1951)[1][2] was quite possibly the first-ever 16-bit computer. Other early 16-bit computers (c. 1965–70) include the IBM 1130,[3] the HP 2100,[4] the Data General Nova,[5] and the DEC PDP-11.[6]
Early multi-chip 16-bit microprocessors (c. 1973–76) include the five-chip National Semiconductor IMP-16 (1973),[7] the two-chip NEC μCOM-16 (1974),[8][7] the three-chip Western Digital MCP-1600 (1975), and the five-chip Toshiba T-3412 (1976).[7]
Early single-chip 16-bit microprocessors (c. 1975–76) include the Panafacom MN1610 (1975),[9][10][7] National Semiconductor PACE (1975), General Instrument CP1600 (1975), Texas Instruments TMS9900 (1976),[7] Ferranti F100-L, and the HP BPC. Other notable 16-bit processors include the Intel 8086, the Intel 80286, the WDC 65C816, and the Zilog Z8000. The Intel 8088 was binary compatible with the Intel 8086, and was 16-bit in that its registers were 16 bits wide, and arithmetic instructions could operate on 16-bit quantities, even though its external bus was 8 bits wide.
A 16-bit integer can store 216 (or 65,536) distinct values. In an unsigned representation, these values are the integers between 0 and 65,535; using two's complement, possible values range from −32,768 to 32,767. Hence, a processor with 16-bit memory addresses can directly access 64 KB of byte-addressable memory.
16-bit processors have been almost entirely supplanted in the personal computer industry, and are used less than 32-bit (or 8-bit) CPUs in embedded applications.
16/32-bit Motorola 68000 and Intel 386SX[edit]
The Motorola 68000 is sometimes called 16-bit because its internal and external data buses were 16 bits wide; however, it could be considered a 32-bit processor in that the general purpose registers were 32 bits wide and most arithmetic instructions supported 32-bit arithmetic. The 68000 was a microcoded processor with three internal 16-bit ALUs. Only 24 bits of the program counter (PC) were available on original DIP packages, with up to 16 megabytes of addressable RAM. 68000 software is 32-bit in nature and forward-compatible with other 32-bit processors in the same family.[11] The 68008 was a version of the 68000 with an 8-bit external data path and 1-megabyte addressing for the 48-pin DIP version, and 4 megabytes for the 52-pin PLCC version. Several Apple Macintosh models--e.g., the LC series--used 32-bit 68020 and 68030 processors on a 16-bit data bus to save cost.
Similar analysis applies to Intel's 80286 CPU replacement, called the 386SX, which is a 32-bit processor with 32-bit ALU and internal 32-bit data paths with a 16-bit external bus and 24-bit addressing of the processor it replaced.
16-bit application[edit]
In the context of IBM PC compatible and Wintel platforms, a 16-bit application is any software written for MS-DOS, OS/2 1.x or early versions of Microsoft Windows which originally ran on the 16-bit Intel 8088 and Intel 80286 microprocessors. Such applications used a 20-bit or 24-bit segment or selector-offset address representation to extend the range of addressable memory locations beyond what was possible using only 16-bit addresses. Programs containing more than 216 bytes (65,536 bytes) of instructions and data therefore required special instructions to switch between their 64-kilobyte segments, increasing the complexity of programming 16-bit applications.
List of 16-bit CPUs[edit]
This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.
Angstrem
1801 series CPU
PDP-11 (for LSI-11, see Western Digital, below)
DEC J-11
DEC T-11
EnSilica
eSi-1600
Ferranti F100-L
HP 21xx/2000/1000/98xx/BPC
Honeywell Level 6/DPS 6
System/7
Series/1
System/36
XE166 family
C166 family
Intel 8086/Intel 8088
Intel 80186/Intel 80188
Intel MCS-96
MIL-STD-1750A
Motorola 68HC12
IMP-16
PACE/INS8900
μCOM-16
NEC V20 and V30
Panafacom
Renesas M16C (16-bit registers, 24-bit address space)
Ricoh 5A22 (WDC 65816 clone used in SNES)
Texas Instruments TMS9900
TI MSP430
Western Design Center
WDC 65816/65802
MCP-1600 (used in the DEC LSI-11)
Zilog Z8000
Microprocessor § 16-bit designs
Influence of the IBM PC on the personal computer market § Before the IBM PC's introduction
74181 (key component of some early 16-bit and other CPUs)
Audio bit depth – as 16-bit is the most common bit depth used, e.g. on CD audio.
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^ Pearson, Jamie Parker (September 1992). Digital at work: snapshots from the first thirty-five years. Digital Press. pp. 58–61. ISBN 978-1-55558-092-6.
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^ "History". PFU. Retrieved 5 October 2010.
^ Motorola M68000 Family, Programmer's Reference Manual (PDF). Motorola, Inc. 1992. sec. 2.4, pp. 2–21.
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Post–Turing
Belt machine
Stack machine
Finite-state machine
with datapath
Queue automaton
Random-access
Random-access stored program
Von Neumann
Transport-triggered
Endianness
Memory access
Load/store
Register/memory
Cache hierarchy
Memory hierarchy
Heterogeneous
Neuromorphic
CISC
Application-specific
VLIW
OISC
ZISC
Addressing modes
Instruction sets
Power ISA
Itanium
Unicore
MicroBlaze
Instruction pipelining
Pipeline stall
Operand forwarding
Classic RISC pipeline
Data dependency
False sharing
Out-of-order
Tomasulo algorithm
Reservation station
Re-order buffer
Register renaming
Branch prediction
Memory dependence prediction
Bit-serial
Superscalar
Preemptive
Flynn's taxonomy
SISD
SWAR
SIMT
MISD
MIMD
SPMD
Transistor count
Instructions per cycle (IPC)
Cycles per instruction (CPI)
Instructions per second (IPS)
Floating-point operations per second (FLOPS)
Transactions per second (TPS)
Synaptic updates per second (SUPS)
Performance per watt (PPW)
Cache performance metrics
Computer performance by orders of magnitude
Graphics processing unit (GPU)
Coprocessor
Multi-chip module (MCM)
System in package (SiP)
Ultra-low-voltage
ASIP
on chip
System on a chip (SoC)
Multiprocessor (MPSoC)
Programmable (PSoC)
Network on a chip (NoC)
Vision processing unit (VPU)
Physics processing unit (PPU)
Digital signal processor (DSP)
Tensor processing unit (TPU)
Secure cryptoprocessor
Network processor
Baseband processor
Word size
Single-core
Multi-core
Manycore
Heterogeneous architecture
replacement policies
Clock rate
Clock signal
Functional units
Arithmetic logic unit (ALU)
Address generation unit (AGU)
Floating-point unit (FPU)
Memory management unit (MMU)
Load–store unit
Translation lookaside buffer (TLB)
Integrated memory controller (IMC)
Status register
Stack register
Register file
Memory buffer
Data buffer
Write buffer
Microcode ROM
Binary decoder
Sum addressed decoder
Barrel shifter
Mixed-signal
Dynamic frequency scaling
Dynamic voltage scaling
Clock gating
Race to sleep
History of general-purpose CPUs
Microprocessor chronology
Processor design
Hardware security module
Semiconductor device fabrication
Tick–tock model
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This is the 1990 Nissan Sentra. It is the best snow car ever made. If you cannot afford one, you might try the 1971 Ford F250 3/4 ton pickup (in red), which is arguably the second best. Make sure you get the red, as other pickup colors are inferior. My Sentra started the ski epic with 141,856 miles on it, which for a Sentra is just getting broken in properly. At the end of the ski epic, the sentra had 151,048 miles on it. About 9,200 miles in 86 days.
Above is my Sentra with some of my gear. K2 FX 11.2 skis, Nordica Grand Prix 80 ski boots, an Apple Powerbook 5300cs with 3COM Megahertz cellular modem, Motorola StarTAC cell phone, and a Panasonic sports walkman.
Below is a picture of my Sentra in its element in Sun Valley, Idaho. That's 25 inches of snow that fell overnight. Any other vehicle might have troubles getting out, but don't worry, this is a 1990 Sentra.


In a March 23 letter about the desire of my husband, John Rehm, to end his life after years of suffering from Parkinson's disease, the writer described Parkinson's as a chronic and progressive but not terminal condition. In fact, after suffering two bouts of pneumonia, brought on by John's loss of muscular ability to swallow correctly, his doctor determined that John had six months or less to live and prescribed hospice care.
(1) after suffering two bouts of pneumonia, … his doctor determined that John had six months or less to live and prescribed hospice care.
This has a subjectless predicational adjunct, after suffering two bouts of pneumonia, that does not pick up a referent for that missing subject from the subject of the main clause, his doctor — so it's a classic dangling modifier (a non-default SPAR, in my terminology). Well, the determiner in the subject, the possessive his, does supply the required referent, even though the whole subject does not. This is a pattern I've posted on before, and other factors work together to make a modifier that should be acceptable to almost everyone.
The crucial codes are the last two, 0-1P, having to do with where to find the referent for the missing subject of the predicational adjunct (0: no referent in the linguistic context) and the features of this referent (1P: 1st person singular; that is, the referent is the speaker of the sentence).
The adjunct thus frames the content of the main clause as representing the speaker's thoughts or experiences, and in general 0-1P adjuncts (while impressive examples of classical "dangling modifiers") are surprisingly acceptable, and not uncommon. And there's a reason for that.
The police cut a path into the brush and made a small clearing where the body was found. She appears to have been laid on a patch of dirt about 50 steps from the edge of Ocean Parkway, at the foot of a thin tree, leafless and largely branchless.
The intention is that the final phrase (boldfaced here) should pick up its subject from the immediately preceding NP a thin tree, but some readers will first latch onto the Subject Rule (for interpreting subjectless predicative adjuncts, preferring that the omitted subject of the adjunct be picked up from the subject of the clause to which its attached), as they would if the final phrase were, say, naked and bruised.
Another tribute to the power of the Subject Rule, especially notable for sentence-final adjuncts; see the discussion in "Dangling advice", here.
Volume 59, No. 1 (March 2011) of the journal Names (the journal of the American Name Society) arrived on Monday, and I immediately noticed Frank Nuessel's article "A note on the names of mathematical problems and puzzles" — noticed it because I was trained as a mathematician many years ago and published in and taught mathematical linguistics for some time (and sort-of-married into a nest of mathematicians: my husband-equivalent Jacques's father and older brother were both mathematics professors).
Interesting piece, though it's just a scratch into the immense range of material available.
While writing a paper entitled "The Representation of Mathematics in the Media" for a weeklong symposium …, it became evident that many mathematical problems, puzzles, conjectures, and equations had specific names attached to them.
Most people wouldn't have noticed this, but since I'm a scholar of SPARs (here and here), I caught the subjectless predicational adverbial requiring a referent for the subject.


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Q: A spectral sequence in Khovanov Homology Szabo equipped the mod $2$ Khovanov complex with a family of differentials $\{d_{i} \}_{i=1}^{\infty}$ such that each $d_{i}$ has bigrading $(i,2i-2)$ where $d_1$ is the mod $2$ Khovanov differential and $\delta_{Sz}=\sum_{i=1}^{n}d_i$ is the total differential in https://arxiv.org/abs/1010.4252v2. He defined a spectral $\{E_{i} \}$ sequence using the homological filtration of the Khovanov complex.
We notice that the quantum grading in each $d_i$ is also increasing. So, there is an another spectral sequence $\{E^{'}_{i} \}$ using quantum filtration as well.
Question: Are the two spectral sequences isomorphic? My hunch is $E_{i+1}=E^{'}_{i}$. This is because the first spectral sequence picks up the Khovanov homology at the second page but however the second one picks it up at the first page. How about the subsequent pages?
I will really appreciate any comment on this. Thank you!


Flushwork. The medieval use of knapped flints to make intricate designs on the exterior of churches. Considered to have reached the height of its art in Suffolk and Norfolk, perhaps its greatest example is Southwold.


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The Youth Advisory Council is a youth-led group who advises See Something-Say Something, Inc. Board of Directors on social and educational issues that impacts the lives of our youth the most. They have a voice in the educational workshops and help develop projects related to the organization's work including all mentoring programs.
So What do I really have to do?
You advise us what to do by corresponding one-on-one or in private with the Board of Directors and other committee members of what programs we should focus on and remind everyone involved that it's not about them but the Youth.
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Four years have passed since the opening of The Gardens on Havana and the shopping district is finally seeing a plan emerge for a residential development. The Aurora Sentinel reports Post Investment Group, a Los Angeles developer, is working on plans for the eagerly awaited segment of the project.
Details surfaced during a meeting of the Havana Business Improvement District. Alex Condos, president of the development division at Post, announced the project would include between 220 and 230 units. Although the zoning rules in the area permit a higher density, the company prefers the smaller figure due to the design concept.
John Loss, executive vice president of Miller Real Estate Investments—the owner and developer of The Gardens—has stated the company is optimistic the transaction will pull through.
Although the initial plan was to adopt the residential-over-retail concept, this idea was dropped due to the economy. The apartments are to be built east of Joliet Street, on the vacant lot south of East Arkansas Drive. Condos stated the all-time low apartment vacancy rates and the rising rents, combined with the Gardens location, make the project a good fit.
In other news, the Denver Business Journal reports the sale of a 316-unit apartment community in Lone Tree for $46.5 million. TIAA-CREF sold the Lodge at Willow Creek Apartments located at 9005 Yosemite St. to Holland Residential.
The brokers of the deal were Dave Martin and Pam Koster, from the Mountain States Division of Chicago-based Moran & Co. They said the proximity to the Lincoln light rail station, Park Meadows mall and Interstate 25, coupled with the attractiveness of low density developments, generated a lot of interest.


One of the rarest of the Oregon/California border natives, Lilium occidentale can be found growing in dry sphagnum bogs. Its small, Turk's Cap flowers are orange-red blending to yellow-green centers. The spots on these lightly scented flowers are brown black. Very difficult in the garden, successful growers have found that it produces much larger flowers under cultivation than it does in its native landscape.
Photo inset is of Lilium occidentale hybrid.
Once while photographing this rare species in a bog near the Oregon-California border, we were buzzed several times by a DEA plane looking for pot growers until we stood up pointing to our now held highly aloft cameras. The pilot on his next past gave us a wing wave and proceeded south continuing his patrol. Lesson learned? If you are going to grow pot in a dry bog in Northern California, carry a camera large enough to be seen from the air.


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Int'l arrivals to Cambodia's famed Angkor down 9.67 pct in first 7 months
Photo taken on Oct. 20, 2016 shows the silhouette of Angkor Wat temple in Siem Reap Province, Cambodia (Xinhua)
PHNOM PENH -- Cambodia's famed Angkor Archeological Park received 1.39 million foreign tourists in the first seven months of 2019, down 9.67 percent over the same period last year, said a statement on Thursday.
The ancient park earned gross revenue of 62.3 million U.S. dollars from ticket sales during the January-July period this year, down 10.5 percent over the same period last year, said the state-owned Angkor Enterprise's statement.
In July alone, the site attracted 149,269 foreigners earning 6.58 million dollars, down 19.7 percent and 19.6 percent, respectively compared to the same month last year, it said.
China, the United States, and South Korea were the biggest sources of foreign arrivals to the park.
The entrance fee to the park is 37 dollars for a one-day visit, 62 dollars for a three-day pass, and 72 dollars for a week-long pass.
Last month, Tourism Minister Thong Khon pinned the blame on "zero dollar" tour companies for a slump in foreign tourists to the Angkor and vowed to take action against them.
However, Chhim Narith, Cambodia branch manager of Asian Overland Travel Pte. Ltd., said the hike of ticket prices two years ago was also a factor contributing to the fall of international arrivals to the site.
Located in northwest Siem Reap province, the Angkor Archeological Park, inscribed on the World Heritage List of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 1992, is the kingdom's most popular tourist destination.
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Braves' Due Diligence on The Closer Market
Updated: January 9 2022
(Previous profiles include Patrick Corbin, Bryce Harper, five free agent catchers, Manny Machado, Marwin Gonzalez, Dallas Keuchel, and Josh Donaldson.)
The 2018 Atlanta Braves bullpen wasn't all bad. It also certainly wasn't good. It was an Achilles' heel that, despite additions of Jonny Venters and Brad Brach, never seemed to improved beyond a league average pen at best. Unlike many teams, the Braves didn't rely on their bullpen an extraordinary amount – its 557 innings pitched in 2018 was the ninth fewest. But no matter how light of a load the team put on the pen, it never seemed to excel.
While the middle relief took its lumps, the crew in the ninth inning didn't help matters. Atlanta finished with 40 saves, good for 16th. It was the fewest saves by a team that went to the playoffs. With Arodys Vizcaino a health risk and a year away from free agency while A.J. Minter may not be ready for a primary closer job, Atlanta has been attached to many closers on this year's market. And while I'll talk later about my fundamental disagreement with paying massive salaries in a long-term deal to closers, it does make sense why the Braves would be fits for the top closers on the market.
Who are those closers? Similar to the catcher position, rather than focus on just one each for a free agent piece, I want to look at the market as a whole. I'm focusing on established closers for this piece rather than guys who could be value picks to take over the closer role.
The Closers
Craig Kimbrel – Despite spending the last four years elsewhere, Kimbrel remains #1 on the franchise leaderboards for saves in Braves' history. One year after his best season since the trade, Kimbrel had the worst FIP of his career in 2018. Being uber-excellent your entire career means that a 3.13 FIP is a new worst. His control issues that disappeared in 2017 resurfaced this year with a 12.6% walk rate, the second-worst mark during a single season for Kimbrel. The worst mark came in 2016. He still struck out a ton of hitters and hit the 40-save mark for the first time since 2014. He also gave up a career-worst seven homers. Boston extended a qualifying offer. That means that signing Kimbrel will cost the Braves their second-round pick – a price that no other reliever on the market carries.
Jeurys Familia – Over the last four seasons, Familia has quietly been one of the best relievers in baseball. That does include a brief suspension for a domestic violence arrest (charges were later dropped) and surgery to deal with a clot in his right shoulder during 2017. Outside of that injury/suspension-shortened season, Familia has pitched in at least 70+ games in three of the last four years with a FIP of 3.07 or lower and an ERA no higher than 3.13. He doesn't get huge strikeout numbers, though has just over a strikeout an inning during his career. He does get a lot of groundballs, though, except for 2018 when a move to less sinkers and more sliders likely brought his groundball rate under 50% for the first time since an eight-game cameo in 2012. It was still 46.3%, though.
Zach Britton – One of the game's best closers from 2014-16 after a move out of the starting rotation, Britton has seen his saves numbers muted the last couple of seasons by injuries, Brad Brach, and a trade to the Yankees. The Britton of 2015 and 2016 was as dominant as any reliever in baseball with an ERA closer to 1.00 than 2.00 and a FIP under 2.00. He hasn't been nearly as sharp since injuries sapped him of much of his wonderful control.
Cody Allen – Often overshadowed by Andrew Miller's exploits the last few years, Allen has been the guy mostly getting saves. In fact, he has 147 of them over the last five years. Like most of the free agent closers on this list, he was most effective in the year or two before last season rather than the season right before free agency. His issues with declining control and gopher balls prompted the Indians to acquire Brad Hand last season to take over ninth-inning duties down the stretch as Allen's ERA ballooned to 4.70, by the far the worst total of his career.
David Robertson – Durable and underrated, Robertson has passed the 60-game mark in every season since 2010. In fact, only three pitchers have pitched more often than Robertson over the last nine seasons. After one year as the Yankees closer in 2014, Robertson signed with the White Sox before 2015 and was great as their closer before being traded back to he Bronx as a highly-paid setup guy. Since 2011, his ERA has ranged between 1.08 and 3.47 while his FIP, outside of a 3.58 mark in 2016, has been no higher than 2.97.
Joakim Soria – An All-Star with the Royals once, Soria was sidetracked by injuries that limited him to just 74 games from 2012-15. Since then, however, he has returned to a fairly durable right-hand arm and sometimes closer. More of a short-term hired gun at this point, Soria strikeout and walk rates both trended positive compared to his career norms last season, showing no sign of decline.
Bud Norris – A former Braves fill-in back in 2016, Bud Norris re-invented himself as a reliever first with the Angels and then last season with the Cardinals, saving nearly 50 games over the last two seasons after no saves since his first year of minor league ball in 2006. His resurgence is largely due to the same thing that aided C.C. Sabathia and Anibal Sanchez when their careers looked over as Norris began to rely on his cutter. The result is an exit velocity that has dropped three ticks in MPH while the launch angle has only increased. Weaker-hit flyballs leads to better outcomes.
You could include guys like Sergio Romo, Ryan Madson, and Kelvin Herrera, but I had the draw the line somewhere.
Predicting Contracts
Like any position, we start this discussion by looking at the best player available and the kind of contract he might earn. Doing so helps us find the max contract available and help sort the other contracts by value based on their ranking this winter.
Without a doubt, Craig Kimbrel remains the top closer available. Even Kimbrel's own representation paints him as such – even going so far to market him as the best closer of all-time. New York Yankees fans scoff at the idea, but it's not as ridiculous as it sounds. Mariano Rivera had a career 2.06 ERA and 2.67 FIP. Kimbrel has a 1.91 career ERA with a 1.96 FIP. Rivera has about 300 more saves than Kimbrel in about 550 more games, but selling teams on Kimbrel as the best closer of all-time isn't as difficult as we might have once thought.
However, that's a novelty. You're not signing Kimbrel for his accolades that he earned during his 20's. He has already been paid for that. What you are forking over a lot of dough for is his early 30's. And there lies the problem for a lot of general managers because they have to make a few bets that rarely work out for teams. First, they are betting Kimbrel will continue to be a rare closer who doesn't get hurt. Aside from a brief trip to the DL in 2016, Kimbrel has been remarkably durable. He still reached 57 games pitched in 2016. At a certain point, that durability can't continue. Can it?
The second main thing with Kimbrel is effectiveness. Most closers decline in their 30's. They begin to lose velocity and possibly their breaking pitches aren't quite as sharp. I shouldn't even categorize it as "closers" as it's most "pitchers." Teams have to believe that, when they offer a closer around 30 a contract with four-to-six seasons, that the pitcher has a good chance earning that paycheck near the back-end of the deal.
What do recent contracts tell us that elite closers should be paid? During the 2016-17 offseason, Aroldis Chapman ($86 million, 5 years) and Kenley Jansen ($80 million, 5 years) give us somewhat of a baseline to look for, but both closers were two years younger than Kimbrel when they hit the market. Mark Melancon is another case as he was a year older than Kimbrel, but received $62 million over four years the same winter as Chapman and Jansen. And last offseason, Wade Davis got $52 milion over three seasons – while also a year older than Kimbrel. All of these contracts led the market to invest at least four years and between $15 million and $17.3 million. Jansen's deal is especially noteworthy because, again, Kimbrel is being marketed as the best closer of all time. It would stand to reason that the best should also be paid the best.
MLB Trade Rumors recently predicted that Kimbrel would get $70 million over four seasons – assuming that Kimbrel would break the annual value record, held by Davis, but not the overall value. I think he'll do both on this market with so many teams flush with cash and willing to spend. While the $17.5M yearly salary is certainly reasonable, I like round numbers so my prediction is $90 million over five years.
Now, quickly, let's rank the other four closers based on factors such as performance and age. Here are my contract predictions as a result:
Jeurys Familia – $48 million, four years
Zach Britton – $33 million, three years
David Robertson – $21 million, two years with a third year option
Cody Allen – $18 million, two years with a third year option
Joakim Soria – $17 million, two years
Bud Norris – $7 million, one year
I'm sure some will consider these numbers too low while others will consider them too high. Obviously, this early in the market, it's difficult to know what baselines may look like until players start to sign deals. But I think these deals are reasonable expectations.
Final Arguments
Typically, I do a full case why the Braves should sign a player and why they shouldn't. But with so many names here, I'm going to simply go with a brief pro/con look.
Craig Kimbrel – He might be the best closer of all time. It's not as ridiculous as many might think. With 542 games in his career, he's picked up 333 saves with a career 1.91 ERA and 19 fWAR. If you predict, because he'll turn 31 next May, that he continues at a high level for another three or so years before beginning to taper off some while remaining productive into his upper 30's, it's not impossible to see 500 or 600 or maybe many more saves. But they're are two problems and both are tied into his age. On a general front, the averages are heavily weighted against him remaining both durable and elite into his mid-30's. On a more personal side, his two worst seasons came in the last three years. Now, his worst is still pretty damn good and it's nit-picking to act like a FIP around 3.00 with a strikeout rate near 40% is somehow alarming. Nevertheless, these are the kind of things you must consider when investing twice the GDP of Tuvalu. Oh, you didn't think you'd get a geography lesson, did you?
Jeurys Familia – Once you strip away the injury and controversy, Familia is one of the best arms available. He was nearly unbeatable in 2015-16 and found his mojo once against last season. A rarity for a closer, Familia flashes tremendous control and a historically high groundball rate. That makes up for good, but not flashy strikeout rates. The injury, by the way, was a blockage in his posterior humeral circumflex artery. Or his shoulder. Once repaired and healthy, Familia was back to his usual self. There is, though, the controversy which began when he was arrested on a domestic violence charge around Halloween in 2016. Less than two months later, the charge was dismissed and the arrest expunged. MLB commissioner Rob Manfred said, while acknowledging that Familia's conduct was inappropriate, the evidence "does not support a determination that Mr. Familia physically assaulted his wife or threatened her or others with physical force or harm." Nevertheless, he received a 15-game suspension. In these hyper-sensitive times, these events need to be considered. Should it affect the Braves' interest in Familia?
Zach Britton – There was a time when Britton was one of the most dominant closers in baseball. Like an even better Familia, he lived off easy outs beat into the ground with regularity, great control, and good enough strikeout numbers. He was truly excellent. But over the last two seasons, he's been hurt often and not nearly as effective. Following a trade to the Yankees last summer, the same problems continued. Britton has often been connected to the Braves, but why? Potentially, it's the idea that you are buying low on a high-end talent. One thing to also consider with Britton is that he's a lefthander and the Braves not only already have A.J. Minter and Jesse Biddle, two of their best relief prospects – Corbin Clouse and Thomas Burrows – are also southpaws.
David Robertson – One thing to remember is that Robertson never lost his job as a closer. He wasn't relegated to middle relief, he was sent to a team with a pretty good closer. Durability is Robertson's reputation, but he goes well beyond that. This is a guy with a career 2.88 ERA and 2.81 FIP to match it. He also never complained when, after working so long as Mariano Rivera's understudy, he no longer was closing games. But there is a big elephant in the room with Robertson. He'll turn 34 next April. How long can he continue to be an effective late-inning option in the majors?
Cody Allen – One of the quietest names on this list, Allen has been durable and largely effective over the last six years. However, nearly 70 games a year can take it out of you Allen's velocity was down a tick in 2018. Of course, losing a little bit of velocity isn't that huge of a deal, but as a buyer, you worry about these things. That said, even with the decrease in velocity, Cody Allen's fastball still has one of the top spin rates in baseball at 2506 RPM. The average is a bit below 2300 RPM, by the way. It's why Allen's fastball remains a top pitch. The far bigger concern is that his curveball was as inconsistent as ever. It might seem like a small thing, but Allen's curveball had an opposing wRC+ of 71 this season. During his career, hitters have a 21 wRC+ against it. During Allen's most dominant years (2014-16), opposing hitters had wRC+ of -10, -2, -1. Regression is to be taken seriously and Allen's curveball issues might become a problem that only gets worse now that he's in his 30's.
Joakim Soria – The Top 5 Relievers in FIP over the last two seasons are Roberto Osuna, Will Smith, Kimbrel, Aroldis Chapman, and Soria. That's the good part. However, Soria's ERA in that same time frame is over a run higher than Kimbrel's. Is some of that playing for bad teams like the Royals and White Sox? Probably, but there may be something a bit more at work here with Soria that is hidden a little in his 220 career saves. Soria has good metrics, but may not be as good of a pitcher and yes, that does happen. For Braves fans, Jim Johnson is a classic example. He had solid metrics, but wilted when he was most needed. To highlight that, let's look at Win Probability Added. The math behind it is a little complicated and I encourage you to read Fangraphs' description, but the basic idea of WPA is to find how much a player contributes or hurts his team's chances of winning using win expectancy for each at-bat. Remember how Soria is in the Top 5 among relievers in FIP over the last two years? Well, the Top 5 in WPA includes Kimbrel, Kenley Jansen, Felipe Vazquez, Edwin Diaz, and Corey Knebel. So, no Soria. To find Soria, you have to go #61. Jesse Biddle, in one year, is #67 over a two-year sample. I tend to not overvalue WPA, but with relievers, it's one of those skills that can't be overlooked – especially when we see yearly returns that match up.
Bud Norris – The one-time Brave has been effective, though not the shutdown option teams seek for late inning assignments. Consider that Norris has always been homer prone – a problem that suddenly didn't disappear after a move to the bullpen. If anything, the problem is worse as his HR/FB has been about 17% the last two years as a reliever. That's about 5% over his career norm. Homers are part of the reason the Braves didn't rely on Jesse Biddle in the playoffs – his rate is nearly identical, though we give him a pass because it's less of a sample size. And then there is the news that Norris was former Cardinals' manager Mike Matheny's boy, leading to Norris harrassing Jordan Hicks – and ultimately leading to Matheny's dismissal as manager. Do the Braves really want a guy who considers it his job to haze and "teach" younger players the way to play the game?
My Two Cents: I have to admit – I'm not fond of signing relievers to long-term deals with huge amounts of money invested. A lot of those contracts I mentioned earlier to set a market for Kimbrel already look poor. Wade Davis had his worst season since he was a Royals starter in 2013. Kenley Jansen became more hittable than ever, losing 14% off his K-rate. Aroldis Chapman's fastball, which averaged 99.5 mph to 100.4, was the slowest it has been since 2013 (still pretty damn fast, though). Mark Melancon, who had four straight 70+ appearance seasons before signing with the Giants, has pitched 73 times combined the last two seasons. Brad Lidge, Jonathan Papelbon, Heath Bell, B.J. Ryan – they all signed deals the team would later wish they could take back.
Personally, I love Kimbrel. I remember watching him as a member of the Myrtle Beach Pelicans. And certainly, if the Braves have a blank check from Liberty Media, you bring Kimbrel back home and roll the dice that he remains the durable elite reliever that he has always been before. But the Braves don't have a blank check. While next year's payroll is unknown – it's supposed to rise from its $120-$130 million max the last few years – an investment of nearly $20 million into a reliever is simply a price that is too rich to pay.
For me, the guy to prioritize becomes David Robertson. Yes, he's old, but I don't hate that fact, to be honest. A older arm means he's less likely to demand long-term dollars. Robertson isn't Kimbrel. He's probably not even Familia. But he might be the best fit for what the Braves are looking for.
Certainly, Atlanta could skip the closer market all together and focus on middle relief arms with a higher chance to bring similar value for reduced wages. That's certainly something to consider. But when it comes to the these seven relievers, Robertson seems like the only player who truly fits for the Braves.
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Ventricular Filling : Systole or Diastole?
I also saw in here that: " The P wave represents the atrial electrical depolarization. This phase is ventricular diastole. During filling, pressure within the right atrium increases, pushing blood across the AV valves into the right ventricle."
Ventricular diastole is a period in cardiac cycle during which the ventricles are filling with blood. During this period, the atria are contracting and the ventricles are relaxed.
The diastole consist of this: atrioventricular valves open, atria contract (atrial systole), blood flows from the atria to the ventricles, the atrioventricular valves close.
When the term systole or diastole is used without saying is it atrial or ventricular, it means it is ventricular. For example, systolic blood pressure is the blood pressure during ventricular systole and diastolic during ventricular diastole.
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LAS VEGAS-- Las Vegas police have arrested a man in connection with the December robbery of the Bellagio Casino. Police identified the suspect as 29-year-old Anthony Carleo, also known as Anthony Assad.
Carleo was arrested and charged with one count of robbery with use of a deadly weapon and burglary with use of a deadly weapon. A source says Carleo was caught after trying to sell several chips to undercover agents in the Bellagio poker room.
The robbery happened on December 14, 2010 in the early morning hours. Police say the motorcycle riding robber targeted the craps tables and took approximately $1.5 million worth of casino chips.
Police say they have recovered $1.2 million in casino chips, but they have not found the suspect's motorcycle. Officers also dropped an initial charge of trafficking a controlled substance.
Ironically, Carleo was arrested at the Bellagio Casino Monday night, where he also had a room registered in his name.
According to the arrest report, Carleo sold several $25,000 stolen chips to undercover police officers at the Bellagio. The report says Carleo is a frequent poker player at the casino.
"I think he got a little bit too comfortable, actually a lot too comfortable for what he was doing," said Gaming Network CEO Jeff Voyles. "His interactions with the casino were very comfortable as far as playing poker, and he got to a point where he let his guard down. He was communicating with too many people."
Police first started on Carleo's trail after getting a call from a source inside the Bellagio. The source allegedly told detectives Carleo talked about robbing the casino and escaping on his motorcycle. During their investigation, officers learned that Carleo had lost about $105,000 at the Bellagio after the robbery.
Police say more sources started coming forward saying Carleo was trying to sell $25,000 chips for less than face value. Police set up a sting and purchased five chips from Carleo. He was later arrested.
"We want to send a clear message to anyone who thinks they can come to Las Vegas and commit a robbery with a weapon," said Metro Police Lt. Ray Steiber. "You will be caught, and this is evident of what we're talking about today."
"The casino can really evaluate this and go, 'What are some of the loopholes that he was able to circumvent?' Then, tighten those up as well," Voyles said.
At the time of the December robbery, police said this same suspect could be tied to a robbery at the Suncoast Casino poker room. However, officers gave no indication if they believe Carleo is responsible for that heist.
"The Suncoast is an open and ongoing investigation. I'm not at liberty to, nor do I want to, discuss what is taking place with the Suncoast. Obviously, when somebody is arrested we don't look at one specific crime we look at a number that they could have been involved in," said Lt. Steiber.
The suspect is the son of Las Vegas Municipal Court Judge George Assad and later legally changed his last name to Carleo.
In a statement, Judge Assad said, "I am devastated and heartbroken to see my son arrested under these circumstances, as is the rest of his family." The statement goes on to say, "As a prosecutor and a judge, I have always felt people who break the law need to be held accountable."
MGM Resorts also released a statement, saying "We were pleased to be able to assist and support Metro detectives in developing their case and ultimately apprehending a suspect. We will continue to provide whatever support needed for a successful prosecution."
Carleo will be in court Monday for his initial appearance. Police say no one else has been arrested but the investigation continues.


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India look to plug gaps before WC
Ayushmaan Pandey
March 9, 2019,
India's opener Shikhar Dhawan has been struggling with form post Asia Cup. REUTERS
The top order needs to step up in the next two matches against Australia. Rayudu's dismal form has reignited number four spot debate.
NEW DELHI: With 2-1 up in the series despite the loss on Friday in Ranchi, India has by far been the better side than the Australian team sans Smith and Warner. But the host faces an uphill task of plugging the batting woes especially the top order's slumping form that might give India a headache as the ICC World Cup beckons.
Not to discount Australia's disciplined bowling and the ability to take the game deep by the batters as was evident in the second ODI, it's the batsmen who have given their wickets to the opposition owing to poor shot selections. The loss has also been compounded by poor fielding effort on the ground. Bowlers have done a decent job on the lifeless pitches that are flat, and provide no assistance when it comes to bounce and swing.
Shikhar Dhawan, one of the arguably best pair to open ODI batting in world cricket at the moment, has not been the same purely in terms of timing the ball well. His patchy form tells us more about him not being in the right mindset than any technical glitches in his batting.
Consider this: In 2019, the opener has managed a mere 265 runs at an average of 26.50 in 11 innings he has played. The management would definitely like to see him end his run-drought, considering his smooth run in England in the past.
His partner Rohit Sharma has been hitting the ball well and probably just an innings away from that one big score. He got unlucky in the third ODI with umpires not providing him the benefit of doubt whereas in the second game, a poor shot selection got him back to the dugout.
When it finally seemed that India had found its number four batsman in Ambati Rayudu, the conundrum came back to bite in this series. Apart from a valiant 90 against New Zealand, Rayudu has only added 247 runs in 10 innings at an average of 30.87 to the team's cause.
Although a consistent performance by MS Dhoni, Kedav Jadhav and Vijay Shankar has rekindled India's hope lower down the order. For the number fourth position, it would be interesting to see if the captain entrusts faith in Rayudu again or plays the gamble of including batting all-rounders – Kedar and Shankar.
Dhoni could well fill in the position if Virat goes for that precarious balancing act by including more all-rounders than a specialist batsman in that position. Dhoni's absence in the next two ODIs would be a golden opportunity for Rishabh Pant to come out on top and book his place for the World Cup flight, starting in England on May 30.
Amidst all the batting woes, what comes as a silver lining is the best batsman in the world, Virat Kohli. To use aphorism of "having the power of remaining consistent to attain consistency" will not be an understatement in his case. He scores his industrious centuries off his own volition, almost like a robot fitted with an artificial intelligence chip. So much so, that it's almost difficult to recall the last time when he was not in form. He already has two hundreds in the series with two games left.
The 30-year-old has already over 500 runs this year. In Ranchi, he became the only fourth player to score 4,000 runs as captain, surpassing South African great AB de Villiers. While Kohli reached the feat in 63 innings, de Villiers had done it in 77 innings. With this, he joins the elite club of former Indian skippers – Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Mohammad Azharuddin and Sourav Ganguly.
But cricket is a team game and too much of reliance on him can be fatal for the team like the finals of the last Champions trophy in England. Emphasis must be put on individual's game and clinical performance by the whole team. Asked if losing wickets in clumps bothers him, he rightly says, "We don't want to see anymore collapses. We want partnerships that can get us going. It was a little hiccup in the middle, but we will regroup and come back strongly."
The batting line-up will surely be tested in the fourth ODI as Australia seem to be gaining ground with an improved overall performance.
Bowling should not be much of a concern to Indian team ahead of World Cup apart from the fourth bowling option. Mohammed Shami has been bowling like an ODI specialist, thanks to the extra hard yards and length he has adjusted to in the shorter format. Pace was never a problem for him but with his variations now, he has added many more strings to his bow.
Jaspreet Bumrah bowls a 145-kmph yorker to the batsman, beats him and goes back to his run-up with a smile. Like Dhoni, there is this inexplicably charming nonchalance about him, very unlikely of a fast bowler that separates him from the rest. The challenge is to keep him fit and make sure he doesn't sustain any injury during the IPL before the marquee event.
Although possibilities are that Bhuvneshwar Kumar may find it hard during the World Cup to make it for the better part with Bumrah-Shami doing exceptionally well. Chances are that the captain may decide to go with seam bowling all-rounder as the third bowling option. From team's perspective, this might be a healthy headache to have.
Kuldeep Yadav and Yuzvendra Chahal bowl well in tandem and it would be interesting to see if Kohli goes with both the bowlers or opt for the man with golden arm, Kedar Jadhav, so as to have another batting option in the line-up.
With World Cup in mind, India might be looking ahead but a win in this series would do wonders in terms of confidence. It's the batting that has gone down to the wire and that too when the World Cup is just a couple of months away even as bowlers have managed to steady the boat so far. India must go for a win in the next two games of the series, scheduled in Mohali and Delhi.
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Francois Chatelain of Neuville-en-Ferrain near Lille posted the picture earlier this month with a caption reading: "This is France here!" according to the Le Figaro daily newspaper. Another picture showed a masculine hand pulling away an Israeli flag to reveal the French tricolor.
The posting by Chatelain, a 28-year-old candidate for the National Front Party in local elections, was brought to the attention of party leader Marine Le Pen by Gerald Darmanin, a lawmaker in France's National Assembly for Sarkozy's center-right UMP party.
The party garnered 23 percent of the vote in the region in the first round of the presidential elections last year, compared with a national average of 13 percent.
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This story "France's National Front Party Suspends Candidate Over Anti-Semitism" was written by JTA.


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Tiger Joins The Olympic Bandwagon
Woods, along with Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and Annika Sorenstam has supported the effort to make golf an Olympic sport.
CHASKA, Minn. (AP) -- Tiger Woods is interested in adding a gold medal to his collection of green jackets.
Woods indicated Tuesday that he would play in the Olympics if golf became part of the program in 2016. The International Olympic Committee executive board is to meet Thursday in Berlin to recommend two sports for inclusion in the 2016 games. Golf and rugby sevens are considered the favorites.
Golf has not been part of the Olympics since 1904. Woods, who has completed the career Grand Slam three times, felt it should have been an Olympic sport a while ago. He then was asked if he would compete.
"If I'm not retired by then, yeah," Woods said. Asked again if he would play, Woods nodded his head and said, "Yep."
It was his most definitive comments about his participation in the Olympics. Woods will be 40 for the 2016 Games.
Woods, Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, Annika Sorenstam and other players have helped promote golf's bid to get into the Olympics. It would be a stroke-play competition over 72 holes if accepted.
"I think that golf is a truly global sport, and I think it should have been in the Olympics a while ago," he said. "If it does get in, I think it would be great for golf and especially some of the other smaller countries that are now emerging in golf. I think it's a great way for them to compete and play and get the exposure that some of these countries aren't getting."
Woods has played five times in the Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup. He played three times in the World Cup, winning the individual medal in 1999. As an amateur, he played in the Walker Cup and the World Amateur Team Championship.
Padraig Harrington, a three-time major champion, played 11 straight years in the World Cup for Ireland. Asked about the Olympics, he gave two thumbs-up before the question was finished.
"I'd love to be an Olympian. Doesn't that sound good?" Harrington said. "Imagine us being Olympic athletes. I think it would be fantastic for golf. As a golfer, I would think we have all the credentials to be Olympians."
Golf has been mentioned before as an Olympic sport. It picked up momentum when PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem supported it, giving golf organizations across the globe a united front.
"It seems like it was always destined to be an Olympic sport," Harrington said. "I'm sure there's a lot of athletes out there that would never put golf as a sport, but trying to explain that to somebody that doesn't play golf, they will never understand what goes into golf. Most golfers realize what goes into it and will see it as being a natural sport for the Olympics."


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Pregnant women deserve better
Françoise Baylis1
Clinical trials routinely exclude expectant mothers. This is unethical and unscientific, and regulators must mandate change, says Françoise Baylis, in the second of three related pieces on gender bias in biomedicine.
International ethical guidelines drawn up by the Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences1 clearly stipulate that pregnant women are eligible to participate in biomedical research. Yet they are routinely excluded from the vast majority of clinical trials of drugs, vaccines, nutraceuticals, natural health products and medical devices because of the harm the intervention might do to the developing fetus.
A Learning Healthcare System for pregnant and breastfeeding women: what do women during preconception, pregnancy, and nursing think? – A qualitative study
Marieke J. Hollestelle
, Rieke van der Graaf
… Johannes J. M. van Delden
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth Open Access 18 April 2022
A qualitative study on stakeholders' views on the participation of pregnant women in the APOSTEL VI study: a low-risk obstetrical RCT
Indira S. E. van der Zande
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth Open Access 11 February 2019
The Healthy Pregnancy Research Program: transforming pregnancy research through a ResearchKit app
Jennifer M. Radin
, Steven R. Steinhubl
… Eric J. Topol
npj Digital Medicine Open Access 05 September 2018
CIOMS International Ethical Guidelines for Biomedical Research Involving Human Subjects; available at http://www.cioms.ch/frame_guidelines_nov_2002.htm
Baylis, F. & Kaposy, C. J. Obstet. Gynaecol. Can. 32, 473–476 (2010).
Lyerly, A. D., Little, M. O. & Faden, R. Int. J. Fem. Approaches Bioeth. 1, 5–22 (2008).
Françoise Baylis is in the departments of bioethics, philosophy and obstetrics and gynaecology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 3P7, Canada. francoise.baylis@dal.ca,
Françoise Baylis
See related Opinions on page 688 and page 690, and Editorial on page 665 .
Baylis, F. Pregnant women deserve better. Nature 465, 689–690 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/465689a
Issue Date: 10 June 2010
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/465689a
Rieke van der Graaf
Johannes J. M. van Delden
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth (2022)
The Role of European Healthcare Databases for Post-Marketing Drug Effectiveness, Safety and Value Evaluation: Where Does Italy Stand?
Gianluca Trifirò
Rosa Gini
Giovanni Corrao
Drug Safety (2019)
Fair inclusion of pregnant women in clinical trials: an integrated scientific and ethical approach
Rolf H. H. Groenwold
Trials (2018)
Towards an appropriate framework to facilitate responsible inclusion of pregnant women in drug development programs
Kit C. B. Roes


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One day course in Sligo gets coverage in local media!!!
The course that was held in Sligo recently has made the local newspapers in Sligo, both of the countys main newspapers "The Sligo Champion" (www.SligoChampion.ie) and "The Sligo Weekender" (www.SligoWeekender.ie) very kindly published articles on the course. We at Aikikai Ireland and in particular the Sligo Aikido Club would like to extend our gratitude to both excellent newspapers. P.s to see the articles in more detail double click the image above.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all Aikikai Ireland members. I hope you all enjoy the holiday.Thanks for your continued support and making 2011 such a memorable one. Here's looking forward to 2012!!!!!
On Saturday 3rd December, the MCR Community Hall home of the Sligo Aikido Club played host to a national inter club Aikido seminar. The seminar was attended by students and instructors from clubs in Cavan, Dublin(3), Meath, Wicklow and the hosts Sligo. At the course classes were given by Eamon Coyne 3rd Dan head instructor of the Sligo Club and Trevor Pigott 3rd Dan head instructor of the Athboy Club in Meath. The seminar also provided the students with the opportunity to grade for their next belt. A mix of students from the different clubs all successfully passed their gradings.
A special mention to the following students who passed: Carlene Gildea, Gary Holmes, Sean (6th Kyu), Gabrielle Hosey, Sylvain Marinier (5th Kyu), Sarah Conlon, Paul Cunningham, Mark Connell (3rd Kyu), Danny Kileen, Wojciech Kordyl, Eamon McGauran, Maria McGauran, Niall Jones, Timothy Lynch, Adrian Shanley, Thomas Waldron (2nd Kyu). You can view photos from the course by clicking the link below.
Aikikai Ireland has the pleasure of announcing Joe McHugh Sensei 4th Dan Aikikai will start a new adventure with his dojo in Co.Wicklow. The Ikeda Dojo Wicklow will open to the general public on the 9th of January 2012. Joe has studied Aikido since 1987 firstly in Ireland and then in Switzerland where he was fortunate enough to study for a number of years under Masatomi Ikeda Sensei.
Joe has also been greatly influenced by Michele Quaranta Sensei (Aikikai Ireland Technical Adviser). The Ikeda Dojo Wicklow joins the Aikido Ikeda Dojo Dublin, Athboy Aikido Club, Cavan Aikido Dojo, Heron Dojo, Phoenix Dojo, IT Sligo Dojo and Sligo Aikido Club in the ranks of Aikikai Ireland Dojos. Best of Luck Joe...click the links below for further information..
Aikikai Irelands Heron Dojo instructor Fiona Kelty Sensei is fresh back from her visit to Lauria to stay and train with Fiordineve Cozzi Sensei 5th Dan and his wife Rosella Lamboglia 3rd Dan. Fiona said she had a great time and you can read Fionas account by clicking the link below.
Thank you Michele Quaranta Sensei for a great course.
Course photos now uploaded !!!
Aikikai Ireland once again had the pleasure of a seminar with Michele Quaranta Sensei 6th Dan Aikikai and Aikikai Ireland technical adviser. The course was held in Athboy and Michele Sensei covered a multitude over the 3 days of intense yet thoroughly enjoyable practice.
Students had the chance to study empty hand techniques, Jo kata, Aikiken and Tanto dori and how they are all inter related. All of which was expertly instructed by Michele Sensei. As always all in attendance were very impressed with the depth of knowledge that Michele Sensei displayed.
Aikido classes will resume in the IT from the Wednesday the 28th September 2011. Classes are taught by Declan Bray 2nd Dan Aikikai. Declan has been teaching the students class in the IT for a number of years and has been quiet successful in keeping the numbers high all year round, which is no easy task considering the distractions that students have when they hit college for the first time 8).
Declan Sensei is looking forward to seeing the regular IT Aikidoka as well as new ones in the coming academic year. Details can be found on the IT Club page by clicking on the link below.
Thanks to Joe McHugh Sensei for a thoroughly enjoyable course last weekend which was hosted by Trevor Pigott Sensei and the Athboy Aikido Club crew.
The course was enjoyed by all and plenty of material was covered by Joe Sensei with plenty of work covered in Aikijo and Aikiken in addition to Tai-jutsu techniques.
Thanks also to all of the people that travelled from Cavan, Dublin and Sligo to the attend course.
On Saturday the 11th of June a one day course was held in Sligo Dojo.
The course was taught by Trevor Pigott Sensei (Athboy Aikido Club) and Eamon Coyne Sensei (Sligo Aikido Club).
After the classes taught by Trevor Sensei and Eamon Sensei some of the students had the oppurtunity to grade, there was a nice mix of students from the Aikikai Ireland Dojos. All of the students that graded can be proud of their achievement as the fruits of their labour was very apparent on the day, keep up the good work.
Aikikai Ireland Celebrates 2nd Anniversary!!!
Another great year for everyone at Aikikai Ireland. Since last June we have seen a new dojo at Aikikai Ireland with the Aikido Ikeda Dojo Dublin and dojo instructor Norbert Toth coming on board.
Some Aikikai Ireland members travelled to Slovakia for a very memorable summer camp with Aikikai Ireland Technical Adviser Michele Quaranta Sensei. Aikikai Ireland again hosted some more thoroughly enjoyable seminars with Michele Quaranta Sensei, Fiordineve Cozzi Sensei, Joe McHugh Sensei along with Aikikai Ireland one day courses hosted by Trevor Pigott Sensei and Eamon Coyne Sensei.We have seen the progression of the Aikikai Ireland students with the gradings held last May and November not forgetting Joe McHughs 4th Dan grading in April.
Eddie Murray and Barry McGee instructors at the Phoenix Dojo have a nice new website. The website was published by Barry McGee, you can visit the new site here (www.phoenixaikidodublin.yolasite.com).
The Heron Dojo website has recently been giving a fresh look by dojo instructor Fiona Kelty. You can see the new look site here.. (www.herondojo.com).
Well Done Barry and Fiona!!!
Fiordineve Cozzi course in Athboy, a great time had by all!!!
"Thanks a million to Fiordineve Cozzi Sensei, 5th Dan for the very interesting, challenging and enjoyable Aikido Course last on the 30th April and 1st of May in Athboy. And a huge thank you to Trevor Pigott Sensei and Athboy Aikido School for hosting the Course, and providing us with 2 nights of music, dancing and lovely meals, as well as afternoon trips to Trim Castle and to the magical Lough Crew area and its megalithic tombs.
Thanks also from all of us to the lovely group of warm, lively, friendly Italian people who accompanied Fiordineve - especially his beautiful wife, Rosella! It was a great pleasure to meet you all, and to have fun and Aikido together. See you again soon!"......... Fiona Kelty Heron dojo Instructor.
Click the link below for photos from the weekend.
You can see more photos on Fiordineve Sensei's website (www.aikidoweb.it) and also here (http://fotoalbum.aikidoweb.it). When the page opens, click on the little + sign to the left of the word "Eventi" and more options will come up. Then click on Irlanda and Dublino and Athboy to see lots of photos.
At the recent Aikikai Ireland Spring Course in Sligo a suggestion was made by Valli Schafer to have a fund raising lunch in aid of the recent Japanese Tsunami disaster. The lunch was organised and prepared by Valli Schafer and Karen Webster and was a great hit from both a fund rasing perspective and by those that enjoyed the lovely food provided.
A total of 21,000 yen (€177) was transferred by Valli to the fund raising account promoted by the Doshu Moriteru Ueshiba, details of which are on the Aikikai Headquarters wesbite (www.aikikai.or.jp/eng/index.htm). All money transferred to this account goes to the Japanese Red Cross fund.
So a big well done to Valli and Karen and all of those that donated to the charity lunch and helped the affected Japanese people in their time of need.
Gaku Homma Kancho of Nippon Kan Dojo, Denver, Colorado, U.S.A. taught 3 Aikido Classes which he so generously gave, free of charge, in Dublin on Tuesday 12th and Wednesday 13th of April, at the request of his former uchi deshi (live-in student), Mariusz Ferenc. Mariusz has been training in Public Service Aikido Club (http://www.psac.ie) since coming to live in Ireland.
Once again Aikikai Ireland had the privilege of hosting Michele Quaranta Sensei 6th Dan Aikikai. The course was held in the picturesque village of Rosses Point, Sligo. The Scouts Den provided the hall which faced the Atlantic Sea with stunning panoramic views of the beaches.
Thankfully the weather picked up on Saturday and Sunday to provide those in attendance with a very memorable weekend. A special mention to Joe McHugh who passed his 4th Dan examination at the course, not forgetting to mention our travelling Aikido friends Halka and Charlotte and also the people that travelled from Dublin, Cavan, Meath, Galway and Tyrone to attend the course. Click below to see some photo's from the weekend course.
On Friday the 11th of February 2011 the Harp Tavern played host to a table quiz in aid of Sligo Aikido Club. The quiz was a big success with plenty raised for the club on the night.
Thanks to all the local businesses that supported the quiz and also the club members that brought along plenty of support.
A big thank you to Joe McHugh Sensei for the one day seminar in Athboy. The course was a great days training, as those that attended will testify. The course consisted of 5 hours training in the one day, so quiet a lot was covered on the day by Joe. Thanks to everyone that attended and Trevor and the lads for hosting the course so capably as always.


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I've started playing DD last week, and so as common newbie I'm struggling with the game mechanics. I've watched some tutorial videos and search among QCF & Steam forums, but still I can't find any answers.
I've understood the strike order mechanic and the importance of the "slowed" and the "first strike" buffs, but I don't get this : when I use WEYWUT on an enemy with a higher level than mine, he's slowed. Still if I strike him, I'll take some damage. Is this normal considering he is "slowed" and so with a lower strike order than mine ?
Another example, if I use GETINDARE and then directly strike a higher level enemy (without "First strike"), I'll also get some damage back.
If a creature is still alive after your strike has happened, they'll hit you back if they didn't already hit you first.
Thanks for your anwser Dislekcia !
So first strike or the slowed debuff should be used only for giving one more shot in order to kill a monster or to strike popcorn (with WEYWUT) ?
The "no retaliation" bit in the description for slowed is a bit misleading. There's no situation where an enemy doesn't get to hit you back when you use a normal attack (unless they die).
What slowing does remove are effects like Blink and Retaliate: Fireball.
Getindare helps you get one additional strike against any enemy without first strike without retaliation when you cast it right before you kill the monster.
Weytwut is more expensive, but it can slow even first strike monters!
Just to be 100% clear, this is the strike order from fastest to slowest. Although if the monster lives, it will retaliate.
Also, slowed removes blink, cowardly, retaliate: fireball, and first strike.
There are three abilities that have priority 0, and always win in striking order. These are the Gorgon (player class) death gaze ability, the Assassin swift hands, and the reflex potion. Note that monster death gaze works differently, and uses regular striking order.
Also, first strike ability (either from the GETINDARE glyph or Rogue class feature) cancels out player slow, resulting in normal striking speed.
Waw thanks a lot, I understand it better now !
Flyingkiki wrote: So first strike or the slowed debuff should be used only for giving one more shot in order to kill a monster or to strike popcorn (with WEYWUT) ?
Darvin wrote: Also, first strike ability (either from the GETINDARE glyph or Rogue class feature) cancels out player slow, resulting in normal striking speed.
I was NOT aware of this. So basicaly the Rogue can pick up platemail and not feel it? And you can use GETINDARE to get around it? If this is true, it's very good to know I also like it, since it makes player slow a bit more interactive rather than an all out bummer.
I was NOT aware of this. So basicaly the Rogue can pick up platemail and not feel it?
He'd lose first-strike against equal and higher-level monsters if he did that, so it's certainly not free. Still, he only takes a one-step drop (first strike to regular strike) rather than a two step drop (first strike to slow strike) which makes it far more usable than it would otherwise be. Assassin also works, with swift hands always preempting monsters even with the Assassin is slowed.
That said, he can still clean up his popcorn with platemail on, and then convert it just before the final hit against the boss.


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Readers Write: Official Recognition of San Diego's 'Good Samaritans'
January 14, 2016 by At Large
By Mic Porte
San Diego hosts many people. We advertise our world famous beaches, attractions and weather to the world. We invite people to come. We pay fancy advertising campaigns on the billboards of Times Square in New York City at New Year's.
The police, fire-rescue, lifeguards and Coast Guard cannot patrol every inch of coastline, border, road, etc. It is a tribute to the Good Samaritans among us that there are not more tragedies along the coast, on the roads and in other public places.
We hear this on the local news a lot—the "Good Samaritan" including our volunteer fire squads around the county, saved the person who fell off the cliff, was stuck in the seaweed, or from the overturned boat in the bay, or in the crashed car, or the house on fire, or flood. The incidents are regular, and a quick overview of accident/rescue articles in the press reveals the frequency of the Good Samaritan intervention.
To act in an emergency is natural for many (adrenaline and a good heart), and by-standers who have called 911 and jumped in the water to save someone often shrug off their heroism, and so does the press, but I don't think the City of San Diego should shrug it off. Nor the press, for that matter.
We should see the names and faces of these daily heroes on the news in big type, instead of just calling them "a Good Samaritan."
The story of my fellow citizens and how they act when others are in danger is interesting to me. They are real heroes as much as any trained operative—more even. They should be encouraged and honored.
The press and rescue units should send names of local heroes from the accident scene to the City, and the City should give them a medal of honor in a yearly ceremony—like the State of the City address—for forestalling tragedy in our busy tourist city, by their presence and action in an emergency.
This would be the kind of resolution I would like to support for a San Diego community in the spirit of "semper vigilans"—always vigilant—our motto, our heroes.
Micaela Shafer Porte, born and bred in Pacific Beach, class of Mission Bay High School '77, artist-activist-mother. "No good living with bad design"
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Micporte says
I would like to nominate Christina Wainwright, librarian of Pacific Beach Library, who forestalled tragedy in the event of a homeless person, regular on the Pb Library plaza, in dire need of assistance one day last June. Not your average librarian duty (or is it?) she is my hero.for stepping up.
bob dorn says
Absolutely right on the point. Everyone, everywhere, can
support the notion that selfless acts that ease pain and
suffering ought to be recognised. And thank you Christina
Wainwright.


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