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Human Dignity: The Gospel of Life
"Human life is sacred because from its beginning it involves the creative action of God and it remains forever in a special relationship with the Creator, who is its sole end. God alone is the Lord of life from its beginning until its end: no one can under any circumstance claim for himself the right directly to destroy an innocent human being." (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2258).
"Human life must be respected and protected absolutely from the moment of conception. From the first moment of existence, a human being must be recognized as having the rights of a person - among which is the inviolable right of every innocent being to life." (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2270).
The Catholic Church teaches without compromise that all human life is to be respected and protected, but most especially innocent human life. Life begins at conception (the first moment of fertilization) and human dignity carries on through the end of life (naturally).
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Global Health Experts Predict The Big Stories Of 2016, From Polio To Zika : Goats and Soda What will be the big stories of 2016? Four experts offer their best guesses. They worry about Zika virus and malaria. But not all their predictions are downers.
No one predicted the Ebola epidemic before it burst forth in 2014 and continued to claim lives throughout 2015. And so, as 2016 begins, readers might well wonder what biological culprits — parasites, bacteria and viruses — are lurking out there, ready to unleash another outbreak of something terrible on an unsuspecting world.
We put the question to four infectious disease experts: What are your best educated guesses about the big global health stories in 2016?
Before making any predictions, Dr. Dyann Wirth, chair of the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the Harvard School of Public Health, wanted to take an optimistic look back. Three researchers shared the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work in discovering treatments for malaria, river blindness and lymphatic filariasis, also known as elephantiasis. "We're at a very interesting time in global health," says Wirth. "That these diseases were recognized by the Nobel Committee raised awareness in the public eye."
In the future, relatively unheard-of diseases could emerge from the shadows. Some experts are already looking suspiciously at a mosquito-borne culprit that had been a relatively small player in global health but is now alarming health officials in Brazil — the Zika virus. The incidence of Zika infection has been low but has shown signs of increase in South America and other areas of the world. And in November, chilling reports out of Brazil have health experts worried that the Zika virus might be connected to an upsurge in microcephaly in infants — a condition in which the infant's brain is smaller and less developed than normal. "This virus might be causing birth defects in Brazil," says Dr. Michele Barry, dean of Global Health and director of the Center for Innovation in Global Health at Stanford University. More research is needed, but similar reports of increased Zika virus coinciding with increases in brain and spine malformations in French Polynesia have health officials worried.
A challenge in 2016 will be to hold on to hard-won health advances in an unstable world. For example, Wirth said, during the Ebola crisis, malaria treatment fell lower on the priorities list in the affected countries and fewer protective bed nets were available. The result was a rebound in cases of malaria. One study estimated the number of cases of and deaths from malaria in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. The study found a probable increase of 3.5 million malaria cases in those three countries during the Ebola epidemic, resulting in 10,900 additional deaths.
Disease doesn't respect borders, and cross-border infection of malaria is a big problem in Africa, says Dr. Peter Agre, director of the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute and a Nobelist in chemistry in 2003. "It's like crab grass. You can take care of it, but if your neighbor doesn't, it comes right back," says Agre. Factors having nothing to do with health-care systems can be at play in disease spread: chaos, war, natural disasters, economic downturns and refugees on the move. "In sub-Saharan Africa, malaria, HIV and TB could be rapidly re-established," says Agre.
Past progress can be fragile. "It's possible we could have a re-emergence of Ebola. Ebola and SARS and avian flu have taught us that we have to be prepared for the unknown, for epidemics from an agent we haven't precisely seen before, or we didn't anticipate as having a huge impact," says Wirth.
She remembers being on a scientific panel about a decade ago when the topic of Ebola came up. "One expert said that it was an irrelevant disease. That's the kind of attitude we have to guard against. Perhaps Lassa fever [a viral illness transmitted by rats, seen in West Africa] or chikungunya virus [an infection transmitted by mosquitoes] could lead to a pandemic," says Wirth.
The world health community needs a cadre of people busy cultivating a base of knowledge of diseases like Zika virus so that the world health community can react quickly to new threats and cultivate a base of knowledge to help the world act quickly. That didn't happen with Ebola. "The people working on Ebola before the outbreak — you could probably count them on one hand," says Wirth.
Fortunately, that's not the case today when it comes to avian flu researchers. "There has been a constant interest in understanding how the influenza virus moves between species," says Wirth. "Should something happen, that group of people is prepared."
But for a lot of other potential outbreaks, the world needs to be better prepared than it has in the past, says Barry.
So for her, the big health story of 2016, Barry predicted, will be the reorganization of the World Health Organization. "The WHO is broken," she says. "They felt they were just a technical adviser [on Ebola] and waited eight months to call a public health emergency. They weren't ready to roll out vaccines or drug trials. They were not prepared to ramp up experts and medical volunteers."
The WHO has been publicly shamed over its response to Ebola, says Dr. William Moss, head of epidemiology at the International Vaccine Access Center at Johns Hopkins University. "There were critical reports of their response. What the world needs is an organization that's going to step up and take a leadership role," he says. "I think the WHO learned, and the next time this happens, the global health community will be better prepared." WHO itself acknowledged shortcomings and has drafted recommendations for change.
No one knows for certain what the next global health challenge will be. Moss says the U.S. will probably have additional outbreaks of measles because of some parental resistance to vaccines. And advances in infectious disease and in maternal and child health are new and fragile and could suffer setbacks.
"I'm going to be an optimist and say the big public health story of 2016 will be the last case of polio in the world," Moss says.


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Support a local nonprofit on Giving Day
Published 12:16 pm EST, Monday, March 7, 2016
Fairfield County's Giving Day is just days away. Giving Day is the region's biggest philanthropic event that allows the community to come together and make a difference. More than 400 nonprofits are participating to raise much-needed funds and to increase awareness about the work they do throughout the region.
Giving Day begins March 10 at midnight. Individuals may go to FCGives.org and make a donation of $10 or more to the nonprofit or cause of their choice.
What's more, your gift — whatever the size — will help nonprofits compete for more than 20 cash prizes ranging from $1,000 to $20,000. These additional awards are funded by lead sponsor Bank of America, and other champion sponsors such as Whole Foods Markets and Wiggin and Dana. Everyone is encouraged to visit FCGives.org again and again to help their favorite nonprofit win.
Fairfield County's Community Foundation is Giving Day's driving force for the third year in a row. Last year, $1,066,091 was raised in just 24-hours for 386 local nonprofits, donated by 13,161 individuals.
"Fairfield County's Community Foundation is honored and grateful to partner with community members, nonprofit organizations and businesses that are philanthropic, socially conscience champions," said Juanita James, CEO and president, Fairfield County's Community Foundation. "With these partners and our community of generous donors, we are set to make a HUGE impact on March 10 for the people and places served by our important nonprofit sector. Remember, together we thrive!"
Starting at midnight on March 10, go to FCGives.org and "Get up and Give!"
About Fairfield County's Community Foundation
Fairfield County's Community Foundation promotes philanthropy as a means to create change in Fairfield County, focusing on innovative and collaborative solutions to critical issues impacting the community. Individuals, families, corporations and organizations can establish charitable funds or contribute to existing funds. The Community Foundation is in compliance with the Council on Foundations' national standards, and has awarded more than $185 million in grants to nonprofits in Fairfield County and beyond.
About Bank of America
At Bank of America, corporate social responsibility (CSR) is critical to fulfilling our core purpose of making people's financial lives better. A commitment to growing our business responsibly is embedded in every aspect of our company, from our policies and practices to our services, products, governance and employee benefits. An important part of that commitment is forming strong partnerships across sectors, including nonprofit organizations serving community needs, bringing our collective networks and expertise to achieve greater impact. We're proud of our employees' volunteer efforts, support of diversity and inclusion, and environmental and social responsibility. Across our company, we're focused on simplifying banking and investing, advancing better money habits and making an impact in communities around the world. Learn more at bankofamerica.com/about and follow us on Twitter at @BofA_News.

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// Type definitions for RxJS-VirtualTime package 2.2
// Project: http://rx.codeplex.com/
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	export /*abstract*/ class VirtualTimeScheduler<TAbsolute, TRelative> extends Scheduler {
		constructor(initialClock: TAbsolute, comparer: (first: TAbsolute, second: TAbsolute) => number);

		advanceBy(time: TRelative): void;
		advanceTo(time: TAbsolute): void;
		scheduleAbsolute(dueTime: TAbsolute, action: () => void): IDisposable;
		scheduleAbsoluteWithState<TState>(state: TState, dueTime: TAbsolute, action: (scheduler: IScheduler, state: TState) => IDisposable): IDisposable;
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		isEnabled: boolean;

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Hollywood Fringe Festival Hollywood Fringe Festival
The Hollywood Fringe Festival was conceived in an environment where the emerging performing arts scene in Los Angeles had incredible momentum and passion but no real sense of place or community. As a result, artistic partnership and collaboration - t... Read more
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The Hollywood Fringe Festival was conceived in an environment where the emerging performing arts scene in Los Angeles had incredible momentum and passion but no real sense of place or community. As a result, artistic partnership and collaboration - the critical ingredients in the formulation of renaissance movements - were stymied despite the rich theatrical scene in the region. Seeing this lack of cohesiveness, Hollywood Fringe was created with a mission to create a focused, artistic ecosystem that contributes to the local community by providing a place for emerging, experimental local performers to interact with one another and engage with the Hollywood community.
The Hollywood Fringe Festival is an annual, open-access, community-derived event celebrating freedom of expression and collaboration in the performing arts community. Each June during the Hollywood Fringe, the arts infiltrate the Hollywood neighborhood: Fully equipped theaters, parks, clubs, churches, restaurants and other unexpected places host hundreds of productions by local, national, and international arts companies and independent performers.
Participation in the Hollywood Fringe is completely open and uncensored. This free-for-all approach underlines the festival's mission to be a platform for artists without the barrier of a curative body. By opening the gates to anyone with a vision, the festival is able to exhibit the most diverse and cutting-edge points-of-view the world has to offer. Additionally, by creating an environment where artists must self-produce their work, the Fringe motivates its participants to cultivate a spirit of entrepreneurialism in the arts.
http://www.hollywoodfringe.org
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Kimmo Lähdevirta, New Ambassador of Finland to Serbia
Ambassador Kimmo Lähdevirta (59) started his diplomatic career at the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1990, serving as Second Secretary at the Permanent Mission of Finland to the UN in New York, then as First Secretary to the United Nations Unit at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and as European Correspondent within the Political Department.
Having served as Political Counsellor at the Embassy of Finland in London, Director of the European Correspondent Unit and Director of the Unit for Security Policy in the Ministry, and as Minister and Deputy Head of Mission at the Embassy of Finland in Beijing, he was appointed Ambassador of Finland to Vietnam in 2011.
Prior to his recent arrival in Belgrade to take on the post of ambassador to Serbia, he held the position of Director General of the Department of the Americas and Asia at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in
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Awards Grants Honors
Waithe Awarded 2019 Elisabeth of Bohemia Prize
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Mary Ellen Waithe, professor emerita of philosophy at Cleveland State University, has been awarded the 2019 Elisabeth of Bohemia Prize.
Mary Ellen Waithe
The Elisabeth of Bohemia Prize is awarded to "an outstanding contemporary philosopher" whose work "preserves the memory of women in philosophy." It is named for the philosopher Elisabeth, Princess of Bohemia (1618-1680).
The prize notice states:
Mary Ellen Waithe is the author of the ground-breaking book series "A History of Women Philosophers", published from 1987 to 1995, from ancient to contemporary women philosophers. With this work, she was the first to publish a book dedicated solely to women philosophers and a pioneer in the field of study on women philosophers. Her dedication motivated many others to join her cause and the project provided a much-needed impulse to further the recognition of women philosophers. The series presents an unparalleled contribution to the research on women in the history of philosophy and is extremely relevant to this day.
The prize of €3000 (approximately $3330) is sponsored by Ulrike Detmers and awarded in cooperation with Ruth Hagengruber, the director of the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists. It was awarded to Professor Waithe during the closing ceremony of the 2019 Libori Summer School.
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49ers press conferences & interviews
Jim Harbaugh talks Stevie Johnson wide receiver moves....and we have a GIF!
Jim Harbaugh wrapped up Rams week with some discussion about wide receiver Stevie Johnson. The GIF alone is worth a look.
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San Francisco 49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh met with the media on Friday to wrap up the preparations for Week 9 vs. the St. Louis Rams. He provided some injury updates, and talked about Bruce Ellington, but the best part was his discussion of Stevie Johnson.
He was asked how Johnson was handling his role as the third or fourth receiver, as opposed to his No. 1 work with the Buffalo Bills. He was quite complimentary of Johnson, and even went into some detail about Johnson's moves and unconventional style as a wide receiver. He sort of showed some of those moves, which you can see in the GIF above. You can also watch some video HERE. Fast forward to just after the 5-minute mark to see that portion of his press conference. There are two chunks, one around 5:15, and one I believe after the 6-minute mark. Either way, you've got the GIF above. Enjoy!
Opening comments:
"Hello. Happy Halloween."
Pirates, right?
"Correct."
Which pirate are you?
"Just a normal pirate."
Not Captain Hook?
"No, I don't think so."
How did LB Patrick Willis look in practice this week? Does he look ready to play?
"He's working hard every day. He says he's feeling better every day. Questionable right now."
Is that the type of injury, I know it's not turf toe per say, but is it something that you risk him coming back too quickly and it turns into a bigger situation?
"That's the kind of risk you do everything you can to avoid, when it's the kind that can get worse. With any injury."
Was RB Marcus Lattimore out there on the field today?
Was that precaution or did he have a setback?
"He hung back in the training room today."
Did he have a setback?
"He hung back in the training room."
Is that to be expected for somebody who hasn't had contact for two years? Did it give him, like, some soreness on the third day?
"Yeah, we'll see what exactly it is, (when) we have some more information for you."
This is the first week where you've had your offensive lineman, your starting guards and tackles in practice, everybody healthy. How'd they look?
"Good. I think the offensive line's progressing very well. In terms of practice and the last game, I think it's progressing very well, noticeably."
You guys have been so consistent on the line these last few years. This is going to be your fifth different starting offensive line in eight games. Has that been a problem for this offense, I guess a natural problem, knowing that you don't have the same consistency that you've had?
"We're striving to improve in all areas. I see real good improvement and progress in the offensive line. And they played well, too. I haven't been keeping track of the different starter combinations, but our guys have looked good and really ready to play."
What progress have you seen from WR Bruce Ellington in the return game?
"Boy, he's a live football player. He really understands the game. He makes good decisions as it relates to the return game. Got a good feel. He's been rock solid. Now, he's learning even more in terms of how other players play - what their techniques are and scheme, so many things. He's not a rookie anymore. I wouldn't consider any of our rookies any more at this point."
WR Stevie Johnson was the No. 1 wide receiver for a long time in Buffalo. He obviously doesn't have that role here. How has he handled that?
"I would just say he's handled his business outstanding, so let's put it that way. His role is a valuable football player on our team and he's shown that in games and on a daily basis. Been around him hourly, daily, every day. It's been A-plus, plus."
I just meant as far as ...
"That's how I'd say it. He's handled his business extremely well. Playing at the highest level. Doing a great job."
It seems like he's kind of your ace in the hole on third down. A lot of his production has come on third down. Is that a role you envisioned for him when you guys brought him in?
"Feel like we've got a lot of fine receivers. They're all playing at a very high level. They're all doing a great job. Everybody's running, everybody's alert on every play knowing that the ball is being spread to the open receiver. I think we're doing a good job with that and hope we continue to and strive to get better and better."
I think QB Colin Kaepernick described him as unconventional during this offseason. It took him a little bit longer to get a chemistry with Johnson. What makes him different than other receivers?
"He's got a shake. He's got a wiggle. He's got a upper-body, torso, the mid, the legs. It's different. You probably see it, don't you?"
Tough to transcribe that.
"Tough to transcribe that?" [Laughing]
His body motion, would you say is different than any other receivers?
"Yeah, I think a picture is worth a thousand word there. It's tough for me to really describe it, as well. So, I'll leave it up to you to transcribe it. Just when I see it, that's what I see. Probably a good dancer."
Yeah, but you wouldn't know what to expect from him.
"Maybe defenders wouldn't either. But as a quarterback and I think what Colin's saying, I can relate to that, that you see it enough, you get enough time on task and you watch it, then you get a feel. You read the body language. So, maybe that's it. He's got body language that takes some time to read and it's a good thing. It's an asset for him, makes it harder for him to be covered. I feel good about the way I described that." [Laughter]
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Evening Standard: 'Star Trek' Surgery Restores The Eyesight Of Near-Blind Patients
A radical new procedure credited with helping the virtually blind to see again has been pioneered at a London clinic.
The keyhole operation – which has been likened to "something out of Star Trek" – is said to eliminate many of the problems associated with Laser Eye Surgery and can take less than five minutes.
The Smile technique (Small incision lenticule extraction) works by making an incision of no more than 3mm in the cornea, the transparent part of the eye in front of the iris.
Surgeons working with a microscope then remove a tiny disc from the inside of the cornea to reshape it. It has helped people who wear "milk-bottle" glasses and those with -10 vision and worse.
The procedure, which costs about £6,500, was developed across five clinics around the world including at Harley Street's London Vision Clinic by Professor Dan Reinstein. He said: "This is a keyhole version of a procedure which has already been done 35 million times called LASIK.
"In LASIK a thin shaving of the front of the cornea is cut and the flap is lifted out of the way to gain access to the inside of the cornea. In Smile we are doing the same tissue removal but without any flap."
He said the technique – available under private health care – could help up to 100,000 people who would previously have been told they were not suitable for Laser Surgery.
"What's available now is very safe but it has limitations and inconveniences such as dry eye, which most people get for a month but some people for up to a year," he said.
"Smile can be offered to many people whose dry eye makes them unsuitable for traditional Laser Eye Surgery because we are no longer cutting the surface of the eye and therefore we are not disturbing the nerves at the front of the cornea."
Professor Reinstein added: "Stereo-tactic neurosurgery or heart transplants, or sewing someone's hand back on – these are all very fine microsurgical procedures, but compared with those procedures this is nano-surgery.
"It is like you go down to surgery on the Star Trek Enterprise and you come back without glasses."
'Life Transforming' Operation
Mischa Hunt – underwent a 'life transforming' operation at London Vision Clinic
Mischa Hunt, a business management student, had the operation this year and said it had transformed her life.
The 18-year-old, whose sight started deteriorating a decade ago, had -10 vision, making her extremely short-sighted. But that changed after her mother was told about Smile.
Miss Hunt, from High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, who is now at Aston University, said: "I never went into it expecting perfect vision but I have, which is pretty amazing. I used not to be able to get out of bed in the morning without putting my glasses on.
"I couldn't see a thing. If I was trying to read something it would have to be a couple of inches away from my face."
She added: "I'm at university now and I have not had to worry about my eyes. It's transformed my life completely."
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Estrogenic Activity of Glycitein, a Soy Isoflavone
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Glycitein (4',7-dihydroxy-6-methoxyisoflavone) accounts for 5−10% of the total isoflavones in soy food products. The biological activity of this compound has not been reported to date, although numerous studies have been performed with the other soy isoflavones, daidzein and genistein. Glycitein was isolated from soy germ to 99% purity. Weaning female B6D2F1 mice were dosed with glycitein (3 mg/day), genistein (3 mg/day), and diethylstilbestrol (DES) (0.03 μg/day) in 5% Tween 80 by gavage for 4 days. A control group received an equal volume of 5% Tween 80 solution daily. The uterine weight increased 150% with glycitein (p < 0.001), 50% with genistein (p < 0.001), and 60% with DES (p < 0.001) compared with the control group. DES, 17β-estradiol, and three isoflavones (daidzein, genistein, and glycitein) were examined for their competitive binding abilities with 17β-(3H)estradiol to the estrogen receptor proteins of the B6D2F1 mouse uterine cytosol. The concentrations of each compound required to displace 50% of the (3H)estradiol at 5 nM in the competitive binding assay were 1.15 nM DES, 1.09 nM 17β-estradiol, 0.22 μM genistein, 4.00 μM daidzein, and 3.94 μM glycitein. These data indicated that glycitein has weak estrogenic activity, comparable to that of the other soy isoflavones but much lower than that of DES and 17β-estradiol.
Reprinted with permission from Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 47(4):1607-1610. doi: 10.1021/jf981054j. Copyright 1999 American Chemical Society.
Isoflavone, glycitein, genistein, daidzein, phytoestrogen, estrogenic activity
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I am originally from southern Indiana. I still have family there and we try to visit at least once a year. I love the rolling hills and all the trees in Indiana. In 1868 the Baltimore and Ohio railroad built this double arch so the trains could cross the river. It is still standing today on my dad's land. I love going back to the double arch it is so peaceful!
I remember going back here when we were kids and playing in the creek. My dad farmed a field on the other side of the arch and we would drive the truck on the limestone in the water to get back there.
A few years ago there was a flood and it was powerful enough to move big chunks of rock and send them down stream.
This is one of my favorite places to go. What about you? Do you have a place you like to visit?


Cloud service providers often define host tiers by the allocated resources, but the differences in the underlying hardware, architecture and performance tuning can result in varying capabilities even between similar configurations. The easiest way to measure the real differences between servers is to run a set of tests, i.e. a benchmark, to create simple to read values for comparisons.
Use the same operating system on each server.
Update software to their latest versions.
Check that there are no resource hungry processes in the background.
Having the servers adequately set up, you are ready to start off with the first benchmarks. Continue below with instructions on how to rate the CPU and RAM performance.
Geekbench 3 is one of the most popular cross-platform processor benchmarking tools. It offers a standardized scoring system that separates single-core and multicore results for better comparison.
Running Geekbench on your server is quite a straightforward process, but you will need to install a couple of dependencies beforehand. The free version is 32-bit only; therefore, your 64-bit servers will need the additional runtime libraries.
With the prerequisites fulfilled, go ahead and download the benchmark package. On a good network, the download is almost instantaneous, but should not take long in any case.
Afterwards, unpack the files and switch to the newly created folder. The following command will do just that.
Finally, you can run the benchmark with the command below.
The Geekbench 3 performs a series of tests to measure the CPU performance with integer and floating point tasks as well as collects memory bandwidth data to rate the system memory. Once complete, you will see output similar to the example underneath.
Open the first link in your web browser to view the results. Alternatively, if you register on the Geekbench website, you can use the second link to claim the results to your profile. Claiming the results allows you to save and compare the scores later.
The total score is scaled directly one-to-one to the CPU performance; double the score means double the performance. The scoring system is calibrated against a baseline score of 2500, which is the result for an Intel Core i5-2520M @ 2.50 GHz.
A big part of the overall performance of a cloud server comes from the storage device read and write speeds. A good option to use for this purpose is fio, which is an I/O benchmarking and stress testing tool available on a multitude of platforms. Install fio using the commands applicable to your system below.
IOPS is a measuring unit of input/output operations per second and is commonly used performance metric for storage devices. The usual ways to test IOPS is to perform random read and write operations, with fio this can be done using the three examples below.
As with the Geekbench scores, the higher the IOPS, the faster the storage. For a comparison, a standard 7,200 rpm SATA drive HDD would have a score of 75-100 IOPS.
Another way to benchmark storage performance is to measure the latency on individual requests. IOPing is a simple tool that does just that. It runs I/O requests to the storage device to benchmark the time to reply. The results display disk latency in the same way ping test measures network latency.
Then run the test with the command below.
The output will show something similar to the example underneath. The time shows the I/O latency measured in microseconds.
The latency number measures the delay in response, which means the lower the delay, the better the performance.
Benchmarking tools are a very convenient way to compare performance between cloud service providers. They are readily available and straightforward to use regardless of the operating systems available. Performance demanding web applications might see a noticeable difference in the quality of the service when running on a genuinely capable hardware, but even if you are not worried about numbers you should still know what you are getting for your money.
If you wish to read more about benchmarking between cloud server providers, check out our Cloud Benchmark at Slush blog post for how DigitalOcean and AWS EC2 fared against UpCloud. Also, if you are still unsure about cloud server performance, go ahead and find out more at our Cloud Server vs. VPS vs. Dedicated Server comparison.


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Study: Seafood Safety at Risk Due to Antibiotic-Resistant Bacterial Strains
September 15, 2019 September 16, 2019 JON PARTON
antibiotics, bacteria
Antibiotic resistance tests: Bacteria are streaked on dishes with white disks, each impregnated with a different antibiotic. Clear rings, such as those on the left, show that bacteria have not grown—indicating that these bacteria are not resistant. The bacteria on the right are fully susceptible to only three of the seven antibiotics tested. (Photo by Dr. Graham Beards via Wikipedia Commons)
(CN) – New bacterial strains that have developed resistance to antibiotics used to treat humans are increasingly showing up in dolphins and fish, posing a health risk that threatens the safety of global seafood supply according to a new study released Sunday.
The study, published in the journal Aquatic Mammals, looked for the presence of antibiotic-resistant pathogens among bottlenose dolphins in Florida's Indian River Lagoon over a period of 12 years. The lagoon features a large coastal human population, which scientists said carries with it "significant environmental impacts."
"In 2009, we reported a high prevalence of antibiotic resistance in wild dolphins, which was unexpected," said Adam Schaefer, lead author and an epidemiologist at Florida Atlantic University. "Since then, we have been tracking changes over time and have found a significant increase in antibiotic resistance in isolates from these animals. This trend mirrors reports from human health care settings. Based on our findings, it is likely that these isolates from dolphins originated from a source where antibiotics are regularly used, potentially entering the marine environment through human activities or discharges from terrestrial sources."
The research team gathered 733 pathogen samples from 171 individual dolphins over the course of the study. The scientists discovered 88.2% of the pathogen isolates were resistant to at least one antibiotic. The highest prevalence of resistance was found to erythromycin, an antibiotic used to treat a wide range of bacterial infections. Although the study focused on dolphins, researchers also noted an increase of resistant bacteria in fish as well, threatening global fish farming.
"The Health and Environmental Risk Assessment or HERA Project has helped discover that the emerging bacterial resistance to antibiotics in bottlenose dolphins is prevalent. Bottlenose dolphins are a valuable sentinel species in helping us understand how this affects human and environmental health. Through HERA we've been able to provide a large database of information in order to continue learning from these impressive animals," said Gregory Bossart, co-author and senior vice president at the Georgia Aquarium. "Antibiotic resistance is one of the most significant risks to public health. As resistance increases, the probability of successfully treating infections caused by common pathogens decreases."
The researchers said the new strains are a risk to human health as "new antibiotics aren't being developed fast enough to combat the problem."
In the U.S. alone, 2 million people are infected by antibiotic-resistant bacteria each year, with at least 23,000 fatalities.
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It has a gold-coloured metal body, white enamelled petals, a single green enamelled leaf and domed, yellow Lucite in the centre of each flower. It is secured by a roll-over clasp.
Embossed on the back is "WEISS ©". Weiss was founded in 1942 by Albert Weiss, who was formerly a designer with Coro, another famous American costume jewellery manufacturer. The copyright symbol on the maker's mark dates it after 1955 so this item was made between that year and 1971 when Weiss ceased operations.


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Germany's 2016 'Books at Berlinale': A Bid for Film Rights
In News by Dennis Abrams February 8, 2016
By Dennis Abrams | @DennisAbrams2
Selling movie rights is always a win for publishers, which helps explain why 130 titles from 25 countries were submitted for this year's "Books at Berlinale" pitch event, presented under the aegis of Frankfurt Book Fair at the Berlin International Film Festival, the Berlinale.
Eleven titles, judged to have the best potential for film adaptation thanks to their "timely subject matter, dramatic plots and well-drawn characters," will be in the final competition next week.
Among those selected are Philipp Winkler's Hool, the story of a "hooligan"; Meltem Yilmaz's Soraya, which tells the story of a young Syrian woman who escapes the horrors of the refugee camps by being sold into marriage with an older man; and best-selling author Christine Nöstlinger's Konrad oder das Kind aus der Konservenbüchse (Conrad: The Factory-Made Boy).
In a prepared statement, Juergen Boos, Director of the Frankfurt Book Fair, said:
"A successful page-to-screen adaptation gives the respective publishers substantial advantages—as we're seeing right now with Carol, Todd Haynes' new film. Carol, which is based on a novel by Patricia Highsmith (Diogenes), has been nominated for six Academy Awards–and won the Frankfurt Book Fair's prize for Best International Literary Adaptation last year.
"Everyone who works in this business knows that dealing with film rights can be a drawn-out, risky process.
"That's why we're so proud that numerous successful literary adaptations, including Tuya, based on the novel by Claudia Piňeiro and Nackt Unter Wölfen (Naked Among Wolves) based on a book by Bruno Apitz, had their start at Books at Berlinale".
From the 2010 Berlinale, an event at the Brandenburg Gate. Image: Berlinale.de
Eleven Titles in Contention
A Robot in the Garden by Deborah Install (Andrew Nurnberg Associates, UK)
Spy Toys by Mark Powers (Bloomsbury Publishing, UK)
The Ice-Cream Makers by Ernest van der Kwast (De Bezige Bij, NL)
The Trick by Emanuel Bergmann (Diogenes Verlag, CH/GER)
Hool by Philipp Winkler (Elisabeth Ruge Agentur, GER)
Das achte Leben (The Eighth Life) by Nino Haratischwili (Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, GER/GEOR)
Poppyseed Lemon Cake by Cristina Campos (Grupo Planeta, SP)
Soraya by Meltem Yılmaz (Kalem Agency, TUR)
Run Away by Guy Delisle (Mediatoon, FR)
The Eyes of the Lake by Jessica Schiefauer (Nordin Agency, SWE)
Konrad oder Das Kind aus der Konservenbüchse (Conrad: The Factory-Made Boy) by Christine Nöstlinger (Oetinger Filmrechte-Agentur, GER)
The competition takes place from 3 to 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, February 16, at the Abgeordnethaus (state parliament) in Berlin.
Each of the eleven rights holders will be given a few minutes to make a presentation. Following the publishers' pitches, interested producers will have an opportunity to speak with them directly and ask questions about the titles that have caught their attention.
Interested film producers, along with publishers and literary agents, have until Wednesday (February 10) to register to participate in the event.
For further information, contact Kathrin Grün at gruen@book-fair.com.
Dennis Abrams
Dennis Abrams is a contributing editor for Publishing Perspectives, responsible for news, children's publishing and media. He's also a restaurant critic, literary blogger, and the author of "The Play's The Thing," a complete YA guide to the plays of William Shakespeare published by Pentian, as well as more than 30 YA biographies and histories for Chelsea House publishers.
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Rich Emberlin
Rich Emberlin is a 30-year law enforcement veteran who served most notably with the Dallas Police Department's elite units, including Dallas SWAT, the Criminal Intelligence Unit and the Office of the Chief of Police. During his 15 years in SWAT, Rich participated in thousands of missions, including counter-terrorist operations, hostage rescues, barricaded suspect situations, and arrest and search warrant executions. As a detective in the Criminal Intelligence Unit, he was responsible for investigating protest groups and threats against government officials and police officers. Rich retired from the Dallas Police Department in 2016 and remains active in the industry as a law enforcement expert and instructor. He has appeared on shows including A&E Networks' Live PD and Dallas SWAT, the Outdoor Channel's Elite Tactical Unit and NRA-TV. Rich continues to serve his community as a reserve deputy for the Tarrant County Sheriff's Department.
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When team members are invested in their roles and contributions, you have the highest probability for a successful outcome
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Patience exerts a powerful and primary influence not just in tactical operations, but in all aspects of policing
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No matter what my assignment was, I knew preparation was one of the single largest contributors to producing a safe outcome
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Leaders must create a culture that focuses first and foremost on the safety of their officers
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Police officers operate along a vast continuum that stretches from stepping it up to reining it in, and it's not uncommon to oscillate between the two during an operation
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Effective crisis management and resolution rely on a different aspect of the situational awareness that keeps us alive
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The physiological responses that occur during a shooting incident are widely known, but what goes through an officer's mind after pulling the trigger is hard to predict
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When you invite protest leaders to the police department, you legitimize them, which is critical for collaboration
Rapid Response: 3 key takeaways from the Las Vegas shooting
The complex, carefully coordinated attacks of 9/11 have been replaced with a new kind of violence that is significantly harder to detect
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Q: How I get URL of a customer record in suitetalk by passing recordType and internalId I am getting the customer records by passing the saved search script id and some filters in CustomerSearchAdvanced, but I want URL of each record also
example- recordType customer and internalId is 3645
URL is --  https://------.app.netsuite.com/app/common/entity/custjob.nl?id=3645

A: My organization chose to just hard-code the URLs for each record type and then append the internal id. Fortunately, all record families share a single URL that resolves to the specific record type URL based on the internal id. Here is an example of what I mean:
"/app/accounting/transactions/transaction.nl?id=1234567"
This URL format can be used for all transactions. Assuming that record 1234567 is a sales order, this resolves to:
"/app/accounting/transactions/salesord.nl?id=1234567"
If record 1234567 is an estimate, then this will resolve to:
"/app/accounting/transactions/estimate.nl?id=1234567"
Therefore, you will not have to hard-code URLs for each record type, just each record family. Here are some other family URLs:
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title:      "Understanding Recursion"
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When it comes to understanding algorithms, one of the most important concepts to learn is recursion.

In the simplest terms, a function is recursive if it calls itself in the body of the function.

Well, you might be asking, how does a function that calls itself return a value? Won't a function that calls itself keep calling itself and go on forever?

The answer is yes, but we can fix this by adding a condition that returns a value and terminates the function. This is called a base case, and every recursive function needs to keep it from continuing on in an infinite loop, like this:

![Recursion without a base case...](https://qph.ec.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-519d64ee652a4ced76ca89b49dfb7e6d-c)

So how is this written in code? consider a basic function that returns the factorial of the argument n:

```
function factorial(n) {
	if (n === 1) {
		return 1;
	} else {
		return n * factorial(n - 1)
	}
}
```

Executing will return 6. We know this is because 3 * 2 * 1 is equal to 6, but the computer executes this problem  in a slightly different process using something referred to as the call stack.

Knowing how the call stack works is essential to writing effective recursive functions. I know that I had great difficulty in completing the recursion lab provided by the FlatIron CS module until I fully understood it. The best way to explain the call stack is to illustrate how the computer solves factorial(3) through a step by step process.

1. Invoke factorial(3). Since 3 !== 1, we return 3 * factorial(2).
2. Invoke factorial(2). Since 2 !== 1, we return 2 * factorial(1).
3. Invoke factorial(1). Since 1 === 1, we return 1.
4. Notice how we made 3 recursive calls of factorial(n) before we met our base case. Imagine that when we make a recursive call, we stack that call on top of the previous call. This is why it's called the call stack.
5. Now what we've reached the base case, we traverse back down the call stack, taking the return value (1) and passing it to the call 1 level lower.
6. Since we know that the return value of factorial(1) is 1, we know that the return value of factorial(2) is 2 * 1 (2).
7. Now that we know the final return value of factorial(2) is 2, we can use that to get the return value of factorial(3), which is 3 * 2 (6). This is our final answer.

If you're still struggling to understand recursion, consider a real life example I drew from my previous career as a personal trainer.

When you think about it, performing a set of an exercise is actually a recursive function:

```
function performExercise(energy, targetRepetitions, repetitions = 0) {
	if (!energy || repetitions === targetRepetitions) {
		return repetitions
	} else {
		return performExercise(energy—, repetitions++)
	}
}
```

So when you go to do a set of an exercise, such as the bench press, you want to have an idea of how many repetitions you want to perform (usually around 8 or 10 for beginners). Basically, you do repetitions of that exercise until you hit your target amount of repetitions, or if you run out of energy to perform the next repetition.

Recursion may be a hard concept to get down at first, but once you do, it will become a very powerful tool you can utilize in your software development career.


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namespace JSONDiagnostics
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#include "slang-json-diagnostic-defs.h"
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}

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{
#define DIAGNOSTIC(id, severity, name, messageFormat) &JSONDiagnostics::name,
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};

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Join KRUU for the astute and judicious insights of JP Sottile, the Newsvandal and cohost James Moore, as they go "Inside the Headlines" for another full court press of the week's stories of note.
Today's three tiers include mind your own business, mister; that good ol' sucking economy; and animals are people, too. Tune in and turn on. As always, for links to all headlines discussed, click "Read more" below.1. Mind Your Own Business.
Is whistleblower advocate for nation's spies under attack?
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/04/02/223269/is-whistleblower-advocate-for.html
What if Politicians Think Secrecy Trumps the Constitution?
http://reason.com/archives/2014/04/03/if-nsa-secrecy-trumps-the-constitution
With friends in government, Motorola beats a path to telecom supremacy
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/03/30/222335/with-friends-in-government-motorola.html
Google apparently scrubs military contractor partner listing, after Pando report
http://pando.com/2014/03/29/google-apparently-scrubs-military-contractor-partner-listing-after-pando-report/
Yes, Your Xbox Can Spy on You
https://medium.com/war-is-boring/67ff04e3137c
NSA sniffing prompts Yahoo encrypt to traffic between its data centers
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9247410/NSA_sniffing_prompts_Yahoo_encrypt_to_traffic_between_its_data_centers
Physicists are building an NSA-proof internet
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/business/technology/140401/physicists-are-building-nsa-proof-internet
2. The Economy Doesn't Suck. It Just Sucks For You.
U.S. companies are chipping away at retiree health benefits
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/static/features/BrokenPromises/Penelec.html
Corporate Lobbyists Assail Tax Overhaul They Once Cheered
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/02/business/tax-lobby-works-to-defeat-overhaul-it-once-cheered.html
IMF warns on 'too big to fail' banks
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/60f1c218-b8b2-11e3-835e-00144feabdc0.html
Yellen Says Extraordinary Support Needed for 'Some Time'
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-31/yellen-says-extraordinary-support-needed-for-some-time-.html
Stock markets are rigged: Michael Lewis
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/31/us-markets-hft-flashboys-idUSBREA2U03D20140331
CEO Jackpot
http://bostonreview.net/state-nation-us/sam-pizzigati-ceo-jackpot
3. Animals Are People, Too.
A Loving Touch Triggers Cockroaches to Make Babies Faster
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/loving-touch-triggers-cockroaches-make-babies-faster-180950362/
Crows Understand Water Displacement Better Than Your Kid
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/crows-understand-water-displacement-better-your-kid-180950318/
Cannibal Spiders May Have Poor Impulse Control
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/cannibal-spiders-may-have-poor-impulse-control/
Bat Soup Blamed as Deadly Ebola Virus Spreads
http://www.livescience.com/44402-bat-soup-ebola-virus-outbreak.html
The butterfly effect: Do monarchs' woes signal broader problems?
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/03/31/222959/the-butterfly-effect-do-monarchs.html
THIS WEEK IN GOOD NEWS!
US report: No proof torture helped find bin Laden
http://www.stripes.com/news/us/us-report-no-proof-torture-helped-find-bin-laden-1.275432
Showa Shell to build 10 megasolar plants by 2015
http://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Companies/Showa-Shell-to-build-10-megasolar-plants-by-2015
Rakuten bans whale meat
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/04/03/business/rakuten-bans-whale-meat/
1,886 Killed in Iraq in March as Violence Continues to Rise
http://news.antiwar.com/2014/04/01/1886-killed-in-iraq-in-march-as-violence-continues-to-rise/
Inside the Military's New Office for Cyborgs
http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2014/04/inside-militarys-new-office-cyborgs/81670/
How to Think About the Risk of Autism
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/30/opinion/sunday/how-to-think-about-the-risk-of-autism.html
Children in detention: Is Australia breaching international law?
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-03-31/children-in-detention-is-australia-breaching-international-law/5344022
Myanmar govt spokesman says new restrictions on foreign journalists not tied to reporting on Rohingya
http://www.trust.org/item/20140310093009-3qvw0/
Last Shot for Christian Service Suing C-SPAN
http://www.courthousenews.com/2014/04/01/66658.htm
Anti-Semitic incidents continue to decline in US
http://www.religionnews.com/2014/04/02/anti-semitic-incidents-continue-decline-us/
Investigating Canada's aboriginal abuse
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/3/31/generations-of-abuseagainstaboriginalchildrenrecountedincanada.html
Bill Clinton 'wouldn't be surprised' by alien life
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/202534-bill-clinton-we-may-not-be-alone
The Man Who Made Archie Bunker
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2014/04/07/140407crat_atlarge_nussbaum
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There are a total of 25 assisted living facilities in OWOSSO, Michigan area. This list includes OWOSSO senior housing, assisted senior living communities and residential care homes for the elderly. OWOSSO assisted senior living facilities also provide dementia and Alzheimer's care (also known as memory care in OWOSSO, MI).
Oliver Woods 1 is an assisted living community in Owosso, Michigan. It can house a maximum of 20 55 and older adults at a time. It is located at 1310 W Oliver Street, 48867 zip code in Shiawassee county. Oliver Woods 1 helps seniors who require assistance with activities of daily living. Oliver Woods 1 is a state-licensed assisted living facility with License # AL780258989.
Oliver Adult Foster Care - 7 provides senior assisted living in Shiawassee county, Michigan. It contains a total of 6 assisted living apartments for older adults. Oliver Adult Foster Care - 7 provides affordable, pet-friendly assisted elderly housing and is located at 207 W Oliver Street, Owosso, Michigan 48867.
Ds Heavenly Haven is an upscale senior living facility in Owosso, Michigan. It supports a total of 6 assisted living units. Ds Heavenly Haven is available to all Shiawassee county elderly residents in need of assisted living. Ds Heavenly Haven is situated at 1318 S Chipman Street in Owosso, Michigan.
Countryview A is a residential care facility in Owosso, Michigan, located at 1668 W Hibbard Road in 48867 zip code. It provides memory care and assisted living throughout Shiawassee county in Michigan. Countryview A has a total of 6 assisted living apartment units.
The Meadows is an elderly assisted housing facility in Owosso, Michigan. The Meadows is located at 245 N Caledonia Drive, 48867 zip code and provides assisted living to all Shiawassee county elderly residents. It provides 61 senior living units in total.
Oliver Woods #4 is a senior care and living facility in Owosso, Michigan, located at 1310 W Oliver Street. Any elderly or older adults looking for assisted living in Shiawassee county or near 48867 zip code should consider Oliver Woods #4 as one of the best options.
Oliver Woods 3 is an assisted senior living community in Owosso, Michigan, located in the Shiawassee county area. Oliver Woods 3 is directly located at 1330 W Oliver St in the 48867 zip code area. It has a maximum capacity of 20 assisted senior housing units.
Scollons Afc Home is an elderly care and living facility in Owosso, Michigan. It is conveniently located at 621 N Ball St in the 48867 zip code area. Scollons Afc Home is an excellent choice for Shiawassee senior citizen residents who are looking for residential care, assisted living or dementia care. It has 6 senior assisted living apartments in total.
We Care Management is an assisted living facility in Owosso, Michigan in Shiawassee county. It is best suited for older adults who need daily living help in 48867 zip code area. We Care Management is situated at 3973 W Grand River Rd. It includes 6 assisted senior living apartment units.
Oliver Woods 2 is an assisted living community in Owosso, Michigan. It provides housing and care to elderly Shiawassee county residents and is located at 1312 W Oliver St in 48867 zip code. Oliver Woods 2 includes a total of 20 assisted living units.
Oliver House # 9 is an assisted living facility in Owosso, Michigan. It can provide senior living to a maximum of 6 retirees at a time. It is located at 209 W Oliver Street, 48867 zip code in Shiawassee county. Oliver House # 9 helps 55 and older adults who need assistance with everyday tasks. Oliver House # 9 is a state-licensed senior living facility with License # AS780317552.
Matthews Home provides senior assisted living in Shiawassee county, Michigan. It contains a total of 6 assisted living apartments for 55 and older adults. Matthews Home provides affordable, pet-friendly assisted elderly housing and is located at 1016 Wood Ct, Owosso, Michigan 48867.
Country View B is an upscale senior assisted living facility in Owosso, Michigan. It supports a total of 6 assisted living units. Country View B is available to all Shiawassee county elderly residents in need of assisted living. Country View B is situated at 1668 W Hibbard Road in Owosso, Michigan.
Welcome Home Assisted Living Of Owosso is a residential care facility in Owosso, Michigan, located at 1605 Vandecarr Road in 48867 zip code. It provides memory care and assisted living throughout Shiawassee county in Michigan. Welcome Home Assisted Living Of Owosso has a total of 6 assisted living apartment units.
Middleton Home is an elderly assisted housing facility in Owosso, Michigan. Middleton Home is located at 835 Middleton Road, 48867 zip code and provides assisted living to all Shiawassee county elderly residents. It provides 6 senior living units in total.
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The meaning and origin of the expression: Top drawer
What's the meaning of the phrase 'Top drawer'?
Of the best quality; of the highest social standing.
What's the origin of the phrase 'Top drawer'?
The 'drawer' in question here is the highest drawer of a bedroom chest of drawers. This was where Victorian gentry kept their most valuable items - jewelry, best clothes etc. The phrase 'top-drawer' was initially used to denote a person's level of social standing, based on their family background. Families were either 'top-drawer' or they weren't.
The earliest citation of the phrase that I can find comes from the English writer Horace Vachell, in the novel The hill, a romance of friendship, 1905:
"You'll find plenty of fellows abusing Harrow," he said quietly; "but take it from me, that the fault lies not in Harrow, but in them. Such boys, as a rule, do not come out of the top drawer."
See also: top notch.


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For Immediate Release March 29 , 2017
April - 40 Years. 40 Films. 40 Weeks.
Vision Maker Media continues its 40th anniversary celebration with four films streaming in April as part of its collection of 40 films available for free streaming through Aug. 7, 2017.
Each week a different film will be available:
visionmakermedia.org and americanarchive.org .
Titles for April:
April 4 .................... The Creek Runs Red
April 11 .................. In the Light of Reverence
April 18 .................. Standing Silent Nation
April 25 .................. The Great American Footrace
THE CREEK RUNS RED
The Creek Runs Red explores the human response to an environmental disaster and the complex connection between people and place. The EPA calls the mining town of Picher, Oklahoma, the most toxic place in America, but the Quapaw tribe still calls it home. Today the town is divided by fears of serious health risks, environmental politics, civic pride, and old racial tensions between the Quapaw people and the non-Indian community that share the town.
Producers: Julianna Brannum (Comanche),
Bradley Beesley and James Payne
IN THE LIGHT OF REVERENCE
This film explores American culture's relationship to nature in three places considered sacred by native peoples: the Colorado Plateau in the Southwest, Mount Shasta in California and Devils Tower in Wyoming. Rich in minerals and timber and beloved by recreational users, these "holy lands" exert a spiritual gravity which pulls Native Americans into conflicts with mining companies, New Age practitioners and rock climbers. Ironically, all sides see themselves as besieged. Their battles tell a new story of culture clashes in an ancient landscape.
Producers: Christopher McLeod
STANDING SILENT NATION
What does a family have to endure to create a future for itself? In April 2000, Alex White Plume and his Lakota family planted industrial hemp on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota after other crops had failed. They put their hopes for a sustainable economy in hemp's hardiness and a booming worldwide demand for its many products, from clothing to food. Although growing hemp, a relative of marijuana, was banned in the U.S., Alex believed that tribal sovereignty, along with hemp's non-psychoactive properties, would protect him. When federal agents raided the White Plumes' fields, the Lakota Nation was swept into a Byzantine struggle over tribal sovereignty, economic rights and common sense.
Producers: Courtney Hermann
THE GREAT AMERICAN FOOTRACE
Facing scorching temperatures, 19-year-old Andy Payne, a small-town Cherokee boy, takes home the gold after winning a grueling 3,422-mile foot race designed to bring attention to the newly constructed Route 66 Highway. The race recounted in this Emmy-nominated film became one of the wildest promotion schemes in history, allowing Andy to win enough money to marry his girl and keep the family farm.
Producers: Dan Bigbee (Comanche) and Lilly Shangreaux (Oglala Lakota)
About 40 Years. 40 Films. 40 Weeks.
The Native American Public Broadcasting Consortium (NAPBC), later known as Native American Public Telecommunications (NAPT) and now Vision Maker Media, was founded in 1976 as part of a system-wide effort to empower minority voices in public broadcasting.
In these 40 years, our organization has created more than 500 films, awarded $11 million to independent producers and held hundreds of film-screening events across the nation. In celebration of Vision Maker Media's 40th anniversary, a collection of 40 films will be available for free streaming through Aug. 7, 2017. Each week a different film will be available on visionmakermedia.org and americanarchive.org .
About Vision Maker Media
Vision Maker Media is celebrating 40 years as your premier source for quality American Indian and Alaska Native educational and home videos. All aspects of our programs encourage the involvement of young people to learn more about careers in the media--to be the next generation of storytellers. Vision Maker Media envisions a world changed and healed by understanding Native stories and the public conversations they generate.
With funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), Vision Maker Media's Public Media Content Fund awards support to projects with a Native American theme and significant Native involvement that ultimately benefits the entire public media community. Vision Maker Media, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) empowers and engages Native People to tell stories. For more information, www.visionmakermedia.org
About The American Archive of Public Broadcasting
The American Archive of Public Broadcasting seeks to preserve and make accessible significant historical content created by public media, and to coordinate a national effort to save at-risk public media before its content is lost to posterity.
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One giant leap for mankind: World marks 50 years since first step on the moon
Foot print on the moon during Apollo 11
This weekend marks 50 years since astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the lunar surface.
The landing craft carrying the Apollo 11 Commander and fellow astronaut Buzz Aldrin touched down on the moon on July 20 1969, before Armstrong stepped out and onto the surface, declaring: "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."
Armstrong made history as he placed his left foot on the moon at 3.56am UK time on July 21, making him the first human to ever step on anything that has not existed on or originated from the Earth.
Aldrin followed a few moments later, as their colleague Michael Collins waited in the command module in orbit around the moon.
As the world marvelled 50 years ago, interest in the moon remains high today with ambitions to return after the last Apollo mission in 1972.
Apollo 11 timeline (PA Graphics)
US Vice President Mike Pence has told Nasa that President Donald Trump wants astronauts back on the moon within five years, while multinational plans are in the works for a new space station around it.
The UK Space Agency is bidding to play a part in the communication and refuelling elements of the proposed Lunar Orbital Platform – Gateway, a future outpost intended to serve as a laboratory and short-term accommodation post for astronauts exploring the moon.
Apollo 11: lunar module (PA Graphics)
Collins, who attended a celebration at Kennedy Space Centre's Launch Complex 39A in Florida on Tuesday, described it as a "wonderful feeling" to be back at the spot where the Saturn V rocket blasted the trio off into space.
"Apollo 11 … was serious business," he said.
"We, crew, felt the weight of the world on our shoulders. We knew that everyone would be looking at us, friend or foe, and we wanted to do the best we possibly could."
For much of the week, people from all walks of life have been sharing their own memories of Apollo 11, but interest has not stopped at those able to witness the historic feat, with events carried out across the globe.
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin (NASA/PA)
According to a survey by Lego of 1,000 children aged between eight and 12, 90% want to learn more about space, while 87% were able to correctly identify Armstrong as the first person to walk on the moon.
Professor Mike Cruise, president of the Royal Astronomical Society, said: "I was a young space scientist when the Apollo 11 spacecraft landed, but the memory of this extraordinary moment has stayed with me throughout my life.
"The grand ambitions of the Apollo programme inspired people around the world and the 50th anniversary is a special moment.
"It is a time to reflect not only on the heroism of the astronauts and the amazing talents of all those involved in the missions, but to think big once again about exploring space, and the exciting prospects for those considering careers in science."


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Media Row Report: Hornets 97, Blazers 78
By Ben Golliver Nov 26, 2010, 11:51pm PST
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The Portland Trail Blazers looked like a good team bent on being mediocre through sheer indifference, as they fell to the New Orleans Hornets, 97-78, in the Rose Garden on Friday night.
It was a pathetic non-effort, 12 minutes of occasional excitement followed by 36 excruciating minutes of some of the worst basketball this team has played at home over the last three seasons. A sluggish 15 point second quarter, followed by a stalled 17 point third quarter, followed by a hopeless 13 point fourth quarter.
Take a look at this chart of the field goal percentage quarterly splits to experience tonight's Titanic meets Enron disaster.
It was spirit-crushing bad, the kind of game that not even an extra Red Bull and some bland post-game comments -- usually a toxic combination after an ugly loss -- can get me fired up to really go in.
The worst part? Coach Nate McMillan appeared to feel the same way. To his credit, he didn't look panicked afterwards and there were no fireworks, as expected. Instead, McMillan meekly chalked up the performance to poor shooting, repeating the statement in answer to virtually every question, steering clear of any discussion of effort, intensity, focus, character or heart.
The question, though, is why? Why give his team a pass in public? Because he's tired of hearing himself say that about his team? Because they're tired of hearing it? Because he decided to address it in private rather than bring it up in public? Because it's an older group that knows better? Because there's so many moving parts -- with Greg Oden's injury and Brandon Roy's health struggles -- that now is not the time? Because there are a few chippies coming up on this next road trip that should buy everyone some more time?
All possible explanations, but one thing is for sure: it's more than poor shooting that this team needs to fix.
There wasn't a single Blazers unit that played particularly hard, or smart, or even just cohesively bad. It was just all bad, and McMillan eventually admitted as much in his final statement: "We're not playing good basketball."
Why? Has the carrot of playoff success shriveled up in Oden's absence? Is the weight of the marathon schedule crushing that ability to provide extra effort in November?
That's what it felt like tonight. A team that used to beat itself up over losses casually checked the score of Boise State vs. Nevada on the locker room television while going through the media motions, resigned to the outcome in the locker room after the beatdown had been delivered because they had resigned the outcome while the beatdown was being delivered on the court.
Outside of guys like Armon Johnson and Dante Cunningham, who didn't play particularly well tonight but at least still bring that "looking forward to my second contract" glow to every minute they play, which rotation members can look at tonight's tape and say they went above and beyond to aid a winning cause?
Sean Marks ... and that's it.
Brandon Roy's return performance was better than anticipated, as he hit for 27 points and added three rebounds and four assists, but his inability to move quickly and decisively on defense gave a significant portion of those points back.
LaMarcus Aldridge looked trapped in his adjustment back to being the beta dog, his 14 points on 15 shots representative of Portland's inefficient night.
Marcus Camby, who said last week that he and others needed to step up and help carry the burden that was being placed on Aldridge, was as invisible as he's been all season.
Nicolas Batum had a number of nice defensive plays but had nothing to show on offense, aside from an early cut for an easy hoop that Portland could have used about 10 more of.
Andre Miller found himself sitting in the fourth quarter, as Roy's return forced him back into a supporting role that hasn't been his strongest suit.
Wesley Matthews struggled once again coming off the bench, never finding his shot or rhythm in 20 minutes.
Rudy Fernandez suffered, seriously, a "pelvic bone contusion" and played just six minutes, not impacting the game or its tempo in any meaningful way.
Chris Paul tore apart the Blazers to the tune of 16 points, six rebounds and 13 assists, taking just six shots yet ensuring that four of his teammates hit double figures on the way to a red hot 51.5% team shooting and 8-14 team shooting from deep on the road. The Hornets casually dispatched the Blazers like solid playoff teams do to marginal playoff teams, owning the boards (48-27), getting to the free throw line (30 to 14) and moving the ball much faster than Portland's defense could keep up with.
If you're tallying the rotation ledger, you've got one semi-solid performance from Roy in a return coming at the expense of rough nights for your next two guys (Aldridge and Miller), a disjointed performance from your step-in starter (Matthews) and three no-shows (Batum, Camby and Fernandez). That's not a winning formula against anyone, save the dregs of the league.
Both Roy and Aldridge repeated McMillan's assertion that the struggles offensively came from poor shooting rather than adjustments to re-integrate Roy so soon after developing the ability to win in his absence. No other alternative solution, other than making more shots, was provided.
So, 5-10 New Jersey on Sunday and 3-13 Philadelphia on Tuesday, plus the law of shooting averages, offer short-term hope. That doesn't feel like much, with the Boston Celtics lurking on Wednesday to kick off 16 games in the 31 days of December for the Blazers.
To put it frankly, the magic from two years ago has disappeared. The grit from last season has apparently ground up. The excuse from last week -- exhaustion from too much playing time -- evaporated in the face of such a poor performance after an off week. There's not much left except for bad basketball.
The bad basketball isn't coming from nowhere. It boils down to two simple questions.
Who is "buying in" right now? And what are they buying into?
Nate McMillan's Post-Game Comments
Initial Thoughts
We're not knocking down any shots. It's as simple as that. We had some open looks. We're shooting 31% from the three. When you get open looks like that, you've got to knock those shots down. Teams are going to continue -- they've been doing this for the last couple of years -- collapsing on Brandon and LaMarcus, making other guys shoot the ball, and we get those shots. We've got to knock those shots down.
Fourth quarter execution
Well, again, you've got to knock down shots. Part of execution is finishing the play off with a bucket. If you're not knocking down shots, you're going to be in trouble. We shoot 33% from the three, 39% from the floor.
Need to attack more?
You've got to make your reads. A lot of those shots are wide open jump shots. You're going to go to the basket, be wide open, you've got to put the ball in the hole. The gameplan is always to attack the basket. When the defense is packed in and trapping, and you're open, you've got to knock down those shots.
Andre Miller pulled during fourth quarter
We had some open looks, I thought he was turning the ball over a little bit. Brandon was the one guy who had something going, so we needed to try to get some defense. Try and spread the floor. So I went back with Wesley.
Did he sit because of his performance or match-ups?
Tonight, it didn't seem like he had his rhythm.
Again, the first quarter nice job. The energy was good. The ball movement was great. We make substitutions, we get into our second, third and fourth quarter and offensively you can't make any shots. It's one shot. They're one of the top rebounding teams in the league so it was one shot and done at that point.
He made some buckets and that was the one option that we had that was creating some offense. I thought he looked pretty good, as far as moving out on the floor, he's able to get to the basket and score for us. That's what we needed. We need both units to play well. It's a small margin of error for us. We just need both units to play well.
I don't know. He got caught, he got hit in the stomach. They did some X-rays, came back, I don't know right now.
Status of the team right now
We've just got to do more, if that's possible. The hustle game, knocking down our shots. Making plays. We're not playing good basketball. We're good in certain areas for a quarter or two, but nothing consistent. Nothing consistent. First quarter, great quarter as far as playing defense and scoring. But then second, third and fourth, defensively we made some mistakes. And then offensively we could not put the ball in the bucket. No doubt about it, most teams when that ball is not going in the bucket, if you're able to play through that, you're probably a pretty good team. That's where we've got to get to. Defensively, regardless of what the ball is doing offensively, we've got to win the hustle game. We've got to continue to defend.
-- Ben Golliver | benjamin.golliver@gmail.com | Twitter


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Q: Run interactive rebase for specific list of commits filtered by author Lets assume that I need to squash a couple of my commits from feature branch and apply it to master.
Feature branch has this history (master doesn't have this changes):
"fix 1"
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"Fix 22" & "Fix 78" were added by me, assume others commits added by another persons.
When I use git rebase -i master I get all list of commits and I must go through all the list and mark each to drop and (fix 22 & 78) to squash
Do we have a way to get specific to author list of commits in interactive rebase?


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LUCY McLAUCHLAN'S SOLO SHOW
EXPRESSIVE DEVIANT PHONOLOGY opened on 7th December at Lazarides Gallery and is Lucy McLauchlan's first London solo exhibition.
It presents a series of new, unseen canvas work alongside a site-specific installation. The collaborative work will involve the participation of musicians whose music will affect the artist's drawings while her visuals will influence their playing.
Lucy McLauchlan has always had a fascination with the driving forces that generate social networks, our attempts to fit in with one another and the hidden agendas we carry around with us. The artist creates distinctive characters and freeform organic motifs as illustrated above (It Takes 2, 2007). Her confident brush strokes become entangled with intense monochrome imagery, rich in graphic elements. She often paints with little or no preparation and engages her instinctive approach to smother spaces with paint, creating chaotic and seductive environments. Lucy utilises different surfaces to work upon, including canvas, walls, metal, wood, cars and breasts.
The show runs until the 19 January 2008 at the Lazarides Gallery.
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Joë chez les abeilles est une série télévisée d'animation française en treize épisodes de cinq minutes, créée et réalisée par Jean Image et diffusée à partir de décembre 1960 sur RTF Télévision, puis rediffusé dans les années 1970 dans l'émission Samedi est à vous sur TF1 et en 1988 sur Antenne 2. Au cours des années 1960, cette série a également été diffusée sur Radio-Canada.

Joë chez les abeilles est une reprise adaptée par Jean Image de son film d'animation Jeannot l'intrépide (1950). La série a également donné naissance à deux suites : Joë chez les fourmis et Joë au royaume des mouches.

Synopsis
Un jour qu'il se promène à la campagne, Joë surprend deux gamins en train de voler du miel dans une ruche. Furieux, il réussit à les arrêter et à les faire fuir. Pour le remercier, la reine des abeilles, Reine Fleur de Miel 145, et son conseiller Bzz lui donnent la taille d'un insecte afin de pouvoir visiter le royaume des abeilles.

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 Titre : Joë chez les abeilles
 Réalisation et scénario : Jean Image et Denis M.G. Boutin
 Musique et dialogues : Michel Emer
 Chant : Christiane Legrand
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 Production : C. Colonna
 Société de production :
 Pays : France
 Format :
 Nombre d'épisode : 13
 Durée : 5 minutes
 Date de première diffusion :

Voix
 Linette Lemercier : Joë
 Roger Carel : Bzz

Épisodes

 Joë chez les abeilles
 Joë captif des guêpes
 Joë et le monstre
 Joë le gourmand
 Joë le justicier
 Joë et le guet-apens
 Joë et la fable
 Joë et les pirates
 Joë et le collier de la Reine
 Joë fait l'école buissonnière
 Joë et la fête des abeilles
 Joë et le ciné-miel
 Joë et les adieux à la ruche

Commentaires
En 1973, Jean Image, le créateur de Kiri le clown, produit un film d'une durée de 57 minutes, intitulé Joë petit boum-boum, qui reprend une partie des scènes de la série mais dont la fin est différente. Dans ce long métrage, qui est le premier film d'animation français, un groupe de garçons découvrent un château fantasmagorique durant un séjour en camping. Les garçons y découvrent un homme très grand qui les emprisonne dans une machine qui les réduit à la taille de mouches. L'un d'eux, Joe, s'évade et vit une aventure dans une ruche. Quand il sauve vaillamment la ruche, la reine des abeilles, Reine Fleur de Miel 145, l'adoube. Par la suite, il aidera les abeilles et d'autres animaux des bois à attaquer le château pour sauver ses amis emprisonnés.

Produits dérivés de la série

Albums agrafés cartonnés

 Joe chez les abeilles n°1 - Dessin animé télévisé par la R. T. F avec dialogues et musique de Michel Emer : Éditions François Ray, Collection Les films Jean Image ; 1960 (petit album souple illustré, 20 pages).
 Joe captif des guêpes n°2, illustré par Denis M. G. Boutin, d'après le film de Jean Image pour la RTF : Éditions François Ray, Collection les films Jean Image, 1960 (petit album souple illustré, 20 pages).
 Joe et le monstre n°3 - d'après le film de Jean Image pour la R.T.F : Éditions François Ray, Collection les films Jean Image, 1960 (petit album souple illustré, 20 pages).
 Joe le gourmand n°4 - d'après le film de Jean Image pour la R.T.F : Éditions François Ray, Collection les films Jean Image, 1960 (petit album souple illustré, 20 pages).
 Joe le justicier n°5 - d'après le film de Jean Image pour la R.T.F : Éditions François Ray, Collection les films Jean Image, 1960 (petit album souple illustré, 20 pages)...à priori  et dernier album édité de cette série.

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Série télévisée créée en 1960
Série télévisée disparue en 1963
Série télévisée française des années 1960
Série d'animation française
Série télévisée pour la jeunesse
Adaptation d'un film à la télévision
1960 à la télévision

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