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Eight feature films and four shorts have been selected as part of the Festival's Satellite Screen program, which will play during the Festival's closing weekend. These titles, all world premieres, represent a truly international and multicultural slate of comedies, period pieces, dramas, and documentary films that were selected as a cross-section of the overall Festival program.
In Brazil, a lower-middle-class Black family of four tries to keep their spirits up and their dreams going in the months that follow the election of a right-wing president, a man who represents everything they are not.
The epic rivalry between iconic boxers Oscar De La Hoya and Julio César Chávez in the 1990s sparked a cultural divide between Mexican nationals and Mexican-Americans. LA GUERRA CIVIL is a chronicle of a battle that was more than a boxing rivalry, and examines a fascinating slice of the Latino experience in the process.
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Free screening! Join us for three short films from the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. Following the program, Hope Tucker, director of WHAT TRAVELERS ARE SAYING ABOUT JORNADA DEL MUERTO and Associate Professor of Video and Film at Hampshire College, joins us via Zoom for a conversation and Q&A with the theater audience.
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A young man is determined to give his life meaning outside of Kaimukī, the small Hawaiian town where he grew up, even if it means leaving everything he's ever known and loved behind. Screens with short ᎤᏕᏲᏅ (WHAT THEY'VE BEEN TAUGHT).
When a woman in servitude in 1800s Georgia escapes the 55-acre confines of her captor to discover the shocking reality that exists beyond the treeline... it's 1973. Inspired by true events.
On the outskirts of Beirut, Lilas and Shery, co-founders and guitarists of the Middle East's first all-female metal band, wrestle with friendship, sexuality and destruction in their pursuit of becoming thrash metal rock stars.
Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.
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After a Korean immigrant is wrongly convicted of a 1973 San Francisco Chinatown gang murder, Asian Americans unite as never before to free Chol Soo Lee. A former street hustler becomes the symbol for a landmark movement. But once out, he self-destructs, threatening the movement's legacy and the man himself.
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EUROPE: A special train service ran from Berlin to Wrocław on July 15 to highlight the desire of city and regional authorities on both sides of the German-Polish border to see the reintroduction of regular through services. The EuroCity service between the cities was withdrawn in December 2014.
Jürgen Murach, the Social Democratic Party of Germany's Berlin transport spokesman, told Railway Gazette that one of the reasons for organising the special train was to demonstrate that a 3½ h journey time is possible, countering claims that rail could not compete with road coaches because the route is partly single track and not yet fully electrified. The fastest train in 1939 covered the route in around 2½ h.
Murach pointed out the Polish section of the route has been modernised in recent years, enhancements are planned in Germany, and signalling incompatibilities should be less of a problem in the future. As a result, the group of local authorities involved in the trans-Oder transport round table believe that a through service could be launched relatively cheaply, significantly improving regional connectivity without the infrastructure costs associated with projects elsewhere in Germany.
The Class 623 diesel multiple-unit used for the special train ran at speeds up to 140 km/h, with cultural entertainment onboard to highlight opportunities for cross-border collaboration.
'Europe should grow together without borders', said the SPD's Andreas Geisel, calling for the introduction of a daily Berlin – Wroclaw service by 2019.
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I am still a relatively young Reflexologist, having qualified in September 2005, so it's no surprise that the areas that I am most drawn to in my infancy as a practitioner are babies and children. For this article, I am going to focus on babies and reflexology.
I've recently started working on babies here in Ennis and I am so struck by the prevalence of asthma and ezcema, usually combined. Babies are having such difficulty sleeping because there is so much stuff going on in their heads literally! It's all chest infections and sinuses that I am coming across with other issues cropping up from time to time.
Some of the research I'm unearthing is so excited and vociferous about Reflexology and Babies that it seems like it could be the next revolution in alternative healthcare. Reflexology is very beneficial for babies. They generally respond to treatment very quickly as they don't have the same build up of stresses and strains within their bodies as adults do.
In terms of age, it can start around 6 weeks and go up to 2 years because any age after that you're going to be spending most of the time chasing the toddler around the room!
Babies seem to respond to reflexology more quickly because their energy flow is more easily unblocked and proper balance can be restored. Their feet are so pure and unchartered.
There are some points to remember when using reflexology on babies. The most obvious is that their feet are much smaller than an adult's feet. The reflex points are much closer together so minimal finger movement around the foot is required. Babies' feet are not fully formed, so the pressure needs to be gentle and nurturing. And finally, the sessions will be much shorter than a normal session of 50 minutes.
The other difference between doing a baby's feet and doing an adult's feet is that when a baby withdraws his feet in a determined fashion his have had enough. This needs to be respected and more often than not that is the end of the session for the moment. It can be resumed at a later stage.
It's also useful to keep in mind the appropriate times to do babies' feet. Most babies have some sort of routine running through their day, be it one of the famous Contented Little Baby Routines devised by Gina Ford or some other daily routine that they might be following. Therefore it's best to do a reflexology session before a nap or after the baby's evening routine or bath right before bedtime. They will be most relaxed and ready at these times and the other benefit of these times is that the session can lead onto a very restful and relaxed sleep for the baby and a welcome break for the parent or parents.
Baby Reflex is a concept developed in England by reflexologist and physiotherapist Jenny Lee who has done research on childhood asthma and reflexology with some great results for young children.
Jenny teaches Baby Reflex to parents and grandparents for them to use with babies while at home or out and about. Jenny is a qualified childcare and community worker so her courses are very popular as she is a skilled trainer who teaches the technique in a single session of 2 hours. Jenny has found that babies love the attention of having their feet rubbed and it's a wonderful 'bonding' tool for parent and child.
In the case of asthma, reflexology and continuous but gentle work on the respiratory system reflex points can complement other interventions. I think combined approaches will strengthen the lungs and diaphragm to function more efficiently and enhance a baby's experiences as they grow. It is encouraging to know that asthma often stops at puberty.
As mentioned earlier, in my own work on babies in Ennis, I am dealing with babies who have asthma and eczema and / or trouble sleeping through the entire night. Picking random cases, I have found that the babies in question responded very positively to the reflexology sessions and checking with parents later, they have definitely found an improvement in their babies' health and in their subsequent sleep patterns.
Obviously at the start there was some resistance and curiosity from the babies about me as a visiting practitioner to their homes with nothing with me but a little tub of foot cream (to be used only at the end of the session). I always ask that a parent sits on the couch with the baby on their lap and an ample supply of distracting items - anything from a mobile phone to a TV remote, to a bottle of milk, whatever works for that child.
I try to keep the session embedded in the baby's natural home environment as much as possible and this might even mean keeping the TV on during the session. The key is to distract the baby from noticing too much newness or strangeness in their environment as this may upset them even before I go near their feet and work on any reflex points.
Sleeplessness is a major problem for babies and the overall relaxation benefits of reflexology seems to help with this. Overtiredness is often a result of overstimulation. An overtired baby reaches a stage where he is unable to drift off to sleep naturally and the more tired he becomes the more he fights sleep. It has been suggested that no baby under 3 months should be allowed to stay awake for more than 2 hours at a time (Ford, 2006).
Babies and reflexology seem to be a good match for each other and I hope that the list of websites below will be of some use to practitioners for further reading. I'm a firm believer in trying to encourage alternative approaches for babies and children's health because anything that can reduce GP visits has to be a welcome development, especially for parents with babies who have recurring health issues or minor complaints that could be treated with reflexology.


A full sized field is 360ft long and 160ft wide, consisting of two 10yd end zones and twenty 5yd grid segments. If there is insufficient length, it may be shortened to 330ft by taking two 5yd segments out of the middle (i.e. the 45yd line thus becomes the half-way line). If absolutely necessary, a further 18ft may be saved by reducing the size of both end zones to the minimum allowed 7yds. A legal field cannot therefore be marked if there is less than 104yds (312ft) between the goal posts.
The hash marks are 60ft from each sideline. (N.B. Some field diagrams show these to be 53ft 4in or 70ft 9in from the sidelines - those are not correct for British/international games.) Each hash mark should be 2ft long (i.e. from a point 60ft from the sideline to a point 58ft from the sideline) on each side of the field. The hash marks do NOT extend into the end zones.
There should be two (adjacent) boxes drawn outside each sideline, stretching from a point 25yds from each goal line. These boxes are shorter if segments are taken out of the middle of the field since the two end points of them are fixed in relation to the goal lines. Stretching from 6ft to 12ft outside the sideline is the coaching box. Stretching from 12ft as far as there is room for it is the team area. These are the areas in which coaches and substitutes must stay during play.
Outside the sidelines and end lines, there should be a set of dashed limit lines drawn, if possible, 18ft away from the field of play. This marks the boundary of the field, and all spectators, photographers, cheerleaders, etc. should be outside it.


This demo loads a pickled reduced model, solves for random parameters, estimates the reduction errors and then visualizes these estimates. If the detailed model and the reductor are also provided, the estimated error is visualized in comparison to the real reduction error.
The needed data files are created by the thermal block demo, by setting the '–pickle' option.
REDUCED_DATA File containing the pickled reduced model.
SAMPLES Number of parameter samples to test with.
File containing the high-dimensional model and the reductor.
Name of norm in which to compute the errors.
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Solves a two-dimensional Burgers-type equation. See pymor.analyticalproblems.burgers for more details.
--grid=NI Use grid with (2*NI)*NI elements [default: 60].
Type of grid to use (rect, tria) [default: rect].
Parameter lambda in Lax-Friedrichs flux [default: 1].
--nt=COUNT Number of time steps [default: 100].
--not-periodic Solve with dirichlet boundary conditions on left and bottom boundary.
Numerical flux to use (lax_friedrichs, engquist_osher) [default: engquist_osher].
-h, --help Show this message.
--vx=XSPEED Speed in x-direction [default: 1].
--vy=YSPEED Speed in y-direction [default: 1].
Model order reduction of a two-dimensional Burgers-type equation (see pymor.analyticalproblems.burgers) using the reduced basis method with empirical operator interpolation.
EI_SNAPSHOTS Number of snapshots for empirical interpolation.
EISIZE Number of interpolation DOFs.
SNAPSHOTS Number of snapshots for basis generation.
--ei-alg=ALG Interpolation algorithm to use (EI_GREEDY, DEIM) [default: EI_GREEDY].
--plot-ei-err Plot empirical interpolation error.
Calculate and show plot of reduction error vs. basis sizes.
--test=COUNT Use COUNT snapshots for stochastic error estimation [default: 10].
IPython profile to use for parallelization.
Simple demonstration of solving the Poisson equation in 2D using pyMOR's builtin discretizations.
--fv Use finite volume discretization instead of finite elements.
--rect Use RectGrid instead of TriaGrid.
Simple demonstration of solving the Poisson equation in 2D on a circular sector domain of radius 1 using an unstructured mesh.
Note that Gmsh (http://geuz.org/gmsh/) is required for meshing.
ANGLE The angle of the circular sector.
NUM_POINTS The number of points that form the arc of the circular sector.
CLSCALE Mesh element size scaling factor.
Demonstrates compression of snapshot data with the HAPOD algorithm from [HLR18].
TOL Prescribed mean l2 approximation error. DIST Number of slices for distributed HAPOD. INC Number of steps for incremental HAPOD.
--omega=OMEGA Parameter omega from HAPOD algorithm [default: 0.9].
--procs=PROCS Number of processes to use for parallelization [default: 0].
--snap=SNAP Number of snapshot trajectories to compute [default: 20].
Number of threads to use for parallelization [default: 0].
where is the input and is the output.
Simple demonstration of solving parabolic equations using pyMOR's builtin discretization toolkit.
TOP The heat diffusion coefficient for the top bars. SPEED The advection speed.
--grid=NI Use grid with NIxNI intervals [default: 100].
Reduced basis approximation of the heat equation.
BACKEND Discretization toolkit to use (pymor, fenics).
adaptive_greedy: size of validation set.
RBSIZE Size of the reduced basis.
TEST Number of test parameters for reduction error estimation.
XBLOCKS Number of blocks in x direction.
YBLOCKS Number of blocks in y direction.
(in total SNAPSHOTS^(XBLOCKS * YBLOCKS) parameters).
--alg=ALG The model reduction algorithm to use (naive, greedy, adaptive_greedy, pod) [default: greedy].
Name of cache region to use for caching solution snapshots (none, memory, disk, persistent) [default: none].
Basis extension algorithm (trivial, gram_schmidt) to be used [default: gram_schmidt].
--grid=NI Use grid with 4*NI*NI elements [default: 100].
Solve using ListVectorArray[NumpyVector] instead of NumpyVectorArray.
--order=ORDER Polynomial order of the Lagrange finite elements to use in FEniCS model [default: 1].
Pickle reduced model, as well as reductor and high-dimensional model to files with this prefix.
Plot reduction error vs. basis size.
--product=PROD Product (euclidean, h1) w.r.t. which to orthonormalize and calculate Riesz representatives [default: h1].
Do not use error estimator for basis generation.
Modified thermalblock demo using adaptive greedy basis generation algorithm.
--grid=NI Use grid with 2*NI*NI elements [default: 100].
Pickle reduced discretizaion, as well as reductor and high-dimensional model to files with this prefix.
Do not visualize the training set refinement indicators.
--rho=VALUE Maximum allowed ratio between error on validation set and on training set [default: 1.1].
--gamma=VALUE Weight factor for age penalty term in refinement indicators [default: 0.2].
--theta=VALUE Ratio of elements to refine [default: 0.].
SNAPSHOTS Number of snapshots for basis generation per component.
In total SNAPSHOTS^(XBLOCKS * YBLOCKS).
--grid=NI Use grid with 2*NI*NI elements [default: 60].
Simplified version of the thermalblock demo.
MODEL High-dimensional model (pymor, fenics, ngsolve, pymor-text).
TEST Number of parameters for stochastic error estimation.
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Title of application:
A seat belt fitting
Applicant name:
Autoliv Development Aktiebolag
Opponent name:
Autoflug GmbH & Co. Fahrzeugtechnik
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European Patent Convention 1973 Art 56
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Summary of Facts and Submissions
I. European patent No. 0 182 337 was granted on 27 September 1989 on the basis of European patent application No. 85 114 633.2.
II. The patent was opposed on the grounds that its subject- matter lacked inventive step (Articles 100(a) and 56 EPC) with regard to the state of the art represented by the following documents:
(D1) DE-A-3 305 955
(D2) US-A-3 330 599
(D4) GB-A-1 355 652
(D9) GB-A-1 322 507.
III. By its decision given at oral proceedings on 27 January 1992, and issued in written form on 12 February 1992, the Opposition Division revoked the patent.
Claim 1 of the set of claims for the Contracting States DE, FR, GB as considered by the Opposition Division is worded as follows:
"A seat belt arrangement comprising a guide element (11) through which part of the seat belt passes, the guide element being mounted on a carriage (8) that is movable along a rail (1) or the like, the carriage being provided with means (9) to selectively retain or lock the carriage in a plurality of positions along said rail, means (15) being provided to impart a bias to the carriage against any bias applied thereto by the seat belt, characterised in that said bias imparting means comprising a spring strip (15), one end (17) of which is connected to the carriage and the other end of which is wound into a spiral (18), the portion of the spring wound in a spiral being retained of (sic) a substantially predetermined position, the spring strip (15) providing a bias which is not dependant upon the position of the carriage (8)."
Dependent Claims 2 to 8 of this set relate to preferred embodiments of the seat belt arrangement claimed in Claim 1.
Claim 1 of the set of claims for the Contracting State IT reads as follows:
"A seat belt arrangement comprising a guide element (11) through which part of the seat belt passes, the guide element being mounted on a carriage (8) that is movable along a rail (1) or the like, the carriage being provided with means (9) to selectively retain or lock the carriage in a plurality of positions along said rail, means (15) being provided to impart a bias to the carriage against any bias applied thereto by the seat belt characterised in that said bias imparting means comprising a spring step (15), the opposed ends of which are respectively connected to the carriage (8) and one is retained at a substantially predetermined position, one end of the spring strip being wound into a spiral (18), the spring strip (15) providing a bias which is not dependant upon the position of the carriage (8)."
Dependent Claims 2 to 10 of this set relate to preferred embodiments of the seat belt arrangement according to Claim 1.
In its decision the Opposition Division argued that the use in a seat belt arrangement disclosed in document D1 of a constant force spirally wound spring such as disclosed, for example, in document D5 was obvious, particularly having regard to the teachings of document D2.
IV. The Appellants (Proprietors of the patent) filed a Notice of Appeal against this decision on 9 April 1992 and paid the appeal fee at the same time. The Statement of Grounds of Appeal was filed on 9 June 1992.
The Appellants requested that the decision of the Opposition Division be set aside and the patent be maintained in amended form on the basis of the documents considered by the Opposition Division. They also requested reimbursement of the appeal fee.
V. With a letter dated 17 July 1992, received on 20 July 1992, the Opponents stated that they withdrew their opposition.
VI. The Board issued a communication pursuant to Article 11(2) RPBA on 1 February 1993. In this communication the Board referred to the reference work "Mechanisms, Linkages and Mechanical Controls", McGraw-Hill, New York, 1965, page 210 (D10). The Board also indicated its provisional view that Claim 1 of the set of claims for Italy was objectionable under Article 123(2) EPC.
VII. Oral proceedings before the Board were held on 29 April 1993.
At the oral proceedings the Appellants withdrew their request for reimbursement of the appeal fee.
The arguments of the Appellants in support of their request for maintenance of the patent in amended form can be summarised as follows:
The skilled person would have had no reason to think that the proposal of document D1 to use a helical spring for counterbalancing the force applied to the carriage by the seat belt was not adequate and would not therefore have directed his attention to improving this aspect of the known seat belt arrangement. The process of making the present invention began with the recognition of the problems associated with the use of a helical spring, and this act of recognition should in itself, in the absence of any relevant clue or hint in the state of the art, be considered as contributing towards an inventive step.
Furthermore, there was nothing in the state of the art that could suggest replacing the helical spring by a constant force spirally wound spring of the type specified in the characterising clauses of the respective independent claims. Thus, document D2, which was particularly relied upon in this respect in the contested decision, related to a seat belt stowing device and not an adjustable height belt guide of the type claimed. In any case, there was no suggestion that the spiral spring shown in Figure 6 was arranged to apply a constant bias to the belt. Similar considerations applied to document D3. None of the documents D4 to D9 related in any way to seat belt arrangements and were concerned instead with counterbalancing window sashes or lamps or the like, or with self-winding tape measures. The relevant skilled person would have no cause to refer to such remote art when seeking a suitable spring for replacing the helical spring disclosed in document D1. It could be seen from the title of document D10, which had been referred to by the Board, that this work was not specifically concerned with spring types and would therefore also be an unlikely source of information for the relevant skilled person.
The use of a constant force spirally wound spring ensured in a simple and space saving manner a properly effective counterbalancing of the belt tension and thus enabled the carriage carrying the belt guide element to be readily adjusted. The advantages of this arrangement had led to considerable commercial success with annual sales by the Appellants running into several million. Furthermore, the same arrangement had since been adopted by other manufacturers.
In view of these factors it was clear that the claimed seat belt arrangement involved the necessary scintilla of invention that was the prerequisite for a grant of a patent. It had to be remembered in the present case that the opposition had been withdrawn so that the Board were considering the issue solely in the public interest. In such circumstances if there were any doubt whatsoever about the correctness of the finding of lack of inventive step in the contested decision, the benefit of that doubt should be given to the Appellants and the decision set aside.
Adequate support for Claim 1 of the set of claims for IT could be found in independent Claim 9 of the original application, this claim covering both possible arrangements of the spring.
Reasons for the Decision
1. The appeal complies with the requirements of Articles 106 to 108 and Rules 1(1) and 64 EPC; it is therefore admissible.
2. When, as here, the Opposition Division has revoked the patent the withdrawal of the opposition in the appeal proceedings has no direct procedural significance other than that the former Opponents are no longer considered as party to the proceedings as far as the substantive issues are concerned, see T 789/89, to be published. The Board has to evaluate the merits of the case of its own motion and can set the contested decision aside and maintain the patent only if the requirements of the EPC are met, see T 629/90, OJ EPO 1992, 654. The Board can find in the EPC no support for the - at least implicit - contention of the Appellants that in these circumstances it should apply a lower standard when evaluating inventive step than if the Opponents were still party to the proceedings.
3. The claimed invention is concerned with a seat belt arrangement in which the vertical position of the seat belt guide element located adjacent the shoulder of the passenger is adjustable. Such an arrangement is disclosed in document D1, on which the respective preambles of the independent claims of both sets of claims is based. According to this prior art a helical tension spring is attached at one end to the door post and at the other end to the movable carriage in order to balance the downward force on the carriage exerted on it by the seat belt. This is stated to facilitate the manual adjustment of the position of the carriage.
It is however apparent that the helical spring shown in document D1 could not in fact adequately perform the function which is ascribed to it since in the course of movement of the carriage, the length of the spring, and as a consequence thereof the force exerted by it on the carriage, changes considerably, whereas the force exerted by the seat belt, which the spring is intended to balance, remains substantially constant. In the opinion of the Board the skilled man would have no difficulty in recognising the inadequacy of the helical spring proposed in document D1 either from a reading of the document itself or, at the latest, when he tries to put the teachings of the document into practical effect.
In the light of the above, the technical problem to be solved by the claimed invention is to be seen in the provision of a seat belt arrangement of the type disclosed in document D1 in which the carriage is substantially free of any residual bias over the whole range of its movement and is therefore easier to adjust than the prior art arrangement.
According to the claimed invention this problem is solved by using a biassing spring in the form of a spring strip one end of which is wound into a spiral, and which provides a bias which is not dependent upon the position of the carriage. According to Claim 1 of the set of claims for DE, FR and GB the portion of the spring wound in a spiral is retained at a substantially predetermined position and the other end is connected to the carriage. Claim 1 of the set of claims for IT also includes within its ambit the reverse arrangement of the two ends of the spring. As far as the essential function of the spring is concerned there is however no difference between the respective subject-matters of the two independent claims.
For the skilled person considering the technical problem stated above it is immediately apparent that the spring for biassing the carriage must be of a form which provides a bias substantially independent of the position of the carriage. It would in principle be possible to achieve this with a helical spring that was of such length that the relative change in its length on movement of the carriage, and hence the change in the biassing force exerted by it on the carriage, would be comparatively small. This solution would however be difficult to put into effect given the limited space available in and limited height of the door post. The skilled person would therefore be forced to turn his attentions to other forms of spring which while being compatible with the limited confines in which he is working can nevertheless provide the required constant biassing force.
In document D10 reference is made to a spring comprising a strip of spring material which is prestressed, formed into a tight coil, and mounted on a freely rotating drum. The strip resists withdrawal from the coil with a force that remains constant throughout any extension. The spring, known under the trade name "Neg'ator", is stated to be widely used as a long-deflection spring to perform such functions as counterbalancing, constant-force tensioning and retracting.
In the light of this disclosure in a standard reference work it is apparent that constant force spirally wound springs of the configuration defined in the respective characterising clauses of the independent claims are well known in the art and must be considered as belonging to the common general knowledge of any mechanical engineer. This view is supported, for example, by the statement in document D4 (page 2, lines 2 to 13) that springs of this type are "well-known" and a similar reference to them in document D5 (column 1, lines 28 to 35). The use of such a spring in any situation where a substantially constant biassing force is seen as being desirable is therefore an option which is freely available to the skilled person and, moreover, in view of the small space requirements of these springs, an option which the skilled person would have had a good reason to adopt in the particular circumstances of this case. Whether the spirally wound portion of the spring is attached to the door post or the carriage is a routine design choice which the skilled person will made according to the circumstances.
The Board therefore comes to the conclusion that the subject-matter of the respective independent claims is novel but lacks an inventive step (Article 56 EPC).
The Appellants have argued that the commercial success they have enjoyed in the production of seat belt arrangements according to the patent should support the view that an inventive step is indeed present. The Board cannot accept this since there is nothing in the affidavit evidence presented by the Appellants in this respect which could serve as showing that the high volume of sales was directly connected to the technical features of the seat belt arrangements specified in the claims. Nor could it be argued that the commercial success was as a result of meeting a long felt want, the closest state of the art, document D1, having been published little more than a year before the priority date of the contested patent. Again, the fact that other manufacturers may be producing corresponding seat belt arrangements to those claimed cannot in itself be seen as indicating that the claimed arrangements involve an inventive step, particularly as the Appellants have not demonstrated that this is as a direct result of the publication of their claimed invention.
4. In view of the above the question of the compliance of Claim 1 of the set of claims for IT with Article 123(2) EPC need not be decided.
5. As the Board is bound by the single request of the Appellants it is not necessary to consider the merits of the subject-matter of the dependent claims.
For the above reasons, it is decided that:
The appeal is dismissed.


This month The Recipe Redux challenged us to come up with a breakfast dish that's packed with savory flavor and satisfying protein.
Leftovers are one of the most underrated breakfast foods. I'm amazed by how easily last night's dinner evolves into a simple, satisfying buddha bowl.
I ate lots of sweet breakfasts in the past, but since making more of a conscious effort to honor my body's cravings, I've noticed that savory meals are really what I'm after most days. It's also easier for me to pack more fiber and protein into savory breakfasts, and I definitely notice a difference in terms of my energy levels and and how full and satisfied I feel with veggies, whole grains, and an egg in my morning meal.
I used leftover farro (a whole grain) and steamed kale to form the base of this savory breakfast bowl. The sauce is one of my favorites—a delicious savory miso sauce (similar to the one I used to make Miso Roasted Root Vegetables) for some extra gut-boosting probiotics and umami flavor.
To make this bowl vegan, use scrambled tofu instead of the egg, and maple syrup instead of honey. If you aren't vegan, go ahead and toss that egg on top! There's no need to fear eggs—they're one of the most nutrient dense foods out there. (Yeah, that study claiming eggs are as bad as cigarettes? I'm not convinced, and many researchers aren't either.) I talked more about the health benefits of eggs in my nutrition Q&A video, and wrote about how to make all foods fit in my most recent intuitive eating update.
Because they utilize leftovers, savory breakfast bowls are perfect for reducing food waste and saving on your food budget. They're also ready in just a few minutes if you have the grains and veggies prepped ahead of time—but the energy you get out of them will last for hours. The perfect fix for hectic mornings when you need lots of fuel!
Savory breakfast bowls are a delicious way to use up last night's leftovers while fueling your body for a busy day ahead.
Cook farro and steam kale (if needed), divide between two bowls, and set aside.
Whisk together Miso Sauce ingredients, and set aside.
Cook eggs as desired. To soft boil: Bring 1 quart of water to a boil in a lidded pot. Remove from heat and drop in eggs. Cover the pot and allow to sit 7-10 minutes, or until the whites are opaque, and yolks cooked to desired consistency. Carefully peel, and divide between bowls.
Add avocado, cucumber, and sun dried tomatoes to the bowls, and drizzle miso sauce on top. Enjoy!
Use scrambled tofu in place of eggs for a vegan option. Use quinoa instead of farro for gluten-free option.
What do you think? Sweet or savory breakfast bowls?
Love that bowl!! This looks sooo good!
Yum! Leftovers are definitely a great option for breakfast!


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Microsoft has unveiled a new set of icons that the Office apps will start using. And while Windows support has dwindled over the years, Office continues to be as popular as ever as no other competitor has been able to blend the balance of simplicity and power as well as Microsoft has here. It is to note that the change to the icons does not mean any functional improvements. Windows Fluent Design will be incorporated into the Office suite to match the over all look and feel of Windows 10. The Office icons will get a new look after about half a decade. Simplicity and harmony are key visual elements that reflect the seamless connectivity and intuitiveness of Office apps. The color palettes for each one of the icons will, fortunately, remain the same, with some slightly updated hues that are brighter and more modern-looking.
Icons for apps such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint will sport a more simplified look, Microsoft said in a Thursday blog post. Friedman states that while each of the icons has a "unique and identifiable symbol", all of them are connected to form a corporate suite. Microsoft has been working hard over the past few years to bring Office to a broader number of platforms like iOS and Android, with a single core code base that allows them to make changes across each of these platforms. Friedman also mentioned that traditionally the letter occupied two-thirds of the icon while the symbol took one-third. "We've changed this ratio to now emphasize the symbol because while the letter represents the tool itself, the symbol speaks more to people's creations". The design changes to Office go beyond just the icons, however.
The evolution of the Microsoft Word icon.


A Guide stopped by--possibly Athena--while making her rounds, to check in on me, just before I awakened. She embraced me. I realized that I've often encountered on her these rounds. But this is the first time I let myself become fully aware of her presence.
While embracing me, the Guide did something funny to my energy field, tickling it, as it were, to see whether she could bring me into full lucidity so we can chat. But I said no and pulled away, waking up immediately.
Apparently, I've needed a rest from adventures in consciousness, after having so many earlier this year. Maybe next time this Guide comes by, I'll let myself be pulled up to her level of consciousness and we can talk or go exploring on the higher planes.


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Q: run angular 7 spa page via file:/// I have read a couple of tutorials about SPA and client-side routing. But I am not getting it completely. How can I setup the router to work without a web server.
Example:
file:///C:/cxr/CXR-WebViews/dist/CXR-WebViews/index.html#/products/vat
The browser will accept this as index.html but should i use router fragments for calling components?
I can't use the parameter useHash:true in the router because the resulting url: ".../index.html/#/products/vat" will not find the file. This would only work if it was a webserver call that can redirect requests to index.html.
app-routing.module.ts
import { NgModule }             from '@angular/core';
import { Routes, RouterModule } from '@angular/router';

import { ProductGroupsComponent } from './products/product-groups/product-groups.component';
import { VatComponent } from './products/vat/vat.component';
import { ProductComponent } from './products/product/product.component';
import { AppComponent } from './app.component';

const routes: Routes = [
  { path: '', component: AppComponent, pathMatch: 'full' },
  { path: 'products', component: AppComponent, children:[
    { path: 'productGroups', component: ProductGroupsComponent },
    { path: 'vat', component: VatComponent},
    { path: ':id', component: ProductComponent }
  ]}
];

@NgModule({
  imports: [RouterModule.forRoot(routes, { useHash: true })],
  exports: [RouterModule]
})
export class AppRoutingModule {}

It must be something stupid that i am doing wrong. I just cant find it. I build with:  ng build --prod --base-href ./

A: i just had to remove the meta tag base-href in index.html and then it worked

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Q: How to properly make sense of the $\mathcal{S}$-matrix as a correlator on a sphere? In the book "Lectures on the Infrared Structure of Gravity and Gauge Theories" by Andrew Strominger, the author discusses in Chapter 3 the idea of "The $\mathcal{S}$-matrix as a Celestial Correlator".
He says:

The alternate description of scattering is as a type of correlation function on a sphere, depicted in figure 16. In the massless case, "in" and "out" massless particles are labelled by operators denoted $$\mathcal{O}_k(z,\bar{z}).\tag{3.0.1}$$ Here, $$z = \frac{x^1+ i x^2}{r+x^3}\tag{3.0.2}$$ denotes the point on the sphere at past or future null infinity where the particle of type $k$ enters or exits spacetime.

After a brief discussion about the massive case, which doesn't affect my doubt, the author continues:

It is then natural to express the $n$-particle scattering amplitudes in the form of a celestial correlator on $\mathcal{CS}^2$: $$\langle \text{out}|\mathcal{S}|\text{in}\rangle \to \langle \mathcal{O}_1(z_1,\bar{z}_1),\dots, \mathcal{O}_n(z_n,\bar{z}_n)\tag{3.0.3}\rangle$$ Note that no assumptions are being made here, we are simply rewriting the $\mathcal{S}$-matrix in a different notation.

Now my question is on making sense of Eq. (3.0.3) precisely.
What really are the $\mathcal{O}_k$ operators? My intuition tells me that they are just the creation/annihilation operators $a(\mathbf{p}),a^\dagger(\mathbf{p})$ expressed in terms of the asymptotic fields at $\mathcal{I}^\pm$ and with $\mathbf{p}$ written in terms of $(z,\bar{z})$. Is that the case?
Also what is the state with respect to which the mean value in Eq. (3.0.3) is taken? Is it the same vacuum on the asymptotic Fock space?
In summary, what is the precise way to translate the LHS of Eq. (3.0.3) to the RHS?

A: The following answer is based on my interpretation of the article you cited, and on some of its references.
"Motivation" for the LHS $\rightarrow$ RHS step
What's the point of re-writing $\mathcal{S}$ into $\mathcal{O}_k$? It's probably just to break down a potentially complex $\mathcal{S}$ into "manageable" single-particle/excitation operators $\mathcal{O}_k$. Rendering the calculation easier. And more importantly disentangling an $n-$body problem into $n$ $1-$body problems.
This is similar to working out the mathematical expression of perturbative amplitudes in terms of simple(r) step-by-step Feynman rules for each line & vertex.
What are the $\mathcal{O}_k$ operators?
For this paper (one of the references in yours actually) I found the following half-decent definition:

The $n$-particle scattering amplitudes $\mathcal{A}_n$ of any
  four-dimensional quantum field thoery (QFT$_4$) can be described as a
  collection of $n$-point correlation functions on the two-sphere
  ($S^2$) with coordinates $(z,\bar{z})$:
  $$ \mathcal{A}_n = \langle O_1(E_1, z_1, \bar{z}_1) \dots O_n(E_n, z_n, \bar{z}_n) \rangle,$$
  where $O_k$ creates (if $E_k<0$) or annihilates (if $E_k>0$) an
  asymptotic particle with energy $|E_k|$ at the point $(z_k,
> \bar{z}_k)$ where the particle crosses the asymptotic $S^2$ at null
  infinity ($\mathcal{I}$).

Based on the use of the word "asymptotic", it seems to me that your suggestion might be right. You are ignoring the specifics of the interactions, and just looking at $t\rightarrow -\infty$ when the particle was created ($\mathcal{O}_1(z_1, \bar{z}_1)$) and at $t\rightarrow \infty$ when the particle was destroyed ($\mathcal{O}_1(z_2, \bar{z}_2)$). I used the same subscript $1$ for the same praticle, though the creation and destruction occur at distinct angles $(z, \bar{z})$.
What is the state wrt which the mean is taken?
Because they are talking about "asymptotic" particles, and because they want to make $n$ $1-$body problems out of an $n-$body one, the state is the vacuum.
I.e., you start with nothing and create your single particle $1$ from it. Then you destroy so it returns to nothing.
You can use the non-interacting vacuum $|0\rangle$, but since it talks about non-Abelian stuff immediately afterwards you might want to use the interacting vacuum $|\Omega\rangle$.

A: Understanding the ${\cal S}$-matrix as a celestial correlator can be done in two different levels. In the first level we actually just introduce some suggestive notation. The so-defined correlator, however, still won't transform as a correlation function of quasi-primary operators (after all, where are the scaling dimensions?). This leads to the second level, where we actually consider a new basis for the asymptotic states in which indeed the ${\cal S}$-matrix behaves as a conformal correlator. It is then that one boldly postulates that there exists a two-dimensional conformal field theory whose correlation functions reproduce the ${\cal S}$-matrix in such a basis. This is where we start to get into the subject known as celestial holography. But let us explain a little more the details.
Let us recall that the starting point of the LSZ procedure to evaluate the ${\cal S}$-matrix is to write it in terms of Heisenberg picture creation/annihilation operators
\begin{eqnarray}
 \langle\text{out}|\text{in}\rangle &=& \langle 0;{\text out}|a_{\rm out}(p_1')\cdots a_{\rm out}(p_n')a^\dagger_{\rm in}(p_1)\cdots a^\dagger_{\rm in}(p_m)|0;\text{in}\rangle,
\end{eqnarray}
where, in distinction to standard QFT textbooks, we have allowed for the possibility of vacuum degeneracy, since this is in fact something clearly established at this point in the lectures under consideration. The operators $a_{\rm out}(p_i')$ and $a_{\rm in}^\dagger(p_j)$ can all be written in terms of in/out fields using the Klein-Gordon inner product in the asymptotic regions of spacetime. Equivalently one may introduce the in/out fields which have the standard plane wave expansion like free fields, and are such that the full interacting fields asymptote to them in the in/out regions of spacetime. This is done, e.g. for the photon, in equation (2.8.16) of the lectures:
\begin{eqnarray}
    A_z^{(0)}(u,z,\bar z) &=& -\dfrac{i}{8\pi^2}\dfrac{\sqrt{2}e}{1+z\bar z}\int_0^\infty d\omega\left[a_{\rm out}^+(\omega\hat{x}(z,\bar z))e^{-i\omega u}-a_{\rm out}^{-}(\omega\hat{x}(z,\bar z))^\dagger e^{i\omega u}\right] \tag{2.8.16},
\end{eqnarray}
where the upperscripts $\pm$ indicate the photon helicities. In that case, either by using the KG inner product, or by constructing an asymptotic expansion like the above and inverting it to extract the creation and annihilation operators, we observe that they will be extracted from bulk fields with the direction of the momentum vectors corresponding to points on the celestial sphere. In that case, it is natural to view $a_{\rm out}(p_i')$ and $a_{\rm in}^\dagger(p_j)$ as operators ${\cal O}^\pm_\omega(z,\bar z)$ defined on the celestial sphere, where $\pm$ picks out or in. We are just introducing a new suggestive notation for $a_{\rm out}(p_i')$ and $a_{\rm in}^\dagger(p_j)$ at this level: they are the same operators. In that sense, the ${\cal S}$-matrix is indeed
\begin{eqnarray}
 \langle\text{out}|\text{in}\rangle &=& \langle 0;{\text {out}}|{\cal O}_{\omega_1'}^+(z_1',\bar z_1')\cdots {\cal O}_{\omega_n'}^+(z_n',\bar z_n'){\cal O}_{\omega_1}^-(z_1,\bar z_1)\cdots {\cal O}_{\omega_m}^-(z_m,\bar z_m)|0;\text{in}\rangle.
\end{eqnarray}
Now, the motivation behind all of this is clearly a holographic perspective to gravity in asymptotically flat spacetimes. As shown in the lectures before getting to this point, quantum field theory soft theorems are really Ward identities of asymptotic symmetries, and when written in this language, they pretty much resemble Ward identities for symmetries in a two-dimensional conformal field theory living on the celestial sphere. In particular, quite remarkably, the subleading soft graviton theorem gives rise to an identity obeyed by the ${\cal S}$-matrix which looks like the Ward identity of a stress-tensor in a two-dimensional CFT (see section 2.6 of https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.02075 for a nice review). The only puzzling thing is that the conformal weights $(h,\bar h)$ are operators. Therefore this change of notation is not the full story yet behind the ${\cal S}$-matrix as a celestial correlator. The idea now is that if one changes the asymptotic basis so as to diagonalize these $(h,\bar h)$ operators one would have the standard Ward identity of a stress tensor.
A companion perspective is that Lorentz ${\rm SL}(2,\mathbb{C})$ transformations act on the celestial sphere as global conformal transformations, and one hope would be that the ${\cal S}$-matrix would transform as a conformal correlator under its action. But still, if the ${\cal S}$-matrix elements are to be conformal correlators, something is still missing. The candidate operators ${\cal O}_{\omega}^\pm(z,\bar z)$ may be local operators on the celestial sphere, but they depend on this parameter $\omega$ which is acted upon by Lorentz. Moreover, where are the scaling dimensions?
The answer to all of these questions is the introduction of the so-called conformal primary bases. The full details are nicely reviewed in https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.02075, but focusing on massless particles, one defines the states in the one particle Hilbert space
\begin{eqnarray}
 |\Delta,z,\bar z\rangle &=& \int_0^\infty d\omega \omega^{\Delta-1} |\omega,z,\bar z\rangle,
\end{eqnarray}
where $|\omega,z,\bar z\rangle$ are the standard momentum eigenstates with momentum $p = \omega \hat{q}(z,\bar z)$ where $\hat{q}(z,\bar z)$ is the map from points on the celestial sphere to null directions $$\hat{q}(z,\bar z)=(1+z\bar z,z+\bar z,-i(z-\bar z),1-z\bar z).$$ The ${\cal S}$-matrix in this basis can again be computed as a correlator of celestial operators ${\cal O}_\Delta^\pm(z,\bar z)$. But now, it turns out that by definition (see the aforementioned reference to understand the details of why this is true), it transforms indeed under Lorentz as a two-dimensional conformal correlator of quasi-primary operators. The candidate stress tensor Ward identity now takes the form of an actual Ward identity with numeric $(h,\bar h)$ and moreover one may show that these candidate operators are actually primaries with respect to said stress tensor, see https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.10149.
The motivation behind all of this is certainly holography. Now one boldly proposes that there exists a two-dimensional celestial conformal field theory whose correlation functions give the ${\cal S}$-matrix in this basis. One would then hope that if one finds such a theory one may be able to non-perturbatively define quantum gravity in asymptotically flat spacetimes. This is an active field of research known as celestial holography today and up to this point many properties such theories should obey have been found by translating properties known from quantum field theories. But it has also been able to give insights on the bulk already! For example the recently discovered $w_{1+\infty}$ symmetry of gravity (https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.14346) and its identification in a study of Einstein's equations (https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.15573).
So answering the question: equation (3.0.3) is really just the change of notation mentioned here. The operators are just the creation/annihilation operators written in a new notation and everything is happening in the Fock space from QFT. But this is not the end of the story: the really make sense of the ${\cal S}$-matrix as a celestial correlator one must change the basis to a conformal primary basis. Then one might imagine that there exists such a celestial CFT and that one is computing correlators in it.


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Q: How to multi substitute with single argument The code below:
a = 'value'
b = '%s %s %s'%a

results to:
TypeError: not enough arguments for format string

How to insert the same value stored in a to declare b?

A: Try use str.format() instead:
>>> a = 'value'
>>> b = '{0} {0} {0}'.format(a)
>>> b
'value value value'
>>>

A: I would use named parameters:

print("{a} {a} {a}".format(a="value"))

A: I love to use the below format:
a = 'value'
b = '%s %s %s' % (a, a, a)

Output:
value value value


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@interface SettingsViewController ()

@property (weak, nonatomic) IBOutlet UISwitch *enablePasscodeSwitch;
@property (weak, nonatomic) IBOutlet UITableViewCell *changePasscodeCell;
@property (weak, nonatomic) IBOutlet UITableViewCell *setTo4DigitCell;
@property (weak, nonatomic) IBOutlet UITableViewCell *setToComplexCell;
@property (weak, nonatomic) IBOutlet UISwitch *enableReadReceiptsSwitch;
@property (weak, nonatomic) IBOutlet UITableViewCell *changeSecurityProtocolCell;

@end

@implementation SettingsViewController

- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
    NSString *cellText = [self.tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:indexPath].textLabel.text;

    if ([cellText isEqualToString:self.changePasscodeCell.textLabel.text]) {
        [[LTHPasscodeViewController sharedUser] showForChangingPasscodeInViewController:self asModal:YES];
    } else if ([cellText isEqualToString:self.setTo4DigitCell.textLabel.text]) {
        if (![[LTHPasscodeViewController sharedUser] isSimple]) {
            [[LTHPasscodeViewController sharedUser] setIsSimple:NO
                                               inViewController:self
                                                        asModal:YES];
        }
        self.setToComplexCell.accessoryType = UITableViewCellAccessoryNone;
        self.setTo4DigitCell.accessoryType = UITableViewCellAccessoryCheckmark;
    } else if ([cellText isEqualToString:self.setToComplexCell.textLabel.text]) {
        if ([[LTHPasscodeViewController sharedUser] isSimple]) {
            [[LTHPasscodeViewController sharedUser] setIsSimple:YES
                                               inViewController:self
                                                        asModal:YES];
        }
        self.setTo4DigitCell.accessoryType = UITableViewCellAccessoryNone;
        self.setToComplexCell.accessoryType = UITableViewCellAccessoryCheckmark;
    } else if ([cellText isEqualToString:self.changeSecurityProtocolCell.textLabel.text]) {
        [[[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Change Protocol"
                                    message:@"The default protocol is SHCBK, select protocol to use below. More information is availble in the 'About the security protocol' section."
                                   delegate:self
                          cancelButtonTitle:nil
                          otherButtonTitles:@"Use SHCBK", @"Use Group HCBK", nil] show];
    }
}

- (void)alertView:(UIAlertView *)alertView clickedButtonAtIndex:(NSInteger)buttonIndex
{
    NSString *title = [alertView buttonTitleAtIndex:buttonIndex];

    BOOL oldVal = [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] boolForKey:USE_GROUP_HCBK_DEFAULTS_IDENTIFIER];
    BOOL valChanged;

    if ([title isEqualToString:@"Use SHCBK"])
    {
        valChanged = (oldVal == YES);
        [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] setBool:NO
                                                forKey:USE_GROUP_HCBK_DEFAULTS_IDENTIFIER];
        [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] synchronize];
    }
    else if ([title isEqualToString:@"Use Group HCBK"])
    {
        valChanged = (oldVal == NO);
        [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] setBool:YES
                                                forKey:USE_GROUP_HCBK_DEFAULTS_IDENTIFIER];
        [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] synchronize];
    }

    if (valChanged) {
        NSDictionary *userInfo = @{ @"isSHCBK": !oldVal ? @0 : @1 };

        dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
            [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] postNotificationName:PROTOCOL_DID_CHANGE_NOTICICATION
                                                                object:nil
                                                              userInfo:userInfo];
        });
    }
}

- (IBAction)enablePasscodeSwitched:(id)sender
{
    if (self.enablePasscodeSwitch.isOn) {
        [[LTHPasscodeViewController sharedUser] showForEnablingPasscodeInViewController:self asModal:YES];
    } else {
        [[LTHPasscodeViewController sharedUser] showForDisablingPasscodeInViewController:self asModal:YES];
    }
}

- (IBAction)enableReadReceiptsSwitched:(id)sender
{
    [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] setBool:self.enableReadReceiptsSwitch.isOn
                                            forKey:READ_RECEIPTS_ENABLED_DEFAULTS_IDENTIFIER];
    [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] synchronize];
}

#pragma mark - View Controller Lifecycle

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
    [super viewDidLoad];
    // Do any additional setup after loading the view.

    [self.enablePasscodeSwitch setOn:[LTHPasscodeViewController doesPasscodeExist] animated:YES];
    [self.enableReadReceiptsSwitch setOn:[[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] boolForKey:READ_RECEIPTS_ENABLED_DEFAULTS_IDENTIFIER]
                                animated:YES];

    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self
                                             selector:@selector(passcodeDidClose:)
                                                 name:PASSCODE_CLOSED_NOTIFICATION
                                               object:nil];

    [self resetPasscodeUI];
}

- (void)passcodeDidClose:(NSNotification *)notification;
{
    [self resetPasscodeUI];
}

- (void)resetPasscodeUI
{
    [self.enablePasscodeSwitch setOn:[LTHPasscodeViewController doesPasscodeExist] animated:YES];
    if (self.enablePasscodeSwitch.isOn) {
        [self turnOnCell:self.changePasscodeCell];
        [self turnOnCell:self.setTo4DigitCell];
        [self turnOnCell:self.setToComplexCell];
    } else {
        [self turnOffCell:self.changePasscodeCell];
        [self turnOffCell:self.setTo4DigitCell];
        [self turnOffCell:self.setToComplexCell];
    }
    if ([[LTHPasscodeViewController sharedUser] isSimple]) {
        self.setToComplexCell.accessoryType = UITableViewCellAccessoryNone;
        self.setTo4DigitCell.accessoryType = UITableViewCellAccessoryCheckmark;
    } else {
        self.setTo4DigitCell.accessoryType = UITableViewCellAccessoryNone;
        self.setToComplexCell.accessoryType = UITableViewCellAccessoryCheckmark;
    }
}

- (void)turnOnCell:(UITableViewCell *)cell
{
    cell.userInteractionEnabled = YES;
    cell.textLabel.textColor = [UIColor blackColor];
    cell.backgroundColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
}

- (void)turnOffCell:(UITableViewCell *)cell
{
    cell.userInteractionEnabled = NO;
    cell.textLabel.textColor = [UIColor grayColor];
    cell.backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:255 green:255 blue:255 alpha:.4];
}

- (void)didReceiveMemoryWarning
{
    [super didReceiveMemoryWarning];
    // Dispose of any resources that can be recreated.
}

#pragma mark - Navigation

- (void)prepareForSegue:(UIStoryboardSegue *)segue sender:(id)sender
{
    // Get the new view controller using [segue destinationViewController].
    // Pass the selected object to the new view controller.
    if ([segue.identifier isEqualToString:EDIT_PROFILE_SEGUE_IDENTIFIER]) {
        EditProfileViewController *epvc = (EditProfileViewController *)segue.destinationViewController;
        epvc.managedObjectContext = self.managedObjectContext;
    } else if  ([segue.identifier isEqualToString:VIEW_WEB_CONTENT_SEGUE_IDENTIFIER]) {
//        WebInfoViewController *wvic = (WebInfoViewController *)segue.destinationViewController;
    }
}

- (IBAction)profileSaved:(UIStoryboardSegue *)segue
{
    if ([segue.sourceViewController isKindOfClass:[EditProfileViewController class]]) {
        EditProfileViewController *epvc = (EditProfileViewController *)segue.sourceViewController;

        if (epvc) {
            [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] setBool:[epvc.savedProfile.firstname length] forKey:PROFILE_IS_SET_DEFAULTS_IDENTIFIER];
            if ([epvc.savedProfile.firstname length]) {
                NSDictionary *userInfo = @{@"newProfile": epvc.savedProfile};
                dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
                    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] postNotificationName:MYPROFILE_CHANGE_NOTIFICATION
                                                                        object:nil
                                                                      userInfo:userInfo];
                });
            }
        }
    }
}

- (IBAction)returnFromWebContent:(UIStoryboardSegue *)segue
{
    if ([segue.sourceViewController isKindOfClass:[WebInfoViewController class]]) {
        WebInfoViewController *wvic = (WebInfoViewController *)segue.sourceViewController;

        if (wvic) {
            // do something in future, no need now
        }

    }
}

@end

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The Full Story: Britain Is Making Sexual Harassment a Hate Crime Britain Is Making Sexual Harassment ...
Britain Is Making Sexual Harassment a Hate Crime
A shift in how police departments handle complaints about men could save the lives of countless women.
By Jillian Keenan
| May 19, 2019, 1:00 AM
Foreign Policy illustration
Five different times, Shana Grice reported her ex-boyfriend to the police in Sussex, England. The 19-year-old asked for help when he followed her home and when he used a stolen key to break into her house while she was sleeping. He put a tracker in her car and repeatedly called her breathing heavily.
But the police didn't help—just as they ignored the 13 other women who had previously tried to report him for stalking. In Grice's case, they fined her 90 pounds ($115) for "wasting police time." So when her ex-boyfriend, Michael Lane, 27, drove a knife through Grice's neck and set her bedroom on fire in August 2016, there was no one around to help.
Crimes against women are notoriously underreported in the United Kingdom and around the world—particularly when they're of a sexual nature. Now, one police unit in England is trying to address this problem, and it's a surprisingly bureaucratic response to a very violent problem: The unit is changing how the complaints are classified as they come in, and early research indicates it may be having effective results.
Underreporting by women happens around the world. In the United States, a staggering 77 percent of rapes and sexual assaults are never reported to the police, according to the 2017 National Crime Victimization Survey. It's even worse in the United Kingdom, where the Office for National Statistics reports that more than 80 percent of sexual assaults go unreported. Even when they are reported, it hardly matters: Of the 57,600 rapes that were reported in 2018 in the U.K., only 2,822 of those resulted in a criminal charge, according to Nick Martin in the Crown Prosecution Service press office.
Conventional thinking has long been that women don't report out of shame or stigma. But Grice's murder highlights another reason: Nothing happens. Too often, when a woman does approach police to report threats or crimes, she gets ignored, belittled, fined, or worse—she aggravates her stalker. "It boils down to the fact that many women do not trust in the police and courts to provide justice after sexual violence," said Rebecca Hitchen, the campaign manager for the U.K.-based End Violence Against Women Coalition.
That lack of trust was already being recognized as the main problem by police officers in Nottinghamshire, a former coal mining county of about 1 million people in the East Midlands region of England. In 2016, they launched a novel experiment: The police officers decided to record incidents of misogynistic behavior not just as crimes but as hate crimes.
The U.K. already had hate crime legislation, but it doesn't include women as a protected category—despite the fact that attacks targeting women on the basis of their sex are at least as common as other forms of targeted attacks, according to the latest Crime Survey for England and Wales. Women who are black, Muslim, or Jewish are particularly targeted. Yet Britain's hate crime legislation only defends people attacked due to race, sexual orientation, transgender identity, disability status, or religion.
The Nottinghamshire Police didn't have the authority to change national hate crime law or to criminalize anything that wasn't already a crime, such as catcalling. But they did have the power to classify those routine acts of misogyny—which affect a reported 93.7 percent of Nottinghamshire women—as "hate crimes" for internal recording purposes. And that reclassification has allowed them to keep data.
It turns out data can be pretty powerful. As word of the new policy spread, more women began to report acts of low-level misogyny—the day-to-day sexual harassment, catcalling, unwanted attention, and stalking that had terrorized Grice but barely register as crimes for most people, let alone for most police departments. "It's those hostile actions and behaviors that, for whatever reason, have not risen to the level of being considered worth punishing that set the tone for society," said Kristen Houser, the chief public affairs officer for the U.S.-based National Sexual Violence Resource Center. "[They're] like scaffolding for the more egregious crimes."
Since then, three other English counties have followed Nottinghamshire's lead and classified misogyny as a hate crime (defined as "incidents against women that are motivated by the attitude of men towards women and includes behaviour targeted at women by men simply because they are women") in their records, too.
Early research indicates that the experiment is working: A study for the Nottingham Women's Centre found that 174 Nottinghamshire women had reported a misogyny hate crime between 2016 and 2018, up from zero before the policy was introduced. An online survey of Nottinghamshire residents found that 87 percent said the experiment was "a good idea."
"It has increased women's confidence in the police generally," said Helen Voce, the CEO of the Nottingham Women's Centre. "And even when they didn't feel the need to actually go to the police to make a report, women have felt empowered to challenge instances of sexual harassment and verbal abuse themselves. The police saying, 'This is not acceptable behavior,' has empowered women to fight back."
Now activists in the U.K. are calling for the misogyny hate crime policy to be rolled out nationally—not just for internal police records but for prosecution and sentencing purposes, too. (According to the U.K. Criminal Justice Act of 2003, a judge can impose a harsher sentence when an offense is classified as a hate crime.) Mark Khan, the lead on hate crime for the North Yorkshire Police, which started recording acts of misogyny as hate crimes in 2017, would like to see the policy adopted nationally. "There's a lot to be done to build the confidence of women, and minority groups, in the police," he said. "That was one of [the policy's] purposes: to show that we take crimes against women seriously, as we do all hate crimes."
The campaign has provoked the predictable list of free speech-related fears. "[L]ads could be dragged before courts and face serious sentences if they whistle at a woman," worried one article in the Daily Star. But advocates say those fears are misplaced: A national misogyny hate crime policy would not criminalize anything that isn't already illegal, such as catcalling. Noncriminal acts of misogyny would be recorded as "hate incidents," while acts of criminal misogyny would be recorded and prosecuted as "hate crimes." Khan said recording these low-level incidents of misogyny provides valuable data to the police, since verbal abuse often escalates to physical attacks.
The British campaign is part of a global trend. Worldwide, law enforcement is cracking down on misogynist harassment in an effort to address underreporting. In the nine months since France passed its new anti-catcalling law, almost 450 on-the-spot fines have already been handed out for degrading comments and offensive "sexual or sexist" behavior. Peru's law, which was introduced in 2015, is even more strict: Men who harass women can face up to 12 years behind bars. Argentina and Nicaragua have also adopted their own versions of anti-misogyny laws, and Tanzania has introduced more than 400 police stations across the country with officers who are specifically trained to respond to women's complaints.
But for some, the campaign to change the way police handle women's reports is still too slow. Only last year, Michelle Savage, 32, contacted the Sussex Police—the same department that Grice had begged for help two years earlier—three times in 10 days to report fears that her ex-husband was "becoming more and more aggressive." But history repeated itself, and six days later, Michelle was dead—shot, execution-style, along with her mother and dog.
Collecting accurate data may not immediately protect women, but it could be the weapon needed to convince people indisputably that stronger action must be taken. "Our daughter took her concerns to the police and instead of being protected was treated like a criminal," Grice's parents, Sharon Grice and Richard Green, told the Guardian. "It's only right that the police make changes."
Jillian Keenan is a writer based in Nairobi, Kenya.
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Big investors are starting to use a new metric to assess financial risk: rates of gender-based violence.
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Lente Kabinet 2018, for the first time spread over two days from 26 until 27 May, is set to be the festival's biggest year yet. With such a star-studded array of artists including Kelela, Kamaal Williams and Ebo Taylor playing alongside stunning DJs such as Peggy Gou and Carista, the music alone places Lente Kabinet as a festival not to be missed.
While there is little we could add on the musical front, Glamcult is proud to announce that we'll be working in collaboration with Lente Kabintet to make your festival experience an exciting one. Working together with multidisciplinary rising artists Telemagic & Friends and Kevin Bray, Lou Buche and Messgewand, with fashion designer Duran Lantink, and with conscious collective Dance With Pride, we will be constructing dedicated Lente Kabinet x Glamcult areas containing indoor multi-sensory art experiences; perfect pods of escapism.
We will create a place where you can get some much-needed relaxation while also enjoying experimental art from all sides of the spectrum; a space to contrast the leafy green festival grounds with an indoor space to shock the senses.
Keep your eyes and ears open for exciting content and features over the coming weeks in the lead-up to the festival.


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Good Friday blues for licensed firearm holder whose gun got stolen
Loop News Created : 1 April 2018 Jamaica News
It was definitely not the Good Friday that a licensed firearm holder in St Andrew would have hoped for or anticipated this year.
Instead of having time to reflect on the spiritual side of his life and calmly share in other Easter festivities, his attention was forced by circumstances to be suddenly centred around his personal security and potential trouble with the law ahead, after his firearm was reportedly stolen from his home.
Reports are that the firearm holder's Taurus 9mm pistol was stolen from his Zaidie Gardens home in St Andrew while he was out jogging in the early hours of the morning, between 4:30 and 8:00 a.m.
On his return from jogging, it was noticed that a door to his house had been damaged, and further checks revealed that the house had been broken into.
Several items, including the gun and a laptop, were reported stolen.
The Half-Way Tree police are investigating the development.
Licensed firearm holders are personally responsible for the safekeeping and custody of their weapons at all times.
For breaking news, download our app at http://bit.ly/GetALoopJM for Android; and at http://bit.ly/GetiLoopJM for IoS.
Zadie Gardens
Fish vendor shot by licensed firearm holder in Ocho Rios
Wrong man found with licensed firearm
Armed robber shot dead on bus by licensed firearm holder in Kingston


Military Times Forums > Hot Topics > Off Duty > Cross Family Christmas Plans in full swing...How about you?
View Full Version : Cross Family Christmas Plans in full swing...How about you?
Our tree is up. The kids had a great time decorating. The stockings have been hung. The advent calendar is out. There are no presents under the tree yet....Cross kids peek. The kids should be happy this year.
We are still debating the PS3 for them. We go back and forth. They have a Wii, XBox 360 and a PS2. Plus all have a 3DS and a PSP. Also debating a tv for the game room. Currently all systems are in the living room.
Also...can anyone tell me if PS3 is like XBox360 for Netflix? I refuse to buy XBox live account to do Netflix or Hulu.
Anyone have Apple TV or Google ChromeCast? Is that a good option? are there parental controls?


If you are anxious because you have halitosis, you know what a problem it causes for your love life. The good news is, when you investigate the common causes of halitosis, you will find that natural remedies are available.
There are a number of common causes of halitosis.
Let's start our discussion with food, because certain foods recurrently cause bad breath. You are probably already aware of many of these food items.
Milk products frequently are a cause of halitosis.
Dairy foods including butter, cheese and milk, may commonly trigger sour breath odor.
This is particularly true if the person consuming these milky foods just happens to be lactose intolerant. A person who is lactose intolerant can't entirely digest dairy foods. The consequence may be sour breath.
Garlic and onions are well known causes of halitosis.
Both garlic and onions have vsc's - volatile sugar compounds.
A low carb - high protein diet is frequently recognized as a cause of halitosis.
The bad breath causing bacteria has a real love affair with protein. For this reason scores of protein dense foods (fish, for instance) often trigger bad breath odor.
When you think of smoking, do you associate it with bad breath? It's no wonder.
Tobacco irritates your gums. It may also cause you to lose your sense of taste.
Your teeth are not only stained by tobacco, but the tobacco sticks to them.
People who smoke are at higher risk for periodontal diseases - a major cause of halitosis.
Alcohol dries the mouth, which can cause bad breath. More about that in a moment.
Certain medicals are known to be a cause breath odor.
Folks who use antidepressants and/or diuretics routinely experience a reduction of saliva. Because of this, these medicines usually mention breath odor as a possible side effect.
Sometimes aspirin can have the same effect.
Dry mouth is another leading cause of halitosis.
Saliva is your body's way of keeping your mouth fresh. It continually washes away injurious bacteria. That's the reason, when your body produces less saliva, you're much more likely to be a victim of foul breath.
As you sleep at night, your salivary glands rest. This, of course, results in less saliva during the sleeping hours.
No wonder you often wake up with morning breath!
It is possible that a medical situation could be the cause of halitosis.
Conditions such as diabetes, infected tonsils, sinusitis, HIV, and a variety other serious health conditions, may cause sour breath.
Always check with your physician if you have any concerns over your health.
Can you imagine a time when you no longer worry about your breath?
Imagine never feeling the need to back away from people! Never feeling the need to cover your mouth as you speak! Never being embarrassed to kiss those you love!


Has the provider taken courses in managing tinnitus, such as the extensive course in Tinnitus Retraining Therapy with Dr. Pawel Jastreboff or a course through the Tinnitus Practitioners Association? This will give the provider a great background into the neurophysiological model of how tinnitus and other sounds work through your brain and why they linger.
Does the provider also treat sound sensitivity issues? Often times, sound sensitivity issues occur in patients with tinnitus or sometimes by themselves with normal hearing. It is not possible to treat tinnitus effectively if a sound sensitivity issue is present. In this case, sound sensitivity HAS to be reduced before tinnitus therapy can commence.
Is the practice a comprehensive medical practice or have referral sources needed for other medical issues that may affect tinnitus such as other ear, nose, and throat disorders, neurology, cardiology, psychology, physical therapy, and even chiropractic referrals for complementary medicine and treatments? This is important to have in place for the best care and success of your tinnitus and sound sensitivity.
Our providers at Advanced Otolaryngology and Audiology are trained in tinnitus and sound sensitivity issues and have been providing options for management and treatment for the past 17 years. We are dedicated to providing you with the BEST care and start with a comprehensive evaluation to look for hearing loss, sound sensitivity, tinnitus, and any other medical issues that may be related to what you are experiencing.
We urge you to consider the above and ALWAYS do your due diligence in selecting a provider and practice for your health needs!


Lightly raced with just four runs over fences, the last coming in May, the fact that this one remains in the Skelton yard gives encouragement that there is more to come. Though overall disappointing up to now, his run at Cheltenham in April makes him one to consider here and there is plenty to find out about him.
Reshoun headed the ante-post market at one stage for this race last year but never made the line up in a race won by his connections. He has been disappointing this season until returning to form with a convincing success at Haydock in easy ground which he clearly needs to produce his optimum. Reverting back in trip won't be an issue and he looks capable of defying the 4 lb rise in the ratings.
Now Children is lightly raced with an overall progressive profile and is in good hands. His victory last time in a fairly competitive Goodwood handicap showed him ideally suited by soft ground and as he does things gradually and gallops on dourly he seems ideal for this track.