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How to Send An Android Contact to Someone Else
By Austin
When you want to share a phone number with someone, what is the easiest way to do it? We'll take a look and show you.
When you want to share a phone number with someone, what is the easiest way to do it? Sure, you could verbally spell it out for them over the phone, or look through your contacts and then manually text or email it to them. But, did you know Android has a built-in feature that will do this for you automatically? The process is pretty simple, though it is limited if you aren't running Froyo or Gingerbread. Let's take it for a spin.
Open your contacts app. This can be done via the app drawer, or you can Tap the Contacts tab from your phone's dialer.
Now find the contact that you would like to send and do a Long Press on that contact. A new menu should pop-up, at the bottom of it Tap Send namecard via.
Depending on what version of Android is running you'll varying options here.
Android 2.1 or earlier will only have the Bluetooth or Email option. Android 2.2 and higher will be able to send the namecard in just about anyway they want.
Note: There are a few compatibility issues.
People running Android 2.1 or earlier will not be able to receive namecards via text message.
They will also not be able to save namecards that are sent via email, but they will be able to extract the phone number (As shown in step 4).
Bluetooth transfers actually have no problem and automatically add themselves to the phone on any version of Android. However, there is no way to prevent the contact from being automatically added.
Android namecards are in the .vcf format and many non-Android phones are not able to read them.
When a vcard is received via email, again your options will vary depending on if you are running Froyo (2.2) or not. On 2.1 and earlier, there will just be a preview option, but you'll still be able to Tap the phone number in the preview to quickly call it. If running Android 2.2, you can directly download the contact from your email or whatever other service it was shared via.
Solving Compatibility Issues in 2.2
The problem with namecards is that 2.1 phones can't really read them, and forget about it if the person receiving it doesn't have an Android phone. To solve this, Google added a new option in the contact pop-up: Send contact information. From this menu you can send the contact via SMS message, but it send the contacts in regular text format.
Sending a contact to someone else from your Android phone is really easy, but it is still a bit of a mess on older versions of Android. If you are running Froyo or Gingerbread, then you are set. But still keep in mind the person you are sending the contact to, because if they don't have the latest and greatest version of Android they might not be able to receive it as a namecard.
Natalie lawson
You can use this app to share a contact's phone number..
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dunitiapps.contactshare&hl=en
Using this, you can share a contact with a single click. you can send a contact number to the last caller, without having to search for it again. Also enables you to send a contact to the current caller during a call.
Try this one: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.huboltapps.contactsviasms.
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… and sending the namecard via messaging costs a fortune!
hi, try this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gp.sendcontactinfo&hl=it
GLENN CUNNINGHAM
This doesn't work for me. When I do the long press on the contact, it goes into delete mode and asks me which contacts to delete.
If just select the contact – open it – it has a More option. Clicking on that also only give the Delete option.
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I store my fresh roast in wide mouth quart mason jars too.  Something I have noticed: if I leave the lid off 24 hours before sealing I sometimes get much more pressure build up in subsequent days as compared to times when I seal after 3 or 4 hours.  Not what I would have predicted.
I vent the pressure each day by breifly opening the lid.  After 3 or 4 days the internal pressure stabilizes.  Plus by that time I am opening the jar daily to consume anyway.


Cigna and University Hospitals Accountable Care Organization (UHACO) have launched a collaborative accountable care initiative to enhance care coordination and achieve the "triple aim" of improved health, affordability and patient experience for Cigna customers.
Collaborative accountable care is Cigna's approach to accomplishing the same population health goals for its customers as UHACO has been achieving for University Hospitals' employees since it was launched in 2011. The program will benefit approximately 10,000 people covered by a Cigna health plan who receive care from the 1,500 primary care physicians and specialists employed by University Hospitals (UH) in the Cleveland area.
University Hospitals is a national leader in accountable care with more than 160,000 self-insured, commercially insured, Medicare and Medicaid members and beneficiaries, making it one of the largest ACO providers in the country and one of the few providing coordinated care, disease management and case management services to all populations, from infants to senior citizens.
Patients will continue to be treated by their current physician and automatically receive the benefits of the program at no additional cost. Under the program, UHACO resources will monitor and coordinate care on behalf of UH physicians and their patients. Individuals who are enrolled in a Cigna health plan and later choose to seek care from a UH doctor will also have access to the benefits of the program. There are no changes in any plan requirements regarding referrals to specialists. Patients most likely to see the immediate benefits of the program are those who need help managing chronic conditions, such as diabetes, heart disease and obesity.


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Ok guys, I used to run windows 7 with bootcamp and it worked perfect (deleted os x partition later) then tried windows 8 and toyed around a bit, did not like it a single bit!
Now i try to actually fresh install windows 7 with a formatted drive but i seem to be not succesfull with it!
1 – First of all, connect your Macbook's power supply and do not forget to switch it off by pressing the Apple menu and clicking on 'Shut down' button.
2 – Now, insert the Mac OS X installation disk and click on it when it is ready to be opened.
4 – From now on, the process might seem easy to you. Simply, select your hard drive it will be called ' Macintosh HD ' Erase it by clicking on the erase button and you will be asked for a new name to be kept for your hard drive. Now select, "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" which will be in 'Format' drop down menu and click on 'Erase' button.
5 – You can quit the disk utility by clicking on 'Quit' button from the file menu. Now all you have to do is follow up with the wizard and you'll get a brand new Mac OS X copy installed.
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mac book pro 17 inch model 2008 - i got on cd mac os x 10.4 and I had a while i was running windows 7 smooth a logic board replacement, u might think why this lastest is important, that is because when i had my logicboard replaced my white boot up screen always stayed white for a good 20 seconds.
The "osx cannot be installed.." usually means you are trying to install from the wrong DVD - an iMac restore (usually grey) disk does not work on an MBP.
You are likely using the wrong installation media.
As for Windows, make sure you have no other drives plugged into the Mac while you are booting from the windows install DVD/USB. Sometimes windows can be a little picky about choosing a disk.
If the above fails for you, I would download Hiren's Boot Tools CD and use the disk tool to format the drive to NTFS and then retry the windows install.
you were totally correct sir!
I run windows 7 64 ultimate on it, and it is on this model MacBook Pro (Late 2007, 2.4 (see for detailed info) and it came with max os x 10.4 I believe Now i need to know which 64bit version of bootcamp i should run?
or do i have to try bootcamp version 2.0 etc?
Yes i understand this link from a torrent might be a strange but apple itself does not offer it for download cause it should be on most install cd that came with the mac. It worked perfect for me and let it also checked by my virusscanner.
Cheers and damn I ROCK!


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The Ariel Aqueduct on the Worcester & Birmingham Canal in Selly Oak
The Ariel Aqueduct was built alongside a railway viaduct on the Cross City Line in Selly Oak when the Selly Oak Bypass was built, which opened in 2011. It carries the Worcester & Birmingham Canal. The towpath is suitable for walking, cycling and taking your dog for a walk, as well as going for a run. You can also see trains going past. Below is the Aston Webb Boulevard.
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Ariel Aqueduct
When the Selly Oak Bypass (later to be named as the Aston Webb Boulevard) was built in Selly Oak during 2010 to 2011, it meant that an aqueduct had to built on the Worcester & Birmingham Canal, as well as a railway viaduct on the Cross City Line. The nearby wasteland used to be where the Battery Works used to be. With the completion of the first phase of the bypass, it meant that the University of Birmingham could build new student accommodation nearby to the aqueduct. Further up the bypass, the land had to be decontaminated, as there used to be a landfill there. Eventually the Selly Oak Shopping Park and a student accommodation block was opened in late 2018. And the rest of the land (still to be built on) will be for the Life Sciences Park of the University of Birmingham. Meanwhile since Sainsbury's moved to the new shopping park, it meant that work could start on extending the bypass to Selly Oak Triangle (started in 2019 but is not yet complete).
I used to be able to get onto the Worcester & Birmingham Canal down a road off the Bristol Road near a car showroom. But there is now new steps closed to the Unite student accommodation (as well as a shortcut to Sainsbury's and the new shopping park). Then walk as far as the University of Birmingham before getting off the canal.
View below of the Ariel Aqueduct from the Aston Webb Boulevard (Selly Oak Bypass) during September 2012. Leading towards Queen Elizabeth Island and New Fosse Way. The new Birmingham Super Hospital opened in 2010, so these new roads helped give access to it (the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham).
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The views of the Ariel Aqueduct taken during February 2013. This was during a walk along the canal from Selly Oak to the University of Birmingham.
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The towpath turns slightly to the right as you head onto the aqueduct.
Saw a man in green running past me. Best to stop and let them pass you.
From here you can see the railway viaduct on the right. If you are lucky you could see some trains passing by!
Some nice reflections from the railings. You can only get to the other side in a narrowboat.
In January 2014, could see the completed Victoria Hall from the Ariel Aqueduct next to Old Joe.
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Within a few years of the completion of the bypass several student accommodation blocks got built down there.
Jarratt Hall is seen to the right of the aqueduct.
The view of the bypass. The University of Birmingham is on the left. The Bournbrook area of Selly Oak is on the right.
The view below taken during August 2017. It always feels weird walking over the aqueduct. It's so high up above the bypass.
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In this February 2019 view, I caught a view of the Ariel Aqueduct from a train passing over the railway viaduct.
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In August 2019 on another walk over the Ariel Aqueduct, saw a cyclist going past me. The grass and trees more grown by this point.
Went over it again during January 2020. This time a cyclist in orange was coming towards me.
From the other side, caught a Class 323 West Midlands Railway train passing over that railway bridge. Touch Base Pears seen behind.
For another post on aqueducts in the West Midlands region go to this post on the Wootton Wawen & Edstone Aqueducts on the Stratford-on-Avon Canal in Warwickshire.
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In the Western World we give red roses, chocolates, even jewellery to those we love or have affection for. We send card adorned with red hearts, cute animals and words or romance and desire. But what do the romantics in other countries of the world do on Valentine's Day? Do they even celebrate it and how do they show their love for one another on this day?
Valentine's Day started as a Christian celebration in Rome, for one of a number of saints named Valentinus. It was only after Chaucer romanticized the day in a poem in 1382 that it became a celebration of romantic love and people really began to take notice and remember the day as something special.
In time, the Victorians made the day more and more popular and began to mass produce Valentine's Day cards. This soon spread across the Atlantic to the Americas. It soon grew into the huge marketing industry of flowers, chocolates and cards we all know and some love to this day.
So here's some of the different celebrations from a few places in the world, some are similar but some are very different to what you may already experience in your country.
On this day it is customary for people to name the first eligible person they met on Valentine's Day as 'Valentine'. After this, they are supposed to give a gift to their newly meet 'Valentine' and pay particular attention to them for a year.
However these days it's just shared between those already with one another or with someone that a person may desire. In the UK/USA gifts such as flowers, chocolates and stuffed toys are given to show affection. Sometimes the cards and gifts are given anonymously making it so the recipient has to guess who their Valentine is.
In Germany, Valentine's Day focuses more on adults, it's not something that children or younger people are involved with. Valentine's Day was not celebrated in Germany until after World War II. One of the symbols for Valentine's Day in Germany is a pig this is because it represents luck. Because of this many gifts given, like flowers and chocolate come with a toy pig as well.
Japan is very different in the way Valentine's Day is celebrated because it actually happens on two different days. On the 14th of February, women give chocolates to the men they desire. There are two different types of chocolates given, Giri Chocolate, which is given to friends and colleagues and Honmei Chocolate, which is given to men they love. After this on the 14th of March the men then do the same to their female friends or women they desire.
In Finland Valentine's Day is called Ystävänpäivä which literally means "Friend's Day". Finnish people focus on their friends and in some cases their families, instead of their partner or spouse. They send small token gifts and cards to one another to show gratitude and the worth of the friendships they have with one another.
One of the more unusual activities on Valentine's Day came from France. Valentine's Day was seen as a day of freedom for women, this meant that they could easily dissolve a relationship or even cheat on their husband or partner and not face any consequences for their actions. This is outdated now however and they seem to have a more traditional view on the holiday instead.
The Dia dos Namorados or "Lovers' Day" is celebrated on the 12th of June. This is because that is the day before Saint Anthony's day, known in Brazil as the saint of marriage. The typical February 14th Valentine's Day is not celebrated at all because it usually clashes with the Brazilian carnival which lasts a week and is a main focus for them.


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The top 50 European foundations have roughly 10% more assets than their top 50 U.S. counterparts but devote around 50% less money to charitable giving, according to new research by Watson Wyatt Worldwide.
The largest European foundations have e147 billion ($194 billion) in total assets vs. $175 billion for the largest U.S. foundations. But unlike the U.S. foundations, most European foundations still invest about one-third of their assets in founder or sponsor stocks, although eight of the top 50 invest more than 10% in alternatives such as private equity and hedge funds. Mirko Cardinale, senior investment consultant at Watson Wyatt, declined to name the eight funds. U.S. foundations and university endowments have moved more aggressively into alternatives, the research found. The average U.S. foundation allocates 9% to alternative assets and the average U.S. university endowment allocates 30% to these asset classes.
Mr. Cardinale said the tendency for European funds to place such a large percentage of assets in a single stock will likely change. "There are consequences for risk management," said. The recent downturn in the market will also put pressure on European foundations to diversify, he added.


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Normal tension glaucoma (NTG) is known as a multifactorial optic neuropathy characterized by progressive retinal ganglion cell death and glaucomatous visual field loss, even though the intraocular pressure (IOP) does not exceed the normal range. The pathophysiology of NTG remains largely undetermined. It is hypothesized that the abnormal ocular blood flow is involved in the pathogenesis of this disease. A number of evidences suggested that the vascular factors played a significant role in the development of NTG. In recent years, the new imaging techniques, fluorescein angiography, color Doppler imaging (CDI), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and laser speckle flowgraphy (LSFG), have been used to evaluate the ocular blood flow and blood vessels, and the impaired vascular autoregulation was found in patients with NTG. Previous studies showed that NTG was associated with a variety of systemic diseases, including migraine, Alzheimer's disease, primary vascular dysregulation, and Flammer syndrome. The vascular factors were involved in these diseases. The mechanisms underlying the abnormal ocular blood flow in NTG are still not clear, but the risk factors for glaucomatous optic neuropathy likely included oxidative stress, vasospasm, and endothelial dysfunction.
Normal tension glaucoma (NTG) is known as a multifactorial optic neuropathy characterized by progressive retinal ganglion cell (RGC) death and glaucomatous visual field loss. Despite the fact that the IOP in NTG patients is within the normal range, the glaucomatous optic neuropathy may keep getting worse progressively and irreversibly. The disturbed ocular blood flow is a significant factor in pathogenesis of NTG. The vascular failure including vasospasms, small vessel disease, or autoregulatory dysfunction will lead to perfusion deficits of the optic nerve head, retina, and choroid and furthermore develop to the glaucomatous optic neuropathy . Previous studies showed that the impaired vascular autoregulation was more pronounced in NTG than in high tension glaucoma (HTG), especially in NTG patients with progressive optic neuropathy than those with relatively stable status [2, 3]. Therefore, the ocular blood flow deficit may play a significant role in the glaucomatous optic neuropathy in NTG.
The blood supply of the eye is mainly from the ophthalmic artery (OA), a branch of the internal carotid artery (ICA). The OA enters the orbit and gives rise to ciliary arteries, which supply the choroid and optic nerve head, and the central retinal artery which supplies the retina. The OA and its tributaries, the posterior ciliary arteries and the central retinal artery, provide arterial blood flow to the posterior segment of the globe. The short posterior ciliary arteries from the choroid mainly supply the prelaminar portion of the optic nerve, with a minor contribution to the surface of the disc from fine branches of the central retinal artery. In general, there was a perineural, circular arterial anastomosis (circle of Zinn-Haller) at the scleral level via the short posterior ciliary arteries. Branches from this circle penetrated the optic nerve to supply the prelaminar and laminar regions and the peripapillary choroid [4, 5].
The blood supply to the globe is dependent on these branches of the OA, including the short posterior ciliary and central retinal artery. It is important to realize that the short posterior ciliary arteries in particular supply the choroid and optic nerve head and are vulnerable to changes in systemic blood pressure, perfusion pressure, and vascular dysregulation .
A variety of imaging techniques, as described below, have been used to measure the ocular blood flow. With these technologies, the abnormal ocular blood flow was noticed in NTG patients , suggesting that the glaucomatous optic neuropathy might be, at least in part, a result of the impaired autoregulation of ocular vessels.
The retinal arteriovenous passage times (AVP) and the perfusion of retinal and choroidal microvascular beds can be qualitatively evaluated by fluorescein angiography. Previous studies found that the AVP was prolonged in NTG patients, indicating that there is a defect in retinal haemodynamics [8, 9]. Furthermore, retinal AVP was correlated with ocular perfusion pressure and systemic blood pressure in NTG patients . Video fluorescein angiograms showed choroidal filling times were also prolonged in NTG patients .
Color Doppler imaging (CDI) can be used to evaluate erythrocyte velocity of the OA, central retinal artery, and posterior ciliary arteries. CDI provides the end diastolic velocity, the peak systolic velocity, and the mean velocity. A number of studies with CDI demonstrated that the blood flow resistance was increased and blood flow velocities were decreased in the OA and PCAs of patients with HTG, pseudoexfoliation syndrome, and NTG [11, 12], suggesting an important role of ocular blood flow in pathogenesis of glaucomatous optic neuropathy. Reduced blood flow velocities and increased resistive indices in most retrobulbar vessels were found in patients with NTG, which may explain the reason for the optic nerve head fluorescein filling defects and capillary loss of the optic nerve head of these patients [1, 2, 13–15].
MRI was used to detect the brain ischemic changes in NTG patients, including cerebral white matter lesions and small vessel ischemic damage [16, 17], corpus callosum atrophy in conjunction with cerebral infarcts , indicating that the ischemia contributed to glaucomatous neuropathy progression. Deeper depression in the inferior pericentral visual field was found in NTG patients with characteristic ischemic changes on brain MRIs, when compared with those NTG patients of nonischemic change on brain MRIs .
As a new noninvasive technology based on the laser speckle phenomenon, laser speckle flowgraphy (LSFG) offers the assessment of microcirculation of the optic nerve head (ONH) and choroid and retinal vessels at the fovea simultaneously . The parameters used in ONH blood flow analysis by LSFG include the waveform variables (like the skew, the acceleration time index, and the blowout time) . LSFG measurement of the ONH revealed the decreased skew and the increased acceleration time index in eyes of patients with mild NTG, when compared with that of normal control and advanced NTG patients. These results support the hypotheses that endothelial dysfunction and/or increased vascular resistance play an important role in pathogenesis of NTG .
Systemic vascular diseases, including migraine, systemic low blood pressure, Alzheimer's disease, primary vascular dysregulation (PVD), and Flammer syndrome, are associated with the progression of NTG. It is generally accepted that the risk factors of NTG include gender [22, 23], race (more frequently seen in Japan than in European or American countries) , PVD , and low blood pressure [26, 27]. It is noteworthy that female appeared to be more susceptive to vasospasm and progression of visual field loss in NTG . Similarly, vasospasm was more commonly observed in Japanese than in European and American patients, and, correspondingly, NTG was more commonly seen in Japan than most other countries [29, 30]. Migraine, a disorder associated with NTG, was characterized as a vasospastic disorder and commonly seen in women .
A number of investigations reported that the migraine was associated with NTG [32, 33]. In the Collaborative Normal Tension Glaucoma Study, migraine was a risk factor for development and progression of NTG . Furlanetto et al. demonstrated that migraine was a predictor for the occurrence of disc hemorrhage of NTG patients in Low-Pressure Glaucoma Treatment Study . In addition, Corbett and his colleagues examined the NTG patients using neurobehavioral testing, neurological history, computerized tomographic scan, and electroencephalography and found that migraine-related ischemia might be the pathogenic mechanism in some cases of NTG, and 44% of these NTG patients had a history of migraine . In another study, migraine was significantly more commonly seen in patients with NTG than control subjects and patients with HTG . These results suggested a potential, common vascular etiology of both NTG and migraine.
Migraine was associated with transient cerebral vasospastic episodes, which in turn resulted in impairment in the mechanisms of autoregulation of blood flow in the central nervous system [34, 35]. Furthermore, NTG patients with silent cerebral infarct had faster rates of visual field deterioration than those with NTG only, suggesting a role of cerebral ischemic injury in glaucoma progression . Autoregulation might be inefficient in patients with glaucomatous optic neuropathy and result in varying degrees of ischemia at the optic nerve . This could predispose one to microinfarction at the optic nerve head and disc hemorrhage [37, 38]. Migraine seems to be a clinical marker of an impaired microvascular autoregulation .
Both systemic hypotension and vasospasm were known as risk factors for glaucomatous damage. A relationship between the incidence of vasospastic disorders and hypotension has been reported . Furlanetto found that low systolic blood pressure was a risk factor for the pathogenesis of disc hemorrhage in NTG . Kaiser et al. showed that the patients with NTG with rapid progression of VF damage and excavation of the optic nerve head had the low systemic blood pressure as a risk factor in common, with 65% of them suffering from vasospasm [27, 39]. Furthermore, a sustained blood pressure drop during sleep was always observed in these patients . It was reported that hypotension, especially nocturnal arterial hypotension, might contribute to progression of NTG because of the optic nerve hypoperfusion . However, Kim et al. showed that systemic blood pressure played a role in the onset of disc hemorrhage in NTG, and the only significant risk factor for disc hemorrhage occurrence in NTG was systemic hypertension . Therefore, systemic hypotension might be a significant risk factor for glaucomatous optic neuropathy.
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a common type of dementia, which is characterized by progressive memory deterioration, cognitive dysfunction, abnormal behavior, and other disorders resulting from central nervous system degeneration. Retinal vessel abnormalities were detected in NTG and early stage of AD . Retinal vessel signs may reflect the vascular dysregulation in retinal and cerebral microvasculature, leading to low perfusion pressure in patients with glaucoma and AD [42, 43]. Sugiyama et al. presented that some of AD patients and NTG patients might share with a common pathologic mechanism . By using single photon emission computed tomography, they compared regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) in NTG patients with normal individuals and found that 22.6% of NTG patients exhibited an AD-like perfusion pattern although none of them was clinically diagnosed as AD. This incidence rate seemed significantly higher than that rate (1%) of AD reported in a normal population cohort aged 75 and over . Furthermore, the rCBF in the regions of middle cerebral artery perfusion decreased in early stages of AD; meanwhile the levels of rCBF of these NTG patients were lower in these regions than those of controls . Taking into consideration the aforementioned data, a common pathologic mechanism between NTG and AD seems possible.
It was hypothesized that retinal vessel diameters and Helicobacter pylori (Hp) and excessive Valsalva might be common risk factors in NTG and AD [41, 45, 46]. Hp, known to be involved in the pathophysiology of glaucoma and AD, may influence the pathophysiology of glaucoma and AD by promoting platelet and leucocyte aggregation . Moreover, Hp eradication appeared to slow down the progression of AD and glaucoma including NTG .
A main cause for the disturbed autoregulation of ocular blood flow was the PVD syndrome that was frequently observed in NTG patients . Female was more likely to be disposed to PVD , and, interestingly, patients with PVD were more susceptive to migraines [49, 50], which may explain, at least in part, why female is more susceptive to migraines.
The retinal vessels of PVD subjects usually showed a higher spatial irregularity and higher stiffness [51, 52]. PVD was known to be a main cause for splinter hemorrhages at the border of the ONH, which may explain why in NTG patients ONH hemorrhages often occurred [53, 54]. In terms of circulation, PVD patients had an inborn tendency to respond differently to various stimuli such as cold . Vasoconstriction was the most apparent pathological reaction . In addition, ocular blood flow was correlated with peripheral circulation in PVD patients, as an example, in their fingers . A repeated, but very mild ocular blood flow decrease, mainly due to disturbed autoregulation and ocular perfusion pressure fluctuation, would lead to an unstable oxygen supply and an increased local mitochondrial oxidative stress [56–59]. This process was a recognized pathophysiological mechanism of glaucomatous optic neuropathy.
Flammer syndrome describes a phenotype characterized by the presence of primary vascular dysregulation together with a cluster of symptoms and signs that may occur in healthy individuals as well as the patients with the diseases . Most subjects with Flammer syndrome were healthy people, which typically showed a number of ocular signs . The retinal vessels were found to be stiffer, with larger spatial variability . The vessel autoregulatory responses to blood pressure and IOP were less sensitive or even absent .
Although Flammer syndrome is quite prevalent and mostly benign, it may contribute to the occurrence and progression of potentially serious diseases such as NTG . Generally, patients with progressing glaucomatous damage despite a normal or well-controlled IOP often suffered from Flammer syndrome . Flammer syndrome with NTG hold more signs, including optic disc splinter hemorrhages and diffuse visual field defect, the increased retinal venous pressure and blood flow resistance in retroocular vessels, and increased oxidative stress and activation of retinal astrocytes [25, 60]. In addition, the retinal vessels of the optic nerve head were observed to be less shifted to the nasal side in a number of patients with either Flammer syndrome or NTG .
The mechanisms underlying the abnormal ocular blood flow in NTG remains unclear, but the risk factors for glaucomatous optic neuropathy likely included oxidative stress, vasospasm, and endothelial dysfunction.
Accumulated evidences showed the blood flow instability in NTG patients. The unstable blood flow and unstable oxygen supply resulted in recurrent mild reperfusion injury, which might cause a chronic oxidative stress [62, 63], and particularly affected the mitochondria function of the optic nerve head .
Oxidative stress is known to cause an increase in endothelin-1 (ET-1). Various studies demonstrated an increased level of ET-1 in glaucoma patients, particularly in those with progressive neuropathy even though the IOP was well controlled [64, 65]. Metalloproteinases (MMP-2 and MMP-9) were upregulated in the ONH of glaucoma patients. An upregulated MMP-9 was found in circulating lymphocytes .
There was a high density of mitochondria in the ONH due to high energy demands . The mitochondria damage causes less efficient energy supply to the ONH. The mild reperfusion will lead to chronic oxidative stress, which in turn specifically affects the structure and function of mitochondria. Other cellular components were affected by oxidative stress. As an example, activated astrocytes responded sensitively to changes in the microenvironment .
Vasospasm may play a key role in ONH damage and lead to systemic autoregulatory dysfunction in NTG patients. Previous studies showed that vasospasm created an environment dysregulation of blood flow, which increased the vulnerability of the ONH to vascular challenges, and this caused perfusion instability, ischemic changes, reperfusion injury, and axonal loss of the ONH [67, 68]. Vasospasm was common and associated with multiple diseases. However, it appeared to be a transient phenomenon that could be reversible by improving retrobulbar hemodynamics in NTG patients using calcium channel blockers .
Previous studies showed that the vascular endothelium regulated the microcirculation through release of vasoactive factors, including the vasodilator nitric oxide (NO) and the vasoconstrictor endothelin-1 (ET-1) . NO released from endothelial cells directly stimulated the surrounding vascular smooth muscle to promote vasodilation . Systemic factors such as hyperlipidemia, atherosclerosis, and hyperglycemia impaired endothelial NO signaling through oxidative stress damage . It was known that NO activity contributed to ocular autoregulation and could protect the endothelium and nerve fiber layer against pathologic stresses implicated in glaucoma . Opposing the vasodilation properties of NO was ET-1, the most important and potent vascular constricting factor . A number of studies demonstrated the increased plasma ET-1 levels in NTG patients [73, 74]. In vitro and animal studies showed that ET-1 exerted its vasoconstrictor effects mainly on the microvessels in the retina , which could reduce the blood supply to the optic nerve . Buckley et al. identified that dysfunction of systemic vascular endothelial cell caused decreased responsiveness to ET-1 stimulation in NTG patients [67, 77]. Endothelial dysfunction is likely related to NTG, and the endothelial dysfunction may be primary or secondary to vascular diseases including vasospasm and atherosclerosis in its contribution to NTG pathology.
Although the elevated IOP is definitely an important risk factor for damage to the optic nerve head (ONH), there is evidence suggesting that compromised tissue blood flow in the ONH is also actively involved in glaucomatous optic neuropathy. Therefore, antiglaucoma drugs that have additional effects on ONH blood flow should have important clinical implications and significance. Previous studies evaluating the effects of the nonselective β-adrenergic antagonists, including timolol, carteolol, and betaxolol, on human ONH circulation suggested beneficial influence of long-term carteolol or betaxolol therapy on the ONH circulation [78, 79]. Recent studies indicated that the topical FP-receptor agonists, tafluprost or latanoprost, might significantly increase the blood velocity and blood flow in the ipsilateral ONH both in glaucoma patients and normal volunteers, which cannot be attributed to its IOP reducing effect [80–82]. No doubt these ocular hypotensive eye drops may be worthy of further investigation as neuroprotective medication other than their hypotensive effects on glaucoma patients.
In summary, the vascular factors are actively involved in pathogenesis of NTG and its related diseases, and OBF plays an important role in the progression of NTG optic neuropathy. The mechanisms underlying the abnormal ocular blood flow in NTG remain unclear, but, likely, oxidative stress, vasospasm, and endothelial dysfunction appear to be the risk factors for glaucomatous optic neuropathy.
Therefore, lowering IOP only for the treatment of glaucoma is not enough; the therapeutic strategy should also include the optic neuroprotection, in which improving OBF should be critical.


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Red Hot Labs launches Toro to make mobile-ad buying easy on Facebook
Dean Takahashi@deantak
Toro figures out which Facebook mobile ad campaign works the best.
Image Credit: Red Hot Labs
Red Hot Labs is announcing its Toro tool today so that it can make it much easier for mobile app and game developers to buy ads on Facebook. The startup says it can cut the cost of acquiring a mobile user by 40 percent. That's not bad, coming from the team that created Zynga's FarmVille game.
Facebook has proven to be very effective at acquiring targeted users who are very likely to install an advertised mobile app, since it can sift through its user data to find the people who are most likely to be receptive to an ad for Clash of Clans or Words With Friends. The market for Facebook mobile advertising is growing fast, with companies spending 50 percent to 75 percent of their mobile ad budget on Facebook — which is why Facebook reported a 41 percent increase in mobile ad revenue in its most recent quarter.
But it often takes hours for user acquisition specialists, who have to sift through mounds of data, to schedule ad campaigns on Facebook. It's a jungle of bidding and targeting options, measurement pitfalls, and changing best practices. Toro is a performance marketing tool whose purpose is to cut the time and expertise required dramatically, said Amitt Mahajan, cofounder and chief executive of Red Hot Labs, in an interview with GamesBeat.
It sets up targeting, split-tests the creative ads to figure out which is most effective, and optimizes between best-performing campaigns. Red Hot Labs says its tool can be set up in just 10 minutes, without making any changes to the code for an app. Thirty game and app companies — Bee Cave, Betable, Sosh, Burner, and Quixey among them — are using Toro.
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Companies can launch a campaign from a web browser in five minutes and create hundreds of intelligently split-tested campaigns with a single click. It rebalances a budget on the fly. So a developer will set a budget for how much they want to spend on ads in a day, and Toro will figure out the best way to spend that money. It will track everything in a dashboard so that you can see how well the ads perform. The tool includes post-install metrics such as return-on-investment and lifetime value (the amount of money you get from a user over the life of app usage).
San Francisco-based Red Hot Labs created Toro as part of an effort to promote its own games. But Mahajan said the team decided that Toro was a better product than the games, so it decided to switch its focus.
Above: Joel Poloney and Amitt Mahajan of Red Hot Labs
"We realized that the tool was more valuable. We saw the problems around mobile user acquisition, and there was no tool focused on mobile app developers," Mahajan said. With Toro, we can do hundreds of campaigns and figure out what works. Say you have a game in five countries, and you want to target male Clash of Clans players in the U.S. on iOS or females in another country. We can do these campaigns easily, adjust the bidding and budgeting of the campaigns. Normally, it would take a person hours to manage hundreds of campaigns."
Bee Cave Games, a social mobile game developer, has seen a 27 percent reduction in the cost per install (CPI, or the cost of acquiring a user) and has saved 90 hours a month in development time with Toro. Burner has lowered its CPI by 32 percent and miDrive, a United Kingdom developer that connects driving instructors to education resources, has seen an 11 times increase in mobile installs and a 73 percent fall in CPI.
Red Hot Labs is working with mobile measurement companies such as Adjust.com to get access to the right data. Mahajan said the fees are also lower than competing offerings on the market, such as Facebook's own tools like Facebook Ad Manager and Facebook Native Tools.
"We found that there should be a layer on top of those tools to help manage the process," Mahajan said.
Red Hot Labs has a usage-based fee model, charging for about 5 percent of marketing spend after a certain threshold.
"Toro has been an invaluable asset as we grow our audience across mobile," said Vivek Patel, co-founder of Sosh, in a statement. "To drive mobile app installs, we needed a product developed by growth experts who understand the intricacies and quirks of mobile app installs. In Toro, we found a product that is fast, insanely simple to use and yet powerful enough to give us all the metrics we need to drive mobile performance campaigns."
Red Hot Labs has raised $1.5 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock Partners, SV Angel, General Catalyst, Japan's IT-Farm, and private individuals. The founding team includes Mahajan and Joel Poloney, who were part of the MyMiniLife team, which Zynga acquired in 2009 and used to create its FarmVille game, which turned into a Facebook gaming blockbuster with as many as 83 million monthly active users.
Toro Intro from Toro on Vimeo.


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var server = require("./server");
var router = require("./router");
var requestHandlers = require('./requestHandlers');

var handle = {}; // a JS object, where an object.functionCall is mapped to a string
handle["/"] = requestHandlers.start;
handle["/start"] = requestHandlers.start;
handle["/upload"] = requestHandlers.upload;
handle["/show"] = requestHandlers.show;

server.start(router.route, handle); // we are passing a function and object (as there are no associative arrays)

// In our index file, we could have passed the router object into the server,
// and the server could have called this object's route function.
// This way, we would have passed a thing, and the server would have used this thing to do something.
// Hey, router thing, could you please route this for me? But the server doesn't need the thing.
// It only needs to get something done, and to get something done, you don't need things at all, you need actions.
// You don't need nouns, you need verbs. Understanding the fundamental mind-shift that's at the core of this
// idea is what made me really understand functional programming.
// And I did understand it when reading Steve Yegge's masterpiece Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns.
// Go read it now, really. It's one of the best writings related to software I ever had the pleasure to encounter.
// http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com.ee/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom-of-nouns.html

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Stephen Strasburg shook off an illness and all doubts about his mettle while pitching seven dominant innings, Michael A. Taylor hit a late grand slam and the Washington Nationals beat the Chicago Cubs 5-0 on Wednesday to send their NL Division Series to a decisive Game 5.
Strasburg got sick after his terrific performance in the playoff opener on Friday, and the Nationals had planned to go with Tanner Roark even after a persistent rain washed out Game 4 on Tuesday. That led to a flurry of comments and criticism about whether the ace had the right stuff to pitch in big moments.
But Strasburg felt better when he woke up Wednesday and told manager Dusty Baker he wanted the ball with Washington's season on the line.
That was all Baker needed to hear.
Arrieta walked five in four innings in his return from a hamstring injury, but limited Washington to an unearned run and two hits. Lester got the Cubs all the way to the eighth, picking off Ryan Zimmerman before departing after Daniel Murphy's two-out single.
But Chicago's bullpen faltered from there. Carl Edwards Jr. walked two in a row and threw ball one to Taylor before he was replaced by Davis. Taylor then drove a 1-1 pitch into the basket overhanging the brick wall in right field for his first career homer in the playoffs.
Ryan Madson worked the eighth and Sean Doolittle finished the three-hitter, giving the NL East champions a chance to avenge years of playoff heartache.
Ryan Zimmerman, who leads the Nationals with four RBIs, followed with a slow roller to shortstop. Addison Russell charged the ball, but he couldn't bring it in.
It was Chicago's sixth error of the series, and reliever Brian Duensing picked up another one on an errant throw in the ninth. Left fielder Kyle Schwarber committed two errors on one play in Game 3, setting up Washington's only run in a 2-1 loss.


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India to showcase digital tech adoption in education at G20 Education Working Group meeting
President Kovind launches pulse polio programme for 2021
"While we are making efforts to protect our children from more and more diseases, it is important that all vaccines under the programme reach every last child of our country," said Union Health Minister.
January 30, 2021, 20:50 IST
President Ram Nath Kovind on Saturday launched the pulse polio programme for 2021 by administering polio drops to children below five years of age at the Rashtrapati Bhawan. In a statement, the Health ministry said President Kovind and First Lady Savita Kovind administered polio drops to children on the eve of the Polio National Immunization Day, which is observed on January 31 and is also popularly known as Polio Ravivar.
"Around 17 crore children of less than 5 years of age will be given polio drops as part of the drive of Government of India to sustain polio free status of the country. The countrywide drive will be supported by about 24 lakh volunteers, 1.5 lakh supervisors and many Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), WHO, UNICEF, Rotary etc.," it said.
"Healthcare workers will be visiting as many as 2 crore households to ensure that no child is left without the protection of the polio vaccine," the statement said.
Health minister Harsh Vardhan also attended the event. He highlighted the mitigation measures and the efforts in strengthening routine immunization by the government.
"While we are making efforts to protect our children from more and more diseases, it is important that all vaccines under the programme reach every last child of our country," Vardhan said.
"The lessons learnt from polio programme are being implemented to strengthen routine immunization by carrying out Mission Indradhanush, Gram Swaraj Abhiyan, Extended Gram Swaraj Abhiyan and Intensified Mission Indradhanush I and II- a drive toward 90% full immunization coverage of India by year 2018 and to sustain it thereafter," he said.
The health minister further said, "In order to close gaps that might have emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic, another phase of Intensified Mission Indradhanush (IMI 3.0) has been planned in 250 high risk districts of the country during February and March 2021. In addition to this, guidance for conduction of Sub-National Immunization days for polio and sensitive surveillance of vaccine preventable diseases during pandemic has also been issued to States".
Vardhan also appreciated the efforts of state governments and supporting organizations like the WHO, UNICEF and Rotary International etc., for strengthening the efforts of the government not only for the polio programme but also for other initiatives in immunization.
Harsh Vardhan
UP makes new e-gov strides in healthcare, launches E-Sushrut Hospital Management System in 12 medical colleges
Centre launches incentive scheme to boost digital health transactions under Ayushman Bharat
Centre taking measures to enhance public health by quality drugs and devices: Union minister Mansukh Mandaviya
AIIMS restores critical health e-data, digital health records of 3-4 cr patients at risk


If you have pressure calibrator needs over 10,000 psi, here's something you can try. Use a pressure calibrator with an integral pump and combine it with an external pressure module to calibrate up to 10,000 psi. A pressure calibrator can also be portable. Portable pressure calibrators are used to calibrate pressure gauges, transmitters and transducers. Hand pumps are available as pneumatic or hydraulic pumps. Pneumatic hand pumps generate pressures of up to 600 psi. Hydraulic hand pumps generate pressures up to 10,000 psi with a few squeezes of the pump. These pumps utilize distilled water or hydraulic fluid to achieve high pressures. Deadweight testers are ideal for calibrating, setting, testing and repairing pressure measurement and control devices. Deadweight testers feature two-stage hydraulic pressure generators for pressures up to 10,000 psi. Weights generate the necessary pressure level to test your gauges, transmitters, or transducers.


Here's the site map of the Eraserheads Reunion Concert. Click to zoom!
Got it from Markus' blog.
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Q: Check if a string contains at least one of the strings stored in an array of substrings How can I refactor this into a oneliner or at least some native functions, without dramatically affecting performance? I will be checking about 100 strings against 20 substrings. That should not last for more than 200-300ms, on regular 5 year old pro laptops.
    ''' <summary>
    ''' Indicates whether the string includes at least one of the provided substrings.
    ''' </summary>
    ''' <param name="MyString">The string this extension applies to.</param>
    ''' <param name="SubStrings">The array of substrings that may be contained within the main string. Best performance when low index values contain the substrings the most likely to match.</param>
    <System.Runtime.CompilerServices.Extension()>
    Function ContainsAtLeastOneOf(MyString As String, SubStrings As String()) As Boolean

        For Each SubString As String In SubStrings
            If MyString.Contains(SubString) Then Return True
        Next

        Return False

    End Function

I found many solutions where people check that a set of strings all contain the same substring, but was not able to find topics addressing the reverse.
I have several solutions in mind, but none of them seem clean enough. I am guessing there must be a more obvious way of achieving this.
At the moment, the options I can think of are:

*

*Regular expression: Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.IsMatch(MyString, string.format("{0}|{1}|{2}", SubStr1, SubStr2, SubStr3, ...))

*Ugly OrElse: If MyString.Contains(SubStr1) OrElse MyString.Contains(SubStr2) OrElse ...

*I have the intuition there is something with IEnumerable.Intersect(...), but that would loop over a Char instead of the String.

c# answers are acceptable.

A: How about this one
Module Module1

    Sub Main()

        Const so = "StackOverFlow"
        Dim t1 = Now
        For i = 0 To 100
            Console.WriteLine(so.ContainsAtLeastOneOf(New String() {"over1", "over"}, True))
        Next
        Console.WriteLine((Now - t1).TotalMilliseconds)
        Console.ReadLine()
    End Sub
    <System.Runtime.CompilerServices.Extension()>
    Function ContainsAtLeastOneOf(myString As String, subStrings As String(), Optional caseInsensitive As Boolean = False) _
        As Boolean

        If caseInsensitive Then
            Return subStrings.Any(Function(subString) myString.ToLower().Contains(subString.ToLower()))
        End If
        Return subStrings.Any(Function(subString) myString.Contains(subString))
    End Function
End Module

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Welcome to Shalom South Florida!
Every Sunday, South Florida's Jewish community tunes in to hear its favorite Jewish music on "Shalom South Florida." This popular program features Chassidic, Israeli, and Yiddish music, as well as Jewish news and other items of interest to this large market. Jewish comedy, on-air contests, and lively discussions are always part of this exciting show.
Jewish radio host, RONI, makes sure that all listeners have a great time listening to "Shalom South Florida" every Sunday. First hitting the South Florida airwaves in 1986, RONI quickly became Florida's Jewish radio "maven." RONI has an M.S. in Mass Communication.
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The restaurant serves an English buffet breakfast and an á la carte dinner.
The restaurant comfortably seats 80 people and bar facilities are available.
An under-cover outside braai is also available on request.
Reception staff are always available to help with essential arrangements such as transport.
The Bellvista Lodge can arrange transfers to and from the airport at an additional cost on request.


Probiotics are derived from traditional fermented foods, from beneficial commensals or from the environment. They act through diverse mechanisms affecting the composition or function of the commensal microbiota and by altering host epithelial and immunological responses. Certain probiotic interventions have shown promise in selected clinical conditions where aberrant microbiota have been reported, such as atopic dermatitis, necrotising enterocolitis, pouchitis and possibly irritable bowel syndrome. However, no studies have been conducted that can causally link clinical improvements to probiotic-induced microbiota changes. Whether a disease-prone microbiota pattern can be remodelled to a more robust, resilient and disease-free state by probiotic administration remains a key unanswered question. Progress in this area will be facilitated by: optimising strain, dose and product formulations, including protective commensal species; matching these formulations with selectively responsive subpopulations; and identifying ways to manipulate diet to modify bacterial profiles and metabolism.


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Thassos Golden Beach: A unique beach with gorgeous crystal water, refined sand, beautiful picturesque little gulfs and very interesting sights.
Afrodite Studios Hotel is located just before Thassos Golden Beach, the most famous beach in the island and one of the prettiest throughout Greece.
Thassos Golden Beach is a beautiful tourist resort and understandably the most popular destination on the island during summer. It is just 14 km away from the capital of Thassos, Limenas. Any visitor of the area remains starry-eyed the first time in front of this gorgeous beach with golden sand and 2.5 kilometres length. On the left and the right sides of Golden Beach there are two characteristic picturesque gulfs, which are the respective ports (or "Skala" in Greek) of Panagia and Potamia villages.
In order to reach Thassos Golden Beach, we follow the central road of the island from Limenas to the pretty and picturesque village of Panagia, 10 kilometres away. When you are close to Panagia, you may see Ypsario emerging, the highest mountain peak in Thassos. Just before Panagia, you follow the respective sign leading to a gorgeous downhill road full of high pines and dense vegetation, where the sun rays are filtered through the dense leafage of the trees. After about 4 km and leaving the mountainous part of the island, you find the sea. Exactly there you may see in front of you Thassos Golden Beach.
Thassos Golden Beach is the main part of the onshore zone of the area that the locals also call "Avlakia". The high poplars along with the pines, the golden beach and the blue crystal sea create fantastic scenery of unique beauty, which is the main reason numerous visitors return here every year for their holidays.
The beach covers a big area, from the cape of Pirgos on the left to the island of Gamvoussa. On the left side of Thassos Golden Beach there is a hillock named Vigli, where you can admire from high the long golden sandy beach with the crystal-clear and shallow water, as well as the piny mountains discerned far away.
If you like hiking, it is worth enjoying the route through a footpath beginning from the north side of Thassos Golden Beach. After about an hour, you reach the cape named Pirgos - it has taken its name from the round tower (or "pirgos" in Greek) built on it on the 6th century AD by Thassios Akiratos. From the inscription existing in the tower's remains, we understand it was the lighthouse of the area, as well as the grave of Akiratos.
On the south side of the beach and through a road full of small shops of every kind, we see the little church of Agios Nikolaos with its shaly rook and the port in the gulf of Golden Beach, the beach of Skala of Potamia. The little port is a shelter for fishing boats and smacks of the area, as well as for small pleasure boats during summer. At the edge of the port there is the old Arsanas or Tarsanas, cloistral building of 1892, which was a guard place for vessels during winter. The location that comprises this building is ideal for afternoon and night walks around the little port and the local square.
On Golden Beach, where the sand ends, we often find on a large area sand dunes with low vegetation, mainly of herbaceous plants. These sand hills are the natural frontier between the local fields and the sandy area and are called sand dunes. Sand dunes are created by the wind and the sea waves that transfer the sand and deposit it at this place. With the passing time, more and more sand is concentrated, thus creating this strange series of sand hills.
Sand dunes, which are an inextricable part of Thassos Golden Beach, are extremely useful for the fields located behind them, since they intercept the march of the sand, due to wind, towards the interior of the area. Additionally, they operate as a filter to rain water ending to the sea, thus intercepting their vehemence and keeping Golden Beach extremely clean.
Vegetation on sand dunes may be rare but they actually hide a rich vegetal and animal world. Thassos Golden Beach constitutes an inextricable part of Greek natural wealth. It is nature's inheritance to us and we must protect in all ways the sustainable future development of the area.
Thassos Golden Beach is the longest beach of the island and many visitors come here during summer. The sea is very clean, ideal for swimming and sea sports. Due to the water's shallowness, the place is safe for young children to enjoy swimming. Sunset at this beach is exceptional, as the sun rays exalt the bright golden colour of Golden Beach, justifying its name.
At this area you are able to choose among a wide range of activities, such as diving, jet ski, sea parachute and many more sea games and sports. During summer, there is a taxi-boat going to Thassos Golden Beach, Makryammos and Limenas. The whole beach has been awarded the blue flag.
Along Thassos Golden Beach you may also find various hotels, one camping, cafés and bars, traditional taverns, a super market, recreation rooms, shops with local products and souvenirs, shops with sea equipment, car and bikes rental companies, as well as taxi services. The area is connected with the whole island by bus lines.
During recent years there is also great development around Thassos Golden Beach, but fortunately in a way respecting the beautiful environment of the area. This results from the great fame of the area both in Greece and abroad. Due to tourist development, the locals, permanent residents of the villages of Panagia and Potamia, abandoned their traditional occupations and paid attentions to tourist enterprises. Many of them, though, still work on olive trees and apiculture even nowadays - we shall not forget that Thassos is famous for its olives and its natural honey.
On Thassos Golden Beach, apart from the unique beach, you may also enjoy the amazing panoramic view to the mountain surrounding Golden Beach. The beautiful walk along the beach, even it is quite long, is always enjoyable. The location constitutes the perfect recipe for unforgettable holidays. Otherwise, it is not accidental that anyone spending summer holidays on Thassos Golden Beach, very often "falls in love" with this place to such a degree that every summer, regardless of any holidays scheduling, spends a few days at this magnificent place.


I so wish I had thought of this when I was in the classroom. I think it would have made teaching alphabetical order so much easier. I would also hope that it would help make it a fun skill to learn instead of a worksheet. With all of that in mind, I created Alphabet-Ties (alphabetize) centers.
Includes: 5 center cards with matching cards to alphabetize.
This is great to use when introducing alphabetical order to your Kindergarten and First Grade students.
If you like this, let me hear from you.


The most successful ones have one thing in common: they are data-driven.
Without realizing it, your business may have changed -- and that can be a good thing.
Software investments do pay off -- as long as you approach them the right way.
An innovative analytics service promises to give you new power.
The bug, which dates back to 2008, affects hundreds of thousands of devices and programs that use software derived from the GNU free-software project.
Creating innovative software and getting a patent for it do not line up very well in this day and age. Here are eight reasons why the two are such different worlds.
A program pre-installed on new laptops is susceptible to cyber intrusions.
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Integrated Pavement Solutions (IPS)
HA5: An Engineering Breakthrough in Pavement Preservation
HA5 (High Density Mineral Bond)
Blair Barnhardt – Advancements in Pavement Preservation
Expert insights on a pavement preservation and the use of High Density Mineral Bond (HA5) to cost effectively extend pavement life, with the Executive Director of the International Pavement Management Association.
"I've spent 30 years teaching agency engineers just like you how to save millions of dollars. And I can't tell enough people fast enough, so I need your help. That's why I'm reaching out to everybody to change how we do things."
"By applying these treatments earlier in the life cycle of your roadway, you can take a road that's a 90 or an 85 and extend its life out for several more years to come. Now, it's not a major rehabilitation, granted, it's not gonna reset the clock to 100, with a PCI rating of 100 being brand new, and zero being undrivable; however, it will hold on to the 80 and keep it going for several years later on."
When I See Something That Works, I Want To Tell Everybody
"I don't get paid to say any of this, nobody's buying me lunch 'cause we're talking about HA5, but when I see something… I've been in the industry for 30 years, when I see something that works, I want tell everybody we know."
"We talk about slurry and micro as being your preserving treatment, that it actually works better as it gets a little down the curve."
This Picture Says It All, Right Here
"Look at this side, where the HA5 is, how it's sealed itself into the void space, in this oxidized asphalt. We're in a high desert condition, pavement temperature in the summer's probably about 160, 170 degrees Fahrenheit, and we're holding on to this road for four years now."
"You have hundreds of millions of dollars of roadways you're taking care of. And you don't have enough money to take care of them. You're not given enough money. Every one of you, I hate to say it, every one of you is set up to fail. So you've gotta find a way to stretch those dollars, and I know I sound like a broken record, but if I'm given the choice to, and I'm not gonna say numbers, but if it's $X for this and 30 cents more for this and I see this, it's a no-brainer. And I see the potential for this, for all of my life I've looked for something like this…"
"This is a UV sealer and a water protection sealer"
"They waited 10 years to launch the product. They wanted to see how it was gonna react before they went out and started marketing, you've gotta appreciate that. I mean, a lot of stuff that we buy on a regular basis has been proven for like a day. They put this stuff on the ground, they waited 10 years to see if it's gonna work, it damn does work, and I would encourage you to look at it if you're not using it."
"Watch your specifications. And don't rely on ASTM standards to dictate what you should be using. Look at something that's been on the ground for 10 or 15 years, and make that your ultimate deciding factor."
"This is the oldest HA5 demonstration project that was done back in 2002, on a road that was 1996, a vintage year of construction. Look at that cul-de-sac down there. The city has come in after the fact and patched around a manhole structure, that I'm assuming they dropped a little bit to get it on grade. The HA5 is holding up better even though it's almost 12 years old, than the new asphalt that was put around then. I dunno too many engineers that would come out here and argue that the HA5 doesn't have the potential to ward off those ultraviolet rays."
"Asphalt here in the high desert climate, oxidizing… But it's losing the binds. So, I think that's a critical benefit for the HA5 and… The fines have gone, they've washed out into the drain, but this is the great thing about a product such as a mineral bond, is it locks in the fines. So, if you look at this texture versus that texture, this is part of the reason why 13 years later we're looking at that and it still looks really good."
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package com.purity.security.model.impl;

import com.purity.security.model.Authentication;

public class OAuthAuthentication implements Authentication {

	private Boolean authenticated = false;
	private Integer authenticationLevel;

	private String accessToken;

	private String firstname;
	private String middlename;
	private String lastname;
	private String fullName;
	private String email;
	private String id;

	public Boolean getAuthenticated()
	{
		return authenticated;
	}

	public void setAuthenticated(Boolean authenticated)
	{
		this.authenticated = authenticated;
	}

	public Integer getAuthenticationLevel()
	{
		return authenticationLevel;
	}

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The problem of setting the training at a certain moment in the day is more serious than it appears to be. The choice of the period when we train depends on more factors.
It's clear from the start that we cannot consider the period of three hours after every main meal, because this interval must be allotted to digestion only. Considerable physical effort is totally UN-advisable in this period (blood must not be directed to the muscles, since gastric digestion has priority).
More exactly, people should train when their stomach is empty, but the level of glycemia must be constant. Considering a normal awake – asleep rhythm, there are two favorable moments when we can set fitness programs and training in general: one in the morning, between 10-12, and the other one in the afternoon i.e. between 16-19.
Current practice in most of the sports confirms these periods as best for training.
Another argument for choosing one of these intervals for training is the body temperature, which now gets to its maximum. The second period (16-19) is even better than the first one from this point of view, because the temperature is higher and this enhances sport performance.
It is not advisable to train very early in the morning, right after waking up and before breakfast. However, there are authors who support the idea of having the training in this period. The reserves of glycogen are limited after the lack of food during sleeping and this is a reason for using the adipose tissue earlier in training than in other cases.
Unfortunately, at the same time, the stress hormones (cortisone) are secreted abundantly, so besides the adipose tissue, there is the risk of losing precious muscular tissue.
Another argument against this is the fact that body temperature is very low in the hours of morning, so no motion parameters (force, resistance, speed, mobility, skill) can be fully activated. Thus, a prolonged and tiring warming up would be necessary, hindering the actual training.
Everybody agrees that training before bedtime is not advisable at all, because they delay sleep a few hours, given growth of cortical activity and of body temperature.
This schedule can be adapted to any biorhythm and time zone and once automatism installed, effectiveness of training will definitely increase.
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Ketchup TV , the new video on demand service aimed at pre school children has today launched offering children's favourite characters such as Bob the Builder, Angelina Ballerina, Thomas and Friends, Fireman Sam, Pingu and Mike the Knight with new characters set to arrive over the coming weeks. Commenting on the launch, Paul Coster, Founder […]
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VOD365 today confirmed that the name of their new Children's TV channel will be 'Ketchup TV'. Ketchup TV will offer a single destination for children aged 2 -6 to watch their favourite characters on demand. Content will be streamed via connected TV's, tablets and smartphones on a subscription basis. Additional content can be purchased from […]
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VOD 365 have today signed an agreement with leading children's TV provider, HIT entertainment to distribute its content through VOD365's new children's TV channel to be launched in the Autumn. The channel will show characters from HITs catalogue of leading content including Bob the Builder, Thomas and Friends, Angelina Ballerina, Mike the Knight. Speaking of […]
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Hrušová  est une commune du district d'Ústí nad Orlicí, dans la région de Pardubice, en Tchéquie. Sa population s'élevait à  habitants en 2022.

Géographie
Hrušová se trouve à  au sud-est de Vysoké Mýto, à  à l'ouest-sud-ouest d'Ústí nad Orlicí, à  à l'est-sud-est de Pardubice et à  à l'est-sud-est de Prague.

La commune est limitée par Vysoké Mýto au nord, par Cerekvice nad Loučnou à l'est, par Bučina et Javorník au sud, et par Džbánov à l'ouest.

Histoire
La première mention écrite de la localité date de 1167.

Transports
Par la route, Vysoké Mýto se trouve à  de Vysoké Mýto, à  d'Ústí nad Orlicí, à  de Pardubice et à  de Prague.

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Commune dans le district d'Ústí nad Orlicí

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Valve confirms 2011 launch for DOTA 2
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Valve has confirmed that it will launch upcoming Defense of the Ancients sequel, known as DOTA 2, later this year - though it hasn't given an exact date.
The news comes as Valve also reveals an international DOTA 2 tournament which will take place at the GamesCom trade show later this month.
The tournament, which Valve has dubbed The International, will see 16 DOTA teams going head to head for a $1 million USD prize and will mark the first time that DOTA 2 is shown in public.
'The International is the first public DOTA 2 event and will give the tens of millions of gamers playing Dota around the world their first look at the new game,' said Valve president Gabe Newell in the official announcement.
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The 2023 Senior USBC will select the 2 USBF Senior teams for the d'Orsi Trophy at the 2023 World Championships, scheduled for August 20-Sept. 2, 2023, at the Palais des Congres in Marrakech, Morocco.
Location & Dates - NOTE CHANGED STARTING AND ENDING DATES
The face-to-face stage of the 2023 Senior USBC will be held at the Schaumburg, IL Hyatt Regency, starting on Friday, May 19th and ending on Saturday, May 27th. Room rate for the USBC is $136 per night, including internet. You can make a reservation for any or all of the 2023 USBCs at our online reservation page, or by calling Hyatt at 877-803-7534 and mentioning USBF or maybe CHIRG-USB1. If you have any problems with hotel reservations, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and she will try to straighten things out. The cut-off date to make reservations at our rate is April 16, 2023, but the online site will remain open after that and reservations will be accepted as long as the hotel has available rooms.
If more than 8 teams enter the 2023 Senior USBC, there will be an online qualification stage to reduce to 8 teams, April 11-13. If the Open USBC or Mixed USBC doesn't need an online stage, and all of the Senior players would prefer earlier dates, the Senior online stage will be moved one or two weeks earlier. The online stage will be on RealBridge.
Entries are now open. To assure entry in the 2023 Senior USBC, you must enter your team by March 28, 2023. Additional entries will be accepted after March 28th if it improves the format of the event. Each player in the event must have been born no later than 1960. No player who has qualified for the Open or Mixed World Championships may play in the Senior USBC.
There will be an event entry fee of $500 for each team. In addition, each team pays session fees of $200 per session of play ($400 per day) for KO matches. The $500 event fee is due by March 22nd, and is normally non-refundable after entries have closed.
There will be 7 stages: the first stage, if needed, will be an online Round Robin to select the teams that will play in the USA1 Quarterfinal; the other stages will be Knockout matches, starting with the USA1 Quarterfinal on Friday, May 19th and Saturday, May 20th and ending with the USA2 Final on Friday, May 26th and Saturday, May 27th. The USA2 Quarterfinal and Semifinal matches will be 90 boards long (1-1/2 days). All other matches will be 120 boards played over 2 days.
The teams will be seeded based on ACBL seeding points plus additional seeding points for Round Robin finish if there is an online stage.
system forms
Each pair is required to submit a System Summary Form on or before March 28th if there is an online stage, or on or before May 4th if not. To create or edit a SSF, first log in to this site, then click on "Create or Edit SSF" under the User Menu, which appears in the left hand column when you log in. You can either create a new form or copy an old one. If you have any problems, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and he will try to help.
Each pair is also required to submit an ACBL convention card on or before March 28th or May 4th. We haven't yet been able to set up a way for you to upload your ACBL convention card or link to a BridgeWinners card online, so please either share your BridgeWinners card with Al or email a PDF or JPG version of your convention card to him, and he will upload and link. If you sent Al a convention card or link in a previous year and it's the same for this year, please This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and let him know to copy that card or link to this year. Thanks.
If you are playing a method that is allowed under paragraph 3 or paragraph 7 of Opening Bids on the new Open+ Convention Chart, and there is not now an ACBL approved defense fo the method, you must submit a full description of the method and a recommended defense at least 4 weeks before the start of the USBC. Our software no longer allows you to create an Advance Submisstion Form online, but you can download the form as a Word document and use it as an outline of the information you should submit. Complete it, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and he will convince the website to see it as an ASF and link it to your SSF. He will also send it to the USBF Conventions Committee for review. If the committee has not rejected it within 1 week of submission, it is accepted and you may play the method and must bring the recommended defense to the table with you.
Relevant Dates
Tuesday, March 14th: Final day to submit Recommended Defenses for any paragraph 3 or 7 methods if there is an online stage.
Thursday, April 20th: Final day to submit Recommended Defenses for any paragraph 3 or 7 methods if there is not an online stage.
Friday, April 16th: Last day to make hotel reservations and be assured of receiving our hotel rate. The hotel may honor the rate for later reservations, but is not required to do so.
Tuesday, March 28th: Final day to submit System Summary Form and ACBL Convention card if there is an online stage. Penalty for late submission is loss of seating rights in one segment of a KO match (starting with the first match the team plays) per day that either the SSF or Convention Card is late. SSFs will be reviewed by a subcommittee of the ITTC and rejected if not adequate.
Thursday, May 4th: Final day to submit System Summary Form and ACBL Convention card if there is not an online stage. Penalty for late submission is loss of seating rights in one segment of a KO match (starting with the first match the team plays) per day that either the SSF or Convention Card is late. SSFs will be reviewed by a subcommittee of the ITTC and rejected if not adequate.
Sunday, April 9th: Last day for roster changes without Credentials Committee approval if there is an online stage.
Monday, May 15th: Last day for roster changes without Credentials Committee approval if there is not an online stage.
Seeding, Setting the Bracket
After entries close and we have calculated seeding points for the teams, we will post seeding point information. The teams list will continue to be in Alphabetic order and team numbers for the online Round Robin will be assigned in alphabetic order. After the Round Robin, the teams will be assigned bracket positions and the teams list will be in bracket number order.
When the event has started, you will be able to click here to get to the results page for the Senior USBC. Once there, you can click on the stage of the event in which you are interested.
Available Documents
Draft of Special Conditions of Contest for the 2023 Senior USBC in PDF format
Conditions of Play for the 2023 Senior USBC in PDF format will be linked after entries have closed.
Draft 4 of 2023 General Conditions of Contest in PDF format.
ACBL Convention Charts in PDF Format; the Open+ Chart will apply for USBF events.
List of articles in category 2023 Senior USBC
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Albert P. Asali Sr.(1931 - 2019)
PORTLAND - Albert P. Asali Sr., 88 passed peacefully at home with his family by his side, on June 6, 2019.
He was born in Portland Feb. 17, 1931, the son of the late Joseph P. Asali and Rose (Donatelli) Asali. The first 14 years of his life he treasured the many memories of growing up on Chatham Street (Little Italy).
He graduated from Cheverus High School as class president in 1950 and continued his education at St. Anselm's College. He married his lifelong sweetheart and began his dreams of raising a family. As a married man it was important for him to get his master's degree in education so he attended The University of Maine in Orono for the next three summers.
Al taught seventh grade English and coached basketball in Biddeford his first year out of college. He later spent 27 years at King Junior High School in Portland as an English teacher and football coach. He retired from teaching at the age of 50 and took on a job as a sales representative for Ridge Homes and Purolator Courier for the next five years. Being a family first man, Al and Diddy spent 16 years taking their children camping summers at Sebago Basin where they enjoyed boating and skiing. Al's other love was the ocean, where he spent 25 years taking family and friends out on Casco Bay.
He is predeceased by his brother, Andrew L. Asali and sister, Angelina McMann; sons, Joseph W. Asali and Andrew L. Asali.
Survived by his wife of 65 years, Joyce Bonnevie Asali; daughters, Rose Asali Harris, Kathleen J. Dall and Barbara M. Asali, and his sons, George A. Asali and his wife, Trudy, Albert P. Asali Jr. and his wife, Deborah; 12 grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren.
Visiting hours will be held on Sunday, June 16, from 4-6 p.m. at A.T. Hutchins Funeral Home, 660 Brighton Avenue, Portland. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at St. Peter's Catholic Church, 72 Federal St., Portland on Monday, June 17, at 10 a.m.
To view Al's guestbook or to leave the family an online condolence please visit, www.athutchins.com
Expressions of sympathy may be made in the form of donations to the Boys Club that he loved,
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A.T. Hutchins, LLC - Portland
660 Brighton Avenue Portland, ME 04102
Published in Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram on June 9, 2019