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Long COVID's Link to Suicide: Scientists Warn of Hidden Crisis
By Julie Steenhuysen and Jennifer Rigby
CHICAGO/LONDON (Reuters) - Scott Taylor never got to move on from COVID-19.
The 56-year-old, who caught the disease in spring 2020, still had not recovered about 18 months later when he killed himself at his home near Dallas, having lost his health, memory and money.
"No one cares. No one wants to take the time to listen," Taylor wrote in a final text to a friend, speaking of the plight of millions of sufferers of long COVID, a disabling condition that can last for months and years after the initial infection.
"I can hardly do laundry without complete exhaustion, pain, fatigue, pain all up and down my spine. World spinning dizzily, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea. It seems I say stuff and have no idea of what I'm saying," Taylor added.
Long COVID is a complex medical condition that can be hard to diagnose as it has a range of more than 200 symptoms - some of which can resemble other illnesses - from exhaustion and cognitive impairment to pain, fever and heart palpitations, according to the World Health Organization.
There is no authoritative data on the frequency of suicides among sufferers. Several scientists from organizations including the U.S. National Institutes of Health and Britain's data-collection agency are beginning to study a potential link following evidence of increased cases of depression and suicidal thoughts among people with long COVID, as well as a growing number of known deaths.
"I'm sure long COVID is associated with suicidal thoughts, with suicide attempts, with suicide plans and the risk of suicide death. We just don't have epidemiological data," said Leo Sher, a psychiatrist at Mount Sinai Health System in New York who studies mood disorders and suicidal behavior.
Among key questions now being examined by researchers: does the risk of suicide potentially increase among patients because the virus is changing brain biology? Or does the loss of their ability to function as they once did push people to the brink, as can happen with other long-term health conditions?
Sher said pain disorders in general were a very strong of predictor of suicide, as was inflammation in the brain, which several studies have linked with long COVID.
"We should take this seriously," he added.
An analysis for Reuters conducted by Seattle-based health data firm Truveta showed that patients with long COVID were nearly twice as likely to receive a first-time antidepressant prescription within 90 days of their initial COVID diagnosis compared with people diagnosed with COVID alone.
The analysis was based on data from 20 major U.S. hospital systems, including more than 1.3 million adults with a COVID diagnosis and 19,000 with a long COVID diagnosis between May 2020 and July 2022.
'WE DON'T KNOW THE EXTENT'
The potential long-term effects of COVID-19 are poorly understood, with governments and scientists only now starting to systematically study the area as they emerge from a pandemic that itself blindsided much of the world.
While many long COVID patients recover over time, around 15% still experience symptoms after 12 months, according to the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME). There's no proven treatment and debilitating symptoms can leave sufferers unable to work.
The implications of long COVID potentially being linked with increased risk of mental illness and suicide are grave; in America alone, the condition has affected up to 23 million people, the U.S. Government Accountability Office estimated in March.
Long COVID has also pushed roughly 4.5 million out of work, equal to about 2.4% of the U.S. workforce, employment expert Katie Bach of the Brookings Institution told Congress in July.
Worldwide, nearly 150 million people are estimated to have developed long COVID during the first two years of the pandemic, according to the IHME.
In many developing countries, a lack of surveillance of long COVID makes the picture even murkier, said Murad Khan, a psychiatry professor at Aga Khan University in Karachi, Pakistan, who is part of an international group of experts researching the suicide risk linked to COVID-19.
"We have a huge problem, but we don't know the extent of the problem," he said.
HITTING BREAKING POINT
Time is a scarce commodity for a growing number of long COVID sufferers who say they are running out of hope and money, according to Reuters interviews with several dozen patients, family members and disease experts.
For Taylor, who lost his job selling genomic tests to physicians in a round of layoffs in the summer of 2020, the breaking point came when his insurance coverage through his former employer was due to expire and his application for social security benefits was denied, his family said.
"It was the straw that broke the camel's back," his older brother Mark Taylor said.
Heidi Ferrer, a 50-year-old TV screenwriter originally from Kansas, killed herself in May 2021 to escape the tremors and excruciating pain that left her unable to walk or sleep after contracting COVID more than a year earlier, her husband Nick Guthe said.
Guthe, a filmmaker who has become an advocate for long COVID sufferers since his wife's death, said that until this past winter, he had not heard of other suicides within the network of long COVID patients.
"They're now coming on a weekly basis," he added.
Survivor Corps, an advocacy group for long COVID patients, said it polled their membership in May and found that 44% of nearly 200 respondents said they had considered suicide.
Lauren Nichols, a board member at the long COVID support group Body Politic, said that through contact with family members on social media she was aware of more than 50 people with long COVID who had killed themselves, though Reuters was unable to independently confirm the cases.
Nichols, 34, a logistics expert for the U.S. Department of Transportation in Boston, says she herself has considered suicide several times because of long COVID, which she has suffered for more than two years.
Exit International advises English-speakers on how to seek help with assisted dying in Switzerland, where euthanasia is legal with certain checks. Fiona Stewart, a director, said the organization, which does not track outcomes after providing advice, had received several dozen inquiries from long COVID patients during the pandemic and was now getting about one a week.
LONG COVID AND OMICRON
The U.S. National Institutes of Health is tracking mental health impacts as part of its $470 million RECOVER study into long COVID. Early results on anxiety and depression rates are expected by early September, but information on suicide will take longer, said Dr. Stuart Katz, a lead researcher.
"What we do know is that persons with chronic illnesses are susceptible to suicidal thoughts, suicide attempts and suicide completion," said Richard Gallagher, an associate professor of child psychiatry at NYU Langone Health, who is part of RECOVER.
On the question of whether the virus changes the brain, Gallagher said there was some evidence that COVID can cause brain inflammation - which has been linked to suicide and depression - even among people who had relatively mild disease.
"There may be direct, in some ways, toxic effects of the virus, and part of it will be inflammation," he said.
Long COVID on average reduces overall health by 21% - similar to total deafness or a traumatic brain injury, the University of Washington's IHME found.
Although some experts expected Omicron to be less likely to cause long COVID, official UK data released this month found that 34% of the 2 million long COVID sufferers in the country developed their symptoms after an Omicron infection.
A British government advisory group is studying the suicide risk for long COVID patients compared with the wider population while the state Office for National Statistics (ONS) is investigating whether it can assess upfront a long COVID patient's risk of suicide as it does for people with other diseases, such as cancer.
"Health conditions that are disabling long-term may add to suicide risk, hence the concern over long COVID," said Louis Appleby, a psychiatry professor at the University of Manchester and a UK government adviser.
Indeed, research in Britain and Spain found a six-fold increased risk of suicide among patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), another post-viral illness with similar symptoms to long COVID, when compared with the general population.
Britain's network of long COVID treatment centers is also drastically oversubscribed, adding to a sense of hopelessness for some; in June, the latest month on record, only a third of patients received an appointment within six weeks of being referred by their local doctor, and another third had to wait for more than 15 weeks.
Ruth Oshikanlu, a former midwife and health visitor in London turned pregnancy coach, said her long COVID health problems combined to push her close to the edge. When her business temporarily folded due to debt issues after she struggled to work, she felt her life was over.
"I was crying to the accountant, and the guy kept me on hold - I think he didn't want to be the last person to talk to me," the 48-year-old recalled.
"What COVID gives you is a lot of time to think," she said. "I didn't think of ending it, thankfully, because of my son. But I do know so many people who have had those suicidal thoughts."
(Reporting by Julie Steenhuysen in Chicago and Jennifer Rigby in London; Editing by Michele Gershberg and Pravin Char)
First COVID Case in US Diagnosed 3 Years Ago


5,200 military kin brought back to U.S. from Japan.
The U.S. Northern Command in Colorado says more than 5,200 family members of American service personnel have been flown to the United States from Japan following the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis.
Northern Command said Tuesday that about 2,600 arrived through Travis Air Force Base and San Francisco International Airport in California. Seattle-Tacoma International Airport received 2,100 people. Another 500 returned through Denver International Airport.
Reception centers at Travis and the Seattle and Denver airports are helping the families arrange temporary lodging, food, pet care and other accommodations.
Northern Command is based at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs. It's responsible for the military defense of U.S. soil and supporting civilian agencies in natural or human-caused disasters.
Source: The Associated Press via Seattle Times.
U.S. military deaths in Iraq war at 4,441 Tuesday, according to Associated Press count.


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Publications on Bloom Filters
Reconfigurable Network Group (In Reverse Chronological Order)
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Journals and Conferences
Fast and Scalable Pattern Matching for Network Intrusion Detection Systems, by Sarang Dharmapurikar and John W. Lockwood, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, (JSAC) Oct. 2006, Volume: 24, Issue: 10, pp. 1781- 1792
Abstract: High-speed packet content inspection and filtering devices rely on a fast multi-pattern matching algorithm which is used to detect predefined keywords or signatures in the packets. Multi-pattern matching is known to require intensive memory accesses and is often a performance bottleneck. Hence specialized hardware-accelerated algorithms are required for line-speed packet processing.
We present hardware-implementable pattern matching algorithm for content filtering applications, which is scalable in terms of speed, the number of patterns and the pattern length. Our algorithm is based on a memory efficient multi-hashing data structure called Bloom filter. We use embedded on-chip memory blocks in FPGA/VLSI chips to construct Bloom filters which can suppress a large fraction of memory accesses and speed up string matching. Based on this concept, we first present a simple algorithm which can scan for several thousand short (up to 16 bytes) patterns at multi-gigabit per second speeds with a moderately small amount of embedded memory and a few mega bytes of external memory. Furthermore, we modify this algorithm to be able to handle arbitrarily large strings at the cost of a little more on-chip memory. We demonstrate the merit of our algorithm through theoretical analysis and simulations performed on Snort's string set.
Fast Packet Classification Using Bloom Filters, by Sarang Dharmapurikar, Haoyu Song, Jonathan Turner, John Lockwood, ACM Symposim on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems (ANCS), San Jose, CA, Dec 4-5, 2006
Abstract: Ternary Content Addressable Memory (TCAM), although widely used for general packet classification, is an expensive and high power-consuming device. Algorithmic solutions which rely on commodity memory chips are relatively inexpensive and power-efficient but have not been able to match the generality and performance of TCAMs. Therefore, the development of fast and power-efficient algorithmic packet classification techniques continues to be a research subject.
In this paper we propose a new approach to packet classification which combines architectural and algorithmic tech- niques. Our starting point is the well-known crossproduct algorithm which is fast but has significant memory overhead due to the extra rules needed to represent the crossproducts. We show how to modify the crossproduct method in a way that drastically reduces the memory requirement without compromising on performance. Unnecessary accesses to the off-chip memory are avoided by filtering them through on- chip Bloom filters. For packets that match p rules in a rule set, our algorithm requires just 4+p+e. independent memory accesses to return all matching rules, where . e << 1 is a small constant that depends on the false positive rate of the Bloom filters. Using two commodity SRAM chips, a throughput of 38 Million packets per second can be achieved. For rule set sizes ranging from a few hundred to several thousand filters, the average rule set expansion factor attributable to the al- gorithm is just 1.2 to 1.4. The average memory consumption per rule is 32 to 45 bytes.
Multi-pattern Signature Matching for Hardware Network Intrusion Detection Systems, by Haoyu Song and John W. Lockwood, IEEE Globecom 2005, St. Louis, MO, Nov. 28, 2005, pp. CN-02-3.
Abstract: Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS) performs deep inspections on the packet payload to identify, deter and contain the malicious attacks over the Internet. It needs to perform exact matching on multi-pattern signatures in real time. In this paper we introduce an efficient data structure called Extended Bloom Filter (EBF) and the corresponding algorithm to perform the multi-pattern signature matching. We also present a technique to support long signature matching so that we need only to maintain a limited number of supported signature lengths for the EBFs. We show that at reasonable hardware cost we can achieve very fast and almost time-deterministic exact matching for thousands of signatures. The architecture takes the advantages of embedded multi-port memories in FPGAs and can be used to build a full-featured hardware-based NIDS.
Fast and Scalable Pattern Matching for Content Filtering, by Sarang Dharmapurikar, John Lockwood Proceedings of Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems (ANCS), Princeton, NJ, Oct 2005.
Abstract: High-speed packet content inspection and filtering devices rely on a fast multi-pattern matching algorithm which is used to detect predefined keywords or signatures in the packets. Multi-pattern matching is known to require intensive memory accesses and is often a performance bottleneck. Hence specialized hardware-accelerated algorithms are being developed for line-speed packet processing. While several pattern matching algorithms have already been developed for such applications, we find that most of them suffer from scalability issues. To support a large number of patterns, the throughput is compromised or vice versa.
We present a hardware-implementable pattern matching algorithm for content filtering applications, which is scalable in terms of speed, the number of patterns and the pattern length. We modify the classic Aho-Corasick algorithm to consider multiple characters at a time for higher throughput. Furthermore, we suppress a large fraction of memory accesses by using Bloom filters implemented with a small amount of on-chip memory. The resulting algorithm can support matching of several thousands of patterns at more than 10 Gbps with the help of a less than 50 KBytes of embedded memory and a few megabytes of external SRAM. We demonstrate the merit of our algorithm through theoretical analysis and simulations performed on Snort's string set.
Fast Hash Table Lookup Using Extended Bloom Filter: An Aid to Network Processing, by Haoyu Song, Sarang Dharmapurikar, Jonathan Turner, John Lockwood; ACM SIGCOMM; Philadelphia, PA; August 21-26, 2005.
Abstract: Hash table is used as one of the fundamental modules in several network processing algorithms and applications such as route lookup, packet classification, per-flow state management and network monitoring. These applications, which typically form components of data-path in a high-speed router, must process and forward packets with little or no buffer in order to maintain the wire-speed throughout. A poorly designed hash table can critically affect the worstcase throughput due to multiple memory accesses required for each lookup. Hence, high throughput requirement in turn underscores the need for a hash table having good and more predictable worstcase lookup performance. While most of the existing hash table based packet processing algorithms rely on the assumption that hash table lookup needs constant time, very little discussion is provided on the underlying engineering considerations to achieve this performance.
We present a novel hash table data structure and lookup algorithm which improves the performance of a naive hash table by providing better bounds on the hash collisions and memory accesses per search. Our algorithm extends the multiple-hashing Bloom Filter data structure to support exact matches. We contrive our hash table architecture by coupling our algorithm with the latest advances in embedded memory technology. Through theoretical analysis and simulations we show that our algorithm is significantly faster for practical purposes than the naive hash table using the same amount of memory, hence it can support better throughput for router applications based on hash tables.
Implementation Results of Bloom Filters for String Matching, by Michael Attig, Sarang Dharmapurikar, and John Lockwood; In Proceedings of: IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM), Napa, CA, April 20-23, 2004.
Abstract: Network Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (IDPS) use string matching to scan Internet packets for malicious content. Bloom filters offer a mechanism to search for a large number of strings efficiently and concurrently when implemented with Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) technology. A string matching circuit has been implemented within the FPX platform using Bloom filters. Using 155 block RAMs on a single Xilinx VirtexE 2000 FPGA, the circuit scans for 35,475 unique signatures.
Deep Packet Inspection using Parallel Bloom Filters, by Sarang Dharmapurikar, Praveen Krishnamurthy, Todd S. Sproull, John W. Lockwood; IEEE Micro, Vol. 24, No. 1, Jan 2004, pp. 52-61
Abstract: Because conventional software-based packet inspection algorithms have not kept pace with high-speed networks, interest has turned to using hardware to process network data quickly. String scanning with Bloom filters can scan entire packet payloads for predifined signatures at multi-Gigabit-per-second line speeds.
Longest Prefix Matching Using Bloom Filters; by Sarang Dharmapurikar, Praveen Krishnamurthy, David E. Taylor, Proceedings of SIGCOMM 2003, Karlsruhe, Germany, Aug. 25-29, 2003.
Abstract We introduce the first algorithm that we are aware of to employ Bloom filters for Longest Prefix Matching (LPM). The algorithm performs parallel queries on Bloom filters, an efficient data structure for membership queries, in order to determine address prefix membership in sets of prefixes sorted by prefix length. We show that use of this algorithm for Internet Protocol (IP) routing lookups results in a search engine providing better performance and scalability than TCAM-based approaches. The key feature of our technique is that the performance, as determined by the number of dependent memory accesses per lookup, can be held constant for longer address lengths or additional unique address prefix lengths in the forwarding table given that memory resources scale linearly with the number of prefixes in the forwarding table. Our approach is equally attractive for Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) which uses 128-bit destination addresses, four times longer than IPv4. We present a basic version of our approach along with optimizations leveraging previous advances in LPM algorithms. We also report results of performance simulations of our sys snapshots of IPv4 BGP tables and extend the results to IPv6. Using less than 2Mb of embedded RAM and a commodity SRAM device, our technique achieves average performance of one hash probe per lo and a worst case of two hash probes and one array access per lookup.
Deep Packet Inspection Using Parallel Bloom Filters, by Sarang Dharmapurikar, Praveen Krishnamurthy, Todd Sproull, John W. Lockwood; Hot Interconnects 11 (HotI), Stanford, CA, USA, pp. 44-51, Aug. 2003.
Abstract Recent advances in network packet processing focus on payload inspection for applications that include contentbased billing, layer-7 switching and Internet security. Most of the applications in this family need to search for predefined signatures in the packet payload. Hence an important building block of these processors is string matching infrastructure. Since conventional software-based algorithms for string matching have not kept pace with high network speeds, specialized high-speed, hardware-based solutions are needed. We describe a technique based on Bloom filters for detecting predefined signatures (a string of bytes) in the packet payload. A Bloom filter is a data structure for representing a set of strings in order to support membership queries. We use hardware Bloom filters to isolate all packets that potentially contain predefined signatures. Another independent process eliminates false positives produced by Bloom filters.
We outline our approach for string matching at line speeds and present the performance analysis. Finally, we report the results for a prototype implementation of this system on the FPX platform. Our analysis shows that with the state-of-the-art FPGAs, a set of 10,000 strings can be scanned in the network data at the line speed of OC48 (2.4 Gbps).
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Q: VCPU hot unplug on windows on XEN I have a XEN hypervisor running Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter version. I can hot plug VCPUs for Windows 2008 with the following command to four VCPUs:
xm vcpu-set "windows_2008" 4

But I can not hot unplug VCPU from it with any of the following commands:
xm vcpu-set "windows_2008" 3
xm vcpu-set "windows_2008" 2
xm vcpu-set "windows_2008" 1

If any of the commands above executed, then Windows 2008 would show a popup window which says:
"AMD Opteron(TM) Processor 6234 Device is not be removable and cannot be ejected or unplugged"
Windows 2008 does not support hot unplug VCPUs or XEN does not support that?
Can anybody help me?

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Iran convulsed by worst unrest in 40 years with brutal crackdown
Farnaz Fassihi and Rick Gla
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran, speaks to clerics in Tehran, Nov. 17, 2019.
OFFICE OF THE SUPREME LEADER/The New York Times News Service
Iran is experiencing its deadliest political unrest since the Islamic Revolution 40 years ago, with at least 180 people killed – and possibly hundreds more – as angry protests have been smothered in a government crackdown of unbridled force.
It began two weeks ago with an abrupt increase of at least 50 per cent in gasoline prices. Within 72 hours, outraged demonstrators in cities large and small were calling for an end to the Islamic Republic's government and the downfall of its leaders.
In many places, security forces responded by opening fire on unarmed protesters, largely unemployed or low-income young men between the ages of 19 and 26, according to witness accounts and videos. In the southwest city of Mahshahr alone, witnesses and medical personnel said, Revolutionary Guard members surrounded, shot and killed 40 to 100 demonstrators – mostly unarmed young men – in a marsh where they had sought refuge.
"The recent use of lethal force against people throughout the country is unprecedented, even for the Islamic Republic and its record of violence," said Omid Memarian, deputy director at the Center for Human Rights in Iran, a New York-based group.
Altogether, between 180 to 450 people – possibly more – were killed in four days of intense violence after the gasoline price increase was announced Nov. 15, with at least 2,000 wounded and 7,000 detained, according to international rights organizations, opposition groups and local journalists.
The last enormous wave of protests in Iran – in 2009, after a contested election, which was also met with a deadly crackdown – left 72 people dead over a much longer period of about 10 months.
Only now, nearly two weeks after the protests were crushed – and largely obscured by an internet blackout in the country that was lifted recently – have details corroborating the scope of killings and destruction started to dribble out.
The latest outbursts not only revealed staggering levels of frustration with Iran's leaders but also underscored the serious economic and political challenges facing them, from the Trump administration's onerous sanctions on the country to the growing resentment toward Iran by neighbours in an increasingly unstable Middle East.
The gas price increase, which was announced as most Iranians had gone to bed, came as Iran struggles to fill a yawning budget gap. The Trump administration sanctions, most notably their tight restrictions on exports of Iran's oil, are a big reason for the shortfall. The sanctions are meant to pressure Iran into renegotiating the 2015 nuclear agreement between Iran and major world powers, which President Donald Trump abandoned, calling it too weak.
Most of the nationwide unrest seemed concentrated in neighbourhoods and cities populated by low-income and working-class families, suggesting this was an uprising born in the historically loyal power base of Iran's post-Revolutionary hierarchy.
Many Iranians, stupefied and embittered, have directed their hostility at the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who called the crackdown a justified response to a plot by Iran's enemies at home and abroad.
The killings prompted a provocative warning from Mir Hossein Mousavi, an opposition leader and former presidential candidate whose 2009 election loss set off peaceful demonstrations that Ayatollah Khamenei also suppressed by force.
In a statement posted Saturday on an opposition website, Mr. Mousavi, who has been under house arrest since 2011 and seldom speaks publicly, blamed the Supreme Leader for the killings. He compared them to an infamous 1978 massacre by government forces that led to the downfall of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi a year later at the hands of Islamic revolutionaries who now rule the country.
"The killers of the year 1978 were the representatives of a nonreligious regime, and the agents and shooters of November, 2019, are the representatives of a religious government," he said. "Then the commander in chief was the shah and today, here, the Supreme Leader with absolute authority."
Authorities have declined to specify casualties and arrests and have denounced unofficial figures on the national death toll as speculative. But the nation's interior minister, Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli, has cited widespread unrest around the country.
On state media, he said that protests had erupted in 29 out of 31 provinces and 50 military bases had been attacked – which, if true, suggests a level of co-ordination absent in the earlier protests. The property damage also included 731 banks, 140 public spaces, nine religious centres, 70 gasoline stations, 307 vehicles, 183 police cars, 1,076 motorcycles and 34 ambulances, the Interior Minister said.
The worst violence documented so far happened in the city of Mahshahr and its suburbs, with a population of 120,000 people in Iran's southwest Khuzestan province – a region with an ethnic Arab majority that has a long history of unrest and opposition to the central government. Mahshahr is adjacent to the nation's largest industrial petrochemical complex and serves as a gateway to Bandar Imam, a major port.
The New York Times interviewed six residents of the city, including a protest leader who had witnessed the violence; a reporter based in the city who works for Iranian media and had investigated the violence but was banned from reporting it; and a nurse at the hospital where casualties were treated.
They each provided similar accounts of how the Revolutionary Guard deployed a large force to Mahshahr on Monday, Nov. 18, to crush the protests. All spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retribution by the Guard.
For three days, according to these residents, protesters had successfully gained control of most of Mahshahr and its suburbs, blocking the main road to the city and the adjacent industrial petrochemical complex. Iran's Interior Minister confirmed that protesters had gained control over Mahshahr and its roads in a televised interview last week, but the Iranian government did not respond to specific questions in recent days about the mass killings in the city.
Local security forces and riot police officers had attempted to disperse the crowd and open the roads but failed, residents said. Several clashes between protesters and security forces erupted between Saturday evening and Monday morning before Guard members were dispatched there.
When the Guard arrived near the entrance to a suburb, Shahrak Chamran, populated by low-income ethnic members of Iran's ethnic Arab minority, they immediately shot without warning at dozens of men blocking the intersection, killing several on the spot, according to the residents interviewed by phone.
The residents said the other protesters scrambled to a nearby marsh and that one of them, apparently armed with an AK-47, fired back. The Guard immediately encircled the men and responded with machine-gun fire, killing as many as 100 people, the residents said.
The Guard piled the dead onto the back of a truck and departed, the residents said, and relatives of the wounded then transported them to Memko Hospital.
One of the residents, a 24-year-old unemployed college graduate in chemistry who had helped organize the protests blocking the roads, said he had been about a kilometre away from the mass shooting and that his best friend, also 24, and a 32-year-old cousin were among the dead.
He said they both had been shot in the chest and their bodies were returned to the families five days later, only after they had signed paperwork promising not to hold funerals or memorial services and not to give interviews to media.
The young protest organizer said he, too, was shot in the ribs Nov. 19, the day after the mass shooting, when the Guard stormed with tanks into his neighbourhood, Shahrak Taleghani, among the poorest suburbs of Mahshahr.
He said a gun battle erupted for hours between the Guard and ethnic Arab residents, who traditionally keep guns for hunting at home. Iranian state media and witnesses reported that a senior Guard commander had been killed in a Mahshahr clash. Video on Twitter suggests tanks had been deployed there.
A 32-year-old nurse in Mahshahr reached by phone said she had tended to the wounded at the hospital and that most had sustained gunshot wounds to the head and chest.
She described chaotic scenes at the hospital, with families rushing to bring in the casualties, including a 21-year-old who was to be married but could not be saved. "'Give me back my son!'" the nurse quoted his sobbing mother as saying. "'It's his wedding in two weeks!'"
The nurse said security forces stationed at the hospital arrested some of the wounded protesters after their conditions had stabilized. She said some relatives, fearing arrest themselves, dropped wounded love ones at the hospital and fled, covering their faces.
On Nov. 25, a week after it happened, the city's representative in parliament, Mohamad Golmordai, vented outrage in a blunt moment of searing anti-government criticism that was broadcast on Iranian state television and captured in photos and videos uploaded to the internet.
"What have you done that the undignified Shah did not do?" Mr. Golmordai screamed from the parliament floor as a scuffle broke out between him and other lawmakers, including one who grabbed him by the throat.
The local reporter in Mahshahr said the total number of people killed in three days of unrest in the area had reached 130, including those killed in the marsh.
"This regime has pushed people toward violence," said Yousef Alsarkhi, 29, a political activist from Khuzestan who migrated to the Netherlands four years ago. "The more they repress, the more aggressive and angry people get."
Political analysts said the protests appeared to have delivered a severe blow to President Hassan Rouhani, a relative moderate in Iran's political spectrum, all but guaranteeing that hard-liners would win upcoming parliamentary elections and the presidency in two years.
The tough response to the protests also appeared to signal a hardening rift between Iran's leaders and sizable segments of the population of 83 million.
"The government's response was uncompromising, brutal and rapid," said Henry Rome, an Iran analyst at the Eurasia Group, a political risk consultancy in Washington. Still, he said, the protests also had "demonstrated that many Iranians are not afraid to take to the streets."
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#43 Richard Petty Motorsports All News Bubba Wallace Cup News
NASCAR Racing Experience to sponsor Bubba Wallace at Atlanta
Scott Page February 20, 2018 at 12:33 PM
CHARLOTTE (February 19, 2018) – Motorsports' leading fan driving experience partners – Driving 101, which operates NASCAR Racing Experience, Richard Petty Driving Experience and Mario Andretti Racing Experience – announced today they will become the primary sponsor for the No. 43 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 driven by Darrell "Bubba" Wallace, Jr., for Richard Petty Motorsports at the Folds of Honor Quiktrip 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
For the first time, the NASCAR Racing Experience badge and racing graphics will be featured on the hood and body of a race car in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, bringing to life the experience the NASCAR Racing Experience offers thousands of fans at tracks around the country.
"We're proud to see the NASCAR Racing Experience featured on the car of Bubba Wallace as he makes his debut in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series in Atlanta," said Robert Lutz, CEO of Driving 101. "It's an honor to race with NASCAR legend Richard Petty's team. He's been an incredible partner in our driving experience, and we look forward to seeing the No. 43 NASCAR Racing Experience Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 and Bubba Wallace on the track and hopefully in Victory Lane."
"It's great to see partners coming on board to support us," said Wallace. "I'm all about getting fans involved in racing, and nobody does that better than the NASCAR Racing Experience. They allow fans to race the cars we drive. It's the best way to get on the same track and in the same cars we race. That's really cool and I'm pumped they are on our car this weekend."
Driving 101 and its three trusted racing brands now runs at 18 nationwide speedways for NASCAR Racing Experience as well as 15 nationwide speedways for Mario Andretti Racing Experience.
"This consolidation allows us to provide the best NASCAR stock car and Indy-style car driving experience choice for customers, race fans, thrill seekers and corporate America. In short, we are the leader in the driving experience industry. We've expanded our nationwide locations, strengthened our marketing strategies, and made the racing experience even more authentic," said Lutz.
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Grammar undermines password security
The grammar you use – good or bad – when constructing a password can be enough to help someone crack it, say researchers at Carnegie Mellon University.
They've developed a password-cracking algorithm that takes grammar into account, and tested it against 1,434 passwords containing 16 or more characters. And, they say, it beat other state-of-the-art password crackers hands-down when passwords had grammatical structures, with 10 percent of the dataset cracked exclusively by the algorithm.
"We should not blindly rely on the number of words or characters in a password as a measure of its security," warns software engineering PhD student Ashwini Rao.
Users often base passwords on a phrase or short sentence, making it easier to remember. However, the grammatical structure dramatically narrows the possible combinations and sequences of words, says Rao.
Likewise, grammar, whether good or bad, means using different parts of speech — nouns, verbs, adjectives or pronouns — that also can undermine security. It's because pronouns are far fewer in number than verbs, verbs fewer than adjectives and adjectives fewer than nouns.
So a password composed of "pronoun-verb-adjective-noun," such as "Shehave3cats" is inherently easier to decode than "Andyhave3cats," which follows "noun-verb-adjective-noun." A password that incorporated more nouns would be even more secure.
"I've seen password policies that say, 'Use five words'," says Rao. "Well, if four of those words are pronouns, they don't add much security."
For instance, the team found that the five-word passphrase "Th3r3 can only b3 #1!" was easier to guess than the three-word passphrase "Hammered asinine requirements." Neither the number of words nor the number of characters determined password strength when grammar was involved.
The researchers calculated that "My passw0rd is $uper str0ng!" is 100 times stronger as a passphrase than "Superman is $uper str0ng!," which in turn is 10,000 times stronger than "Th3r3 can only b3 #1!"
Rao assures us that the grammar-aware password cracker is intended only as a proof of concept, and that no attempt has been made to optimize its performance. But it's only a matter of time until someone does, she warns.
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Monsters Are Such Interesting People – The Wraith
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The Wraith (1986) Charlie Sheen plays the new kid in an Arizona desert town, and has his eyes set on Sherilyn Fenn. She is property of Nick Cassevetes, who is suspected of murdering her last boyfriend with the help of his car-stealing gang that includes whiz-mechanic Clint Howard and a couple of paint-huffing punk rockers, to name a few. Never for these constant crimes they commit are they wanted by the law, nor are any kid's parents ever present, but when a mysterious ghost-car appears and starts running the gang members to an early grave to the sounds of Ozzy Osbourne and Billy Idol, Sherriff Randy Quaid offers them protection…which of course they don't want. Sherilyn, tan and blondish unlike her Twin Peaks days, spends a lot of time in a bikini, and offers up some brief nudity as well. This teenage 80s version of High Plains Drifter was directed by Mike Marvin, the same guy who directed Hamburger: The Motion Picture, and wrote Hot Dog: The Movie. I'm still waiting for Ham Sandwich: The Film.
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What type of anchor is included in Telect's anchoring kits?
What is the difference between the 02100-113B and the 02100-35B anchor kits?
Is the unequal flange anchor kit 02100-07 seismic Zone 4 rated?
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THE EVOLUTION OF THE OFFICE
The Office: What Has Actually Changed Over 1,000 Years? Designers master the art of elements, and the power of "wow"! They can inspire us through an experience that can elevate the workday and offer a better work life balance. While designers themselves have their own aesthetic, they all have an eye for what a space can truly be, before the ink ever touches the paper. What will the future of work look like in this new normal? Our designers here at Infinity Group are dreaming up a world where wellness is at the forefront of a functioning space that employees will want to go into.
The office historically has been the way we have operated our businesses for thousands of years, some say. "There is evidence to suggest that the first offices originated in ancient Rome as spaces where official work was conducted and that similar spaces existed in some form throughout the ages. "However, it wasn't until the 18th century that dedicated office buildings began to be created," said K2 Spaces. "With the British Empire expanding and engaging in an increasing level of trade with other parts of the empire (and world), the first office building was built in 1726 in London and became known as The Old Admiralty Office. It served to handle the masses of the paperwork generated by the Royal Navy and included meeting spaces and the Admiralty Board Room, which is still used today".
"For the intellectual work, separate rooms are necessary so that a person who works with his head may not be interrupted; but for the more mechanical work, the working in concert of a number of clerks in the same room under proper superintendence, is the proper mode of meeting it," said K2 Spaces.
The green areas show how workspaces will need to change, giving each employee adequate room to practice at least six feet of social distancing while at the office.
For years we have designed our spaces with function of a particular job at the forefront and not wellness. Even as we progressed through the years, and adopted beautiful wide open office floor plans, the idea was to maximize the floor plan as much as possible to fit as many workers as possible. These days companies are putting wellness first, and it is resulting in long lasting value for their retention of employees, and can enhance productivity of a workforces on a scalable level.
"Productive atmosphere. It's essential that employers take the physical work environment of their employees into consideration. Employees need to feel comfortable and calm in their physical work settings to produce their best work," said Forbes.
According to the Fellowes Workplace Wellness Trend Report, employees also want to work in a healthy environment. Here are some findings from the survey:
An overwhelming majority (87%) of workers would like their current employer to offer healthier workspace benefits, with options ranging from wellness rooms, company fitness benefits, sit-stands, healthy lunch options and ergonomic seating.
Interestingly, employees of younger companies are less likely (34%) to be turned down when asking for in-office benefits like sit-stand desks, than employees at established companies (42%).
Designers have the power to paint a picture of what a space could look like, and how that can inspire employees to do their best work. It's all about fostering creativity and collaboration. Our Infinity Group design team imaged a world inside that found inspiration from the exterior, literally! Because, who wouldn't want to do their best in a tree house? Here's a little more about the unique TaskUs space from our Director of Design Laura Merrill.
"TaskUs is a young, hip, tech company with a quirky personality. The design had to be on par with their credo 'Be ridiculous,'" said Laura.
A cool TaskUs wall-bench, gigantic plywood trees, and 17 different colors achieved that goal in a playful manner. The TaskUs wall serves as a gigantic sign while providing a place to sit inside one of the letters and take a phone call.
"The trees are perfect for hanging seasonal decorations that the TaskUs team is so fond of. Variety of lounge and more structured seating arrangements provide a perfect setup for the work style of the organization."
The design satisfied all the client's programmatic requirements and was built on time and within the projected budget. Work, and the office, has certainly changed over the centuries. From the Old Admiralty Office to the TaskUs treehouse, it's incredible to see how shifting societal priorities have shaped this place we call the office. We believe COVID-19 will catapult us into the future with an even greater awareness about what the office needs to give us, and what we need to give ourselves.
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H.R. 4402 - National Strategic and Critical Minerals Production Act of 2012
Tuesday, July 10, 2012 - 3:00pm in H-313 The Capitol View Announcement »
Tuesday, July 10, 2012 - 10:00am View Announcement »
Rules Committee Hearing on H.R. 4402
Text of H.R. 4402 PDF
National Strategic and Critical Minerals Production Act of 2012 [Rules Committee Print 112-26, showing the text as ordered reported by the Committee on Natural Resources]
Text of H. Rept. 112-582 Part 1 PDF XML
Report from the Committee on Natural Resources
Statement of the Honorable Alcee L. Hastings (FL) [1]
REPORTED BY VOICE VOTE on Tuesday, July 10, 2012.
Adopted by record vote of 245-180 on Wednesday, July 11, 2012.
MANAGERS: Bishop (UT)/Polis
1. Structured rule.
2. Provides one hour of general debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on Natural Resources.
4. Makes in order as original text for purpose of amendment the amendment in the nature of a substitute consisting of the text of Rules Committee Print 112-26 and provides that it shall be considered as read.
5. Waives all points of order against the amendment in the nature of a substitute.
6. Makes in order only those amendment printed in the Rules Committee report. Each such amendment may be offered only in the order printed in the report, may be offered only by a Member designated in the report, shall be considered as read, shall be debatable for the time specified in the report equally divided and controlled by the proponent and an opponent, shall not be subject to amendment, and shall not be subject to a demand for division of the question.
7. Waives all points of order against the amendments printed in the report.
8 Version 1 Bonamici (OR), Waters (CA), Berman (CA), Moran, James (VA) Democrat Would prohibit issuance of mineral exploration or mine permit under the Act to a person found to be in violation of Sections 13(p) or 13(q) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, regarding trafficking in conflict minerals. Submitted
9 Version 1 Boswell (IA) Democrat Would clarifiy the definition of "strategic and critical minerals" to specifically include Rare Earth Elements, or any mineral identified by the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, or the U.S. Geological Survey as a critical or necessary mineral vulnerable to current of future supply shortages/disruptions. Submitted
7 Version 1 Cravaack (MN) Republican Would allow projects that have already applied for a permit access to the new expedited process under the bill. Made In Order
6 Version 1 Grijalva, Raul (AZ) Democrat Would exempt from the bill any mineral exploration or mining permit a lead agency determines would diminish opportunities for hunting, fishing, grazing, or recreation on public lands. By protecting the status of hunting , fishing, grazing and other recreational uses on federal lands, the amendment will guarantee that the multiple use mandate for federal lands is not compromised by the underlying bill. Made In Order
10 Version 1 Hastings, Alcee (FL) Democrat Would create an exception for non-profit entities and individuals from the outright elimination (found in Section 205 of H.R. 4402) of the shifting of attorneys' fees pursuant to the Equal Access to Justice Act. Made In Order
11 Version 1 Hastings, Alcee (FL) Democrat Would give the lead agency, in the event of new or unforeseen information, the authority to extend by two six-month periods the arbitrary 30 month time limit the bill imposes on permit approval. Made In Order
4 Version 1 Holt (NJ) Democrat Would, as a condition of a new mining permit, require disclosure of federal political contributions made by the applicant during the preceding five years. Submitted
5 Version 2 Kucinich (OH) Democrat Withdrawn Would require the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services to determine the risks to the surrounding communities of cancers, birth defects and other major health problems posed by projects covered by the bill. Withdrawn
2 Version 1 Markey, Edward (MA) Democrat Would require a royalty payment of 12.5% of the value of hardrock minerals mined on federal lands. Revenue generated by the royalty payment would be dedicated to cleaning up abandoned hardrock mines. Made In Order
1 Version 2 Tonko (NY) Democrat Revised Would narrow the scope of the underlying bill to include strategic and critical minerals only. Made In Order
3 Version 2 Young, Don (AK) Republican Revised Would allow the lead agency, as established under this bill, to exempt existing Mineral Prescriptions for strategic and critical materials within federally administered national forests from the procedures detailed at and all rules promulgated under part 294 of title 36 of the Code for Federal Regulations. In addition, the amendment would extend this exemption to areas integral to access of the Mineral Prescriptions, and the construction, operation, maintenance, and restoration of any existing Mineral Prescriptions. Made In Order
Motion by Mr. McGovern to report an open rule. Defeated: 4-8
Motion by Mr. McGovern to make in order and provide the appropriate waivers for amendment #8, offered by Rep. Bonamici (OR), Rep. Waters (CA), Rep. Berman (CA) and Rep. Moran (VA), which would prohibit issuance of mineral exploration or mine permit under the Act to a person found to be in violation of Sections 13(p) or 13(q) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, regarding trafficking in conflict minerals. Defeated: 4-8


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Northern Regions (North Polar Regions)
G.W. & C.B. Colton
New York / 1875 circa
Detailed map of the regions around the North Pole.
The Northwest and Northeast Passages are delineated and most of the coastlines of North America, Europe and Asia are shown with relative accuracy.
G.W. & C.B. Colton Biography
G. W. & C. B. Colton was a prominent family firm of mapmakers who were leaders in the American map trade in the nineteenth century. The business was founded by Joseph Hutchins Colton (1800-1893) who bought copyrights to existing maps and oversaw their production. By the 1850s, their output had expanded to include original maps, guidebooks, atlases, and railroad maps. Joseph was succeeded by his sons, George Woolworth (1827-1901) and Charles B. Colton (1831-1916). The firm was renamed G. W. & C. B. Colton as a result. George is thought responsible for their best-known work, the General Atlas, originally published under that title in 1857. In 1898, the brothers merged their business and the firm became Colton, Ohman, & Co., which operated until 1901, when August R. Ohman took on the business alone and dropped the Colton name.
Antique Maps / Polar Maps
[North Polar Regions, Globe Calotte]
Fine, Illustrated North Polar Globe Calotte
Polus Antarcticus Joannes Janssonius excudit.
Third state of Hondius' decorative map of the South Polar region, with the name Joannes Janssonius appearing for the first time.
De Rivier van Kola en het Eijlandt Kildijn . . .
The map shows the navigation from the sea to include extensive soundings, anchorages, rhumb lines and several compass roses.
British Colonies in North America
Scarce map of Canada, extending west to the Rocky Mountains and the MacKenzie River.
Hemisphere Septentrional pour voir plus distinctement Les Terres Arctiques . . .
Fine Map of the Northern Hemisphere
A Map of the North-Pole and the parts Adioining . . . MDCLXXX
Remarkable Early English Map of the North Polar Regions


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Q: displaying toast in conditional statements in android i have created an app which insert data to sql server. i made column NAME as unique key.
i want that if i enter same name by edittext to insert...it should give a toast message.
but it's not happening. i cann't understand where i have made error.
in connection to server there is no problem. the only thing is i have to display Toast msg if i entered same name again.
my code is.......
public void onClick(View v) {
                    // TODO Auto-generated method stub

                    String myloc=loc.getText().toString();
                    String myname=name.getText().toString();
                    String myphone=phone.getText().toString();
                    initilize();
                    ResultSet rs;
                     try{
                    Statement statement=connect.createStatement();
                    rs=statement.executeQuery("SELECT * FROM FORM1");
                     List<Map<String,String>>data=null;
                     data=new ArrayList<Map<String,String>>();
                     while(rs.next()){
                         Map<String,String>datanum=new HashMap<String,String>();
                         datanum.put("a", rs.getString("NAME"));
                         data.add(datanum);
                     }
                     if(data.contains(myname)){
                     Toast.makeText(c, myname+" Already stored: please choose different one", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
                     }
                     else{
                        insert(myname,myphone,myloc);
                     }
                     }catch(Exception e){
                            Log.e("ERROR", e.getMessage());
                         }

                }

plzz guys...help me someone...

A: With data.contains(myname) you are trying to check if there is myname of type String in your data varible, but, in fact, your data have type List<Map<String,String>>, so when you are invoking contains(Object object) method passing a String, you are performing equals operation between Map<String,String> and String, which clearly would always result false. So I would suggest you either write something like this
List<String> data = new ArrayList<String>();
while(rs.next()) {
    data.add(rs.getString("NAME"));
}
 if(data.contains(myname)){
     Toast.makeText(c, myname+" Already stored: please choose different one", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
}

or there is a better way, just change your query to SELECT * FROM FORM1 WHERE NAME = myname and check if your result set is empty.


This is Canada Lake, only an hour from where we live, near the Great Sacandaga Lake in the Adirondacks in New York State. Here are the grandchildren enjoying the view across the small, intimate lake.
The kids swam and swam and then skimmed over the water in kayaks or a canoe. They even took lake scrub baths with mild Ivory soap.
Look at the crystal clear mountain water. The concrete dock is the only one on the lake and a great place from which to swim or fish, early in the morning or in the early evening. The adults spent much time just sunning, and visiting while the kids swam!
This is the path , step entrance from the road. A visitor was struck by how Under the Hemlocks resembles a Steven King setting !
It was a boys camp years ago when the father of the current owner, owned and ran it.
The wide, comfortable porch along with the dock were my two favorite places. Sun shone directly only in the morning and was the place where I read two book during the week. The near building is the boathouse which also slept 4 people.
No TV. . . . . .
No Fox News. . . . .
No Republican Convention. . . . . .
Family time. . . . . . .
Happy grandchildren . . . . . . . .
No kids or adults plugged into machine. . . . .
DVDs of favorite kids' movies in the evening. . . . .
Really a wonderful time. . . . .
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Looks wonderful! I may want to investigate renting there!
Maureen, I would be most happy to share the contact information with you.
Adirondack by Owners, VR7410 Under the Hemlocks. I think that is all you need to see the post. Let me know if there is a problem. Smiles. . . .
Thanks for your memories! Sad news St Augustans is closing after 150 years!
Donna, thanks for sharing your memories!
What a lovely place Anne. I could live there, but only with several friends to help with upkeep. As usual, I would be the cook because I can't swim and can only venture outside on cool days, but that sure looks like a great place to vacation.
You would love the rambling porch and the dock at the beginning and end of the day. I had to two girls who did most the cooking. . . . . lovely!
The rambling porch for sure, but bodies of water make me seasick. I would just put a rocking chair on that porch, maybe a swing if the structure would cooperate, and be in heaven on earth all the time. I probably wouldn't even mind having someone else do the cooking, lol.
Oh the swing is a great idea!
Almost necessary around here if you plan on going outside the a/c house.


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The first model of keeping energy balance and optimal psycho affective development: Breastfed infants
Carlo Agostoni, Alessandra Mazzocchi, Ludovica Leone, Valentina Ciappolino, Giuseppe Delvecchio, Carlo A. Altamura, Paolo Brambilla
Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda- Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico
Istituto "Eugenio Medea" - Associazione La Nostra Famiglia
Background Breastfed infants follow a peculiar growth fashion characterized by a rapid weight gain in the first weeks of life, then followed by a fast decrease in growth rates, a capacity to self-regulate the sense of hungry and satiety, and a minor propensity towards overweight and obesity later on, in parallel with a better neurodevelopmental performance. Methods We searched studies investigating the relationship between the feeding mode in infancy and the energy balance, so the possible associations with total energy expenditure and intake regulation. We focused the research on the interaction with the neuropsychological development and the possible role of microbiome in determinating the normal generation and regular functioning of the brain through the so named "gut-brain axis". Results Total energy expenditure (TEE) is different for breast-fed and formula-fed infants, in particular the feeding mode seems to affect the sleep organisation. Long-term breastfeeding, is one of the most studied factors of neurodevelopment, several studies reporting beneficial effects on child neuropsychological development. Probably this effect is modulated by genetic variations in fatty acid metabolism. Increasing data also showed that the intestinal microbiome exerts several functions which are able to influence neurodevelopment. Limitations There is considerable controversy over whether nutrition in early life has a long-term influence on neurodevelopment. Other studies are needed to confirm the association between breastfeeding and brain development. Conclusions The key points of energy disposal, the role and effects of the instestinal flora represent promising fields of investigation possibly leading to indications for the wide area of preventive medicine.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2017.01.001
Neuropsychological development
10.1016/j.jad.2017.01.001
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Agostoni, C., Mazzocchi, A., Leone, L., Ciappolino, V., Delvecchio, G., Altamura, C. A., & Brambilla, P. (2017). The first model of keeping energy balance and optimal psycho affective development: Breastfed infants. Journal of Affective Disorders, 224, 10-15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2017.01.001
The first model of keeping energy balance and optimal psycho affective development : Breastfed infants. / Agostoni, Carlo; Mazzocchi, Alessandra; Leone, Ludovica et al.
In: Journal of Affective Disorders, Vol. 224, 15.12.2017, p. 10-15.
Agostoni, C, Mazzocchi, A, Leone, L, Ciappolino, V, Delvecchio, G, Altamura, CA & Brambilla, P 2017, 'The first model of keeping energy balance and optimal psycho affective development: Breastfed infants', Journal of Affective Disorders, vol. 224, pp. 10-15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2017.01.001
Agostoni C, Mazzocchi A, Leone L, Ciappolino V, Delvecchio G, Altamura CA et al. The first model of keeping energy balance and optimal psycho affective development: Breastfed infants. Journal of Affective Disorders. 2017 Dec 15;224:10-15. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2017.01.001
Agostoni, Carlo ; Mazzocchi, Alessandra ; Leone, Ludovica et al. / The first model of keeping energy balance and optimal psycho affective development : Breastfed infants. In: Journal of Affective Disorders. 2017 ; Vol. 224. pp. 10-15.
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abstract = "Background Breastfed infants follow a peculiar growth fashion characterized by a rapid weight gain in the first weeks of life, then followed by a fast decrease in growth rates, a capacity to self-regulate the sense of hungry and satiety, and a minor propensity towards overweight and obesity later on, in parallel with a better neurodevelopmental performance. Methods We searched studies investigating the relationship between the feeding mode in infancy and the energy balance, so the possible associations with total energy expenditure and intake regulation. We focused the research on the interaction with the neuropsychological development and the possible role of microbiome in determinating the normal generation and regular functioning of the brain through the so named "gut-brain axis". Results Total energy expenditure (TEE) is different for breast-fed and formula-fed infants, in particular the feeding mode seems to affect the sleep organisation. Long-term breastfeeding, is one of the most studied factors of neurodevelopment, several studies reporting beneficial effects on child neuropsychological development. Probably this effect is modulated by genetic variations in fatty acid metabolism. Increasing data also showed that the intestinal microbiome exerts several functions which are able to influence neurodevelopment. Limitations There is considerable controversy over whether nutrition in early life has a long-term influence on neurodevelopment. Other studies are needed to confirm the association between breastfeeding and brain development. Conclusions The key points of energy disposal, the role and effects of the instestinal flora represent promising fields of investigation possibly leading to indications for the wide area of preventive medicine.",
keywords = "Breastfeeding, Energy balance, Microbiome, Neuropsychological development",
author = "Carlo Agostoni and Alessandra Mazzocchi and Ludovica Leone and Valentina Ciappolino and Giuseppe Delvecchio and Altamura, {Carlo A.} and Paolo Brambilla",
doi = "10.1016/j.jad.2017.01.001",
journal = "Journal of Affective Disorders",
T1 - The first model of keeping energy balance and optimal psycho affective development
T2 - Breastfed infants
AU - Agostoni, Carlo
AU - Mazzocchi, Alessandra
AU - Leone, Ludovica
AU - Ciappolino, Valentina
AU - Delvecchio, Giuseppe
AU - Altamura, Carlo A.
AU - Brambilla, Paolo
N2 - Background Breastfed infants follow a peculiar growth fashion characterized by a rapid weight gain in the first weeks of life, then followed by a fast decrease in growth rates, a capacity to self-regulate the sense of hungry and satiety, and a minor propensity towards overweight and obesity later on, in parallel with a better neurodevelopmental performance. Methods We searched studies investigating the relationship between the feeding mode in infancy and the energy balance, so the possible associations with total energy expenditure and intake regulation. We focused the research on the interaction with the neuropsychological development and the possible role of microbiome in determinating the normal generation and regular functioning of the brain through the so named "gut-brain axis". Results Total energy expenditure (TEE) is different for breast-fed and formula-fed infants, in particular the feeding mode seems to affect the sleep organisation. Long-term breastfeeding, is one of the most studied factors of neurodevelopment, several studies reporting beneficial effects on child neuropsychological development. Probably this effect is modulated by genetic variations in fatty acid metabolism. Increasing data also showed that the intestinal microbiome exerts several functions which are able to influence neurodevelopment. Limitations There is considerable controversy over whether nutrition in early life has a long-term influence on neurodevelopment. Other studies are needed to confirm the association between breastfeeding and brain development. Conclusions The key points of energy disposal, the role and effects of the instestinal flora represent promising fields of investigation possibly leading to indications for the wide area of preventive medicine.
AB - Background Breastfed infants follow a peculiar growth fashion characterized by a rapid weight gain in the first weeks of life, then followed by a fast decrease in growth rates, a capacity to self-regulate the sense of hungry and satiety, and a minor propensity towards overweight and obesity later on, in parallel with a better neurodevelopmental performance. Methods We searched studies investigating the relationship between the feeding mode in infancy and the energy balance, so the possible associations with total energy expenditure and intake regulation. We focused the research on the interaction with the neuropsychological development and the possible role of microbiome in determinating the normal generation and regular functioning of the brain through the so named "gut-brain axis". Results Total energy expenditure (TEE) is different for breast-fed and formula-fed infants, in particular the feeding mode seems to affect the sleep organisation. Long-term breastfeeding, is one of the most studied factors of neurodevelopment, several studies reporting beneficial effects on child neuropsychological development. Probably this effect is modulated by genetic variations in fatty acid metabolism. Increasing data also showed that the intestinal microbiome exerts several functions which are able to influence neurodevelopment. Limitations There is considerable controversy over whether nutrition in early life has a long-term influence on neurodevelopment. Other studies are needed to confirm the association between breastfeeding and brain development. Conclusions The key points of energy disposal, the role and effects of the instestinal flora represent promising fields of investigation possibly leading to indications for the wide area of preventive medicine.
KW - Breastfeeding
KW - Energy balance
KW - Microbiome
KW - Neuropsychological development
U2 - 10.1016/j.jad.2017.01.001
DO - 10.1016/j.jad.2017.01.001
JO - Journal of Affective Disorders
JF - Journal of Affective Disorders


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Based on the A350-900, the A350 ULR incorporates several engineering changes to extend its range from 8,100nm to 9,700nm – or about 20 hours non-stop flying. Maximum take-off weight is 280 tonnes.
To achieve this, the A350-900 ULR has a modified fuel system that can carry an extra 24,000 litres without additional fuel tanks, as well as aerodynamic improvements such as extended winglets.
It will then embark on a short flight test program to certify the changes the give the extra range. The test phase will also measure performance gains derived from aerodynamic improvements.
The addition of the A350 ULR to the in-service aircraft adds to an aftermarket forecast to generate strong demand, according to data from Aviation Week's 2018 Fleet & MRO Forecast. From 2018 to 2027, the aircraft has a projected year-on-year MRO growth rate of 26.3%, with line maintenance (37%) expected to account for the majority of work over a 10-year period.
Launch customer Singapore Airlines (SIA), based in an Asia-Pacific region projected by Aviation Week to generate $8 billion of MRO work from now until 2027, will take seven of the new aircraft as part of an order for 67 A350-900s and will use the ULR variant to reinstate the world's longest route, from Singapore to New York.
The airline operated the service until 2012 using four-engine A340-500 aircraft on a 9,000nm polar route that took about 18 hours.
While the A350 ULR can seat between 250 and 300 passengers, it has been reported that SIA will install a cabin of 170 mostly business class seats for its longest routes.
SIA phased out its last A340 in 2013, and the current holder of the world's longest flight is Qatar Airways, which operates its 7,850nm Doha-Auckland service with Boeing 777-200LR aircraft.
The Gulf carrier is also a launch customer for a new A350 model, having taken the first A350-1000 in late February 2018. The 366-seat aircraft has an almost 8,000nm range, states Airbus.


And since they saw the man who had been healed standing with them, they had nothing to say in opposition. 15 After they ordered them to leave the Sanhedrin, they conferred among themselves, 16 saying, "What should we do with these men? For an obvious sign has been done through them, clear to everyone living in Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it.
But so that this does not spread any further among the people, let's threaten them against speaking to anyone in this name again." 18 So they called for them and ordered them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus. 19 Peter and John answered them, "Whether it's right in the sight of God for us to listen to you rather than to God, you decide; 20 for we are unable to stop speaking about what we have seen and heard." 21 After threatening them further, they released them. They found no way to punish them because the people were all giving glory to God over what had been done. 22 For this sign of healing had been performed on a man over forty years old.
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Q: Prepared statement result in a table Please, this is my first attempt on mysqli with php. I am trying to print results into a table but the table does not desplay any data in it.
I earlier tried

printf("%s %s\n", $c_id, $ctitle);

and I got the correct results printed. But I want the results in a table.
I intend this to be a details page that will be linked to the main page items.My code:
<?php
$mysqli = new mysqli("localhost", "joseph", " ", "collectionsdb");

if (mysqli_connect_errno()) {
    printf("Connect failed: %s\n", mysqli_connect_error());
    exit();
}
    if ($stmt = $mysqli->prepare("SELECT c_id,ctitle,csubject,creference,cyear,cobjecttype,cmaterial,ctechnic,cwidth,cheight,cperiod,cmarkings,cdescription,csource,cartist,cfilename FROM collections ORDER BY c_id")) {
    /* Execute the prepared Statement */
    $stmt->execute();

    /* Bind results to variables */
    $stmt->bind_result($c_id,$ctitle,$csubject,$creference,$cyear,$cobjecttype,$cmaterial,$ctechnic,$cwidth,$cheight,$cperiod,$cmarkings,$cdescription,$csource,$cartist,$cfilename);

?>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<?php
    /* fetch values */
    while ($rows = $stmt->fetch()) {

    // print image and data into a html table ??
?>

     <?php echo '';  ?>

ID	<?php echo $rows['c_id']; ?>

TITLE	<?php echo $rows['ctitle']; ?>

SUBJECT	<?php echo $rows['csubject']; ?>

REFERENCE No.	<?php echo $rows['creference']; ?>

YEAR	<?php echo $rows['cyear']; ?>

OBJECT TYPE	<?php echo $rows['cobjecttype']; ?>

MATERIAL USED	<?php echo $rows['cmaterial']; ?>

TECHNIC	<?php echo $rows['ctechnic']; ?>

WIDTH	<?php echo $rows['cwidth']; ?>

HEIGHT	<?php echo $rows['cheight']; ?>

PERIOD	<?php echo $rows['cperiod']; ?>

MARKINGS	<?php echo $rows['cmarkings']; ?>

DESCRIPTION	<?php echo $rows['cdescription']; ?>

SOURCE	<?php echo $rows['csource']; ?>

ARTIST	<?php echo $rows['cartist']; ?>

<?php
    }

    /* Close the statement */
    $stmt->close();
}
else {
    /* Error */
    printf("Prepared Statement Error: %s\n", $mysqli->error);
}

/* close our connection */
$mysqli->close();
?>

Thank you.
Joseph

A: Instead of $rows array you have to use variables you bound earlier - i.e. $c_id,$ctitle,$csubject
You also have misplaced your
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As you can see, mysqli is quite unusable with prepared statements.
Either use it with manual placeholders or move to PDO.
It will make your code a lot cleaner, for example (this is ALL code you need):
<?php
$db = new DB();
$data = $db->getAll("SELECT * FROM collections ORDER BY c_id");
?>

<?php foreach ($data as $rows) { ?>

      <img src="/images/<?php echo $rows['cfilename'] ?>" width="300" height="400" />

ID	<?php echo $rows['c_id']; ?>

TITLE	<?php echo $rows['ctitle']; ?>

SUBJECT	<?php echo $rows['csubject']; ?>

REFERENCE No.	<?php echo $rows['creference']; ?>

YEAR	<?php echo $rows['cyear']; ?>

OBJECT TYPE	<?php echo $rows['cobjecttype']; ?>

MATERIAL USED	<?php echo $rows['cmaterial']; ?>

TECHNIC	<?php echo $rows['ctechnic']; ?>

WIDTH	<?php echo $rows['cwidth']; ?>

HEIGHT	<?php echo $rows['cheight']; ?>

PERIOD	<?php echo $rows['cperiod']; ?>

MARKINGS	<?php echo $rows['cmarkings']; ?>

DESCRIPTION	<?php echo $rows['cdescription']; ?>

SOURCE	<?php echo $rows['csource']; ?>

ARTIST	<?php echo $rows['cartist']; ?>

<?php } ?>


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i remember you from days of yore, even if the memory is not mutual. happy birthday!
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The Grand Archives
The Grand Archives have existed for five thousand years and is considered the grandest library in all the mortal world. Even to the elves, it is thought to contain all mortal knowledge and presumed to be the maker of civilization. There is no place upon the world where The Grand Archives stand. Instead, it is believed to exist at the Nether Hub between all magical portals. These portals have come to be called the Gateways and link to places all over the world. Conductors, an order of mages within the High Guild of Magic, control the portals. The High Guild not only resides within the Grand Archives, but claims to own it. In fact, the taught lore tells that the High Guild created the Grand Archives as well as the Gateways. The High Guild allows no other theory to be considered.
"Master Southill, if the heart stones can only be crafted in the Grand Archives, then how could the Grand Archives exist in the Nether Hub between all the portals that it had to make for there to BE the Nether Hub?" Apprentice Yarvo Silverleaf asked. "That is the Great Quandry that has driven some mages mad trying to figure out." Master Southill said to the very curious young elf. "It is best to simply understand that it is magic that involves the bending of time." "But time doesn't --" BANG! The sound of Master Southill's staff suddenly slamming down on Yarvo's when it appeared, silenced the apprentice. "Madness, Yarvo! Desist with these questions and rid yourself of them! It is not a path of study mortal minds can handle!" Yarvo stared at Master Southill, still struggling to understand. "If you do not forgo these questions I shall be forced to send you home an utter failer at becoming a Conductor!" Master Southill snapped. Yarvo stopped breathing and his eyes went wide as he froze. The horror such shame would bring him and his family washed over him. Why, he might even be executed by his father's own hand to cleanse the family of his shame! "All you need to know is that it involves the bending of time." Master Southill repeated slowly in a sharp, clipped tone. "Y-y-yes, Master S-southill." Yarvo squeaked out. "Its bending time."
Beneath the many floors of palacial rooms, conservatories, and workshops that make up the Grand Archives is a place called The Vaults. The Vaults hold all manner of books, tomes, scrolls and tablets. They also hold historical and magical artifacts, first editions, and original texts. This is a place of limited access, restricted to High Guild ranked members or their apprenctices and the clerks who worth within The Vaults. The senior clerks who work in The Vaults find it amusing that everyone must believe The Vaults a part of the Grand Archives when in fact it is the Grand Archives that is a part of The Vaults, a misconception they dare not correct. The misconception goes so deep as to not even teach how the heart stones are crafted. The crafting of the heart stones has been declared a Deep Secret, should anyone dare to ask.
The Vaults by Skitterphoto
THE DEEPER TRUTH
Heart Stones by Radfotosonn
From the time when ageless dragons wielded god-like powers until now where dragons are as mortal as every other living thing, The Vaults have existed as the storehouse of the gods. Few mortals, even the senior clerks working within The Vaults, know of the Godvaults section deep within the Restricted Section. Of those few, none has ever seen the Godvaults. The closest anyone gets to the Godvaults is the Chamber of Gates. In the Chamber of Gates, The Librarian crafts the most important artifacts for the High Guild; the heart stones. These heart stones each turn into a gate, and it is with these heart stones that the Conductors of the High Guild of Magic make the portals. All these portals collectively are called the Gateways.
The Gateways did not begin as the vast collection of portals that cover the world but took a thousand years to do so. Ever since, it has proven the best means of transporting all but the biggest of goods. Vast numbers of people can instantly travel to anywhere in the world, something that has atrophied the developement of other means of world transportation. The High Guild, backed by the Conductors who control of the portals, use the Gateways to manipulate the realms of the world for their own ends. Within every realm, kingdom, principality, and land, the High Guild has built a Chapter House where all mages within that realm registers. These mages then become a minor member of the High Guild. Within each chapter house stands a portal to the Grand Archives.
THE END ... ?
Then there came a day that ended the Gateways. A terrible calamity called The End Of Instant. All the gates, even those within the chapter houses, vanished. Without the Gateways, the world has fallen into a race for resources and trade wars. Fewer and fewer mages are finding the time and circumstances to research a means to return to the Grand Archives due to their homelands pressuring them to help in the developement of new means of world travel. It is now a race for world power between the greater realms. Will any of them do it? Will a new and lesser known realm do it? Only time will tell.
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