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371. In the course of their 2006–2008 investigation into Colin Pritchard and Roy Cotton,[1] Northamptonshire Police were informed by Mrs Shirley Hosgood (at that time the Chichester Diocesan Safeguarding Adviser) that, when reviewing files about Cotton and Pritchard, she had come across information about Peter Ball and consequently made enquiries about him. She told Detective Constable David Charman, the officer in charge of the case, that Lambeth Palace held letters containing allegations against Peter Ball. Northamptonshire Police then sought copies of those letters from Lambeth Palace but were informed by the Church of England that they would not provide them without an order from a court.[2]
372. Northamptonshire Police began the process of applying for the necessary order. In the meantime, Lambeth Palace wrote to each author asking for permission to share the information with Northamptonshire Police.
373. The letters were sent to Northamptonshire Police after consent was obtained[3] and Northamptonshire Police were offered the opportunity to attend Lambeth Palace and review the files held there.[4] All the letters were reviewed by a detective inspector in Northamptonshire Police and passed to the CPS. The CPS advised verbally that the letters did not disclose any criminal offences. No official record was made of this advice by the CPS. However, Mrs Kate Wood (a former police officer)[5] considered the allegation of AN‐A93 may amount to a criminal offence and, as a result, Northamptonshire Police asked for AN‐ A93's letter[6] to be reviewed again by the CPS. The advice, again received verbally, was that no criminal offences had been committed.[7] Mr McGill agreed the advice provided by the CPS should have been provided clearly and in writing.[8]
374. On the basis of the content of the letters, without knowing further relevant information such as the circumstances, or the age of the complainant, it is the case that they do not disclose obvious criminal offences.
375. After the CPS reviewed the letters, Northamptonshire Police wrote to each author, saying they were "trying to identify anyone who may have been a victim of Rev Colin Pritchard, Rev Roy Cotton or Bishop Peter Ball". The police asked whether the author was "ever introduced to Rev Colin Pritchard and Rev Roy Cotton and whether they abused" them. They did not ask the individuals to discuss or disclose any further information about Peter Ball's offending, having explained that the CPS had reviewed the original letter about Peter Ball and had advised either that no criminal offence had been committed,[9] or that there was not enough detail in the letter to Lambeth Palace to reach a view.[10]
376. In relation to AN‐10, whose letter to Lambeth Palace was one of those on which there was not enough information for the CPS to reach a view, Northamptonshire Police said:
"You do not refer to anything criminal. If anything of a criminal nature did happen then you could contact the Police Force that covers the geographical area in which it happened and ask for it to be investigated."[11]
377. AN‐A10 said that when he received this letter he was relieved that someone was finally getting in touch with him. However, as the letter asked him whether he had met, or was abused by, Cotton or Pritchard, he responded to say no.[12]
378. Mrs Wood said that having reviewed the material held at Lambeth Palace, she indicated to DC Charman that she was concerned there was more to the case of Peter Ball than met the eye.[13] However, there is no record of further investigations carried out by Northamptonshire Police into Peter Ball.[14]
379. Northamptonshire Police were at that time investigating the allegations against Cotton and Pritchard. It was not an investigation into Peter Ball, but when they became aware of information about possible offending by him, it should have been fully investigated.
380. Northamptonshire Police did contact each of the authors of the letters, but focussed on whether they had information about Cotton and Pritchard. This was because the CPS had already advised that the letters did not disclose any criminal offences.
381. The complainants should have been seen in person before the CPS were consulted. Many of the letters did not provide enough information for an informed view to be reached about whether any criminal offence had been committed. For example, there was no information about the complainant's age or the details of the allegation. The CPS should not have provided advice without knowing all the necessary information. Further, any advice should have been thorough and provided in writing.
NNP000026_005‐6 ↵
ACE003053_016-018 (See Part C.7: AN-A93 alleged that, when he was 17 years old, Peter Ball had used a counselling session at a school to ask him to masturbate in front of him.) ↵
NNP000026_10 and ACE025951_014 ↵
CPS000803_183‐184 ↵
AN‐A10 23 July 2018 162/17‐25 ↵
ACE025951_014‐015 ↵
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Prisoner of the Samurai
Creation date 1 Apr 2018
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James Gee
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James Gee was a marine on board USS Houston when she was sunk by the Japanese in the Battle of Sunda Strait on 28th February 1942. Unknown to his family he survived as a PoW and on liberation his story was recorded by his psychiatric nurse, Rosalie Smith. Her daughter Allyson Smith has now brought Gee's account to light.
Gee's vicissitudes as a PoW included slave labour on the Burma Railway and in lethal coal mines on Kyushu. A litany of deliberate Japanese brutality runs like a rogue's yarn through the entire story and is related in considerable detail. We also see how individual PoWs regarded what was going on, and how they coped (or, sadly and all too often, didn't); and at one point, disgracefully, how US officer PoWs used the men's money to give themselves a more comfortable time (names, says the preface, have been changed - a pity). The generous, often selfless mutual support of Gee's cohort was in contrast to, for instance, the unedifying way they were exploited by British PoWs and their officers in one camp, guarded by turncoat Sikhs, in Singapore. Gee in particular survived because of the support he received from his Texan shipmates, in particular his great friend Gordon Strong - but it was a close-run thing. There are (very) occasional glimpses of Japanese who did have a moral compass and - necessarily furtively - gave assistance.
Finally came the massive rumble of the Nagasaki bomb which in a few days brought Gee's nightmare to an end. To his credit he and his companions rose above hate and retribution.
It is right that the modern generation should have this harrowing reminder of the loathsome, cowardly, barbarous, sadistic behaviour of the Japanese towards their weak, sick, starving, defenceless prisoners, for which there has been no acknowledgement, let alone atonement. Thousands died, entirely avoidably. James Gee survived to tell his tale. It is our 21st century duty to read it.

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Q: Python - Parse Ifconfig File I am attempting to parse an ifconfig file that will have the following format:
Bond10G: flags=5187<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MASTER,MULTICAST>  mtu 9000
        inet 10.117.62.135  netmask 255.255.254.0  broadcast 10.117.63.255
        ether 00:50:56:9e:89:10  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 14315389  bytes 39499265855 (36.7 GiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 35686  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 13009616  bytes 38702751346 (36.0 GiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

Bond1G: flags=5187<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MASTER,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        inet 10.117.60.135  netmask 255.255.254.0  broadcast 10.117.61.255
        inet6 fe80::250:56ff:fe9e:ed0d  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
        ether 00:50:56:9e:ed:0d  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 1573455  bytes 172628399 (164.6 MiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 10946  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 185449  bytes 50369231 (48.0 MiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

eth0: flags=6211<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SLAVE,MULTICAST>  mtu 9000
        ether 00:50:56:9e:89:10  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 13493291  bytes 39433797198 (36.7 GiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 13006856  bytes 38701854528 (36.0 GiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

eth1: flags=6211<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SLAVE,MULTICAST>  mtu 9000
        ether 00:50:56:9e:89:10  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 822097  bytes 65468597 (62.4 MiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 35673  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 2760  bytes 896818 (875.7 KiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

eth2: flags=6211<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SLAVE,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        ether 00:50:56:9e:ed:0d  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 961003  bytes 127916200 (121.9 MiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 182704  bytes 49477386 (47.1 MiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

eth3: flags=6211<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SLAVE,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        ether 00:50:56:9e:ed:0d  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 612452  bytes 44712199 (42.6 MiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 10930  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 2745  bytes 891845 (870.9 KiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING>  mtu 65536
        inet 127.0.0.1  netmask 255.0.0.0
        inet6 ::1  prefixlen 128  scopeid 0x10<host>
        loop  txqueuelen 1000  (Local Loopback)
        RX packets 3164912  bytes 12725232051 (11.8 GiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 3164912  bytes 12725232051 (11.8 GiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

What I would like to get is a dictionary who's value is the interface, and the keys and values looking in this manner:
{'Bond10G' : {'mtu' : '9000', 'inet' : '10.117.62.135', 'netmask' : '255.255.254.0' # all remaining values that are space delimited},
'Bond1G' : {'mtu' : '9000', 'inet' : '10.117.60.135' # all remaining values that are space delimited} }

I have been able to split by new line to segregate each interface, however I am unsure as to how to continue. Sample code:
with open('ifconfig_file) as data:
    for line in data:
        temp_array = line.split("\n\n")

My logic would be (correct me if im wrong):

*

*Split by colon to grab interface name to find the key (issue is the ether has colons in it).

*While not empty line, take those values delimited by spaces and array[0] would be the key and array[1] would be the value.

A: You can leverage split() as well as regex. Here's an example where I parse mtu and inet:
import re

def parse_info(interface):
  info = {}
  mtuMatches = re.findall("mtu [0-9]*\s", interface)  # find all matches for mtu
  if (len(mtuMatches) > 0):
    info['mtu'] = mtuMatches[0].replace("mtu", "").strip()  # use the first match

  inetMatches = re.findall("inet [0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\s", interface) # find all matches for inet
  if (len(inetMatches) > 0):
    info['inet'] = inetMatches[0].replace("inet", "").strip()  # use the first match

  # add more here
  return info

def parse_name(interface):
  parts = interface.split(":")
  return parts[0]  # grab the name

def parse_interface(interface):
  name = parse_name(interface)
  info = parse_info(interface)
  return name, info

def parse_file(data):
  interfaces = data.split("\n\n")
  parsed = {}
  for interface in interfaces:
    name, info = parse_interface(interface)
    parsed[name] = info
  return parsed

with open('ifconfig.txt') as file:
    print(parse_file(file.read()))

This is probably not the most performant way of doing it (if you want performance then maybe split by space and iterate over the result) but this is the cleanest in my opinion

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Q: How to use `Dir` to reference directories outside the working directory The closest issue I could find on Stack Overflow was "Path outside of project, Ruby Dir", but the user appears to have been in the wrong development environment.
My issue is that the Dir class only gives information relative to the working directory.  For instance, if I'm in C:/Users/john/Developer and this directory only has two subdirectories A and B then
$ ruby -e "p Dir['*']"

will return ["A", "B"].  This seems intended, but what if there is a directory C:/Users/jane/Developer/C that I need to run a command in using a script in C:/Users/john/Developer?
Running
Dir.chdir('C:/Users/jane/Developer/C') { %x[lerna clean] }

returns the error:
-e:1:in `chdir': No such file or directory @ dir_s_chdir - C:/Users/jane/Developer/C (Errno::ENOENT)
        from -e:1:in `<main>'

Is there a way to access directories outside of the working directory using the Dir class?  It seems absurd to have to require scripts to be written at a root level.
Note, using %x[] to run the command in C:/Users/jane/Developer/C also doesn't seem to work.


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What are earnings forecasts?
What is EPS and TTM?
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Earnings forecasts are based on analysts' expectations of company growth and profitability. To predict earnings, most analysts build financial models that estimate prospective revenues and costs.
The price/earnings ratio is often referred to as P/E (TTM) and is calculated as the stock's current price, divided by a company's trailing 12-month earnings per share (EPS).
What is good EPS TTM?
"The EPS Rating is invaluable for separating the true leaders from the poorly managed, deficient and lackluster companies in today's tougher worldwide competition," O'Neil wrote. Stocks with an 80 or higher rating have the best chance of success.
Analyst consensus is for a 6.4% year-over-year increase in adjusted earnings per share, to $1.29, despite a 2.1% decline in revenue, to $34 billion….Telecom Fourth-Quarter Forecasts.
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Abstract. Over the past 12 years, financial analysts across the world have been optimistically wrong with their 12-month earnings forecasts by 25.3%. This study may be the first of its kind to assess analyst earnings forecast accuracy at all listed companies across the globe, covering 70 countries.
What are stock revisions?
Revisions are associated with economically insignificant mean price reactions and often piggyback on recent news, events, long-term momentum, and short-run contrarian return predictors, typically downgrading after bad news and upgrading after good news. However, the revisions are usually information-free for investors.
The higher the earnings per share of a company, the better is its profitability. While calculating the EPS, it is advisable to use the weighted ratio, as the number of shares outstanding can change over time.
What does it mean if EPS is negative? Earnings per share can be negative when a company's income is negative, which means that the company is losing money, or spending more than it is earning. A negative EPS does not necessarily mean that a stock is a sell.
Do you want high or low EPS?
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How do you predict stock earnings?
Divide the stock price by the average P/E ratio for an earnings prediction. In this case, the calculation is $35 divided by 14.2x, or $2.47 earnings per share for Q4. This number should be considered an upper limit, because the price chart shows an upward trend, and an average was used in the example calculation.
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Writing to your MP is a great way to show them that wildlife and strong environment laws are important to the people they represent. You can also encourage them to speak up for strong environment laws and champion ambitious measures to create a #WilderFuture!
You can write letters to your MP's local constituency office, or send an email to their constituency email address.
Some MPs might not provide their constituency office address or email. In this case, write to their parliamentary office using their parliamentary email or House of Commons address.
MPs are very busy people, so don't be offended if they don't get back to you straight away.
How can I make my email or letter effective?
MPs love personal stories. Share yours with them, choosing experiences that have taken place in your local area and meant a lot to you, or talking about how important wildlife and the natural world is to you and people around you. This way you can show your MP how much the natural environment in your area matters. Perhaps there are some moments shared with your Wildlife Trust or events you've attended that stand out? How might an ambitious Environment Act help wildlife in your local area and improve the place you live in?
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[LADA type diabetes, celiac diasease, cerebellar ataxia and stiff person syndrome. A rare association of autoimmune disorders]
SOÓS Zsuzsanna, SALAMON Mónika, ERDEI Katalin, KASZÁS Nóra, FOLYOVICH András, SZŰCS Anna, BARCS Gábor, ARÁNYI Zsuzsanna, SKALICZKI József, VADASDI Károly, WINKLER Gábor
Clinical Neuroscience - 2014;67(05-06)
[Celiac disease - in its typical form - is a chronic immunemediated enteropathy with typical clinical symptoms that develops against gliadin content of cereal grains, and is often associated with other autoimmune diseases. In cases of atypical manifestation classic symptoms may be absent or mild, and extra-intestinal symptoms or associated syndromes dominate clinical picture. The authors present a longitudinal follow-up of such a case. A 63-years old woman was diagnosed with epilepsy at the age of 19, and with progressive limb ataxia at the age of 36, which was initially thought to be caused by cerebellar atrophy, later probably by stiff person syndrome. At the age 59, her diabetes mellitus manifested with type 2 diabetic phenotype, but based on GAD positivity later was reclassified as type 1 diabetes. Only the last check-up discovered the celiac disease, retrospectively explaining the entire disease course and neurological symptoms. By presenting this case, the authors would like to draw attention to the fact that one should think of the possibility of celiac disease when cerebellar ataxia, progressive neurological symptoms and diabetes are present at the same time. An early diagnosis may help to delay the progression of disease and help better treatment.]
epilepsydifferential diagnosisceliac diseasetype 1 diabetesstiff man/person syndromecerebellar ataxia
[The effect of angiotensin receptor blockers in cerebrovascular disorders and dementia: Bonus in addition to the antihypertensive effect]
KOVÁCS Tibor
[Hypertension and dementia are frequent disorders or rather syndromes. Their incidence is growing with advancing age and hypertension is increasing the risk of cognitive impairment too, while treating hypertension (i.e. the use of antihypertensive medications) is decreasing it. In addition, hypertension is the most important risk factor for stroke. The renin-angiotensin system (RAS) has a special role in the development of hypertension and also involved in the pathogenesis of the most frequent dementia form, namely Alzheimer's disease. The effect of angiotensin convertase inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers (ARB) is based on the inhibition of the RAS, but the ARBs do not inhibit angiotensin formation, just blocking its harmful effects on the AT1 receptor, while allowing the activation of AT2 receptors with pleiotropic effects. Preclinical, epidemiological and clinical therapeutic studies suggest this additional effect of ARBs and these are summarized in this review.]
[The Comprehensive Headache-related Quality of life Questionnaire shows significant improvement after withdrawal treatment in medication overuse headache: a pilot study]
GYÜRE Tamás, CSÉPÁNY Éva, HAJNAL Boglárka, KELLERMANN István, BALOGH Eszter, NAGY Zsolt, MANHALTER Nóra, BOZSIK György, ERTSEY Csaba
[Background and purpose - Medication overuse headache (MOH) is a common form of disabling headache presenting in as much as 30% of the patients seen in headache subspecialty practice. Quality of life (QOL) is frequently used as a secondary endpoint in headache trials. In MOH, previous trials of QOL focused mostly on generic QOL. We report the results of a pilot study that examined the feasibility of using a new QOL questionnaire, the 23-item Comprehensive Headache-related Quality of life Questionnaire (CHQQ), as an indicator of treatment response in MOH. Patients and methods - Fifteen patients (13 women and two men; mean age: 39.7±12.5 years) suffering from MOH were enrolled in a complex treatment programme consisting of acute medication withdrawal, preventive pharmacological treatment, structured advice and lifestyle intervention. The clinical data were collected using a detailed headache diary. CHQQ was completed before and after the treatment programme. Results - MOH patients had low QOL values at baseline which was comparable to the QOL of episodic migraine patients. The treatment programme resulted in significant reductions of the number of headache days and attacks, headache severity and analgesic consumption. The dimensions and total score of CHQQ showed a significant increase after the treatment period. Seventeen of CHQQ's 23 individual items also improved significantly. Conclusion - In this study the new headache-specific quality of life instrument CHQQ was able to demonstrate significant improvements after adequate treatment of MOH. This result indicates that the CHQQ may be an adequate tool for assessing quality of life in headache treatment trials.]
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[Temperature sensitivity of some nerve conduction parameters in diabetic polyneuropathy]
HIDASI Eszter, DIÓSZEGHY Péter, KÁPLÁR Miklós, MECHLER Ferenc, BERECZKI Dániel
[Background - We tested whether in diabetic polyneuropathy the temperature dependence of the median nerve conduction parameters reflects the severity of neuropathy. Methods - We validated an electrophysiological score against clinical signs of polyneuropathy. Electroneurography was performed at temperatures from 20-40 °C in diabetic patients with mild, moderate and severe neuropathy and controls. Results - The electrophysiological score reflected the clinical severity of polyneuropathy. At room temperature there were significant differences among groups in almost all parameters. In thermal sensitivity studies were significant differences in distal and proximal motor and sensory areas and in sensory conduction velocities. These four parameters normalized to 1 °C change in temperature also significantly differed among the four groups and were largest in controls and smallest in severe polyneuropathy. Conclusions - The use of an integral parameter - areas are essentially amplitudes integrated over time - increases the probability of detecting decreased thermal sensitivity of peripheral nerves in diabetes.]
[Organization of National Neurofibromatosis Register and fields of its application]
HORVÁTH András, FARKAS Viktor, LANGMÁR Zoltán, BACH Rezső, NAGY Zsolt B
[Background and purpose - The neurofibromatosis is a rare genetic disease with increased tumor growing ability and different special symptoms (Riccardi-criteria). The National NF Register has been organized by NF Hungary in 2011. The idea was initiated by hungarian neurofibromatosis experts. Methods - The register contains data about the therapists, the hospitals and the patients. The data are recorded by retrospective method and followed in time, so the register can track progress. Furthermore the register has valid nutrition, physical activity and psychological data, so the users are able to make comparisons with the clinical information. Results - 225 persons are registerd in the system on NF Hungary and 37 patients belong to the NF National Register. The number of the patients, who are member of the register, is always increasing. From the 37 persons 22 are females (60%) and 15 males (40%), 18 adults (48%) and 19 underagedes (52%). Conclusion - NF Register is a very useful system to do research and to draw public health and popolazione conclusions. The register enhances the morbidity details (time of manifestation, progressione, prognostical factors, prognosis), thereby could improve the cooperation and the coverage of the patients. The system is open for the patients as well, so it can give information to the patients about new scientific results, new medical methods and current availavable medications.]
Effects of valproate, carbamazepine and levetiracetam on Tp-e interval, Tp-e/QT and Tp-e/QTc ratio
YASAR Altun, ERDOGAN Yasar
Aim - To evaluate P-wave dispersion before and after antiepileptic drug (AED) treatment as well as to investigate the risk of ventricular repolarization using the Tpeak-Tend (Tp-e) interval and Tp-e/QT ratio in patients with epileptic disorder. Methods - A total of 63 patients receiving AED therapy and 35 healthy adults were included. ECG recordings were obtained before and 3 months after anti-epileptic treatment among patients with epilepsy. For both groups, Tp-e and Tp-e/QT ratio were measured using a 12-lead ECG device. Results - Tp-e interval, Tpe/QT and Tp-e/QTc ratios were found to be higher in the patient group than in the control group (p<0.05, for all), while QTmax ratio was significantly lower in the patient group. After 3 months of AED therapy, significant increases in QT max, QTc max, QTcd, Tp-e, Tp-e/QT, and Tp-e/QTc were found among the patients (p<0.05). When the arrhythmic effects of the drugs before and after treatment were compared, especially in the valproic acid group, there were significant increases in Tp-e interval, Tp-e/QT and Tp-e/QTc values after three months of treatment (p<0.05). Carbamazepine and levetiracetam groups were not statistically significant in terms of pre- and post-treatment values. Conclusions - It was concluded that an arrhythmogenic environment may be associated with the disease, and patients who received AED monotherapy may need to be followed up more closely for arrhythmia.
[Zonisamide: one of the first-line antiepileptic drugs in focal epilepsy ]
JANSZKY József, HORVÁTH Réka, KOMOLY Sámuel
[Chronic administration of antiepileptic drugs without history of unprovoked epileptic seizures are not recommended for epilepsy prophylaxis. Conversely, if the patient suffered the first unprovoked seizure, then the presence of epileptiform discharges on the EEG, focal neurological signs, and the presence of epileptogenic lesion on the MRI are risk factors for a second seizure (such as for the development of epilepsy). Without these risk factors, the chance of a second seizure is about 25-30%, while the presence of these risk factors (for example signs of previous stroke, neurotrauma, or encephalitis on the MRI) can predict >70% seizure recurrence. Thus the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) re-defined the term 'epilepsy' which can be diagnosed even after the first seizure, if the risk of seizure recurrence is high. According to this definition, we can start antiepileptic drug therapy after a single unprovoked seizure. There are four antiepileptic drugs which has the highest evidence (level "A") as first-line initial monotherapy for treating newly diagnosed epilepsy. These are: carbamazepine, phenytoin, levetiracetam, and zonisamide (ZNS). The present review focuses on the ZNS. Beacuse ZNS can be administrated once a day, it is an optimal drug for maintaining patient's compliance and for those patients who have a high risk for developing a non-compliance (for example teenagers and young adults). Due to the low interaction potential, ZNS treatment is safe and effective in treating epilepsy of elderly people. ZNS is an ideal drug in epilepsy accompanied by obesity, because ZNS has a weight loss effect, especially in obese patients.]
[Decisional collisions between evidence and experience based medicine in care of people with epilepsy]
RAJNA Péter
[Background – Based on the literature and his long-term clinical practice the author stresses the main collisions of evidence and experience based medicine in the care of people with epilepsy. Purpose – To see, what are the professional decisions of high responsibility in the epilepsy-care, in whose the relevant clinical research is still lacking or does not give a satisfactory basis. Methods – Following the structure of the Hungarian Guideline the author points the critical situations and decisions. He explains also the causes of the dilemmas: the lack or uncertainty of evidences or the difficulty of scientific investigation of the situation. Results – There are some priorities of experience based medicine in the following areas: definition of epilepsy, classification of seizures, etiology – including genetic background –, role of precipitating and provoking factors. These are able to influence the complex diagnosis. In the pharmacotherapy the choice of the first drug and the optimal algorithm as well as the tasks during the care are also depends on personal experiences sometimes contradictory to the official recommendations. Same can occur in the choice of the non-pharmacological treatments and rehabilitation. Discussion and conclusion – Personal professional experiences (and interests of patients) must be obligatory accessories of evidence based attitude, but for achieving the optimal results, in some situations they replace the official recommendations. Therefore it is very important that the problematic patients do meet experts having necessary experiences and also professional responsibility to help in these decisions. ]
Relationship between Status Epilepticus Severity Score and etiology in adult NCSE patients
GENC Fatma, ERDAL Abidin, AKCA Gizem, KARACAY Ertan, GÖKSU Özaydın Eylem, KUTLU Gülnihal, GÖMCELI Bicer Yasemin
Purpose - Nonconvulsive status epilepticus (NCSE) is a heterogeneous, severe neurological disorder of different etiologies. In this study, the outcomes of NCSE episodes was assessed in a large series of adult patients. Our objective was to evaluate relationship between Status Epilepticus Severity Score (STESS) and etiology and the role of etiological factors on predicting the outcomes. Method - In this retrospective study, the medical records of 95 patients over 18 years of age who were diagnosed with NCSE between June 2011 and December 2015 were reviewed. Their treatment and follow-up for NCSE was performed at the Epilepsy Unit in Department of Neurology, Antalya Research and Training Hospital. Etiological factors thought to be responsible for NCSE episodes as well as the prognostic data were retrieved. The etiological factors were classified into three groups as those with a known history of epilepsy (Group 1), primary neurological disorder (Group 2), or systemic/unknown etiology (Group 3). STESS was retrospectively applied to patients. Results - There were 95 participants, 59 of whom were female. Group 1, Group 2, and Group 3 consisted of 11 (7 female), 54 (33 female), and 30 (19 female) patients, respectively. Of the 18 total deaths, 12 occurred in Group 2, and 6 in Group 3. The negative predictive value for a STESS score of ≤ 2 was 93.88% (+LR 2.05 95% CI: 1.44-2.9 and -LR 0.3 95% CI 0.10-0.84 ) in the overall study group. While the corresponding values for Group 1 (patients with epilepsy), Group 2 (patients with primary neurological disorder), and group 3 (patients with systemic or unknown etiology) were 100%, 92.59% (+LR 2.06 95%CI: 1.32-3.21 and -LR 0.28 95% CI 0.08-1.02 ) 83.33% (+LR 1.14 95%CI: 0.59-2.9 and -LR 0.80 95% CI 0.23-2.73). Conclusions - This study included the one of the largest patients series ever reported in whom STESS, a clinical scoring system proposed for use in patients with status epilepticus, has been implemented. Although STESS appeared to be quite useful for predicting a favorable outcome in NCSE patients with epilepsy and primary neurological disorders, its predictive value in patients with systemic or unknown etiology was lower. Further prospective studies including larger NCSE samples are warranted.
EEG-based connectivity in patients with partial seizures with and without generalization
DÖMÖTÖR Johanna, CLEMENS Béla, EMRI Miklós, PUSKÁS Szilvia, FEKETE István
Objective - to investigate the neurophysiological basis of secondary generalization of partial epileptic seizures. Patients and methods - inter-ictal, resting-state EEG functional connectivity (EEGfC) was evaluated and compared: patients with exclusively simple partial seizures (sp group) were compared to patients with simple partial and secondary generalized seizures (spsg group); patients with exclusively complex partial seizures (cp group) were compared to patients with cp and secondary generalized seizures (cpsg group); the collapsed sp+cp group (spcp) was compared to those who had exclusively secondary generalized seizures (sg group). EEGfC was computed from 21-channel waking EEG. 3 minutes of waking EEG background activity was analyzed by the LORETA Source Correlation (LSC) software. Current source density time series were computed for 23 pre-defined cortical regions (ROI) in each hemisphere, for the 1-25 Hz very narrow bands (1 Hz bandwidth). Thereafter Pearson correlation coefficients were calculated between all pairs of ROI time series in the same hemisphere. Z-scored correlation coefficients were compared at the group level (t-tests and correction for multiple comparisons by local false discovery rate, FDR). Results - Statistically significant (corrected p<0.05) EEGfC differences emerged at specific frequencies (spsg > sg; cpsg > cp), and at many frequencies (sg > spcp). The findings indicated increased coupling between motor cortices and several non-motor areas in patients with partial and sg seizures as compared to patients with partial seizures and no sg seizures. Further findings suggested increased coupling between medial parietal-occipital areas (structural core of the cortex) and lateral hemispheric areas. Conclusion - increased inter-ictal EEGfC is associated with habitual occurrence of secondary generalized seizures.


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'Act Your Age!'
By Rabbi Audrey R. Korotkin December 4, 2014, 2:21 pm 0 Edit
Rabbi Audrey R. Korotkin
Parshat Vayishlach Genesis 32:4-36:43
So I took yet another one of those online quizzes today. This one seeks to guess my age using my answers to just six questions focused on pop culture. The first time I tried it, it estimated eight years too young, which was just fine with me. And I found that if I switched my beverage of choice from coffee to tea and my television show choice from "M*A*S*H" to "The Simpsons," I could shave off another 13 years. Which goes to show that "acting your age" is — at the very least — imprecise and more than a little subjective.
Of course, that's with regard to pop culture — movies, TV shows and the like. We're a lot more objective and demanding about acting your age when it comes to maturity and the responsible, ethical behavior we expect comes with growing up.
Which brings us to our patriarch Jacob and why the saga of his life is divided up as it is in these weekly portions.
Two weeks ago, in Parshat Toldot, we were introduced to the young, immature and selfish Jacob — the one who steals his elder brother's birthright and then tricks his father into the blessing reserved for Esau. This Jacob is a first-class deceiver. And he is not yet the Jacob who is ready to fulfill the role God promised to his mother, Rebekah, that "the elder shall serve the younger." Nor is Jacob ready for that role in the following parshah, last week's Vayetze. Here, Jacob the deceiver gets his comeuppance when Laban deceives him into marrying Leah when he wanted Rachel. Yet, his immaturity still shows. Though awestruck by the dream of the ladder to the heavens and God's promise of land and progeny, he shows hubris rather than humility. He tries to cut a deal with God: If You do as You have promised, then I will worship you.
But this week we come to the third installment, which is significant because 3 is the number of intention in Judaism and in the Torah: three days' walk for Abraham and Isaac to Moriah; and three days' preparation for the Israelites at the foot of Mount Sinai. With this third portion of the story, we have a sense that Jacob is finally paying full attention and acting with mature intention. We finally get Jacob acting his age, acknowledging his fears and doubts and shortcomings and asking God to bless him and protect him anyway. "I am unworthy of all kindnesses and faithfulness that You have shown to Your servant … save me, I pray, from the hand of my brother, Esau."
In his classic commentary on Genesis, E.A. Speiser points out the five-fold use of words based on the Hebrew root pay-nun-yud, which relates to the Hebrew word "face," in just two verses (Gen. 32:21-22), as Jacob sends his servants ahead to scout out Esau's camp and just before Jacob has his night encounter in the river Jabbok. In English, this might be rendered:
"Say to [Esau] as well 'Behold, here is your servant Jacob just behind us.' For [Jacob] reasoned, 'I will find favor with him (achaprah panav) with an offering that goes before me (b'mincha ha-holechet l'fanai) so that afterward, when I see his face (ereh panav), perhaps he will treat me kindly (yisa panai).' So the offering went on ahead of him (al-panav) while he stayed in camp that night."
If we believe that the Torah does not mince words, then the multiple appearance of this root must itself have meaning. I would suggest that Jacob is, perhaps without even realizing it, challenging himself to look critically and realistically at himself at this critical juncture in his life. It is this awakening that allows Jacob to step into the river that night, struggle with the "stranger" — who might be a messenger from God or even a manifestation of the darker side of his own nature — and come through physically injured but emotionally purified.
Jacob discovered, as do we all, that just getting older does not automatically equate to growing up. Each of us must figure out how to "act our age." Maturity comes from facing challenges rather than running from them, sometimes suffering the consequences of our choices and learning to live for others and not merely for ourselves. This process of acting our age may take longer for some of us than for others, but, as the Torah shows us this week, if a spoiled, selfish little boy can grow up to be Yisrael, then there is hope for us all.
Rabbi Audrey R. Korotkin is the spiritual leader of Temple Beth Israel of Altoona. This column is a service of the Greater Pittsburgh Rabbinic Association.


Our time on earth passes by within a blink. Don't let your memories slip away! And believe me, everybody has a story to tell.
1. We'll exchange all necessary info via email or phone. You'll get 12 questions about your personal life and time to think about your answers.
2. We meet for the interview which will be recorded with a microphone. We spend a couple hours together and I shoot images of your daily life.
3. My colleagues and I edit your film and you get you personal digital story.


At the SPS IPC Drives 2018 held in Nuremberg, Germany, Siemens will present a range of sector-specific solutions and future technologies to enable the digital transformation of today's discrete and process industries. The central focus of the over 4000 m2 Siemens booth will be on new products, solutions and services from the company's digital enterprise portfolio designed to enable the merger between the physical and digital worlds. The solutions on show will allow not only machine and plant builders but also end customers of any size (working in areas as diverse as the chemical, aerospace, battery, food and beverage industries), to boost the flexibility, efficiency, quality, security and speed of their operations. To get to grips with the rising complexity of production processes and leverage the many associated benefits, Siemens is continuously expanding and strengthening its portfolio with the integration of groundbreaking future technologies, from artificial intelligence to edge computing. As this year's trade fair slogan "Digital Enterprise – Implement now!" intimates, the technical conditions are already in place for Industry 4.0 as end-to-end solutions along the entire value chain.


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Deutsche Post DHL Group's Disaster Response Team ends first deployment in Africa having processed nearly 800 tonnes of cargo
Three teams of 12 volunteers processed cargo from approximately 50 aircraft over 20 days at Beira Airport to support relief efforts in the wake of Cyclone Idai
BONN, GERMANY - Media OutReach - April 17, 2019 - Deutsche Post DHL (DPDHL) Group, the world's leading mail and logistics services provider, has ended its first Disaster Response Team (DRT) deployment in Africa. On Friday April 12, 2019 the last DRT members moved out of Beira, where cyclone Idai the month before damaged over 700,000 hectares of crops, and destroyed close to 200,000 homes.[1] The team, in its time there, moved nearly 800 tonnes of incoming humanitarian aid from approximately 50 aircraft for further distribution to those displaced and affected by this natural disaster.
Member of DRT drives a forklift at Beira Airport to support relief efforts in the wake of Cyclone Idai.
Members of DRT work to offload supplies at Beira Airport to support relief efforts in the wake of Cyclone Idai.
DPDHL Group's DRT was deployed at Beira Airport between March 24 and April 12, 2019 at the request of the United Nations. 12 DHL volunteers from Mozambique, South Africa and United Arab Emirates worked in rotation across three teams. Over the course of nearly three weeks, the volunteers handled incoming relief goods and coordinated incoming humanitarian aid for the United Nations and international relief organizations.
Chris Weeks, Director for Humanitarian Affairs at Deutsche Post DHL Group who headed up the deployment said, "This particular deployment was groundbreaking for us in that it was our first mission to Africa. The challenges however were familiar and within the first few days of arriving the DRT firmly established its coordination expertise in the supply chain of incoming humanitarian aid." He continued, "All too often the sudden influx of relief aid to an airport creates bottlenecks and aid is unable to get out in a timely manner. This was precisely the scenario the team was trying to avoid and able to do so successfully."
During their time in Mozambique, the DRT acted as a liaison between the Beira Airport Authorities (ADM) and the large humanitarian community who occupied a vast area at the airport. The team supported international relief organizations such as IFRC, UNICEF, UNHCR, WHO, ASB, WFP, USAid and UKAid, and assisted with handling equipment, driving forklifts and high-loaders, and ensuring there was no build-up of incoming shipments.
"Over 80 partners including the Government of Mozambique, NGOs, UN agencies and Red Cross teams are taking part in the humanitarian response following Cyclone Idai, one of the worst tropical cyclones ever to hit Africa and the southern hemisphere. The logistics expertise of Deutsche Post DHL Group's DRT complemented the relief efforts from all these different partners at Beira Airport. We are grateful to the DHL volunteers who worked tirelessly alongside the humanitarian community to help move relief items efficiently in order for those affected to receive help as quickly as possible", explains Stephen Cahill, Global Logistics Cluster Coordinator at United Nations World Food Programme.
About the Disaster Response Team
The DRTs are part of DPDHL Group's GoHelp disaster management program, which it has operated in partnership with the United Nations (UN) since 2005. Through this partnership, the Group provides the UN and national disaster management agencies with pro bono access to its core logistics expertise, and the logistics skills of more than 500 specially-trained employee volunteers worldwide who can deploy within 72 hours after a natural disaster.
Since the partnership was launched, the DRTs have completed more than 40 deployments for different natural disasters in over 20 countries -- most recently the team helped the victims of the earthquake and tsunami in Palu, Indonesia in October 2018.
In addition to the DRT deployments, the Group's Get Airports Ready for Disaster (GARD) initiative -- also part of the GoHelp program -- trains airport management in high-risk regions to be better prepared should disaster strike.
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Just wanted to let you know that every time my rss reader tells me there's a new cmp episode I'm thrilled! I love listening to it. Typically I'll listen to most other podcasts right away, but I save the cmp for when I have a quiet moment to myself. I'll sit down on my bed with my art supplies and ipod and enjoy your show. Thank you for these moments.
So much of this show blended together. It was really neat how things seemed to be a theme that really related back to the title.
I can totally relate to what you're saying about drawing being easier somedays if you've got an object already selected. I've often thought that I might grab the kids plastic animals and draw a series of them. They're by Schleich, and are quite realistic.
Good luck with finding the center of the storm this week.


Thai Yoga Massage is a comprehensive full-body treatment directly rooted in the Indian healing traditions of Ayurvedic medicine and yoga, adapted and cultivated in the temples of Thailand. It combines the best of yoga and massage and it is performed on a mat in comfortable clothing. Each session is customized for your unique body makeup and your unique needs of the moment according to Ayurveda.
Thai Yoga Massage is for absolutely every-body: tight, flexible, stressed, injured, or even someone who is looking for a simply good stretch. The treatment can provide amazing results to reduce stress, tension, fatigue, insomnia, headache, neck and back discomfort, respiratory system problems, constipation, leg pain, etc.
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Q: Is there a Google API we can use to get user's Google Workspace Organization Information? We're adding Google as an identity provider to our application and we're hoping to get information about the user's organization to control access to resources.
I've tried the People's API https://people.googleapis.com/v1/people/me?personFields=organizations so far but it does not return my organization details even though I'm part of an organization.
# Response

{
    "resourceName": "people/my_id",
    "etag": "%tag"
}

From what I've read Google+ API has been deprecated as well so I'm not sure if there's still an API that can accomplish this.
Any ideas?

A: It seems that to recover this information from customers outside your organization is not possible.
You can create a Feature Request on Google's Issue Tracker to ask for this feature. This is the link for the Admin SDK template:

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*https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/new?component=191635&template=824102


It is over 40 years for the reason that Federal Whitlam Government made college training free. The Medical colleges and the CMSA additionally provide Larger Diplomas in many fields. Within the medical sciences program, students are introduced to the hospital setting the place they achieve hands on coaching from the qualifying physicians and staff on the varied instructing hospitals throughout Guyana. Medical Schools. All Hungarian medical schools have packages fully taught in English.
After 6 years, students graduate as basisartsen (similar to Docs of Medicine ). Because of the Bologna process , medical college students in the Netherlands now obtain a bachelor's diploma after three years in medical faculty and a grasp's diploma upon commencement. Medical levels are awarded to medical college students after the completion of their degree program, which usually lasts 5 or more years for the undergraduate mannequin and four years for the graduate mannequin.


In design thinking students were tasked with two different chair building projects.
At first groups told me that this was an impossible task. As they began working, prototyping and testing students started to discover ways to make a seemingly weak material, newspaper, extremely strong. Below are two examples of chairs built by students.
Following this project we discussed as a class if we did an effective job of engaging in the design thinking process in this project. Students decided that they did a good job of ideation, prototyping and testing, but the project lacked the empathy and discovery elements which are crucial to the design thinking process.
Our next project I found on Standford d.school's website, the 5 Chairs Exercise. In this project, students were tasked with building a chair to meet the needs of an assigned client. Students built three model chairs. Each model was made out of one of the following: out of toothpicks, popsicle sticks and pipe cleaners. Our initial newspaper chair allowed students to live in a space of play through prototyping and testing. This project allowed students to continue in a space of play, but instead there was a purpose – this project became meaningful.
With each of these projects students were clearly able to articulate the constraints that each material presented to them and how they had to be innovative in their ideas to ensure that they met the needs of their client. Photo 1 shows a chair designed for an elderly man. The chair comes equipped with a recliner and holder for the Grandpa's cane. In Photo 2 comfort was taken into consideration with cushions, massage and heat components (shown by square pieces of popsicle sticks or curved lines formed with hot glue). Finally, in Photo 3 we have a chair built for an astronaut. There are straps in place to ensure the astronaut does not float away when in space.
Through teaching design thinking this year, I have found the piece of empathy is key to a successful project. Students buy into the projects when they are able to relate or connect to a client and/or see a purpose to what they are doing.


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Q: Trouble with non-escaping closures in Swift 3 I have an extension Array in the form of:
extension Array
{
    private func someFunction(someClosure: (() -> Int)?)
    {
        // Do Something
    }

    func someOtherFunction(someOtherClosure: () -> Int)
    {
        someFunction(someClosure: someOtherClosure)
    }
}

But I'm getting the error: Passing non-escaping parameter 'someOtherClosure' to function expecting an @escaping closure.
Both closures are indeed non-escaping (by default), and explicitly adding @noescape to someFunction yields a warning indicating that this is the default in Swift 3.1.
Any idea why I'm getting this error?
-- UPDATE --
Screenshot attached:

A: Optional closures are always escaping.
Why is that? That's because the optional (which is an enum) wraps the closure and internally saves it.
There is an excellent article about the quirks of @escaping here.

A: As already said, Optional closures are escaping. An addition though:
Swift 3.1 has a withoutActuallyEscaping helper function that can be useful here. It marks a closure escaping only for its use inside a passed closure, so that you don't have to expose the escaping attribute to the function signature.
Can be used like this:
extension Array {

    private func someFunction(someClosure: (() -> Int)?) {
        someClosure?()
    }

    func someOtherFunction(someOtherClosure: () -> Int) {
        withoutActuallyEscaping(someOtherClosure) {
            someFunction(someClosure: $0)
        }
    }
}

let x = [1, 2, 3]

x.someOtherFunction(someOtherClosure: { return 1 })

Hope this is helpful!

A: The problem is that optionals (in this case (()-> Int)?) are an Enum which capture their value. If that value is a function, it must be used with @escaping because it is indeed captured by the optional.
In your case it gets tricky because the closure captured by the optional automatically captures another closure. So someOtherClosure has to be marked @escaping as well.
You can test the following code in a playground to confirm this:
extension Array
{
    private func someFunction(someClosure: () -> Int)
    {
        // Do Something
    }

    func someOtherFunction(someOtherClosure: () -> Int)
    {
        someFunction(someClosure: someOtherClosure)
    }
}

let f: ()->Int = { return 42 }

[].someOtherFunction(someOtherClosure: f)


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Drug Pushers in Academia
James Ridgeway
St. Andrews Careers Wiki
The pharmaceutical industry has wormed its way into the hearts and minds of the medical professions in any number of ways—wining and dining doctors, sending them off to vacation in splendid spas, and even buying their names to put on industry-written articles promoting different drugs.
One little known facet of this drugster-doctor relationship is Big Pharma's role in continuing medical education (CME) programs, which are important in keeping medical professionals informed and up to date on the fast developing profession. Of the $2 billion or so spent on these programs every year, nearly half comes from the drug business, which not-so-subtly uses the education programs to push new drugs.
Last week, a conference at Georgetown University called "Prescription for Conflict" pulled together experts from academia, government, and industry to discuss the question: Should industry fund continuing medical education? The main instigator here is a former colleague of mine named Adriane Fugh-Berman, a doctor and teacher at Georgetown University Medical School. Fugh-Berman long ago became the nemesis of Big Pharma with a stream of articles and talks questioning the different aspects of liaison between the drugsters and the medical profession. I worked with her helping to set up PharmedOut.org, a website that seeks to educate the public on these liaisons, in part through exposes, both written and on video.
The conference at Georgetown included few critics as candid as Fugh-Berman. Those gathered included polite academics with hedged criticism of industry funding, and regulators like Joshua Sharfstein, principal deputy commissioner at the FDA, and Julie Taitsman, chief medical officer at the Department of Health and Human Services, who presented a list of the different laws protecting the public. By the time they finished, I was so frustrated with government bureaucrats that I was about ready to join the tea party (except that they, of course, would want to do even less to control the greedmeisters at Big Pharma).
One blunt critique came from Paul Thacker, an investigator for Republican Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa, who has been the most visible Congressional muckraker on the doctor-drug company love-in. Thacker bluntly told the docs to get off their supercilious "Who, me?" attitude and come to grips with the scarcely believable conflicts of interest existing between the medical profession and the drug industry—conflicts that more often than not have been to the detriment of their patients.
The industry, as always, insists it isn't doing anything bad—far from it. Big Pharma, its representatives would have you believe, is really performing a public service, trying to educate docs so they can do a better job. This conference, however, offered a different point of view, in the statement of an anonymous "pharmaceutical executive," who admitted industry involvement in "CME has the potential for inappropriate promotional messaging and influence."
The anonymous exec went on to state: "Typically, companies make CME investment decisions at annual budget meetings. The sales and marketing divisions dominate deliberations and distribution of CME cash." In deciding what institutions are to get money, he continued, "large volume, influential institutions are not likely to be rejected…Friendly institutions, as defined by access and volume, are more likely to receive grants than those that favor another company's products. Grants may also be made in support of programs including particular KOLs [key opiniong leaders] whose opinions resonate with the promotional plan…Similarly, those known for positions antithetical to the company's promotional plan are less likely to be supported."
In conclusion, the exec said, "CME contributions are commercial decisions," and, finally, "CME is not compatible with commercial intervention." Too bad it takes a drug company whistleblower to make this statement of the obvious, rather than the medical organizations and government regulatory agencies who are supposed to be looking out for us.
This post also appears on Jim Ridgeway's personal blog, Unsilent Generation.
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The Maltese government hopes to acquire up to three new aircraft, which will be primarily required to perform border control missions, using money from the EU's External Borders Fund (EBF) programme.
An initial deal to order one aircraft this year is outlined, with this to be "subject to availability of funds from the European Borders Fund programme 2012". An option for a second helicopter to be ordered in an identical configuration would also be contingent on securing EBF funds the following year, the notice says.
Valletta will also consider acquiring another identical aircraft from the same funding route in 2014, with its request noting: "bidders have to guarantee the supply of the third helicopter until the year 2015 with a justifiable and reasonable price escalation not exceeding 5%".
Potential suppliers are due to respond to the request by 30 October, with Malta also seeking associated training services and potentially an in-service support package for the new type.
In addition to providing a border security function, the Maltese armed forces' current Alouettes are used to perform tasks including search and rescue and emergency response missions. Its aircraft were originally delivered to the Libyan army in 1976, as recorded by Flightglobal's HeliCAS database.
Malta has also recently acquired two Hawker Beechcraft King Air 200s configured for maritime patrol duties.


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As many of you Foolish readers may know, I'm a devout Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) bull. Over the years, there's only been a single-generation iPhone that I didn't own — the iPhone 3G released in 2008. I've been fiercely loyal to the platform.
Well, I went and did the unthinkable. I went and finally bought my first Android.
Let's be clear about something first. I remain a fiercely loyal iPhone user, and the primary reason I bought a device on Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG)'s competing platform is so that I can understand it better. As an analyst who closely follows mobile trends, Android is simply too important not too be well acquainted with. To date, my knowledge of Android has been built on extensively reading and watching tech reviews and other commentary, playing with demo units at retail stores, or playing with a friend's device for a minute or two. It's about time for me to get some firsthand experience.
The device will be secondary, and I'm still sticking by the iPhone for primary usage. I purchased Google's Nexus 4 specifically because I was interested in a stock Android experience. I'm enamored by the HTC One and its Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)-caliber hardware, but the $600 price tag was a bit much, since I was buying unsubsidized and off-contract. Carrier and OEM software layers like HTC's Sense also irk me.
After a couple days of exploring the operating system, how do I think Android and iOS stack up?
With the core interface, I believe Android has surpassed iOS. The design aesthetic is cleaner, and Google has made incredible strides over the past two years or so with incorporating numerous intuitive gestures throughout the OS. There are areas where Android undoubtedly has iOS beat, like gestures and options within the notification center; there are a lot of these little areas.
Altogether, these small features convey a sense that Android is much more refined than iOS is at this point. Playing around in Android reinforces the feeling I'd already been having that the iOS interface is stale.
While I have no direct experience with it (and don't plan to), there's abundant data that shows that Android is far less secure and that the platform is a malware magnet because of both its sheer ubiquity and its open nature.
Even though I appreciate the stock Android interface, sadly my experience isn't representative of the broader Android army. Platform fragmentation is exacerbating, and there are so many versions and distinct forks of Android that experiences vary widely. HTC Sense and Samsung TouchWiz are among the more prominent overlays, but there are countless others.


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Hecky: "We're looking up the division"
Head Coach confident the Reds can extend their unbeaten run to four matches this weekend.
Reds head coach Paul Heckingbottom insists the Reds are continuing to look up the table as they prepare to face Wigan Athletic this weekend.
The Latics are 22nd in the Championship table following promotion from League One last season, having only recorded one win in their last six games.
Heckingbottom is hopeful of picking up another positive result this weekend and closing the gap between the Reds and the Play-Off places.
He said, "Every game is an opportunity but at the moment, we're still looking up the division. Whoever is in front of us, we want to try and get above them.
"I don't look at the league, it might change depending on your position changing, but you know where you stand and it's about winning the next game and I can't see that ever changing.
"If you're doing that, you're distancing the gap between you and the teams below you and closing the gap on the teams above you."
Wigan's new manager Warren Joyce is preparing to take charge of his second Latics game, and Hecky is wary of the threat a team can carry with a new manager.
Despite the Latics being in the relegation zone, Hecky feels the result is far from a formality for the Reds and expects a fiery encounter between the two sides.
"In the last three games, we've seen a Gary Caldwell team, a Graham Barrow team and a Warren Joyce team, and it's not the finished article by no means.
"You can see slight changes and I'd expect to see differences again this weekend. One thing I will say about Warren is that he'll demand that his team work hard and i would have thought they'd be doing that anyway.
"They have a new manager and they'll want to impress him, it's a clean slate for them and that's one thing we know will happen, it will be a hectic game that's really competitive.
"For us, we're playing at home against a team below us which is great but they'll see it as playing against a team that's come up with them and it's a chance for three points.
"It will be highly competitive and we have to make sure they're ready for them.
"People don't realise, they're down there but they could have got as many points as us easily, they've had one goal defeats almost all the way through.
"Similar to us, they've been in the majority of games and we've been disappointing in two games and Wigan have been similar.
"Regardless of which way the result goes, it is not going to be an easy game," he added.
Andy Yiadom and Adam Armstrong have both been away during the international break with Ghana and England Under 20s respectively.
Heckingbottom explained the condition the duo have returned in.
"They've come back great but we're wary of the travel times. Yids trained all the time, Arma played a full 90 minutes and a 45 minutes, scored a few goals and was looked after in-between, so physically we know he's OK.
"Andy had about 18 hours travel time and Arma had a nine-hour time difference and Yids about four or five hours.
"It's those sorts of things that can have an impact, we give them a day off because they've been good players, we want them involved, and want them in the building and up to speed.
"We have to make sure they are physically and mentally right to go. Even if they're feeling fine but if we notice big differences and physical scars they may be affected.
"Adam's been and got value out of the trip but it's silly to take players all that way and not give them game time and mess their body clock up.
"When he's coming back having scored four goals it's great for us."
The international break has brought with it the positive of giving extra recovery time to Marc Roberts and Saidy Janko, and the Head Coach gave his assessment of their progress, along with that of full-back Aidy White.
"The plus side to the break is that we have managed to get some of the boys back in training, Marc Roberts and Saidy Janko have been back in training.
"There's still two days left before the weekend, Saidy got 45 minutes in a reserve team fixture, Robbo only came back in on Monday so there's still a long way to go before Saturday.
"Aidy has had an operation on his stomach which seems to have healed really well, we're trying to get his groin issues cleared up because it is connected, it's all his pelvic area.
"We can't have him back on the pitch until he is ready. He's not training yet, Robbo and Saidy are back in training but Aidy is not," added Hecky.
Despite being without a win at home since the end of August, Hecky feels this is not a cause for concern as the Reds have been playing well and picking up plenty of points.
He feels this weekend gives the Reds another chance to put some more points on the board.
Heckingbottom added: "The majority of fans see us play at home and they want to see wins here, if you get home wins, fantastic, but when we win away, that question is being asked again regarding home wins.
"For me it does not matter where points come from, but a last minute winner is better than a first minute winner and it's always good to send people home happy, but it's about accumulating points."
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