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11 Things About Lung Cancer Doctors Wish You Knew
Tina DonvitoUpdated: Mar. 08, 2022
You probably know smoking leads to lung cancer, but that's only part of the story. Here's the latest on prevention and treatment of this deadly disease.
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Lung cancer causes the most cancer deaths
The 23 best ways to stop smoking can reduce your chances of getting lung cancer. But if you're still lighting up, here's exactly what it's doing to your body to cause the condition: "Smoking introduces various toxic substances into the lungs that can affect the DNA of lung cells," says Jacob Sands, MD, an oncologist and lung cancer researcher at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. "These toxins increase the chance of mutations, or changes, developing in the DNA of lung cells." When certain mutations replicate out of control, that's cancer. According to the American Cancer Society, lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in U.S. adults—more than colon, breast, and prostate cancers combined.
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Your risk is dose-dependent
The more you smoke (or did in the past), the greater the risk of lung cancer. "Although quitting is the best way to decrease the risk of being diagnosed with lung cancer, it does not make the risks go away," Dr. Sands says. Fifty percent of those diagnosed with lung cancer are former smokers, he says. But this doesn't mean you shouldn't bother quitting. "The risk decreases the longer the person has refrained from smoking," he says. According to Harvard Medical School, a former smoker's lung cancer risk is cut by 50 percent in ten years, but is still elevated after 15 years. Find out other mind-blowing ways your body heals after you quit smoking.
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"Social smokers" are still at risk
One of the rampant health myths that need to die is that smoking just a little when you're out with friends doesn't mean you're a smoker. "It is common for people to believe that 'social smoking' will not affect them," Dr. Sands says. "Each cigarette one smokes actually creates measurable changes that can be observed." The risk for developing lung cancer increases after 100 lifetime cigarettes, he says. "Many people find that to be a shockingly low number," he says. But even light and intermittent smoking can cause substantial health risks, according to a review of research.
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Second and third-hand smoke can lead to cancer
Twenty-five percent of lung cancer victims have never smoked, says Bernard Park, MD, Deputy Chief of Clinical Affairs of the Thoracic Surgery Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. But, secondhand smoke—and potentially thirdhand smoke, which is nicotine residue left on clothing and surfaces—can increase your risk. "It is well-documented that secondhand smoke exposure is associated with increased lung cancer risk in never smokers, particularly those who live with active smokers," Dr. Park says. "The risk, much like with direct cigarette smoking, is dose-dependent and can be as high as 25 percent compared to never smokers who live in a smoke-free environment." If you live with a smoker, have them go outside to smoke, wash their hands afterward and their clothes frequently. And yes, thirdhand smoke is real.
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All kinds of smoke can cause lung cancer
Quitting smoking is the number one thing you can do to reduce your risk—find out what helped ex-smokers actually quit for good—and that means all types of lighting up. "Other tobacco exposure, such as cigars, pipes, or marijuana, [also cause the disease]," Dr. Parks says. According to the American Cancer Society, there is no "safer" tobacco product, including hand-rolled, herbal, menthol, clove, and those marketed as "natural." Hookahs are also linked with cancer; although the jury is still out on e-cigarettes, your best bet is to avoid them, too. This "harmless" teen habit could be as dangerous as smoking a pack a day.
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Beware of radon
There are things every homeowner should know about radon testing. "Radon, a colorless and odorless gas present in soil and fairly common in the United States, is the second leading cause of lung cancer," Dr. Sands says. When radon becomes trapped in enclosed spaces such as the low floors of homes and basements, it can cause radon levels to increase to unhealthy amounts. "It is important to test radon levels, and kits are available at hardware stores and often through state departments of public health," Dr. Sands says.
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Other surprising causes of lung cancer
"Radiation exposure—environmental or occupational; asbestos; chronic inflammatory lung disease like bronchiectasis or chronic bronchitis; environmental exposures including pollution and dust" can all lead to lung cancer, Dr. Park says. "Wear protective respiratory gear if engaged in an occupation where respiratory exposure to particulate matter is high." In addition, there may be a genetic element to lung cancer, but that probably doesn't come into play unless you actually smoke, Dr. Sands says.
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Early lung cancer symptoms are rare
You may be ignoring the signs of lung cancer. But unfortunately, the symptoms frequently show up only after the cancer is advanced. "This is why so many people diagnosed with lung cancer have metastatic disease [cancer that's spread]," Dr. Sands says. "Seventy percent of lung cancers diagnosed from symptoms are stage 4 and not curable." Plus, symptoms of lung cancer are so common among smokers, they're not reliable for diagnosis. Even so, see your doctor if you have symptoms under the acronym BREATHE: Blood when coughing, recurring respiratory infections, enduring cough, aches in the shoulder, back, or chest, trouble breathing, hoarseness or wheezing, or exhaustion.
Some people should be screened
Many serious cases of cancer could be avoided with preventative screenings. "If one meets criteria of high risk used in the recent National Lung Screening Trial—age between 55 and 75; history of cigarette smoking one pack per day for 30 years; or quit smoking less than 15 years ago—one should have annual screening with a low-dose CT chest scan," Dr. Park says. This will greatly increase the chances of catching cancer in an earlier, and curable, stage, Dr. Sands says. "About 70 percent of people diagnosed in a lung screening program are discovered at stage 1," he says. "Unfortunately, less than five percent of people who qualify are currently getting these scans." Here are smart habits that can prevent lung cancer to begin with.
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Recovery is possible
If you're diagnosed, your first thought is probably what your prognosis is. "Patients who do the best are diagnosed at early stages and have excellent lung function and overall health such that they can tolerate any of a number of treatments, including but not limited to surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, targeted therapy, and immunotherapy," Dr. Park says. "In addition, there are many sub-types of lung cancer that are extremely slow-growing and very treatable." A stage 1 lung cancer diagnosed in a lung-screening program has a 90 percent five-year survival rate, Dr. Sands says. These are other hopeful cancer statistics everyone should know.
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New advances in treatment
The most groundbreaking cancer research of the past decade includes new treatments for lung cancer. "It is almost an entirely different field from what it was," Dr. Sands says. "We now have various medications that can target cancer cells with specific DNA mutations more common in people with a limited smoking history." These targeted therapies work better and longer than chemo with fewer side effects, he says. In addition, "every oncologist that treats lung cancer has patients alive specifically due to the impact of immunotherapy, medications that help a person's immune system recognize the cancer," he says. Current studies are trying to increase the number of patients that benefit from this remarkable therapy. Watch out for these other 12 silent symptoms of lung disease.
Originally Published: February 01, 2018
Tina Donvito
Tina Donvito is a writer, editor, and blogger who writes about health and wellness, travel, lifestyle, parenting, and culture. Her work has been published online in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, and Parents, among others. Chosen by Riverhead Books and author Elizabeth Gilbert, her writing appears in the anthology Eat Pray Love Made Me Do It: Life Journeys Inspired by the Bestselling Memoir. Tina was previously editor-in-chief of TWIST magazine, a celebrity news title for teen girls with an emphasis on health, body image, beauty, and fashion.


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Review – Globalization and Capitalist Geopolitics
Adrian Budd, Apr 23 2016, 851 views
Globalization and Capitalist Geopolitics: Sovereignty and State Power in a Multipolar world
By Daniel Woodley
London: Routledge 2015
Daniel Woodley explores important contemporary trends in the capitalist world system from a Marxist perspective. Focusing on tensions between economic transnationalization and the persistence of state power and inter-state (and inter-regional) geopolitical rivalry, Woodley poses challenging questions for all perspectives in IR, including those seeking to transform the chaotic and destructive dynamics of globalized capitalism.
Woodley's central thesis is that, notwithstanding US military and financial power, the world has entered a transitional phase in which 'imperial state hegemony is giving way to a new international economic order characterized by capitalist sovereignty and the competition between regional/transnational concentrations of power for geopolitical security' (p.xiii). In line with the transnationalist Marxist perspective, Woodley argues that the scale of transnational corporate power is such that the significance of inter-state competition is declining and that corporations operate within the framework of an emergent transnational state form of capital (chapter 4).
Capitalist sovereignty and state power
Woodley argues that the concept of capitalist sovereignty (chapter 2) reintegrates the dual logics of capital and territoriality that are separated in much international political economy. Rejecting the common view that states are the basic entities of IR, Woodley 'places the value form-determined relation of power at the centre of theoretical analysis' (p.1), emphasizing that both capital and states are subject to capital's determining logic. Capital continues to depend on states 'to reproduce the conditions necessary for the production of value' (p.22), but, echoing Robert Cox's transmission belt metaphor (later withdrawn), Woodley argues that states are becoming 'administrative instruments for restructuring' economies in line with transnational corporate interests (p.18). Like other transnationalists, Woodley throws down a gauntlet to state-centric IR and IPE, Marxist and otherwise.
The processes of transnationalization and the supersession of state power by capitalist sovereignty are incomplete and the developing transnational state remains 'unstable', even if Woodley argues that it is 'the contemporary global form of the capitalist state' (p.73). But if it is unstable, and if the institutions of global governance 'are unlikely to survive the eclipse of a hegemon with the determination to defend the given status quo' (p.80), the transnationalist thesis begins to look questionable. Important aspects of the relationship between capitals and states that Woodley might have addressed include: the degree to which transnational capitalist class formation has developed and its relationship to national class formation; whether the global financial institutions are a vehicle for the imposition of rules and policies reflecting global capital's ascendency or a site for inter-state bargains and the relationship between the two; whether, and which, capitals retain a privileged relationship with home-states.
Consistent with the view that state power has been partially eclipsed by transnational corporate interests, Woodley argues that traditional statist geopolitics is 'increasingly inconsistent with the transnational organization of trade, investment and production in a post-US-centric global economy…' (p.1). In chapter 7, 'capitalist geopolitics', he elaborates this argument and provides a fascinating analysis on some key issues in the contemporary geopolitical landscape. These include the developing multi-polarity, the rise of non-Western contender states such as China, Russia and Iran and the developing counter-hegemonic cooperation between them, including via measures that could contribute to the weakening of dollar supremacy. He also stresses the abiding importance of Eurasia, which has been uppermost in US geostrategic thinking for some decades. His coverage stresses the fluidity and messiness of world order after the certainties of the bi-polar Cold War and the post-Soviet-collapse unipolar moment. Insightful and interesting, this chapter nevertheless sits uneasily with Woodley's central thesis and is cast firmly within a state-centric framework.
Woodley rejects the US super-imperialism perspective sometimes mobilized by those on the Left who supported the USSR, however critically, but there are traces of Cold War 'campism' in some of his arguments. Thus, 'while Russia and China need peace to realize their long-term goals… the US needs perpetual conflict to push rising contenders off-balance and delay secular realignment of world order – even at the risk of igniting full-scale war in Europe' (p.212). The reference to US interests here is cause for further reflection, but recent events (in Ukraine, Chechnya, Georgia, and around the South China Sea for example) suggest that where Russia and China are concerned Woodley is empirically inaccurate, while it is also hard to discern its consistency with Marxism.
Marxist approaches to IR build upon Marx's insight that capital is not a thing but a relation – between dead and living labour – and his labour theory of value. Woodley rejects this: under financialization 'the assumption that value is derived exclusively from direct exploitation of labour-power as a commodity is unsustainable' (p.7). This argument is not developed systematically, but is supported by claims that financial capital has constructed a transnational mode of power 'realized through the organization and manipulation of markets and prices' and that new financial instruments are able to 'leverage value from investments in equities and securities at higher rates than is possible through the exploitation of labour-power…' (p.8). Demonstrating the power of financial capital to secure global sources of current and future value does not, however, conclusively demolish the labour theory of value, which underpins, albeit via a series of complex mediations, the world's equities and securities markets. Whether as a result of his approach to value or otherwise, the working class is all but invisible in Woodley's book. This invisibility allows Woodley to construct a one-sided account of an abstract global capital operating in a de-politicized transnational economic space. This account overlooks the concrete form of transnational capital as globally oriented corporations, with particular strategic objectives, structures, value-chain linkages and historical relations with particular states. Embroiled in intense competition with each other in a context of dynamic unevenness, and dependent on states to provide a veneer of legitimacy to capitalist practice and to manage the capital-labour relation, capitals continue to work closely with states.
Once the capital-labour relation is made central to explanations of wider forms of social power, capitalist geopolitics can be understood not as an expression of the power of capital in isolation but as an aspect of a total uneven and combined social system within which subaltern classes and states are essential and dynamic elements. Woodley occasionally hints that states articulate, promote and defend the interests of nationally-based capitals rather than passive bearers of the imperatives of transnational capital. Thus, he refers to 'the determination of Asia and Latin America to overcome relative backwardness through coordinated state intervention, state managed financial architectures….' (p.160). Elsewhere, he refers to the way that transnational capital seeks protection from regional economic arrangements, such as the EU (p.148), and argues that rising contender states 'would eventually seek to revise the existing structure of global governance to support their own geopolitical aspirations and regional financial interest' (p.105). But, the thrust of his argument is that transnational capital is triumphant and states increasingly subordinate to an emergent transnational state form. While Woodley, and transnationalist Marxism more generally, rightly highlights and theorizes the emergence of novel forms and processes in world capitalism in recent decades, change does not obliterate continuity. The inter-imperialist rivalry perspective of the classical Marxist tradition retains much of its explanatory power, even as continual adjustments must be made to accommodate and explain real changes in the global system.
Globalization and capitalist geopolitics frequently takes the form of a long literature review in which Woodley slaloms between theorists without reference to the evidential basis of their arguments and often does not clearly demarcate his own views. Nevertheless, his scholarship is extensive and much of his discussion is important and challenging. The rational kernel of his central argument lies in the fact that capitalism tendentially unifies the world economy under the whip of competitive pressure, which shapes all forms of social power, including state political power. The geostrategy of the world's major states, particularly United States, world capitalism's (declining) hegemonic force, is also subject to these pressures and geared towards the promotion of transnational economic integration and global openness. But this is only part of the story, and Doug Stokes correctly identifies dual logics – transnational and national – operating on the US. The world's major state simultaneously promotes transnationalism and its own interests, and, while the balance between the two may differ, this is also true of other significant states.
When Marx and Engels wrote in the Communist Manifesto that capitalist state executives manage the common affairs of the entire bourgeoisie they made no reference to uncommon affairs (nor, incidentally, to the fact that most of 'the entire bourgeoisie' is managed by other states). If capitalist competition persists, even to the point of the destruction of rival firms, under these states, it is hard to see why this should be different at the global level, or why capitals would forego the competitive advantages that might still arise from a structured relationship with states.
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About The Author ( Adrian Budd):
Dr Adrian Budd is a Principal Lecturer in Politics at London South Bank University. He teaches a range of undergraduate modules covering political theory, European politics, international relations and the rise of the BRICS countries. His research interests and publications focus on international relations, imperialism, social theory, China and the BRICS economies, and the politics of sport. Dr Budd's latest book, Class, States and International Relations: a critical appraisal of Robert Cox and neo-Gramscian theory was published by Routledge in May 2013.
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Now, I spent several minutes fishing for more information, like the possible source for his new found wisdom. But, as the minutes ticked by I believe the look of horror on my face eventually shut him down. For better reference here, there are the pretty iridescent dragonflies and then there are the fat ugly brown ones. We are in the season for the latter, which is what he found to be so tasty.
Horrified and thoroughly stumped, I searched my parenting experience for what to do. I mean, what do I do with a boy who snacks on giant dragonflies? It really isn't a punishable offense, and by all accounts dragonflies are technically edible. Along with roaches, grasshoppers and termites. Or so my helpful husband tells me.
later, I talked with my son about the possibility of this incident being an attempt to make his siblings laugh. (It was my best guess.) He denied it, but I know there's a comedian locked inside of there. We discussed how comedians earn money making people laugh and how laughter can bring healing to the soul. After affirming he was smart and already makes others laugh, I told him he did not need to be gross or yucky to do it.
Praying for wisdom today… perhaps someone you know could use a little more as well.
Prayers taken from the BiblicalPrayers mobile app. Download today on the App Store or Google Play store.
For those of you who love to eat exotic foods diving into the delicacies of crickets and such, here is a recipe for you. Unfortunately, I am afraid I cannot personally recommend it as I have no intentions of ever trying it. I ate a cricket once at a missions dinner. The leg broke off and the spikes caught on my tongue and a friend had to help me remove it. Hopefully your experience is a better one.
Chop Cilantro leaves and mix together with paprika, butter, salt, garlic, cumin and chili power and set aside.
To cook crickets, heat oil and add crickets. Stir until "spitting subsides." Add the butter mixture until completely melted. Add spinach and toss until slightly wilted. Serve hot.
This is not my creation. For further clarification you can read it first hand at the FineDiningLovers website: https://www.finedininglovers.com/recipes/appetizer/cricket-recipe/.
You can imagine my answer when Esther said, "Mommy, can we have a kitten?" … That's how Cupcake entered our lives today. What can I say? It's summer.
We are not an animal rescue farm, but years ago I made a commitment. With Jesus being the Author of Life, it is my personal conviction to fight for life when it is within my power. In an effort to raise up children who will also value and fight for every life no matter how small, I said yes.
And you know what? I'm not sorry. The look on my daughters face was more than enough justification for that yes.
All day Esther has been bathing her, naming her, cuddling her, moving her from indoors to outdoors and all kinds of other locations. Eventually, I had to put my foot down and say, "Sorry honey, you cannot sleep with her." Welcome to the family Cupcake. You are already loved.
The myriad of life-giving choices and decisions are as different as the colors in a sunrise. Whether it is small, every day choices or big life decisions, lets pray over our loved ones that they will be a source of God's living water to those around them.
When it's 5:30 and I am still on the road with still no dinner plan in sight, I'll throw the kids into the car with me and go to Chick-Fil-A. Sometimes I feel like I am cheating, but I then I look in my rear view mirror and see them happily munching away. In my books, that's a win. So, on this blog there is no shame for the nugget. Especially when it comes with sauce.
This last week, on the fourth of July my oldest three learned how to ride their bikes without training wheels!
I honestly believe we were a little bit behind on this as parents, but these kids were SO ready. With just a few runs each, they took off like pros. The biggest struggle was learning how to start on their own, and how to push through their own disappointment when it took more work than they expected.
Who wants to go ride bikes with me?!
Tiny helmets and shoes on, they go flying out that back door as fast as their feet can carry them.
Yell "Coming up behind you!" before you pass someone.
Don't swerve when someone is passing.
Don't go near your sisters.
Always wear shoes and helmets.
Rules for three new bikers probably looks different than a single rider.
Letting go of control can be hard as a parent. As much as we want to see them succeed, it can be scary to cut the apron strings, or in our case, take off the training wheels. But, wisdom and understanding are both gifts from the Lord and are derived from experience self-learned or by watching others. At some point, you gotta let go and pray for wisdom and understanding.
Cheese Sticks – full fat.
Something leftover from breakfast like a biscuit or a pancake.
I would love to hear what you have in your cornucopia! We could all use some fresh ideas.
Fun fact: Between the 7 of us, we go through 16 bananas a week. They range between $0.50-.60 per banana. A budget friendly option.
There are so many names I use to describe my roll as a mom. In the height of our baby days, I often referred to myself as the "Family Pack Mule." With 5 kids born in 3.5 years, I spent my days loaded down with all kinds of paraphernalia.
"Me" in the baby stage.
Before Fall rushes upon us, I like to take time to step back and fit together the puzzle pieces of our future schedule. It is way too easy to become that crazy, busy family that never has time to cook a meal and eat it. Always zipping from one appointment to another, I am already noticing those uninterrupted conversations between Brian and I are more elusive than ever. Last night I found myself thinking about our future Fall schedule (at 11pm… of course).
Personally, as I look to the upcoming season in our lives I am realizing that we will soon need to make some hard decisions about which commitments God has called us to.
If it isn't life-giving, it is life-sapping.
Saying no can be hard, and leaving a commitment is even harder. It is the heart of a servant to see a need and want to fill it. But, we see God's best work when we stick the plan He has for us, not the plans everyone else has for us.
So, here is a word of encouragement to the Pacemakers who are hard at work creating a healthy, life-giving foundation for our families: Find the heartbeat. If it's too fast, be bold and slow it down. We all need flexibility and down time in our lives. Since we will not magically wake up to it, it is up to us to evaluate and make changes.
Know someone who needs to step out of "busy" and into the plans God has prepared for them? Let's pray for clarity and discernment.
Pop the lid on top and put it into the oven. Set to 350 and let it roast for 3-4 hours. Check on it, cut into smaller pieces and let it roast for another hour. Once tender, shred and serve.
My dad has trademarked this phrase in my mind. Being a country boy through and through, he has always described the finer, more artistic side of life as "artsy fartsy." Those of us who do have creative bones in our body have a better understanding of the need for creative expression.
Which is what led our family to Michaels. After my not-so-brilliant decision to have a "foot-loose and fancy-free" summer, the kids began to self-destruct. I don't know about yours, but mine thrive on a schedule. I needed to redirect their energy and get their hands and minds engaged in something creative.
Plus, I get to shop the store for a glorious hour. The girls are too young to join, so they go with me and we play with all we see. Aside from the pretend apple that now has Ruthie's bite marks in it… (sorry Michaels, she was hungry), we haven't had any casualties. Just lots of fun.
This was so good our dinner was quiet and usually I'm wishing for ear plugs.
Last night I used chicken legs instead of wings because they are more meat for your work, but you can use whichever you want.
Preheat oven to 400 and line a baking sheet with greased foil. In a mixing bowl, melt 4 tbsp of butter and add minced garlic, salt, pepper, Parmesan cheese and parsley. Roll raw chicken legs in the marinade and lay on them on the prepared baking sheet so they do not touch. Bake for 35-40 minutes turning chicken once half way through.
While baking, melt the remaining butter and add 1 tbsp powdered garlic, 1 tbsp Parmesan cheese, dried parsley and 1 tsp onion powder. When chicken is fully cooked, remove from oven and drizzle with the butter mixture. Serve immediately with lots of napkins.


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This toolkit is divided into five domains, work-life balance, dignity at work, health and safety at work, job design and learning and development in the workplace. Indicators under each of the five domains can be used to carry out a health check of your organisation and identify areas for improvement. The toolkit includes links to support when making improvements.
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Watch a short film about how RCN rep Alex Scott at used the healthy workplace toolkit when he worked with staff and the new leadership team at Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, to transform what had previously been a poor workplace culture there.


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Image from Google Street View.After campaigning to make public safety at top priority, Anchorage Mayor Ethan Berkowitz is putting millions of dollars towards more police officers and fire fighters.Download AudioAt a press conference Wednesday, Berkowitz announced an extra $5 million for the fire and police departments in his forthcoming budget. Most of the money will go towards running three police academies in the year ahead to increase the size of the force closer to a target of 400 officers. An additional 10 firefighters will also be hired.Berkowitz says in spite of inheriting a projected budget deficit of $11 million, the administration has found a way to pay for additional public safety personnel."We were able to move some of the pieces of government around to do that. But also we're looking at some adjusting the fines people pay–they haven't been adjusted in 14, 15 years, and that should result in a significant addition, which should cover the cost of the academies."During the announcement, Berkowitz was flanked by both the outgoing and incoming police chiefs. The department has struggled to fill academies in the past, and incoming chief Chris Tolley [Tully] says they'll try and recruit more from previously neglected communities that might make the force more reflective of Anchorage's ethnic diversity. Outgoing Chief Mark Mew says new officers will be put towards a community policing model laid out in a 2010 report."The goal still–and always has been–implementing the PERF report. Certainly we will go back to that report, we've actually are brining the original author of that report back on contract this month to help spruce up that report, make sure it's all valid and good to go."Staffing at APD has been a politically fraught issue in recent years, with the last administration canceling academies over fiscal concerns. Today's press conference by the Berkowitz administration comes two days before it presents its 2016 budget to the Assembly on Friday. read more


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Q: Add cells to beginning of collection view instead of end I am including a form of infinite scrolling on my collection view, but the newest data is at the end of collection view and the old data is at the beginning. So when a user scrolls to the top of the currently loaded data, it loads in the next 5 cells (for this example). These five cells are loaded into the top 5 cells (because it is older data and oldest data is at top/beginning of collection view) which means the data on the screen shows these 5 newly loaded cells instead of the screen staying on the 6th cell (which was the first cell before the data loaded). <- Since that doesn't make any sense, I have included pictures below
What screen looks like initially before loading in older data
What screen looks like after loading in older data
However, I want the cell that contains "6" to still be at the top and have the previous cells above that so the user has to scroll for cells containing 1 - 5 to appear. Please ask any questions for clarification as this was hard to put into words

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Thanks to rePete, you can now download a pdf to make bunch of ERE bookmarks. I printed mine on card stock.
Rather than using a guillotine paper cutter, which I don't have, I used a ruler and a knife to score the lines. This made it easy to use a pair of scissors to cut a straight line.
If you feel like designing your own and making them publicly available, you can see the "instructions" here.
Also check out the latest book review by Larry MacDonald at Canadian Business Online. Much thanks to everyone who has taken the time to write a review.
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I like the knife. What make?
@gibberade – It's a Leatherman Flair, the only one they ever made with a cork screw.
@Jacob: Actually, it's the only one they've ever made with a cocktail fork and pate spreader; some of the Juice line models are equipped with corkscrews. How do you like the Flair? They're interesting multitools if only for just how bad they flopped.
Funny…my comment was to be about the multi-tool. I swear by my beloved Leatherman Wave!
@Rex – Okay, the first one with a cork screw. For me, it's convenient because it doesn't allow one-handed opening. This makes it legal in all the countries I go to. The four most used tools are the knife, the scissors, the cork screw, and the pliers. I've never used the "cocktail tools".
A little out of our budgets, I assume.
Although it would be pretty neat.
Ok, the knife is cool (especially since I had mine confiscated last year while traveling).
But I just wanted to say: I am now the *proud* owner of Early Retirement Extreme… made it's way from the European press station (where ever amazon has their printing houses here) to me in Germany!
@HSpencer: Actually, Top Gear recently used one in one of their shows; granted, they had to use the saw to cut something, seeing as the knife blades on the Giant models (of which there are several variations) aren't sharpened.
I thought that said Lanny MacDonald (former NHL player) at first.
I'm going to print some out on extra card stock and see if they'll pass them out at our library.


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Scaptesyle violinitens is een beervlinder uit de familie van de spinneruilen (Erebidae). De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1912 door Rothschild.

Scaptesyle

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«Never Too Late» (en español: «Nunca es muy tarde») es una canción pop de la cantante australiana Kylie Minogue. Fue lanzada como el tercer sencillo de su segundo álbum de estudio Enjoy Yourself en 1989.

Historia
Kylie quiso lanzar la canción Enjoy Yourself como el tercer sencillo del álbum homónimo, pero Pete Waterman rechazó la petición y "Never Too Late" fue lanzado en su lugar en 1989. A pesar de que debutó en el puesto número 17 debido al retraso del lanzamiento del formato vinilo, la canción se convirtió en un éxito instantáneo, alcanzando el número 4. Su bajo debut rompió la impresionante corrida de 7 top dos consecutivos, pero se convirtió en su octavo top 5 consecutivo.

El lado B, llamado "Kylie's Smiley Mix", fue un mix continuo de sus éxitos del álbum Kylie y la versión vinilo incluyó esas canciones en el siguiente orden: "I'll Still Be Loving You", "It's No Secret", "Je Ne Sais Pas Pourquoi", "Turn It Into Love", "I Should Be So Lucky", "Got To Be Certain" y el silbido del comienzo del mix de 1988 es de la canción "The Loco-Motion". El mix 7" contiene las mismas canciones, pero omitiendo "I'll Still Be Loving You" e "It's No Secret".

El sencillo recibió promoción justa en el Reino Unido con una destacable aparición en Des O'Connor Show, tanto como en Saturday morning television.

Se declaró en 1999, en la biografía oficial de Minogue que esta canción fue la favorita canción de Kylie del antiguo vocalista de la banda INXS y exnovio de Kylie, Michael Hutchence.

El tema es mencionado en el capítulo siete de la segunda temporada de Doctor Who, donde el doctor dice la estrofa de la canción "It's never too late, as a wise person once said; Kylie, I think".

Video musical
El video para Never Too Late fue dirigido por Pete Cornish. El video muestra a Kylie con diferentes vestidos junto a sus bailarines en frente de varios fondos - algunos de los vestidos son de vaquera, onda disco, vestido chino con sus fanes, y uno a la moda de 1920. El video fue premiado por el "video más popular" en la 32.ª edición anual de los Logie Awards, que tuvo lugar en Australia en 1990.

Sencillos
CD sencillo
 «Never Too Late» – 3:21
 «Never Too Late» (Extended) – 6:11
 «Kylie's Smiley Mix» (Extended) – 6:17

7" sencillo

 «Never Too Late» – 3:21
 «Kylie's Smiley Mix» (7" versión) – 3:59

12" sencillo

 «Never Too Late» (Extended) – 6:11
 «Kylie's Smiley Mix» (Extended) – 6:17

7" sencillo australiano

 «Never Too Late» – 3:21
 «Made in Heaven» (Heaven Scent Mix) – 4:43

12" sencillo australiano/Casete

 «Never Too Late» (Extended) – 6:11
 «Made in Heaven» (Heaven Scent Mix) – 4:43

Presentaciones en vivo
La canción ha sido presentada en los siguientes shows en vivo

 Enjoy Yourself Tour
 On A Night Like This Tour
 Kylie Fever Tour 2002
 An Audience With... Kylie

Posicionamiento

Referencias

Canciones de 1989
Canciones de Kylie Minogue
Sencillos de 1989
Sencillos de Kylie Minogue


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Q: INSERT INTO por alguna razon no funciona me ayudan a ver que esta mal? no encuentro el problema. No da error de conexion. La variable $conexion se encuentra dentro de conecta.php.
FORMULARIO
 <form action="welcome.php" method="POST" class="login">
        <select required name="usuario_registro">

            <option name="administrador"  value="administrador">Administrador</option>

            <option name="propietario" value="propietario" selected>Propietario</option>

            <option name="inquilino" value="inquilino">Inquilino</option>

        </select>

        <input type="text" required name="nombre" id="email" placeholder="Cual es tu nombre">

        <input type="text" required name="apellido" id="email" placeholder="Tu apellido?">

        <input type="text" required name="email" id="email" placeholder="Ingresa tu Email">

        <input type="text" required name="password" id="clave" placeholder="Crea una clave">

        <input type="submit" name="registrando" id="entrar" value="Registrame" class="btn btn-link">

Ya tienes una cuenta?

        Ingresa ahora!
    </form>

PAGINA DE RECEPCION
 <?php

        $registro_tipo=$_POST['usuario_registro'];
        $nombre=$_POST['nombre'];
        $apellido=$_POST['apellido'];
        $email=$_POST['email'];
        $pass=$_POST['password'];

        require ("config/conecta.php");

    $sql="

    INSERT INTO usuarios

    (

    usuario_registro,
    nombre,
    apellido,
    email,
    password

    ) VALUES (

    '$registro_tipo',
    '$nombre',
    '$apellido',
    '$email',
    '$pass'

    )

    ";

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    if($resultados==false) {

            echo " No funciona";
    }

A: Te recomiendo que trabajes tus operaciones a la base de datos a través de consultas preparadas, noto por el uso de mysqli_query() que te conectas a través de mysqli, por lo que aquí te dejo como debería ir tu código
<?php

$registro_tipo=$_POST['usuario_registro'];
        $nombre=$_POST['nombre'];
        $apellido=$_POST['apellido'];
        $email=$_POST['email'];
        $pass=$_POST['password'];

        require ("config/conecta.php");

$alta = $conexion->prepare("INSERT INTO usuarios(usuario_registro, nombre, apellido, email, password) VALUES(?,?,?,?,?)");
$alta->bind_param("sssss", $registro_tipo, $nombre, $apellido, $email, $pass);
$alta->execute();

OBSERVACIONES

*

*En lugar de colocar las variables directo en la sentencia SQL, coloco un marcador de posición por medio del signo ?

*Hago uso del método bind_param() para indicarle por medio de s que los valores todos son de tipo string y posterior las variables por medio de las cuales hará el intercambio por cada marcador de posición

*Hago uso de prepare()para crear la consulta preparada

*Con el método execute() proceso dicha consulta

Tienes las siguientes opciones para identificar los tipos de datos

*

*i -> integer

*d -> double

*s -> string

A: También puedes usar el objeto PDO para la conexión:
$connection = new PDO('mysql:host=myhost.com;dbname=mydb',myDbUser,myDbPass);

Entonces para hacer tus query's usarías la siguiente manera:
$statement = $connection->prepare('SELECT name,author,price,year FROM books WHERE year BETWEEN :year1 AND :year2');
$result = $statement->execute(array(':year1'=>1993,':year2'=>2000));

Como puedes ver al momento de ejecutar el SQL le pasamos un array asociativo como argumentos para asignarle un valor a los aleas que pusimos con dos puntos antes del nombre en el SQL.


Philosophy lecturer Peter Westmoreland challenges you to remember your humanities classes. Grab a pencil and see how well you do for a chance to win a free T-shirt!
Socrates argues in Apology that only a few, say, the trainers of horses can actually improve horses, and likewise for the youth. Socrates makes this argument to demonstrate that his accuser at trial brings charges against him frivolously. What kind of argument is this?
In the Meditations, René Descartes famously engages in skepticism, doubting all of his beliefs in order to secure a firm foundation for the sciences. "I am, I exist" is necessarily true every time I utter it or conceive it in my mind." This is the first unshakeable truth Descartes discovers. What is the last major truth Descartes discovers in the Meditations ?
Whereas Thomas Hobbes depicts "the life of man" as "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short," Jean-Jacques Rousseau sees him "satisfying his hunger under an oak, and his thirst at the first brook … all his wants are completely supplied." What reason does Rousseau give for rejecting Hobbes' view?
"What is a woman?" Which of the following is an answer that she gives?


I need, I need, I need! Gimme, Gimme, Gimme!
Her children rise and call her blessed.
My mom passed away just four days shy of her 67th Mother's Day. She was 88 and she was a saint. If you have read any of my stories about my dad, you will know that no truer words were ever spoken.
It might seem odd, but I like to read obituaries. They are sobering and give one perspective on how tenuous life really is. Rarely are they ever completely truthful or give the entire story about what kind of person the deceased really was. In every obituary the deceased family member was loved by everyone, loved life, always had a ready smile and never got angry. Invariably, the person will be missed by every single person who knew him or her. It's just what you do when you remember someone. You accentuate the best and forget the rest. It's a delicate balance and absolutely to be expected. However, there is no delicate balance with my mom. This is the honest truth – she was a saint.
She lived the last years of her life in a community of retired people (the last eight years in a nursing home) and outlived most of them. Few of her friends are left to remember her. But, her kids remember.
I would like you to meet my mom.
Gertrude Lorraine Bentley was born in 1926. I don't know much about her life because she never really talked about it, and I never asked, but what I've pieced together is that she was born into a migrant farm family that moved west during the Depression. They were a family of dusty, fruit-pickers out of The Grapes of Wrath. Her home life wasn't ideal: her father drank and her mother slept at a friend's house because of it.
Mom was a teenager when she and Dad met. They were polar opposites and I can only assume that he swept her off her feet with his enormous personality. He must have seemed like the brass ring in an otherwise mundane merry-go-round. By the time I heard the stories of my dad getting into knife fights and brawls at bars with his then pregnant wife (my mother) in the fray, I couldn't imagine it. This woman with graying hair, who loved nothing more than to sit and read James Herriot novels and drink coffee or play endless games of cribbage with her son, didn't seem capable of wanting to smoke cigarettes, while sitting in a bar watching her husband fight. All I can imagine is that he must have seemed like an amusement ride compared to the life she previously led. She must have seemed like a breath of fresh air to my dad.
I met her when she was 38. I had just been born and from everything I pieced together later in life, I was a huge accident. But in her mind, I was not a mistake. She told me one time that even though Dad was really, really mad about her being pregnant (why he would be mad when he had a part in the process is beyond me) her arms ached to hold me. It truly is all any child can ask of a mother – to be loved so much that her arms ached if you weren't in them.
I remember bits and pieces of my childhood. I remember helping her make cookies. I remember Swedish pancakes with powdered sugar and lemon juice squeezed out of a plastic lemon. I remember one-eyed Egyptian eggs. I remember sitting with her in a rocker. I remember the squeaky sound of her cleaning our huge picture windows and walking up and down Madison Avenue with her lifting my arm up so I wouldn't trip going over the curb. I can only see dimly the moments of her caring for my needs, but I am left with a vivid and overwhelming sense, like a technicolor hand-crocheted afghan, of how much she liked me.
Most kids know that their parents love them. It is an entirely different thing to know that your parents like you. I know that my mom liked me. This is especially telling because in my mind I wasn't a particularly likeable kid. What an amazing thing for me to come home from school knowing that even though I may have had a really, really bad day, there was someone at home who couldn't wait to see me and actually liked being around me. She was my refuge and there is no greater blessing than that for a kid.
There are life lessons to be learned from my mother if we are wise enough to listen. She never read any books on how to raise children. She was permissive in her parenting, she never physically disciplined me, she was a good cook, but still allowed me to eat all the things that weren't good for me, and she was virtually incapable of helping me or my siblings get through those awkward years where you don't know why your feet are suddenly huge or why funny bumps are breaking out all over your face. But, the one thing she was capable of doing she did in spades – she loved us. Her love seemed to erase all the things she wasn't able to do otherwise and it had a profound impact on all of us. Her children have risen up because of it and called her blessed.
I never heard a single complaint about having to take care of any of us, and, in all my years, I never heard her say a harsh thing about me or any of my siblings. She just didn't have it in her. She built up her children and never tore them down. She worked tirelessly to make sure we were well fed and clothed and had what we needed.
Mom was happy being at home. Dad wasn't. He always wanted to be doing something. She wasn't particularly fond of going places, but she went. If we picnicked, she packed, cooked and cleaned up when we got home. If we fished, she processed the fish. If we clammed, she cleaned them all. If we crabbed, she cooked them. She held our coats when we got hot and our shopping bags if we didn't want carry them. There were times she was so overloaded that she looked like a Sherpa going up Mount Everest. She bandaged my cuts and washed my wounds. She watched over the treasures that I found on the beach so no one would take them. I took great advantage of her kindness, but that was Mom. She gave and gave, but never required anything in return. She was a saint.
Yes, that's a football. Yes, I did share my sister's room for years.
She spent her entire life putting her children first. Her arms ached to hold me as a baby, but her arms ached to hold all her kids. All of her children have the same sense of kindness and affection towards her that was gained when she rocked us to sleep as children or read to us when she put us to bed. She wasn't the smartest or the prettiest (though she was both smart and pretty), but she loved us unconditionally. This love kept me from doing some really stupid things as I grew up. In my world, the worst thing I could do was hurt my mom and the first thought that came into my head when I was tempted to do something stupid was, how will this make mom feel? I feared disobeying my dad. I felt self-loathing when I did something to hurt my mom.
She only raised her hand against me one time. I don't remember the exact circumstance, but to have done something bad enough to bring her to violence against one of her children, it must have been something really, really irritating. She swatted me on my fully clothed back end as I ran by her and I cried. It did not hurt even a single bit, but knowing that I had done something to her that made her get angry at me was enough to break me down. In my world it was a turning point and it never happened again.
Some might say that she was living vicariously through her children and I wouldn't be surprised if she was (living with Earl made us all want to live a different life somehow), but mostly she wanted to see her children happy. She didn't have much power because of my dad, but what power she did have – the power to love us – she used to great advantage in our lives.
There are turning points in a family's history that mark a drastic change in that family. Mom was that turning point in our family. In fact, because of her, our family tree grew an entirely new branch. Most of my dad's relatives were cut from a different mold and, how do I say this delicately, a bit rougher around the edges. Had we been left alone with Dad, or Dad and the kind of woman that notoriously marry men like my dad, I know things probably would have turned out markedly different in all of our lives – think orange jumpsuits and not being able to vote. Mom saved us in so many ways.
When I got married and had kids of my own I realized exactly how difficult it is to be kind and patient all the time (let me say impossible) and I always marveled at how easy my mother made it seem. All my kids got to know their Grandma Dudie, but my boys got to know her the best. She would sit for hours with them playing checkers or cards or listening to them tell stories or reading them books. I could only take a few minutes of any of this, but she was content to just sit and be with them. My girls didn't get as many quality years with her before Alzheimer's took her mind, but she loved them like she loved me even in her affliction. I know her arms ached for them, too.
As we all got older, the times together as a family became less frequent, but when we were together Mom was still the buffer. Dad would be unreasonable and demanding and she would deal with him and then come back to the game we were playing at the dining room table. I can still see her in my mind laughing uncontrollably over some silly inside joke. It was a constant goal to get mom going and when she did, we all laughed until we couldn't breathe. These were the best of times and the worst of times.
Even as Alzheimer's took her mind from her, she was still sweet and she was still the buffer that kept us from the full force of Dad. She wasn't quite as sweet to him as she used to be and was finally able to stand up for herself (we were all secretly a bit happy about this) as the filters dropped from her mind. But to her kids, she was still the same. Even though she forgot things and asked the same questions over and over, her love for us still shone in her eyes and to the very end she was still one of the nicest people any of us had ever known.
Dad died three years ago and there was a huge sigh of relief from his kids. I know that's a terrible thing to say, but he was a trial and when Mom went to the nursing home eight years ago, the buffer was gone and we got the unfiltered, crack cocaine version of Dad. Alzheimer's is a terrible thing. It was made even more terrible for us because it took the parent that we all wanted to have around longer and sidestepped the one that made life difficult. The one who wanted nothing more than to sit and enjoy her children was taken away far too early.
It's sad, but there it is. Now she has passed. As we drove to be with her during her last moments I wondered what one was supposed to do when sitting with a dying parent. I now have a role model to emulate. My sister Betty was by her side and did the most beautiful thing. She sat next to her, held her hand and talked about what a great mother she was and spoke the names of her kids and grandkids as she breathed her last. What was most important to my mom in life was whispered in her ear at her death. I am thankful that she was my mom and sad that her life is over, but at the same time I am happy and relieved for her to finally be free. Her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren are her legacy. Well done, Mom.


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#75	Silas Robinson
OL | R-Fr | 6-4 | 306 | Yoakum, Texas | Yoakum HS
2019 (SOPHOMORE): Played in six games for the Razorbacks as a redshirt freshman in 2019 … Saw 35 plays over the course of the season, primarily on special teams on field goal/extra point opportunities … Recorded six snaps at center on the offensive line in pass protection against Western Kentucky on Nov. 9, earning a 79.6 grade from Pro Football Focus in the category … Played in a season-high 10 plays on special teams against Colorado State on Sept. 14.
2018 (FRESHMAN): Did not see action in his first year.
HIGH SCHOOL: Three-star recruit by ESPN and Rivals … No. 80 ranked offensive guard by ESPN … No. 176 ranked player in Texas by ESPN … As a senior, paved the way for 4,262 yards on the ground, including two 1,000-yard rushers … Blocked for a rushing attack that averaged 304.4 rushing yards per game and 9.2 yards per carry … Cleared paths for three different players, who combined for 11 100-yard rushing games … Part of an offense that produced 5,565 yards of total offense for a 397.5 per-game average … Yoakum racked up 56 rushing touchdowns and grounded out 300 or more yards in eight different games … The Bulldogs scored 30 or more points in 11 of 14 games and racked up 40-plus five times … Helped his offense rush for a season-high 665 yards and eight touchdowns on 33 carries in the 56-28 win over Giddings … Yoakum rushed for 467 yards in a 40-7 Class 3A, Division I quarterfinal playoff win over Goliad to send the Bulldogs into the semifinals for the second straight year … Helped the Bulldogs to a 13-1 record with a 6-0 mark in district play and advance to Texas' Class 3A D-I semifinals … As a junior in 2016, earned first-team all-state honors at offensive tackle from the Texas Sports Writers Association after grading out at 96 percent with 111 knockdown blocks and not allowing a sack during the Bulldogs' run to the Class 3A, Division I state final … Also played on the defensive line and had 79 tackles and six sacks … Part of an offense that averaged 339.8 yards per game … Paved the way for an offense that rushed for 4,075 yards with a 254.7 per-game average and 47 touchdowns … Provided time for his quarterback to throw for 1,362 yards and 20 touchdowns … Cleared paths for a 1,000-yard rusher and three players who combined for nine 100-yard games on the ground … As a sophomore in 2015, landed on the Texas Associated Press Sports Editors Class 4A All-State first team … Opened holes for five players to combine for 34 rushing touchdowns … Chose Arkansas over Virginia, Brigham Young, Rice, Army, Texas State and others … His father, Bo Robinson, is the head coach and athletic director at Yoakum and played football at Texas and was an All-SWC defensive end for the Longhorns in 1992 … His late grandfather Wendell played center at Oklahoma and was long-time high school coach and is in the Texas High School Hall of Fame.


If you see an error message of "Your graphics card does not support DirectX features" when open a video game such as Rainbow 6 Siege, don't panic. This is a common error and you can fix "Your graphics card does not support DirectX 11 features" error.
Here are some solutions to try. You don't need to try them all; just work your way down the list until everything's working again.
As the error message suggests, your video card doesn't support DirectX 11 features, so it's likely that your computer hardware doesn't meet the minimum requirements. Generally speaking, many video games, such as Fortnite and PUBG will demonstrate the minimum requirements to play these games on their website.
Therefore, you should visit the manufacturer website to check the minimum requirements to play the game that gave you the error, and make sure your computer meets the minimum requirements. If your system doesn't meet the requirements, you should consider upgrading your computer hardware to play the game.
Game developers always keep releasing patches to improve their games and fix any issues, so you should check for updates of your game in Steam or from the official website. Then install the latest patch to keep it up to date. Once updated, restart your computer and launch your game again.
This can fix some issues like not supporting DirectX 11 features.
A missing or outdated graphics card driver can cause your graphics card does not support the DirectX 11 features. So you should update your graphics card driver to the latest version.
Manually: you can go to your graphics card manufacturer's website, download the latest correct driver for your video card, and install it in your computer. This requires time and computer skills.
How do you check the DirectX version in your computer?
1) On your keyboard, press the Windows logo keyand R at the same time to start the Run box.
3) You can see the DirectX version under the System tab.
If your DirectX version is DirectX 11 or later, your computer should support the DirectX 11 features.
If your DirectX version or older than 11, you should update your DirectX.
How do you update DirectX?
Generally speaking, for Windows 10, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1, you can directly update your Windows to the latest version to install the latest DirectX on your computer. However, for Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP, you may need to install an update package to install the latest DirectX in your computer.
You can go to the Microsoft website for more information about how to install the latest version of DirectX for different versions of Windows.
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There are the best 4 solutions to fix Your graphics card does not support DirectX 11 features. You're welcome to add a comment below to let us know if these fixes resolved your issue. If you have any other issues, feel free to let us know, and we'll do our best to help.


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# source: google/cloud/datacatalog/v1/datacatalog.proto

namespace Google\Cloud\DataCatalog\V1;

use Google\Protobuf\Internal\GPBType;
use Google\Protobuf\Internal\RepeatedField;
use Google\Protobuf\Internal\GPBUtil;

/**
 * Business Context of the entry.
 *
 * Generated from protobuf message google.cloud.datacatalog.v1.BusinessContext
 */
class BusinessContext extends \Google\Protobuf\Internal\Message
{
    /**
     * Entry overview fields for rich text descriptions of entries.
     *
     * Generated from protobuf field .google.cloud.datacatalog.v1.EntryOverview entry_overview = 1;
     */
    private $entry_overview = null;
    /**
     * Contact people for the entry.
     *
     * Generated from protobuf field .google.cloud.datacatalog.v1.Contacts contacts = 2;
     */
    private $contacts = null;

    /**
     * Constructor.
     *
     * @param array $data {
     *     Optional. Data for populating the Message object.
     *
     *     @type \Google\Cloud\DataCatalog\V1\EntryOverview $entry_overview
     *           Entry overview fields for rich text descriptions of entries.
     *     @type \Google\Cloud\DataCatalog\V1\Contacts $contacts
     *           Contact people for the entry.
     * }
     */
    public function __construct($data = NULL) {
        \GPBMetadata\Google\Cloud\Datacatalog\V1\Datacatalog::initOnce();
        parent::__construct($data);
    }

    /**
     * Entry overview fields for rich text descriptions of entries.
     *
     * Generated from protobuf field .google.cloud.datacatalog.v1.EntryOverview entry_overview = 1;
     * @return \Google\Cloud\DataCatalog\V1\EntryOverview|null
     */
    public function getEntryOverview()
    {
        return $this->entry_overview;
    }

    public function hasEntryOverview()
    {
        return isset($this->entry_overview);
    }

    public function clearEntryOverview()
    {
        unset($this->entry_overview);
    }

    /**
     * Entry overview fields for rich text descriptions of entries.
     *
     * Generated from protobuf field .google.cloud.datacatalog.v1.EntryOverview entry_overview = 1;
     * @param \Google\Cloud\DataCatalog\V1\EntryOverview $var
     * @return $this
     */
    public function setEntryOverview($var)
    {
        GPBUtil::checkMessage($var, \Google\Cloud\DataCatalog\V1\EntryOverview::class);
        $this->entry_overview = $var;

        return $this;
    }

    /**
     * Contact people for the entry.
     *
     * Generated from protobuf field .google.cloud.datacatalog.v1.Contacts contacts = 2;
     * @return \Google\Cloud\DataCatalog\V1\Contacts|null
     */
    public function getContacts()
    {
        return $this->contacts;
    }

    public function hasContacts()
    {
        return isset($this->contacts);
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    public function clearContacts()
    {
        unset($this->contacts);
    }

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     * Contact people for the entry.
     *
     * Generated from protobuf field .google.cloud.datacatalog.v1.Contacts contacts = 2;
     * @param \Google\Cloud\DataCatalog\V1\Contacts $var
     * @return $this
     */
    public function setContacts($var)
    {
        GPBUtil::checkMessage($var, \Google\Cloud\DataCatalog\V1\Contacts::class);
        $this->contacts = $var;

        return $this;
    }

}

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Ontology is the most fundamental branch of Metaphysics, the study of Being and Existence, as well as the basic Categories of things in general. A Being is anything that can be said to 'be' in various senses of the word 'be'. The verb "to be" has many different meanings and can therefore be rather ambiguous, and because "to be" has so many different meanings, there are, accordingly, many different ways of Being.
Aristotle described Ontology as "the Science of Being qua Being." The word "qua", by the way, means "with regard to the aspect of". Accordingly, Ontology is the Science of Being with regard to the aspect of Being, the study of beings in-so-far as they exist. Even more precisely, Ontology concerns how we determine what Categories of Being are, which are fundamental, and whether or not, and in what sense, items in those categories can be said to "be."
Different philosophers have made various lists of the fundamental Categories of Being throughout the History of Philosophy. Before the rise of the Sciences in the Western Renaissance, Ontology, taken with Metaphysics more generally, was the central focus of philosophical concern. One strong reason was because this directly related to Theology (or the Philosophy of Religion) and the existence of God. Science directly challenged these connections, and slowly, Ontology was reduced to an historical curiosity. Representative ontological thought is readily cited, but ground-breaking work is found in Plato, Aristotle, Neoplatonism, Anselm of Canterbury, Thomas Aquinas, Rene Descartes, Baruch Spinoza, Gottfried Leibniz, Immanuel Kant and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling, to name a few. In Modern Philosophy and Contemporary Philosophy, Ontology was taken up by physicists who were already asking very similar questions using the Scientific Method.
To be sure, Ontology is being done today, though not under its ancient name. It is found in many branches of Physics and the other Sciences. Quantum Mechanics, String Theory, and Quantum Philosophy in general, are direct descendants of the ontological traditions, which naturally grew beyond the historical distinctions between Universals and Particulars, into questions of Particle States, Dimensions and Probabilities. The basic ontological questions of the nature of Existence are even more relevant to Quantum Mechanics today, as notions of solid Matter and any distinct, separate existence of Objects are challenged by the new discoveries.
Even in areas seemingly unrelated to Philosophy, such as Computer Science, Ontology is about asking what a Programming "object" is (not an easy question to answer, given various programming languages, schemas, and practices), and what types of computer Architectures are to be used. In areas like Marketing or Sales, ontological issues lie right at the heart of what a "Brand" is, and how to deal with "Brand Names" and even "Product Lines", not to mention the Legal connections with Intellectual Property and Management connections with "Business Processes". In Business as well as Government, ontological questions abound about the use and Management of Information, and how to gain a competitive advantage over an opponent or adversary though the manipulation of Information, either in a Public Relations sense, or in a Warfare one.
The Objecthood or "Problem of Substance"
Is it possible to give an account of the existence of physical Objects?
Is Existence a Property, Substance, or State?
When does an object go out of Existence, as opposed to Change?
Some content adapted from the Wikinfo article "Ontology" under the GNU Free Documentation License.


Post Scriptum games: MMORPG and CTG.
We actively cooperate with 3rd-party developers, giving tools for adding their games to the platform and service.
The Paracosm project was founded by Sergey Ivancheglo in summer 2018 to make his biggest dream come true: develop a customizable virtual reality platform, where anyone can create their own world with any rules – their personal paracosm.
Many virtual worlds of the Paracosm platform are interconnected by the (magic) power of the Caer Sidi service. Many amazing features become possible thanks to it. Our Caer Sidi is under construction right now – the starting aspects of this service are taking their shapes and colors. Much more features are planned for the future. In this article, we explain current and reveal future opportunities for the Caer Sidi users.
Many prominent professionals of the video games industry will participate in the web conference of Paracosm Project and the development company Ariwonto. Still, the most expected participants are Sergey Ivancheglo and Pavel Shlapak.
We invite you to check out the schedule of this conference in this post on paracosm.games.
The game market may change throughout the years, and still, some of its trends remain and grow. One of such phenomena is a passion for collectible items in games. The Paracosm platform and Caer Sidi service power up the virtual collecting by the distributed registry of Tangle. Altar: the War of Gods and Post Scriptum CTG are excellent for playing and starting your valuable collections. Read details in the article "Collectible Trend of the Game Industry".
Our gaming products are highly dedicated to progressive technical trends. Such amazing innovations as Virtual, Augmented, and Cross-Reality open almost unbelievable possibilities in games development, in providing players with astonishing experience. These technologies play a significant role on the Paracosm platform – we give more information in this article on the site Paracosm.Games.
One of the inseparable parts of our ecosystem is a portal to multiple dimensions of connected games. This portal is included to the Paracosm platform and Caer Sidi service has two primary forms: a classic web interface and an innovative VR Hub, where users can meet and communicate, from where they start their adventures. We call the VR implementation of our portal CrossParacosmic VR Hub, and to create it, we cooperate with the company Iridescent Studio. Read more details here.


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Both brand-name and generic Glucophage and Glucophage XR are currently licensed for sale. However, generic versions of Fortamet, Glumetza, and Riomet are not licensed for sale at this time.
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Illa Flaubert és una novel·la de Miquel Àngel Riera publicada l'any 1990.

L'obra és una anàlisi de les actituds de l'home davant la solitud i la mort. El protagonista, un professor de literatura, emprendrà una recerca de la soledat, com a única via per combatre el poder degradador del temps, que el durà finalment a refugiar-se en el far d'una illa abandonada i a assajar les provatures més diverses per combatre l'avanç irremeiable de la mort. Com a Els déus inaccessibles, Riera abandona el realisme de les primeres obres per endinsar-se en una novel·lística que, en realitat, és una paràbola dels problemes eterns de la vida humana.

Colpit per la mort de la seva mare, el protagonista de la novel·la inicia un procés de catarsi i de reconversió interior que el duu a refugiar-se en la solitud d'un illot, on prova d'administrar aquesta riquesa immensa que és el temps de cadascú i assaja, alhora, la forma de viure una voluptuosa recerca de la solitud. S'instal·la en un far en desús, bateja l'indret com a Illa Flaubert, posa noms flaubertians als dos llaüts que té (Emma i Salambó) i escriu sobre la campana de l'escalfapanxes una dita emblemàtica del novel·lista francès que dona nom a la novel·la: «més m'agradaria haver pintat la Capella Sixtina que haver guanyat moltes batalles, inclosa la de Marengo».

Premis
 Josep Pla, 1990
 Joan Crexells, 1990
 Nacional de la crítica 1990
 Crítica Serra d'Or, 1990
 Ciutat de Barcelona, 1990

Referències

Novel·les en català del segle XX
Obres del 1990
Premis Josep Pla de narrativa
Premis Crítica Serra d'Or
Guanyadors del Premi Ciutat de Barcelona


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Michael Grothaus interacted with Tim cook and relates his experience. The world around me disappeared as I read this well-written article. After giving us a glimpse into the man, he ends with this.
No one can ever replace Steve Jobs, the man, the genius. But Apple is not only Steve Jobs, no matter what anyone thinks. Apple is the interns and executive assistants; it's the retail employees and the designers; it's the marketing and PR departments, it's Scott Forstall and Jonathan Ive; Bob Mansfield and Phil Schiller; it's the dozens of other names you see on all those Apple patents that we talk about every week. Apple is not any single one of these people. It is the sum of them all, run by a leader who possesses enough wisdom to know that everyone in the company matters, that everyone's concerns are valid and deserve attention. Tim Cook is such a leader.
via Tim Cook: my first-person impression of Apple's new CEO | TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog.
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As we get to close to the end of the year, it is that time again to get organize so we can start the new year fresh and ready to go.
I suggest you start now getting your tax information in order. The earlier you take care of your taxes the better off you will be.
This past year I have found some great programs to make my life easier and I would like to share them with you. I hope each program benefits you in some way in making you life easier and more organized.
Ok, so here are some of my favorite programs! Believe me they are worth looking into.
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When I have our family photo taken I go to Shutterfly to order my holiday cards and can create my own right online and then ship to me. This is a great time saver for me.
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Now that I have shared some of my favorite programs and websites with you, make sure you check them out. There is more to come so stay tuned.


PS: Ich bin ganz sicher, der NRZ–Journalist hätte seine Bemerkungen über Dich und die Frauen Dir in Deiner aktiven Zeit auch direkt ins Gesicht gesagt. Nicht.
PPS: Inzwischen wurde der NRZ-Artikel hinter der Bezahlschranke versteckt.
"In Duisburg, a leaked police report revealed that in the Marxloh district, the streets are effectively controlled by Lebanese clans that reject the authority of German police. They have taken over entire streets to carry out illegal business activity. New migrants from Bulgaria and Romania are contributing to the problems. Marxloh's streets serve as invisible boundaries between ethnic groups, according to Die Welt. Residents speak of "the Kurdish road" or "the Romanian road."
Police say they are alarmed by the aggressiveness and brutality of the clans, which are said to view crime as leisure activity. If police dare to intervene, hundreds of clan members are mobilized to confront the police. A local woman interviewed by Deutschlandfunk radio said she was afraid for her safety: "After dark I would not stand here because there are a lot of conflicts between foreigners, especially between Lebanese and Turks."
A 17-page report prepared for the state parliament in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) revealedthat Lebanese clans in Duisburg divide up neighborhoods in order to pursue criminal activities. These clans do not recognize the authority of the police. Their members are males between the ages of 15 and 25 and "nearly 100%" of them are known to police.
The report also described the situation in Duisburg's Laar district, where two large Lebanese families call the shots: "The streets are actually regarded as a separate territory. Outsiders are physically assaulted, robbed and harassed. Experience shows that the Lebanese clans can mobilize several hundred people in a very short period of time by means of a telephone call."


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Have you ever looked at yourself in the mirror and felt disappointed?
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Il mantello di un bosco è il bordo, composto da piante arbustive, che separa un'area boschiva da un prato o un'area coltivata.

Ecologia
Le specie vegetali che compongono il mantello di solito non sono le stesse che compongono il bosco, si tratta infatti di piante più eliofile e nitrofile che formano intrichi di rami e spine spesso insuperabili. Tra le piante tipiche del mantello possiamo citare il nocciolo, la ginestra, i rovi, la fusaggine, il prugnolo, la ginestrella, gli asparagi e molte altre.

La siepe si distingue dal mantello sia perché di solito non è contigua ad un bosco, sia perché è una struttura artificiale mantenuta e curata dall'uomo.

Orlo
Il mantello di solito ha un ulteriore bordo esterno denominato orlo e composto da piante erbacee, come la fragolina di bosco, alcuni gerani ed altre di origine forestale e molto diverse da quelle della prateria.

Importanza per il bosco
Il mantello è un grande produttore di semi che invadono sia il bosco (dove di solito le piantine non trovano le condizioni idonee per la germinazione) sia la prateria antistante dove possono formare nuclei a partire dai quali il bosco si potrà espandere.

Bibliografia
 Poldini L. e Sburlino G., Terminologia fitosociologica essenziale in Fitosociologia vol.42(1):57-69, 2005.
 Bernetti G., Atlante di selvicoltura, Edagricole, 2005.

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Selvicoltura


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Taliban constitution offers glimpse into militant group's vision for Afghanistan
By Radio Free Europe
When most of Afghanistan was under Taliban rule in the late 1990s, the fundamentalist regime drafted a new constitution.
The document was never officially ratified, and it was unclear how much of it was ever implemented before the U.S.-led inv…
US Army celebrates women in combat
By United States Army
Observed on August 26, Women's Equality Day commemorates the adoption of the 19th Amendment in 1920, guaranteeing women the right to vote. While the change to the Constitution was significant toward shaping gender equality, it highlights the compli…
Can you pass the US citizenship test?
By Zackry Colston
Many people dream of becoming a U.S. citizen. The process is notoriously arduous and taxing, but the most nerve-wracking part for many is taking the U.S. citizenship test. It's so difficult, in fact, that according to NBCNews, only 36% o…


Dave joined Wegner CPAs in September of 1994 and became an audit manager in July 1997. Previously, he accumulated sixteen years of experience in a private school system and in public accounting. Dave has performed financial audits as well as compliance audits performed in accordance with Government Auditing Standards and OMB Circular A 133, Audits of State, Local Governments and Nonprofit Organizations. He has provided tax research on UBIT issues, and has experience in preparing budgets, cash flow analysis, endowments, investments, Section 125 Cafeteria Plans, fundraising and accounting for capital campaigns. Dave received his BBA in accounting from the University of Wisconsin Whitewater in 1978. He completed the AICPA's Governmental / Not for Profit Accounting and Auditing Certificate of Educational Program in 1997.


Sometimes it seems like directors and studios are on a never-ending quest to ruin our movie watching experience. Human beings hate change. Yet it seems every decade or so Hollywood just has to try something new. Here are some hilarious reactions to five major changes in how we watch films.
Normal movies are shot at 24fps, but because 3D is hard to shoot effectively at that slow speed, filmmakers are beginning to experiment with 48fps, starting with this winter's The Hobbit. Recently, critics got a sneak peak at the new medium.
← Matthew McConaughey Designed His Own *ssless Chaps. Because Of Course He Did.


As hot weather is coming I've recently decided to change my morning routine for breakfast preparing myself a colorful spring-summer smoothie to kickstart my day.
While during winter I usually prefer to eat plenty of vitamin C ( useful for preventing cold and flu ) such as a lot of fresh orange juice, in spring and summer the must for me is energy! That's why I create this smoothie with tasty yet energizing fruits and vegs.
I usually cut everything in small pieces, so that fruits and vegs are easily blendable and no big chunk are going into your smoothie.
If you want you can add a hint of milk (cow, rice, almond, oats, mile…whatever) or coconut water. I personally blend everything just like this, cause I prefer thick texture.
Then, when everything is blended ( usually after 30 sec ) I add a full spoon of Spirulina powder, which turns the smoothie into a dark green colour and, most of all it's a real energy booster.
Then I blend everything for 10 sec more and then I can pour my smoothie into a pretty glass and enjoy my breakfast.


How can our prayers be heard and answered in the affirmative? Pastor Greg Laurie gives us the template and model for prayer. When our eyes are fixed and dependent on God, He can change our situation. Most of all, it's where God changes us.