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Alison Killing: Investigating China's Repression of the Uyghurs Journalist Alison Killing explains her investigation in Xinjiang, China, where the government has used facial recognition cameras to track Uyghurs and detain them in camps across the region.
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On the show today - What's in a Face. How our faces are captured, where that data ends up and who has access to it.
Do you use Instagram? Do you let Google Maps track you? Do you, I don't know, let - open your iPhone with your face? (Laughter).
ALISON KILLING: Oh, God. So I'm pretty privacy conscious, as you might imagine. I don't allow Google to store my location. I don't have the face unlock turned on on my phone. And that is in part because I'm just aware of, like, how sensitive the data is. And I feel so self-conscious about it.
ZOMORODI: This is Alison Killing. She's a journalist who, ironically, uses all sorts of data that's available online to track the actions of authoritarian governments.
KILLING: So all of the digital traces that we leave behind on the internet, like, how can we use those to investigate? And I mostly focus on human rights.
ZOMORODI: In 2021, Alison won the Pulitzer Prize for her investigations into China, a place where people's faces and movements are constantly being watched.
KILLING: They've really worked to sort of cover cities in a way that they are able to obtain as much data as possible. So placing cameras in high-traffic areas. So, for example, at the entrance to a neighborhood where they can then say, OK, we know everybody who is in this neighborhood now. We know whether they're in or when they've left.
ZOMORODI: China has the world's largest surveillance network, and cameras watch over residential complexes, office buildings, train stations, shopping malls.
KILLING: So these are very high - traffic places where they can then say like, OK, these are the people who are in this area so that they can then control that area. They're collecting a lot of data and there's huge ambition about the things that they would like to do with it. A lot of work has gone into the processing tools at the back end of this software to identify people by gender and age and then controversially also by ethnicity.
ZOMORODI: And as you may know, the Chinese government has been tracking one large group of people, in particular, the Uyghurs, a Muslim ethnic minority in a western region called Xinjiang.
KILLING: Yeah. There's been a lot of discrimination. There's been intermittent crackdowns on the practice of Islam. But then in 2009, there were two Uyghur workers killed, and that led to protests which turned violent. And about 200 people were killed. And this was kind of the start as well of the Chinese authorities starting to crack down on the region and seeing it as a very violent place, seeing it as a site of terrorism.
ZOMORODI: The incident ushered in an era of Chinese control of the Uyghurs using all kinds of tactics.
KILLING: So I think from sort of 2013, 2014, we saw the start of this real campaign of oppression in Xinjiang with the installation of this incredibly invasive surveillance state. And The New York Times has done a lot of investigation on this topic where they actually found documents from tech companies which were boasting that they could identify Uyghurs using facial recognition software. So one of the first things that we saw was the creation of these - this network of detention camps.
ZOMORODI: You know, Alison, we were just talking to Parmy Olson - she's a tech reporter - about how people view facial recognition in the Western world. And it always - it often feels like what-if scenarios. But here in China, we are talking about the worst-case scenario come true with proof that a minority are being tracked and rounded up because you could see the camps on satellite imagery.
KILLING: Yeah. In the satellite imagery, we saw them starting to appear in late 2016. And these stories started to emerge that hundreds of thousands of people have been disappeared into these camps. And, you know, nobody knew where they were.
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UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER #1: In the far west of China, evidence is building that a monstrous crime is taking place.
UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER #2: An estimated 1 million Chinese Muslims have vanished.
UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER #3: Uyghurs are now being rounded up by the hundreds of thousands.
UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER #4: There are many accounts of people who have had their relatives disappear into the camps. And we don't really know what's happening to them.
ZOMORODI: Alison Killing picks up the story from the TEDx stage.
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KILLING: I got involved in investigating Xinjiang in the summer of 2018, when I met Megha Rajagopalan, an American journalist who had been working in China for several years. Over the past few years, China has been carrying out a campaign of forcible assimilation and several nations have described it as a genocide. It's estimated that over a million people have been disappeared into detention camps. And while the Chinese government claims that these are part of a benign program of reeducation, dozens of former detainees describe being tortured and abused and women being forcibly sterilized.
And yet, for a long time, we lacked information about what was happening in Xinjiang because the Chinese government controls the internet tightly and restricts journalists' work in the region. Journalists would be followed or detained. And the authorities occasionally even went so far as to set up fake roadworks or staged car crashes to prevent access to certain roads. Local people who did speak to journalists faced the risk of being sent to a detention camp for doing so.
Megha had been the first journalist to visit one of the camps. But shortly after publishing her article, the Chinese authorities declined to renew her visa, and she had to leave. Other journalists had managed to visit a handful of the camps, but this still represented a fraction of what we believed was out there, and no one knew where the others were. But Megha was keen to find the rest. She just needed to find a way to work effectively from outside China.
ZOMORODI: And so this is where you come into the story, Alison, because you and Megha decided to team up.
KILLING: Yeah. And so I met Megha at this workshop in the summer of 2018. I'd been doing a lot of cartography work and satellite imagery. And we got talking. And we realized that we maybe had a complementary skill set to be able to find these camps. You know, the way that Megha found this first camp was through satellite imagery. And so she had the idea that that could be a good way to find the rest. But it's still - like, Xinjiang is absolutely massive. So you can't just, like, scour all of the satellite imagery of the region. We needed to work out where to look.
There was no street-level imagery, but as I zoomed in on the satellite images, this weird thing happened. A light gray square suddenly appeared above the location of the camp and then disappeared just as quickly as I zoomed in further. It was a bit like the map wasn't loading properly, but then I zoomed out and again only for the same thing to happen. I realized it couldn't be a problem with the map loading because the tiles would have been in the browser's cache. And when I found the same thing happening at the other locations we knew to be camps, I realized that we had a technique we could use to find the rest of the network.
It's quite rare for maps and satellite images to have these blank spots because blank areas tend to draw attention to themselves. But here, we got lucky. Obscuring the camps had inadvertently revealed all of their locations.
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KILLING: We worked with developer Christo Buschek, who specializes in documenting human rights issues and building tools for open-source researchers to map the masked tile locations. We had to work quickly and secretively to map the masked tiles before anyone found out what we were doing and removed them because our investigation relied on access to that information. The idea was that we could go and look at the masked tile locations and then look at that same image - at that same location in other, unaltered satellite imagery and see what was there.
Zooming in on the satellite imagery, we can see the barbed wire in the courtyards that creates exercise pens for the detainees adjacent to the buildings. In other images, we can even see people, all wearing red uniforms, lined up in the courtyard. These features could help us decide whether a location was a camp or not. As we investigated further, we realized that the camps' program had evolved away from the early days of makeshift camps in former schools and hospitals and had become more permanent, that the camps were now larger, higher security and purpose-built.
This is the largest camp that we know of. It's in Dabancheng. The complex is two miles long. And it would cover a quarter of New York's Central Park. In the satellite images, we can see the thick perimeter walls, the guard towers and these blue-roofed buildings, which we believe to be factories. We estimate that this complex can hold over 40,000 people without overcrowding. In total, we found 348 locations bearing the hallmarks of camps and prisons. And we believe that this is close to being the full network. We estimate that these facilities have been built to hold more than a million people. That's enough space to detain one in every 25 of Xinjiang's residents.
ZOMORODI: Wow. Your one little lucky revelation, finding that quirk on the digital map, led to a horrifying and huge discovery. And how did China respond to the allegations?
KILLING: So at the beginning, when the rumors were first emerging of all of these people disappearing into camps, there was denial on the part of the Chinese government that this was happening. By mid-2018, the U.N. was - had made a statement about what was happening in Xinjiang and raising concerns and sort of saying it was one of the most urgent human rights crises in the world at that time. And the Chinese government was then under pressure to respond to that.
And what they started to say was, like, well, you know, these places do exist. But they're education and vocational schools. People are there voluntarily. They're learning skills which will allow them to get higher-paid factory jobs. That wasn't true. People were taken there forcibly. In fact, the people who were initially targeted to be sent to the camps were the most highly educated people in those communities. So you know, the Chinese government's claims about these being vocational schools just weren't credible.
ZOMORODI: So where do things stand now in terms of what you can do with this knowledge that you have accumulated other than share it with us?
KILLING: Yeah. One of the big things that has been done - I mean, we've seen sanctions on key individuals within the Chinese Communist Party. We've also seen sanctions on goods coming out of Xinjiang. The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act came into force earlier this year. And that bans any products coming out of Xinjiang because it's very, very likely that goods coming out of Xinjiang have involved forced labor. And it's very difficult to prove that they haven't. And so that is - has also been a big impact that we've seen.
KILLING: With social media data and satellite imagery, we can provide evidence of human rights abuses in a way that wasn't possible before. We can move beyond looking at individual instances of human rights violations to show the scale of what's happened. We can corroborate the testimony of eyewitnesses and provide further proof of their stories. We can build a more detailed picture of what's happening to inform policymakers or to provide evidence that can be presented in court. With open-source data, we can provide the evidence needed for accountability and then, hopefully, action. Thank you.
ZOMORODI: That's Allison Killing. She's an investigative journalist and an architect. In 2021, she won the Pulitzer Prize for her reporting. You can see her full talk at ted.com
ZOMORODI: Thank you so much for listening to our show this week, What's in a Face. This episode was produced by Andrea Gutierrez, James Delahoussaye and Katie Monteleone. It was edited by Sanaz Meshkinpour, James Delahoussaye, Rachel Faulkner White and me. Our production staff at NPR also includes Matthew Cloutier, Fiona Geiran and Katherine Sypher. Our theme music was written by Ramtin Arablouei. Our audio engineer was Kwesi Lee. Research support came from Zazil Davis-Vazquez. Our partners at TED are Chris Anderson, Colin Helms, Anna Phelan, Michelle Quint, Jimmy Gutierrez and Daniella Balarezo. I'm Manoush Zomorodi, and you've been listening to the TED Radio Hour from NPR.


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PROBUS CLUB OF SAINT JOHN, NEW BRUNSWICK, CANADA
Many organizations do not get around to compiling their history until its so late that it is difficult or impossible to do so. We are fortunate that PROBUS Club of Saint John was only seven years old when we started to record our past. Why do we record our past? At some future date, members will want to know how and why the Club was formed, who were the initiators, who were the members and what happened at their meetings. New members may want to know some of this information as well. Most of that history is now at our fingertips and readily accessible. All of the information in this website is computer stored. With few exceptions all issues of Phoghorn, the newsletter of the Club, are on file as are the minutes of the meetings. You will find this website of interest.
Lou Duffley, Historian
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Special thanks to Tanya Gallant.
The PROBUS Club of Saint John would also like to thank Freeway Technologies Inc. for their generous contribution to this website.
Our website is maintained by PROBUS member JC Robert Lockhart. Any updates or feedback are welcomed via e-mail.

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You may be aware from local and National media that NHS Urgent and Emergency Care services are under increasing pressure and whilst the picture locally does not reflect huge rises in demand upon A&E seen in other areas both Clinical Commissioning groups in partnership with local providers want to improve the urgent and emergency care system so patients get safe and effective care whenever they need it.
Earlier this year the NHS Medical Director Professor Sir Bruce Keogh announced a National review into the way the NHS responds to and receives emergency patients, called the Urgent and Emergency Care Review.. Locally both Clinical Commissioning Groups are extremely keen that we have a strong Shropshire and Telford stakeholder voice into this review.
The review is looking to draw on the experience of patients and all professionals in the NHS and across social care, and we want to raise everyone's attention to a survey that is currently being conducted by NHS England. This represents an opportunity for all local patients and professional stakeholders to have a place where they can voice their opinion by taking part in an online survey consisting of a quick and simple questionnaire as well as the opportunity to provide more detailed feedback.
NHS England commit to use the comments received in their steering group to revise the evidence base, and strengthen the emerging principles. This will help NHS England decide how urgent and emergency care services should be designed and set up in the future. NHS England will publish a revised evidence base and the principles for these services in Autumn 2013.
In addition your comments will be used to develop a national planning framework for urgent and emergency care. Shropshire Clinical Commissioning Group and Telford and Wrekin Commissioning Group will use this framework to organise local urgent and emergency care services taking into account local issues and patient needs.
I would strongly encourage you to complete a survey and offer opinions and equally importantly to forward this email to colleagues / other patients groups / individuals in order that local views and learning are fed into the National Agenda.
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Background and Aims: As our population ages and life expectancy increases the number of people aged over 80 and more referred for cardiac surgery is growing. This study sought to identify the outcome of aortic valve replacement (AVR) in octogenarians. Methods: 68 patients aged 80 years or more underwent AVR at the Freeman Hospital, between April 2001 and April 2004. A retrospective review of the notes and outcomes from the patients' GP and the NHS strategic tracking service was performed. 54% (37) underwent isolated AVR whilst 46% (31) underwent combined AVR and CABG. Results: Follow up was 100% complete. The mean age was 83.1 ± s.d. 2.9 years, a mean gradient of 83 ± s.d. 31 mmHg and mean AVA of 0.56 cm2. The mean additive EuroSCORE was 8.6 ± s.d. 1.2, the logistic EuroSCORE mean 12.0 ± s.d. 5.9. In hospital 30 day mortality was 13 %. Survival was 80% at 1 year and 78% at 2 years. Median follow up was for 712 days. Stepwise logistic regression identified chronic obstructive airways disease as an independent predictor of mortality (p < 0.05). Survival was not adversely affected by the addition of coronary artery bypass grafts to aortic valve replacement, the presence of peripheral vascular disease, hypertension or diabetes. In this study duration of cross clamp or bypass time were not found to reach significance as independent predictors of mortality. Conclusion: Our study demonstrates that the operative mortality for AVR in the over eighties is good, whilst the mid to long term outcome is excellent There is a very low attrition rate with those undergoing the procedure living as long than their age matched population. This study confirms AVR is a safe, acceptable treatment for octogenarians with excellent mid term outcomes.
Safe and effective periodontal treatment requires knowledge and understanding of diseases specifically those affecting the cardiovascular system in order to institute necessary modifications to periodontal therapy accordingly. Considering the high incidence of periodontal diseases in elderly individuals, the periodontist must be prepared to provide periodontal therapeutic support for an increasing number of cardiovascular patients. In this review, common cardiovascular disorders and associated periodontal issues will be discussed briefly.
Atrial septal defects are common in patients with Ebstein malformation of the tricuspid valve and may contribute to their hemodynamic disturbances. We report our experience of trans-catheter closure of large atrial septal defects in two patients with Ebstein malformation using Amplatzer in one and Helex septal occluder in second patient with no residual shunts. There was no immediate complication, and 18 months follow up revealed clinically stable patients with normal sinus rhythm and no residual shunt. We can say that trans-catheter closure of large atrial septal defects in Ebstein malformation is feasible with a good short-term out come.


Greetings… let's get on with "How to Market Your Practice," part 3.
If you recall, last week we talked about three questions to ask yourself before starting your marketing. Finding the answers not only helps you identify your ideal patients, but it also allows you to talk to them more effectively in your marketing.
By now you've identified your ideal patients, and you know where they are, so it's time to implement strategies that bring them to your office.
What should you do and where should you start? There are so many ways to market your office that it's hard to decide which ones are best for you.
For starters, there are two ways businesses can approach marketing their products and services. There is "Brand Marketing" and "Direct Response" type marketing.
You see brand style marketing in action when watching companies like Nike, Coca-Cola, Apple, Ford, Microsoft, and so on. Their idea is to get their "brand" in front of as many people as possible, repeatedly. They hope their brand will be recognized, remembered, and purchased.
Brand marketing is VERY expensive and therefore reserved for the big boys and girls.
Think back to the latest Superbowl commercial… big companies broadcast ads to a non-targeted audience, paying millions of dollars. The hope is that for example, you reach for a Coke over a Pepsi the next time you buy a soda.
Let's compare brand marketing to direct response style marketing. Here, the marketer doesn't rely on untargeted messaging. Steps are taken to identify the right audience (the ideal customer) so that the marketing message can resonate with them.
Direct response type marketing is targeted, measured, and tries to solicit a response from prospects (hence "direct response").
As an example, look at the front page of the NPBusiness.org blog. While not a direct response marketing site as such, you can get an idea about the direct response call to action.
We invite you to read articles that may ask you to click a link, a response! Or you might click on a banner taking you to the signup page for our newsletter, again a response.
While big companies tend to engage in brand marketing, smaller businesses look to direct response style marketing. And of course, there might also be a bit of branding going on. Today, you may see a blend of the two styles.
At any rate, these are the two overarching types of marketing, and I merely want you to be aware of them.
For our purposes, there are two broad areas to consider when setting up your marketing.
There is online, or digital marketing. And there is offline marketing; some refer to is as "old school" marketing.
Today, we'll talk about digital marketing, starting with website and content marketing. Social media, a vast topic by itself, will be covered in next week's article.
Depending on your patient population, chances are most use one or more digital device; without a doubt, they are online. And that's why online marketing must be part of your overall marketing strategy; it's non-negotiable!
After all, you need to make sure you stand out and get found in this noisy digital world!
You can't do everything and be everywhere. That's why I suggest you pick strategies that work for and resonate with you.
Here are three proven strategies to help you implement your online marketing.
Even though you already know it, let me say it anyway; today, every business needs a website.
But not just any old website… your site must capture the attention of your visitors, so they stay on your site.
What are the reasons that bring you to the site?
What type of information would resonate with you?
What type of information would make you click away immediately?
What type of information would you expect to find?
The best ways to uncover the answers is to survey your patients or observe yourself when perusing a site.
When we visit a website, most of us have certain expectations. If unmet, we move the cursor to the top right corner of the screen and click the big X. We move on to another site, never to return.
When designing your site and writing words to convey your message, keep your patients front and center. Keep your message clear, simple, and address what's important to them!
The benefit is your site will be attractive to your visitors. They will stay longer on your website and hopefully share it with friends and family.
But there's another benefit, and that one relates to the search engines, the likes of Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc. If the content is written well for people, by default, it will also rank better in the search engines.
But regardless, you'll still want to optimize your site, aka SEO it, for search engines. That is if you're going to increase your chances of getting found when someone searches Google, typing in your keywords.
If you'd like to learn more about SEO, let me know. Just leave your question below this article, and I'll talk more about it in the future.
You have a website, right? Why not fill it with useful information your clients will love?
But of course, there is more to it than that!
While it's a long-term marketing strategy, it has the potential to pay off for years to come. Because once your content is published, it will stay online until removed.
Since content is the cornerstone of a successful content marketing strategy, it also improves the SEO of your site. People are always on the lookout for excellent content. If they like your content, they're going to be linking to it, which tells search engines your content is good!
Content is the "bread and butter" of search engines, meaning, it's what they serve to their users. The more valuable and helpful your content is, the more search engines are going to love your content and reward you with higher rankings on their search results.
So, if you're using your website only as a brochure, without any content, it's time to rethink that approach.
Create informative and useful information about your area of expertise and publish it to your website. And if your site runs on a platform like WordPress, it's simple to publish ongoing content; anyone can do it.
Perhaps now you're wondering what to write about, what you could publish to your site?
Share health tips and strategies with your readers.
Write about changes in your clinic: staff, hours, location, etc.
Share new services or products offered in your clinic.
Everyone loves to laugh… share a joke or a funny story.
Share news about medications or treatment options.
Send out a survey to your patients.
Keep them informed about changes with insurance.
Write about the benefits of a healthy diet, vitamins, or supplements.
And of course, write articles on health topics relevant to your patient.
Really, you can write about anything if it adds value to your readership.
What's important is to have a game plan for your content marketing efforts. It's better to commit to less, instead of over-committing and not delivering.
What is it you want to achieve with content marketing?
How does it fit into your overall marketing efforts?
Who is the audience you want to reach?
What are your resources for content marketing?
How often can you publish, consistently?
Determine what you are comfortable committing to. While you want to publish more than once a month, it's equally important you do so consistently.
Since social media is a huge topic by itself, it will get all the attention it deserves in next week's article.
Today you have many options to market your practice. Keep in mind though, not all marketing strategies work for every situation.
Pick the marketing approach that's best for you and your situation and commit to it.
And, come back next week, for more on "How to Market" your practice. Remember, social media marketing will be the topic of discussion.
We'd love to hear from you… tell us what you think. Also, let us know if there's a topic you'd like us to cover in an upcoming article.


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Weiberg Returns To Oklahoma State As Deputy Director of Athletics
May 4, 2017 by OSU Athletics
(STILLWATER, Oklahoma / May 4, 2017) – The owner of both an undergraduate degree and master's degree from Oklahoma State in addition to 23 years of professional experience working in the Big 12, Chad Weiberg is OSU's new Deputy Director of Athletics, it was announced today.
"I'm grateful to Coach (Mike) Holder and President (Burns) Hargis for the opportunity to come home to OSU, join this team and be part of building on the history of success and winning that has been established here," Weiberg said. "I look forward to reconnecting with long-time friends, building new relationships and introducing my family to the great people of OSU and the Stillwater community."
Weiberg returns to Oklahoma State after serving in a similar role at Texas Tech since June of 2015. During his time in Lubbock, he was the chief operating officer, second-in-command and was responsible for the day-to-day operation of the athletics department. He oversaw the Red Raiders' relationship with apparel provider Under Armour and, along with the department CFO, oversaw TTU's relationship with multi-media rights holder Learfield Sports, as well as other prominent business partnerships.
"My time in Lubbock and at Texas Tech have been both personally and professionally fulfilling and rewarding. I can't thank enough Kirby Hocutt, President Schovanec, and all of the coaches and staff for the incredible opportunity for me and my family to be part of Texas Tech Athletics," Weiberg said. "I know that great things are ahead for the Red Raiders and I look forward to watching the continued success."
In addition to monitoring the overall financial management of the department's annual budget, he also served as the sport administrator for baseball and men's tennis and served as the athletic director's administrative liaison for football and men's basketball. Weiberg supervised those coaching staffs and provided support in budgeting, scheduling, staffing, academics, compliance and recruiting.
He led the selection and hiring process of Brett Masi as men's tennis head coach in 2015 and in Masi's first year, he led the Red Raiders to a share of the Big 12 regular season championship en route to securing Big 12 Co-Head Coach of the Year honors. In his first year as Tech's baseball administrator, the Red Raiders appeared in the College World Series for only the second time in the 67-year history of the program.
"We are excited to bring Chad back home," said OSU Athletic Director Mike Holder. "He has had success everywhere he has been. We know that Oklahoma State University means something to him. He's familiar with us and how we do things and our history, but he also brings a perspective from the outside, which will help us as we continue to explore ways to improve what we do."
Weiberg's background is primarily in fundraising and development, as he worked his way up through those ranks at Oklahoma State from 1995-2004 and then continued his climb at Kansas State from 2004-15.
When Weiberg left K-State for Texas Tech in 2015, he did so from the position of Senior Associate Athletic Director of Development, a title he held since 2011. During his time in Manhattan, he identified, cultivated and grew relationships with key prospects and donors that directly resulted in the funding for construction of more than $195 million in new athletic facilities benefitting student athletes in every sport.
From 2009 until the time he left K-State, he led the development team that completed the $50 million fundraising goal for the Vanier Football Complex in just 13 months, exceeded the athletic department fundraising goal of $185 million as part of K-State's "Innovation and Inspiration" campaign three years ahead of schedule, completed the $81 million fundraising goal for the west stadium center at Bill Snyder Family Stadium and completed the $15 million fundraising goal for the basketball training facility.
With Weiberg assuming the lead role, K-State's fundraising team increased the number of annual donor households from 5,454 in the 2009 fiscal year to 10,156 in the 2014 fiscal year. With that came an increase in total cash gifts from $12.7 million to $46.4 million during that same time frame. Weiberg's team secured 22 private gifts in excess of $1 million. For perspective, K-State had five such gifts in its history prior to Weiberg.
He was honored as the National Fundraiser of the Year by the National Association of Athletic Development Directors (NAADD) in 2014.
Weiberg spent the early part of his professional career at Oklahoma State, from where he earned his degree in business administration in 1994 and was quickly hired as the director of corporate sales and donor relations for OSU Athletics from 1995-99. He served as senior director of field operations for the OSU Alumni Association from 1999-2002 before becoming the director of development for the OSU Foundation/College of Business Administration from 2002-03. He held a similar role for OSU Athletics from 2003-04 before moving on to Kansas State.
Weiberg was recognized as the OSU Spears School of Business Outstanding Young Alumnus in 2008 and was honored as one of the OSU MBA program's "50 for 50" as a top 50 graduate in the program's first 50 years in 2011.
A well-respected figure in college athletics circles, Weiberg was a speaker at the 2015 NCAA Convention and was the NAADD Big 12 Conference representative from 2013-14.
Weiberg and his wife, Jodi, have two children, Ella and Grant.
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Germano Zanarotto (? - ?) was an Italian wheelchair fencer who won four medals at the Summer Paralympics.

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Dominique Hange, from the University of Gothenburg (Sweden), and colleagues assessed data collected on 1,500 middle-aged women enrolled in the Population Study of Women in Gothenburg. The data revealed that one in five middle-aged women had experienced constant or frequent stress during the last five years. Further, in four out of ten cases, long-term stress suffered by women leads to some form of physical complaint. Among those women who reported stress, 40% had psychosomatic symptoms in the form of aches and pain in their muscles and joints, 28% suffered from headaches or migraines, and the same proportion reported gastrointestinal complaints. However, there was no association between perceived mental stress at baseline and mortality over 37 years of follow-up.


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Amey Kambli
14 February, 19 · Times read 9
The untold story of Valentine's day.
Really , Valentine's day was named after a saint ?
Hello Guys ! Wishing you a happy Valentine's day . So, do you know ,
How Valentine's day was started in the world ?
So , let's get started.
Roses, chocolates, and beautiful heart-shaped doilies are usually the images that come to mind when we think of Valentine's Day. Red hearts and heartfelt cards decorate every store, and all your coupled-up friends have a little spring in their step.
But if you're not Valentine's Day's biggest fan, take heart. It didn't start out as a day of love. Its origins lie in drunken festivals and jail cells.
Today, Valentine's Day means big business for card, flower, and candy companies. From the billions of dollars spent to the number of babies born, Valentine's Day is more than what it seems.
It all started with naked Romans
That's right, Valentine's Day did not start out with poems and chocolates. It started with a bunch of drunken, nude Romans.
Every year, the ancient Romans celebrated the feast of Lupercalia from Feb. 13-15. This pagan fertility festival celebrated an ancient god who protected the people from wolves. At the beginning of the celebration, the men would sacrifice a goat and a dog, then whip the women with the hides of those animals. Romantic, no?
During this naked, drunken party, the town's young women would get in line and wait for the men to hit them. Yep, that's right. They wanted to be hit because they believed it would make them fertile.
After a good time of being whipped with dead animals, the ladies then had a chance to be included in a matchmaking lottery. The men drew names and then were "coupled" with that woman for the night.
It's named after a saint
It's hard to go from drunkenly whipping women with animal hides to canonizing saints, but Valentine's Day did it.
In the third century, Emperor Claudius II ordered for the death of two men on Feb. 14. Their names? Valentine and Valentine. They were executed in different years, but the Catholic Church later honored them both as martyrs and named Feb. 14 St. Valentine's Day.
Then in the fifth century, Pope Gelasius I decided to combine St. Valentine's Day with that crazy Lupercalia festival in an effort to get rid of the pagan tradition. The festival was incredibly popular, so the Christians may have figured, if you can't beat 'em join 'em. "So there's reason to think that the Christians might instead have said, OK, we'll just call this a Christian festival," Noel Lenski, a historian at the University of Colorado at Boulder told National Geographic.
Not surprisingly, the festival didn't die there. "It was a little more of a drunken revel, but the Christians put clothes back on it," Lenski told NPR. That didn't stop it from being a day of fertility and love."
The first valentines were passed in a jail cell.
One of the Valentines who became a martyr was a Roman priest known for standing up for love. Emperor Claudius II (who later ordered Valentine's death) was dealing with a crumbling empire in the third century. In a desperate attempt to hold it together, he decided to ban all marriages of young people because he believed single soldiers fought better than married ones. Father Valentine was not a fan of this idea and continued to perform marriages in secret. Once he was caught, he was imprisoned and later killed.
During his time in jail, legend has it that young children used to visit and pass him notes into his jail cell.
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This folk art grouping of childrens toys consisting of three roosters and four hens is carved from pine. The group was found in Lancaster County PA and dates from the second half of the 19th century. The largest rooster is 4" tall and the shortest hen is 3" tall and .75 inches thick.


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Q: How to run sysprep without creating admin account? I have installed Windows 10 Home version and updated it to Enterprise and added the KMS server. If I now run the sysprep everything else is ok but sysprep adds an account admin. How can I prevent this or delete the admin account before a user will start the OOBE process?
Password for account admin is "admim".

A: If you are talking about the local "Administrator" account it cannot be removed. It can only be enabled or disabled.
For example if you are in audit mode for sysprep, its enabled and uses that account to log you on so you can make changes to the machine in audit mode.
CTRL+SHIFT+F3 will allow you to enter audit mode and make changes to the machine, without creating an account.
Read more here about audit mode.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/boot-windows-to-audit-mode-or-oobe?view=windows-11

A: Audit mode will enable the local admin account but I managed to disabled it

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*Press CTRL+SHIFT+F3 to get audit mode

*Install software

*Run C:\Windows\System32\Sysprep\sysprep.exe /generalize /oobe /shutdown

*Start computer and when you see the language selection press SHIFT+F10 to open command promtp.

*Disable admin account. I removed it from settings (press WIN+I to open settings)

*Run C:\Windows\System32\Sysprep\sysprep.exe /generalize /oobe /shutdown


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Filler content with F&B – Part 4
Posted on August 14, 2017	by petertennant
Following on from last Friday's post, the fourth part of a feature on 'recent' releases from American publisher Fedogan & Bremer that originally appeared in Black Static #55:-
John Pelan's collection DARKNESS, MY OLD FRIEND (F&B hc, 232pp, trade $34.95/limited $100) opens with an introduction by Ramsey Campbell in which he identifies Pelan's pulp antecedents and comments briefly on the stories that follow. Many of these stories are set in a pub called The Smoking Leg, with our writer protagonist regaled with tall stories from either barman Ian or one of the regulars. Such is the provenance of opening story 'The Sailor Home from the Sea' with Arne telling of his time on a fishing boat, the sadomasochistic relationship between skipper Eric and the woman Tanya and what came of it, the terrible revenant that stalks him and other members of that crew. It's a fairly predictable outing, with the sexual aspects the one element that doesn't seem entirely clichéd, but done with a real zest and some vivid, unsettling images that elevate it above the familiar material.
'An Antique Vintage' takes another familiar template, with a wealthy man purchasing an old house with a chequered history and finding that the reality is so much worse than the stories hint, telling his truth in a document that will be found by those who come after. Again, it's all rather splendidly done, with the reader's interest piqued by the way in which Pelan deftly dispenses compelling details and the lurid imagery with which they are sometimes accompanied, a barrage of effects that mounts assuredly to a climax, and underlying all that the possibility that it might simply be a case of an unreliable (insane) narrator. It was a heady and entertaining brew. We're in Machen territory with 'Old Songs Waken', the account of an encounter with the numinous in the wilds of Wales, both the setting and the train of events never less than convincing, and the strong suggestion that the old ways are always there, waiting for their moment to push through into our world. 'Crazy Little Thing Called Love' has a millionaire buy a house that appears to be haunted by the ghost of a nymphomaniac mental patient who killed herself when it was a halfway house for disturbed teenagers, and finding that regardless of the threat to those near him, he rather likes being the love object of this entity. Fascinating as all that is, Pelan rings extra changes on the material by offering us his character's genius loci explanation for hauntings, and adds a modicum of humour through use of a mynah bird.
Street people find a safe place in Seattle, but the protection offered by the murderous Longcoat in 'Lord of the Jungle' comes with a high price. Pelan is excellent at capturing the desperation of broken lives, the things that these people will accept to feel safe, if only for a moment, and there is in his story an element of condemnation of an uncaring society, with hints in the theme of Ellison's Deathbird Stories, the appeal to some of new and bloodier gods. In 'Twins' a maker of customised dolls suspects that one of his customers is abusing her daughter, this sinister little tale moving along neatly to a chilling end twist, one that the reader will have seen coming but which is no less effective because of that. 'TV Eye' is a tale of mounting madness, the first person account of a man who believes that aliens walk among us and are recording our actions by means of concealed cameras. Told in a matter of fact and entirely reasonable manner, once again this is a story whose chilling end reveal elevates the material above the familiar and formulaic elements inherent in its use of genre tropes. A psychiatrist releases repressed memories of childhood satanic abuse in his patient in 'Memories Are Made of This', but again the story comes with a neat twist after a deft and convincing build up.
Spectral vengeance is involved in 'Armies of the Night' when a man's obsession with creating military dioramas alienates his wife and leads to murder. Of course Pelan leaves room for a psychological explanation, with guilt as a motive behind what happens, while underlying it all is a skilfully wrought portrait of an unhealthy obsession. In 'For Art's Sake' a selection of spoiled and soiled aesthetes are invited to a private viewing of the latest work by transgressive artist Stonebraker, with disturbing results when they see the most horrid thing of all. I wasn't convinced at all by the final revelation here, with its echoes of Dorian Gray, but Pelan is excellent at portraying the art world, with its love of controversy, and the kind of people who are attracted to extreme material (and perhaps as an aside there is an invitation to self-examination for horror fans implicit in the material). A man returns to the isolated community in which he was born and raised in 'Homecoming', bringing back bad memories of the past and revelations about the nature of rural magic in a story that holds the interest, but doesn't quite seem to achieve whatever effect it was aiming for.
In 'Spider' a man is haunted by the illusion that a spider tattoo is moving up his arm, with the reader left to discover the back and end story. It's competently done, with a love of the material obvious, even if the story turns out to be entirely predictable, especially in the end twist. An academic is recruited by the military to investigate a strange phenomenon in Afghanistan, but comes to the realisation that he is 'An Outsider' and charged with protecting gateways between the worlds. This is the most far reaching of these stories, one that attempts to recreate the doomed cosmic outlook of Lovecraft, albeit in a story that feels rather artificial and more like something Burroughs would have manufactured in his Barsoom days than the eeriness that was needed. The desired sense of cosmic awe felt very muted to me. Sherlock Holmes investigates 'The Mystery of the Worm', getting drawn into a plot by Dr Nikola to achieve immortality through summoning ancient entities from beyond the stars, the story a delightful conflation of various literary oeuvres, never less than fun to read and with deft touches of detail for the cognoscenti to pick up on.
Written in the form of a letter, 'Blind Chivvy, Green Door' tells of two poets on a glorified pub crawl and how they learned that the age of poetry is past. It's a fascinating concept, with the rivalry between Greek gods culminating in the binding of Apollo and the ascendancy of warlike spirits, so that the story is an elegy for the passing of better times and grim foreboding of what our future holds. Gangsters from Chicago head 'Out West' in search of new territory to exploit, but find that a small town holds terrors they couldn't comprehend. It's an engaging read with a neat end allusion to Innsmouth, but overall doesn't really have much substance to it and the characters felt very clichéd. A librarian's interest in a homeless man who comes to spend the day in his library leads him to take a bus to the 'Last Stop' in a story whose plot could be seen as a metaphor for xenophobia. Fear of the other is at the heart of this tale, with those who are different to be suspected, and in this case those suspicions are entirely justified, though equally it is Schumann's low level nastiness that leads him to his fate.
We return to the Smoking Leg for our last offering, this time told by the barroom drunk who, in 'Curly's Story', explains why he is afraid of spiders, telling of a hunting expedition and encounter with a giant arachnid. Despite all the horror, it's a light-hearted and fun end to a showcase collection that is never less than entertaining, with author Pelan putting a brand new shine on old tropes and familiar plotlines, along the way dropping literary references that genre aficionados will have no end of fun picking up on. Complementing the text are some striking black and white (but heavy on the black) and evocative images courtesy of artist Allen Koszowski.


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Scifi For Girls: Garth Nix's Sabriel
Samantha Caldwell
Garth Nix's Old Kingdom series, including Sabriel (1995), Lirael (2001), and Abhorsen (2003), is usually referred to as a fantasy series. However I have always considered the trilogy to be science fiction, and because the definition for the genre is so vague I will continue to think of it that way. Regardless of category the series is amazing, and I hope that my blog entices you all to go out and buy it.
Sabriel, the first book in the trilogy, continues to be one of my favorite novels almost a decade after I first encountered it. I read it at least twice a year, and I still remember exactly how and when I discovered it.
I spent the majority of my middle school experience in the library, reading a novel or two each day. My school library did not have a science fiction section, so my selection process involved picking through the general fiction section until I found an interesting title or cover. Unfortunately I went through my library's science fiction and fantasy selection within a year, and though other genres interest me my heart really belongs to science fiction.
Spending all of my free time in the library, I noticed immediately when new books were added to the fiction shelves.
When my school received Sabriel late in 2002 it caught my eye as soon as it was shelved. The spine was papyrus-colored with dozens of strange symbols etched faintly along it. The black title, in the coolest font I think I had ever seen, remains one of the most awesome and intriguing female names I know. I remember pulling it off of the shelf and examining the cover, on which a pale girl with dark hair is ringing a tiny bell as a giant black shadow with fiery eyes advances upon her from behind.
I was captivated. After reading the summary on the book's back cover I rushed to the check-out counter, eager to become the first student to take the book home.
Sabriel did not disappoint me. Like me you may be perplexed at the odd cover art. What defense could a tiny bell in the hand of young girl actually offer against the massive black shadow that looks ready to attack?
The answer both shocked and excited me. The small bell is one of seven, and the set comprises the tools of a necromancer, a sorcerer who raises the dead. The bells are also used by the Abhorsen, whose job is to lay the undead back to rest. Sabriel, the young woman on the book's cover, is the most recent in a long familial line of Abhorsens. The young girl with the little bell is quite formidable, and she is the tough and courageous heroine of the novel.
I mentioned before that I consider Sabriel and its sequels to be works of science fiction. My reasons lie in the trilogy's setting, which is composed of two very different countries separated by an enormous wall. Ancelstierre, a realistic country very similar to modern England, is located South of the wall. Ancelstierrans do not venture North of the wall, nor do many of them believe the rumors of magic that infiltrate any discussion of what lies beyond their Northern border. The mysterious land North of the great wall comprises the Old Kingdom, an ethereal country in which modern technology does not function. The Old Kingdom is a place of magic of all kinds, good and bad, and it differs from Ancelstiere in time and season.
The sharp contrast between the two countries creates a science fiction setting for me. We have a country similar to our own in matters of technology and government located right next door to a magical world where the dead come back to life and a powerful, magical teenage girl is tasked with laying them back to rest. Does this setting not incorporate the definitions of science fiction that call for a world that includes rational and realist scientific and technologic structures while also incorporating an improbable or impossible alternate reality?
I think it does.
The contrasting settings are presented through the experiences of Sabriel, whose father sent his Old Kingdom-born daughter into the relatively safer and undead-free realm of Ancelstierre to receive her education. Unfortunately his efforts to protect Sabriel end earlier than expected when he is imprisoned in a purgatory-like state and must bequeath the title of Abhorsen to his young daughter.
Sabriel journeys home to the Old Kingdom to save her father, who is trapped in Death. An Abhorsen must often enter Death, a river that carries deceased souls to the unknown beyond, to return wayward dead beings to their rightful state. Sabriel is accompanied on her journey by Mogget, a magic being that assumes the form of a cat.
This novel appeals to me because Sabriel is such a terrific heroine. She begins the novel a little unsure of herself, unwilling to accept her father's title and her role in the world. However she eventually accepts her power and becomes this awesome, butt-kicking heroine of a role model. She portrays the perfect quest hero, even rescuing her own damsel-in-distress. Of course the damsel is a handsome young man trapped as a ship's figurehead, but the idea is the same.
With her cat and damsel in tow Sabriel journeys though her birth country in search of her father, growing in power and strength along the way and ridding the world of the undead. She demonstrates that power, authority, and success in battle are not elements reserved for men, and her courage really infiltrates the reader.
Sabriel is my favorite science fiction heroine, and her title novel is the best book in the series. She is just so cool! Is there any heroic aspect that she doesn't have? She's young, she's beautiful, she's brave, and she's saving the world.
Don't you want to read her story now?
If you are interested in the novel, check out Garth Nix's website: http://www.garthnix.com/
He'll even send you a postcard if you ask! I did, and am waiting very excitedly.
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How many American Presidents have addressed the General Assembly?
President Barack Obama will address the Illinois General Assembly on Wednesday, Feb. 10. According to a report from the Chicago Sun-Times, Obama will be the fourth president to address a joint session of the Illinois legislature.
While a number of sitting American presidents have visited Springfield and the Illinois State Capitol Building, only four have given addresses to joint sessions of the legislature.
The last president to speak in front of the General Assembly was Jimmy Carter in May of 1978. Herbert Hoover spoke in June of 1931, and William Howard Taft addressed Illinois legislators in February of 1911.
Among the presidents who visited the Capitol, but who did not address the legislature was Martin Van Buren, who took a tour of the building on a day in June of 1842 that the legislature was not in session. Ronald Reagan spoke at a political rally just days before the presidential election of 1984. George H.W. Bush also spoke in the Capitol rotunda while he was in office.
Several presidents have also visited Springfield, but not made it to the Capitol building. In 1903, Teddy Roosevelt spoke in front of the Lincoln Home after dedicating Millikin University in Decatur during a cross-country tour. George W. Bush visited Springfield in April of 2005 to dedicate one of Springfield's top tourist destinations, the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum.


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Hoosick Valley Contractors acted as general contractor for the new construction of a 10,000 square foot building intended for historical and tourist use by the Schenectady County Historical Society located at the Mabee Farm Historic Site. The new building offers modern exhibit spaces, artifact storage, programming space, a catering kitchen, and staff offices. The project was completed on time and is now a beautiful addition to the Schenectady community.


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package com.faforever.client.achievements;

import com.faforever.client.api.dto.AchievementDefinition;
import com.faforever.client.api.dto.PlayerAchievement;
import com.faforever.client.config.CacheNames;
import com.faforever.client.player.PlayerService;
import com.faforever.client.remote.AssetService;
import com.faforever.client.remote.FafService;
import com.faforever.client.remote.UpdatedAchievementsMessage;
import com.google.common.annotations.VisibleForTesting;
import javafx.collections.FXCollections;
import javafx.collections.ObservableList;
import javafx.scene.image.Image;
import org.springframework.cache.annotation.Cacheable;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Lazy;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Service;

import javax.annotation.PostConstruct;
import javax.inject.Inject;
import java.net.URL;
import java.nio.file.Paths;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Objects;
import java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture;

import static com.github.nocatch.NoCatch.noCatch;

@Lazy
@Service
public class AchievementServiceImpl implements AchievementService {

  private static final int ACHIEVEMENT_IMAGE_SIZE = 128;
  private final ObservableList<PlayerAchievement> readOnlyPlayerAchievements;
  @VisibleForTesting
  final ObservableList<PlayerAchievement> playerAchievements;

  private final FafService fafService;
  private final PlayerService playerService;
  private final AssetService assetService;

  @Inject
  // TODO cut dependencies if possible
  public AchievementServiceImpl(FafService fafService, PlayerService playerService, AssetService assetService) {
    this.fafService = fafService;
    this.playerService = playerService;
    this.assetService = assetService;

    playerAchievements = FXCollections.observableArrayList();
    readOnlyPlayerAchievements = FXCollections.unmodifiableObservableList(playerAchievements);
  }

  @Override
  public CompletableFuture<List<PlayerAchievement>> getPlayerAchievements(Integer playerId) {
    int currentPlayerId = playerService.getCurrentPlayer().orElseThrow(() -> new IllegalStateException("Player has to be set")).getId();
    if (Objects.equals(currentPlayerId, playerId)) {
      if (readOnlyPlayerAchievements.isEmpty()) {

        return reloadAchievements();
      }
      return CompletableFuture.completedFuture(readOnlyPlayerAchievements);
    }

    return fafService.getPlayerAchievements(playerId);
  }

  @Override
  public CompletableFuture<List<AchievementDefinition>> getAchievementDefinitions() {
    return fafService.getAchievementDefinitions();
  }

  @Override
  public CompletableFuture<AchievementDefinition> getAchievementDefinition(String achievementId) {
    return fafService.getAchievementDefinition(achievementId);
  }

  @Override
  @Cacheable(CacheNames.ACHIEVEMENT_IMAGES)
  public Image getImage(AchievementDefinition achievementDefinition, AchievementState achievementState) {
    URL url;
    switch (achievementState) {
      case REVEALED:
        url = noCatch(() -> new URL(achievementDefinition.getRevealedIconUrl()));
        break;
      case UNLOCKED:
        url = noCatch(() -> new URL(achievementDefinition.getUnlockedIconUrl()));
        break;
      default:
        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Not yet implemented");
    }
    return assetService.loadAndCacheImage(url, Paths.get("achievements").resolve(achievementState.name().toLowerCase()),
        null, ACHIEVEMENT_IMAGE_SIZE, ACHIEVEMENT_IMAGE_SIZE);
  }

  private CompletableFuture<List<PlayerAchievement>> reloadAchievements() {
    CompletableFuture<List<PlayerAchievement>> achievementsLoadedFuture = new CompletableFuture<>();
    int playerId = playerService.getCurrentPlayer().orElseThrow(() -> new IllegalStateException("Player has to be set")).getId();
    fafService.getPlayerAchievements(playerId).thenAccept(achievements -> {
      playerAchievements.setAll(achievements);
      achievementsLoadedFuture.complete(readOnlyPlayerAchievements);
    });
    return achievementsLoadedFuture;
  }

  @PostConstruct
  void postConstruct() {
    fafService.addOnMessageListener(UpdatedAchievementsMessage.class, updatedAchievementsMessage -> reloadAchievements());
  }
}

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Does this site work? There is no email forwarded to me when someone makes sends a comment.
Trying to add new article 1200 character's long and with photoarchive 4.17 Mb. I tried several times and each time I got "413 Request Entity Too Large". I didn't notice any limits of text or photos :( What did I miss? What's my mistake?


The study was carried out to estimate thyroid hormones (T3, T4 and TSH) level in diabetic patients and to compare it with normal controls. And, also to find out the importance of thyroid hormone estimation in diabetic cases. Sixty cases of diabetes mellitus who attended Diabetic clinic, RIMS hospital during the period from October 2008 to March 2010 were taken as case. Thirty healthy individuals were selected as control group. Serum total Tri-iodothyronine (T3), thyroxine (T4), thyroid stimulating hormone and blood sugar were estimated in the cases and controls. The study showed that diabetes was more prevalent in the age group of 51-65 years and more in males (52%). The mean fasting blood sugar (126.17 � 37.92 mg %) and serum TSH level (4.58�2.90 mIU/L) were increased significantly (r = 0.884, p>0.05) whereas serum T4 level (5.79�4.39 �g/dl) was decreased in diabetic cases when compared with controls. Mean T3 level of diabetic cases was higher than controls but it was insignificant. Diabetes mellitus cases with statistically significant higher TSH value have complications like hypertension, retinopathy, nephropathy etc. A statistically significant, negative correlation(r=- 0.942, p<0.05) was seen between Serum T4 and blood sugar in the cases. Therefore, routine assessment of thyroid hormone level in addition to other biochemical variables in the early stage of diabetes will help patients to improve their health and reduce their mortality rate.


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Q: Different currency converter for different object This due to different currency rates being used to show the converted amounts.
If an Opportunity stage is Won / Cancelled / Not Selected any currency conversions uses a dated currency rate, which is based on the decision date.  Whereas for the products selections, currency conversions use the current exchange rate.
Like below example....
Products Selection:
today's currency rate $->£   0.603773585  -->  £->$   1.656249999741211
so £165 000 000 * 1.656249999741211 = $273 281 249.9572998
Opportunity:
Currency Rate on Opp  uses currency on decision date 31/10/2012  = $->£ 0.620713199
£165 000 000 * 1/0.620713199 = $265 823 250.1996466
The difference is due to different currency rates being used to show the converted amounts, the dated currency rate (based on decision date)vs the current exchange rate on the product selection related list.
We need consistency with both objects. We need to match the value of both the field to avoid the confusion for reporting.
Any help on this issue is highly appreciated!!!

A: This is a known limitation of SF.
A workaround with triggers is described here:
http://www.force2b.net/index.php/2009/01/sfc-multi-currency-improvement/

A: You could try having a custom setting (of type List) and put the currency iso codes as Name (unique), then have a helper decimal field with your custom currency rate. You won't be able to write a formula that references this setting I think (only hierarchical ones are supported from what I remember) but you'll be able to access the values in Apex without having to query for them which is always a nice thing...
The person who updates currencies will have to remember to modify the custom setting too and you'll need some kind of batch process to cascade down the change :/


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Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has shared the feedback it received from its consultation with patients, staff and the public on the proposed future goals set out in its draft Quality Strategy for 2015-18.
Medical Director Dr George Findlay (pictured above) outlined the responses received in a presentation to the trust's Stakeholder Forum meeting.
– Patient experiences are positive – but those around waiting for outpatient appointments and cancellations are less so.
These views will now inform the final shape of the Quality Strategy, which the Trust aims to publish at the end of June, but many will also be acted on straight away.
Dr Findlay said of the feedback: "I'm delighted that so many people took the time to tell us what they thought of our plans, and to come along to the meeting to find out how we will be using that feedback to improve the Quality Strategy again.


EAM: MTM Preview Mode Abending Upon Clicking "Go Back To Run Mass Transaction"
After submitting the Mass Transaction Manager in Preview Mode an abend is occurring upon Clicking the "Go Back To Run Mass Transaction" from the process monitor. The issue is related to the MTM Preview functionality.
It is stopping the users from triggering the MTM AE and viewing the results.
Due to this issue, users are facing abends when submitting the Mass Transaction Manager in Preview Mode.


Graduate students in the School of Public Health collaborated with staff members from the Office of Risk Management in the Department of Environmental Safety, Sustainability & Risk (ESSR) this past semester on their class projects to analyze and make key recommendations about the workplace health and safety environment at the University of Maryland.
SPH students enrolled in the course Occupational Health (MIEH 780), worked with Katherine Cavanaugh, Manager, Occupational Safety & Health and Jennifer Rous, Assistant Director, Risk Management, to collect data and information in regards to noise dosimetry for Heating, Ventilation and Air Condition (HVAC) employees in Facilities Management and to assess styrene levels and ventilation in two campus 3D printing labs.
Student teams for each project were given the opportunity to conduct field observations, interview workers, monitor workplace exposures, and then present their findings at the end of the semester to their course professor, Dr. Lesliam Quirós-Alcalá, assistant professor of environmental health, and Risk Management staff.
The objective for the noise dosimetry group was to monitor noise exposure levels of HVAC workers for a full workday to determine if their eight-hour time exceeded A-weighted decibel levels (dBA) as established by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). Students evaluated hearing protection compliance during the workday, assessed general safety behaviors, and evaluated employee knowledge of hearing protection and noise exposure. They also identified occupational safety and health hazards at HVAC work sites and provided a comprehensive noise exposure report with recommendations on their findings.
UMD employs about 75 HVAC workers, who perform a variety of tasks while ensuring the proper function and operations of all system areas including air conditioning, refrigeration, heating, temperature control, plumbing, rigging and steam fitting, and electrical.
Recommendations provided by the students based on the noise exposure monitoring, analysis of noise monitoring data, interviews, and worksite observations included a thorough evaluation of campus ventilation systems, ensuring HVAC employees have two-way radios so they can contact fellow workers in case of an emergency, and continual monitoring of workers.
The second group of students monitored for styrene indoor air concentrations in two 3D printing labs on the University of Maryland campus: the MakerSpace in McKeldin Library and MakerBot Innovation Center in the Technology Advancement Program (TAP). Styrene is a chemical that may be emitted during the printing process.
The field of 3D printing is growing across multiple academic and occupational disciplines, but very little is known about the health and safety aspects of these areas. While they provide for collaborative learning opportunities, it is also important to address the potential health hazards posed by the printers to the campus community. The purpose of the project was to conduct active and passive air sampling monitoring for styrene to determine if the labs exceeded OSHA permissible exposure limits (PELs).
Overall, students found that exposure limits for styrene in 3D printing labs did not exceed OSHA standards during the monitoring periods. However, it was determined that additional studies should be done at higher printing times such as midterms and finals to assess whether styrene levels exceed occupational health limits. It was also determined that if in the future, styrene levels do surpass OSHA regulations that enhanced ventilation systems in the printing labs could help reduce styrene air concentrations.
Additional recommendations included air quality sampling to monitor other volatile organic compounds and particulate matter emissions and identifying all of the 3D printing locations on campus to conduct more in depth sampling in these locations.
The projects were a great success thanks to the collaboration between students, faculty, and staff working together towards a common goal.


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Jessica F. Leavitt is an associate attorney with Stinson, Lasswell & Wilson, L.C. Raised in Lawrence, Kansas, and Homer Glen, Illinois, Jessica received her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science degree from the University of Notre Dame, and graduated with her Juris Doctor degree from the University of Kansas School of Law. While attending University of Notre Dame, Jessica completed the Glynn Family Honors Program. As a student at University of Kansas School of Law, Jessica was honored with the CALI Award for Academic Excellence in Trial Advocacy, as well as the W. Ross Hutton Legal Aid Award. While attending University of Kansas School of Law, Jessica was a member of the Women in Law organization and a student representative on the Academic Affairs Committee. She has also received the Trial Advocacy Certificate. Jessica is a member of the American Bar Association, as well as the Kansas Bar Association, and the Wichita Bar Association. She is licensed to practice law in the Kansas District Courts and the United States District Court - District of Kansas. Jessica's practice is very diverse as is more fully set forth below, with a strong emphasis in family law.


Yes, this photo below is what a pair of my leggings used looked like. And I wore them. Alot. They're maternity pants that were NOT cheap, but felt cheap after a couple wears. Pilling started almost immediately. But I continued to wear them … because well working from home every day, I've been known to wear a lot worse.
The first thing I did was iron my pants. Although it's not essential, I was a little nervous that shaving my pants would rip the fabric. Well, this ended up not being an issue at all, but I'm a 'better safe than sorry' type of gal.
Save your good razors for your legs. Seriously. Skip the fancy ones that have the moisture strips or soap bars on the side (it will actually cause more pilling than it will remove). A cheap no frills razor will be most effective. Just make sure it's a sharp new one.
Pull the fabric taut with one hand and lightly shave one section at a time. This will prevent you from cutting through the garment.
As the razor gets full (and it will quickly!), wipe it off with a paper towel. This mound of pilling was just the beginning!
I found it easier to place my garmet on a hard surface whiling shaving it instead of carpet.
Now not all the pilling stuck onto the razor so I also rolled a lint roller over the paints to collect the remains.
Depending on how much pilling there is, it make take you a quick minute or a little longer to get your garmet back to it's original state. Do as I say and not as I do …. don't wait too long to tackle this project after you see pilling on your clothes!
Turn your garments inside out before washing and drying.
Liquid laundry detergent is more gentle on clothing, as is using the gentle cycle (duh)!
When possible, hang dry your clothes instead of using the dryer. The dryer is the big pilling culperate.
Make sure not to overload your washer. Cramming too many garmets in prevents the from moving around and causes damage to the surface.
May your expensive clothes continue to look EXPENSIVE and hopefully pilling never goes in style!
That worked amazingly well! Yes it's got to be a CHEAP RAZOR. I started with my fancy razor and did not work Thank you so much !!!


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Houthism: From moderate Zaidi Shi'ism to Iranian radical Safawism
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Houthis rally in Sanaa, Yemen (Photo: AP)
Calling themselves Ansarullah (God's partisans), the Houthis are a numerous clan of Yemen's Arab stock belonging to a religious but armed rebel branch of Zaidi Shi'ism. They are guided by Iran's Ja'fari Shi'i theocracy and Safawi movement which call the Arabs inferior. The Houthis follow Safawism which is hostile to Arabism.
The Houthis, who are called by critics "arrogant crooks", emerged in 1992 in Sa'da, Yemen's north-western province bordering Saudi Arabia. Under the leadership of Hussein Badruddin al-Houthi, the clan became Iran-guided rebels to Yemen's ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh who they accused of corruption and criticised his dependence foreign powers. Tensions with Saleh's regime grew until war broke out in 2004 with the group's founder Hussein, who was killed later in that year by Saleh forces. The Quds Force, an external arm of Iran's ruling Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), guides the Houthis. The Iranian theocracy's other Arab proxies like Lebanon's Hezbollah also helps in the training of Houthis in combat and organisation.
In late 2014 the Houthis led by Abdul Malek, Hussein's brother, repaired relations with Saleh and the Yemeni armed forces. With the latter's help, the Houthis took control of the capital Sana'a and much of the north. Like the Lebanese Hezbollah – the strongest under the Quds Force – the Houthis attract Zaidis in Yemen by promoting regional political-religious issues in its media, including the overarching "US-Israeli conspiracy" and Arab "collusion". In 2003 the Houthis' slogan was: "God is great, death to the US, death to Israel, curse on the Jews, and victory to Islam".
The Houthis explicit goals include ending Yemen's underdevelopment, corruption, nepotism and political marginalisation – seeking greater autonomy for Houthi-held areas. However, the group is excessively corrupt and lacking in morality. It took part in Yemen's – coordinating with other opposition groups and joined the National Dialogue Conference in as part of a Saudi-led Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) peace plan. Nonetheless, the Houthis rejected the November 2011 deal's provisions stipulating formation of six federal regions in Yemen, claiming that they did not reform governance and "divided Yemen into poor and wealthy regions". They said the deal was an attempt to weaken them by dividing areas under their control between separate regions.
In 2014–15, the Houthis took Sana'a from the Yemeni armed forces under President Abd Rabuh Mansur Hadi with Saleh's help, controlling most of Yemen.
Houthism began as a relatively moderate theological movement, hold a broad-minded view of all the Yemenis. The group's first organisation, "the Believing Youth", was founded in 1992 in Sada by Muhammad and Hussein al-Houthi. It set up school clubs and summer camps to promote a Zaidi revival" in Sa'da. By 1994–95, up to 20,000 students had attended the Believing Youth's summer camps. The religious material included lectures by Lebanon's Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Hussein Fadhlalla and Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah. Later, Houthism includes shoring up Zaidi support against neighbouring Saudi Arabia and condemnation of the Saleh regime and its alliance with the US, along with complaints regarding the government's corruption.
Although Hussein al-Houthi had no official ties with the Believing Youth, he radicalised Zaidism after the 2003 US invasion of Iraq. BY-tied youth shouted anti-US and anti-Israel slogans in Sana'a's Saleh Mosque after Friday prayers. That attracted the authorities' attention, further increasing Saleh worries over the extent of the Houthi influence. Saleh thought that, if now the Houthis chanted "Death to America", tomorrow they could be chanting `Death to the president". So over 800 Believing Youth supporters were arrested in Sana'a' in 2004. Saleh then invited Hussein al-Houthi to a meeting in Sana'a, but Hussein declined. On June 18, 2004, Saleh sent government forces to arrest Hussein. Hussein responded by launching an insurgency against the regime but he was killed on Sep 10, 2004. The insurgency continued intermittently until a truce was reached in 2010. Later the Houthis joined in the 2011 Yemeni Revolution, as well as the ensuing National Dialogue Conference(NDC). But they rejected the provisions of the November 2011 deal on the ground that it divided Yemen into poor and wealthy regions. As the revolution went on, Houthis gained control of greater territory. By Nov. 9, 2011, the Houthis were in control of Sa'da and Jawf provinces and close to taking over Hajja, which would enable them to launch a direct assault on Sana'a. In May 2012, they controlled most of Sa'da, Jawf, and Hajja provinces, as well as gaining access to the Red Sea and began erecting barricades north of Sana'a in preparation for more conflict. Saleh was allied with them in 2014-2017.
By Sep 21, 2014, the Houthis controlled parts of Sana'a including government buildings and a radio station. But while Houthi control expanded to the rest of Sana'a and other towns like Rada' with the indirect Iranian role, that was challenged by al-Qaeda and ISIS. The Houthis on Jan 20, 2015, seized the presidential palace in Sana'a where Hadi was staying but was not harmed. They on Feb 6 in that year took control of the government, dissolving parliament and making their Revolutionary Committee the acting body in Yemen.
In March 2015, two mosques were hit by ISIS during mid-day prayers, killing 142 Houthi worshippers and wounding over 351, making it the deadliest terrorist attack in Yemen's history. On TV speech, Abdul Malek al-Houthi accused the US and Israel of supporting the terror hits blaming regional Arab states for financing terrorists in Yemen. On March 27, 2015, in response to perceived Houthis threats to the neighbouring countries, the Arab alliance conducted air-strikes against the Houthis.
The alliance between Saleh and the Houthis broke down in late 2017, with armed clashes occurring in Sana'a. Saleh declared the split in a Dec. 2 TV statement, urging his supporters to take back the country and offered a dialogue with the Saudi-led coalition. On Dec. 4, 2017, Saleh's Sana'a house was attacked by the Houthis killing the ex-ruler.
The Houthis had up to 3,000 fighters by 2005 and 8,000 in 2009. In 2010, Yemen Post claimed they had over 100,000 fighters. The expert on the group Ahmad al-Bahri in 2010 said the Houthis had over 100,000 followers, including armed fighters. By 2015, they had swaths of new supporters outside its traditional demographics.
The Houthis' ideology is based on Zaidism, also known as Fivers, a sect almost exclusively present in Yemen. Zaidis make up about 25% of the population, Sunnis make up 75%. There are tiny Muslim minorities. Houthi Zaidis make up about 30% of the Shi'i population.
The Zaidis ruled Yemen for 1,000 years up until 1962. They ferociously defended their independence and fought off external powers – Egypt and the Ottomans – controlling South Yemen and trying to extend their rule to the north. Similar to the other Shia in matters of religious law and rulings, the Houthi belief in the concept of an Imamate as being essential to their religion makes them distinct from Sunnis.
The Houthi approach is in many ways similar to that of Lebanon's Hezbollah. Similarly religiously based and guided by Iran, both groups follow the same military doctrine and glorify the Khomeini revolution. Consequently, they have regularly been accused, even by many fellow Zaidis, of secretly being converts to Ja'farism – Iran's official sect.
The Houthis assert that their actions are against the expansion of Salafism and for defence from discrimination, whereas the San'a' government has accused it of intending to topple the regime out of a desire to institute Zaidi law, destabilising the state and stirring anti-US sentiment. The government also accuses them of having ties to external backers, in particular, Iran.
The Houthis' flag reads: "God Is Great, Death to America, Death to Israel, Curse on the Jews, Victory to Islam". This is partially modelled on Iran's which reads "Death to US and death to Israel". A Houthi spokesman Ali al-Bukhayti and the media face of the Houthis have tried to reject the literal interpretation of the slogan, stating: "We do not really want death to anyone. The slogan is simply against the interference of those governments [USA & Israel]". However, the Arabic Houthi-affiliated TV and radio stations use jihad (holy war) connotations against Israel and the US.
The group has been accused of expelling or restricting members of the rural Yemeni Jewish community. Reports of abuse include Houthis' supporters bullying or attacking the country's Jews. A Yemeni Jewish rabbi says many Jews remain terrified by the Houthis' slogan. As a result, Yemeni Jews retain a negative sentiment towards the Houthis, who they allege have committed persecutions against them. According to Ayoob Kara, Houthi militants had given an ultimatum telling Jews to "convert to Islam or leave Yemen".
Ali Akbar Velayati, International Affairs Adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in October 2014 said: "We are hopeful that Ansarullah has the same role in Yemen as Hezbollah has in eradicating the terrorists in Lebanon". Iran's support for the Houthis has risen since 2014.
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The darkness has my soul.
It exists on the verge of hope.
and no one sees me in the darkness.
vulnerability clings to my indifference.
searching for the broken pieces of my soul.
and all I feel is darkness.


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Stamping presses can be subdivided into two main types: mechanically driven presses and hydraulically driven presses. Read More…
Stamping Presses >A stamping press is a device that is designed and built to operate progressive stamping dies and other types of dies. Used to shape or cut metal, stamping presses have the ability to fulfill almost any metal forming or stamping need.
The most common mechanical presses use an eccentric drive to move the press's ram, whereas hydraulic cylinders are used in hydraulic presses. Hydraulic presses are advantageous because they allow for constant press force during the stroke.
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Mechanical stamping presses offer the advantage of being able to reach higher cycles in a shorter amount of time.
Some of the many applications and industries that stamping presses are utilized in include:
Electronics, in order to make various housings for electrical devices; industrial manufacturing, in order to fabricate sheet metal into a wide range of machine components and parts; automotive, for use in the manufacturing of parts such as engine mounts, connectors, terminal lead frames; construction, in order to fabricate various household fixtures and safety features; and aerospace, for the manufacturing of diverse structural components as well as internal parts and hardware.
A stamping press is comprised of a press frame, a bolster plate and a ram. The bolster plate, also known as a press bed, is a large, non-moving block of metal upon which the bottom portion of a die is clamped.
Large presses, used in automotive applications, have a die cushion integrated in the bolster plate to apply blank holder forces. This process is necessary when a single acting press is used for deep drawing.
The ram, also a solid piece of metal that is clamped to the top portion of a stamping die, provides the stroke. This action causes the die to produce parts from the metal being fed through it. Typically, the metal is being fed into the press by means of an automatic feeder.
Hydraulic stamping presses are able to deliver a controlled force with tonnage ranging from 20 to 10,000 tons, with stroke lengths varying from as small as 10 mm to as large as 800 mm.
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Nordic Odyssey: A Month at Sea
By Elissa Curtis
In the December 24th issue of the magazine, Keith Gessen wrote about the ice-class bulk carrier Nordic Odyssey, and its trip to transport sixty-five thousand tons of iron ore from Murmansk, Russia, to China via the Northern Sea Route—through the Arctic seas and down through the Bering Strait. There has been a drastic reduction in the extent and thickness of ice during the Arctic summer in recent years, and the Northeast Passage—for centuries an obsession of explorers, often with fatal results—could soon become an everyday part of merchant shipping. By the middle of this century, you may be able to traverse the Arctic in a canoe. See above for a video of the journey, and below for a slide show of photographs.
The view from the deck of the ship the Nordic Odyssey as it sailed from Murmansk, in Russia, to Huanghua, in China, in July.
Photographs by Davide Monteleone/VII.


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Local nameNoceto
LocationParma, Italy
Noceto is a comune in the province of Parma in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about 100 kilometres northwest of Bologna and about 12 kilometres west of Parma.
The municipality of Noceto contains the frazioni Borghetto, Cella, Costamezzana, Ponte Taro, and Sanguinaro.
Noceto borders the following municipalities: Collecchio, Fidenza, Fontanellato, Fontevivo, Medesano, Parma.
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Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noceto
Coordinates 44°48'35.643" N 10°10'38.134" E
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