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According the Budget proposal, Kavach, this indigenously developed Automatic Train Protection System showcased on South Central Railway , is earmarked for aggressive rollout on 2,000 km in 2022-23
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What is the upgrade?
How far is the rollout?
It is India's very own automatic protection system in development since 2012, under the name Train Collision Avoidance System (TCAS), which got rechristened to Kavach or "armour".
In other words, it is a set of electronic devices and Radio Frequency Identification devices installed in locomotives, in the signalling system as well the tracks, that talk to each other using ultra high radio frequencies to control the brakes of trains and also alert drivers, all based on the logic programmed into them.
One of its features is that by continuously refreshing the movement information of a train, it is able to send out triggers when a loco pilot jumps signal, called Signal Passed at Danger (SPAD), a grave offence in railway operations with respect to safety, and the key to accidents like collision.
The devices also continuously relay the signals ahead to the locomotive, making it useful for loco pilots in low visibility, especially during dense fog.
TCAS or Kavach includes the key elements from already existing, and tried and tested systems like the European Train Protection and Warning System, and the indigenous Anti Collison Device.
It will also carry features of the high-tech European Train Control System Level-2 in future. The current form of Kavach adheres to the highest level of safety and reliability standard called Safety Integrity Level 4.
India wants to position Kavach as an exportable system, a cheaper alternative to the European systems in vogue across the world.
While now Kavach uses Ultra High Frequency, work is on to make it compatible with 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology and make the product for global markets.
Work is on to make the system such that it can be compatible with other already installed systems globally.
So far, Kavach has been deployed on over 1,098 km and 65 locomotives in ongoing projects of the South Central Railway.
In future it will be implemented on 3000 km of the Delhi-Mumbai and Delhi-Howrah corridors where the tracks and systems are being upgraded to host a top speed of 160 kmph.
Further, over 34,000 km on the High Density Network (HDN) and Highly Utilized Network (HUN) of on the Golden Quadrilateral have been included in its sanctioned plans.
-Source: Indian Express

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RE: Games you consider 10/10.
@Haru17 said in Games you consider 10/10.:
Nonetheless, I'm glad someone else appreciated Echoes. That game gets anti-hype like no one's buisness (literally "like no one's buisness," as most people condemn it without ever even owning the disc).
I actually prefer Echoes to the original Prime, it's an amazing game. I loved Aether and the way its environments were more weird & alien than Tallon IV while the dark world and general difficulty bump were also awesome (I think that put a lot of people off).
Unfortunately the wii-mote controls ruined Metroid Prime 3 for me, I hate them so much that I illiterately can't get through that game. Wish they still had the options to play it with the Gamecube pad.
The lack of SIFTD and EZA cross-over seem strange to anybody?
So I'm a patron of EZA while also subscribing to SIFTD which is the website set-up and run by Shane Satterfield from the old GT crowd. Not sure how many of you would be likewise but I'd imagine a fair amount of cross-over since both EZA and SIFTD have their roots in Gametrailers staff.
Anyway, Shane mentioned on the latest episode of his show GameFace that he doesn't get invited onto other shows and podcasts much (or at all) which seems strange to me. I mean, he came back to Gametrailers as a guest on GT Live and the Bonus Round and I'm pretty sure Brandon showed up on an early episode of GameFace. I've got the impression not everybody who worked with him is a big fan of Shane which is fair enough, and I can understand that, especially since he was 'The Boss' for a long time and it isn't always easy to be that likeable when you need to get people to do their jobs and hit deadlines (btw, I personally do like Shane a lot and really enjoy GameFace and SIFTD).
However, at the least Brandon and he seem to get along well and he must have worked alongside Blood, Damiani and Keighley for years - as a point of comparison there is obviously a fair amount of crossover happening on Live with Youtube Gaming what with Kyle being a big part of it and both Brandon and Elyse showing up as guests but the same doesn't seem to apply with SIFTD.
Just to be clear I'm not making any big point or call anybody a jerk, I'm simply wondering if anybody else if a bit of confused by the lack of Shane-crossover among the the rest of the old GT crowd when it seems like such a natural fit.matter also, whatever the heck happened to Ryan Stevens...?
RE: Metroidvanias that aren't Metroid or Castlevania, which are your favourites?
Guacamelee is probably my favourite 'other' Metroidvania.
Shantae & The Pirate's Curse comes a close second.
Shadow Complex is also great of course.
And I'm hopeful for Bloodstained.
Somehow I just couldn't get along with Ori & The Blond Forest. :-\
RE: What is your GOTY so far?
Regarding the discussion about whether Witcher 3: Blood and WIne qualifies, I don't think it should be dumped in the usual 'DLC' category. This was a full-on traditional expansion pack with a 15+ hour quest in a totally new (and huge) location.
I would say it's no different from a sequel to a game built in the same engine with the same mechanics, like Assassin's Creed Brotherhood or something like that.
Not that it matters of course. All that does matter is that so many people love it.
RE: Is it okay to form an opinion about a game without finishing it?
Depends on what opinion you are putting across.
What Brandon was saying was fine - he hasn't got into Final Fantasy VII and it didn't appeal to him. No problem.
However, I have run into people (including some of my close friends) who like to really crap on games and claim they are through-and-through rubbish yet they've never played or even seen much of. That's not okay, not at all.
RE: A Witcher 3 review that I agree with
I love Witcher 3's combat and almost everything else about the game. It's snuck into my personal 'Top 10' games ever and certainly has the best story/characters in any game I've played.
People who don't like the game seem to be really, really insecure about this fact and unable to accept that their opinion (which is fine and I respect anybody to dislike it) is not some kind of objective God-given Truth. Especially SoulsBourne fans for some reason (even though they are very different games).
I mean, there are plenty of games that I don't like which are popular and yet for some reason I don't feel the need to go bitching about them all over the internet.
RE: AM2R - Amazing Metroid 2 remake released yesterday.
That's beautiful. I need to do some of my own art. Samus is tricky to draw but the Metroids themselves are simple and beautiful. That said, I'm seriously starting to fear them in this game - haven't played a 2D game this atmospheric since... well, Metroid Fusion!
I'm now at the final stage in the nest - fought my first Omega Metroid which was awesome. They and the Zeta Metroid are a lot more fun and interesting to fight than Gammas and Alphas which usually involves just spamming missiles at them.
I'm coming for you Queenie!
@luckywallace said in Games you consider 10/10.:
Sorry you couldn't get along with the motion controls. It helped immerse me in the games once I got used to them (Corruption was also the first Metroid I played, renting it back when I was in middle school). But, on the other point, I agree. Retro only got better at crafting unique environments with time.
Sanctuary Fortress is just such a dope area. The skybox (pictured above) is one of the coolest ever made IMO. This whole sprawling metropolis, the likes of which you've never seen in another Metroid game, dead. This entire futuristic society laid dormant when Aether plunged into an energy crisis and guerrilla war. Stakes.
Not to mention the awesome rivalry of Samus tracking her dark reflection across Aether—her bounty hunting being given the limelight. You don't have to hear her say "No bounties or rewards, this one's personal," because you feel it.
This is why, out of all of the games I love, I would pick Echoes to get a full remake and reimagining. It's just such a weird world that I want to see explored. I want to see the Luminoth's cyber tech in Sanctuary Fortress and their more religious-feeling technology from the Temple. I want to learn about the weird digital-looking plant life in Agon Wastes. And I want to see more hydraulics puzzles in Torvus Bog because, to this day, that is one of the only swamps I have ever enjoyed in a video game.
That's not to say the original game was terribly flawed, though. Far from it. In fact, you can actually find the husk of a worm the same species as Amorbis (the final boss of Agon Wastes) in the first area of the Wastes! It's a scan and everything. IMO none of the background lore in MP1 was ever this clever. Like, the sheer foreshadowing of that makes my writer bones rattle with jealousy.
I totally agree, Prime 2 is still an amazing looking game to this day and the lore of Aether is fantastic. I also love how the world changes as you slowly fix the light world and destroy the dark world. The boss fights are also amazing and hugely inventive. The Spider Guardian, Quadraxis, Dark Samus and the Emperor Ing stand out especially. Masterpiece - in fact it should get 11/10.
Patched version 1.1 is out...
http://am2r.freeforums.org/post25265.html
Details on what the patch did are in the link. Yes, your saves from 1.0 should transfer across. :-D
RE: Is the Scorpio enough to make you switch mid generation?
I don't care about 4k at all but I love games running at 60fps.
If the Scorpio can start to consistently deliver 60fps console gaming (and patch-up things like The Witcher 3 and Rise of the Tomb Raider to run at 60fps) then I'm sold, so long as the price isn't insane.
RE: Gamecube Virtual Console?
I really want there to be some kind of way to play Gamecube games in the future since it's becoming a pain to keep the old box hooked up to my TV when newer consoles are fighting for the spot.
I know Dolphin is great but my PC can't run it at the right speed. I also know that in theory my Wii U could be hacked to allow me to play 'cube games but it all looks to complicated for me. :-\
RE: Did you ever play/watch/etc anything because of Huber's hype?
There are a few other things I'm sure but Sunset Overdrive was a recent one - I was already interested but Huber talking it up pushed me over the edge into getting it... and of course it was awesome.
RE: The lack of SIFTD and EZA cross-over seem strange to anybody?
@Mango
Thanks for the replies all. I think you've probably hit on things pretty accurately - I love both GameFace and also the EZA podcasts but they do indeed have different 'vibes' to them in both general style and the way the conversations go. I think over at SIFTD Shane has found a really good 'co-host' to bounce-off in Matt in that they can sometimes get quite intense and argumentative when they disagree about something but then immediately switch into being totally chilled out and amiable as soon as they switch topics. By contrast I think the same style or conversation / debate that Shane is good at would sometimes rub other people the wrong way back on Invisible Walls.
Anyway, I'd still love to see some more crossover. Whether you agree or disagree with him, Shane is good at sparking conversations and debates and often comes at things from another angle than the norm which is one of the reasons I really respect him.
For that matter, it would be cool to see Keighly, Elyse, Justin, Megan or somebody else of the 'old GT crew' pop up some time with the EZA gang as a guest.
RE: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (NS/WiiU)
Hmm... I'll wait and see. I just can't see Zelda delivering either an open-world or an epic story and characters that are anything remotely close to the likes of The Witcher 3.
Where Zelda has always excelled is in it's excellent dungeons and puzzles, where the franchise is head-and-shoulders above any rivals. Yet, we haven't seen much of that for BOTW.
Also, that frame-rate looks really ropey on the Wii U. I know there is still time to polish but I'm hoping maybe the Switch can do better (praying for 60fps).
RE: Games you hate that everyone else seems to love.
My really weird one is Super Metroid which is especially strange since I love Metroid Zero Mission, Fusion and the recent AM2R (and also many other Metroidvanias, including the Prime games). I just find Super so incredibly slow, floaty and awkward by comparison, plus I actually find the pacing and world/level design in the other games to be way better.
RE: Sonic Mania & Sonic Forces (PC/PS4/XB1/NSW)
Physics look similar to Genetations... which were a bit wonky but overall it was a solid game. I'm cautiously optimistic on this one...
Sonic Mania is looking amazing. I almost never pre-order things but I went and pre-purchased this immediately after this trailer (so as soon as the option became available).
Played it last year at EGX and the gameplay is perfect while all of the levels shown thus far have looked amazing.
This is also making me realise how much I miss Tails and Knuckles - they haven't been playable since the Sonic Advance games back in the early 2000s. :'-(


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NUN // Pick Up the Phone
Formed in late 2011, Nun started life as a recording project for members Jenny Branagan, Tom Hardisty (Woollen Kits), Steven Harris and Hugh Young (Constant Mongrel / Hamhock). The group formed over a shared love of bands such as Iron Curtain, Sixx, Coil, Throbbing Gristle, Snowy Red, John Carpenter, Goblin and Christian Death.
The band also draw aesthetic influence from 80's BBC sci-fi dramas such as Threads, the children's occult classic Moondial, British 70's horror films such as Blood on Satan's Claw, Carpenter's classic They Live and Cronenberg's Videodrome, as well as the esoteric imagery of books such as Readers Digest: Strange Stories & Amazing Facts, where images of possession, stigmata, spirit photography and apparitions sit beside tales of the Loch Ness Monster and moving statues.
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Pick Up the Phone is the second single from NUN's second album, The Dome coming out November 2018 via Aarght Records.
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Bedside ultrasound in cardiac standstill: a clinical review
Laila Hussein ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0003-4339-08811,
Mohammad Anzal Rehman2,
Ruhina Sajid3,
Firas Annajjar4 &
Tarik Al-Janabi4
The Ultrasound Journal volume 11, Article number: 35 (2019) Cite this article
Patients with cardiac arrest present as a relatively frequent occurrence in the Emergency Department. Despite the advances in our understanding of the pathophysiology of cardiac arrest, managing the condition remains a stressful endeavor and currently implemented interventions, while beneficial, are still associated with a disappointingly low survivability. The majority of modern Advanced Life Support algorithms employ a standardized approach to best resuscitate the 'crashed' patient. However, management during resuscitation often encourages a 'one-size-fits-all' policy for most patients, with lesser attention drawn towards causality of the disease and factors that could alter resuscitative care. Life support providers are also often challenged by the limited bedside predictors of survival to guide the course and duration of resuscitation. Over the recent decades, point-of-care ultrasonography (PoCUS) has been gradually proving itself as a useful adjunct that could potentially bridge the gap in the recognition and evaluation of precipitants and end-points in resuscitation, thereby facilitating an improved approach to resuscitation of the arrested patient. Point-of-care ultrasound applications in the critical care field have tremendously evolved over the past four decades. Today, bedside ultrasound is a fundamental tool that is quick, safe, inexpensive and reproducible. Not only can it provide the physician with critical information on reversible causes of arrest, but it can also be used to predict survival. Of note is its utility in predicting worse survival outcomes in patients with cardiac standstill, i.e., no cardiac activity witnessed with ultrasound. Unfortunately, despite the increasing evidence surrounding ultrasound use in arrest, bedside ultrasound is still largely underutilized during the resuscitation process. This article reviews the current literature on cardiac standstill and the application of bedside ultrasound in cardiac arrests.
Cardiac arrest is one of the leading causes of death and disability worldwide. Unsurprisingly, patients in arrest are frequently encountered in the Emergency Department (ED) and life-saving resuscitation techniques constitute an integral part of every Emergency Healthcare provider's core training. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation in the ED is an intense event that paralyzes the resuscitation room and requires expeditious decision-making and rapid intervention. Although medical personnel are accustomed to the swift execution of assigned tasks in the initial few minutes, the majority of time during resuscitation is spent either repeating initial actions or waiting for the next development which, unfortunately, often tends to be the announcement of time of death. According to the American Heart Association 2013 statistics, overall survival to hospital discharge rate was 9.5% and 23.9% for out-of-hospital arrest and in-hospital arrest, respectively [1]. Out-of-hospital cardiac asystole often carries the worst prognosis with a survival rate of only 2–7% [2].
Despite the lack of evidence to support such practice, many Emergency Physicians and hospital policies have adopted and implemented 20 min as the average time spent on cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) before termination [3]. While it is worrying that allotting a standard time across all patients in arrest might leave some patients with sub-optimal care during arrest, what is more concerning is that this premature termination of CPR is based on limited bedside decision tools. While it is true that, on average, resuscitation is often unnecessarily prolonged, consumes a great deal of hospital resources and has contradicting impact on family members [4], certain populations of patients may warrant and ultimately benefit from longer resuscitation efforts such as in cases of pediatric arrest, drowning, and hypothermia.
Several factors associated with prognosis in patients undergoing cardiac arrest have also been studied. Better prognosis has been reported in patients with initial shockable rhythm, bystander CPR, witnessed arrest, and in patients who are conscious on admission [5, 6]. Patients with agonal movements and gasping during resuscitation and those with end tidal carbon dioxide (ETCO2) values higher than 10 mmHg were also found to have better outcomes [7, 8]. Unfortunately, up to date, there are no 100% accurate predictors that can definitively determine which patients will have return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) and which will not.
For the past three decades, literature has revealed that point-of-care ultrasound (PoCUS) in cardiac arrest may add a significant prognostic value to the currently available clinical exam, specifically pertaining to ROSC. The use of imaging during CPR dates back to the 1980s when transesophageal echocardiography was first used to look for reversible causes of arrest [9, 10]. Since then, the application of ultrasound in cardiac arrest has widely expanded and become a core skill recognized by many international organizations [11, 12]. One of the applications of ultrasound in cardiac arrest involves identifying the complete absence of cardiac motion, termed cardiac standstill. Current literature has shown very low (but not zero) chance of survival associated with a cardiac standstill [2].
International consensus on the use of POCUS in CPR
In 2010, the American Society of Echocardiography and the American College of Emergency Physicians established a consensus on cardiac ultrasound applications in the emergency department. The goal of focused ultrasound in cardiac arrest is to (1) differentiate organized cardiac rhythm from asystole, true PEA (pulseless electrical activity) and pseudo-PEA; (2) find reversible causes of arrest and (3) perform ultrasound-guided procedures during CPR and in ROSC [11]. The European Society of Cardiology stated that ultrasound may potentially improve diagnosis and alter management throughout the whole pathway of acute care in cardiac arrest patients [12]. Strong recommendations were also empowered by the European Resuscitation 2015 Guidelines and incorporated ultrasound into Acute Life Support [13]. Finally, in 2017, ACEP approved guidelines on transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) use in cardiac arrest [14].
Level of competency
Use of ultrasound during CPR requires a certain degree of experience and training. Operators should be practiced in obtaining different heart windows in stable patients first and need to be capable of correctly interpreting different pathologies. They should have considerable training integrating the scan into advanced life support without delaying chest compressions. No specific hours of training were postulated in the European Heart Society and European Resuscitation Council Guidelines [12, 13]. However, several studies have demonstrated accurate cardiac ultrasound skills by emergency medicine physicians as well as emergency medicine residents with good correlation to cardiologists' skills [15,16,17]. One study found that the implementation of a standardized 6-month course for emergency healthcare providers allowed them to utilize bedside ultrasonography to efficiently obtain useful prognostic indicators of survival and ROSC while still maintaining between-compression delays of less than 10 s [18].
Applied cardiac arrest ultrasound
Ultrasound should not delay chest compressions
When a patient arrives to the Emergency Department in cardiac arrest, looking for reversible causes should only be initiated after high-quality CPR has been achieved and maintained. That being said, PoCUS should not be delayed till the very end of resuscitation as patients have higher chances of survival if potentially reversible causes of arrest were identified and addressed early. Although ultrasound use in arrest is strongly encouraged, users need to be aware of potential harm if not applied correctly. Most importantly, ultrasound application in cardiac arrest should never interrupt or interfere with chest compressions [12, 13].
In 2017 and 2018, three studies demonstrated that use of ultrasound increases hands-off time during pulse checks [19,20,21]. Among these was a prospective cohort study by Huis and his colleagues where cameras were installed in the resuscitation room as a means of visually monitoring any and all interruptions during CPR [19]. Twenty-three patients were enrolled in the study with a total of 123 pulse checks. The mean duration of pulse checks and interruption in chest compressions with PoCUS was found to be 21.0 s (95% CI 18–24), compared with a mean duration without PoCUS of 13.0 s (95% CI 12–15). Thus, the study demonstrated that the use of PoCUS significantly increased the pulse-check duration by 8.4 s (95% CI 6.7–10.0 [p < 0.0001]). Similar findings were recorded by Clattenburg et al. [21]. It is important to emphasize that none of these studies advised against the use of ultrasound but rather advocated for sensible techniques and proper training.
The first algorithm incorporating cardiac ultrasound into CPR was introduced by Breitkreutz et al. and was described as focused echocardiographic evaluation in resuscitation (FEER) [22]. Breitkreutz recommends FEER after 5 cycles of high-quality CPR. Integrating POCUS into cardiac arrest protocols was also suggested by several other authors over the years [23,24,25]. We recommend using ultrasound earlier in CPR once high-quality chest compressions are achieved and then repeating it prior to termination of CPR to assess if the patient is having a cardiac standstill. Ultrasound also plays a key role after ROSC has been achieved. Reversible causes of shock that are otherwise usually unclear during CPR can be readily identified through the use of ultrasound—such as wall motion abnormalities in patients with acute myocardial infarction. Ultrasound can also guide fluid management during ROSC by scanning the inferior vena cava and reassessing the lungs for development of pulmonary edema.
In 2018, Gardner and Clattenberg et al. published a novel protocol known as Cardiac Arrest Sonographic Assessment (CASA) [26]. The authors postulated a three-step ultrasound-guided assessment of patients in cardiac arrest. Initial image acquisition focuses on ruling out cardiac tamponade. The second image attempts to rule out right ventricular strain secondary to pulmonary embolism. The third view is the final step of the protocol, performed at the end of resuscitation to identify cardiac standstill (Fig. 1). Other windows commonly included in the EFAST exam can be performed while the CPR is ongoing. The CASA protocol was tested through a prospective pre- and post-intervention study on 276 cardiac arrests where the emergency medicine residents and faculty had been trained to apply the protocol during CPR [27]. The CASA group had significant reduction in pulse check interruptions from 19.8 to 15.8 s. The study also showed that placing the ultrasound on the chest prior to stopping CPR and having an attending with ED ultrasound fellowship training are independent variables that reliably decrease CPR pulse check durations. Although further external validation of this protocol is warranted, its simplicity renders it an attractive tool to integrate into the resuscitation process.
The Cardiac Arrest Sonographic Assessment (CASA) protocol. Reproduced with author's permission from the original algorithm curtesy of Gardner et al. [26]
In order to optimize image acquisition, the heart window may be obtained while CPR is still ongoing prior to the pulse check (Fig. 2a, b) [27]. The operator can then record the heart activity during the pulse check and review it when CPR has resumed. This can be repeated on the next pulse check if an adequate image was not obtained the first time. If no heart activity is seen, M-mode can be used to confirm the presence or absence of any cardiac movement (Fig. 3a, b). Only one heart window should be attempted at a time. It is also recommended that a designated team member be assigned to verbalize a loud 'count-down' during the scan to minimize between-compression delays. The operator performing the scans can also keep towels and tissues ready to immediately remove the gel off the chest before resumption of compressions. Table 1 summarizes the key points to faster image acquisition.
Subcostal views of the heart taken while chest compressions were ongoing. a The heart was compressed (systole) and chambers are difficult identify. b The hands are off the chest and the right (RV) and left (LV) ventricles are seen clearly
M-mode of the heart in asystole. a The horizontal lines represent absence of any movement across the M-mode line. Areas which are grainy (arrows) indicate myocardial contraction. b Completely flat lines indicating no cardiac movement (true cardiac standstill)
Table 1 Key points in faster image acquisition during CPR
The phased array (cardiac) probe is ideal for scanning the heart. However, if not available, the curvilinear (abdominal) probe can also be used. Three cardiac windows, subcostal, apical, and parasternal long axis views, have been described in cardiac arrest literature, but any one view is usually sufficient if it provides the operator with all the answers he is looking for [12, 28]. The subcostal view is most popular as it can be most easily accessed during ongoing CPR without interfering with chest compressions [24]. In addition to cardiac windows, a quick view of the lungs can be obtained during another pulse check to look for absent lung sliding (Fig. 4).
Parasternal view of the lungs in M-mode showing sea shore appearance that confirms absence of pneumothorax
Scanning objectives
Identification of reversible causes
Hernandez et al. developed a systematic algorithm to identify the four most critical causes of cardiac arrest in the C.A.U.S.E. protocol (Cardiac Arrest Ultra-Sound Exam) [24]. These potentially reversible causes include a dilated right ventricle in pulmonary embolism, fluid around the heart in pericardial tamponade, collapsed ventricles in hypovolemia and absent lung sliding in tension pneumothorax. The authors have also suggested additional views that can be obtained in hypovolemia such as the inferior vena cava to confirm an 'empty tank', as well as the abdominal aorta to evaluate for aneurysm as a cause of hypovolemia.
The American Society of Echocardiography and the American College of Emergency Physicians 2010 guidelines recommend the use of PoCUS only in pulseless electrical activity (PEA) or asystole and discourage its use in shockable rhythm [11]. Their justification is rational as identification of ventricular fibrillation or pulseless ventricular tachycardia should be followed by immediate shock delivery and resumption of chest compressions. Detecting pathologies such as wall motion abnormality or hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is unlikely to affect the management during CPR, but should be identified after ROSC. However, we believe there are exceptions where ultrasound might be valuable in such scenarios, especially if the ventricular fibrillation is refractory. Cardiac arrest due to pulmonary embolism can present with ventricular fibrillation in 5% of cases [29]. Ultrasound in this scenario may prompt the physician to administer thrombolytic therapy. Patients with wall motion abnormality in refractory ventricular fibrillation might benefit from coronary intervention even with ongoing CPR [29].
Right ventricular heart strain in cardiac arrest
A number of studies incorporating PoCUS in cardiac arrest mention investigation of the right ventricle for dilatation to evaluate for the presence of a pulmonary embolism [11, 24]. However, an increasing amount of evidence suggests that this may be an ineffective method to rule in the diagnosis. While it has been well established that the presence of a pulmonary embolus can undoubtedly result in right heart strain that could manifest as a dilated RV, a number of other factors, such as hypovolemia, hyperkalemia, primary arrhythmias and pre-existing chronic right ventricular strain, have also been shown to produce similar right-sided enlargement during cardiac arrest [30,31,32].
In fact, an interesting aspect to consider is the phenomenon that some degree of RV dilatation may even be a normal consequence of resuscitation during arrest. Gabriel Wardi et al. found that RV strain and dilatation was more demonstrable when a greater amount of time had elapsed into resuscitation [33].
The 2019 European Society of Cardiology guidelines on pulmonary embolism have addressed the accuracy of RV dilatation in pulmonary embolism [34]. Although RV dilatation plays an important prognostic role in stable patients with pulmonary embolism, it has a rather weak positive predictive value for PE-related deaths. This frequently encountered relative insensitivity is partially attributable to the inherent difficulty in standardizing ultrasound parameters for any study [34].
In light of the presence of such false-positives when visualizing the right side of the heart during cardiac arrest, the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism and any subsequent intervention based on the same should be further augmented by factors other than isolated right heart strain on PoCUS. Historical details of pre-arrest signs and symptoms, as well as possible intra-arrest evaluations for deep vein thrombosis in high-risk patients could prove useful measures to dependably diagnose and treat pulmonary embolism during cardiac arrest [35]. Furthermore, increased presence of false-positive findings late into resuscitation prompts consideration of integrating ultrasound evaluations as early as possible into cardiac arrest protocols.
Identification of cardiac standstill
Cardiac standstill, also known as true asystole, is defined as the complete absence of any cardiac motion including the ventricles, atria and valves [36, 37]. Patients recognized to have standstill with concomitant electrical activity on the monitor are often described to have true PEA. Pseudo-PEA is the presence of ventricular contractility visualized by ultrasound with electrical activity but no palpable pulse [11]. The M-mode option on ultrasound detects any motion along a given line against time. If any movement is identified, that part of the heart will look hazy like "sand on a beach" (Fig. 3a). When there is a complete absence of cardiac contractility, the image will resemble a "barcode" appearance (Fig. 3b).
Identifying true PEA or cardiac standstill on ultrasound carries an important prognostic value. In 2001, Blaivas et al. conducted one of the earliest and largest prospective studies on cardiac standstill [38]. Of the 169 patients, 136 were found to be in standstill and had 0% survival regardless of the electrical rhythm they presented with. On the other hand, 20 patients survived to hospital admission out of 33 patients with cardiac activity on initial ultrasound. Mean patient age in this study was 71 years which may admittedly represent a more senior population than is usually encountered in other centers. The study's considerable limitation was that it included only out-of-hospital arrests where overall survival is less than with in-hospital arrests. No data was provided about survival to hospital discharge or neurological outcomes.
Salen et al. had similar outcomes in his two prospective studies in 1999 and 2005 [36, 37]. However, in the earlier study, out of 59 patients with no cardiac activity, 2 had survived. Several other studies have been published during the last two decades with similar findings of poor outcome associated with cardiac standstill, but most of them still reported ROSC incidence in a small number of patients with cardiac standstill [39,40,41,42]. One of the highest survivals of patients with no wall motion was reported by Breitkreutz et al. in 2010 wherein a total of five (10%) out of 50 patients with no cardiac movement survived [28]. His results also confirmed that the presence of wall motion can predict a much higher survival rate (n = 30/75, 40%). This was further validated in more recent study, the US-CAB protocol where cardiac activity identified in 47 cases (26.6%) out of a total of 177 arrest patients being studied was associated with higher rates of ROSC (95.7% vs. 21.5%, p < 0.0001) and survival to hospital discharge (25.5% vs. 10.0%, p < 0.01). Furthermore, detection of cardiac activity after 10 min of CPR exhibited 100% sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive value for ROSC [18].
The largest, multi-center, observational prospective study was published in December 2016 by Gaspari et al. [2]. The REASON 1 trial (Real-time Assessment and Evaluation with Sonography—Outcomes Network), included over 20 hospitals and enrolled 793 patients. The study looked at rate of ROSC, rate of survival to hospital admission and to hospital discharge. Overall survival to discharge was 0.6% (n = 5) for patients in cardiac standstill and 3.8% for patients with cardiac activity (n = 30). A subgroup analysis of patients who had no bystander CPR, presented with asystole and had no cardiac activity on arrival, had no ROSC. Furthermore, REASON was the first trial to prove that sonographic identification and treatment of a reversible cause of a cardiac arrest increases survival. Fifteen percent of identified pericardial tamponades in the trial achieved ROSC and were discharged out of the hospital.
In March 2019, Members of the Sonography in Hypotension and Cardiac Arrest (SHoC) Investigators published a meta-analysis on the reliability of PoCUS to predict outcome in non-traumatic out-of-hospital and in-hospital cardiac arrests [43]. Ten studies with 1486 participants were included. Presence of cardiac activity on PoCUS had a pooled sensitivity of 60.3% (95% CI 38.1–78.9%) and specificity of 91.5% (80.8–96.5%) for ROSC. In asystole, the sensitivity of cardiac activity on PoCUS for predicting ROSC was 26.1 (7.8–59.6%) compared with 76.7% (61.3–87.2%) in PEA. Cardiac activity on PoCUS had higher odd ratios of 16.9 for ROSC, 10.3 for hospital admission and 8.03 for hospital discharge. Unlike previous metanalyses by Blyth et al. Tsou et al. and Wu et al. the SHoC group excluded studies with traumatic arrests or shockable rhythms [44,45,46]. One of the major discrepancies among the included studies was the definition of cardiac activity and operator experience.
Physicians who use bedside ultrasound in their resuscitations feel more comfortable terminating codes if no cardiac activity is found [47]. Although the chances of survival for cardiac activity in asystole are small, they are still three times higher than those in true standstill. Therefore, it would stand to reason that those particular patients would benefit more from longer resuscitation efforts.
Future of cardiac arrest ultrasound
Point-of-care ultrasound is a science that is rapidly expanding with novel applications being published every year. POCUS may be applied to guide the quality of compressions by directly visualizing the contractility of left ventricle and adjusting hand placement [48, 49]. Ultrasound may also be used for pulse check between cycles of CPR. A few studies in the past have demonstrated that manual pulse check has poor sensitivity and specificity, with some studies showing accuracy of pulse check to be as low as 15% when limited to the 10 s permitted [50,51,52]. Ultrasound definitely offers much more reliable answers regarding cardiac output by direct visualization of ventricular contractility. Finally, there is a growing body of evidence supporting the use of TEE in cardiac arrest. TEE can provide the team with live feedback on cardiac status through the entirety of the resuscitation process. It offers better resolution of images, is applicable to all body habitus, and may limit breaks in chest compressions as image acquisition is much faster when compared to transthoracic cardiac ultrasound [51,52,53,54,55].
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation has had a humble evolution over the last decade, but remains to have rather unfruitful results. For the most part, the physician involved has little information about the reason of arrest and likelihood of survival. This is where bedside ultrasound shows promise as a fundamental tool that can provide the physician with valuable information mandating change in management. Ultrasound can guide the resuscitative process under direct vision rather than by blind adherence to resuscitation protocols. An important point evidenced by most of the studies referenced above is the fact that cardiac motion visualized on ultrasonography is the best predictor of survival, and its use can provide much needed prognostic information that aids resuscitation. On the other hand, patients shown to have cardiac standstill on ultrasound have been shown to have very low chances of survival. Still, it is important to remember that the decision to terminate resuscitation should never be taken based on ultrasound findings alone. In summary, current CPR guidelines should not involve a 'one-size-fits-all' strategy for arrest patients. The decision to terminate needs to be tailored on a case-by-case basis. Point-of-care ultrasound can support this decision and needs to be adopted as part of the standard of care.
PoCUS:
point-of-care ultrasonography
CPR:
ETCO2 :
end tidal carbon dioxide
ROSC:
return of spontaneous circulation
RV:
right ventricle
PEA:
TEE:
transesophageal echocardiography
FEER:
focused echocardiographic evaluation in resuscitation
Cardiac Arrest Sonographic Assessment
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The Educational Institute extends its reputation around the globe to serve the needs of learning institutions and hotel organizations through more than 90 licensed affiliates in 54 countries. The Educational Institute also has an official office located in India, and holds exclusive Hospitality Education Program (HEP) license agreements in 45 countries connecting the Educational Institutes research and expertise to hospitality operations throughout Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America. EIs 2010 audited financial statements and 2009 FORM 990 , "Return of Organization Exempt From Income Tax," provides details of its operations and financial positions.
AH&LA board consists of 83 members. In addition, the following organizations are non-voting members, but important advisors to the AH&LA board: Hospitality Financial & Technical Professionals (HFTP), Hospitality Sales & Marketing Association International (HSMAI), International Society of Hospitality Consultants (ISHC), International Executive Housekeepers Association (IEHA), and the National Restaurant Association (NRA).
ICM, founded in 1979 having headquarters in UK, is now one of the leading examining and professional body for Business and Management education worldwide. ICM is operating in over 80 countries with its over 500 Approved Study centers.
ICM offers a wide range of qualifications ranging from Accountancy to Hospitality, Travel & Tourism Management. As a Professional body for Business Managers ICM facilitates professionals for their continuous professional development by accrediting training programmes under its Accredited Professional Development scheme.
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) is the trade association for the world's airlines, representing some 280 airlines or 83% of total air traffic. IATA support many areas of aviation activity and help formulate industry policy on critical aviation issues.
For over 70 years, we have developed global commercial standards upon which the air transport industry is built. Our aim is to assist airlines by simplifying processes and increasing passenger convenience while reducing costs and improving efficiency.
Our Brand Values define what we value and how we behave to help us deliver the IATA mission and vision. We all have different personalities, styles and areas of expertise, are at different levels of the organization, and play different roles.
Highfield Awarding Body for Compliance is the UK and Middle East's leading supplier of compliance qualifications and apprenticeships. At Highfield we offer over 200 qualifications. Highfield is regulated by Ofqual, the Welsh Government, the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) Accreditation and the Security Industry Authority (SIA). Highfield is a family-run business, operating on the core values of quality, value, service and integrity.
Learn Travel is the leading provider of teaching and training support materials and e-learning systems for travel & tourism in the UK & all over the World. COTHM is proud to be an exclusive member of Learn Travel UK in Pakistan offering international Diploma in Airline Ticketing & Reservation Systems and Diploma in Cabin Crew Managment.
He International Federation of Pastry Ice Cream and Chocolate is an association whose fundamental works are to carry out activities inherent to the development, extension and diffusion of know how, knowledge and experiences typical of confectionary internationally understood as confectionary art. It also plays a role in the development of the activity of bakers, ice cream makers, chocolatiers, cooks, sculptor/artists on a national and international level with the aim of ensuring the de fense of social and professional values, morals and also to improve the prestige and image of the whole category.
The association has as its purpose the professional formation, organization of events and fairs, the promotion and development of the handicraft sector typical of every nation.
ICHRIE, a nonprofit professional association, provides programs and services to continually improve the quality of global education, research, service, and business operations in the hospitality and tourism industry.
Vision: ICHRIE will become the recognized global leader in hospitality and tourism education and research.
Values: ICHRIE, an inclusive, collegial association, values creative, ethical and progressive action and improvement of global hospitality and tourism education and research.
Euhofa International is a prestigious association of hotel school directors and deans of hospitality colleges and universities who work continuously to ensure the highest quality of education in their institutes.
The international hotel school association Euhofa International started in 1955 and has grown since then. Today there are 200 members worldwide.
Taking part in the yearly congress with high class academic input as well as visits and insights to member schools, colleges and universities for a member rate is one of them. Networking on an international level, having access to the "member´s only" section of the website and joining collaborative projects as well as new possibilities for exchanges or special offer of top-up programmes are further options. You also have access to information about the latest hospitality relevant developments in our institutes.
Our next congress - the 53rd Euhofa International World Congress - will be organized by the team of ROC Mondriaan, The Hague, the Netherlands. Together with the students of ROC Mondriaan Schools for Tourism, Hospitality and Facility Services and International Hotel Management the congress team will put together a high standard programme.
The World Association of Chefs Societies, or WACS in short, is a global network of chefs associations first founded in October 1928 at the Sorbonne in Paris. At that first congress there were 65 delegates from 17 countries, representing 36 national and international associations, and the venerable August Escoffier was named the first Honourary President of WACS.
Today, this global body has 93 official chefs associations as members that represent over 10 million professional chefs world wide. The biennel congress is a hallmark tradition of WACS and has been organised in over 20 cities across the world throughout its illustrious 82-year history.
WACS is managed by an elected presidential body consisting of the WACS president, vice president, treasurer, secretary general and ambassador honourary president, as well as a board of continenal directors that look after the regions of Asia, Europe, Africa, the Pacific and the Americas. Our programs and different activities are managed by three separate committees, the Culinary Competitions Committee, the Education Committee and the Marketing and Communication committee as well as several sub-committees.
"WACS, the global authority on food"
The World Association of Chefs Societies (W.A.C.S.) is a non-political professional organization, dedicated to maintaining and improving the culinary standards of global cuisines.
We accomplish these goals through education, training and professional development of our international membership. As an authority and opinion leader on food, W.A.C.S represents a global voice on all issues related to the culinary profession.
For more than 20 years, Eurhodip has worked for promoting top quality education and raising the profile of European hospitality and tourism education around the world. Today Eurhodip gathers some 150 schools and universities from 35 countries. In view of the development and internationalization of the hospitality, tourism and catering industry, it is crucial to match markets requirements (considering it is a market with a very high demand for skilled staff) with the contents of training programmes on a European level so that future professionals acquire the skills which are necessary to be able to work everywhere in the world.
The Specialty Coffee Association of Europe (SCAE) sits at the very heart of the coffee community, where thousands of coffee professionals and enthusiasts can share their wealth of knowledge and experience with one another. SCAE also offer coffee diplomas for hospitality professionals.
Coffee is a huge industry, offering many and varied career opportunities. The Coffee Diploma System allows people to choose the education path that most suits their needs. Six different modules exist in different disciplines, each with three levels of qualification, Foundation, Intermediate, and Professional (apart from Introduction to Coffee which is just one level).
For every module you can gain points for each level of qualification taken, and when you have achieved 100 points you will be awarded your overall diploma. It's your choice on the modules you take to get your 100 points. The areas are as follow, Green Coffee, Sensory Skills, Roasting, Brewing & Barista.


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Altova vs. dataloader.io vs. Stitch
ETL software comparison
Data sources and destinations
Support, documentation, and training
Most businesses have data stored in a variety of locations, from in-house databases to SaaS platforms. To get a full picture of their finances and operations, they pull data from all those sources into a data warehouse or data lake and run analytics against it. But they don't want to build and maintain their own data pipelines.
Fortunately, it's not necessary to code everything in-house. Here's an comparison of three such tools, head to head.
About Altova
Altova sells a range of products: desktop development tools, server software, mobile development software, and regulatory solutions. The desktop development tools are available in a bundle as Altova MissionKit, or individually. They include:
MapForce — graphical data mapping, conversion, and integration tool
XMLspy — graphical schema designer that includes a code generator, file converters, and debuggers
StyleVision — a tool for designing reports and forms based on XML, database, and XBRL inputs
UModel — UML application modeler that generates Java, C++, C#, or Visual Basic .NET code and project documentation
DatabaseSpy — multi-database query, design, and database comparison tool
DiffDog — diff / merge utility for files, directories, and database schemas and tables
SchemaAgent — tool for analyzing and managing relationships among XML-based files
About dataloader.io
Dataloader.io is a tool for centralizing data from files and importing it into Salesforce.
About Stitch
Stitch Data Loader is a cloud-based platform for ETL — extract, transform, and load. More than 3,000 companies use Stitch to move billions of records every day from SaaS applications and databases into data warehouses and data lakes, where it can be analyzed with BI tools. Stitch is a Talend company and is part of the Talend Data Fabric.
Focus Transformations Salesforce data import, export, and delete Data ingestion, ELT
Database replication Full table; incremental via hand-coded SELECT statements No database data sources Full table; incremental via change data capture or SELECT/replication keys
SaaS sources None Only Box and Dropbox More than 100
Ability for customers to add new data sources No No Yes
Connects to data warehouses? Data lakes? No / No No / No Yes / Yes
Transparent pricing Yes Yes Yes
G2 customer satisfaction 4.5/5 4.7/5 4.8/5
Support SLAs No No Available
Purchase process Options for self-service and talking with sales Self-service Options for self-service or talking with sales. Also available from the AWS store.
Compliance, governance, and security certifications None None HIPAA, GDPR, SOC 2
Data sharing No No Yes, through Talend Data Fabric
Vendor lock-in Month to month Month to month or annual contracts. Open source integrations
Developer tools COM-based API (Component Object Module) None Import API, Stitch Connect API for integrating Stitch with other platforms, Singer open source project
Let's dive into some of the details of each platform.
Altova MapForce is a data transformation tool. It's a Windows-based IDE that enables you to transform data from one format to another, or from one schema to another, by means of a drag-and-drop user interface. It supports only XSLT (eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations) in its Basic Edition, but Professional and Enterprise editions add support for XQuery, Java, C#, C++, and MapForce's proprietary BUILT-IN transformation language.
dataloader.io
Dataloader.io allows users to map fields from CSV files to Salesforce fields, but does no transformation to the data.
Stitch is an ELT product. Within the pipeline, Stitch does only transformations that are required for compatibility with the destination, such as translating data types or denesting data when relevant. Stitch is part of Talend, which also provides tools for transforming data either within the data warehouse or via external processing engines such as Spark and MapReduce. Transformations can be defined in SQL, Python, Java, or via graphical user interface.
Try Stitch for free for 14 days
Unlimited data volume during trial
Set up in minutes
Connectors: Data sources and destinations
Each of these tools supports a variety of data sources and destinations.
Altova MapForce maps data between XML, database, EDI, XBRL, flat file, Excel, JSON, and/or web service, then transforms data or autogenerates data integration code for future execution. MapForce supports different sources and destinations depending on the edition used. Basic Edition supports only XML, XML Schema, and HL7 electronic health information (EHI) files. Professional Edition adds support for flat files and relational databases. Enterprise Edition adds support for EDI formats, JSON files, Excel 2007 and later, and XBRL. None of the editions supports data warehouses or data lakes as sources or targets.
Dataloader.io imports data from CSV files that are stored locally, in Box or Dropbox, or accessed via FTP. There are no tools for writing custom connectors. The platform can export data from Salesforce to the same platforms from which it imports files.
Stitch supports more than 100 database and SaaS integrations as data sources, and eight data warehouse and data lake destinations. Customers can contract with Stitch to build new sources, and anyone can add a new source to Stitch by developing it according to the standards laid out in Singer, an open source toolkit for writing scripts that move data. Singer integrations can be run independently, regardless of whether the user is a Stitch customer. Running Singer integrations on Stitch's platform allows users to take advantage of Stitch's monitoring, scheduling, credential management, and autoscaling features.
Data integration tools can be complex, so vendors offer several ways to help their customers. Online documentation is the first resource users often turn to, and support teams can answer questions that aren't covered in the docs. Vendors of the more complicated tools may also offer training services.
Altova MapForce provides support through a web-based form. Product consulting, including telephone support, is available for an hourly fee. Documentation is provided in the form of PDF-format manuals available for download, and an online version of the same information. The company provides online training materials.
Dataloader.io provides forum-based support. Professional and Enterprise customers can also get email support. Documentation is comprehensive. No training resources are available.
Stitch provides in-app chat support to all customers, and phone support is available for Enterprise customers. Support SLAs are available. Documentation is comprehensive and is open source — anyone can contribute additions and improvements or repurpose the content. Stitch does not provide training services.
Altova provides a 30-day free trial of MapForce (in a bundle with its entire line of developer tools). Licenses start at $999 for one installed user. Altova also prices the software per concurrent user or named user, and sells 5-, 10-, 20-, and 50-user licenses of each type. A support and maintenance package is available at additional cost.
Plans are billed monthly. A free tier allows up to 10,000 records per month. The $99 Professional tier allows up to 100,000 records per month. The $299 Enterprise tier allows unlimited records per month. A 30-day free trial of Enterprise is available.
Stitch has pricing that scales to fit a wide range of budgets and company sizes. All new users get an unlimited 14-day trial. Standard plans range from $100 to $1,250 per month depending on scale, with discounts for paying annually. Enterprise plans for larger organizations and mission-critical use cases can include custom features, data volumes, and service levels, and are priced individually.
Which tool is best overall? That's something every organization has to decide based on its unique requirements, but we can help you get started. Sign up now for a free trial of Stitch.
Give Stitch a try, on us


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Q: How to commit no change and new message? How can I make a new commit and create a new message if no changes are made to files?
Is this not possible since the commit's code (SHA ?) will be the same?

A: Empty commit with a message
git commit --allow-empty -m "Empty test commit"

Empty commit with an empty message but you will be asked to type the message
git commit --allow-empty --allow-empty-message

Empty commit with an empty message
git commit --allow-empty --allow-empty-message -m ""

A: If I understood you right, you want to make an empty commit. In that case you need:
git commit --allow-empty

A: Maybe as a more sensible alternative, you could create an annotated tag (a named commit with a message). See the git tag -a option.

A: If you are using a system like gitversion It makes a lot of sense to do this sort of commit. You could have a commit that is specifically for bumping the major version using a +semver: major comment.

A: There's rarely a good reason to do this, but the parameter is --allow-empty for empty commits (no files changed), in contrast to --allow-empty-message for empty commit messages. You can also read more by typing git help commit or visiting the online documentation.
While the tree object (which has a hash of its own) will be identical, the commit will actually have a different hash, because it will presumably have a different timestamp and message, and will definitely have a different parent commit. All three of those factors are integrated into git's object hash algorithm.

There are a few reasons you might want an empty commit (incorporating some of the comments):

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*As a "declarative commit", to add narration or documentation (via DavidNeiss) including after-the-fact data about passing tests or lint (via Robert Balicki).

*To test git commands without generating arbitrary changes (via Vaelus).

*To re-create a deleted bare repository using gitolite (via Tatsh).

*To arbitrarily create a new commit, such as for re-triggering build tooling (via mattLummus) or for the sake of personal logging or metrics (via DynamiteReed). However, think twice: depending on your branch/merge structure, commits may live for a very long time, so a "just commit nothing" strategy may be inadvertently pollute your team's repository with temporary workflow artifacts and make it hard to separate code revisions from ephemeral cruft.

Other strategies to add metadata to a commit tree include:

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*Separate branches or lightweight tags that always point to a commit of a particular status (e.g. "last accepted commit" or "current staging commit").

*Annotated Tags for a way to record timestamp, committer, and message, pointing to an existing commit without adding an entry in the commit tree itself.

*git notes to associate a mutable note on top of an existing immutable commit.

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How are Mullins' Runners Looking Before Cheltenham?
by admin|Published January 12, 2018
It has been a funny couple of seasons for Irish trainer Willie Mullins. After dominating Cheltenham and the big jumps festivals from 2013-2016, he suffered the loss of Michael O'Leary's Gigginstown stud after a row over payments. Gordon Elliott, among others, benefitted from that loss, gaining the likes of Apple's Jade and Don Cossack to his ranks.
Last year at Cheltenham Mullins' had no winners in the first two days and it seemed that his grip on the Festival was finally coming to an inglorious end. Still, he bounced back on a superb Day 3, taking four wins, which included the Stayers' Hurdle with Nichols Canyon. More setbacks occurred in December of last year though, with the death of Nichols Canyon and the ongoing injury problems with star horses Douvan and Faugheen.
But Mullins is nothing if not resilient. He proved everyone wrong in the final two days of Cheltenham 2017 and could well put these setbacks behind him this year. In that light, here is a look at some of Mullins' big hopes for Cheltenham 2018.
Un De Sceaux:
Un De Sceaux probably doesn't get the credit it so richly deserves despite being a winner of two Grade 1 races at the Cheltenham Festival. Another tilt at the Ryanair Chase could be on the cards for last year's winner.
Current odds for Ryanair Chase: 4/1 (Sporting Bet).
Next Destination:
Fourth place in the Champion Bumper at Cheltenham last year, but three wins from three since switching to hurdles in November 2017. Mullins has stated that the Ballymore Novices' Hurdle may be his best option.
Current odds for Ballymore Novices' Hurdle: 7/1 (Betfair, Paddy Power).
Footpad:
A decent, if slightly inconsistent, record in hurdling prompted Mullins to switch Footpad to chasing. Two wins have followed, and the 5-year-old is now the favourite for the Arkle Chase.
Current Odds for Arkle Chase: 7/4 (Paddy Power).
Faugheen:
Arguably one of the greatest hurdlers in the modern era, there are several question marks over Faugheen's fitness. He is priced as second-favourite behind Buveur D'Air for the Champion Hurdle. As nobody really knows what is going on with Faugheen, it may be wise to use some 2018 Cheltenham free bets for a no risk shot on this race. If Faugheen is fully fit though, the current price will look massive.
Current Odds for Champion Hurdle: 6/1 (Ladbrokes)
Penhill:
Last year's Albert Bartlett Novices' Hurdle winner put smiles on the faces of punters who had backed him at odds of 16/1. Might be an interesting candidate for what is looking like a very open Stayers' Hurdle in 2018.
Current Odds for Stayers' Hurdle: 10/1 (Ladbrokes).
Yorkhill:
Something of a puzzle surrounds the JLT Novices' Chase winner at Cheltenham last year. Lost twice to Road to Respect since that win, including a weak 8th place in the Leopardstown Christmas Chase. Still unclear as to which race he will be entered in, with everything from the Stayers' Hurdle to Gold Cup a possibility. Queen Mother Champion Chase may be the most likely.
Current Odds for Queen Mother Champion Chase: 8/1 (Stan James).
Another ultra-consistent horse from the Mullins' Yard, Min has a 71% win-rate. Second in the Supreme Novices' Hurdle in 2016, and perhaps an outside chance for the Champion Hurdle in 2018. Min is due to run at Leopardstown in the Dublin Chase in February; a race that should be keenly observed by punters.
Current Odds for Champion Hurdle: 25/1 (Sky Bet).


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Curopalata (en grec: κουροπαλάτης, kouropalatēs del llatí: cura palatii '[aquell] qui té cura del palau') era una dignitat nobiliària de la cort romana d'Orient, una de les més altes des de l'època de l'emperador Justinià I (regnat 527-565) a la dels Comnè al .

La primera referència, com a curapalati, a principis del , en qualitat de funcionari o vir spectabilis, rang immediat sota el castrensis palatii (encarregat del manteniment del palau imperial, en l'Europa occidental majordom de palau). Quan l'emperador Justinià I (regnat 527-565) va fer curopalata el seu nebot i hereu Justí II el 552, l'ofici prengué un nou significat, i esdevingué una de les dignitats més altes, situant-se al costat de Cèsar i nobilissimus i, com aquestes, reservades inicialment per als membres de la família imperial. A diferència d'elles, però, més tard va arribar a ser concedida a importants governants estrangers, sobretot al Caucas. Així, des del 580 al 1060, setze prínceps governants i reis georgians ostentaren aquest títol honorífic, així com, després de 635, diverses dinasties armènies.

Segons el Kletorológion de Filoteu, escrit el 899, les insígnies del rang eren la túnica vermella, mantell i cinyell, que eren rebuts de mans de l'emperador romà i que significaven la promoció del receptor Al  i , la dignitat havia perdut importància i era concedida com a títol honorífic a generals fora de la família imperial, i les seves funcions van ser gradualment substituïdes pel protovestiari, la funció original del qual es limitava a la custòdia del guarda-roba imperial. El títol sobrevisqué fins al període de la Dinastia Paleòleg, però ja es va fer servir poques vegades.

Alguns curopalates coneguts són:
 Justí II, quan regnava el seu oncle l'emperador Justinià I (regnat 527-565).
 Baduari, quan regnava el seu sogre l'emperador Justí II (regnat 565-578).
 Petros, germà de l'emperador Maurici (regnat 582-602).
 Domentziolus, nebot de l'emperador Focas (regnat 602-610).
 Teodor, germà de l'emperador Heracli (regnat 610-641).
 Artavasdos, quan regnava l'emperador Lleó III Isàuric (regnat 717-741).
 Miquel I Rangabé, jove de l'emperador Nicèfor I (regnat 802-811).
 Bardas, oncle i regent de l'emperador Miquel III (regnat 842-867).
 Lleó Focas el Jove, general i germà de l'emperador Nicèfor II Focas (regnat 963-969).

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Q: $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] guidance I had a strange coding situation where I needed to have the URI become the title of the page being viewed. I couldn't think of another way to do it but now I need to format that URI and can't figure out how to accomplish it. It is a WordPress site so the URI is pretty clean. What I want to do is capitalize the letter of the first word and then a space, dash or pipe delimiter to separate out the title.
So this obviously gives me the URI:
<title><?php echo ($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']) ?></title>

which gives me something like /test-catalog/diagnosis/flu. What I want to display is Test Catalog - Diagnosis - Flu
Thank you.

A: I would imagine this would work:
echo ucwords(str_replace(Array("-","/"),Array(" "," - "),$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);

A: By using str_replace and ucwords
Example
echo ucwords(str_replace('/', ' - ', str_replace('-', ' ', $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'])));

A: several things to do:
$url = str_replace("-"," ",$url);  // convert the - to spaces (do this first)
$url = str_replace("/"," - ",$url);  // convert the / to hyphens with spaces either side

$title = ucfirst($url);            // capitalize the first letter

if you want to capitalize each letter, then do this:
$title = ucwords($url);            // capitalize first letter of each word

you might have some whitepsace begining and end, so do this:
$title= trim($title)

A: // remove the first slash '/'
$uri = substr($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], 1);
// ucwords to uppercase any word
// str_replace to replace "-" with " " and "/" with " - "
echo ucwords(str_replace(array("-","/"),array(" "," - "),$uri));

codepad

A: as a résumé of the previous answers:
echo ucwords(str_replace(array("-","/"),array(" "," - "),substr($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], 1)));


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Isognomostoma is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the subfamily Ariantinae of the family Helicidae, the typical snails.

Species
Species within the genus Isognomostoma include:
 Isognomostoma isognomostomos (Schröter, 1784)
Synonyms
 Isognomostoma holosericum  (S. Studer, 1820): synonym of Causa holosericea (S. Studer, 1820)
 Isognomostoma isognomostoma (Schröter, 1784): synonym of Isognomostoma isognomostomos (Schröter, 1784)

References

 Groenenberg D.S.J., Subai P. & Gittenberger E. (2016). Systematics of Ariantinae (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Helicidae), a new approach to an old problem. Contributions to Zoology. 85(1): 37-65

External links
 Fitzinger, L.J. (1833). Systematisches Verzeichniß der im Erzherzogthume Oesterreich vorkommenden Weichthiere, als Prodrom einer Fauna derselben. Beiträge zur Landeskunde Oesterreichs's unter der Enns, 3: 88-122. Wien

Helicidae
Gastropod genera


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Robert Ellenstein (June 18, 1923 – October 28, 2010) was an American actor. The son of Meyer C. Ellenstein, a Newark dentist, Ellenstein grew up to see his father become a two-term mayor from 1933 to 1941. He served in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II: earning a Purple Heart during his service.

Film and television career
A veteran of the "Golden Age" of live television (he played Quasimodo in a live Robert Montgomery Presents (1950) version of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame"), for the same show played the lead in "A Case of Identity", later turned into the film The Wrong Man (1956), he was the first actor to play Albert Einstein on television. Ellenstein made his first film in 1954 (MGM's Rogue Cop), he was featured in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest. In 1961, he played the mobster Legs Diamond in an episode of NBC's 1920s crime drama The Lawless Years with James Gregory.

Among his television appearances, Ellenstein guest starred in three episodes of Perry Mason.  In 1957 he played defendant John Addison in "The Case of the Vagabond Vixen."  In 1959 he played murder victim Arthur Cartright in "The Case of the Howling Dog," and in 1960 he played Medical Examiner Dr. McBride in "The Case of the Madcap Modiste." In 1965 he played a character curiously of 65 years of age (in obviously inadequate makeup) in a second season episode of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. He appeared in two episodes of the WWII drama, Combat!, first in 1965 in "The Tree of Moray" and in 1966 he was in the episode "Counterplay". He also made three guest appearances on The Untouchables, five appearances on The Wild Wild West, four on Ironside, and five on Mission: Impossible. He also directed television with an episode of the 1960s sitcom, Love on a Rooftop, and many live television episodes.

Ellenstein had over 200 television appearances. He performed hundreds of stage roles as an actor. He directed many theatre productions in New York, Los Angeles and in regional theater. He was artistic director of The Company of Angels and Founding Artistic Director of the Los Angeles Repertory Company.

Death
Ellenstein died in Los Angeles of natural causes on October 28, 2010 at age 87.

Filmography

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1923 births
2010 deaths
Male actors from Newark, New Jersey
American male film actors
American male stage actors
American male television actors
United States Army Air Forces personnel of World War II