Alice: Effect of injectable progesterone on follicular development in lactating beef cows treated with estradiol plus a low-concentration progesterone device.
Additional Information: LUIZ FRANCISCO MACHADO PFEIFER, CPAF-RO; Reuben John Mapletoft, University of Saskatchewan; Dinesh Dardawal, University of Saskatchewan; Jaswant Singh, University of Saskatchewan.
Title: Effect of injectable progesterone on follicular development in lactating beef cows treated with estradiol plus a low-concentration progesterone device.
Publisher: Brazilian Journal of Veterinary Research and Animal Science, v. 25, n. 2, p. 1-8, 2018.
Description: The effect of injectable progesterone was evaluated along with estradiol benzoate (EB) on the fate of the dominant follicle (DF) present in the ovary at the beginning of low progesterone-based TAI protocol. All cattle were given 500 µg cloprostenol im (PGF; Schering-Plough Animal Health for Estrumate, Pointe-Claire, QC, Canada) twice, 11 d apart, and allocated into two groups: Estradiol group (E group, n = 11) and Estradiol-Progesterone group (EP group, n = 11). Ten days after the second PGF (Day 0), all cattle were given an intravaginal progesterone device with half progesterone concentration (Cue-Mate with a single pod containing 0.78 g progesterone). Concurrently, all cattle were given 1.5 mg im of estradiol benzoate in 3 mL of canola oil and PGF im on Day 0 of the protocol in a crossover design, in which each cow received both treatments. Cows in the EP group also received 100 mg im progesterone (Sigma) in 2 mL of canola oil. On Day 8, progesterone devices were removed and all cattle were given PGF im. All statistical analyses were performed with SAS 9.0. The DF present on Day 0 ovulated in 76% (16/21) of cows from E group and 28.6% (6/21) of cows from EP group (P = 0.002). After progesterone device removal, the size of ovulatory follicle did not differ between groups (E group, 15.5 ± 0.43 mm vs EP group, 15.8 ± 0.98 mm; P = 0.82). These follicles ovulated in 81.3 ± 3.1 h in E group and 71.0 ± 6.1 h in EP group (P = 0.13). In conclusion, injectable progesterone reduced the proportion of cows that ovulate the dominant follicle present in the ovary at the beginning of estradiol-progesterone-based protocols. However, no difference was detected on time of ovulation after progesterone device removal between groups.


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How can the ecommerce industry attain sustainable growth?
Notes from The Delivery Conference.
E-commerce and delivery experts gathered in London earlier this year to hear from industry leaders on delivery, customer experience and expectation, cross-border trade, logistics and supply chain strategy. Scurri gathered notes from the main talks on the day.
Speaker: Martijn Bertisen, UK Sales Director for Google. Martijn is a Google veteran, having worked for the company since 2007. He is Google's sales director for the UK and he talked about attaining sustainable growth for the ecommerce industry.
Consumers are faced with overwhelming choices, because of this they will only gravitate towards the companies that are disruptive enough to cut through the noise and help them make choices.
He said that while traditional retail was all about price, range and assortment, digital retail is based around convenience.
That's why all these apps are flourishing – because they help the customers.
Martijn Bertisen,
UK Sales Director for Google.
Bertisen says that traditional and digital retail seem to go hand in hand. 80% of the UK adult population has bought online, but in the same light 80% of retail still happens in the physical space, says Bertisen. He adds that the digital retail industry has doubled in the last 12 years, though physical stores are still popular.
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Although the digital retail industry manages to solve most of its challenges, new ones are continually arising.
Bertisen told delegates that the digital retail space was disrupted by smartphones, and expects it to be disrupted further by machine learning and artificial intelligence. He gave the example of Amazon, that uses a multimillion-dollar personalisation engine that generates 30% of all sales. He also mentioned Ocado, which uses Google Cloud's natural language recognition machine to optimise their customer service.
Bertisen's third example was inbound emails that are now embracing a machine learning model to read the sentiment within an email. The model, he says, prioritises important business emails and queues them on top of the list. He noted that most people would be surprised to realise that 7% of email do not need their attention.
With this email model that costs a couple of hundred pounds to run in a month, you improve the response time by four times while achieving efficiency of 7%.
In addition to the above, Bertisen talked about speed and its overall importance for all businesses.
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The last three decades have witnessed a growth of interest in research on tasks from various perspectives and numerous books and collections of articles have been published focusing on the notion of task and its utility in different contexts. Nevertheless, what is lacking is a multi-faceted examination of tasks from different important perspectives. This edited volume, with four sections of three chapters each, views tasks and Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT) from four distinct (but complementary) vantage points. In the first section, all chapters view tasks from a cognitive-interactionist angle with each addressing one key facet of either cognition or interaction (or both) in different contexts (CALL and EFL/ESL). Section two hinges on the idea that language teaching and learning is perhaps best conceptualized, understood, and investigated within a complexity theory framework which accounts for the dynamicity and interrelatedness of the variables involved. Viewing TBLT from a sociocultural lens is what connects the chapters included in the third section. Finally, the fourth section views TBLT from pedagogical and curricular vantage points.
This practical handbook is designed to help language teachers, teacher trainers, and students learn more about their options for using computer-assisted language learning (CALL) and develop an understanding of the theory and research supporting these options. The chapters in New Perspectives on CALL for Second Language Classrooms synthesize previous CALL theory and research and describe practical applications to both second and foreign language classrooms, including procedures for evaluating these applications. The implementation of CALL at the institutional level is also addressed, with attention to designing multimedia language laboratories and creating collaborative CALL-based projects between educational institutions. Although many chapters locate their descriptions of CALL activities and projects within the ESL/EFL setting, the principles and activities described are equally useful for other language settings. The book does not require prior knowledge of CALL, computers, or software. To assist readers, a glossary of CALL terms and an appendix of CALL Web sites are provided. The book also has its own accompanying Web site (http://www.erlbaum.com/callforL2classrooms) presenting chapter abstracts, author contact information, and regularly updated links to pedagogical, research, and teacher development sites. By integrating theoretical issues, research findings, and practical guidelines on different aspects of CALL, this book offers teachers multiple levels of resources for their own professional development, for needs-based creation of specific CALL activities, for curriculum design, and for implementation of institutional and inter-institutional CALL projects.
Learner characteristics have been at the center of second language acquisition and foreign language education research in response to the puzzling questions: Why are there often large differences in second language (L2) learning achievement and why do many learners, though proficient first language speakers, not succeed in learning a L2? The papers in this book explore and challenge the three key factors in individual difference research: language aptitude, language learning strategies and motivation.
This book explores current thinking about the role of corrective feedback in language learning and teaching. Corrective feedback is a topic that is of relevance to both theories of second language learning and language pedagogy. Younghee Sheen, an Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics at the American University in Washington D.C., offers a new perspective by reviewing a wide body of research on both oral and written corrective feedback and its contribution to second language acquisition. She also reports the results of her own study, pointing to the need to examine how individual factors such as anxiety and language aptitude mediate learners' ability to benefit from the oral and written feedback they receive. This book is an important resource for students and scholars of applied linguistics and second language acquisition. It will also be of interest to language teachers and teacher educators wanting to deepen their understanding of error correction strategies in the classroom.


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When you first reach Route 5 (Unova) Bianca will introduce you to Hidden Grottos. Inside you'll find a Minccino with the Skill Link ability.
After you have captured the Minccino from inside the Hidden Grotto, upon returning there you may find a Liepard with the Prankster ability.
There's a Crustle blocking the eastern exit of Seaside Cave. Using the Colress MCHN on it will wake it up.
Just as in Black and White, there's a load of pesky Foongus on Route 6 (Unova) and Route 7 (Unova) pretending to be Pokéballs..
Undella Bay is home to a Jellicent, but there are some differences as to what you'll find between the two games. In Black 2 a Male Jellicent will appear there on Mondays, but in White 2 a Female Jellicent will appear there on Thursdays. Both have the Damp ability.
Once you have seen all Pokémon in the Unova Dex, Professor Juniper will present you with a License, allowing you to travel to the Nature Preserve. Hidden in a clearing there you will find a Shiny Haxorus.
On Thursdays a Braviary with the Defiant ability will appear on Route 4 (Unova).
On Thursdays a Mandibuzz with the Weak Armor ability will appear on Route 4 (Unova).
Although the Relic Castle seems to have completely caved in, it is still possible to access it via a cave at the Pokemon World Tournament. Inside you will once again find a Volcarona. It is very low levelled, but if you defeat it it will reappear at a much stronger level in the same place after you have beaten the Elite Four.
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Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott are putting their troubled year behind them with an attempt at a cute family Christmas card.
The pair's marriage hit the rocks earlier this year when it was revealed Dean had been unfaithful to his wife, with whom he has four children. However, the couple united for their holiday card, which Tori posted on her Twitter page.
Alongside the shot, which shows her and Dean sitting together surrounded by their children Liam, Stella, Hattie and Finn, Tori wrote: "LOVE our holiday card! This year I used http://www.SimplytoImpress.com – Super cute designs + very affordable!" Tori's revelation of the card comes after Dean opened up about the state of their marriage in a heartfelt interview on NBC programme Today. Insisting the pair have moved past their troubles, Dean added that the issues have actually made their marriage "stronger" than ever.
"We are in a better place than ever," Dean said. "Our love is stronger. We're solid. We're communicating. We're actually having a fully functional relationship."
Appearing on the same show two days previously, Tori had confessed she finds her reality show True Tori something of a "therapy" session.
But while Dean has revealed he isn't keen to continue taking part in the show, he said that he would happily support his wife if she'd like to do another series of the reality programme.
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Dean added that while the show hasn't been as cathartic for him, he can understand what Tori means when she describes it as therapeutic.
"I've learned a lot about myself, our relationship—it's been a good process," he said. "But as it goes and continues, it's taking a toll on me. It's not good for me. It's different for everybody. If it works for T, that's great, but I'm finding I'm having a hard time with it."
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When the 1988 Bills stare into the mirror, in many ways it's the 2020 Bills staring back
Sal Maiorana
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Fred Smerlas will never forget the afternoon of Nov. 20, 1988, the day he knew that anything was possible for the Buffalo Bills that season.
When Smerlas blocked a field goal by the Jets' Pat Leahy in the dying seconds of regulation, thereby allowing Scott Norwood to win the game in overtime and clinch the Bills' first AFC East division title since 1980, there was a sense inside the locker room, and in the western New York community, that something special was brewing.
"It was an unbelievable sight, an indescribable feeling," Smerlas recalled of the Fandemonium that broke out when Norwood's kick sailed through the uprights and the fans rushed the field and tore down the goalposts. "That day will forever occupy a special place in my heart. That was definitely a memorable game. It was a big game, the game that kind of put us back on the map because we had been down for quite a while."
Fast forward 32 years to 2020, and perhaps the crystalizing moment when we knew this current Bills team had something special going on came Nov. 1 when unheralded Justin Zimmer jarred the ball out of Cam Newton's hands, Dean Marlowe recovered the fumble, and the Bills defeated their longtime nemesis from New England to take firm control of the division, the proverbial passing of the torch, if you will.
The goalposts stayed upright that day, mainly because tearing down goalposts is no longer chic, but also because there were exactly zero fans inside Bills Stadium because of the pandemic.
Still, even in the eerie quiet, you could sense the importance of that victory over the Patriots, and from that moment, the Bills lost only once more in 2020, and it took a miracle last-second Hail Mary pass from Kyler Murray to DeAndre Hopkins for Arizona to beat them.
The quest begins as the Buffalo Bills look to prove they are Super Bowl contenders When the 1988 Bills stare into the mirror, in many ways it's the 2020 Bills staring back NFL playoffs: 5 things Buffalo Bills fans should know about the Indianapolis Colts Buffalo Bills vs. Indianapolis Colts: Live stream, time, TV, odds, tickets for playoff game Bills' quarantined quarterback Jake Fromm could be important for playoff stretch
The Bills finished 13-3, earned the No. 2 seed in the AFC playoffs, and as the hottest team in the NFL they will begin their quest for the ever-elusive Super Bowl trophy when they host Indianapolis Saturday afternoon.
I bring up 1988 because in so many ways, it bears a resemblance to the ascendance that the 2020 team has achieved. That was the beginning of the greatest stretch of play in Bills' history, one that saw them earn 10 playoff berths in 12 years, win six division titles and four AFC championships.
Might this be the beginning of a similar run of excellence with a new cast of characters led by Brandon Beane, Sean McDermott, Josh Allen and Stefon Diggs?
The GMs: Bill Polian and Brandon Beane
Coming off a 2-14 season in 1984, Bills general manager Terry Bledsoe suffered a heart attack and his duties were transferred to a guy named Bill Polian. Polian had made a name for himself as a scout in the NFL, CFL and USFL, but he'd never held a GM role until Ralph Wilson put him in charge in Bledsoe's stead early in 1985.
Over the next three-plus years, Polian oversaw the remarkable transformation of the Bills from league laughingstock to Super Bowl contender and laid the foundation for his own Pro Football Hall of Fame career.
Between 1985 and 1988 he drafted Bruce Smith, Andre Reed, Derrick Burroughs, Frank Reich, Will Wolford, Mark Pike, Shane Conlan, Nate Odomes, Keith McKeller, Leon Seals, Howard Ballard, Thurman Thomas, Carlton Bailey and Jeff Wright.
He also signed Jim Kelly and Kent Hull once they became available when the USFL folded, acquired Cornelius Bennett, Art Still and Leonard Smith in trades, and scooped up Steve Tasker and Mark Kelso off the waiver wire.
Like Polian, Beane had never held the position of GM (except for a brief interim tag) until he arrived in May 2017, though he had more NFL front office experience than Polian as a personnel director and assistant GM in Carolina.
Beane took over for deposed Doug Whaley and wasted no time putting his fingerprints on the Bills when he traded Sammy Watkins and Ronald Darby in the 2017 training camp, and once he was done subtracting, he began adding.
There only eight players on the 2020 roster who pre-date Beane. His draft picks include Josh Allen, Tremaine Edmunds, Harrison Phillips, Siran Neal, Taron Johnson, Ed Oliver, Devin Singletary, Dawson Knox, Jaquan Johnson, Darryl Johnson, A.J. Epenesa, Zack Moss, Gabriel Davis and Tyler Bass.
And among Beane's best free agents still with the team, there's Corey Bojorquez, Isaiah McKenzie, Cole Beasley, John Brown, Jon Feliciano, Mitch Morse, Andre Roberts, Mario Addison, Vernon Butler, Quinton Jefferson, Daryl Williams, A.J. Klein. And of course, the trade acquisition of Diggs.
Two master architects, Polian and Beane, building smart, efficient, and talented rosters, but those players needed the right coach.
The coaches: Marv Levy and Sean McDermott
Levy had plenty of head coaching experience prior to his surprising arrival in Buffalo midway through 1986. He'd had five mundane years in the NFL with Kansas City (1978-82) but had enjoyed great success with Montreal in the CFL and also coached a season for Chicago in the USFL.
Polian had worked with Levy at all three places, so while no one in the NFL was thinking the 61-year-old Levy was the right man for the Bills when the team fired Hank Bullough, it turned out to be a genius move.
Levy's unwavering hand, his scholarly approach to the game, and his ability to connect with and inspire men who were between three and four decades younger than him was eye-opening and over the next 11-plus years, he posted a record of 123-78 counting the postseason on his way to the Hall of Fame.
McDermott had no head coaching experience when the Pegulas hired him, but just as Beane had more NFL-level front office time than Polian, so too did McDermott compared to Levy as he had coached 16 NFL seasons split between Philadelphia and Carolina, much of it as a defensive coordinator. He was just as ready for the role as Levy even though he was nearly 20 years younger when his chance arrived.
Trust the process became McDermott's mantra, and while people sometimes scoffed, it was exactly what Levy preached, without saying those exact words, during his tenure. Like Levy, McDermott leaves no stone unturned, and while he's not quoting Winston Churchill or William Shakespeare, he values the same things Levy always did: Preparation, fundamentals, communication, discipline, and he checks his ego at the door and listens to input from Beane, the scouts, his coaches, and players.
As we know, though, most coaches do not achieve sustained success without a great quarterback.
The QBs: Jim Kelly and Josh Allen
Kelly set the standard by which all Buffalo quarterbacks are judged, and Allen is the first one to come along since Kelly retired who has a chance to finally live up to it. Not only that, but just as Kelly was the perfect fit for a shot and a beer town like Buffalo, Allen shares some of the same blue-collar traits of his Hall of Fame predecessor.
Allen hasn't had many opportunities to be with Kelly over the past year because of the pandemic, but he keeps in touch with the man whose records he has already started to break, and he cherishes their talks, especially when it's not about football.
"He's told me about embracing Buffalo and embracing the city and community, the type of people, the food, everything," Allen said. "It goes beyond football when we're talking. He's been great with my development here, not just as a player but as a person. I couldn't have asked to be in a better situation."
The Bills came of age in 1988, Kelly's third year as a starter, just as the Bills have done so in Allen's third year. And beyond the statistics, what Kelly loves most about Allen are the intangibles that he was once known for, primarily, his desire to be the best and win.
"I love the competitiveness," Kelly said recently during an appearance on One Bills Live. "It seems like he's willing to do whatever it takes to get the job done. And I've seen the leadership come from him since the first day I watched him out on the practice field a couple years ago. He wants to be the best."
Quarterback is the most important position in all of sports, but they can't do it all by themselves. And Kelly had, and Allen has, plenty of help.
The supporting casts
When you look at the 1988 team and compare it to the 2020 team, there are several more similarities beyond GM, head coach and QB.
Ted Marchibroda (offense) and Walt Corey (defense) were each in their second years coaching under Levy and would remain together for several years more which was so vital to the Bills eventually becoming perennial Super Bowl participants. Now, Brian Daboll (third year) and Leslie Frazier (fourth) have given the coaching staff the same critical continuity because their respective systems are ingrained in these players.
The '88 team had a great all-around rookie running back in Thurman Thomas; an emerging star receiver in Andre Reed; an offensive line that was coming together with Hull, Will Wolford and Jim Ritcher leading the way; a defensive line that could get after the passer with Bruce Smith and Smerlas; athletic linebackers in Bennett, Conlan and Daryl Talley; a lockdown corner in Odomes; reliable safeties in Leonard Smith and Kelso; a special teams star in Steve Tasker; and a very good kicker in Norwood.
In many ways, when the 1988 team looks in the mirror, the 2020 team is staring back.
The combination of Singletary and Moss actually produced more total yardage than Thomas; Diggs became the first Bills receiver to ever lead the league in catches and yards; the offensive line has quality vets in Dion Dawkins, Morse, Williams and Feliciano; the defensive line has veterans like Addison and Jerry Hughes and emerging young players like Oliver and Epenesa; there are two very athletic linebackers in Matt Milano and Edmunds; an outstanding secondary led by Tre'Davious White, Jordan Poyer and Micah Hyde; one of the league's best return men in Roberts; and a record-breaking kicker in Bass.
It's almost uncanny how the rosters are so comparable in build and philosophy, but you don't win on paper, you still have to do it on the field.
The seasons: 1988 and 2020
The 1988 team had not yet enjoyed much success. In Kelly's first year the Bills were 4-12 but then improved to 7-8 in the strike-shortened 1987 season when Levy's coaching began to take hold and Polian's roster-building continued. You could see that team was turning the corner, and the players knew it, too.
"Just a team that was growing," Reich recalled. "Just a team committed to being the best, a very talented team, a very close team, a well-coached team. And with that commitment to be the best, there was a natural progression (from 1986 to '87 to '88). It doesn't always happen overnight, but I think that as a team, we saw that we had the makings with the players that we had, with the special bond between us. You could see it was in the making."
Said Kelly: "We knew we had the potential; it was just a matter of us putting it all together. If you get the right players together and you stay healthy, anything can happen."
What happened is the Bills, playing without Bruce Smith who had to serve a four-game drug suspension, won each of those games and the AFC East was put on notice.
"I think we were a little surprised (by the great start)," Kelly said. "It was a matter of confidence because the team had been so used to losing close games at the end and all of the sudden things started changing and we started winning those games."
Oddly, they lost in Smith's first game back, a bad 24-3 loss in Chicago, but then reeled off seven straight victories by a combined 103 points to get to 11-1, culminating in the 9-6 victory over the Jets that clinched the division the Sunday before Thanksgiving.
"We were playing with the emotion we had in the early 80s, but we also had some great talent, which we didn't have back then," said Smerlas, who was one of only a handful of players left from last Bills' playoff team in 1981. "I could tell in preseason that we were meshing and that this was going to be something. It's just a feeling you get, a gut instinct. We were like machines, and it was a well-oiled machine. We were well-coached, well-conditioned and we wanted to win."
The 2020 season started the same as 1988, four straight wins before the first loss, a terrible 42-16 beat down in Tennessee. There was a second straight defeat to Kansas City before Allen and company righted themselves and ripped off nine wins in the last 10 games.
It is here where the Bills of 2020 hope the comparisons to 1988 will end.
Playoffs: A disappointing finish
Once they clinched the AFC East, the '88 team stumbled, a neon flashing sign that it wasn't yet fully formed and ready for the big stage. There was still some growing to do and additional steps that needed to be taken before this team could achieve what was to come at the beginning of the 1990s.
They lost three of their last four regular-season games to finish 12-4, and that cost the Bills home-field advantage throughout the AFC playoffs. And after a tough 17-10 victory over Houston in the first postseason game ever held at Rich Stadium, the Bills had to go to Cincinnati for the AFC Championship Game where they fell flat on their face, losing 21-10.
"Things didn't go our way that day," Smerlas said. "To blow that opportunity to go to the Super Bowl was a shame. It was frustrating because we had it right in the grasp of our hands and we knew we might not ever get that close again."
Now we will find out if this Bills team is ready to take the next step. In McDermott's first four years, he has made the playoffs three times, but he'll be seeking his first postseason victory against the Colts. His 2017 team was clearly deficient and lost to Jacksonville, and then last year the Bills blew a 16-0 third-quarter lead and lost to Houston.
That 1988 team was considered a real threat in the AFC, just like the 2020 team. Will their stories diverge? Can this team with its high-tech offense and reliable defense find a way to win the three games necessary to qualify for the Super Bowl?
"I think the focus and the professionalism is what stood out the most," McDermott said of the first Bills' team to close out a regular season on a six-game winning streak. "And that's, to me, steps in the right direction, signs of growth, and that's what we've got to continue to do as we move forward here this week; reset and get back to earning the right to win.
"There's a lot of sidewalk between where we've come from and where we are now, and then hopefully there's more sidewalk and roadway in front of us in terms of the program and the organization, and the vision for where we're trying to go."
Sal Maiorana can be reached at maiorana@gannett.com. Follow him on Twitter @salmaiorana.


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Qantas accused of sending more call-centre jobs overseas
Australian-based customer service will soon be the preserve of Qantas' premium passengers
Unions have accused Qantas of sending more work offshore after the airline revealed it intends to boost the size of its call centre in Auckland by another 50 jobs.
The airline has informed the Australian Services Union, which represents call-centre workers and other ground staff, of its latest plans for the "consolidation of Australian call centres" from three to one.
Under the plans, Qantas' operation in Hobart will become the "premium service call centre", taking calls from frequent-flyer holders who are deemed "silver" or a higher status, as well as chairman's lounge members.
Qantas plans for its Auckland call centre to hire up to 50 extra staff as it becomes a "multi-channel service centre which will handle more transactional, high-volume customer servicing requirements".
In a letter to the union, Qantas' industrial relations chief, Sue Bussell, said fewer employees than expected had chosen to relocate to Hobart from its call centres in Brisbane and Melbourne.
But the ASU described as a "very lame excuse" the Qantas' claim that not enough of the existing 500 staff at the Brisbane and Melbourne call centres were willing to move to Tasmania.
"This justification is pretty hard to understand when we know that over 450 Tasmanians have applied to work at the Hobart call centre already," the union said.
"This just seems to us to be Qantas rolling out the strategy they had all along. Australians, and in particular Tasmanians, should be very angry at this decision to shift these jobs to Auckland."
The airline announced in May that it will close its call centre in Melbourne by the middle of next year, and the Brisbane facility in 2016.
Staff at the two centres on the mainland have been given a choice of taking a redundancy, relocating to the Hobart facility or to other roles within the company.
The airline is hiring about 70 extra full and part-time staff at the call centre in Hobart, which will boost the total workforce there to almost 300.
The union said the latest decision meant Qantas would have more than 1250 jobs in call centres in New Zealand, the Philippines, China and Japan.
Union officials will meet Qantas executives on Tuesday to discuss the latest plans.
The airline announced in February plans to axe 5000 jobs as part of efforts to strip out $2 billion in costs over three years. As of last month, it was half way through the job cull.
Qantas also said on Monday that its regional subsidiary, QantasLink, would begin four weekly flights between Brisbane and Hamilton Island using its 74-seat Q400 aircraft from November 28.
It will go part way to replacing the capacity on the route when Jetstar's A320 services from Brisbane to the resort island in the Whitsundays stop next month.
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With its ornate proscenium and plush seating, the Ives Auditorium's jewel box décor and elegance harkens back to the golden age of theater. As plans shaped for the Auditorium's design, the Minnesota Masonic Heritage Center acquired a large collection of hand-painted Scottish Rite theatre drops that were made available from the sale of the Valley of Fort Scott Scottish Rite building in Kansas. It was a wonderful find: the collection allows the Center to provide the necessary scenes for Scottish Rite degree work in the new Ives Auditorium, as well as offer audiences beautiful and historic settings for performances and events.
Painted by noted scenic artist, Thomas Moses, in the first half of the 20th Century, the collection includes multiple-piece scenes that can be displayed to give a three-dimensional stage presentation. These scenes range from elaborate cathedral renderings to rolling pastoral settings.
To accommodate the size of the collection—numbering more than 70 drops—the Auditorium's stage depth was extended by 10 feet and proprietary rigging developed to hang and store the scenes. Today, many complete scenes are rigged and stored on the Ives stage, and the meticulous work of stabilizing and hanging the remaining drops is well underway.
A great deal of time and effort has gone into making the Fort Scott drops available as an amenity of the Ives. Here's a look at the intensive process, and the expertise needed to get the job done right.
The Fort Scott drops arrived in Minnesota from Kansas in November 2015. All were dirty and topped with layers of soot and other contaminants that had accumulated over their 91-year lifespan. Most of the scenes were also "dusting," or losing pigment, an unfortunate byproduct of aging and moving/handling. Because the drops were intended to be used as props, not artifacts, the emphasis of their restoration focused on properly stabilizing and preserving the pieces so that they could be hung and enjoyed.
Kimberly L. Lawler and Mia Schillace Nelson
Lead Scenic Artist, Kimberly L. Lawler, was brought in to assess, stabilize, repair and install the collection. Her 30 years of experience creating and restoring theatre sets and scenes ensured the absolute integrity of the project. Mia Schillace Nelson, creative director and co-owner of Outhouse Exhibit Services, was contracted as the project administrator. Mia was also project lead for design and installation of the Colonel James B. Ladd Museum and Charles Nelson Library at the Center. The two employed an army of rigging and restoration specialists to support their meticulous work.
Dropping the Batten
The original old-growth cedar battens used to clamp each drop in place at Fort Scott were delivered to the Ives Auditorium with the hope that they could be preserved and reused. The thought was to hang the 43-foot battens on center in the 38-foot rigging system and allow them to overhang on each end. However, as the team started unpacking the battens, it became clear that this plan posed a few problems. For starters, several of the wooden battens had cracked or broken. The overhanging ends posed a serious safety concern, threatening to tangle or tear the rigging and other electrical lines in the wings.
In addition, most rigging systems allow for six-to-eight inches between batten centers. To accommodate the sheer number of drops in the Ives collection, the specially designed rigging system allowed for only three inch centers. Such tight quarters meant the thick wooden battens would hang a mere 1.5 inches apart, allowing no room for future warping and increasing the risk of snagging neighboring lines or damaging the drops.
After a great deal of deliberation, the rigging experts and the team decided to hang the historic drops using a modern webbing and pipe pocket configuration instead of the wooden battens. The approach would also allow for less stress to the drops, as the lightweight conduit in the pipe pockets would not weigh as heavily on their aging muslin.
Yet another problem immediately presented itself: as Kimber and her crew began unwrapping and unrolling the historic drops, they noted that they had been inaccurately sized upon their purchase. Initial reports documented their width at 38 feet. In fact, the majority of the drops stretched 43 feet wide, too long for the 38-foot lines from which they would hang, and much too wide for the 32-foot opening of the Ives' proscenium. In addition to restoring and preparing each drop for a new hanging configuration, the team would have to trim the delicate drops if they were ever to be displayed.
Detailed Work
Stabilizing and hanging each drop requires hours of detailed work to carefully trim, clean, repair and install them. Here are the steps the Heritage Center team takes for each and every one:
Trimming: The team first lays out each scene in its original configuration—one on top of the other — to find the best line for trimming the drops to fit the Ives stage and rigging system. Trimming work is slow and meticulous so that the scene remains in proportion and hangs properly.
Cleaning and Structural Repair: Team members remove a century of soot by hand using special dry-chemical sponges. They make several passes until the black soot is gone and traces of pigment are visible on the sponge. Care must be taken not to remove too much pigment. While cleaning, the team repairs any rips or holes with pre-shrunk muslin or canvas flex-glued to the back of the drop around the tear, taking care not to let excess moisture seep through to the front.
Sealing: Because it was an inexpensive option at the time, scenic painters like Moses used distemper paint for their pieces. This type of paint was a mixture of water, animal glue, whiting and pigment. Loose pigment is re-adhered by sealing the entire drop with a solution of animal glue and water along with a separate solution of fire retardant.
Sewing: It takes a 44-foot sewing table and two people, one sewing and one pushing the drop on rollers, to add top webbing and a pipe pocket to each drop. Three layers of 3/8-inch stitching in the webbing is used to help retain the integrity of the delicate muslin after it is hung. Rather than position them the standard 12 inches apart, grommets are placed six inch apart in the webbing to better distribute the hanging stress across the top. The drop is moved to the table by carefully wrapping it around packing peanut-filled garbage bags tied together like a giant sausage link. This mitigates much of the damage to the paint caused by creasing the material.
Installing: To hang each drop, team members thread ties through the grommets and secure them—one by one—on to the 38-foot fly batten.
Scenes to be Seen
Already, several of the stunning Fort Scott collection drops have been used at the Ives Auditorium to augment a performance or Masonic ritual work. By the end of May 2017, 27 drops will hang above the stage, and restoration will continue on the rest. As painstaking as the project has been, it has become a labor of love for the small, dedicated team whose job it is to bring the scenery back to life.
"To have found such a wonderful collection of historic Masonic drops is tremendous," said project lead, Mia Schillace Nelson. "To be able to restore it and present it to the public once again is a privilege."
Come explore the history of Freemasonry and the elegance of Minnesota Masonic Heritage Center!
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Preserving the 1031 Now and For the Future
By: Michael Hoban
The commercial real estate industry breathed a sigh of relief in September when the proposal to implement caps on 1031 like-kind exchanges (LKEs) was excluded from the House Ways and Means Committee's list of potential tax provisions earmarked to pay for the "Build Back Better" agenda in the multi-trillion-dollar reconciliation bill. Although a final bill had not yet come to a vote at press time, industry insiders were cautiously optimistic that Section 1031 would remain intact—at least for now.
Exhaustive lobbying efforts by the National Association of REALTORS®, the Federation of Exchange Accommodators (FEA) and nearly 40 other organizations, including SIOR, making up the Section 1031 Like-Kind Exchange Coalition appear to have played a major role in preserving Section 1031 as is. The Coalition argued that the elimination of the caps would have had far-reaching negative impacts for not only the CRE industry, but the economy as a whole.
"To offer capping 1031 as a pay-for is a misguided policy, because it's a misunderstanding of what 1031 actually does," says Suzanne Baker, former general counsel for Investment Property Exchange Services (IPX1031) and former co-chairperson of the Government Affairs Committee of the Federation of Exchange Accommodators. "It's not an abusive tax loophole for the rich. It's broadly used by taxpayers of modest means as well as larger businesses. It's not even a tax savings vehicle. It's merely a timing device, a tax deferral that allows taxpayers to better manage their cash flow."
LKEs have been a valuable real estate investment tool for a century, dating back to the Revenue Act of 1921. The rules have changed over time, but the intent has remained the same: to allow real estate investors to defer—not exempt—capital gains taxes on a property they sold if they acquire a new property of equal or greater value within the prescribed time period (180 days). The Biden proposal would have limited eligibility for Section 1031 exchanges by permitting each taxpayer to defer only up to $500,000 ($1 million for married taxpayers filing jointly) of real property gain each year as one of the mechanisms to pay for the cost of the American Families Plan.
This is not the first proposal that has sought to curtail or eliminate 1031 exchanges, and the idea has not been limited to Democrats. The proposals made early on by House Republicans in 2017 would have effectively ended Section 1031 in what eventually became President Trump's Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, but instead the legislation did away with exchanges for every asset class except real estate. In 2014, President Obama's budget proposal suggested that 1031 exchanges should be limited to a maximum deferred amount of $1 million per taxpayer per year. But earlier that same year, Republican House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp released a discussion draft of the proposed Tax Reform Act that stated that Section 1031 should be repealed, effective January 1, 2015. The Senate Finance Committee, led by Democrat Max Baucus, came to the same conclusion in their discussion draft, but the proposals were not adopted. The Tax Relief Act of 1997 under President Clinton (with Republican Newt Gingrich as Speaker of the House) attempted to place significant restrictions on Section 1031, but it also failed.
The intended purpose of the various proposals to limit or eliminate LKEs has always been to generate additional tax revenue, purportedly from the wealthiest of taxpayers. The Biden administration estimated that their plan would generate $19.55 billion over 10 years, but according to industry analysts, it ignored the additional economic—and taxable—activity created by the exchanges.
"Some people refer to the 1031 exchange as a loophole, but it's anything but a loophole," says Gabriel Silverstein, SIOR, national Chair of Institutional Capital Markets at SVN in Austin, Texas, who adds that it's important to emphasize that it's not a tax exemption but a tax deferral on which taxes will be paid at a later date. "It's part of the tax code that people plan around, and it's something that generates more economic activity, not less."
A study that estimated the economic activity supported by the like-kind exchange rules within the U.S. economy in 2021 was conducted by EY (formerly known as Ernst & Young Global) for the Like-Kind Exchange Coalition. It concluded that "Like-kind exchanges reduce the cost of capital and, consequently, increase the amount of investment in the U.S. economy. This investment, in turn, supports jobs, labor income, and value added in the U.S. economy." The report found that LKEs directly or indirectly supported 568,000 jobs, $27.5 billion in labor income, and $55.3 billion in value-added, if one includes the suppliers to businesses that make use of LKEs and the related consumer spending that is generated from that activity.
"We seem to have as many or more smaller, private capital investors looking to execute the exchange than we do the behemoths."
"The value of the 1031 exchange from a larger market point of view is that it creates a lot of liquidity and transactional activity in the market that would not exist if the tax deferral benefit to one participant in the transaction wasn't still part of the tax code," stresses Silverstein. Without the 1031 exchange, he explains, long-term private owners of properties that have been significantly depreciated but are now greatly appreciated may be hesitant to sell, due to the enormous tax burden generated by the divergent paths of the tax basis of the asset versus the current market value. "If there wasn't the ability to defer those taxes to the future by replacing that property that you sell with a like-kind property, then a lot of people just wouldn't sell," says Silverstein.
In their 2020 report, "The Tax and Economic Impacts of Section 1031 Like-Kind Exchanges in Real Estate", professors David C. Ling of the University of Florida and Milena Petrova of Syracuse University researched multiple CRE data sets as well as more than one million transactions using CoStar data from 2010 to 2020 that included more than 100,000 like-kind exchange transactions. The researchers concluded that "although the present value of Treasury tax revenue losses associated with real estate like-kind exchanges is relatively small in magnitude, the elimination of exchanges would disrupt many local property markets and harm investors of all sizes at both local and national levels." They also determined that 1031 exchanges are not dominated by large institutional investors, and that a broad range of taxpayers contribute to the positive economic impact. The median sale price of a property involved in an exchange during the study period was approximately $575,000, with 75% of properties involved in a 1031 exchange having a sale price of less than $1.5 million.
"We seem to have as many or more smaller, private capital investors looking to execute the exchange than we do the behemoths," says Landon Williams, SIOR, senior vice president, Capital Markets with Cushman & Wakefield in Memphis, Tenn. "It's not only the institutional capital and the REITs. On many occasions, we have newer investors who are trying to improve their personal financial position by using the 1031 exchange."
The Petrova and Ling Study also discovered that buyers who used LKEs not only acquire replacement properties valued at amounts approximately 15.4% greater than those of non-exchanging buyers, they typically invest more capital into improvements on their replacement properties, which in turn generates jobs and tax revenue.
"There's a truism in the industry, 'Owners maintain, but buyers improve'," says Baker, who believes that preserving Section 1031 is more important than ever in the wake of the pandemic, where many properties will need significant reinvestment or re-purposing in order to meet the needs of the evolving post-pandemic CRE market.
"You want to maintain the incentive for those owners to transfer those under-performing properties into the hands of buyers that have the wherewithal, the skill, and the imagination to do those transformations," says Baker. "And that will spur job growth for both skilled and unskilled tradespeople, plus title, escrow, financial and legal services, contractors, material suppliers…you have this whole stream of people and businesses that are generating taxable revenue because of the like-kind exchange. And if there's no exchange, no transaction, then there's no revenue."
Section 1031 appears to be safe for now, but as we have seen, it has been a frequent target of both Democrats and Republicans for over two decades. As the research bears out, the preservation of LKEs going forward is not only a vital investment tool for the CRE industry, but as an economic engine for the U.S. economy.
CONTRIBUTING MEMBERS
Gabriel Silverstein, SIOR
Landon Williams, SIOR
Michael Hoban
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Michael Hoban is a Boston-based commercial real estate and construction writer and founder of Hoban Communications, which provides media advisory services to CRE and AEC firms. Contact him at michaelhoban@comcast.net


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Is it possible to travel back in time? That's the (relatively) straightforward question posed at the beginning of this understated, experimental work by the unnamed narrator. He has returned to his grandparents' riverside cabin, where he spent his childhood playing on the shore and wading through rushing water to get to an island where he clambered up trees like a wild animal. Now, the homestead is overgrown and the island has sunk; dead branches reaching up to the sky are the only remnant of the past. So he constructs his own cabin, painted black with a single small window. In between musings about his childhood and family, he turns his camera on what's left of his memories—decaying farmhouses, clocks stopped forever at 11:36:23—and on those who are on the verge of being forgotten: craggy shepherds and the last few speakers of the Basque language in the valley.
In this follow-up to The Search for Emak Bakia (DFF39), Spanish writer/director Oskar Alegria relies on imagery to turn his portrait of a memoirist into what could be viewed as a soliloquy on solitude, a philosophical treatise on the nature of time and memory, an archaeological study, even a natural history of birds. The audience is never really sure, and that's OK—perhaps the filmmaker isn't, either.
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05/21/15 | Ormeau Area Guide
Ormeau is situated in South Belfast, convenient to the City Centre and local amenities making it a very popular place to live for both young professionals and families. The Ormeau Rd has excellent transport links into the City Centre and with good quality restaurants, cafes, bars and independent shops making it is a very attractive place to live.
The Ormeau Rd is one of the main arterial roads leading out of Belfast towards the south of the city. Two train stations (Central and Botanic) are within walking distance and provide links to surrounding areas and further afield to the North Coast and Republic of Ireland. A regular bus service also runs along the road to the City Centre. For those on foot or on bike the city can also be easily accessed via the Lagan Towpath.
Ormeau & surrounding areas
The Gasworks area is at the start of the Ormeau Road and was originally the site of Belfast's gas making industry since the 19th century. A large refurbishment programme in recent years transformed the area into a modern business park and companies such as Halifax and the Hilton have based themselves there.
Ormeau Park is situated in the middle of Ormeau and is the city's oldest municipal park dating back to 1871 and is also the home of Ormeau Golf Club. The Ozone Sports Complex is also within the grounds with indoor state of the art tennis courts, gym and other sporting facilities.
Ormeau Bakery set up in 1875 is opposite the park and has recently been redeveloped into upmarket, luxury apartments following its closure in 2002.
Upper Ormeau is largely a well-established residential area and encompasses the areas of Rosetta and Galwally. It is served by local schools including Rosetta Primary School and Wellington College.
Ormeau offers many varied bars and restaurants to suit all tastes and budgets. Independent coffee shops and cafes have also thrived in the area. The Errigle Inn proves popular for traditional irish music fans and also rugby fans due to its close proximity to the Kingspan Stadium home of Ulster Rugby. Festivals are held in Ormeau Park regularly along with the Belfast One World Run. The annual Belfast Marathon takes in the Ormeau Road.
Small stores and furniture shops along with Express supermarkets are dotted along the road. For high street stores and supermarkets Forestside Shopping Centre is located nearby.
St George's Market is one of Belfast's most popular attractions. It was built between 1890 and 1896 and is regarded as one of the best markets not only in Ireland but in the U.K. It has won numerous awards for its fresh local produce and great atmosphere. It holds a weekly Friday Variety Market, and a food and craft market on Saturday and Sunday.


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Anyway, back to the best recipe ever: The chocolate cashew butter zucchini muffins (flourless muffins, if we're getting technical) are smooth and rich and debaucherous-tasting, but they are packed with stuff that's good for you — and, as a bonus, they are total kid-pleasers for breakfast, snacks and dessert. (Just imagine them in mini-size!) Also, as Katie points out on her own blog, the recipe is also an amazing way to use the massive amounts of zucchini that come in your CSA, if you have that issue.
Check out the rest of the recipe here — and enjoy!
*Contributor bio: Katie Cavuto is the official dietitian of the Philadelphia Phillies and the Flyers, as well as a chef, writer and nutrition expert who offers corporate and private nutrition counseling and cooking classes. She's also a local and regional TV and media personality whose writing and voice has appeared in Parents magazine, O, the Oprah Magazine, Philadelphia magazine, and Women's Health (among other publications). Katie also plays the role of mom: Son Hudson is five. You can follow her on social media @katiecavutord.
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Awaous grammepomus е вид лъчеперка от семейство Попчеви (Gobiidae).

Разпространение
Видът е разпространен в Бангладеш, Виетнам, Индия (Гоа и Тамил Наду), Индонезия, Камбоджа, Китай, Малайзия (Западна Малайзия, Сабах и Саравак), Мианмар, Провинции в КНР, Тайван, Тайланд, Филипини и Шри Ланка.

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Siergiej Zajkow (kaz. Сергей Зайков; ur. 23 września 1987) – kazachski lekkoatleta specjalizujący się w biegu na 400 metrów. Wielokrotny medalista halowych imprez kontynentalnych. Jego rekordem życiowym na 400 metrów jest czas 45,67s osiągnięty 18 czerwca 2012 w Ałmaty w Kazachstanie.

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Kazachscy olimpijczycy
Kazachscy sprinterzy
Urodzeni w 1987
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Q: How to start coundowntimer from it sttoped in android? I have a countdown timer for 30 seconds with progressbar which works fine,but when app goes in pause state timer still works but I want when app goes in pause state timer and progress bar will stop and when resume app it will start from where it stop. how can I do that.
here is my code:-
@SuppressLint("SetTextI18n")
private void init() {// initialize view controls

    m_timerProgress = (ProgressBar) findViewById(R.id.pb);// finding ID of progressbar

    final TextView tv = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.tv);// finding Id of textview to show timer text
    tv.setText("00:00");// set timer text
    //Initialize a new CountDownTimer instance
    long m_MillisInFuture = 30000;// timer value
    long m_CountDownInterval = 1000;// timer break up
    m_oTimer = new CountDownTimer(m_MillisInFuture, m_CountDownInterval) {
        public void onTick(long millisUntilFinished) {
            @SuppressWarnings("UnusedAssignment") long millis = millisUntilFinished;
            @SuppressLint("DefaultLocale") String hms = String.format("%02d:%02d", TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toMinutes(millisUntilFinished),
                    TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toSeconds(millisUntilFinished) -
                            TimeUnit.MINUTES.toSeconds(TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toMinutes(millisUntilFinished)));
            System.out.println(hms);
            tv.setText(hms);
            //Another one second passed
            //Each second ProgressBar progress counter added one
            m_n_ProgressStatus += 1;
            m_timerProgress.setProgress(m_n_ProgressStatus);
        }

        public void onFinish() {// when timer finished

            Intent i = new Intent(COtpAutoVerificationScreen.this, COtpManualVerificationScreen.class);
            startActivity(i);

        }
    }.start();// start timer
    // retreive progress bar count........
    int progressBarMaximumValue = (int) (m_MillisInFuture / m_CountDownInterval);
    //Set ProgressBar maximum value
    //ProgressBar range (0 to maximum value)
    m_timerProgress.setMax(progressBarMaximumValue);
    //Display the CountDownTimer initial value
    tv.setText(progressBarMaximumValue + "Seconds...");
}

A: In onPause cancel the timer. Use global variable to keep track of time. As timer runs reduce the global variable by the interval.
In onResume start countdown timer with Global variable as timer value. Your progress bar also you can save last position and start manipulating from there.
private long currentMillis=30000;

change your init method to take a long parameter and move your initialization of views outside
private void init( long millis) {

//Initialize a new CountDownTimer instance
long m_MillisInFuture = millis;// timer value
long m_CountDownInterval = 1000;// timer break up
m_oTimer = new CountDownTimer(m_MillisInFuture, m_CountDownInterval) {
    public void onTick(long millisUntilFinished) {
        @SuppressWarnings("UnusedAssignment") long millis = millisUntilFinished;

   long hmsLong=,
                TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toSeconds(millisUntilFinished) -                    TimeUnit.MINUTES.toSeconds(TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toMinutes(millisUntilFinished));
        @SuppressLint("DefaultLocale") String hms = String.format("%02d:%02d",TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toMinutes(millisUntilFinished),hmsLong );
        System.out.println(hms);
        currentMillis=hmsLong;
        tv.setText(hms);
        //Another one second passed
        //Each second ProgressBar progress counter added one
        m_n_ProgressStatus += 1;
        m_timerProgress.setProgress(m_n_ProgressStatus);
    }
         .....
     m_oTimer.start();

then your OnPause should be as
        @Override
public void onPause() {
    super.onPause();
    m_oTimer.cancel();
    }

and onResume will be
             @Override
public void onResume() {
    super.onResume();
    init(currentMillis)
    }

This should do what you want.

A: You can achieve this by following steps.
make m_MillisInFuture member variable

public void OnPause(){
    m_oTimer.stop();
    m_oTimer = null;
    m_MillisInFuture- = m_n_ProgressStatus*1000;
}

public void onResume(){
    //here create your timer with updated m_MillisInFuture value and start
    startTimer();

}

    private void startTimer(){
        m_oTimer = new CountDownTimer(m_MillisInFuture, m_CountDownInterval) {
        public void onTick(long millisUntilFinished) {
            @SuppressWarnings("UnusedAssignment") long millis = millisUntilFinished;
            @SuppressLint("DefaultLocale") String hms = String.format("%02d:%02d", TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toMinutes(millisUntilFinished),
                    TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toSeconds(millisUntilFinished) -
                            TimeUnit.MINUTES.toSeconds(TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toMinutes(millisUntilFinished)));
            System.out.println(hms);
            tv.setText(hms);
            //Another one second passed
            //Each second ProgressBar progress counter added one
            m_n_ProgressStatus += 1;
            m_timerProgress.setProgress(m_n_ProgressStatus);
        }

        public void onFinish() {// when timer finished

            Intent i = new Intent(COtpAutoVerificationScreen.this, COtpManualVerificationScreen.class);
            startActivity(i);

        }
    }.start();

    }

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Local Sports Medicine Expert Returns from Mission Trip to Peru: North Shore medical team reflects on serving the Indigenous
Salem, Mass. – Just a few weeks ago, Dr. Thomas Mulroy, 38, was in Chiclayo, Peru, where he cared for indigenous residents in a makeshift clinic in an abandoned warehouse without modern tools or electricity. Making the best of rudimentary resources, he and his team pushed three chairs together to form an exam table and used a flashlight app and college-level Spanish to provide expert medical care to local patients, many of whom are migrant workers and families of the remote villages in Central and South America. Seeing firsthand the disparities in healthcare access and technology in non-industrialized countries has inspired the primary care sports medicine doctor to do more.
Dr. Thomas Mulroy with local Peruvians from the Cusco area where he climbed Rainbow Mountain in between seeing patients at the clinic.
Pictured left: Dr. Mulroy gives a trigger point injection to an elderly patient who went to the clinic for hip pain from chronic overuse and osteoarthritis.
The nearest hospital for most people is hours away and only accessible if they are lucky enough to have transportation," says Dr. Mulroy, a North Shore Physicians Group doctor who was introduced to the volunteer program when working as an urgent care physician in New York City several years ago. "In these remote communities, we see a lot of dietary, skeletal and muscular issues. We bring what supplies and medications we can with us, but it never feels like enough. More volunteers are needed to meet people where they live and provide the care these residents need to survive.
Dr. Mulroy typically sees patients at the North Shore Physicians Group practice in Beverly, MA, which is affiliated with Salem Hospital and Mass General Brigham. This was the fifth year he has traveled with a group of physicians, physician assistants, medical students and other clinicians through FNE International, a nonprofit that partners with communities in developing nations to advance housing, health and education. His fiancé, Patrick Calder, and North Shore Physicians Group (NSPG) colleague, Katherine Moskal, an athletic trainer, joined him.
Moskal and Dr. Mulroy stand with fellow volunteers and local policemen who served as translators beside tables between their beds which served as injection sites at the clinic.
On a typical day at his Beverly practice, Dr. Mulroy will see up to 20 patients. During this trip to Peru, he estimates seeing more than 100 a day, a high volume considering how difficult it is for the local farmers, loggers, and other laborers to take time off and afford to see a doctor. Dr. Mulroy joined six other medical providers working in clinics reaching five Peruvian villages in the area. "These people are truly heroic," says Mulroy, "and they teach me so much about happiness and resilience." His colleague, Moskal, enjoyed the extra honor of having her 51st birthday celebrated while on the mission trip.
Moskal and Dr. Mulroy pose for a picture outside the clinic
"It was an EPIC day," says Moskal. "We saw more than 250 patients among all of the providers, but when the mayor of that community heard it was my birthday, she presented me with a cake. When we returned to the place we were staying, they threw a huge party for me. I had my own cake, there was music and dancing and decorations. COVID pretty much ruined my 50th, but this so made up for it! Trips like this remind me of how fortunate we are in this country. We have so much and we take so much for granted. It was incredible to watch those who have so little continue to live such full and happy lives."
Throughout the calendar year, Dr. Mulroy raises money to pay for mission trips and sponsor other volunteers to join him. He also participates in triathlons, training that came in handy during his down time in Peru when he hiked Rainbow Mountain, 17,000 feet above sea-level. To learn more about the need and support Dr. Mulroy's work with FNE International, the public can visit: www.fneinternational.org


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Q: extjs chart->series change color dynamically How can dynamically change a chart.series.color?
I sthere any way to change a color for "ONE" bar to draw attention?
thanx

A: I use this code, but the gradient is seen in the back not in all the bar:
see this image: chart image
var enroll = Ext.create('Ext.chart.Chart', {
    width: 430,
    height: 250,
    xtype: 'chart',
    renderTo: 'O20_id-body',
    store: store1,
    axes: [{
        type: 'Numeric',
        position: 'left',
        fields: ['data1'],
        label: {
            renderer: Ext.util.Format.numberRenderer('0,0')
        },
        title: 'Number of Hits',
        grid: true,
        minimum: 0
    }, {
        type: 'Category',
        position: 'bottom',
        fields: ['data1'],
        title: 'Month of the Year'
    }],
    gradients: [{
    id: 'redGradient',
    angle: 45,
    stops: {
        0: {
            color: '#FF0000'
        },
        100: {
            color: '#F0F0F0'
        }
    }
  }],
    series: [{
        type: 'column',
        axis: 'bottom',
        highlight: true,
        xField: 'name',
        yField: 'data1',
        renderer: function(sprite, record, attr, index, store) {
                     //draw diffrent color
                     sprite.setAttributes({fill: 'url(#redGradient)'}, true);
                     return attr;

        }
    }]

});


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