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To Sam 21 October 2014
Everyone hates me
I just moved to a new school and in the past iv been through alot ,i had to move into a refuge because of domestic violence and this year has been super hard. At my old school i was friends with everyone, i spoke to everone and everyone liked me but since i moved into my new school literally EVERYONE hates me. It all started because i dated this boy and everyone called me a slut and a whore then i dumped him and then all his friends, which were most of my friends, hated me. after this i was being called names and being bullied daily by them. They have pretty much hated me since but i made some new friends which were really nice ,2 girls which were both very quiet and nice. But one day in PE i was talking to one of them about how everyone was being mean and then some girl said something to me and i said "Did you just see that?!" then she said no and you knw when you say something like that and then someone doest see it or hear it and you say as a joke like you must be blind or something, well i said that and the at the end of the lesson when we were getting changed she was upset about it and i honestly didnt mean it in a offensive way but she took it the wrong way. But then the whole changing room was screaming at me and surrounding me and it was really scary i started crying and they all called me a baby and stuff im 12 im not a baby but when theres a whole room of people that dont like you surounding you and screaming at you for nothing its over whelming i just couldnt take it plus i had already had a bad day because the morning before me and my mum fell out really bad and i was really upset then too. The whole PE thing happened today and im so scared to go in tomorrow but i dont want to tell my mum because she really worries about me and iv been lying to her since i started the school saying that everything was great and i had loads of friend. i honestly dont know what to do its never happened to me before and i honestly have never had suicidal thought before but recently i have been thinking of killing myself it sounds like im trying to be a drama queen but its ttrue. please help me.
Sam 22 October 2014
Thanks for your letter.
It sounds like it's been a very difficult year for you. It can be very hard to cope with so many changes happening in your life and you've shown a lot of courage to write to me.
I can hear that things at your new school started okay but now it feels like everyone hates you. The incident you described in the changing room sounds very distressing and overwhelming for you. It seems like this is almost the opposite to how school felt for you before you moved. It's not okay for people to bully you and it is not your fault that they are treating you this way.
It sounds like being bullied has made you start to think about suicide and that's worrying to hear. I want to encourage you to try to talk to someone about these feelings. You don't sound like a drama queen, you sound like you are struggling to cope at the moment.
You don't have to be alone when you feel suicidal. The ChildLine counsellors can support you and help you keep yourself safe. It's okay to talk to them about feeling suicidal but if they feel like you might try to do something to end your life then they may need to tell someone who can help you. You can find out more about that if you read our confidentiality promise. You may also find it helps to look at our page on coping with suicidal feelings.
You can talk to a counsellor any time, day or night, by phoning free on 0800 1111. You can also log on for a 1-2-1 chat or send an email.
All schools have a responsibility to protect you from being bullied. They will have an anti-bullying policy which explains what they will do if you tell them you are being bullied. It's okay to ask to see this policy so you can understand what will happen if you tell someone at school. You might like to think about talking to a teacher you trust to explain what's been happening and how it makes you feel. Writing down what the bullies do can be helpful as it means you don't have to remember everything when you want to tell someone.
Talking to a parent or carer about being bullied can feel difficult, but it might also be really helpful. You could think about writing them a letter if saying the words out loud feels too hard. There is some more advice you might find helpful in our Bullying section. You could also see if you can use these tips to help you make new friends at school.

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West Haverstraw is a village incorporated in 1833 in the town of Haverstraw, Rockland County, New York, United States. It is located northwest of Haverstraw village, east of Thiells, south of the hamlet of Stony Point, and west of the Hudson River.
Schools in West Haverstraw:
West Haverstraw Elementary School
Treason House - Route 9W - Long Clove Congers - Haverstraw, near where Route 304 runs into Route 9W. On the night of September 21–22, 1780, Major John André landed at this point to confer with Maj. Gen. Benedict Arnold, who gave secret information about West Point fortifications and forces to André. At dawn, the conspirators adjourned to the Belmont House, owned by Thomas Smith and occupied by his brother Joshua Hett Smith in West Haverstraw, to complete their plans. "Clove" is from Dutch for "pass."
Crossroads - Route 9W and West Railroad Avenue
Col. A. H. Hay - Route 9W
Samsondale - 40 South Route 9W
Babes Restaurant
Fraser-Hoyer House (NRHP)
Haverstraw Bay Park
Haverstraw Marina
Helen Hayes Hospital, rehabilitation hospital named after its benefactor, the actress Helen Hayes
Henry M. Peck House Site (NRHP)
Hoyer's Ice Cream Stand
Peck's Pond
For more information about West Haverstraw and the neighborhood, call a Q Home Sales Representative 845-35Q-HOME (845-357-4663)
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We have been serving our soba salad since we opened CIBI in 2008. When I created this dish, I wanted to add a touch of western flavor so that it became a cafe-like dish as well as a CIBI dish. Many of our regulars come in just for this salad. This is a simpler version that you can cook at home anytime. All you really need in your cupboard is soba noodles, soy sauce and lemon!
1. To make the olive relish, combine the olives, olive brine, lemon juice and oil in a bowl. Season with freshly ground black pepper to taste and mix well.
2. To make the soba dressing, combine all of the ingredients in a small bowl with 50 ml (1 3/4 fl oz) water and mix well.
3. Drain the bean curd and rinse it with hot water to remove any excess oil. Dry it lightly with paper towel. Pan-fry both sides in a frying pan over a low–medium heat until light brown and crispy. Remove it from the pan and let it cool, then slice it into 1 x 5 cm (1/2 x 2 in) rectangles.
4. Bring a large saucepan of water to the boil. Add the soba noodles and cook, following the packet instructions, until they are just al dente. Drain the noodles and run them under cold water to stop the cooking process and wash off excess gluten. This will help give the noodles a nice texture.
5. Arrange the salad leaves on plates.
6. In a large bowl, combine the noodles, tomatoes, avocado, bean curd, spring onion, sesame seeds and dressing and mix well. Top the salad on each plate with a helping of the noodle mixture. Garnish each with 1 teaspoon of the olive relish and serve the rest of the relish on the side.
Recipe excerpted with permission from CIBI by Meg and Zenta Tanaka, published by Hardie Grant Books November 2018.


The Humber Glazed Oak door is fitted with clear safety glass and is supplied unfinished to allow for a choice of varnish. The solid engineered cores offer extra stability that is often not found with similar alternatives.
The Humber Glazed Oak door is the perfect matching glazed door for the Mersey Oak Door and Mersey Oak FD30 Fire Door.


"""" As this is the last official Betton Place Antiques Estate Sale for 2014, I would like to take this time to say a big THANKYOU to all our Customers and Clients that make our Sales Successful, we very much appreciate you , Happy Holidays and We all look forward to seeing you in the New Year..."""""""
It is only 35 minutes drive to Chattahoochee from Tallahassee, in fact quicker for me to drive from North Monroe street to Chattahoochee than to Bradfordville Road.........so come on over, very good resturant to eat in as well downtown. Follow 1-10 to exit 166, turn right, follow into the Town, as you pass over the Railway Bridge the next left is Morgan Ave, go left and two blocks up on your left is the Home.
Fabulous Sale, the Family have lived in Chattahoochee for many years , The Dad was the Crew Chief aboard a B-17 390th squadron during WW2 with the Army Air Corps thus there is Memorabilia , Flying Suits from during his time of Service.
Mahogany Secretary French Provincial Dining Table/6 Chairs, French Provincial China Hutch, French Provincial Server, French Provincial End-tables, French Provincial Double Bed, French Provincial Dresser/Mirror, French Provincial Nightstand, French Provincial Corner End-table.


Sawn timber of hardwoods. Specifications. Requirements in accordance with GOST 2695-83 - LiS Ltd.
SAWN TIMBER OF HARDWOODS. SPECIFICATIONS.
The note 1: The sizes of sawn timber on thickness and on width are established for moisture content of 20%. At the greater or smaller moistness the sizes should be more or less on size of shrinkage in accordance with GOST 6782.2-75.
The note 2: The defects of the wood which has been not mentioned in the table, are allowed.
The note 3: On edges of square edged sawn timber over 60 mm defects of wood are allowed by thickness on the norms specified for a face.
The note 4: At moisture content of wood more 22% the sizes of permitted cracks, bow, spring, cup and twist are decreased twofold.
The note 5: Spring in unedged sawn timber it is not standardized.
The note 6: The quality rating of quality of sawn timber should be made on the worst face and worst edge.
The note 7: Sawn timber of third grade in length more than 3 m, on 50% which of length of grade-making defects are not present, or there are only knots, not taken into account in standards of 1 grade, or on 67% of lenth of which are defects in norms of 1 grade, are related to 2 grade.
The note 8: The presence of one knot with the sizes permitted for adjacent lower grade in sawn timber with length over 3 m is allowed.
The note 9: Non-parallelity of faces and edges is allowed within the limits of deviations from nominal thickness or width.
The note 10: Sawn timber are delivered dry (with moistness no more than 22%), natural dry or antiseptized.


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package com.rhc.kie.component;

import java.lang.annotation.ElementType;
import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
import java.lang.annotation.Target;

/**
 * Should be put on the Fields in a Response class that is used by the
 * Component. Will only work if the field is a Collection. Also the fields must
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@Target(ElementType.FIELD)
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
public @interface KieQuery {

    /**
     * The name of the Query
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Q: Can not run react native other than from CLI I am able to run my react-native app from CLI using
react-native run-android
command but if i close it once and try to re-open manually it is stuck in Splash-screen
There as I am able to close and reopen manually for iOS for the same app
Here is my react environment info
I also tried making and apk using instructions from this link
https://www.techup.co.in/how-to-create-a-test-build-react-native-android/
and i installed in a physicall device but same as emulator it is stuck in Splash-screen
Project packages
MainActivity.java from android
Splash-screen is created with this
https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-native-splash-screen
App file part1
App file part2
App file part3

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Earlier this year the Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration, David Bolt, published a 68-page report which is highly critical of the internal Administrative Review process as introduced by the Immigration Act 2014. The Administrative review process is an internal Home Office review process which was introduced as a replacement to the old system of appeals against refusal of many immigration decisions. The Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration, David Bolt, published a report earlier this year into how well this process is working and found significant room for improvement.
The Independent Chief Inspector's (ICI) report considered a sample of Administrative Review decisions and found that in several cases the Home Office had incorrectly maintained a previous refusal decision that should have been withdrawn. In other cases, where the inspector of borders agreed that the Home Office had correctly maintained the previous refusal decision it found that the Administrative Review decision letter contained incorrect reasoning.
The ICI also found that no internal review process has been introduced to replace one important category of appeal which was removed, which was against curtailment of leave. There is no right of appeal nor is there an Administrative Review, despite this being promised at the time of the passage of the Immigration Act 2014.
The report also found that overall there was significant room for improvement in respect of the effectiveness of administrative review in identifying and correcting case working errors, and in communicating decisions to applicants.
The Home Office should make it clear to applicants in published guidance and on the online application form that the deadline for applying for an Administrative Review is calculated from the deemed date of receipt of the eligible immigration decision unless the applicant can demonstrate they received this on a later date.
Provide training for admin reviewers that is consistent with the training provided to original decision-makers.
Ensure that all reviewers address all substantive issues raised by the applicant and that decision notices accurately reflect this.
Consider the scope to prioritise the processing of administrative reviews to meet the needs of the applicant in terms of timeliness (as in the case of some Tier 4 admin reviews).
Clarify guidance regarding the requirement for reviewers to correct all errors contained in the original decision (not just those identified by the applicant in their admin review application), including carrying out further checks where they identify these were not done correctly by the caseworker who made the original decision.
You can read the full recommendation by the Chief Inspector of Borders and the Home Office response here.
Our team of experienced and professionally qualified immigration solicitors and barristers bear in mind the paramount duty of all legal representatives to act in your best interest whilst complying with the strict letter of the law. Our team of specialists can be distinguished from other law firms with our client-tailored approach and scrutiny of options available to you from the outset. We will be able to advise you in respect of the merits of your matter or if you need to issue a complaint to the Home Office by providing you with advice that is tailored to your particular immigration matter.


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Q: passing arguments to docker exec from bash prompt and script I am trying to execute a command inside my mongodb docker container. From my linux command prompt it is pretty easy and works when I do this
docker exec -it d886e775dfad mongo --eval 'rs.isMaster()'

The above tells me to go to a container and execute the command
"mongo --eval 'rs.isMaster()' - This tells mongo to take rs.isMaster() as an input and execute it. This works and gives me the output.

Since I am trying to automate this via bash script, I did this
cmd="mongo --eval 'rs.isMaster()"

And then tried executing like this
docker -H $node2 exec d886e775dfad "$cmd"

But I guess somehow docker thinks that now the binary file inside the container is not mongo or sth else and it gives me the following error:
rpc error: code = 2 desc = oci runtime error: exec failed: container_linux.go:247: starting container process caused "exec: \"mongo --eval 'rs.isMaster()'\": executable file not found in $PATH"

A: You need to run (there's a missing single quote in your example):
cmd="mongo --eval 'rs.isMaster()'"

Followed by (without the quotes around $cmd):
docker -H $node2 exec d886e775dfad $cmd

By including quotes around $cmd you were looking for the executable file mongo --eval 'rs.isMaster()' rather than the executable mongo with args mongo, --eval, and 'rs.isMaster()'.

A: docker exec -it d886e775dfad sh -c "mongo --eval 'rs.isMaster()'"

This calls the shell (sh) executing the script in quotation marks.
Note that this also fixes things like wildcards (*) which otherwise do not work properly with docker exec.

A: It looks as though mongo is interpreting the entire contents of $cmd as the command to execute. This makes sense because you are quoting the parameter on the command line. Essentially when you did ... exec "$cmd" the shell will interpret the dollar-sign and expand it to be the contents in-place. Next it will interpret the double-quotes and pass the entire inner contents (now being mongo --eval 'rs.isMaster()' as a single command line argument to the process. This should result in mongo looking for a program with the name mongo --eval 'rs.isMaster() in your path. Which obviously doesn't exist.


There are a number of tips that can increase the battery life on your iPhone or iPad, shutting down multitasking apps is not one of them as it will do nothing to increase the battery life on your iPhone.
These was recently confirmed by Apple's SVP of Software, Craig Federighi who replied to an email of an iPhone user, you can see the email below.
Shutting down all of your apps on a regular basis could actually reduce the battery life on your iPhone, as it uses power when you shut each application down.
Once he apps are put in the background their are either not running or frozen, which means that they are not using any of your battery power.
We have some handy tips to help your improve iPhone battery life, these tips will work on the iPhone and iPod Touch and all of them work on iOS 9 and above.


The consequences of sleep deprivation are extremely important to acknowledge. Part 2 of Insomnia will address some of the effects of sleep deprivation has on your health such as your metabolism and how it will expedite the effects of aging.
Another peptide secreted by the stomach that stimulates appetite, ghrelin, is increased. And the main food that one has an appetite for was a food of high carbohydrate content. This may be why weight loss programs may fail involving caloric restrictions as it is adversely affect by sleep restriction.
As mentioned in Part 1 a food allergy may be the culprit. An IgG test can be performed to determine what foods could be a suspect.
Profound alterations of glucose metabolism can be observed during sleep deprivation as the body's ability to secrete insulin and respond to insulin decreases. A similar decrease in acute insulin response is an early marker of diabetes.


BBQ sauce that has simmered too long on the stove becomes thicker than desired. The flavors become more pronounced as well. If it's a spicy sauce, the heat level increases the thicker the sauce becomes. You can use bottled BBQ sauce as a marinade to get flavor into the meat rather than just sitting on the surface. Instead of diluting thickened sauce with water, which will make it weaker, dilute it with ingredients found within the sauce.
Read the ingredients on the label or the recipe in your cookbook. Instead of water you want to determine which ingredient will retain the flavors in the sauce. Quite a few commercial sauces are based on tomato sauce with spices and sugar added. Ketchup has those ingredients.
Add equal parts ketchup with beef broth if you're barbecuing beef or chicken broth if you're barbecuing chicken or pork.
Add 1/4 cup of the ketchup mixture to 1 cup of the BBQ sauce at a time, tasting after each addition until the consistency and flavor is to your liking. If the sauce is not tomato based, thin it with chicken or beef stock.
Remove 2 tbsp. of the BBQ sauce and set it aside.
Add 1 tbsp. of apple cider vinegar to 1 cup of the BBQ sauce until you've reached the desired consistency.
Taste the reserved sauce. Compare it to the thinned sauce. If the thinned sauce isn't as spicy as the reserved sauce, add a few drops of hot sauce. If it's not sweet enough add 1 tsp. of honey, maple syrup or brown sugar. Keep adding the hot sauce and/or honey until both sauces taste about the same.
Wine, beer and citrus juice are other liquids to use when thinning BBQ sauce.
Go slowly when thinning BBQ sauce or any other sauce. It's easy to add more liquid but not easy to remove liquid if you've added too much.
Katie Jensen's first book was published in 2000. Since then she has written additional books as well as screenplays, website content and e-books. Rosehill holds a Master of Business Administration from Arizona State University. Her articles specialize in business and personal finance. Her passion includes cooking, eating and writing about food.


Filming is well on its way and although the finished product wont be ready until the beginning of June this year, here is the first of a short series of teaser videos I will be making of the progress. I hope you find it whets your appetite for the main programme as well as the countryside and places I visit.
Big thanks also to Georgie Lindsey, my lovely daughter, who is my main cinematographer on this project. There is much to film and many more places to go, so keep watching this space.


I know this is a silly question as we all say "Yes".
However, what I am really asking is, do you do everything?
So many people work incredibly hard just to survive, but when you ask about some of the basics they reply, "I know I should be doing this but have seen how busy I am".
This is when we start looking at what they can delegate, and then we hit another problem. How to afford it?
An example is bookkeeping, you have to record all those receipts, it takes time and if you are not organised, even longer. Meantime you are busy running the business, so it gets left behind until the end of the year. Oh dear, it comes along so quickly. All you can do is put them all in a big plastic bag and dump them with the accountant. Great you think, that's sorted. It is until he delivers his bill!
Wouldn't it be so much cheaper to employ someone to pop in every so often to sort these receipts out and put them in a sense of order. You would save money as at the year end the accountant will charge so much less, your bookkeeper has paid for his or herself.
It is not just bookkeepers, I regularly talk to small companies of the benefits of social networking, Facebook, Linkedin, etc. Again, they have set up sites and profiles, but are too busy to keep them up.
Delegate it to someone else, it is so easy, and much more importantly it gives you more time to concentrate on your core skill, which is why you started your business.
I know it sounds easy, but you will find if you invest in delegating all those little frustrating jobs that are essential to a business it will pay off. You just have got to be brave enough to do it.


By attaching to rigid-framed manual wheelchairs (or to folding chairs via an adaptor), FreeWheel enables consumers to push over surfaces that would otherwise be difficult or impossible to navigate.
The attachment is designed to provide a longer wheelbase and reduce resistance and drag when rolling over broken sidewalks, curbs, carpet, gravel, dirt, grass and snow.
Encourages a more active lifestyle by improving accessibility in all sorts of everyday and exceptional situations.


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115 House Democrats Defect, Vote Against Selling Oil to China
The U.S. House of Republicans finished its first official week of business by voting on and passing the "Protecting America's Strategic Petroleum Reserve from China Act" (H.R.22), a measure that would prevent the U.S. from selling the nation's oil reserves to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), or China.
House Republicans voted in favor of the legislation, but of the 212 House Democrats, 115 members sided with Republicans and supported the measure.
The final vote count was 331-97, with 6 members not having voted. Rep. Vern Buchanan was the sole Floridian not to vote on the bill.
Several members of the Democratic Caucus in the House who voted against the bill, including Rep. Hank Johnson, said that the Republican bill was racist, and solely targeted Asians.
Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (pictured), Kathy Castor, Darren Soto, and Jared Moskowitz, all voted against selling oil to China.
Rep Castor, who chairs the House Climate Change Committee, believes that the U.S. should not keep relying on the strategic petroleum reserves to keep the prices in check," adding that "cleaner, cheaper energy is our future."
Rep. Castor added that she believed the measure was too "narrow" in scope, and that she would have rather seen a different bipartisan bill be voted on, one that would "completely ban all oil exports to China.
Republican Rep. Michael Waltz told The Floridian that Rep. Johnson's comments on th bill were "just asinine" and pointed out that both the past Trump administration and the current Biden administration have called the CCP the biggest threat to the U.S.
"Read Chairman Xi speeches where he's talking about replacing America. Both Trump and Biden administrations have said that China is the most dangerous adversary we face. UN said worst genocide since World War II," said Rep. Waltz.
The bill is straightforward and specific to the CCP.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of Energy shall not draw down and sell petroleum products from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve—
(1) to any entity that is under the ownership, control, or influence of the Chinese Communist Party; or
(2) except on the condition that such petroleum products will not be exported to the People's Republic of China.
Like most Republicans, former combat veteran, Rep. Cory Mills has been warning of the growing Chinese influence around the world, and has stated that the U.S. needed to "unleash American energy."
"Today I voted YES to H.R 22 to block the Biden administration from selling American Strategic Petroleum Reserves (SPR) to our adversaries. We need to unleash American energy, stop Foreign reliance, and get to energy dominance. AMERICA FIRST," stated Rep. Mills.
During his address to the lower chamber, Rep. Mills excoriated House Democrats who support selling oil reserves to the Chinese.
"Mr. Speaker, it is very clear. They do not want to go to an America First agenda. They do not want to protect America. They do not want to unleash American energy to the American people to get our costs under control. They want to continue to protect Communist China Party and the Chinese themselves," said Mills.
they care about defending the Chinese and the CCP.
Another Florida congressman, Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R), tweeted that the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) were "meant for emergencies."
"Since taking office, POTUS has released 260 million barrels of our nation's petroleum reserves (SPR) meant for emergencies to alleviate the consequences of his war on American energy. This morning, I voted to prohibit the sale and export of our SPR to China," stated Rep. Diaz-Balart.
Florida Sens. Marco Rubio and Rick Scott have co-sponsored similar legislation in the upper chamber of the U.S. Congress.
McCarthy Unveils House Committees to 'Shift Power Back' to Americans
DeSantis Activates National Guard to Tackle Migrant Crisis, Talks About Combatting China


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Hněvošice is een Tsjechische gemeente in de regio Moravië-Silezië, en maakt deel uit van het district Opava.
Hněvošice telt 1018 inwoners.

Hněvošice (Duits: Schreibersdorf) had tot 1945 een Duitstalige bevolking en hoorde tot het historische Hultschiner landje.

Gemeente in Opava

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Gathering ideas, transforming the world!
Smilemundo was present at the first International Forum for Social Innovation being celebrated on March 8th and 9th in Valencia (Spain). The event is organized by the youth network of solidarity and development (Jovesolides), a non-profit international movement promoting participation and solidarity amongst youths.
During the event, we analysed social entrepreneurship initiatives and discussed the current state of areas like corporate social responsibility, the latest examples of community involvement, and the economics of the common good.
The founder of Smilemundo, Aleksandra Zemke, was a panelist at the 'Innovation Market' discussion during which different experiences were debated with the goal of sharing ideas, exchanging resources and encouraging collaboration.
The forum, whose theme is 'Gathering Ideas, Transforming the World', is intended to be a forum for learning and the exchange of strategies and with the goal of establishing itself as a meeting point amongst companies, institutions, and academia.


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Lidandets lustgård (franska : Le Jardin des supplices) är en känd roman från 1899 av Octave Mirbeau.

Octave Mirbeau : « Domare, präster, soldater, människornas ledare och fostrare tillägnas denna bok. »

Handling

Den skildrar en korrumperad politiker som flyr från Frankrike till Asien. På båten träffar han en ung bedårande kvinna, Clara. Hon är svårt sadistisk och tar med honom till Kina. Bokens huvuddel skildrar det vansinniga parets helvetesvandring genom en trädgård myllrande av blommor som växer ur de torterade fångarnas kroppar. Skildringar av en pervers erotik växlar med blomsterbeskrivningar och satiriska avsnitt.

Citat
 « Ni är tvingade att hyckla yttre respekt för personer och institutioner som ni finner absurda.. Ni förblir fegt knutna till moralistiska eller samhälleliga konventioner som ni föraktar och fördömer, som ni vet saknar all grund.. Det är denna permanenta inkonsekvens i era idéer och önskningar, och er civilisations alla döda former och alla innehållslösa skenbilder som gör er sorgsna, förvirrade och obalanserade.. I denna outhärdliga konflikt förlorar ni all livsglädje, all förnimmelse av det personliga.. därför att man i varje ögonblick förtränger, hindrar och hejdar era krafters fria spel.. Där har ni den civiliserade världens förgiftade, dödliga sår. »

Svensk översättning
 1997, övers. Hans Johansson, Vertigo förlag, « Översträdelsens klassiker », 229 sidor.
 2013, övers. Hans Johansson, Vertigo förlag, « Erotiska klassiker », illustrerad av Raphaël Freida, 252 sidor.

Externa länkar

 Octave Mirbeau, Le Jardin des supplices.
 Octave Mirbeau, The Torture garden.
Pierre Michel, Företal po franska.
 Erik van Ooijen, « Roman: Lidandets lustgård av Octave Mirbeau », 2013.

Octave Mirbeau
Skönlitteratur 1899
Franska romaner
Franskspråkig skönlitteratur
Asien i skönlitteratur


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Q: KMeans clustering in Scikit Learn In k-means in scikit learn , how the initial centroids are selected??
randomly?
and if I run it several time on the same data , will the accuracy value be changed?
kmeans =KMeans(data , no of clusters)

A: Centroids in the scikit learn implementation can be initialized in three ways:

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*WIth k-means++ for accelerating convergence.

*Randomly

*User defined

In the first case, randomly means (from k-means++ paper)

it is standard practice to choose the initial centers uniformly at random from X .

In the second case, k-means++, also from k-means++, they choose centroids as:

We propose a specific way of choosing centers for the k-means algorithm. In particular, let D(x) denote the shortest distance from a data point to the closest center we have already chosen. Then, we define the following algorithm, which we call k-means++.

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*Take one center c1, chosen uniformly at random from X .

*Take a new center c, choosing x ∈ X with probability D(x) (see reference)

*Repeat previous step until we have taken k centers altogether.

*Proceed as with the standard k-means algorithm

And yes, different initializations might end up with different results since the initialization is random and convergence can be found in a local minima.


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Tackling Tech: Creating Young NFL Fans: Thinking Outside the Cable Box
Bob Wallace
Tackling Tech
Source: CommonSenseMedia.org
The marketing power of virtual reality spans age groups and has the power to take sports viewing next level. VR has captured the interest of America's youth. Don't be surprised when your kids, nephews and nieces put VR products atop their holiday wish lists. It's not price prohibitive and creating of content for these systems is in fast forward mode. The NFL needs to be a major player here, not a fast follower or laggard.
Deep Grass Roots
Where youth doesn't come to the NFL, the NFL has gone to the young demographic. Grass roots efforts to connect with teens. This long standing practice started in sports long ago started with hospital visits to stricken children. Since then the ways to engage have been expanding to full-on community involvement with some element used across the country.
Eric Adler
For example, the New England Patriots continue to inject players into surrounding communities where they build playgrounds where they are none. For many years, current and former players have spread out to take on town police and high school hoops teams in no fee charity games where kids (and adults) get to meet team members, chat and grab a selfie and autograph. I've attended these events and they're teaming with kids.
Many teams host their state's high school football playoffs, organized sports for charity and the long established punt, pass and kick competitions. Recognizing youth helps youth recognize the NFL and its players. Together, grass roots efforts are strong medicine that's needed for a sport that needs to stay healthy.
New(erg) Rules of Engagement
Using sports to make learning fun is an innovative way approach to school field trips whereby kids visit team's stadiums not to watch games but to engage in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) programs where they solve hands-on real-world problem such as how to design and build a better helmet. Kits - and curriculum - for classroom follow up are often provided to teachers. STEM efforts by teams are on the rise with the Minnesota Vikings' COO expressed strong interest joining in what's become much more than a discussion.
Older-school staples such as teams hosting state high school football playoffs, organized sports for charity and the long established Punt, Pass and Kick competitions. Recognizing youth helps youth recognize the NFL and its sport.
Expand Non-Game Content (with a focus on original video)
Getting and keeping youth engaged requires more than live game casts. Captivating video in short form as the league just announced for Whistle Sports,the self-proclaimed ESPN for kids. should address this as it's tailored specifically for youth, not the mass and older audience the NFL addresses today. See Xbox programming.
Partner for Programming
The NFL can team with widely-used subscription streaming online services, such as Netflix, and beyond. These services are widely viewed (Netflix and Chill) despite the fact that they almost completely lack NFL content. The NFL launched the original series All or Nothing on Amazon this year with this is mind. Who will and won't be next in this effort to reach youth where they live?
Consider the low price and the huge reach of current services such as Netflix and the plans of countless companies (AT&T and Hulu) to enter this market in the months ahead. The NFL can help them evolve and they can help the NFL reach youth, all without providing live game casts.
App-etite
Extending app creation from adult fans downward to the youngest demographic should tightly integrate mobility with social media and more toward live game streaming (which is offered to Verizon wireless customers with the free NFL Mobile app.) Apps need to be focused on specific age ranges and take a page from mass audience, non-sports hits such as Pokémon.
Live Game Streaming
Nothing resonates more with the youth age group better than the word "free," as they've grown up online and likely have passed completely on cable TV packages. Without their grandparents' TV antennas, these broadbanders will miss game casts by the NFL's broadcast partners. They could, however, be lured by live streaming the likes of which the NFL tested last year with Yahoo for one game and has waded into with Twitter this year for 10 games.
Taking free streaming beyond the boundaries of Thursday Night Football would seem to be a high priority given the age group reach of the once social media-only service. It could grab the attention of those who don't follow the NFL while giving those who do access a cheaper alternative to cable TV that many crave.
The NFL has already partnered with social media app/services Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter and more to air game highlights, other video clips and scores and updates. The hope is to pull members into the game action or at least have youth visit the sites to check this info specifically.
However, with younger fans leaving Facebook or opting to engage elsewhere, Instagram might be a better target for building a young audience. Numerous NFL stars have already embraced it, shared captivating content of their own and have built large followings.
The league is on Instagram with an estimated 7.3 followers. Between the players and the league taking part, that number should rise. It's not just teens and pre-teens that swarm the service and use it to share images. The number of subscribers to the NFL's YouTube page has almost doubled from about 600,000 to 1.3 million subscribers in the last year. It boasts video clips of best plays and post-game highlights.
A sport that becomes absorbed in the present to the exclusion of the future isn't one guaranteed long-term success. The challenges of reaching and engaging the youngest age groups are many, but so too are the options for forward- thinking fan base builders throughout the league.
In a media industry where incumbents are focused on combatting cord cutting and newcomers are introducing online game viewing alternatives, the NFL needs a different strategy for reaching kids. It should instead end with live game watching after kids have become fans, consumed non-game programming and are looking for actual game viewing in affordable and non-traditional ways.
Bob Wallace is a technology journalist with over 30 years of experience explaining how new services, apps, consumer electronic devices and video sources are reshaping the world of communications as we know it. Wallace has specific expertise in explaining how and why advances in technology redefine the way sports teams interact with their partners, players and fans. He's the Founder of Fast Forward Thinking LLC.
The league needs to run a reverse to attract youngsters and teens that may not already follow the NFL.
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Much of the league's current focus is on addressing the needs of millennials, focusing first on airing games on broadcast TV. But to build the sport's future now by engaging teens and pre-teens brought up with broadband, gaming and social media, watching games is the final step.
The answer for creating young fans is not their father's cable TV-centric NFL. The league and a largely different set of partners need to advance a comprehensive tech-assisted plan. With many of its elements already under way, let's look at approaches for those living life below the millennial line.
Gaming and Game Consoles
The broadband youth consume content through their gaming stations whether it's games, online services like Netflix or shows and movies. The NFL made its vaunted and long awaited Next-Gen Stats available through Xbox One first with help from Microsoft. Perhaps the duo can do more for America's game by delivering more NFL content through their platform to an already-engaged audience.
You can't put a price on the ability to take viewing of real life from 2D to 3D with little more than a headset and app. This approach is already changing the way events are viewed and enhanced how ordinary tasks (buying sports tickets) are performed.


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Q: Javascript duplicate array and change values I have data like this :
const cards = [
  { name: "angular2" },
  { name: "vue" },
  { name: "react" },
  { name: "grunt" },
  { name: "phantomjs" }
];

I want to duplicate and shuffle this array. Also i want to add  id property to each item.
const duplicateCards = (arr) => {
  const duplicatedArr = [...arr, ...arr];
  for (let i = duplicatedArr.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
    duplicatedArr[i].id = i;
    randomIndex = Math.floor(Math.random() * i + 1);
    console.log(duplicatedArr[i]);
    [duplicatedArr[i], duplicatedArr[randomIndex]] = [duplicatedArr[randomIndex], duplicatedArr[i]];
  }
  return duplicatedArr;
};

The duplicateCards(cards) function returns an output like this:
[
  { name: 'vue', id: 1 },
  { name: 'angular2', id: 0 },
  { name: 'vue', id: 1 },
  { name: 'grunt', id: 7 },
  { name: 'phantomjs', id: 4 },
  { name: 'phantomjs', id: 4 },
  { name: 'grunt', id: 7 },
  { name: 'react' },
  { name: 'react' },
  { name: 'angular2', id: 0 }
]

I tried concat() method but I got same result. I want to add a unique id. What is my mistake ? How can I solve this?

A: This happens because although you spread the array with [...arr, ...arr], creating a new array, the object references are still the same, so every object is now referenced twice. This means that any mutation you do (like with assigning to the id property) will be visible at two places in the array.
Secondly, you should assign the id property before the phase where you start swapping, as you may meet the same object a second time and then assign a different id to it, while other objects, which get swapped to the index i, will not get an id assigned.
Here is how it could work, by chaining a .map on the created array which creates new objects:

const duplicateCards = (arr) => {
  const duplicatedArr = [...arr, ...arr].map((o, id) => ({...o, id }));
  for (let i = duplicatedArr.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
    let randomIndex = Math.floor(Math.random() * i + 1);
    [duplicatedArr[i], duplicatedArr[randomIndex]] = [duplicatedArr[randomIndex], duplicatedArr[i]];
  }
  return duplicatedArr;
};

const cards = [
  { name: "angular2" },
  { name: "vue" },
  { name: "react" },
  { name: "grunt" },
  { name: "phantomjs" }
];

console.log(duplicateCards(cards));


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On Sunday June 5 New York Governor Andrew Cuomo issued an executive order to penalize those who engage in political expression he doesn't approve of. This move is unquestionably unconstitutional and was met with near instantaneous outcry from the civil liberties community.
Cuomo's executive order, EO 157, specifically singles out the Boycotts, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which nonviolently protests Israel's human rights policies towards the Palestinian people. BORDC/DDF takes no position on Palestine/Israel, but we do support the right of people to organize boycotts and engage on both sides of this debate.
I am signing an Executive Order that says very clearly we are against the BDS movement. If you boycott Israel, New York will boycott you.
We have sent Governor Cuomo a letter outlining in great detail how EO 157 is unconstitutional and calling on him to rescind it. View our letter to Governor Cuomo here.
Boycotts for political, social, and economic change are political speech; the Supreme Court has ruled as such. Cuomo should know this, as he recently committed the state of New York to the ongoing boycott of North Carolina due to their unconstitutional, discriminatory anti-LGBT bill. From a constitutional standpoint, there is little difference between either boycott. In the case of the North Carolina boycott, its aim is getting the state to repeal its anti-LGBT bill.
In the case of BDS, its aim is getting Israel to cease its military occupation of territory outside its 1967 borders, grant Palestinians the right of return, and cease discrimination within Israel against Palestinians with Israeli citizenship. Regardless of what one thinks of these demands, they are certainly "political" and "social" change and are thus political speech. The difference, of course, is that Cuomo favors the aims of one boycott and opposes the other one. However, the First Amendment does not turn on the personal opinion of Cuomo or any other state official or entity.
While we have been able to through grassroots organizing defeat some of these bills and in other cases cause them to be severely watered down, this is the first time we have seen the anti-BDS prohibitions removed from the legislative process and put solely in the hands of the executive. Cuomo is aware of this, as he wasted no time before declaring his executive order the first of its kind in nation. Through grassroots organizing, advocacy, and public pressure we plan to help ensure that has the distinction of not only being the first of its kind, but the last as well.


By Kate Kaye . Published on March 23, 2015.
Ad Age Deputy Editor Judann Pollack answered her home phone one evening in February. It was a robocall with a recorded message: "Hello! Do you or does anyone in your family have…" The name of a disease followed. "It was really freaky," said Ms. Pollack, "to hear this recorded voice asking about such a personal matter that, as far as I knew, was known only to our family doctor, pharmacy and insurance company."
The call was from a clinical research recruitment company called Acurian, which did not respond to requests for comment about how it gained access to what is clearly sensitive health data. But was it personalized, which crosses legally boundaries? Technically not, because the robocaller did not target by name but by household, in this case limiting the pool of candidates to three.
To the average consumer, this feels like a personal violation. But to the $291 billion prescription drug industry, it's simply efficient targeting via legitimate data collection. And there lies the crux of the problem: to many in the health-care industry, the rules regulating their marketing practices are like a virtual straightjacket; to privacy advocates and some consumers, they are far too loose.
Industry execs suggest there are several ways that phone call to Ms. Pollack might have come about. There are health-information sites such as QualityHealth and WebMD's MedicineNet.com; on the surface they are simply health and medical content publishers, but their true business models revolve around data collection through site registrations, surveys and email newsletter signups. Magazine publishers have similar roles as health data providers.
Ms. Pollack says no one in her family used any of those sites.
But there's much more out there. Health data powerhouse IMS Health offers marketers prescription data from physicians, hospital treatment and discharge records and prescription data from "tens of thousands" of pharmacies. All of that information, IMS assures on its website, is de-identified, according to HIPAA rules.
The 1996 federal law limits use of data gathered by hospitals and other entities such as insurers and pharmacies, but it doesn't apply to all health data.
HIPAA rules prevent marketers from targeting individuals directly based on prescription-drug-transaction data. HIPAA requires data be de-identified before it's shared with partners, and once it's stripped of names and other identifiable data, companies could have free rein to share and sell it the way they would other purchase data or online behavioral information, depending on what uses the consumer OK'd when it was collected.
"It's in the wild. That data is no longer covered by HIPAA if it's been de-identified," said Pam Dixon, executive director of World Privacy Forum.
Just how "de-identified" all of this data is remains up for debate. Data analysis and additional data sets can help circumvent the lack of identifiable information by isolating narrow niches of patients.
"The question of how and if information can be de-identified in a digital landscape given how discrete data elements can be recombined over time -- the so-called mosaic effect -- is tricky," said Julia Jacobson, a privacy and marketing law partner at McDermott Will and Emery.
Does it even matter if the data is anonymized if the consumer feels shocked or violated by targeted marketing?
While no one expects drug makers to go back to the dark ages of non-targeted marketing, health care and other industries dealing with sensitive data need to stop speaking legalese and start learning the language of the people they say they're trying to help. And they should think twice about using certain types of information altogether.
But the overwhelming response from industry is a defensive one. "We don't use personally identifiable information," "the data is completely anonymized" and "everything is opt-in" are the go-to phrases. This defensive stance completely misses the mark.
"I think that a lot of the people who are kind of on a witch hunt for some dirt on this really don't understand it," said Bill Drummy, CEO and founder of Heartbeat Ideas. He stressed that some of his clients require consumers to opt-in multiple times to allowing health data to be used for marketing purposes because "they are so concerned about getting bad PR or doing something that would be a violation of patient trust."
Asaf Evenhaim is adamant about his firm's dedication to privacy. As CEO of health-care data analytics firm Crossix, which has a relationship with Nielsen Catalina Solutions, he stressed that the company only uses non-HIPAA covered data and avoids using behavioral data when it creates consumer segments for pharma client campaigns.
And maybe the focus on marketing is a bit of a red herring anyway. Some say regulators should focus on preventing uses of data for purposes that could have far more detrimental effects than simply creeping out consumers.
"The real problem is when insurance companies or employers are purchasing this kind of data and making decisions about you based on the data," said Ms. Dixon. She noted that sophisticated analytics allow insurance firms and other companies to combine public records, demographic and geographic data with purchase data to attribute scores to individuals that gauge things such as likelihood to take prescription medications as instructed. Those scores can trigger automated reminders to take medications, or inform insurance rates, for example.
Concluded Ms. Dixon, "So much data is flowing that it has absolutely overrun the protections that exist."


The Official Guide To The 2013 Series of Doctor Who has been published by Doctor Who Magazine. Researched and compiled by Andrew Pixley, it spans 132 pages and is the 37th special edition from the Panini-owned title.
Billed as "the essential guide to Matt Smith's final season as the Doctor", the guide has in-depth articles covering the episodes The Snowmen, The Bells of Saint John, The Rings of Akhaten, Cold War, Hide, Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS, The Crimson Horror, Nightmare in Silver and The Name of the Doctor and, says DWM, is "packed with previously unpublished photos, day-to-day details of Doctor Who's production and hundreds of fascinating new facts."
It is available from the usual outlets.
The Night of the Doctor, The Day of the Doctor and The Time of the Doctor will be covered in the next special, DWM told Doctor Who News.
The fiftieth anniversary episode of Doctor Who was the most accessed programme on the BBC iPlayer for the whole of 2013.
The Day of the Doctor topped the chart with 3.2 million people accessing the episode at some point. The episode had 0.3 million more requests than the second placed programme, episode 1 of Bad Education, the comedy series about the worst teacher ever to grace the British education system.
The Christmas episode, The Time of the Doctor, which saw Matt Smith leave the series, was accessed 1.95 million times in the week following transmission, enough to make it the 32nd most requested programme of the year and the most requested programme for Christmas week. Mrs Brown's Boys, which came top of the Christmas broadcast ratings, had 1.36 million requests.
Nearly a million people downloaded the iPlayer mobile and tablet apps over the Christmas period, meaning over 20 million now have the service on their mobile device.
All ten episodes of Doctor Who that premiered in 2013 made the top 50 programmes on iPlayer for the year. The Bells of Saint John came in at number 5 on the chart, with 2.64 million requests during the couple of months it was available. The Rings of Akhaten was 15th with 2.31 million requests. At 23 was The Name of the Doctor which had 2.06 million requests. Cold War was 33rd with 1.95 million requests, Hide was 35th with 1.92 million requests, Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS was 39th with 1.89 million requests, Nightmare in Silver was 40th with 1.89 million requests and The Crimson Horror was 43rd with 1.83 million requests.
Overall, the 2013 episodes were requested over 19 million times during the year. The 2012 episodes were also available on iPlayer for part of the year and were requested a total of 2.39 million times. The 14 episodes from Series Six were requested 4.51 million times and Series Five 0.67 million times.
BBC Three continuted its countdown of Doctor Who: Greatest Monsters & Villains on Saturday evening.
The format features a three minute potted history of the featured villain, followed by the screening of an appropriate episode of Doctor Who. Coming in at number 6 were the Ice Warriors and a screening on a story from the most recent series of Doctor Who Cold War. The episode had an overnight viewing figure of 0.33 million viewers, a 1.4% share of the total audience.
At five were the Cybermen, the episode shown the 2008 Christmas story The Next Doctor. It was watched by 0.58 million a 2.5% share.
Finally for the evening, at number 4 were The Silence. The Impossible Astronaut / Day of the Moon was screened and was watched by an average 0.69 million viewers, a 4.3% share. BBC Three was the second highest watched digital channel for most of the evening, with Die Hard 4.0 on E4 taking the top spot.
As previously reported, the Doctor Who Series 7 double-CD will be released on 9th September 2013.
Silva Screen's eighth Doctor Who soundtrack release since 2006.
Long awaited by the fans, Series 7 has been uniquely made up of 13 self-contained stories and this 2 CD set offers a feast of new Murray Gold signature themes with music from each and every story.
Murray Gold's phenomenal output as a composer began close to twenty years ago and he has stacked up five BAFTA nominations (two for Doctor Who) plus three Royal Television Society nominations and a win for Queer As Folk. In 2013 Murray Gold celebrated one of his greatest musical accomplishments with a third Doctor Who Prom at the Royal Albert Hall.
In addition to the gatefold wallet and jewel box formats, there will also be a limited number of CDs for sale containing cards with five alternative covers for Series 7. This will be available exclusively from drwho.tmstor.es.
There is no information at present as to if and when the soundtracks for the two Christmas Specials The Doctor, The Widow and The Wardrobe and The Snowmen might be released.
Silva Screen have also reported that their limited edition vinyl release of the Doctor Who Series 1&2 soundtracks has been delayed due to a problem at the factory. Originally scheduled for next Monday, it is now expected for Monday 2nd September.
Win a copy of the Series 7 soundtrack!
Emilia Jones portrayed the Queen of Years in The Rings of Akhaten, but who performed that role at this year's Doctor Who Prom?
Please send your answer to comp-s7cd@doctorwhonews.net with the subject line "Run, you clever boy", along with your name, address, and where you read about this competition. The competition is open worldwide, and the closing date will be on 6th September 2013. Only one entry per household will be accepted.
In Ghost Light, when Ace discovers that the Doctor has taken her back to the house she hated from her youth, she asks if he too has things he hates - name one of his responses.
Silva Screen has announced the release date and track list for the Doctor Who Series 7 soundtrack. As well as the standard double jewel case, a special limited edition gatefold wallet will be available to the first 5000 copies sold. The soundtrack will available to buy in the UK from 9th September, 2013 and the preorder will be available soon.
BBC Worldwide has bowed to fan pressure and agreed to include the 2011 Christmas special, The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe on the UK version of the Complete Series Seven DVD Boxed Set.
Although the episode has always been included on the North American version of the DVD set, it was excluded from the UK version on the grounds it was already available as a standalone product. However after lobbying from fans BBC Worldwide have reviewed their position and will now include the episode, originally shown on Christmas Day 2011, in the Series Seven Box set.
BBC Worldwide have announced the release of the Complete Series Seven Boxed Set on DVD and Blu-ray in the United Kingdom for the 28th October 2013.
Say farewell to the Ponds all over again. Meet the enigmatic Clara for the first time - and the second, and the third. Face enemies new and old, follow the Doctor (Matt Smith) to the one place he should never go, and learn the secret to a really great soufflé. With a cliffhanger ending that will leave fans breathless, this set arrives just in time to catch up before the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Special on November 23, and the Doctor's regeneration in this year's Christmas Special.
In the first part of series seven, the Ponds (Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill) make their final voyages with the Doctor. They save a spaceship full of dinosaurs, don Stetsons in the Wild West and are even kidnapped by the Doctor's oldest foe. But when they arrive in Manhattan the Weeping Angels are waiting for them - and the Doctor has to say goodbye to his companions forever.
The 2012 Christmas special, The Snowmen, brings the Doctor a new friend (Jenna Coleman) in Victorian London - but has he already met her before? And will she be able to pull him from his mourning in time to save London from the chilling menace that threatens it? The final eight episodes of series seven see the Doctor and his new companion battle monsters on distant alien planets, become trapped in a Russian submarine with a deadly passenger, chase terrifying ghosts, and come face-to-face with an army of upgraded Cybermen. When his friends are kidnapped, the Doctor and Clara are forced to visit the fields of Trenzalore, where the question that must never be answered is finally asked… and the Doctor uncovers the secret of the Impossible Girl.
The incredible list of guest stars includes John Hurt (Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy), Warwick Davis (Willow, the Harry Potter films), Liam Cunningham (Game of Thrones), David Warner (Titanic, TRON), Dougray Scott (Hemlock Grove, Ever After: A Cinderella Story), Ben Browder (Farscape), David Bradley (Game of Thrones), Jessica Raine (Call The Midwife, The Woman in Black), the mother-daughter duo of Dame Diana Rigg (Game of Thrones) and Rachael Stirling (Women in Love, Snow White and the Huntsman), and the voice of Sir Ian McKellen (The Lord of The Rings films). The episodes are written by lead writer and executive producer Steven Moffat, as well as Neil Gaiman, Mark Gatiss, Neil Cross, Chris Chibnall, Toby Whithouse and Stephen Thompson.
Note: this set does not include the 2011 Christmas Special, The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe.
For the second month running Doctor Who was the most requested programme on the BBC iPlayer, with the series finale, The Name of the Doctor being accessed 1.90 million times.
Doctor Who also took third place in the list with Nightmare in Silver having 1.73 million requests and fifth place with The Crimson Horror having 1.71 million requests.
The other places in the top ten we taken by five episodes of The Apprentice and two editions of The Voice.
Earlier Doctor Who episodes were still available during the month with Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS adding 0.59 million requests to its April total, while other episodes each added around 0.2 million requests.
The most requested Doctor Who story of the year remains as The Bells of Saint John which has a total of 2.5 million requests and is the sixth most requested programme of the year. The top four places are held by Top Gear with Africa coming in fifth.
NB: The request figures refer to download and streaming requests only and don't necessarily reflect the total number who watched the whole episode. However the BBC does estimate the unique number of viewers watching each episode within a week of transmission via it's Live + 7 figures.
The figures show Doctor Who is timeshifted far more than most BBC programmes. Around 62% of the audience watch Live or within one day, compared with the BBC average of 87% watching Live. Around 23% of the viewers timeshift using a PVR compared with the BBC average of 6%, while 11% now watch via the iPlayer, compared with the BBC average of 2%.
Germany will become the latest country to enjoy the latest series of Doctor Who, with entertainment channel FOX premiering "Series Seven Part Two" on Wednesdays at 8:15pm, kicking off on Wednesday 12th June with Die Glocken von Saint John. The episode will also be repeated later in the evening at 1:15am and Sundays at 8:15pm.
Der Doktor ist ins gegenwärtige London gereist, um die verschwundene Clara zu suchen. Nachdem er sie gefunden hat, wartet auf ihn und seine neue Begleiterin gleich die nächste Mission - im Wi-Fi-Netzwerk der Stadt lauert eine Bedrohung. Etwas Böses versucht, über das Netzwerk Seelen aufzusaugen. Auch Clara wird fast zum Opfer, der Doktor kann sie gerade noch retten. Als die Betreiber des Alien-Netzwerkes davon erfahren, planen sie, die beiden auszuschalten. Sie lassen die Besatzung eines Passagierflugzeuges einschlafen - und es wird genau dort abstürzen, wo sich der Doktor und Clara befinden.
The series will be preceded by an evening of repeats of the first half of the series this coming weekend, with Der Dalek in Dir at 8:15pm, Dinos Im All at 9:05pm, Wilder Westen at 9:55pm, Zusammengewürfelt at 10:40pm and Die Macht Des Wortes at 11:25pm. The evening is finished off with the 2012 Christmas Special, Die Schneemänner at 12:10am.
Further details can be found from the FOX website and This Week in Doctor Who.
The Name of the Doctor has picked up an additional 140,000 time-shifted Australian viewers, giving it a final, or consolidated, ratings average of 953,000 viewers in the five major capital cities. This was the fifth largest number of time-shifted viewers for a program broadcast on Sunday 19 May. The final or consolidated ratings includes all 'time-shifted' viewers who record the program and watch it within a week.
Based on these final figures, The Name of the Doctor was the second highest rating ABC program of the day and the ninth highest rating program of the day overall (it was also the ninth highest rating program based on its overnight figures of 812,000 viewers). These ratings do not include regional viewers.
Full ratings data for the week ending 19th May 2013 is now available and give Doctor Who: The Name of the Doctor an official rating of 7.45 million viewers, a share of 31.7% of the total television audience.
Once ITV HD and +1 figures are factored in, Doctor Who was the 10th most watched programme on British Television for the week.
On BBC One, Doctor Who was the third most watched programme of the week, behind the The Eurovision Song Contest and one episode of Eastenders. ITV won the week with Britain's Got Talent with Coronation Street and one episode of Emmerdale in the top Ten..
Figures do not include iPlayer viewings where around 1.6 million have accessed the episode. Final figures will be available later.
Full ratings data for the week ending 12th May 2013 is now available and give Doctor Who: Nightmare in Silver an official rating of 6.64 million viewers, a share of 27.1% of the total television audience.
Once ITV HD and +1 figures are factored in, Doctor Who was the 22nd most watched programme on British Television for the week.
On BBC One, Doctor Who was the ninth most watched programme of the week and it was the third most watched programme of Saturday, behind the two reality shows Britain's Got Talent and The Voice.
Figures do not include iPlayer viewings, figures for which will be available later.
The Name of the Doctor was watched by 584,000 viewers on Canadian station SPACE last Saturday, becoming the most watched season finale in the series history in the country.
The episode made SPACE the number 1 network for the 9pm timeslot for total viewers, as well as for the key demographics of 25-54 and 18-49.
Total reach for the finale was nearly 1 million total viewers. The programme was also the most-watched entertainment specialty program of the day on Saturday, capping off a strong Season 7 for the Doctor and Clara with a season average audience of 608,000.
Nightmare in Silver has picked up an additional 171,000 time-shifted Australian viewers, giving it a final, or consolidated, ratings average of 869,000 viewers in the five major capital cities. This was the fourth largest number of time-shifted viewers for a program broadcast on Sunday 12 May. The final or consolidated ratings includes all 'time-shifted' viewers who record the program and watch it within a week.
Based on these final figures, Nightmare in Silver was the second highest rating ABC program of the day and the twelfth highest rating program of the day overall (it was the fourteenth highest rating program based on its overnight figures of 698,000 viewers). These ratings do not include regional viewers.


One of the two new residence halls to be built on the upper quad.
College campuses have long held a special place in the popular imagination. Colgate, in particular, is regularly — and rightly — mentioned as one of America's most beautiful campuses. Alumni from across the decades say that, when they first arrived at the foot of the hill and stared up at the architecture of the academic quadrangle, they saw a college at its most archetypal. I write today about Colgate's plan for a series of new buildings, the steps the university is taking to preserve a place in the hearts and minds of alumni and students, and why the administration is acting now.
As I noted in my winter column, I have spent the first months of my administration reinforcing the four fundamentals of an institution like Colgate: the academic enterprise, admission, campus life, and the campus itself. Colgate's iconic buildings touch each one. The liberal arts experience requires facilities that support modern research and teaching techniques. These facilities ensure that Colgate competes favorably with other liberal arts universities in the admission marketplace. They provide the backdrop for vibrant student life. They remind students and faculty that they are in a special place, set apart for intellectual inquiry and engagement.
With this in mind, the university has spent considerable time and resources assessing its campus footprint. In response to that review, millions of dollars have already been invested in renovating teaching buildings like Alumni, Lawrence, Lathrop, and Wynn halls for functionality, safety, and access. We have also refurbished existing residences, including Andrews, Stillman, and Curtis-Drake.
Colgate's new residence halls will be the first added to the upper quad since the 1920s. They will allow all first- and second-year students to live on the hill, where they can become acclimated to the flow of campus life. The external design mirrors architectural themes found on East and West halls. Inside, classrooms, study areas, and social spaces will be located under the same roof with sleeping spaces; Colgate is embracing and evolving its hallmark residential liberal arts program for new generations.
Expenditures on renovations and new construction have been strategically made to safeguard the institution's fiscal health. We have also taken great care to ensure that Benton Hall and the new residence halls blend with Colgate's built and natural environments. Architects, administrators, and trustees have examined every exterior arch and stone, each interior design, knowing that these are permanent additions to a beloved landscape.
In his book The Architecture of Happiness, essayist Alain de Botton noted that "belief in the significance of architecture is premised on the notion that we are, for better or for worse, different people in different places — and on the conviction that it is architecture's task to render vivid to us who we might ideally be." One new building, let alone a series, requires an act of faith and a respect for a university's needs, its mission, and guiding principles.
I have no doubt that historians of higher education will look back on this moment and take note of Colgate's determination, at this time, to consider what it can ideally be, and to create spaces to contain those dreams. For nearly two centuries, this university has thrived on this hill. It is our task to make sure that we continue to do so, beautifully.


Life in the "Nut House": Well I'll be danged.....they cater???
Do they do cross-country catering...'cause sign me up baby...sign me up. goohooolhhoo (Homer simpson sound) I love Burger Supreme! I have bathed in their fry sauce before (well...maybe just my face). I hope this works out well for them and broadens even more horizens...like opening a store in Pickerington Ohio. Seriously. We NEED a good burger joint...heck, we need some good mexican and all around Utah county food....sniff sniff.
Florrie! I'm so glad to read up a bit on your family. I definitely have to stop and grab a burger next time we're in Utah, although I wish I knew when that would be!
Your kids are so incredibly cute, by the way!! I love that last post about your "conversation". So priceless!! And thanks for the advice for D-land. I can't wait!!!
sounds sooo yummy!! Myabe for McCoy's birthday in June, i'll have it catered for all the little kkids and family! We all dig hamburgars and fry sauce!!
ewww, never! never break up with me or else you'll have to deal with me, my shears and my blow dryer...things could get ugly! When you come to the salon next we gotta get a picture, it will be the cutest picture ever, and then i'm going to blog about it :) when ya comin in next?


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Several news outlets look at efforts to manage care for Medicaid patients and the uninsured better.
American Medical News: "In North Carolina, most new Medicaid enrollees are placed into enhanced medical homes. A group of 14 nonprofit, doctor-directed regional care networks identify local resources and tailor quality-improvement goals to local Medicaid patients' needs. Some even receive home visits from care coordinators. Community Care is still an effort to manage care, but one that is driven by patient needs, physicians in the program said.
And the need for such effective care management will become only greater. An estimated 16 million people will gain Medicaid coverage under a national eligibility expansion beginning in 2014. ... Backers say North Carolina's example could show other states that maintaining quality and saving money in Medicaid don't need to be mutually exclusive goals" (Trapp, 8/2).
Dayton [Ohio] Daily News: "Three medical offices - clinics once owned and operated by local hospitals - now form the network of community health centers serving about 7,000 patients a year. ... The goal, alleviate the drain on hospital emergency rooms for treatment of nonemergencies like cold or the flu and provide access to preventative health care. Just 8 percent of patients treated by the Community Health Centers of Greater Dayton in 2009 had insurance, compared to 29 percent who were uninsured.
The nonprofit's total budget for 2010 is $3.8 million. About $650,000, will come from federal grants. The Montgomery County Human Services Levy committed an additional $655,000 and a one-time, $101,000 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grant was awarded this year. The remainder of the budget, about $2.3 million, will come from Medicaid and Medicare reimbursements, or from patients" (Smith, 8/2).


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Postgraduate Diary: UK Grad School
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Listening to Martha Kearney's excellent mini-series The Idea of a University, I hear the steady tread of modernising and economically-minded feet marching towards my ivory tower. Her series covers the rise of the polytechnic universities following Harold Wilson's "white heat of technology" speech in 1963, in which he warned that the new sciences promised to leave behind those industries with outdated practices and methods. With their musty jackets, academics in traditional universities might have provided one example of the latter, and the polytechnics were the antidote to their staid culture, with their emphasis on vocational courses that could deliver cutting-edge teaching and research and disseminate it into industry through students who would go directly into relevant, and often local, workplaces.
"Relevance" is a dread word for me. A year in to my research, and I have come up with the vital 50-word answer when, at parties, I am asked what my thesis is about. The idea of my stock response is that it be simple enough to be understood without patronising, and elevated enough so that the person to whom I am speaking is not tempted to engage in a long dialogue about it. I socialise to escape research, not to discuss it. But the question I dislike most, and one to which I do not have a definitive answer, is: "Why is my research relevant?"
Last year, my university paid me £15,000 to study, and for the coming two years the AHRC are going to donate some £30,000 to me in the form of living allowances and tuition fees. In some ways, the provision of this money answers the question, or at least redirects it: if my research wasn't relevant, then the higher bodies in education would not have sent down their nuggets of gold from the heavens. Nevertheless, higher education can be accused (and it has been in The Idea of a University) of being a self-fulfilling loop, in which traditional university scholarship is felt to be worthwhile because the people at the top in government, themselves products of that system, feel it to have been of value to them. I have to bear in mind, therefore, that ultimately the money that pays for my research (and my beer and petrol and cameras) comes from outside this loop, from the taxpayer, and the question of value asked by the typical taxpayer I meet at my parties is one I have a responsibility to answer.
The word "value" has a double-meaning. In the first sense, which the OED gives as "That amount of some commodity, medium of exchange, etc., which is considered to be an equivalent for something else," the value of my PhD is not too difficult to estimate. With just 4% of PhDs in Arts and Humanities unemployed after completing their thesis, I will be more likely to obtain a skilled role as part of the UK workforce than I would have been had I joined the ranks of my peers who left as BAs, many of whom are still either unemployed (around 7%) or doing menial work behind bars and in garden centres. In the findings of the document "What do PhDs Do?" commissioned by the UK Grad programme, "In a modern knowledge-based economy, highly educated and skilled people - knowledge workers - are in great demand. PhD graduates are, arguably, the most highly skilled and educated people in our society." According to some figures, salaries reflect this, with PhDs earning up to a third more than those with only first degrees. So, over the course of the next fifty years in employment, I can expect to repay the investment made in me several times over.
Nevertheless, in the immediate term of the coming few years, it is the second meaning of the word "value" - "The relative status of a thing, or the estimate in which it is held, according to its real or supposed worth, usefulness, or importance" - to which I need to respond. Harold Wilson may have wanted universities to drive the UK economy forward through the white heat of technology, and there is no doubt that in the science sector the universities have been powerhouses of research and development. I heard a talk the other day from a former university lecturer whose spin-off company developing imaging crystals is now worth some £15 million, with contracts from the European Space Agency and potential worldwide markets opening in airport security systems. This, from a relatively small initial investment, as the university already had the infrastructure in place to pursue new lines of interest with ease: an international research community, the freedom to innovate, laboratories and, yes, a pool of eager doctoral students able to contribute their skills much more cheaply than could similar workers in industry.
But the "white heat" quite literally generated in the chemistry labs is hardly something I experience at my desk. In the words of a famous Punch cartoon, "Sometimes I sits and thinks, and then again I just sits" in, on good days, a smoulder of good ideas and words. In Education and the University: A Sketch for an English School, F.R. Leavis may have placed the English department at the centre of university life, but his heyday is long gone. When asked by Kearney about the changes in higher education that have taken place over the last thirty years, Mary Warnock, in her considered tones, lamented the passing of the idea that one could do research simply for the joyful sake of it. She did not, however, say why this ever was a valid argument, and the idea of ars gratia artis (art for the sake of art) no longer satisfies even me; it certainly, therefore, would not be expected to satisfy most taxpayers or Blairite politicians. If Warnock - one of our most respected philosophers - failed to come up with a response, I cannot be expected to do so either, at least not in the brief space of this blog. For the time being, I will have to satisfy my party interrogators with the financial statements of my "value" to UK Plc. Answering the other part of the "value" issue is something I must, however, work on.
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Missoula Health Department Nurse Debunks Vaccination Fears
Washington State has reported that 37 people have come down with the measles over the past few weeks, and warnings have been sent all the way to Idaho to be on the lookout for the highly infectious disease.
Pamela Whitney is an RN at the Missoula City County Health Department and an infectious disease specialist. Whitney emphasized that there have been no confirmed cases of the measles in Montana, and is a strong supporter of vaccinations for all types of diseases.
"Few medical interventions compete with vaccines for their cumulative impact on health and well being of entire populations," said Whitney. "Now we have routine vaccinations for children that target 16 vaccine-preventable diseases. The number of deaths that vaccines prevent is just huge. It's just really important to think about vaccines if you're able to get them because they do prevent diseases and they do protect the health of the rest of the community."
Whitney addressed the widespread belief that vaccines can cause or exacerbate conditions such as autism.
"Andrew Wakefield, and this was years ago, did a research paper at the insistence of an insurance company," she said. "He looked at the MMR (Measles, Mumps and Rubella) and he stated that MMR causes autism. Well, science has proven him wrong. He lost his license. Now, we have Jenny McCarthy, who is an anti-vacciner, and she's trying to spread myths, as well. Vaccines do not cause autism."
Whitney emphasized the importance of what is called 'herd immunity'.
"It's so important for everyone who can to get vaccinated," she said. "If you could get close to 95 percent of people vaccinated for the MMR, that creates herd immunity, and so therefore we can actually eradicate some diseases if enough people are vaccinated and that disease is now allowed to come into the community and circulate."
Whitney says the MMR vaccine is available at the Missoula City County Health Department.


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Back in form Tejaswin shatters decade-old record
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AFI Media, 18 July 2017 : Guntur: Rising star Tejaswin Shankar smashed a decade-old Meet Recordto claim the men's High Jump gold at the National Inter State Championships in Guntur on Monday. The 18- year old managed a 2.23 metre leap to eclipse Harishankar Roy's meet record and finish ahead of Karnataka's Chetan B (2.19m) and Haryana's Ajay Kumar(2.17m).
This is not the first time the Delhi athlete has achieved such a feat. At the age of 17, he bettered Roy's senior National Record with a 2.26 metre effort. With this victory, the youngster reaffirmed his status as one of the brightest sparks in Indian athletics.
Speaking to AFI Media after the event on Monday, Tejaswin said, "Coming back from an injury I am feeling much better now. Before coming to this championship I had set a goal of 2.30m which is also the qualification mark for the IAAF World Championships to be held in London next month. It was raining heavily here in Guntur and I am a little disappointed I could not reach 2.30m. But overall I am happy I was able to break meet record, I was well prepared for this competition".
Due to a back injury, the young athlete from Delhi had to miss 22nd Asian Athletics Championships held in Bhubaneswar earlier this month.
"I was not happy after finishing fifth (2.10m) in the Senior Federation Cup and then had to miss Asian Championships due to injury. I am feeling confident again and the aim is now to get better and better and be in the top in the IAAF World rankings," said Tejaswin.
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Q: Tab bar as subview of view controller's top-level view; not drawn correctly I have a tab bar controller that I have created programmatically, named TPastJourneyTabbar.  When I click on the table view and didSelectRowAtIndexPath: is called, my tab bar class should get allocated and it should get added as subview of another class. I have done this using the follwing code:
- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
    [tableView deselectRowAtIndexPath:indexPath animated:YES];
    TPastJourneyTabBar * tabbar = [[TPastJourneyTabBar alloc]init];

    HGMovingAnnotationSampleViewController *detailViewController = [[HGMovingAnnotationSampleViewController alloc] initWithNibName:@"HGMovingAnnotationSampleViewController" bundle:nil];
    [detailViewController.view addSubview:tabbar.view];
    [self.navigationController pushViewController:detailViewController animated:YES];

    [detailViewController release];

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HGMovingAnnotationSampleViewController is the class to which I am adding my tab bar as a subview. When I run my application, the tab bar is getting called but it is not getting called completely; i.e., the lower portion of the tab bar, where the title of the tab bar item is written, is not seen. How can I make the tab bar completely visible?

A: You have a design problem here. You shouldn't use a TabBar as a subview of nothing than the AppDelegate's window, as the Human Interface Guidelines states.


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Q: Silverlight Out of Browser (OOB) app crashing only on OS X We have a Silverlight application that runs OOB (out of browser) so the user can install it.  When it's running OOB we display a button that calls Application.Current.MainWindow.Close() so that the user can exit the application.  This works perfectly fine on windows, but causes an error saying the application has quit unexpectedly on OS X.  Anyone have any ideas why this might be?  Thanks!

A: Found out the problem.  This is apparently a "protected" action and must be done directly in response to a user action.  It cannot be scheduled to happen later (we were playing an animation on the button click and then after a timer expired trying to close the window; we have to just close the window).
An exception was actually thrown on the windows version, it just never displayed any sort of message box.


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Ultrasonography-Guided Percutaneous Irrigation for Calcific Tendinopathy: 1 vs 2 Needles
Tori Rodriguez, MA, LPC
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No difference in outcomes was found between a single- and a double-needle ultrasonography-guided percutaneous irrigation in patients with calcific tendinopathy.
Findings published in Radiology show no difference in outcomes between single- and double-needle ultrasonography (US)-guided percutaneous irrigation in patients with calcific tendinopathy.1
Up to 20% of shoulder pain is associated with rotator cuff calcific tendinopathy, a condition that most commonly affects women in their 40s and 50s.2 One proposed underlying mechanism is impaired oxygen supply within the tendon. "Symptoms may vary from low-grade, subacute pain that worsens during the night, to intense, highly disabling pain resistant to high doses of oral anti-inflammatory drugs and painkillers," wrote the investigators in the new study.
The first-line treatment for calcific tendinopathy is US-guided percutaneous irrigation, which uses a fluid to dissolve and aspirate calcium deposits. The use of 2 needles vs 1 needle raises concerns in some clinicians regarding the potential for greater damage.
Noting the lack of studies comparing the two methods, researchers sought to examine procedure performance and clinical outcomes for both in 211 patients (63.5% women; mean age, 41.6±11.6). Participants were randomly assigned to receive the single-needle (n=100) or double-needle procedure (n=111).
Calcifications were graded as soft, hard, or fluid, before the procedure, and calcium dissolution during the procedure was scored as easy, intermediate, or difficult. Follow-up occurred at 1, 3, and 12 months.
While no overall difference in the duration of the procedure was observed (P =.06), the duration for hard calcifications was found to be shorter with the double needle (P <.001) and for fluid calcifications with the single needle (P =.024). No difference in ease of dissolution was found between methods (P >.089), and no differences in short- or long-term clinical outcomes were observed between groups (P =.241). Post-procedural bursitis was noted in 9% of the single-needle group and in 3.6% of the double-needle group (P =.180), but the difference was not significant.
Summary and Clinical Applicability
Outcomes are similar between single-needle and double-needle ultrasonography (US)-guided percutaneous irrigation in the treatment of patients with calcific tendinopathy.
One limitation may be the use of different-size needles between the 2 methods: 16-gauge for the double-needle procedure and 18-gauge for the single-needle procedure.
Evaluation and Management of Calcific Tendinitis
Comparing Dry Needling, Cortisone for Greater Trochanteric Pain Syndrome
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Thoracic Outlet Syndrome: Diagnosis, Clinical Management
Reducing Cardiovascular Disease Risk to Prevent Shoulder Tendinitis
Orlandi D, Mauri G, Lacelli F, et al. Rotator cuff calcific tendinopathy: randomized comparison of US-guided percutaneous treatments by using one or two needles [published online June 14, 2017]. Radiology. doi:10.1148/radiol.2017162888f
Sconfienza LM, Bandirali M, Serafini G, et al. Rotator cuff calcific tendinitis: does warm saline solution improve the shortterm outcome of double-needle US-guided treatment? Radiology. 2012;262(2):560-566. doi:10.1148/radiol.11111157
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