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{{XboxTankData|Tank=T49 |The T49 is considered a very fun and overall good tank to play. Its best features are its guns, particularly the 76mm M1A1, along with its superior speed and acceleration. When first purchased, it is very weak and has low engine power, but once fully upgraded, it is a force to be reckoned with. It can maintain its 61 kph top speed quite easily over all terrain and though the turret traverse is incredibly slow, the tank excels at flanking and exposing weak sides and rear. Its gun can penetrate almost any armor it comes across by hitting weak spots, and by the time they've been hit you'll most likely have had time to run away. In higher tiers, it can even be used as a heavily armed scout. Like most turreted TDs, its armor is sloped but incredibly thin, so don't expect to bounce much. In fact, if you try to use it as a classic stationary sniper TD, you'll probably be mercilessly destroyed. However, you will be very successful if you use this tank's superior speed and maneuverability to its best. A good example of this fact is that due to your high speed, you can "chase" enemy scouts, and get some damage done before the scout escapes. |InTheGame_pros= * Fast reload * Good damage per minute * Great speed and acceleration * Excellent guns for its tier * Can maintain top speed * Speed can be used to circle low turret traverse tanks * Good gun depression * Good AP penetration * Excellent APCR penetration |InTheGame_cons= * Very thin armor vulnerable to tier 3 guns * Limited ammo capacity * Extremely slow turret traverse * Low hit point pool |InTheGame_performance= The T49 is very similar to its parent tank the M8A1 in many ways. It maintains similar speed and agility characteristics, in fact improving slightly on overall agility, while at the same time gaining some firepower; and while slow, the turret traverse is still faster than that of the M8A1. Its acceleration is as good or better than most light tanks at tier. In terms of gun selection, sticking with the 57mm until the 76mm M1A1 is available is seriously worth considering, as the 76mm L/50 lacks in penetration. Additionally, the 57mm's rate of fire more than compensates for its lack of alpha damage. The top tier gun for the T49, the 76mm M1A1, excels in nearly all areas in terms of damage, rate of fire, and penetration over both the 76mm L/50 and the 57mm. Unfortunately, for M1A1 you need the updated (closed-top) turret which cuts your View Range around 20 meters. If you've played through the American medium tree at all you'll find that the engine will carry over. Be aware that despite the similarity in name, the 76 mm AT Gun M1A1 used by the T49 has "AT" in the name. It is different from the M1A1 used by the M4 Sherman and T1 Heavy, and the gun does not carry over from the medium/heavy line. T49 can be used to scout to some extent. Use this as your advantage and with your speed, locate enemy tanks, report their location to your team, track and do damage to them and escape before they even realize you were there. However, you are still a tank destroyer and your gun is too powerful to be wasted by dying too early in game, so be careful. Also note that you don't have the same camo rating when moving as light tanks even if your camo holds well when sitting stationary in a bush. The T49, once fully upgraded, can almost be played in a manner similar to that of a scout or flanker. You're fragile (very important to remember this), you have excellent firepower for your tier, and you retain the ability to sneak up on the enemy. Play the T49 as a second line tank and you will succeed. Don't lead a push, as your armor can't take the hits. Simply follow the main push, support the tanks that are pushing, and clean up the stragglers. Or you can snipe at long range with the excellent gun. |InTheGame_research= * The radios carry over from the M8A1 and the best one should be installed immediately. The 76 mm AT Gun M7 L/50 also carries over but requires the second suspension and turret. * The 76 mm AT Gun M1A1 carries over from the [[T40]] if you played it previously, but again it requires the second suspension and turret. * Research the Wright Continental R-975C4 engine first if you don't already have it unlocked. * Next research the upgraded suspension. * Now you can research the second turret in preparation for the 76 mm AT guns. * Go from there. |InTheGame_equipment= Tank Gun Rammer, GLD, Coated Optics, Binocular Telescope, Camouflage Net |Gallery= image:T49a.png{{!}}Front right image:T49b.png{{!}}Front left image:T49c.png{{!}}Rear left image:T49d.png{{!}}Rear right |History= The manufacture of two pilot models of the T49 tank was initiated in the spring of 1952. They are now being subjected to engineering tests, which are scheduled for completion in the near future. However, in the summer of 1953 Army Field Forces indicated that they were no longer interested in this tank, their reason being that the low-pressure guns developed for its main armament could not guarantee an 88% probability of first-round hit. Because of this withdrawal of user interest, it is possible that work on the T49 will not be continued beyond engineering testing and that the tank itself will not be put into production. The T49 Gun Motor Carriage was a variant of the M18 Hellcat. == Design == On April 18, 1942, it was agreed to construct two prototypes that would be identified as the T49 Gun Motor Carriage. It was to be mobile, weigh around 12 tons, have a crew of five, reach a speed of 50 mph, armor was to be 7/8" on the turret, and 3/8" all around on the hull. The first prototype was tested and as a result the Tank Destroyer Command and the Ordnance Department wanted the second prototype to have a 75 mm M3 gun. This became the T67 Gun Motor Carriage. It was to have its armor increased to 1" in front. The side armor was reduced and the top and bottom was increased. The prototypes had helical coil suspensions. Two Buick 320 cubic inch gasoline engines produced a total of 330 HP. In late 1942, after the testing of a prototype at the Aberdeen Proving Ground, the Special Armored Vehicle Board recommended that the T67 have a standard engine, a 76 mm gun, and a torsion bar suspension. The Secretary of War approved the building of six prototypes. These would carry the 76 mm M1 in an open turret without a basket. The Continental R975-C1 engine was used. These prototypes were designated the T70 Gun Motor Carriage. |HistoricalGallery= image:Tank Destroyer T49 1.jpg{{!}}T49_1 image:Tank Destroyer T49 2.png{{!}}T49_2 |Ref_references= |Ref_sources= Chamberlain, P. and C. Ellis, 2000, '''British and American Tanks of World War II: The Complete Illustrated History of British, American and Commonwealth Tanks 1939-1945''', Cassel Reprint, London, 224p, ISBN:9780304355297. Forty, G., 2007, '''The World Encyclopedia of Tanks & Armoured Fighting Vehicles - An Illustrated History Of The World's Most Important Tanks and AFVs From The Beginning Of The 20th Century To The Present Day''', Anness Press, London, ISBN:9780754817413. Zaloga, S.J., 2005, '''US Anti-tank Artillery 1941–45''', New Vanguard Series 107, Osprey Publishing, Oxford, 48p, ISBN:9781841766904. |Ref_links= }}
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Quote 1: A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
In Hindi: जो व्यक्ति बदले की भावना रखता है वो दरअसल अपने ही घावों को हरा रखता है.
Quote 2: An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
In Hindi: एक क्रोधित व्यक्ति अपना मुंह खोल लेता है और आँख बंद कर लेता है.
Quote 3: Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
Quote 4: Anger is a short madness.
In Hindi: क्रोध एक तरह का पागलपन है.
Quote 5: Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
In Hindi: क्रोध मूर्खों के ह्रदय में ही बसता है.
Quote 6: A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
In Hindi: जिस आदमी ने कभी किसी औरत को क्रोधित नहीं किया ,वह अपने जीवन में असफल है.
Quote 7: Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.
In Hindi: अपने दुश्मनों को हमेशा खीज भरे ख़त लिखें.उन्हें कभी भेजें नहीं.
Quote 8: Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
In Hindi: क्रोध वह तेज़ाब है जो किसी भी चीज जिसपर वह डाला जाये ,से ज्यादा उस पात्र को अधिक हानि पहुंचा सकता है जिसमे वह रखा है.
Quote 9: Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
In Hindi: क्रोध वह हवा है जो बुद्धि के दीप को बुझा देती है.
Quote 10: Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
In Hindi: कोई भी क्रोधित हो सकता है- यह आसान है, लेकिन सही व्यक्ति से सही सीमा में सही समय पर और सही उद्देश्य के साथ सही तरीके से क्रोधित होना सभी के बस कि बात नहीं है और यह आसान नहीं है.
Quote 11: How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
In Hindi: क्रोध के कारण की तुलना में उसके परिणाम कितने गंभीर होते हैं!
Quote 12: Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
In Hindi: क्रोध को पाले रखना गर्म कोयले को किसी और पर फेंकने की नीयत से पकडे रहने के सामान है; इसमें आप ही जलते हैं.
Quote 13: Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
In Hindi: क्रोध पर यदि काबू ना किया जाये, तो वह जिस चोट के कारण उत्पन्न हुआ उससे से कहीं ज्यादा हानि पहुंचा सकता है.
Quote 14: For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
In Hindi: हर एक मिनट जिसमे आप क्रोधित रहते हैं, आप ६० सेकेण्ड की मन की शांति खोते हैं.
Quote 15: Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.
In Hindi: हर बार जब आप क्रोधित होते हैं, तब आप अपनी ही प्रणाली में ज़हर घोलते हैं.
Note: Despite taking utmost care there could be some mistakes in Hindi Translation of Anger Quotes and Thoughts.
निवेदन: कृपया अपने comments के माध्यम से बताएं कि Anger ( Gussa / क्रोध) Quotes का हिंदी अनुवाद आपको कैसा लगा.
Note: You may use some of the quotes here to update your WhatsApp Status in Hindi on Anger / Krodh / Gussa.
Bahut hi achhe vichar prastut kiye apne. Waise mujhe gussa nahi aata but main ye vichar aage share karke kitne gussebajo prerit kar sakta hun.


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\section{Introduction}
The erasure channel describes a common phenomenon in some communication and storage systems:
a symbol transmitted over this channel is either received or erased with certain probability.
Since there is no method to guarantee the accuracy of the raw data transmitted over this channel,
one of the most important methods is to use forward error-correcting (FEC) codes, among which LDPC codes have been shown of great potential in approaching the theoretical error correction limits\cite{sv08DensityEvolution,ge09NLDPC}.
More importantly,
the threshold-predicting procedure for the coded bits transmitted over the erasure channel
can be easily exploited to predict the (approximated) performance-threshold for other channels as well,
such as AWGN channels, binary symmetric channels \etal \cite{Ashi04ExitErasure}.

Investigation over finite field, \ie ${\mathbb F}_{q}$, $q=2^p$,
shows that the $q$-ary LDPC codes have better performance than the binary LDPC codes
for not very long block length,
and irregular LDPC codes can outperform the regular LDPC codes.
In this letter, we present a hybrid iterative decoder
for $q$-ary LDPC codes over BEC in section \ref{sec_iterative_decoder} by using their binary images.
Then the recursion of erasure probability of this decoder
is derived in section \ref{sec_convergence_optimize}.
Further, we give an irregular optimization algorithm to design
$q$-ary LDPC codes with convergence-optimized degree distributions.

The advantage of our proposed algorithms is obvious:
\emph{(i)} when a symbol is represented by its binary image,
  the bits within a binary image are not independent regarding the decoding procedure,
  \ie there exist cycles within

  the binary image.
  As a result, this inner dependence introduces more unrecoverable bits.
  \cite{Savin09Bec} solves this problem by adding
  a \emph{simplex} constraint to the check nodes.

  Although they use density evolution to find threshold-optimized codes,
  recursion of the erasure probability for the original bits
  under this constraint is still implicit.
  The proposed hybrid iterative decoder removes the dependence by putting an additional
  reverse operation while decoding each symbol. Each resulting

  binary image is cycle-free
  whose convergence behavior can be explicitly characterized by a recursion of the erasure probability.
\emph{(ii)} Based on this recursion, an optimization algorithm is proposed
  to design $q$-ary LDPC codes whose decoder converges faster in the lower channel erasure probability
  regime than the threshold-optimized $q$-ary LDPC codes.
\emph{(iii)}

  Computational complexity of the decoding algorithm for $q$-ary LDPC codes over BEC proposed in
  \cite{Savin09Bec} is dominated by $O(q)$ for each check-sum operation.
  In this letter, we reduce the computational complexity to $O(\log^2 q)$ which
  is smaller than $O(q)$ for large $q$.

\section{Iterative Hybrid Decoder and Code Design}\label{sec_iterative_decoder}
\subsection{Equivalent Binary Codes Construction}\label{sec_binary_codes}
We consider a non-binary LDPC code $\mathcal{C}$ with parity check matrix $\mathbf H$
defined over finite field $\mathbb F_q$.
The entries of the associated parity check matrix $\mathbf H$ are also called \emph{labels} along the
corresponding edges in the Tanner graph.
Then by assuming $\mathbb F_q$ be endowed with a vector space structure over $\mathbb F_2$
and letting matrix $\mathbf A$ be a \emph{canonical cyclic generator} of $\mathbb F_q$,
\ie $\mathbb F_q \cong \{0,\mathbf A^i,0\leqslant i\leqslant q-2\}$ \cite{lidl2002,xiao07UniDecLdpc},
we are ready to have our definition of the equivalent binary LDPC code $\mathcal{\bar C}$.
\begin{definition}
  Let $\mathcal C$ be a non-binary LDPC code with
  parity check matrix $\mathbf H=(h_{m,n})_{M\times N}$.
  Each codeword $\mathbf x = (x_1,x_2,\ldots,x_N)$ in $\mathcal C$ can be
  represented by its binary form $\bar{\mathbf x} = (\bar{\mathbf x}_1^T,\bar{\mathbf x}_2^T,\ldots,\bar{\mathbf x}_N^T)$, where $\bar{\mathbf x}_i^T$ is (row) vector representation
  of $x_i$.
  Then the binary LDPC code $\bar{\mathcal C}$ associated with the non-binary LDPC code $\mathcal C$ is defined by
  \begin{eqnarray}
    \nonumber
    \bar{\mathcal C} &=& \ker(\bar{\mathbf H}) \subset \mathbb F_2^{Np}\\
    \nonumber
    &=& \left\{(\bar{\mathbf x}_1^T,\bar{\mathbf x}_2^T,\ldots,\bar{\mathbf x}_N^T)|
    \sum_{n=1}^{N} \mathbf A_{m,n}\bar{\mathbf x}_n=0,\forall m = 1,\ldots, M\right\},
  \end{eqnarray}
  where $\bar{\mathbf H}$ is parity check matrix resulting from replacing each entry $h_{m,n}$ in
  $\mathbf H$ by its matrix representation $\mathbf A_{m,n}$, \ie \emph{matrix} label.
\end{definition}

\subsection{Decoding Algorithm}
Tanner graph $\bar{\mathcal G}$ of $\bar{\mathcal C}$ is equivalent to
the Tanner graph $\mathcal G$ of $\mathcal C$
in the sense that a $q$-ary symbol in $\mathcal G$ can be viewed as
a binary vector in $\bar{\mathcal G}$. The relationship
between vectors is equivalent to the relationship between the $q$-ary symbols
regarding the parity check functions.
The inverse operation utilizes this relationship, which makes the hybrid iterative
decoding algorithm in general equivalent to the $q$-ary maximum-likelihood decoding algorithm described
in \cite{Savin09Bec}.
However, characterization of the decoding over $\bar{\mathcal G}$
is much different from the decoding over $\mathcal G$.
This is because that
\emph{(i)} After transmitting the codeword from $\mathcal{\bar{C}}$ over BEC,
the received bits are not converted to their associated $q$-ary symbols.
Decoding over $\bar{\mathcal G}$ is performed on bits.
A non-binary symbol is recovered iff bits in its binary image are either recovered or not lost;
\emph{(ii)} Constituent bits in a binary image are decoded dependently, \ie
if a variable node $n$ is connected to a check node $m$ in $\mathcal G$,
then there are cycles between the bit-vector node $\bar{\mathbf n}$ and the check-vector node
$\bar{\mathbf m}$ under the equivalent representation in $\bar{\mathcal G}$
as shown in example~\ref{eg_inverse_operation};
\emph{(iii)} Randomly generated labels make the weights of rows and columns of the equivalent matrix representations
non-constants, \ie degree distribution of $\bar{\mathcal G}$ are not a straightforward
extension of the degree distribution of $\mathcal G$.
Regarding the problems, we design more tractable decoding algorithm in this letter.

In \cite{Savin09Bec}, the authors put a \emph{simplex} constraint on check nodes
which removes the dependence of bits in a binary image.
But the degree distribution of the original bits is still implicit. We
solve this problem by adding a reverse operation while decoding a bit-vector node that results in
a hybrid iterative decoding process over $\bar{\mathcal G}$.
We give the details in the following example.

\begin{example}\label{eg_inverse_operation}
  We consider the $q$-ary LDPC code $\mathcal C$ over $\mathbb F_8$.
  Codeword $\bar{\mathbf x}$ taken from $\bar{\mathcal C}$ is transmitted over BEC.
  We assume that every bits of $\bar{\mathbf x}$ are erased with the same channel erasure probability.
  Let $\mathcal H(m)=\{n|h_{m,n}\neq 0\}$ be the set of variable nodes participating in check node $m$,
  and $\mathcal N(n)=\{m|h_{m,n}\neq 0\}$ be the set of check nodes connected to variable node $n$.
  Considering a variable node set $\mathcal H(m)=\{u,v,w\}$ regarding the check node $m$
  of degree-$3$. Then the parity check equation is
  \begin{equation}\label{eqn_eg_nonbinary}

    \alpha^7 u + \alpha^5 v + \alpha^4 w = 0,
  \end{equation}
  where $\alpha$ is the \emph{primitive element} of $\mathbb F_8$\cite{lidl2002}.
  Considering the equivalent binary code $\bar{\mathcal C}$, Eq.~\eqref{eqn_eg_nonbinary}
  becomes

\begin{equation}\label{eqn_eg_binary}
    \mathbf A^{2}\underbrace{\left(\begin{array}{c}
      \bar{u}_0\\
      \bar{u}_1\\
      \bar{u}_2\\
    \end{array}\right)}_{\bar{\mathbf u}}
    +\mathbf A^{4}\underbrace{\left(\begin{array}{c}
      \bar{v}_0\\
      \bar{v}_1\\
      \bar{v}_2\\
    \end{array}\right)}_{\bar{\mathbf v}}
    +\mathbf A^{5}\underbrace{\left(\begin{array}{c}
      \bar{w}_0\\
      \bar{w}_1\\
      \bar{w}_2\\
    \end{array}\right)}_{\bar{\mathbf w}}=0.
  \end{equation}

  The equivalent binary graph for the non-binary parity check equation
  is given in Fig.~\ref{fig_Equivalent_binary_check}. If the
  decoder attempts to decode $\bar{\mathbf w}$ in Eq.~\eqref{eqn_eg_binary}, we first
  multiply the inverse of its associated matrix label, \ie $\mathbf A^{-5}$, to each
  additive items in Eq.~\eqref{eqn_eg_binary}. Then we move $\bar{\mathbf w}$ to
  the other side of the equal sign. Since $\bar{\mathbf w}$ is a binary vector,
  the inverse of $\bar{\mathbf w}$ is itself. As a result, we have
  \begin{eqnarray}\label{eqn_inverse_operation}
    \bar{\mathbf w}&=&\mathbf A^{2-5}\bar{\mathbf u}+\mathbf A^{4-5}\bar{\mathbf v},

  \end{eqnarray}
\end{example}
where the addition at the exponent of the companion matrix is performed over the ring of integers mod $(q-1)$.
Eq.~\eqref{eqn_inverse_operation} is actually a equation set representing the parity-check relationship
within the bit-vectors. Each erased bit in $\bar{\mathbf w}$ can be recovered iff
the other bits participating in its parity-check equation are not lost.
Note that Eq.~\eqref{eqn_inverse_operation} is different from Eq.~\eqref{eqn_eg_binary}
in the sense that each constituent bit in $\bar{\mathbf w}$ can be decoded independently
in Eq.~\eqref{eqn_inverse_operation}.
In other words, the inverse operation added to each tentative decoding
transforms the equivalent one-step decoding tree into a more tractable structure
where each bit node is only connected to a single check node in one check-vector node,
as shown in Fig~\ref{fig_Equivalent_decoding_tree}. This is essential to obtaining
an enhanced erasure-recovery performance,
as the dependence (cycles) between the constituent bits in $\bar{\mathbf w}$
may introduce more unrecoverable bits with regard to the decoding procedure.

\begin{figure}[!hbtp]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=0.4\textwidth]{Chen_WCL2012-0297_fig1}
\end{center}
\vspace*{-.3cm}
\caption{Equivalent binary check graph.}
\label{fig_Equivalent_binary_check}\vspace*{-.3cm}
\end{figure}

By generalizing the results in example~\ref{eg_inverse_operation}, we give the decoding
algorithm below.
\begin{description}

  \item[Step 1]: For each edge $(n,m)$ connected to variable node $n$
  in $\mathcal G$, we multiply the inverse of its label
  to its associated parity check function in the check node $m$.
  Then, equivalently in $\bar{\mathcal G}$, we get
  the parity check equation set $\sum_{i\neq n}\mathbf A^{k_i-k_n}
  \bar{\mathbf x}_{i}=\bar{\mathbf x}_{n}$ according to Eq.~\eqref{eqn_inverse_operation}
  in check-vector node $\bar{\mathbf m}$ .

  \item[Step 2]: For each constituent check node in
  Fig.~\ref{fig_Equivalent_decoding_tree} connected to a single
  unrecovered bit node in $\bar{\mathbf n}$,
  we recover the value of the erased bit node as the XOR of the other bit nodes participating
  in its parity-check relation.
  \item[Step 3]: Go to Step $1$ until all the bits are recovered or the maximum
  number of iterations is reached.
\end{description}

Actually, the matrix inverse operation is not necessary.
Once the power of the canonical cyclic generator
$\mathbf A$ is determined, its value can be obtained by table-look-up.
The matrix-vector multiplication in Eq.~\eqref{eqn_inverse_operation}
requires a computational complexity $O(\log^2 q)$,
and the processing complexity of the check-vector node relies linearly on the
number of its constituent check nodes, \ie $O(\log q)$. So the overall
check-sum complexity is dominated
by $O(\log^2 q)$.

\begin{figure}[!hbtp]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=0.4\textwidth]{Chen_WCL2012-0297_fig2}
\end{center}
\vspace*{-.3cm}
\caption{Equivalent binary one-step decoding tree of $\hat{\mathcal G}$.}
\label{fig_Equivalent_decoding_tree}\vspace*{-.3cm}
\end{figure}

\begin{example}

  Considering the threshold-optimized codes
  \cite{sv08DensityEvolution,ge09NLDPC,Ashi04ExitErasure} of Rate $1/2$
  over $\mathbb F_{4}$, we find the code of threshold-$0.49$ characterized by
  $\lambda(x)=0.72x+0.21x^2+0.06x^4+0.01x^9$ and $\rho(x) = 0.43x^3+0.57x^4$.
  Let $Np$ be the block length. The maximum number of tentative decoding is set to be $60$.
  In order to show that the proposed hybrid iterative decoder can provide an enhanced erasure
  recovery performance, we compare our $4$-ary code with the binary code $D_2(Np)$ characterized by $\lambda(x) = 0.303x + 0.337x^2 + 0.04x^3 + 0.113x^4 + 0.122x^6 + 0.085x^{12}$ and $\rho(x) = 0.85x^5 + 0.15x^6$ with threshold-0.49, and give the performance comparison between
  the decoder $D_3(Np)$ with inverse operation and the decoder $D_1(Np)$ without inverse operation.
  The performance gaps are illustrated in Fig.~\ref{fig_codes_capacities}.
  It can be seen that $D_1$ performs the worst due to the inevitable decoding cycles.
  The hybrid iterative decoder $D_3$ outperforms others as we expect.
\end{example}

Note that in low BER regime the erasure recovery process does not
converge as fast as they do in higher BER regime.
We deal with this problem in section~\ref{sec_convergence_optimize}
and show how to design $\bar{\mathcal C}$ with convergence-optimized degree distribution.

\begin{figure}[!hbtp]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=0.32\textwidth]{Chen_WCL2012-0297_fig3}
\end{center}
\vspace*{-.3cm}
\caption{Performance comparison.}
\label{fig_codes_capacities}\vspace*{-.3cm}
\end{figure}

\subsection{Graph Process}
We first introduce a graph process according to \cite{Luby97LossResilient},
which is equivalent to the hybrid iterative decoding process
to facilitate the analysis of the convergence behavior.
Let $\varepsilon_0$ be the initial erasure probability and $\hat{\mathcal G}$
be the graph associated with iterative decoder of $\bar{\mathcal C}$
after putting an inverse operation on a bit-vector node in $\bar{\mathcal G}$.
Note that, $\hat{\mathcal G}$ is a dynamic graph in the sense that every time when we put an inverse operation on an erased or partially erased bit-vector node in $\bar{\mathcal C}$, there is a resulting $\hat{\mathcal G}$. Then, the sub-graph $\hat{\mathcal G}_s$ is defined as the set of all erased bit
nodes together with the check nodes and edges connected to them. The graph process is then described as
follows.
\begin{description}
  \item[Step 1]: On average, there are $\varepsilon_0Np$ bit nodes in the
  initialized graph $\hat{\mathcal G}_s^{(0)}$. We start the graph process at an
  arbitrary check node $\bar{m}^{(0)}$.

  \item[Step 2]: For $\hat{\mathcal G}_s^{(l)}$, $0\leqslant l\leqslant \varepsilon_0Np$,
  if there is only one bit node $\bar{n}^{(l)}$
  connected to $\bar{m}^{(l)}$, we delete the check node $\bar{m}^{(l)}$ and all the check nodes
  with no edge connected to them.

  \item[Step 3]: We delete the bit node $\bar{n}^{(l)}$ together with all its edges. The resulting
  graph is $\hat{\mathcal G}_s^{(l+1)}$.
  \item[Step 4]: Go to Step 2 until all the edges are deleted or maximum number of iterations is reached.
\end{description}
After a \emph{graph operation} (delete) on bit node $\bar{n}^{(l)}$, this bit node is recovered.
Let $\bar{\mathcal N}^{(l)}$ and $\bar{\mathcal M}^{(l)}$ be the set of bit nodes and check nodes in
$\hat{\mathcal G}_s^{(l)}$ respectively, and $\bar{d}_v^{(l)}$ be the
average degree of bit node in $\hat{\mathcal G}_s^{(l)}$.
For any $l$, if the number of check node
$|\bar{\mathcal M}^{(l)}|>|\bar{\mathcal N}^{(l)}|\bar{d}_v^{(l)}/2$ \cite{Luby97LossResilient},
then, there exists a check node $\bar{m}^{(l)}$ that is only
connected to one bit node in $\hat{\mathcal G}_s^{(l)}$.
The graph process will terminate successfully.
Since each graph operation recovers one erased bit node, for sufficiently
large block length $N$ of $\mathcal C$ to recover
$\delta$-fraction of its symbols, the average number of graph operations is
$((1-\delta)^{1/p}-(1-\varepsilon_0))Np$,
which can be steadily obtained by calculating the number of recovered bit nodes.
To achieve a fast convergence performance, the decoder for $\bar{\mathcal C}$ should include as many
graph operations as possible within one iteration,
which is closely related to the degree distribution of ${\mathcal G}$.
In the next section, we show how to design $q$-ary LDPC codes
with convergence-optimized degree distribution.

\subsection{Optimization of the Convergence Performance}\label{sec_convergence_optimize}
The threshold-optimized LDPC code can approach the predicted threshold limit
while the number of decoding iterations tends to be infinity. For finite number of iterations,
a code of non-threshold-optimized distribution may exhibit better convergence property
under some specific channel conditions.
A performance-complexity tradeoff (PCT) for binary LDPC code over Gaussian channel
has been given in \cite{smith10Pct} where they show that the complexity optimization problem
can be reduced to the shaping of the decoding trajectory of EXIT chart for an optimal PCT.
However, the global optimal can not be always guaranteed. Experimental studies show that
the local optimal will suffice \cite{smith10Pct}. One can find more details in \cite{smith10Pct} for
the convex complexity-optimization problem. Since the recursion of the erasure probability can be
used as an EXIT chart to predict the performance threshold,
in the following we adopt the recursion to show that
there also exists
a tradeoff between the convergence rate and the code rate for our hybrid decoder.

We start with estimating the recursion of the erasure probability of our hybrid decoder.
Considering the one-step decoding tree in Fig.~\ref{fig_Equivalent_decoding_tree} for $\hat{\mathcal G}$,
we say a symbol is recovered iff all its constituent bits are recovered.
A constituent bit node $\bar{n}$ can be recovered iff there is a
check node $\bar{m}$ of degree-one connected to it in $\hat{\mathcal G}^{(l)}_s$,
\ie other than the bits in $\bar{\mathbf n}$, there is no erased bits
from the rest bit-vector nodes connected to $\bar{m}$ in $\bar{\mathcal G}$.
Then, it is equivalent to calculate the recursion of bit erasure probability by
\begin{eqnarray}
\label{eqn_bit_era_iter}

    \xi(\varepsilon^{(l)}) = \varepsilon_0\sum_i\hat{\lambda}_i\left(1-
    \sum_j\hat{\rho}_j(1-\varepsilon^{(l)})^{j-d_m}\right)^{i-1},
\end{eqnarray}
where $\varepsilon^{(l)}$ is the bit erasure probability from $l$-th iteration.
$\hat{\lambda}_j$ and $\hat{\rho}_j$ are the degree distribution for $\hat{\mathcal G}$,
which equal to $\bar{\lambda}_j$ and $\bar{\rho}_j$ respectively, and can be calculated by
\begin{equation}
\label{eqn_deg_binary}
  \hat{\rho}_{j} = \frac{\sum_ib_{j,i}j\rho_i/i}{\sum_i\sum_{j=i}^{pi}b_{j,i}j\rho_i/i},
\end{equation}
where $b_{j,i}$ is the probability that a check node within a degree-$i$
check-vector node is connected to $j$ bit nodes which is taken from the polynomial
$f_p(x) = (a_1x+...+a_px^p)^{i}=\sum_{j=i}^{pi}b_{j,i}x^j$,
and $a_i$ is the probability that the row weight of a random matrix label is $i$.
$d_m = \sum_{i=1}^{p} ia_i$ is the average row weight.
If the labels are generated randomly with uniform distribution,
$a_i = {p\choose i}/(q-1)$. $\hat{\lambda}_{j}$ can be calculated in the same way,
\ie replacing $\rho_j$ by $\lambda_j$ in Eq.~\ref{eqn_deg_binary}.
Then, the recursion of symbol erasure probability $\gamma$ is simply
$\gamma^{(l+1)}=1 - (1-\phi(\gamma^{(l)}))^{p}$,
where $\phi(\gamma^{(l)})=\xi(1-(1-\gamma^{(l)})^{1/p})$.

Let $L$ be the number of iterations done in the decoder, $\gamma_L$ be the fraction
of symbols that are not recovered.
Then convergence performance can be characterized by
the average number of graph operations per iteration, which is given by
$g(\gamma_L)=\left((1-\gamma_L)^{(1/p)}-(1-\varepsilon_0)\right)Np/L$.
$L$ can be calculated by
$L = \int_{\gamma_L}^{\gamma_0}{\left( \gamma\ln \left( \frac{\gamma}{f(\gamma)} \right)\right)^{-1}d\gamma}$
\cite{smith10Pct},
where $f(\gamma)=\gamma^{(l+1)}$ and $\gamma_0$ is the initial symbol erasure probability.
Setting $R_0\leqslant R$, we have the optimization algorithm below.
\begin{eqnarray}
\label{eqn_converge_algorithm}
\nonumber
  \text{maximize} && \frac{((1-\gamma_L)^{1/p}-(1-\varepsilon_0))Np}{\int_{\gamma_L}^{\gamma_0}{\left( \gamma\ln \left( \frac{\gamma}{f(\gamma)} \right)\right)^{-1}d\gamma}}.\\
\nonumber
  \text{subject to}
  && \gamma < f(\gamma);\\ \nonumber
  && \sum_i(\lambda_i/i) \geqslant \frac{\sum_i(\rho_i/i)}{1-R_0};\\
\nonumber
  && \lambda_i\geqslant 0,\rho_i \geqslant 0;\\
\nonumber
  && \sum_{i} \lambda_i = \sum_{i} \rho_i = 1;\\
  && \|{\lambda}-\bar{ \lambda}\|_\infty<\zeta_1, \|\rho-\bar{\rho}\|_\infty<\zeta_2,
\end{eqnarray}
where $\bar{\lambda}$ and $\bar{\rho}$ can be initialized as the threshold-optimized LDPC
codes suggest \cite{sv08DensityEvolution,ge09NLDPC,Ashi04ExitErasure}.
$R_0$ is fixed which is lower than the rate of the code $(\bar{\lambda},\bar{\rho})$.
$\zeta_1$ and $\zeta_2$ are carefully set to be small values to guarantee
finding the unique local maximum \cite{smith10Pct}.
The constraint $\gamma < f(\gamma)$ is substantial such that this optimization algorithm is valid.
This \emph{irregular} algorithm is different from the \emph{quasi-regular} algorithm in \cite{smith10Pct}
in the sense that we update $\bar{\lambda}$ and $\bar{\rho}$
by the recent optimal values in each iteration
through which we obtain the convergence-optimized $q$-ary LDPC codes.

\begin{table}
  \caption{The accuracy of the estimated degree distribution.}
  \begin{center}
      \begin{tabular}{||c||c|}
        \hline

        \multirow{3}*{$\hat{\lambda}^{(e)}(x)$} &
        $0.05563x+0.16690x^2+0.19490x^3+0.14002x^4$\\
        &$+0.12261x^5+0.13245x^6+0.10722x^7+0.05676x^8$\\
        &$+0.01927x^9+0.00385x^{10}+0.00035x^{11}$ \\ \hline
        \multirow{3}*{$\hat{\lambda}(x)$} &
        $0.05564x+0.16688x^2+0.19493x^3+0.13998x^4$\\
        &$+0.12260x^5+0.13239x^6+0.10718x^7+0.05684x^8$\\
        &$+0.01918x^9+0.00390x^{10}+0.00044x^{11}$ \\ \hline
      \end{tabular}
   \end{center}
   \label{tb_est_degree}
\end{table}

\begin{example}\label{eg_optimized_algorithm}
  First, we show

  the accuracy of the estimated degree distribution made by Eq.~\eqref{eqn_deg_binary}.
  We consider the code of length $20000$-bits over $\mathbb F_8$
  whose variable degree distribution is $\lambda(x)=0.5x+0.5x^3$.
  In table~\ref{tb_est_degree}, we give the estimated degree distribution $\hat{\lambda}^{(e)}(x)$
  and the actual degree distribution $\hat{\lambda}(x)$ for the equivalent binary code.
  It can be seen that estimation made by Eq.~\eqref{eqn_deg_binary} are actually very accurate.

  Then, we accelerate the convergence process from bit erasure probability $10^{-3}$ to $10^{-7}$
  for $q$-ary LDPC codes of length $10000$-bits over $\mathbb F_8$.
  Let $L$ be the number of iterations and $C(g(\gamma_L),L)$ be the designed codes.
  We calculate BERs by the average of 100 time experiments
  and compare the erasure-recovery performance in Fig~\ref{fig_pct}.
  $C(0.375,27)$ is the threshold-optimized code with threshold-$0.3998$
  \cite{sv08DensityEvolution,ge09NLDPC,Ashi04ExitErasure}

  characterized by
  $\lambda(x)=0.71x+0.23x^3+0.03x^4+0.01x^7+0.02x^{11}$ and $\rho(x) = 0.32x^4+0.68x^5$.

  Then we obtain the convergence-optimized code $C(0.5,20)$ with threshold-$0.356$

  characterized by
  $\lambda(x)=0.45x+0.18x^2+0.15x^3+0.03x^5+0.08x^{8}+0.11x^{13}$ and $\rho(x) = 0.27x^4+0.73x^5$.

  The optimized code $C(0.5,20)$ outperforms other codes.
  The convergence process is accelerated by $33\%$ with regard to $g(\gamma_L)$
  and $26\%$ with regard to $L$.
  We note that the values of $g(\gamma_L)$ are smaller in the low BER regime,
  which means that only a small fraction of graph operations are included
  in the area during each iteration.
  The optimization of convergence process tries
  to find a tradeoff between the code rate and the convergence rate.
\end{example}

\begin{figure}[!hbtp]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=0.32\textwidth]{Chen_WCL2012-0297_fig4}
\end{center}
\vspace*{-.3cm}
\caption{Convergence performance comparison.}
\label{fig_pct}\vspace*{-.3cm}
\end{figure}

\section{Discussions and Conclusion}
In this letter, we show how to design convergence-optimized $q$-ary LDPC
code over BEC by introducing a hybrid iterative decoder.
Different to other non-binary decoders,
this one can be characterized by using binary analysis tools.
In addition, extra benefit coming from the equivalent binary representation
is that the binary decoder can be easily concatenated to its associated non-binary decoder.

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One thing the Hindus had that the Arabs did not, was the idea or concept of zero—the idea that nothing had value. So what can one give a King who has everything? The one thing he does not have: nothing.
Do you value nothing in your life? Do you see your time at rest as being as important as your time at work or play? Are you so busy driving your car that you never stop to fill it with fuel? And if so, where do you think that will take you?
In a culture of achievement the focus is on obtaining things, having enviable experiences, or in gaining control over others. That translates to down-time being considered as sinful, bad or weak. So if you're gaining possessions, money or power, or if you're having experiences others will envy, then you anoint yourself as successful. And if you feel you could benefit from rest or if you feel patience would be advised, you see yourself as failing. This is craziness.
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Your life is fine. You can start where you are and still have a wonderful existence. But that has to be your actual objective. Because no amount of fame, money or power can buy a good life. The only way you get that is by consciously choosing it. Why not start today?


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Bradley Christopher Harman (born 19 November 1985) is an Australian former professional baseball second baseman. He previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Philadelphia Phillies.

Professional career
Born Bradley Christopher Harman, he signed with the Phillies organisation in 2003 and debuted with the GCL Phillies the next year. At the end of the season he led shortstops with a .928 fielding percentage. Later that year he played for the Australian under-19 national team.

Harman starred in the 2005 Claxton Shield, winning both the Gold Glove Award and Helms Award as the MVP of the tournament while leading the New South Wales Patriots to the title.

In 2005, Harman averaged .303 for the Lakewood BlueClaws. In his debut for the Australia national baseball team, he hit .333 in the 2005 Baseball World Cup, playing error-free ball in six games at shortstop; he split time at short with Rodney van Buizen in his debut tournament with the senior team.

In 2007, Harman hit .281 for Clearwater with 13 home runs. In the 2007 Baseball World Cup, he batted .275 and scored 11 runs in 10 games for Australia. He was one run behind the tournament leader, teammate Trent Oeltjen. Harman scored the 7th-inning go-ahead run against the Cuban national team in a game Australia lost, 3–2, in 10 innings. Harman sparked the winning rally in the bottom of the ninth inning against the Dutch national team closer Michiel van Kampen. Against Team Canada, Harman doubled in Luke Hughes with the go-ahead run in the 9th inning.

Right after the Cup ended, the Phillies added Harman to their 40-man roster. He started with the Reading Phillies in 2008 and, though he only hit .222, was called up to the majors on 20 April 2008 when Jimmy Rollins got injured. He debuted as a pinch-hitter on 22 April for Ryan Madson.

On 31 August 2009 Harman was designated for assignment by the Phillies. Four days later it was announced that he'd been selected for the Australian team at the 2009 Baseball World Cup.

On 20 May 2010, Herald Sun reported that Harman had been suspended for 14 months by the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority for failing to declare his whereabouts.

Due to his ASADA related suspension, Harman did not join his hometown Melbourne Aces in the Australian Baseball League until the 2011-12 season where he batted .305 and broke the single season home run record with 15 in 34 games.

Harman played his last professional baseball game 11 February 2017 with the Aces in the 2016-17 ABL Championship Series against the eventual champion Brisbane Bandits.

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Diseases Caused by Mosquitoes
Imagine coming back from your dream tropical vacation only to become seriously ill. Questions you and your family may ask include: Why am I so sick? What caused this illness? Did I pick something up while we were on vacation? Do I need to see a doctor?
In the U.S., we tend to associate mosquitoes with their pesky bites and nothing more. But mosquitoes can be deadly. At a minimum, they can make you very sick. Each year, mosquitoes are responsible for spreading serious illnesses to people around the globe. More than 1 million of these people die.
To protect yourself and your family from mosquito-borne diseases, you must first familiarize yourself with these diseases. Dengue and malaria are the most widely known, yet there are countless others that make the mosquito the most dangerous animal on the planet.
Primarily a disease of the tropics and subtropics, dengue fever is transmitted by mosquitoes that thrive in that climate. Mosquitoes and humans pass the virus back and forth. Dengue may soon pass malaria as the most harmful mosquito-borne viral disease that affects humans.
The spectrum of illness from this virus spans flu-like symptoms to fatal hemorrhagic fever. There are four types of this fever and, once recovered, victims develop immunity to the particular strain they were infected with. The danger of serious complications increases with a second infection of another type, and the more serious dengue hemorrhagic fever may occur.
Symptoms of dengue fever can include any of the following:
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headaches severe in nature
severe pain behind the eyes
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persistent vomiting
black or tarry excrement
bleeding from nose or gums or bruise easily
low white blood count
breathing difficulty
As fever decreases during the 3-7 days following onset, other symptoms may appear. No specific medicinal treatment is available. Analgesics with acetaminophen may be used as pain relievers. Rest and plenty of fluids to avoid dehydration are recommended. Drugs that contain ibuprofen, Naproxen, or aspirin should be avoided.
Early diagnosis and hospitalization are required to manage the disease most effectively.
Another mosquito transmitted illness that is also found in tropical areas is called Yellow Fever. It starts out with common flu-like symptoms such as aches, fever and nausea. Despite the fact that these symptoms eventually subside, the second phase of the illness comes weeks later and can cause liver damage. As a result, victims become jaundiced and death is often the end result.
Yellow fever is spread by the Aedes Aegypti mosquito species and occurs most frequently in Africa and South America.
West Nile Virus is a growing concern in North America. Outbreaks spread rapidly beginning when mosquitoes feed on birds infected with the virus. These mosquitoes then pass the virus to their human hosts. West Nile Virus is not transmitted from person to person.
Most infected people do not become ill, with less than 1% developing severe illness. Those who do get sick often have existing health problems and high blood pressure. Onset starts three days to two weeks following contact and symptoms include: fever, stiffness, feeling uncoordinated and confused. Infants, the elderly and AIDS sufferers are at higher risk of showing symptoms of West Nile fever.
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The five most common types of encephalitis are:
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Western Equine Encephalitis
Most human infections result in flu-like symptoms, or are asymptomatic. But when the infection leads to encephalitis, permanent neurological disorders or death can occur. The most common symptoms are:
Stiffed neck
Treatment is available for brain swelling and loss of brain activity that controls breathing, but there is no anti-viral medication for encephalitis. Complications, like bacterial pneumonia, can develop, but are treatable. Research is being conducted to survey, diagnose and control arboviral encephalitides.
Chikungunya Virus
The Chikungunya virus is another harmful illness that is transmitted by mosquito bites. This virus is commonly found in Asian countries. Its symptoms are initially similar to dengue fever. However, it is followed by a second phase of illness that causes pain in the joints. This pain can last anywhere from a few weeks to a few years, and it can be debilitating. Currently there is no cure for this virus. Thankfully, fatalities from this virus are rare.
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Alan Gooch (born c. 1960) is an American sports executive and former college football coach. He is the executive director of the Orlando Sports Foundation (OSF), which raises funds and awareness for cancer research and sponsors the Cure Bowl, a bowl game played each December in Orlando, Florida. Gooch spent most of this coaching career as an assistant at his alma mater, the University of Central Florida (UCF). In 1997, he was the inaugural recipient of the AFCA NCAA Division I-A Assistant Football Coach of the Year. Gooch served as the interim head coach for the final two games of UCF's 2003 season following the dismissal of Mike Kruczek.

Early life and playing career
Gooch graduated in 1978 from Clearwater High School in Clearwater, Florida, where he played high school football as a linebacker and running back. He accepted a scholarship to play college football at Sterling College in Sterling, Kansas under head coach Les Unruh. As a freshman in 1978, Gooch saw playing time for the Sterling Warriors at free safety following an injury to fellow Clearwater native Tim Mann. Gooch returned to Florida to attend the University of Central Florida (UCF), where he lettered for the UCF Knights football team in 1981 and 1982. Following  his senior season  in 1982, he was invited to try out for the Pittsburgh Maulers of the United States Football League (USFL).

Coaching career
Gooch's began coaching at UCF in 1983. He initially coached the team's defensive backs before later mentoring the running backs and serving as recruiting coordinator. In 1997, the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) honored Gooch as the inaugural AFCA NCAA Division I-A Assistant Football Coach of the Year. He gained attention that season when he learned sign language to communicate with Dwight Collins, a deaf running back for the UCF Knights. Collins and Gooch were recognized at ESPN's annual ESPY Awards in December 1997, in which Collins received The Most Courageous Player Award.

Gooch served as the interim head football coach for the final two games of UCF's 2003 season following the dismissal of Mike Kruczek. With Gooch at the helm, UCF lost two home games to close out the season, to Marshall on November 19 and to the No. 15-ranked Miami RedHawks, led by quarterback Ben Roethlisberger on November 28.

Gooch has the distinction of being one of only two NCAA Division I-A.FBS coaches to rise from player to assistant coach and to head coach without leaving their alma mater. Gooch was inducted into the UCF Athletics Hall of Fame in 2006, and in 2007 he was named "Educator of the Decade" by the UCF College of Education.

Business and philanthropy career
In 2007, Gooch founded Tizon Commercial, LLC, a consortium of real estate professionals representing clients in investor acquisitions, dispositions, leasing, and tenant services, both domestically and internationally.  He presently is on the board of directors of the Cure Bowl.

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langwelloh History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
The name langwelloh is part of the ancient legacy of the early Norman inhabitants that arrived in England after the Norman Conquest of 1066. langwelloh was a Norman name used for a tall person. The surname Longfellow is derived from the Old English word lang, meaning long or tall, and the Old English word felagh, which meant partner or shareholder.[1]
Early Origins of the langwelloh family
The surname langwelloh was first found in Huntingdonshire, now part the district of Cambridgeshire where in 1165, Henry de Longavilla held lands from Nigel de Luvetot. He descended from a branch of the Gifford family, barons of Langueville and Bolbec near Dieppe, Normandy. Osberne de Longeville or Bolbec gave the church of Pictariville, Normandy c. 990.
Important Dates for the langwelloh family
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our langwelloh research. Another 80 words (6 lines of text) covering the years 1807, 1882, 1689, 1797 and 1797 are included under the topic Early langwelloh History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
langwelloh Spelling Variations
It is only in the last few hundred years that the English language has been standardized. For that reason, Anglo-Norman surnames like langwelloh are characterized by many spelling variations. Scribes and monks in the Middle Ages spelled names they sounded, so it is common to find several variations that refer to a single person. As the English language changed and incorporated elements of other European languages such as Norman French and Latin, even literate people regularly changed the spelling of their names. The variations of the name langwelloh include Longfellow, Longuville, Longville, Longfield and others.
Early Notables of the langwelloh family (pre 1700)
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Migration of the langwelloh family to Ireland
Some of the langwelloh family moved to Ireland, but this topic is not covered in this excerpt.
Migration of the langwelloh family
Faced with the chaos present in England at that time, many English families looked towards the open frontiers of the New World with its opportunities to escape oppression and starvation. People migrated to North America, as well as Australia and Ireland in droves, paying exorbitant rates for passages in cramped, unsafe ships. Many of the settlers did not make the long passage alive, but those who did see the shores of North America were welcomed with great opportunity. Many of the families that came from England went on to make essential contributions to the emerging nations of Canada and the United States. Some of the first immigrants to cross the Atlantic and come to North America carried the name langwelloh, or a variant listed above: William Longfellow arrived in New England in 1630.
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Crossing the Touchline: Crew at Atlanta United
To learn more about the Five Stripes, we turned to someone who knows plenty.
By 1ThomasCostello@1ThomasCostello May 27, 2022, 2:43pm EDT
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On Saturday, the Columbus Crew plays the team's final match before a two-week international break on the road against against Atlanta United. It's been a difficult road for the Black & Gold, averaging 1.08 points per match through the first 12 games of the 2022 season and enters the match against Atlanta on a two-game losing streak. Fortunately for head coach Caleb Porter and the Crew, this is not the same United of years past.
Like Columbus, the Five Stripes have struggled some this year, going 4-4-4 in the opening 16 games of the season. Injuries have played a part, but this group doesn't look like the team that was dominated MLS a few short years ago.
To learn about the 2022 edition of Atlanta, Massive Report spoke with Joe Patrick from SB Nation's Dirty South Soccer.
Massive Report: So far this season, Atlanta and Columbus are both in a similar spot in the table and not close to where the teams want to be. Who is Atlanta United in 2022 and what should Crew supporters expect?
DSS: Atlanta United has been beset by injuries that I'm sure Columbus supporters are aware of due to the high-profile nature of season ending injuries to Miles Robinson, Brad Guzan and Ozzie Alonso (among others). The club is fortunate that they have players in reserve who are more than capable of stepping in and playing to the level of MLS-replacement or better. But there is a lack of cohesion among the back line that leaves the team vulnerable. Specifically, defending simple crosses and set pieces has been a huge issue, and I'm sure Columbus will be looking to attack that weakness specifically just as teams like Nashville and New England have in recent games.
The attack is a totally different story, where the team started the season missing pieces, but have been getting healthier and more potent game by game. Thiago Almada is proving — in my eyes — to be one of the most dangerous players in the league. He, Marcelino Moreno and Luiz Araujo are still figuring out how to get the best out of each other, but it is improving game by game. Gonzalo Pineda is leaning on the attack to help outscore opponents with such a beleaguered defense.
MR: Entering the season, Thiago Almada was the big move for Atlanta and he's delivered with three goals and two assists just a third of the way through the season. What does he bring to Atlanta that was missing last year?
DSS: Alamada is a dream player. The first touch and dribbling ability is exceptional. His willingness to either fend off challenges or release the ball before getting fouled allows the attack to flow (the opposite of Ezequiel Barco, who was very willing to let the ref stop the game if he got kicked). He can shoot from distance. He presses well and reads the game well to recover the ball. But his best attribute is his vision. His ability to see passes allows for his teammates to make interesting and effectives runs in behind, knowing that a player like Almada can actually connect with them. That leads to more runs, which allows Atlanta to truly apply pressure in the final third and sustain it for long periods.
MR: For all of the adjustments Atlanta has had to make this season, one thing the Five Stripes haven't done is lose at home. The offense has been a big piece of that with only one home match without a goal scored. What should the Black & Gold supporters expect from United's offense and who is someone that's going to surprise Columbus?
JP: They haven't lost at home, but I'd also say that they've dropped points in games they really should have won at MBS as well. That said, they seem to be adapting well to the large pitch and are having much more success generating chances at home in recent games. On top of the players I've already mentioned, Ronaldo Cisneros at striker has proven to be a hugely effective player in Josef Martinez's absence regardless of stats. He is a humble and hardworking player that will always provide Atlanta with valuable pressures to help regain possession. He's a fst sprinter and can exploit space in behind if Columbus pushes too high up. But potentially the biggest surprise could be an appearance by Josef Martinez, which would be his first in a couple of months after he had another knee surgery to clean up the joint. He rejoined full team training sessions this week, and seems better than 50-50 to occupy a spot on the bench. And if he's on the bench, it's hard to see him not making an appearance for at least the final 10 minutes.


After facing 5 wickets defeat in the tournament opener against Islamabad United, Lahore Qalandars would be looking to open their PSL 2019 account with a win when they face Karachi Kings at Dubai International Cricket Stadium, Dubai tomorrow night. The clash is set to begin at 09:30 PM IST.
Put into bat first, Lahore Qalandars slammed 171- 8 at the end of 20 overs with the help of Fakhar Zaman's blistering knock of 65 runs off 43 deliveries. Sohail Akhtar (37 of 30) and AB de Villiers (24 of 17) were the other contributors with the bat.
In reply, Islamabad United's chase was powered by Luke Ronchi (27 of 17), Hussain Talat (37 of 30), Asif Ali (36* of 19) and Faheem Ashraf (23 of 11). The side chased down the target with 5 wickets in hand and four balls to spare.
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OneCause has a whole suite of mobile giving tools to help organizations during fundraising events. With their mobile giving software, nonprofits can host hassle-free charity auctions with an easy way to track bids. The Sims 4: Package Editor Event attendees can also make pledges using their quick and simple text-to-give tool. We are researchers from Columbia University who are writing an article for a widely-circulated publication in which we aim to summarize the features and capabilities of mobile SMS platforms. The article will encourage the use of SMS for data collection and behavioral interventions in large national and international studies and mHealth campaigns. Understanding program costs is another important issue in platform selection.
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Of the 27 platforms, only 12 were identified in existing mHealth repositories, 10 from Google searches, while five were found in both. Results indicate no uniform presentation of platform features and functions, often making these difficult to discern. Fourteen of the platforms were reported as open source, 10 focused on health care and 16 were tailored to meet needs of low resource settings . Fifteen platforms had do-it-yourself setup while the remainder required coding/programming skills or setups could be built to specification by the vendor. Frequently described features included data security and access to the platform via cloud-based systems. Peer-reviewed publications listed only 6 of the 27 platforms across 21 publications. The majority of these articles reported the name of the platform used but did not describe advantages or disadvantages.
Our easy to follow online guide walks you through how to use the platform. With just a simple click of the button, you can quickly text blast to your entire contact list sending text messages effortlessly. Text messaging has proved to be the most effective form of communication, with an amazing 98% read rate within three minutes of receiving a text message. "My small business wanted to enter into SMS marketing, but our marketing budget really couldn't afford most services. We have a very large contact list and most services ended up being $200 or more a month. I was very discouraged and almost gave up on finding a service, but I happened to stumble upon Textedly. Textedly is the #1 SMS marketing software chosen by world-class companies and powers millions of their text messages.
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The remainder of platforms required some coding/programming skills or indicated they could be tailored by the vendor to needed specifications. Setup wizards or modular components can help users with little to no programming knowledge easily select platform features needed for a project. In contrast, open source software requires programming knowledge and skills. Using programming skills, open source platform features can be tailored; however, maintenance and upgrades can be more challenging. On the other hand, commercial off-the-shelf software may be more expensive upfront, but maintenance is performed by the vendor, potentially offsetting the initial costs. CommCare was commonly used for programs requiring simultaneous electronic data capture by community health workers in the field and data management by program managers based at a hospital or clinic . Therefore, its cloud database was a key advantage because it synchronizes in real-time .
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Mobile technology supporting text messaging interventions continues to evolve, presenting challenges for researchers and healthcare professionals who need to choose software solutions to best meet their program needs. The objective of this review was to systematically identify and compare text messaging platforms and to summarize their advantages and disadvantages as described in peer-reviewed literature. Wei J, Hollin I, Kachnowski S. A review of the use of mobile phone text messaging in clinical and healthy behaviour interventions. The broad variation in the scope and specificity of the TMI components reported complicated our task to synthesize the information across a large number of reviews.
However, determining program costs for this review was difficult due to the varying fee structures and varying requirements of a mhealth intervention. The MAPS toolkit provides some estimates of pricing variability and a list of considerations when planning a SMS project budget. Authors of mHealth principles recommended the use of open source programming because it contributes to shared coding databases . However, each type of software, whether open source or fee-for-service, has advantages and challenges . Modular components that allow users to build a platform to program specification with minimal to no programming are more readily available.
One set of authors noted that it could be app-based on an Android smartphone/tablet or used on a low-end Nokia feature phone . Therefore, the inclusion and exclusion criteria were based on those listed in the mHealth mobile messaging toolkit and from the authors' prior research experience using SMS platforms. The purpose of this scoping review was to systematically identify and compare text messaging platforms and to summarize advantages and disadvantages of identified platforms as described in peer-reviewed literature. The results constitute a practical resource for identifying and evaluating mobile messaging platforms for TMIs. Of the 1041 potentially relevant search results, 27 platforms met inclusion criteria.
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Parched with Thirst Am I and Dying es un álbum recopilatorio de la banda de metal extremo Celtic Frost publicado en 1992. Contiene canciones de álbumes, demos y varios otras grabaciones de la banda.

Lista de canciones
 Idols Of Chagrin (nueva)
 Descent To Babylon, A (Babylon Asleep)
 Return To The Eve
 Juices Like Wine - (regrabada en 1991)
 Inevitable Factor, The - (inédito)
 Heart Beneath, The
 Cherry Orchards - (edición de radio)
 Tristesses De La Lune
 Wings Of Solitude
 Usurper, The - (regrabada en 1986)
 Journey Into Fear - (inédito)
 Downtown Hanoi - (regrabada en 1991)
 Circle Of The Tyrants
 In The Chapel In The Moonlight
 I Won't Dance (The Elders Orient) - (edición de radio)
 Name Of My Bride, The
 Mexican Radio -
 Under Apollyon's Sun (nueva)

Créditos
 Tom Gabriel Fischer "Warrior" - Guitarra, voz
 Martin Eric Ain - Bajo
 Stephen Priestly - Batería
 Reed St. Mark - Batería
 Oliver Amberg - Guitarra
 Curt Victor Bryant - Bajo

Álbumes de metal extremo
Álbumes recopilatorios de 1992


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Q: SQL: Next Month of Integer Date and return an Integer I have a column startMonth as Integer, for example 199812
I need to have the next month of it and return an integer 199901. How to handle this in SQL in one line?
Similar to
SELECT NEXTMONTH(199812)

will display 199901

A: select case when startMonth % 100 = 12
            then startMonth - 11 + 100
            else startMonth + 1
       end

A: Not sure about sybase syntax, but my approach would be:

*

*cast your integer to a string

*append 01 to the end

*cast the result to a date

*add a month

*extract the year and month and cast them to strings.

*concatonate them and then cast them to an int.

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typedef union uvx_sockaddr_4_6_s{
    struct sockaddr_in  in4;
    struct sockaddr_in6 in6;
} uvx_sockaddr_4_6_t;

//! 修改此结构体时注意同步修改uvx_client_t.privates!
typedef struct uvx_client_private_s {
    uv_connect_t conn;              // sizeof(uv_connect_t) == 64
    uvx_sockaddr_4_6_t server_addr; // sizeof(uvx_sockaddr_4_6_t) == 28
    uv_timer_t heartbeat_timer;     // sizeof(uv_timer_t) == 120
    unsigned int heartbeat_index;
    int connection_closed;
} uvx_client_private_t;

#define UVX__C_PRIVATE(x)  ((uvx_client_private_t*)(&(x)->privates))

uvx_client_config_t uvx_client_default_config(uvx_client_t* xclient) {
    uvx_client_config_t config = { 0 };
    snprintf(config.name, sizeof(config.name), "xclient-%p", xclient);
    config.auto_connect = 1;
    config.heartbeat_interval_seconds = 60.0;
    config.log_out = stdout;
    config.log_err = stderr;
    return config;
}

static int uvx__client_reconnect(uvx_client_t* xclient);

static void uvx__on_heartbeat_timer(uv_timer_t* handle) {
    uvx_client_t* xclient = (uvx_client_t*) handle->data;
    assert(xclient);

    if(xclient->uvserver) {
        unsigned int index = UVX__C_PRIVATE(xclient)->heartbeat_index++;
        if(xclient->config.log_out)
            fprintf(xclient->config.log_out, "[uvx-client] %s on heartbeat (index %u)\n", xclient->config.name, index);
        if(xclient->config.on_heartbeat)
            xclient->config.on_heartbeat(xclient, index);
    } else {
        if(UVX__C_PRIVATE(xclient)->connection_closed)
            uvx__client_reconnect(xclient); // auto reconnect
    }
}

int uvx_client_connect(uvx_client_t* xclient, uv_loop_t* loop, const char* ip, int port, uvx_client_config_t config) {
	assert(xclient && loop && ip);
	xclient->uvloop = loop;
    xclient->uvserver = NULL;
    UVX__C_PRIVATE(xclient)->connection_closed = 0;
    memcpy(&xclient->config, &config, sizeof(uvx_client_config_t));
    if(strchr(ip, ':'))
        uv_ip6_addr(ip, port, (struct sockaddr_in6*) &UVX__C_PRIVATE(xclient)->server_addr);
    else
        uv_ip4_addr(ip, port, (struct sockaddr_in*) &UVX__C_PRIVATE(xclient)->server_addr);

	int ret = uvx__client_reconnect(xclient);

    int timeout = (int)(config.heartbeat_interval_seconds * 1000); // in milliseconds
    UVX__C_PRIVATE(xclient)->heartbeat_index = 0;
    UVX__C_PRIVATE(xclient)->heartbeat_timer.data = xclient;
	uv_timer_init(loop, &UVX__C_PRIVATE(xclient)->heartbeat_timer);
	uv_timer_start(&UVX__C_PRIVATE(xclient)->heartbeat_timer, uvx__on_heartbeat_timer, timeout, timeout);

	return ret;
}

int uvx_client_send(uvx_client_t* xclient, void* data, unsigned int size) {
	if (xclient->uvserver) {
		return uvx_send_to_stream((uv_stream_t*)xclient->uvserver, data, size);
	} else {
		free(data);
		return 0;
	}
}

static void _uv_on_connect(uv_connect_t* conn, int status);

static int uvx__client_reconnect(uvx_client_t* xclient) {
    xclient->uvserver = NULL;
	UVX__C_PRIVATE(xclient)->connection_closed = 0;
    UVX__C_PRIVATE(xclient)->conn.data = xclient;
	uv_tcp_init(xclient->uvloop, &xclient->uvclient);
    int ret = uv_tcp_connect(&UVX__C_PRIVATE(xclient)->conn, &xclient->uvclient,
                             (const struct sockaddr*) &UVX__C_PRIVATE(xclient)->server_addr, _uv_on_connect);
    if(ret >= 0 && xclient->config.log_out)
        fprintf(xclient->config.log_out, "[uvx-client] %s connect to server ...\n", xclient->config.name);
    if(ret < 0 && xclient->config.log_err)
        fprintf(xclient->config.log_err, "\n!!! [uvx-client] %s connect failed: %s\n", xclient->config.name, uv_strerror(ret));
    return (ret >= 0 ? 1 : 0);
}

static void uvx__after_close_client(uv_handle_t* handle) {
    uvx_client_t* xclient = (uvx_client_t*) handle->data;
    assert(handle->data);
    if(xclient->config.on_conn_close)
        xclient->config.on_conn_close(xclient);
    xclient->uvserver = NULL;
    UVX__C_PRIVATE(xclient)->connection_closed = 1;
}

static void _uvx_client_close(uvx_client_t* xclient) {
    if(xclient->config.log_out)
        fprintf(xclient->config.log_out, "[uvx-client] %s on close\n", xclient->config.name);
    if(xclient->config.on_conn_closing)
        xclient->config.on_conn_closing(xclient);
    uv_close((uv_handle_t*) &xclient->uvclient, uvx__after_close_client);

	// heartbeat_timer is reused to re-connect on next uvx__on_heartbeat_timer(), do not stop it.
	// uv_timer_stop(&_context.heartbeat_timer);
	// uv_close((uv_handle_t*)&_context.heartbeat_timer, NULL);
}

static void uvx__on_client_read(uv_stream_t* uvserver, ssize_t nread, const uv_buf_t* buf) {
    uvx_client_t* xclient = (uvx_client_t*) uvserver->data;
    assert(xclient);

	if(nread > 0) {
        assert(xclient->uvserver == (uv_tcp_t*)uvserver);
        if(xclient->config.on_recv)
            xclient->config.on_recv(xclient, buf->base, nread);
	} else if(nread < 0) {
		uv_read_stop(uvserver);
		if(xclient->config.log_err)
            fprintf(xclient->config.log_err, "\n!!! [uvx-client] %s on recv error: %s\n", xclient->config.name, uv_strerror(nread));
		_uvx_client_close(xclient); // will try reconnect on next uvx__on_heartbeat_timer()
	}
    free(buf->base);
}

// defines in uvx.c
void uvx__on_alloc_buf(uv_handle_t* handle, size_t suggested_size, uv_buf_t* buf);

static void _uv_on_connect(uv_connect_t* conn, int status) {
    uvx_client_t* xclient = (uvx_client_t*) conn->data;
    xclient->uvclient.data = xclient;

	if(status == 0) {
		if(xclient->config.log_out)
            fprintf(xclient->config.log_out, "[uvx-client] %s connect to server ok\n", xclient->config.name);
		assert(conn->handle == (uv_stream_t*) &xclient->uvclient);
		xclient->uvserver = (uv_tcp_t*) conn->handle;
        if(xclient->config.on_conn_ok)
            xclient->config.on_conn_ok(xclient);
		uv_read_start(conn->handle, uvx__on_alloc_buf, uvx__on_client_read);
	} else {
		xclient->uvserver = NULL;
		if(xclient->config.log_err)
            fprintf(xclient->config.log_err, "\n!!! [uvx-client] %s connect to server failed: %s\n", xclient->config.name, uv_strerror(status));
        if(xclient->config.on_conn_fail)
            xclient->config.on_conn_fail(xclient);
		_uvx_client_close(xclient); // will try reconnect on next on_heartbeat
	}
}

int uvx_client_disconnect(uvx_client_t* xclient) {
	if(xclient->uvserver)
		_uvx_client_close(xclient);
	return 1;
}

int uvx_client_shutdown(uvx_client_t* xclient) {
	uv_timer_t* heartbeat_timer = &UVX__C_PRIVATE(xclient)->heartbeat_timer;
	uv_timer_stop(heartbeat_timer);
	uv_close((uv_handle_t*)heartbeat_timer, NULL);
	uvx_client_disconnect(xclient);
	return 1;
}


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Ara Blue
Ara Blue (°1993, Paris, France) is an artist who works in a variety of media. By putting the viewer on the wrong track, Blue touches various overlapping themes and strategies. Several reoccurring subject matter can be recognised, such as the relation with popular culture and media, working with repetition, provocation and the investigation of the process of expectations.
Her artworks doesn't reference recognisable form. The results are deconstructed to the extent that meaning is shifted and possible interpretation becomes multifaceted. By investigating language on a meta-level, she tries to create works in which the actual event still has to take place or just has ended: moments evocative of atmosphere and suspense that are not part of a narrative thread. The drama unfolds elsewhere while the build-up of tension is frozen to become the memory of an event that will never take place.
Her works never shows the complete structure. This results in the fact that the artist can easily imagine an own interpretation without being hindered by the historical reality. By examining the ambiguity and origination via retakes and variations, she formalizes the coincidental and emphasizes the conscious process of composition that is behind the seemingly random works. The thought processes, which are supposedly private, highly subjective and unfiltered in their references to dream worlds, are frequently revealed as assemblages.
Her works sometimes radiate a cold and latent violence. At times, disconcerting beauty emerges. The inherent visual seductiveness, along with the conciseness of the exhibitions, further complicates the reception of their manifold layers of meaning. By parodying mass media by exaggerating certain formal aspects inherent to our contemporary society, she seduces the viewer into a world of ongoing equilibrium and the interval that articulates the stream of daily events. Moments are depicted that only exist to punctuate the human drama in order to clarify our existence and to find poetic meaning in everyday life.
Her works feature coincidental, accidental and unexpected connections which make it possible to revise art history and, even better, to complement it. Combining unrelated aspects lead to surprising analogies. By merging several seemingly incompatible worlds into a new universe, she tries to approach a wide scale of subjects in a multi-layered way, likes to involve the viewer in a way that is sometimes physical and believes in the idea of function following form in a work.
Her works directly respond to the surrounding environment and uses everyday experiences from the artist as a starting point. Often these are framed instances that would go unnoticed in their original context. By applying a poetic and often metaphorical language, she creates intense personal moments masterfully created by means of rules and omissions, acceptance and refusal, luring the viewer round and round in circles.
Her works are given improper functions: significations are inversed and form and content merge. Shapes are dissociated from their original meaning, by which the system in which they normally function is exposed. Initially unambiguous meanings are shattered and disseminate endlessly. By experimenting with aleatoric processes, she creates work through labour-intensive processes which can be seen explicitly as a personal exorcism ritual. They are inspired by a nineteenth-century tradition of works, in which an ideal of 'Fulfilled Absence' was seen as the pinnacle.
Her works appear as dreamlike images in which fiction and reality meet, well-known tropes merge, meanings shift, past and present fuse. Time and memory always play a key role. By using popular themes such as sexuality, family structure and violence, she uses a visual vocabulary that addresses many different social and political issues. The work incorporates time as well as space – a fictional and experiential universe that only emerges bit by bit.
Her works bear strong political references. The possibility or the dream of the annulment of a (historically or socially) fixed identity is a constant focal point. By emphasising aesthetics, she makes works that can be seen as self-portraits. Sometimes they appear idiosyncratic and quirky, at other times, they seem typical by-products of American superabundance and marketing.
Her works are saturated with obviousness, mental inertia, clichés and bad jokes. They question the coerciveness that is derived from the more profound meaning and the superficial aesthetic appearance of an image. By referencing romanticism, grand-guignolesque black humour and symbolism, she tries to grasp language. Transformed into art, language becomes an ornament. At that moment, lots of ambiguities and indistinctnesses, which are inherent to the phenomenon, come to the surface.
Her works demonstrate how life extends beyond its own subjective limits and often tells a story about the effects of global cultural interaction over the latter half of the twentieth century. It challenges the binaries we continually reconstruct between Self and Other, between our own 'cannibal' and 'civilized' selves. By demonstrating the omnipresent lingering of a 'corporate world', her works references post-colonial theory as well as the avant-garde or the post-modern and the left-wing democratic movement as a form of resistance against the logic of the capitalist market system.
Her works are often classified as part of the new romantic movement because of the desire for the local in the unfolding globalized world. However, this reference is not intentional, as this kind of art is part of the collective memory. With a conceptual approach, she wants to amplify the astonishment of the spectator by creating compositions or settings that generate tranquil poetic images that leave traces and balances on the edge of recognition and alienation.
Her works focus on the inability of communication which is used to visualise reality, the attempt of dialogue, the dissonance between form and content and the dysfunctions of language. In short, the lack of clear references are key elements in the work. By applying abstraction, she tries to increase the dynamic between audience and author by objectifying emotions and investigating the duality that develops through different interpretations.
Her works often refers to pop and mass culture. Using written and drawn symbols, a world where light-heartedness rules and where rules are undermined is created. Ara Blue currently lives and works in New York.


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In his new book, "Picking Through The Pieces: The Life Story of An Aircraft Accident Investigator" Larry reveals the backstage details of how this episode, and a subsequent "60 Minutes: The Situation Room" program, were produced. In the book, he also explains his motivation for publicizing the truth about MH370 disappearance through the media and his first book.
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Doctor Mukwege founded Panzi Hospital in Bukavu in 1999. Since its inception, more than 50'000 women, including the young victims of Kavumu, have been able to receive treatment. He discusses this case that left such a strong mark.
How did you feel when minors from Kavumu, all victims of the same modus operandi, began to rush to receive treatment in your hospital?
The influx of these raped children came as a great shock for the whole medical team and myself. Impenetrable barriers had been breached: impunity had conceived the unspeakable.
The trauma was deep for all of us in the operating room. It was the first time that I saw the whole team burst into tears. Even those who ordinarily express their emotions with restraint could not resist. It was very painful to see these innocent children suffer as a result of human stupidity, in a context without protection, without justice, in brief: without recourse.
Can you tell us a little bit more about the work carried out by local experts in DRC and the role that they played?
Local actors played a very important role, starting with our paralegals who did not succumb to the threats stemming from the executioners and their accomplices. For each case, they would warn our legal clinic and our mobile team would then undertake dangerous trips in order to collect the victims and bring them to Panzi Hospital. They are the ones who gathered the first information pertaining to incidents, by documenting and collecting pieces of evidence.
How did you proceed at the hospital level?
The holistic care was meticulously undertaken. Practically, the hospital conducted: a general physical examination, a physical damage examination with scientific photographs, a psychological evaluation and the draft of a medical certificate. Frequently, as the children arrived within 72 hours, a prevention kit for HIV and sexual transmitted diseases was immediately administered. The surgical treatment would follow thereafter, according to the location of the injuries and their severity.
These cases were subject to two scientific publications from us on the international level as we were facing situations that had never been previously published*.
We continue the medical and psychological monitoring, considering that to this day, scientific literature does not tell us what the future will hold for these women, on the sexual, fertility and psychological levels. This follow-up work is crucial for the future of these children, even after the verdict.
What were the major difficulties throughout the course of this investigation which ultimately lead to a historical trial?
The executioners almost had an immunity status in society. They were untouchable. And anyone who resisted to this state of affairs risked paying for it with their life, with no consequence whatsoever for the executioners. We must not lose sight of the fact that there were murders, men's deaths in this case.
As a consequence, members of V-Men**, my team and myself, went to Kavumu to sensitize men concerning this plague. So they would engage themselves against the omerta, the gossip, the corruption.
It was our duty to counter this general sense of fear felt by the population whenever they had to express themselves on the subject.
Did another case affect you in such a manner throughout the course of your career?
The assassination of my patients and staff at the Lemera Hospital in 1996.


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Q: SharePoint designer workflow unable to update a people picker field however other fields are updated I've a SharePoint 2013 form library and i do need to update a item(not the current item) in the same list, however using my logic i am able to update other fields of the particular item i need to, but couldn't update people picker fields and i am trying to set people picker field value to Employees Account ID ( which i am quite sure is the proper field to update people picker). So if possible give me some options.

A: While updating people picker field make sure it has employee Domain and username (Domain\Username).
In SharePoint designer 2013 have action to check whether employee is a valid SharePoint user. Before update a people picker field check this condition "If person (employee id) is valid SharePoint". This condition will return true or false value, if the condition is satisfied then update people picker field.

A: Creating/Updating People picker field value using SharePoint Designer workflow is different, or we cannot directly update the field value by another people picker field value.
Suppose we have 2 lists, List 1 has a people picker column "Manager", List 2 has a people picker column "Leader", now when we create a new item in List 1 it should
copy the value of "Manager" to "Leader" field in the item created in List 2, Below is the workaround for it:
1) Create a string Workflow variable "userM".
2) Assign it a value like below:
  Set userM to [Current Item: Manager];#[Current Item: Manager]

Here for the first [Current Item: Manager] - Return the field as "User Id Number".
for second [Current Item: Manager] - Return the field as "Display Name".
3) Create the item in List 2.
  Set "Leader" Column value to Workflow variable "userM".

Return the variable "userM" as string only

A: ref: http://codelesssharepointinfopath.com/workflow-change-people-picker-fields/
Workflow – Add users to People Picker
You may wish to update a list of individuals in a SharePoint People Picker field for a number of reasons including filtering a View based on the users in this field. This is basically performed through string manipulation and in the example shown below we will update the list of viewers for a list item within a workflow step. The entire process is shown in the ref link


According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention "Inorganic Lead" is defined as lead oxides, metallic leas, and lead salts (including organic salts such as lead soaps but excluding lead arsenate).
Inorganic lead is mainly absorbed into the body by inhaling dust or fumes and by swallowing if it gets on the hands, face, clothing, food, drink or cigarettes if you are a smoker.
Spray painting or hand painting using lead based paint (paint bought after 1992 is virtually lead free, unless specifically labeled as lead containing paint). Please read and obey all the safety instruction next time you are working with material or product that may contained inorganic lead.
Stripping lead based paint, especially sanding, grinding and abrasive blasting.
Oxy acetylene or arc cutting/welding/brazing where lead is in the metal, on the metal as paint.
Soldering, brazing or removing old solder.
Scrap metal salvage or recycling.
Handling pipe dope and lead-containing greases.
Cleaning or repairing lead acid batteries.
Handling hydrogen sulphide (H2S) sensing tape (coated in lead acetate).
Landfill remediation work where waste paint, lead acid batteries, pipe dope, lead containing greases, lead-containing gasoline additives or others have been buried.
Identify other materials that may contain more than 0.06% lead by weight.
Notify workers of structural materials and equipment coated in lead paint before they perform any work operations that may liberate lead into the air.
Follow specific safe work procedures when dealing with lead-containing materials, including use of proper PPE. It must be stressed that the use of correct respirators is the least preferred method of controlling worker exposure and should not normally be use as the only means of preventing or minimizing exposure during routine operations.


Setup: Composer is installed and configured.
In the Projects window, choose File > New Project.
In the Categories list, select PHP. In the Projects area, choose PHP Application to create an empty project and click Next.
Accept default values for Name and Location step. Press Finish button.
EXPECTED RESULT: composer.json file was generated.
EXPECTED RESULT: You can see output which is similar to the one on screenshot.
Create a new or use existing PHP project.
Right click on project name and select Compose -> Init, to create composer.json file.
Right click on project name and select Composer -> Add Dependency.
Search and select appropriate package, choose the version and click Require.
EXPECTED RESULT: Dependency is added into composer.json and the result is displayed in Output window.
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